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Preface[v]
PART I.
DISCOURSE I.
The Surroundings of the First Epistle of St. John[3]
DISCOURSE II.
The Connection of the Epistle with the Gospel of St. John[21]
DISCOURSE III.
The Polemical Element in the First Epistle of St. John[39]
DISCOURSE IV.
The Image of St. John's Soul in His Epistle[54]
PART II.
Some General Rules for the Interpretation of the First Epistle of St. John[75]
SECTION I.
Text and Versions[79]
DISCOURSE I.
Analysis and Theory of St. John's Gospel[80]
DISCOURSE II.
St. John's Gospel Historical not Ideological[88]
SECTION II.
Text and Versions[100]
DISCOURSE III.
Extent of the Atonement[102]
DISCOURSE IV.
Missionary Application of the Extent of the Atonement[106]
SECTION III. (1)
Text and Versions[117]
DISCOURSE V.
The Influence of the Great Life Walk a Personal Influence[118]
SECTION III. (2)
Text and Versions[133]
SECTION III. (3)
Text and Versions[134]
DISCOURSE VI.
The World which we must not Love[136]
DISCOURSE VII.
Use and Abuse of the Sense of the Vanity of the World[149]
SECTION IV.
Text and Versions[164]
DISCOURSE VIII.
Knowing All Things[166]
SECTION V.
Text and Versions[179]
SECTION VI.
Text and Versions[185]
DISCOURSE IX.
Lofty Ideals Perilous unless Applied[188]
SECTION VII.
Text and Versions[204]
SECTION VIII.
Text and Versions[207]
DISCOURSE X.
Boldness in the Day of Judgment[210]
SECTION IX.
Text and Versions[220]
DISCOURSE XI.
Birth and Victory[223]
DISCOURSE XII.
The Gospel as a Gospel of Witness; the Three Witnesses[236]
DISCOURSE XIII.
The Witness of Men (applied to the Resurrection)[241]
DISCOURSE XIV.
Sin unto Death[254]
DISCOURSE XV.
The Terrible Truism which has no Exception[260]
SECTION X.
Text and Versions[274]
SECOND EPISTLE.
Text and Versions[279]
DISCOURSE XVI.
Theology and Life in Kyria's Letter[282]
THIRD EPISTLE.
Text and Versions[297]
DISCOURSE XVII.
The Quietness of True Religion[300]

PART I.


"Johannis Epistolæ, ultimusque primæ versiculus, in Ephesum
imprimis conveniunt."
(Bengelin Act. xix. 21.)


[DISCOURSE I.]