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Contents
Recommendations.
PREFACE.
Hon. Colonel John Downes,
To All Those Humble-Hearted Readers,
Catalogue of Authors
Introduction.
Sect. 1. — Differences about the Law.
Sect. 2. — A threefold Law.
Sect. 1. — The Nature of the Covenant of Works
Sect. 2. — Adam’s Fall.
Sect. 3. — The Sinfulness and Misery of Mankind by the Fall.
Sect. 4. — No Recovery by the Law, or Covenant of Works.
Sect. 5. — The Covenant of Works binding, though broken.
Chapter Ii. Of The Law Of Faith, Or Covenant Of Grace.
Section I. — Of The Eternal Purpose Of Grace.
Sect. 1. — The Promise made to Adam.
Sect. 2 — The Promise renewed to Abraham.
Sect. 3. — The Law, as the Covenant of Works, added to the Promise.
Sect. 4. — The Promise and Covenant with Abraham renewed with the Israelites.
Sect. 5. — The Covenant of Grace, under the Mosaic Dispensation.
Sect. 6 — The natural bias towards the Covenant of Works.
Sect. 7. — The Antinomian Faith rejected.
Sect. 8. — The evil of Legalism.
Section Iii. — Of The Performance Of The Promise.
Sect. 1. — Christ’s fulfilling of the Law in the room of the Elect.
Sect. 2. — Believers dead to the Law as the Covenant of Works.
Sect. 3. — The warrant to believe in Christ.
Sect. 4. — Evangelical Repentance a consequent of Faith.
Sect. 5. — The spiritual Marriage with Jesus Christ.
Sect. 6. — Justification before Faith refuted.
Sect. 7. — Believers freed from the commanding and condemning Power of the Covenant of Works.
Sect. 1. — The nature of the Law of Christ.
Sect. 2. — The law of the Ten Commandments a rule of life to believers.
Sect. 3. — Antinomian objections answered.
Sect. 4. — The necessity of marks and signs of grace.
Sect. 5. — Antinomian objections answered.
Sect. 6. — Holiness and good works attained to only by faith.
Sect. 7. — Slavish fear and servile hope are not the springs of true obedience.
Sect. 8. — The efficacy of faith for holiness of heart and life.
Sect. 9 — Use of means for strengthening of faith.
Sect. 10. — The distinction of the Law of Works, and Law of Christ, applied to six paradoxes.
Sect. 11. — The use of that distinction in practice.
Sect. 12. — That distinction a mean between Legalism and Antinomianism.
Sect. 13. — How to attain to assurance.
Sect. 14. — Marks and evidences of true faith.
Sect. 15. — How to recover lost evidences.
Sect. 16. — Marks and signs of union with Christ.
Sect. 1. — No rest for the soul till it comes to God.
Sect. 2. — How the soul is kept from rest in God.
Sect. 3. — God in Christ the only true rest for the soul.
CONCLUSION.
DEDICATION
The Author To The Well-Affected Reader.
Ignorant men confine the meaning of the Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments an epitome of the law of God
Six rules for the right expounding of the Ten Commandments
Sum Of Commandment 1.
Sum Of Commandment 2.
Sum Of Commandment 3.
Sum Of Commandment 4.
Sum Of Commandment 5.
Sum Of Commandment 6.
Sum Of Commandment 7.
Sum Of Commandment 8.
Sum Of Commandment 9.
Sum Of Commandment 10.
The Lord requires perfect obedience to all Ten Commandments
Christ has redeemed believers from the curse of the law
Every man’s best actions are corrupted and defiled with sin.
The least sinful thought makes man liable to eternal damnation.
Though man cannot be justified by his obedience to the law, yet his obedience shall not be in vain
Man is naturally apt to think he must do something towards his own justification, and act accordingly
Christ requires that believers desire and endeavour to yield perfect obedience to all the Ten Commandments
Believers shall be rewarded for their obedience, and with what
In what manner believers are to confess their sins on a day of humiliation
Why and to what end believers are to receive the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
The Difference Between The Law And The Gospel.
The Occasion of the “Marrow” Controversy, stated by the late Rev. John Brown, of Haddington.
