III. The STATE of GRACE, or Begun, Recovery. HEAD I. REGENERATION Difcourfed from I Pet. i. 23. 154 F the nature of regeneration, The change made in regeneration, what it is, In general, In particular, The mind illuminated, The will renewed. 156 157 158 161 162 163 ib. Cured of its utter inability to good, Endued with a fixed averfion to evil, 164 ib. 165 166 ib. rectified, regulated, The confcience renewed, The memory bettered by regenerating grace, The whole converfation changed, The refemblance betwixt natural and spiritual generation,. in nine particulars, Trial of one's ftate, whether born again, or not, Some cafes of doubting Chriftians refolved, Cafe (2.)-Sin prevailing, Cafe (3) Corruptions more violent than formerly, Cafe (4.) Affections to the creature ftronger than to the Creator-Glowing affections to God gone, Cafe (5.) Attainments of hypocrites and apoftates, a terror, Cafe (6.) Falling fhort of the faints mentioned in fcripture, and of others, Cafe (7.) No child of God fo tempted, 167 ib. 168 .169. 170 171 ib. 174 377 181 ib. ib. 182 183 185 186 .ib. HEAD II. The MYSTICAL UNION betwixt CHRIST and The condition of the branches in that refpect, The condition of the branches in that refpect, 203 ib. 205 ib. Chrift apprehends the finner by his Spirit, The finner apprehends Chrift by faith, ib. ib. Quest. What shall be faid of thefe Chriftians who, in- Acceptance of their fruits of holiness, 25 A fhort-liv'd vanity, A flying vanity, The doctrine of death, a looking- glafs, wherein to behold the vanity of the world, A ftore-houfe for contentment and patience, A bridle to curb lufts converfant about the body, A fpur to incite to prepare for death, Page 260 262 263 264 266 268 269 HEAD II. The difference betwixt the Righteous and the Wicked in their death, difcourfed from Prov- xiv. 32. HE wicked dying, are driven away, THE Page 270 271. In what cafes a wicked man may be willing to die, 273 Driven away in their wickedness, The hopeleffnefs of their ftate at death, Their hopes of peace and pleafure in this life cut off, Exhortation to haften out of a finful ftate, To be concerned for the falvation of others, The ftate of the godly in death, a hopeful ftate, Christ, their best friend, is Lord of the other world, Object. Many of the godly, when dying, full of fears, Death uncomfortable to them, in three cafes,, 274 275 276 ib. ib. 1 277 278 ib. 280 Confiderations to bring faints in good terms with death, The difference betwixt the godly and the wicked, in their refurrection, Page 306 Jefus Chrift the Judge, The coming of the Judge, The fummons given, The Judge's fitting down in the tribunal, The qualities of the raised bodies of the faints, The qualities of the raised bodies of the wicked, Comfort to the people of God,, Terror to all natural men, HEIV, The GENERAL JUDGMENT, Difcourfed from THAT there fhall be a General Judgment, proven, THA 311 313 314 316 P. 318 319 322 323 324 ib. The compearance of the parties, The feparation betwixt the righteous and the wicked, The place and time of the judgment, unknown, White garments, on what occafion ufed: much of The fociety of the faints among themfelves, Society with the holy angels, Glorious communion with God and Chrift, the per fection of happiness, The glorious prefence of God and the Lamb, By fight, They will fee Chrift, with their bodily eyes, They will fee God, with the eyes of the mind, Fulnefs of joy unfpeakable, The eternal duration of this kigdom, The quality in which they are introduced, HEAD VI. HELL Difcourfed of from Mat. xxv. 41. THE curfe under which the damned shall be shut up in hell, Their mifery under that curfe, The punishment of lofs, feparation from God, The punishment of fenfe, departing into fire, Society with devils in this miferable state, The eternity of the whole, What eternity, is What is eternal in the ftate of the damned, Page 359 361 Reasonableness of the eternity of the punishment of the damned, A measuring-reed to meafure our time, and endeavours (405 for falvation by, 4:6 A balance to difcover the lightnefs of what is falfly thought weighty, and the weight of what is falfly thought light, 407 Exhortation to flee from the wrath to come, 408 STATE |