The Table
THE TABLE.
B. - Bondage: What it is to which God delivers them that cast off his government. Page 7 - Invasion by foreign enemies. 7 - By setting authority against them. 7 - Oppressing them by one another. 8 - Taking away good governors. 8 - Giving them up to Satan, 9 - And to their own lusts. 9 - What are the sins, for which God brings into bondage? 13 - Bondage of the good and the wicked, how it differs. 15
C. - Church of God, why deprived of her liberty. 11 - Church-members that are private men in their duties are. 48. what &c. - The causes of their neglect of their duty. 52 &c. - Why men receive not more good from them than they do. 53 - Covenant of God, if broken, God rejects such as break it. 3 - To break Covenant with Christ, is to cast off his government as King. 31 - People of God may be said to break Covenant, and how. 33
G. - Government: see Power. To cast off God's government, provokes God, to bring into bondage. 3 - Reasons of it. 9, 10 &c. - What God's government is. 4 - The sorts of it. 4 - Internal. 4 And external. 5 - Want of government, a judgement. 8 - When men may be said to cast off Christ's government. 18. see 24. and see Ordinances, When men submit to Christ. 20, 21. to 29 - In Christ's government, he uses a threefold power. 30 - Motives to come under Christ's government. 81
L. - Laws, the causes of the breach of laws. 67 - What prudence is to be used in making laws. 70 - And how far human laws bind. 70 &c. - God's law only can immediately bind the conscience. 70 - Good laws have relation to the word and law of God. 71 - This proved. ib. - Of penal laws. 74 - Liberty see Government; the sweetest liberty, is to be under Christ. 11 - Liberty, how it is abused. 79 - Love to Christ, a sign of subjection to him. 84 - Love to God's people, another sign. 84 - Who do not love God's people. 85
M. - Magistrates, We are to be subject to them, and why. 64 - When Christ's power is cast off in this respect, not being subject to them. 64 - And objections about this answered. 66 - Ministerial power what it is. 54 - And if this be not submitted, Christ is cast off. 69 - And when men despised it. 62
O. - Ordinances, When men add their own inventions to God's ordinances, they cast off Christ's government. 34 - We must take heed of this; and why. 35 - When men destroy ordinances and deny them, they cast off Christ's government. 35 - To cast off ordinances, is a temptation of Satan. 36 - When Christ is thrust out of ordinances, his government is cast off. 39 - To pollute ordinances what it is. 39 - 1. To contemn them. 39. 40 - 2. To use them with unbroken hearts. 40 - 3. To use them without faith. 41 - 4. By not looking to Christ in them. 41
P. - Power, see Government. Power of Christ in government. - 1. Absolute. 2. Derivative. 3. Ministerial. 30 - 1. Absolute and kingly: & when men cast off this. 31 - 2. Derivative power which Christ gives to the Church, what this is, see 45, &c. - What power a private member of the Church has. 41, &c. - 3. There is a ministerial power. 54 - What this power is. 55, &c. - Power of Christ in a Commonwealth, when it is cast off. 63 - See Magistrates. - Of inferiors power, and when that is cast off. 68
R. - Reproofs, to be taken, and the taking of them, is the trial of a Christian, and a hypocrite. 47
S. - Satan, to be given over to him, a judgement of God. 9 - Service, what it is. 2 - Servants censured for running from their masters. 75 - Subjection, see Government. - Dangerous not to yield subjection to Christ. 76 - Subjection to Christ, when it is to be yielded. 82 - Directions how to yield subjection to Christ. 85
T. - Thankfulness. We are to be thankful for our liberty and freedom from bondage. 77 - Motives and directions to it. 77, &c. - Objections answered that hinder this duty. 80
U. - Unbelief; The occasions of it. 83
W. - Will of Christ, twofold. 23 - How man cast off Christ's will. [illegible]
