The Marrow of Modern Divinity (Modernized Edition)
Edward Fisher
Puritans
Chapters 144
- Contents ≈ 12 min
- RECOMMENDATIONS. ≈ 17 min
- PREFACE. ≈ 10 min
- HON. COLONEL JOHN DOWNES, ≈ 5 min
- TO ALL THOSE HUMBLE-HEARTED READERS, ≈ 12 min
- Catalogue of Authors ≈ 1 min
- INTRODUCTION. ≈ 1 min
- Sect. 1. — Differences about the Law. ≈ 3 min
- Sect. 2. — A threefold Law. ≈ 4 min
- Sect. 1. — The Nature of the Covenant of Works ≈ 13 min
- Sect. 2. — Adam’s Fall. ≈ 3 min
- Sect. 3. — The Sinfulness and Misery of Mankind by the Fall. ≈ 6 min
- Sect. 4. — No Recovery by the Law, or Covenant of Works. ≈ 6 min
- Sect. 5. — The Covenant of Works binding, though broken. ≈ 2 min
- CHAPTER II. OF THE LAW OF FAITH, OR COVENANT OF GRACE. ≈ 1 min
- SECTION I. — OF THE ETERNAL PURPOSE OF GRACE. ≈ 9 min
- Sect. 1. — The Promise made to Adam. ≈ 9 min
- Sect. 2 — The Promise renewed to Abraham. ≈ 10 min
- Sect. 3. — The Law, as the Covenant of Works, added to the Promise. ≈ 24 min
- Sect. 4. — The Promise and Covenant with Abraham renewed with the Israelites. ≈ 8 min
- Sect. 5. — The Covenant of Grace, under the Mosaic Dispensation. ≈ 41 min
- Sect. 6 — The natural bias towards the Covenant of Works. ≈ 29 min
- Sect. 7. — The Antinomian Faith rejected. ≈ 11 min
- Sect. 8. — The evil of Legalism. ≈ 7 min
- SECTION III. — OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PROMISE. ≈ 2 min
- Sect. 1. — Christ’s fulfilling of the Law in the room of the Elect. ≈ 9 min
- Sect. 2. — Believers dead to the Law as the Covenant of Works. ≈ 14 min
- Sect. 3. — The warrant to believe in Christ. ≈ 30 min
- Sect. 4. — Evangelical Repentance a consequent of Faith. ≈ 12 min
- Sect. 5. — The spiritual Marriage with Jesus Christ. ≈ 12 min
- Sect. 6. — Justification before Faith refuted. ≈ 4 min
- Sect. 7. — Believers freed from the commanding and condemning Power of the Covenant of Works. ≈ 11 min
- Sect. 1. — The nature of the Law of Christ. ≈ 5 min
- Sect. 2. — The law of the Ten Commandments a rule of life to believers. ≈ 10 min
- Sect. 3. — Antinomian objections answered. ≈ 8 min
- Sect. 4. — The necessity of marks and signs of grace. ≈ 7 min
- Sect. 5. — Antinomian objections answered. ≈ 7 min
- Sect. 6. — Holiness and good works attained to only by faith. ≈ 13 min
- Sect. 7. — Slavish fear and servile hope are not the springs of true obedience. ≈ 7 min
- Sect. 8. — The efficacy of faith for holiness of heart and life. ≈ 21 min
- Sect. 9 — Use of means for strengthening of faith. ≈ 3 min
- Sect. 10. — The distinction of the Law of Works, and Law of Christ, applied to six paradoxes. ≈ 9 min
- Sect. 11. — The use of that distinction in practice. ≈ 26 min
- Sect. 12. — That distinction a mean between Legalism and Antinomianism. ≈ 5 min
- Sect. 13. — How to attain to assurance. ≈ 9 min
- Sect. 14. — Marks and evidences of true faith. ≈ 5 min
- Sect. 15. — How to recover lost evidences. ≈ 3 min
- Sect. 16. — Marks and signs of union with Christ. ≈ 16 min
- Sect. 1. — No rest for the soul till it comes to God. ≈ 6 min
- Sect. 2. — How the soul is kept from rest in God. ≈ 22 min
- Sect. 3. — God in Christ the only true rest for the soul. ≈ 17 min
