Remains, Tract 2 · Table of contents
THE HEADS OF THE Ensuing Discourses.
DECAD I.
I. THAT the long Successes of some Sinners do not suppose a total Freedom from a just Sentence, but only a Deferring the Execution.
II. Sin as it exposeth to Punishment hereafter, so it is a present Punishment in the Act.
III. A Meditation explanatory on the Book of Ecclesiastes.
IV. The Sin and Punishment of the Golden Calf explained.
V. How Israel was given up to Idolatry, and yet remained a long while after God's People.
VI. The Case of Widows marrying again, considered.
VII. Wantonness unchristian.
VIII. The Fear which seized our Saviour at his Passion, innocent.
IX. The Case of Jacob, when he wrestled with the Angel, explained.
X. An Inquiry into the Reason of Hezekiah's Tears upon God's Message to him, that he must die.
DECAD II.
I. AN Inquiry, what Strength that was David requested, when he prayed to God to spare him, that he might recover Strength, Psal. xxxix.13.
II. The Necessity of Government explained from this Text, Judges xvii.6. In those Days there was no King in Israel: but every Man did that which was right in his own Eyes.
III. Who the SONS of God are, and the calling of the Gentiles, explained from Rom. viii.21. Because the Creature it self also shall be delivered from the Bondage of Corruption, into the Glorious Liberty of the Children of God.
IV. The Christian's Holiness, as well as his future Happiness, stiled GLORY.
V. An Elucidation of Heb. x.26, 27. If we sin wilfully after we have received the Knowledge of the Truth, there remaineth no more Sacrifice for Sins, but a fearful looking for of Judgment, and fiery Indignation, which shall devour the Adversaries.
VI. Some Description of the Death and Doom of an ungodly Man.
VII. A Meditation upon the Widow's Mite.
VIII. A Meditation and Explanation of the HOPE of Christians, according to the Apostle's Account of it, Heb, vi.17, 18, 19, 20.
XI. An Inquiry, why the Jews were so importunate with Christ for Signs and Wonders; and why he was so backward to gratifie their Curiosity therein.
X. An Explanatory Discourse of the Fall and Punishment of Angels.
DECAD III.
I. An Inquiry, which is most to be esteemed Evangelical Holiness, or Absolute Perfection.
II. An Explanation of those Words of our Saviour, That Servant that knew his Lord's Will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his Will, shall be beaten with many Stripes: But he that knew not, and did commit Things worthy of Stripes, shall be beaten with few Stripes, Luke xii.47, 48.
III. An Inquiry, why God appointed the Jews a Carnal Ceremonious Institution.
IV. A Meditation upon the Length of Time the Second Temple was in Building. Forty and Six Years was this Temple in Building, John ii.20.
V. How the Face and Back-parts of God, Exod. xxxiii.20, 23. are to be understood.
VI. An Inquiry, what that first Resurrection is, Revel. xx.5.
VII. An Examination into the Reason of that Eruption of the Apostle, O! the Depth of the Riches both of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God! Rom. xi.33.
VIII. Asa's perfect Heart how reconcilable with his Sufferance of the High Places.
XI. In what Sense the Apostle thanks God, that the believing Romans had been the Servants of Sin.
X. The Papists, the Millenaries, and the Traditionary Jews confuted from that Place, Whom the Heavens must contain, until the times of Restitution of all Things, &c. Act. iii.21.