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1. From whence all Writings proceed. 2. A necessity of extraordinary light to satisfy or silence curious questions. 3. The names of the two last Witnesses, and the time of their call. 4. The highest queries concerning the eternal estate of mankind. 5. Of the form and nature of God from all eternity, who continually increaseth. 6. The person of God is the object of true faith. 7. No reason in God. 8. The purest reason in man cannot understand the Scriptures..

II. 1. What the substances of earth and water were from eternity. 2. A great secret revealed concerning death & hell. 3. Concerning the heavens above. 4. Earth and water not eternally glorious. 5. The residence of the Creator. 6. Earth and water uncreated substances....

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1. Of the angels further. 2. Of the nature of pure reason. 3. Of the divine nature. 4. Wherein they differ. 5. The angels were under the moral law which was written in their natures. 6. The Creator above all law. 7. A necessity of supplying the an gels with continued revelations from the Creator. 8. He that was above all law, made himself under the law, by becoming flesh. 9. Who is Antichrist. 10. No joy in God without a form. 11 Death an enemy to all kind of life in God, angels & men. 14

V. 1. The cause of the angels fall, and the fruit thereof. 2. The condition of the elect angels. 3. The spiritual nature of the fallen angel remained, and what names are given to him. 4. An objection, and the answer, concerning two vessels. 5. Of the fallen angel and Adam. 6. No distinction between God and the Creature, but by names and natures. 7. Election and reprobation proved by divers Scriptures. 22

VI. 1. Of the Scripture records. 2. Of the ignorance of men that deify or vilify them. 3. The Prophet's prayer in the conclusion

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VII. 1. Of the creation of the firmament, sun, moon and stars. 2. Of the earth in the deep waters. 3. The mean

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ing of the word create. 4. Why the deep waters are eternal. 5. By what the firmament was formed. 6. How the sun, moon, & stars came. 7. Of the distinct and fixed bodies of the sun, moon, and stars. 8. The sun and moon of contrary natures....

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 natural perishing glories. 3. An invisible spiritual throne leading to eternity.....

IX. An exact Scripture rule to prove the Man Christ glorified, to be Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in one distinct person

X. 1. Of persecution of conscience. 2. Of the sin against the Holy Ghost.....

XI, 1. Of the true nature of infiniteness. 2. Wherein it 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. Denying Christ to be the only God is Antichrist. 7. How prayers are heard.

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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 consequence 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. Several 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 natural good or evil; so need not Christ's spiritual gifts in the womb for eternal happiness.

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6. A great error to believe that
the essence of the eternal Spi-
rit dwelleth in any man, but
in the Lord Jesus only. 7.
Two marks of reprobates.. 84

XVI. 1. Of divers comparisons

of the Spirit or Person of
Christ, unto the face of the
natural sun. 2. No man or
angel can be capable of the
in-dwelling of God's essence,
but his own person only.... 93

XVII. 1. No man's salvation or

damnation lieth in his own will, but in the prerogativo of God. 2. Divers absurdities which follow from the opinion that Christ is only within men. 3. A question and answer concerning a two-fold presence of God in the creature. 4. If the essential Spirit were united unto creatures, it could not be infinite

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XVIII. 1. A discourse that the Divine Being is clothed with flesh and bone. 2. How God knows all things in the world. 3. Of the manner of God's taking upon him human nature. 4. What the form of God was before he became flesh. 5. No spirit can enjoy happiness or misery without a body...... 102

XIX. 1. Of the true spiritual

Trinity in unitity. 2. Of the
one personal divine Majesty.
3. No Scripture mentioneth
God to be three persons, only
one God and one Person. 4.

XXVI. 1. Of the nature and place of the reprobate's torment. 2 The last Witnesses' great confidence concerning the end of the world. 3. 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 car.
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 itself without revelation from the Creator. 2. God created reason. 3. Yet it was not of his own nature. 4. Infiniteness is to create persons and things differing from his own nature. 5. Though all creatures were made by God, yet they came not out of him,

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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. 6.
The breath of life which
Adam had received of God,
died....
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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