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Sure in itself, is made sure to our faith by calling, ix. 277.
Supralapsarian and sublapsarian views of, ix. 344.
< Election-conversion, what ? Instanced in Paul, ix. 279.
Elihu, exposition of his statement in Job xxxiii., vi. 366.
Em.peror of Germany, probably the sun on which the fourth vial is poured,
iii. 104.
Empire, Koman, destroyed for its persecutions, iii. 27.
Western, hindered the revelation of the man of sin, iii. 73. ENCOURAGEMENTS TO FAITH, iv. 205. ENCOURAGEMENT, ZERUBBABEL S, TO FINISH THE TEMPLE, xii. 101. Ends give value to duties, iii. 471.
Enemies of Christ, three sorts of, iii. 93. Of Christ, conquered at his death, scattered at his resurrection, led
captive in his ascension, iv. 47.
England, her greatest sin contempt of the glorious gospel and the ministry,
iv. 228. Her interest lies in her saints, xii. 56.
Enlightenment, spiritual, i. 30 ; may be short of salvation, 393. By the Spirit may be without regeneration, vi. 433.
Enmity of Jew and Gentile, ii. 367 ; abolished, 373. To God is in the mind naturally, vi. 141. Man s natural, to God, x. 106 ; not direct, as that of the devil is, 107 ; consists in estrangement, 108 ; in internal contrariety, 111 ; mani
fests itself by evil works, 113 ; its greatness, 115 ; it is continued without interruption even from the beginning of a man s days, ib. ; no time, no means, no persuasions or threatenings, can ween it out,
ib. ; it is universal in regard to the manifestation of it, 116 ; shewn
by too entire affection to the world, 119; by not being subject to the law of God, 120 ; by daily and willingly harbouring and foster
ing thy God s enemy, 121 ; by enmity to the children and ways of God, ib.
Ephesians, Epistle to, its excellency, i. 1.
Their self-denial, i. 2.
Ephraim and Judah, separated by election, ix. 192.
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Epistles, apostolical, their drift is to shew the extent of Christ s sufferings,
iv. 19. Shew the use, end, and intent of all that is recorded in the Gospels, iv.
265. Errors respecting the nature and person of Christ, frequent and fatal in all
ages, iv. 448.
Esau, had external advantages far above Jacob, ix. 191.
Esther, her sympathy for her people in her advancement, iv. 122.
Eternity, ages of, ii. 804. An incommunicable attribute of God, vii. 7 ; belongs to Christ, ib. ; what is meant by God s inhabiting, 11 ; it excludes all things made, as not having been from eternity, ib. ; it imports that he hath dwelt alone, and shall dwell for ever apart, by and in himself, 12 ; that he possesseth all things in himself, ib. that his being is infinite,
; signifies his unchangeableness, 13. European kingdoms, to remain till the overthrow of popery, xii. 55.
ib.
Evangelists give the story of the life and death of Christ in cypher, which is
explained in the epistles, iv. 265. Tell the story of Christ, the epistles shew the meaning and intent, the
efficacy and benefits accruing, x. 4.
Eve, why made out of the substance of Adam, v. 57 ; not a daughter of man, as Adam not a son, ib. Not a public person, as Adam was, x. 16. Evephemus and Eucritus, story of, iv. 28. Exaltation of Christ, i. 466 ; its eminency and universality, 479. Of Christ from death to glory, the greatest act of power that God ever
put forth, iv. 269. Examples for matters of practice, in many cases better than rules, xi. 82 ; those recorded in Scripture are intended as rules, 88 ; extraordinary and ordinary must be distinguished, 35.
Excellencies of all objects, but shadows of the excellency of Christ, iii. 437.
Excommunication, in what sense a deliverance to Satan, iii. 258, 296, The greatest of all ordinances, xi. 13 ; none may administer without a
special commission and institution, ib.
Is more than simply an ejection out of the church, xi. 44 ; why it does not always produce its proper effect, 46.
Different from non-communion, xi. 279.
Eyes and horns of the Lamb, what they denote, iii. 9, 10.
Ezeldel, his measuring of the temple, iii. 130.
Face, seeking of God s, what the expression imports, v. 433.
FAITH, ENCOURAGEMENTS TO, iv. 205. AND OBEDIENCE, THEEE SEVEKAL AGES OF CHKIST1ANS IN, \
T il. 473. JUSTIFYING ; OBJECTS AND ACTS OF, viii. 1. OBJECT OF, viii. 3. ACTS OF, viii. 257. PROPERTIES OF, viii. 459.
Faith, seated in the understanding and the will, i. 226 ; how it differs from
assurance, 235 ; power of God in working, 440 ; is a work of resur
rection, 447 ; description of, 449.
Is merely passive, ii. 234 ; the whole of salvation conveyed by, 321 ; how it suits with grace, 322 ; is a modest grace, 327 ; act of, not
the matter of justification, 339 ; nothing in us contributes to, 342 ; Christ dwells in the heart by, 404 ; works patience, 438.
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178 INDEX.
Faith, the master-grace, as despair the master-piece of Satan, iii. 257.
Special, that a particular prayer will be granted, akin to the faith
of miracles of old, iii. 378 ; such faith, though wrought by God, may not be meant absolutely, 379. In the act may be weak, yet as its object is Christ, it justifies, iii. 399.
Degrees of, first casting itself on Christ, then finding sweetness in him,
then assurance, iii. 471. Distinction between Old and New Testament, iv. 12.
Object of, for justification is Christ as dying for us, iv. 16 ; sinners on earth, distinguished from visions in heaven, 17 ; uniting, sancti
fying, and justifying, have for their object Christ in several aspects,
ib. Towards Christ as dying is to look to the intent of his sufferings and
death, iv. 18. A coming unto God, by Christ, for salvation, iv. 88 ; does not there
fore include assurance, ib. ; in Christ s intercession may lead to faith
in God s election and in Christ s having died for us, ib.
Is the great thing inculcated in the New Testament, as the fear of the
Lord in the Old, iv. 288.
Supreme over conscience and reason, iv. 304. Not a phantasia, but a hypostasia, iv. 322, 336. Exercise of, in prayer, v. 413.
Special acts of, ascribed to the Holy Ghost, vi. 20. Of the operation of God, founded upon self-emptiness and poverty of
spirit, vi. 102. In a regenerate man, turns the law into gospel, as conscience, in an
unregenerate, turns gospel into law, vi. 261.
Difficulty of producing, vi. 446 ; is a new principle of life put into the
soul, 447 ; a killing of our old life, ib. ; compared with the work of
creation, 449. Adam s, in his unfallen state, was natural, vii. 56 ; ours supernatural, 58 ; in respect of the objects revealed to it, 59 ; in respect of the
heavenly light wherewith our minds are elevated to those supernatural
objects, 61 ; does not destroy the light of reason and conscience, 64. Hath the greatest certainty of knowledge about its objects, of any other
knowledge, vii. 138.
True, wherever it is, worketh and frameth the heart to friend-like dis
positions towards God, vii. 187 ; this true of the faith of dependence, as well as of assurance, 189 ; God, in saving us by, loses nothing of
that love and holiness which he expects from us, 190.
Its object the mercies of God s heart and nature, viii. 3 ; under the Old
Testament, held by the promise of the Messiah, and God s declara
tion of his attributes, 11. Three more eminent acts of, for forgiveness and all other spiritual bless
ings, viii. 115; a sight of the things promised or to be believed, a
discerning of goodness in them, a trusting in God, and a reliance on him for the performance of them, ib. In seeking justification, must have recourse to God, as justifying the
ungodly, viii. 133.
Its other object Jesus Christ, both in his person, his suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension, and likewise the benefits that are the
fruit of all these, viii. 140.
