Two treatises. The first is, A plain platform for preaching: whereby the word of truth may be rightly divided; and he that speaketh, speak as the oracles of God. Digested into 20. propositions. The second is, The destruction of in-bred corruption. Or, An antidote against fleshly lust. By A. Symson minister of Gods word.

Title

Two treatises. The first is, A plain platform for preaching: whereby the word of truth may be rightly divided; and he that speaketh, speak as the oracles of God. Digested into 20. propositions. The second is, The destruction of in-bred corruption. Or, An antidote against fleshly lust. By A. Symson minister of Gods word.

Author

Simson, Alexander, 1570?-1639.

Publication

London :: printed for John Wright, at the Kings Head in the Old Bailey,

1658.

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Subject terms

Conduct of life -- Early works to 1900.

Christian literature -- Early works to 1900.

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"Two treatises. The first is, A plain platform for preaching: whereby the word of truth may be rightly divided; and he that speaketh, speak as the oracles of God. Digested into 20. propositions. The second is, The destruction of in-bred corruption. Or, An antidote against fleshly lust. By A. Symson minister of Gods word." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62118.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the Honourable Trustees, for maintenance of Ministers, and other Pious Uses, &c.
• A plain PLATFORM FOR PREACHING: Whereby The Word of Truth may be rightly divided; And he that speaketh, speak as the Oracles of God.
  • I. What preaching is.
  • II. Ministers are bound to preach the Word
  • III. What the interpret∣ing of the word is.
  • IIII. The rules to be ob∣served herein.
  • V. The word is most conveni∣ently han∣dled by way of Doctrine and Use.
  • VI. What a Doctrine is.
  • VII. How a Doctrine is to be raised from the Text.
  • VIII. The order to be used in the handling of a Do∣ctrine.
  • IX. How an Use is to be raised.
  • X.
  • XI. How the Uses are to be handled
  • XII. Each Use may be se∣veraly am∣plified.
  • XIII. An Use of Confu∣tation how to be amplified.
  • XIII. How an Use of confirma∣tion and instructi∣on is to be amplified.
  • XV. How to amplifie an Use of Reproof.
  • XVI. An Use of admo∣nition or exhortati∣on how to be ampli∣fied.
  • XVII. An Us of Comfort how to be amplified.
  • XVIII. A Caveat about the kindes and order of amplifica∣tions.
  • XIX. The Conclusion of the Uses how to be ordered.
  • XX. A necessa∣ry directi∣on about the Uses.
• part
  • A briefe of the ensuing TREATISE.
  • chapter - 8
• THE DESTRVCTION of in-bred Corruption OR, AN ANTIDOTE against Fleshly Lusts.
  • CHAP. I. The Enemy to bee encoun∣tred with: the sundry names wherby the same is expressed.
  • CHAP. II. That the Flesh, with the lusts and affections ther∣of, is to be encountred.
  • CHAP. III. By whom the Flesh with the lusts and affections thereof is to be encoun∣tred.
  • CHAP. IV. Why the FLESH with the lusts and affections there∣of is to be encountred.
  • CHAP. V. After what manner the Flesh with the lusts and affections thereof is to be encountred.
  • CHAP. VI. By what meanes the Flesh with the Lusts and Af∣fections thereof is to bee encountred.
  • CHAP. VII. Motives, or encourage∣ments unto this spiritu∣all Combat.
  • CHAP. VIII. Necessary Caveats to bee observed in this spiritu∣all Encounter.
  • CHAP. V. How to discerne when we prevaile against the Flesh, with its inordinate Lusts and Affections.
  • CHAP. X. The Application of the foregoing matter.