any of you should seem to come SHORT of it. 11. Let us LABOUR therefore to ENTER into that Rest, left any Man FALL after the same Example of UNBELIEF. Romans i. 16. I am not ASHAMED of the Gos PEL of Christ: for it is the Power of God unto SALVATION to every one that believ ETH. Rer. v. 9, 13. BLESSING and HONOUR, and Glory, and Power be unto Him that httèth upon the THRONE, and unto the LAMB for ever and ever : For thou wast SLAIN, and hast REDEEMED us to God by tby BLOOD, out of every Kindred, and Tongue , and People, and Nation. Amen. Hallelujah. Of the DIVINITY of Christ Jesus the MESSIAH, our Redeemer : which is clearly reveal- ed by the Prophecies in the Old Testament; pro- claimed by Angels and Voices from Heaven ; avow- ed by our Saviour himself; confirmed by Miracles; acknowledged by Devils; PREACHED by the Apostles ; and BELIEVED by the Church in all Ages Pag. I The Nativity of John the Baptist, and the several Cir. Christ sitting in the midst of the Doctors in the Temple, all that beard him were astonished at bis Under- The Preaching of John the Baptist Christ's Age and Genealogy from Adam 32 Christ Christ is tempted by the Devil : To which is annexed, the Temptations that Believers are subject to 33 The Calling of the Disciples 36 Christ's INSTRUCTIONS to bis Disciples 38 The Preaching of the Gospel in Galilee by our Saviour 43 The Doctrine of Repentance and Faith 45 1. Of Repentance, and its Effects 46 II. Of Faith, its Nature and Effects 49 56 58 62 Christ's SERMON on the Mount 53 Wherein is expressed the Blefledness of 1. The Poor and Humble in Spirit 54 2. Those that mourn for their Sins 3. The Meek 4. Those that hunger and thirst after Righteousness 59 5. Those that are merciful 60 6. The Pure in Heart 61 7. The Peace-makers 8. Those that are perfecuted for Righteousnef's fake ibid. Of Alms 76 Of Prayer 77 Of Fafting 78 Of Heavenly-mindedness, and against Covetoufness and anxious Cares 79 Against rasha y udging Holy Things not to be exposed to the Contempt of the Profane 85 Of false Prophets and Teachers 87 Christ's Discourse with Nicodemus, of the Necesity of being born again by the SANCTIFYING and enlightning Influences of the Holy Ghost. To which is annexed, The Description of the New Covenant, or Covenant of Grace in the Old and New Testament 91 of the infinite Mercy of God, in giving his only Son Christ Jesus to be the Redeemer of the World. And of the Love of Christ, in becoming the Saviour of all 83 all that believe in him, and obey his Commands 94 Christ comes into Judea, where he baptizes. John the Baptist declares to the Jews, that Jesus was the Mef fiak that came down from Heaven John the Baptist's Imprisoument by Herod, and is be headed by his Order Herod's Opinion of Christ 103 IOI The MIRACLES wrought by our Saviour. From whence, in many Instances, is represented the much greater Things that should be effected upon the Souls of those that believe in him 104 Water turned into Wine ibid. Dispossessing of Devils 105 How BELIEVERS are delivered from the Snares and Power of the DEVIL ibid. Christ passeth into the Country of the Gergesenes, rebuketh the Winds, &c. 107 He by his Word having allayed the Winds and Waves, beals the Polesed of Devils in the Country of the Gergefenes 108 A dumb Man possessed of a Devil is healed Christ casteth a Devil out of a lunatick Man, which the Disciples could not cast out ibid. He cafts out a Devil, and confirms it to be done by a DIVINE POWER Our Saviour's Discourse of the Blessedness of those that bear the Word of God and keep it, and the Judgment that foould come upon the impenitent, and those that reject the Light of the GOSPEL 113 The Daughter of the Woman of Canaan vexed with a Devil, is healed 114 IIO II2 Healing all manner of Sicknesses and Diseases h 2 IIS ibid. 116 Divers I 20 121 123 Divers sick Persons healed ibid. Christ went about all Galilee, preaching the Gospel, and healing all manner of Diseases 117 He cureth a Man of the Palfy 118 A Man that had a withered Hand is healed on the Sabbath Day 119 A Leper healed in Galilee A Leper healed How the Leprosy of Sin is healed and purified ibid. Christ goes through Samaria into Galilee, and healeth ten Lepers by the Way The Centurion in Capernaum intercedes for his Ser. vant, that he might be cured of the Palsy 123 Christ returns to the Sea of Galilee, and cures one that was deaf and dumb I 24 An infirm Woman healed on the Sabbath Day 125 In the Pharisee's Hoase, He heals one of the Dropsy on the Sabbath Day ibid. Jesus on the Sabbath Day cures him that had an Infirmi ty Thirty eight Tears, and lay at the Pool of Bethesda. At which the Jews being enraged, Jesus Avows his Deity, that all Judgment was committed to him, and that whosoever BELIEVED on him should have everJASTING Life ; and that he was the promised Messiah, of whom Moses wrote 126 JOHN VI. Christ feedeth Five thousand ; walks upon the Sea, and commands the Winds and the Waves to be fill. Many are healed by the Touch of bis Garment. He reproveth the fleshly Hearers of his Word; and declareth bimself to be the Bread of Life 130 Ibe People that were miraculously fed, following Christ , are instructed not to LABOUR only for the Meat that perisbeth, but chiefly for that SPIRITUAL Food of DiVINE GRACF, which is compared to the Manna with which the Israelites were for forty Tears subfifted in the Wilderness 133 He fødeth Four thousand with seven Loayes 137 . |