The combate between the flesh and spirit.: As also the wofull with-drawing of the Spirit of God, with the causes thereof: and walking in, and after the Spirit, together with the blessednesse thereof. Being the summe and substance of XXVII. sermons: preached a little before his death, by that faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of the Gospel at Lawrence Jury London. To which is added the Christians directory tending to direct him in the various conditions that God may cast him into. In XV. sermons.

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The combate between the flesh and spirit.: As also the wofull with-drawing of the Spirit of God, with the causes thereof: and walking in, and after the Spirit, together with the blessednesse thereof. Being the summe and substance of XXVII. sermons: preached a little before his death, by that faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of the Gospel at Lawrence Jury London. To which is added the Christians directory tending to direct him in the various conditions that God may cast him into. In XV. sermons.
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Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.
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"The combate between the flesh and spirit.: As also the wofull with-drawing of the Spirit of God, with the causes thereof: and walking in, and after the Spirit, together with the blessednesse thereof. Being the summe and substance of XXVII. sermons: preached a little before his death, by that faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of the Gospel at Lawrence Jury London. To which is added the Christians directory tending to direct him in the various conditions that God may cast him into. In XV. sermons." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A88580.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.

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An ALPHABETICAL TABLE, TO the foregoing Treatise of the conflict between the Flesh and Spirit.

A
  • SPirit of God works not alike in all. Page. 66
  • Attendance on Ordinances. p. 103
  • Affections unruly. p. 179
  • Aptnesse to fall into any sinne. p. 194
  • Spiritual Abatements. p. 214
  • Christian Religion not Austere. p. 218
  • Arminian objections answered. p. 249
B
  • Blame of sin onely due to us. p. 131, 132
  • And not to God or devil. p. 161
  • Business of the world hinders holy duties. p. 210
C
  • Conviction for sin long after the Commission of it. p. 40
  • We must not go out of our Calling. p. 49
  • We must follow our particular Calling. p. 52
  • Constancy in duty. p. 65
  • Customary sinning. p. 117
  • Conflict of Flesh and Spirit. p. 124
  • Of Corruption of our natures. p. 141
  • Concupiscence a sinne. p. 160
  • Conflict against sinne fourefold. p. 165
  • ...

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  • Conscience Gods spie. p. 182
  • Contrariety of Flesh and Spirit. p. 186, 187
  • Why God suffers this Contrariety of our Corrupt na∣tures to good. p. 198
  • No Confidence to be put in duties. p. 256
D
  • Despising Ordinances. p. 10
  • Depending on Ordinances. ibid.
  • Deliberate sinners. p. 33, 34
  • Devil may move a man to that which is good. p. 48
  • We must not Depend on that we do. p 54
  • Spiritual desertions of three sorts. p. 59
  • Duties spiritually done. p. 63, 64
  • Duties diligently done. p. 64
  • Satanical delusions. p. 86, 87
  • Difference between the godly sinning, and the wicked. p. 112, 113, 114.
  • Diabolical motions. p. 156
  • Corruption in us to our dying day. p. 192
  • Sin diverts from and disturbs in duty. p. 207
  • Gods decrees abused. p. 216
  • Defilement cleaves to duty. p. 233
  • Desire to do is doing. p. 258
E
  • Our Flesh a malicious enemy. p. 135
  • An universal enemy. p. 136
  • Other properties of this enmity. p. 137, 138
  • We can never do good enough. p. 220
  • False ends of doing duty. p. 244, 245
  • Education may restraine from evil. p. 283
F
  • Fervency and Frequency in duty. p. 62
  • Fulfill lusts of the Flesh what. p. 110
  • ...

