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Sect. 5. Complaint of Misgrounded Sorrow, satisfied ib.
6. Complaint of the Insufficient Measure of Sor-
row for Sin, answered
125
7. Complaint of the Want of Faith, satisfied 127
8. Complaint of the Weakness of Faith, satis-
fied
128
9. Complaint of Inconstancy and Desertion, an-
swered
129
10. Complaint of Unregeneration and Deadness in
Sin, answered
130
11. Complaint of the Insensibleness of the Time
and Means of Conversion, answered
133
12. Complaint of Irresolution and Uncertainty, in
matter of our Election, answered
134
Chap. III. COMFORTS AGAINST TEMPTATIONS.
Sect. 1. Christ himself assaulted.–Our Trial is for our
good
138
2. The powerful Assistance of God's Spirit ; and
the Example of St. Paul
139
3. The Restraint of our Spiritual Enemies ; and
their overmatching by the Power of God 140
4. The advantage that is made to us by our
Temptations and Foils
141
5. Complaint of Relapses into Sin, with the Remedy
thereof
142
Chap. IV. COMFORTS AGAINST WEAKNESS OF GRACE.
Sect. 1. The Common Condition of all Saints
144
2. The Improvement of Weak Graces ; and God's
Free Distribution
145
3. God's Acceptation of Truth, not Quantity 146
4. The Variety of God's Gifts, and the Ages and
Statures of Grace
ib.
5. The Safety of our Leisurely Progress in Grace 147
6. Our good Desires and Endeavours .
7. The Happiness of an humble Poverty in Spirit 148
8. An Incitement to more Caution, and faster Ad-
herence to God.
Chap. V. COMFORTS AGAINST INFAMY AND DISGRACE.
Sect. 1. Like Sufferings of the Holiest ; yea, of Christ
himself
149
2. Our Recourse to God
. 150
3. The Cleanness of our Conscience
4. The Improvement of our Reason
. 151
5. The Cause of our Suffering
6. Our envied Virtue
152
7. Others' slighting of just Reproaches
8. The Narrow Bounds of Infamy
153
9. The Short Life of Slander
jb.
· 157
A
OUR
Chap. VI. COMFORTS AGAINST Public CALAMITIES.
Sect. I. The Inevitable Necessity of Changes ; and God's
over-ruling them
154
2. The Sense and Sympathy of Common Evils ib.
3. The sure Protection of the Almighty
155
4. The Justice of God's Proceedings
· 156
5. The Remedy, our particular Repentance
6. The Unspeakable Misery of a Civil War ib.
7. The Woeful Miseries of Pestilence allayed by
consideration of the hand that smites us 158
Chap. VII. COMFORTS AGAINST Loss of Friends.
Sect. 1. The True Value of a Friend and the Fault of
over-prizing him
160
2. The True ground of an Undefeasable enjoying
of our Friends
161
3. The Rarity and Trial of True Friends
4. Is but a Parting ; not a Loss
162
5. The Loss of a Virtuous Wife Mitigated
6. The Mitigation of the Loss of a dear and hope-
ful Son
· 163
Chap. VIII. COMFORTS AGAINST PovertY, AND Loss of
Estate.
Sect. 1. The Fickle Nature of these Earthly Goods 164
2. They are not Ours : but Lent us
165
3. The right Valuation of Riches is in the Mind ib.
4. It may be good for us to be held short
166
5. The Danger of Abundance
6. The Cares that attend Wealth
167
7. The Imperiousness of Ill-used Wealth
8. The Causes and Means of Impoverishing us ib.
9. The Examples of those who have affected
Poverty
168
Chap. IX. COMFORTS AGAINST IMPRISONMENT.
Sect. 1. The Nature and Power of true Liberty . 169
2. The sad Objects of a Free Beholder's Eye ib.
3. The Invisible Company, that cannot be kept
from us
170
4. The Inward Disposition of the Prisoner . 171
5. The Willing Choice of Retiredness in some
Persons
6. The Causes of Imprisonment
. 172
7. The Goodness of Retiredness; and the Part-
nership of the Soul's Imprisonment . 173
Chap. X. COMFORTS AGAINST BANISHMENT.
Sect, 1. The Universality of a Wise Man's Country ib.
2. The Benefit of Self-Conversation
174
3. Examples of those holy ones, that have aban-
doned Society
175
4. Advantage that hath been made of Removing ib
• 180
5. The Right that we have in any Country, and
in God
176
6. The Practice of Voluntary Travel
7. All are Pilgrims
177
Chap. IX. Com FORTS AGAINST THE Loss of our SENSES OF SIGHT
AND HEARING.
Sect. 1. The two inward Lights of Reason and Faith ib.
2. The Supply of better Eyes
· 178
3. The better Object of our inward Sight
4. The ill Offices done by the Eyes
5. Freedom from Temptations by the Eyes, and
from many Sorrows
179
6. The Cheerfulness of some Blind Men
7. The Supply that God gives in other Faculties . 181
8. The Benefits of the Eyes, which once we had . 182
9. The Supply of one Sense by another
. 183
10. The better Condition of the inward Ear • 184
11. The Grief that arises from hearing Evil
Chap. XII. COMFORTS AGAINST BARRENNESS.
Sect. 1. The Blessing of Fruitfulness seasoned with,
Sorrows
2. The Pains of Child-bearing
185
3. The Misery of ill-disposed and undutiful Child-
. 186
4. The Cares of Parents for their Children
5. The great Grief in the Loss of Children
188
Chap. XIII. COMFORTS AGAINST WANT OF SLEEP.