- CONCLUSION. ≈ 4 min
- DEDICATION ≈ 6 min
- THE AUTHOR TO THE WELL-AFFECTED READER. ≈ 7 min
- Ignorant men confine the meaning of the Ten Commandments ≈ 7 min
- The Ten Commandments an epitome of the law of God ≈ 1 min
- Six rules for the right expounding of the Ten Commandments ≈ 5 min
- SUM OF COMMANDMENT 1. ≈ 18 min
- SUM OF COMMANDMENT 2. ≈ 18 min
- SUM OF COMMANDMENT 3. ≈ 29 min
- SUM OF COMMANDMENT 4. ≈ 9 min
- SUM OF COMMANDMENT 5. ≈ 27 min
- SUM OF COMMANDMENT 6. ≈ 11 min
- SUM OF COMMANDMENT 7. ≈ 6 min
- SUM OF COMMANDMENT 8. ≈ 8 min
- SUM OF COMMANDMENT 9. ≈ 8 min
- SUM OF COMMANDMENT 10. ≈ 10 min
- The Lord requires perfect obedience to all Ten Commandments ≈ 6 min
- Christ has redeemed believers from the curse of the law ≈ 13 min
- Every man’s best actions are corrupted and defiled with sin. ≈ 8 min
- The least sinful thought makes man liable to eternal damnation. ≈ 7 min
- Though man cannot be justified by his obedience to the law, yet his obedience shall not be in vain ≈ 10 min
- Man is naturally apt to think he must do something towards his own justification, and act accordingly ≈ 13 min
- Christ requires that believers desire and endeavour to yield perfect obedience to all the Ten Commandments ≈ 2 min
- Believers shall be rewarded for their obedience, and with what ≈ 7 min
- In what manner believers are to confess their sins on a day of humiliation ≈ 7 min
- Why and to what end believers are to receive the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper ≈ 4 min
- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL. ≈ 22 min
- The Occasion of the “Marrow” Controversy, stated by the late Rev. John Brown, of Haddington. ≈ 5 min
- Queries agreed to by the Commission of the General Assembly, and put to those Ministers who submitted a Representation a ≈ 2 min
- Query 1. Gospel Precepts ≈ 16 min
- Query 2. The Believer and the Moral Law ≈ 8 min
- Query 3. Promises, Threatenings, and the Covenant of Works ≈ 7 min
- Query 4. The Moral Law and the Threat of Hell ≈ 4 min
- Query 5. Freedom from the Covenant of Works ≈ 10 min
- Query 6. Justification, Holiness, and Glory ≈ 7 min
- Query 7. A Holy Life and Free Grace ≈ 13 min
- Query 8. The Direct Act of Justifying Faith ≈ 41 min
- Query 10. Christ as a Gift in the Gospel Offer ≈ 12 min
- Query 11. Distinguishing the Law ≈ 3 min
- Query 12. Hope of Heaven and Fear of Hell ≈ 9 min
- Notes: RECOMMENDATIONS. ≈ 1 min
- Notes: TO ALL THOSE HUMBLE-HEARTED READERS, ≈ 7 min
- Notes: Sect. 2. — A threefold Law. ≈ 19 min
- Notes: CHAPTER I. OF THE LAW, OR COVENANT OF WORKS. ≈ 10 min
- Notes: Sect. 2. — Adam’s Fall. ≈ 3 min
- Notes: Sect. 3. — The Sinfulness and Misery of Mankind by the Fall. ≈ 1 min
- Notes: Sect. 4. — No Recovery by the Law, or Covenant of Works. ≈ 3 min
- Notes: CHAPTER II. OF THE LAW OF FAITH, OR COVENANT OF GRACE. ≈ 3 min
- Notes: SECTION I. — OF THE ETERNAL PURPOSE OF GRACE. ≈ 6 min
- Notes: SECTION II. — OF THE PROMISE. ≈ 14 min
- Notes: Sect. 2 — The Promise renewed to Abraham. ≈ 7 min
- Notes: Sect. 3. — The Law, as the Covenant of Works, added to the Promise. ≈ 28 min
- Notes: Sect. 4. — The Promise and Covenant with Abraham renewed with the Israelites. ≈ 7 min
