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74
THOUGHTS
ON
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE.
TO WHICH IS ADDED
AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING "LETTERS
TO THE AGED," &c. &c.
BY THE
REV. ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, D. D.
Professor of Pastoral and Polemic Theology in the Princeton Theological Seminary.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844 by A. W. MITCHELL, M. D.
in the office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Early religious impressions.-Different results.-Classes of
persons least impressed.-Examples of ineffectual impressions.
CHAPTER II.
Piety in children.-Comparatively few renewed in infancy and
childhood.-Soul awakened in different ways.-Legal con-
viction not a necessary part of true religion.-Progress of
conviction.
CHAPTER III.
The new birth an event of great importance.-The evidences of
the new birth.-Diversities of experience in Converts.-Ex-
amples. Causes of diversity.
CHAPTER IV.
Causes of diversity in experience continued.-Effect of tempera-
ment.-Melancholy.-Advice to the friends of persons thus
affected. Subject continued.-Illustrative cases.-Causes of
melancholy and insanity.
CHAPTER V.
Effect of sympathy illustrated.-Cautions in relation to this sub-
ject.-A singular case in illustration.
CHAPTER VI.
Erroneous views of regeneration.-The correct view. The ope-
ration of faith.-Exercises of mind, as illustrated in Presi-
dent Edwards's Narrative.-The operations of faith still fur-
ther explained.
CHAPTER VII.
Considerations on dreams, visions, &c.-Remarkable conversion
of a blind infidel from hearing the Bible read.
CHAPTER VIII.
Religious Conversation.-Stress laid by some on the know.
ledge of the time and place of conversion.-Religious ex-
perience of Halyburton.
CHAPTER IX.
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Christian experience of R- C-Narrative of Sir
Richard Hill's experience.
CHAPTER X.
Imperfect sanctification.-The spiritual warfare.
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CHAPTER XI.
Narrative of G A S- -, an Episcopal Clergyman.
Narrative of a young Officer in the Army.
CHAPTER XII.
The spiritual conflict. Various exhibitions of it.-Evil thoughts.
A case in illustration.
CHAPTER XIII.
Growth in grace.-Signs of it.-Practical directions how to
grow in grace.-Hindrances to it.
CHAPTER XIV
Backsliding. The Backslider restored.
CHAPTER XV.
The rich man and the poor.-The various trials of believers.
Death-bed exercises and speeches of Rev. Thomas Halyburton.
CHAPTER XIX.
Dying Experience of Mr. John Janeway, the Rev. Edward Pay-
son, and Rev. Samuel Finley, D. D.
CHAPTER XX.
Remarks on death-bed Exercises, with several illustrative ex-
amples.
CHAPTER XXI.
Death-bed exercises of Mr. Baxter, and the Rev. Thomas Scott,
D. D.
CHAPTER XXII.
Preparation for death.-The state of the soul after death.
PRAYER for one who feels that he is approaching the borders of
another world.
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