Bible Characters Vol. 5 - Stephen to Timothy

✍ Scribed by Alexander Whyte

• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
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• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Volume 6, continued: Dissertations relating to the Christian doctrine of the Trinity: The preface -- The Arian invited to the orthodox faith: The meaning of the words arian and orthodoxy, explained and ascertained -- The evidences of the orthodox faith stated and illustrated -- The difficulties attending this scheme removed -- The principle objections answered -- Conclusion -- God and man united in the person of Christ -- The worship of Christ, as mediator, founded on his Godhead -- Conclusion -- The preface -- The sentiments of the ancient Jews and primitive Christians, concerning the logos, or word, compared with scripture: The general senses of the term logos, and its application to Christ -- A difficulty mentioned, with a proposal for the solution of it -- The sentiments of the ancient Jews concerning the logos, viz. the apocryphal writers, the targumists, and Philo the Jew -- The application of the Jewish sentiments to the scriptural account of Christ -- The sentiments of the primitive Christians concerning the logos, and their application of this name to Christ -- An inquiry whether the most primitive Christian fathers spake of the logos as an angel, or a glorious spirit inferior to God? -- An humble attempt to reconcile the difficulties arising from the various expressions of the primitive fathers -- Considerations which tend to support this construction of the primitive fathers -- Conclusion -- Of the Holy Spirit: The general ideas of the word and the spirit of God -- The particular representations of the Holy Spirit in scripture -- Objections answered -- An explication of various texts according to this account of the Holy Spirit -- Of the use of the word person in the doctrine of the trinity -- Of the distinction of persons in the divine nature; or, a humble essay to illustrate the doctrine of the trinity, viz. three persons and one God: The introduction -- A general proposal of the analogy between God and a human soul -- Several queries to illustrate this doctrine -- The conclusion -- Useful and important questions concerning Jesus the son of God, freely proposed with a humble attempt to answer them according to scripture: The preface -- What is the meaning of the name son of God, as given to Christ in the New Testament, where the belief of it is necessary to salvation?: Introduction -- The first argument toward the proof of the sense of this name, son of God -- Other arguments to confirm this sense of the name, son of God -- Objections against this sense of the name answered -- What advantage is there in not applying the name, son of God, to the divine nature of Christ? -- Did the disciples of Christ fully believe that he was the true God during his lifetime, or not till after his death and resurrection?: The Jews' old opinion concerning the messiah -- What ideas did Christ give his disciples of himself? -- What idea the disciples had of Christ -- What evidence they gave of believing his true diety -- What evidence they gave of disbelieving his true diety -- Could the son of God properly enter into a covenant with his father, to do and suffer what was necessary to our redemption, without a human soul? -- Is the Godhead of Christ and the Godhead of the Father, one and the same Godhead? -- Is there an intimate union between the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father? -- Is Christ the express image of God the Father, in the human nature, or in the divine? Answer. In the human nature -- Are the worship of God and his Son Jesus Christ consistent with one another? -- What is the worship paid to our blessed saviour, who is the image of God? -- An essay on the true importance of any human schemes to explain the sacred doctrine of the trinity: No human scheme of explication is necessary to salvation -- Yet it may be of great use to the Christian church -- All such explications ought to be proposed in modesty to the world, and never imposed on the conscience -- The glory of Christ as God-man displayed: The preface -- A survey of the visible appearance of Christ as God, before his incarnation: An historical account of these appearances -- The difficulties relating to this account of the appearances of God, under the Old Testament, relieved and adjusted -- Appendix to the first discourse -- Some observations on the texts of the Old Testament, applied to Christ by the Christian fathers, and by the Jews, as well as by the sacred writers -- An inquiry into the extensive powers of Christ's human nature, in its present glorified state: A general representation of the subject -- Scriptural proofs of the exaltation of the human nature of Christ, and the extensive capacities and powers of his soul in his glorified state -- A rational account how the man Jesus Christ may be vested with such extensive powers -- Testimonies from other writers -- The early existence of Christ's human nature as the first-born of God, or as the first of all creatures, before the creation of the world: The truth of this doctrine briefly stated -- Some propositions leading to the proof of the doctrine proposed -- Arguments for the pre-existence of Christ's human soul, drawn from various considerations of something inferior to Godhead ascribed to him before and at his incarnation -- Miscellaneous arguments to prove the same doctrine -- A confirmation of this doctrine by arguments drawn from the happy consequences, and the various advantages of it -- Objections answered -- Appendix: Or, a short abridgment of that excellent discourse of the late Rev. Dr. Thomas Goodwin, on the glories and royalties that belong to Jesus Christ, considered as God-man, in his third book of his knowledge of God the Father and his son Jesus Christ, page 85, in the second volume of his works.;Volume 4, continued: Miscellaneous thoughts, in prose and verse, on natural, moral, and divine subjects: Searching after God -- Roman idolatry -- To Dorio. The first lyric hour -- The Hebrew poet -- The thankful philosopher -- The praise of God -- A meditation for the first of May -- Divine goodness in the creation -- The sacred concert of praise -- The world a stranger to God -- Purgatory -- The temple of the Sun -- The midnight elevation -- The honourable magistrate -- A lesson of humility -- The waste of life -- The table blessed -- Youth and death -- Babylon destroyed -- An epitaph on bigotry, in Latin and English -- The death of Lazarus -- An hymn to Christ Jesus, the eternal life -- Distant thunder -- David's lamentation over Saul and Jonathan -- The skeleton -- Words without spirit -- The church-yard -- A painter restoring an old picture -- On the sight of Queen Mary, in the year 1694 -- On the effigies of George prince of Denmark -- To Velina, on the death of several young children -- Earth, heaven and hell -- A hornet's nest destroyed -- Citations and inscriptions -- Against Lewdness -- Against drunkenness -- Vanity confessed -- Passion and reason -- One devil casting out another -- Excellencies and defects compensated -- Envy discouraged -- The rough man softened -- Absence from God, who is our all -- Formality and superstition -- Cowardice and self-love -- Sickness and recovery -- The deist and the Christian -- To Pocyon. The mischief of warm disputes and declamations on the controverted points of Christianity -- Of labour and patience in instructing mankind -- Public disputations -- Devotional writings -- An elegy on Sophronia, who died of small-pox -- A elegy on the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Bury -- An elegiac ode on the death of Sir Thomas Abney: His private life -- His public character and death -- Entrance upon the world -- Souls in fetters -- To Lucius, on the death of Serena: The spirit's farewel to the body, after a long sickness -- The departing moment; or, absent from the body -- Entrance into paradise; or, present with the Lord -- The sight of God in heaven -- A funeral ode, at the interment of the body -- Divine conduct disputed and justified -- Sinful anger for God's sake -- On the coronation of their majestics K. George II and Q. Caroline -- A loyal wish on her majesty's birth day -- Piety in a court -- The courteous and the peevish -- Common occurrences moralized -- Fragments of verse: The preface of a letter -- The sun in eclipse -- In a letter to Marinda, speaking concerning our blessed saviour -- Inscriptions on several small French pictures, translated -- Inscriptions on dials -- Inscriptions on portraits -- Epigrams: In mirum Maris Meridionalis Thesauri incrementum, Anno 1720 -- On the wondrous rise of the South Sea stock, 1720 -- Inscribendum Maris Meridionalis Gazophylacio, sive officinae -- Sabina and her companions traveling together to see fine buildings and gardens -- The same -- The same -- Ratio, fides, charitas -- Epitaphs: On Thomas Pickard, esq. -- On Mr. John May -- On a near relation -- On the Rev. Samuel Harvey -- On the Rev. Matthew Clarke -- On the Rev. Edward Brodhurst -- On Sir Isaac Newton -- The cadence of verse -- Of the different stops and cadences in blank verse -- A dying world and a durable heaven -- The rewards of poesy -- A moral argument to prove the natural immortality of the soul -- Three modern absurdities -- Remnants of time employed, in prose and verse; or, short essays and composures on various subjects: Justice and grace -- The death of a young son -- Heathen poesy Christianized -- The British fisherman -- Redemption -- Complaint and hope under great pain -- On an elegy written by the right hon. the Countess of Hertford, on the death of Mrs. Rowe -- Dr. Young's admirable description of the peacock enlarged -- Vanity inscribed on all things -- The rake reformed in the house of mourning -- Thou hast received gifts for men -- The gift of the spirit -- The day of grace -- God and nature unsearchable -- The diamond painted -- Bills of exchange -- The saints unknown in this world -- Praise waiteth for Thee, O God, in Sion (Psalm 65:1) -- O that I knew where I might find him! (Job 23:3) -- The figure of a cherub -- The author's solemn address to the great and ever blessed God, on a review of what he had written in the trinitarian controversy -- The art of reading and writing English: Preface -- Of letters and syllables -- Of letters changing their nature, double consonants, and diphthongs -- Of consonants changing their sound -- Of consonants that lose their sound -- Of the several sounds of single vowels -- Of single vowels losing their sound -- Of the sound of diphthongs -- Of the sound of the consonants in foreign words -- Of the sound of vowels in foreign words -- Of dividing the syllables in spelling -- Of compound and derivative words -- Of quantity and accent -- Of the notes or points used in writing or printing -- Directions for reading -- Of the emphasis, or accent which belongs to some special word or words in a sentence -- Observations concerning the letters in printed books, and in writing -- Of great letters -- Observations concerning size, pages, titles, &c. in printed books -- Observations in reading the Bible -- Of reading verse -- General directions for spelling and writing true English -- Particular rules for spelling and writing true English -- Observations concerning the various ways of spelling the same word -- Catalogues of words pronounced or written in such a way as cannot be reduced to rules, &c.: A table words accented on different syllables, according to the custom of the speaker, even when they are used to signify the same thing -- A table of words which are accented on the first syllable when they signify the name of a thing; but on the latter syllable, when they signify an action -- A table of other words pronounced different ways, when they are used in different senses -- A table of words, the same or nearly alike in sound, but different in signification and in spelling -- A table of words different in signification, by the addition of e final -- A table of words that may be spelled ways, which are not easily reduced to any rules -- A table of proper names, spelled different ways in the Old Testament and in the New -- A table of words written very different from the pronunciation -- A table of proper names written very different from their pronunciation -- A table of words jointed together in common discourse, and pronounced very different from their true spelling -- A table of abbreviations or contractions, wherein one, or two, or three letters stand for one of more words -- A table of contractions used only in writing, but scarce ever in print in our age -- A table of numbers and figures -- A table of letters and other marks used for whole words, in money, weights and measures -- Copies containing moral instructions, &c. -- The conclusion.;Volume 1: Memoirs of the life of the author -- Sermons on various subjects, divine and moral: The inward witness to Christianity (I John 5:.10) -- Flesh and spirit; or, the principles of sin and holiness (Romans 8:1) -- The soul drawing near to God in prayer; sins and sorrows spread before God (Job 23:3,4) -- A hopeful youth falling short of heaven (Mark 10:21) -- The hidden life of a Christian (Colossians 3:3) -- Nearness to God the felicity of creatures (Psalm 65:4) -- The scale of blessedness; or, blessed saints, blessed saviour, and blessed trinity (Psalm 65:4) -- Appearance before God here and hereafter (Psalm 42:2) -- A rational defense of the gospel; or, courage in professing Christianity (Romans 1:16) -- Faith the way to salvation, and none excluded from hope (Romans 1:16) -- Christian morality, viz. truth, sincerity, &c. (Philippians 4:8) -- Christian morality, viz. gravity, decency, &c. (Philippians 4:8) -- Christian morality, viz. justice, equity, and truth (Philippians 4:8) -- Christian morality, viz. justice, purity, temperance, chastity, and modesty (Philippians 4:8) -- Christians morality, viz a lovely carriage, &c. (Philippians 4:8) -- Christian morality, viz. things of good report, &c. (Philippians 4:8) -- Christian morality, viz. courage and honour, or virtue and praise (Philippians 4:8) -- Holy fortitude; or, remedies against fear (I Corinthians 16:13) -- The universal rule of equity (Matthew 7:12) -- The atonement of Christ (Romans 3:25) -- The Christian's treasure (I Corinthians 3:21) -- The right improvement of life (I Corinthians 3:22) -- The privilege of the living above the dead (I Corinthians 3:22) -- The death of mankind, both sinners and saints, improved (I Corinthians 3:22) -- The death of kindred improved (I Corinthians 3:22) -- Death a blessing to the saints (I Corinthians 3:22) -- The doctrine of the trinity, and the use of it (Ephesians 2:10) -- The knowledge of God by the light of nature, together with the uses of it, and its defects (Acts 14:15, 16, 17) -- God's election of a people for himself among men, and giving them to his son in the covenant of redemption (Ephesians 1:3, 4, 5) -- The excellency and advantages of the Christian