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

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

INDEX.

• Absolute Will, the, [224], [225].
• Absurd, the, [xxxii], [227].
• Act, originating an, [176]-7.
• Adam, the word, in Genesis, and as used by St. Paul, [194].
• —— and his posterity, God's anger against, [186].
• —— possible Spiritual Fall antecedent to him, [195].
• —— and Eve, assertions respecting their state, [194].
• Adam's Fall, [172].
• —— sin, its penalty, death, [183].
• Admiration, love of, [127].
• Æolists, the, [45].
• 'Aids to Reflection,' the author's aims in the work, [ix], [xi], [xiii], [xv], [xix], [xxiii], [lxvi], [102], [103], [205].
  • Republication of it in America, [xii], [xxvii].
  • Importance of the work, [xxvi], [xl].
  • Doctrines propounded in it, [xxvii].
  • Its orthodoxy, [xxi], [lvi].
  • Objections to it answered, [lxviii].
  • Criticism of it anticipated, [45], [258].
  • Its origin, [xx], [108].
  • Its first edition, [ix], [xv], [xix].
  • Dr. Marsh's essay on it, [xii], [xxiii].
  • Break in the work through the author's illness, [160].
  • Its plan, [204].
  • The notes to it, [152], [205].
  • Purposed supplement to it, [257].
  • See also under Reason and Understanding, the Will, &c.
• Alcohol, [100].
• Allegory and Symbol in Scripture Interpretation, [212].
• Alogi, the modern, [219].
• Altar, Companion to the, [352].
• America, Dr. Jas. Marsh, a disciple of Coleridge there, [xii].
• Amusements, the care for, and the neglect of study, [151].
• Anabaptism, [253].
• Analogy in the New Testament, [136].
• Anathema Maranatha, [251].
• Anatomy, Comparative, [xx].
• Ancient wisdom, the treasures of, [lxxiii];
  • Coleridge no contemner of them, ib., [lxxiv].
• Animal development in the polypi, &c., [58].
• —— life typical of the understanding and the moral affections, [74].
• Antinoüs and Noüs, their Dialogue on Mystics and Mysticism, [261].
• Antithesis, [225].
• Ants and bees, intelligence of, Hüber, &c., on, [145]-147.
• Aphorisms, [15].
• Apocrypha, the, [295].
• Apostasy, [342].
• —— possible, antecedent to Adam, [195].
• Apostolic Church, the, [257].
• Arbitrement, the word, [344].
• Argument and Belief, [234].
• Aristotle and Locke, [44].
• —— and Plato, ideas of God, [167].
  • Their philosophy and that of Bacon, [lxvii].
• Arminianism, or Grotianism, [107].
• Arminius, Bp. Hacket on, [107].
• Arnauld's work on Transubstantiation, [260].
• Art, Nature and, [167].
• Arts, trades, &c., and thinking, [xix].
• Articles of the Church of England, [358].
  • They show the Church as not infallible, [257].
  • Locke's philosophy opposed to them, [xii].
• Aseity, the divine, [224].
• Astronomy, modern, and the Bible, [312].
• Atheists, the, of the French Revolution, [121].
• Atonement, [215], [216].
• —— vicarious, [103].
• Attention, thought and, [3].
• Augustine and Original Sin and Infant Baptism, [247], [252].
  • On Faith and Understanding, [xviii].
• Augustinians, the, [107].
• Authority and power, distinction between, [358].
• Author, an, and his readers, [xv], [xviii].
  • The worth of an author, [xvi].
• Author's, an, view of his own work, [275].
• Autobiography, religious, [49].

• Bacon, Lord, [317], [304].
• —— his philosophy that of the divines of the Reformation, and opposed to that of Locke, [lxiv], [lxvii],
  • while agreeing with that of Coleridge, [lxvii].
• —— his philosophy and that of Plato and Aristotle, [lxvii].
• —— on Reason and the Understanding, [lxvii], [143].
• Baptism, on, [242], [243], et sq., [250].
  • Baxter on, [247].
  • Differences on no ground for schism, [254], [257].
