The Christian life part III. Wherein the great duties of justice, mercy, and mortification are fully explained and inforced. Vol. IV. By John Scott D.D. late rector of St. Giles's in the Fields.

Title

The Christian life part III. Wherein the great duties of justice, mercy, and mortification are fully explained and inforced. Vol. IV. By John Scott D.D. late rector of St. Giles's in the Fields.

Author

Scott, John, 1639-1695.

Publication

London :: printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard,

1696.

Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Subject terms

Christian life -- Early works to 1800.

Link to this Item

https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A58802.0001.001 content_copy

Cite this Item

"The Christian life part III. Wherein the great duties of justice, mercy, and mortification are fully explained and inforced. Vol. IV. By John Scott D.D. late rector of St. Giles's in the Fields." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A58802.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the Right Honourable Sir GEORGE TREBY LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE Common PLEAS.
• THE CONTENTS.
• OF THE Christian Life.
  • CHAP. I. Of Justice, as it preserves the Natural Rights of Men: and particularly in reference to their Bodies.
  • CHAP. II. Of Justice in preserving the Rights of Men, consider'd as Rational Crea∣tures.
  • CHAP. III. Of Justice in preserving the Rights of Men, as United together by Natural Relations: and as joyned together in Society.
  • CHAP. IV. Of Justice, as it preserves the Acquired Rights of Men: and particularly those which arise from Sacred and Civil Relations.
  • CHAP. V. Of Justice, as it preserves the Rights of Men acquired by Legal Possession.
  • CHAP. VI. Of Justice in reference to the Rights acquir'd by Personal Endowments, or outward Rank.
  • CHAP. VII. Of Justice, in reference to the Rights acquir'd by Compact.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of the Eternal Reasons of Justice.
  • CHAP. IX. Of the Sinfulness, and Unreasonable∣ness of Injustice.
• part
  • CHAP. I. Of Mercy, as it relieveth the Miseries of the Soul.
  • CHAP. II. Of Mercy, as it relieveth the Miseries of the Body.
  • CHAP. III. Of Almsgiving, as to the manner of performing it; and some Motives thereunto.
  • CHAP. IV. Of the Natural Reasons and Grounds of Mercy.
• part
  • CHAP. I. Of the Nature of Mortification.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Means, and Instruments of Mortification.
  • CHAP. III. Of some Motives to Mortification, taken from the Mischiefs of Sin.
  • CHAP. IV. Of Helps to Mortification, given us by the Spirit of God.
  • CHAP. V. Of the Eternal Reward of Mortifica∣tion, and Holiness.
  • CHAP. VI. Of the Necessity of Mortification to the obtaining of Eternal Life.
• Books Printed for Walter Kettilby.