Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself, Table of contents
A TABLE OF THE Contents of the Treatise.
OPening of the Words. Pag. 1.
It is good in our minde to act our sufferings ere they come. Pag. 2.3.
Parts of the Text. Pag. 3.
Five particulars touching Christs soule-trouble, 3.
How pure and heavenly Christs affections are. 3.4.
Our affection are muddy 4.5.6.
The perfection of Christs affections. 4.5.
What peace Christ had with his soule-trouble. 6.
A troubled soule consisted with the personall union, —and how this must be, and how it can be. 7.8.
God exacted not satisfaction for sinnes, by necessity of nature. 8.
The way of grace how lovely. 9.
Christ in soule-trouble, and yet the union not dissolved. 9.
Familists teach that Christ is incarnate in beleevers. 10.
Christ suffered in his soule kindly, and not by concomitancie only. 11.
Christs precious soule lyable to suffering. 11.
We are to beare death patiently, seeing Christ dyed. 12.
No wonder all things bee lyable to change, since Christ was in soule-trouble. 12.13.
What love in Christs undertaking for us. 13.
Christ cast up his accounts, and saw what hee was to give out, and what to get in, in his suffering for us. 14
Loves way of saving man. 14
Our softnesse and selfe-wisdome in suffering. 15.16
Our mis-judging of God under the crosse. 16
Our coldnesse of love to Christ. 17
Evangelick love is more then Law-love 18
Sinnes against love are wounding, 18
What a soule troubled for sinne is. 19
Christs being over-clowded, incomparably the greatest soule-trouble that ever was. 19
Christ was to bleed for sinne, as sinne. 21
According to the fulnesse of the presence of the God-head, so heavie was Christs love. 21
Antinomians errours touching the nature of sinne. 23
Antinomian errours touching doubtings, sorrow for sinne, confession, &c. 23.24
D. Crisps Libertinisme that Paul Rom. 7. personateth the person of a scrupulous man, and had no reall cause to sorrow for, feare, or confesse sinne. 24.25
M. Archer in the like errour. 25.26
Trouble of unbeliefe for sinne is sinnefull 26
Some fits of the ague of the Spirit of bondage, may recurre and trouble a beleever. 26.27
Loves-Jelousies and doubting argue faith. 27
Doubting may consist with faith. 27
Dangerous and unsound positions of Antinomians, touching trouble for sinne in the justified. 28
Doubtings proveth not a soule to be under a covenant of works. 29
The Jewes under the Old Testament justified, might be troubled in soule for sinne as we, they and we justified by the same grace. 29
Trouble for sinne is, and ought to be in those, who are delivered from obligation to eternall wrath. 30.31
No Law-wakening in us by nature. 32
How the Saints need joy after sin, rather then after affliction. 33
Sinne is pardoned otherwise then in removall of obligation to eternall wrath. 34
The double dealing of Antinomian Preachers in confession of sinnes, in publick, their confession being onelyonly in regard of unbeleevers mixed with beleevers. 34
A two fold pardon of sinne. 1. A relaxation from eternall. 2. From temporall wrath. 35
Sin is sometimes put for temporary punishment, and to remove temporary punishment is to pardon sin in Scripture-sense. 36
Soule-troubles in devils and men must be extreame. 38
Conscience the sorest enemy. 38
The terrours of an evill conscience. 38
Difference betweene the soule-torment of the damned, and the Saints, in 3. points. 39
God punisheth sometimes the sinnes of his children with spirituall punishments. 40
Christs soule-trouble different from ours. 43
The causes of soule desertions. 43.44.45
Soule desertions sharpened with sense 44
Desertions after evident and full manifestations of God. 44.45
Desertion under a three-fold consideration. 46
Patience requisite under soule-trouble. 46
We are not so freed from sin, being justified, but there is a ground of distance betweene the Lord and us. 46.47
Mis-judging thoughts of Christ in us by nature. 47
Sinne not ever the cause of desertion. 47.48
Externall heavy judgements, and soule-desertions not Pedagogicall, but common to the Saints under the N. Test. 48.49
Active desertion is not our sin, but the Lords trying of us. 49
Desertions more proper to the Saints, then to the unregenerat. 49
Christs desertion of another nature then ours. 49
