A nosegay of divine truths; wherein the chief points of religion are ingeniously discussed, and also the doctrines of predestination, reprobation, &c. rightly determined: Highly necessary for all Christians to peruse. And digested into 50 chapters; both French and English, for the benefit of those who are desirous to improve themselves in the French or English tongues. By P.B. formerly of the order of S. Francis, now a convert to the Church of England

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A nosegay of divine truths; wherein the chief points of religion are ingeniously discussed, and also the doctrines of predestination, reprobation, &c. rightly determined: Highly necessary for all Christians to peruse. And digested into 50 chapters; both French and English, for the benefit of those who are desirous to improve themselves in the French or English tongues. By P.B. formerly of the order of S. Francis, now a convert to the Church of England

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P. B.

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London :: printed for the author, and sold by Benj. Crayle at the Peacock and Bible at the West-end of St. Pauls,

1687.

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Theology, Doctrinal

Christianity

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"A nosegay of divine truths; wherein the chief points of religion are ingeniously discussed, and also the doctrines of predestination, reprobation, &c. rightly determined: Highly necessary for all Christians to peruse. And digested into 50 chapters; both French and English, for the benefit of those who are desirous to improve themselves in the French or English tongues. By P.B. formerly of the order of S. Francis, now a convert to the Church of England." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76270.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE READER.
• TABLE.
• TABLE.
• tract
  • De la GRACE.
    • CHAP. I. Dieu presente sa Grace à tous.
    • CHAP. II. Dieu donne plus de Grace à l'un qu' á l'autre.
    • CHAP. III. Dieu donne á tous une Grace suffi∣sante á Salut.
    • CHAP. IV. Nôtre Co-operation à la Grace est necessaire à Salut.
    • CHAP. V. La Grace opere differemment.
    • CHAP. VI. La Grace est resistible.
    • CHAP. VII. La Grace ne detruit pas la Liberté.
    • CHAP. VIII. Si l'homme ne vit pas en ce mon sans péché, il ne faut pas en impu¦ter la faute à la Grace de Die mais à l'Infirmité de sa natur & aux Tentations aux quelles est Sujet.
    • CHAP. IX. La Grace ne detruit pas la Concu∣piscence.
    • CHAP. X. La Grace Sanctifiante est incompa∣tible avec le peché Mortel.
    • CHAP. XI. La Grace Sanctifiante se peut perdre.
    • CHAP. XII. Le Juste tombe quelquefois & meurt dans son Peché.
    • CHAP. XIII. Par la Repentance l'hon peut re∣couvrer sa Sancteté perdue.
    • CHAP. XIV. La Repentance, aprés que nous avons souvent rejetté la Grace de Dieu, n'est pas en notre pouvoir.
    • CHAP. XV. Les hommes font de grandes promes∣ses à Dieu, & les rompent fort souvent.
    • CHAP. XVI. Tous voeus faits à Dieu d'une chose qui n'est pas en nôtre Pouvoir sont nuls.
    • CHAP. XVII. Le Mariage doit être permis à tous indifferemment.
    • CHAP. XVIII. La Saincteté consiste dans la prati∣que de toutes les vertus, & de tous les commandements de Dieu.
    • CHAP. XIX. De la Predestinatian & Repro∣bation.
    • CHAP. XX. Diverses impietez qui procedent de la Doctrine de la Predestination & Reprobation, comme elles sont crûes, maintenues, & publiées par Calvin & ses Sectateurs. Premiere Impieté.
    • CHAP. XXI. Seconde Impieté Elle detruit la Priere, La foy la Repentance, l'usage des Sacre∣mentts, & l'observance des Comm∣ments de Dieu.
    • CHAP. XXII. Troisieme Impieté.
    • CHAP. XXIII. Quatrieme Impieté.
    • CHAP. XXIV. Cinquiéme Impieté
    • CAAP. XXV. Sixieme Impieté.
    • CHAP. XXVI. Septieme Impieté.
    • CHAP. XXVI. David & St. Paul n'ont pas cru la Predestination & Reprobation com∣me elles sont expliques au Chap. 19.
    • CHAP. XXVII. Comme la Predestination se doit entendre.
    • CHAP. XXVIII. Comment la Reprobation se doit entendre.
    • CHAP. XXIX. Les bonnes oeuvres sont necessaires à salut.
    • CHAP. XXX. Les Imagês sont degrande utilite, pour nous instruire & enflamer no∣tre Devotion.
    • CHAP. XXXI. Les mauvaises Compagnies sont a evi∣ter plus que la Peste.
    • CHAP. XXXII. Le Pecheur devant mourir bientôt, & ne sçachant pas quand, ni com∣ment, ne doit pas differer sa con∣version.
    • CHAP. XXXIII. Comment la Femme mariée doit vi∣vre, si elle desire d'etre heureuse aprés sa mort, & vivre en cette vie en bonne odeur parmi les hommes.
    • CHAP. XXXIV. Grande Consolation à la Femme scrupuleuse, luy faisant voir que tous les petis Enfants, qui meu∣rent sans Baptême, sont Sau∣vez.
    • CHAP. XXXV. Etat du Pecheur sur le point de Mourir.
