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

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Sacrament, doctrine of the, [260].
  • Sacrament of the Eucharist, and the best preparation for it, [350].
• Sacramentaries, the "freezing poison" of their doctrine of the Eucharist, [351].
• Sadducees and Pharisees, the, [133].
• Saint, and St. See the names of the Saints, as John, Paul, &c.
• Salvation, the doctrine of, [36].
• Satire and enthusiasm, [46].
• Satirical critics of religion, [45].
• Savages, their belief in a future life, [237].
• Saviour, The, [165], [169].
• Scepticism, origin of, [29].
• Sceptics, unwilling, [103].
• Scheme, a, not a science, [195].
• Schism, and St. Paul's view of it, [254], [256], [257].
• —— and Protestantism, [316].
• Science and religion, [162], [205].
• —— what is, and what is merely a scheme, [195].
• Scottish philosophy at fault, [xlix], [lxv].
• Scripture, [8], [288].
  • Figure of speech in, [56], [313].
  • Its language, [55].
  • Its literal sense the safer, [56].
  • See also Bible, Inspiration, &c.
• —— interpretation, [101], [194], [205], [243].
  • Private interpretation denounced, [199].
  • Rational interpretation, [xxxix].
  • See also Allegory, Metaphor, Bible, &c.
• Scriptures, Letters on the Inspiration of the.
  • See 'Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit.' "Search ye," &c., [246].
• Scrutamini Scripturas, Selden on, [246].
• Sect, or Church, lovers, aphorism for, [66].
• Seed analyzed, [41].
• Seekers, the, [94].
• Selden on Scrutamini Scripturas, [246].
• Self, [306].
• Self-deceit, [61].
• Self-interest, prudent, [34].
• Self-knowledge, [xix], [lxxi].
• Selfishness, [99].
• Self-questioning, [205].
• Seneca quoted on spiritual truths, [96].
• Senses, conscience and the, [342].
• Sensibility, [22].
• Serpent, the, and Eve, [171].
• Shaftesbury, [128].
  • His philosophy, [92].
• Shakspere, and his doubtful works, [302].
  • His "discourse of reason," [346].
  • His Falstaff, [310].
• —— Coleridge's 'Lectures' on, referred to, [302].
• Sick bed, a, [207].
• Silence, the virtue of, [71].
• Sin,—"The subtle bosom sin,", [5], [10].
  • Original Sin, [172].
  • Roman Catholic doctrine of the punishment of sin, [213].
  • The remedy for sin, [70].
  • The tyranny of sin, [34].
  • See also Origin of Sin, Original Sin, &c.
• Sins, confession of. See Confession.
  • Imitating sins, [75].
• Skink, the, [78].
• Slander, [70].
• Smith, John, his Tracts (1660), quoted, [167].
• Socinian doctrine of forgiveness, [86].
• Socinianism, [231].
• Socrates, [64].
• Sophisms, exposing, [xvii].
• Sorrow, [57].
• Soul, the, [83].
  • Its different faculties assigned to parts of Religion, [21].
  • Its immortality, [236].
  • Its organs of sense, [57].
  • Plotinus on the soul, [53].
  • Soul and Spirit, [203].
  • See also Spirit, &c.
• South, Dr., and his speculations upon the state of Adam and Eve, [194].
• Southey's 'Omniana' referred to, [55].
• Space, [116].
• Spanish refugee, a, on Christianity and Protestantism, [239].
• Species and genus, [149].
• Speculative reason and Theology, [122].
• Spinoza, [227].
• Spinozism, [268].
• Spirit, [43], [99].
  • The Holy Spirit, [39], [50], [56], [96], [101], [288], [361].
  • How the Holy Spirit's presence is known, [39].
  • Pretended call of the Spirit, [98].
  • The term Spirit, [38], [100].
  • The Spirit in man is the Will, [55], [88].
• Spirit, according to the, [242].
• —— body, soul and, [361].
• —— and flesh, [225], [242].
• —— and reason, [96].
• —— and soul, [203].
• —— and the will, [167].
• —— and the Word, [317].
• Spiritual, the, Platonic view of, [20].
  • The Spiritual in man, [88], [204].
  • In religion, [20], [61].
• —— and natural, the terms, [xxx].
  • Misinterpretation of the terms in the New Testament, [xlviii].
• —— Communion, [200].
• —— influences, rational, [39], [50].
• —— life and spiritual death, [217].
• —— religion, [xxxvi], [xlii], [272].
  • That which is it indeed, [102].
  • Aphorisms on, [88], [96].
  • The transition from morality to spiritual religion, [63].
• Squash, the, [78].
• St., and Saint. See the names of the Saints, as John, Paul, &c.
• 'Statesman's Manual,' Coleridge's referred to, [199].
• Sterne, [24].
• Stoic, the, [57].
• Storgè, or maternal instinct, [283].
• Stuart, Prof. (? Moses), and his Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, [xl].
• Student, the Theological, an aphorism for him, [66].
• Students for the ministry addressed, [xvi].
• Study neglected for amusement, [151].
• Subjective and Objective, [117].
• Success and desert, [235].
• Superstition, [126], [248].
• —— and belief, [287].
• Superstitions go in pairs, [246].
• Superstitions respecting Baptism, [249].
• Swallow, the, [74].
• Swedenborgian, Coleridge's, alleged conversion of a, [337].
• Swift, [45].
• Symbol, [173].
• Symbolical and allegorical, difference between, [212].