dispensation, with the invitations and promises of the gospel (Hebrews 8:6) -- The exaltation of Christ to his kingdom, and his sending down the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:33) -- The perpetual obligation of the moral law, the evil of sin, and its desert of punishment (I John 3:4) -- The Lord's day, or Christian's sabbath (Genesis 2:3) -- Christian baptism (Matthew 28:19) -- Christian diligence, with the blessings that attend it, in opposition to sloth, security, backsliding, &c. (Proverbs 13:4) -- Christian fellowship, with its duties and advantages (Romans 15:6, 7) -- To encourage the reformation of manners (Exodus 17:11) -- On the death of George I (Isaiah 5:12) --Evangelical discourses on several subjects: The divine commission of St. Paul examined and established (Acts 25:18, 19) -- The difference between the law and the gospel (Galatians 3:21, 22) -- The early appointment of the atonement of Christ manifested (Romans 13:8) -- God in Christ is the saviour of the ends of the earth; or, faith represented in its lowest degrees (Isaiah 45:22) -- Faith built on knowledge (2 Timothy 1:12) -- The ordinary and extraordinary witness of the spirit (Romans 8:16) -- An essay: On the powers and contests of the flesh and spirit.;Volume 3, continued: Prayers composed for the use and imitation of children: A catechism to teach children to pray -- Prayers for youth of ten or twelve years of age -- Examples of prayer on various occasions -- A serious address to children and youth relating to the great and necessary duty of prayer -- Advices to children relating to prayer -- Questions proper for students in divinity, candidates of the ministry, and young Christians: Questions of serious importance for students in divinity frequently to put to their own consciences -- Questions in the doctrines of divinity proper to be proposed to students in their examination in order to preach -- Practical and causictical questions for candidates of the ministry and young preachers -- Questions proper for young ministers frequently to put to themselves, chiefly borrowed from the epistles to Timothy and Titus: Of faithfulness in the ministry -- Of diligence in the ministry -- Of constant prayer and dependence -- Of self-denial, humility, mortification, and patience -- Of conversion -- Questions by which young persons may be taught to examine themselves, both as to their Christian knowledge and their spiritual state -- Questions relating to baptism, the Lord's Supper, and fellowship with a Christian church -- Orthodoxy and charity united in several reconciling essays on the law and gospel, faith and works: Essay I: The substance or matter of the gospel: The gospel described -- Illustrations and proofs of the gospel -- Answers to objections -- Essay II: The form of the gospel: Is the gospel a conditional promise -- Is the gospel a new law -- Objections answered -- Reconciling sentiments -- Advices or requests -- Essay III: The true use of the moral law under the gospel (Matthew 19:17): The introduction -- The sense of Christ's answer -- An answer to some objections -- Of what use is it to keep the law then -- Reflections -- Essay IV: The mistaken ways of coming to God without Christ (John 14:6) -- Essay V: A plain and easy account of a sinner's coming to God by Jesus Christ, or of saving faith in Christ Jesus (John 14:6) -- Essay VI: A view of the manifold salvation of man by Jesus Christi represented, in order to reconcile Christians of different sentiments: The character of Christ as our deliverer from the sinfulness of our natures -- The characters of Christ as our deliverer from the guilt and punishment of sin -- The reasons why Christ and his salvation may be represented to us under these various characters -- The difficulties which are relieved by this various representation of the salvation of Christ -- Essay VII: Against uncharitableness: The causes of uncharitableness -- An occasional vindication of the apostles from the charge of uncharitableness -- The mischievous effects of uncharitableness -- Appendix to the first edition -- Of the difficulties in scripture, and the different opinions of Christians in things less necessary: A short account of these difficulties -- An insurrection of contending Christians -- Some reasons why these differences are permitted to arise among Christians -- Essay IX: An apology for the different judgments and practices of sincere Christians that are weak in knowledge -- Self-love and virtue reconciled only by religion: The general proposals of the subject -- There are eternal fitnesses in human actions and in divine -- In human actions these fitnesses may contradict each other -- The existence of a God reconciles these contradictions -- These contradictions irreconcilable without an existent God -- The chief difficulty of this scheme of thoughts removed -- The necessity of divine revelation, both to clear up the rules of virtue, and to strengthen the obligations -- The redeemer and the sanctifier, or the sacrifice of Christ: The introduction, or Agrippa's creed recited and opposed -- Queries to prove the doctrines denied by Agrippa -- The importance of the doctrines of Christ's atonement for sin argued -- The necessity of this doctrine represented in the express words of two learned men of well-known charity, and of a catholic spirit -- Queries urged against the necessity of believing this doctrine -- The doctrines affirmed, and their necessity limited and adjusted -- The transcendent advantages of the doctrine of the atonement of Christ, and the sanctification of the spirit toward all Christian duties -- A question about a minster's preaching Agrippa's doctrine resolved, with hearty petitions for Agrippa and all his followers.;Volume 3: An humble attempt towards the revival of practical religion among Christians, and particularly the protestant dissenters: An exhortation to minsters: Of a minster's personal religion -- Of a minister's private studies, and the composure of sermons -- Of public ministrations -- Of the conversation of a minister -- A solemn enforcement of these exhortations on the consciences -- A serious address to the people (Matthew 5:47): The text applied to the disciples -- The words applied to our own age and circumstances -- The advantages of protestant dissenters in matters of religion -- Of the obligations of protestant dissenters in matters of religion -- Of the obligations of protestant dissenters to greater degrees of holiness -- Peculiar practices of virtue and piety among the ancient non-conformists -- Of the special advantages of some Christians -- Of the special obligations of some Christians -- Persuasives to superior virtue and piety -- A guide to prayer; or a free and rational account of the gift, grace, and spirit of prayer: The nature of prayer: Of invocation -- Of adoration -- Of confession -- Of petition -- Of pleading -- Of profession or self-dedication -- Of thanksgiving -- Of blessing -- Amen, or the conclusion -- Of the gift of prayer: What the gift of prayer is -- Of forms of prayer, of free or conceived prayer, and praying extempore -- Of the matter of prayer -- Of the method of prayer -- Of expression in prayer -- Of the voice in prayer -- Of gesture in prayer -- General directions about the gift of prayer -- Of the grace of prayer: What the grace of prayer is, and how it differs from the gift -- General graces of prayer -- Graces that belong to particular parts of prayer -- Directions to attain the grace of prayer -- Of the spirit of prayer: Proofs of the assistance of the spirit of God