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FALSELY PRETENDED KNOWLEDGE.
CHAP. I. The Text opened: What philosophy Paul depres-
seth, and why.. • • • •
II. What wisdom and esteem of it are not here con-
demned
......III. What pretended knowledge is condemned, and
what learning or philosophy it is which Paul
disliked, further opened; with thirty reasons
.....
.IV. What are the certainties which must be known and held fast, and why, where certainty is dis- tinctly described..
V. Of the various degrees of certainty •
VI. What are the unknown things or uncertainties,
....
which we must not pretend a certain know-
ledge of, even Scripture truths
VII. The first inference: The true reason and use-
fulness of the Christian simplicity, in differ-
encing the covenant and the principles of
religion from the rest of the Holy Scriptures..
VIII. Inference 2. Of the use of catechising
*IX. Inference 3. The true preservative of puzzled
Christians, from the errors of false teachers,
who draw them to their several parties••••••
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CHAP. X. Inference 4. What is the great plague and di-
vider of the Christian world
...........XI. The common discoveries of men's proud, self-
conceited understanding, and of pretended
knowledge ..
XII. Of the mischievous effects of this proud pre-
tence of more knowledge than men have..........
XIII. The commodities of a suspended judgment
and humble understanding, which pretendeth
to no more knowledge or certainty than it
hath
XIV. The aggravations of the sin of prefidence....
. XV. Special aggravations of it in students and pastors
XVI. Twenty clear proofs of the little knowledge
that is in the world, to move us to a due dis-
trust of our understandings .....
. XVII. Inference 5. It is not the dishonour, but the
praise of Christ and his Apostles, and the Gospel,
that they speak in a plain style and manner,
of the certain necessary things, without the
vanity of school-uncertainty, and unprofitable
notions ........
XVIII. Inference 6. The true and false ways of re-
storing the churches, and healing our divisions,
hence opened and made plain
XIX. Of the causes of prefidence or proud pretended
knowledge, in order to the cure...
. XX. Objections answered....
XXI. Directions for the cure
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PART II.
TRUE SAVING KNOWLEDGE.
CHAP. I. Knowledge is a means to a higher end, according
II. The end of knowledge is to make us lovers of
God, and so to be known of him
...... III. Therefore knowledge is to be sought, valued and
used as it tendeth to our love to God
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IV. Therefore they are the wisest and best knowing
men that love God best; and not they that
have much unholy knowledge
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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
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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.
XIII. Inference 9. Those that know God so far as to
love him truly, may have comfort, notwith-
standing their remaining ignorance..
..............XIV. Questions and objections answered
Quest. 1. If so much knowledge will save men
as causeth them to love God, may not hea-
thens be saved who know God to be good,
and therefore may love him?............
Quest. 2. May not a Papist or heretic love God
and be saved?. . . . . .
Object. III. At least you make ignorant persons
happy that love God, though they know not
their catechism?....
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ibid.
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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....
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......II. To begin betimes to live to God, is of unspeak-
able importance to yourselves
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III. Of what public concernment the quality of
youth is ..
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IV. How the case standeth with our youth in matter
of fact...
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V. How sad a case is it that I have described
VI. The joyful state and blessing of good children,
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to themselves and others
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VII. Undeniable reasons for the repentance and
amendment of those that have lived a 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
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-
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trates
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XIII. Counsel to parents and tutors of youth. . . . . .
.XIV. What are men's duties to each other as elder
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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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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......
The order of celebrating the sacrament of the body and
Of catechising, and the approbation of those that are to be
Of the celebration of matrimony
admitted to the Lord's-supper
The visitation of the sick, and their communion
The order of solemnizing the burial of the dead. . . . . .
The extraordinary days of humiliation and thanksgiving,
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