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What St. Paul meaneth by the works of the law

What by the Spirit

How the Spirit is said to be given after faith.

truth of the Gospel

The Testimony of the Spirit, then, a sufficient proof of the

The commonness of the miraculous works of the Spirit

Their sufficiency to prove the Gospel true

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The certainty of the tradition of the Scriptures to us
The reason of the need of miracles, then

But not to continue.

Use 1. An information of the certain truth of the christian

The truth of seeming contradictory Scriptures, and of

the most seeming improbable passages, and of the

Everlasting punishment of the wicked proved

most terrible passages

Use this, 1. In all temptations to infidelity

2. In dulness and declining...

3. In sadness

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Use 2. The main argument ever used to prove the truth of

the christian religion..

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3. What the testimony of the Spirit is, and who have it. 49

4. What it is to believe in the Holy Ghost, and to be

5. What is the sin against the Holy Ghost......

The Second Doctrine, That is the true doctrine and religion,

by which the Spirit is given: cautions for the right

understanding of this....

The reason

Quest. Must we try the doctrine by the Spirit, or the Spirit

by the doctrine....

Use 1. The argument used against infidelity......

2. What clear light seekers contradict, that say we have

lost the Scriptures and church

3. There is but one true church and religion

4. To convince the revolters of these times.

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5. To those that have not the Spirit

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A Corollary, Demonstrating the life to come, and future hap-

piness or misery

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A Determination of this question, Whether the miraculous

works of Christ and his disciples do oblige those to be-

lieve who never saw them:-

Ten arguments to prove the affirmative of the question...

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Sixteen objections of the apostates answered...

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Of the miracles mentioned by Augustin and other ancient

doctors....

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Our certainty infallible, and, in a sort, physical, maintained

against Peter Hurtado de Mendoza

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THE SECOND PART.

CHRIST'S WITNESS WITHIN US, THE BELIEVER'S SPE-

CIAL ADVANTAGE AGAINST TEMPTATIONS TO

INFIDELITY.

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Sect. 1. The text, 1 John v. 10 explained.

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2. What the witness in ourselves is..

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3. The reasons why all true believers shall have the wit-

ness in themselves....

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4. Use 1. The advantage of believers against tempta-

tions to infidelity

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How great a mercy this is, Sect. 5, 6, 7, &c.

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Object. I find not this witness in me answered

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So many pretend to the Spirit that I can believe none

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of them....

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But how shall I know which of them hath the Spirit,

when so many pretend to it?......

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Quest. But how shall I know, whether I have it?......

How a Christian should make use of the witness of the Spirit

within him, for the resisting of temptations to unbelief

Object. All this is but your own prejudice, which a Turk may.

boast of in his own religion

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It is not the truth of the Gospel, but your belief of it

that makes all these impressions on you..

What need you a testimony within, if you can see

such evidence in the word without

Doth not that want evidence, which a reasonable man

cannot believe?

You prove the Scripture true, because you believe it;

whereas you should believe it because it is true ..

But what is your private spirit to convince another

man?

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Quest. What need we make use of Scripture, or ministers, if
we have the witness in ourselves?

ibid.

Is not he most likely to be in the right, in particular

controversies, that hath most of the Spirit?......

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What an advantage it is in cases of particular temptations and

controversies to have the Spirit

Sect. 23. Twenty considerations, evincing the necessity of

common knowledge, called human learning, not-

withstanding the witness and helps of the Spirit.

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Sect. 24. All sins, but especially those that most quench the

Spirit, have a natural tendency to infidelity; and

wounding the conscience by sensuality, is a com-

mon way to it

25. Ungodly men are incompetent judges of the matters

of the christian faith

26. The way to firm belief is to taste and try, that we

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may have christian experience

THE THIRD PART.

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THE UNPARDONABLE SIN AGAINST THE HOLY

GHOST.

Sect. 1. Satan's course in tempting men to infidelity..

The reasons of this discourse...

Sect. 2. The text opened

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Your children, who

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Matt. xii. 30 reconciled with Luke ix. 49, 50 ......

The Father's judgment of the sin against the Holy

Ghost......

The papists' and protestants' judgment of it......

Whether this sin be absolutely unpardonable, the judg-

ment of the ancients, and later writers.

3. The author's judgment, 1. On the negative, what is not

the sin against the Holy Ghost, in twenty-four pro-

positions....

Of the sense of Heb. vi. 4—6, and whether all total

apostasy be this sin

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The sum of all .....

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4. Doct. How the enmity of Christ, his doctrine and

works against Satan's kingdom, prove that it was
not by Satan's power, but by God's, that Christ and
his disciples did their works..

The enmity on Satan's part proved, from his nature,

5. Proved by possessions and other violence on the body

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