Desertion not melancholie. 50
The various dispensation of God in leading soules to heaven. 51
Divers causes of desertion. 51
Continuated manifestations of Christ necessary. 51.52
Divers reasons why we are not to quarrell with Divine dispensation in desertion. 52
Gods manifestations his owne, and most free. 52
Submission and charity required to Gods dispensations. 52
Apprehensions biggest and most terrible in desertion, because of the darkenesse of the minde. 53
Sathan can raise our apprehensions to swelling thoughts of Gods dispensation, as too greevous to be borne. 54
Our love is sweyed with jealousies and mis-giving. 54.55
Divine dispensation, not our rule. 55
Vnbeliefe is querulous: mis-beleeving of our state too frequent in desertion, but more of Christ. 56
Mis-judging of our actions frequent in desertion. 56.57
Antinomians mistake touching anxiety for sinne. 57
We may long for Christ absent, but not mis-judge him. 57.58
Divers considerable reasons of Christs absence. 58.59
Mis-judging argueth softnesse of nature, and weakenesse of judgement. 59.60
Saints must looke for a growing crosse. 60
A growing faith for growing crosses. 61
Anxitie in Christ. 61, 62
A sinnelesse oblivion in Christ. 62
How Christs sensitive affection are under a Law. 62
Christs losse great. 62
The personall union hindred not the operations of sinnelesse humane infirmities. 62
Christs anxiety sinnelesse. 63
No mistake in Christs soule deserted. 63
Christs desertion reall. 63
Judiciall mispending of our affections. 64
How Christ was forsaken. 64
The sinner shiftlesse in judgement. 64.65
No hypocrites formally in hell, and at the last judgement. 65
A wakened conscience speechlesse. 65.66
Three demands of justice given in against Christ. 66
Help neerer in trouble, then we apprehend. 67
Christ made use of Faith in trouble, for our cause. 68
Christs death-gripe. 69
Doubtings for want of qualifications, how cured. 69.70
Two false wayes of curing doubting, whether the soule bee in Christ, or not. 70
To argue no faith from faint performances of duties is unjust reasoning. 70
How farre we may argue no faith from sinfull walking. 71
Antinomians doubts touching the spirituall estate of the soule, discussed and disproved. 72
The immutabilitie of Gods love no ground, but multitudes may doubt whether they be in Christ, or not. 72.73
Saltmarsh examined in this point. 72.73▪ 74.75
A necessitie of inherent signes and qualifications to doubting soules. 73.74
How God loveth his Sonne Christ, and beleevers with the same love. 74
How far Sanctification may evidence that a soule is in Christ. 76
From no sanctification we may conclude no justification. 77
Protestants make mortification and repentance some other thing then faith. 77
Regeneration and justification not one. 78
No assurance can flow from acts performed by our good nature. 78
Antinomian Mortification a delusion. 79
How we see forgivenesse in our selves. 79
Antinomians deny all inherent holinesse in us. 80
How we are to see grace in our selves. 80
Nothingnesse in our selves highteneth the price of Christ. 81
How Ministers are to deale with troubled soules 82
Christ more to be chosen then the comforts of Christ. 82
VnderUnder soule-trouble we are to doe, but not to conside in what we doe. 83
Love-jealousies under desertion. 84
Desertions have a time. 84
Christ r…compences his absence with double smiling. 84
Works of sanctification though polluted with sinne, may bottome assurance. 85
We doe not all times know that we beleeve. 85.86
There is need of actuall influence of grace to the reflect knowledge of our spirituall state. 86
The witnessing of sanctification sometime darke. 86
Duties performed in faith not contrary to grace. 87
Hard to be comforted in desertion. 87
Sense of Christs absence cannot be out-reasoned. 88.89
All in glory short of what they owe. 90
God cannot be quarrelled in desertion. 90
We cannot beare fulnesse of glory in this life. 90
Longing after Christ strongest in absence. 91
The languishing soule may pray home Christ. 92
Christs love not Lordly. 92
The Lords returne after sad desertion joyfull. 92.93
How neere Christ is in desertion. 93
Christ pardoneth and rarely punisheth love-errours. 94
Its a lie that none are to question their faith. as Saltmarsh saith. 94