in prayer -- How the spirit assists us in prayer -- Cautions about the influences of the spirit in prayer -- Directions to obtain and keep the spirit of prayer -- A persuasive to learn to pray -- A discourse on the way of instruction by catechisms, and of the best manner of composing them: The duty of instructing children in religion -- Of instructing children, partly by reason, and partly by the authority of the parent -- Short summaries of religion are necessary for the ignorant -- Catechism are the best summaries of religion for children -- Of teaching children to understand what they learn by heart, and of the use of different catechism for different ages -- Of composing any other catechisms besides that of the assembly of divines -- The inconveniences of teaching children what they do not understand -- Rules for composing catechism for children -- The young child's catechism -- The second catechism -- The assembly's catechism, with an exposition of the more difficult words contained in it -- A preservative from the sins and follies of childhood and youth: Of sins against God -- Of sins against our neighbor -- Of sins which chiefly relate to ourselves -- Of follies and frailties incident to children and youth -- The catechism of scriptural names for young children -- The historical catechism for children and youth -- A large catalogue of remarkable scripture names -- A short view of the whole scripture history: The history of the Old Testament -- The history of mankind before the flood -- Of Noah, Abraham, and their families after the flood: Of Noah and his sons -- Of Abraham and Lot, Ishmael and Isaac -- Of Esau and Jacob, and their posterity -- The deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt, and of Moses and Aaron -- Of the moral law -- Of the ceremonial law of the Jews: Of the ceremonies of purification -- Of the holy persons -- Of the holy places, particularly the tabernacle -- Of the holy things -- Of the holy times and holy actions -- The use of the Jewish ceremonies -- Of the political or judicial law of the Jews -- Of the sins and punishments of the Jews in the wilderness -- Of the Jews' entrance into Canaan, and their government by judges: Of the Israelites' possession of Canaan -- Of the government of Israel by judges -- Of the government of Israel under their kings, and first of Saul and David -- Of the reign of Solomon and Rehoboam over all Israel, and the division of the nation into two kingdoms -- Of the kings of Israel -- Of the kings of Judah -- Of the return of the Jews from captivity in Babylon, and the rebuilding the city of Jerusalem and the temple -- The history of Job -- The history of Jonah -- The history of Jeremiah -- The history of Daniel -- The history of Esther -- A continuation of the history of the government and church of the Jews, from the end of the Old Testament to the times of Christ: Of Nehemiah's further reformation, synagogues, targums, Samaritans, proselytes, &c. -- Of the Jewish affairs under the Persian and Grecian monarchies -- Of the Jewish affairs under Ptolemy Soter, &c. of the great synagogue, the Jewish traditions, and of Septuagint translation of the Bible into Greek -- Of the Jewish affairs under Antiochus the Great, Seleucus and Antiochus Epiphanes, Kings of Syria -- Of Mattathias, the father of the Maccabees, and the great reformer -- Of the Jewish government under the Maccabees or Asmoneans; and first of the three brothers, Judas, Jonathan, and Simon -- Of the Jewish affairs under the conduct of the posterity and successors of Simon the Maccabee; and of the several sects among the Jews, viz. Pharisees, Sadduccees, Essenes, Herodians, and Karaites -- Of the government of Herod the Great and his posterity over the Jews -- Of the prophecies which relate to Jesus Christ our saviour, and their accomplishment; or, a prophetical connexion between Old and New Testament -- The history of the New Testament -- Of John the Baptist -- Of the birth and childhood of Jesus Christ -- Of the public life and ministry of Christ, his preparation for his public work: Jesus Christ's appearance with the characters of the messiah -- Of the subjects of his preaching, his parables, his disputes -- The miracles of Christ -- The example of Christ -- His calling the apostles, and instructing them -- His appointment or institution of the two sacraments -- Remarkable occurrences in the life of Christ -- Of the death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ: Of his sufferings, and death and burial -- Of the resurrection and appearances of Christ -- Of his ascension to heaven -- Of the acts of the apostles, chiefly Peter and John; and the deacons, Stephen and Philip -- The acts of Paul, the apostle, his travels and sufferings, his life and death.;Volume 5: Logick: or, the right use of reason in the inquiry after truth: The introduction and general scheme -- The first part of logick: Of perceptions and ideas -- Of the nature of ideas -- Of the objects of perception: Of being in general -- Of substances, and their various kinds -- Of modes in their various kinds; and first of essential and accidental modes -- The further divisions of mode -- Of the ten categories. Of substance modified -- Of not-being --Of the several sorts of perceptions or ideas: Of sensible, spiritual, and abstracted ideas -- Of simple and complex, compound and collective ideas -- Of universal and particular ideas, real and imaginary -- The division of ideas, with regard to their qualities -- Of words and their several divisions, together with the advantage and danger of them: Of words in general, and their use -- Of negative and positive terms -- Of simple and complex terms -- Of words, common and proper -- Of concert and abstract terms -- Of univocal and equivocal terms -- Various kinds of equivocal words -- The origin, or causes of equivocal words -- General directions relating to our ideas: Special rules to direct our conception of things: Of gaining clear and distinct ideas -- Of the definition of words or names -- Directions concerning the definition of names -- Of the definition of things -- Rules of definition of the thing -- Observations concerning the definition of things -- Of a complete conception of things -- Of division, and the rules of it -- Of a comprehensive conception of things, and of abstraction -- Of the extensive conception of things, and of distribution -- Of an orderly conception of things -- These five rules of conception exemplified -- An illustration of these five rules by similitudes -- The second part of logick: judgment and proposition: Of the nature of a proposition, and its several parts -- Of the various kinds of propositions: Of universal, particular indefinite, and singular propositions -- Of affirmative and negative propositions -- Of the opposition and conversion of propositions -- Of pure and modal propositions -- Of single, propositions, whether simple or complex -- Of compound propositions -- Of true and false propositions -- Of certian and dubious propositions of knowledge and opinion -- Of sense, consciousness, intelligence, reason, faith, and inspiration -- The springs of false judgment, or the doctrine of prejudices: Introduction -- Prejudices arising from things -- Prejudices arising from words -- Prejudices arising from ourselves -- Prejudices arising from other persons -- General directions to assist us in judging aright -- Special rules to direct us in judging of particular objects: Principles and rules of judgment concerning the objects of sense -- Principles and rules of judgment in matters