  • D'Oyly and Mant and the Evangelicals on, [254].
  • Edward Irving on, [254]-5.
  • Coleridge's answer to Irving, ib.
  • Robinson's History of, [246].
  • Wall on, [247], [254].
  • Superstitions respecting, [249].
• —— of infants, origin of, [246], [251].
  • Argument for, [250].
• —— and Preaching, [242].
• —— and Redemption, [209].
• —— and Regeneration, [136].
• —— not Regeneration, [226].
• Baptism, See also Anabaptism.
• Baptist, conversation with a, on infant and adult baptism, [243], et sq.
• Basil and his scholars, [75].
• Baxter, on Baptism, [247].
• —— his "censures of the Papists," quoted, [141].
• —— and Howe, religious teaching of their times, [liii].
• Beasts, understanding in, [144].
• Bee, the, [74].
• Bees and ants, intelligence of, Hüber, &c., on, [145]-147, [281].
• —— and instinct, [281].
• Behmen, Jacob, [258], [263].
• Behmenists, &c., [94].
• Belief, [xxxvi], [66], [122], [127].
• —— ground of, [xxxi], [xxxii].
• Belief, the, of children, [128].
• —— of the absurd, impossible, [xxxii].
• —— and argument, [234].
• —— and superstition, [287].
• —— and truth, [293].
• Belsham's version of the Testament, [316].
• Berkleyanism, [268].
• Bernard, St., [xxv].
• Bernouillis, [269].
• Bible, the, [293], [296].
  • Its divine origin, [289].
  • A source of true belief, but not itself a creed, [315].
  • George III. on, [200].
  • Historical discrepancies in, [309].
  • Inspiration of, [52].
  • Reading it, [65].
  • See also under New Testament, Psalms, Scripture, Inspiration, &c.
• —— the, and Christian Faith, [289].
• Biblical criticism, Coleridge's, [285], [289].
• Bibliolatry, and mis-interpretation of the Bible, [107], [313].
• Birth, the word as used by Christ, [272].
• Blood, the word as used by Christ, [27].
• Bonnet's view of instinct, [279].
• Book-making, [152].
• Books for the indolent, [151].
• Books, popular, ib.
• Bosom-sin, [10].
• Bread, the word as used by Christ, [272].
• Breath, the enlivening, [4].
• Brown's Philosophy, [xxxix], [xlix].
• Browne, Sir T., and his strong faith, [137].
• Brutes and man, [2], [341], [343];
  • Paley, Fleming, and others on, [lx].
• —— and the will, [201].
• Bruno, Giordano, [269].
• Bucer, [227].
• Buffon, [24].
• Bull and Waterland, their works, [211]-12.
• Burnet, extract from, [123].
• Butler, S., [45].

• Cabbala, the, of the Hutchinsonians, [314].
• Cabbalists, the, [299].
• Calling, effectual, doctrine of, [37].
• Calumny, [70].
• Calvin, the works of, [105].
• Calvinism, modern, [73], [104].
  • That of Jonathan Edwards, [105].
  • That of New England, [105].
• Calvinists, the, of Leighton's day, [94].
• Capital punishment, [90].
• Carbonic-acid gas, Hoffman's discovery of, [162].
• Carlyle's translation of 'Wilhelm Meister,' [291].
• Cartesian and Newtonian philosophies, the, [268].
• Catholic, and Roman Catholic, the terms, [141].
• Cause, an Omnipresent, [40].
• —— and effect, [xlviii], [42], [44], [175].
• Cephas, and the Jews who followed him, [215].
• Ceremonies, [12], [13].
• Ceremony and Faith, [248].
• Cherubim, [7].
• Children, the belief of, [128].
• —— Jesus and the, [250].
• Christ, [234], [350], [360].
  • His agony and death, [103].
  • His Cross and Passion, [207].
  • His hard sayings, [212].
  • His New commandment, [249].
  • His death, [202].
• Christ, the Christian's pattern, [203].
• —— contemplation of, [350].
• —— faith in, [208].
• —— present in every creature, [351].
