Christs Commination Against Scandalizers, Table of contents
The Contents.
CAP. 1. Of the meaning of the Text, and the necessity of Scandalls.
Parag: 1. THe speaker and occasion of the words.
Parag. 2. The partition of the Text.
Parag. 3. The explication of the word Scandall in the proper acception.
Parag. 4. Scandall in the Scripture use.
Parag. 5. Of the sorts of effective scandall.
Parag. 6. The necessity of scandalls.
Parag. 7. In respect of scandalizers.
Parag. 8. Of persons scandalized.
Parag. 9. Of Satan.
Parag. 10. Of God.
Parag. 11. For what ends ordered by him.
Parag. 12. The application. 1. To justify religion notwithstanding the scandals of the professors of it.
Parag. 13. To magnify the providence of God.
Parag. 14. To teach men to walke circumspectly.
Parag. 15. To waite for Christs comming.
CAP. 2. Of the woe belonging to scandalizers in generall.
Parag. 1. THe explication of the words of the second proposition of the Text.
Parag. 2. That a woe belongs to scandalizers.
Parag. 4. Who are scandalizers, and to what scandalizing woe belongs.
Parag. 5. What woe belongs to them.
Parag. 6. 7. Why a woe belongs to them.
Parag. 8. Application 1. to manifest the danger of scandalizers.
Parag. 9. To admonish them of their sinne.
Parag. 10. Directions to avoyd it.
CAP. 3. Of scandalizing in speciall by sinfull example.
Parag. 1. SCandalizing distributed into foure wayes.
Parag. 2. A woe belongs to them that scandalize by sinfull example.
Parag. 3. What actions of sinfull example doe scandalize.
Parag. 4. How they doe scandalize.
Parag. 5. Why a woe belongs to such.
Parag. 6. Application 1. to move them to mourne that scandalize by sinfull example.
Parag. 7. 2. To move men to take heed of scandalizing by sinfull example.
Parag. 8. 3. And others that they be not scandalized by sinfull example.
Parag. 9. Directions to prevent it.
CAP. 4. Of scandalizing in speciall by abuse of liberty in things lawfull.
Parag. 1. A Woe belongs to scandalizers by abuse of liberty in things lawfull.
Parag. 2. Reasons thereof out of S. Paules Epistles.
Parag. 3. The difficulty of this point, and quaeres propounded to cleare it.
Parag. 4. Answer of the first quaere, what are things lawfull and indifferent, and what is our liberty in their use.
Parag. 5. What wayes our liberty in things indifferent may be restrained.
Parag. 6. The summary of the Apostles resolutions about scandall in the use of things indifferent delivered Rom. 14.
Parag. 7. And 1. Cor. 8. 9. 10. Chapters.
Parag. 8. Quest. 1. Who are to avoyde scandalizing by abuse of liberty in things indifferent.
Parag. 9. Quest. 2. Scandalizing of whom by such abuse is to be avoyded.
Parag. 10. Quest. 3. Whether strong ones are obnoxious to such scandall.
Parag. 11. Quest. 4. Who are to be accounted weake ones not to be thus scandalized.
Parag. 12. Quest. 5. What evill consequent on our actiō makes scandalizing of this sort.
Parag. 13. Quest. 6. How long we are to forbeare our liberty for feare of scandall.
Parag. 14. Quest. 7. What foresight of scandall consequent is necessary to make a man capable of scandalizing this way.
Parag. 15. Quest. 8. Whether the restraint of our liberty for feare of scandall be universall.
Parag. 16. Quest. 9. Whether scandall may be by omission of the use of our liberty.
Parag. 17. Quest. 10. Whether a community or a Magistrate may be scandalized.
Parag. 18. Quest. 11. What we are to doe when there is danger of scandall one way, and of disobedience to the Magistrate another way.
Parag. 19. Quest. 12. What we are to doe in case of scandall either by using or not using our liberty.
Parag. 20. Quest. 13. What we are to doe when the forbearing of our liberty indangers the losse of it.
Parag. 21. Quest. 14. What wee are to doe when there is danger of life by not using our liberty, of scandall by using it.
Parag. 22. Quest. 15. What we are to doe when there is feare of scandall to some, and hope of good to others by use of our liberty.
Parag. 23. Quest. 16. How farre we are to regard the scandall that ariseth from meer fancy without any probable reason.
Parag. 24. Application 1. To manifest the uncharitablenesse of scandalizers by abuse of their liberty.
Parag. 25. 2. To disswade them from this sinne, with directions against it.
Parag. 26. 3. To admonish men that they be not scandalized by anothers use of his liberty, and directions to that end.
CAP. 5. Of scandalizing in speciall by enticing practises.
Parag. 1. A Woe belongs to scandalizers by enticing practises.
Parag. 2. How men scandalize by enticing practises.
Parag. 3. Difference of scandalizers by enticing practises in respect of the part they act therein.
Parag. 4. Difference of scandalizers by enticing practises in respect of the motives which incite them.
Parag. 5. Difference of scandalizers by enticing practises in respect of the matter wherein they scandalize.
Parag. 6. The reasons of the woe due to this scandalizing.
Parag. 7. Application 1. To manifest the great guilt of scandalizers in this kind.
Parag. 8. 2. To admonish men to take heed of scandalizing this way.
Parag. 9. 3. And those that are apt to be scandalized.
CAP. 6. Of scandalizing in speciall by persecution.
Parag. 1. A Woe belongs to scandalizers by persecution.
Parag. 2. How beleivers are persecuted.
Parag. 3. How persecutions doe scandalize.
Parag. 4. What woe belongs to scandalizers by persecution.
Parag. 5. Application 1. To discover the danger of such scandalizers.
Parag. 6. 2. To deterre them from it.
Parag. 7. 3. To advise them that are in danger of being scandalized by persecutions.
CAP. 7. Of the aggravation of the woe belonging to scandalizers.
Parag. 1. THe explication of the third proposition in the text.
parag. 2. Those that believe in Christ are little ones.
Parag. 3. Some lesse then others in spirituall gifts and graces.
Parag. 4. In power and dignity.
Parag. 5. Beleivers commonly lesse then others in the world.
Parag. 6. Little in their owne eyes.
Parag. 7. Application 1. To advertise us of the estate of beleivers in this world.
Parag. 8. 2. To teach beleivers contentednesse in a low condition.
Parag. 9. 3. To quicken their hope after Heaven.
Parag. 10. 4. To aggravate the sinne of scandalizing beleivers.
Parag. 11. That the woe due to scandalizers of beleivers is greater then any temporall death.
Parag. 12. Who are to be accounted beleivers in Christ.
Parag. 13. Why so great vengeance is awarded to scandalizers of beleivers in Christ.
Parag. 14. Application 1. To manifest Christs tender care over his people.
Parag. 15. 2. To teach us to commit our cause to him when we suffer for him.
Parag. 16. 3. To advertise scandalizers of the greatnesse of their sinne and punishment.
Parag. 17. 4. To deterre them from their sinne.
VAE SCANDALIZANTIUM.
Luke. 17. 1. 2.
1 Then said he to the Disciples, it is impossible but that offences will come, but woe unto him through whom they come.
2 It were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea than that he should offend one of these litle ones.