Three Questions, Table of contents
The Contents.
THE Analyſis of the ſecond Chap. to the Galatians, pag. 2, 3, &c.
Doct. A man is not iuſtified by the workes of the Law, but by the Faith of Ieſus Chriſt. p. 7
Explication of the Doctrine. ibid.
What Iuſtice is. p 8
What Iuſtification is. p.9
The Explication of the Name. ibid.
Of the thing it ſelfe 12
The nature of Iuſtification. ibid.
The Degrees. 13
The Kindes. ibid.
The falſe cauſes of Iuſtification excluded. 15
Papiſts Tenet of Iuſtification by workes, their evaſion of a twofold merit, confuted. ibid. & to 24
The true meritorious cauſe of Iuſtification, Chriſt Ieſus. 24. to 29
How Chriſt is our Righteouſneſſe; viz. by Faith. 29
What Faith is. ibid.
Faith ſeated both in the will and intellect. 30
The manner how Faith Iuſtifies: 1. Negatively. 31
2. Poſitively. 32
Faith not the meritorious cauſe of our Iuſtification. 33
Faith Iuſtifieth not becauſe of Gods gracious acceptance. 34
Iuſtification by Faith, confirmed by Teſtimony. 39
By Arguments. Argument. 1. 40, &c.
The Doctrine of Chriſtian Liberty. 48. &c.
Liberty divers. 49
Liberty deſcribed 51
What we are freed from. 54
Of Indifferents. 60
Indifferents twofold; Things, Men. 60, 61
Conſtitutions of men two-fold, Politicall, Eccleſiaſticall. 61, 62.
Concluſions touching the nature and extent of Indifferents. 63
The ends of our freedome, and of the DoctrIne of it: 66 & 71, 72, 73
Falſe conceits of Chriſtian Liberty. 67
Exhortation to ſtand faſt in our Liberty. 75
Obiection anſwered. 79
Exhortation to reioyce in our Liberty, 80
Argum. 2. of our Iuſtification by Faith. 91
A two-fold abſurdity in the tenet of Iuſtification by the Law. ibid. &c.
Argum. 3. Of Iuſtification by Faith. 95
How farre forth wee may bee angry. 97
Hereticall Teachers, bewitchers. 99
In our reproofes wee muſt labour to bee both plaine and pleaſing. 100
Doct. 1. Faith ſeeth things that are farre removed. 102
Doct. 2. All our Preaching muſt be to paint out Chriſt to the people. 104
Argum. 4. Of Iuſtification by Faith. 111
The abſurdity of expecting Iuſtification by the works of the Law. 112
Argum. 5. Of Iuſtification by Faith. 117, 118, &c.
Argum. 6. 122
Argum. 7. 126
Argum. 8. 129
Six things obſervable: 1. Who hath redeemed us. 2. From whom. 3. From what. 4. How it was done. 5. To what end. 6. By what mean. Gal. 2.13. 131, 132
Argum. 9. 134, 135
Obiection againſt the inheritance being of promiſe, anſwered. 136
The promiſes of the Law and Goſpell, differ. 138, 139
Confirmation in Scripture, three-fold. 140
Application of the Doctrin of Iuſtification by Faith. 144
obiection 1. If we be iuſtified by Faith onelyonly, to what end ſerveth the Law? 145, 146
Anſwered. 149
The uſe of the Law. 152, 153, 154
Reaſons for the continuing of the Law. 154
Queſtion concerning the duration of the Law. 158
By whom the Law was ordained. 16…
Two commendations of the Law. 161 & 166
The inference of the Papiſts for the Mediation of Saints and Angels, from the Mediatorſhip of Moſes, confuted. 170
Chriſt is not a Mediator of one 171
A Mediator what. 173
The cauſe of diſagreement ibid.
Twofold Application; 1. From the uſe of the Law; 2. From the continuance of that uſe 17…
The uſe of the Law two fold. 1. Civill: 2. Spirituall. ibid.
The Civill uſe of the Law, to reſtraine ſinnes ibid.
The Spirituall uſe to diſcover the nature of ſin to us. 177
The way to get mercy, is to know we need it. 183
The Law was added till the Seed ſhould come, expounded literally and ſpiritually. 185
Obiections of an humbled conſcience.
