The Christian's Daily Walk
by Henry Scudder
| Table of Contents |
| Chapter 1 |
Chapter 2 |
Chapter 3 |
Chapter 4 |
| Chapter 5 |
Chapter 6 |
Chapter 7 |
Chapter 8 |
| Chapter 9 |
Chapter 10 |
Chapter 11 |
Chapter 12 |
| Chapter 13 |
Chapter 14 |
Chapter 15 |
Chapter 16 |
- Dr. John Owen's Recommendation
- Mr. Richard Baxter's Recommendation
- Mr. John Davenport's Epistle to the Reader
of Walking with God in General
Chapter 2:
Of beginning the Day with God
Chapter 3:
Directions for walking with God, in the Progress of the day
Chapter 4:
Of Religious Fasting
Chapter 5:
Of the Lord's Day, or the Christian Sabbath
Chapter 6:
Directions how to End the Day with the Lord
Chapter 7:
Of Walking with God Alone
- Introduction
- Section 1- Walking with God Described
- Section 2- Reasons why Christians should walk with God
- Section 3- Walking with God, to be constant and universal
Chapter 2:
Of beginning the Day with God
- Section 1a- How to awake with God, by pious Meditation and Thanksgiving
- Section 1b- Suitable Reflections on Apparel, and Rules concerning it
- Section 2- By renewed Faith ad Repentance, Self-examination and Prayer
- Section 3- Further directions concerning Prayer
- Section 4- Signs of Worldly-mindedness in Devotion and Remedies against it
Chapter 3:
Directions for walking with God, in the Progress of the day
- Section 1- General Directions for walking with God in the Progress of the Day
- Section 2- Special Duties of Superiors and Inferiors
- Section 3- Of Bodlily Refreshment and Recreations
- (1) Rules concerning Eating and Drinking
- (2) Rules concerning Recreations
Chapter 4:
Of Religious Fasting
- Section 1- The Nature of it, and Reasons for, religious Fasts
- Section 2- Special Directions concerning them, Helps to Self-examination
- (1) From God's Holy Law
- (2) From the Gospel of Christ
- (3) Of Humiliation and Self-judging for Sin
- (4) Directions for Obtaining Pardon of Sin, and Power over it
- (5) The Benefits of Religious Fasting Etc.
Chapter 5:
Of the Lord's Day, or the Christian Sabbath
- (1) The Divine Institution of the Lord's Day
- (2) Directions for the Religious Observance of it
- (3a) The Nature and Design of Baptism and the Lord's Supper
- (3b) Directions relating Thereunto
- (4) Motives to keep holy the Lord's Day
Chapter 6:
Directions how to End the Day with the Lord
- (1) Directions how to End the Day with the Lord
- (2) Rules concerning Sleep
Chapter 7:
Of Walking with God Alone
- Section 1- Rules concerning Solitude
- Section 2- Of Reading the Word of God, and other good Books
- Section 3- Of Meditation
- (1) Directions Concerning it
- (2) The Necessity and Use of it
Table of Contents
Chapter 8:
Of Keeping Company
Chapter 9:
Rules for our Religious Conduct in Prosperity
Chapter 10:
Directions for Walking with God in Adversity
Chapter 11:
Chapter 12:
Of Lawful care, and Freedom from Anxious Care
Chapter 13:
Of the Peace of God
Chapter 14:
Of the Impediments of Peace
Chapter 15:
Concerning False Fears
Chapter 8:
Of Keeping Company
- Section 1- Rules concerning Company in General
- Section 2- Cautions and Directions as to Evil Company
- Section 3- Directions with respect to Good Company, or Christian Fellowship
Chapter 9:
Rules for our Religious Conduct in Prosperity
- (1) In shunning those Sins to which we are most prone in Prosperity
- (2) In attending to those Duties which Prosperity especially calls for
- Section 1- Professed Praise and Thanksgiving to God
- (1) and (2) How and for what, Praise and Thanksgiving is to be offered
- (3) The Evil of Unthankfulness
- (4) Motives to the Duty of Thankfulness
- (5) Impediments to Thankfulness
- (6) Help to Thankfulness
- (7) Signs to know when God gives Good Things in Love
