#Discourses on several texts of Scripture by Henry More.#

##More, Henry, 1614-1687.## Discourses on several texts of Scripture by Henry More. More, Henry, 1614-1687.

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#####Front#####

1. THE PREFACE.

2. THE TEXTS OF THE Following Discourses.

3. IMPRIMATUR

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1. DISCOURSES ON Several Texts OF SCRIPTURE.

   _ DISCOURSE I. 1 PET. II. 11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.

   _ DISCOURSE II. PSAL. lxxxiv. 7. They go from strength to strength, every one of them appeareth before God in Sion.

   _ DISCOURSE III. MAT. vi. 22, 23. The light of the Body is the Eye: if therefore thine Eye be single, thy whole Body shall be full of light. But if thine Eye be evil, thy whole Body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

   _ DISCOURSE IV. PROV. i. 7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

   _ DISCOURSE V. JOHN iv. 31. 32, 33, 34. In the mean time his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that you know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? Iesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

   _ DISCOURSE VI. JAM. i. 22. Be ye Doers of the Word, and not Hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

   • I. WE must be Hearers of the Word.

   • II. WE pass on now to that other Doctrine proposed, That we ought not only to be Hearers, but Doers also of the Word.

   • III. That we are not to deceive our selves.

   _ DISCOURSE VII. PROV. xv. 15. All the dayes of the afflicted are evil, but a good conscience is a continual feast.

   _ DISCOURSE VIII. PSAL. xvii. 15. As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

   _ DISCOURSE IX. ROM. viii. 17. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ: if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.

   _ DISCOURSE X. JAM. i. 27. Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

   • I. That there is a pure and undefiled Religion.

   • II. That God the Father is judge of what is true, pure and undefiled Religion.

   • III. That pure and undefiled Religion is this, to visit the Fatherless and Widows in their affliction, and to keep our selves unsported from the world.

   • IV. That to visit the Fatherless and the Widows in their affliction, and to keep our selves unspotted of the World; this is pure and undefiled Religion, even in the sight of God the Father. I will dispatch this point in a word or two.

   _ DISCOURSE XI. HEB. xiii. 16. To do good and communicate forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. I. That we are to do good, I think no man is so devoid of reason or goodness as to deny it; no not s

   • II. That doing good is a Sacrifice.

   • III. The Third and last is, That doing of good is a sacrifice in which God is well pleased.

   _ DISCOURSE XII. GAL. vi. 14, 15, 16. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Iesus Christ; by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Iesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy; and upon the Israel of God.

   _ DISCOURSE XIII. 1 PET. i. 22, 23. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren; see that ye love one another, with a pure heart, fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever.

   • Doctrine I. That the Christian mans Soul is Purified.

   • Doct. II. That the Christians Soul is purified in obeying the Truth.

   • Doct. III. That the purified and obedient Soul is thus purged and obedient through the Spirit.

   • Doct. IV. That this Purification of the Soul, and Obedience to the Truth through the Spirit, is for this end, viz. the eliciting of Brotherly Love and Sincerity in the Soul.

   • Doctrine I. That there is a Regeneration of the Soul.

   • Doct. II. That the Soul is Regenerated of no corruptible Seed, but incorruptible.

   • Doct. III. That this incorruptible Seed is the Word of God.

   • Doct. IV. That this Word of God, which is the Seed of the Soul, is a living and everlasting Word.

   _ DISCOURSE XIV. PSAL. cvi 28. They joined themselves also unto Baal-Peor, and are the sacrifices of the dead.

   _ DISCOURSE XV. COL. iii. 1. If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.

   _ DISCOURSE XVI. Appendix to DISCOURSE XIII. 1 PET. 1. 22, 23. Seeing ye have purified your Souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren: See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

   • Doct. II. That we are to love one another out of a pure Heart.

   • Doct. III. That we are to love one another fervently.

   • Doct. IV. That we are to love one another universally and continually.

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1. The Publishers POST-SCRIPT.

2. A Catalogue. Books Published by His Grace, JOHN Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury.

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