We are to beleeve after Christs fashion, not our owne. 95
Saints may doubt whether they beleeve or no. 96
Doubting in beleevers proveth them not to bee under the Law. 97
Sanctification of it selfe, is an infallible signe of justification, but not ever so to us. 98
How acts of sanctication make good that we beleeve. 99
Assurance may flow from other marks then the immediate testimony of the Spirit. 99.100
The inward testimony of the Spirit. 100
The Holy Ghost speaketh by marks. 100
How Antinomians compare evidences of marks and of faith together. 101
Degrees of freedome of grace. 101.102
Antinomians denying preparation must be Pelagians. 102
The broad Seale of the Spirit excludeth not all doubting. 102
Doubting of the truth of Faith, is that unbeliefe that excludeth us out of our heavenly rest. 104
That we may know justification by sanctification, proved. 105
Works done in faith are not doubtsome evidences of justification. 106
Works may prove faith, and faith Works. 107
How sanctification doth prove justification. 108
Peace from justification, and from sanctification, how different. 110
To be assured of righteousnesse, and know that wee are in that state, two different things. 111.112
M. Cornwel proveth what is not in question. 112
Many things ours both by debt of promise, and by grace. 112.113
Conditionall Gospel-promises argue free grace, not debt. 113
Gospel-promises made to acts of sanctification. 116.117
Antinomians deny all conditionall promises. 117
What kind of faith was in Christ. 117.118
How faith of Dependance was in Christ. 118
The not seeing of God may stand with personall union. 118
A rare providence that Christ is put to (God save me.) 119
We are not to storme that we are not heard at first. 120
Reasons why our prayers are not ever heard at first. 120
We are readier to pray, then to praise. 121
Christ bottomed his prayer on the sweet relation of a Father and a Sonne. 121.122
Sonnes onelyonly can pray. ibid.
The power of Prayer. 123.124
Christs houre-sufferings. 125
He suffered in value what we should have suffered. ibid.
Whence commeth the dignity of Christs suffering. 126
Christs losse great from his excellency. 127
How Christs sufferings were bounded, being infinite. ibid.
Our debt of love to Christ eternall. 128
Our sufferings short. ibid.
We are not too weary for length of time in sufferings. 130.131
Christs death soure and blacke to nature and Christ, and why. 131.132
Christ sensible of paine and death. ibid.
Gods anger against Christ. ibid.
The personall union not dissolved in suffering. 133
Christ bare the whole Crosse, and we but chips of it. 134
Soules of great value with God, not so with us. 135.136
Strength of Christs love. 137
Death sweetned in Christ. ibid.
Christs will subordinate to Gods; doubts removed. 138.1…9
Gods revealed will, not his decree our rule. ibid.
A conditionall desire, though not agreeable to a positive Law, no sinne. 140
Rules touching our submission to Gods will. 141
Nine considerable objections, comfortably answered. 142.143.144.145
Thirteene considerable Rules touching submission to Providence. 144.145.146.147.148.149.150.151, &c.
Gods wisdome in creating good and ill. 146.147
Afflictions proportioned to every mans measure. ibid.
The Royall prerogative of providence. 152.153
It cannot be counter-wrought. 154.155
We dote much on the sweet accidents of Christ, and love himselfe too little. 155.156
Submission to the absence of God. 156.157
Christs returne no merit. ibid.
The worke of Redemption rationall, and full of causes and reasons. 158
Afflictions are to bee weighed. 1. Who. 2. How. 3. For what end. 159.160
Blind and dumbe Crosses. ibid.
Christ willing to suffer. 160.161
An agent in his suffering. 162
Intended his Spouse. ibid.
To be active for God, and submissive. 163.164
The Charters of a right intention in serving God, 164.165.166
Christs love tooke strength from difficulties. ibid.
How the Lords glory is to be sought by us. 167.168
Six considerations of errours therein. 167.168.169.170
Christ ever heard. ibid.
Our failings, in expecting to bee heard, in five considerations. 171.172.173
All Christs good and ours from heaven. ibid.
Easie traffiquing with heaven. 173.174
God cleareth a good cause, though darkned ibid.
