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A GUIDE

FOR

THE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION
OF JEWISH YOUTH.

PROPOSED TO TEACHERS BY

RABBI AND PROFESSOR,
MEMBER OF THE ORIENTAL AND LEIPSIC, HALLE,
ETC., ETC., ETC.

STATIONERS'—HALL COURT.

MDCCCLV.

london:
printed by j. wertheimer and co.
circus place, finsbury circus.

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SYNOPSIS.
Notice by the Translator.	Author's Preface.
chapter I.
GOD.
1. His existence. Cosmological argument.	4. All-wise, good, pure, immutable.
2. First Cause, necessary, eternal.	5. God.
3. Omnipotent, free, provident, omniscient, infallible.	6. Psychological argument.
	7. Moral argument.
chapter II.
MAN.
8. His faculties.	14. Double tendency.
9. His destination.	15. Contrast.
10. Intellect.	16. Choice.
11. Reason.	17. Conscience.
12. Free will.	18. Feeling.
13. Immortal soul.
chapter III.
NATURAL RELIGION.
19. Idea of religion.	21. Faith.
20. Necessity for man.
chapter IV.
INSUFFICIENCY OF NATURAL RELIGION.
22. Obstacles.	27. Internal anarchy.
23. Tardy development of reason.	28. Limitation of human understanding.
24. Ascendancy of sensuality.	29. Uncertainty of human knowledge.
25. Want of opportunity.	30. Experience.
26. Social life.	31. Necessity of a revelation.
chapter V.
REVEALED RELIGION.
32. Its actuality.	37. Essence of revelation.
33. Its truth.	38. Lofty aspiration of man.
34. Its fundamental principle.	39. Prophecy.
35. Relation between God and man.	40. Prediction of the future.