The Power of Godliness, Table of contents – Errata
The Brief CONTENTS OF THE Principall Matters contained in each BOOKE.
BOOK I. Of the Properties of a Godly Life.
I. IN this book is discovered the nature and extent of true Godliness with the several Properties of a Godly Life, viz.
1. Wisdom, or Prudence.
2. Exactness, or Circumspection.
3. Uprightness, or Streightness.
4. Integrity, or Perfection.
5. Truth, or Faithfulness.
6. Righteousness.
7. Willingness, and Chearfulness.
8. Purity, and Cleanness.
9. Humility, and Meekness.
10. Dilligence, and Constancy.
And under each of these heads is declared.
1. What these gracious Properties are, with the Nature, Offices, and Parts, Excellency and Benefit thereof.
2. The Rules to be observed in their Practice, with sundry reasons to stir men up to seek after them.
3. The especial furtherances and encouragements thereunto, with divers necessary helps for the attaining, strengthening, and preserving thereof.
4. The Effects, or Tokens by which it may be known whether we have attained these Godly Properties.
5. Lastly, The danger and mischief of the contrary evil qualities, with directions to prevent and remove them.
II. Is shewed,
1. The Titles that are given to Believers.
2. The priviledges of the Elect.
3. The signs of Election.
BOOK II. Of the Parts of a Godly Life.
I. IN this Book is shewed,
1. That all sin is to be for ever forsaken, not onelyonly in Judgement and Affection, but also in Life and Conversation.
2. That it is not enough to abstain from Evil, but we must be alwayes ready prepared for the doing of good.
3. Divers enouragements to well-doing, with comforts against all discouragements in the way thereof.
II. There is a particular discourse of the several operations of Man, viz.
1. Of Knowledge or Understanding.
2. Of Memory.
3. Of Thought, or Cogitation (under which head is a large discourse of Meditation.
4. Of Invention.
5. Of Judgement.
6. Of Willing and Nilling.
And under each of these heads is shewed,
1. What these Operations are.
2. The End, and Benefits thereof.
3. The seat or subject of them.
4. What the sins are, that, are contrary thereunto, which must be shunned.
5. Wherein the Sanctified Use thereof consists.
6. Directions how to exercise these Faculties in a regular manner.
BOOK III, Of the Affections.
I. IN the first place, There are divers Reasons to shew that our Affections must be exercised according to the Rule of Gods Word, and what the disorder of Affection is, that must be shunned.
II. General Rules to deal with them that be Passionate.
III. Of the kinds of Affections, viz. Intellectual and Sensual, and that these Affections are not to be abandoned, but onelyonly moderated and corrected.
IV. There is a particular discourse of these Affections, viz.
1. Of Love.
2. Of Hatred.
3. Of Pleasure or delight.
4. Of Grief.
5. Of Hope.
6. Of Courage.
7. Of Fear.
8. Of Shame.
9. Of Anger.
10. Of Mildness.
And it is Discovered,
1. Wherein the holy exercise of these Affections consists, and how they are to be rightly ordered.
2. The means, and helps whereby holy affections may be stirred up in us; And all disordered, and irregular Affections corrected or subdued.
3. Sundry motives, and encouragements to the practice thereof, with the exceeding benefits, and advantages that will accur unto us by the right ordering of our Passions and Affections.
Book four, In two parts.
I. Of the Spiritual Combate
1. SHewing from whence the Spiritual Combate betwixt the Flesh, and the Spirit proceeds; and what we are to understand by Flesh, and by Spirit.
2. The Properties of these enemies, with encouragements to undertake the Combate.
3. Concerning the subject of this Combate, and how two contraries can be said to subsist in the same subject:
4. The cause of this Combate, with the manner of the fight.
5. Of the divers kinds of Combate that be in unregenerate men, and how they differ from that which is proper to the Regenerate.
6. Lastly, The means to be used for the weakening of the Flesh, and strengthening of the Spirit upto this Combate.
PART II. Of the Government of the Tongue.
1. SUndry Reasons to perswade the Well-Government of the Tongue.
2. Discovering, The Spring or Root of a well-ordered Tongue, and that no man of himself is able to order his Tongue aright.
3. Wherein the Well-government of the Tongue consisteth.
4. What the matter, and manner of our Speech must be, with the season measure, and end thereof.
5. Of Holy Silence, Reasons to perswade thereunto, the Root, Cause and Kinds thereof. The things that are to be concealed, and the Rules that are to be observed in lawful silence.
6. Of the abuse of the Tongue, wherein it consists, viz. in sinful speech, and unlawful silence; with the several kinds of unlawful silence, that are to be avoyed.
BOOK V. Of Prayer.
1. DIscovering what Prayer is: The Principal efficient cause thereof. The Benefits, and advantages thereby; and that liberty to pray is a rare priviledge.
2. Motives and Encouragements to Pray, and continue in Prayer, notwithstanding all Discouragements. Divers Objections answered, and many necessary Cases of Conscience resolved.
3. Shewing who can, and may pray; and that Prayer is a Work of the inward Man; with the special helps and furtherances thereof.
4. Concerning the Lawful use of a stinted Form of Prayer, in Publick or Private; also of reading and using a stinted Form devised by others.
5 Discovering the common and general impediments of Prayer.
6. Of the End, Place, and Time thereof, with the Gesture to be used therein.
7. Of the parts of Prayer, viz. Petition, and Thanksgiving.
8. Shewing that we are to Pray to God alone, and how we are to conceive of God in our Mindes, in Prayer.
9. Lastly, Proving, That invocation of Saints, is neither Necessary, Pious, nor Profitable, but Blasphemous.
BOOK VI. An Exposition upon the Lords Prayer.
I. OF the Preface, the Reason thereof, the things therein to be considered; who are allowed to call God Father.
II. Of the Prayers of unregenerate Men, and how God hears them.
III. Discovering, That though it be Lawful for a Christian to pray especially for himself, or certain others, yet he must be mindeful in his prayers, of all that belong to the Election of Grace.
IV. Concerning the Rules that are to be observed in the Exposition of the Petitions in this Prayer, and how they are to be distinguished.
V. The several Petitions distinctly handled, the meaning of the words (as they are to be understood in each petition) clearly expounded.
VI. Shewing, The ground of these petitions, and what we especially desire of God therein, either for our selves or others.
VII. The Evils that we pray against therein.
VIII. The wants that we bewail.
IX. The special Blessings for which we must be thankful.
X. Lastly, Discovering how a man should stir up himself to make these Petitions devotionally, with several excellent Practical Conclusions that may be drawn from each Petition.
2. Of the Confirmation, viz. For thine is the Kingdome, &c. declaring how these words are a Close, and Confirmation of our requests in the Lords Prayer.
3. Of the Conclusion AMEN: with the Principal Use that is to be made of the Lords Prayer; And why we must neither refuse, nor confine our selves to this Form.
Reader, besides the literal mistakes, which will easily be observed and amended by every intelligent eye, in the perusal of the book: these hereafter particularized, being more gross, thou art intreated to correct, to prevent thy further trouble in reading of it.
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