The scandall of the Crosse removed 175.176
How the Lord was glorified in Christ. 177.178
Omnipotency maketh glory of any thing. 178.179
Mans glory vaine. 199.
The Gospel darke to us. 180
Our understanding, affections, and heart, hereticall in Gods will, word, and works. 181.182.183
Sinne and errour broody, truth but one. 184
Angels kept fast their birthright. 185.186
Seven considerations of conviction. 186.187.188
Will-heresie. 186
Christ a most publike person, as all excellent things, and good men are. 188.189.190
Christs office warran…s us to apply him. 190.191
The Saints a mystery. ibid.
Hopes good prophecying. 192.193
Five characters of the World. 194.195
This world differenced from the other. 196
Judged of Christ 3. waies. 197.198
What a Prince the Devill is not, in three points. ibid.
What a Prince he is in foure points, and what a Godhead he hath, 199.200
Twise judged. ibid.
Sathans power, 1. Naturall. 2. Acquired. 3. Sinnefull. 201.202. & seq.
Ill Angels knew not the incarnation before they fell. ibid.
They have no Princedome in knowing the thoughts, or over free will. 203.204
Sathans legall power. ibid.
To tempt. 204.205
What temptation is. 205.206.207
Sathans outward power over men, 208.209
How God onelyonly, not Angels, knows the heart, and why. 209.210.211
Sathans power over the Creatures. 212
Over sen…es and soule. 213
How Sathan sinneth yet. 214
His punishment. 215.2…6
Sathans knowledge hurt, and how. ibid.
His sadnesse. ibid.
His faith, despaire. 216.
Obduration. 217
Christ his Judge, and how. 217.218.219
Five observable considerations thereof. ibid.
State-wit against Christ, stark folly. 220
Familists vaine opinion of the Devill and sinne, 221.222
Sinne against light devillish. 222.2…3
Obduration. ibid.
Tenne motives to the good fight. 2…4.225
Six points concerning drawing. 1. The drawing it selfe. 2. The drawer. 3. The persons drawne. 4. To whom. 5. The condition. 6. The way and manner.
Of drawing, foure points. 1. The expression. 2. Reasons moving Christ to draw. 3. The manner. 4. The power. 226.227.228, &c.
No violence in drawing 2…8
Our indisposition to be drawne. 229.230
We naturally hate Christ. 229.2…0 231
Will, not weakenesse, the cause why we are not drawn. 232.233.
The strength, greatnesse, freenesse of grace, in 6. Positions. 233, 234. &c.
The place, Ezech. 16.8.9. &c. opened in 12 Articles of free love. 234.235.236.
Christ gracious for no bire, 237.238.2…9
Preparations before conversion in a fourefold consideration, 240.241, &c.
How there be, and be no preparations before conversion, 240.241, &c.
How a desire to pray, and beleeve, is prayer and beliefe, how not. 242.243
A Royall prerogative in conversion, 244
Antinomians objections for immediate beleeving without any preparations, or breakings of the soule, loosed. 245.246.247, &c.
Saltmarsh his experiences in the Method of conversion, tryed, and found light, 249.250.251
The Antinomian faith presumption. 249.250
Fifteene Propositions opening our Doctrine touching preparations. 251.252.253
Twelve Assertions against Antinomians in the Doctrine of Preparations, 239.240, &c. largely.
Dispositions before renewed drawing of converted soules, 260.261. The signes thereof.
Antinomian confession of sinnes refused. 257
How the promises of the Gospel are held forth to sinners, as sinners 2…8
Preparations make us nothing lesse sinners, then if wee wanted them. 259
The doubt of conditionall Gospel-promises discussed against Antinomians. 261.262.263
In five positions. 264.…65, &c.
What conditions we reject, and we admit in the Gospel. 261.262.263
Obedience in the Law and Gospel the same, and how. 263.264
How election, justification, salvation, are of grace, but differently. 265
The decree of God, and mans liberty fight not. 266.267
Grace inherent in the Saints. 268
Bastard preparations. 269
Gods Method in deliverances. 269.270
Libertines falsely make Justification and Regeneration one. 271.272
How Law and love worke in drawing sinners, 272.273
The particular manner of drawing, not knowne to us, 275.276
Drawing Morall and Physicall, 277, 278
Inspirations without Scripture, rejected, 270.271
Christs oratory in drawing, strong, 280.281
His love in drawing. 1. Violent. 2. Speedy. 3. Vehement. 4. Reall. 5. Lovely. 6. Strong, 281.282.283
Drawing by love sweeter and stricter then by Law, 283.284
Way of loves working. ibid.
