Contents of the Third Part

The Contents of the third part.

- Some influences are from God, some from Satan Part 3. Ch. 1. Pag. 189 - Satan keeps correspondence with the heart, p. 191 - Its not lawful to dispute with Satan, yet with his instrument we may p. 192 - Christ sought neither the temptation nor the tempter, p. 193 - Difference between Satans instruments, and these of the Lord, p. 194 - Christ under a necessitie of giving sanctifying influences, ib. - Moral and physical influences, 195 - Moral influences that are only moral are weak, ib. - Ordinary and extraordinary influences 296 - Prophetical influences, ib. - It is dangerous to resist strong light, and the influences thereof, p. 197 - Private and public Church-influences, ib. - Strong influences under the Messiah in the New Testament, p. 199 - Gospel-influences are strong, p. 200 - Some influences are for the habit, some for the actings of grace, some for both p. 201 - Influences proper to the head Christ, and influences on the members, p. 202 - Mediatory influences are some way due to the broken in heart, and what sort they of right have thereto. A four-fold right to influences is considerable, p. 203 - Strong and mighty influences in Christ p. 204 - Gospel-providence how far above the Law-providence of Adam p. 205 - Mr Gee treats of prayer, Sect. 4. p. 187, 188, 195. p. 207 - Influences of Christ fundamental and not fundamental, ib. - The comfortable necessity that lies on Christ to confer influences of grace, p. 208 - Influences not fundamental, not simply necessary p. 209 - Influences of grace for the habit of saving grace, and influences for a gift, p. 210 - How we may know when we act, pray, or hear, &c. from a gift, and when we act from a grace, p. 210 - Some pray from a meer gift, when they mistakingly imagine they pray from the saving habit of grace, the mistake is habitual in hypocrites, only actual hic & nunc to sound believers, p. 211 - Grace sanctifies the gift used in all due and spiritual circumstances, but the gift can never sanctifie the grace p. 213 - The same word, but not the same influences, act upon all within the visible Church, p. 214 - We are not to rest upon the actings from a gift, but watchfully to try when we act from a gift, and when from a grace, ib. - Differences from the influences of grace, and these of glory, p. 221 - The habit of grace is a permanent disposition, ch. 2. p. 222 - The habit of grace is given through the merit and grace of Christ p. 223 - From the habit of grace we perform suitable actings p. 224 - Vital actions flow from supernatural habits p. 225 - The difference of the habit of grace from other habits, p. 226 - We are to follow holy resolutions with prayer. 2 godly trembling. 3 faith, 227 - The falshood of [•]owes, ib. - A strong habit of grace produces easie, and connatural, and strong actings of grace, p. 229 - Actions supernatural, and influences suitable, are some way due to the habit of grace, cap. 3. p. 232 - Sometimes the habit of grace is qualified with heavenly dispositions, p. 233 - We should pursue the dispositions of grace, when they are added to the habit with spiritual actings, p. 234 - We are to stir up the habit of grace, though deadned, ib. - The Lord by infusing the habit of grace comes under some necessitie to give suitable influences thereunto, cap. 4. p. 235 - Divers necessities under which the Lord is to confer influences of grace, p. 236 - Christ advocates for the Elect, yet not converted to bring them to himself, p. 237 - The Spirits office puts him under a necessity of giving influences, p. 241 - Uses from the Lords necessity of giving gracious influences, p. 242 - First to frame doubts about predestination to life, and to misse eternal love before we misse inherent saving grace, is Satans method, p. 243 - Whether the habit of grace may cease in the regenerate from all its opperations p. 244 - The habit of grace is not eternal, ib. - The habit of grace ceaseth not, p. 445 - How many acts may we bring out of the habit of grace, p. 237 - There is a consenting to the temptation, which is a wishing that Gods law and our lust might both stand, and a virtual wishing that the law of God had never had being, p. 238 - Eight evidences that in the regenerate the saving habit of grace never ceaseth from emitting some influences, p. 239 - What dispositions spiritual are, and how they differ from the habits of grace, ca. 5. p. 240 - Get heavenly dispositions, and influences follow conaatur[•]lly p. 242 - Dispositions are not ever alike, but various and changeable, ib. - Evidences that dispositions go and come p. 243 - Spiritual dispositions are different from the affections, 244 - There are heavenly dispositions in the mind as well as in the affections, ibid - Bad spiritual dispositions creep on in the children of God, p. 246 - There is some acting and life under much deadnesse in the regenerate, ibid - Many sweet spiritual actings may be under indispositions p. 247 - No agreement between