193

203

222

228

255

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And from the love which enthusiasts and heretics have to one another. 191

-Love to God and our neighbour is a radical conformity to the whole law, 192

all

ib.

And is that whereby true religion is distinguished from all counterfeiis.

Which all arise from self-love,

194

-From the whole, we may learn, what that image of God was, in which

Adam was created.

197

That we are born destitute thereof,

199

And naturally have a temper contrary thereto.

201

Which temper has the entire government of us.

So that all we do, while unregenerate, is sin.

And therefore our best doings cannot entitle us to any promise of special

grace.

-Conversion consists in our recorery from this sinful temper, to the moral

image of God, by the influences of the Holy Spirit.

226

And because we are naturally inclined to resist his influences with all our

might.

230

'Therefore they must be such as we cannot resist, or we shall never be re-

covered.

237

Which effectual grace is dispensed according to God's sovereign good plea-

sure, and flows from his self-moving goodness.

238

And it is natural to suppose, that he who in such wise begins this work, will

carry it on, and so all true Saints persevere to the end.

242

That they must expect spiritual conflicts from remaining corruption. 244

Yet assurance may be obtained.

247

These consequences are undeniable, if the premises, touching the nature of

the law, are true.

254

But if the law is abated and altered, the whole scheme is undermined.

And so is the whole gospel-revelation as much.

259

Or, if the law means something else than what is supposed.

261

But if the idea, which the Pelagians and Arminians have of God and the

law, is right, sin can deserve no punishment, in this world or the next. 262

Nor can the scriptures then be the word of God.

Rules of trial.

267

The cause we have to be humble, and thankful, and live entirely devoted to

God.

276, 283, 285

The happiness of so doing.

287

Various questions occasionally considered in the first discourse.
Is it any matter what men's principles are, if their hres are but good ? 56
Will speculative ideas of God beget a sense of his amiableness, in a heart that
has no taste for moral beauty?

57
Does all our enmity against God arise merely from our conceiving him to
be our enemy?

58

Are all things right, or wrong, merely because God wills them so to be?

Or merely because they do or do not tend to make us happy?

How was it consistent with God's goodness to permit sin ?

Does perfect obedience deserve any thanks at the hands of God ?

99

In what sense are our good works rewardable ?

100

Is sin an infinite evil? and does it deserve an infinite punishment ?

Can fotore obedience make the least amends for past sins?

107

Will the sinfulness and misery of the damned be forever increasing?

109

Is the law abated?

110, 144, 256

Or wholly repealed ?

What inflnence have false notions of the law on men's religion ?

116

What do Antinomians make their rvie of duty ?

118

Are the threatenings of the bus in force ?

120

Can a man, merely from self-love, love God more than himself?

143

Is our impotency only moral?

144

Are we to blame for our spiritual blindness?

148

Or for our corrupt nature.?

153

266

80

82

92

105

115

201

202

203

205

211

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What is it that brings awakened sinners to take all the blame to themselves,

and justify God! -

159

Do true believers feel themselves wholly to blame for not being perfectly holy? 160

Does God's withholding the sanctifying influences of his Holy Spirit lessen

our blame?

163

Why does the scripture, in some places, speak of the external advantages of

God's visible people, as being more than barely sufficient for their becoming

good men, and as though their power was sufficient, although the sanctify-

ing influences of the Holy Spirit were withheld from them ?

170

What is corrupt nature ?

Is it natural or contracted ? -

Are the unregenerate entirely under the government of it?

Wherein does the sinfulness of it consist ?

Why do not mankind see the sinfulness of it?

208

Do all actual sins proceed from it?

Why are sinners so averse to the true knowledge of God, and so blind to his

beauty?

213

What is the nature of restraining grace ?

216

How came our nature to be corrupted ?

219

What good does it do for sinners to use the means of grace? .

225, 423

What is the shortest and easiest method to bring the main controversies be-

tween Arminians and Calvinists to a final issue ?

240, 254

How is the doctrine of perseverance consistent with all the cautions given to

believers, to take heed lest they fall ?

243

Is it a sin for believers ever to doubt of their good estate?

What is the most fundamental difference between the Arminians and Cal-

viniste ?