of reason and speculation -- Principles and rules of judgment in matters of morality and religion -- Principles and rules of judgment in matters of human prudence -- Principles and rules of judgment in matters of human testimony -- Principles and rules of judgment in matters of divine testimony -- Principles and rules of judgment concerning things past, present, and to come, by the mere use of reason -- The third part of logick: Of reasoning and syllogism: Of the nature of syllogism, and the parts of which it is composed -- Of the various kinds of syllogism, with particular rules relating to them: Of universal and particular syllogisms, both negative and affirmative -- Of plain simple syllogisms, and their rules -- Of the moods and figures of simple syllogisms -- Of complex syllogisms -- Of conjunctive syllogisms -- Of compound syllogisms -- Of the middle terms, of common places or topics, and invention of arguments -- Of several kinds of arguments and demonstrations -- The doctrine of sophisms: Of several kinds of sophisms, and their solution -- Two general tests of true syllogisms, and methods of solving all sophisms -- Some general rules to direct our reasoning -- The fourth part of logick: Of disposition and method -- Of the nature of method, and the several kinds of it, viz. natural and arbitrary, synthetic and analytic -- The rules of method, general and particular -- The improvement of the mind; or, a supplement to the art of logick: Directions for the attainment of useful knowledge -- Introduction -- General rules for the improvement of knowledge -- Observation, reading, instruction by lectures, conversation, and study, compared -- Rules relating to observation -- Of books and reading -- Judgment of books -- Of living instructions and lectures, of teachers and learners -- Of learning a language -- Of inquiring into the sense and meaning of any writer or speaker, and especially the sense of the sacred writings -- Rules of improvement by conversation -- Of disputes -- The ways of disputation -- Of forensic disputes -- Of academic or scholastic disputation -- Of study, or meditation -- Of fixing the attention -- Of enlarging the capacity of the mind -- Of improving the memory -- Of determining a question -- Of inquiring into causes and effects -- Of the sciences, and their use in particular professions -- The communication of useful knowledge: Introduction -- Methods of teaching, and reading lectures -- Of an instructive style -- Of convincing others persons of any truth, or delivering them from errors and mistakes -- Of authority. Of the abuse of it: and of its real and proper use and service -- Of treating and managing the prejudices of men -- Of instruction by preaching: Wisdom better than learning in the pulpit -- A branching sermon -- The harangue -- Of writing books for the public -- Of writing and reading controversies: Of writing controversies -- Of reading controversies -- A discourse on the education of children and youth: Of the importance of eduction, and the design of this discourse, with a plan of it -- Of instructing children in religion -- The exercise and improvement of their natural powers -- Self-government -- The common acts of reading and writing -- Of a trade or employment -- Rules of prudence -- The ornaments and accomplishments of life -- A guard against evil influences from persons and things -- A guard set on the sports and diversions of children -- Of the proper degrees of liberty and restraint in the education of a son, illustrated by example -- Of proper degrees of liberty and restraint in the eduction of daughters, illustrated by examples -- The knowledge of the heavens and earth made easy; or, the first principles of geography and astronomy explained by the use of globes and maps: Of the spheres or globes of the heaven and earth -- Of the greater circles -- Of the lesser circles -- Of the points -- Of longitude and latitude on the earthly globe, and of different climates -- Of right ascension, declination, and hour-circles -- Of longitude and latitude on the heavenly globe, and of the nodes and eclipses of the planets -- Of altitude, azimuth, amplitude, and various risings and settings of the sun and stars -- Of the inhabitants of the earth, according to the positions of the sphere, the zones, &c. -- The natural description of the earth and waters, on the terrestrial globe -- Of maps and sea-charts -- The political divisions of the earth represented on the globe -- Of Europe, and its several countries and kingdoms -- Of Asia, and its several countries and kingdoms -- Of Africa, and its divisions -- Of America, and its divisions -- On the fixed starts on the heavenly globe -- Of the planets and comets -- Problems relating to geography and astronomy, to be performed by the globe -- Problems relating to geography and astronomy, to be performed by the use of the plain scale and compasses -- Tables of the sun's declination, and of the declination and right ascension of several remarkable fixed stars, together with some account how they are to be used -- Philosophical essays, on various subjects: Preface -- Essay I: A fair inquiry and debate concerning space, whether it be something or nothing, God or a creature?: The subject explained in general -- Is space something, or nothing? -- Is space a substance? -- Is space created, or increated? -- Space cannot be God -- A review and recollection of the argument -- The original of our idea of space, and our danger of a mistake -- Space compared to shadow or darkness -- Space inactive and impassive -- A re-examination whether space has any real properties? -- An objection against the nihility of space answered -- Space nothing real, but a mere abstract idea -- Appendix.;Volume 2: Death and heaven, &c. in two funeral discourses in memory of Sir John Hartopp, bart. and his lady, deceased: Discourse I: The conquest over death, a funeral discourse for the Lady Hartopp (I Corinthians 15:26): Death an enemy even to good men -- Death is the last enemy -- The destruction of death -- Blessings gained by the destruction of death -- Discourse II: The happiness of separate spirits, &c. a funeral discourse for Sir John Hartopp, Bart. (Hebrews 12:23): Of the spirits of the just -- Of their perfection in knowledge, holiness, and joy -- Of the various kinds and degrees of the employments and pleasures of heaven -- Of the increase of the saints above, in knowledge, holiness, and joy -- Of the means of attaining this perfection -- Remarks on the foregoing discourse -- The character of the deceased -- An address to the friends and relatives of the deceased -- The world to come; or, discourses on the joys or sorrows of departed souls at death, and the glory or terror of the resurrection: An essay: Toward a proof of a separate state of souls between death and the resurrection -- The introduction, or proposal of the questions, with a distinction of the persons who oppose it -- Probable arguments for the separate state -- Some firmer or more evident proofs of a separate state -- Objections answered -- More objections answered -- The end of time (Revelation 10:5, 6) -- The watchful Christian dying in peace, occasioned by the decease of Mrs. Sarah Abney, March 1732 (Luke 12:37) -- Surprize in death (Mark 13: 35, 36) -- Christ admired and glorified in his saints (2 Thessalonians 1:10) -- The wrath of the lamb (Revelation 6:15-17) -- The vain refuge of sinners; or, a meditation on the rocks near Tunbridge-wells (Revelation 6: 15-17) -- No night in heaven (Revelation 21:25) -- A soul prepared for heaven (2 