Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici : Letter to a friend, &c. and Christian morals / edited by W.A. Greenhill.

  • Thomas Browne
Date:
1901
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Credit: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici : Letter to a friend, &c. and Christian morals / edited by W.A. Greenhill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to be desired, yet suicide is unlawful. — §45. Death the gate through which we pass to immortality.—§ 46. The end of the world.—§47. The Day of Judgement.—§48. The Resurrection of the dead. Types of the Resurrection.—§49. Heaven, or Hell, not to be defined.—§ 50. Of fire as an agent in destruc- tion.—§51. The heart of man is his own torment.—§52. Con- templation of Heaven.—§ 53. Crosses to be regarded as proofs of God’s affection.—§ 54. Salvation through Christ alone.— § 55. Our practice inconsistent with our theory.—§ 56. The Church of God not circumscribed. A sectarian spirit hostile to charity.—§57. “ Judge not that ye be not judged.”— §58. But few are Saved.—§59. Our confidence can only be in God’s mercy.—§ 60. Faith. SECOND PART. § I- Charity.—§2. Charity must spring from a proper motive. The nature of created beings signified in their outward forms. Of chiromancy. Variety of outward forms in nature. — § 3. The souls of our fellow creatures as much the object of charity as their bodies. The duty of imparting knowledge. Difference of opinion need not divide affection.—§4. National want of Charity. Man most ignorant in the knowledge of himself.—§ 5. Of sympathy.—§ 6. The mystery of true affec- tion.—§7. To forgive is the sweetest revenge.—§8. Of pride and conceit.—§9. Of marriage and harmony. Our Physician hath the general cause of humanity at heart.—§ 10. Our Phy- sician thinketh no man so bad but that there is good in him, and feareth his own corruption more than contagion from others.—§11. Man’s life a constant tniracle. Of dreams.— § 12. Of sleep.—§ 13. Justice. Avarice a ridiculous vice. Poor men may be liberal, and even munificent.—§ 14. God to be loved for His own sake, and our neighbour for God’s.— § 15. Our Physician concludeth that there is no happiness but in God. A LETTER TO A FRIEND, &c Pp. 125-135 a 2
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