Maran atha: or Dominus veniet Commentaries upon the articles of the Creed never heretofore printed. Viz. Of Christs session at the right hand of God and exaltation thereby. His being made Lord and Christ: of his coming to judge the quick and the dead. The resurredction of the body; and Life everlasting both in joy and torments. With divers sermons proper attendants upon the precedent tracts, and befitting these present times. By that holy man and profound divine, Thomas Jackson, D.D. President of Corpus Christi Coll. in Oxford.

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Maran atha: or Dominus veniet Commentaries upon the articles of the Creed never heretofore printed. Viz. Of Christs session at the right hand of God and exaltation thereby. His being made Lord and Christ: of his coming to judge the quick and the dead. The resurredction of the body; and Life everlasting both in joy and torments. With divers sermons proper attendants upon the precedent tracts, and befitting these present times. By that holy man and profound divine, Thomas Jackson, D.D. President of Corpus Christi Coll. in Oxford.

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Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.

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London :: printed by A. Maxey for Timothy Garthwait, at the little north door of S. Pauls,

1657.

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Apostles' Creed -- Early works to 1800.

Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• To the REVERENCE, LEARNING, and VERTUES of DR SHELDON.
• To the CHRISTIAN READER, Grace from GOD, and Benefit from THIS BOOK.
• ERRATA.
• A TABLE Of the Principal Arguments of the several Sections and Chapters contained in this BOOK.
• A Table of the TEXTS of Holy Scripture Expounded or Illustrated in this BOOK.
• SECT. I. Of Christs Sitting at the Right-hand of God. Of the Grammatical Sense of the words, and of the Real Dignity answering thereto.
  • CHAP. I. Of the Grammatical Sense of the words: And whether they be meerly Metaphorical.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Real Dignitie contained in This Article; viz. The Exaltation of Christ. That Christ was exalted, both, as the Son of God, and as the Son of David.
  • CHAP. III. In what Sense Christs Humane Nature may, in what Sense it may not be said to be Infinitely Exalted. The Question concerning The Ubiquitie of Christs Bodie handled.
  • A Transition of the Publisher's.
  • CHAP. 1111. A Paraphrase upon the sixth of St. John. In what sense Christ's flesh is said to be truly Meat, &c. What it is, To eat Christs Flesh, and drink his Blood. Of eating and drinking Spiritual, and Sacra∣mental; And whether of them is meant, John 6. 56. Of Commu∣nion in one Kind, and receiving Christs Blood per Concomitan∣tiam. Tollet's Exposition of Christs words [Except ye eat—And drink—] by Disjunction, turning And into Or, Confuted. And Rules given for Better Expounding like places. How Christ dwels in us, and we in him. The Application. All which be seasonable Meditations upon the Lords Supper.
  • CHAP. V. The Great Attribute of Christ [His being the Chief Corner-Stone] handled in the fore-going Chapter, prosecuted more am∣ply in this. Christ is the Foundation of the Apostles and Pro∣phets. How Christians being built upon this Foundation, do grow into an Holie Temple.
• SECT. II. Of Christs Lordship or Dominion.
  • CHAP. VI. What it is to be a Lord. Though there be many called Lords, yet is there but One Absolute Lord.
  • CHAP. VII. In what respects, or upon what grounds Christ is by peculiar Ti∣tle called The Lord. And First, of the Title it self. Se∣condly, Of the Real grounds unto this Title.
  • CHAP. VIII. What our Confession of Christ to be The Lord, importeth, and how it redounds to the Glory of God the Father.
• SECTION III. Of Christs coming to Judgement.
  • CHAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X. Of the Natural Notions, which the Heathens had, and the Internal Experiments, which every true Christian may have, answering to these Notions of a Final Judgment.
  • CHAP. XI. By what authority of Scripture the Exercise of this Final Judge∣ment is appropriated unto our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • CHAP. XII. Of the manner of Christs coming to Judgement, which was the third Gene∣ral proposed in the ninth Chapter.
• SECTION IV. Of the Resurrection of the Dead.
  • CHAP. XIII.
  • CHAP. XIV.
  • CHAP. XV. The Objections of the Atheist, and the Exceptions of the Naturalist, Both, put fully Home, and as fully Answered. The falsitie of the Supposals and Paradoxes (rather then Principles) of the Atheist, discovered; and made even Palpable by ocular demonstration, and by Instances in bodies vegetant and sensitive. A Scruple that might trouble some Pious mind, after all this, satisfied. A short Application of the Doctrine contained in the whole Chapter.
  • CHAP. XVI.
• SECTION V. Of the Article of Everlasting life.
  • CHAP. XVII.
  • CHAP. XVIII.
  • CHAP. XIX.
  • CHAP. XX.
  • CHAP. XXI.
  • CHAP. XXII.
  • CHAP. XXIII.
  • CHAP. XXIV.
  • CHAP. XXV.
  • An Advertisement to the Reader.
  • CHAP. XXVI.
  • CHAP. XXVII.
  • CHAP. XXVIII.
  • CHAP. XXIX.
  • CHAP. XXX.
  • CHAP. XXXI.
• The sixth SECTION.
  • A Transition of the Publishers.
  • The First Sermon upon this Text.
  • The Second Sermon upon this Text.
  • The Third Sermon upon this Text.
  • The Former Sermon upon this Text.
  • The Later Sermon upon this Text.
  • The Publisher, To the Readers of these two last Sermons,
  • CHAP. XXXVII.
  • CHAP. XXXVIII.
  • CHAP. XXXIX.
  • CHAP. XXXX.
  • CHAP. XLI.
  • CHAP. XLII.
  • CHAP. XLIII.
  • To the C. Reader, An Advertisement of the Publishers.
  • An Appendix to the two next precedent Sermons.
  • CHAP. XLIV.
  • CHAP. XLV.
  • CHAP. XLVI.