CONTENT S.

REASON OF FAITH, &c.

PREFACE.

CHAP. I. The fubject ftated.-Preliminary Remarks.

II. What it is infallibly to believe the Scripture as the word

of God, affirmed.

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III. Sundry convincing external arguments for Divine Revelation. 28

IV. Moral certainty, the refult of external arguments, ineffectual. 66-

V. Divine Revelation itself the only foundation and reason of

faith.

VI. The Nature of Divine Revelations. Their felf-evidencing

power confidered: particularly that of the Scriptures as

the word of God.

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VII. References from the whole. Some objections answered. 139

APPENDIX.

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PREFACE.

CAUSES, WAYS AND MEANS, &%.

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CHAP. I. Ufurpation of the church of Rome, with reference unto

the interpretation of the Scripture, or right understand-

ing of the mind of God therein. Right and ability of

all believers as to their own duty herein afferted. Im-

portance of the truth propofed. The main question ftat-

ed. The principal efficient caufe of the understanding

which believers have in the mind and will of God as

revealed in the Scriptures, the Spirit of God himself.

General affertions to be proved. Declared in fundry

particulars. Inferences from them.

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II. The general affertion confirmed with teftimonies of the

Scripture. Pfalm cxix. ver. 18. opened at large. Ob-

jections answered, 2 Cor. iii. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Ex-

plained, Ifa. xxv. Luke i. 24, 25. Opened, Eph. i. 17,

18, 19. Explained and pleaded, in confirmation of the

truth, Hof. xiv. 9.

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III. Other testimonies pleaded in the confirmation of the same
truth, John xvi. 13. opened. How far all true believers

are infallibly led into all truth, declared. And the man-

ner how they are fo, 1 John ii. 20, 27. explained. What

affurance of the truth they have who are taught of God.

Eph. i. 5, 6. John xxx. 22. John vi. 45. Practical

truths inferred from the affertion proved.

CHAP. IV. The especial work of the Holy Spirit in the illumination

of our minds unto the understanding of the Scripture,

declared and vindicated. Objections propofed and an-

fwered. The nature of the work afferted, Pfal. cxix. 18.

Ephef. i. 18. 1 Pet. ii. 9. Col. i. 13, Luke xxiv. 25.

John v. 20. opened and vindicated.

V. Caufes of the ignorance of the mind of God revealed in

the Scripture; and of errors about it; what they are;

and how they are removed.

VI. The work of the Holy Spirit in the compofing and dispo-

fal of the Scripture as a means of facred illumination;

the perfpicuity of the Scripture unto the understanding

of the mind of God declared and vindicated.

VII. Means to be used for the right understanding of the mind

of God in the Scripture. Those which are prescribed

in a way of duty.

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VIII. The fecond fort of means for the interpretation of the

Scripture, which are disciplinarian.

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IX. Helps Ecclefiaftical in the Interpretation of the Scripture. 310

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