• —— the Redeemer of "every creature," [350].
• —— the Word, [288].
• —— and His Apostles, [212].
• —— and the children, [250].
• —— Paul and Moses, [241].
• —— Redemption by, [106].
• "Christ, In," the phrase, [104].
• Christ's aids to the sinner, [104].
• —— use of the words, water, flesh, blood, birth, and bread, [272].
• Christian, the, no Stoic, [57].
• —— Dispensation, the, [xviii];
  • and the Law of Moses, [240].
• Christian Faith, [xvi], [xviii], [232].
  • A vindication of its whole scheme promised by the author, [103].
• —— Faith and the Bible, [289].
• —— love, [58].
• —— ministry, the, [35], [68], [96].
• —— Philosophy, [91].
• —— Religion, the, [123].
• Christian Spectator, 1829, Controversy there on the Origin of Sin, [liv].
• Christians, early, and the Jews, [215].
• —— and war, [358].
• —— should be united in one Church (extract from Wall), [256].
• Christianity, [272].
  • Arguments against, [194].
  • Is a vanity without a Church, [200].
  • Coleridge's views on, [xxx].
  • The essentials of, [247].
  • The "Evidences of," [134], [272], [319].
  • The doctrines peculiar to, [11], [73], [130].
  • The knowledge required by, [5], [7].
  • Not to be preferred to truth, [66].
  • Not a theory but a Life, [134].
  • Operative, the Pentad of, [288].
  • Try it! [134].
• —— and Mythology, [188].
• —— and the old philosophy, [84].
• Church, the word, [114].
• Church, Christianity a vanity without a Church [200].
• —— a National, [196].
• —— the, [288]. Field's work on, [208].
• —— the most Apostolic, [257].
• —— of England, the, [73]. See also Articles, &c.
• —— divines, orthodox, [230].
• —— going, [84]. Undue love of Church, or sect, [66].
• —— History, the sum of, [66].
• —— ordinances and the New Testament, [246].
• 'Church and State,' Coleridge's, [261], [261], [273].
• Circumcision, [245].
• Circumstance and the Will, [177].
• Coleridge, S. T.—Personal.—
  • To a friend halting in his belief of Christianity, [320].
  • C.'s Baptist friend, [243].
  • C.'s convictions, [300], [301].
  • His conversation, &c., [278].
  • His defence of his work, [274].
  • His editors, [337].
  • They remiss, [103], [337].
  • His friends, [361].
  • His proficiency in Hebrew, and friendship with Hyman Hurwitz, [358].
  • His language and style, [xxx], [lxix].
  • His alleged unintelligibility, [lxix].
  • His philosophical and philological attainments, intellectual powers, and moral worth, [lxxiv].
  • His attempts at proselytizing, [337].
  • His religious experiences, [291].
  • He was not at war with religion, [xxxi].
  • His "twenty years" of contention for the contra-distinction of Reason and the Understanding, [160].
  • His love of truth, [291].
• Coleridge, S. T.—His works.—
  • His lengthy notes to the 'Aids to Reflection', [153], [205].
  • Criticism of the 'Aids' anticipated, [45].
  • 'The Ancient Mariner' referred to, [262].
  • His promised 'Assertion of Religion,' &c., [103].
  • 'Christabel' alluded to, [262].
  • 'Church and State' referred to, [273].
  • His correspondent in the 'Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit,' [301].
  • 'The Friend' referred to, [181].
  • The Hebrew Tales in 'The Friend,' [358].
  • 'Israel's Lament,' ib.
  • The 'Lay Sermons' referred to, [56], [273].
  • His 'Lectures on Shakspere,' &c., referred to, [302].
  • His 'Literary Correspondence' in Blackwood's Magazine, referred to, [117].
  • His 'Literary Remains,' [188], [314], [340].
  • His MS. Note-Books, [257].
  • His 'Nightly Prayer,' [340], [360].
  • His 'Wanderings of Cain' alluded to, and quoted, [262].
  • Tendency of his works, [xi].
  • His Watchman, [23].