these two Champions, the flesh and the spirit, p, 248 - Its fit to go about duties under indispositions, ib - Lesse of sweet real influences, and more of moral influences, from the word makes obedience more perfect, p. 249 - We can tell the actings when they are on, and after they are over and gone, p. 3. c. 6. p. 251. - Differences between spiritual heart burnings of the love of Christ, and literal heat, p. 252 - 1. Difference, ib - Feeling may be stronger after actings of the spirit are gone, p. 253 - Spiritual burning of heart leave some impression behind, which literal heat does not, p. 254 - 2. Difference, ib - Improving of spiritual heat is known whereas in literal heat there is no such thing, p. 3. c. 6 - 3 property of an heavenly disposition, ib. - What we are to doe under dispositions spiritual 301 - Spiritual dispositions are at length victorious ib. - How to get heavenly dispositions, ib. - 4 Property, 302 - Heavenly dispositions connaturally cast out acts suitable, 303 - 5 Property, 304 - Heavenly dispositions cause a man act upon himself, ib. - The meetings of believers for godly conference is owned by the Lord, cap. 11. p. 308 - Small means of grace, and short visits of Christ, are to be highly esteemed at some time, especially when love-flowings have been neglected, ib. - Sense is prouder then faith, 309 - Withdrawings of Christ teach us to try whether we have abused his manifestations formerly, 310 - Except we find Christ we cannot pray, 311 - How to judge of the nature of praying, ib. - Praying fitteth for praying, 312 - There degrees of discerning an answer ib. - The real withdrawings of Christ make no change of legal interests in Christ, ib. - The life of grace depends on influences of grace, 313 - Christs right and acts in redeeming of us, stand entire when we are deserted, ib. - What love-sickness is, 314 - The Lords wisdom in suspending influences of grace, 315 - Withdrawing of comforts upon wise and holy reasons, ib. - The wisedome of God appointing that we depend on him, ib. - How we may pray for comforts, 316 - How we may deprecate languishing pain in love-sickness, ib. - How we may pray for gracious influences, 317 - A two fold contradicting of the Lords will, 318 - Love-sickness from the want of Christ, 319 - As touching peace with God, we have peace de jure & de facto, but as touching the blot and in-dwelling of sin, we ought not to have peace with our selves under that blot, ib. - Ingredients of love-sickness, 320 - Pain of love-sickness, ib. - The righting of the complaining of the damned, ib. - Faith above sense, 321 - Faith with stronger influences then ordinary, controuleth sense under desertion, 322 - The Idol of indignation an enemy to zeal, 323 - Spiritual savouriness active and passive, 325 - In Christ, in his Spouse in his members, ib. - Q. Whether God commands all use of means external and internal, and every part thereof, p. 3. cap. 12. p. 328 - Nature and grace, whether grace be above natural dispositions, 330 - Whether grace be above natures properties. 2 merits. 3 actings, ib. - Whether God gives, or denies sufficient grace to the man who does what he can, 331 - The natural wicked inability in all to know, believe, and love Christ, prove there is no universal sufficient grace, 332 - The Jesuite Martinez de Ripalda cites divers texts for universal grace, 333 - That praevious actings in heathens must be the rule of the Lords giving or denying the Gospel, is an unwritten tradition, 335 - Sinners under the fall are interdicted heirs, ib. - The connexion between literal actings and supernatural influences, p. 336 - The new supernatural providence is set up by the second Adam By which the conversion of the Elect is brought to passe, p. 337 - The order between natural and supernatural acting, p. 338 - What renewed and unrenewed men can do in their respective places, p. 340 - Corruption and temptation both increase, the difficulty of using means, p. 341 - Influences work as God set them on, ib - The gracious heart may reflect upon it self in spiritual actings, and purge it self, ib. - We may do more by the habit of grace then we do, p. 342 - 3. Difference, ib - 4. Difference, ib - There is a sweet leading, no violence spiritual in heart burning for Christ, it is not so in the literal heat, p 255 - 5. Difference, the heavenly heat goes along with the Scripture opened and applyed; not so in the literal heat, p. 256 - Hence considerable differences between motions of the spirit and loose Enthysiasmes, ib - Literal heat is all upon the letter and forms, not so as the spiritual heat, p. 260 - A believer may be under some straitning, p. 3. c. 7. p. 262 - A true and a false missing, ib - What straitning is and from where it is, p. 263 - Diverse sorts of straitnings, ib - Rules to be free of straitning, and to get enlargment of spirit, p. 264 - Every heavinesse is not weakness of faith, p. 265 - How far we may undertake obedience upon supposal of grace, ib - How dispositions necessarily fetch influences, ib - We have not assurance to be delivered from sin hic et nunc, p. 266 - Except from hanious sins inconsistent with the state of saving grace, ib - How we are to rely on God for influences, ib - What enlargement of heart David speaks of Psal. 119. 