WORKS

OF THE REVEREND

MR. JOHN

90354

FLA VEL,

Late MINISTER of the GOSPEL at Dartmouth in Devon.

IN EIGHT VOLUME S.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

An Alphabetical TABLE of the principal Matters con-
tained in the Whole.

THE EIGHT EDITION.

V O L. IV.

PAISLE

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MDCCLXX.

CONTENTS.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE of FEAR,

The Epiftle Dedicatory,

CHA P. I.

Pag. 1

Wherein the text, and context, are opened, the doctrines

propounded, and the general method stated,

CHAP. II.

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Wherein the kinds, and nature, of fear are opened, and

particularly the distracting, flavish fear of creatures,

CHA P. III.

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Shewing the various uses of fear, both natural, finful, and

religious, in the government of the world by providence, 16

CHA P. IV.

Wherein the Springs and causes of finful fear are searched

out, and the evils of fuch fears thence difcovered,

Laying open the finful and lamentable effects of flavish

and inordinate fear, both in carnal and regenerate per-

fons,

CHA P. VI.

Prefcribing the rules to cure our finful fears, and pre-

vent thefe fad and woful effects of them,

CHA P. VII.

Anfwering the most material pleas for flavish fears, and

diffolving the common objections against courage and

conftancy of mind in times of danger,

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THE RIGHTEOUS MAN's REFUGE.

The Epiftle to the Reader,

CHA P. I

Pag. 89

Wherein the literal and real importance of the text is

confidered, the doctrine propounded, and the method of

the following difcourfe ftated,

CHA P. II

Demonftrating the first propofition, that there are times

and feafons appointed by God for the pouring out of

his indignation upon the world,

Opening and confirming the fecond propofition, viz. That

God's own people are much concerned in, and ought to

be fuitably affected with thofe judgments that befal

the nation wherein they live,

CHA P. IV.

Confirming the third propofition, viz. That God hath a

Special and peculiar care of his own people in the days

of his indignation,

Evincing the fourth propofition, viz. That God ufually

premonifbeth the world, efpecially his own people, of

his judgments before they befal them,

CHA P. VI.

Demonftrating the fifth propofition, viz. That God's at-

tributes, promifes, and providences, are prepared for

the fecurity of his people, in the greatest diftreffes that

can befal them in the world,

CHA P. VII.

Opening that glorious attribute of Divine Wisdom, as a

fecond chamber of fecurity to the faints in difficult

times,

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CHA P. VII.

Opening that glorious attribute of divine faithfulness, as

a third chamber of fecurity to the people of God, in

times of diftrefs and danger,

CHA P. IX.

Pag.

133

Opening to believers the unchangeableness of God, as a

fourth chamber of refuge and reft in times of trouble, 145

Opening the care of God for his people in times of trou-

ble, as the fifth chamber of reft to believers,

CHA P. XI.

Opening the fixth and last chamber, viz. The love of God,

as a refting-place to believing fouls in evil times,

CHA P. XII.

Containing the first use of the point, in feveral inform

ing confectaries and deductions of truth from it,

A fuccinct and feasonable Difcourfe of the Occafi-

ons, Nature, Rife, Growth, and Remedies of

MENTAL ERRORS,

An Epiftle to the Reader,

Twenty general OBSERVATIONS about the Rife and

Increase of the ERRORS of the Times,

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APPENDIX:

Containing a full and modeft Reply to Mr. Philip Cary's

Rejoinder to my Vindicia Legis et Fœderis.

Manifefting the badness of his caufe, in the feeblenefs and

impertinency of his defence; and adding farther light,

and ftrength to the arguments formerly produced in

defence of God's gracious covenant with Abraham,

Gen. xvii. and the right of believers infants to bap-

tifm, grounded thereupon,

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