7. Imperiousness of ill-used wealth

8. Causes and means of poverty

9. Examples of voluntary poverty

Chap. IX. COMFORTS AGAINST IMPRISONMENT

Sec. 1. Nature and power of true liberty

2. Sad objects to a free beholder

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3. Invisible company with the prisoner

4. His inward disposition

5. Voluntary seclusion

6. The causes of imprisonment

7. The benefit of retirement

Chap. X. COMFORTS AGAINST BANISHMENT

Sec. 1. Universality of a wise man's country

2. The benefit of self-converse

3. Example of voluntary exiles

4. Advantage of emigration

5. The right we have in any country

6. The voluntary departure

7. All are pilgrims

Chap. XI. COMFORTS UNDER THE LOSS OF sight

AND HEARING

Sec. 1. Two inward lights, reason and faith

2. The supply of better eyes

3. Better object of inward light

4. Ill offices done by the eyes

5. Blindness frees us from temptation

6. Cheerfulness of some blind men

7. The supply of other faculties

8. Benefit of the eyes we once had

9. One sense supplied by another

10. Better state of the inward ear

11. Grief arising from hearing evil

Chap. XII. COMFORTS AGAINST BARRENNESS

Sec. 1. Fretfulness seasoned with sorrows

2. The pains of child-bearing

3. Misery of undutiful children

4. Parental care for children

5. Grief in the loss of children

Chap. XIII. COMFORTS AGAINST WANT OF SLEEP

Sec. 1. Best remedy for want of rest

2. Favour of freedom from pain

3. Sleep a symptom of mortality

4. No need of sleep in heaven

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Chap. XIV. COMFORTS AGAINst old age

Sec. 1. The miseries attending it

2. Old age a blessing

3. Advantages of old age

Chap. XV. COMFORTS AGAINST THE FEARS AND

PAINS OF DEATH

Sec. 1. The fear of death natural

2. Acquaintance with death necessary

3. The misapprehension of death

4. The common condition of men

5. Death not feared by some

6. Our dying day the best day

7. The sting of death extracted

8. Death a parting to meet again

9. Death a sleep

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11. Painfulness of Christ's death

12. Vanity and misery of life

13. Examples of courageous resolution

14. Happy advantages of death

Chap. XVI. COMFORTS AGAINST THE TERRORS Of

JUDGMENT

Sec. 1. Fearfulness of the last judgment

2. The condition of the elect

3. Awe more becoming than fear

4. Our advocate will be our judge

5. Importance of being prepared

Chap. XVII. COMFORTS AGAINST THE FEAR OF OUR

SPIRITUAL ENEMIES

Sec. 1. Power of evil spirits restrained

2. The number of evil spirits

3. The malice of evil spirits

4. Their great subtlety

CHRIST MYSTICAL, OR THE BLESSED UNION

OF CHRIST AND HIS MEMBERS.

Chap. I. INTRODUCTORY

Sec. 1. Right apprehensions of Christ

2. Happiness of union with him

Chap. II. THE NATURE OF UNION WITH CHRIST
Chap. III. THE RESEMBLANCEs of this UNION
Sec. 1. Like the union of the head with the body
between the husband and wife
the body and its nourishment
4. Compared to the branch and the root
the foundation and the building

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Chap. IV. THE CERTAINTY AND INDISSOLUBLENESS

OF THIS UNION

Chap. V. PRIVILEGES AND BENEFITS OF THIS UNION

Sec. 1. Life, with its various advantages

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