A TREATISE ON THE SOUL
- CHAP. I.—IT IS NOT TO THE PHILOSOPHERS THAT WE
RESORT FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE SOUL BUT TO GOD.(2)
- CHAP. II.—THE CHRISTIAN HAS SURE AND SIMPLE
KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING THE SUBJECT BEFORE US.
- CHAP. III.—THE SOUL'S ORIGIN DEFINED OUT OF THE
SIMPLE WORDS OF SCRIPTURE.
- CHAP. IV.—IN OPPOSITION TO PLATO, THE SOUL WAS
CREATED AND ORIGINATED AT BIRTH.
- CHAP. V.—PROBABLE VIEW OF THE STOICS, THAT THE
SOUL HAS A CORPOREAL NATURE.
- CHAP. VI.—THE ARGUMENTS OF THE PLATONISTS FOR
THE SOUL'S INCORPOREALITY, OPPOSED, PERHAPS FRIVOLOUSLY.
- CHAP.VII. —THE SOUL'S CORPOREALITY DEMONSTRATED
OUT OF THE GOSPELS.
- CHAP. VIII.—OTHER PLATONIST ARGUMENTS
CONSIDERED.
- CHAP. IX.—PARTICULARS OF THE ALLEGED
COMMUNICATION TO A MONTANIST SISTER.
- CHAP. X.—THE SIMPLE NATURE OF THE SOUL IS
ASSERTED WITH PLATO. THE IDENTITY OF SPIRIT AND SOUL.
- CHAP. XI.—SPIRIT—A TERM EXPRESSIVE OF AN
OPERATION OF THE SOUL, NOT OF ITS NATURE. TO BE CAREFULLY DISTINGUISHED
FROM THE SPIRIT OF GOD.
- CHAP. XII.—DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MIND AND THE
SOUL, AND THE RELATION BETWEEN THEM.
- CHAP. XIII.—THE SOUL'S SUPREMACY.
- CHAP. XIV.—THE SOUL VARIOUSLY DIVIDED BY THE
PHILOSOPHERS; THIS DIVISION IS NOT A MATERIAL DISSECTION.
- CHAP. XV.—THE SOUL'S VITALITY AND INTELLIGENCE.
ITS CHARACTER AND SEAT IN MAN.
- CHAP. XVI.—THE SOUL'S PARTS. ELEMENTS OF THE
RATIONAL SOUL.
- CHAP. XVII.—THE FIDELITY OF THE SENSES,
IMPUGNED BY PLATO, VINDICATED BY CHRIST HIMSELF.
- CHAP. XVIII.—PLATO SUGGESTED CERTAIN ERRORS TO
THE GNOSTICS. FUNCTIONS OF THE SOUL.
- CHAP. XIX.—THE INTELLECT COEVAL WITH THE SOUL
IN THE HUMAN BEING. AN EXAMPLE FROM ARISTOTLE CONVERTED INTO EVIDENCE
FAVOURABLE TO THESE VIEWS.
- CHAP. XX.—THE SOUL, AS TO ITS NATURE UNIFORM,
BUT ITS FACULTIES VARIOUSLY DEVELOPED. VARIETIES ONLY ACCIDENTAL.
- CHAP. XXI.—AS FREE-WILL ACTUATES AN INDIVIDUAL
SO MAY HIS CHARACTER CHANGE.
- CHAP. XXII.—RECAPITULATION. DEFINITION OF THE
SOUL.
- CHAP. XXIII.—THE OPINIONS OF SUNDRY HERETICS
WHICH ORIGINATE ULTIMATELY WITH PLATO.
- CHAP. XXIV.—PLATO'S INCONSISTENCY. HE SUPPOSES
THE SOUL SELF-EXISTENT, YET CAPABLE OF FORGETTING WHAT PASSED IN A
PREVIOUS STATE.
- CHAP. XXV.—TERTULLIAN REFUTES, PHYSIOLOGICALLY,
THE NOTION THAT THE SOUL IS INTRODUCED AFTER BIRTH.
- CHAP. XXVI.—SCRIPTURE ALONE OFFERS CLEAR
KNOWLEDGE ON THE QUESTIONS WE HAVE BEEN CONTROVERTING.
- CHAP. XXVII.—SOUL AND BODY CONCEIVED, FORMED
AND PERFECTED IN ELEMENT SIMULTANEOUSLY.
- CHAP. XXVIII.—THE PYTHAGOREAN DOCTRINE OF
TRANSMIGRATION SKETCHED AND CENSURED.
- CHAP. XXX.—FURTHER REFUTATION OF THE
PYTHAGOREAN THEORY. THE STATE OF CONTEMPORARY CIVILISATION.
- CHAP. XXXI.—FURTHER EXPOSURE OF TRANSMIGRATION,
ITS INEXTRICABLE EMBARRASSMENT.
- CHAP. XXXII.—EMPEDOCLES INCREASED THE ABSURDITY
OF PYTHAGORAS BY DEVELOPING THE POSTHUMOUS CHANGE OF MEN INTO VARIOUS
ANIMALS.