  • See also under 'Aids to Reflection,' 'Confessions,' &c.
• Coleridge. S. T.—His Views.—
  • He was no contemner of the ancient wisdom, [lxxiii].
  • His views those of Bacon, [lxiii];
    • and of the Reformers of the 16th and 17th centuries, [lxiv].
  • Early views on Baptism, [252].
  • His Biblical criticism, [285].
  • He repudiates sympathy with the ideas of the Behmenists, &c., [94].
  • His view of Christianity, [xxx], [xxxvi];
    • an Evangelical view, [xxx].
  • His Confession of Faith, [292].
  • On Edward Irving, [254]-5.
  • Opposed to Locke, [lvii].
  • The philosophy of the 'Aids,' [lxvii].
  • "Coleridge's Metaphysics," [lxx].
  • Views on the relations of prudence and morality, [xxxi].
  • On Redemption, ib., [208].
  • On Religion, or the Spiritual life, [xxxi], [xxxvi], [339].
  • His transitional state of religious belief, [271].
  • His view of reason in relation to spiritual religion, [xxxvi].
  • The key to his system, the distinctions between nature and free-will and between understanding and reason, [xxxii], [lxiii].
  • His views on Original Sin, [xxx].
  • On the terms spiritual and natural, ib.
• Coleridge, S. T.—Criticism of, &c.—
  • C. termed un-English, [230].
  • Arguments for "extinguishing" him, ib.
  • C. and his critics, [258].
  • His alleged Mysticism, ib.
• Coleridge, H. N., on the 'Aids', [xi];
  • on the tendency of Coleridge's works, ib.;
  • on the 'Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit,' [285];
  • on Locke's philosophy and the Church, [xii];
  • on Dr. Marsh's Essay, ib.;
  • on reason and the understanding, [xi].
• Commandment, the New, given by Christ, [249].
• Commonplace truths, [1].
• Common Prayer, Book of. See Prayer.
• Common-sense, [172].
• Commonwealth, religion of that time, [94].
• Communion Service, proposed emendations of, [352].
• Communion of the Sick, [353].
• Confession of sins, [352].
  • Luther on, ib.
• 'Confessions of a Fair Saint,' Goethe's, [291].
• 'Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit,' [261], [284].
  • Is a key to Coleridge's Biblical criticism, [286].
  • H. N. Coleridge's advertisement to, ib.
  • Author's advertisement to, [289].
• Conscience, the, [80].
  • Is the only practical contradistinction between man and the brutes, [341].
  • Things opposed to it, [344].
• —— and reason, [229], [345].
• —— and the senses, [342].
• —— and the will, ib.
• Consciousness, [58].
• Consequences, General, Paley's principle of, [181].
• Contemplation, religious, [124].
• Contempt, [68], [69].
• Content, [69].
• Controversies, religious, [67].
• Conversation, [72].
• Conversion, [16].
• Corpuscular philosophy, the, [265].
• Corruption and Redemption, [185].
• Cranmer, [227].
• Creation, the week of, [74].
• Creed, the, of the Reformed Churches, [292].
• Criticism of the 'Aids' anticipated, [45].
• —— anonymous, &c., [258].
• Critics replied to, [258].
• Cupid and Psyche, and the Fall of Man, [189].
• Cyprian, and infant baptism, [251].
• Cyrus, [62].

• Daniel, the Book of, [302].
• Daniel, S., quoted, [ix], [75].
• Danton, [253].
• Darkest before day, [203].
• Darwin (E.) on instinct, [279].
• David and the sons of Michal, [186].
• Davy, Sir H., [265], [317].
• Death, the penalty of Adam's sin, [183].
  • The debt of, [219].
  • Fear of, [203].
  • Death the loss of immortality, and death eternal, [206].
  • Spiritual death, [217].
• —— and the Resurrection, [204].
• Deborah, [306].
• Deceit, self, [61].
• Demonstrations of a God, &c., [120].
• Des Cartes, [268].
  • His theory of instinct, [279].
• Despair of none, [68].
• Despise none, and despair of none, [68].
