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LONDON:
PRINTED BY MILLS, JOWETT, AND MILLS,
BOLT-COURT, FLEET-STREET.
THE REASONS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; MORE REASONS FOR THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
CONTENTS
OF
THE TWENTY-FIRST VOLUME.
THE
REASONS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
THE FIRST PART CONTINUED.
OF NATURAL RELIGION, OR GODLINESS.
CHAP. IX. Of man's subjection to God, or relation to him as
our Ruler
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X. Of God's particular laws, as known in nature:
what the law of nature is
XI. 3. Of God's relation to man, as his Benefactor
and his End; or, as his Chief Good; proved
that God is man's End.....
XII. Of man's relation to God, as he is our Father,
Benefactor, and End, or Chief Good; and the
Duties of that relation
XIII. Experiments of the difficulty of all this duty, be-
fore proved from nature; and what it must cost
him who will live such a holy life
XIV. That there is a life of retribution after this, proved
XV. Of the intrinsical evils of sin; and of the perpe-
tual punishment due to the sinner, by the un-
doubted law of nature
XVI. Of the present sinful and miserable state of the
world
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XVII. What natural light declareth of the mercy of God
to sinners, and of the hopes and means of man's
recovery
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THE SECOND PART.
OF CHRISTIANITY, AND SUPERNATURAL REVELA-
TION.
CHAP. I. Of the need of a clearer light, or fuller revelation
of the will of God, than all that hath been
opened before
II. Of the several religions which are in the world
III. Of the christian religion; and, 1. What it is
IV. Of the nature and properties of the christian reli-
gion.
V. Of the congruities in the christian religion, which
make it the more easily credible, and are great
preparatives to faith
VI. Of the Witness of Jesus Christ, or the great demon-
strative evidence of his verity and authority, viz.,
the Spirit, in four parts: 1. Antecedently, by
prophecy; 2. Constitutively and inherently, the
image of God, on his person, life, and doc-
trine; 3. Concomitantly, by the miraculous power
and works of Christ and his disciples; 4. Subse-
quently, in the actual salvation of men by reno-
vation: opened: notes added....
VII. Of the subservient proofs and means by which the
fore-mentioned evidences are brought to our cer-
tain knowledge. How we know the antecedent
prophetical testimony, and the constitutive, inhe-
rent evidence. How we know the concomitant
testimony of miracles: 1. By human testimony.
2. By evidence of natural certainty. 3. By
divine attestation in the testifier's miracles. The
proofs of that divine attestation with the wit-
nesses: 1. In the holy constitution of their souls
and doctrine: 2. In their miracles and gifts:
3. In the success of their doctrine to men's sanc-
tification. How the church's testimony of the
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