Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, By DURRIE & PECK, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. Printed by J. H. Benham. 1326 [The reader of the "Dying Thoughts" may sometimes find himself perplexed, if not lost, That the souls of believers, when departed hence, shall be with Christ,.... 23 I. The necessity of believing this, proved,....... II. Whether it be best believing it, without consideration of the difficulties 2. It is a substance formally differenced from lower substance, by the vir- tue of special vital activity, intellect, and free will,.... 3. It is not annihilated at death,... 4. Nor destroyed by dissolution of parts,.. 5. Nor loseth its formal power or virtue,.. 6. Nor doth sleep or cease to act,.. .... 7. To cease to be individuate by union with any other common spirit, is I. Presence with Christ's glorified body and soul, and Godhead,................... II. United with him in each. Too near union not to be feared as destroying III. Communion with him in each, opened,.. I. From this body and life; yet it is far better so to do,. II. From all the fleshly pleasures of this life-yet best,. III. From the more manly delights of study, books, friends, etc................ 3. Of friends and converse,. 4. Of God's word and worship,. 5. Of Theology,............... Of my own labors herein,... 6. Notice of the affairs of the world,.. 7. From our service to the living,..... The application to myself,..... DOCTRINE SECOND. 1. Freed from temptations of the flesh, world, and devil. 2. There will be nothing in it that is against God, my neighbor, or 1. It will be conformed to God's will. The benefits of this fruition—a fixed will. The object-God; to love him, and be beloved of him, is ▲ BREVIATE OF THE HELPS OF FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE FOR A DYING MAN. I. The gospel evidence on 1 Tim. iii. 16. A breviate of the proof of super- II. The difference between the world which I am leaving, and the world which I am going to; with reasons of my comfortable hope,.................. 195 III. More reasons and helps of my faith and hope,...... IV. A discourse of the sensible manifestation of the kingdom of Christ, at his transfiguration, which is expounded and applied for the help of faith V. Short meditations on Romans v. 1-5, of the shedding abroad God's love in the heart, that we may rejoice in hope of the glory of God,........ 242 TRUE CHRISTIANITY; or Christ's absolute dominion and man's neces- sary self-resignation and subjection: in two assize sermons. I. THE ABSOLUTE DOMINION OF GOD-REDEEMER, AND THE NECESSITY OF BEING DEVOTED AND LIVING TO HIM. 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20,................................ 263 II. THE ABSOLUTE SOVEREIGNTY OF CHRIST; AND THE NECESSITY OF MAN'S SUBJECTION, DEPENDENCE AND CHIEFEST LOVE TO HIM. Psalm ii. 10-12,.... 297 |