The Golden Scepter Held Forth to the Humble, Table of contents
The Contents of the first Treatise.
Doct. 1. GOd afflicts his owne people. 3
Reas. 1. Because he loves them. 4
2. That his name be not blasphemed. Ibid.
3. He will be sanctified in those that draw neare him. Ibid.
4. He walks among them. 5
Vse 1. To feare the Lord. 6
2. Want of feare provoketh God. 13
3. Gods severity to wicked men. 18
4. Not to think strange that God afflicts his. 19
Doct. 2. God pities his people in affliction. 20
Reas. 1. He is slow to affl…ct. 21
2. He sustaines them in affliction. Ibid.
3. He brings them through affliction. 25
Vse 1. Not to be discouraged in affliction. 32
2. To come to God when we have offended him. 35
3. To lead us to repentance. 37
4 To choose the Lord for our God. 41
5. To confirme us in that choice. 45
Doct 3. The Lords name is called upon his people. 47
Reas. God hath chosen them. 48
Vse 1. To learne obedience. 49
2. To humble our selves. 53
3. Not to pollute Gods name. 59
4. Not to be ashamed to professe Gods name. Ibid.
Comfort, concerning our selves, and the Church. 63
Doct 4. Without humiliation no mercy. 66
Reas. 1. The necessity of humiliation. 69
2. Els there will be no returning from sin. 71
3. Els there will be no constancy. 73
4. Els God should not have the praise of his mercy. 74
Vse 1. Exhortation to the humble. 101
2. To those that are not humbled. 103
Doct. 5. The Lord is mercifull to the humble. 112
Reas. 1. To give God the glory. 113
2. Humility keeps a man in compasse. Ibid.
3. It makes him usefull to others. 114
4. It makes him obedient. 114
Vse 1. Consolation to the humble. 115
2. To strengthen faith. 118
3. To be humble in afflictions. 123
4. Exhortation to be more humble. 124
5. Not to apply the promises without humiliation. 131
Doct. 6. All performances nothing without seeking Gods face. 132
Reas. God is holy. 150
Vse. 1. To examine if we seeke Gods face. 153
2. To seeke the Lord, and not our selves. 168
3. Not to forget the Lord in the middest of his mercies. 172
Doct. 7. No interest in promises without turning from evill wayes. 186
Vse 1. Examination. 197
2. No duties serve without turning. 219
3. Good purposes alone insufficient. 222
Doct. 8. Turning from our evill wayes difficult. 224
Reas. 1. They are pleasant. Ibid.
2. Agreeable to nature. 225
3. They are backed by the law of the members. Ibid.
Vse. To make our labour answerable to the worke. 229
Doct. 9. All sinnes forgiven to the humble that forsake sinne. 254
Reas. 1. From the truth of God. 256
2. From his goodnesse. 257
Vse 1. To exclude wicked men from mercy. 263
2. To trust perfectly in Gods mercy. 267
3. Exhortation to be humbled. 272
Doct. 10. All calamities from sin. 279
Vse 1. To looke to the root of calamities. 281
2. To see sin in its own colours. 283
3. How to remove crosses. 284
Doct. 11. If sinne be not removed as well as the crosse, it is never removed in mercy. 287
Reas. 1. Because sin is worse than any crosse. 288
The Lord doth nothing in vaine. Ibid.
Vse. By the issue of our afflictions to judge of our estate, and Gods love to us. Ibid.
Doct. 12. Take away sin, and the crosse will depart. 290
Reas. 1. Because crosses come from sin. 290
2. God never afflicts, but for our profit. 291
Vse. To comfort us against our feares, that the crosse will alway continue. Ibid.
The Contents of the second Treatise.
Doct. THere is a match betweene Christ and his Church. 1
Vse 1. To apply Christ himselfe. 6
2. To perswade men to take Christ. 23
Motives to it. Ibid.
Impediments. 38
The Contents of the third Treatise.
Doct. EVery one that taketh Christ ought to be subject to him, and it is best for him. 76
Reas. 1. He is the head. 78
He is a Saviour. 80
Vse. Exhortation to come to Christ. 82
Doct. Christ is the Head and Saviour of his Church, and every member of it. 90
Vse 1. To be obedient to Christ. 91
2. To choose Christ for our Head. 93
3. To draw influence from him. 95
4. How to know we are in Christ. 99
Trials of our subjection to Christ. 104
5. To be the glory of Christ. 133
6. To trie our condition. 137