WORKS

OF THE REVEREND

9035-4

MR. JOHN FLAVEL,

Late MINISTER of the GOSPEL at Dartmouth in Devon.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

An Alphabetical TABLE of the principal Matters con-
tained in the Whole.

THE EIGHT EDITION.

VOL. IV.

PAISLEY:

Printed by A. WEIR and A. M'LEAN.

And fold at the Shop of A. WEIR, near the Cross.
MDCCLXX.

Wherein the text, and context, are opened, the doctrines

propounded, and the general method stated,

Wherein the kinds, and nature, of fear are opened, and

particularly the distracting, slavish fear of creatures,

CHAP. III.

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Shewing the various uses of fear, both natural, finful, and

religious, in the government of the world by providence, 16

Wherein the Springs and causes of finful fear are fearched

out, and the evils of fuch fears thence discovered,

CHAP. V.

Laying open the finful and lamentable effects of flavish

and inordinate fear, both in carnal and regenerate per-

fons,

CHAP. VI.

Prescribing the rules to cure our finful fears, and pre-

vent these fad and woful effects of them,

Answering the most material pleas for flavish fears, and

diffolving the common objections against courage and

constancy of mind in times of danger,

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THE RIGHTEOUS MAN'S REFUGE.

The Epistle to the Reader,

CHAP. I.

Pag. 89

Wherein the literal and real importance of the text is

confidered, the doctrine propounded, and the method of

the following discourse stated,

CHAP.

Demonstrating the first propofitian, that there are times

and seasons appointed by God for the pouring out of

his indignation upon the world,

CHAP. III.

Opening and confirming the second propofition, viz. That

God's own people are much concerned in, and ought to

be fuitably affected with those judgments that befal

the nation wherein they live,

Confirming the third proposition, viz. That God hath a

Special and peculiar care of his own people in the days

of his indignation,

Evincing the fourth propofition, viz. That God usually

premonisbeth the world, especially his own people, of

bis judgments before they befal them,

Demonstrating the fifth proposition, viz. That God's at-

tributes, promises, and providences, are prepared for

the security of his people, in the greatest distresses that

can befal them in the world,

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Opening that glorious attribute of Divine Wisdom, as a

fecond chamber of security to the faints in difficult

times,

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Opening that glorious attribute of divine faithfulness, as

a third chamber of fecurity to the people of God, in

times of distress and danger,

CHAP. IX.

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Opening to believers the unchangeableness of God, as a

fourth chamber of refuge and rest in times of trouble, 145

Opening the care of God for his people in times of trou-

ble, as the fifth chamber of rest to believers,

Opening the fixth and last chamber, viz. The love of God,

as a refting-place to believing fouls in evil times,

CHAP. XII.

Cantaining the first use of the point, in several inform-

ing confectaries and deductions of truth from it,

A fuccinct and seasonable Discourse of the Occasi-

ons, Nature, Rife, Growth, and Remedies of

MENTAL ERRORS,

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An Epistle to the Reader,

Twenty general OBSERVATIONS about the Rife and

Increase of the ERRORS of the Times,

ANAPPENDIX:

Containing a full and modest Reply to Mr. Philip Cary's
Rejoinder to my Vindicia Legis et Fœderis.

Manifesting the badness of his cause, in the feebleness and

impertinency of his defence; and adding farther light,

and strength to the arguments formerly produced in

defence of God's gracious covenant with Abraham,

Gen. xvii. and the right of believers infants to bap-

tifm, grounded thereupon,

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