THE CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

Quest. LXV, LXVI. Of the benefits which the invisible church enjoy by Christ.

What these benefits are, Page 9

Union with Christ, and Communion in grace and glory 10

Union with Christ illustrated 11

by a conjugal union in particular 12

The elect united to Christ 13

In their effectual calling 15

Quest. LXVII, LXVIII. Of effectual calling.

The Gospel-call described 16

Its difference from effectual calling ibid.

How far improved without special grace 20

A note 19

Not saving without it 20

Its efficacy depends on the power of God 39

Its issue and consequence 26

Offers of grace explained 16

God’s design therein ibid.

Effectual calling 39

A work of almighty power 40

A work of grace 59

Wrought by the Spirit 54

This doctrine does not savour of enthusiasm 55

Objections answered ibid.

His work internal and super-natural 57

Objections answered 58

God’s power and grace irresistible 61

The seasons of effectual calling 63

The state of man before and after it 28

The Pelagians’ notion of it 30

Their account of conversion absurd 31

The nature of human liberty 34

In what respects the will acts freely 35

In what not ibid.

iiRegeneration before faith 26

How it differs from conversion ibid.

A note 38

A principle of grace implanted therein 46

A note 45

Whether good works prepare for it 51

Scriptures thought to prove this explained 52

Man merely passive therein 48

But active after it 49

Quest. LXIX. Of Communion with Christ in grace 65

Quest. LXX, LXXI. Of Justification ibid.

Justification. Its importance 66

Wherein it consisteth 67

The privileges contained in it 69

Pardon and eternal life connected 69

Privileges attending it 72

Its foundation 73

Considered as an act of free-grace 74

Note on righteousness 74

Man cannot work out a righteousness for it 75

Forgiveness of sin explained 70

Christ our surety 77

He suffered and obeyed as such 77

Properties of a surety applied to him 78

The Father accepted him as such 79

What he did as a surety 81

His righteousness imputed for our justification 86

God provided a surety 95

Note on imputation 85, 94

We could not have provided one for ourselves 96

Quest. LXXII, LXXIII. Of justifying Faith.

Justifying faith, a note 98

Justification is by Faith 99

This not rightly explained by some 104

Explained agreeably to scripture 106

It cannot be before Faith; how 117

It cannot be by works 101

Not by repentance 101

A full price required by justice 103

Forgiveness free, notwithstanding 115

God reconciled, not made reconcileable by Christ’s death 114

Faith, its various kinds 121

iiiOf the Faith of miracles 122

Of an historical Faith 124

Of a temporary Faith 124

Saving Faith explained 125

Other graces are joined with it 99

But that alone justifies ibid.

How it justifies a sinner 98

A note 110

It brings in a plea 107

What it pleads ibid.

How imputed for righteousness 112

Its various objects and acts 125

A note 126

By Faith we receive Christ 127

And give up ourselves to him 129

What this supposes 130

A note 128

Its assent and trust considered 119

Of trust in Christ 121

Its direct and reflex acts 132

When strong, when weak 135

Its use in the conduct of life 138

How it works in common actions 138

How in religious duties 140

How it excites other graces 141

How to be attained and increased 142

How wrought by the word 134

Quest. LXXIV. Of Adoption 148

This Adoption differs from Man’s 145

What is understood by sons of God 144

Believers God’s sons in Christ 146

Their privileges as such 147

Privileges consequent upon Adoption 149

How it agrees with justification 151

How with sanctification 152

Quest. LXXV. Of Sanctification 152

The meaning of the word Sanctify 152

In Sanctification the soul devoted to God 154

And sin mortified ibid.

Proper means of mortification 155

Wrong methods taken for it 159

Vivification, what it imports 159

Holiness, motives to it 160

ivHow it differs from moral virtue 161

Heathens have, in some things, excelled Christians 163

And yet were not sanctified ibid.

