Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

CONTENTS.

		PAGE
Aids to Reflection:
	Author's Original Title-page, 1825	[ix]
	Mr. H. N. Coleridge's Advertisement to the Fourth Edition	[xi]
	Author's Address to the Reader	[xiii]
	Author's Preface and Advertisement	[xv]
	Dr. Marsh's Preliminary Essay	[xxiii]
	Introductory Aphorisms	[1]
	On Sensibility	[22]
	Prudential Aphorisms	[27]
	Moral and Religious Aphorisms	[35]
	Elements of Religious Philosophy	[88]
	Aphorisms on Spiritual Religion	[96]
	Aphorisms on that which is indeed Spiritual Religion	[102]
	On the Difference in kind of Reason and the Understanding (after Aphorism VIII.)	[143]
	On Instinct in Connection with the Understanding (in Comment on Aphorism IX.)	[162]
	On Original Sin (Aphorism X.)	[172]
	Paley not a Moralist (Aphorism XII.)	[196]
	On Redemption (in Comment on Aphorism XIX.)	[223]
	On Baptism	[242]
	Conclusion	[258]
	Appendix A: Summary of the Argument on Reason and the Understanding	[277]
	Appendix B: On Instinct; by Prof. J. H. Green	[278]
Confessions of anInquiring Spirit: Letters on the Inspiration of theScriptures		[285]
	The Pentad of Operative Christianity	[288]
	Questions as to the Divine Origin of the Bible	[289]
	Letter I.	[291]
	Letter II.	[296]
	Letter III.	[301]
	Letter IV.	[308]
	Letter V.	[321]
	Letter VI.	[322]
	Letter VII.	[333]
Essay on Faith		[341]
Notes on the Book of Common Prayer		[350]
A Nightly Prayer		[360]
Index		[363]

[ORIGINAL TITLE-PAGE, 1825.]

AIDS TO REFLECTION
IN THE
FORMATION OF A MANLY CHARACTER,
ON THE SEVERAL GROUNDS OF
PRUDENCE, MORALITY, AND RELIGION.

ILLUSTRATED BY
SELECT PASSAGES FROM OUR ELDER DIVINES,
ESPECIALLY FROM ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON.

By S. T. COLERIDGE.

This makes, that whatsoever here befalls, You in the region of yourself remain, Neighb'ring on Heaven: and that no foreign land.
Daniel.