PART VI.-RESENTMENT. Scriptures agreeing with Natural Law.

PART VII.-RESENTMENT.-Scriptures seeming

to go beyond Natural Law.

MALEVOLENT SENTIMENTS.

CONTENTS.

1.

PART I.

Of Hatred.

THE Gospel compared to light, as dispel-

ling moral darkness, or barbarism.

2. Barbarism may be measured by the strength of

Malevolent Sentiments.

3. Occasion of these Discourses.

4. Method proposed.

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Hatred, its nature how to be investigated.

6. By contrast.

7. By distinguishing it from other sentiments, to

which it bears some affinity.

8. More of Hatred as distinguished from disappro-

bation.

9. Hatred described by describing the object.

10. The result of these descriptions.

12. Scriptural language relative to the nature of

hatred. Preliminary observations.

13. Instances; first of hatred in its proper sense;

where of hating the partner of guilt-the virtuous-the

poor.

of hating things inanimate.

of avoiding being called hating,

20.

21.

22.

of wearisomenss expressed by the term

of envy mixed with hatred.

of enmity mixed with hatred.

of disapprobation mixed with hatred.

of hating comparatively.

of hating in effect.

Effects of hatred. And first its good effects.

23. The difference between justifying God and di-

recting Man.

24.

25.

Good effects of hatred, generally.

- more particularly.

26. Not to be neglected because they relate chiefly

to the finer parts of human nature.

27.

Sentiment how more useful than mere reason.

28. Objection, how can it be useful to hate Defor-

mity? Where of men's priding themselves in fasti-

diousness.

29. How the good effects of hatred increase.

30. Idea of the world on supposition that those qua-

lities which are now odious, excited no disgust.

31. Hurtful effects of hatred; and first as generat-

ing ill-will.

32. In domestic life.

33. In public life.

34. Towards persons unknown, or little known.

35. Estimated by the good which it prevents.

36. Proportioned to its growth.

37. Regulation of hatred: the question whether it

can be too much weakened: and the true meaning of

its being forbidden in general terms.

38. Practical directions for the object of hatred :

when such by his own faults.

39. When such by the faults of others.