HEAD III. MAN'S UTTER INABILITY to recover himfelf, difcourfed from Rom. v. 6. John vi. 44. ONLY two ways of man's recovering himself fuppofable, viz. the way of the law, and the way of the gospel, Man unable to recover himself in the way of the law, He cannot keep the commandments perfectly, Object. (1) If we be under an utter inability to do any good, how can God require us to do it? Anfwered, Object. (2.) Why do you then call us to believe, repent, and use Object (3.) The ufe of means needlefs, feeing we are utterly unable to help ourselves out of the ftate of fin and wrath. Answered, Queft. Has God promised to convert and save them, who, in Reconciled to the covenant of peace, P. 138 Difpofed to receive Jefus Chrift, -Rectified, The confcience renewed, The memory bettered by regenerating grace, The body changed in refpect of ufe, The whole converfation changed, 138 140 141 -Regulated, 142 142 143 145 148 The refemblance betwixt natural and spiritual generation, in nine particulars, 151 Trial of one's ftate, whether born again, or not, 151 Some cafes of doubting Chriftians refolved, 151 Cafe (1) The precife time and way of one's converfion HEAD II. The MYSTICAL UNION betwixt CHRIST and Believers, difcourfed from John xv. 5. Fruits growing on the branches of the nature of the ftock, The condition of the branches in that refpect, The fupernatural ftock, into which the branches are ingrafted, The branches taken out of the natural stock, and grafted into the How they are cut off from the natural flock in twelve particulars, How one may know one's felf to be apprehended of Christ, Peace with God, and peace of conscience, Adoption, Sanctification, Growth in grace, Queft. If all true Chriftians he growing ones, what shall be 194 Queft. Do hypocrites grow at all? And if fo, how fhall we Fruitfulness, Acceptance of their fruits of holiness, Establishment, 197 IV. The ETERNAL STATE, or State of confummate Happiness or Mifery. A fhort-lived vanity, A flying vanity, The doctrine of death, a looking-glafs, wherein to behold the vanity of the world, A ftore-house, for contentment and patience, A bridle to curb lufts converfant about the body, 217 219 A fpring of Christian refolution, A fpur to incite to prepare for death, HEAD II. The Differenc betwixt the Righteous and the Wicked in their Death, difcourfed from Prov. xiv. 32. HE wicked dying are driven away, TH In what cafes a wicked man may be willing to die, The hopeleffness of their ftate at death, Their hopes of peace and pleasure in this life cut off, Caution against falfe hopes of heaven: characters of those Hopes, To be concerned for the falvation of others, The state of the godly in death, a hopeful state, Chrift their best friend is Lord of the other world, Object.. Many of the godly, when dying, full of fears, and have ' A joyful entrance into it, little hope. Answered, Death uncomfortable to them, three cafes, Ten cafes of faints anent death. Answered, P. 236 236 237 239 241 242 245 246 247 Confiderations to bring faints in good terms with death, Directions how to prepare for death, HEAD III. The RESURRECTION, difcourfed from John v. 28, 29. The difference betwixt the godly and the wicked, in their resurrection, 256 The qualities of the raised bodies of the faints, The qualities of the raised bodies of the wicked, Comfort to the people of God, Terror to all natural men, HEAD IV. The GENERAL JUDGMENT difcourfed from Mat. xxv. 31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 46. P. 365 267 268 ΤΗ HAT there fhall be a general judgment, proven, The fummons given, Jefus Chrift the Judge, The coming of the Judge, The Judge's fitting down in the tribunal, The compearance of the parties, The feparation betwixt the righteous and the wicked, The trial of the parties, The books opened, Sentence pronounced on the Taints, 278 The faints judge the world, 280 Sentence of damnation on the ungodly, 281 The execution, 283 The general conflagration, 283 The place and time of the judgment, unknown, 286 Comfort to the faints, 286 Terror to unbelievers, 287 Exhortation to prepare for the judgment, 288 HEAD Their enfigns of royalty, 294 White garments, on what occafion ufed: much of heaven under them, 294 The country where this kingdom lies, 295 The Royal city, 299 The Royal palace, 299 The palace garden, 300 The Royal treasures, The temple in this kingdom, 30г Glorious communion with God and Chrift, the perfection of happiness, 204 They will fee God with the eyes of the mind, Fulnels of joy unspeakable, The eternal duration of this kingdom, The quality in which they are introduced, HEAD VI. HELL, difcourfed of from Mat. xxv. 41. Their mifery under that curfe, The punishment of lofs, feparation from God, The horror of feparation from God, evinced by feveral confiderations, Hell-fire more vehement and terrible than any other, Six properties of the fiery torments in hell, Reasonableness of the eternity of the punishment of the damned, A measuring reed to measure our time, and endeavours for falvation by, 341 A balance to difcover the lightnefs of what is falfly thought weighty, and the weight of what is fallly thought light, Exhortation to flee from the wrath to come, 342 343 |