_From its antiquity and preservation_ 112 _From the testimony of God by miracles_ _ibid_ _Two objections answered_ 114, 115 _By the conviction and conversion of sinners_ 116 _How Christians come to a full persuasion of the divinity of scripture_ 118 _The inward testimony of the Spirit explained_ _ibid_ QUEST. V, VI. The principal matters contained in scripture. QUEST. VII. Of the nature and perfections of God. _How we may conceive aright of the divine perfections_ _ibid_ _Of the communicable and incommunicable perfections of God_ 122 _Nothing common between God and the creature_ _ibid_ _God is a Spirit; what a Spirit is_ 123 _Difference between other spiritual substances and God_ 124 _Independent_ 124. _Infinitely perfect_ 126 _All-sufficient_ 127. _When this perfection is in effect denied_ 127 _Eternal_ 129. _His eternal duration not successive_ 132. _How the parts of time are attributed to God_ 133 _Immutable. When immutability is a perfection. How peculiar to God_ 135. _Arguments to prove him so_ 136 _Incomprehensible_ 138 _Omnipresent_ 139, _and Almighty_ 140 _Wherein his power appears_ 141 _What things God cannot do_ 142 _The improvement of this subject_ 143 _Omniscient_ 145. _He knows all future contingencies_ 147 _Properties of God’s knowledge_ 149. _Its improvement_ 150 _When it is practically denied_, _ibid_. _Wisdom of God infinite_ 152 _Different from knowledge_ _ibid_ _Wherein it appears_ _ibid_ _In Creation_ 154. _Providence_ 155. _Redemption_ 156 _In the constant government of the church_ _ibid_ _Inferences from God’s wisdom_ 158 _Holiness of God infinite_ 159 _What it is_, _ibid_. _Instances of it_ 160 _His suffering the entrance of sin, was no refection on it_ 161 _’Tis the standard of doctrines_ 162 _Instances of doctrines which lead to licentiousness_ 162, 163 _When God’s holiness is contemned_ 163 _Justice of God infinite_ 164 _How distinguished from his holiness_ _ibid_ _Glory, how called a reward_ 167 _Afflictions of believers not properly a punishment_ _ibid_ _Mercy and grace of God infinite_ 168 _Difference between goodness, mercy, grace, and patience_ 169 _Mercy is either common or special_ 171 _Grace free and sovereign_ 172 _Discriminating_ 173. _Instances of it_, _ibid_. _Afflictions not inconsistent with it_ 174 _Leads not to licentiousness_ _ibid_ _Patience of God, what it is_ 176 _Whether devils are objects of it_ _ibid_ _Instances of God’s patience_ 178 _Wherein manifested to the wicked_ 179 _Not inconsistent with justice_ 181 _How to be improved_ 183 _By whom it is abused_ 184 _Truth, God is abundant therein_ 186 _How he is called a God of truth_ 187