The way to get out of misery is to get discharged of sin. The way to take away sin, is by confession. Sin is in the best. .... Community of oflenders lessens not sin. God makes his children see and feel what sin is Four reasons of it. .
How to be sensible of sin with seven directions. Three uses of it. .
A soul stung with sin, should fly to the free mercy of God. God only can relieve a guilty conscience God only forgives sin. God's mercy is free. The best Christian needs forgiveness. Forgiveness is general to all that cast themselves on his free
mercy. God's goodness stirs up to duty. It stirs up to faith, love, and fear. Three uses of it. We should wait upon God. . Four reasons of it. . Two uses of it.
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THE CHURCH'S COMPLAINT AND CONFIDENCE. • 181-203
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GOD'S INQUISITION.
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THE RICH POVERTY; OR, THE POOR MAN'S RICHKS.
There is difference of people.
God will have somo in the worst times ; why
Comfort that God will have a church when we are gone
God's children but few.
God hath a special care of these few
God's church and children afflicted in the world, and why,
Outward poverty a help to poverty of spirit
Providence serviceable to predestinat
Spiritual poverty what it is not.
What it is.
Degrees of this poverty.
Before conversion.
After conversion.
Signs of spiritual poverty.
How to come to spiritual poverty.
God trusted as he is known.
Evidences of ti'ust in God. ..
JIow to come to trust in God.
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SPIRITUAL MOUR>^ING. • * ' * ^^^"^^^
Wherein is laid open^
Who are spiritual mourners, and what it is to mourn spiritually. 267
That all godly mourning is attended with comfort. . . 271
How spiritual mourning is known and discerned from other
mournings. ...... 274
Together with the means to attain it, and the trial thereof in
sundry instances. ..... 275
VIOLENCE VICTORIOUS.
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ANGELS' ACCLAMATIONS.
Angels an host; why.
Of glorifying God.
The greatness of the glory of redemption.
How to know whether we glorify God.
Hindrance of God's glory.
How to come to glorify God.
Whence peace comes .
Peace wrought by Christ, why.
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How to know our peace with God.
How to maintaiu peace with God.
Motives to stir up to this peace.
God's good will the ground of all good.
Why God loves us in Christ.
How to know God loves us.
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THE FRUITFUL LABOUR FOR ETERML FOOD. 357-381
Notes. . . ... . . .381
TEE MATCHLESS LOVE AND INBEING. • • 385-412
Wherein is shewn —
That we may be assured of God's love unto us. . . ■ 388
Helps for weak Christians how to attain unto this love. . 389
Helps how to know that we have it in us. . . . 391
That Christ is in all believers. .... 402
How to know that Christ is in us. . . . . 403
■ How, in a seeming absence, he is discovered to be in the soul. 406
How to keep Christ there, and how to recover him bei£ig lost. 409
A HEAYENLT CONFERENCE.
To the Reader.
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KING DAYID'S EPITAPH.
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LYDfA'S CONYERSION.
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THE BRIDE'S LONGING, • • • 553-560
To the Reader. ...... 537
The church's happiness consummate in heaven. . . 539
Of the word Amen. ..... t»40
Doct. 1. The hearts of God's children are pliable to all
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divine truths ; more to the promises ; above all, to the promises of Christ's seconil coming. . . 541
Reason 1. There is a suitableness between a sanctified heart
and sanctified truths. .... 541
Reason 2. There is a spiritual taste infused to relish those
truths. . . . . . .541
Reason 3. The Church's will is not her own, but Christ's. 541
Reason 4. There is a spiritual contract between Christ and
the soul. ..... 541
Reason 5. It is a seal of efi'ectual calling. . . 541
What eflectual calling is. . . . 541
Use 1. If we find an unpliablencss on our part, to beg the
performance of the covenant of grace. . • . 541
Motives to give our Amen : —
Motive 1. God honours us in having our consent. . 542
Motive 2. We honour God in sealing to his truth. . 542
Use 2. A reproof of two sorts :
1. Those which have no ' Amen' for God. . . 542
2. Those which have a false * Amen.' . . . 542 The desires of the Spirit, the true characters of a Christian. . 543 Desires i*esembled to a stream in sundry particulars.
1. They come from a good spring. . . . 543