The Life of Faith, Table of contents – Errata
The Contents of the firſt Part.
The SERMON.
WHat Faith is, page 2. The Text opened, p. 4. The grounds of the certa…nty of Faith briefly intimated, p. 5, &c.
Why God will have us live by Faith, and not by ſight, p. 1…, &c.
Uſe 1. To inform us what a Chriſtian or Believer is; deſcribed, p. 15
Uſe 2. The Reaſon why Believers are more ſerious in matters of Religion, than unbelievers are.
Uſe 3. Of Examination, p. 29
The miſery of unbelievers, p. 30
Marks of a true Faith, p. 32
Uſe 4. Exhortation to the ſerious exerciſe of Faith, p. 37
Some aſſiſting ſuppoſitions, p. 38
How thoſe will live who thus believe; opened in certain Queſtions, p 4…
Motives to live by a foreſeeing Faith on things not ſeen, p. 45
The Concluſion; 1. Exhorting to live by Faith: 2. And to promote this life in others, p. 46.
The Additions.
Cap. 1. The conviction and reproof of Hypocrites, Who live contrary to the Faith which they profeſs, 48
Cap. 2. A general Exhortation to live as Believers, 56
Cap. 3. An exhortation to the particular duties of Believers. 63
The Contents of the Second Part.
Chap. 1. The Believers Directory muſt ſhew him, I. How to ſtrengthen Faith: 2. How to uſe it,
And I. For the firſt, the order of the preſuppoſed Natural Verities, is briefly mentioned, 8…
Chap. 2. The true Method of enquiry into the ſupernatural evidences of Faith, and the Rules therein to be obſerved, 87
Chap. 3. The proper Evidence of Faith. The SPIRIT and the Image of God himſelf, 97
Chap. 4. The Image of Gods Wiſdom on the Chriſtian Religion: It's wonderful Method opened, in thirty inſtances. Six more inſtances, 99
Chap. 5. The Image of Gods Goodneſs and Holineſs on the Chriſtian Religion: in thirty inſtances, 108
Chap. 6. The Image of Gods Power upon the Chriſtian Religion; in twenty inſtances, 115
Chap. 7. The means of making known all this to us infallibly. How the firſt witneſſes knew it. How the next Age and Churches knew it. How we know it. Twenty ſpecial hiſtorical Traditions of Chriſtianity, and matters of fact. What the Spirits Witneſs to Chriſtianity is, 125
Chap. 8. Twelve further Directions to confirm our Faith, 136
Chap. 9. Twenty General Directions how to uſe Faith, or to live by it, when it i… confirmed. What Chriſtian Faith is: Errours about it, 148
The Contents of the third Part.
Chap. 1. How to live by Faith on God, 168
Chap. 2. How to live by Faith on Jeſus Chriſt, 188
Abuſes of the Doctrine of Redemption. The extent of it. Of Chriſts Office: His Merits and Sacrifice: Example, &c.
Chap. 3. How to live by Faith on the Holy Ghoſt. Of the Trinity. Several doubts reſolved about believing in the Holy Ghoſt. Of giving the Spirit: His operations: Whether Love to God, or Faith in Chriſt go firſt; exactly anſwered. (And conſequently whether Faith or Repentance be firſt.) Of the Spirit in Chriſt and the Apoſtles: Of ſufficient Grace. How Faith procureth the Spirit. Whether deſires of grace be grace, 20…
Chap. 4. How to live by faith as to Gods Command…. The admirable goodneſs of Gods Laws. Whether the Promiſe and …eward be the end of Obedience, or Obedience the end of the … Reward. Of Scripture examples, 232
Chap. 5. How to live by faith on Gods Promiſes. What will of God it is, according to which they muſt ask who will receive. Of a particular faith in prayer. Is the ſame degree of grace conditionally promiſed to all? Directions for underſtanding the Promiſes. The true nature of faith or truſt in Gods Promiſes, opened at large. Affiance is in the underſtanding, will and vital power. Whether Faith be Obedience, or how related to it. Ten acts of the underſtanding eſſential to the Chriſtian Faith in the Promiſes. Several acts of the will eſſential to Faith. And in the vital power, whether all true Faith have a ſubjective certainty of the truth of the Word. Choice, and venturing or forſaking all, is the ſign of real truſt. Promiſes collected for the help of Faith. 1. Of Pardon, 2. Of Salvation, 3. Of Reconciliation and Adoption, 4. Of pardon of new ſins after converſion. 5. Of Sanctification: 6. Promiſes to them that deſire and ſeek. 7. To Prayer. 8. To groans that want expreſſion. 9. Promiſes of all that we want, and that is good for us. 10. To the uſe of Gods Word and Sacraments. 11. To the humble, meek and lowly. 12. To the peaceable. 13. To the diligent. 14. To the patient. 15. To Obedience. 16. To the Love of God. 17. To them that love the godly, and are merciful in good works. 18. To the poor, 19. To the oppreſſed. 20. To the perſecuted. 21. In dangers. 22. Againſt temptations. 23. To them that overcome and perſevere. 24. In ſickneſs, and at death. 25. Of Reſurrection, final Juſtification and Glory. 26. For children of the godly. 27. To the Church, 241
