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THE CONTENTS
SERMON I.
THE Words opened. Page 2
Doct. 1 Thoſe that profeſs the Goſpel, muſt have a great care of their Converſations 6
1 That God may be honored 7
1 Becauſe the Saints are Gods witneſſes 8
2 They hold forth Gods renewed Image 9
3 They further Gods deſigns Ibid
4 They make up the great diſhonor He hatb from the world ibid
2. In reſpect of wicked men 10
1 That you may convince them ibid
2 To ſtop their mouthes 11
3 To convert them ibid
4 To condemn them 12
3 In reſpect of the Saints ibid
1 They rejoyce in it ibid
2 They bleſs God for it ibid
3 They have boldneſs before men ibid
4. They are eſtabliſhed by it. 13
5 They are edified by it ib.
4 In reſpect of your ſelves ibid
1 It evidenceth the truth to your ſouls. ibid
2 It continueth and encreaſeth what is in you 14
3 It gets honor in the conſciences of men ibid
4 It is an inſtrument of publick good ibid
5 it furthers a joyful account at the great day ibid
6 It keeps up the honor of Religion from one generation to another ibid
Application 1 To reprove careleſs profeſſors. 16
2 To exhort to be careful of your Converſations 19
Arg. 1 It is a mercy you have converſation among men 20
2 Wicked men are able to paſſe judgment on your lives, but not on your principles 21
3 Sometimes you muſt diſpleaſe wicked men ibid
4 Your lives are but ſhort 22
5 The eyes of all are upon you 23
6 God promiſeth ſalvation to them that order their Converſation aright 24
SERMON II.
Rule 1 Have a ſpecial regard to the duties of your relation 25
2 Take heed of the ſins you are moſt inclined to 26
3 Take heed of the temptations of your callings 27
4 Take heed of the ſins of the times 28
5 Take heed of ſecret ſins. ibid
6 Look not upon thoſe that are below, but upon thoſe that are above you in profeſſion 29
7 Be conſtant to the end 30
Doct. 2 The Converſation of Profeſfeſſors muſt be ſutable to the Goſpel of Chriſt.
1. It muſt be higher than the light of Nature will raiſe it 32
Viz. 1 That we are to knew God 33
2. That we muſt do as we would be done to ibid
3 We muſt make conſcience of ſecret ſins ibid
What Converſation becomes the Goſpel, that is above the light of Nature
1 To worſhip God as a father 35
2 To love our enemies 36
3 To do to others as God hath don to us 37
4 To labor for the mortification of the body of ſin within us. 39
5 To love the Commandement you obey 40
Secondly, It muſt go beyond ſuch as lived under the Law
SERMON III
Conſider firſt as a Covenant of works for life, as it was at firſt made to Adam 42
1 Obedience to God meerly as Creator 43
2 Had only promiſe of natural things ibid
3 He muſt work by his own ſtrength ibid
4 He was in hazard of miſcarrying in his eternal eſtate ib.
1 The Saints are in a better condition.
1 They ſerve God as a father 44
2 Ʋpon better promiſes ibid
3 Our ſtrength is not put into own hands to keep 54
4 Are delivered from the hazzard of eternal miſcarrying ibid
2. As the Law was in the miniſtration of it by Moſes 47
1 Given under low promiſes. ibid
2 Their Ordinances mean 48
3 Their burden great ibid
4 The adminiſtration terrible ibid
5 Their ſpirits ſervile ibid
But under the Goſpel
1 Our Covenant is better 48
2 Our Worſhip more ſpiritual 49
3 Our yoke more eaſie 50
4 We have acceſs with boldnes to the throne of grace ibid
5 We have the ſpirit of Adoption ibid
3. It muſt be ſutable to what the Goſpel holds forth 53
Herein conſider
1 What the Goſpel holds forth
2 How to ſute our Converſations according.
1 The Goſpel holds forth,
1. The infinite love of God to mankind 53
2 Love in us becomes this love of God 54
SERMON IV.
2. The willingneſs of God to to be at peace with man 63
1 When we were enemies to Him 64
2 We were under his power. ibid
3 He had no need of us ibid
4 He begins the work of reconciliation ibid
5 It coſts Him very dear ibid
6 He will never be at enmity with us again 65
This cals us to love peace, ib.
