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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.

Actions, springs of, 166.
Affinity, degrees of, 265.

Africa, morality in, 221; theft in, 227;

natives of South, 164, 165.
Ambition, 129; in Alexander, 130;
in Howard, 130.
Amos on Roman law, 252.

Anger, 60, 119, 130, 286.

Antinomianism, 24.

Appetites, 53, 124, 204.
A priori philosophy, 167.
Aquinas, 196, 219, 305, 306, 318.
Aristotle, 11, 17, 57, 157, 183, 184,

304, 305, 312; criterion of virtue,
162; ethics, 77, 78, 115, 139, 162,
183, 184, 249, 255; politics, 53,
190; right reason, 77.

Aryans, 239, 242, 254; laws of, 223.
Assize Sermon of J. Keble, 29.
Augustine on original sin, 120; Contra
Mendacium, 302.

Austin, John, 73, 140.

Bacon, 312.

Bakwain's conception of sin, 228.
Bampton Lectures, Bishop Temple,
184, 196; of Dr. Hampden, 314.

Baptism, sins after, 30.

Barrow, 299, 303.
Beatitudes, the seven, 305.

Benevolence, 191, 206, 226; gospel
inculcates universal, 193.

Bible, pictures of human character,
189; reveals human relations, 189.
Brahminism, 238.

Brown, Dr. T., on will, 73.
Buddhism, 322; morality of, 214, 236,

238, 244; not a religion, 185, 214,
236, 238; only morality, 185; the
eight precepts of, 245; the ten
sins of, 245; the path of virtue,
245.

Buddhists, II; in China, 246.
Butler, 3, 4, 5, 9, 40, 43, 84, 85, 105,

160, 315, 319; quoted, 114, 289,
292; on resentment, 61; on anger,
131; appeals to consciousness,
108.

Burglary, 267.

Burnet on Articles, 299.

| Cain, 241, 270.
Canon law, 305.

Cardinal virtues, 220, 262, 283; Plato's,
158, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 305,
306; Whewell's, 161, 164, 170,
243.

Casuistry, 30, 299, 302, 307, 308, 309,
310, 311, 313.
Catechism, the, 298.
Caucasians, 165.
Cæsar, 91.

Chalmers, Dr. T., 27.

Choice, an element in the will, 212.

325

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.

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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, 11, 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.

Ecce Homo, 14, 16, 183.
Education, 204; Christian, 205; Spar-

tan, 171, 193.
Egyptian morality, 231, 233.
Eight precepts of Buddhism, 245.
Elements of Roman law, 197.

Emotional nature, 7.

Emotion of beauty, 201; predominance

of, 122.

English Church Quarterly, 63.

Envy of Cain, 271; of sons of Jacob,

271.

Epicureans, 183.

Ethics of Aristotle, 77, 78, 115, 139,

162, 183, 184, 196, 249.

Εθος, 222, 225.

European morality, 246.

God, the attributes of, archetypes of
virtue, 187.

Golden Rule, the, 198.

Grace, 19, 35, 201, 208; before the fall,
119; its power, 198; power on
will, 209, 213; manner of opera-
tion, 200; supernatural before the
fall, 116.

Grant, Sir A., quoted, 115, 163.
Gravitation, 49; in operation beyond
the solar system, 50.

Greek idea of man, 192; of mother,
193; of family, 194; of state, 195;
morals, 248.

Gregory the Great, 303.

Grote quoted, 170.

Grotius, 267, 312, 313.

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

Scotland, 27.

Expediency, 171.

Family, the, 155, 174; Roman, 194;
Christian, 195; Greek, 194; rights
of, 264.

Feejee-Islanders, 164, 165.

Felix, 91, 92.

Figurative language, 103.

Friars, 309.

Frémont, Gen., quoted, 173.
Froude, J. A., quoted, 29.
Functions of the soul, 45, 50, 122.

Gaius, Elements of Roman Law, 197.
General truths pass into laws, 179.
Generalization, 47.

Gentium, Jus, 313.

Gibbon, 202.

Gifts, the seven in Isaiah, 305.
Gluttony, 204.

Gospel, sheds light on morals, 197;
inculcates universal benevolence,
193; gives power, 198.

Habit, 145, 206.

Hall, Bishop, referred to, 299.
Hampden, Dr. R., 314.

Harris, Dr. S., quoted, 73, 167, 198.
Heard, J. B., 42.

Hebrew morality, 258; in operation
from the creation of man, 258;
slavery, 266.

Herod, 92.

Herschel, Sir John, 50.

Hibbert Lectures, quoted, 231, 233,

237.
Hinduism, 240.

History of word conscience, 82, 107,

114.

Hobbes referred to, 54, 82, 107, 114.
Horace quoted, 18, 78.

Howard referred to, 130.

Human nature, 38, 40; its unity, 220,

282.

Human mind everywhere the same,

165, 168.

Hutcheson referred to, 83, 87.

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