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Sect. 5. Complaint of Misgrounded Sorrow, satisfied
6. Complaint of the Insufficient Measure of Sor-
row for Sin, answered
7. Complaint of the Want of Faith, satisfied
8. Complaint of the Weakness of Faith, satis-
fied
9. Complaint of Inconstancy and Desertion, an-
swered
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10. Complaint of Unregeneration and Deadness in
Sin, answered
11. Complaint of the Insensibleness of the Time
and Means of Conversion, answered
12. Complaint of Irresolution and Uncertainty, in
matter of our Election, answered
Chap. III. COMFORTS AGAINST TEMPTATIONS.
Sect. 1. Christ himself assaulted.-Our Trial is for our
good
2. The powerful Assistance of God's Spirit; and
the Example of St. Paul
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3. The Restraint of our Spiritual Enemies; and
their overmatching by the Power of God
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4. The advantage that is made to us by our
Temptations and Foils
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5. Complaint of Relapses into Sin, with the Remedy
thereof
Chap. IV. COMFORTS AGAINST WEAKNESS OF GRACE.
Sect. 1. The Common Condition of all Saints
2. The Improvement of Weak Graces; and God's
Free Distribution
3. God's Acceptation of Truth, not Quantity
4. The Variety of God's Gifts, and the Ages and
Statures of Grace
5. The Safety of our Leisurely Progress in Grace 147
6. Our good Desires and Endeavours.
7. The Happiness of an humble Poverty in Spirit 148
8. An Incitement to more Caution, and faster Ad-
herence to God.
Chap. V. COMFORTS AGAINST INFAMY AND DISGRACE.
Sect. 1. Like Sufferings of the Holiest; yea, of Christ
Chap. VI. COMFORTS AGAINST PUBLIC CALAMITIES.
Sect. 1. The Inevitable Necessity of Changes; and God's
over-ruling them
2. The Sense and Sympathy of Common Evils
3. The sure Protection of the Almighty
4. The Justice of God's Proceedings
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5. The Remedy, our particular Repentance.
6. The Unspeakable Misery of a Civil War
7. The Woeful Miseries of Pestilence allayed by
consideration of the hand that smites us
Chap. VII. COMFORTS AGAINST LOSS OF FRIENDS.
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Sect. 1. The True Value of a Friend and the Fault of
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6. The Mitigation of the Loss of a dear and hope-
Chap. VIII. COMFORTS AGAINST POVERTY, AND LOSS OF OUR
ESTATE.
Sect. 1. The Fickle Nature of these Earthly Goods
2. They are not Ours: but Lent us
3. The right Valuation of Riches is in the Mind
4. It may be good for us to be held short
5. The Danger of Abundance
6. The Cares that attend Wealth
7. The Imperiousness of Ill-used Wealth
8. The Causes and Means of Impoverishing us
9. The Examples of those who have affected
Poverty
Chap. IX. COMFORTS AGAINST IMPRISONMENT.
Sect. 1. The Nature and Power of true Liberty
2. The sad Objects of a Free Beholder's Eye
3. The Invisible Company, that cannot be kept
from us
4. The Inward Disposition of the Prisoner
5. The Willing Choice of Retiredness in some
Persons
6. The Causes of Imprisonment
7. The Goodness of Retiredness; and the Part-
nership of the Soul's Imprisonment
Chap. X. COMFORTS AGAINST BANISHMENT.
Sect, 1. The Universality of a Wise Man's Country
2. The Benefit of Self-Conversation
3. Examples of those holy ones, that have aban-
doned Society
4. Advantage that hath been made of Removing
5. The Right that we have in any Country, and
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Chap. IX. COMFORTS AGAINST THE LOSS OF OUR SENSES OF SIGHT
AND HEARING.
Sect. 1. The two inward Lights of Reason and Faith ib.
2. The Supply of better Eyes
3. The better Object of our inward Sight
4. The ill Offices done by the Eyes
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5. Freedom from Temptations by the Eyes, and
from many Sorrows
6. The Cheerfulness of some Blind Men
7. The Supply that God gives in other Faculties .
8. The Benefits of the Eyes, which once we had.
9. The Supply of one Sense by another
10. The better Condition of the inward Ear
11. The Grief that arises from hearing Evil
Chap. XII. COMFORTS AGAINST BARRENNESS.