Binding lovelinesse in Christ. 285.286.
Drawing power of Christs Kingdome, in many particulars, 286 287.288.289
Drawing arguments in Christ from beauty▪ 290.291
What beauty, 291.292.293.294.295.296
From gaine, 296.297
From Honour, ibid.
A survey of Christ. 298.299.300
Libertines enemies to grace. 300.301
Great things reported of the waies of God, 301.302.303
Objections removed, 303.304
The Lord draweth by proportion, by charming. 305.306
By condiscention, 306
By internall application, 307.308
By externall accommodation of word and providence, ibid.
In regard of meanes, time, disposition, anticipation of the intention, 309
Fit words, 310
The Jesuits congruous vocation rejected, 311
The Arminian refuted, ibid.
The Protestants conversion proved. 312, 313, 314
The middle science a phancie. 312, 313
The Vaga, and confused necessity of Did. Ruiz. refuted, 315
Arguments for indecl…ble and irresistible conversion pressed, 314.315, 316, 317, 318, 319.
How loggish we are to be drawne to Christ. 319.320
Antinomians reject Sanctification, 321
Will have us in this life compleatly saved, and seeme to deny with Familists, the life to come, and the resurrection. 32….323, 3…4
Free will not forced. 326
Arminian indifferency of will refused. 326.327
And their confused loose decrees of things contingent. 327.328, 329, 330
God determines free will. 328, 329, 330, 331
The Vses of the Doctrine. 331, 332
How to deale with such as are troubled, they are not drawne. 333, 334
Grace in drawing inferres Riches and overflowings of grace. 335
Vertues of Christ fitting him to draw sinners. 336, 337
The power and fulnesse of Christs drawing vertue in many branches. 340, 341, 342.343
Perfection not attainable in this life. 341, 342
Scriptures and ordinances sleighted by Familists and Antinomians. 345, 346, …47, &c.
Rise of Familisme. 332.
Lovelinesse of Christ. In 1. Vnion. 2. Satisfaction. 3. Rest. 4. Sense. 5. Satisfaction. 6. Living in. 7. Loving of Christ. 354, 355, 356, 357
Vnion with Christ. 356, 357
Familists heaven and hell, and being of creatures in God, refuted. …58.359
The soule living and loving in Christ. 360, 361, 362
The State of the question touching vniversall attonement. 365, 366
The place, Rom. 10.18. Have they not heard, &c. discussed. 365 366, 367
Of universall grace. 368
Of Arminian election. 368, 369
Arminians goe upon six universalities. 369, 370, 371
Vniversall, 1. Will of God to save all. 2. Vniversall Redemption. 3. Covenant. 4. Reconciliation. 5. Vocation. 6. Possible Apostacy of all. 370, 371
The Elect particularly designed by persons, names, &c. 371 372, 373
Election and Redemption of the same Sphere. 375
M▪ Moores and the Arminian opinion of universall Redemption. 375, 376
The Arminian distinction of Redemption purchased to all, possibly applyed to none, examined. 376, 377, …78
Moores distinction of a reconciliation of all with God, and all to themselves, vaine. 379 380, 381, 382, &c.
1 Pet. 2.21. Isai. 53.6. The Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all, explaned and vindicated. 379▪ 380
1 Cor. 5.14.15. proveth no vniversall reconciliation. 381
Nor 1 Tim. 2.4.6. 381, 382, 383, 384▪ 385
Moores frivolous reasons answered. 385, 386, 387, 388, 389
Joh. 1.29. Behold the Lambe of God, &c. vindicated. 389.390, 391
The Arminian condition of preaching the Gospel not revealed to thousands, and so cannot oblige. 392, 393
Christs dominion not a naked power to save, such as may consist with the damnation of all. 393, 394, 395, &c.
