THE OF F the neereft Truths, and 1. Of Humane Nature, or the II. Of GOD's Relation to Man as his RULER, where Experiments of the Difficulty of all this Duty-before-proved from Of the Nature and PROPERTIES of the Christian Religion, 229 Of the CONGRUITIES in the Chriftian Religion, which make it the more eafily credible, and are great Preparatives to Of the WITNESS of JESUS CHRIST, or the great demonftrative Evidence of his Verity and Authority, viz. The SPIRIT: In 4 parts: 1. Antecedently, by PROPHECY. 2. Conftitutively and Inherently, the Image of God, on his Per- fon, Life and Doctrine. 3. Concomitantly, by the Miraculous Power and Works of Christ and his Difciples. 4. Subfequent- Of the fubfervient Proofs and Means by which the forementioned Evidences are brought to our certain knowledge, How we know the antecedent Prophetical Teftimony; and the Conftitutive, Inherent Evidence: How we know the Concomi- tant Teftimmy of Miracles: 1. By Humane Teftimony. 2. By Evidence of Natural Certainty. 3. By Divine attestation in the Teftifyers Miracles. The Proofs of that Divine attestation with the Witneffes: 1. In the holy Conftitution of their Souls and Doctrine: 2. In their Miracles and Gifts: 3. In the fuccefs of their Dodrine to mens fanctification. How the Churches teftimony of the Difciples Miracles and Doctrine is proved. 1. By moft credible Humane Teftimony: 2. By fuch as bath Natural Evidence of Certainty: 3. By fome further Divine atteftation. The way or Means of the Churches atteftation and Tradition. The Scriptures proved the fame which the Apostles delivered, and the Churches received. How we may know the 4th part of the Spirits Teftimony, viz. The Succeffes of Chriftian Doctrine to mens fanctification: What Sanctification is, and the acts or parts of it. Confectaries, from p. 302. to 350 CHAP. VIII. Of some other fubfervient and Collateral Arguments for the Chri Stian Verity, CHAP. IX. 350 Tet Faith bath many Difficulties to overcome: What they are, and what their Causes, CHAP. X. 365 The Intrinfecal Difficulties in the Chriftian Faith refolved: or 24 Objections against Christianity answered, 371, to 424 CHAP. XI. The Extrinfecal Difficulties, or 16 more Objections refolved, 424 CHAP. XII. The reasonable Conditions required of them, who will overcome the Difficulties of Believing, and will not undoe themselves by wilfull Infidelity, The fumm of all in an Addreffe to God, CHAP. XIII. Confectaries. 444 453,457 1. What Party of Christians should we joyn with, or be of, seeing they are divided into fo many Sects? CHAP. XIV. 464 II. Of the true Interest of Christ and bis Church, and the Souls of Men, of the means to promote it, and its Enemies and Impediments in the World: (Which being only named in brief Propofitions, fhould be the more heedfully perused, by those that dare pretend the Interest of Religion and the Church, for the proudest, or the most dividing practices; and thofe which mest directly binder the fucceffefull preaching of the Gospel, the pure Worshipping of God, and the faving of Mens Souls.) 466 The C The Conclufion, (or an Appendix) defending the Souls Immortality, against the Somatifts, or Epicureans, and other Pfeudo-philofophers. M OBJECTION I Atter and Motion only may do all that which you ascribe to Souls, OBJECT. II. P. 495 By Senfe, Imagination, Cogitation, Reafon, you cannot prove the Soul to be incorporeal, and immortal, because the Bruits partake of all thefe, OBJECT. III. 523 Humane Souls are but Forms: and Forms are but the qualities or modes of Subftances; and therefore perish when feparated from Bodies, OBJECT. IV. 535 The Soul is material, and confequently mortal, because it dependeth upon matter in its Operations, and therefore in its Effence, $39 OBJECT V. No immaterial Substance moveth that which is material, as a principle of its Operations: but the Soul fo moveth the Bo dy: Ergo OBJECT. VI. 540 The Soul in our fleep acteth irrationaly, according to the fortuirous morion of the fpirits, Ergo OBJECT. VII. 543 Reason is no proof of the Souls Immateriality, because Senfe (which the Bruits have) is the more perfect apprehension, OBJECT. VIII. 543 Senfation and Intellection are both but Reception: The Paffivity therefore of the Soul doth fhew its Materiality, (d) 544 OBJECT. |