Christ dying and drawing sinners to himself, or, A survey of our Saviour in his soule-suffering, his lovelynesse in his death, and the efficacie thereof in which some cases of soule-trouble in weeke beleevers ... are opened ... delivered in sermons on the Evangel according to S. John Chap. XII, vers. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 ...
Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.
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A TABLE OF THE Contents of the Treatise.

  • OPening of the Words. Pag. 1.
  • It is good in our minde to act our sufferings ere they come. Pag. 2.3.
  • Parts of the Text. Pag. 3.
  • Five particulars touching Christs soule-trouble, 3.
  • How pure and heavenly Christs affections are. 3.4.
  • Our affection are muddy 4.5.6.
  • The perfection of Christs affections. 4.5.
  • What peace Christ had with his soule-trouble. 6.
  • A troubled soule consisted with the personall union, —and how this must be, and how it can be. 7.8.
  • God exacted not satisfaction for sinnes, by necessity of nature. 8.
  • The way of grace how lovely. 9.
  • Christ in soule-trouble, and yet the union not dissolved. 9.
  • Familists teach that Christ is incarnate in beleevers. 10.
  • Christ suffered in his soule kindly, and not by concomitancie only. 11.
  • Christs precious soule lyable to suffering. 11.
  • We are to beare death patiently, seeing Christ dyed. 12.
  • No wonder all things bee lyable to change, since Christ was in soule-trouble. 12.13.
  • What love in Christs undertaking for us. 13.
  • Christ cast up his accounts, and saw what hee was to give out, and what to get in, in his suffering for us. 14
  • Loves way of saving man. 14
  • Our softnesse and selfe-wisdome in suffering. 15.16
  • Our mis-judging of God under the crosse. 16
  • Our coldnesse of love to Christ. 17
  • Page  [unnumbered]Evangelick love is more then Law-love 18
  • Sinnes against love are wounding, 18
  • What a soule troubled for sinne is. 19
  • Christs being over-clowded, incomparably the greatest soule-trouble that ever was. 19
  • Christ was to bleed for sinne, as sinne. 21
  • According to the fulnesse of the presence of the God-head, so heavie was Christs love. 21
  • Antinomians errours touching the nature of sinne. 23
  • Antinomian errours touching doubtings, sorrow for sinne, con∣fession, &c. 23.24
  • D. Crisps Libertinisme that Paul Rom. 7. personateth the per∣son of a scrupulous man, and had no reall cause to sorrow for, feare, or confesse sinne. 24.25
  • M. Archer in the like errour. 25.26
  • Trouble of unbeliefe for sinne is sinnefull 26
  • Some fits of the ague of the Spirit of bondage, may recurre and trouble a beleever. 26.27
  • Loves-Jelousies and doubting argue faith. 27
  • Doubting may consist with faith. 27
  • Dangerous and unsound positions of Antinomians, touching trou∣ble for sinne in the justified. 28
  • Doubtings proveth not a soule to be under a covenant of works. 29
  • The Jewes under the Old Testament justified, might be troubled in soule for sinne as we, they and we justified by the same grace. 29
  • Trouble for sinne is, and ought to be in those, who are delivered from obligation to eternall wrath. 30.31
  • No Law-wakening in us by nature. 32
  • How the Saints need joy after sin, rather then after affliction. 33
  • Sinne is pardoned otherwise then in removall of obligation to eternall wrath. 34
  • The double dealing of Antinomian Preachers in confession of sinnes, in publick, their confession being onely in regard of un∣beleevers mixed with beleevers. 34
  • A two fold pardon of sinne. 1. A relaxation from eternall. 2. From temporall wrath. 35
  • Sin is sometimes put for temporary punishment, and to remove temporary punishment is to pardon sin in Scripture-sense. 36
  • Page  [unnumbered]Soule-troubles in devils and men must be extreame. 38
  • Conscience the sorest enemy. 38
  • The terrours of an evill conscience. 38
  • Difference betweene the soule-torment of the damned, and the Saints, in 3. points. 39
  • God punisheth sometimes the sinnes of his children with spiritu∣all punishments. 40
  • Christs soule-trouble different from ours. 43
  • The causes of soule desertions. 43.44.45
  • Soule desertions sharpened with sense 44
  • Desertions after evident and full manifestations of God. 44.45
  • Desertion under a three-fold consideration. 46
  • Patience requisite under soule-trouble. 46
  • We are not so freed from sin, being justified, but there is a ground of distance betweene the Lord and us. 46.47
  • Mis-judging thoughts of Christ in us by nature. 47
  • Sinne not ever the cause of desertion. 47.48