Corinthians 5:5) -- No pain among the blessed (Revelation 21:4) -- The first fruits of the spirit, or the foretaste of heaven (Romans 8:23) -- Safety in the grave, and joy at the resurrection (Job 14:13-15) -- A speech spoken at the grave -- The nature of the punishment in hell (Mark 9:46) -- The worm that dieth not -- The fire which shall not be quenched -- Reflections on the nature of those punishments -- The eternal duration of the punishments in hell (Mark 9:46) -- Arguments to prove the perpetuity of hell -- The strongest and most plausible objections against the perpetuity of hell answered -- Reflections on the eternity of punishment in hell -- The strength and weakness of human reason; or, the important question about the sufficiency of reason to conduct mankind to religion and future happiness: Conference I -- Conference II -- Conference III -- Conference IV -- Humility represented in the character of St. Paul: The springs of St. Paul's humility -- The advantages of humility in regard of God -- The advantages of humility in regard of men -- The advantages of humility with regard to ourselves -- The pretenses of the poor and the fainthearted answered -- The humility and exaltation of Christ proposed as our pattern -- A defense against the temptation to self-murder: The unlawfulness of it displayed -- Some general dissuasions from self-murder, by shewing the folly and danger of it -- The pretenses for self-murder, and the motives to it examined and answered -- Means of security against this temptation, or advices to the tempted -- Admonitions to those who have been rescued from this temptation -- Cautions against all approaches to self-murder, viz. intemperance, dueling, &c. -- The holiness of times, places, and people: The perpetuity of a sabbath, and the observation of the Lord's day -- Shewing the testimonies of the primitive Father's to the Lord's day -- A review of the argument -- Of the time of day for administering the Lord's Supper; or, an answer to that question, "May it lawfully be administered at noon?" -- The holiness of places of worship considered (Exodus 20:24) -- The blessing of a corner-stone, in the building of a popish church, taken out of the rituals romanum -- The Jewish worship and the Christian compared; or, reasons why the worship and order of Christian churches, are not so particularly prescribed, as those which Moses gave to the church of Israel -- The holiness of the Jewish and the Christian churches considered and compared -- The doctrine of the passions explained and improved: The various senses of the word -- The description of the passions, together with a general division of them into three ranks -- A further account of the nature of the passions, in some remarks concerning them -- Of admiration and wonder -- Love and hatred -- Esteem and contempt -- Benevolence and malevolence -- Complacence and discipline -- Desire and aversion -- Hope and fear -- Of joy and sorrow -- Gratitude and anger -- Several things that dispose us to different passions -- The general design and use of the passions -- Of the regulation and government of the passions, wherein it consists -- General rules about the three primitive passions -- Preservation against the irregular exercise of some particular passions -- Rules to subdue pride and scorn -- Rules to prevent or suppress malice and envy -- Rules to moderate excessive love to creatures -- Rules to overcome unreasonable fears -- Rules to guard against immoderate sorrow, and to relieve the soul that is under the power of it -- Rules to govern our anger, and to prevent the sinful effect of it, viz. revenge -- Some universal directions which relate to all the forementioned passions, and the regulation of them -- Discourses of the love of God, and its influence on all the passions: The affectionate and supreme love of God -- Divine love is the commanding passion -- The use of the passions in religion -- Inferences from the usefulness of the passions -- The abuse of the passions in religion -- The affectionate Christian vindicated, and the sincere soul comforted under his complaints of deadness, &c. -- Means of exciting the devout affections -- An essay: Towards the encouragement of charity schools.;Volume 6: A new essay on civil power in things sacred: The preface -- Of the nature and ends of civil government, with the several kinds of it, and its extent to religion -- The necessity of acknowledging a God, and the religion of an oath -- Of public teachers of the laws and morality -- Of the people's attendance on these public teachers -- The qualifications of complete subjects of the state, and of the magistrates thereof -- Of public worship, on the principles of natural religion -- Of particular religions, supposed to be revealed -- Of a particular religion, professed by the ruling powers -- Of a religion established among the rulers and officers of the state -- Of the power of the prince in every worshiping assembly -- Conclusion -- The appendix: Or a view of the origin of a Christian church -- The ruin and recovery of mankind; or, an attempt to vindicate the scriptural account of these great events, upon the plain principles of reason: The preface -- Advertisement concerning the second edition -- God made man upright -- Is mankind a degenerate creature? -- Whence came this universal degeneracy? -- Could a wise, holy, and righteous God, admit of such a constitution? -- Is it just that millions suffer for the sin of one? -- Did mankind choose one for their representative? -- Could the soul be defiled with the evil ferments of the body? -- Would God unite innocent souls to defiled bodies? -- Does the word of God give this account of things? -- What can the light of nature discover concerning the proper penalty due to the sin of man, or the proper punishment inflicted on man for sin? -- What hope of recovery can our reason give us? -- What means that death, which scripture threatens for sin? -- What doth scripture reveal of the recovery of man? -- Does this hope of recovery, or salvation, extend to all men? -- Can the different opinions of Christians, concerning the operations of divine grace on the souls of men, be reconciled? -- What is the state and condition of the heathens, who have never heard of the gospel, or have utterly forgot and lost all notices of it? -- What will be the state and condition of dying infants? -- Of, the advantages of this whole scheme -- Three essays, by way of appendix: A debate whether the present miseries of man alone will prove his apostasy from God?: The follies and miseries of mankind in a general survey -- A particular view of the miseries of man -- Answers to objections against this argument -- A full proof of man's apostasy, by scripture and reason, derived from their sinfulness -- A plain explication of the doctrine of imputed sin and imputed righteousness -- On the guilt and defilement of sin, and how far they may be transferred to others -- Postscript to these essays containing some remarks on Mr. Balguy and Mr. Wollaston -- An essay on the freedom of will in God and in creatures: Of liberty and necessity, and how far they are consistent -- What determines the will to choose or act -- The will is a self-determining power -- How the will of God determines itself -- The advantage of this scheme of liberty -- Objections answered -- The difficulties that attend the contrary scheme -- The Christian doctrine of the trinity; or, Father, Son, and Spirit, three persons and one God: The preface -- Introduction -- There is a God -- God is the creator, disposer, and governor of all things -- There is, and there can be, but one true God -- The peculiar, divine, and distinguishing characters of Godhead cannot belong to any other being -- God cannot suffer these characters to be ascribed to any other besides himself -- These peculiar characters of Godhead, are clearly revealed in scripture -- These peculiar characters are the names, titles, attributes, works, and worship, which God has assumed to himself in his word -- These peculiar characters are ascribed to three, by God himself, in his word; viz. