God in His Providence

108-114.

Chief End in View by the Divine Being.

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Results out of Sight.-Rea-

sons for Disappointment. - The Grand Man of the Heavens. — Vari-

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ety of Heaven. — Value and Significance of Life.—The Interfering

God. - The Angelic Watch. — Different Spirits Adjoined to Man. -
Mysterious Influences,..

119-128.

CHAPTER II.

THE ETERNAL MEMORY OF THE SOUL.

Every Faculty a Faculty of Memory. - Substantial Nature of Mental

Impressions. Recollection. - Forms of the Mind. - Permanence of

Ideas. Preservation of Personal Identity.Internal and External

Memory. Cases of Preternatural Quickening of the Memory.

Sight of the Whole Past Life. Memory of Man after Death. -

Connection of all Experiences. Book of Life. Final Judg

ment,..

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129-147.

CHAPTER III.

DIVINE PROVIDENCE IN THE REGENERATE LIFE.

Necessity for the New Birth.

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mere Natural Progression. — Present State of Man, Evidence of the
Fall. The Golden Age.- The Most Ancient Church. - The Work
of Adam. -- The Necessity of Christ,..

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CHAPTER IV.

NATURE AND OPERATION OF THE NEW BIRTH.

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148-162.

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Agency and Quality of the Holy Spirit. - The Lord's Glorification. -
The still Living and Active Saviour. - Death of the Natural Man.
The Internal Spiritual Principle. — Thoroughness of Depravity. —
Natural Analogies of the New Birth. Its Hidden, Invisible Nature.
- Spiritual Influx. - Mysterious Providences. - Regeneration Grad-
Illustration from the Human Body. Self-exertion. New
Birth a Marriage,
163-183.

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Duality of the Human Mind. — Analysis of Natural Life. - Natural
Man Entirely in the Ascendant. - Object of Christ to Break up such

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a Life. Scriptural Illustration of this Warfare. -Spiritual, Invisi-

ble Enemies.-Guardian Angels. - Insufficiency of the Prevalent

Christianity. Revelations of Human Character in the Spiritual

World,....

184-197.

CHAPTER VI.

TEMPTATIONS OF THE REGENERATING LIFE.

General Internal Sense of the Word. - Three Kinds of Temptations.

Source of Temptations. - Need of Temptations. Worldly Afflic-

tions. Methods of Evil Spirits. The Food of Egypt.- Death in

Elations and Depressions of Spirit. - Wonderful Peculiarity of the

Psalms. -- Human Experience of the Same.

Life's Labyrinth.—Ways in the Spiritual World. — Journey of the

Israelites. Variety of Experience. Most Singular Turning. -

Experience of the "New Jerusalem.” — Important Period in the Re-

generating Life,.....

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Mystery of Life. - Leadings of the Blind. - Connection of Earthly
Circumstances and Conditions with Spiritual States. — Sight of our
Past Life. Case of a Spirit in the other Life. - Surrender of our
own Will.
Reasons for Peculiar Trials. - Surprises in Heaven,

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Representative Character of Moses. - Character of the Noahtic Church.

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- Intellectual Exaltations. — Danger of the Mountain Top, 240–247.

CHAPTER XI.

FINAL REST.

Universal Inquietude. - Elements of Happiness. - Power of the Spirit
over External Things. Correspondence of Internal and External
States. The Hell within. - The Wings of a Dove. - The Sabbath
of the Soul. The Repose of Heaven,.

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248-259.

CHAPTER XII.

Retrospect and Prospect,.

260, 261.

CHAPTER XIII.

DIVINE PROVIDENCE IN THE MODERATION OF THE HUMAN WILL.

The Intermediate World of Spirits. - Catholic Purgatory.- Position

of Man between Heaven and Hell. - Efforts of Angels,.... 262-265.

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CHAPTER XIV.

DIVINE PROVIDENCE AND HUMAN PRUDENCE.