3 The infinite mercy of God to miſerable creatures 69
It ſhould work mercy in us. 70
4 He is merciful in ſuch a way that juſtice is not wronged 74
It ſhould warn us firſt, not to turn the grace of God into wantonneſs 75
To be juſt in our Converſations 77
5 What a high price he ſets upon the Law. 78
SERMON V
6 Gods infinit hatred of ſin 80
It ſhould move us to hate it. 82
7 The great price of ſouls 85
It ſhould teach us,
1 To ſet a high price upon our ſouls 86
2 Not to pollute them with ſin 88
8 The great honor God hath put upon human Nature above Angels 89
1. In the perſonal union of mans Nature with the God-head ibid
2 The body is the temple of the holy Ghoſt 90
3 The Perſonal Vnion of our Natures with the ſecond Perſon in Trinity 91
4 The great example of Self-denial 93
SERMON VI.
9 Our Converſations ſhould be ſutable to ſpiritual worſhip 96
10 Our ſpiritual union with God 100
1 God is a Father, Beleevers are Children ibid
2 We are one Spirit with God and Chriſt 102
3 The union of the Saints one with another 104
4 Their hapines in heaven 110
SERMON VII.
What Converſation becomes the Goſpel 114
1 Denying ungodlineſs ibid
2 Sequeſtred from this world. 118
3 A change of eſtate 120
1 From what there was before the Goſpel came ibid
2 Between one man and another 122
4 Becoming the Ordinances of the Goſpel 123
5 Sutable to the power of the Goſpel ibid
6 Seeing the glory of the Goſpel, have a glory in our Converſations 125
Application 1 To reprove thoſe whoſe Converſations becomes not the Goſpel 126
2 Exhortation to walk worthy of the Goſpel 129
Five Motives to it
JOHN, 18. 36 SERMON I.
TEXT Opened 139
Doct. 1. Chriſt hath a Kingdom ibid
1 Providential 136
2 Mediatory ibid
Doct. 2 Chriſts Kingdom is not of this world 137
Difference between worldly Kingdoms & Chriſts Kingdom ib.
1 In regard of pomp and glory ibid
2 In regard of his ſubjects 138
3 In regard of his rule 139
4 His Laws are ſpiritual ibid
5 His homage ſpiritual 141
6 The Officers by Divine inſtitution 143
7 His weapons ſpiritual 144
8 In regard of priviledges 147
9 In regard of penalties 147
SERMON II.
Priviledges of the Saints 1 All their buſineſſes are in the Court if Chriſt 152
2 They are all free men 153
3 They have free trade to heaven ib.
4 They have right to all the Ordinances of Chriſt ib.
5 They have his protection 154
6 They ſhall have certain victory over their enemies ib.
7 They are all Kings ib.
8 They have peace and joy in the holy Ghoſt 155
9 They have right to the gifts and graces of all the Saints 156
10 They are coheirs with Chriſt 157
Why Chriſts Kingdom is not of this world. 1 Becauſe he would confound the wiſdom of the world 157
2 Becauſe he delights to exerciſe the graces of his Saints ib.
3 That his power and wiſdom may appear the more glorious 158
Application Uſe 1 There is a happineſs beyond the things of this world 159
Their world called 1 An evil world 160
2 The Devil is called the god of it ibid
3 The pomp of it is not of the Father ibid
4 Its glory is but darkneſs ibid
5 It knows not God 161
6 It lies in wickedneſs ibid
PSALM, 17. 14.
TEXT Opened 295
Doctrine There are men to whom God gives ſome outward good for a while, and this is all they are like to have 298
