A Body of Divinity, Vol. 4 (of 4): Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism — John Shaqi
A Body of Divinity, Vol. 4 (of 4): Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger CatechismRidgley, Thomas
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A Body of Divinity, Vol. 4 (of 4): Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism
_A frequent attendance, how encouraged_ 280
QUEST. CLXXVI, CLXXVII. Wherein Baptism and the Lord’s supper agree, and
wherein they differ 281-284
QUEST. CLXXVIII. Of Prayer 285
_Of the kinds and parts of prayer_ 287
_Confession of sin the duty of all_ 288
_An objection answered_ ibid
_How to be performed_ 290
_What sins to be confessed_ ibid
_The sin of our nature_ ibid
_And all actual transgressions_ 291
_Thankfulness for mercies, a duty_ 293
_In every age and condition of life_ ibid
_For relative and personal mercies_ 294
QUEST. CLXXIX, CLXXX, CLXXXI. To whom, and in whose name we must pray
298
_We are to pray to God only_ 299
_What it is to pray in Christ’s name_ 300
_Why we are to pray in his name_ 301
QUEST. CLXXXII, CLXXXIII, CLXXXIV. Of the Spirit’s help in prayer; for
whom and for what we are to pray 302
_The Spirits assistance in prayer_ 303
_What this supposes_ ibid
_It respects the matter of prayer_ ibid
_The inward frame of heart_ 304
_And the success of the duty_ 306
_Of raised affections in prayer_ 308
_Persons to be prayed for, are_
_The whole church militant_ 309
_The ministers of Christ_ 311
_Our enemies, and all men living_ 312
_Purgatory a fiction_ 315
_The dead are not to be prayed for_ 314
_The opinion of the ancients about it_ 315
_Nor they who have sinned the sin unto death_ 318
_What that sin is_ ibid
_Whether now committed_ 319
_Doubts about it resolved_ 320
_What things we are to pray for_ 322
QUEST. CLXXXV. How we are to pray 323
_With a suitable frame_ ibid
_In the exercise of grace_ 324
_What necessary thereunto_ 334
_Of faith in prayer_ 329
_Promises of help in prayer_ 330
_Promises of God’s hearing prayer_ 331
_Objections against praying answered_ 332
_Love to God to be exercised in prayer_ 333
_Discouragements from praying removed_ 336
QUEST. CLXXXVI, CLXXXVII. Of the Rule for our direction in prayer 338
_How the word of God directs herein_ 339
_What expressions equivalent to promises_ 342
_Promises of outward blessings_ 344
_Of spiritual and temporal_ 345
_Promises to the afflicted_ 346
_To the depressed in prayer_ 347
_Respecting ordinances_ 349
_Of grace and peace_ 350
_How these are of use in prayer_ 351
_Reproofs are of use in prayer_ 353
_So are prayers recorded in Scripture_ 354
_Inferences from these directions_ 355
_The Lord’s prayer a special direction_ 356
QUEST. CLXXXVIII, CLXXXIX. The Preface of the Lord’s Prayer explained
359
_God, how a Father to men_ 360
_First known, then addressed as such_ 362
_How to be prayed to as being in heaven_ 365
_Child-like dispositions required in us_ 364
QUEST. CXC. The first Petition explained 368
_God’s name, what meant by it_ 369
_How he sanctifies it himself_ ibid
_How sanctified in redemption_ 370
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