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Joseph, his affection to his father and brothers in his advancement, iv. 122. A type of Christ, v. 150 ; a Nazarite, ib. Joy at the accomplishment of what a man prayed for along with others, a proof to him that his prayers had a share in the procuring of it,
iii. 873, Does not always accompany an act of faith, iv. 331. Fulness of, springs only from communion with God, viii. 394. Jndah, called a lion, why, iii. 10 ; a lawgiver, 12. Judas, curse on, ii. 54.
Iscariot, specially aimed at in the parable of the vine as a fruitless branch, iii. 441.
Aggravations of his sin, iv. 179. His hard-heartedness, v. 200.
Acting of natural conscience in, vi. 245. The most eminent instance of a temporary on record, ix. 273. Jude, his epistle a counterpart of 2 Peter, iv. 52.
Object of his epistle to distinguish between true and false professors, ix. 195 ; exposition of the epistle, 196-230 ; written after the death of most of the apostles, 197. Judge of the mysteries of the gospel, who is, iv. 304 ; opinion of the Soci-
nians, ib. ; the papists, ib. God was to the people of Israel in a double sense, v. 423.
Judgment, day of, a long day, i. 196.
Final, is to respect this life only, not the intermediate state, vii. 161. Judgment shewn to the Gentiles, means the doctrine of free grace and the
gospel, iv. 119. Judgments of God in Scripture are as well his works of mercy as of justice,
iv. 273. Are God s blood-hounds, which in the end find out sin and sinners,
vii. 545.
Practical, concerning spiritual things, differences of those of the re
generate and those of the unregenerate, x. 179 ; the unregenerate may, in the general, apprehend spiritual things to be good, and the
best things too, 183 ; but are unable to apprehend them as good when
they come to be acted, 184 ; do not apprehend them to be good for
them, 185 ; though notionally they may be convinced that a state of
grace would be better for them, yet the affection is not strong, 187.
Julian, attempted to restore the Jewish sacrifices, iii. 157. JUST MEN, AN IMMEDIATE STATE OF GLORY FOR, xii. 1.
Justice and free grace, the attributes of God most eminently concerned in
our salvation, iv. 61.
Requires God to discharge sinners whose debt has been paid by Christ,
iv. 214. Of God more manifested in putting to death his own Son for imputed
sin, than if a world of worlds had been damned, iv. 230.
Justification, Romish notion of, ii. 316 ; our, in Christ when he rose, 333.
In what sense it is by the resurrection of Christ, iv. 38 ; on believin g
a copy of the sentence passed on Christ s resurrection, ib. ; called a
quickening, 41. Has two parts, acquittance from sin, and the giving of a title to eternal
life, iv. 51 ; the first secured by Christ s death and resurrection, the
second by his ascension, ib.
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Justification, matter of it in Christ s death, virtual in his resurrection, actual
when we believe, iv. 64 ; can neither be frustrated by old sins coming into remembrance, nor by new sins committed, 65.
Is separable from our graces, but condemnation is inseparable from our
sins, v. 100.
Its fulness and completeness, v. 187. Three parts of it, taking away the guilt of actual sin, bestowal of posi
tive righteousness, and not charging against us the corruption of our
nature, v. 352. God will have all the glory of it to be his own and his Son Christ s, v. 366. Romanist distinction between first and final, vi. 21. Wholly of grace, vi. 93.
Is by faith only, as well after conversion as in conversion, vi. 104.
Glorifies Christ s righteousness, vi. 182.
Changes a man s state legally and forensically, regeneration physically,
vi. 409.
Consistency of Paul s and James s doctrines respecting, vii. 182. Two things in, the righteousness imputed, which is Christ s, and the
act of imputation, which is of God primarily, viii. 134. An individual act, yet three several steps in it, viii. 134 ; the first, at the
first covenant-making from all eternity, 135 ; the second, at Christ s
resurrection, ib. ; the third, on our believing, 137 ; all these depend upon Christ, and upon our being one with him, by stipulation, repre sentation, and personally, 139.