• Detraction, [69], [70].
• Devil, the. See Tempter.
• Discourse = Understanding, [228].
• —— and Shakspere's "discourse of reason," [346].
• Disputes in Religious Communities, [67].
• Dissent and the Church, [257].
• Diversely and diversly, the words, [306].
• Divines, our elder, [40].
• Docility is grounded in humility, [126].
• Doctrinal terms, [36].
• Dog, the, its species of moral nature, [164].
• Donne, quoted. [16].
• Doubt. [66].

• Earthenware, enjoy your, as if it were plate, and think your plate no more than earthenware. [69].
• Ecclesiastical history, [47], [272].
• Education of the young, [xvi].
• Edwards, Jonathan, his Calvinism, [105].
• Election, the doctrine of, [37], [108], [111].
  • The word in St. Paul's writings [113].
• —— arbitrary, and Reprobation, the doctrines of, [103].
• England, [xix].
• Entertainment and instruction, [xviii].
• Enthusiasm, [261].
  • Satire and, [46].
• Enthusiasts, the, of our Commonwealth time [94].
• Equivocation [29].
• Error, intellectual effect of, [xlii], [xlvii], [lviii].
• Esther, the Book of, [302].
• Eternal death, [206].
• Eternal life, the promise of, [234].
• Eternity and Time, [209].
• Ethics, or the Science of Morality, [197].
• Eucharist, the, [200], [227], [257], [350].
  • Keble on Hooker's view of it, [353].
• Evangelical, Coleridge an, [xxx].
• —— clergy, the, on Baptism, [254].
• Evangelicals, the, [133], [210].
• Eve, the Serpent and, [171].
• Everlasting torment, [103].
• Evil, the origin of, [liv], [102], [170].
• —— and good, [197].
• —— resistance to, [208].
• Examination, self, [11].
• Expedience is the anarchy of morals, [90].
• Expediency, [xvii].
• Experience, [154].
• Expiation and pay, the words, [216].
• Extreme unction, the Romish doctrine of, [227].
• Extremes, [246].
• Eye, the, the body, &c., [266].
• Ezekiel, [xvii], [356].

• Faith, Essay on, [339].
• —— [xxxi], [7], [13], [137], [287].
  • The articles of, assimilation by, [259].
  • Christian Faith, [232].
  • Faith defined, [341].
  • St. Augustine on it, [xviii].
  • The essay on it, [257].
  • The kinds of it, [348].
  • Its mysteries, [168].
  • Faith necessary, ib. Spiritual Faith, [85].
  • The strong faith of Sir T. Browne, [137].
• Faith and Ceremony, [248].
• —— and Duty, [314].
• —— and right reason, [228], [229].
• —— Steadfast by, [208].
• Fall, the, [189], [293].
• —— a Spiritual, possible before Adam, [195].
• Falstaff, the lying of, [310].
• Familists, [13], [94].
• Fanatic, when the mystic becomes one, [261].
• Fashion and holiness, [60].
• Fatalism, Locke's opinions tending to, [lv].
• Fate, [271].
• Fathers, the, uncritical study of, [314].
• Fears, worldly, [52].
• Feeble, the, always popular, [274].
• Feelings, [57].
• Fenelon, a, [264].
• Fidianism, [138], [142].
• Field, Dr. R., and his work on the Church, [208].
• —— extract from, [213].
• "Finds me," that (the utterance) which, [295], [296].
• Finite, the, faculty of, [346].
• Fleming, Dr., on man and the brutes, [lx].
• Flesh, the word, as used by Christ, [272].
• —— according to the, [242].
• —— manifested in the, [217].
• —— and Spirit, [225], [242].
• Flowers, [74].
• Forethought, [2].
• Forgiveness, [86].
  • Self-deceit in, [61].
  • The Socinian doctrine of, [86].
• Fortune and circumstance, the riddle of, [235].
• Freedom, the highest form of, [204].
• Free-thinking Christians, [230].
• Free-will, Luther's view of it, [105].
  • See also Will, &c.
• —— and nature, [xlix].
