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CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.
_ NATURE AND CAUSES OF APOSTASY FROM THE GOSPEL,
CHAP. Pace
Pruratory Norm py tue Eprror, . 5 : ; : ; 2
To the Reader, ; 3
I_—The he of apostasy from the gospel declared, in an exposition of Heb.
vi. 4-6 Z 11 II.—Partial apostasy oom the ee Pectence of the church of Rome asainst
the charge of this evil examined and rejected, 52 IIL—Apostasy from the mystery, truth, or doctrine of the eospel= Pagnencas
of persons and churches thereunto—Proved by all sorts of instances, 60
IV. —The reasons and causes of apostasy from the truth or doctrine of the gos- pel, and the inclination of all sorts of persons thereunto in all ages, in- quired into and declared—Uncured enmity in the minds of many against spiritual things, and the effects of it in a wicked conversation, the first cause of apostasy, . 5 x z : 79 V.—Darkness and ignorance another cause of arena ; 102 _VI.—Pride and vanity of mind, sloth and negligence, love of the wari) causes of apostasy—The work of Satan and judgments of God in this matter, 123 VII.—Instance of a peculiar defection from the truth of the gospel; with the rea-
sons of it, . 144 VIII.—Apostasy from the olingss of the goRpel the occasion and cause oof it—Of that which is gradual, on the pretence of somewhat else in its room, 159 IX.—Apostasy into profaneness and sensuality of life—The causes and occa- sions of it—Defects in public teachers and guides in religion, 5 182 X.—Other causes and occasions of the decay of holiness, ; ( ° 196 XI.—Apostasy from evangelical worship, 217 XII.—Inferences from the foregoing discourses—The present teat of all aor of persons, in the prevalency of apostasy from the truth and decays in the practice of evangelical holiness, 5 5 : 222 XIIJ.—Divections to avoid the power of a prevailing apostasy, : se 24 THE GRACE AND DUTY OF BRING SPIRITUALLY MINDED. Preratory Norr ny tur Epiror, . 0 - ; 3 - 262 Preface, # : 3 : : . a ; 263 PART L. J.—The words of the text explained, . - eae 200
I.—A particular account of the nature of this grace ao duty of being spiri- csi minded—How it is stated in and evidenced by our thoughts, . 274
IV CONTENTS.
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I1J.—Outward means and occasions of such thoughts of spiritual things as do not prove men to be spiritually minded—Preaching of the word—Exer- cise of gifts—Prayer—How we may know whether our thoughts of spi- ritual things in prayer are truly spiritual thoughts, proving us to be spiritually minded, : is : 2 : : :
IV.—Other evidences of thoughts about spiritual things arising from an inter- nal principle of grace, whereby they are an evidence of our being spiri- tually minded—The abounding of these thoughts, how far, and wherein, such an evidence, . : 5 < A A .
V.—The objects of spiritual thoughts, or what they are conversant about; evidencing them in whom they are to be spiritually minded—Rules directing unto steadiness in the contemplation of heavenly things—
_ Motives to fix our thoughts with steadiness on them, . : -
VI.— Directions unto the exercise of our thoughts on things above, things future, invisible, and eternal; on God himself; with the difficulties of it, and oppositions unto it, and the way of their removal—Right notions of future glory stated, a : . Fi s , -
VII.—Especial objects of spiritual thoughts on the glorious state of heaven, and what belongs thereunto—First, of Christ himself—Thoughts of heavenly glory in opposition unto thoughts of eternal misery—''he use of such thoughts—Advantage in sufferings, : ‘ 5 ; :
VIII.—Spiritual thoughts of God himself—The opposition unto them and neglect of them, with their causes and the way of their prevalency—Predomi- nant corruptions expelling due thoughts of God, how to be discovered, etc.-—Thoughts of God, of what nature, and what they are to be accom- panied withal, etc., 3 ; : 5 3 “ A
IX.—What of God or in God we are to think and meditate upon—His being— Reasons of it: oppositions to it; the way of their conquest—Thoughts of the omnipresence and omniscience of God peculiarly necessary—The reasons hereof—As also of his omnipotence—The use and benefit of such thoughts, . 3 - J i z 2 A
X.—Sundry things tendered unto such as complain that, they know not how, they are not able to abide in holy thoughts of God and spiritual or hea- venly things, for their relief, instruction, and direction—Rules concern- ing stated spiritual meditation, . - : 3 ;
PART IL.
XI.—The seat of spiritual mindedness in the affections—The nature and use of them—The ways and means used by God himself to call the affections of men from the world, : é : : ‘ :
XII.—What is required in and unto our affections that they may be spiritual— A threefold work on the affections described, Hi XIII.—The work of the renovation of our affections —How differenced from any other impression on or change wrought in them; and how it is evi- denced so to be—'The first instance, in the universality accompanying of affections spiritually renewed—The order of the exercise of our affec- tions with respect unto their objects, : : : , XIV.—The second difference between affections spiritually renewed and those which have been only changed by light and conviction—Grounds and reasons of men’s delight in duties of divine worship, and of their dili- gence in their performance, whose minds are not spiritually renewed, XV.—Delight of believers in the holy institutions of divine worship—The grounds and reasons thereof—The evidence of being spiritually minded thereby, etc., F 7 : : E 3 XVI—Assimilation unto things heayenly and spiritual in affections spiritually renewed—This assimilation the work of faith; how, and whereby—