    • CHAP. XXXVI. Etat du Pecheur aprés sa mort.
    • CHAP. XXXVII. Etat de l'Ame saincte sur le point de se separer de son Corps par la mort.
    • CHAP. XXXVIII. Etat de l'Ame Saincte apres la sepa∣ration de son Corps.
    • CHAP. XXXIX. Le monde est un trompeur.
    • CHAP. XL. Mefiez vous du monde, fiez vous seu∣lement en Dieu.
    • CHAP. XLI. Rien n'est capable de satisfaire notre Ame que Dieu seul.
    • CHAP. XLII. L'Avare est toujours pauvre & mal∣heureux; le Liberal est toujours riche & heureux.
    • CHAP. XLIII. Il faut foumettre la Chair a l'E∣sprit.
    • CHAP. XLIV. Il faut eviter la Paresse.
    • CHAP. XLV. Il faut me priser les Richesses & Comment.
    • CHAP. XLVI. Il faut eviter les plus petis Pechez.
    • CHAP. XLVII. Il faut obeir aux Roys & aux Ma∣gistrats.
    • CHAP. XLVIII. Comme il se faut Comporter au temps de l'Affliction.
    • CHAP. XLIX. Preparation necessaire à quiconque desire de recevoir dignement le souper du Seigneur.
    • CHAP. L. Marques assurées pour connoitre si vous avez les qualitez que requiet St. Paul, pour recevoir dignement le souper du seigneur.
  • OF GRACE.
    • CHAP. I. God gives his Grace to all.
    • CHAP. II. God gives a greater measure of Grace to one than to another.
    • CHAP. III. God gives to all Men Grace sufficient to Salvation.
    • CHAP. IV. Our Co-operation with Grace is ne∣cessary to Salvation.
    • CHAP. V. Grace works differently.
    • CHAP. VI. Grace is Resistible.
    • CHAP. VII. Grace doth not destroy Liberty.
    • CAAP. VIII. If no Man Lives in this World with∣out Sin, we must not blame the Grace of God for it, but the infir∣mity of his Nature, and the Temptations which he is Subject to.
    • CHAP. IX. Grace doth not destroy Concupiscence or sensual Lusts.
    • CHAP. X. Sanctifying Grace is incompatible with Mortal Sin.
    • CHAP. XI. Sanctifying Grace may be lost.
    • CHAP. XII. The Righteous Man falls sometimes and Dies in his Sin.
    • CHAP. XIII. By Repentance a Man may recover his lost Holiness.
    • CHAP. XIV. Repentance, after we have often re∣jected Gods Grace, is not in our Power.
    • CHAP. XV. Men make fair promises to God, and break them very often.
    • CHAP. XVI. All Vows made unto God of any thing which is not in our Power, are void.
    • CHAP. XVII. Marriage ought to be permitted to all Men and Women indifferently.
    • CHAP. XVIII. Holiness coonsists in the practice of all Vertues and Commandments of God.
    • CHAP. XIX. Of Predestination and Reproba∣tion.
    • CHAP. XX. Several Impieties do proceed from the Doctrine of Predestination and Reprobation, as they are both believed, maintain'd and Pub∣lish'd by Calvin and his Followers. First Impiety.
    • CHAP. XXI. Second Impiety.
    • CHAP. XXII. Third Impiety.
    • CHAP. XXIII. Fourth Impiety.
    • The Fifth Impiety. CHAP. XXIV.
    • CHAP. XXV. Sixth Impiety.
    • CHAP. XXVI. Seventh Impiety.
    • CHAP. XXVI. David and St. Paul did not believe Predestination and Reprobation, as they are above explain'd in the 19th. Chapter.
    • CHAP. XXVII. How Predestination is to be un∣derstood.
    • CHAP. XXVIII. How Reprobation is to be under∣stood.
    • CHAP. XXIX. Gods Works are necessary to Salva∣tion.
    • CHAP. XXX. Images are of great advantage to instruct us, and inflame our De∣votion.
    • CHAP. XXXI. Bad Companions are rather to be avoided than the Plague it self.
    • CHAP. XXXII. The Sinner being to die shortly, and knowing not when nor how, ought not to delay his Conversion.
    • CHAP. XXXIII. How the Married Woman, that is desirous to be happy after Death, and in a good Reputation among Men in this World, ought to Live.
    • CHAP. XXXIV. A great comfort to the scrupulous Woman, shewing that all the lit∣tle Children that dye without Bap∣tism, are sav'd.
    • CHAP. XXXV. The condition of a sinner near Death.
    • CHAP. XXXVI. The Condition of a Sinner after Death.
    • CHAP. XXXVII. The Condition of a Holy Soul near the Separation from its Body by Death.
    • CHAP. XXXVIII. The Condition of an holy Soul after She is separated from her Body.
    • CHAP. XXXIX. The World is a Cheat.
    • CAAP. XL. Mistrust the World, trust in God only.
    • CHAP. XLI. Nothing is able to satisfie our Soul but God alone.
    • CHAP. XLII. The Covetous Man is always poor and miserable, the Liberal al∣ways Rich and Happy.
    • CHAP. XLIII. We must submit our Flesh to the Spirit.
    • CHAP. XLIV. Idleness ought to be avoided.
    • CHAP. XLV. Riches ought to be contemned, and how.
    • CHAP. XLVI. We must avoid the smallest Sins.
    • CHAP. XLVII. We must Obey Kings and Magi∣strates.
    • CHAP. XLVIII. How Men ought to behave themselves in their troubles.
    • CHAP. XLIX. A necessary Preparation to every one that desires whorthily to receive the Lords Supper.
    • CHAP. L. Certain signs to know whether you have the qualities that St. Paul requires, worthily to receive the Lords Supper.