• French Revolution, the, [253].
  • The Atheists of it, [121].
• French people, and women, their talkativeness, [72].
• 'Friend, The,' Coleridge's, [269].
  • An essay there referred to, [181].
  • The Hebrew Tales in it, [358].
• Friendship, [33].
• Future life, the, and the present, [195].
• —— state, belief in, [233], [237].
  • The same taught in the Old Testament, [52].

• Galileo, [161].
• Geist = gas, [162].
• Generalization, [182].
• Genius and the dunces, [151].
• Genus and species, [149], [162].
• George III., on the Bible, [200].
• German Biblical philologists, [242].
  • Their views of the Gospels and St. John, ib.
• God, the idea of, [76], [81], [116], [120], [191], [255].
  • Ideas of Aristotle and Plato, [167].
  • Demonstrations of a God, [120].
  • God is reason, [255].
  • God present in every creature, [351].
  • His anger with Adam and his posterity, [186].
  • His communion with man, [82].
  • His hand in the world, [288].
  • His personal attributes, [270].
  • Two great things given us by him, [234].
• —— manifested in the flesh, [209].
• —— and the world, serving, [60].
• Godless Revolution, the, [199].
• Goethe's 'Confessions of a Fair Saint' ('Wilhelm Meister'), [291].
• Good and evil, [197].
• Good men and vicious, radical difference between, [72].
• Goodness more than prudence, [xvii].
• "Good tidings," [354].
• Gospel, hearing the, [84].
  • Its language and purport, [135].
  • The word Gospel in the Prayer-Book, [354].
• Gospel, the, and Philosophy, [122], [124], [125].
• Gospels, the, [242].
• Grace, [200].
  • The doctrine of, [38]. Growth in, [10], [62].
  • Warburton's tract on, [258].
• Grammar and Logic—parts of speech, [117].
• Gravity, the law of, [270].
• Green, Prof. J. H., his essay on Instinct, [278].
  • His exposition of the difference between Reason and the Understanding, [160].
  • His 'Vital Dynamics,' referred to, [59];
    • and quoted, [278].
  • His remarks upon Coleridge's conversation, &c., ib.
• Grief, worldly, [52], [57].
• Grotian interpretation of the Scriptures, [243].
• Grotianism, or Arminianism, [107].
• Gunpowder, white, slander so termed, [70].

• Hacket, Bishop, [107], [314].
  • Extract from, [99].
• Hagiographa, the, [300].
• Hale, Sir Matthew, his belief in witchcraft, [311].
• Happiness, [28], [74].
  • The desire of the natural heart for it, [17].
• "Hard sayings," the, of Christ, [212].
• Harmonists of the Scriptures, [309].
  • See also Bible, inspiration of, &c.
• Harrington quoted, on reason in man, [137].
• Hawker, Dr., [316].
• Hearne on the Indians, [237].
• Hebrew theocracy, the, [307].
• —— Tales in 'The Friend', [358].
• 'Henry VI.,' Shakspere's, [302].
• Herbert, Lord, [139].
• Herbert's 'Temple,' quoted, [10].
• Hereditary sin is not original sin, [200].
• Heresies, the rise of, [314].
• Heresy, [15], [140].
• Hildebert, quoted, [141].
• Historical discrepancies in the Bible, [309].
• Hobbes, [24].
  • His philosophy, [92].
• Hoffman's discovery of carbonic-acid gas, [162].
• Holy Spirit, [360].
  • See also Spirit, &c.
• Hooker, [139].
  • Extract from, [129].
  • On the Eucharist, [353].
  • On Truth, [287].
• Hopes, worldly, [52].
• Howe and Baxter, the religious teaching of their times, [lvii].
• Hüber on bees and ants, [75], [147].
  • The same as bearing upon instinct, [281].
• Humility the first requisite in the search for Truth, [126].
  • The ground of docility, [126].
• —— and vanity, [69], [76].
• Hungarian sisters, the, [246].
• Hunter, John, [265].
• Hurwitz, Hyman, [140], [358].
• Hutchinsonians, the, [314].