166 168 III. The State of Grace, or Begun Recovery. HEAD I. REGENERATION Discoursed from Partial changes mistaken for this change, The charge made in regeneration, what it is, 158 Cured of its utter inability to good, Endued with a fixed averfion' to evil, a bent and propensity to good, Reconciled to the covenant of peace, Disposed to receive Jesus Christ, ib. 167 The memory betrered by regenerating grace, The body changed in respect of use, The whole conversation changed, The resemblance betwixt natural and spiritual generation, Trial of one's state, whether born again, or not, 377 Some cases of doubting Christians refulged, Cafe (1.) The precise time and way of one's ib. ib. Cafe (4.) Affections to the creature stronger than to the Creator---Glowing affections to God gone, Cafe (5.) Attainments of hypocrites and apoftates, Cafe (6.) Falling short of the faints mentioned in 186 ib. To qua ify one to do good, ib. 1911 To one's being admitted into heaven, Advices to the unregenerate, 182 188 202 16: .210 HEAD II. The MysticAL UNION betwixt CHRIST and Believers. Discoursed from John xv.-5. A General view of the Mystical Union. 13 The natural stock of all men, Adam, 161 Fruits growing on the branches of the nature of the fock, ib, 163 The condition of the branches in that respect, ib. 154 The condition of the branches in that respect, ib. The supernatural ftock, into which the branches are The branches taken out of the natural stock, and grafted 209 14 How they are cut off from the natural stock, Christ apprehends the finner by his Spirit, 1369 ib, 17° How one may know one's self to be apprehended of Christ, 223 17 The benefits flowing to believers fi m union with Christ, 225 Peace with God, and peace of conscience, 174 Adoption and Sanctification, 231, 232 Queft. What shall be said of these Christians who, in- stead of growing, are going back ? Answered, ib. Quest. Do hypocrites grow at all? And if so, how shall we distinguish betwixt their growth, and the growth of the Chriftian? Aoswered, Acceptance of their fruits of holiness, Eliablishment and Support, 244, 246 The special care of the husbandman, "The duty of faints united to Chrift, A word to finners, 255 IV. The ETERNAL STate, or State of consummate 255 B Growth in graceo ib. 186 188 189 A hort-liv'd vanity, Page 260 A flying vanity, 262 The doctrine of death, a looking glass, wherein to behold the vanity of the world, 263 A store house for conteniment and patience, 264 A bridle to curb lusts conversant about the body, 266 A spring of CSrillian resolution, 268 A fpur to incite to prepare for death, 209 HEAD II. The difference betwixt the Righteous and the Wicked in their death, discoursed from Prov. xiv. 32. Page 270 THE wicked dying, are driven away, 271 In what cases a wicked-man may be willing to die, 273 Whence they are driven, and whither, 274 Driven away in their wickedness, 275 The hopelessness of their state at death, 276 Their hopes of peace and pleasure in this life cut off, ib. They have no solid grounds to hope for eternal happiness, ibe Death roots up their delusive hopes of heaven, 277 Makes their state absolutely and for ever hopeless, 278 Caution against falle hopes of heaven : Characters of those hopes, ib. Exhortation to haften out of a finful state, 280 To be concerned for the salvation of others, 28.[ The state of the godly in death, a hopeful state, ib. Christ, their best friend, is Lord of the other world, They will have a safe paffage to it, 282 A joyful entrance into it, 284 Object. Many of the godly, when dying, full of fears, and have little hope. Answered, 286 Death uncomfortable to them, in three cases, 287 Ten cases of saints anent death. Answered, 1 288 Considerations to bring saints in good terms with dearh, 292 Directions how to prepare for death, 294 Head III. The RESURRECTIUN, Discoursed from Joho v. 28, 29. 299 302 Who shall be raised, 394 What shall be raised, ib. How the dead shall be raised, 306 ib. , 360 262 Page The difference betwixt the godly and the wicked, in their resurrection, The qualities of the raised bodies of the wicked, 306 311 313 263 264 2016 968 269 the THA :71 73 326 HEIV, The General JUDGMENT, Discoursed from p. 318 THAT there shall be a General Judgment, proven, 319 Jesus Chrilt the Judge, 322 The coming of the Judge, 323 The fummons given, 32.4 The Judge's fitting down in the tribunal, ib. 329 The books opened, 33.1 Sentence pronounced on the saints, 334 The faines judge the world, Sentence of damnation on the ungodly, 337 The execution, 34.) The general conflagration, 341 The place and time of the judgment, unknown, 34.2 Comfort to the saints:, 343 Terror to unbelievers; 34-4 Exhortation to prepare for the judgment, 346 Head V. The KINGDOM of HeavEN, Discoursed from Maith. XX. 34. -71 336 349 ib. 350 T HE nature of the kingdom of heaven, The faines kingly power apd authority, heaven under them, B 2 362 The society of the faints among themfelves, Page 359 Society with the holy angels, 361 Glorious communion with God and Christ, the per. fection of happiness, The glorious prefence of God and the Lamb, ib. The full enjoyment of God and the Lamb, 364 . By right, ib. Fulness of joy unspeakable, 372 The faints admillion to the kingdom, 373 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 these who have no right to it, 369 371 374 376 378 380 HEAD VI. HELL Discoursed of from Mat. xxv. 41. ib. 382 385 391 392 THE curfe under which the damned shall be shut up in beli, Their mifery under that curse, The punishment of loss, separation from God, ib. The horror of separation from God, evioced by several confiderations, 387 The punishment of sense, departing into fire, Hell.fire more vehement and terrible than any other, evinced by several conliderations, Three ipferences from this doctrine, ib What is eternal in the state of the damned, Reasonableness of the eternity of the punishment of the damned, A measuring-reed to measure our time, and endeavours (405 for salvation by; 406 A balance to discover the lightnels of what is falfy thought weighty, and the weight of what is falfly thought light, 407 Exhortation to flee from the wrath to come, 408 398 400 401. 402 STATE |
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