Proved by fifteene Arguments, to 399
There is as good ground in Scripture for the universall conversion and salvation of all, and every one, as for the unive…sall redemption of all and every one. 400, 401▪ 402
M. Denne the Arminian and Antinomian answered, 40…, 405, 406, &c.
The place of Joh. 3.16. God so loved the world, &c. v…ndicated and opened. 409▪ 410
All Redeemed from wrath, redeemed from iniquity, 412, 413
Christ purchased faith to us by his death. 413.414
Other Arguments to prove that Christ dyed not for all, and every one. 413, 414, 415, 416
What is never done, is not Gods will simply. ibid.
What the revealed will of God is. ibid.
All arguments from Gods will, love, mercy &c. against particular election and redemption, with equall strength of reason, conclude against Arminians. 416▪ 417, 418
Gods revealed will expresses not to us his decree, intention, and purpose that the thing be, but his approbation or hatred of it, be it, or be it not. 418, 419
The word World proveth nothing against us; the place Joh. 3.16. againe considered. 419, 420, 421
An elect World in Scripture. 422
5. Rules to expound the particle All, foreign, 422, 423, 424, 425
2 Pet. 3.9. The Lord will have none to perish, &c. vindicated. 428
God willeth not all and every one to be saved. 4…8.429
The common nature of man assumed by Christ proveth no more, he redeemed all, and every one, then that all, and every one sitteth in that nature with him on his throne. 430, 431
Hebr 2.9. He tasted death for every man, vindicated, 4…1, 432
The place Rom. 5. By one mans offence, &c. is for particular, not for universall redemption. 432, 433, 434, 435
And 1 Cor. 15. 435, 436
The place 1 Joh. 2.1. cleared for us. 436, 437, 438
And 2 Pet. 2.1. ibid.
And 1 Tim. 4.10. ibid.
Christ hath a serious good will to draw sinners to himselfe. 438, 439
Foure objections of weake ones answered.
The Gospel framed in the wisdome of God, that none might despaire to open a doore of faith. 1. To beleevers. 2. To sinners. 3. To visible Saints. 4. To men. 5. To all. 6. To that which is most comprehensive, the World. 440, 441, 442, 443
Christ sorry that we come not ibid.
What Gods revealed will is. 443, 444
Any will to save all contrary to Gods nature and attributes. 444 445
Christ willing to draw all, heart-exceptions removed. 446, 447, 448, 449
Ezech. 33.10. explained. 447, 448
Prov. 8.30. Ancient love explained. ibid.
What sort of faith God requireth of all and every one, that heare the Gospel; Antinomians dreame of a faith which is the apprehension of the eternall love of election. 449, 450 451
This faith hath for its object a lye, that God hath chosen all and every man to glory, a lye, and is no faith. 451, 452
The faithfulnesse and mercy of a Gospel-Saviour; the objects of saving faith. ibid.
Arminians lay double dealing on God. 417
Its a mystery, that God obligeth all in the visible Church to rest on Christ as a Saviour, though salvation be not purchased to all. 417, 418
The Gospel revealeth not Gods decree and intention, whom hee purposeth to save or damne. 418, 419
How Christ dyeth for the world. 419
God dealeth sincerely with all, whom he commandeth to beleeve. 419, 420
Gods wise framing of Gospel-invitations without any mans name in particular. 420, 421
The sufficiencie of power in Christ to save, the object of that faith, for the want of which reprobates are damned. 421, 422
The object of fiduciall resting on Christ. 423
Objections of weake ones against their grounds of beleeving removed. 423, 424, 425
The Arminian Argument against particular Redemption taken from hope, assurance, con…ol…tion, propounded in all its strength, Answered, and retorted on themselves 424, 425, 426, 427
Vniversall Redemption furnisheth no grounds of assurance and consolation, but such as may stand with the reprobation and damnation of all. 425.426
M. Moore suggesteth hope and the Gospel-comforts of the Spirit of Jesus Christ to Indians, Americans, Turks. ibid.
Arminians render God pendulous and doubtsome 426
Frustrated in his hope and ends. 427.428
Faith the first morning and dawning of election. ibid.