- Section 2- Real Proofs or Gratitude, by using it to His Glory
Chapter 10:
Directions for Walking with God in Adversity
- (1) Rules concerning light Crosses
- (2) Directions how to bear all Afflictions well
- 1- Remedies against sinful Anger
- 2- The Cure of Worldly Grief
- (3) The Nature of Christian Patience
- (4) Motives to it
- (5) Means to gain Christian Patience
- (6) Of bearing Afflictions thankfully and fruitfully
Chapter 11:
Of Uprightness
- Section 1- The necessity of Uprightness in Religion
- Section 2- The Description of it
- Section 3- Rules to Judge our Uprightness by
- Section 4- Particular Marks of Uprightness and Hypocrisy
- Section 5- Dissuasives from Hypocrisy, and Motives to Uprightness
- Section 6- Means to Subdue Hypocrisy and promote Uprightness
Chapter 12:
Of Lawful care, and Freedom from Anxious Care
- Section 1- The Description of Lawful care
- Section 2- Signs of Immoderate Care
- Section 3- The Duty of Quiet Trust in God
- Section 4- Reasons Against Anxious Care, and for Cheerful Trust in God
- Section 5- Means to Attain Quieting Confidence in God
Chapter 13:
Of the Peace of God
- Section 1- The Nature and Excellency of it
- Section 2- Further Excellencies and Advantages of the Peace of God
Chapter 14:
Of the Impediments of Peace
- Section 1- False Hopes and False Fears described
- Section 2- The Causes of Presumption or False Peace
- Section 3- Several Grounds of False Peace Discovered and Removed
Chapter 15:
Concerning False Fears
- Section 1- Of Needful Holy Fear
- Section 2- The Springs and Cures of Causeless Fears
- (1) Of those which arise from Natural Distempers
- (2) Of those which arise from the Greatness of Sin
- Section 3- Of Fears concerning not being Elected
- Section 4- Of Fears concerning the Sin against the Holy Ghost
- Section 5- Of Fears arising from an accused Conscience
- Section 6- Of Fears from late Repentance
- Section 7- Fears of Misusing the Means of Grace
- Section 8- Of Fears arising from Doubts of God's Love
- (1) Because of Affliction
- (2) From want of Affliction
- (3) From Inward Horrors and Distress
- (4) From the Greatness of Afflictions
- (5) Because Prayers are not Answered
- (6) From the Want and Weakness of Faith
- Section 9- Reason why Christians think they have no Faith, considered
- (1) In what True Faith Consists
- (2) The Difference between Faith and Assurance
- (3) The Nature and Properties of Saving Faith
- (4) True Faith discerned by it Effects
- Section 10- Fears concerning the Truth of Grace
- (1) Because not deeply Humbled
- (2) From the Intrusion of Evil and Blasphemous thoughts
- (3) From the Prevalence of some Gross Sin
- (4) From Want of Affectionate Sorrow for Sin
- (5) From Defects in Spiritual Duties
- (6) From Deadness in Affection after Duties
- (7) From the greater Improvement of other in Piety and Holiness
- (8) From Remaining Hardness of Heart
- Section 11- Of Fears of Apostasy
- (1) Who may Apostasize
- (2) Who shall persevere
- (3) How far Christians may Decline in Grace
- (4) The Difference between the Falls of the Sincere and the Insincere
- (5) Why the Faithful shall not finally apostasies
- Section 12- Sundry Doubts removed; in particular, about falling from Grace
- (1) Fears of being Hypocrites
- (2) Because of the Decay of Grace and Comfort
- (3) Because of the Apostasy of Others
- (4) From not being able to Endure Persecution
- (5) From the Deceitfulness of the Heart
- (6) From sensible Weakness and Dispondencies
- (7) From not performing the Condition of the Promises
- (8) From the Want of such Grace as God has promised to His People
- (9) From the Power and number of Temptations
- Section 13- The Christian's Ground of Hope against all Fears