Book I
PAGE A general and brief scheme of the whole of the work committed
it. The work of the Holy Spirit in the unction of Jesus to be our Saviour ...... 3 CHAPTER I. ....... 3 Some general observations premised out of John xiv., xv., xvi. CHAPTER II. . . . . . . 7 Some further observations touching the coming of the Holy
to the Holy Spirit in bringing us to salvation, in an enume
ration of all particulars, and of the glory due unto him for
Ghost. His signal coming at Pentecost. The great change made in the world thereby. CHAPTER III. . . . . . . . JQ Of the works of the Holy Ghost upon Christ our Saviour. CHAPTER IV. . . . . . . . 13 His operations upon the church, and that, first, as collec
CHAPTER V. . . . . . . . ig His operations in every part and member of the church. CHAPTER VI. ....... 39 The uses of the precedent doctrine. CHAPTER VII. ...... 47 The Holy Ghost the author of regeneration, or the first ap
tively taken.
plications of salvation to us. CHAPTER VIII. . . . . . . 51 The Holy Ghost the gift of God the Father to us, in and by
Jesus Christ. This inestimable gift bestowed freely by the pure mercy, grace, and love of God.
PAGE CHAPTEK IX. ....... 58 We not only partake of the effects of the Holy Spirit s ope
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rations in us, but also of his person dwelling in us.
CHAPTEBX. 67 The uses of the foregoing doctrine.
BOOK II.
That there are two states or conditions through which God carries
the elect: the state of nature, and the state of grace. _ That
the new birth is the passage between them, which evidenc-
eth the necessity of the new birth, or regeneration. The
reasons why God hath so ordered it, that the generality of
uses of the doctrine, ...
the elect, who live to riper years, should for some time re
CHAPTER I. .... ^
main in that state of nature before he renews them. The
The words of the text, Tit. iii. 4-7, explained ; the elect in
CHAPTER II. ...
a state of sin and wrath before they are brought into a
state of grace.
By the new birth, an elect soul is translated from a state ot
sin and wrath into a state of grace. Whether we are re
generated or no. The state of the unregenerate alterable.
CHAPTER III. .
All God s elect do not, before their regeneration, remain in
that state of sin and wrath.