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How they might know they were under inspiration 108
They mistook not the devil's impressions for divine revela-
tion
109
The words as well as matter of scripture were given by in-
spiration
From its antiquity and preservation
From the testimony of God by miracles
Two objections answered
By the conviction and conversion of sinners
110
112
ibid
114, 115
116
How Christians come to a full persuasion of the divinity of
scripture
The inward testimony of the Spirit explained
118
QUEST. V, VI. The principal matters contained in
QUEST. VII. Of the nature and perfections of God.
How we may conceive aright of the divine perfections ibid
Of the communicable and incommunicable perfections of God 122
Nothing common between God and the creature
God is a Spirit; what a Spirit is
123
Difference between other spiritual substances and God 124
Independent 124. Infinitely perfect
126
All-sufficient 127. When this perfection is in effect denied 127
Eternal 129. His eternal duration not successive 132. How
the parts of time are attributed to God
133
Immutable. When immutability is a perfection. How peculiar
to God 135. Arguments to prove him so
Incomprehensible
Omnipresent 139, and Almighty
Wherein his power appears
What things God cannot do
The improvement of this subject
136
138
140
141
142
143
Omniscient 145. He knows all future contingencies 147
Properties of God's knowledge 149. Its improvement 150
When it is practically denied, ibid.
Wisdom of God infinite
Different from knowledge
Wherein it appears
In Creation 154. Providence 155. Redemption
In the constant government of the church
152
156
158
159
160
161
162
162, 163
His suffering the entrance of sin, was no reflection on it
'Tis the standard of doctrines
-Instances of doctrines which lead to licentiousness
Mercy and grace of God infinite
Mercy is either common or special
Afflictions of believers not properly a punishment
Difference between goodness, mercy, grace, and patience 169
Grace free and sovereign
171
172
Discriminating 173. Instances of it, ibid. Afflictions not
· inconsistent with it
168
174
187
How he is called a God of truth
Faithfulness of God, ibid. No impeachment hereof that some
threatenings have not been executed 188. Nor that some
promises have not presently been performed
How this perfection is to be improved
QUEST. VIII. Of the Unity of the Godhead.
How God is styled the living God
190
191
Unity of the Godhead proved
Abernethy on that subject, in a note
Was not denied by the wiser Heathen
Inferences from it
194
197
200
202
203
How we should conceive of it
Different modes used in speaking of the perfections of God 204
QUEST. IX, X, XI. Of the Doctrine of the Trinity,
Calvin on the word Person, in a note
The doctrine of the highest importance
How to determine the importance of a doctrine
What knowledge of it necessary to salvation
It is a great mystery, 214. What a mystery is, ibid.
Whether to receive it be to use words without ideas
Whether the revelation of it be unintelligible
207
209
211
213
216
217
220
221
Whether that which is unintelligible be the object of faith 222
How this doctrine promotes religion
223
In what sense revelation is an improvement of the light of
nature
Not contrary to reason, though above it
When a doctrine is contrary to reason
224
226
227
It is not chargeable with Tritheism
The use of reason in proving doctrines of pure revelation 229
It cannot be known by the light of nature
How it was made known to Adam
Whether the heathen knew it
230
231
Whitaker on the word Logos used by the Jews, in a
note
Trinity, not to be illustrated by similitudes
Rules for interpreting scriptures relating to it
The word Trinity explained
Person, the word explained
233
235
236
239
Dr. Jamieson on the Trinity, in a note
Personality of the Son, 248. Of the Spirit
Not metaphorically ascribed to either
Eternal generation of the Son, how understood by many 259
Another method of accounting for it
This account thereof proved
Scriptures relating to Christ's sonship explained
Christ's sonship as Mediator, considered
Another view of the subject, in a note
261
264
274
276
279
Procession of the Spirit, how understood by many, 260. What
And from Acts xx. 28. 313. Rom. ix. 5. ibid.
In what sense Christ is styled God by the Socinians
322
From the ascription of the divine nature to him in Col. ii. 9. 325
In Philip. ii. 6. this explained and defended
Genuineness of 1 John v. 7. defended
326
329
From his Attributes
From his conference with the Jews
Eternity, 343. Immutability, ibid.
335
342
Omnipresence
This proved from John iii. 13.
Omniscience, 349. Objections answered
Omnipotency
345
347
350
352
From his glorious titles
353
From his work of creation
357
The Socinian account thereof
359
Christ no instrument in creation
361
Christ as Mediator below, yet equal with the Father
Inferiority of Christ, how to be understood in scripture
Christ the Object of religious worship
Anti-Trinitarians differ about the worship due to Christ 388
Right to divine worship is incommunicable
Objections against the deity of Christ answered
374
376
377
379
382
386
389
391
397
398
400
404
From his divine works
405
QUEST. XII, XIII. Of God's Decrees.
Some things premised in general
Dissuasives from prejudices
The general method laid down
In what sense God fore-ordained all things
That he did so, proved
Dr. Smalley on the origin of sin (vide p. 532)
4.17
419
421
422
424
425.
Reprobation, how to be explained
486
Preterition a branch of it (vide the note, 529)
488
Predamnation considered from Jude, ver. 4.
491
Rom. ix. 22. and xi. 7-10. explained
492
2 Thes. ii. 11, 12. Psal. lxxxi. 12. John xii. 39, 40. ex-
That it is conditional, cannot be proved from scripture
Conditional propositions, how understood there
How God will have all saved
Expectation of God not disappointed by the will of man
480
479
501
505
God not really disappointed, grieved, or resisted
Bounds of life fixed by him
Stoical fate, how it differs from God's decrees
Objections against Election answered
506
508
516
507
Practical improvement of it
Dr. Williams on election, in a note
526
529