Its great object Christ s person, as the Son of God in one person with
the man Jesus, viii. 184 ; on his person as God-man, the foundation
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of all else we believe on him for, as he is our Saviour, 188 ; the free
grace of God, as declared and proposed in the covenant, the object of, 194 ; absolute declarations and unconditional promises the proper ob
ject of, 205.
Election-grace, and the immutability of God s counsel, indefinitely pro
posed in the promises, an object of, viii. 234. By which we are saved, is seated in the whole heart, viii. 258 ; its first
act is seeing, or knowledge, ib. ; it is a spiritual light, 259 ; called
light, to distinguish it from reason and other knowledge, ib. ; in order to
it the Spirit giveth us a new understanding, 260 ; and then enlightens this new understanding, ib. ; is so genuine a knowledge that, except in degree, it is the same knowledge that Christ s human nature hath of himself, 261 ; knowledge of things spiritual in the souls of men, not proportioned to the compass of their natural understanding, 263 ; does not destroy reason, but subordinates it to itself, 264 ; is
a certain knowledge, 265 ; a real knowledge, 267 ; the believer sees
the spiritual excellency that is in Christ, and the heart is taken with
it, 269 ; sees an allsufficiency of righteousness in him, 270 ; sees
the graciousness that is in him, 271 ; is not a bare assent to the truth
of the promises, 272 ; is special faith, on the promises of salvation and justification through Christ, and through the free grace of God in
him, 276 ; is faith in his blood, and his righteousness, 288; why God
has appropriated salvation to this special act of faith, 289 ; as an act
of the will is a valuing of Christ above all other things whatsoever, 303 ; the believer hath stamped upon his heart an instinct after
Christ and after mystical union with him, so as he cannot be quiet without him, 304 ; looks to him for help, and to him alone, 305 ; then comes to him, 306; and believes, rests and trusts to him
for salvation, 307 ; abides by him, and will not stir away from him, 313 ; applies and fashions his heart to the law of faith, 316 ; neces
sarily leads to willing service and obedience, 318 ; errors of common
protestants concerning, 329 ; resting in a general assent to the truths
of Christ s history, 330 ; taking an absence of doubt for application, 331 ; making faith only a good persuasion and opinion of our pre sent condition, ib. ; merely getting into our hearts such thoughts about Christ, as believers are understood to have, 332 ; mixing up
trust in our own righteousness with faith in Christ, ib. ; errors of men somewhat humbled for sin, 333; of men more thoroughly humbled, 334. May be without prevailing assurance, viii. 339 ; justification and bless
edness hath been pronounced to such a condition as hath wanted this
assurance, ib. ; in a state of desertion, a true believer may want assur
ance while he continues to believe, 340 ; doubting may as well con
sist with reality of faith as any other corruption, 342 ; the essential
acts of faith may be performed without assurance, 343 ; objections
answered, 349. In itself, of all graces the meanest and lowest, viii. 459 ; is, in a pri mary sense, the sole instrument in the covenant of grace, 461 ; it
doth all, in the matter of our salvation, from first to last, 462 ; is
the mother-grace, the parent of all others, 463; it honours God
most, and God honours it most, 467 ; it prepares the soul for Christ, 471 ; it spies out Christ, ib. ; all the communion we have with Christ
transacted by, 472 ; all the joy we have in Christ is by, 473 ; this
no disparagement to inherent holiness and obedience, 476.
180 INDEX.
Faith, difficulty of, viii. 480 ; great things to be done in heaven for us, when
faith is wrought, 482 ; inability and obstacles in the heart to be over
come, 483 ; all that is in man can in no way help him unto, 492 ;
all that is in man is against, ib. ; is an effect of the infinite power of God alone, 503 ; yet we must endeavour after, 520 ; cautions respect
ing, 529 ; discouragements considered, 556 ; directions to guide us, 580 ; objections answered, 585. Not failing is Satan s foiling, ix. 232.
Faithfulness of God implies that he is constant to himself and his own pur
poses of grace, ix. 306 ; to his promises, ib. ; to the trust which he
hath undertaken, ib.
Fall, divisions caused by, i. 186 ; reconciled in Christ, 188. Of man, how it happened, x. 7. Did not destroy the substance of the soul, nor its faculties, but that
holiness which was its ornament, vii. 33.
Falling away, none from true grace, i. 260, 413 ; they who fall away are
unregenerate, 416.
Familiarity, Christ does not permit his disciples to use with him in their
earthly state, viii. 387.
Father, of glory,|i. 327.
Everlasting, in what sense the title is applied to Christ, iv. 516. Sometimes set for the Godhead, including the Son and the Spirit, iv. 546. Why reconciliation is represented as specially to him, v. 7 ; also as
specially wrought by him, 9. And Son, their love compared in that the Father gave the Son, and the
Son gave himself for us, v. 179. Alone could bruise the Son, so as to satisfy for sin, vii. 194. What we ought to know of him, vii. 492; his person, as the Father
of glory, the fountain of Deity, the begetter of the Son, and from whom the Holy Ghost proceedeth, ib. ; the riches of his mercy and
love, ib. ; the whole of his work and hand in our salvation, ib. ; his
bestowing on us all spiritual blessings, ib. How he draws the soul to Christ, viii. 153 ; great reason why it
should be his work, 155 ; it was he that chose our persons for his
Son, ib. ; our believing is a marriage between Christ and us, and it
is proper for a father to bestow his son in marriage, 156 ; teaches us to know Christ, 159. What he teacheth, viii. 159 ; that the Father hath given us eternal life,
ib. ; that this life is in his Son, 160 ; that we may seek it out of self-
love, ib. ; that we are to take him not only as a Saviour, but as the Son of God, 161 ; how he teaches these things, 162 ; by bringing the knowledge we have of Christ home to our souls, ib. ; taking our
hearts with what he saith to us, ib. ; giving knowledge as the truth
is in Jesus, ib. ; persuading us that all we know of him is for his
glory, 163. Fear of God, includes all piety, iv. 288.
Feeling, want of, an exercise of faith, iii. 466.
Fellowship of angels and men, i. 162 ; with God, called life, ii. 205. And communion with the persons of God the Father and Christ, the
height and prime of Christian religion, vii. 480. Threefold : personal, with God in secret duties ; mystical, common to
all saints ; and congregational, xi. 300.
Fiery furnace; probable that it was Christ who appeared with the three
young men in, iv. 424.
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Fighting, for religion merely, unlawful, v. 218.
Fire, which men kindle, and the sparks of it ; their own natural righteous ness, and outward comforts, iii. 345. Whether there be material, in hell, x. 501. First-born of every creature, in what sense Christ is, iv. 468 ; not spoken of his eternal generation, 469. Of every creature, in what sense Christ, as God-man, is, iv. 558.
First-fruits, consecration of, has its antitype in Christ s resurrection, iv. 34.
From the dead, in what sense Christ is, iv. 539. Of the creation, in what sense saints are, ix. 163 ; designed to be by election, made to be by regeneration, 165. Fitness of the person of Christ for the work of reconciliation, distinguished from his ability, v. 35.
Flesh, described, ii. 78 ; why called so, 80 ; all creatures and creature com
forts without Christ, are, 82 ; gospel works directed to bad ends, are, ib. ; why called, our, 86. As opposed to the spirit which is born of the Spirit, is the natural sinfulness and defilement of man s nature, vi. 159, 195. Is the predominance of self-love, ix. 9 ; may be affected with many things, both in the law and gospel, but cannot do anything really good, 10. Notes out inherent corruption, which is derived from generation, x. 42 ; Is the principle whence all a natural man s actions proceed, 43; there
is a bundle or mass of it, therefore called a body, that hath multi tude of members, 44 ; is the very nature of men, ib. ; the experience of all mankind shews it, 45 ; confirmed by testimonies, 46 ; of the
Gentiles, ib. ; the institution of magistrates and laws, which pre suppose it, ib. ; the law of God, ib. ; the gospel, 47.