Chap. 6. How to exerciſe faith on God… Threatnings and Judgements. How far belief of the threatnings in good, neceſſary, and a ſaving faith. How ſaving faith is a perſonal application. How to perceive true faith, 297
Chap. 7. How to live by faith for Pardon and Juſtification. In how many reſpects and waies Chriſt juſtifieth us. Of the imputation of Chriſts Righteouſneſs. Twelve reaſons to help our belief of pardon. How far ſin ſhould make us doubt of our Juſtification, 308
Chap. 8. 58 Dangerous Errours detected, which hinder the … faith about … and the contrary truth… …ſſerted… ▪ 321
Chap. 9. How to live by faith in the exerciſe of other graces and duties: And 1. Of the doctrinal Directions. What Sanctification is. How God loveth the unſanctified▪ How … loveth … in Chriſt. Of Preaching meer Morality, …61
Chap. 10. The practical Directions, to promote Love to God and Holineſs, 367
Chap. 11. Of the order and harmony of graces and duties, which muſt be taken all together. Of the parts that make up the new Creature. 1. The intellectual order; or a method, or ſcheme of the heads of Divinity. 2. The order of Intention and Affection. 3. The order of practice. Of the various degrees of means to mans ultimate end. Of the grace neceſſary to concur with theſe various means. The circular motion by divine communication to our Receiving Graces, and ſo by our Returning Graces, unto God again. The frame of the preſent means of grace, and of our returning duties. Rules about the order of Chriſtian practice (which ſhew that, and how the beſt is to be preferred, and which is beſt) in fifty three Propoſitions. How mans Laws bind conſcience (and many other caſes) reſolved. A lamentation for the great want of order, and method, and harmony in the underſtandings, wills and lives of Chriſtians. Many inſtances of mens partiality as to truths, graces, duties, ſins, &c. Twenty Reaſons why few Chriſtians are compleat and entire, but …ame and partial in their Religion. Ten Conſectaries. Whether all graces be equal in habit. Religion not ſo perfect in us as in the Scriptures; which therefore are the Rule to us, &c. 373
Chap. 12. How to uſe faith againſt particular ſins, 417
Chap. 13. What ſins the beſt are moſt in danger of, and ſhould moſt carefully avoid. And wherein the infirmities of the upright differ from mortal ſins. 421
Chap. 14. How to live by faith in proſperity. The way by which faith doth ſave us from the world. General Directions againſt the danger of proſperity. Twenty marks of worldlineſs. The pretences of worldly minds. The greatneſs of the ſin. The ill effects, 428
Chap. 15. How to be poor in ſpirit. And 1. How to eſcape the Pride of proſperous men. The cleaks of Pride. The ſigns of Pride and …, 446
Chap. 16. How to eſcape the …, by faith. The miſchiefe of ſerving the appetite. … 465
Chap. 17. How faith muſt conquer ſloth and idleneſs. Who are guilty of this ſin Caſes reſolved. The evil of idleneſs. The remedies, 474
Chap. 18. Ʋnmercifulneſs to the poor, to be conquered by faith. The remedies, 491
Chap. 19. How to live by faith in adverſity, 493
Chap. 20. How to live by faith in trouble of conſcience, and doubts of our ſalvation. The difference between true and falſe repentance. How to apply the univerſal grace to our comfort. The danger of caſting our part on Chriſt; and of aſcribing all melancholy diſturbances and thoughts to the ſpirit. Of the trying the ſpiri…: and of the witneſs of the Spirit, 503
Chap. 21. How to live by faith in the publick Woſhipping of God, Overvalue not your own manner of Worſhip, and overvilifie not other mens. Of communion with others, 519
Chap. 22. How to pray in faith, 527
Chap. 23. How to live by faith towards children and other Relations, 530
Chap. 24. How by faith to order our affections to publick Societies, and to the unconverted world, 535
Chap. 25. How to live by faith in the love of one another, and to mortifie ſelf-love. It is our own intereſt and gain, to love our neighbours as our ſelves. Objections wherein it conſiſteth. What is the ſincerity of it. Conſectaries. Loving others as your ſelves is a duty even as to the degree, 539
Chap. 26. How by faith to be followers of the Saints, and to look with profit to their examples and their end, and to hold communion with the heavenly Society. Reaſons of the duty. The nature of it. Negatively, what it is not; and Affirmatively, what it is. Wherein they muſt be imitated, 556
Chap. 27. How to receive the ſentence of death, and how to die by Faith, 589
Chap. 28. How by faith to look aright to the coming of Jeſus Chriſt in Glory, 594
Reader, The firſt and great Errour of the Printer, i…, that he hath not diſtinguiſhed the three diſtinct Parts of the Treatiſe. Therefore you muſt write Page 1. PART 1. and Pag. 81. PART 2. Chap. 1. and Pag. 168. PART 3. Chap. 1.
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