SERMON CXXIX. Witneffes cited for God; and all their Witneffing Work fummed up in this one Point, viz. their Attesting that he is God, Page 84 ISA. xlii. 12.-Ye are my witnesses, faith the Lord, that I am God. After an introduction into, and an analysis of the words, and a doctrinal obfervation raised from them, the following method is proposed, viz. 1. Some things premised for clearing this doctrine, 86 2. Shew how, or by what means, we are to be God's witneffes, 90 3. Speak a little concerning the import of thefe words, Ye are my witneffes, that I am God, 92 4. Demonftrate that the whole witneffing work of God's witnefles is fummed up in this, their witneffing that he is God, 5. Deduce fome inferences for the application, A difcourfe at the conclufion of the folemnity, SERMON CXXX. Covenanted Grace for Covenanting Work, 96 98 109 121 Deut. xxvi. 17, 18. Thou bafi avouched the Lord, this day, to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and keep his fatutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken to his voice: And the Lord bath avouched thee, this day, to be his peculiar people, as be bath promifed thee, and that thou should keep all his commandments. The occafion, defign, and fcope of the words being pointed out, the analization and explication of them cffayed, and a doctrinal propofition, expreffing the fenfe of them, obferved, the following heads of difcourfe are laid down, viz. 1. To touch a little at the engagement of a covenanted people, their avouching God, 126 2. To speak a little concerning the engagement of a covenanted God, his avouching them, 130 3. To point out the folemnity of thefe engagements, both of his and theirs, 132 Page 133 137 4. To prove the doctrine both by feripture and reason, 144 The Happy Hour of CHRIST'S Quickening Voice, 149 JOHN V. 25. Verily, verily, I fay unto you, The bour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that bear fhall live. The words being viewed in their feope and connection. a genera, and particular divifion and explication given, and a doctrinal pro pofition raised from them, the following two things are proposed, viz." 1. A fhort explication of the particulars in the text, 153 169 184 SERMON CXXXII. The Best Security for the Beft Life; or, a Life hid with Chrift in God, CoLos. iii. 3. Your life is bid with Chrift in God. 189 After an introduction into, an accurate divifion, and fuccinct explication of the words, and a doctrinal obfervation raifed from them, the following general heads of method are handled, viz. 191 1. To fpeak a little of the treafure itself, viz. the believer's life, 2. To fpeak of its being hid; and fhew in what refpects it is fo, 193 3. To fhew with whom it is hid; and what is imported in its being hid with Chrift, 196 4. To fhew where it is hid, viz. in God; and what that imports, 198 5. To deduce inferences for the application, 204 A difcourfe before ferving the tables, The difcourfe at the tables, A difcourfe at the conclufion of the folemnity, 213 218 224 SERMON CXXXIII. Heaven Pofed and Preffed with Questions and Demands: or, Faith's Freedom with God, warranted, Page 233 ISA. IV. 11. Thus faith the Lord, the boly One of Ifrael, and bis Maker, Afk me things to come; concerning my fons, and concerning the works of my bands, command ye me. The Author having viewed the words in their connection, analized and explained them, laid down a propofition from them, the following topics of difcourse are illustrated, viz. 1. The truth of the doctrine confirmed, 235 2. Some of thefe questions mentioned, that the Lord allows to ask concerning his fons, and the works of his hands, 3. How, and wherein, he allows us to prefs him with our commands, enquired into, 4. The reafons of the doctrine affigned, 5. The application of the whole subject, in several uses, Ufe 1. For information, 2. For caution and dehortation, 3. For examination and trial, 4. For exhortation and trial, 241 248 255 258 ibid. 265 266 276 SERMON CXXXIV. Clean Water; or, the Pure and Precious Blood of CHRIST, for the cleanfing of Polluted Sinners, 280 ye EZEK. Xxxvi. 25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and fhall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanfe you. The words being confidered in their connection, divided and explained, their proper fenfe afcertained, and fummed up in a doctrinal observation, the following inquiries are made, viz. 1. How the blood of Chrift is compared to water, 2. In what refpects it is clean water, 283 285 3. What way it is applied or fprinkled upon the unclean, for cleanfing 4. What is that cleanness, which is the effect of this fprinkling of the clean water, 3. Deduce inferences for the application, 296 299 CHRIST'S Treasures opened by himself, declaring he hath all things that God the Father hath, JOHN xvi. 15. All things that the Father bath are mine. 327 The connection of the words being viewed, as they ly in the context, their scope and defign confidered, their analization effayed, and a doctrinal propofition laid down, the following general heads of difcourfe are raised, viz. 1. Chrift's right and title to all things that the Father hath, enquired into, 2. Some of these all things which the Father hath, which are his, pointed out, 332 3. How, and in what fenfe, they are his, confidered, 334 339 4. The reason why this is fo ordered; or, the beauty of this difpenfa tion, pointed out, 5. The fubject applied in feveral inferences, The difcourfe at fencing the tables, The table-fervice, The discourse after the folemnity, SERMON CXXXVI. 342 346 359 362 365 True Lovers of GOD highly Privileged; or, the Great Comfort of Believers in the Co-operation of all things for their good, 378 ROM. viii. 38. We know, that all things fhall work together for good, to them that love God, and are the called according to his purpose. The chapter being analized, the text divided and explained, and a doctrinal observation laid down, the following topics of difcourfe are propofed, viz. 1. To enquire what is to be understood by this note of univerfality, all things, 382 2. To fhew what this good is, that all things fhall work, 3. To point out what is the meaning of their working, and working together for good, 390 395 4. To enquire into the character of these who are thus privileged, as they are lovers of God, 397 3. To fhew whence it is, that all things fhall thus work together JOHN XVI. 32. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. The words having been viewed in their fcope and connection, confidered both in their negative and pofitive fenfe, and a doctrine raised from them, the following topics are handled, viz. 1. To fpeak of God the Father's prefence with Christ, 438 2. To fpeak of God's prefence with his people, as it redounds from Chrift the head, to them as the members, 444 3. To point out the special comfort included in the prefence of God with Chrift in his fufferings, and how it makes for ours, 449 4. To offer fome grounds and reafons of the doctrine, 455 The Happy Victor; or, Saints more than Conque ROM. viii. 37. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. The fcope of the apoftle, and connection of the words being confidered, the divifion and explication effayed, and a doctrinal propofition expreffed, the following topics are handled, viz. 1. Speak a little concerning the Chriftian conqueror in general, 482 2. Shew in what refpc&s he is more than a conqueror, 3. Enquire into the grounds of the conqueft, 489 495 4. Deduce inferences for the application, 500 |