"Volume 5 contains 'The Door of Salvation Opened by the Key of Regeneration' and 'The Sinner's Last Sentence'--sermons on Matthew 25:41-42 with two hundred pages of counsel on the seriousness of sin." -- Joel Beeke and Randall Pederson in Meet the Puritans: With a Guide to Modern Reprints.

The Works of George Swinnock Vol. V

Table of Contents
 
The Door of Salvation Opened by the Key of Regeneration

• The Epistle Dedicatory
• To the Reader
• Chapter I
  • The opening of the words, and the doctrine
• Chapter II
  • The description or nature of regeneration in the several causes of it
• Chapter III
  • The reason why regeneration is necessary in all that will obtain salvation
• Chapter IV
  • The first use of the doctrine, containing the gross delusion of all unregenerate persons
• Chapter V
  • Shewing the insufficiency of ten particulars to speak a Christian's right to heaven
• Chapter VI
  • A use by way of trial, wherein the character of regenerate persons is set down, with some quickening motives to examination
• Chapter VII
  • Containing more marks of a regenerate person
• Chapter VIII
  • Containing an exhortation to endeavor after regeneration
• Chapter IX
  • The first help to regeneration, serious consideration
• Chapter X
  • The first subject of consideration, the misery of the unregenerate in this world
• Chapter XI
  • The misery of the unregenerate in the other world
• Chapter XII
  • The second subject of consideration, The felicity of the regenerate in this world
• Chapter XIII
  • The felicity of the regenerate in the other world
• Chapter XIV
  • The third subject of consideration, the excellency of regeneration
• Chapter XV
  • The fourth subject of consideration, The necessity of regeneration
• Chapter XVI
  • The fifth subject of consideration, The equity of regeneration, or living to God
• Chapter XVII
  • The second help to regeneration: An observation or knowledge of those several steps whereby the Spirit of God reneweth other souls, and a pliable carriage and submission to its workings and motions
  • The third help to regeneration
• Chapter XVIII
  • An answer to three objections
• Chapter  XIX
  • An exhortation to the regenerate
• Chapter XX
  • A second exhortation to the regenerate, to do what they can for the conversion of others

The Sinner's Last Sentence

• The Epistle Dedicatory
• To the Reader
• Chapter I
  • The preface and introduction to the text
• Chapter II
  • The division and brief explication
• Chapter III
  • Concerning the privative part of the sinner's punishment
• Chapter IV
  • The properties of the sinner's loss
• Chapter V
  • The reasons of the sinner's privative punishment
• Chapter VI
  • Uses concerning the heinous nature of sin, and grevious misery of sinners
• Chapter VII
  • Containing the folly of sinners, and the vast difference between them and the godly at the great day
• Chapter VIII
  • A use of trial, with the marks of those that shall be banished
• Chapter IX
  • An exhortation to fly from this wrath to come, with some helps thereunto
• Chapter X
  • The positive part of the sinner's misery, expressed by fire, and why
• Chapter XI
  • The difference between our fires and hell fires
• Chapter XII
  • The fulness of wicked men's misery, in that it is positive and privative, with some cautions against it
• Chapter XIII
  • The eternity of the sinner's misery in the other world, with the grand reason of it
• Chapter XIV
  • How little cause to envy sinners, and how careful we should be to avoid their eternal misery
• Chapter XV
  • The reason of Christ's severe sentence, and a question resolved, whether the righteous, by their acts of charity, do not deserve heaven, as well as the wicked, by their omission thereof, deserve hell
• Chapter XVI
  • Why Christ will try men at the great day by acts of charity
• Chapter XVII
  • Three particulars about the text
• Chapter XVIII
  • That sins of omission are dangerous and damnable
• Chapter XIX
  • The nature of sins of omission in general
• Chapter XX
  • Three distinctions about sins of omission
• Chapter XXI
  • The agreement and difference between sins of omission and sins of commission
• Chapter XXII
  • The danger of sins of omission, in the heinous nature of them, and their offensiveness to God
• Chapter XXIII
  • The danger of sins of omission, in their destructiveness to man, and our proneness to overlook them
• Chapter XXIV
  • The reasons why sins of omission are damnable
• Chapter XXV
  • Further reasons why Christ at the great day will condemn men for sins of omission
• Chapter XXVI
  • Of the doctrine by way of information, How dreadful will be the condition of those that live in sins of commission
• Chapter XXVII
  • Negative godliness is not enough. -- Christ's impartiality in judgment
• Chapter XXVIII
  • Practical godliness necessary
• Chapter XXIX
  • The condition of men only civil is unsafe and sad
• Chapter XXX
  • Sinners' conviction at the day of judgment. The purity of Christ's religion above all others
• Chapter XXXI
  • The holiest have cause of humiliation
• Chapter XXXII
  • Use of trial, whether we be guilty of these omissions or no
• Chapter XXXIII
  • A caution against sins of omission in regard of the matter of duties
• Chapter XXXIV
  • Arguments against omissions. The positiveness of our rule, and of God's mercies
• Chapter XXXV
  • Arguments against omissions. Christ purchased positive as well as negative holiness, and our privileges oblige to both
• Chapter XXXVI
  • Arguments against omissions. We profess ourselves God's servants, and all our our religion will come to nothing without positive holiness
• Chapter XXXVII
  • Arguments against omissions. God deserves our positive obedience before all others, and true sanctification cannot be without it
• Chapter XXXVIII
  • If God should omit his care of us a moment we are undone. and if Christ had omitted the least in our work of redemption, we had been lost irrecoverably
• Chapter XXXIX
  • Arguments against sins of omission. The new nature in believers inclines them to positive as well as negative holiness, and the proit will answer the pains
• Chapter XL
  • Arguments against sins of omission. God delights chiefly in our doing good; and our opportunities for doing good will quickly be gone
• Chapter XLI
  • The grand cause of sins of omission, an unregenerate heart; with the cure of it, a renewed nature
• Chapter XLII
  • Another cause of sins of omission, ignorance; with the cure of it, labouring after knowledge
• Chapter XLIII
  • Another cause of sins of omission, idleness, with the cure of it
• Chapter XVIV
  • Another cause of omissions is vain excuses men have, that omissions are little sins; with the cure of it
• Chapter XLV
  • Another excuse for sins of omission, which is a cause of them, that they would be unsearsonable, and so are deferred to that time which never comes, with the answer to it
• Chapter XLVI
  • A third excuse for sins of omissions, it is but one sin; with the answer to it
• Chapter XLVII
  • A fifth cause of sins of omission, the example of others, with the cure of it
• General Index
• Index of texts
• OCR Index