- Notes: Sect. 5. — The Covenant of Grace, under the Mosaic Dispensation. ≈ 24 min
- Notes: Sect. 6 — The natural bias towards the Covenant of Works. ≈ 6 min
- Notes: Sect. 7. — The Antinomian Faith rejected. ≈ 7 min
- Notes: Sect. 8. — The evil of Legalism. ≈ 1 min
- Notes: Sect. 1. — Christ’s fulfilling of the Law in the room of the Elect. ≈ 31 min
- Notes: Sect. 2. — Believers dead to the Law as the Covenant of Works. ≈ 68 min
- Notes: Sect. 3. — The warrant to believe in Christ. ≈ 45 min
- Notes: Sect. 4. — Evangelical Repentance a consequent of Faith. ≈ 22 min
- Notes: Sect. 5. — The spiritual Marriage with Jesus Christ. ≈ 15 min
- Notes: Sect. 6. — Justification before Faith refuted. ≈ 4 min
- Notes: Sect. 7. — Believers freed from the commanding and condemning Power of the Covenant of Works. ≈ 54 min
- Notes: CHAPTER III. OF THE LAW OF CHRIST. ≈ 13 min
- Notes: Sect. 2. — The law of the Ten Commandments a rule of life to believers. ≈ 9 min
- Notes: Sect. 3. — Antinomian objections answered. ≈ 18 min
- Notes: Sect. 4. — The necessity of marks and signs of grace. ≈ 12 min
- Notes: Sect. 5. — Antinomian objections answered. ≈ 3 min
- Notes: Sect. 6. — Holiness and good works attained to only by faith. ≈ 25 min
- Notes: Sect. 7. — Slavish fear and servile hope are not the springs of true obedience. ≈ 26 min
- Notes: Sect. 8. — The efficacy of faith for holiness of heart and life. ≈ 17 min
- Notes: Sect. 10. — The distinction of the Law of Works, and Law of Christ, applied to six paradoxes. ≈ 10 min
- Notes: Sect. 11. — The use of that distinction in practice. ≈ 20 min
- Notes: Sect. 12. — That distinction a mean between Legalism and Antinomianism. ≈ 1 min
- Notes: Sect. 13. — How to attain to assurance. ≈ 4 min
- Notes: Sect. 14. — Marks and evidences of true faith. ≈ 1 min
- Notes: Sect. 15. — How to recover lost evidences. ≈ 1 min
- Notes: Sect. 16. — Marks and signs of union with Christ. ≈ 1 min
- Notes: CHAPTER IV. OF THE HEART’S HAPPINESS, OR SOUL’S REST. ≈ 4 min
- Notes: Sect. 2. — How the soul is kept from rest in God. ≈ 4 min
- Notes: Sect. 3. — God in Christ the only true rest for the soul. ≈ 6 min
- Notes: SUM OF COMMANDMENT 10. ≈ 1 min
- Notes: The least sinful thought makes man liable to eternal damnation. ≈ 1 min
- Notes: Though man cannot be justified by his obedience to the law, yet his obedience shall not be in vain ≈ 1 min
- Notes: Why and to what end believers are to receive the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper ≈ 1 min
- Notes: APPENDIX ≈ 1 min
- Notes: Queries agreed to by the Commission of the General Assembly, and put to those Ministers who submitted a Represent ≈ 1 min
- Notes: Query 1. Gospel Precepts ≈ 1 min
- Notes: Query 2. The Believer and the Moral Law ≈ 1 min
- Notes: Query 8. The Direct Act of Justifying Faith ≈ 2 min
- Notes: Query 11. Distinguishing the Law ≈ 4 min
- Notes: Query 12. Hope of Heaven and Fear of Hell ≈ 1 min
| Author | Edward Fisher |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | 1600s |
| Categories | Puritans |
| Length | 144 chapters · ≈ 25 h 23 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · EPUB |