  • Externall heavy judgements, and soule-desertions not Pedago∣gicall, but common to the Saints under the N. Test. 48.49
  • Active desertion is not our sin, but the Lords trying of us. 49
  • Desertions more proper to the Saints, then to the unregenerat. 49
  • Christs desertion of another nature then ours. 49
  • Desertion not melancholie. 50
  • The various dispensation of God in leading soules to heaven. 51
  • Divers causes of desertion. 51
  • Continuated manifestations of Christ necessary. 51.52
  • Divers reasons why we are not to quarrell with Divine dispen∣sation in desertion. 52
  • Gods manifestations his owne, and most free. 52
  • Submission and charity required to Gods dispensations. 52
  • Apprehensions biggest and most terrible in desertion, because of the darkenesse of the minde. 53
  • Sathan can raise our apprehensions to swelling thoughts of Gods dispensation, as too greevous to be borne. 54
  • Our love is sweyed with jealousies and mis-giving. 54.55
  • Divine dispensation, not our rule. 55
  • Vnbeliefe is querulous: mis-beleeving of our state too frequent in desertion, but more of Christ. 56
  • Mis-judging of our actions frequent in desertion. 56.57
  • Page  [unnumbered]Antinomians mistake touching anxiety for sinne. 57
  • We may long for Christ absent, but not mis-judge him. 57.58
  • Divers considerable reasons of Christs absence. 58.59
  • Mis-judging argueth softnesse of nature, and weakenesse of judgement. 59.60
  • Saints must looke for a growing crosse. 60
  • A growing faith for growing crosses. 61
  • Anxitie in Christ. 61, 62
  • A sinnelesse oblivion in Christ. 62
  • How Christs sensitive affection are under a Law. 62
  • Christs losse great. 62
  • The personall union hindred not the operations of sinnelesse hu∣mane infirmities. 62
  • Christs anxiety sinnelesse. 63
  • No mistake in Christs soule deserted. 63
  • Christs desertion reall. 63
  • Judiciall mispending of our affections. 64
  • How Christ was forsaken. 64
  • The sinner shiftlesse in judgement. 64.65
  • No hypocrites formally in hell, and at the last judgement. 65
  • A wakened conscience speechlesse. 65.66
  • Three demands of justice given in against Christ. 66
  • Help neerer in trouble, then we apprehend. 67
  • Christ made use of Faith in trouble, for our cause. 68
  • Christs death-gripe. 69
  • Doubtings for want of qualifications, how cured. 69.70
  • Two false wayes of curing doubting, whether the soule bee in Christ, or not. 70
  • To argue no faith from faint performances of duties is unjust reasoning. 70
  • How farre we may argue no faith from sinfull walking. 71
  • Antinomians doubts touching the spirituall estate of the soule, discussed and disproved. 72
  • The immutabilitie of Gods love no ground, but multitudes may doubt whether they be in Christ, or not. 72.73
  • Saltmarsh examined in this point. 72.73▪ 74.75
  • A necessitie of inherent signes and qualifications to doubting soules. 73.74
  • How God loveth his Sonne Christ, and beleevers with the Page  [unnumbered] same love. 74
  • How far Sanctification may evidence that a soule is in Christ. 76
  • From no sanctification we may conclude no justification. 77
  • Protestants make mortification and repentance some other thing then faith. 77
  • Regeneration and justification not one. 78
  • No assurance can flow from acts performed by our good nature. 78
  • Antinomian Mortification a delusion. 79
  • How we see forgivenesse in our selves. 79
  • Antinomians deny all inherent holinesse in us. 80
  • How we are to see grace in our selves. 80
  • Nothingnesse in our selves highteneth the price of Christ. 81
  • How Ministers are to deale with troubled soules 82
  • Christ more to be chosen then the comforts of Christ. 82
  • Vnder soule-trouble we are to doe, but not to conside in what we doe. 83
  • Love-jealousies under desertion. 84
  • Desertions have a time. 84
  • Christ rcompences his absence with double smiling. 84
  • Works of sanctification though polluted with sinne, may bottome assurance. 85
  • We doe not all times know that we beleeve. 85.86
  • There is need of actuall influence of grace to the reflect know∣ledge of our spirituall state. 86
  • The witnessing of sanctification sometime darke. 86
  • Duties performed in faith not contrary to grace. 87
  • Hard to be comforted in desertion. 87
  • Sense of Christs absence cannot be out-reasoned. 88.89
  • All in glory short of what they owe. 90
  • God cannot be quarrelled in desertion. 90
  • We cannot beare fulnesse of glory in this life. 90
  • Longing after Christ strongest in absence. 91
  • The languishing soule may pray home Christ. 92
