CHAP. V. Inference 1. By what measures to estimate know-

ledge

VI. Inference 2. To abate our censures and contempt

of the less-learned Christians and churches..

... VII. Inference 3. How to judge of the knowledge

necessary to church-communion

VIII. Inference 4. The aptness of the teaching of

Christ, to ingenerate the love of God and ho-

liness

IX. Inference 5. What great cause of thankfulness

men have for the constitution of the Christian

religion and how inexcusable they are that

:

will not learn so short, and sweet, and safe a

lesson ..

X. Inference 6. How little reason ungodly men have

to be proud of their learning, or any of their

knowledge

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. XI. Inference 7. Why the ungodly world hateth ho-

liness, and not knowledge...

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XII. Inference 8. What is the work of a faithful

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preacher, and how it is to be done....

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XIII. Inference 9. Those that know God so far as to

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CHAP. XV. Use, Exhort. 1. Deceive not yourselves by over-

valuing an unholy sort of knowledge, or com-

mon gifts..

... XVI. Exhort. 2. Love best those Christians that

love God best, and live in love and peace with

others

..XVII. Exhort. 3. Pretend not your knowledge

against the love of God or man, or against

the interest of the church and souls......

XVIII. Exhort. 4. Bend all your studies to a life of

increased and exercised love. How the love

of God must be exercised and increased. The

benefit hereof....

. XIX. Exhort. 5. Place your comfort in health and

sickness in mutual divine love.

you love God. How known.

swered....

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1. See that

Doubts an-

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XX. 2. But let it be the chief part of your comfort

that you are known of God. What comfort

this affordeth. What frame of soul it be-

speaketh in us in life, and at our death.....

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COMPASSIONATE COUNSEL TO ALL

YOUNG MEN.

CHAP. I. Introduction...

299

II. To begin betimes to live to God, is of unspeak-

able importance to yourselves

300

III. Of what public concernment the quality of

youth is

304

IV. How the case standeth with our youth in matter

of fact....

308

V. How sad a case is it that I have described

VI. The joyful state and blessing of good children,

to themselves and others

VII. Undeniable reasons for the repentance and

amendment of those that have lived à fleshly

and ungodly life: by way of exhortation....

........... VIII. General directions to the willing

....

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CHAP. IX. Additional counsel to young men, who are bred

up to learning and public work, especially to

the sacred ministry, in the universities and

schools

X. Counsel to young students in physic..........

XI. Counsel to young students of the law in London

.XII. Counsel to the sons of the nobility and magis-

.XIII. Counsel to parents and tutors of youth......

.XIV. What are men's duties to each other as elder

and younger

...XV. The conclusion, addressed to ministers

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A MORAL PROGNOSTICATION.

To the Reader

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I. What shall befal the churches on earth, till their concord,

by the restitution of their primitive purity, simplicity

and charity...

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403

II. How that restitution is likely to be made, (if ever,) and

what shall befal them thenceforth unto the end, in that

golden age of love

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THE REFORMED LITURGY.

The ordinary public worship on the Lords's-day...

451

The order of celebrating the sacrament of the body and

blood of Christ

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The celebration of the sacrament of baptism...

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Of catechising, and the approbation of those that are to be

The order of solemnizing the burial of the dead...

The extraordinary days of humiliation and thanksgiving,

A thanksgiving for the deliverance of women, in child-

bearing

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Of pastoral discipline, public confession, absolution, and ex-

clusion from the holy communion of the church

A form of public admonition to the impenitent

A form of confession to be made before the congregation..

A form of prayer for a sinner impenitent, after public ad-

monition.

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ibid.

A form of rejection from the communion of the church

A form of absolution and reception of the penitent.....

A form of thanksgiving, or prayer, for the restored penitent

APPENDIX.

A larger Litany, or general prayer, to be used at discretion

The Church's praise for our redemption to be used at dis-

cretion

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MR. BAXTER'S SENSE OF THE ARTICLES OF THE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND: In answer to the scruples

proposed to him by some that were called upon to sub-

scribe them

REASONS FOR MINISTERS USING THE GREATEST

PLAINNESS AND SERIOUSNESS POSSIBLE, in

all their applications to their People....

DIRECTIONS TO JUSTICES OF PEACE, especially in

Corporations, for the Discharge of their Duty to God.

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TREATISE

OF

KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE

COMPARED.

IN TWO PARTS:

I. OF FALSELY PRETENDED KNOWLEDGE.
II. OF TRUE SAVING KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE.

I. AGAINST HASTY JUDGING, AND FALSE CONCEITS OF KNOWLEDGE; AND FOR NECESSARY SUSPENSION.

II. THE EXCELLENCY OF DIVINE LOVE, AND THE HAPPINESS OF BEING KNOWN AND LOVED OF GOD.

WRITTEN AS GREATLY NEEDFUL TO THE SAFETY AND PEACE OF EVERY CHRISTIAN, AND OF THE CHURCH: THE ONLY CERTAIN WAY TO ESCAPE FALSE RELIGIONS, HERESIES, SECTS,

AND MALIGNANT PREJUDICES, PERSECUTIONS AND

SINFUL WARS: ALL CAUSED BY FALSELY PRETEN-
DED KNOWLEDGE, AND HASTY JUDGING, BY
PROUD, IGNORANT MEN, WHO KNOW

NOT THEIR IGNORANCE.

BY RICHARD BAXTER;

Who by God's Blessing on long and hard Studies, hath learned to know that he knoweth but little, and to suspend his Judgment of Uncertainties, and to take great, necessary, certain Things, for the food of his Faith and Comforts, and the measure of his Church Communion.