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The stability of the Church, with the grounds thereof
Whether the Church may fail .
Whether the Church be always visible
Christ's kingdom is a hated kingdom
Christ hath enemies there, where his kingdom is set up
Christ's kingdom stronger than all adverse opposition
Christ's kingdom quiet in the midst of enemies
The faithful are Christ's own people
By a right of Donation
Purchase
Conquest
Covenant
Communion
We may belong unto Christ by External profession. Real implantation
Christ bringeth self-evidencing properties unto the soul. Christ's propriety to us the ground of his Caring for us
Christ's people military men
Purging of us
Sparing of us
Satan's ways and method of assaulting the Church
Christ's people are willing and subject unto him
By nature, men are utterly unwilling.
Apt to charge the ways of God as Grievous
Unprofitable.
Unequal.
The spirit of bondage compelleth many to unwilling services
The power of the word in natural men worketh a velleity, or incom- plete will
Willingness in Christ's people wrought by the
ib.
. 284
Evidence and sense of their natural estate
Spiritual illumination of mind
. 289
Communion and aspiration of the Spirit
. 291
Apprehension of God's dear love
Beauty and preciousness of heavenly promises
Experiences of peace, comfort, and security in God's ways 293
Beauty of holiness.
Such as the will is, such is the service
Because the will is the first mover
Because God esteemeth himself most honoured thereby
Whether those who are truly Christ's people, may not have their
fears and unwillingness in his service.
1. They may have a fear of Suffering God's wrath.
Meddling with his service.
2. They may have deadness, weariness, and a mixture of unwil-
lingness in his service.
. 301
. 303
3. Yet still their wills are sincerely carried towards God.
Christ's people are made willing to obey him, by an act of power
The ground hereof is the universal fleshliness, and reluctancy of
the will naturally against grace.
The more earnest should we be to serve Christ, when we are his
Holiness a glorious and beautiful thing
. 311
. 315
None willing to come to Christ, till they see beauty in his service . 325
Multitudes born unto Christ by the Gospel
. 327
Whether universality and visible pomp be a note of the church
. 330
All Christ's subjects are withal his children
. 334
. 337
. 338
. 339
And should express the affection of children
The birth of a Christian is a heavenly work
Therefore the seed must be received with heavenly affections
Therefore we must look unto God in his ordinances
The birth of a Christian a secret and undiscerned work
The birth of a Christian is a sudden birth
How the Lord sweareth
Why the Lord confirmed the priesthood of Christ by an oath
Christ's solemn ordination unto the office of a priest
Which is the foundation of all the Church's comfort,
In regard of Christ's Fidelity.
Mercy
Power
Propriety
Sympathy
Consanguinity
Grounds tending to discover the necessity of a Priest for man
A discovery of that necessity
With the application thereof.
Qualifications of the person which was to be our priest.
He was to be a Mediator
Page
. 372
. 373
a Surety
a Sacrifice
an Altar
All in the unity of one person.
Wherein the acts of Christ's Priesthood consisted,
Namely, Oblation
Intercession
Christ's will made his death a sacrifice
Christ's Intercession appearing in heaven for us
Christ's death did merit, and his life confer, redemption
Wherein Christ's Intercession consisteth.
No mediators of Intercession
. 378
. 381
. 379
. 383
.384
. 386
The great benefits which come to us by Christ's Intercession 387
What is the fruit and virtue of Christ's priesthood,
Namely, Satisfaction for our debt
. 391
Acquisition of our inheritance
An explication of the doctrine of justification by righteousness im-
puted'
How Christ, being innocent, might justly suffer the punishment of
our sins.
393
1. God may cast pains upon an innocent person
2. It is not against general equity, for one to suffer another's sin. ib.
3. This equity in the present case is, that all parties are both
willing and glorified
4. In the innocent person, thus suffering as a sacrifice for the
innocent, is required
1. An intimate conjunction with him that is innocent
2. A full dominion over that, from which in suffering he
parteth
3. A strength to break through the sufferings
How sin, thus punished, may be said to be pardoned.
A double use of the doctrine of righteousness
Imputed Self-denial
Confidence
Redundancy of Christ's merit
Purchasing for us Immunity from evils,
Privilege of union with him
Whence our Unction.
Adoption
Exaltation
Duties, growing out of the consideration of Christ's priesthood
Of Melchizedek, his Person
Order.
Bread and Wine.
Benediction
Tithes.
Genealogy
Christ is a king of Righteousness
. 414
Christ is a king of Canaanites .
. 416
Where Christ is a king of Righteousness, he is a king of Peace.
Christ's forwardness to meet and to bless his people
. 417
. 419
Christ a comforter and refresher of his people
. 420
Christ a receiver of homage and tribute
. 421
Liberal maintenance due unto the ministers of the gospel
Christ's Priesthood is everlasting
. 423
. 429
Why the Lord is said to be at the right hand of his Church'.
Christ's enemies kings
. 431
. 433
Accusing
All praise and honour to be given unto God for the power and office
of Christ
Christ is present and prepared to defend his people from their
enemies.
Christ, in his appointed time, will utterly overthrow his greatest
enemies
Satan's enmity in Tempting
How the Spirit of judgement overcometh corruptions
How Christ overcometh his potent adversaries in the world
There is a constituted time, wherein Christ will be avenged of his
1. When sin is grown to its fulness; which is known by its
Universality
Impudence
Obstinacy
2. When the Church is thoroughly humbled and purged.
3. When all human hopes and expectations are gone
Christ's victories are by way of pleading and disceptation
A torrent of curses between man and salvation.
The necessity of Christ's sufferings
The greatness and nature of Christ's sufferings
The power and virtue of Christ's resurrection
. 450
AN
EXPLICATION
OF THE
HUNDRED AND TENTH PSALM,
WHEREIN
THE SEVERAL HEADS OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION THEREIN CONTAINED,
TOUCHING THE EXALTATION OF CHRIST, THE SCEPTRE OF HIS
KINGDOM, THE CHARACTER OF HIS SUBJECTS, HIS PRIEST
HOOD, VICTORIES, SUFFERings, and reSURRECTION,
ARE LARGELY EXPLAINED AND APPLIED.
VOL. II.
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