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GENERAL LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
PRESENTED BY
Rer. HenryC. Grasager Class of18.71
Jar 2.5100
F58 Sop.91790
THE WHOLE
WORKS OF
THE REVEREND
9035-4
MR. JOHN FLAVEL,
Late MINISTER of the GOSPEL at Dartmouth in Devon .
IN EIGHT VOLUMES.
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
An Alphabetical TABLE of the principal Matters contained in the Whole.
THE EIGHT EDITΙΟΝ.
VOL.
IV.
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CONTENTS.
A PRACTICAL TREATISE of FEAR,
Pag. 1
The Epistle Dedicatory, CHAP.
Wherein the text, and context, are opened, the doctrines propounded, and the generalmethodstated,
CHAР.
Wherein the kinds, and nature, of fear are opened, and
particularly the distracting, slavish fear of creatures, CHAP.
III.
Shewing the various uses of fear, both natural, sinful, and religious, in the government of the world by providence,
CHAP.
IV.
Wherein the Springs and causes offinfulfear are searched
out, and the evils offuchfears thence discovered, CHAP.
Laying open the sinful and lamentable effects offlavisb andinordinatefear, both in carnal and regenerate persons,
CHAP.
VI.
Prescribing the rules to cure our finfulfears, and prevent thesefad and woful effects of them,
CHAP.
VII.
Answering the most material pleas for slavish fears, and dissolving the common objections against courage and
constancy of mind in times of danger,
CONTENTS.
THE RIGHTEOUS MAN'S REFUGE.
Pag. 89
The Epistle to the Reader, CHAI I Wherein the literal and real importance of the text is considered, the doctrine propounded, and the method of the following discourse stated, gr CHAP., Ц.
Demonstrating the first proposition, that there are times and seasons appointed by God for the pouring out of his indignation upon the world,
CHAP.
III.
Opening and confirming the second proposition, viz. That God's own people are much concerned in, and ought to be suitably affected with those judgments that befal
the nation wherein they live, CHAP.
IV.
Confirming the third proposition, viz. That God hath a Special and peculiar care of his own people in the days of his indignation,
CHAP.
Evincing the fourth proposition, viz. That God usually premonisbeth the world, especially his own people, of bisjudgments before they befal them,
CHAP.
VI.
Demonstrating the fifth proposition, viz. That God's attributes, promises, and providences, are prepared for the security of his people, in the greatest distresses that can befal them in the world,
CHAP.
VII.
Opening that glorious attribute of Divine Wisdom, as a second chamber of security to the saints in difficult times,
CONTENT Pag.
CHAP.
VIII.
Opening that glorious attribute of divine faithfulness, as a third chamber of security to the people of God, in times of distress and danger,
CHAP.
IX.
Opening to believers the unchangeableness of God, as a fourth chamber of refuge and rest in times of trouble,
CHAP.
Opening the care of God for his people in times of trou-
ble, as the fifth chamber of rest to believers, CHAP.
Opening the sixth and last chamber, viz. The love of God,
as a resting-place to believing fouls in evil times, CHAP.
XII.
Cantaining the first use of the point, in several informing confectaries and deductions of truth from it,
Afuccinct and seasonable Discourse of the Occafi-
: ons, Nature, Rise, Growth, and Remedies of
MENTAL ERRORS,
An Epistle to the Reader,
Twenty general OBSERVATIONs about the Rife and Increase of the ERRORS of the Times,
AN APPENDIX :
Containing a full and modest Reply to Mr. Philip Cary's Rejoinder to my Vindicia Leg is et Fæderis .
Manifesting the badness of his cause, in the feebleness and impertinency of his defence ; and adding farther light, and strength to the arguments formerly produced in defence of God's gracious covenant with Abraham,
Gen. xvii. and the right of believers infants to baptism, grounded thereupon,
CONTENTS.
Pag
VINDICIARUM VINDEX :
Or, ARefutationof the weak and impertinent Rejoinder of Mr. PHILIP CARY.
Wherein he vainly attempts the defence of his absurd THESIS, to the great abuse and injury of the laws and covenants of God,
A Postscript to Mr. CARY,
The SECOND APPENDIX :
Giving a brief Account of the Rise and Growth of ANTINOMIANISM ; the Deduction of the principal Errors of that Sect : With modest and seasonable Reflections upon them,
GOSPEL-UNITY recommended to the Churches
of CHRIST .A SERMON.
1 Cor. i. 10. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the fame mind, and in the fame judgment,
ENGLAND'S DUTY,
Under the present
GOSPEL.LIBERTY.
An Epistle to the Reader,
A LETTER to the dearly beloved Ministers of the Gospel, (much to be reverenced in Christ) now at length, by the wonderful Providence of God, restored to Liberty : Addressed as a humble Supplication to the more aged, and as an Exhortation to youngerMinifters and Candidates,
CONTENTS.
vii Pag.
To the Reader,
SERMONL Rev. iii. 20. [Behold] I stand at the door, and knock, ifanyman hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, andfup with him, and he with me, 410
SERMONП.
Rev. iii. 20. Behold [I] Stand at the door, &c.
SERMONIII.
Rev. iii. 20. Behold I [stand] at the door, and knock,&c. 436
SERMONIV.
Rev. iii. 20. Behold I [stand] at the door, and knock, &c. 459
SERMO ION V.
Rev. iii. 20. BeholdIstandat the door, [and knock,] &c. 486
