CONTENTS.

I. THE State of INNOCENCE, or PRIMITIVE INTEGRITY,

discoursed from Eccles. vii. 29.

Or man's original righteousness,

His understanding a lamp of light,

His will straight with the will of God,

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His affections orderly and pure,

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The qualities of his righteousness,

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Of man's original happiness,

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The forbidden tree, a stay to keep him from falling, ib.

His perfect tranquility,

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Life of pure delight,

II. THE State of NATURE, or State of ENTIRE DE

PRAVATION.

HEAD I. The SINFULNESS of Man's Natural State, dis-

coursed from Gen. vi. 5.

THAT man's nature is corrupted, proven,

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From God's word,

ib.

From men's experience and observation,

Fallen Adam's image natural to men, in eleven partic-

Of the corruption of the understanding,

Weakness with respect to spiritual things,

Four evidences of it,

A bias in it to evil,

Six evidences of that bias,

Aversion to spiritual truths,

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Three evidences thereof,

Proneness to lies and falsehood,

Man naturally high-minded,

Of the corruption of the will,

Utter inability for what is truly good,

Two evidences of it,

Averseness to good,

Four evidences of it,

Proneness to evil,

Five evidences of it,

Enmity against God,

Against the being and nature of God,

Five queries, for conviction, on this head,

Against the Son of God,

In his prophetical office,

Two evidences of it,

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In his priestly office-Three evidences of it,

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In his kingly office-Three evidences of it,

A peculiar malignity against the priestly office, cor-

rupt nature lying cross to the gospel contrivance of

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salvation,

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Four proofs of it,

Bent to the way of the law, as a covenant of works, 92

Four proofs of it,

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Against the Spirit of God,

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Against the law, as a rule of life,

of the memory.

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The body partaker of this corruption,

How man's nature was corrupted,

The doctrine of the corruption of nature applied,

The natural man can do nothing but sin,

God takes special notice of the sin of our nature,

Evidences of men's overlooking the sin of their nature, 113

ib.

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Wherein that sin is to be specially noticed,

Why is it to be specially noticed,

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How to get a view of the corruption of nature,

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HEAD II. THE MISERY of Man's Natural State,

discoursed from Eph. ii. 3.

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MAN's natural state, a state of wrath,

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What this state of wrath is,

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Wrath in the heart of God against the natural man,

ib.

Wrath in the word of God against him,

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Wrath in the hand of God against him,

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On his body and soul,

ib.

On his enjoyments,

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He is under the power of Satan,

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Hath no security for a moment's safety,

ib.

Wrath against him at death, and at the general judg-

ment,

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The qualities of that wrath,

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The doctrine of the state of wrath confirmed and vin-

A view of the nature of God, whose wrath it is, 148

How to flee from wrath,

A few words to the saints, and a few to all,

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HEAD III. MAN'S UTTER INABILITY to recover him-

self, discoursed from Rom. v. 6. John vi. 44. 153

ONLY two ways of man's recovering himself sup-

poseable, viz. the way of the law, and the way of

the gospel,

ib.

Man unable to recover himself, in the way of the law, 154

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He cannot keep the commands perfectly,

The perfection of law-obedience, four-fold,

He cannot satisfy the justice of God for his sin,

ib.

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Object. God is merciful; we hope to be saved, if

we do as well as we can, Answered,

Man unable to recover himself in the way of the gos-

pel, to embrace and use the help offered for his re-

covery,

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Proved by several arguments,

Object. (1.) If we be under an utter inability to do

any good, how can God require us to do it? An-

swered,

ib.

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Object. (2.) Why do you then call us to believe, re-
pent, and use the means? Answered,

Object. (3.) The use of means needless, seeing we

are utterly unable to help ourselves out of the state

of sin and wrath: Answered,

Quest. Has God promised to convert and save them,

who, in the use of means, do what they can to-

wards their own relief? Answered,

The conclusion of this head,

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ib.

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III. THE State of GRACE, or Begun Recovery.

HEAD I. REGENERATION, discoursed from 1 Pet.i. 23. 169

Or the nature of regeneration,

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Partial changes mistaken for this change,

ib.

The change made in regeneration, what it is,

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In general and particular,

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The mind illuminated, and the will renewed,

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Cured of its utter inability to good,

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Endued with a fixed aversion to evil,

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Trial of one's state, whether born again, or not,

Some cases of doubting Christians resolved,

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Case (1.) The precise time and way of one's con-

version not known,

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Case (2.) Sin prevailing,

ib.

Case (3) Corruptions more violent than formerly, 200

Case (4.) Affections to the creature stronger than
to the Creator. Glowing affections to God

gone,

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Case (5.) Attainments of hypocrites and apostates,

a terror,

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Case (6.) Falling short of the Saints mentioned in

Scripture, and of others,

Case (7.) No child of God so tempted,
Case last. Strange and unusual afflictions,

The necessity of regeneration,

To qualify one to do good,

To communion with God in duties,

To make one meet for heaven,

To one's being admitted into heaven,

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Advices to the unregenerate,

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HEAD II. THE MYSTICAL UNION betwixt CHRIST and

Believers, discoursed from John xv. 5.

Fruits growing on the branches of the nature of the

The branches taken out of the natural stock, and

grafted into the supernatural stock, the elect, 231

How cut off from the natural stock, in twelve parti-

culars,

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How ingrafted into Christ,

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