Folly of wicked men, consists in an inability to consider of things, x. 200 ; to consider their own ways and states, ib. ; to consider the issues and
consequences of things, ib. ; to consider fit times, and seasons, and
opportunities, 201 ; to make use of a rule in any particular case, ib. ; to lay things to heart, 202 ; in their false judgments, 203 ; they judge those things best which may be presently enjoyed, ib. ; prefer
things easy before those that are hard and difficult, 204 ; judge of
things by their outward adorning, 205 ; by the quantity, not the qua
lity and worth, 206. In the ill choice which they make of things, x. 206 ; in doing unneces
sary things first, and putting off necessary things to the last, ib. ; in
committing their happiness to uncertainties, 207 ; in not providing for all conditions and all times they are to run through, ib. ; in not
having wit to choose a small present inconvenience, to avoid a
greater in time to come, 208 ; in exchanging precious things for
trifles, ib. ; is apparent in the event and issue of all their actions, 209 ; in so acting that they must lose their labour, ib. ; in resting their happiness in what must in the end prove their misery, 210 ; in
being led with vain promises, 211 ; effects of, in the hearts of un-
regenerate men, ib. ; they are ashamed of nothing, ib. ; self-willed, 212 ; inconstant, ib. ; unteachable, ib. ; confident in their own ways, 213 ; still follow their own minds as their guides, 213.
Fools, all men in a state of nature are, x. 195.
Forbearance, duty of, i. 277.
Foreknowledge, God s, of his people, not the ground of their election, ix. 17.
Foretastes of heaven, sanctifying power of, i. 325.
182 INDEX.
Forgiveness of sins belongs to God only, and to the God-man as he is God,
iv. 547. Of sins, whether it is all at once on conversion, or repeated as sins are
committed, vi. 407.
Formalists, among the worst of those who sin against knowledge, iv. 177.
Their strongholds, x. 391 ; negative righteousness and outward absti nence from gross sins, ib. ; their good natures and dispositions, 392 ; their conscientiousness, ib. ; assent to the truth, ib. ; excuses for their
deficiencies, ib. ; their good dispositions, ib.
Forsaking of Christ by his i?ather, what it was, v. 279 ; not a dissolution of
the hypostatical union, ib. ; nor a deprivation of support and the in
fluences of grace, ib. ; but a deprivation of all comfort and sense of
happiness, ib.
Fountains, spiritual, Komish writers and advocates, iii. 102 ; temporal and political, Jesuits, ib.
France, the first of the ten kingdoms, iii. 74. Free grace and justice, the attributes of God most eminently concerned in our salvation, iv. 61 ; in Christ s death he paid a price to justice, in
his intercession he entreateth free grace, 62.
Free-will, sufficient to lead to evil, but not to good, vi. 207. Pride and presumptuousness of, ix. 186. In sinful men, incompatible with freedom in God, ix. 14. Friends and flatterers, difference between, vi. 132. Of God, in the world few, enemies many, x. 166.
Friendship with God, expresses not only privilege but duty, vii. 179. Between God and his saints, mutual, vii. 191 ; hence the consideration of what a friend he is, will shew them what they ought to be, ib. ; Excellencies of God s shewn in fourteen particulars, 192. Of God should lead us to ask his counsel on all occasions, vii. 203 ; and to follow it, 206 ; to make use of his favour and friend
ship in all businesses, and defend them alone, 207 ; to take seeming denials of particular requests kindly, 209 ; to trust him, especially in great exigencies, and take heed of being jealous of him, ib. ; to
study his favours, so as to find out his loving-kindness in them, 212 ; to be fearful of displeasing or offending him, 213 ; to study what will most please him, 215 ; to perform common actions so as to render these acceptable to him, 216 ; to manage with all simplicity and
plain-heartedness towards him in all our walkings, 220 ; to be faithful to him in whatever he hath committed to our trust, 221 ; to deny him nothing, and yet take his denials kindly, 222 ; to stick close to him in time of trial, ib. ; to suffer for him gladly, if there be occa
sion, ib.
Fruit, bearing, in Christ, the characteristic of all believers, iii. 446 ; their hearts are sensible of their inability for anything good, as of them
selves, ib. ; they are trained to a continual dependence upon a power from above, ib. ; they close with the Scriptural statements as to the
necessity of Divine aid, 447 ; they refuse all offers of assistance from any other strength, ib. ; they gratefully acknowledge that it is Christ who worketh all their works in them, ib. Fulness of times, i. 201 ; dispensation of, 204 ; of Christ, 561. Of God, to be filled with, is an experience above what we are able to ask or to think, yet it is attainable even in this life, by the power which worketh in us, iv. 386.
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Fulness which dwells in Christ, in what it consists, iv. 460 ; dwells in him as God-man, by an act of God s will, 461. Of Christ, not, plenitude vasis, sedfontis, iv. 559.
Galatians, had not lost the image of Christ in respect of sanctification in
their hearts, but they had been diverted from the true knowledge of
Christ, iv. 335.
Galileans, their custom of wearing swords, accounts for Peter s having one,
v. 216.
Gathering of all things in Christ, i. 150, 193. Of the unfruitful branches, what ? iii. 456.
Generation, definition of, by Aquinas, iv. 428.
Eternal, of the second person, expressed in divers terms, v. 547.
Natural, Adam s sin transmitted by, x. 53. Gentile believers have a modified interest in the Abrahamic covenant, that God will be the God of their seed, ixr 429.
Gentiles, men living in sin reckoned as, ii. 74. Conversion of, the greatest miracle wrought under the New Testament,
the most glorious fruit of Christ s death, and among the strongest evidences of the truth of the Christian religion, v. 465. Conversion of, termed the building up of the tabernacle of David,
viii. 70.
Gethsemane, had been the place of Christ s repose and comfort, and com munion with his Father, and there he must encounter his Father s
wrath, v. 199.
Gift of his people to Christ by the Father, refers not to their calling, but to
their election, or to an act concurrent with their election, iv. 502.
Gifts in prayer, do not move God, but graces, iii. 400. And sacrifices, correspond to the procurement of grace and mercy,
iv. 128.
Extraordinary, many had who were not saved, iv. 326. And graces are a manifestation of the Spirit, vi. 65.
Spiritual, given to the rebellious, ix. 160. And graces, as much difference between, as between a glow-worm and
a star, ix. 178.
Natural, are not proportioned to graces, x. 141.
Eational, importance of, in the church, to encounter with the carnal
reasonings of wicked men, x. 250.
Gladiators, those brought last on the stage fought till one killed the other,
v. 533. GLIMPSE OF ZION S GLOKY, xii. 61.
Glorifying God is done by having holy ends in our common actions, iv. 383 :
in such good works as directly in themselves do tend to his glory, 16. ;
in performing duties of worship, and being conversant in ordinances, 384 ; is more than to praise God for benefits received by ourselves,
ib. ; is more than to glorify God for his love to us, for the assurance
and hope that he will glorify us, 385. GLOKY OF THE GOSPEL, SERMON I., iv. 225 ; SERMON II., 241 ; DISCOURSE
OF, 259. BLESSED STATE OF SAINTS IN, vii. 337. AN IMMEDIATE STATE OF, DEMONSTRATED, xii. 1. A GLIMPSE OF ZION S, xii. 61.
Glory of Christ, God s chief end in redemption, i. 100 ; of God, essential and
184 INDEX.
manifestative, 105 ; of God, cannot be added to, 106 ; definition of, 315 ; of the resurrection body, 316 ; of God in bis saints, 321.
