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CONTENTS OF VOL. VII.
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PRACTICAL WORKS CONCLUDED.
I. THE REMEDY OF DISCONTENTMENT: or, A TREATISE
OF CONTENTATION IN WHATSOEVER CONDITION: FIT FOR THESE
SAD AND TROUBLED TIMES.
To the Christian Reader
The Method of this Treatise
Introduction. The Excellency of Contentation; and how it is to
be had. The Contrariety of Estates, wherein Contentation
is to be exercised
Part First.
WANT
Contentation, in KNOWING HOW TO
CHAP. I. WHAT IT IS to know how to want, and to
be abased.
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Sect. 1. How MANY DO NOT KNOW HOW TO WANT
ib.
2. WHO THEY ARE, THAT KNOW HOW TO WANT
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CHAP. II. HOW TO BE ATTAINED
Sect. 1. CONSIDERATIONS for Contentment: which
[1] Remedies against the Terrors of
Death; viz.
(a.) Necessity and Benefit of Death
(b.) Conscience of a well-led Life
(c.) Final Peace with God
(d.) Efficacy of Christ's Death ap-
plied
(e.) Comfortable Expectation of cer-
tain Resurrection, and imme-
diate Vision of God
[2.] Miseries and Inconveniences of the
continued Conjunction of Soul and
Body; viz.
(a.) Defilement of Sin Original
(b.) Proneness to Sin
(c.) Difficulty of doing well
(d.) Dulness of Understanding
(e.) Perpetual Conflicts
(f.) Solicitude of Cares
(g.) Multiplicity of Passions
(h.) Retardation of Glory
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(3.) True Inward Riches
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Sect. 2. HOLY DISPOSITIONS for Contentment
(1.) Humility
(2.) Self-Resignation.
Part Second.
(3.) To digest smaller Inconveniences
(4.) To be frequent and fervent in Prayer
ABOUND:
The Difficulty of Knowing how to abound:
and the Ill Consequences of Not Knowing it 40
II. THE PEACE-MAKER: LAYING FORTH THE RIGHT Way of Peace
IN MATTERS OF RELIGION.
Address to the Clergy of the Diocese of Norwich
Chap. I. INTRODUCTORY.
Sect. 1. THE DIFFERENCE OF TRUTHS AND THE IMPORT-
ANCE OF THOSE, WHICH CONCERN MATTER OF
RELIGION
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2. WHAT DIFFERENCES OF JUDGMENT MAKE A DIF-
FERENT RELIGION
3. OF THE FUNDAMENTAL POINTS OF RELIGION
4. THE INJURIOUS UNCHARITABLENESS OF THE RO-
MISH CHURCH, IN EXCLUDING CHRISTIAN
CHURCHES, AND CONDEMNING THEIR PRO-
5. THE UNDUE ALIENATION OF THE LUTHERAN
CHURCHES FROM THE OTHER REFORMED
6. THE DIFFERENCES, BETWIXT THE OTHER RE-
FORMED CHURCHES, AND OUR OWN
7. THE DIFFERENCES WITHIN OUR OWN CHURCHES,
AT HOME
Chap. II. Of the Ways of Peace which concern PRIVATE
Sect. 1. The First Private Way of Peace :
TO LABOUR AGAINST THE INWARD GROUNDS
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(3.) Charitable Affection to our Brethren
(4.) A Yieldableness upon Sight of Clearer
Chap. III. Of the Ways of Peace which concern the PUBLIC
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[2] Abet Quarrels, and pertinaciously
maintain dangerous Errors
Sect. 2. The Second Public Way of Peace:
ORDER FOR SURE GROUNDS TO BE LAID BY
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Chap. IV. A MOTIVE to peace, from the Miseries of Discord 104
III. THE BALM OF GILEAD: or, COMFORTS FOR THE DIS-
TRESSED; BOTH MORAL AND DIVINE.
Dedication to all the Distressed Members of Jesus Christ, where-
The Preface.-Aggravation of the Misery of Sickness 111
Sect. 1. The Freedom of the Soul
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2. The Author of Sickness; and the Benefit of it ib.
3. The Vicissitudes of Health
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6. Our Sufferings far below our Deservings
7. The Benefit of the Exercise of our Patience
8. The Necessity of expecting Sickness . . 119
9. God's most tender Regard to us in Sickness
10. The comfortable End of our Sufferings
11. The favour of a peaceable Passage out of the
World
Chap. II. COмforts for the sICK SOUL.
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Sect. 1. The Happiness of a deep Sorrow for Sin
2. The well-grounded Declaration of Pardon
3. Aggravation of the grievous Condition of
the Patient; and Remedies from Mer-
cies applied
4. Complaint of Unrepentance and Unbelief,
satisfied.
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