God All in All, Table of contents – Errata
The Table.
PART. I. The Firſt Propoſition, viz. The higheſt happineſs of the Saints is the enjoyment of God. This is
1 Explained by ſhewing.
FIrſt, What the enjoyment of God is made up of
1 The knowledge of God, to let in Which he opens
1 His face,
2 Our underſtandings
2 Influences from God
3 Acquieſcence in God
4 Converſe with God
Secondly, What our higheſt happineſs is viz.
1. A perfect good.
2. In poſſeſsion.
3. Excluding every evil.
4. Filling every deſire.
2. Proved,
1. By Scripture.
2. By Reaſon, all that makes us happy, is in God only being a good
1. Pure,
2. Sufficient.
3. Satisfying.
3. Illuſtrated, by
3. Particulars.
Firſt, All our happineſs here, is in what we enjoy of God here, proved by
1. God.
2. The Saints.
Secondly, Gods bleſſedneſs is in the enjoyment of himſelf, Proved by
1. Scriptures,
2. Reaſon.
Thirdly, The greatſt miſery of the damned is, that they do not enjoy God.
4. Improved, by way of
Firſt, Information in five Particulars, viz.
1. God is of a tranſcendent goodneſs,
1. In himſelf,
2. To his people.
2. In things where there is moſt of God, there is moſt of happineſs.
3. It is a falſe draught of Heaven that is not made to conſiſt in the enjoyment of God.
4. Most men but pretenders to a deſire of going to Heaven, as
1. Defying the means where God may be enjoyed.
2. Trading in practiſes, where they cannot expect it.
5. Who are a peoples greateſt enemies.
Secondly, Reproof, of ſuch as place their happineſs in outward things, where Their
1. Charracter,
2. Folly.
Thirdly, Exhortation: To labour for the enjoyment of God, where
Firſt, Motives: From the excellency,
1. Of its Object, God,
2. Of its Act, in reſpect of Its
1. Kinde
2. Degree.
Secondly, Directions, viZ.
1 Increaſe your Knowledge,
2 Maintain your aſsurance.
3 Abate of your love to the world.
4 Walk cloſe with God.
Fourthly, Declaration why we enjoy no more of God in Ordinances, either we do
1 Neglect them.
2 Not ſeek God in them.
3 Not ſeek God in all of them.
4 Not ſeek after a due Order.
PART. II. The Second Propoſition layed down.
That enjoyment of God which is the Saints higheſt Happineſſe, ſhall be immediate, ſole, free, full, and everlaſting.
FIrſt, That it ſhall be immediate, is.
1 Proved, by 4 Particulars, viz.
1 Chriſts Kingdom ſhal be delivered up.
2 All rule, &c. ſhal be put down.
3 To enjoy God by means is to ſee him but in a glaſſe.
4 Gods immediate enjoyment groaned after by the Saints.
2 Applied in 3 particulars, viz.
1 The enjoyment of God by means, far ſhort of what it ſhall be without them.
2 When the Saints ſhal be above the need of Ordinances.
3 Death deſirable.
Secondly, That it ſhall be Sole.
1 Proved, in that
1 God ſhall be all.
2 The world ſhal be ended.
3 Much of our enjoyment is by love.
4 The Saints thirſt is after God Solely.
2 Applied, by way of
Firſt, Exhortation to 4 duties.
Secondly, Inſtruction in 3 things, viz.
1 Its impoſsible to make the Saints miſerable.
2 The leſs we have of the world, the more we may have of happineſs.
3 No cauſe to be troubled at the diſſolution of all things.
Thirdly, That it ſhall be Free.
1 Proved in that
1 All Enemies ſhall be ſubdued.
2 Every diſturbance of Enjoyment is an Eclipſe of happineſſe.
2 Applied, for our
1 Information, No Heaven where any ſin.
2 Inſtruction, how to be much in Heaven here.
3 Comfort, In Heaven we ſhall enjoy God freely.
Fourthly, That it ſhall be Full.
1 Proved, in that
1 Our enjoyment here and hereafter, do but differ gradually.
2 Elſe, every evil not removed, &c.
2 Applied, To ſhew us, that
1 The happieſt ſight of God, out of Heaven is in the Goſpel.
2 The longings of the Saints after more of God ſhal be ſatisfied.
Fifthly, That it ſhall be everlaſting.
1 Proved, by
1 Scripture.
2 Reaſon, elſe.
1 A poſibility of being miſerable.
2 Some place for fear.
2 Applied by way of
1 Exhortation, Place not happineſs in any thing that ſhall have an end.
2 Comfort, afflictions ſhort, happineſs Eternal.
The whole Applied very briefly.
1 In what ſence we are ſaid to be happy in this life.
2 No nature below ours, capable of bleſſedneſs.
3 It is not vain to ſerve God.
ERRATA.
PAge 5. lin. 25. for al one, read alone, p. 7. l. 3 prefix to the beginning of the l. 5. p. 10. l 7. for without r. with our. p. 17. l. 22. for frowneſſe r. frownes. p. 30. l. 12. dele ha… p. 30. l. 17. for come r. came. p. 31. l 13. for fondly r. formerly. p. 46. l. penult. adde 2.
FINIS.
End of the text · Edward Buckler, God All in All (1655)