The Arminian hope and comfort, and their wild Divinity not in Scripture. 428.429.430
The Lords generall good will to save all, and every one, comfortlesse. 432.433
The fountaine good will of God separateth elected persons, from others. 4…2.433
Arminians resolve all in mans will and merits. 434.435
Paul…s out-cry▪ O the depth, opened. 435.436
OnelyOnly free grace, not freewill, maketh one to differ from another. 437.438
The abundance of grace. 439 440
All love, especially a three fold, effectuall in God, no lip love in him. 440 441
Christs love cannot mis-carry. ibid.
Very active. 442
Ten objections from feare of Reprobation and sinne, that se… me to hinder beleeving, removed. 4…3.…44.445
Christ can draw as guilty, as thou art. 447.448
The person to whom we are drawne most considerable from severall excellencies in him. 449.450.451.452
Christ a home and rest. 451
Three parts of Christs compleatnesse; 1. His fulnesse. 453
2. His primacy. 453.454
3. His excellencie. 454.455.456
Resisting of Christ a high sinne. 457
Christ good at drawing of sinners. ibid. 458.459
Resisting a great sinne. 459.460
Marks of a meere Moralist. 461.462
Errours of Libertines touching Free will. 462.463.464
What activitie we have in our conversion. 464
The faculties of the soule not destroyed. 464.465
Grace inherent in us, not the person of the Holy Ghost. 464.465.466.467
The Blasphemy of the Libertine H. Nicholas, who said, he was Godded. ibid.
The union of the Holy Ghost with the Saints, not personall. 467.468.469
Grace and Free will joyned in acting, in a fourefold sense. 468 469.470
The covenant of grace how conditionall. 471.472.473
Crispe refuted. 472.473.474
Differences betweene Law and Gospel. 472
Grace in the Old Testament, and Justification the same in Nature, with that in the New Testament. 474.47….476
How faith is a condition of the Covenant. 476.477
How grace acteth in all Christs Members. 479.…80
Christ onelyonly, not any creature, Man or Angel can calme a disquieted soule. 480.481
The Lords deniall of grace falleth under a three-fold consideration. 481.482.483
The freedome of grace evidenced in Angels. 482
In the conversion of men. 483.48…
We are to pray, when under indispositions we cannot, ibid.
Flesh and Spirit in their up's and downes. 485.486
In what cases God us…th to withdraw. ibid.
We are to stirre and blow grace our selves. 486.487
How we sinne in not doing, though actuall pred…terminating grace be not in our power. 487.488.489
How we leave God, ere he leave us. 489
How we are to beleeve that God will joyne his influence of actuall grace. 489.490
Grace not a Morall sparkle. 490.491
Mens impotencie to come to Christ, wilfull. ibid.
The condition of Christs drawing. 492.493
Christs and our leaving of the earth, and the reasons. 493.494.495
Christs dying a speciall ground of Mortification. 496.…97
To be crucified to the World what it is. 497.498
How base the earth is to a Saint. ibid.
Antinomian Mortification fleshly, and refuted. 490.491.492
Libertines and Antinomians compared together, from some passages of Calvine Instruct. advers. Libertinos. 500.501.502.50….504.505.506
Sinnes of the Justified, to Antinomians no sinnes. 502.503
Sense and feeling of sinnes to Antinomians. 503.504
How a Convert cannot fall in the same sinne againe. 506.507
Sorrow for sinne, habituall in the Saints, contrary to Saltmarsh. 507.508.509
Mortification not an act of Faith. 509.510.511
Mortification personall, Physicall, reall, not the Antinomian imputative and apprehensive Mortification, refuted. 509.510.511
Antinomians deny sinne to be in the justified. 512.513
The fleshly distinction of Denne and other Antinomians, of sin in the conscience, and sinne in the conversation, refuted. 513.514
Mortification is in abstaining from sinne, and in the remissenesse and faintnesse of the powers of the soule to act sinne. 516.517.518
To live by Faith, includeth sanctification. ibid.
A sinner, as a sinner not humbled, is not to beleeve applicatorily. 518.519.520
Holinesse and Morall vertues much different. 520, 521
To adde to Antinomian Mortification is to adde to Christ. 521.522
Eight Queries propounded to Antinomians, touching the Law. Enthysiasmes, Gospel-commands, sinnes of the justified, &c. 522.523
Divers Manifestations of Christs deadnesse to the world. 524.525
The Lords various dispensation in leading some to heaven, in flowings of free grace, others in low desertions. 525.526
Christ strong to save. 528
Minded us much in death. 528.529
The World a weake thing to Christ. 529.530
Christ strong on the Crosse. ibid.