Glory of bis people presented to Christ from eternity in the glass of God s
decrees, iv. 124. The riches of, in the Godhead, communicated to the man Christ Jesus,
as fully as possible unto a creature, i. 232.
Departure of, from a people, five signs of it, iv. 255. The super-excellency and superlative of goodness, iv. 315. Of a man is his soul, by which he differeth from beasts, of a holy man
is the Holy Ghost, by whose indwelling he differs from other men,
iv. 327. The highest, of God as a king, lies in Bis own internal and personal attributes, iv. 396 ; justice and judgment the supports of his throne, mercy and truth his attendants, his almightiness his army, his faith fulness his council, 397. Of Christ with God before the world was whether as second person or as God-man ? iv. 484 ; was the glory which, as God-man, was
assigned him in the eternal decree of God ? 485 ; this sense given by Augustine, 486 ; is the grand lever of all creature-glory, ib. Of Christ as God-man a supreme paramount end, iv. 505. Of believers, the same in kind with that of Christ, though inferior in
degree, iv. 486. Of Christ twofold of his person simply as God-man, and of his office as Mediator, iv. 493 ; both these referred to in his prayer in John
xvii., 495 ; difference between the personal and the mediatory glory, 496 ; the former infinitely exceeds the latter, 498 ; the personal, as God-man, is the foundation both of his own mediatorial glory and of the glory of his people, 501. For which Christ prays, not the essential glory belonging to him as the
second person, iv. 508 ; nor is it his mediatory glory, for that he has not given to his disciples, ib. ; eminently meant of the glory of his
being God-man, ib. ; and our share in it is our sonship, 511. God s manifestative, is revealed in and by creatures, v. 93.
Manifestative, due to the Son of God if he assume a creature into one person with himself, v. 106 ; this glory be relinquished, 108. Of God twofold, essential and manifestative, the former reflected on, the latter detracted from, by sin, v. 123. Due to Christ on his first assuming our nature, suspended during the time of his sojourn on earth, v. 126. Of Christ s person is specially his holiness, v. 434. Not given propter opera, but secundum opera, vi. 410. Of God the utmost end of the new creature, vi. 497 ; all things which are in him glorious, ib ; all his manifestations and works glorious, 498 ; that it should be the utmost end, due from his reasonable
creatures, ib. ; especially required of his saints, ib. ; all the persons of the Godhead give to one another, 499 ; is all that God requires of us in return for all that we receive from him, ib. ; if not given, God will curse all blessings to us, 500 ; if not glorified by us, will be in
us, ib. ; how we glorify God, 501 ; by endeavouring to know him, and conceive aright of him, ib. ; by admiring him in all we know of him, ib. ; by speaking much of him to others, 502 ; by ascribing all to him, ib. ; by suffering for him, ib. ; by imitating him, 503 ; by glorifying him, ib. ; by living according to his will, ib. ; by doing all
things for his glory, ib. ; by doing all we do in Christ, ib. ; by re-
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penting and turning to him when he afflicts us, ib. ; by calling on him in trouble, 504 ; by believing on him, ib. ; by fearing him above all, ib. ; by joining ourselves to the assemblies of his saints, 505. And praise of God, distinction between, vii. 172. Different states of, after death and after the resurrection, vii. 440 ; the same expression used of both, 444 ; yet are to be understood with a vast difference and disproportion, ib. ; like expressions used of special manifestations of God and Christ to the soul on earth, 446 ; par ticulars of that of the intermediate state, 449 ; when the soul goes forth out of the body, the second death hath no power over it, 451 ;
it has angels to wait on it, 452 ; it is in heaven instantly, ib. ; so far as it hath been rich in faith and good works, it has a rich en trance into the holy courts, ib. ; either in the instant of death, or in the passage to heaven, it is fully purified from sin, and made per
fectly holy, 453 ; there is a great solemnity used on its first coming thither, 454. To which believers are advanced through Christ, higher than was
attainable by the law of creation, ix. 97.
Arising to Christ from all the creatures, not comparable to that arising
from believers, ix. 100. Of God from his people commensurate with the grace he bestows on
them, ix. 102. Of the redeemed in heaven riseth immediately from the glory of God communicated to them, ix. 215. Believers are called into, not in respect of possession, but of right, ix. 320 ; into the eternity of it, 326. Into which we are called is God s, ix. 331 ; the same as is called the
excellent glory, 333 ; distinct from that of Christ, ib. ; consists in an immediate communication, participation, and enjoyment of God
himself, 334. To which Christians are called is the glory of Christ, ix. 363 ; and
that both as he is Christ our head, ib. ; and as he is Jesus our
Saviour, 365 ; in the one case it is an inheritance, in the other a
purchased possession, ib. ; as he hath called us into it, so he hath
taken possession of it for us, 366. His own increased by ours, ix. 366. Ordained and prepared for the souls of believers before the resurrection,
xii. 5 ; in harmony with the work of grace in this life, 6 ; its essen
tial is God s immediate presence, 10 ; the design and bestowal of at
death, becoming God, 17. God both the fountain and the Father of, xii. 90. GOD THE FATHER AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST, KNOWLEDGE OF, iv. 347. God must seek his own glory, i. 105 ; his delight in his people, 110 ; in
shewing grace, 107. His joy in his people, ix. 103 ; loves us when sinners, delights in us when holy, 104. His appearances not intended to shew what he is in himself, but what
to us, iv. 118. Godhead, but one ; but the persons in the one Godhead more than one, iv.
350. In Christ, not the soul in his body, viii. 182.
Godliness is being as faithful to God and devoted to his interests as the
natural man is to himself and his, vi. 439.
Often attacked even from the pulpit, vii. 547.
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God-man, the glory of being was existent to the second person from eternity,
iv. 491. Goodness is essentially communicative, ix. 128.
Natural and moral in man, consistent with the corruption of his nature,
x. 94. GOODWIN, MR JOHN, Two LETTERS BETWEEN, AND THE AUTHOR, xi. 526.
GOSPEL, THE GLORY OF, SERMON I., iv. 225 ; SERMON II., 241 ; DISCOURSE
OF, 259. HOLINESS IN THE HEART AND LIFE, vii. 129.
Gospel, rejection of, always followed by plagues, iii. 38.
First preached by God to Adam, iv. 221 ; has been preached by all
creatures reasonable, and to all creatures reasonable, 222 ; confirmed
by writing, seals, oaths, and by all God s actions and courses from
the beginning of the world, ib.
Excellency of the knowledge of, set forth by its author and revealers,
iv. 227 ; by the worth of the subject matter revealed, 228 ; by its
depth, ib. ; its preciousness, ib. ; its profitableness, ib. ; its secrecy before it was revealed, ib. ; its rareness now it is revealed, ib. ; its
clear revealing was the desire and longing of patriarchs and pro
phets, ib. ; is the study of the angels, 229 ; is the study of God him
self, ib.
Knowledge of it lay hid in God s breast from eternity till the time came for revealing it, iv. 230.
Is the image of Christ, as Christ is of God, iv. 233 ; contains not only depths of wisdom, but also of love, 236.
Is published to all the world, and yet is a mystery hid, and revealed
only to the saints, iv. 238.
Its preciousness, shewn by five qualities, iv. 242.
Is glorious, because by it men are made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
iv. 245 ; because it is the ministration of righteousness, ib. ; because
through it we are brought to see the sunshine of the favour of God, 246 ; because it changes us into the same image from glory to glory, ib. ; it gives a glorious joy, and the assurance of greater joy here
after, ib.
Is truly the glory of any people, and the want of it leaves them in the most miserable and inglorious condition, iv. 252.
Civilises those whom it does not convert, iv. 253.
