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Objections against providence answered
6G
Unequal distributions of providence vindicated
61
Quest. XIX. Of God's providence towards the angels.
How it was conversant about the fall of apostate angels 63
These fell all at once
64
Some angels confirmed in holiness and happiness
66
Ministry of angels
68
QUEST. XX. Of God's providence towards man in
innocency.
Of Paradise
70
Man's secular employment and food therein
72
His dominion over the creatures
74
His spiritual concerns were under the direction of provi. dence
75
Sabbath instituted and the covenant established
76
Representation, in a note
77
Difference between a law and a covenant
78
Adam was under a covenant
82
Objections answered
83
Conditions of that covenant
84
Tree of life a seal of it
86
Of the tree of knowledge
90
QUEST. XXI. Of the fall of man.
Our first parents were endued with freedom of will 93
Were left thereunto
94
How they were tempted
96
Satan's subtilty in the temptation
99
Eve represented by Adam, in a note
103
Aggravations of their sin
105
Its immediate consequences
104
Quest. XXII. All mankind fell in Adam.
Adam a federal head
109
All fell in him, except Christ
112
His sin imputed to his posterity
113
Penal evils which followed
111
Appointment of his headship vindicated
114
Quest. XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI. Of Sin.
Original sin
118
Actual transgressions proceed from it
120
Conveyed by natural generation
132
Original righteousness lost
121
Man's nature inclined to sin
123
Propensity to sin not put into our nature by God
124
Not harmless even in childhood
125
Origin of moral evil
127
The notion of two first causes exploded
ibid
Pre-existence of souls a mere fancy
126
Gorruption of nature not by the soul's traduction
128
Not from imitation
Necessarily ensues on the privation of original righteous-
131
ness
Quest. XXVII. Of man's misery by the Fall.
Various opinions about the salvation of infants
138
Punishment of original sin increased by actual
141
Sinners liable to God's wrath and curse
143
Slaves to Satan
144
Sin exists in the intentions, in a noté
145
Quest. XXVIII, XXIX. Of the punishment of sin
in both worlds.
Of judicial blindness of mind
146
Hardness of heart
149
Sins that lead to it
150
Difference between the hardness found in believers and
judicial
152
Of strong delusions
147
A reprobate sense
Vile affections
153
Horror of conscience. When judicial
154
Punishment of sin in outward things
155
In the world to come
158
This will be perpetual, in a note
159, 160
Quest. XXX. Of man's Recovery,
God's love the only moving cause of it
162
Covenant of grace. Its various periods
166
Opposed to that of innocency
165
Quest. XXXI. The covenant of grace made with
Christ, and, in him, with the elect.
Covenant, scriptural sense of the word
168
Between the Father and Son, explained
171
And proved
173
of redemption distinguished by some from the covenant of
178
grace
170
God's covenant differs from human
How he covenants with man
181
How man covenants with him
183
Que$T. XXXII. Qf the grace manifested in the se-
cond covenant.
Conditions of a covenant, how understood
190
Faith is a duty, in a note
193
Meritorious performed by Christ
195
Conditional promises uncertain
191
Interest in Christ, what meant by it
189
Grace glorified, in ordaining, promising, and working faith 197
Other graces promised and connected with salvation 195
Quest. XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV. Of the various
dispensations of the covenant of gracę.
Christ revealed of old by promises and prophecies
199
Ceremonial law typified Christ and the gospel
201
Types. Cautions about them
203
Rules how to judge of them
205
How the Jews knew their meaning,
207
Cocceius's sentiments about the bondage and darkness of that
dispensation
208
Gospel-dispensation, when it began
212
How it excels the Legal
213
Quest. XXXVI, XXXVII. Of the Mediator of the
covenant of Grace.
Saints and angels no Mediators
Christ the only Mediator
Two distinct natures in Christ, but not two Persons
His human nature was united to his Person
It shall continue so for ever
How formed like ours. How not
It was formed of the Virgin
His body was truly human
His soul distinct from his deity
He was expected by the Jews
Born in the fulness of time,
!!'hat meant therehr
218
217
222
220
234
227
229
224
226
231
233
333
Quest. XXXVII, XXXIX, XL. Of the necessity of
the Mediator's having two natures.
Why he should be God
235
Why man
238
Why both God and man
242
Quest. XLI, XLII. Of the Mediator's name and
offices.
Why he was called Jesus
244
Why he was called Christ
245
His offices distinguished, but not divided
252
He was set apart and authorized to execute them 248
He was fitly qualified for them
249
Quest. XLIII. Of Christ's prophetical office.
He reveals the will of God
253
He was qualified for it
254
He does it in various ages
257
To whom and how he does it
255
270
Quest. XLIV. Of Christ's priestly office.
Priesthood of Christ and Aaron compared
280
Typified by Melchisedek
264
Various opinions who Melchisedek was
265
Proved that he was Christ (quære tamen)
267 Objections answered
Satisfaction demanded for sin, of what value and kind 275
Of Christ was necessary
273
Élis active obedience a part of it
283
Least degree of his sufferings not sufficient for it 281
No redemption without price
286
Death of Christ a ransom
290
Confirmation of his doctrine not its principal end 293
Christ died in our stead
290 Objections answered
Modern opinions on the atonement, in a potc, 276 to 280, und
292 to 297.
He offered himself
by the Spirit
297
without spot to God
Not for all men
301 & 276
but for his sheep and friends
316
and for his church
318
.
Dr. Magee's Discourses, in a note
298-317
This evidenced
by his love to it
his propriety in it
322
and saving it
ibid Objections answered
319
Christ purchased grace and glory
328
Universal redemption,
its consequences
326
Arguments for it considered
327
Texts urged for it explained
343 How the word All, ģc. is to be explained
341
Special Redemption,
consistent with the covenant of grace
329
and with preaching the gospel
331
It advances grace more than general does
337
It leads not to despair
Whether it be contrary to scripture
338
Christ intercedes not for all
324
Divine expostulations explained
How all should repent and believe, though Christ died not
for all
335
Sacrifice of Christ sufficient for all, in a note
349
Quest. XLV. Of Christ's Kingly office.
-As respecting his subjects
What they were, before subdued
353
How brought into subjection
354
How their subjection expressed at first
357
Their behaviour and conflicts
358
How Christ deals with them
361
As respecting his enemies
362
He governed the church before and since his incarnation 364
This office executed by him in glory
365
Of the MILLENNIUM.
Various ohinions about it
366
Some have gross Ideas of it
370
What shall precede or attend it
368
Gospel shall then be more spread
373
How this doctrine to be treated
367
In what respects it is to be allowed
Some prophecies of the call of the Jews not yet fulfilled 376
Why Christ shall not reign visibly in his human nature 379
Temple-service not to be revived
381
Gospel-ordinances shall be continued
382