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The Nature, Causes, and Means of Regeneration. CHAP. V.
(1.) Description of the State of Nature, necessary unto a right understand∣ing of the Work of the Spirit in Regeneration. (2.) No possibility of Salvation unto Persons living and dying in a state of Sin. (3.) Deli∣verance from it by Regeneration only. (4.) The Holy Ghost the peculiar Author of this Work. (5.) Differences about the Manner and Nature of it. (6.) Way of the Ancients in explaining the Doctrine of Grace; the present Method proposed. (7.) Conversion not wrought by Moral Swasion only. (8, 9, 10.) The Nature and Efficacy of Moral Swasion, wherein they consist. (11.) Illumination preparatory unto Conversion. (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.) The Nature of Grace morally effective only, opened; not sufficient of Conversion. (19, 20.) The first Argu∣ment disproving the working of Grace in Conversion to be by Moral Swa∣sion only. (21, 22.) The Second. (23, 24.) The Third. (25.) The Fourth. (26, 27, 28.) Wherein the Work of the Spirit in Regenerati∣on positively doth consist; the use and end of outward means. (29.) Real internal efficiency of the Spirit in this Work. (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35.) Grace victorious and irresistible, the Nature of it explained. (36.) Proved. (37, 38, 39, 40.) The manner of God's working by Grace on our Wills further explained. Testimonies concerning the Actual Collation of Faith by the Power of God. (41, 42, 43, 44.) Victorious efficacy of internal Grace proved by sundry Testimonies of Scripture. (45, 46, 47, 48, 49.) From the nature of the Work wrought by it, in Vivification and Regeneration. (50, 51, 52, 53, 54.) Regeneration considered with respect unto the distinct Faculties of the Soul. The Mind. (55.) The Will. (56, 57.) The Affections.
[Sect. 1] UNto The Description we are to give of the Work of Regeneration, the precedent account of the Subject of it, or the State and Condition of them that are to be Regenerated, was necessarily to be premised. For upon the knowledg thereof, doth a due Apprehension of the Nature of that Work depend. And the occasion of all the Mistakes and Errors that have been about it, ei••her of old or of late, hath been a misunderstanding of the true state of Men in their lapsed condition, or of Nature as depraved. Yea, and those by whom this whole Work is derided, do now countenance themselves there∣in