Sect. 1. The Misery of the want of Rest ; with the best
Remedy
189
2. The Favour of Freedom from Pain .
. 1.90
3. The Favour of Health without Sleep
4. Sleep but a Symptom of Mortality.
191
5. No use of Sleep whither we are going
Chap. XIV. COMFORTS AGAINST THE INCONVENIENCES of Old AGE.
Sect. 1. The Illimitation of Age ; and the Miseries that
attend it
192
2. Old Age a Blessing
193
3. The Advantages of Old Age (1.) Fearlessness :
(2.) Freedom from Passions : (3.) Experimen-
tal Knowledge : (4.) Near approach to our
End
194
Chap. XV. COMFORTS AGAINST THE FEARS AND Pains of Death.
Sect. 1. The Fear of Death Natural
198
2. Remedy of Fear, Acquaintance with Death 199
3. The Misapprehension of Death
4. The common Condition of Men
. 200
5. Death not feared by some
. 201
6. Our Death-day better than our Birth-day . 202
7. The Sting of Death pulled out
ren
8. Death but a Parting, to meet again
. ib.
9. Death but a Sleep
. 203
10. Death sweetened to us by Christ
204
11. The Painfulness of Christ's Death
12. The Vanity and Miseries of Life
. 205
13. Examples of courageous Resolutions in others . 206
14. The happy Advantages of Death
• 207
Chap. XVI. COMFORTS AGAINST THE TERRORS OF JUDGMENT.
Sect. 1. Aggravations of the Fearfulness of the Last Judg-
ment
• 209
2. The Condition of the Elect
. 210
3. Awe more fit for thoughts of Last Judgment
than Fear
211
4. In that great and terrible Day our Advocate is
our Judge
5. Frequent Meditation and due Preparation, the
Remedies of our Fear
213
Chap. XVII. ComforTS AGAINST THE Fears of our SPIRITUAL
ENEMIES.
Sect. 1. The great Power of Evil Spirits, and their Re-
straint.
2. The Fear of the Number of Evil Spirits, and
the Remedy of it
215
3. The Malice of the Evil Spirits, and our Fears
thereof Remedied
216
4. The great Subtlety of Evil Spirits, and the Re-
medy of the Fear of it .
217
Chap. XVIII. The UNIVERSAL RECIPE FOR ALL MALADIES . 219
OF
IV. A TREATISE OF CHRIST MYSTICAL: or, The Blessed UNION
OF CHRIST AND HIS MEMBERS.
Chap. I. INTRODUCTORY.
Sect. 1. How TO BE HAPPY IN THE APPREHENDING
CHRIST
225
2. THE HONOUR AND IIAPPINESS OF BEING UNITED
to Christ.
. 226
Chap. II. The KIND and MANNER of this Union with Christ 227
Chap. III. The RESEMBLANCES of this Union.
Sect. 1. By the head and BODY
228
2. By the HUSBAND and wife
. 229
3. By the NOURISHMENT and the BODY
. 231
4. By the branch and the stock
232
5. By the FOUNDATION and the BUILDING
233
Chap. IV. The CERTAINTY and INDISSOLUBLENESS
of this Union.
234
Chap. V. The PRIVILEGES and BENEFITS of this Union 236
Sect. 1. The first of these Benefits-Life
. 237
Wherein
(1.) A complaint of our Insensibleness of this mercy ;
and an excitation to a cheerful Recognition of it 239
TO THE BLESSINGS OF EARTH AND HEAVEN
(2.) An incitement to Joy and Thankfulness for
Christ, our Life .
240
(4.) The Duties we owe to God for his mercy to us,
in this Life which we have from Christ 241
(4.) The Improvement of this Life; in that Christ
is made,
[1.] Our Wisdom
243
[2.] Our Righteousness
244
[3.] Our Sanctification
.247
[4.] Our Redemption
248
Sect. 2. The External Privileges of this Union, A RIGHT
249
Chap. VI. The MEANS, by which this Union is wrought . 251
Chap. VII. The Union of Christ's members with THEMSELVES 252
Sect. 1. The Union of Christ's members IN HEAVEN ib.
2. The union of Christ's members UPON EARTH 254
(1.) In matter of Judgment
(2.) In matter of Affection .
256
(3.) A complaint of Divisions; and, notwithstand-
ing them, an assertion of Unity .
258
(4.) The necessary Effects and Fruits of this union
of Christian Hearts .
259
3. The union of the sainTS ON EARTH WITH THOSE
261
Chap. VIII. A RECAPITULATION and SUM of the whole
treatise
262
IN HEAVEN
V. THE CHRISTIAN; LAID FORTH IN HIS WHOLE DISPOSITION AND
CARRIAGE.
· 274
An Exhortatory Preface to the Christian Reader
266
Sect. 1. His Disposition
268
2. His Expence of the Day
. 270
3. His Recreations
272
4. His Meals
5. His Night's Rest .
· 273
6. His Carriage
7. His Resolution in Matter of Religion
. 277
8. His Discourse
ib,
9. His Devotion
278
10. His Sufferings
279
11. His Conflicts
12. His Death
280
VI. SATAN'S FIERY DARTS QUENCHED: or, TEMPTA-
TIONS REPELLED. IN THREE
FOR THE HELP,
COMFORT, AND PRESERVATION OF WEAK CHRISTIANS, IN THESE DAN-
GEROUS TIMES OF ERROR AND SEDUCTION.
Address to the Christian Reader
284
First Decade. Temptations of IMPIETY.
285
Second Decade. Temptations of DiscouRAGEMENT
315
Third Decade. Temptations of ALLUREMENT
341
DECADES.