John Tillotson: Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. - Christian Classics Ethereal Library

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Prefatory Material.

Contents to Vol. X.

Sermon CCXLV. The Grounds of Bad Men’s Enmity to the Truth.

Sermon CCXLVI. True Liberty the Result of Christianity.

Sermon CCXLVII. The Duty of Improving the Present Opportunity and Advantages of the Gospel.

Sermon CCXLVIII. The Folly of Hazarding Eternal Life for Temporal Enjoyments.

Sermon CCXLIX. The Reasonableness of Fearing God More than Man.

Sermon CCL. The Reasonableness of Fearing God More than Man.

Sermon CCLI. The Efficacy of Prayer for Obtaining the Holy Spirit.

Sermon CCLII. The Efficacy of Prayer, for Obtaining the Holy Spirit.

Sermon CCLIII. The Bad and Good Use of God’s Signal Judgments upon Others.

Sermon CCLIV. Of the Rule of Equity to be Observed Among Men.

Prayers, Composed by Archbishop Tillotson. To Which Is Added, a Short Discourse to His Servants Before the Sacrament.

A Prayer before the Sermon.

A Prayer which (it is conjectured) he used before composing his Sermons.

Prayers used by him the Day before his Consecration.

A Discourse to his Servants, concerning receiving the Sacrament.

A Form of Prayers, Used by His Late Majesty KIng William III. When He Received the Holy Sacrament, and on Other Occasions.

>A Prayer to God, that he would be pleased to assist and accept my Preparation to receive the blessed Sacrament.

A penitent Confession of Sins, with an humble supplication for mercy and forgiveness.

A Prayer for the grace and assistance of God’s Holy Spirit, to enable me to resolve and to do better for the future.

An humble Intercession with God for all mankind; for the whole Christian church, and more particularly for that part of it which is planted in these kingdoms; for the Queen, and for all under our government; for my relations and friends; for my native country, and for my allies, &c.

A thankful Acknowledgment of the mercies of God both temporal and spiritual; and above all for the redemption of mankind by the humiliation and sufferings of his Son in our nature.

A Prayer to God, to prepare my heart for the worthy receiving of the Holy Sacrament, and to make me partaker of the blessings and benefits of it.

Short Meditations and Ejaculations at the Communion.

The Rule of Faith, or An Answer to the Treatise of Mr. J. S. Entitled Sure-Footing, &c.

The Rule of Faith.

Part I. The Explication and State of the Question.

Section II. Mr. S’s rule of faith.

Sect. III. The protestant doctrine concerning the rule of faith.

Sect. IV. How much protestants allow to oral tradition.

Sect. V. How much Mr. S. attributes to his rule of faith more than protestants to theirs.

Part II. Concerning the Properties of the Rule of Faith; and whether they agree solely to Oral Tradition.

Sect. II. That the properties of a rule of faith belong to Scripture.

Sect. III. Mr. S.’s exceptions against Scripture examined.

Sect. IV. That Scripture is a sufficient rule to the unlearned, and to the most rational doubters

Sect. V. That Scripture is sufficient to convince the most acute adversaries, and that it is sufficiently certain.

Sect. VI. That the properties of a rule of faith do not belong to oral tradition.

Part III. In which Mr. S’s Demonstrations and Corollaries are examined.

Sect. I. Considerations touching his demonstrations in general.

Sect. II. Mr. S.’s demonstration a priori.

Sect. IV. The second answer to his demonstration.

Sect. V. [The third answer to his demonstration.]

Sect. VI. Mr. S.’s demonstration a posteriori.

Sect. VII. The first answer to his second demonstration.

Sect. VIII. The second answer to his second demonstration.

Sect. IX. The third answer to Mr. S.’s second demonstration.

Sect. X. The fourth answer to his second demonstration.

Sect. XI. Concerning some other advantages of tradition, &c.

Mr. S’s corollaries considered.

Part IV. Testimonies concerning the Rule of Faith.

Sect. I. Mr. S’s testimonies examined.

Testimonies on the behalf of Scripture.

Original Indexes

Index I. Of the principal Matters contained in Mr. BIRCH’s Life of ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON.

Index II. Of the principal Matters contained in these Ten Volumes of ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON’s Sermons.

Index III. Of the several Texts of Scripture, which are the Subjects of the several Sermons.

Index of Scripture References

Greek Words and Phrases

Latin Words and Phrases

Index of Pages of the Print Edition