32 p. 267 - We cannot engage in our strength of habitual grace to run in the wayes of the Lord, p. 268 - Isa. 63:17. O Lord, why have you made us to erre, &c. opened, ib. - What use we are to make of our inability to run, except God enlarge the heart, cap. 8. p. 270 - How men naturally complain of sin original, 271 - We do not so much as by strength of nature we may do, and we adde to our own lameness, and then we unjustly complain of God, for our sinful impotencie, ib. - That spirit as the spirit lays no obligation on us, but to move in Scriptural duties, 276 - No violence but from our selves hinders us to believe, ib. - God loves using of external means pro tanto, ib. - How far we may act to fetch the wind, and to get influences, ib. - We are not to judge of our selves by occasional enlargednesse, or deadning of the heart for the time, cap. 9. p. 280 - Enlargedness of heart, and influences are near of kin, 281 - Branches of enlargedness of heart, ib. - Influences on the Angels and the glorified ones, 283 - Many straitned and dead ones reproved, 284 - Prayer begets holy dispositions to pray, and heavenly dispositions to pray, begets prayer and faith, &c. cap. 10. p. 287 - Holy acts begets holy acts, and holy dispositions beget holy dispositions, ib. - The Lord so frames his precepts and promises as our actings are suitably required to his influences, 288 - The differences of the 1. spiritual estate. 2. of the temper. 3. of the condition, 289 - What Davids present disposition was, 291 - The doubling of words noteth, 1. certainty. 2. addition of assurance. 3. fieriness of affection, ib. - Its fit to make an eike to the holinesse of influences which the Lord offers to us, 292 - We may speak to God, and professe in prayer the sincerity of our heart to God, and the causes why, 294 - Its hard to guide well grace and glory, so long as sin dwelleth in us, ib. - The Lords giving of grace layes bands on him to give more grace, and to adde new influences to old, 296 - What a heart the repenting thief, and what a heart Hezekiah brought out before the Lord in his dying, ib. - [•] properties of holy dispositions, 298 - Dispositions spiritual are seeds of holy actings, ib. - Zeal bringeth forth holy actings, 299 - Heavenly dispositions are real helps to holy actings, ib. - Properties of heavenly dispositions: to act under indispositions, ib. - A disposition counterworking a disposition, 300 - The spirit in an heavenly disposition at length prevaileth, ib. - (8) Pride and (9) Wordly mindedness hinder influences of grace, lovelinesse and heavenly mindedness promote the same, p. 362. &c - (10) Bastard zeal (11) Uncleanness (12) Malice (13) Wordly sorrow, hinders the contrary graces promote influences, p. 395, &c. - (14) Wordly and false joy (15) False love, p. 398, &c - (16) Ignorance and hatred of the Gospel, p. 400 - (17) Wrestling against providences obstruct the influences of God, p. 402 - God by his influences, first acts and stirs, by order of nature, and in the same moment of time we act and stir, without any violence, p. 404 - (18) Heavenly and spiritual thoughts and considerations draw along heavenly influences, as unclean thoughts do the contrary p. 405 - Keep the oyl of the spirit clean, if you would have heavenly influences to fall on the spirit. p. 407 - We are to act both morally and physically with the spirit, p. 408 - Prayers conclude not soveraignity, ib - Other impediments of influences from the mind, will and affections p. 4. c. 4. p. 409 - Heritical light, ib - A corrupt will, p. 410 - Hating of Christ and his grace obstruct influences, p. 411 - Diverse actings of the spirit in the Spouse sick of love for Christ hold forth influences, the spirit as is cleared by the song of Solomon, p. 412 - Hating of Christ, p. 414 - The soul loathing of God, ib - The spirit gives no influences where there is no knowledg, p. 415 - Influences of the spirit are connatural to the spiritual man, ib - Sensuality and influence of the spirit are inconsistent, ib - Soul desires after God have sweet influences, p. 416 - Spiritual joy speak strong influences, p. 417 - Literal crying should not exceed the impulsion of the spirit within, ib - How hope and audacity hinder or promote influences, p. 419 - Moral acting cannot avail us whithout real influences of the spirit, p. 420 - Frequent acts of faith promote influences of the spirit, ib - Hope promotes influences, p. 421 - Sinful boldness obstructs influences, ib - Anger hindereth influences, p. 422 - How Elisha could not prophesie by reason of anger, The influences of Music therein ib - A meek spirit is a fit work-house for influences of grace and high revelations, instanced in Mos[•]s, the man Christ, John the beloved