  • Christs love not Lordly. 92
  • The Lords returne after sad desertion joyfull. 92.93
  • How neere Christ is in desertion. 93
  • Christ pardoneth and rarely punisheth love-errours. 94
  • Its a lie that none are to question their faith. as Saltmarsh saith. 94
  • Page  [unnumbered]We are to beleeve after Christs fashion, not our owne. 95
  • Saints may doubt whether they beleeve or no. 96
  • Doubting in beleevers proveth them not to bee under the Law. 97
  • Sanctification of it selfe, is an infallible signe of justification, but not ever so to us. 98
  • How acts of sanctication make good that we beleeve. 99
  • Assurance may flow from other marks then the immediate te∣stimony of the Spirit. 99.100
  • The inward testimony of the Spirit. 100
  • The Holy Ghost speaketh by marks. 100
  • How Antinomians compare evidences of marks and of faith to∣gether. 101
  • Degrees of freedome of grace. 101.102
  • Antinomians denying preparation must be Pelagians. 102
  • The broad Seale of the Spirit excludeth not all doubting. 102
  • Doubting of the truth of Faith, is that unbeliefe that exclu∣deth us out of our heavenly rest. 104
  • That we may know justification by sanctification, proved. 105
  • Works done in faith are not doubtsome evidences of justificati∣on. 106
  • Works may prove faith, and faith Works. 107
  • How sanctification doth prove justification. 108
  • Peace from justification, and from sanctification, how different. 110
  • To be assured of righteousnesse, and know that wee are in that state, two different things. 111.112
  • M. Cornwel proveth what is not in question. 112
  • Many things ours both by debt of promise, and by grace. 112.113
  • Conditionall Gospel-promises argue free grace, not debt. 113
  • Gospel-promises made to acts of sanctification. 116.117
  • Antinomians deny all conditionall promises. 117
  • What kind of faith was in Christ. 117.118
  • How faith of Dependance was in Christ. 118
  • The not seeing of God may stand with personall union. 118
  • A rare providence that Christ is put to (God save me.) 119
  • We are not to storme that we are not heard at first. 120
  • Reasons why our prayers are not ever heard at first. 120
  • We are readier to pray, then to praise. 121
  • Page  [unnumbered]Christ bottomed his prayer on the sweet relation of a Father and a Sonne. 121.122
  • Sonnes onely can pray. ibid.
  • The power of Prayer. 123.124
  • Christs houre-sufferings. 125
  • He suffered in value what we should have suffered. ibid.
  • Whence commeth the dignity of Christs suffering. 126
  • Christs losse great from his excellency. 127
  • How Christs sufferings were bounded, being infinite. ibid.
  • Our debt of love to Christ eternall. 128
  • Our sufferings short. ibid.
  • We are not too weary for length of time in sufferings. 130.131
  • Christs death soure and blacke to nature and Christ, and why. 131.132
  • Christ sensible of paine and death. ibid.
  • Gods anger against Christ. ibid.
  • The personall union not dissolved in suffering. 133
  • Christ bare the whole Crosse, and we but chips of it. 134
  • Soules of great value with God, not so with us. 135.136
  • Strength of Christs love. 137
  • Death sweetned in Christ. ibid.
  • Christs will subordinate to Gods; doubts removed. 138.19
  • Gods revealed will, not his decree our rule. ibid.
  • A conditionall desire, though not agreeable to a positive Law, no sinne. 140
  • Rules touching our submission to Gods will. 141
  • Nine considerable objections, comfortably answered. 142.143.144.145
  • Thirteene considerable Rules touching submission to Provi∣dence. 144.145.146.147.148.149.150.151, &c.
  • Gods wisdome in creating good and ill. 146.147
  • Afflictions proportioned to every mans measure. ibid.
  • The Royall prerogative of providence. 152.153
  • It cannot be counter-wrought. 154.155
  • We dote much on the sweet accidents of Christ, and love him∣selfe too little. 155.156
  • Submission to the absence of God. 156.157
  • Christs returne no merit. ibid.
  • The worke of Redemption rationall, and full of causes and rea∣sons. Page  [unnumbered]158
  • Afflictions are to bee weighed. 1. Who. 2. How. 3. For what end. 159.160
  • Blind and dumbe Crosses. ibid.
  • Christ willing to suffer. 160.161
  • An agent in his suffering. 162
  • Intended his Spouse. ibid.
  • To be active for God, and submissive. 163.164
  • The Charters of a right intention in serving God, 164.165.166
  • Christs love tooke strength from difficulties. ibid.
  • How the Lords glory is to be sought by us. 167.168
  • Six considerations of errours therein. 167.168.169.170
  • Christ ever heard. ibid.
