CuAr. VL — Of communion with Christ in purchased gi-ace — Purchased grace con- sltl(>red in respect of its rise and fountain — The first rise of it, in the obedience of Christ — Obedience properly ascribed to Christ — Two ways considered : what
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it was, and -wherein it did consist — Of his obedience to the law in general — Of the law of the Mediatoi" — His habitual righteousness, how necessary; as also his obedience to the law of the Mediator — Of his actual obedience or active right- eousness— All Christ's obedience performed as he was Mediator — His active obedience for us — This proved at large, Gal. iv. 4, 5 ; Rom. v. 18, 19 ; Phil. iii. 9 ; Zech. iii. 3-5 — One olijection removed — Considerations of Christ's active right- eousness closed — Of the death of Christ, and its influence into our acceptation with God — A price ; redemption, what it is — A sacrifice ; atonement made there- by— A punishment ; satisfaction thereby — The intercession of Christ ; with its influence into ovir acceptation with God . . . . . .154
Chap. VH. — The nature of purchased grace; referred to three heads : — 1. Of our ac- ceptation with God; two parts of it. 2. Of the grace of sanctification ; the several parts of it . . . . . . . . . 169
Chap. VHI. — How the saints hold communion with Christ as to their acceptation with God — What is required on the part of Christ hereunto ; in his intention ; in the declaration thereof — The sum of our acceptation with God, wherein it consists — What is required on the part of believers to this communion, and how they hold it, with Christ — Some objections proposed to consideration, whj-^ the elect are not accepted immediately on the undertaking and the death of Christ — In what sense they are so — Christ a common or public person — How he came to be so — The way of our acceptation with God on that account — The second objection — The necessity of our obedience stated, Eph. ii. 8-10 — The grounds, caiises, and ends of it manifested — Its proper place in the new coveKant — How the saints, jn particular, hold communion with Christ in this purchased grace — They approve of this righteousness ; the grounds thereof — Reject their own ; the grounds there- of— The commutation of sin and righteousness between Christ and believers; some objections answei'ed ........ 173
Chap. IX. — Of commimion with Christ in holiness — The several acts ascribed imto the Lord Christ herein : 1. His intercession ; 2. Sending of the Spirit ; 3. Bestows habitual grace — What that is, and wherein it consists — This purchased by Christ; bestowed by him — Of actual grace — How the saints hold communion with Christ in these things ; manifested in sundry particulars . . . 197
Chap. X. — Of communion with Christ in privileges — Of adoption ; the nature of it, the consequences of it — Peculiar privileges attendiag it ; libei-ty, title, boldness, w af&iction — Communion with Christ hereby ..... 207
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Chap. I. — The foundation of our communion with the Holy Ghost (John xvi. 1-7) opened at large — U«^axktiTos, a Comforter; who he is — The Holy Ghost; his own Avill in his coming to us ; sent also by Christ— The Spirit sent as a sanctifier and as a comforter — The adjuncts of his mission considered — The foundation of his mission, John xv. 20 — His procession from the Father twofold; as to personality, as to ofiBce — Things considerable in his procession as to office — The manner of his collation — He is given freely ; sent authoritatively — The sin against the Holy Ghost, whence unpardonable — How we ask the Spirit of the Father — To grieve the Spu-it, what— Poured out — How the Holy Ghost is received; by faith — Faith's actings in receiving the Holy Ghost — His abode with us, how declared — How we may lose our comfort Avhilst the Comforter abides with us . . 222
Chap. II.— Of the actings of the Holy Ghost in us, being bestowed on us— He worketh effectually, distributeth, giveth ....... 234
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Chap. III. — Of the things wherein we have communion with the Holy Ghost— lie brin,;;s to remembrance the things spoken by Clirist, John xiv. 20 — The manner how he doth it — The Spirit glorifies Christ in the hearts of believei-s, John xvi. 14, sheds abroad the love of God in them — The witness of the Spirit, what it is, Rom. viii. K! — Tlie sealing of the Spirit, Eph. i. 13 — The Spirit, how an earnest; on the part of (rod, on the part of tlie .'^aints— Diiference between the earnest of the Spirit and tasting of the powers of the world to come — Unction by the Spirit, Isa. si. 2, 3 — The various teachings of the Holy Ghost — How the Spirit of adop- tion and of supplication ........ 230
CnAi". IV. — The general consequences in the hearts of believers of the effects of the Holy (irhost before mentioned — Consolation ; its adjuncts, peace, joy — How it is wrought immediatel J', mediately .^. . . . . .219