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The Divine Providence respecting temporal Things	507
The Divine Providence respecting the reception of Truth and Good	509
Permissions of the Divine Providence	513
Permissions of Providence with respect to Worldly Possessions and Honours	515
Permission of Providence with respect to Wars	516
Permission of Providence with respect to the Religions of the various Nations	518
Permission of Providence with respect to the Mahometan Religion	520
Permission of Providence with respect to the limited prevalence of the Christian Religion	522
Permission of Providence with respect to the Divisions and Corruptions of the Christian Religion	523
The Permission of Evils	524
The Divine Providence is equally with the Evil and the Good	525
The Particular Leading of the Good and the Evil by the Divine Providence	527
Why Divine Providence leads Man by Affection, not by Thought	529
The Divine Providence in Withdrawing Man from Evil	530
Every Man may be reformed, and there is no Predestination	534
The Operations of Providence for Man's Salvation are continual and progressive	534
Reason why the Divine Providence operates invisibly and incomprehensively	536
Fate	536
Fortune and Chance	537
Accidents	538
Divine Providence in respect to the Time of Man's Death	538
Care for the Morrow	539

HUMAN SOUL.

Prevailing Ignorance respecting the Soul	541
What the Soul is	541
Origin of the Soul	543
Discrete and Continuous Degrees	543
Successive and Simultaneous Order of Discrete Degrees	546
Three Discrete Degrees of the Mind	547
In each Degree there is a Will and an Understanding	548
A yet interior Region of the Understanding, above the Celestial, in the Inmost Man	549
The Rational and the Natural Mind	550
Evils and Falsities reside in the Natural degree of the Mind	551
The Action and Reaction of the Natural and Spiritual Mind	552
The Closing of the Spiritual Degree of the Mind	552
A Man is perfected in the other Life according to the Degree opened in the World	553
The Will and Understanding are Organic Forms	553
The Understanding can be elevated above the Will	554
The Will rather than the Understanding constitutes the Man	555
Thoughts and Affections are Variations of State and Form of the Organic Substances of the Mind	556