A Vindication of the Moral Law and the Covenants, Table of contents
THE CONTENTS.
1. IN what respects the Law may be ſaid to be good. page 3. 4.
2. Of what uſe the Law is to the ungodly. p. 8.
3. Of what uſe the Law is to beleevers. p. 9.
4. How many wayes the Law may be abuſed. p. 17.
5. What are the conſequences of trusting in the Law. p. 21.
6. What is required to the eſſence of a godly man in reference to obedience. p. 39.
7. Wherein are good works neceſſary. p. 40. 41.
8. Whether the Law have a directive regulating and informing power over a godly man. p. 55.
9. How the Law is ſaid to be written in mans heart. p. 60.
10. Wherein the Law of Nature doth conſiſt. p. 62.
11. Of what uſe is the light of Nature. p. 68.
12. Whether the light of Nature be ſufficient to judge in matters of faith, or to preſcribe divine worſhip. p. 73. 74.
13. Whether a man can by the light of Nature, and by the conſideration of the creatures come to know there is a God. p. 76.
14. Whether the Maſterie of the Trinitie, and of the Incarnation of Chriſt can be found out as a truth by the light of Nature. p. 79.
15. Whether the light of Nature be ſufficient to ſalvation. p. 80.
16. Whether that be true of the Papists, which hold, that the ſacrifices the Patriarchs offered to God were by the meere light of Nature. p. 81.
17. Whether originall ſin can be found out by the meere light of Nature, or whether it is onelyonly a meere matter of faith, that we are thus polluted. p. 82.
18. What is the meaning of that grand rule of Nature which our Saviour repeateth, That which you would not have other men doe to you, doe not you to them. p. 82. 83.
19. Whether the practice of the Apoſtles, making all their goods common, was according to the precept of Nature, and ſo binding all to ſuch a practice. p. 83.
20. What a man cannot doe by the power of Nature. p. 86. 87.
21. Whether there are any antecedaneous works upon the heart before grace. p. 88.
22. Whether a man by the power of nature be able to work any good thing. page 86. 87.
23. Why God would give a poſitive law to Adam, beſide the naturall law in his heart. p. 106.
24. Whether the poſitive law to Adam would have obliged all his poſterity. p. 108.
25. How the threatning was fulfilled upon him, when he did eat of the forbidden fruit. p. 109.
26. Whether Adam was mortall before the eating of the forbidden fruit. p. 110.
27. Whether upon this threatning, Thou ſhalt die, can be fixed that curſed opinion of the mortality of the whole man in ſoul as well as body. p. 111.
28. Whether Image or Likeneſſe doe ſignifie the ſame thing. p. 114.
29. Wherein doth this Image conſiſt. p. 115.
30. What are the properties of that righteouſneſſe and holineſſe that was fixed in Adams heart. p. 119.
31. Whether this righteouſneſſe was naturall to Adam, or no. p. 120.
32. Whether juſtifying faith was then in Adam, or whether faith and repentance are now parts of that Image. p. 120.
33. Whether the Image of God ſhall be reſtored to us in this life. p. 121.
34. Whether God did enter into covenant with Adam. p. 122.
35. How God can be ſaid to covenant, or enter into a promiſe with man. p. 126.
36. Why God will deale with man in a covenant way, rather then in a meere abſolute ſupreme way. p. 127.
37. Whether there can be any ſuch diſtinction made of Adam while innocent, ſo as to be conſidered either in his naturalls or ſupernaturalls. p. 132.
38. Whether Chriſt did intervene in his help to Adam, ſo that he needed Chriſt in that eſtate. p. 133.
39. Whether the tree of Life was a ſacrament of Chriſt to Adam, or no. p. 136.
40. Whether there was any revelation unto Adam of a Chriſt. p. 136.
41. Whether the ſtate of reparation be more excellent then that in innocency. p. 137.
42. Whether we may be now by Chriſt ſaid to be more righteous then Adam. p. 138.
43. Whether that which God requireth of us be greater then that demanded of Adam in the ſtate of innocency. p. 138.
44. Whether Adams immortality in the eſtate of innocency be not different from that which ſhall be in heaven. p. 139.
45. What Law this delivered in Mount Sinai is, and what kinde of lawes there are, and why it's called the Morall Law. p. 147.
46. Whether this Law repeated by Moſes, be the ſame with the law of nature implanted in us. p. 148.
47. Why God did then, and not ſooner give this Law unto his people. p. 149.
48. Whether this Law was not before in the Church of God. p. 150.
49. Why God gave the Morall Law. p. 151.
50. Whether the ten Commandements, as given by Moſes, doe belong to, and bind us Chriſtians, or no. p. 165.
51. Whether Chriſt did adde any thing unto the Law. p. 177.
52. Whether Chriſt did forbid all ſwearing. p. 185.
53. Whether under the Gospel death or any capitall puniſhment may be inflicted for ſome offences. p. 188. 189.
54. Whether the Law be an inſtrument of true ſanctification. p. 195.
55. Whether Chriſt have abrogated the Morall Law. p. 208.
56. Whether the Law was a Covenant that God made with his people of Iſrael. p. 230.
57. Whether the Law be a Covenant of grace. p. 232.
58. Wherein the Law and Gospel doe oppoſe or differ from each other; under which is handled the falſe differences between the Law and Goſpel made by Anabaptists, Papiſts, and Antinomians. p. 239.
59. Why God appointed ſuch various and different administrations. p. 256.
60. Whether the Goſpel preach repentance, or no. p. 260.
61. Whether the Law command faith. p. 262.
62. How Chriſt is the end of the Law. p. 266.