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CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.

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NATURE AND CAUSES OF APOSTASY FROM THE GOSPEL

PREFATORY NOTE BY THE EDITOR,

To the Reader,

I.—The nature of apostasy from the gospel declared, in an exposition of Heb.

vi. 4-6,

II.-Partial apostasy from the gospel-Pretences of the church of Rome against

the charge of this evil examined and rejected,

III-Apostasy from the mystery, truth, or doctrine of the gospel-Proneness

of persons and churches thereunto-Proved by all sorts of instances,

IV. The reasons and causes of apostasy from the truth or doctrine of the gos-

pel, and the inclination of all sorts of persons thereunto in all ages, in-

quired into and declared-Uncured enmity in the minds of many against

spiritual things, and the effects of it in a wicked conversation, the first

cause of apostasy,

V.-Darkness and ignorance another cause of apostasy,

VI.—Pride and vanity of mind, sloth and negligence, love of the world, causes

of apostasy-The work of Satan and judgments of God in this matter,

VII.-Instance of a peculiar defection from the truth of the gospel; with the rea-

sons of it,

VIII.-Apostasy from the holiness of the gospel; the occasion and cause of it-Of

that which is gradual, on the pretence of somewhat else in its room,

IX.-Apostasy into profaneness and sensuality of life--The causes and occa-

sions of it-Defects in public teachers and guides in religion,

X.-Other causes and occasions of the decay of holiness,

XI.-Apostasy from evangelical worship,

XII.-Inferences from the foregoing discourses-The present danger of all sorts

of persons, in the prevalency of apostasy from the truth and decays in

the practice of evangelical holiness,

XIII.-Directions to avoid the power of a prevailing apostasy,

II. A particular account of the nature of this grace and duty of being spiri-

tually minded-How it is stated in and evidenced by our thoughts, .

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