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- There are also some other circumstantial evidences that the Son and the Spirit have the true and proper Godhead ascribed to them, as well as the Father -- Therefore the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, have intimate and real communion in one godhead -- Therefore these three may properly be called the one God, or the only true God -- Though these three are but one God, yet they have distinct and different properties, actions, characters, and circumstances, ascribed to them -- These three distinctions have been usually described by the word persons -- The scripture hath not precisely determined the particular way and manner, how these three persons are one God -- Therefore it can never be necessary to salvation, to know that precise way and manner -- Yet it is our duty to believe the general doctrine of the trinity, viz. that these three personal agents have real communion in one Godhead -- Where any thing incommunicably divine, is ascribed in scripture to either of these three persons, it should be taken in the plain and obvious sense of the words -- Where any thing inferior to the dignity of Godhead is attributed to the person of the Son, or the Holy Spirit, it ought to be imputed to some inferior nature or character -- Inferior natures, characters, or agencies, should not at all hinder our firm belief of the Godhead of these three persons -- We are bound to pay divine honours to each of the sacred three, according to their distinct characters and offices -- In so doing, we shall effectually secure our own salvation -- The profession of this scriptural and practical doctrine, entitles to Christian communion -- Conclusion.;Volume 4: The harmony of all the religions which God ever prescribed: Introduction -- The dispensation of innocence; or, the religion of Adam the first -- The Adamical dispensation of the covenant of grace; or, the religion of Adam after his fall -- The Noahical dispensation; or, the religion of Noah -- The Abrahamical dispensation; or, the religion of Abraham -- The Mosaical dispensation; or the Jewish religion -- The peculiar covenant of Sinai -- Of the Christian dispensation -- The doctrine of justification by faith, further explained under the gospel of Christ -- Sanctification or holiness necessary as well as faith -- The commencement of the Christian dispensation; or, when was Christianity set up in the world -- The gradual change from Judaism to Christianity; and the Jewish and gentile Christians at last united in one body -- Of those who have had no revelation -- The last judgment -- Conclusion -- A caveat against infidelity; or, the danger of apostasy from the Christian faith: Introduction -- The rules to obtain salvation proposed, and the duties requited in the gospel; or, the necessary articles of Christianity -- Considerations to prove the doctrine -- Various objections and queries of the deists answered -- General exhortations to Christians, derived from the foregoing discourse -- Preservatives against apostasy from the faith of the gospel -- Psalms, Hymns, &c.: The Psalms of David, imitated in the language of the New Testament -- An index; or, table to find a Psalm suited to particular subjects or occasions -- A table to find any Psalm by the first line -- Hymns and spiritual songs in three books: Book I: Collected from the Holy Scriptures -- Book II: Composed on divine subjects -- Book III: Prepared for the Lord's Supper -- An index; or, table to find any hymn by the title or contents of it -- A table to find any hymn by the first line -- A table of the scriptures that are turned into verse -- A short essay: toward the improvement of Psalmody -- Divine songs: Attempted in easy language, for the use of children -- Horae lyricae. Poems chiefly of the lyric kind: Book I: Sacred to devotion and piety: Worshiping with fear -- Asking leave to sing -- Divine judgments -- Earth and heaven -- Felicity above -- God's dominion and decrees -- Self-consecration -- The creature and creatures -- The nativity of Christ -- God glorious, and sinners saved -- The humble enquiry -- A penitent pardoned -- A hymn of praise, for three great salvations -- The incomprehensible -- Death and eternity -- A sight of heaven in sickness -- The universal hallelujah -- The atheist's mistake -- The law given at Sinai -- Remember your creator -- Sun, moon and stars, praise ye the Lord -- The welcome messenger -- Sincere praise -- True learning -- True wisdom -- A song to creating wisdom -- God's absolute dominion -- Condescending grace -- The infinite -- Confession and pardon -- Young men and maidens, old men and babes, praise ye the Lord -- Flying fowl, and creeping things, praise ye the Lord -- The comparison and complaint -- God supreme and self-sufficient -- Jesus the only saviour -- Looking upward -- Christ dying, rising, and reigning -- The God of thunder -- The day of judgment -- The song of angels above -- Fire, air, earth, and sea, praise ye the Lord -- The farewel -- God only known to himself -- Pardon and sanctification -- Sovereignty and grace -- The law and gospel -- Seeking a divine calm in a restless world -- Happy frailty -- Launching into eternity -- A prospect of the resurrection -- Ad dominum nostrum et servatorem Jesum Christum -- Sui ipsius increpatio -- Breathing toward the heavenly country -- Casimiri epigramma 100 -- Englished -- On the demoliton of the protestant church at Montpelier -- Two happy rivals, devotion and the muse -- The hazard of loving creatures -- Desiring to love Christ -- The heart given away -- Meditation in a grove -- The fairest, and the only beloved -- Mutual love stronger than death -- A sight of Christ -- Love on a cross and a throne -- A preparatory thought for the Lord's Supper -- Converse with Christ -- Grace shining and nature fainting -- Love to Christ present or absent -- The absence of Christ -- Desiring his descent to earth -- Ascending to him in heaven -- The presence of God worth dying for; or, the death of Moses -- Longing for his return -- Hope in darkness -- Come, Lord Jesus -- Bewailing my own inconsistency -- Forsaken, yet hoping -- The conclusion. God exalted above all praise -- Book II: Sacred to virtue, honor and friendship: To her majesty -- Palinodia -- To John Locke, esq. retired from business -- To John Shite, esq. (now Lord Barrington) on Mr. Locke's dangerous sickness, some time after he had retired to study the scriptures -- To Mr. William Nokes. Friendship -- To Nathaniel Gould, esq. not Sir Nataniel Gould -- To Dr. Thomas Gibson. The life of souls -- To Mylo. False greatness -- To Sarissa. An epistle -- To Mr. T. Bradbury, paradise -- Strict religion very rare -- To Messrs. C. and S. Fleetwood -- To William Blackbourn, esq. -- True monarchy -- True courage -- To the much honored Mr. Thomas Rowe, the director of my youthful studies. Free philosophy -- To the Rev. Mr. Benoni Rowe. The way of the multitude -- To the Rev. Mr. John Howe -- The disappointment and relief -- The hero's school