The Spiritual Mans Aim, Table of contents – License
A Table of the severall Heads contained in this Booke.
WE must know Particulars in our journey to Heaven. pag. 2
1. Doctrine.
A very good way to satisfie cases of Conscience in particular, is to have in our minde the maine. p. 3.
Reason, why none but a sound Christian can carry himselfe moderatly in the things of this world p. 5.
2. Doctrine.
Religion meddles with all matters. p. 6
Religion is a skill that fits a man for a further end. p. 7.
Religion guides all to the maine. p. 7.
| Time is short. | 13. |
| The world is short. | |
| Our life is short. | |
| Opportunitie is short. |
Time uncertaine 14
Time irrecoverable p. 15.
Time hath three maine parts. p. 17.
Time past in ill, repent. ibid.
Time present doe good. ibid,
Time to come get into such an estate, as is not lyable to time. p. 18.
Advice to youth, to age. p. 19.
Neglect of time makes us worse than the Divell. p. 20.
Marriage lawfull. p. 21.
A liberty to marry p. 24.
Who brought in a base esteeme of Marriage. p. 25.
A danger in Marriage. p. 25.
Those that have Wives to be as if they had none, how understood. p. 27.
Bonds in Religion, above all bonds. p. 28.
Weeping lawfull. p 30
For what wee are bound to weep. p. 31.
Wee ought to grieve. p. 31.
Danger in weeping overmuch for crosses. p. 32.
God takes it vnkindely, when wee over-grieve for the losse of worldly comforts. ibid.
Though our weeping be for sinne there must bee a moderation. p. 34
What to doe when we are tempted to overgrieve for any earthly thing. p. 35.
Ioy lawfull. p. 36
Danger in over-joying. p. 37.
Religion is seene, especially, in moderating the affections. p. 39.
Many Christians intemperate in their griefe and joy, not having learned to schoole their affections. ib.
Affections of Christians mixed. p. 41
A carnall man is in simples if merry, hee is mad. ibid.
Grace tempers the Affections in a godly man. ibid.
Buying is lawfull, and why. 42.
Danger in buying. 43.
Buy so as not to neglect the best possession. p. 44.
Vsing the world lawfull. p. 46.
Danger in using the word. p. 47,
What it is to abuse the world. p. 49
Labour to use it, as not abusing it. ibid.
The world is a fashion or a shew. p. 51.
Things of this life are a shew. p. 53
Things in Religion reall. p. 56
The world passeth away. 61
Reasons why it passeth away.
1. Because they were made of nothing. p. 63.
2. Because there is a sentence of mutabilitie passed on it. p. 64
Not to grieve for the losse of things below. p. 65
Learne to bee content with little. p. 66.
Be moderate in desires. p. 67.
Prouide for better things after all these things are gone. p. 68.
The world to low for a Christians thoughts. p. 71.
Why Christians are excessive in outward things, the grounds. p. 72.
1.
They looke not on them as past. ibid.
2
They compare them not with Eternitie. p. 74.
3
They forget their better condition p. 74.
Reason why men aime not at the maine. p. 79.
Application to the Sacrament. p. 80.
How wee ought to labour for things certaine, and not fading. p. 82.
Perlegi hanc Concionem, dignamque iudico quae Typis mandetur.
THO. WEEKES. R. P. Ep. Lond. Cap. Domest.
End of the text · Richard Sibbes, The Spiritual Mans Aim (1637)