Thoughts on Religious Experience
Archibald Alexander, 1844
Preface
Chapter 1. Early
religious impressions—Different results—Classes of people least
impressed—Examples of ineffectual impressions
Chapter 2. Piety in children—Comparatively few renewed
in childhood—Soul awakened in different ways—Legal conviction not a necessary
part of true religion—Progress of conviction
Chapter 3. The new birth an event of great importance—The evidences of
the new birth—Diversities of experience in converts—Examples—Causes of
diversity
Chapter 4. Causes of diversity in experience continued—Effect of
temperament—Melancholy—Advice to the friends of people thus
affected—Illustrative cases—Causes of melancholy and insanity
Chapter 5. Effect of sympathy illustrated—Cautions in relation to this
subject—A singular case in illustration
Chapter 6. Erroneous views of regeneration—The correct view—The
operation of faith—Exercises of mind, as illustrated in Jonathan Edwards's
Narrative—The operations of faith still further explained
Chapter 7. Considerations on dreams, visions, etc. Remarkable
conversion of a blind infidel from hearing the Bible read
Chapter 8. Religious Conversation—Stress laid by some on the knowledge
of the time and place of conversion—Religious experience of Halyburton
Chapter 9. Christian experience of R__ C__.
Narrative of Sir Richard
Hill's experience
Chapter 10.
Imperfect sanctification—The spiritual warfare
Chapter 11. The spiritual conflict—Various exhibitions of it—Evil
thoughts
Chapter 12. Growth in grace—Signs of it—Practical directions how to
grow in grace—Hindrances to it
Chapter 13.
Backsliding—The backslider restored
Chapter 14. The rich and the poor—The various trials of believers
Chapter 15. Deathbed of the believer
Chapter 16.
Remarks on deathbed exercises
Chapter 17. Preparation for death—The state of the soul after death
Chapter 18. A prayer for one who feels that he is approaching the borders of
another world