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A TABLE CONTEINING the summe and substance of the whole boooke in the principall points of it.
The first Treatise.
CHAP. 1.
- ASsurance of Saluation, the ground of all. [ pag. 1. d.]
- Most men are deceiued a∣bout it. [ ib. e.]
- Papists thinke it impossible. [ ibid.]
- Carnall Protestants thinke it easie. [ ibid.]
- Weake Christians full of doubting. [ 2. f.]
- Three generall heads or parts of this Trea∣tise. [ h.]
- Three branches of the first head. [ i.]
CHAP. 2.
- MAn created happie, fell into miserie. [ 3. b.]
- Two parts of mans miserie.
- The first: His sinne. [ c.]
- Mans sinne what.
- Euery part corrupted. [ d.]
- Vnderstanding, conscience, will.
- Affections. [ e.]
- Conuersation. [ 4. f.]
- Thoughts, desires, outward behauiour. [ g.]
- Mans best actions abhominable. [ h.]
- Few thinke it thus.
- The second part of mans misery: The curse. [ k]
- Which bringeth all plagues.
- After this life.
- In this life.
- The creatures cursed for mans cause:
- Much more himselfe. [ 5. a]
- In all he takes in hand.
- In his body, diseases, &c.
- In his senses, deafnesse. [ b.]
- In his friends and kindred, &c.
- He hath no right to any thing that he inioi∣eth, and shall be called to iudgement for it.
- Men shift off this. [ c.]
- This curse is to all.
- To harden the heart against it, dangerous. [ d.]
- The curse vpon the soule. [ e.]
- To be giuen vp to vile lusts.
- To be darkened in his vnderstanding.
- Hastening to endlesse woe, and not see it.
- Hardnesse of heart. [ 6. f.]
- Desperation, madnesse, &c.
- Remedilesse feares, &c.
- Hell paines, extreame, easelesse & endlesse. [ g]
- The necessitie of this knowledge of mans mi∣serie. [ h.]
- If this doctrine displease men, they may thanke themselues. [ i.]
- The doctrine of the Gospel must go with this.
CHAP. 3.
- OF the knowledge of redemption and deliuerance.
- It must be knowen as well as our misery. [ 7. a.]
- Foure things to be considered in it. [ c.]
- 1. What it is, and wherein it consisteth.
- Merit ouerthrowne. [ d.]
- 2. By whom it is wrought. [ e.]
- 3. How it is reueiled. [ 8. h.]
- 4. How it is receiued and imbraced. [ k.]
- Faith what.
- How it is wrought. [ 9. a.]
CHAP. 4.
- KNowledge of our miserie and redempti∣on, necessarie to saluation. [ 9. d.]
- They are most light, who haue most cause to mourne.
- The person that shall be saued, beleeueth and applieth generall things particularly to himselfe. [ 10. f.]
- Heereby the heart is troubled. [ g.]
- Few, hearing the doctrine of miserie, thinke it to be their owne case. [ i.]
- They are hardned, and make it cōmon. [ 11. b.]
- Their woe at the time of death. [ c.]
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