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128. On a flower-de-luce.......
129. On the sight of two trees, one
high, the other broad
130. On the sight of a drunken man
131. On the whetting of a scythe.....
132. On the sight of a looking-glass..
133. On the shining of a piece of rot-
ten wood
134. On an ivy-tree........
135. On a quartan ague.........
136. On the sight of a loaded cart....
137. On the sight of a dwarf..........
138. On an importunate beggar........
139. On a medicinal potion..........
Viso quodam nano...
Audito paulò importuniore
mendico.....
Viso pharmaco quodam......
140. On the sight of a wheel............ Ad conspectum rotæ.......
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IV. A HOLY RAPTURE: OR, A PATHETICAL MEDITATION ON THE
LOVE OF CHRIST.
Section 1. The Love of Christ how passing knowledge; how free;
of us, before we were....
229
11. How free, of us, that had made ourselves vile and mi-
serable......
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111. How yet free, of us, that were professed Enemies......
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IV.
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The wonderful Effects of the Love of Christ. His In-
carnation..........
v. His Love, in his Sufferings..
VI. His Love, in preparing Heaven for us......
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VII. His Love, in our Redemption from Death and Hell......... 234
VIII. Christ's Love, in giving us the Guard of his Angels........ 235
IX. His Love, in giving us his Holy Spirit......
x. Our Sense and Improvement of Christ's Love, in all the
former Particulars: and, first, in respect of the Inequa-
lity of the Persons...
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XI. A further Enforcement of our Love to Christ, in respect
of our Unworthiness and his Sufferings, and prepared
Glory.......
XII. The Improvement of our Love to Christ for the Mercy
of his Deliverance, of the Tuition of his Angels, of
the powerful Working of his Good Spirit.......
V. SELECT THOUGHTS: OR, CHOICE HELPS FOR A PIOUS
SPIRIT. A CENTURY OF DIVINE BREATHINGS FOR A RA-
VISHED SOUL, BEHOLDING THE EXCELLENCE OF HER
LORD JESUS.........
VI. SUPERNUMERARIES.......................
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VII. THE BREATHINGS OF THE DEVOUT SOUL...................... 315
VIII. SUSURRIUM CUM DEO. SOLILOQUIES: OR, HOLY SELF-
CONFERENCES OF THE DEVOUT SOUL, UPON SUNDRY
CHOICE OCCASIONS; WITH HUMBLE ADDRESSES TO THE
THRONE OF GRACE.
The Author's Supplicatory Dedication.................
Soliloquy 1. The Best Prospect.............................................................................
2. The Happy Parting..
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79. Presages of Judgment..
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80. Unwearied Motion, and Rest Eternal................ ................... .....
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IX. THE
SOUL'S FAREWELL TO EARTH, AND AP-
PROACHES TO HEAVEN.
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X. THE GREAT MYSTERY OF GODLINESS, LAID FORTH
BY WAY OF AFFECTUOUS AND FEELING MEDITATION...... 419
XI. THE INVISIBLE WORLD DISCOVERED TO SPIRITUAL
EYES, AND REDUCED TO USEFUL MEDITATION. IN THREE
Books.
Preface...........
447
First Book:-OF GOD AND HIS ANGELS.
Section 1. That there is an Invisible World.........
448
11. The Distribution of the Invisible World......................... 449
111. The Angels of Heaven: their Numbers...
IV.. The Power of Angels.
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v. The Knowledge of Angels.....
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VI. The Employments and Operations of Angels....................
VII. The Degrees and Orders of Angels...........
VIII. The Apparitions of Angels.........
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IX. The Respects which we owe to the Angels...............
Second Book:-OF THE SOULS OF MEN.
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Section 1. Of their Separation and Immortality..................
11. Of the Instant Vision of God, upon the Egression of
the Soul; and the Present Condition, till then............ 472
111. Of the Soul's Perpetual Vigilancy, and Fruition of God 475
IV. Of the Knowledge of the Glorified............
476
v. Of the Glory of Heaven enjoyed by Blessed Souls........ 478
VI. Wherein the Glory of the Saints above consisteth, and
how they are employed........
479
VII. In what terms the Departed Saints stand to us, and
what respects they bear to us.......
481
VIII. The Re-union of the Body to the Soul, both glorified...... 483
Third Book:-OF THE EVIL ANGELS.
Section 1. Of their First Sin and Fall.................
11. Of the Number of Apostate Spirits..............
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Section 111. Of the Power of Devils...........
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489
IV. Of the Knowledge and Malice of Wicked Spirits........ 491
v. The Variety of the Spiritual Assaults of Evil Spirits...... 492
VI. Of the Apparitions and Assumed Shapes of Evil Spirits... 495
VII. The Vehemence of Satan's Last Conflicts..........
VIII. Of our Carriage toward Wicked Spirits; and the Ways
of our Prevalence against them.........
IX. How we are to proceed against Evil Spirits.........
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x. Of the Woeful Estate of the Souls of the Damned.... 502
XI. A Recapitulation of the Whole Discourse......
XII. The Comparison of Both Worlds: and how our Thoughts
and Affections should be taken up with the Invisible
World...........
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