minister of Christ, and steward of the mysteries of God," is sent to offer him. A book on moral theology, then, would show the relation of grace, of the divine power from God, to each state and condition of life, and it would teach the bearing of that grace on the cultivation of every virtue, and its bearing on the aid required to resist sin. While dogmatic theology would tell us what are the revealed doctrines of Christianity, moral theology would bring man into relation to those doctrines, and show the bearing of them on his life.

I trust that it may not appear presumptuous for me to state what I consider a great want in the Church. As that want is not likely to be supplied immediately, I have indicated a course of study which may supply the want in part. Study man's nature. Map out the parts which compose and make that nature. Study the relations of those parts, and the actions which should come from them in their normal relation, and those which come from them in their imperfect state. Study what sin is, what it is that is infecting the nature of man. Enter into the heart, so that you can lay open the disease, and describe it then you can point out the remedy by showing the relation of redemption and grace. Study the conscience. Have clear and definite conceptions, which you can state with perspicuity and with force, of what St. Paul meant when he used the word "con

science." Make men to have clear views of it, and to understand what they are doing when they are excusing their conscience, when they are endeavoring to maintain one "void of offence toward God and toward men."

When the attention is directed to the want of such a treatise on moral theology, no doubt some able metaphysician and theologian among us will devote himself to it, and will, like Pearson, produce a work on the moral nature and its relations to the grace of the Gospel, which, like that work on the Creed, will command the attention of the Church, and will be found to impart to candidates for the sacred ministry the information which is so necessary to fit them to undertake the cure of souls.

INDEX.

Christian education, 195, 204, 206.
Christian family, 195.

Christian grace, its power, 198; its

manner of operation, 200; its in-
fluence, 292, 300, 322; morality,
186, 198.
Christianity, 203, 208; its differentia,
9, 286; its office, 284; its influ-
ence on morals, 214, 216; old as
creation, Tindal, 9, 11.

Corpus Juris Civilis, 32, 253.
Conscience, 75, 132, 134, 206, 299,

310, 320, 321; standard of, 93,
95, 98, 100; supremacy of, 106;
power of, 105; complex, 94;
blunted, 101; erroneous, 100;
evil, 101; pure, 102; weak, 100;
voice of God, 103.
Consciousness, Plato, 76; Aristotle,
77, 78, 80.

Christian redemption in relation to Cook, Capt., 224; Joseph, 320.

morality, 181.

Cicero, 11; De Officiis, 30; on will,
142; quoted, 115, 153, 183, 215,

247, 249, 252, 307.

Cities of Refuge, 264.
Civil law, the, 248, 305.
Civil society, desire of, 57.
Civilization, Christian, 194; requires
peculiar application of law, 179,
192.

Classification, principles of, 161, 163.
Classical morality did not bring God

into view, 215.

Davids, Hibbert Lectures, 237.
Decalogue, 258, 261, 262, 269.
Deceased wife's sister, 156.
Decemviri, 251.
Deductive reasoning, 49.

Clement of Alexandria on heathen Degrees of affinity, 265.

morality, 120, 302, 318.
Code of Justinian, 314; of Manu,

222, 241, 243, 246, 247, 252.
Commandments, the Ten, 184; cove-
nant with Israel, 259; a constitu-
tion, 262; the fifth, 263, 269,
286; the sixth, 263, 270, 286;
the seventh, 264, 272, 287; the
eighth, 266, 273, 287; the ninth,
267, 274, 288.

Common law, 176, 222.
Common nouns, 48.

Commonwealth, the Hebrew, 261.

Communistic society, 174.

Concepts, 48.

Confession and casuistry, 30.

Connection of law and morality, 243.

Desire of civil society, 57; of family,

56; of esteem, 62; of knowledge,
59; mental, 54; of mutual under-
standing, 58; of being loved, 61;
of our own approval, 62; of prop-
erty, 56; of safety, 55; of supe-

riority, 58.

Deistical controversy, II, 13, 81, 215.
Determination, 68, 69.

Development of moral life, 278, 279;
of Christian doctrine, 304.
Diodorus quoted, 78.
Dishonesty, 141.

Disposition, 73.

Divorce, 155, 156, 287; laws of, 35.
Dogmatic theology, 298.
Ductor Dubitantium, 299.

Evangelical party in England, 25; in | Gury's moral theology, 309, 310.