Practical discourses on sundry texts of Scripture wherein is shewed and made known the absolute necessity for all people to turn immediately unto the Lord their God / by Richard Stafford ...

Title

Practical discourses on sundry texts of Scripture wherein is shewed and made known the absolute necessity for all people to turn immediately unto the Lord their God / by Richard Stafford ...

Author

Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.

Publication

London :: Printed and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson ...,

1695.

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Subject terms

Christian life.

Theology, Doctrinal.

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Contents

• title page
• To the Courteous READER.
• THE CONTENTS.
• Practical Discourses: OR AN Earnest Call to all the Inhabitants of the Earth to turn immediately unto the Lord their God.
  • CHAP. I. The Introduction.
  • CHAP. II. Here that Proposition is at Large discussed, That People are not forced and compelled to the Obedience of God, but they are left herein to their own free Choice or Refusal.
  • CHAP. III. That Surmise and Imagination is spoken unto, whereby some People think that they have so grievously offended God that they dare not come unto him.
  • CHAP. IV. Herein it is discoursed of that false Thought in the Hearts of many People, That if they should submit presently unto the Obedience of God, they shall be losers, and disappointed of so much Pleasure and Conveniency in the mean while: They shall miss of so much imagined Happiness, and fall into Vexation, Trouble, and Misery.
  • CHAP. V. Herein sundry Things are written against them who will not be perswaded by, nor live according to Words; and also a∣gainst following the Multitude.
  • CHAP. VI. It is made known in the general from the Scriptures of Truth, (without any Reflections on particular Na∣tions, Governments) that at length there will be an end of all Wars.
  • CHAP. VII. There will be an End of all manner of Persecuting the Servants of God.
  • CHAP. VIII. Towards the end of Time and in the latter days, All the Inhabitants of the Earth will be turned and brought over unto God. Which will be done and ac∣complished by the Pouring out of the Spirit upon us from on High.
  • CHAP. IX. A Paraphrase on some of the most Remarkable Ver∣ses of Psalm 18. Shewing the Design and Con∣nexion of this Psalm. Whereunto is Sub-joined the shutting up and the Conclusion of this whole Book.
    • The CONCLƲSION.
• Practical Books Written and Published by Richard Stafford.