Providence most speciall in excellent things. 530.531
A three-fold excellency of the working of Christ on the Crosse. 531.532
Christ drawes sinners, 1. Lovingly. 532
2. Suffering paine ibid.
3. Strongly. 532.533.
Compleatly. Ibid.
5. Finally, dying and drawing. 533.534
What it is, to be lifted up from the earth. 534.535
The Scriptures deepe, plaine, not obscure, why wee accuse them. 535.536
Christs dying. ibid.
The kind of his death. 537.538
Seven considerations of Christs dying. 537.538.5…9
Christs love went to death with him. ibid.
Christ willing to die, and must dye. ibid.
A wondring that Christ should dye. ibid.
Reason would say, Christs body should be precious as the Sunne. ibid.
Its much that Christ should part with life. 5…9
Three ingredients in Christs death. 1. The curse. 2. Merit. 3. Divine acceptation. 540.541
Foure sad conditions in the ransome that Christ payed. 541
1. A man given for a man. 2. A King for a servant. 3. A King handled as a slave. ibid.
The ransome given must die. 542
Death the end of Christs labours. ibid.
Christs victory in dying. 543
His welcome. 544
Comforts to dye from the dying of Christ. 544.545
Christ had good hap to the Crosse. ibid.
Death perfected Christ. 546, 547
Life lame without the life hid with Christ. 547.548
Reall Mortification pressed from Christs death. 545.546
Comfort of pardon from Christs death. 549
Sinne sweet, suffering for sinne sad. 550
In the kind of Christs death, three Characters. 1. Paine. 2. Shame. 3. A Curse. 550.551
In the paine of Christs death three 1. Violence. ibid.
2. Slownesse of dying. ibid.
3. Many degrees of life taken from Christ. 550.551.554.
How Christ was capable of shame. ibid. 555
How not. 555.556
How shame penall might stand …ith the dignity of his person. 557.558
How Christ was a curse. 558.559.560
Death naturall and violent. 561
Indifferent accidents of death 562
How a man is ripe for death. 562.563
Our errors and fancies touching the Crosse. 564.565
The bloud not dryed off Christ, while he was in heaven. ibid.
We condemne the wisdome of God, in our murmuring under the Crosse. 566
How farre we may chuse our owne Crosse. 567
The circumstances that fall in our crosse, dressed by infinite wisdome. 567.568
That a blessed Spirit take on him to bee a cursed sinner, admirable. 571.572
Wee are not freed from the Law, as a rule of righteousnesse. 572.573
Neither Law nor Gospel obligeth a beleever to Sanctification, by the Antinomian way. 574.576
We are no more under the Gospel, nor under the Law, by the Antinomian way. 574.575
Antinomians enemies to close walking with God. 575.576
Men naturally are not awed by the Law. 576.577
Antinomians oblige not beleevers to personall walking with God. 578
The Law leaveth not off to bee a rule of righteousnesse, because it giveth not grace. 579
Every naturall man under the Law. 581.582
A Mystery of Antinomians, that all meanes, not effectually moving the will, are not meanes, laying bonds on the conscience. 582.583
Antinomians take away all use of teaching and exhorting. 584
Faith looseth us not from the Law. ibid.
Obeying of God, because of the direction of Law and Gospel is to Antinomians a controuling of the free Spirit. 589
The Law as the Law, required perfect obedience; but the Law as Evangelized, requireth not perfect obedience, that we may be justified. 589
The Antinomian doctrine propounded by the carnall Libertine, Rom. 7. 590.591
The Law is not meerely passive. 591.592
How Faith and new obedience are the meanes of our delivery from the body of sin, the former from the guilt, and that perfectly, and at once, in justification; and the other from the blot and in-dwelling of sinne, and that by degrees, in Sanctification. 593.594
How we are saved without works. 594.595
How God accounteth the good works of the justified, porfect. 595.596.597.598