About this book
My library
Raamatud teenuses Google Play
CHAPTER XIV.
PAGE
Tit. 1. The Duty of Masters towards their Servants
209
Tit. 2. The Duty of Masters to Slaves in the Plantations .. 212
Q. 1. Is it lawful for a Christian to buy and use a man as a
Slave?
215
Q. 2. Is it lawful to use a Christian as a Slave? ...... 216
Q. 3. What difference must we make between a Servant and
a Slave?
217
Q. 4. What if men buy Negroes, or other Slaves, of such as
we may think did steal them, or buy them of Robbers and
Tyrants, and not by consent?
218
Q. 5. May I not sell such again and make my money of them? ibid.
Q. 6. May I not return them to him that I bought them of? 219
CHAPTER XV.
The Duties of Children and Fellow Servants to one another?
220
CHAPTER XVI.
Directions for Holy Conference of Fellow Servants and others 224
Q. May we speak good when the heart is not affected with it? 225
Q. Is that the fruit of the Spirit which we force our tongues to?,...
ibid.
CHAPTER XVII.
Directions for every Member of the Family, how to spend
every ordinary day of the Week ...
230
CHAPTER XVIII.
Tit. 1. Directions for the Holy Spending of the Lord's day in
Families.
240
242
Whether the whole day should be kept holy? ....
Tit. 2. More particular Directions for the order of holy duties
on that day.
248
CHAPTER XIX.
Directions for profitable Hearing God's Word preached Tit. 1. Directions for Understanding the Word which you hear .
Tit. 2. Directions for Remembering what you hear . . 254
Tit. 3. Directions for Holy Resolutions and Affections in hearing 257
Tit. 4. Directions to bring what we hear into practice .... 259
CHAPTER XX.
Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures . . . . 263
CHAPTER XXI.
Directions for Reading other Books
266
CHAPTER XXII.
Directions for right Teaching Children and Servants, so as is
most likely to have success. The sum of Christian Religion 270
CHAPTER XXIII.
281
Tit. 1. Directions for Prayer in general
A Scheme or brief Explication of the Exact Method of the
Lord's Prayer
Tit. 2. Cases about Prayer.
287
289
Q. 1. Is the Lord's Prayer to be used as a form of words, or
only as a Directory for Matter and Method
Q. 2. What need is there of any other Prayer, if this be perfect? 290
Q. 3. Is it lawful to pray in a set form of words ?...... 291
Q. 4. Are those forms lawful which are prescribed by man,
and not by God? ...
Q. 5. Is free Praying, called extempore, lawful ?
292
Q. 6. Which is the better?.
Q. 7. Must we ever follow the Method of the Lord's Prayer ? 293
Q. 8. Must we pray only when the Spirit moveth us, or as
reason guideth us ?
294
Q. 9. May he pray for grace, who desireth it not?
295
Q. 10. May he pray that doubteth of his interest in God, and
dare not call him Father as his child ? ..
Q. 11. May a wicked man pray, or is he ever accepted ?. 296
Q. 12. May a wicked man use the Lord's prayer? .
Q. 13. Is it idolatry or sin always to pray to saints or angels ? 297
Q. 14. Is a man bound to pray ordinarily in his family? .... 298
Q. 15. Must the same man pray secretly, that hath before
prayed in his family?
Q. 16. Is it best to keep set hours for prayer? ..
Q. 17. May we join in family prayers with ungodly persons? ibid.
Q. 18. What if the master or speaker be ungodly or a heretic ? 299
Q. 19. May we pray absolutely for outward mercies, or only
conditionally?
300
Q. 20. May we pray for all that we lawfully desire ?
301
Q. 21. How may we pray for the salvation of all the world ? ibid.
Q. 22. Or for the conversion of all nations ?...
302
Q. 23. Or that a whole kingdom may be converted and saved ? ibid.
Q. 24. Or for the destruction of the enemies of Christ, or the
kingdom ? ..
Q. 25. What is to be judged of a particular faith ?
Q. 26. Is every lawful prayer accepted ?
303
Q. 27. With what faith must I pray for the souls or bodies
of others ?
Q. 28. With what faith may we pray for the continuance of
the church or Gospel ?.
304
Q. 29. How to know when our prayers are heard
Q. 30. How to have fulness and constant supply of matter in
our prayers
Q. 31. How to keep up fervency in prayer
306
.
Q. 32. May we look to speed ever the better for any thing in
ourselves or our prayers ? Or may we put any trust in them? 308
Q. 33. How must that
person
and
prayer be qualified, which
God will accept?..
309
Tit. 3. Special Directions for Family Prayer
Tit. 4. Special Directions for Secret Prayer
311
CHAPTER XXIV.
Directions for Families about the Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper
312
What are the ends of the Sacrament? What are the parts of it? ibid.
Q. 1. Should not the Sacrament have more preparation than
the other parts of worship?
318
Q. 2. How oft should it be administered ?
319
Q. 3. Must all members of the visible church communicate ? 320
Q. 4. May any man receive it, that knoweth himself unsanc-
tified ?
Q. 5. May an ungodly man receive it, that knoweth not him-
self to be ungodly? .
Q. 6. Must a Christian receive who doubteth of his sincerity ? 321
Q. 7. What if superiors compel a doubting Christian to re-
ceive it, by excommunication or imprisonment :
what
should he choose?
322
Q. 8. Is not the case of an hypocrite that knoweth not him-
self to be an hypocrite, and of the sincere who knoweth not
himself to be sincere, all one, as to communicating?
323
Q. 9. Wherein lieth the sin of an ungodly person if he receive? ibid.
Q. 10. Doth all unworthy receiving make one liable to dam-
nation ? or what?
324
Q. 11. What is the particular preparation needful to a fit
communicant?
325
Marks of sincerity
Preparing duties
327
Q. 1. May we receive from an ungodly minister ?
329
Q. 2. May we communicate with unworthy persons in an
undisciplined church? ....
Q. 3. What if I cannot communicate unless I conform to an
imposed gesture, as sitting, standing, or kneeling ? ......
331
Q. 4. What if I cannot receive it, but as administered by the
Common Prayer?
Q. 5. If my conscience be not satisfied, may I come doubting? 332
Obj. Is it not a duty to follow conscience as God's officer ?. 333
What to do in the time of administration ?
1. What graces must be exercised ? .
334
2. On what objects
3. The Season and Order of Sacramental Duties ...
336
CHAPTER XXV.
Directions for fearful, troubled Christians who are perplexed
with doubts of their sincerity and justification
Causes and Cure
342
343
CHAPTER XXVI.
Tit. 1. Directions for declining, backsliding Christians : and
about Perseverance
351
The several sorts of backsliders
The way of falling into sects, and heresies, and errors
352
And of declining in heart and life
353
Signs of declining
356
Signs of a graceless state
358
Dangerous signs of impenitency
359
False signs of declining
360
Motives against declining
361
Directions against it
369
Tit. 2. Directions for perseverance, or to prevent backsliding ibid. Antidotes against those doctrines of presumption which would hinder our perseverance
373
CHAPTER XXVII.
Directions for the Poor
The Temptations of the Poor
The special Duties of the Poor
379
383
386