THE

PRACTICAL WORKS

OF THE

REV. RICHARD BAXTER.

VOLUME XIII.

CONTAINING

THE DIVINE LIFE; THE DIVINE APPOINTMENT OF THE LORD'SDAY, PROVED; REDEMPTION OF TIME; PREFACE TO

MR. ALLEINE'S ALARM TO THE UNCONVERTED.

RICHARD EDWARDS, CRANE COURT, FLEET STREET, LONDON.

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRTEENTH VOLUME.

THE DIVINE LIFE.

PART I.

THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.

EPISTLE DEDICATORY

To the Reader....

CHAPTER I.

The text explained: The doctrine. The knowledge of the

only true God and of Jesus Christ the Mediator, is the

life of grace, and the necessary way to the life of glory.
What is contained in the knowledge of God, as to the
act what as to the object. A short scheme of the
Divine properties and attributes to be known

CHAPTER II.

Of the knowledge of God's being, and the necessary effects

of it on the heart.

CHAPTER III.

Of the knowledge of God's unity and indivisibility, and its

necessary effects

CHAPTER IV.

Of the knowledge of God's immensity, and so of his in-

comprehensibleness, omnipresence, and the effects....

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CHAPTER V.

Of the knowledge of God's eternity, and its due effects. A

believer referring all things to eternity, honoureth his

very horse, or dog, or smallest mercy, more than unbe-

lievers honour their king, their lives, their souls, regard-

ing them but for transitory ends. Unbelievers denying

the end, destroy morally all souls, all mercies, all Divine

revelations, all God's ordinances, all graces, and duties,

and the whole creation..

CHAPTER VI.

The knowledge of God as he is a spirit and incorporeal; and

consequently, 1. As he is simple or uncompounded. 2.

Invisible, &c. 3. Immortal, incorruptible, immutable :

The uses of God's simplicity: The uses of his invisibility:

The uses of his immortality and immutability

CHAPTER VII.

Of the knowledge of God's almightiness, and of its due

effects

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CHAPTER VIII.

Of the knowledge of God's omniscience or infinite wisdom;

with the due effects

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CHAPTER IX.

Of the knowledge of God's infinite goodness, and love; and

of the due impression of it on the soul....

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CHAPTER X.

Of the knowledge of God as the first cause, creator and pre-
server of all things. All things are for God, as the ulti-
mate end; manifested. How his will is still fulfilled.
Whether he will de eventu that all obey him? God wil-
leth not sin. Differences ended about. Whether he
decree not or will not ut evenit peccatum? Whether he
will de eventu that sin shall not come to pass, when it
doth? All God's works good: none to be dishonoured :
no not ourselves, our reason and freewill, as natural and
of God; though as vitiated by us and ill-disposed, we
must accuse it....

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