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THENEW YORK PUBLICLIBRARY
53542 ། ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
1897.
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LONDON : PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, DORSET-STREET:
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Christ Jesus the sum of the Holy Scriptures .
. 5-7
The ordination of Christ unto his kingdom
9
The qualification of Christ for his kingdom
10
The quality of Christ's kingdom
12
How the will is drawn unto Christ
13
Subjection unto the kingdom of Christ
14
How Christ is a Lord to his people and to his forefathers
19
The right hand of God
24
Christ's sitting at God's right hand noteth
1. His glorious exaltation
25
All strength from his exciting and assisting grace
26
2. His accomplishing all his works on earth
29
3. The actual administration of his kingdom .
4. The giving of gifts unto men
34
The Ark, how a type of Christ
35
How the Spirit was given before Christ, and how after
37
The difference was in the manner of his Mission
38
Subjects to whom he was sent
Measure of his grace in regard of Knowledge 41
Strength
The reason of the Spirit's mission
42
iki
How the Spirit is a Comforter to the Church
1. By being our Advocate, and how
43
2. By representing Christ absent to the soul
45
3. By a sweet and fruitful illumination
46
4. By unspeakable and glorious joy .
How the Spirit worketh this joy
By his acts of Humbling
47
Healing
48
Renewing
49
Preserving
Fructifying
50
Sealing
ib.
53
56
Enmity against Christ in all his offices
Grounds of mispersuasion touching our love to Christ.
1. The countenance of princes and public laws
2. The rules of tradition and education
57
3. Self-love and furtherance of private ends
58
4. An historical assurance of his being now in glory
63
5. A false and erroneous love to his ordinances
64
True love unto Christ is grounded on the
Proportion that is in him to our souls
65
Propriety that our souls have unto him
67
This true love will manifest itself,
1. In a universal extent to any thing of Christ, his Spirit . 67
Ordinances. ib.
Members 68
2. In a right manner it is love Incorrupt
69
Superlative
Uncommunicated .
70
3. In the genuine effects thereof, Universal obedience.
Cheerful sufferings
71
Zeal of his glory
Longing after his appearance 72
The continuance and limitation of Christ's kingdom .
Stability of the Church grounded upon An unalterable decree . 74
A free gift of God to Christ 75
A growing nature of its own 76
Papal monarchy raised upon inevident presumptions
77
The stability of the Church a ground of comfort against the violence
of the enemy
83
The present inconsummateness of Christ's over his enemies,
with the reasons of it
84
God's patience hath fixed bounds
86
The wicked shall be punished by God's immediate power . 92
The easiness of Christ's victory over his enemies
99
The folly of nature to judge of God, or ourselves, by things in the
: present
101
The punishinent of the wicked bringeth order and beauty on the
face of the world.
104
What it is to be uåder Christ's feet
• 105
Christ suffereth in the sufferings of his Church
. 108
Christ's triampk oyes his enemies, and the comforts thereof to us.
Foot-stool noteth Shame
112
Burden
113
Reconipense
114
Usefulness
115
The Gospel with the Spirit is full of power and strength,
1. Towards those that are saved, in their Conversion
126
Justification
128
Sanctification
129
1. Towards those that are saved, in their Perseverance
130
Comforts
. 131
Temporal blessings
• 132
2. Towards those that perish, in Convincing them
· 133
Affrighting them
. 137
Judging thein
. 138
Ripening their sins
· 140
Enraging them
. ib.
Altering them
. 142
The Gospel to be preached with authority
. 143
The Gospel to be received in the power thereof.
144
The Gospel only able to hold up in extremities .
145
No acquaintance with God but in the Gospel ,
The Gospel is not set in vain
147
The Gospel with the Spirit is full of glory.
1. In regard of the Author of it
150
The Gospel a mystery unsearchable by human reason
153
Contempt of the Gospel preached, is contempt of Christ in his
glory.
156
Expect to hear Christ speaking from heaven in his word · 158
%. In the promulgation thereof
. 160
Evangelical knowledge the measure of grace
. 163
3. In the matters therein contained
. 164
His wisdom, goodness, power, grace, kingdom
166
God's glory can no where be looked on with comfort but in
Christ
. 168
4. In ends and purposes for which it serveth
• 170
To illighten the conscience
To be a ministration of righteousness
· 172
To be a ministration of life
· 173
To be a spiritual judge in the heart
· 174
To be an abiding ministration
. 175
To ennoble the heart.
With Magnanimity
178
Fortitude.
.980
Lustre and majesty
180
Liberty and joy
183
The dispensers of the Gospel are therein to use
Liberty
186.
Sincerity
187.
The Gospel to be received with all honour and acceptation . · 189
And to be adorned in a suitable conversation
· 195
We adorn the Gospel of Christ,
1. When we set it up in our hearts as our only rule
· 196
2. When we walk in fitting obedience thereunto
· 199
3. When we continue therein
ib,
4. When we hold it in the unity of the Spirit
• 200
5. When we seriously seek the knowledge of Christ and heaven
in it
201
6. When we make it our only altar of refuge in trouble. • 203
Christ in the ministry of his Gospel, is full of care over his Church; 207
This care seen in his Love .
211
Study and inquisitiveness
Constancy and continuance
212
Emptying of himself
Laying down his life
. 213
Grace and Spirit
Preparations for the future
. 214
The effects of his care.
Food
. 215
Guidance
Health
Comfort
216
Protection .
, 217
The grounds of his care.
He is our Kinsman
. 217
He is our Companion
. 218
He is our Head
. 219
He is our Advocate
He is our Purchaser
. 221
A right judgement of God in Christ doth much strengthen faith . 221
The Gospel is Christ's own strength
. 226
Christ then is to be preached, and not ourselves
.228
With Authority.
. 230
Wisdom
Meekness
. 232
Faithfulness
Christ preached is to be received
With Faith
233
Love
234
God's ordination gives life and majesty to his ordinances
235
There is a natural theology, no natural Christianity
, 236
God's judgements :upsearchable in hiding the Gospel from former
ages
237
The Gospel a heavenly invitation unto mercy
• 238
'The Gospel not to be preached but by those that are sent . 239
Thtee things requisite to an ordinary mission.
God's proriderice casting upon the means.
Meet qualification of the person sent.
Fidelity
240
Ability
242
Ecclesiastical ordination by imposition of hands
244
The Church of the Jews was the chief Metropolitan Church
245
The calling of the Gentiles to be daughters of that Mother-Church 246
The Church is the seat of saving truth
247
The office of the Church concerning Holy Scriptures
. 249