  • Our failings, in expecting to bee heard, in five considerations. 171.172.173
  • All Christs good and ours from heaven. ibid.
  • Easie traffiquing with heaven. 173.174
  • God cleareth a good cause, though darkned ibid.
  • The scandall of the Crosse removed 175.176
  • How the Lord was glorified in Christ. 177.178
  • Omnipotency maketh glory of any thing. 178.179
  • Mans glory vaine. 199.
  • The Gospel darke to us. 180
  • Our understanding, affections, and heart, hereticall in Gods will, word, and works. 181.182.183
  • Sinne and errour broody, truth but one. 184
  • Angels kept fast their birthright. 185.186
  • Seven considerations of conviction. 186.187.188
  • Will-heresie. 186
  • Christ a most publike person, as all excellent things, and good men are. 188.189.190
  • Christs office warrans us to apply him. 190.191
  • The Saints a mystery. ibid.
  • Hopes good prophecying. 192.193
  • Five characters of the World. 194.195
  • This world differenced from the other. 196
  • Judged of Christ 3. waies. 197.198
  • What a Prince the Devill is not, in three points. ibid.
  • What a Prince he is in foure points, and what a Godhead he hath, 199.200
  • Page  [unnumbered]Twise judged. ibid.
  • Sathans power, 1. Naturall. 2. Acquired. 3. Sinnefull. 201.202. & seq.
  • Ill Angels knew not the incarnation before they fell. ibid.
  • They have no Princedome in knowing the thoughts, or over free will. 203.204
  • Sathans legall power. ibid.
  • To tempt. 204.205
  • What temptation is. 205.206.207
  • Sathans outward power over men, 208.209
  • How God onely, not Angels, knows the heart, and why. 209.210.211
  • Sathans power over the Creatures. 212
  • Over senes and soule. 213
  • How Sathan sinneth yet. 214
  • His punishment. 215.26
  • Sathans knowledge hurt, and how. ibid.
  • His sadnesse. ibid.
  • His faith, despaire. 216.
  • Obduration. 217
  • Christ his Judge, and how. 217.218.219
  • Five observable considerations thereof. ibid.
  • State-wit against Christ, stark folly. 220
  • Familists vaine opinion of the Devill and sinne, 221.222
  • Sinne against light devillish. 222.23
  • Obduration. ibid.
  • Tenne motives to the good fight. 24.225
  • Six points concerning drawing. 1. The drawing it selfe. 2. The drawer. 3. The persons drawne. 4. To whom. 5. The condition. 6. The way and manner.
  • Of drawing, foure points. 1. The expression. 2. Reasons moving Christ to draw. 3. The manner. 4. The power. 226.227.228, &c.
  • No violence in drawing 28
  • Our indisposition to be drawne. 229.230
  • We naturally hate Christ. 229.20 231
  • Will, not weakenesse, the cause why we are not drawn. 232.233.
  • The strength, greatnesse, freenesse of grace, in 6. Positions. 233, 234. &c.
  • The place, Ezech. 16.8.9. &c. opened in 12 Articles of free Page  [unnumbered] love. 234.235.236.
  • Christ gracious for no bire, 237.238.29
  • Preparations before conversion in a fourefold consideration, 240.241, &c.
  • How there be, and be no preparations before conversion, 240.241, &c.
  • How a desire to pray, and beleeve, is prayer and beliefe, how not. 242.243
  • A Royall prerogative in conversion, 244
  • Antinomians objections for immediate beleeving without any preparations, or breakings of the soule, loosed. 245.246.247, &c.
  • Saltmarsh his experiences in the Method of conversion, tryed, and found light, 249.250.251
  • The Antinomian faith presumption. 249.250
  • Fifteene Propositions opening our Doctrine touching prepara∣tions. 251.252.253
  • Twelve Assertions against Antinomians in the Doctrine of Preparations, 239.240, &c. largely.
  • Dispositions before renewed drawing of converted soules, 260.261. The signes thereof.
  • Antinomian confession of sinnes refused. 257
  • How the promises of the Gospel are held forth to sinners, as sin∣ners 28
  • Preparations make us nothing lesse sinners, then if wee wanted them. 259
  • The doubt of conditionall Gospel-promises discussed against An∣tinomians. 261.262.263
  • In five positions. 264.65, &c.