Practical inferences from Sanctification 165

Quest. LXXVI. Of Repentance unto life 166

Repentance what, a note 167

The subjects of it 167

It is the work of the Holy Spirit 169

How wrought by the word 169

It differs from a legal Repentance 172

Its various acts 173

Inferences from this doctrine 175

Quest. LXXVII. Wherein Justification and Sanctification differ 176

Quest. LXXVIII. Of the Imperfection of Sanctification in this life 178

The proof of this Imperfection 179

Why Sanctification not perfected at once 182

Wherein this Imperfection appears 183

The conflict of a renewed soul 186

Of an enlightened conscience 184

Of the spirit against the flesh 187

How this is maintained 188

Consequences when sin prevails 190

Inferences from this Imperfection 192

Quest. LXXIX. Of the saints Perseverance in Grace 194

This doctrine explained 197

Preferable to the contrary 195

The Father and the Son glorified by it 216

The saints kept by God’s power 199

This doctrine proved

From God’s unchangeable love 201

From the covenant of Grace 202

From the promises 203

An objection answered 204

From the saints union to Christ 207

From Christ’s intercession 209

From the Spirit’s indwelling 210

From 2 Tim. ii. 19. 217

vHow the saints cannot sin 212

The principle of Grace ever abides 213

Shipwreck made of doctrines 218

Not of the Grace of faith 219

Objections answered, taken

From instances of apostacy 220

Solomon’s case cleared 221

He was a true penitent 222

Therefore no apostate 224

From the apostacy of Judas 225

And of the Jewish church 226

From the parable of the debtor 238

From Ezek. xviii. 24. 227

Heb. x. 38. 229

Chap. vi. 4-6. 232

Chap. x. 29. 234

2 Pet. ii. 20-22. 237

1 Cor. ix. 27. 240

Inferences from the saints’ Perseverance 241

Quest. LXXX. Of Assurance of Salvation 243

What we are to understand by it 243

It is attainable in this life 245

Without extraordinary revelation 247

The Spirit promised, to give it 250

In an ordinary way 251

How it arises from his witness 266

This doctrine savours not of Enthusiasm 252

To whom assurance belongs 253

The means of attaining it 254

Self examination a duty 256

How to be performed ibid.

Rule for trying marks of grace 259

Uncertain marks of grace 260

True marks of grace 262

What they must do who know not the time of their conversion 263

Quest. LXXXI. Some true believers destitute of Assurance 268

What Assurance essential to faith 270

And what not so ibid.

Texts relating to this explained 271

Assurance may be long waited for 272

Lost by manifold distempers 273

By sins and temptations 274

viDeserted believers want Assurance 276

Yet supported by God ibid.

Inference from this subject 278

Quest. LXXXII, LXXXIII. Of Communion in glory with Christ enjoyed in this life 279

Saints have an earnest of glory 280

Wherein this consisteth 283

Of the vision of God by faith 284

The triumphant death of some saints 285

Sinners filled with wrath here 288

Inferences from those terrors 290

And from the saints present joy 291

Quest. LXXXIV, LXXXV. Of Death 292

Death, the appointment of God 293

Redounds to the saints advantage 297

Its empire universal 294

Its time uncertain 295

Its sting is sin 297

How it should be improved 295

Its effects on the Spirit, a note 300

Quest. LXXXVI. Of the saints Communion with Christ in glory after death 301

Of the immortality of the soul 302

How this is to be understood ibid.

Asserted by some Heathens 303

Denied or questioned by others 304

Proved from scripture 307

Objections answered 310

A note 311

The saints perfected at death 312

Of purgatory 313

No proof for it in scripture 314

Heaven the only paradise after death 316

Of the soul’s sleeping at death 318

How this notion is explained 320

How to be opposed ibid.

Proved to be false from scripture 321

The soul, at death, waits for the full redemption of the body 324

The miseries which the souls of the wicked shall then endure 325

viiQuest. LXXXVII. Of the doctrine of the Resurrection 326

The Resurrection not contrary to reason 328

Clearly revealed in scripture 329

Fabulous accounts, by Heathens, of persons raised from the dead 330

Certain accounts of it in scripture 330

The Resurrection proved

From the Old Testament 332

An emblem of it in Ezek. xxxvii. 1, & seq. 335

From Job xix. 25-27. 337

From Chap. xiv. 13-15. 339

From Dan. xii. 2. 340

The Jews belief of it 335

Abraham’s belief of it 341

From the New Testament 342

From scripture-consequences 345

From Christ’s dominion 346

Objections answered 348

The Resurrection universal 353

Jews speak obscurely of it 355

The saints shall be raised in glory 356

How raised by the Spirit 357

The saints found alive at Christ’s coming shall be changed 356

Quest. LXXXVIII. Of the general and final Judgment 359

A sense of it impressed on conscience 360

Christ shall be the Judge 362

The solemnity of his appearing 363

The manner of his proceeding 367

The persons to be judged 365

Fallen angels, and all men 366

The place of Judgment 372

The time of it 373

The matter of it 369

Whether the sins of the saints shall be published 371

Practical inferences 374

Quest. LXXXIX. Of the Punishment of the wicked 376

The punishment of sin in hell 377

Of loss, and sense 378

Its degree and duration 379

viiiHow these subjects should be insisted on 381

Quest. XC. Of the Privileges and Honours of the saints at the last day 382

They shall be acknowledged and acquitted 383

They shall judge the world, and angels 384

What meant thereby; quære tamen. ibid.

They shall be received into heaven 387

Whether known to one another there 393

They shall be freed from sin and misery 388

Made perfectly happy 389

And joined with angels ibid.