• 'Table Talk,' Coleridge's, editions of, [337].
• Talkativeness of women and Frenchmen, [72].
• Taylor, Jeremy, [170], [228], [230].
  • Extracts from his works, [172], [187], [228], [229], [234].
  • His 'Deus Justificatus,' [172], [187].
  • His 'Liberty of Prophesying,' and his alteration of it, [245].
  • His work on Repentance, [207], [213].
• Technical phrases, [59].
• Temperance inculcated, [59].
• Temple, the light of the, [292].
• Temptation, [186].
• Tempter, the, [166].
• Terms, Doctrinal, [36].
  • Technical, [59].
  • See also Words.
• Testament, New. See New Testament.
• —— Old. See Bible.
• —— the Old and the New, [133].
• Theological student, aphorism for the, [66].
• "Theology, Natural," so called [168], [272].
• Theology, Physico, [272].
• —— popular, [274].
• —— speculative, and reason, [122].
• Theses, kinds of, Prothesis, Thesis, &c., [118], [343].
• Thinking man, the, [xix].
• "Thinking souls, we want," [100].
• Thought, the faculty of, [3].
  • The passion for novelty in, [72].
  • Thought and attention, [3].
• Thurtel, the murderer, his "bump of benevolence," [100].
• Time and Eternity, [209].
• 'Titus Andronicus,' Shakspere's, [302].
• Toleration, [67], [68].
• Tongue, the, and detraction, [70], [71].
  • The phrase "Hold your tongue!" ib.
• Tooke, Home, his Winged words, [xv].
• Torment, everlasting, [103].
• Trades, arts, &c., and thinking, [xix].
• Transfiguration, the, [312].
• Transgressions, the saving power of, [129].
• Transubstantiation, [87], [123].
  • Arnauld's work on, [260].
• Trinity, The, [116], [121].
  • The doctrine of, [102].
• Troubles, refuge from, [76].
  • Worldly troubles, [77].
• Truth, [71].
  • Christianity is not better than truth, [66].
  • Hooker on, [287].
  • Truth must be sought in humility, [126].
  • Love of truth, [291].
  • Truth Supreme!, [255].
• —— and belief, [293].
• —— partial, zealots of, [251].
• Truths, the most useful, [1].

• Ultrafidianism, [138].
• Understanding = discourse, [228].
  • How modified in man, [283].
  • St. Augustine on, [xviii].
  • The word in St. John, [4].
• —— and instinct, [162].
• —— and reason, [135], [346].
  • The distinction between, [xxxii], [205].
  • Confusion of the terms, [lviii], [lxi], [167].
  • See also Reason and Understanding.
• Unicity, [138].
• Unions, Religious, [67].
• Unitarian, the word, [138].
• Unitarianism not Christianity, [140].
  • Its doctrine of self-salvation, [87].
  • See also Psilanthropism, &c.
• Unitarians, [230], [232].
  • They should be called "Psilanthropists," [138].
• Unity, [40].
• —— and the Unitarians, [138].
• Unkindness, [151].

• Vanists, the, [94].
• Vanity and humility, [69].
• Vice a wound, [129].
• —— and virtue, the twilight between, [24].
• Vico, G. B., quoted, [xiv].
• Vicious men and good, [72].
• Virgil, [275].
• Virtue, [30], [128].
  • Virtue a medicine and vice a wound, [129].
  • Virtue and righteousness, [6].
• 'Vital Dynamics,' Prof. Green's, referred to, [59]; quoted, [278].
• Vital power of insects, &c., [163].

• Wall, W., his tract on Baptism, [254], [255].
  • On the Church, and unity among Christians, [256]-57.
• Warburton, [45], [239].
  • His tract on Grace, [258].
• Wars and Christian men, [358].
• Water, the word as used by Christ, [272].
• Waterland and Bull, their works, [211]-12.
• Watchman, the, Coleridge's, [23].
• Wesley, John, and the Bible, [311].
• Wickedness, [54].
  • When it passes into madness, [342].
• Will, [176].
  • The Absolute Will, [224], [255].
  • A good will, [197].
  • When will constitutes law, [201].
  • The will of the Spirit, [203].
  • The will = the spirit in man, [88].
  • Jeremy Taylor on the will, [231].
  • See also Original Sin, &c.
• —— and the brute animals, [201].
• Will and Free-will, [342].
• —— and the judgment, [xviii].
• —— and love, [25].
• —— and reason, [344].
• —— Free, [xlix], [39], [40], [42], [56], [104], [163], [176], [185], [190].
• Wind-harp, a, [207].
• Witch of Endor, the, and misinterpretation of the word witch, [311].
• Witchcraft, and Sir M. Hale, [311].
• Women and Frenchmen, talkativeness of, [72].
• —— and religious fanaticism, [210].
• Wonder, [156].
• "Word, the, that was in the beginning", [294].
  • The Divine Word, [6].
  • The informing Word, [4].
  • The Word as a Light, [242].
  • The Word and the Spirit, [317].
• Words, [xvi].
  • Their force as used by Coleridge, [lxix].
  • Hobbes on, [167].
  • Importance of a knowledge of words, [5].
  • Legerdemain with words, [23], [81].
  • Meaning and history of words, [15], [100].
  • The science of words, [xvi].
  • The use of words, [150].
  • See also Terms, and some words under their several names.
• Wordsworth, [44], [271].
• Works, Good, [85].
• World, the, its unsatisfying nature, [54], [76], [82], [235].
  • Retiring from the world, [84].
• Worldliness and Godliness, [56], [60].
• Worldly activity, [xvii]; hopes and fears, [52].
  • Worldly views, influence of, [68].
• Wrapped up, unseemly matter, [358].
• Wrap-rascal, a, [121].

• Young, the, education of, [xvi].

• Zealots of partial truth, [251].

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