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A
TREATISE
CONCERNING
THE
LIFE OF GOD IN THE SOUL OF MAN.
BY
THEODORE ECCLESTON.
"In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of Men." John i. 4.
MANCHESTER:
JOHN HARRISON, MARKET STREET.
LONDON: CHARLES GILPIN. DUBLIN: JAMES B. GILPIN.
1851.
CONTENTS.
Sketch of the Life of Henry Scougal..
Introduction
CHAPTER
I. Of the Divine Life...
II.—That there are many advantages by this Divine
Life.
III. This Divine Life renews the mind, and restores
out of the fall.
IV. In the fall man hath no true peace.
V. In the fall man's will depraved.
VI. In the fallen state man liable to many miseries,
here and hereafter.
VII.-God not the author of man's fall, but of his
recovery
VIII.-How this recovery is wrought by Christ
IX.-Christ treated of as our Light.
X.-Christ treated of under the name Life.
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XI. This Light or Life the true ground of repentance 21
XII.-The Spirit which reproves, is that which
baptizeth the soul
XIII. Of the regenerate state
XIV. Of the progress of redemption.
XV.-Of Sanctification
XVI.-Of Justification..
XVII.-Of Believing.
XVIII. Of the Scriptures; and that they ought to
be read, with our minds turned to that Spirit by
which they were given forth.
XIX-That it is the Spirit of God which teaches and
enables us to practise our duty."
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XX-The children of God meanly esteemed by worldly
minded men.
XXI.-Of Worship.
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of man, in accidance wing extenence and the tea
ony of the Holy Scripture.
To this action is prefixed & abot eksten of the Life
Hery Scrugal, as extracted principally fom ↓ na luz
J bis collected works, publ. edit A'ezdcer, 1765.
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II. That there are many advantages by this Divine
III.—This Divine Life renews the mind, and restores
IV. In the fall man hath no true peace..
XIII.
Of the regenerate state
XV. Of Sanctification