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GENERAL LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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Jar 2.5100
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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 inthe 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, andthe generalmethodstated,
CHAР.
Wherein the kinds, and nature, offear are opened, and
particularly the distracting, ſlavish fear of creatures, CHAP.
III.
Shewing the various uſes offear, both natural, ſinful, and religious, in the government ofthe world byprovidence,
CHAP.
IV.
Wherein the Springs andcauses offinfulfear are fearched
out, and the evils offuchfears thence discovered, CHAP.
Laying open the finful and lamentable effects offlaviſb andinordinatefear, both incarnaland regenerate perfons,
CHAP.
VI.
Prescribing the rules to cure our finfulfears, and prevent thesefad and woful effects of them,
CHAP.
VII.
Anfwering the moſt material pleas for flavish fears, and diffolving the common objections against courage and
constancy ofmind 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 confidered, the doctrine propounded, and the method of the following discoursestated, 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 propofition, viz. That God's own people are much concerned in, and ought to be fuitably 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 ofhis indignation,
CHAP.
Evincing the fourth propofition, 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 thesecurity of his people, in the greatest diſtreffes that can befal them in the world,
CHAP.
VII.
Opening that glorious attribute of Divine Wisdom, as a fecond chamber of security to the faints in difficult times,
CONTENT Pag.
CHAP.
VIII.
Opening that glorious attribute of divinefaithfulness, as a third chamber of fecurity 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 ofGodfor his people in times of trou-
ble, as the fifth chamber of rest to believers, CHAP.
Opening the fixth and last chamber, viz. The love ofGod,
as a refting-place to believing fouls in evil times, CHAP.
XII.
Cantaining thefirst use of the point, in feveral informing confectaries and deductions of truthfrom 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 ofthe ERRORS ofthe Times,
ANAPPENDIX :
Containing a full and modeft Reply to Mr. Philip Cary's Rejoinder to my Vindicia Legis et Fæderis .
Manifesting the badness ofhis 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 theweakand impertinent Rejoinder of Mr. PHILIP CARY.
Wherein he vainly attempts the defence of his abfurd THESIS, to the great abuse and injury of the laws and covenants ofGod,
A Poſtſcript to Mr. CARY,
The SECOND APPENDIX :
Giving a briefAccount ofthe Riſe andGrowth of ANTINOMIANISM ; the Deduction of the principal Errors of that Sect : With modest and ſeaſonable Reflections upon them,
GOSPEL-UNITY recommended to the Churches
ofCHRIST .ASERMON.
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 Gofpel, (much to be reverenced in Chriſt) now at length, by the wonderful Providence ofGod, 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 hewith 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, andknock, &c. 459
SERMO ION V.
Rev. iii. 20. BeholdIstandat thedoor, [andknock,] &c. 486