Its superiority to all previous revelations of God s attributes and will,
iv. 261 ; made on purpose to honour and set forth Christ, 264. Made up of reconciliations of contradictions, iv. 274.
Is not only a mystery and a depth in respect of wisdom, but also of
love, iv. 278. Lay from eternity under lock and key in the breast of God, iv. 281. Hid from many generations of Gentiles, iv. 282 ; and in one sense from
the Jews also, ib. ; from the angels and from Adam in innocency, 283. Not new, but from everlasting, iv. 290. First revealed by God to his Son, then to the holy apostles and pro
phets, and then to all his saints, iv. 293 ; preached to every creature,
yet hidden from all but the saints, 294 ; in what sense known by carnal men, 295, et seq. Its excellency consists in the riches of spiritual knowledge manifested
in it, iv. 303. The riches of a kingdom or city, iv. 313.
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Gospel, a most glorious revelation of God and Christ to us, iv. 815. More glorious than the law in respect of the manner of its promulgation,
iv. 316; in respect of its matter, 317; is not only a picture of Christ, but his image in a glass, 319 ; the riches of the glory of God shine in it, 324; in respect of its being intended for all nations, 331. Hath a spirit accompanying it, which renders it not mere letter but
spirit, iv. 320. Invented by God in order to communicate his own blessedness and
glory, iv. 325. The most powerful means to subdue the hearts of men, v. 5. The least line of, worth all the law, v. 102. The whole story of it hath three parts, relating to the Father designing,
the son effecting, and the Spirit applying, v. 483.
Requires universal respect to all the commandments of God, vii. 179. Its great design to promote the life, power, and practice of godliness, vii. 291 ; the end of the word to enjoin entire holiness, 292 ; to do, and be active in God s word and law, the end and perfection of the reasonable creature, 294 ; that we should be doers of the word, the end of inherent grace in the soul, 295 ; holy activity the soul and
perfection of grace, ib. A freehold for us and ours, x. 34 ; price at which it has been pur chased, ib. GOVERNMENT AND DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST, xi. 485.
Government, according to Presbyterians, is in the hands of a body of elders,
according to the Congregationalists is mixed of an aristocracy of
elders and a democracy of the people, xi. 113. GRACE, MAN S RESTORATION BY, vii. 519.
Grace, doctrine of, importance of being grounded in, i. 4 ; of God, what
riches of, 125; consistent with a satisfaction to justice, ib,; effectual, 219; no falling from, 260, 413; habits of, 366; three passages of
Scripture used to prove falling from grace, 413; what meant by
grace, ii. 220 ; immutable, 226 ; sovereign, 227 ; laid up for us in
Christ, 228.
Saving, improvement of natural principles by the Holy Ghost falls
short of, i. 410 ; inferior works of the Spirit distinguished from, 385 ; excellencies of, ii. 288 ; freeness of, 290. Exercise of, different from knowledge of, iii. 241. Too precious for God to suffer even the smallest portion of it to be de
stroyed, iii. 452. Why called life, iii. 459. Growth in, runs through all the faculties, iii. 505. Christ s lying in, a part of his humiliation, and therefore of his satis
faction, iv. 36.
Standing in, every moment, owing to Christ s sitting in heaven, and
interceding every moment, iv. 64.
Helps against the power of sin, mercy against its punishment, iv. 112. Throne of, the highest thing in heaven, as the mercyseat was in the
holy of holies, iv. 13 J. Doctrines of, are the most inward, practical, and experimental secrets,
iv. 238.
Every degree of, is glory ( From glory to glory ), iv. 330. A company of nothings, and a company of alls, iv. 339.
Is an imitation of God s communicable attributes, as goodness, wisdom,
holiness, &c., and an application of his incommunicable, as sove-
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reignty, eternity, dominion, majesty, glory, iv. 380 ; its tendency to have one common interest between God and our souls, 381 ; per fection of, is to love God for himself, 383. Received cannot justify the sinner, v. 80 ; in a creature, what it can do, what it cannot, 82. In the saints is a copy of the law, v. 85. In a creature cannot make satisfaction for the sin of a creature, v. 98.
Its excellency is that it is a participation of the divine nature, v. 118. And misery correspond to corruption and guilt in sin, v. 382.
Its freeness, vi. 94 ; its exceeding richness, ib. ; its sanctifying power, 95. Hath the greatest dowry that any creature, whether on earth or heaven,
can have, vi. 184 ; wherein its excellency lies, ib.
State of, cautious in judging of, vi. 821.
Pelagian, semi-Pelagian, Jesuitical, and Arminian errors concerning, arise from men s mistakes as to the workings of grace in their own
souls, vi. 332. Of the new covenant put into the hearts of believers, that they may answerably glorify the grace of God towards them in that covenant,
vi. 345. The works of, upon the soul in this life, a strong argument that God hath provided glory for separate souls hereafter, vii. 414.
Free, we must lay hold on, according as it is set forth in the covenant
of grace, viii. 194 ; renouncing all self, 195 ; in the free sovereignty of it, 196 ; in the fulness and the extent of its freeness, ib. ; as that which is absolute, unchangeable, irrevocable, 197. Covenant of, is the transcript of election-decrees, ix. 11. Covenant of, is election purposes and designs put into promises, ix. 41. Not to be limited to the favour bestowed on sinners, ix. 95.
Is the top perfection of God s name, ix. 128. Freedom of, ix. 129. Set out, not only by the greatness of the gift, but by the freeness and absoluteness of giving it, ix. 162. Of God threefold ; his purposing grace ; his dispensatory grace ; and the grace that is in his nature, ix. 235.
Pardoning more conspicuous in some, sanctifying in others, ix. 249 ; God of all, what the name implies, 252.
All that is in God engaged to succour us against temptation, ix. 258 ; secured to all the elect, 259 ; abundance of, 262.
Discriminating of the elect more conspicuously seen by a comparison of
them with temporaries than with those who were never called, ix. 270. All principles of, impressed on the heart at first calling, ix. 278.
Sufficient, controversy about, ix. 279. And sin are adequately and commensurately opposite, ix. 315. All God s purposes and dispensations of, are by Jesus Christ, ix. 338. Does not only have relation to sinners, as mercy has, ix. 344 ; hence
election of grace does not necessarily presuppose the fall, 346. Covenant of, engrafted upon the natural family covenant, ix. 433.
Twofold, corresponding to guilt and corruption, x. 47. Loss of, not only a punishment for sin, but itself a sin, x. 58.
Illustrated and glorified by all God s dealings with all men, x. 187. Distance between states of nature and, x. 254. Or holiness, a preparation unto glory, xii. 6 ; its subject, the soul, "7. And glory, made to suit and match each other, xii. 26. Not weighed in the scales, but tried with a touchstone, iii. 321.
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Graces, not gifts, in prayer, move God, iii. 400. In the heart, are evidences of Christ in us, but are not the objects of
faith, iv. 3. Are the members of the new man, iv. 585. And duties, cannot satisfy our consciences, much less God s justice, iv. 13.
All are in all saints, though not all in each, ix. 253.
Are all of a knot ; break one, and all fall asunder, ix. 315. GREAT INTEREST OF STATES AND KINGDOMS, xii. 31.
Growth of Christians, depends upon their union, as members, to Christ their
head, iii. 458 ; makes up the fulness of Christ mystical, 459. Of Christians depends upon the appointment and promise of God, iii. 459. In grace, to be apprehended by faith rather than sense, iii. 462 ; not
so discernible as conversion, ib. ; rate of, not uniform, 463 ; not to
be measured by growth in gifts or abilities, 464 ; nor success towards
others in the "exercise of gifts, 465 ; nor by opportunities of doing
good, 466 ; nor by spiritual joy, ib.
