These notes are identified by ♦♠♥♣ symbols in the │ │ text and are shown immediately below the paragraph in which │ │ they appear. │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ THE WORKS OF THE Rev. JOHN WESLEY, M.A. Late Fellow of _Lincoln-College_, OXFORD. VOLUME VI. BRISTOL: Printed by WILLIAM PINE, in _Wine-Street_. MDCCLXXII. THE CONTENTS Of the SIXTH VOLUME. An extract from Mr. LAW’s _Serious Call_ to a _Holy Life_. CHAPTER XVIII. _Recommending devotion at three o’clock, called in scripture the |ninth hour| of the day. The subject of prayer at this hour may be |resignation| to the divine pleasure. The nature and duty of conformity to the will of God in all our actions and designs._ CHAPTER XIX. _Of the excellency and greatness of a devout spirit._ An Extract from Mr. LAW’s Later Works. An extract from the case of reason, or natural religion, fairly and fully stated. In answer to a book, entitled _Christianity as Old as the Creation_. _The introduction, shewing the state of the controversy._ CHAPTER I. _Enquiring, whether there be any thing in the |nature| and |condition| of man, to |oblige| him to think, that he is not to admit of any doctrines or institutions, as revealed from God, but such as his own reason can prove to be necessary from the nature of things._ CHAPTER II. _Shewing from the |relation between God and man, that human reason cannot be a competent judge of the |fitness| and |reasonableness| of God’s proceedings with mankind, either as to the |time|, or |matter|, or |manner| of an external revelation_. CHAPTER III. _Shewing how far human reason is able to judge of the reasonableness, truth, and certainty of divine revelation._ CHAPTER IV. _Of the state and nature of reason, as it is in man; and how its perfection in matters of religion is to be known._ CHAPTER V. _Shewing that all the |mutability| of our tempers, the |disorders| of our passions, the |corruption| of our hearts, all the |reveries| of the imagination, all the |contradictions| and |absurdities| that are to be found in human life, and human opinions, are in effect the mutability, disorders, corruption, and absurdities of |human reason|._