The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide, Table of contents
A BRIEFE TABLE OF THE CHIEFE HEADS Contained in this Treatiſe of the SAINTS GVIDE.
A.
AFfection to be joyned with hearing. pag. 179
Afflictions no ſtrange thing. p. 118. They are but ſhort. 120
Afflictions raiſed by the Devill against Christians. 109
Antidotes against afflictions. 110, &c.
Application required in hearing the Word, and why. 180, 181
Apoſtates & their danger. 103
Atheiſme. 50
Attention in hearing required, 174. How hindered, 84. How helped. 175, 176
B.
Benefits of the Word. 59, &c.
C.
Catechiſing our families, preſſed in nine Reaſons. 228, &c.
Carnall Reaſon and corrupt affection defined. 246, &c.
Caveats, that wee may profit in hearing the Word. 247, &c.
Carnall Objections against the Word. 61, to 83
Charitie among Christians, as much as among Papiſts. 81
Chriſt ſuffers with his afflicted, 121
Conſiderations ſixteene for the uſefulneſſe of the Word. 216, &c.
Converſion tried. 89
Covetouſneſſe, and the ſignes of it. 96
Curſes ſixe of unprofitable hearing. 190, &c.
Curſed is their condition, that are not reformed by the Word in ſixe particulars. 199
D.
Danger in abſenting from the Word. 58
Degrees in ſinning. 53
Devill ſteales away the Word, 85, 86. He hinders converſion, 87. And a through reformation, 88, &c. He deales with men as Pharaoh with Moſes. 93, &c.
Deareneſſe of things, why greater now than formerly. 82
Delight in the Word helpes memorie. 179
Duties required before hearing, 145, &c. In hearing, 173, &c. After hearing. 182
E.
Effects of Pride. 142
The End of our Creation. 204
Examination, when required. 166, 167
Examples for the practice of Preparation. 155, &c.
F.
Falſe changes, 88, 89. How tried. 102
Frequent preaching proved out of antiquitie. 205, &c.
Feet, what is meant by them. 17
Finall falling from grace, not granted, 101. But partially and frequently, 106. The good we get by falls. 108
Fretting at afflictions, 132. At the proſperitie of the wicked. 133
G.
Grace is of a growing nature. 40
Godly men distinguiſhed from Hypocrites, by ſixe markes. 8, 9
The Godly ſhine brighter after their falls. 39
Gods Children but few. 130
Gods Law not like mans. 54
God is the cauſe of all affliction. 113. His aime in afflicting his. 117
Gods love to his, exceedes the creatures. 114
H.
Hardneſſe of heart, and a helpe against it. 52, 53
Helpes to heare the Word underſtandingly. 177
I.
Ignorance like darkeneſſe, 31. The danger of it, p. 32. to 37. & 46, 47
Iudgements of Non-proficients by the Word. 48
Iudgements for the contempt of it. 201, &c.
Iudgements why rather to be expected in our time. 80
K.
Knowledge muſt be practicall, 5. Fruits of divine Knowledge. ibid.
L.
Learning humane onelyonly will not ſave. 19, 20
Lets of not profiting by the Word. p. 50. to 123
Life to be lost for God. 12
Light, what meant by it. 16
Love to God and our neighbours tried. 68
M.
Many take more paines for Hell, than ſome for Heaven. p. 75. to 78
The Matter of the Word. 43
Math. 10. 4. expounded. 195
Good Meanings will not ſave. 21
Meanes to quicken attention to the Word. 175
Meditation requiſite after hearing, 184. The Benefits of it, 185. Directions for it, 227, 228
Miniſters Embaſſadours: why. 72
Miniſters, why they preach ſo ſeldome. 209
Miniſterie of the Word like the Wedding feaſt. 57
The Miſerie of the naturall eſtate. 141
The More wee have, the greater our account. 143
Motives, To walke by the rule of the Word, p. 41. to 49. To prepare for hearing it, 151. To profit by it. 197
O.
Obedience to the Word required. 187
Openneſſe of heart to receive the Word. 172
P.
Pathes, what meant by them. 18
Papiſts keepe the Word from the Laitie, 28. Their Objections anſwered. 29
Peace that the Goſpel brings with it. 70
Perſecution to be endured for the Word. 10
Perſeverance, how hindered by Sathan, 100. How crowned by God. 105
Popiſh Hoſpitalitie, with its cauſes. 81
Prayers and praiſes muſt be fervent, and free. 10
Prayer before the Word, and for what. 170, 171
Preaching prefer'd before reading, 211. More needfull now, than formerly, 213. It cannot be too much. 62, &c.
Preſervatives againſt ſinne, 107. Againſt ſpirituall Pride, 136, &c.
Preparation requiſite before hearing, 145. Without it, the Word hurts, 145, &c. The profit of it, 158, &c. What it is, and what required in it. 165
Pride may ſpring from Gods providence. 132, &c.
Priviledges of the godly. 124
Prophaneneſſe of Miniſters no excuſe for diſobedience to the Word. 73
Pſalmes, their contents and benefits. 1, 2
Purging of the heart before hearing, from ſinne and worldly cares. 168, 169
Q.
Qualifications of the heart, before hearing. 152
R.
Recuſancie. 51
Regeneration, what. 24
Reading the Word preſſed, 214. Objections against it anſwered. 224
Remembring the Word, a Dutie. 182
Repetition and Conference, another. 185, 186, 227
S.
Sathans Policie. 106
Separatiſts condemned. 126, 127
Service of God how to be qualified. 67
Sixe Sinnes follow unprofitable hearers. 194
Sinne against the Holy-Ghost, how committed. 201
Singularitie, what required, and what not. 128
Sleeping in the Church condemned. 176
Sathans Sleights to hinder the Words worke. 83, &c.
Spirituall Pride, 123. How it ariſeth. 124, &c.
Sweet ſinne, what it is. 55
T.
Things required to the love of God and men. 67
V.
Vnderſtanding of the Word required. 177
Vowes to be payd. 9
W.
Wicked men hate the godly: why. 116, 117
Wicked men band together against a powerfull Minister. 239, &c.
Wiſedome indeed, how to be had. 3, 4
Fruits of worldly Wiſedome, 4. who is a wiſe man. ibid.
Worldly Wiſedome will not ſave us. 20, 21.
WORD: The meaning of the Word. 15
The Word our chiefeſt treaſure, 12, 13. Our Light to Heaven. 19, 38
The literall Word, without the ſpirituall meaning, will not profit us. 23
How men labour to blunt the edge of the Word. 233
Struglings of a wicked heart, to get the Word out, being once got in. 244
The Word workes Regeneration and Sanctification, 24, 25. It is lively and ſharpe in three reſpects, 26. It is a Love-letter from God, 42. It ſhall judge us, 45. It is not mans, but Gods invention, 50. It profits converted and unconverted, 59. It must dwell in us plentifully, and how, 105, 213, &c. It fits every man in all occaſions. 215, &c.
;Will-Worſhip hated by God. 22, 23
FINIS.
End of the text · Robert Bolton, The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide (1634)