In grace, not to be measured by joy and spiritual nourishment, iii. 466 ; nor by increase in outward professing, ib. ; nor by some one
kind or sort of duties, 467 ; by the adding of one grace to another, 470 ; by additions of new degrees of the same grace, 471 ; by in
creased spirituality in duties, ib. ; by growing more and more rooted
in Christ, 472 ; by bringing forth fruits more in season, ib. ; by
growing more constant in performances, and more even in a godly
course, ib. ; by doing duties still, though difficulties be greater, and means less, 473 ; by growing more wise and faithful, to lay out abi
lities and opportunities to the best advantage, ib.
GUILTINESS, BEFOKE GOD, AN UNREGENERATE MAN S, IN RESPECT OF SIN AND
PUNISHMENT, x. 1.
Hagyai, his prophecy of the shaking of all things, compared with Paul s ex
position of it, v. 450 ; comprehends the shaking and removal of all
things, through the whole dispensation of the gospel, that are hostile
to the kingdom of Christ, 451 ; any interpretation that confines it to
anything short of this, involves either defect or absurdity, 456;
includes the conversion of the Roman world from heathenism, the
Reformation from popery, and revolutions of states and kingdoms, 458 ; the last days of the gospel the special time for perfecting these
changes, 459.
< Hallowed be thy name, a petition of a higher key than Thy kingdom come,
iv. 376. Hand, right, of God, i. 470. . Hardness of heart in sinning is an effect of having sinned much against kno
ledge before, iv. 181.
Harvest (Rev. xiii. 14-17), what, iii. 88.
Hatred may be understood of a lesser love in comparison with a far greater,
ix. 156. Head, Christ the head of his church, i. 545.
Headship of Christ, comprehends all his offices, i. 549.
HEART OF CHRIST IN HEAVEN TO SINNERS ON EARTH, iv. 95.
HEART AND LIFE, GOSPEL HOLINESS IN, vii. 129.
i. 417. Of the believer, through its weakness as a creature, misunderstanding
Heart, trials of its spirituality,
the testimony of the Spirit, produces distress and dulness, in. 24 J ;
more especially as a sinful creature, ib.
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God puts prayer into his people s, iii. 375 ; he does this when he will have any great matter done, as the return from Babylon, 376 ; he
quiets, and calms, and contents the heart in prayer, ib.
Sanctified, converts and digests all into spiritual, useful thoughts,
iii. 513.
Natural, cannot produce anything that is good, ix. 8. Renewal of, is the fruit of election grace, ix. 11. Humble and contrite, are a greater throne for God than the local
heavens, ix. 123. Of man not to be trusted more than the veriest thief or adulterer in the
world, x. 33.
Searching of, what it is, x. 170 ; error in, arises either from men s
viewing their hearts undivided in the gross, and not dividing between
soul and spirit ; or else from viewing them only apart, and not in
their concurrence with each other, 173.
Heathen, their expectation of a Saviour grounded on a tradition of the first
promise, v. 173. Their boasts regarding right reason, vi. 245.
Deficiency of their virtue, vi. 279 ; left out God even in their highest attainments, 301.
Acknowledged that men are evil, and were unable to account for it,
x. 6.
Heaven, why called an inheritance, i. 311.
All besprinkled with Christ s blood, iv. 77. How Christ prepares a place in, for his people, iv. 99 ; writes their names upon the doors of the mansions with his own blood, ib. In what sense purified with blood, v. 415.
Consists in the beholding of Christ, v. 548. Unsuited to carnal hearts, vi. 183.
Its glories, and the happiness of glorified saints there, vii. 456.
Is the kindness of God, heaped upon kindness, and continued, in the
fulness of it, to all eternity, ix. 212. Not simply joy and happiness, but glory won by conquest, ix. 401.
Heavenly places, i. 56.
Hebrews, Epistle to, the top notion of it (xtpaXaiov) is the eternal priesthood of Christ in heaven, iv. 60. In Epistle to, the apostle asserts nothing but what he proves out of the Old Testament, iv. 443.
Epistle to, its author uncertain, v. 525 ; speaks of Christ s priesthood more than any other book of Scripture, ib. ; written to Christian
Jews, ib. Heirs of God, Christians are, not only in the sense that they are heirs of God s property, but in the sense that God himself is their inherit
ance, iv. 311.
Hell, called the place of the giants, ii. 73. Above measure fearful, as sin is above measure sinful, iv. 160.
Christ did not literally descend into, but endured the wrath of God, which is its substance, v. 284.
Souls in, remember what they were in this world, what sins they com
mitted, what pleasures they enjoyed, vi. 461. Reman, his case, i. 445. One of the wisest of men, next to Solomon, acquired wisdom by his doubts and temptations, iii. 289.
Heresies, not surprising that they arise, x. 252.
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Herod, in beheading John, sinned against knowledge, iv. 180.
Highlander, exclamation of one on the necessity for a mediator, v. 174. HIGH, MOST, God, being so called, imports his dwelling in heaven, vii. 18 ; his dignity and dominion, ib. ; the transcendency and super-excel lency of his divine being in itself, as utterly of another kind from that of the creatures, 15.
High priest, his office under the law had two parts, oblation or offering the
sacrifice, and presentation of it in the holy of holies, iv. 57 ; the
latter was his distinction from the other priests, 59. Went into the holy of holies, stripped of all his gaudy robes, iv. 499. Alone performed the services of the day of atonement, v. 432.
Holiest, into which Christ is entered, and to which we have access, is the
highest heavens, v. 389 ; what is meant by our entering into ? 390. HOLINESS, GOSPEL, IN THE HEART AND LIFE, vii. 129.
Holiness, the fruit of election, i. 86 : necessary to salvation, 88 ; what it is, 383 ; a resurrection, 439. Of God is his beauty ; its image is ours, iv. 154.
True, is the imitation or image of God s own nature, iv. 380. Of Christ, hath a transcendency above that of all creatures, iv. 467. As well as justice of God, done honour to in the sacrifice of Christ, iv. 119.
Consists in a conformity of spirit to the things which God willeth or commandeth, and having God s glory set up in our hearts as our ut most end, vi. 152. In any or all of our faculties, consists in setting up God as our chief
end, vi. 272. Of heart, the main and ultimate birth brought forth in regeneration,
vi. 389 ; consists in a real conformity to the written word, and the
living Word, 390.
Is the dreadful name of God, vii. 15 ; imports separation from all the
creatures, ib. ; is the most glorious of all his attributes, ib.
Its effects upon the understanding, vii. 139.
Glory and majesty of, viii. 274 ; not inconsistent with the insults and
oppositions made to the people of God, 277 ; how to be manifested and
preserved, 284 ; by innocence and harmlessness, 285 ;_ by doing
good to all as much as -lies in our power, 286 ; wherein it may ap
pear, 287 ; in shewing forth the graces of Christ, ib. ; abounding much in holy duties, ib. ; in consistency, 289 : in acting with reality and fervency of spirit, ib. ; in unselfishness, ib. ; in constancy and
evenness, 290 ; in brotherly kindness, ib.
Immutability of, could only be imparted to a creature of grace, ix. 4.
Keeping of saints in, the necessary means to their attaining of union
with God, ix. 136. Flows from election, ix. 161. The proper fruit of election, ix. 186.
True, cannot be without faith, ix. 286 ; is the proper fruit of the cove
nant of grace, 287.
Is the law of God written in the heart, x. 57.
Seen in the holy and spiritual law of God, x. 419 ; in the character of
Christ, 420 ; in heaven, 422 ; what it is, 423.
Holv of holies ; two things in it specially represented Christ ; the ark which
abode there continually, and the person of the high priest, who en
tered it once a year, v. 435 ; the former typified his person, the lat
ter his office, ib.
