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THE CONTENTS

OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

Quest. I. Of glorifying God, and the enjoyment of

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

The connexion between glorifying God and the enjoyment of

Contentedness to perish, that God may be glorified, unjustly

made a mark of grace

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.

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

froni the boundless desires of the soul

From the consent of all nations

Objection, That there have been some speculative Atheists,

The belief of a God took not its rise from human policy 40

It wus not propagated merely by tradition

ibid

From the works of providence

From the foretelling future events

From the provision made for all

Particularly for man's safety

The cbjections taken from the prosperity of the wicked, an-

Nothing short of revelation sufficient to give a saving discovery

Quest. III. Of the Holy Scripture.

The names given to it

Why called a Testament

How the want of a written word was supplied to the church be-

Whether the church, under the Old Testament, understood the

spiritual meaning of the laws contained in it

Whether the prophets understood their own predictions 54

How far the Old Testament is still a rule

How the scriptures are a complete revelation of the will of

The scripture a sufficient rule of faith and obedience 59

Its properties as a rule

It is the only rule

Human traditions of no divine authority

The Popish doctrine of them confuted

The Canon of scripture preserved entire

Is not perverted

Quest. IV. Of the Divine Authority of the Scriptures.

In what respects called divine

A divine revelation necessary

Not contrary to God's perfections

Inspiration not impossible

The scripture proved to be the word of God

From the majesty of its style

From the purity of its doctrines

Its holiness considered absolutely

And as compared with other writings

From the harmony of all its parts

Dr. Paley on the genuineness of the scriptures, in a note 79

Its harmony shewn in the accomplishment of many predic-

It doth not contradict itself

Various objections answered

Rules for reconciling seeming contradictions in scripture 94

Grotius on their authority, in a note

From its scope and design

From the character of the penmen

These were faithful

They were not imposed on

How they might know they were under inspiration 108

They mistook not the devil's impressions for divine revela-

The words as well as matter of scripture were given by in-

From its antiquity and preservation

From the testimony of God by miracles

Two objections answered

By the conviction and conversion of sinners

How Christians come to a full persuasion of the divinity of

7 he inward testimony of the Spirit explained

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

Difference between other spiritual substances and God 124.

Independent 124. Infinitely perfect

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

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

Omniscient 145. He knows all future contingencies 147

Properties of God's knowledge 149. Its improvement 150

When it is practically denied, ibid.

Wisdom of God infinite

Different from knowledge

Wherein it appears

In Creation 154. Providence 155. Redemption 156

In the constant government of the church

Inferences from God's wisdom

Holiness of God infinite

What it is, ibid. Instances of it

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, 163

When God's holiness is contemned

Justice of God infinite

How distinguished from his holiness

Glory, how called a reward

Aflictions of believers not

properly e punishment ibid

Mercy and grace of God infinite

Difference between goodness, mercy, grace, and patience 169

Mercy is either common or special

Grace free and sovereign

Discriminating 173. Instances of it, ibid. Afflictions not

inconsistent with it

Leads not to licentiousness

ibid

Patience of God, what it is

Whether devils are objects of it

Instances of God's patience

Wherein manifested to the wicked

Not inconsistent with justice

How to be improved

By whom it is abused

Truth, God is abundant therein

How he is called a God of truth

Faithfulness of God, ibid. "No impeachment hereof that some

threatening's have not been executed 188. Nor that some

promises have not presently been performed

How this perfection is to be improved

Quest. VIII, Оf the Unity of the Godhead.

How God is styled the living God

Unity of the Godhead proved

Abernethy on that subject, in a note

Was not denied by the wiser Heathen

Inferences from it

How we should conceive of it

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

The doctrine of the highest importance

How to determine the importance of a doctrine

What knowledge of it necessary to salvation

It is a great mystery, 214. What a mystery is, ibid.

It is incomprehensible

Dr. Bates on mysteries, in a note

Objections on this account answered

Whether to receive it be to use words without ideas ibid

Whether the revelation of it be unintelligible

Whether that which is unintelligible be the object of faith 222

How this doctrine promotes religion

In what sense revelation is an improvement of the light of

Not contrary to reason, though above it

When a doctrine is contrary to reason

It is not chargeable with Tritheism

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

Whitaker on the word Logos used by the Jews, in a

Trinity, not to be illustrated by similitudes

Rules for interpreting scriptures relating to it

The word Trinity explained

Person, the word explained

The difference between divine and human persons 242

Sacred Three, in what respect One

Dr. Jamieson on the Trinity, in a note

How their glory equal, how the same

ibid

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 274

Christ's sonship as Mediator, considered

Another view of the subject, in a note

Procession of the Spirit, how understood by many, 260. What

The scripture doctrine of it

Deconomy of the sacred Three explained

How distinct works are ascribed to them

The Deity of the Son proved

From his divine names

Jehovah God's incommunicable name

Never given to creatures

It is not applied to angels

Christ's Deity proved from it

God and Lord, how applied in scripture

Christ's Deity proved thereby

This argued from 1 Tim. iii. 16.

And from Acts xx. 28. 313. Rom. ix, 5. ibid.

From 1 John v. 20. 315. Isa. ix. 6.

From Titus ii. 13. ibid. John xx. 28.

When the word God is used absolutely

Its meaning when so used

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