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The Whole Faith of Man · William Jeffery

The Whole Faith of Man, Table of contents – Notice

A TABLE OF The principal Matters ſpoken to or handled in this Book.

1. THe Goſpel what it is? Page 1

2. That the Goſpel is to be preached to all Men. Page 2

3. That Chriſt dyed for all Men. Page 4

4. That God through Chriſts death in the miniſtration of the Goſpel, ſets all men in a way to come to the knowledge of the truth, and be eternally ſaved. Page 6

5. How Men in all ages were ſet in that way. Page 9

6. What Adams ſin brought upon all the ſans of Men. Page 13

7. How Chriſt redeemed all Men from the firſt death, and all the guilt or puniſhment of Adams ſin. Page 18

8. That all Infants dying in Infancie, ſhall be ſaved. Page 17

9. The great cauſe of condemnation, and what it is? Page 21

10. How Men are given up to blinded eyes, and hardned hearts, and wherefore. Page 30

11. How Gods Decree takes hold of Men to condemnation. Page 27

12. Gods Decree concerning Election to ſalvation. Page 32

13. Why none but Beleevers are choſen to ſalvation, and yet foreſeen faith not the cauſe. Page 33

14. The firſt Teſtament, what it is in the ſtricteſt ſence, and what it is in the largeſt, and who were the children thereof, and how is it caſt out and its children, and the difference between the Law of Faith, and the Law of Works; and a word of the aboliſhing of the ſeventh day Sabbath. Page 35

15. What the ſecond Teſtament in the ſtricteſt fence, and what in the largeſt; and who are the children thereof, and who the Miniſters thereof; and the vaſt diſproportion between the firſt Teſtament and the Second. Page 42

16. What Repentance is, and what Faith is, and the nature thereof. Page 52

17. That Bilievers onelyonly are the Subjects of Baptiſme, not Infants. Page 54

18. That Prayer and Laying on of Hands upon all Believers after Baptiſme, is a Prinsiple of the Doctrine of Chriſt. Page 60

19. The Reſurrection of the Bodies of juſt and unjuſt, proved; and the Chriſt that died and roſe again, and aſcended into heaven, ſhall come again in perſon. Page 64

20. What the eternal judgment is, and when it is. Page 70

21. What the Church of Chriſt is, and who are to be received into the Church of Chriſt, and who not; and the bounds of Communion; and that we are to give more heed to Chriſt then Iſrael was to Moſes. Page 75

22. That there are Preachers, & Adminiſtrators of Ordinances in this our age (and ſhall be untill Chriſt comes) and who they be. Page 86

23. The manner and right receiving of the Lords Supper, & that Saints ought to practice it untill Chriſt come. Page 91

24. What Officers belongs to the Church of Chriſt and how they are to be choſen, and what there Work is. Page 95

25. The Maintenance of the Miniſters of the Goſpel, what it is; and that it is not by Tythes. Page 99

26. Some things ſpoken concerning the Waſhing the Saints feet; alſo that of Anointing with Oyl in the name of the Lord, and Prayer with Faſting. Page 102

27. The way to deal with them that ſin againſt God and one another, and to caſt them out of the Church. Page 103

28. That the power lieth in the Church to judge Offenders. Page 108

29. That Magiſtrates are to be obeyed in all civil things, and are ſupreame; but they have no more power in the Church then Members. Page 109

30. That all the way of the Goſpel, is a way of love and free grace. Page 112

31. That men may fall from grace, and that the grace of perſeverance is of God; and ſalvation, eternal life, is the meer gift of God. Page 113

32. That the whole Houſe of Iſrael after the fleſh, ſhall be called to believe, and be a glorious people, and the time when. Page 120

33. What the Whore of Babylon is, and who are her Daughters, and that the Antichriſt, or Man of Sin, is not the Whore of Babylon; ſhewed in ſeven particulars. Page 126

34. That Chriſt ſhall Raign Perſonally on the earth, moſt gloriouſly. Page 161

35. That untill Chriſt come to Raign, the Saints ſhall be in a troubled, perſecuted Eſtate; and that there ſhall be warr unto that day; and a word to the Fift Monarchy Men. Page 164

36. Some of the Signs of Chriſts coming. Page 174

Reader,

THou wilt find only ſome literal Faults, which were not worth the while to make an Errata of, therefore thou art deſired in a friendly way, to correct ſuch Trivials with thy Pen.

THE GOSPEL Declared in plainneſs, as it is in JESUS, And the way thereof of Old confirmed by divers Signs, Wonders, Miracles, and Gifts of the Holy Spirit.