Holy city, the kingdoms of Europe, iii. 124.
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HOLY GHOST, WORK OF, IN OUR SALVATION, vi. 3. Holy Ghost, why called the Spirit of promise, i. 246, 249. Dwells and continues in and upon Christ for ever in heaven, iv. 118 ; descended as a dove, to shew the gracious disposition wherewith Christ was endowed for his office, ib. ; rests on him more abundantly now in heaven than while on earth, 120. Translates the mystery of Christ s sufferings, death, resurrection, &c., into intelligible language, iv. 264. Does not generally get the glory due to him, vi. 3 ; his work for us in
its kind as great as that of the Father or the Son, ib. ; procession of, not merely dispensatory, but substantial, 5 ; his office as a com
forter, ib. ; a Spirit of truth, ib. ; a shewer of things to come, ib. ; a
sanctifier, ib. ; the inditer of prayers, 7 ; a converter and convincer of the world, ib. ; wrought regeneration even in the Old Testament
saints, but came in a more signal manner after Christ s ascension, 3 ; Old Testament prophecies of this coming, ib. ; his appearance at Christ s baptism the consecration of the head, at Pentecost of the members, 9 ; his operations upon Christ, 11 ; formed his human nature in the womb, ib. ; question whether he formed the union betwixt the divine and human nature, ib. ; consecrated him to be the
Christ, ib. ; anointed him to all his offices, 12 ; endowed him with power to do all his miracles, ib. ; raised him from the dead, ib. ; filled him with glory when he ascended, 13 ; anointed him as king of heaven, ib. ; proclaims him king in men s hearts, ib. ; his work upon the church, ib. ; was the first founder of the church of the New
Testament, ib. ; supplies and blesses the means of the church s edi
fication, 14 ; is the administrator of Christ s will, 15 ; what he doth
for every particular saint, 16 ; in regeneration is the author of the new creature, 17 ; convinces of sin and humbles for it, 18 ; works
repentance, 19 ; and faith, ib. ; how he witnesseth on earth along with the water and the blood, 27 ; the whole work of sanctification
wrought by, 28 ; habitual holiness, 29 ; mortification of sin and deadness to the world, ib. ; the implantation of all graces, 30 ; and the drawing of them forth into act, 31 ; warrant to pray to, 32 ; produces all the spiritual strength we receive for resisting tempta tions, ib.
Is a Spirit of counsel to the understanding, vi. 33 ; and a persuader of the will, ib. ; all growth in grace, from first to last, attributed to, 34 ; the acceptance of our fruits and our persons by God is from, 35 ; his
blessing alone makes the means of grace effectual, 36 ; supports in
death, 37 ; raises the dead, 38 ; fellowship to be sought with, as a
distinct person, 39 ; his indwelling, 41 ; his exceeding love shewn
in his indwelling, 42 ; heinousness of resisting, 44 ; and danger, 45 ; why especially called Holy, 47 ; communion, both in the whole, and
in every part of it, attributed to, 48 ; reasons for this, 49 ; it is in a correspondency to the creation of the first man, 49 ; it is in a con
formity to his work with respect to Christ, 50 ; viewed as the gift of the Father to us, 51 ; the donor is the Father, through Christ, 52 ; the gift is from mere grace and love, 53 ; differences of his working upon servants and upon sons, 55 ; he is a person indwelling, and not merely an influence, 58 ; first comes upon us immediately, as we
are in our uncleanness and pollution, 60 ; is not defiled thereby, 62 ; his indwelling is by his person primarily and immediately, by his
graces secondarily, 63 , his indwelling more special than that of the
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Father or the Son, 64 ; his indwelling in us, the same as in the man Christ Jesus, 66 ; is infinitely greater than all his gifts, 67 ; the whole, both of grace and glory, included in, 69 ; to be vehe mently prayed for, ib. ; his indwelling is the fountain of spiritual life, compared with the soul s dwelling in the body as a principle of
lite, 1 1.
Holy Ghost, doth not only move and stir us up to all good actions which we do, but in the work of conversion produceth in us living and lasting principles of a constant holy life, vi. 191. Not specially called merciful in Scripture, but called good, viii. 45 ; five offices ascribed to, 46. Sin against, is a settled revenge against God, ix. 253. Holy people, in Daniel, the witnesses in Revelation, iii. 114. Honesty and religion of unregenerate men, are but relics of the first image defaced, which God hath put into corrupt nature, lest men should be
devils upon earth, x. 419. Honour of God, of more value than all creatures and all worlds, v. 96.
Offences against, from inferior to superior, do most transcend satisfac
tion, v. 492.
Hope, believers called to, i. 806.
* Hope of righteousness, what it implies, vi. 42.
Horses, in the Revelation represent angels, iii. 32.
Horse, white represents the preaching of the gospel, iii. 35 ; red signifies war, ib. ; the black represents famine, 36 ; and the pale, all God s
plagues let loose at once, 37. Humanity of Christ hath more worth or dignity communicated to it than could be in all creatures, v. 105.
Humiliation, defective, if it rest in the general notion that men are sinners,
iv. 23.
Is a conformity to Christ, and a beginning of the revealing of Christ in us, iv. 346.
Humility of the world is a proud humility, vi. 224. Husbandman, how the Father is the, iii. 438 ; he engrafts and implants all the branches into the vine, ib. ; he appoints what fruit the branches
shall produce, ib. ; he daily purges the branches, ib.
Hypocrites, their punishment made the regula of those of other sinners,
iv. 177.
Ignorance, sinning in, does not make the fact not to be a sin, but it lesseneth
it, iv. 164 ; must be repented of in the general, 165. He who lives in, is condemned only by the law ; he who sins against knowledge, by himself also, iv. 169. Without excuse under the gospel, v. 538.
Ignorant, and out of the way, correspond to the two classes of transgressors
under the law, iv. 129. And profane, their resistance to conviction, x. 379 ; their pleas con
sidered and answered, 383.
Image of God in Christ threefold, iv. 267. Of God in Jesus Christ more excellent than that in the law, iv. 318. Of God in Christ, essential, as he is second person, manifestative as
God-man, iv. 462 ; in what the latter consists, 463. Of Christ, as found in us on earth, is a conformity to all his graces,
vi. 222 ; a conformity to his example, 228 ; superiority of, to the
image of God in which Adam was made, 229.
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Image of God in Adam, destroyed by his first sin, x. 48 ; called the glory of God, 54. IMMEDIATE STATE OF GLORY DEMONSTRATED, xii. 1.
Impatience, under desertion, to be avoided, iii. 315.
Impediments that keep men from Christ, self-righteousness and worldliness,
iii. 350.
Importunity, when joined with submission to God s will, is an evidence of God s design to answer prayer, iii. 380.
Imputation of Adam s sin to us is by derivation, of ours to Christ by volun
tary assumption, v. 182. Of Adam s sin, denied by those who deny the imputation of Christ s
righteousness, x. 12 ; proved at length from Rom. v. 12, &c., ib. Of sin to Christ, different from that of Adam s sin to his posterity, x. 54. In Christ, bearing fruit, what ? iii. 445.
