Christ go first; exactly answered. (And conse- .. CHAP. IV. How to live by Faith as to God's commands. V. How to live by Faith on God's promises. What will of God it is, according to which they must ask who will receive. Of a particular Faith in prayer. Is the same degree of grace conditionally promised to all? Directions for understanding the promises. The true nature of Faith or Trust in God's pro- mises, opened at large. Affiance is in the under- standing, will and vital power. Whether Faith be obedience, or how related to it. Ten acts of the understanding essential to the Christian Faith in the promises. Several acts of the will essential to Faith. And in the vital power, whether all true Faith hath a subjective certainty of the truth of the word. Choice and venturing or forsaking all, is the sign of real trust. Promises collected for the help of Faith, 1. Of pardon. 2. Of salvation. 3. Of reconciliation and adoption. 4. Of pardon of new sins after conversion. 5. Of sanctification. 6. Promises to them that desire and seek. 7. To 10. To the use of God's word and sacraments. 11. To the humble, meek and lowly. 12. To the peaceable. 13. To the diligent. 14. To the pa- 15. To obedience. 16. To the love of God. 17. To them that love the godly, and are merciful in good works. 18. To the poor. 19. To the op- pressed. 20. To the persecuted. 21. In dangers. 22. Against temptations. 23. To them that over- come and persevere. 24. In sickness, and at death. PAGE 201 224 PAGE CHAP. VI. How to exercise Faith on God's threatenings ...... 287 - VII. How to live by Faith for pardon and justifica- ness. .... VIII. Fifty-eight dangerous errors detected, which IX. How to live by Faith of other graces and du- ties. And 1. Of the doctrinal Directions. What sanctification is. How God loveth the unsanctified. XI. Of the order and harmony of graces and duties, which must be taken altogether. Of the parts that make up the new creature. 1. The intellec- tual order; or a method, or scheme of the heads of Divinity. 2. The order of intention and affec- tion. 3. The order of practice. Of the various degrees of means to man's ultimate end. Of the grace necessary to concur with these various means. The circular motion by Divine communication to our receiving graces, and so by our returning graces, unto God again. The frame of the present means of grace, and of our returning duties. Rules about the order of Christian practice (which shew that, and how the best is to be preferred, and which is best), in fifty-three propositions. How man's laws bind conscience (and many other cases) resolved. A lamentation for the great want of or- der, and method, and harmony in the understand- ings, wills and lives of Christians. Many instances of men's partiality as to truths, graces, duties, sins, - gion. Ten consectaries. Whether all graces be XIV. How to live by Faith in prosperity. The way by which Faith doth save us from the world. Ge- neral Directions against the danger of prosperity. Twenty marks of worldliness. The pretences of - - - - - - - XV. How to be poor in spirit. And 1. How to es- ... XVI. How to escape the sin of fulness, gulosity or .. .... XVII. How Faith must conquer sloth and idleness. PAGE XIX. How to live by Faith in adversity... XX. How to live by Faith in trouble of conscience, and doubts of our salvation. The difference be- tween true and false repentance. How to apply the universal grace to our comfort. The danger of casting our part on Christ; and of ascribing all melancholy disturbances and thoughts to the Spirit. XXI. How to live by Faith in the public worshipping of God. Overvalue not your own manner of wor- ship, and overvilify not other men's. Of commu- XXIII. How to live by Faith towards children and PAGE - ....... CHAP. XXV. How to live by Faith in the love of one an- XXVI. How by Faith to be followers of the saints, and to look with profit to their examples and their end, and to hold communion with the heavenly .......... THE LIFE OF FAITH. IN THREE PARTS. THE FIRST IS A SERMON ON HEB. XI. 1. FORMERLY PREACHED BEFORE HIS MAJESTY, AND PUBLISHED BY HIS COMMAND; WITH ANOTHER, ADDED FOR THE FULLER APPLICATION. THE SECOND IS INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONFIRMING BELIEVERS IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. THE THIRD IS DIRECTIONS HOW TO LIVE BY FAITH; OR HOW TO EXERCISE IT ON ALL OCCASIONS. "For we walk by faith, not by sight." 2 Cor. v. 7. "For which cause we faint not: but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day: For our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory: While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." 2 Cor. iv. 16-18. "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the King: for he endured, as seeing him that is invisible." Heb. xii. 27. |