Section 3§ 3. 2 Comfort from the author of sicknesse, and the benefit of it.
Section 4§ 4, 3 Comfort, from the vicissitudes of health.
Section 5§ 5, 4 Comfort Sicknesse better then sinfull health.
Section 6§ 6. 5 Comfort: The greater sufferings of hol…er men; and the resolutions of heathens.
Section 7§ 7. 6 Comfort: Our sufferings far below our deservings.
Section 8§ 8. 7 Comfort: T… benefit … the exercise of our pat…ence.
Section 9§ 9. 8 Comfort: The necessity of expecting sickness.
Section 10§. 10. 9. Comfort.
Section 11§ 11. 10 Comfort. The comfortable end of our su… ferings▪
Section 12§. 12. 11. Comfort. The favour of a peaceable passage out of the world.
PartComforts for the sick Soul.
Section 1§ 1. The happiness of a deep sorrow for sin.
Section 2§ 2. Comfort from the welgrounded▪ declaration of pardon.
Section 3§ 3. Aggravation of the grievous condition of the Patient, and remedies from mercy applied.
Section 4§ 4. Complaints o… unrepentance an… unbelief.
Section 5§ 5. Complaints of a misgrounded sorrow, satisfied.
Section 6§ 6. Complaint of the insufficient measure of sorrow, satisfied.
Section 7§. 7. Complaint of the want of faith, satisfied.
Section 8§ 8. Complaint of the weakness of faith, satisfied.
Section 9§ 9. Complaint of incon…tancy, and desertion, answered.
Section 10§ 10. Complaint of unregeneration, and deadness in sin, answered.
Section 11§. 11. Complaint of the insensibleness of the time and meanes of conversion.
Section 12§ 12. Complaint of irresolution, and uncertain…y in matter of our election, answered.
PartComfort against Temptations.
Section 1§ 1. Christ himself assaulted: our trial is for our good.
Section 2§. 2. The powerfull assistance of Gods Spirit, and the example of S. Paul.
Section 3§ 3. The restraint of our spirituall enemies, and their overmatching by the power of God.
Section 4§. 4. The advantage that is made to … by our temptations and foils.
Section 5§ 5. …omplaint … relapses … to sin; …ith the …medy …ereof.
PartComforts against weakness of grace.
Section 1§. 1. Comfort from the common condition of all Saints.
Section 2§. 2. Comfort from the improvement of weak graces; and Gods free distribution.
Section 3§. 3. Comfort from Gods acceptation of truth, not quantity.
Section 4§. 4. Comfort from the variety of Gods gifts, and the ages and statures of grace.
Section 5§. 5. Comfort from the safety of our leasurely progresse in grace.
Section 6§. 6. Comfort from our good desires and endevours.
Section 7§. 7. Comfort from the happiness of an humble poverty.
Section 8§ 8. An incitement to more caution, an… faster adherence t… God.
PartComforts against Infamy and Disgrace.
Section 1§ 1. Comforts from like sufferings… of the holiest, yea, of Christ himself.
Section 2§ 1. Comfort of our recourse to God.
Section 3§ 3. Comfort from the clearness of our conscience.
Section 4§ 4. Comfort from the improvement of our reason.
Section 5§ 5. Comfort from the cause of our suffering.
Section 6§ 6. Comforts from our env…ed vertue.
Section 7§ 7. Comfort from others s…eighting of reproaches.
Section 8§. 8. Comfort from the narrow bounds of infamy.
Section 9§. 9. Comfort from the short life of slander.
PartComforts against publique Calamities.
Section 1§. 1. Comfort from the inevitable necessity of changes, and Gods over-ruling them.
Section 2§ 2. The sense and sympathy of common evils.
Section 3§ 3. Comfort from the sure protection of the Almighty.
Section 4§ 4. Consideration of the justice of Gods proceedings.
Section 5§ 5. The remedy; our particular repentance
Section 6§ 6. The unspeakable miseries of a Civil War.
Section 7§ 7. The woful miseries of Pestilence, allaid by consideration of the hand that smites us.
PartComforts against losse of Friends.
Section 1§ 1. The true value of a friend, and the fault of over-prizing him.
Section 2§ 2. The tru… ground of a… undefeisible enjoying of our friends.
Section 3§. 3. The rarity and trial of true friends.
Section 4§ 4. It is but parting, not a …
Section 5§. 5. The loss of a vertuous wife, mitigated.
Section 6§ 6. The mitigation of the loss of a dear and hopeful son.
PartComforts against Poverty, and loss of our estate.
Section 1§ 1. The fickle nature of these earthly goods.
Section 2§ 2. Consideration that they are not ours, but lent us
Section 3§ 3. That the right valuation of riches is in the minde.
Section 4§. 4. It may be good for us to be held short.
Section 5§. 5. The danger of abundance.