Incarnation of Christ, predicted in the Old Testament, iv. 438 ; the eter
nally begotten Son, and the man made of a woman, are but one Son
still, not two Sons, and therefore also one person, 440 ; proved from the account of his conception, ib. ; and from the constant tenor of
his speech about himself, ib. ; the two natures are represented as
making up one I or one he, 443 ; they remain in him distinct, and make up one person, 444 ; this distinction of his nature taught in the Old Testament as well as the New, 445 ; all the rights of the Son of God by inheritance given to the man Jesus, 446 ; the
attributes proper to God given to this man, ib. ; spoken of him who
is man, not as a man, ib. ; so the infirmities of human nature are
attributed to God, ib. ; the obedience and bloodshed of the man
called the blood of God, 447. Of Christ, a glorious exhibition of Divine power, iv. 479 ; by it God has given a pledge of love to the creature as such, 480 ; by means
of it, men being united to Christ are brought into closer communion with God than could have been possible in any other way, 481. Of Christ, nothing similar to it in the works of nature, v. 19 ; revela
tion of, is the greatest argument to prove the truth of our religion, 20. Of Christ, necessary to his mediatorship, v. 44 ; that he might be able to offer himself a sacrifice, ib. ; that he might be a reconciler, he must become a middle person, 45 ; he must become some way subject to God ratione officii, ib ; must be effected by the assumption of some creature, and that creature must be rational, ib. ; must be
holy, ib. ; therefore must be either the angelic or the human nature,
ib. ; reasons why the latter is preferable in respect of fitness, 46. Of Christ, the wondrousness of it, v. 66. Of Christ, corresponds to our first parents desire to be as gods, v. 109 ;
is the foundation of his satisfaction, but not part of it, 110. Of Christ, the foundation of all his satisfaction, but no part of it, v. 193. Of the Son of God, the greatest work of wonder that God ever did in the world, vi. 418 ; concurrence of the three persons of the Godhead
in, ib.
Incense, a type of prayer, iv. 62.
Inclinations, aggravation of their inordinacy, in regard of their conversion
to what is evil, x. 297 ; carry us clean against reason, 299 ; if our be not satisfied, nothing else can please us, as long as that fit lasts,
ib. ; their unreasonableness, 300 ; their being whetted by the dim"-
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culty of obtaining their object, ib. ; their nntameableness, ib. ; their
unsatisfiedness, ib. ; grounds and causes of their inordinacy, 301.
Indefiniteness of God s mind declared concerning his intent of saving but some, a sufficient ground for faith, viii. 246.
Independency of Christ, such an attribute as could not be communicated to
a mere creature, iv. 466.
Indiscretion may be in the carrying on of a good cause, v. 217.
Indwelling of God the perfection of grace, ix. 116 ; is only in the humble and contrite, 124.
Infants, why death reigns over them, ii. 185. Have not sinned after the similitude of Adam s transgression ,. x. 6.
Infirmities, may be either the evil of afflictions or of sin, or of both, iv. 111.
Inheritance, lot of the, i. 207 ; received by faith, 209 ; God himself our, 261 ; riches of, 312 ; God s, in the saints, 317. Innocent I., claimed power over other bishops,, iii. 74 ; excommunicated the
eastern emperor Arcadius, 75.
Institution may be either by express command, or by example, promise,
hint, or implicit intimation, xi. 22 ; when many things that God
hath instituted, being put together, do necessarily infer something
else, that also is an institution, 25 ; the use of man s reason about is
only to find out what they are, 27.
Integrity, twofold, absolute and comparative, vi. 352.
Intelligence, simple, i. 100.
Intercession of Christ, its influence to our justification and salvation, iv. 566 ;
the most excellent part of his priesthood, 57. Our first justification to be ascribed to, yet more eminently ordained
for accomplishing our salvation, iv. 64 ; is the virtual continuation
of Christ s sacrifice, ib. ; is the perpetuation of his priesthood, for
his glory, 67 ; its immediate and direct end is the salvation of all the
elect, 68. Of Christ is absolute, not conditional, iv. 69 ; in it, as well as in his
work on earth, he is a surety, 70. Of Christ, its prevalency, argued from the person pleading, iv. 71 ; his
nearness to the Father, 71 ; the obedience he hath rendered to the
Father, 74 ; the satisfaction he hath made to justice, 76 ; this power
put into his hands, 79. Of Christ, its prevalency argued from the person pleaded with, iv. 82;
an advocate with the Father, ib. ; his Father, 83 ; our Father, 85.
Of Christ, no man ever loses an interest in, ix. 360 ; privilege and
benefit of it unspeakable, ib. ; always precedes our prayers, &. ;
always prevails, 361.
Intermediate state is a life, vii. 346 ; for the saints, a life of glory, S04
Inventions, human, in worship, the great quarrel in the Reformed churches,
iii. 146.
Invisibility of God, an object of the apostle s praise, iv. d90.
Invocation to God, suited to the nature of the blessing sought lor, x. 1^&.
Irenaus, his interpretation of the number of the beast, m. 73.
Isaac, the most eminent type of Christ, v. 225,
Israel, their deliverance from Egypt, _ an illustration of the way o
working in answer to prayer, iii. 385. -99
Israelites, difference between outward and true, put upon ele
Jacob, an example of election, ix. 11. .. 1ftn James does not contradict the doctrine of justification by faith, vn. ISO.
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James, Epistle of, its main design, ix. 289 ; the discovery of false professors, 290 ; exposition of chap. i. 292.
Japhet, fulfilment of Noah s blessing or prophecy concerning, ix. 77.
Jealousy, the greatest wrong that can be done to friendship, vii. 211.
Jekoshaphat, an example of relapsing into sin, iii. 420. An example of partial sanctification, ix. 391. JEHOVAH, the name of God s essence, the Jews everywhere throughout the world forbear from pronouncing, iv. 519. JEHOVAH, the chiefest name of God, never given, or to be given to any creature,
viii. 26 ; its first revelation, with God s own comment upon it, was
to betoken and be a sign of mercy, ib. JEHOVAH, wholly and abstractly imports being, viii. 29 ; imports that he alone hath true being, 30 ; that his being is of himself, 81 ; that he is the
fountain of being to all things that have being, ib. ; that he is first and last in being, 37 ; that he is from everlasting to everlasting, 40 ; that he is immutable, 41.
Jerome, agrees with the Pelagians and the modern Quakers in the error that
the light of God in nature, and the light of moral good in the con
science, are the grace of Christ, iv. 844.
Jerusalem, New, i. 312. Destruction of, by Nebuchadnezzar and by Titus, said by Josephus to have taken place on the same day of the month, v. 461.
Jesuits, their attempt to put a slur on the doctrine of God s absolute limited
decrees, iv. 513. JESUS CHRIST, KNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE FATHER AND, iv. 347. Jesus Christ, in all his glories, is the great and eminent subject of the
gospel, iv. 263 ; why termed the wisdom and power of God, 267.
Jesus, the man, wondered that God should dwell personally in him, ix. 121. Jewish Church, had the same sacraments, in substance, that we have, vii. 307 ; this was an aggravation of their sin, 308. Government of, no certain rule for that of the church of Christ, xi. 196.
Jews, their stumbling, i. 199 ; first fruits of, 221.
Call, to come suddenly, iii. 204. Their land no bigger than Wales, iv. 331. Did not expect their Messiah to be divine, iv. 441.
Privileges of believers since the ascension of Christ above theirs, v. 898.
Still adhere to such observances of the ceremonial law as their exile
will permit, v. 458. Their prejudice against the Gentiles not easily or quickly removed, v.
466. Their rejection of the gospel, a great exercise to Paul s spirit, and a shrewd objection against Christianity, ix. 15 ; resolved into election, 16. Said to spit at the name of Christ, ix. 40.
Job, his patience, ii. 437, 452.
Supposed by some to have been intended as a type among the Gen
tiles, of Christ in his agony, iii. 288. His friends, defect of their knowledge of the judgments of God, iv. 285. His confession of the multitude of his sins, x. 477. John wrote his Gospel and Epistles with the special view of confuting errors
which had sprung up respecting the person of Christ, iv. 452. In his Gospel many things are said of Christ, first as he is God, and then as he is God-man, iv. 465.
Jonah, the prophet, was a Galilean, v. 156.
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Jonah, a type of Christ in other respects besides being in the whale s belly,