Their happiness shall be eternal 399

Of the language of heaven 390

Of the beatific vision and fruition of God 399

A note 394, 397

Of degrees of the heavenly glory 399

Whether any additions shall be made thereunto 399

Inferences from the heavenly happiness 403

Quest. XCI, XCII.

Of man’s obligation to obedience 405

Note on the foundation of moral obligation 405

God’s revealed will a law 408

Quest. XCIII, XCIV, XCV, XCVI, XCVII. Of the Moral Law 409

What it is 410

What obedience it requires 411

Its sanction 412

Its use to all men 413

To the unregenerate 414

To the regenerate 415

Antinomians, who are such 418

Unguarded expressions hurtful 420

Quest. XCVIII. The Moral Law, where summarily comprehended 421

Of the law given from mount Sinai 421

Of the judicial law 422

Of the ceremonial law 423

Holy places, with the vessels thereof 424

ixOf ministers in holy things 426

Of holy times or festivals 427

Quest. XCIX. Rules for the understanding the Ten Commandments 428 to 431

Quest. C, CI, CII. The Sum of the Ten Commandments 432

The preface to them 432

Their division into two tables 433

Remarks on their subject-matter 434

The sum of the first four ibid.

Quest. CIII, CIV. The Duties required in the First Commandment 435 to 438

Quest. CV, CVI. The Sins forbidden in the First Commandment 438

Of atheistical thoughts 439

Of idolatry. The origin of it 443

Of heart-idolatry 447

In idolizing self ibid.

In loving the world 448

In regarding the dictates of Satan 449

Of the case of the witch of Endor 451

Joseph no sorcerer 452

Moses no astrologer 454

But learned in all the wisdom of Egypt ibid.

Quest. CVII, CVIII, CIX, CX. An Explication of the Second Commandment 455

The duties required 456

The sins forbidden 459

The reasons annexed 465

Of Popish superstition 460

Of making to ourselves images 461

Of image-worship and idolatry 462

The Papists guilty of both ibid.

Quest. CXI, CXII, CXIII, CXIV. An Explication of the Third Commandment 466

The duties required in it 468

The sins forbidden in it 469

xThe reasons annexed to it 476

Of religious oaths 472

Various forms used therein 471

Swearing by God’s Name a duty 470

Of profane oaths and curses 470

When God’s Name is taken in vain 473

Quest. CXV, CXVI. An Explication of the Fourth Commandment 477

The sabbath. Its original institution 482

A note ibid.

In what respect moral 478

In what positive 479

Its morality proved 480

Objections answered 481

Was no ceremonial institution 481

Its change proved 486

From the example of Christ 488

Objections answered 488

From the practice of the Apostles 491

And of the Christian church 494

The proportion of time to be observed 495

Quest. CXVII, CXVIII. Of sanctifying the Sabbath or Lord’s-day 497

The duties preparatory for it 497

The rest required upon that day 500

Works of necessity then lawful 502

The whole day to be sanctified 505

The duties of the evening of that day 506

Quest. CXIX, CXX, CXXI. Of Sins forbidden in the Fourth Commandment 508

The omission of holy duties 509

A careless performance of them ibid.

The reasons annexed to this Commandment 510

Objections answered 511

The import of the word Remember 512

Inferences 513

Quest. CXXII. The Sum of the six Commandments, respecting our duty to man; or, of doing as we would be done by 514

xiQuestions CXXIII, CXXIV, CXXV, CXXVI, CXXVII, CXXVIII. An Explication of the Fifth Commandment 517

Relations, how founded 518

Duties of each differ ibid.

Superiors, why called fathers ibid.

Duties of inferiors to superiors 520

Of children to parents ibid.

Of servants to masters 523

Of subjects to magistrates 525

The necessity and advantage of civil government 524

Papists arguments for deposing princes, answered 526

The sins of inferiors 529

Questions CXXIX, CXXX, CXXXI, CXXXII, CXXXIII. The Duties of superiors, &c. 530

The duties of parents to their children 531

Of masters to servants 533

Of magistrates to subjects 534

The sins of superiors ibid.

The duties of equals 535

The sins of equals 536

Reasons annexed to this Commandment ibid.

Of the promise of long life 537

Old age how far to be desired 538

Quest. CXXXVII, CXXXV, CXXXVI. An Explication of the Sixth Commandment 539

The life of others to be preserved 540

When lawful to take it away 541

Of duels 542

Elijah not guilty of murder 543

Nor Abraham in offering Isaac 544

Nor Moses in killing the Egyptian 545

Self-murder a great sin ibid.

Whether Samson was guilty of it 546

God’s judgments on murderers 547

Sinful anger is heart-murder 548

Passionate men, their sin and guilt 549

How to be dealt with 550

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