  • What conditions we reject, and we admit in the Gospel. 261.262.263
  • Obedience in the Law and Gospel the same, and how. 263.264
  • How election, justification, salvation, are of grace, but diffe∣rently. 265
  • The decree of God, and mans liberty fight not. 266.267
  • Grace inherent in the Saints. 268
  • Bastard preparations. 269
  • Gods Method in deliverances. 269.270
  • Page  [unnumbered]Libertines falsely make Justification and Regeneration one. 271.272
  • How Law and love worke in drawing sinners, 272.273
  • The particular manner of drawing, not knowne to us, 275.276
  • Drawing Morall and Physicall, 277, 278
  • Inspirations without Scripture, rejected, 270.271
  • Christs oratory in drawing, strong, 280.281
  • His love in drawing. 1. Violent. 2. Speedy. 3. Vehe∣ment. 4. Reall. 5. Lovely. 6. Strong, 281.282.283
  • Drawing by love sweeter and stricter then by Law, 283.284
  • Way of loves working. ibid.
  • Binding lovelinesse in Christ. 285.286.
  • Drawing power of Christs Kingdome, in many particulars, 286 287.288.289
  • Drawing arguments in Christ from beauty▪ 290.291
  • What beauty, 291.292.293.294.295.296
  • From gaine, 296.297
  • From Honour, ibid.
  • A survey of Christ. 298.299.300
  • Libertines enemies to grace. 300.301
  • Great things reported of the waies of God, 301.302.303
  • Objections removed, 303.304
  • The Lord draweth by proportion, by charming. 305.306
  • By condiscention, 306
  • By internall application, 307.308
  • By externall accommodation of word and providence, ibid.
  • In regard of meanes, time, disposition, anticipation of the in∣tention, 309
  • Fit words, 310
  • The Jesuits congruous vocation rejected, 311
  • The Arminian refuted, ibid.
  • The Protestants conversion proved. 312, 313, 314
  • The middle science a phancie. 312, 313
  • The Vaga, and confused necessity of Did. Ruiz. refuted, 315
  • Arguments for indecl•••ble and irresistible conversion pressed, 314.315, 316, 317, 318, 319.
  • How loggish we are to be drawne to Christ. 319.320
  • Antinomians reject Sanctification, 321
  • Will have us in this life compleatly saved, and seeme to deny Page  [unnumbered] with Familists, the life to come, and the resurrection. 32.323, 34
  • Free will not forced. 326
  • Arminian indifferency of will refused. 326.327
  • And their confused loose decrees of things contingent. 327.328, 329, 330
  • God determines free will. 328, 329, 330, 331
  • The Vses of the Doctrine. 331, 332
  • How to deale with such as are troubled, they are not drawne. 333, 334
  • Grace in drawing inferres Riches and overflowings of grace. 335
  • Vertues of Christ fitting him to draw sinners. 336, 337
  • The power and fulnesse of Christs drawing vertue in many bran∣ches. 340, 341, 342.343
  • Perfection not attainable in this life. 341, 342
  • Scriptures and ordinances sleighted by Familists and Antinomi∣ans. 345, 346, 47, &c.
  • Rise of Familisme. 332.
  • Lovelinesse of Christ. In 1. Vnion. 2. Satisfaction. 3. Rest. 4. Sense. 5. Satisfaction. 6. Living in. 7. Loving of Christ. 354, 355, 356, 357
  • Vnion with Christ. 356, 357
  • Familists heaven and hell, and being of creatures in God, refuted. 58.359
  • The soule living and loving in Christ. 360, 361, 362
  • The State of the question touching vniversall attonement. 365, 366
  • The place, Rom. 10.18. Have they not heard, &c. discussed. 365 366, 367
  • Of universall grace. 368
  • Of Arminian election. 368, 369
  • Arminians goe upon six universalities. 369, 370, 371
  • Vniversall, 1. Will of God to save all. 2. Vniversall Re∣demption. 3. Covenant. 4. Reconciliation. 5. Voca∣tion. 6. Possible Apostacy of all. 370, 371
  • The Elect particularly designed by persons, names, &c. 371 372, 373
  • Election and Redemption of the same Sphere. 375
  • Page  [unnumbered]M▪ Moores and the Arminian opinion of universall Redempti∣on. 375, 376
  • The Arminian distinction of Redemption purchased to all, pos∣sibly applyed to none, examined. 376, 377, 78
  • Moores distinction of a reconciliation of all with God, and all to themselves, vaine. 379 380, 381, 382, &c.
  • 1 Pet. 2.21. Isai. 53.6. The Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all, explaned and vindicated. 379▪ 380
  • 1 Cor. 5.14.15. proveth no vniversall reconciliation. 381
  • Nor 1 Tim. 2.4.6. 381, 382, 383, 384▪ 385
  • Moores frivolous reasons answered. 385, 386, 387, 388, 389
  • Joh. 1.29. Behold the Lambe of God, &c. vindicated. 389.390, 391
  • The Arminian condition of preaching the Gospel not revealed to thousands, and so cannot oblige. 392, 393
  • Christs dominion not a naked power to save, such as may con∣sist with the damnation of all. 393, 394, 395, &c.
