CONTENTS. Serious and Weighty Questions Clearly and Satisfactorily 1. What are the special remedies, means, or helps against cherishing or keeping up of any special or peculiar sin, either in heart or life, against the Lord, or against the light and conviction of a man's own conscience? 2. What is that faith that gives a man an interest in Christ, and in all those blessed benefits and favours that come by Christ? or whether that person that experiences the following particulars, may not safely, groundedly, and comfortably conclude that his faith is a true, justifying, saving faith, the faith of God's elect, and such a faith as clearly evidences a gracious estate, and will certainly 3. Whether in the great day of the Lord, the day of general judgment, or in the particular judgment that will pass upon every soul immediately after death, which is the stating of the soul in an eternal estate or condition, either of happiness or misery; whether the sins of the saints, the follies and vanities of believers, the infirmities and enormities of sincere Christians, shall be brought into the judgment of discussion and discovery, or no? Whether the Lord will either in the great day of account, or in a man's particular day of account or judgment, NOTE. The 'Golden Key' forms Part I. of, spiritually, the richest and most nurturing of Brooks's larger treatises. Part II. follows in this volume. The title-page of the former will be found below.* It is interesting to compare Brooks's Golden Key' with the earlier work of Francis Dillingham, entitled 'A Golden Keye opening the Locke to eternall Happiness: containing seven most sweete and comfortable directions to a Christian life,' 1609, 12mo.-G. * GOLDEN KEY TO OPEN Hidden Treasures, OR Several great Points, that refer to the Saints present blessedness, and their Here you have also The Active and Passive Obedience of Christ vindicated and improved, against men of corrupt minds, &c. Who boldly, in Pulpit and Press, contend against those glorious Truths of the Gospel. You have farther Eleven serious singular Pleas, that all sincere Christians may safely and groundedly make, to those ten Scriptures in the Old and New Testament, that speak of the general Judgment, and of that particular Judgment, that must certainly pass upon them all immediately after death, The Godhead and Manhood of Christ, is here largely proved, and improved against all Gainsayers, by what names and titles soever they are distinguished and known among us. Several things concerning Hell, and hellish torments, opened, cleared and improved against all Atheists, and all others that boldly assert, that there is no Hell, but what is in us. Some other points of importance are here cleared and opened, which other Authors (so far as the Author hath read) have passed over them in great silence, all tending to the confirmation of the strong, and support, peace, comfort, settlement and satisfaction of poor, weak, doubting, trembling, staggering Christians. By Tho. Brooks late Preacher of the Gospel, at Margarets-New-Fish-street. LONDON, Printed for Dorman Newman, at the King's-Arms in the Poultrey; and at the Ship and Anchor, at the Bridg-foot, on Southwark side, 1675. [4to.-G.] |