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The first part of The cases of conscience Wherein specially, three main questions concerning…The first part of The cases of conscience Wherein specially, three maine questions concerning…
The first part of The cases of conscience Wherein specially, three main questions concerning man, simply considered in himself, are propounded and resolved, according to the word of God. Taught and delivered, by M. William Perkins in his Holy-day lectures, by himself revised before his death, and now published for the benefit of the Church.The first part of The cases of conscience Wherein specially, three maine questions concerning man, simply considered in himselfe, are propounded and resolued, according to the word of God. Taught and deliuered, by M. William Perkins in his Holy-day lectures, by himselfe revised before his death, and now published for the benefit of the Church.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1604Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1604
Contents: The Contents of the Book.Contents: The Contents of the Booke.
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The Contents of the Book.
The Contents of the Booke.
I. The Grounds or preambles▪ four. 1. Private confession .pag. 5. 2. The degrees of Goodness in things and actions. 6. 3. The Nature and Differences of Sin. 9. 4. The Subjection and power of Conscience. 43. II. The Questions of Conscience, touching Man simply considered in himself: three. I. What man must do that •e may come into Gods favour and be saved? Answer is, by performance of four Duties. 1. Humiliation before God. 50. 2. Faith in Christ. 55. 3. Repentance. 57. 4. New-Obedience. 59. II. How a man may be in conscience assured of his own salvation? 65. Answered by 5. te••s of Scripture. 1. Rom. 8. 16. 65. 2. Psal. 15. 66. 3. The 1. epist. of John. 68. 4. 2. Tim. 2. 19. 74. 5. 2. Pet. 1. 10. 75. III. How a man being in Distress of mind•, may be comforted & relieved? 76. Here. Generally •o•ching all distresses is showed, 1. What is Distress of mind? •7. 2. The Original and kinds of distresses. 77, 78. 3. The general remedy of the all. 79. Specially, the Distresses are five. I. The Distress arising of the Divine Tentation: with the examples, occasions effects, and Remedies. 95. &c. II. The Distresses arising of outward Afflictions. 106. These are three. 1. Deferring of deliverance. 117. 2. Bodily and Temporal death. 126. 3. Satanical molestation of persons and places of bode. 140. III. The Distress of mind arising of the Tentation of Blasphemies: with the means, danger, and cure thereof. 148. IV. The Distress of mind arising from a mans own sins, with the degrees and Remedy thereof. 158. V. The Distress of mind arising from a mans own body: partly by Melancholy, partly by strange alterations in the body: with the degrees, effects, and Remedies. 173, &c.