Is it an altogether pleasing emotion?

No: there is a measure of uneasiness with it.

What is its influence upon us?

It urges us to effort and action.

2. What is a Wish?

An Inactive Desire.

3. What is Hope?

A feeling produced by an object which we think to be in our reach.

4. What is Expectation?

An advance on hope, by greater probability.

5. What is Confidence?

The feeling that exists when there is no doubt of obtaining the object.

By what, as to Good not possessed, are our feelings influenced? By Probability.

Explain your meaning.

They are more or less intense, according to the various degrees of probability as to our obtaining it.

Mention the feelings produced by good enjoyed.

Joy, Gladness, Cheerfulness, Mirth, Contentment, Satisfaction.

Mention the feelings produced by Good not enjoyed, but attainable.

How

Desire, Wish, Hope, Expectation, Confidence.

2. AS TO EVIL.

may evil be regarded by us, as to ourselves?
Either as Present, or as Apprehended.

Present Evil.

What does Present Evil excite in our breasts?

Various painful emotions.

1. What is Sorrow?

A painful feeling produced by loss or disappointment.

2. What is Grief?

A silent, deep, painful sorrow.

3. What is Melancholy?

Gloomy sadness: a continued sense of calamity.

4. What is Discontent?

A painful feeling arising from the comparison of our own state with that of others.

5. What is Dissatisfaction?

It arises from disappointment, or from the partial accomplishment of our desires.

6. What is Vexation and Chagrin?

Higher degrees of dissatisfaction, with irritation.

7. What is Impatience?

A mixture of sorrow and anger, with a feeling of irk

someness.

8. What is Repining?

Sorrow, with resentment against a superior agent.

9. What is Regret?

A feeling of sadness, with a conception of the cause.

Are there not some Virtuous Affections excited by Sorrow, or called into action by the evils which produce it? There are such.

1. What is Patience?

Calm acquiescence in a state of which we feel the evil. 2. What is Resignation?

It adds to patience a submissive disposition to the Divine

Will.

What does it acknowledge with regard to God?

That He afflicts us, and is just and good in what He does.

What happy feeling does it imply?

Hope: hope of benefit and deliverance.

Apprehended Evil.

If Evil be Apprehended, what does it excite in the breast?
Various painful emotions.

1. What is fear?

It arises from the sense of danger: from the prospect of what is disagreeable, or of losing what is agreeable.

2. What is Consternation?

A foreboding of tremendous evils: painful confusion and amazement at the contemplation of evil.

3. What is Abject Fear?

It is inspired by the idea of irresistible power in the cause of it.

To what is it closely allied?

To superstition.

4. What is Terror?

Fear rousing to defence or escape; unless it overwhelm the mind, and suspend all the power of action.

5. What is Dread?

A degree of permanent fear: an habitual apprehension of some tremendous event.

6. What is Despair?

The fear of losing, or of suffering, or of remaining in a state, without hope.

7. What is Cowardice?

An habitual temper which disqualifies us for opposing dangers.

8. What is Pusillanimity?

A feebleness of mind, by which we are terrified at trifles and imaginary dangers.

9. What is Timidity?

A degree of pusillanimity, but not reproachable. 10. What is Doubt?

Fearful apprehension from the uncertainty of events.

Can you express your meaning in other words?

Fluctuation of the mind between hope and fear.

11. What is Irresolution?

A painful state of mind when it cannot determine what conclusion is to be formed, or what course of action is to be pursued.

Are there

any

Virtuous affections opposed to fear?

There are such.

1. What is Fortitude?

Firmness of mind to resist dangers and endure sufferings. By what is it supported?

By Hope.

By what may it be strengthened?

Perhaps sometimes by a portion of the angry affections.

2. What is Courage?

Active fortitude.

3. What is Intrepidity?

Undaunted courage.

Recapitulate. If Evil be Present, what feelings are excited? Sorrow, Grief, Melancholy, Discontent, Dissatisfaction, Vexation, Chagrin, Impatience, Repining, Regret. What Virtuous Affections may co-exist with present evil? Patience, Resignation.

If Evil be Apprehended, what feelings are excited?

Fear, Consternation, Abject Fear, Terror, Dread, Despair,
Cowardice, Pusillanimity, Timidity, Doubt, Irresolu-

tion.

What Virtuous Affections may be excited by it?

Fortitude, Courage, Intrepidity.

II. EMOTIONS AS TO PERSONS.

1. AS TO THE INDIVIDUAL.

What do you mean by Self-love?

The love of ourselves.

To what does it lead us?

To study our own interest, gratification, and comfort. Does the notion of good and evil in ourselves excite various emotions?

Such is the case.

1. What is Complacency?

Being pleased with; having full delight in.

Explain it as an emotion.

A full and continued satisfaction, connected with a con-
siderable degree of approbation, as to ourselves or
others.

To what only, in strict propriety, is the word applicable?
To the good which originates in moral excellence.

Is complacency pleasant?

High measures of it are the most grateful of all the affections.

2. What is Pride?

An undue or unjust elation of mind.

From what does it arise?

From an opinion of talents and worth which we have not: or from unduly valuing any endowments which we have.

Mention some of these endowments.

They may belong to the body, or to the mind, or to birth, rank, fortune, &c.

3. What is Vanity?

Pride fondly courting notice and applause.

4. What is Haughtiness?

An overt act of pride: pride swelling and overbearing,