of morality -- Freedom -- On Mr. Locke's annotations -- True riches -- The adventurous muse -- To Mr. Nicholas Clark. The complaint -- The afflictions of a friend -- The reverse; or, the comforts of a friend -- To the Rt. Hon. John Lord Cuts. The hardy soldier -- Burning several poems of Ovid, Martial, Oldham, Dryden, &c. -- To Mrs. B. Bendish. Against tears -- Few happy matches -- To David Polhill, esq. An epistle -- The celebrated victory of the Poles over the Turks -- To Mr. Henry Bendish. The Indian philosopher -- The happy man -- To David Polhill, esq. An answer to an infamous satire against K. William III -- To the discontented and unquiet -- To John Hartopp, esq. now Sir John Hartopp, Bart. -- To Thomas Gunston, esq. Happy solitude -- To John Hartopp, esq. now Sir John Hartopp, Bart. The disdain -- To Mitio. An epistle. The mourning piece -- The second part; or the bright vision -- The third part; or, the account balanced -- On the death of the Duke of Gloucester, just after Mr. Dryden -- An epigram of martial to Cirinus. Inscribed to Mr. Josiah Hort -- Epistola Fratri suo dilecto R.W. -- Fratria E.W. olim navigaturo -- Ad reverendum virum Dm. Johannem Pinhorne. Pindarici Carminis Specimen -- Votum, seu Vita in Terris beata. Ad Virum dignissimum Johammem Hartoppium, Bart. -- To Mrs. Singer (now Mrs. Rowe), on the sight of some of her divine poems, never printed -- Book III: Sacred to the memory of the dead: Epitaph on King William III -- On the sudden death of Mrs. Mary Peacock -- Epitaphium Viri veneralilis Dom. N. Mather -- An Elegiac thought on the death of Mrs. Anne Warner; inscribed to her Father, the Rev. John Shower -- On the death of an aged and honoured relative, Mrs. M.W. -- A funeral poem, on the death of Thomas Gunston, esq. inscribed to his sister, Lady Abney -- An elegy on Mr. Thomas Gouge -- Reliqule Juveniles.;Volume 5, continued: Essay II: Of substance: And of solid extension and a thinking power, as the two only original substances: Mr. Locke's notion of substance considered -- The plain idea or notion of substance applied to mind and body -- Considerations to support the application of the name of substance to solid extension and a thinking power -- The occasions of mistake on this subject -- Essay III: Of the original or our perceptions and ideas -- Essay IV: Of innate ideas: The common opinion well refuted by Mr. Locke -- In what sense many ideas are innate -- In what sense some truths may be innate -- In what sense some rules of duty may be innate -- Of the foundations of moral virtue, and of a moral sense, or instinct -- Essay V: An inquiry whether the soul thinks always: Considerations toward the proof of it -- Of dreams, why not remembered -- Mr. Locke's objections answered -- Corollaries -- Essay VI: Of the power of spirits to move bodies, of their being in a place, and removing from it: Of the power of a spirit to move matter -- Of spirits being in a place, and removing thence -- The first objection against the locality of spirits answered -- Other objections answered against the locality of spirits -- Te Ubi, or whereness, of a spirit -- Conclusion -- Essay VII: The departing soul -- Essay VIII: The resurrection of the same body -- Essay IX: Of the production, nourishment, and operations of plants and animals: Creatures produce their own kind -- The laws of nature sufficient for the production of animals and vegetables -- Appendix -- Of the nourishment and growth of plants -- Of the nourishment and growth of animals -- An amusing digression concerning the changes of matter -- The similar operations of plants and animals -- Of the principles of action in brutes and men -- Essay X: Of sun-beams and star-beams: Is the ether beyond our atmosphere a mere vacuity? -- Doth the world grow bigger or less? -- Essay XI: Of some metaphysical subjects: Of nature and essence -- Of matter and form -- Of the different senses of the world nature -- Of creation and conservation -- Essay XII: Remarks on some chapters of Mr. Locke's essay on the human understanding: Of sensible qualities, and particularly of color -- Of succession and duration -- Of infinity -- Of power. Book II. Chapter XXI -- Whether liberty can be ascribed to the will? -- Of complex ideas and mixed modes -- Of identity and diversity -- A brief scheme of ontology; or, the science of being in general: Of being and not-being, with general scheme of affections of being -- Of essence or nature, matter and form -- Of existence, whether actual, possible or impossible, necessary or contingent, dependent or independent -- Of duration, creation, and conservation -- Of unity and union -- Of act and power, action and passion, necessity and liberty -- Of relative affections or relations -- Of truth, goodness, and perfection -- Of the whole and parts -- Of principles, causes, and effects -- Of subject and adjunct -- Of time, place, and Ubiety -- Of agreement and difference; of sameness, and the doctrine of opposites -- Of number and order -- Of mental relations, viz. abstract notions, signs, words, terms of art, &c. -- The chief kinds or divisions of being, and first of substance and mode -- Of finite and infinite -- Of natural, moral, and artificial beings and ideas -- The rational foundation of a Christian church, and the terms of Christian communion to which are added three discourses: Reason and revelation agree to require social religion -- Instances of the agreement of reason and revelation in social religion -- A brief inquiry how far the modes of the mission, or ordination of primitive ministers are our rule now? -- The rest of the instances wherein reason and revelation agree in matters of social worship -- Where revelation is silent, reason must direct -- Christian churches formed like civil societies, upon the plain nature and reason of things -- The several advantages of such a church, or Christian society -- Of the power of churches to appoint holy things or actions -- The terms of Christian communion -- What is Christian communion; and what are the general and agreed terms of it? -- Who are the proper judges of the credibility of our profession? -- What are the particular terms of Christian communion? or, what things are necessary to make the profession of Christianity credible? -- What is church covenant? and whether it be necessary to Christian communion? -- When a person is once jointed to a particular church, whether he may never worship with other churches occasionally, or change his fixed communion to another church? -- Whether fixed communion with some particular church be a necessary duty? and whether any may be admitted to occasional communion, who are no fixed members of any church? -- What knowledge is necessary for Christian communion? -- In what words and expressions must our faith be professed, in order to communion? and in what manner must we profess it? -- Where the seclusion from Christian communion carries temporal inconveniencies with it, hath a particular church the power to seclude a person merely for want of orthodoxy? -- Whether a profession to believe the express words of scripture, without any explication, be an evidence of knowledge sufficient for Christian communion? -- Whether all sorts of protestants may join together as members of the same church? -- Whether no Christians must join in the same communion but those that are in all things of the same opinion? -- A pattern for a dissenting preacher (John 7:46) -- A sermon preached at the separation of two deacons to their office (1 Timothy 3:13) -- Invitations to church-fellowship (Psalm 65:4).