disciple, p. 423 - Horror and unbelieving fear an impediment of influences, p. 425 - Influences are considered two waies, 1. Physically, 2. Morally how men resisted the spirit p. 4. c. 5. p. 426 - The Lord seeks not our consent to the first infusion of a new heart, p. 427 - We are married to Christ before we consent to be married, p. 430 - The Lord determines free will and does no violence, ib - We are unexcusable in not doing our duty, though the Lord deny his necessary influence, p. 432 - God acts in all both by the immediate influence of his power and of his person, p. 433 - The Lord most particularly leads his own, p. 435 - Two sort of causes one in fieri, for the producing of and giving being to a thing, another in facto esse for the preserving of the same in being, God is both waies the cause of gracious actings, ib. - The right missing is to misse influences not of gifts, and of common grace only, but of special grace, p. 436 - A reprobate can no more miss the special guidance of the sanctifying spirit, then a horse can miss the wings of an eagle that are not due to him, ib - Of the giving of the heart of God, p. 437 - We are more our own by law, and less our own by Gospel, ib - Christ cares more for his own body, then the members care for themselves, p. 438 - Christ care is rather now more, when he is glorified, then lesse. ib. - We vainly think that the habit of grace is given to be our justification, and that as a dispensation from sin, ib - Inability to do without grace is pretented both by the lawless bankrupt, and by the humble convert, but for divers ends, ib - The unrenewed man would have come down to his way, p. 343 - There is a sad threatning against not using of outward means, though no promise be made to the using of only outward means, p. 344 - The opposition made by hypocrites is only in the outward gate, p. 345 - Reprobates resist not the formal acts of regeneration, p. 346 - Mr. Baxters order of repentance, p. 347 - Doubts and reasons against Mr. Baxters new remedying law of grace made to all mankind. p. 349 - Universal redemption extols nature and free will, and makes a moral season which heals not nature, all the graces that the Gospel owns p. 352 - The law teacheth but healeth not, p. 357 - Our formality in praying, ib - How nature beginneth and the spirit acteth on and with our literal acting, p. 3. c. 14. p. 358 - Some truth we must first physically hear and consider before we believe, p. 359 - Though it be true if the Lord had given me efficacious grace, I should have been converted; yet it followes not, therefore I am not the culpable cause of my own non-conversion, or that the Lord is to be blamed therefore, p. 360 - Our sinful will, not the Lords refusal of power, is the culpable cause of non-conversion ib - School-men make conversion the purchase of free will, p. 362 - Sin original must be pardoned to pagans, in Christ, of whom they never heard. p. 364 - Domiuicans no less gross then Jesuits in the matter of grace free will, ib - There may be much seeking and using of means, and no influences, p. 4. c. 1. p. 369 - Using of means would be in humility, ib - Influences not entertained breed loathing of the Gospel, p. 370 - We may mar influences, ib - The Lords order in conferring of influences, p. 372 - A confluence of influences at one time and at one work, ib - Resisting of the word hinders influences, and so does resisting of ordinances, p. 373 - Resisting of the operation of the spirit obstructs influences, ib - Praying and praising promote the influences of the spirit, p. 374 - Despising of the Prophets and persecuting of them, obstruct influences, ib - Hardning of the heart, not profitting by means, obstruct influences, p. 375. - Remaining in nature, bitternesse, wrath, malice, rancor, obstruct influences, ib - Influences of the spirit are contempered according to the habit of grace, p. 4. c. 2. p. 276 - Wordly sorrow obstructs influences, p. 377 - The spirits motions are swift, ib - Plenty of means, sweet dispositions and yet scarcity of influences, p. 4. c. 3. p. 379 - These are often together, prayer and actual influences, and duties following thereupon; the former according to the Lords will of precept, the latter according to his will of pleasure, see Psal. 119. p. 381 - The nearness between the love of the word or the hiding of it in the heart, and spiritual influences, p. 382 - Impediments and helps of influences, ib - Of the word hidden in the heart, p. 383 - Many evils of the heart, reckoned out to the number of it which obstruct influences, and the contrary promote them p. 384 - As the light of faith and softness admit influences, so rockiness obstruct the same, p. 385 - (2) Unbelief obstructs influences, p. 386 - Influences of grace do no violence to the rational power of [•]illing and willing, ib - (3) Deadness (4) Security (5) Athisme, p. 387 388 - (6) Unconstancy of the heart (7) Deceitfulnesse and falsness of the heart, p. 396 - Obstruct influences, p. 390. 391