Queries agreed to by the Commission of the General Assembly, and put to those Ministers who submitted a Representation a
Query 1. Gospel Precepts
Query 2. The Believer and the Moral Law
Query 3. Promises, Threatenings, and the Covenant of Works
Query 4. The Moral Law and the Threat of Hell
Query 5. Freedom from the Covenant of Works
Query 6. Justification, Holiness, and Glory
Query 7. A Holy Life and Free Grace
Query 8. The Direct Act of Justifying Faith
Query 10. Christ as a Gift in the Gospel Offer
Query 11. Distinguishing the Law
Query 12. Hope of Heaven and Fear of Hell
Notes: RECOMMENDATIONS.
Notes: To All Those Humble-Hearted Readers,
Notes: Sect. 2. — A threefold Law.
Notes: Chapter I. Of The Law, Or Covenant Of Works.
Notes: Sect. 2. — Adam’s Fall.
Notes: Sect. 3. — The Sinfulness and Misery of Mankind by the Fall.
Notes: Sect. 4. — No Recovery by the Law, or Covenant of Works.
Notes: Chapter Ii. Of The Law Of Faith, Or Covenant Of Grace.
Notes: Section I. — Of The Eternal Purpose Of Grace.
Notes: SECTION II. — OF THE PROMISE.
Notes: Sect. 2 — The Promise renewed to Abraham.
Notes: Sect. 3. — The Law, as the Covenant of Works, added to the Promise.
Notes: Sect. 4. — The Promise and Covenant with Abraham renewed with the Israelites.
Notes: Sect. 5. — The Covenant of Grace, under the Mosaic Dispensation.
Notes: Sect. 6 — The natural bias towards the Covenant of Works.
Notes: Sect. 7. — The Antinomian Faith rejected.
Notes: Sect. 8. — The evil of Legalism.
Notes: Sect. 1. — Christ’s fulfilling of the Law in the room of the Elect.
Notes: Sect. 2. — Believers dead to the Law as the Covenant of Works.
Notes: Sect. 3. — The warrant to believe in Christ.
Notes: Sect. 4. — Evangelical Repentance a consequent of Faith.
Notes: Sect. 5. — The spiritual Marriage with Jesus Christ.
Notes: Sect. 6. — Justification before Faith refuted.
Notes: Sect. 7. — Believers freed from the commanding and condemning Power of the Covenant of Works.
Notes: Chapter Iii. Of The Law Of Christ.
Notes: Sect. 2. — The law of the Ten Commandments a rule of life to believers.
Notes: Sect. 3. — Antinomian objections answered.
Notes: Sect. 4. — The necessity of marks and signs of grace.
Notes: Sect. 5. — Antinomian objections answered.
Notes: Sect. 6. — Holiness and good works attained to only by faith.
Notes: Sect. 7. — Slavish fear and servile hope are not the springs of true obedience.
Notes: Sect. 8. — The efficacy of faith for holiness of heart and life.
Notes: Sect. 10. — The distinction of the Law of Works, and Law of Christ, applied to six paradoxes.
Notes: Sect. 11. — The use of that distinction in practice.
Notes: Sect. 12. — That distinction a mean between Legalism and Antinomianism.
Notes: Sect. 13. — How to attain to assurance.
Notes: Sect. 14. — Marks and evidences of true faith.
Notes: Sect. 15. — How to recover lost evidences.
Notes: Sect. 16. — Marks and signs of union with Christ.
Notes: Chapter Iv. Of The Heart’S Happiness, Or Soul’S Rest.
Notes: Sect. 2. — How the soul is kept from rest in God.
Notes: Sect. 3. — God in Christ the only true rest for the soul.
Notes: SUM OF COMMANDMENT 10.
Notes: The least sinful thought makes man liable to eternal damnation.
Notes: Though man cannot be justified by his obedience to the law, yet his obedience shall not be in vain
Notes: Why and to what end believers are to receive the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
Notes: APPENDIX
Notes: Queries agreed to by the Commission of the General Assembly, and put to those Ministers who submitted a Represent
Notes: Query 1. Gospel Precepts
Notes: Query 2. The Believer and the Moral Law
Notes: Query 8. The Direct Act of Justifying Faith
Notes: Query 11. Distinguishing the Law
Notes: Query 12. Hope of Heaven and Fear of Hell

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