  • Proved by fifteene Arguments, to 399
  • There is as good ground in Scripture for the universall conversi∣on and salvation of all, and every one, as for the univesall redemption of all and every one. 400, 401▪ 402
  • M. Denne the Arminian and Antinomian answered, 40, 405, 406, &c.
  • The place of Joh. 3.16. God so loved the world, &c. vndica∣ted and opened. 409▪ 410
  • All Redeemed from wrath, redeemed from iniquity, 412, 413
  • Christ purchased faith to us by his death. 413.414
  • Other Arguments to prove that Christ dyed not for all, and eve∣ry one. 413, 414, 415, 416
  • What is never done, is not Gods will simply. ibid.
  • What the revealed will of God is. ibid.
  • All arguments from Gods will, love, mercy &c. against parti∣cular election and redemption, with equall strength of reason, conclude against Arminians. 416▪ 417, 418
  • Gods revealed will expresses not to us his decree, intention, and purpose that the thing be, but his approbation or hatred of it, be it, or be it not. 418, 419
  • The word World proveth nothing against us; the place Joh. 3.16. againe considered. 419, 420, 421
  • Page  [unnumbered]An elect World in Scripture. 422
  • 5. Rules to expound the particle All,〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, 422, 423, 424, 425
  • 2 Pet. 3.9. The Lord will have none to perish, &c. vindicated. 428
  • God willeth not all and every one to be saved. 48.429
  • The common nature of man assumed by Christ proveth no more, he redeemed all, and every one, then that all, and every one sitteth in that nature with him on his throne. 430, 431
  • Hebr 2.9. He tasted death for every man, vindicated, 41, 432
  • The place Rom. 5. By one mans offence, &c. is for particular, not for universall redemption. 432, 433, 434, 435
  • And 1 Cor. 15. 435, 436
  • The place 1 Joh. 2.1. cleared for us. 436, 437, 438
  • And 2 Pet. 2.1. ibid.
  • And 1 Tim. 4.10. ibid.
  • Christ hath a serious good will to draw sinners to himselfe. 438, 439
  • Foure objections of weake ones answered.
  • The Gospel framed in the wisdome of God, that none might de∣spaire to open a doore of faith. 1. To beleevers. 2. To sin∣ners. 3. To visible Saints. 4. To men. 5. To all. 6. To that which is most comprehensive, the World. 440, 441, 442, 443
  • Christ sorry that we come not ibid.
  • What Gods revealed will is. 443, 444
  • Any will to save all contrary to Gods nature and attributes. 444 445
  • Christ willing to draw all, heart-exceptions removed. 446, 447, 448, 449
  • Ezech. 33.10. explained. 447, 448
  • Prov. 8.30. Ancient love explained. ibid.
  • What sort of faith God requireth of all and every one, that heare the Gospel; Antinomians dreame of a faith which is the apprehension of the eternall love of election. 449, 450 451
  • This faith hath for its object a lye, that God hath chosen all and every man to glory, a lye, and is no faith. 451, 452
  • The faithfulnesse and mercy of a Gospel-Saviour; the objects Page  [unnumbered] of saving faith. ibid.
  • Arminians lay double dealing on God. 417
  • Its a mystery, that God obligeth all in the visible Church to rest on Christ as a Saviour, though salvation be not purchased to all. 417, 418
  • The Gospel revealeth not Gods decree and intention, whom hee purposeth to save or damne. 418, 419
  • How Christ dyeth for the world. 419
  • God dealeth sincerely with all, whom he commandeth to beleeve. 419, 420
  • Gods wise framing of Gospel-invitations without any mans name in particular. 420, 421
  • The sufficiencie of power in Christ to save, the object of that faith, for the want of which reprobates are damned. 421, 422
  • The object of fiduciall resting on Christ. 423
  • Objections of weake ones against their grounds of beleeving re∣moved. 423, 424, 425
  • The Arminian Argument against particular Redemption taken from hope, assurance, conoltion, propounded in all its strength, Answered, and retorted on themselves 424, 425, 426, 427
  • Vniversall Redemption furnisheth no grounds of assurance and consolation, but such as may stand with the reprobation and damnation of all. 425.426
  • M. Moore suggesteth hope and the Gospel-comforts of the Spirit of Jesus Christ to Indians, Americans, Turks. ibid.
  • Arminians render God pendulous and doubtsome 426
  • Frustrated in his hope and ends. 427.428
  • Faith the first morning and dawning of election. ibid.
