VIII. 1. Of the heavens. 2.

How many were created.

3. No more but three. 1.

A throne of eternal ravishing

glories. 2. A throne of natu

ral perishing glories. 3. An

invisible spiritual throne lead-

ing to eternity..

IX. An exact Scripture rule to

prove the Man Christ glori-

fied, to be Father, Son, and

Holy Spirit in one distinct

person

X. 1. Of persecation of con-

science. 2. Of the sin against

the Holy Ghost......

XI. 1. Of the true nature of in-

2. Wherein it

finiteness. 2.

lieth, viz. in the not know.

ing its beginning or ending.

3. Infiniteness and finiteness

are uncapable of equal glory.

4. Against all true reason

that there should be three

persons in the Trinity. 5.

Christ and the Father one
undivided Godhead. 6. De-
nying Christ to be the only
God is Antichrist. 7. How
prayers are heard.

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XII. 1. To own or believe any

other God but Christ, is a

cursed lie. 2. Who are the

deceived persons. 3. Con.

cerning the true knowledge

of God. 4, The deceivers of

others under conflicts of mind,

described by many and va-

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rious expressions.

XIII. 1. Of the language and

condition of two sorts of men

and women. 2. The one

elected unto glory, the other

rejected unto shame. 3. The

Prophet's declaration there-

upon.

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XIV. 1. A moderate discourse

concerning civil wars in a

kingdom. 2. The people's

subjection to the laws. 3.

Wherein several objections
are answered. 4. Many
things of very great conse-
quence seasonably declared 71

XV. 1. Of the error of errors in

men, who say that there is

no other God or Christ, but

in this creation only. 2. Se-

veral objections and answers

concerning the death of the

soul. 3. The light of Christ

in man, is the invisible image

of God, which purifieth the

inward filthiness of the flesh

and spirit, and presents the

certain truth of an eternal life

of glory or shame. 4. No

need of a new birth, if there

be a sufficient light of Christ

in generation to conduct to

heaven. 5. Children cannot

understand spiritual or natu-

ral good or evil; so need not

Christ's spiritual gifts in the

womb for eternal happiness.

XXVI. 1. Of the nature and

place of the reprobate's tor-

ment. 2 The last Witnesses'

great confidence concerning

the end of the world. 8.

Without a tongue no speech

can be made by God, angels,

or men. 4. God is visibly

seen by spiritual bodies, as
kings are by their subjects.. 134

XXVII. 1. A more full dis-

course of the two Witnesses.

2. No true messenger or

witness without a voice from

God to the hearing of the ear.

3. The three commissions

agree all in truth. 4. Differ-

ing only in point of worship.

5. There was not nor can

there be assurance of eternal

happiness, but in the belief

of a commission. 6. God

owneth no worship in this

commission, but what is spi-

ritual. The difference be-

tween true and false commis-

sioners

XXVIII. 1. No reason in angel

or men can be satisfied in it-

self without revelation from

the Creator. 2. God created

reason. 3. Yet it was not of

his own nature. 4. Infinite-

ness is to create persons and

things differing from his own

nature. 5. Though all crea-

tures were made by God, yet

they came not out of him,

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PACE.

but by the word of his power.

6. No creature spiritual or
natural, can be said to be the
image of God, but man only.
7. It is the property of rea
son to promise obedience to
God by his prophets, but

perform none. 8. Why the

angels are called mighty.. 146

XXIX. 1. Of the creation of

Adam. 2. Why God spake

in the plural number in the

making of man.......... 153

XXX, 1. How God made man

in his own image or likeness.

2. The soul of Adam was of

the same divine nature of

God. 3. Not of the nature

of the angels.. 4. Of the

created virtues in Adam's soul

5. Adam did not know of his

power to stand or fall.

The breath of life which

Adam had received of God,

died .....
159

6.

XXXI. 1. Of the seed of the

woman. 2. Of the seed of

the serpent. 3. How sin came

into man's nature. 4. No

angel cast out of heaven but

that one which deceived Eve.

5. No true knowledge of the

Scriptures, but in the know-

ledge of the two seeds. 6.

No speech could proceed

from any but from the angel 165

XXXII. 1. The condition of

Adam and Eve in their fall.

2. The angel called a serpent.

3. He was more comely in

Eve's eyes than Adam. 4.

How the fallen angel be-

XXXIV. 1. The Tree of

Knowledge of Good and

Evil was no natural tree. 2.

What it was. 3. Whence

the originality of sin came.. 176

XXXV. 1. The curse was not

pronounced upon any na-

tural beast, but the fallen

angel

.. 179

XXXVI. 1. Of the mind of

the Spirit in the word eat-

ing of the tree of knowledge

of good and evil. 2. No true

interpretation of the Scrip-

tures but by immediate in-

spiration. 3. Reason not ca-

pable of the mysteries of

God. 4. But faith only. 5.

No devils but men and wo-

men. 6. No Devil without

man tempteth any. 7. But

the seed or lust of his own

spirit

XXXVII. 1. The prorogative

power of God is above all

law. 2. Why God cursed

the fallen angel in the womb

of Eve. 3. The angel's na-

ture (after his offence) was

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XXXVIII. 1. The bodies of

angels are capable of dissolv-

ing into seed. 2. The seed

of the serpent only damned.

3. Pure reason lost the know-

ledge of the creator, and of

itself. 4. Cain not the son of

Adam, but of the serpent. 5.

Cain was brother to Abel

only by the mother's side.

6. All that died by the first

Adam shall be saved in the

second. 7. Those that are

not lost in themselves, can

never be saved

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XXXIX. 1. No condemnation

but to persons of maturity.

2. No children damned,

though they be of the seed

of the serpent. 3, He that

killeth a prophet, or a righ-

teous man, would kill the

Creator if he could. 4. No

salvation by the power of

man's own will. 5. But by

the power of God....... 199

XL. 1. Concerning Christ's

coming to judgment. 2. The

vanity of that opinion that

believes Christ's personal

reign upon this earth ...... 203

XLI. 1. The vanity of believ-
ing in a God that hath no
form. 2. And of them who
say, the creator is an incom-
prehensible Spirit. 3. Or
that there is no God but na-
ture only. 4. Or who say,
that God's Spirit, and their
spirits, are but one spirit.. 210

XLII.1.A further discourse con-

cerning the error of Christ's

personal reign. 2. The inter-

pretation of the three last

verses of the 12th of the Re-

velations. 3. Concerning the

Dragon and the Woman. 4.
Of the binding of the old ser-
pent dragon for a thousand
years. 5. When they ex-
pired. 6. Of the worship of
the beast. 7. Of satan's being
loosed out of prison. 8. Who
they are that be in the deep-
est prisons of raging darkness 216

XLIII. 1. Of the personal glory

of Christ's coming to judg-
ment. 2. No man hath so
much faith as a grain of mus-
tard seed, but Christ only.
3. Of spirits finite and infi-

nite....

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