EEBO-TCP · Phase 2

The Best Entail

Published: 1693
Length: 26,918 words
Reading: ~2 hours
Divisions: 16

From the title page

The best entail, or, Dying parents living hopes for their surviving children grounded upon the covenant of Gods grace, with believers and their seed, being a short discourse upon 2 Sam. 23, 5 : wherein is a collection of several covenant-promises to support the faith, and some pleas to direct and quicken the prayers of Gods covenanted people for their surviving posterity / by O.H. ...

London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ... 1693.

Original spelling, as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership.

Front matter
Title page
DedicationTHE EPISTLE DEDICATORY.
PrefaceA PREFACE, OR AN EPISTLE to the READER.
Table of contentsA General Scheme or view of the Chief Contents of this Treatiſe.
Publishers advertisementTheſe Books Written and Publiſhed by Mr. Oliver Heywood; are to be ſold by Tho. Parkhurſt, at the Bible and…
Text
DiscourseDying Parent's Living Hopes for their ſurviving Children, &c.

More by Oliver Heywood

See all

Heart Treasure

1667

Chapter 1CHAP. I. The Context cleared, the Text explained, Doctrines raiſed.

Chapter 2CHAP. II. The Doctrine cleared from the Text, ſome things premiſed.

Show full contents

Chapter 3CHAP. III. What this Covenant is, and what is in it to ſupport the Chriſtian.
Chapter 4CHAP. IV. What grounds of hope Parents have from the Covenant for their Adult, and ſurviving Children.
Chapter 5CHAP. V. More grounds of incouragement to Parents from the Promiſes.
Chapter 6CHAP. VI. An Anſwer to an Objection againſt the premiſes.
Chapter 7CHAP. VII. An Ʋſe of Conviction and Humiliation.
Chapter 8CHAP. VIII. An Ʋſe of Exhortation or Inſtruction.
Chapter 9CHAP. IX. An Exhortation to Parents, to have their Children within the bleſſed Covenant.
Chapter 10CHAP. X. Directions to Parents, and encouragements in their pleading for their Children.

16 divisions in the TEI outline

Subjects

Bible · O.T · Samuel, 2nd, XXIII, 5 · Criticism, interpretation, etcCovenant theology

Details

Author: Oliver Heywood (1629–1702)
Imprint: London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ... 1693.
Extent: [16], 69 [i.e. 96] p.
Language: English
Catalogue: Wing H1761 · ESTC R40552
Source: TCP A43572
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Text Creation Partnership)

The Sure Mercies of David

1670

The Best Entail

From the title page

Contents

More by Oliver Heywood

Subjects

Details