  • The Arminian hope and comfort, and their wild Divinity not in Scripture. 428.429.430
  • The Lords generall good will to save all, and every one, com∣fortlesse. 432.433
  • The fountaine good will of God separateth elected persons, from others. 42.433
  • Arminians resolve all in mans will and merits. 434.435
  • Pauls out-cry▪ O the depth, opened. 435.436
  • Onely free grace, not freewill, maketh one to differ from ano∣ther. 437.438
  • Page  [unnumbered]The abundance of grace. 439 440
  • All love, especially a three fold, effectuall in God, no lip love in him. 440 441
  • Christs love cannot mis-carry. ibid.
  • Very active. 442
  • Ten objections from feare of Reprobation and sinne, that se me to hinder beleeving, removed. 43.44.445
  • Christ can draw as guilty, as thou art. 447.448
  • The person to whom we are drawne most considerable from seve∣rall excellencies in him. 449.450.451.452
  • Christ a home and rest. 451
  • Three parts of Christs compleatnesse; 1. His fulnesse. 453
    • 2. His primacy. 453.454
    • 3. His excellencie. 454.455.456
  • Resisting of Christ a high sinne. 457
  • Christ good at drawing of sinners. ibid. 458.459
  • Resisting a great sinne. 459.460
  • Marks of a meere Moralist. 461.462
  • Errours of Libertines touching Free will. 462.463.464
  • What activitie we have in our conversion. 464
  • The faculties of the soule not destroyed. 464.465
  • Grace inherent in us, not the person of the Holy Ghost. 464.465.466.467
  • The Blasphemy of the Libertine H. Nicholas, who said, he was Godded. ibid.
  • The union of the Holy Ghost with the Saints, not personall. 467.468.469
  • Grace and Free will joyned in acting, in a fourefold sense. 468 469.470
  • The covenant of grace how conditionall. 471.472.473
  • Crispe refuted. 472.473.474
  • Differences betweene Law and Gospel. 472
  • Grace in the Old Testament, and Justification the same in Na∣ture, with that in the New Testament. 474.47.476
  • How faith is a condition of the Covenant. 476.477
  • How grace acteth in all Christs Members. 479.80
  • Christ onely, not any creature, Man or Angel can calme a dis∣quieted soule. 480.481
  • The Lords deniall of grace falleth under a three-fold conside∣ration. Page  [unnumbered]481.482.483
  • The freedome of grace evidenced in Angels. 482
  • In the conversion of men. 483.48
  • We are to pray, when under indispositions we cannot, ibid.
  • Flesh and Spirit in their up's and downes. 485.486
  • In what cases God usth to withdraw. ibid.
  • We are to stirre and blow grace our selves. 486.487
  • How we sinne in not doing, though actuall predterminating grace be not in our power. 487.488.489
  • How we leave God, ere he leave us. 489
  • How we are to beleeve that God will joyne his influence of actuall grace. 489.490
  • Grace not a Morall sparkle. 490.491
  • Mens impotencie to come to Christ, wilfull. ibid.
  • The condition of Christs drawing. 492.493
  • Christs and our leaving of the earth, and the reasons. 493.494.495
  • Christs dying a speciall ground of Mortification. 496.97
  • To be crucified to the World what it is. 497.498
  • How base the earth is to a Saint. ibid.
  • Antinomian Mortification fleshly, and refuted. 490.491.492
  • Libertines and Antinomians compared together, from some pas∣sages of Calvine Instruct. advers. Libertinos. 500.501.502.50.504.505.506
  • Sinnes of the Justified, to Antinomians no sinnes. 502.503
  • Sense and feeling of sinnes to Antinomians. 503.504
  • How a Convert cannot fall in the same sinne againe. 506.507
  • Sorrow for sinne, habituall in the Saints, contrary to Saltmarsh. 507.508.509
  • Mortification not an act of Faith. 509.510.511
  • Mortification personall, Physicall, reall, not the Antinomian im∣putative and apprehensive Mortification, refuted. 509.510.511
  • Antinomians deny sinne to be in the justified. 512.513
  • The fleshly distinction of Denne and other Antinomians, of sin in the conscience, and sinne in the conversation, refuted. 513.514
  • Mortification is in abstaining from sinne, and in the remisse∣nesse and faintnesse of the powers of the soule to act sinne. 516.517.518
  • Page  [unnumbered]To live by Faith, includeth sanctification. ibid.