Obiection 2. Againſt the uſe of the Law: If it be for tranſgreſsions, then it is againſt the Promiſe. 192
The Apoſtles anſwer. 193
To give life, the ſame that to Iuſtifie. 195
The Law cannot give life proved two wayes. 196
The Scriptures ſhut up under ſinne two wayes: 1 By Promiſes: 2. By the Law. 198
The extent of the word Concluded. 200
The accidentary uſe of the Law. 201
The divers acceptions of the word Faith. 204
To come unto Faith, and to come unto Chriſt, of one ſignification. 205
The knowledge of this neceſſary for two things; 1. To know that the Fath…rs were not without Faith; 2. How Faith is imputed to us for Righteouſneſſe. ibid.
To be kept under the Law, expounded. ibid.
The right Divine deſcribed from Pſa. 147.11. 209
The difference of the righteouſnes which is by the law, and that by faith. 211
How the Iewes were directed to Christ by the Law. 212
How the Law leades us, diverſly expounded. 213
The manner of our Salvation; there are two Formes or Claſſes, one under the Law, the other under the Goſpell. 215
Two ſorts of Schollers hereby condemned. ibid.
Faith leads us to Chriſt, not as to a Law giver, but as to a Iuſtifier. 216
The Queſtion, How the Law is abrogated, and how uſefull, diſcuſſed. 217▪ &c.
Some Scriptures ſeeming to prove the abrogating of the Law; ſome, that it is not abrogated, reconciled. 222
To whom the Law was given. 223
The cauſes why the Law ſhould be abrogated: 1. That the Gentiles might bee called: 2. Becauſe it was an intolerable burthen. 3. Becauſe it was unprofitable: 4. Be-it was pernicious. 226, &c
Three things ſignified by the word Law. 230
1. The whole Scriptures, 2. the Bookes of Moſes, 3. the paedagogie of Moſes in his foure laſt books. 231
The Law as taken for the paedagogie of Moſes, is not wholly abrogated. ibid
Three things in the paedagogie of Moſes; Promiſes, Types, and commands. ib.
The Law taken for promiſes and types, abrogated. ib.
The law taken for the commands, not abrogated. 232
The generall deſcription of the law, 1. from the end. 232. 2. from the forme. 233
Law twofold. 1. Divine, 2. Humane. 233
The Divine Law conſidered three wayes: 1. As impreſſed on mens mindes by an innate ſpeech: 2. As enuntiated by ſpeech declarative: 3. As comprehended in writing. ibid.
The more ſpeciall deſcription of the Law. 234
The Law written, called Moſes law, is three-fold, Morall, Ceremoniall, Iudicial. ibid.
Two parts of the Ceremoniall and Iudiciall law; Externall, Internall. ibid.
The inward thing of the Cer… moniall law, is Faith and Piety. ibid.
The inward thing of the Iudicial, mutual love & piety. ib
The Inward things in the Ceremoniall and Iudiciall law, are eternall; the outward only abrogated. 235
The Ceremoniall law, what. ibid
The uſe of the Ceremonial law three-fold. ibid. & 236
Abrogated by Chriſts comming. ibid.
By what degrees the Ceremoniall law was abrogated: 1. in truth: 2. in fact. ibid.
The Iudiciall Law, what. ibi.
The uſe of it threefold. 237
The abrogation of it. ibid.
The iudiciall Law ſo far as it is typical abrogated. ibid.
The iudgement of the iudiciall law neither ſimply forbidden, nor preſcibed to any. ibid.
Such things as are of common and generall right in the Iudiciall law, are ſtill in force. 238
How we may know them ib.
The Morall law what. 238
The Morall law how far forth abrogated. 239
Love, the Subſtance of the Morall law. ibid.
Six Circumſtances of the Morall law. 240, 241
The uſe of the Morall law, before ſinne entred. 242
The uſe of it under the ſtate of ſinne, threefold. ibid.
The uſe of it under the ſtate of grace. ibid
The Law, the Promiſe, and the Goſpell, conſidered as oppoſites. 245
As Subordinates. ibid.
The compariſon of the law and Goſpell, how they doe agree and differ. 247. &c. to 256
The compariſon of the Promiſe and Goſpell, how they agree and differ. 256
The Obiections of the Iewes, for the continuance of the Ceremoniall and Iudiciall law, anſwered. 260
Againſt Antinomiſts and Libertines; their Obiections anſwered. 263
Againſt Enthuſiasts; their falſe Arguments. 273
Against thoſe that receive not the old Testament. 284
Moſes veile, what. 286
Againſt pure ſinleſſe Anabaptists. 288
The Expoſition of divers interpreters on thoſe words, Whoſoever is borne of God, ſinneth not. ib.
Vſe of Exhortation, not to reiect the law. 297
The eſtate of the law ib.
Three rules to try our Works by. 304
FINIS.
End of the text · Samuel Torshell, Three Questions (1632)