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The Happiness of Enjoying and Making a True and Speedy Use of Christ

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Notes: First published 1640, expositing Colossians 2:9-10. Not reprinted between its original publication and this modern edition.
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1. Showing the Transcendency of Christ's Fullness above All Created Fullness
2. Declaring the Vanity of Joining Human Observations to Christ Jesus
3. Disclosing the Folly of Not Cleaving to and Contenting Ourselves with Christ
4. Setting Forth the Beauty of All Divine and Heavenly Fullness in Christ
5. Setting Forth the Folly of Neglecting Christ and Seeking Fullness Elsewhere
6. Discovering the Folly of Not Coming Fully Home to Christ
7. Showing How Christ Is to Be Valued and Esteemed above All
8. Persuading to Come to and Get Interest in Christ
9. Teaching How to Make Use of Christ
10. Persuading to Full and Constant Yielding to Christ
11. Declaring the Inseparable Union of Christ's Two Natures in One Person
12. Showing That Man's Choicest Excellency Consists in Union with God
13. Declaring the Perfection and Fullness of Christ Above the Fullness of All Creatures
14. Setting Forth the Superlative Excellency of Christ above All Creatures
15. Opening the Blessed and Happy Condition of Them That Are Partakers of Christ
16. Ascribing Perfection in Christ to Such Alone That Are Truly Blessed
17. Outlining Four Grounds of the Saints' Perfection
18. Evidencing the Fullness of the Saints by Four Characteristics or Marks, with Four Motives to Labor for Fullness
Appendix 1: The Dolefulness and Danger of Neglecting Christ and the Opportunity of Grace
Appendix 2: The Lord Jesus the Soul's Last Refuge
Appendix 3: Saint Paul's Legacy