Arguments of Gods love to Saul 1 He was choſen by God Himſelf &c. 300
Explication 1 Why God deals out ſomething to wicked men 304
1 They are His Creatures ib
2 Their time of life is Gods patience ibid
3 It is their day 305
4 They do ſomething for God here ibid
5 To ſhew them what little good is in this world 306
6 He hath time enough to manifeſt his juſtice upon them hereafter 307
7 He ſhews what great things He hath reſerved for His Children 308
8 God fetcheth glory from hence ibid
1 To harden their heart 309
2 To chaſten his own people ibid
9 Becauſe he would have no argument of love or hatred drawn from outward things ibid
2 Here is all they are like to have 310
1 Becauſe their names are not in the book of life ibid
2 They are vile in the eyes of God ibid
3 Becauſe they chuſe it themſelves 311
4 They are ſutable to them. 313
5 They abuſe the portion they have 314
6 They have no intereſt in Jeſus Chriſt ibid
7 They are no ſons 316
8 The manifeſtation of Gods patience is ended ibid
9 They muſt have imediately to deal with God 317
3 Corrollaries flowing from hence
1. This is the reaſon why worldly men are ſo cunning in things of this world 318
2 This is the reaſon why ſo many great ones regard Religion ſo little 319
3 This is the reaſon of the ſtir that is in the world to maintain this their Portion 328
4 What kind of Portion this is that the men of the world have
1 What poor things they are 329
1 They are but imaginary ibid
2 Of a low nature 330
3 But a poor pittance 331
4 It will vaniſh 332
5 It will ſtand with the hatred of God 333
2 The tenure by which thou boldeſt them 335
Opened in 4. things. ibid
3 There is a great deal of mixture in what you have 336
1 Of trouble ibid
2 Of curſe ibid
4 What Portion thou loſeſt by it 337
1 It is fit for the Spouſe of Chriſt ibid
2 Sutable to an Heir of Heaven ibid
3 It is the height of happineſs 338
4 It is Gods great deſign in making Heaven and Earth ibid
5 It requires the infinite power of God to ſupport a creature in it ibid
6 It remains to eternity ib
5 What is like to be thy end ib
1 Perplexity of ſpirit when death comes 339
2 You'l be called to account for all 340
3 A dreadful Portion at the day of Judgment ib.
5 Who the man is that hath his Portion in this world
1 God gives him nothing but what belongs to this life 341
2 By the working of your hearts about your Portion 342
1 Whether your hearts terminate in what you enjoy ibid
2 Whether they go out in full ſtrength to them 343
3 How the loſs of them take thy heart ibid
4 Whether they only be ſutable to thy heart 344
5 What thou accounteſt thy cheefeſt good ibid
6 What you ſtrive to make moſt ſure 346
7 What thou moſt admireſt men for ibid
8 What thou art careful to lay up for thy children ib.
9 Examine thy ſervices in
3 Particulars
1 Are they ſlight? 347
2 Hypocritical?
3 Forced?
10 Doeſt thou draw back in Religion? ibid
11 Doth God for the preſent curſe thy portion? ibid
12 Doth God convince thee of what ſtops the current of his mercy ibid
13. He ſpends his daies without fear of being put off with the things of this world 348
6 Exhortation 1 To thoſe that have evidences of a better portion 349
1 Bleſs God for it 349
2 Be content with it ibid
3 Envy not wicked men ib.
4 Mind higher and better things 350
2 To all to put on for another Portion 351
Motive 1 Ye are capable of it 352
2 Ye are in a fair way for it ib
Means 1 Be ſtir'd with the fear of God 353
2 Take off your hearts from outward comforts ibid
3 Set the glory of Heaven and Eternity before your eyes 354
4 Honor God with your ſubſtance here ibid
5 Let your ſervices be choice ſervices 356
6 Be willing to caſt away what you have ſinfully got ibid
7 Be willing to joyn with thoſe that ſuffer for God 358
Concluſion ibid
READER, Thou haſt here the Names of the Books that are lately publiſhed of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs: As alſo the Texts of Scripture upon which they are grounded.
VIZ.
1. An Expoſition with Practical Obſervations on the 4, 5, 6, & 7. Chapters of HOSEA.
2. A Treatiſe of EARTHLY MINDEDNES: Wherein is ſhewed: 1. What Earthly-mindedneſs is, 2. The great evil thereof, on Phil. 3. part of the 19. verſe. Alſo to the ſame Book is joyned a Treatiſe of Heavenly-mindedneſs, and walking with God, on Gen. 5. 24. And on Phil. 3. 20.
3. The rare JEWEL of Chriſtian CONTENTMENT, on Phil. 4. 11. Wherein is ſhewed: 1. What Contentment is, 2. It is an holy Art and Myſterie, 3. The Excellencies of it, 4. The evil of the contrary ſin of Murmuring, and the Agravations of it.
4. GOSPEL-WORSHIP, on Levit. 10. 3. Wherein is ſhewed: 1. The right manner of the Worſhip of God in general: 2. And particularly, in Hearing the Word, Receiving the Lords Supper, And Prayer.
5. GOSPEL-CONVERSATION, on Philip. 1. 27. Wherein is ſhewed: 1. That the Converſation of Beleevers muſt be above what could be by the light of Nature, 2. Beyond thoſe that lived under the Law, 3. And ſutable to what Truths the Goſpel holds forth. To which is added, The Miſery of thoſe Men that have their Portion in this Life only; on Pſal. 17. 14.
All which are publiſhed by
Thomas Goodwin,
Sydrach Simpſon,
William Greenhil,
William Bridge,
John Yates,
William Adderly.
All printed by Peter Cole, at the Printing-Preſs in Cornhil, at the Royal Exchange, in LONDON.