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THE CONTENTS
OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
QUEST. I. Of glorifying God, and the enjoyment of
him.
WITH what distinction the glorifying and enjoyment of God
may both be said to be man's chief and highest end, Page 13
What it is to glorify God
How God glorifies himself
How creatures glorify him
What it is to enjoy God
ibid
14.
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The connexion between glorifying God and the enjoyment of
him
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Contentedness to perish, that God may be glorified, unjustly
made a mark of grace
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To be quickened to duty by a respect to the heavenly glory, no
sign of a mercenary spirit
QUEST. II. Of the Being of a God.
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Reasons why we should be able to prove this by arguments 21
The Being of a God may be evinced,
From the light of nature
What meant thereby
How it proves the Being of a God
From the works of creation
from creatures below man
from the structure of man's body
from the nature of his soul
from the nature and office of conscience
from the boundless desires of the soul
From the consent of all nations
Objection, That there have been some speculative Atheists,
answered
The belief of a God took not its rise from human policy 40
It was not propagated merely by tradition
The objections taken from the prosperity of the wicked, an-
swered
Nothing short of revelation sufficient to give a saving discovery
of God
QUEST. III. Of the Holy Scripture.
The names given to it
Why called a Testament
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50
How the want of a written word was supplied to the church be-
fore Moses
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Whether the church, under the Old Testament, understood the
spiritual meaning of the laws contained in it
Whether the prophets understood their own predictions
How far the Old Testament is still a rule
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How the scriptures are a complete revelation of the will of
God
The scripture a sufficient rule of faith and obedience
Its properties as a rule
It is the only rule
Human traditions of no divine authority
The Popish doctrine of them confuted
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The Canon of scripture preserved entire
Is not perverted
QUEST. IV. Of the Divine Authority of the Scriptures.
Not contrary to God's perfections
The scripture proved to be the word of God
Dr. Paley on the genuineness of the scriptures, in a note
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Its harmony shewn in the accomplishment of many predic-
tions
It doth not contradict itself
Various objections answered
Rules for reconciling seeming contradictions in scripture
Grotius on their authority, in a note
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
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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
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Omniscient 145. He knows all future contingencies 147
Properties of God's knowledge 149. Its improvement 150
When it is practically denied, ibid.
In Creation 154. Providence 155. Redemption
In the constant government of the church
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His suffering the entrance of sin, was no reflection on it 161
'Tis the standard of doctrines
Instances of doctrines which lead to licentiousness
162
162, 163
Mercy and grace of God infinite
Afflictions of believers not properly a punishment
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Difference between goodness, mercy, grace, and patience 169
Mercy is either common or special
Grace free and sovereign
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Discriminating 173. Instances of it, ibid. Afflictions not
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
Abernethy on that subject, in a note
Unity of the Godhead proved
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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
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
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
It is not chargeable with Tritheism
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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
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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
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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
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Procession of the Spirit, how understood by many, 260. What
And from Acts xx. 28. 313. Rom. ix. 5. ibid.