Contents

CONTENTS.

- God intends that no man should be saved by the Law. p. 1. c. 1. p. 1. - True liberty, grace loves to be restrained from evil, p. 1. c. 1. p. 2. - That the first Adam was to pray for perseverance is not clear. p. 1. c. 1. p. 3. - Adam was to rely on God for perseverance, but as promised by the covenant of works. idem. - Our grace in the second Adam choicer then that in the first idem. - The Lord's influences in all, p. 1. c. 2. p. 4. - Infinite almost influences of God p. 1. c. 2. p. 7. - To look not spiritually on influences is brutish, p. 1. c. 2. p. 8. - What influences are, p. 1. c. 3. p. 9. - Influences of God are suitable to God's end idem - Influences of God for nilling, and willing, most rare and excellent, idem. - How Christ and the promised spirit must be the causes of gracious influences, p. 1. c. 3. p. 10. - We are to believe that he who purchased by his merit the habit of grace shall give suitable influences, and to fear also our propension to fall, p. 1. c. 3. p. 12. - The promise of influences in Christ, p. 1. c. 3. p. 13. - The necessity of influences, p. 1. c. 4. p. 15. - Reasons of renewed influences, p. 1. c. 4. p. 16. - The first Adam might want influences, the second cannot, idem. - Satan's actions always destitute of influences, p. 1. c. 4. p. 17. - How God withdraws influences in particular acts hic et nunc and yet has promised to bestow influences in the regenerate, by promise, p. 1. c. 4. p. 18. - The Lord acts on us by his influence, but we act not on him, ib. - How we cannot pray away desertion and the tryings, withdrawings, and yet are we to pray submissively for the removal of desertion, and are to pray against withdrawings, p. 1. c. 4. p. 19. - The Lord's withdrawings makes not the Holy One the author of sin nor destroys liberty, p. 1. c. 5. p. 20. - The cause why God is not chargeable with the act of disobedience, and man is chargeable, p. 1. c. 5. p. 21. - Our interpretative wanting of influences, and our formal sinning in the same act, cleared, p. 1. c. 5. p. 24. - The sovereignty of God is destroyed by Pelagians to the end they may exalt man's free will, p. 1. c. 5. p. 25. - Of our acts and spiritual duties under the spiritual withdrawings of God, p. 1. c. 6. 26. - We are to do our part in duties under withdrawings, grace sweetens duties, p. 1. c. 6. p. 29. - What sovereignty is, and how it differs from omnipotency, p. 1. c. 7. p. 33. - We storm more at permissive providences, then at our own permitted sins, p. 1. c. 7. p. 37. - They are most graciously active to do the will of God who are most graciously passive to suffer his will, p. 1. c. 7. p. 38. - The unsearchableness of the Lord's dispensation into the eternal standing and falling of angels and men, idem - It's vain to determine that the providence of never sinning is choicer then the providence of your imbringing of Christ God-man to dye for sinners, p. 1. c. 7. p. 39. - The righteousness of God through faith is incomparably above our inherent righteousness. p. 1. c. 7. p. 4. - It's a more eminently declarative glory which is brought forth in the second Adam nor possibly could have been in the full and final obedience of the first Adam, p. 1. c. 7. p. 41. - By justification we are not only negatively freed from guilt and wrath but also positively righteous, p. 1. c. 7. p. 43. - We are not to struggle with permissive providence, but to be low because of the deep result of that providence, our own permitted sins, p. 1. c. 8. p. 45. - The soul humbling thoughts that should flow from holy sovereignty, p. 1. c. 8. p. 46. - Sovereignty is eminent in holding of possible wills and in determining the measure of suffering. - Of the sovereignty of God in the works of creation and providence, p. 1. c. 9. p. 52. - Whoever flatteringly complains of the want of influences of grace hates these influences. - Nature cannot complain of the want of gracious influences, p. 1. c. 10. p. 58. - How we may lawfully complain of withdrawings of influences of grace, and how we may lawfully desire influence, p. 63. - The faultiness in not praying is not because the Holy Spirit moves us not to pray but because we stir not up ourselves to pray, p. 1. c. 10. p. 64 - We are to act duties before we feel the actings of the spirit p. 1. c. 10. p. 71 - How to wait upon the breathings of the spirit how it's lawful how not, p. 71. - Our impotency to duties