Self-Examination <–> Self-Improvement
Sacred imitation <–> Secular imitation –> Self-Invention?
Self-Doubt <–> Irony –> Lack of emotion?
Affliction and Divine Cause <–> Afflictions and Pragmatic Lessons
Private/Exclusive Community <–> Malleable Public Sphere
Grace <–> Personal Virtue –> Community Ethics?
God’s Plot <–> Self-Authorship
Forgivable Sin <–> Revisable Errata
Divine Mystery <–> Experiential Knowledge
Total Depravity <–> Essential Improvability
Self-Extinguishing <–> Self-Assertion
Vulnerability <–> Immunity –> New forms of vulnerability?
Self-Perfectibility only in Death <–> Self-Perfectibility in Dullness (humor)
Plain Style <–> Rhetorical Flair
Sunday Sabbath <–> Self-Study
Humility <–> Vanity
Commandments/God’s Law <–> Practical Wisdom / Adage
Faith <–>Reason
Essential Uncertainty <–> Rhetorical Qualification
Paternal Control & Gender Bias <–> Maternal / Feminine Power?
Jeremiad (rant against present decay) <–> Inevitable Economic Progress
Self-Mortification <–> Pride/Confidence