Section 6§. 6. The cares that attend wealth.
Section 7§. 7. The imperiousnesse of ill used wealth.
Section 8§. 8. Consideration of the causes and means of impove…ishing us.
Section 9§ 9. The examples of those who have affected poverty.
PartComforts against Imprisonment.
Section 1§ 1. Consideration of the nature and power of true liberty.
Section 2§ 2. The sad obj…cts of a free beholder.
Section 3§. 3. Comfort from the invisible company that cannot bee kept from us.
Section 4§ 4. Comfort from the inward disposition of the Prisoner.
Section 5§ 5. Comfort from the will…ng aboue of …rednes in some persons.
Section 6§ 6. Comfort from the causes of imprisonment.
Section 7§. 7. The good … of retirednesse; and the partnership of the souls imprisonment
PartComforts against Banishment.
Section 1§ 1. Comfort from the universality of a wise mans Country.
Section 2§ 2. Comfort from the benefit of self-conversation.
Section 3§ 3. Examples of those holy ones that have abandoned society.
Section 4§ 4. The advantage that hath been made of removing.
Section 5§ 5. The rig… that we have in any country, and i… God.
Section 6§ 6. …he pra…tice of voluntary travel.
Section 7§ 7. All ar… pilgrims
PartComforts against the loss of the Senses; of Sight, and Hearing.
Section 1§ 1. Comfort from the …o in…ard …ghts of …ason …nd faith.
Section 2§ 2. The supply of better eyes.
Section 3§ 3. The better object of our inward sight.
Section 4§ 4. The ill officer done by the eyes.
Section 5§ 5. Freedom from temptations by the eyes, and from sorrows.
Section 6§. 6. The cheerfulness of some blind men.
Section 7§. 7. The supply which God gives in other faculties.
Section 8§. 8. The benefit of the eies which once we had.
Section 9§ 9. The supply of one sense by another
Section 10§ 10. The better condition of the inward ear.
Section 11§ 11. The grief that arises from lear…ing evil.
PartComforts against Barrenness.
Section 1§. 1. The blessing of fruitfulness seasoned with sorrows.
Section 2§. 2. The pains of child-bearing.
Section 3§. 3. The misery of ill-disposed and undutiful children.
Section 4§ 4. The cares of parents for their children.
Section 5§. 5. The great grief in the losse of children.
PartComforts against want of Sleep.
Section 1§ 1. The misery of the want of rest; with the best remedy.
Section 2§ 2. The favor of freedom from pain.
Section 3§. 3. The favor of health without sleep.
Section 4§. 4. Sleep but a symptom of mortality.
Section 5§. 5. No use of sleep whither we are going.
PartComforts against the inconveniences of Old age.
Section 1§ 1. The illimitation of age; and the miseries that attend it.
Section 2§ 2. Old-age a blessing.
Section 3§. 3. The advantages of old age: 1. Fearlesnesse.
Section 4§. 4. The second advantage of old age, Freedome from passions.
Section 5§. 5. The third advantage of age, experimentall knowledge.
Section 6§. 6. Age in some is vigorous and well affected.
Section 7§ 7. The fourth advantage of Age, Neer approach to our end.
PartComforts against the fears and pains of death.
Section 1§. 1. The fear of Death natural.
Section 2§. 2. Remedy o… fear, Acquaintance with death.
Section 3§ 3. The misapprehension of death injurious.
Section 4§ 4. Comfort from the common condition of men.
Section 5§. 6. Death not feared by some.
Section 6§. 6. Our death day, better then our birth day.
Section 7§. 7. The sting of death pulled out.
Section 8§. 8. Death is but aparting to meet again.
Section 9§ 9. Death is but a sleep.
Section 10§ 10. Death sweetned to us by Christ.
Section 11§ 11. The painfulness of Christs …eath.
Section 12§. 12. The vanity and miseries of life.
Section 13§ 13. Examples of courageous resolutions in others.
Section 14§ 14. The happy advantages of death.
PartComforts against the terrours of Judgement.
Section 1§. 1. Aggravation of the fearfulness of the last judgement.
Section 2§. 2. Comfort from the condition of the elect.
Section 3§ 3. Awe more fit for thoughts of judgement, then Fear.
Section 4§ 4. In that great and terrible Day, our Advocate is our Judge.
Section 5§. 5. Frequent meditation and due prepa…ation, the remedies of our …ear.
PartComforts against the fears of our spiritual enemies.
Section 1§ 1. The great power of evil spirits, and their restraint.
Section 2§. 2. The fear of the number of evil spirits, and the remedy of it.
Section 3§. 3. The malice of the evill spirits, and our fears thereof remedied.
Section 4§ 4. The great subtilfy of evil spirits, and the remedy of the fear of it.
PartThe Vniversal Receit for all Maladies.