being reproved cannot excuse us in the omitting of them, p. c. 11. p. 73 - The Lord's withdrawing of influences is conjoined with our guiltiness and cannot be found an excuse for not praying, p. 1. c. 11. p. 74 - The sin of the creature is not from the Lord's withdrawing of his physical influences but from our withdrawing from his moral command, p. 1. c. 11. p. 76 - Natural men wish physical influences of God, but they hate moral honesty, p. 1. c. 11. p. 80 - Riches cannot add mercifulness to men, p. 1. c. 11. p. 82 - Faith and grace do not depend on extraordinary means and teachers sent from hell, and we are much deceived, thinking had we more grace we should be more gracious, p. 1. c. 11. p. 84 - If free will be weak in the improving of a natural power, it will be so in the improving of supernatural grace, p. 1. c. 11. p. 85 - God ties us to his one way of removing of sin, not to our empty wishing that it were removed, p. 1. c. 11. p. 93 - What sort of influences we are to seek from God, p. 1. c. 11. p. 94 - The using of means is an approved way of God, p. 1. c. 11. p. 96 - Some violently brought into Christ, some more mildly, p. 1 c. 12. p. 101 - Whether by prayer or any other way we may wrestle out from under God's desertions, p. 1. c. 12. p. 109 - Influences are given of God to various temptation, p. 1 c. 12. p. 110 - It's a gracious temper to weep when the Lord is absent or angry, p. 1. c. 13. p. 113 - Christ's absence is sometimes as good as his presence, p. 1 c. 13. p. 118 - Sometimes we may pray against the degree of God but it's not lawful to resist his commanding will, p. 1. c. 13. p. 120 - We may weep over our own dry hearts when we want influences but we cannot weep against the Lord because he gives not those influences, p. 1. c. 13. p. 121 - We are to meet all conditions of life with closing with God's holy dispensations, p. 2. c. 1. p. 123 - The word is the rule of doing, the spirit the real efficient cause, p. 2. c. 1. p. 127. - How the Lord can lay by a command supernatural duties on men impotent and dead in sin. p. 2. c. 2. p. 129. - God in creating man is both a Creator and also a law giver, p. 2. c. 2. p. 138 - We are to be humbled for original sin, p. 2. c. 2. p. 140 - How to fetch influences, p. 2. c. 3. p. 142 - The fetching of influences is by supernatural actings by the word and spirit, idem - How the Lord brings himself under a sort of necessity of conferring gracious influences, p. 1. c. 2. p. 147 - A considerable difference between the Lord's promise of grace and his practice of grace, p. 2. c. 3. p. 148 - Civil professors are nearer to conversion and to Christ then the openly profane and flagitious, p. 2. c. 3. p. 149 - It requires of the dead that they live, and that we must not cease from running when the Lord ceases from drawing, p. 2. c. 3. p. 152 - It's a sinful shift to put away duties because of indisposition p. 2. c. 3. p. 154 - We are to pray away indisposition as a great affliction, p. 2. c. 3. p. 155 - Influences of grace are due to the saints by promise, p. 156 - The Lord has given influences by necessity of a promise, idem - The three persons the Father, the Son, and Spirit, give influences p. 2. c. 5. p. 159 - The fullness of influences on the man Christ ib. p. 2. c. 5. 159 - Christ has the dispensing of predeterminating influences by office and covenant, p. 2. c. 5. p. 161 - The influences in the Son are all for our use and good p. 2. c. 5. p. 163 - The influences of the spirit are mainly to be eyed, if any have the spirit he cannot want the influences of God p. 2. c. 6. p. 164 - The glorious things which the spirit of God shows, p. 2. c. 6. p. 165 - The Spirit prevents nature, nature prevents not the Spirit, p. 2. c. 6. p. 169 - We are to pray for influences, p. 2. c. 6. p. 170 - Obedience is to be yielded to the Spirit as to the Father and the Son. p 2. c. 7. p. 173 - Much renewed will is a note of a spiritual disposition, idem - There is four expressions in Scripture of wrongs we do to the Spirit. 1 Vexing. 2. Quenching. 3 Tempting. 4. Resisting. p. 2. c. 7. p. 176 - How to improve spiritual feelings, p. 2. c. 7. p. 183 - Watching is a spiritual condition and near to receive gracious influences, p. 2. c. 7. p. 184 - To converse with the saints is a mark of a spiritual condition, p. 2. c. 7. p. 186 - Spiritual conference frequently used speaks a spiritual condition, p. 2. c. 7. p. 189