"His major work, 'The Christian Man's Calling,' contained in Volumes 1 and 2 and part of Volume 3 (more than a thousand pages), masterfully explores the calling of the true believer in 'spiritual disciplines, personal lifestyle, relations in the home, marriage and daily work, in times of prosperity and adversity, in a hostile world, and at the time of death.' The editors say this work 'is one of the fullest and best exhibitions of the gospel in its application to the ordinary affairs of life.'" -- Joel Beeke and Randall Pederson in Meet the Puritans: With a Guide to Modern Reprints.

Besides the final portion of "The Christian Man's Calling," "Volume 3 also contains 'Heaven and Hell Epitomized,' and the first part of 'The Fading of the Flesh,' a judicious treatise on preparing for death. -- Joel Beeke and Randall Pederson in Meet the Puritans: With a Guide to Modern Reprints.

The Works of George Swinnock Vol III     

Table of Contents

The Christian Man's Calling Part III (continued)

• Chapter VII
  • How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness in visiting the sick
  • A good wish about the visitation of the sick, wherein the former heads are applied
•  Chapter VIII
  • How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness on a dying bed
  • A good wish about the Christian's exercising himself to godliness on a dying bed; wherein the former heads are applied
•  Chapter IX
  • Means whereby Christians may exercise themselves to godliness. A good foundation. Living by faith. Setting God always before our eyes.
• Chapter X
  • Means whereby Christians may exercise themselves to godliness: A constant watchfulness, frequent meditation of death, daily performance of sacred duties
•  Chapter XI
  • Means whereby Christians may exercise themselves to godliness. Frequent meditation of the day of judgment. A daily examination of our hearts, avoiding the occasions and suppressing the beginnings of sin
• Chapter XII
  • Means whereby Christians may exercise themselves in godliness. A humble frame; suppressing sin in its first rise; the knowledge of God
• Chapter XIII
  • Means whereby Christians may exercise themselves to godliness. A contented spirit; avoiding those things that hinder godliness
• Chapter XIV
  • Motives inciting Christians to exercise themselves to godliness. The vanity of other exercises. The brevity of man's life. The patterns of others
• Chapter XV
  • The excellency of this calling, and the conclusion of the treatise
  • The Conclusion

Heaven and Hell Epitomised

• The Epistle Dedicatory
• To the Reader
• The Preface and Epistle to the Reader
  • Especially of the parish of Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire, and Borden in Ken: as also the occasion of this treatise
• Chapter I
  • The division of the chapter, and interpretation of the text
• Chapter II
  • The doctrine, that such as have Christ for their life, gain by death, with the explication of the phrase, 'To me to live is Christ'
• Chapter III
  • What privative gain the Christian hath by death
• Chapter IV
  • What positive gain a Christian hath by death
• Chapter V
  • The difference betwixt a sinner and a saint at death
• Chapter VI
  • The sinner's privative misery at death
• Chapter VII
  • The positive part of a sinner's misery at death
• Chapter VIII
  • A second use of trial, with motives to enforce it
  • The first motive
  • The second  motive
  • The third  motive
• Chapter IX
  • The marks of a true Christian from the text
  • The first mark
  • The second  mark
  • The third mark
  • The fourth mark
• Chapter X
  • Other marks of saints
  • The first mark
  • The second mark
  Chapter XI
  • The third use--viz., Exhortation to mind spiritual life
• Chapter XII
  • The life in Christ must be minded speedily, with the grounds of it
• Chapter XIII
  • This life in Christ must be minded diligently, with some motions to it
• Chapter XIV
  • The first direction for the attaining a spiritual life, illumination
• Chapter XV
  • The second help to a spiritual life, humiliation
• Chapter XVI
  • The third help to a spiritual life, Application of, or affiance on, Jesus Christ
• Chapter XVII
  • The fourth help, Dedication to God
• Chapter XVIII
  • Two other helps, the word and prayer
• Chapter XIX
  • Motives to mind this spiritual life: It is most honourable, most comfortable, most profitable life
• Chapter XX
  • Comfort to true Christians
• Chapter XXI
  • Comfort against the world's fury, and Satan's rage
• Chapter XXII
  • Comfort against our own corruptions, our own or other believers' dissolution
• Chapter XXIII
  • The excellency of heaven
• Chapter XXIV
  • The certainty that saints shall obtain heaven
• Chapter XXV
  • The eternity of the saints' happiness in heaven

     The Fading of the Flesh

• The Epistle Dedicatory
• Chapter I
  • The preface, division of the psalm, and coherence of the text
• Chapter II
  • The interpretation of the text, and the doctrine, that man's flesh will fail him
• Chapter III
  • The reasons of the doctrine, Man's corruptibility, God's fidelity, and man's apostasy from God
• Chapter IV
  • First use, Discovering the folly of them that mind the flesh chiefly
• Chapter V
  • Second use, An exhortation to sinners to prepare for death, with three quickening motives: Death will come certainly; it may come suddenly; when it comes, it will be too late to prepare
• Chapter VI
  • Three motives more: A dying hour will be a trying hour; the misery of the unprepared; the felicity of the prepared
• Chapter VII
  • What is requisite to preparation for death. A change of state and a change of nature, with a most gracious offer from the most high God to sinners
• Chapter VIII
  • The second exhortation to the serious Christian, shewing how a saint may come to die with courage
  • The first means
  • The second means
  • The third means
• OCR Index