  • A sinner, as a sinner not humbled, is not to beleeve applicatorily. 518.519.520
  • Holinesse and Morall vertues much different. 520, 521
  • To adde to Antinomian Mortification is to adde to Christ. 521.522
  • Eight Queries propounded to Antinomians, touching the Law. Enthysiasmes, Gospel-commands, sinnes of the justified, &c. 522.523
  • Divers Manifestations of Christs deadnesse to the world. 524.525
  • The Lords various dispensation in leading some to heaven, in flowings of free grace, others in low desertions. 525.526
  • Christ strong to save. 528
  • Minded us much in death. 528.529
  • The World a weake thing to Christ. 529.530
  • Christ strong on the Crosse. ibid.
  • Providence most speciall in excellent things. 530.531
  • A three-fold excellency of the working of Christ on the Crosse. 531.532
  • Christ drawes sinners, 1. Lovingly. 532
    • 2. Suffering paine ibid.
    • 3. Strongly. 532.533.
    • Compleatly. Ibid.
    • 5. Finally, dying and drawing. 533.534
  • What it is, to be lifted up from the earth. 534.535
  • The Scriptures deepe, plaine, not obscure, why wee accuse them. 535.536
    • Christs dying. ibid.
  • The kind of his death. 537.538
  • Seven considerations of Christs dying. 537.538.59
  • Christs love went to death with him. ibid.
  • Christ willing to die, and must dye. ibid.
  • A wondring that Christ should dye. ibid.
  • Reason would say, Christs body should be precious as the Sunne. ibid.
  • Its much that Christ should part with life. 59
  • Three ingredients in Christs death. 1. The curse. 2. Merit. 3. Divine acceptation. 540.541
  • Foure sad conditions in the ransome that Christ payed. 541
  • Page  [unnumbered]1. A man given for a man. 2. A King for a servant. 3. A King handled as a slave. ibid.
  • The ransome given must die. 542
  • Death the end of Christs labours. ibid.
  • Christs victory in dying. 543
  • His welcome. 544
  • Comforts to dye from the dying of Christ. 544.545
  • Christ had good hap to the Crosse. ibid.
  • Death perfected Christ. 546, 547
  • Life lame without the life hid with Christ. 547.548
  • Reall Mortification pressed from Christs death. 545.546
  • Comfort of pardon from Christs death. 549
  • Sinne sweet, suffering for sinne sad. 550
  • In the kind of Christs death, three Characters. 1. Paine. 2. Shame. 3. A Curse. 550.551
  • In the paine of Christs death three 1. Violence. ibid.
    • 2. Slownesse of dying. ibid.
    • 3. Many degrees of life taken from Christ. 550.551.554.
  • How Christ was capable of shame. ibid. 555
  • How not. 555.556
  • How shame penall might stand ith the dignity of his person. 557.558
  • How Christ was a curse. 558.559.560
  • Death naturall and violent. 561
  • Indifferent accidents of death 562
  • How a man is ripe for death. 562.563
  • Our errors and fancies touching the Crosse. 564.565
  • The bloud not dryed off Christ, while he was in heaven. ibid.
  • We condemne the wisdome of God, in our murmuring under the Crosse. 566
  • How farre we may chuse our owne Crosse. 567
  • The circumstances that fall in our crosse, dressed by infinite wis∣dome. 567.568
  • That a blessed Spirit take on him to bee a cursed sinner, admi∣rable. 571.572
  • Wee are not freed from the Law, as a rule of righteousnesse. 572.573
  • Neither Law nor Gospel obligeth a beleever to Sanctification, by the Antinomian way. 574.576
  • Page  [unnumbered]We are no more under the Gospel, nor under the Law, by the An∣tinomian way. 574.575
  • Antinomians enemies to close walking with God. 575.576
  • Men naturally are not awed by the Law. 576.577
  • Antinomians oblige not beleevers to personall walking with God. 578
  • The Law leaveth not off to bee a rule of righteousnesse, because it giveth not grace. 579
  • Every naturall man under the Law. 581.582
  • A Mystery of Antinomians, that all meanes, not effectually mo∣ving the will, are not meanes, laying bonds on the conscience. 582.583
  • Antinomians take away all use of teaching and exhorting. 584
  • Faith looseth us not from the Law. ibid.
  • Obeying of God, because of the direction of Law and Gospel is to Antinomians a controuling of the free Spirit. 589
  • The Law as the Law, required perfect obedience; but the Law as Evangelized, requireth not perfect obedience, that we may be justified. 589
  • The Antinomian doctrine propounded by the carnall Libertine, Rom. 7. 590.591
  • The Law is not meerely passive. 591.592
  • How Faith and new obedience are the meanes of our delivery from the body of sin, the former from the guilt, and that per∣fectly, and at once, in justification; and the other from the blot and in-dwelling of sinne, and that by degrees, in San∣ctification. 593.594
  • How we are saved without works. 594.595
  • How God accounteth the good works of the justified, porfect. 595.596.597.598