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THE WHOLE
WORKS OF
THE REVEREND 40357
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 EDITION.
VOL.
VII.
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CONTENTS.
SAINT INDEED.
The Epistle Dedicatory, page 1 Prov. iv. 23. Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life,
The TOUCHSTONE of SINCERITY.
The Epistle to the Reader,
Rev. iii. 17, 18. Because thou sayest I am rich, and increasedwithgoods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked : I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayeft be rich, &c.
CHAP I.
Wherein the text is opened, and the doctrines are propounded, CHAP.
II.
Wherein the first doctrine is opened and proved briefly, as
a preliminary discourse to the principalfubject hereindefigned, CHA Г.
III.
Containing the use and improvement of the second doctrine, 131 CHA P.
IV.
Wherein the third doctrine, being the main subject of this treatise is opened, and the method of the whole discourse
Stated,
CHAP.
Shewing what probation adversity makes of the sincerity or unfoundness of our hearts,
CHAP .
VI .
Shewing indwellingfin to be to grace, what fire is to gold; and how the foundness and unfoundness of our hearts are discovered by our carriage towards it,
CONTENTS.
CHAP.
VII.
Pag Shewing what proof or trial is made of the foundness or unfoundness of our graces, by the duties of religion which we perform,
CHAP.
VIII .
Opening the trials offincerity and hypocrisy, by sufferings upon the account of religion,
CHAP.
IX .
Opening the designs and ends of God, in bringing oftheprofeffors of religion intofuchvarious trials of their graces in this world,
CHAP.
Shewing that that grace only is to be reckonedfincere and 191real, which can endure those trials which God appoints, or permits, for the discovery of it, CHAP.
Containing divers practical instructive inferencesfrom this
doctrine ; with a serious exhortation to self-trial and thorough examination, CHAP.
XII.
Containing divers helps for the clearing offincerity, and
discovery of hypocrisy,
A TOKEN FOR MOURNERS.
The Epistle Dedicatory,
Luke vii. 13. And when the Lordfaw her, he had compassion on her, and said, Weep not,
PREPARATIONS for SUFFERINGS.
The Epistle to the Reader,
Acts xxi. 13. Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep, and to break my heart ? For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
- CHA P.
Wherein the text is opened, and the doctrine propounded,
CHAP.
II.
Shews, that although God takes no delight in assisting bis
CONTENTS.
Pag. people,yet he sometimes expofeth them to great and grievous sufferings ; with a brief account why, and how he calls them thereunto,
CHAP.
III.
Shews, that it is usual with God to premonish his people of i approaching trials andfufferings ; with fame account of the manner how, and the reason why hefo forewarns them, CHAP.
IV.
Demonstrating the excellency of a prepared heart for the worst offufferings ; and what a blessed thing it is to be ready to be bound, or to die for Christ, as Paulherewas, 312
CHAP.
Evincingthe necessity of a found, and real work of grace upon the heart, to fit a man for suffering for Christ,
CHAP.
VI.
Wherein the nature of this work of grace, in which our habitual fitness for suffering lies, is briefly opened, and an account given of the great advantage the gracious perfonhathfor any, even the hardest work thereby,
CHAP.
VII.
In which the necessity of getting clear evidences of this
work of grace in us, in order to our readiness forfufferings, is held forth; the nature of that evidence opened and divers things, that cloud and obscure it, removed out of the way, CHAP .
VIII .
Discovering the necessity of an improved faith for the
right management of sufferings, and directing to some Special means for the improvement thereof,
CHA P.
IX.
Wherein the necessity and usefulness of Christian fortitude
in order tofufferings is evinced, with a brief account of its nature, and the means of attaining it,
CHA P.
Discovering the necessity of an heart mortified to all earthly
and temporal enjoyments, in order to the right managing ofafuffering condition : with several directions for the attaining thereof, CHAP .
XI.
Wherein is opened the singular advantage that suffering
Saints have bytheirskilland insight into the methods and mysteries of Satan's temptations ;some of those wiles of
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Pag.
Satan opened, and rules for the avoiding of the danger briefly prescribed,
CHAP.
Sheweth, that a choice part of our preparation and readiXII. ness for sufferings consists in the improvement of our praying abilities, and keeping close with God in that heavenly and excellent duty, in days offuffering ; wherein also is opened the nature and means of its improvement,
CHA P.
XIII .
Wherein is shewed the necessity of going out of ourselves, even when our habitual and actual preparations are at the greatest height ; and depending as constantly and entirely upon the Spirit, who is Lord of all gracious influences, as if we had done nothing : Together with the means of working the heart to such a frame,
CHAP.
XIV .
Containing the first use of the point by way of conviction, discovering the unreadiness of multitudes of professors for suffering-work, CHAP.
XV.
Containing another use of the point, by way of exhortation,
persuading all the people of God, whilst the Lord refpites, and graciously delays their trials, to answer the end of God therein, and prepare themselves for greater trials : where several motives arepropounded, to excite to the
duty,
CHA P.
XVI.
Containing the last use of the point, by way offupport and comfort to poor trembling fouls, who do take pains to make themselves ready for sufferings ; but yet finding such strength in Satan's temptations, and their own corruptions, fear that all their labour is in vain, and that they fall faint, and utterly apoftatize, when their troubles and trials come to an height,
The BALM of the COVENANT applied to the bleeding WOUNDS of afflicted SAINTS .
The Epiftle Dedicatory,
2 Sam. xxiii. 5. Although my house be not so with God ; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure, &c.
CONTENTS.
vii Pag.
A SERMON preached for the Funeral of JOHN UPTON of Lupton, Esq; 2 Chron. xxxv. 24, 25. Hisfervants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in thesecondchariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and be died, and was buried in one of the fepulchres of his fathers, &c. 434
An EXPOSITION of the Assembly's SHORTER
CATECHISM.
The Preface, An Epistle to the Reader,
Quest. 1. Of man's chief end,
Quest. 2. Of thefcriptures as our rule,
Quest. 3. Of faith and obedience,
Quest. 4. God is a Spirit,
Quest. 5. Of one God,
Quest. 6. Of three persons in the godhead,
Quest. 7. Of God's decrees,
Quest. 8. Of the execution of God's decrees,
Quest. 9. Of the creation, i bid.
Quest. 10. Of man's creation,
Quest. 11. Of divine providence,
Quest. 12. Of the covenant of works,
Quest. 13. Of the fall of man,
Quest. 14. Off in,
Quest. 15. Of the tree of knowledge,
Quest. 16. Of the fall of Adam, and ours in him,
Quest. 17. Of original fin,
Quest. 18. Of the finfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, i bid.
Quest. 19. Of man's misery,
Quest. 20. Of the salvation of God's elect, and of the covenant of grace,
Quest. 21. Of the only Redeemer.
Quest. 22. Of Christ's incarnation,
