Direct. v. Think not too highly of your first degrees of Grace How the Spirit doth illuminate. The danger of this sin.. 102 Direct. vi. Let neither Difficulties nor Oppositions, in the be- Direct. VIII. For Charity, Unity, and Catholicism, against Direct. x. Take heed of running from one extreme into another 126 Direct. XI. Be not too confident in your first apprehensions or opinions, but modestly suspicious of them.. Direct. XII. What to do when Controversies divide the Church. What Godliness is. The best life on earth. How Satan would make it seem troublesome and ungrateful. 1. By difficulties. 2. By various sects. 3. By scrupulosity. 4. By your overdoing in your own inventions. 5. By per- plexing fears and sorrows. 6. By unmortified lusts. 7. By actual sins. 8. By ignorance of the Covenant of Grace.... 134 Direct. XIV. Mortify the Flesh, and rule the Senses, and the PAGE Direct. XVI. What Books to prefer and read, and what to reject 150 Direct. XVII. Take not a doctrine of Libertinism for Free Grace 153 Direct. XVIII. Take heed lest Grace degenerate into Counter- THE GENERAL GRAND DIRECTIONS FOR WALKING WITH GOD, IN Grand Direct. 1. Understand well the Nature, Grounds, Reason, and Order of Faith and Godliness. Propositions opening somewhat of them. The reader must note, that here I blotted out the Method and Helps of Faith, having more fully opened them in a Treatise called "The Reasons of the PAGE Grand Direct. VII. To learn of Christ as our Teacher. How? Grand Direct. VIII. To obey Christ our Physician or Saviour, in his repairing, healing work!..UNTUUDIO JOT SVAKA How each Faculty is diseased or depraved? The Intellect : Grand Direct. Ix. Of the Christian Warfare under Christ. Who are our Enemies. Of the Devil. The State of the Armies, and of the War between Christ and Satan. The Ends, ' Temptations to particular Sins, with Directions for preserva- Grand Direct. x. How to work as servants to Christ our Lord. The true doctrine of Good Works Directions for our serving Christ in well-doing. Where are ..... PAGE 339 Quest. Whether the formal cause alone do constitute obedience 338 Quest. May one do a Great Good when it cannot be done but Quest, Must I not forbear all Good Works, which I cannot do Quest. Must I forbear a certain, great Duty (as preaching the Sixteen Rules to guide a Doubting Conscience, and to know, What must be the Motive of our first Love? Grand Direct. x11. Absolutely to trust God with soul, body, and all, with full acquiescence. The Nature of Trust (of Grand Direct. XIII. That the Temperament of our Religion Grand Direct. xv. For Glorifying God. Ten Directions how Grand Direct. xvI. For Heavenlymindedness Grand Direct. xvII. For Self-denial. Only named, as being PAGE ibid. Directions against Unbelief. Q. Whether it be Unbelief, not to believe that our sins are pardoned, and we elected ? Can a man be surer that he believeth, than he is that the thing believed is True? The article of Remission of Sin is to be |