- CHAP. XXXIII.—THE JUDICIAL RETRIBUTION OF THESE
MIGRATIONS REFUTED WITH RAILLERY.
- CHAP. XXXIV.—THESE VAGARIES STIMULATED SOME
PROFANE CORRUPTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY. THE PROFANITY OF SIMON MAGUS
CONDEMNED.
- CHAP. XXXV.—THE OPINIONS OF CARPOCRATES,
ANOTHER OFFSET FROM THE PYTHAGOREAN DOGMAS, STATED AND CONFUTED.
- CHAP. XXXVI.—THE MAIN POINTS OF OUR AUTHOR'S
SUBJECT. ON THE SEXES OF THE HUMAN RACE.
- CHAP. XXXVII.—ON THE FORMATION AND STATE OF THE
EMBRYO. ITS RELATION WITH THE SUBJECT OF THIS TREATISE.
- CHAP. XXXVIII.—ON THE GROWTH OF THE SOUL. ITS
MATURITY COINCIDENT WITH THE MATURITY OF THE FLESH IN MAN.
- CHAP. XXXIX.—THE EVIL SPIRIT HAS MARRED THE
PURITY OF THE SOUL FROM THE VERY BIRTH.
- CHAP. XL.—THE BODY OF MAN ONLY ANCILLARY TO THE
SOUL IN THE COMMISSION OF EVIL.
- CHAP. XLI.—NOTWITHSTANDING THE DEPRAVITY OF
MAN'S SOUL BY ORIGINAL SIN, THERE IS YET LEFT A BASIS WHEREON DIVINE
GRACE CAN WORK FOR ITS RECOVERY BY SPIRITUAL REGENERATION.
- CHAP. XLII.—SLEEP, THE MIRROR OF DEATH, AS
INTRODUCTORY TO THE CONSIDERATION OF DEATH.
- CHAP. XLIII.—SLEEP A NATURAL FUNCTION AS SHOWN
BY OTHER CONSIDERATIONS, AND BY THE TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURE.
- CHAP. XLIV.—THE STORY OF HERMOTIMUS, AND THE
SLEEPLESSNESS OF THE EMPEROR NERO. NO SEPARATION OF THE SOUL FROM THE
BODY UNTIL DEATH.
- CHAP. XLV.—DREAMS, AN INCIDENTAL EFFECT OF THE
SOUL'S ACTIVITY. ECSTASY.
- CHAP. XLVI.—DIVERSITY OF DREAMS AND VISIONS.
EPICURUS THOUGHT LIGHTLY OF THEM, THOUGH GENERALLY MOST HIGHLY VALUED.
INSTANCES OF DREAMS,
- CHAP. XLVII.—DREAMS VARIOUSLY CLASSIFIED. SOME
ARE GOD-SENT, AS THE DREAMS OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR; OTHERS SIMPLY PRODUCTS
OF NATURE.
- CHAP. XLVIII.—CAUSES AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF
DREAMS. WHAT BEST CONTRIBUTES TO EFFICIENT DREAMING.
- CHAP. XLIX.—NO SOUL NATURALLY EXEMPT FROM
DREAMS.
- CHAP. L.—THE ABSURD OPINION OF EPICURUS AND THE
PROFANE CONCEITS OF THE HERETIC MENANDER ON DEATH, EVEN ENOCH AND
ELIJAH RESERVED FOR DEATH.
- CHAP. LI.—DEATH ENTIRELY SEPARATES THE SOUL
FROM THE BODY.
- CHAP. LII.—ALL KINDS OF DEATH A VIOLENCE TO
NATURE, ARISING FROM SIN.—SIN AN INTRUSION UPON NATURE AS GOD CREATED
IT.
- CHAP. LIII.—THE ENTIRE SOUL BEING INDIVISIBLE
REMAINS TO THE LAST ACT OF VITALITY; NEVER PARTIALLY OR FRACTIONALLY
WITHDRAWN FROM THE BODY.
- CHAP. LIV.—WHITHER DOES THE SOUL RETIRE WHEN IT
QUITS THE BODY? OPINIONS OF PHILOSOPHERS ALL MORE OR LESS ABSURD. THE
HADES OF PLATO.
- CHAP. LV.—THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF THE POSITION OF
HADES; THE BLESSEDNESS OF PARADISE IMMEDIATELY AFTER DEATH. THE
PRIVILEGE OF THE MARTYRS.
- CHAP.LVI.—REFUTATION OF THE HOMERIC VIEW OF THE
SOUL'S DETENTION FROM HADES OWING TO THE BODY'S BEING UNBURIED. THAT
SOULS PREMATURELY SEPARATED FROM THE BODY HAD TO WAIT FOR ADMISSION
INTO HADES ALSO REFUTED.
- CHAP. LVII.—MAGIC AND SORCERY ONLY APPARENT IN
THEIR EFFECTS. GOD ALONE CAN RAISE THE DEAD.
- CHAP. LVIII.—CONCLUSION. POINTS POSTPONED. ALL
SOULS ARE KEPT IN HADES UNTIL THE RESURRECTION, ANTICIPATING THEIR
ULTIMATE MISERY OR BLISS.
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