The confcience renewed,

The memory bettered by regenerating grace,

The body changed in refpect of use,

The whole converfation changed,

The resemblance betwixt natural and spiritual generation, in nine

Cafe (2.)

Sin prevailing,

ib.

Cafe (3.)

Cafe (4)

Creator.

and of others.

Cafe (7)

Corruptions more violent than formerly,

Affections to the creature ftronger than to the

Glowing affections to God gone,

Attainments of hypocrites and apoftates, a terror, 155

-Falling fhort of the faints mentioned in fcripture,

No child of God fo tempted,

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Cafe laft..

-Strange and unufual afflictions,

The neceffity of regeneration,.

To qualify one to do good,

To communion with God in duties,

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HEAD II. The MYSTICAL UNION betwixt CHRIST and

Believers, difcourfed from John xv. 5.

A General view of the myftical union,

The natural frock of all men, Adam,

Originally a choice vine,

Now a degenerate stock,

Fruits growing on the branches of the nature of the stock,

The fupernatural ftock, into which the branches are ingrafted,'

Jefus Chrift,

The branches taken out of the natural stock, and grafted into the
fupernatural ftock, the elect,

How they are cut off from the natural stock in twelve particulars,

How ingrafted into Christ,

Chrift apprehends the finner by his Spirit,

The finner apprehends Chrift by faith,

How one may know one's felf to be apprehended of Chrift,

The benefits flowing to believers from union with Chrift,

Juftification,

Peace with God, and peace of confcience,

Adoption,

Sanctification,

Growth in grace,

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Queft. If all true. Chriftians he growing ones, what shall be
faid of these who, instead of growing, are going back?
Anfwered,

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Queft. Do hypoctites grow at all? And if fo, how shall we
diftinguish betwixt their growth, and the growth of the
Chriftian? Aufwered,

Fruitfulness,

Acceptance of their fruits of holiness,

Support,

Establishment,

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IV. The ETERNAL STATE, or State of confummate Happiness

or Mifery.

HEAD I. Death, difcourfed from Job xxx. 23.

P. 214

Man's life vanity,

THE certainty of death,

A short-lived vanity,

A flying vanity,

The doctrine of death, a looking-glafs, wherein to behold the vanity

of the world,

A ftore-houfe, for contentment and patience,

A bridle to curb lufts converfant about the body,

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.

THE wickeda en vicked man may be willing to die,

wicked dying are driven away,

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Whence they are driven, and whither,

Driven away in their wickedness,

The hopeleffnefs of their ftate at death,

Their hopes of peace and pleasure in this life cut off,

They have no folid grounds to hope for eternal happiness,

Death roots up their delufive hopes of heaven,

Make their state abfolutely and for ever hopeless,

Caution against falfe hopes of heaven: characters of thofe Hopes,

Exhortation to haften out of a finful state,

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To be concerned for the falvation of others,

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The ftate of the godly in death, a hopeful ftate,

Christ their best friend is Lord of the other world,

They will have a fafe paffage to it,

A joyful entrance into it,

Object.Many of the godly, when dying, full of fears, and have

little hope. Anfwered,

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Death uncomfortable to them, in three cafes,

Ten cafes of faints anent death. Answered,

Confiderations to bring faints in good terms with death,

Directions how to prepare for death,

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HEAD III. The RESURRECTION, difcourfed from John v. 28, 29.

How the dead fhall be raised,

The qualities of the raised bodies of the faints,

Comfort to the people of God,

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The difference betwixt the godly and the wicked, in their refurrection, 256

The qualities of the raised bodies of the wicked,

Terror to all natural men,

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 faints,

P. 365

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The faints judge the world,

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Sentence of damnation on the ungodly,

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The execution,

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Their enfigns of royalty,

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White garments, on what occafion ufed: much of heaven

under them,

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The country where this kingdom lies,

295

The Royal city,

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The Royal palace,

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The palace garden,

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The Royal treasures,

301

The temple in this kingdom,

301

Glorious communion with God and Chrift, the perfection of happiness, 304

The glorious prefence of God and the Lamb,

The full enjoyment of God and the Lamb,

By fight,

They will fee Chrift, with their bodily eyes,

They will fee God with the eyes of the mind,

By experimental knowledge,

Fulnels of joy unspeakable,

The eternal duration of this kingdom,
The faints admission to the kingdom,

The quality in which they are introduced,
Trial of the claim to the kingdom of heaven,
Duty and comfort of the heirs of the kingdom,
Exhortation to thefe who have no right to it,

HEAD VI. HELL, difcourfed of from Mat. xxv. 41.

Their mifery under that curfe,

HE curfe under which the damned shall be shut up in hell,

The punishment of lofs, feparation from God,

The horror of feparation from God, evinced by feveral confiderations,

The punishment of fenfe, departing into fire,

Hell-fire more vehement and terrible than any other,

evinced by feveral confiderations,

Six properties of the fiery torments in hell,

Three inferences from this doctrine,

Society with devils in this miserable state,

The eternity of the whole,

What eternity is,

What is eternal in the state of the damned,

Reasonableness of the eternity of the punishment of the damned,

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A measuring reed to meafure our time, and endeavours for falvation by, 344
A balance to discover the lightness of what is falfly thought weighty,
and the weight of what is falfly thought light,

Exhortation to flee from the wrath to come,