260

In what sense are wicked men ignorant of their own hearts? -

274

Why does a sight of the strictness of the law discourage hypocrites, and kill

their religion ?

Are believers ever as blind and dead, and as much without all spiritual

strength, as unbelievers ?

287

See also pages

228, 245, 272, 440, 445

251

282

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SECOND DISCOURSE.

THE INTRODUCTION.

293

Of the Trinity, and of the character each person sustains in the affair of our

salvation. -

295

God does in the gospel consider us as in a perishing condition,

299

Because of our original apostacy in Adam.

300

Who was constituted our public ad,

301

Which constitution was well suited to the general good of mankind,

306

And God had power or right to make it.

308

And because we are apostate creatures,

315

Enemies to God,

And averse to a reconciliation.

ib.

As such the gospel considers us.

319

-God was not moved to provide a Saviour for is, under any notion that

the constitution with Adam was unjust,

320

Or the law of nature too severe,

S22

Or that our impotency renders us the less to blame,

325

Or from any expectation that we should, of our own free accord, so much as

heartily thank him for it. -

328

But entirely from his own self-moving goodness, free and sovereign grace. 330

-The necessity of satisfaction for sin argued from the perfections of GOD, 339

From scripture,

351

And from fact.

The necessity of the law's being obeyed.

358

--The sufficiency of CHRIST's satisfaction and merit.

365

352

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He was At to be a Mediator between God sud man. -

366

Was authorized,

368

And what he has done is perfeetly suited, in its own nature, to answer all the

ende proposed.

369

God may now, through Christ, consistently with his own honour, save

any that believe, -

380

And use what means he pleases for the recovery of obstinate 'sinners.

388

A view of the methods of divine grace with mankind, from the beginning of

the world.

402

-A genuine compliance with the gospel.

426

Saving fuith.

429

It results from divine üght.

ASO

Which lays a foundation for a supernatural belief of the gospel.

431

Regeneration, faith, repentance, and conversion, connected together.

ib.
Spiritual light and true faith always in proportion.

ib.

Humility and true faith always in proportion.

433

What encourages the sinner to believe in CHRIST.

434

The aot of faith defined.

436

Faith in Christ emboldens the humbled sinner to return to God, and trust in

him.

437

The various actings of faith distinguished.

ib

Faith and holiness always in proportion.

438

True faith, habitual, growing, and persevering.

440

The faith of the legal and of the evangelical hypocrite deseribed. 442-

-The everlasting life promised to believers, implies the everlasting love

and favour of God, and the everlasting indwelling of the Holy Spirit as a

Sanctifier.

449-50

Of the spirit of adoption.

452

Of the seal and witness of the Spirit. -

250, 452
Of the marvellous change made by true conversion.

452
How faith interests us in Christ, and entities os to life.

453
The Gospel-way of salvation perfectly adapted to make men holy. 460_61

Various questions occasionally considered in the second discourse.
What was implied in the death threatened to Adam ?

301
What is the difference between the law of nature and the first covenant ?

304, 320, 453
What is it that does most commonly convince men of the doctrine of origin-
al sin ?

313
Why is original sin no oftener spoken of in scripture ?

:

220, 315
Were we by the fall brought into a state of being worse than not to be ? 332
Ought we to be thankful for our beings ?

SSS
Is it a blessing to have children ?

336
What is the nature of satisfaction for sin ?

369
Does it render sin a less evil, or take away its natural ill desert ?

377
Does it move the divine compassion ?

378
Are the elect, before faith, as much under the wrath of God as others, not-
withstanding the satisfaction of Christ ?

194, 378
Wherein consists our need of Christ, and when is it seen?

355--57
Why was Adam placed in a state of probation ?

359
Is a state of probation consistent with God's making his creatures' happiness
his last end 2

362
Are all the common mercies, which mankind enjoy, the effects of Christ's
merits?

390
In what sense did CHRIST die for all the world?

ib.
And in what sense only for the elect ?

391
Is a confirmed habit of grace before the first act of faith, or after ?

449
Does faith consist in believing that my sins are forgiven ? 125, 378, 444

A Treatise on the Divinity of Christ.

465

The Millennium.

495

An Election Sermod, preached at Hartford, May 13, 1762.

517