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Sect. 1. The Blessing of Fruitfulness seasoned with.
Sorrows
2. The Pains of Child-bearing
3. The Misery of ill-disposed and undutiful Child-
4. The Cares of Parents for their Children .
5. The great Grief in the Loss of Children
Chap. XIII. COMFORTS AGAINST WANT OF SLEEP.
Sect. 1. The Misery of the want of Rest; with the best
2. The Favour of Freedom from Pain
3. The Favour of Health without Sleep
4. Sleep but a Symptom of Mortality
5. No use of Sleep whither we are going
Chap. XIV. COMFORTS AGAINST THE INCONVENIENCEs of Old Age.
Sect. 1. The Illimitation of Age; and the Miseries that
attend it
2. Old Age a Blessing
3. The Advantages of Old Age (1.) Fearlessness:
(2.) Freedom from Passions: (3.) Experimen-
tal Knowledge: (4.) Near approach to our
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Chap. XV. COMFORTS AGAINST THE FEARS and Pains of Death.
Sect. 1. The Fear of Death Natural
6. Our Death-day better than our Birth-day
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4. The common Condition of Men
5. Death not feared by some
7. The Sting of Death pulled out
8. Death but a Parting, to meet again
9. Death but a Sleep.
10. Death sweetened to us by Christ
11. The Painfulness of Christ's Death
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12. The Vanity and Miseries of Life
13. Examples of courageous Resolutions in others. 206
14. The happy Advantages of Death
Chap. XVI. COMFORTS AGAINSt the Terrors of Judgment.
Sect. 1. Aggravations of the Fearfulness of the Last Judg-
4. In that great and terrible Day our Advocate is
our Judge
5. Frequent Meditation and due Preparation, the
Remedies of our Fear
Chap. XVII. COMFORTS AGAINST THE FEARS OF OUR SPIRITUAL
ENEMIES.
Sect. 1. The great Power of Evil Spirits, and their Re-
2. The Fear of the Number of Evil Spirits, and
the Remedy of it
3. The Malice of the Evil Spirits, and our Fears
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4. The great Subtlety of Evil Spirits, and the Re-
medy of the Fear of it.
Chap. XVIII. THE UNIVERSAL RECIPE FOR ALL MALADIES
IV. A TREATISE OF CHRIST MYSTICAL: or, THE BLESSED UNION
OF CHRIST AND HIS MEMBERS.
Chap. I. INTRODUCTORY.
Sect. 1. How TO BE HAPPY IN THE APPREHENDING OF
Chap. II. The KIND and MANNER of this Union with Christ 227
Chap. III. The RESEMBLANCES of this Union.
5. By the FOUNDATION and the BUILDING
Chap. IV. The CERTAINTY and INDISSOLUBLENESS
of this Union.
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Chap. V. The PRIVILEGES and BENEFITS of this Union. 236
Sect. 1. The first of these Benefits-LIFE
Sect. 2. The External Privileges of this Union, A RIGHT
TO THE BLESSINGS OF EARTH AND HEAVEN
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Chap. VI. The MEANS, by which this Union is wrought.
Chap. VII. The Union of Christ's members with THEMSELVES 252
Sect. 1. The Union of Christ's members IN HEAVEN
2. The union of Christ's members UPON EARTH
(1.) In matter of Judgment
(2.) In matter of Affection.
(3.) A complaint of Divisions; and, notwithstand-
ing them, an assertion of Unity
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(4.) The necessary Effects and Fruits of this union
of Christian Hearts.
3. The union of the SAINTS ON EARTH WITH THOSE
IN HEAVEN
Chap. VIII. A RECAPITULATION and SUM of the whole
treatise
V. THE CHRISTIAN; LAID FORTH IN HIS WHOLE DISPOSITION AND
TIONS REPELLED. IN THREE DECADES. FOR THE HELP,
COMFORT, AND PRESERVATION OF WEAK CHRISTIANS, IN THESE DAN-
GEROUS TIMES OF ERROR AND SEDUCTION.
Address to the Christian Reader .