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  • Flesh, the meaning of it. p. 121
  • How the Flesh opposeth the Spirit. p. 120
  • Slavish Feare. p. 176, 177
G
  • Spirit of God our Guide. p. 82
  • Why we must follow the Spirits Guidance. p. 83, 84
  • We have more sin then Grace. p. 191
H
  • Health must be preserved. p. 51, 52
  • Humiliation for corruptions. p. 144
  • Our corruption hinders us from doing good. p. 208
I
  • Jesus Christ a faithful High Priest. p. 66
  • Inobservancy of the Spirit. p. 92, 93
  • Indulgence of sinne. p. 118
  • Inticements to sinne. p. 127, 128, 129
  • Inability to do good pretended. p. 217
  • Of Interruptions in holy duties. p. 231, 232
K
  • How godly kept from doing evil. p. 262, &c.
  • The holy Spirit keepes us. p. 265
  • We are not able to keepe our selves. p, 277
  • Gods keeping of us implies our care. ibid.
L
  • Lusts of the Flesh. p. 109
  • Of seeing Little sinnes. p. 129
M
  • Moral perswasions what. p. 13, 105
  • Sevcral Motions of the Spirit to good. p. 45
  • Evil Motions of the heart. p. 47
  • Misery of those from whom Gods Spirit is withdrawn. p. 71
  • How we may know the Motions of the Spirit from the Motions of our natural conscience. p. 84, 85
  • Common and saving Motions of the Spirit. p. 88
  • ...

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  • Our natures receptive of evil Motions. p. 94
  • Mortification. p, 150
  • Mourne for corruption. p. 251
N
  • Great is our Need of Gods Spirit. p. 70
  • Of a Natural conscience. p. 175, 176
  • Necessity of Ordinances. p. 208
O
  • A childe of God may Often commit the same sin. p. 41
  • Avoid Occasions to sinne. p. 149
  • Of Opposition of sinne by the godly and wicked. p. 169, &c.
  • Of Original sinne. p. 205, 257
  • Of necessity of Ordinances. p 209
  • Omission of good damnable. p 228
P
  • Pouring out of the Spirit in latter dayes. p. 14
  • Pretending to have the Spirit. p. 101, 102
  • Potency of the Flesh. p. 133, 134
R
  • Repentance a work of the Spirit. p. 31
  • Motions of the Spirit in Reprobates. p. 89
  • Rejoycing in evil. p 113
  • Why corrupt nature remaines in the Regenerate. p. 266, 967
  • A Regenerate man doth not sin as he did before. p. 134, 144
  • Of Restraining grace. p. 276
S
  • Sons of God, what it implies. p. 2
  • Spirit of God withdrawing. p. 6
  • Spirit of God works mediately. p 16, 17
  • Saints may fall into those sins which are contrary

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  • to their graces wherein they are most eminent. p. 37 38
  • Signes of the Spirits withdrawing. p 60, 61, 62
  • Sin causeth the Spirit to withdraw. p 73, 74
  • Sin brings no good fruit. p. 97
  • How the Spirit is in us. p. 100
  • Suppresse the first stirring of sin. p. 147, 148
  • Sense of sinne. p. 202, 203, 204.
  • Succeslesnesse in duty, whence. p. 226
  • Sincerity accepted. p. 259
T
  • Spirit of God keeps us from yielding to Temptations. p. 28.
  • Gods Spirit withdrawes but for a time. p. 77
V
  • Good unseasonably done. p. 50
W
  • Withdrawing of the Spirit. p. 6
  • Wrong six fold to Gods Spirit. p. 7
  • Withdrawing of Spirit from the Word. p. 18
  • Symptomes of the Spirits withdrawing from the Word. p. 23, 24
  • Reasons of the Spirits withdrawing. p. 32.
  • Christians are weak to do good. p. 69
  • Of walking in the Spirit. p. 80
  • Of wearisomnesse in holy duties. p. 238
  • We must watch our hearts. p. 254
  • Wicked men restrained. p. 271, 272, &c.
  • Wicked men may abstaine from sinne, and yet not up∣on gracious grounds. p. 286, 287, &c.
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