Is by faith, not as it is an act put forth by us, or a quality in us, but
by reason of the objects it lays hold on, viii. 299.
Is a single act, yet continued and renewed every day, ix. 224. By Christ s righteousness, an act of power, x. 17. Relates to guilt, sanctification to corruption, x. 43. JUSTIFYING FAITH, OBJECTS AND ACTS OF, viii. 1.
Keys, power of, in what character given to Peter, xi. 54 ; imply the forma
tion of companies of believers, 59. King of England, affecting speech of one, v. 266.
Kings of the nations, are as constables under Christ, iii. 224. Why their hearts are unsearchable, iv. 272. And states, dangerous to them to deal otherwise than well with God s
saints, xii. -36. Kingdom of Satan, ii. 36. Of God, an object of praise, both as seated in himself and as exercised towards his creation, iv. 388.
Dispensatory, of Christ to be given up to the Father, iv. 499. A natural, due to Christ as a divine person, xii. 84 ; a dispensatory, as he is mediator, ib. ; the former remains for ever, something of the
latter is to be given up, 85.
Kingdoms, ten set up in Europe between A.D. 413 and 450, iii. 55.
Kindness of God, ii. 276, 305.
Knights of the post, that will speak or write anything, whereby they may get
gain and preferment, sin against knowledge, iv. 173. KNOWLEDGE, AGGEAVATIONS OF SINNING AGAINST, iv. 163.
OF GOD THE FATHER AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST, iv. 347.
Knowledge, in the Scripture sense, what, i. 284 ; spiritual, the main thing in
working grace, 283 ; sanctifying, 285 ; of God, what, 288 ; spiritual, what, 299 ; of Christ, true and false compared, 378.
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Knowledge, some sins against knowledge utterly exclude from mercy, iv. 166 ; of God and his ways, the greatest mercy, next to saving grace, & ; even erroneous puts an obligation on a man, 168. What it is to sin against, iv. 169 ; one thing to sin with, another against, ib.; men sin against, either directly, collaterally, objectionallv or circumstantially, 170 ; directly, when they abuse knowledge to help them to sin, 171 ; when they use their wisdom to cover their sins, ib. ; when they use moral or religious pretences to dissemble their sins, ib. ; when^they neglect the getting of knowledge which might keep them from sinning, ib. ; when they hate the light, and endeavour to extin guish it, 172 ; when they hold opinions against their knowledge, 173 ; when they conceal their knowledge, ib. ; endeavour to suppress it, ib, ; when they would make others sin against their consciences, 174 ; rules for measuring sin against, 178, et seq. Different kinds of, against which men sin, iv. 181 ; the inbred light of nature, ib. ; the light of education, 1 82 ; real and experimental light, from the examples of godly men, or the observations of God s dealings with themselves or others, 183 ; knowledge joined with a taste of the bitterness of sin, &c., 184 ; professed knowledge, ib. ; to refuse will damn as much as to abuse, 186. The choicest of God s gifts, iv. 293. A form of, that is not true knowledge, as of godliness that is not true
godliness, iv. 295. Of Christ in heaven and in the gospel, in what respects they differ, iv. 320. Outward is merely a phantasma, that of Christ is a hypostasis, iv. 335. Of Christ by faith, so real a thing that it is called Christ in a man, iv.
321. Of the eternal transactions of God the Father for man s salvation ; the
highest attainment of fathers in Christ, v. 7. Of the gospel without grace, leads either to presumption or to legalism,
vi. 233.
Natural, though improved and quickened to the height, not sufficient to
work regeneration, vi, 375, Of God by his saints, greater after the day of judgment than before,
vii. 39. Of spiritual things in the hearts of men, of two sorts, vii. 494 ; affection
of the regenerate towards different spiritual objects not always pro
portioned to their knowledge of them, 495. Of the Father and his grace not sufficient without knowledge of Christ,
viii. 170.
Knowledge of God twofold ; one by his effects, the other by his presence with the soul, ix. 214. Even of natural or civil things, exceeding shallow in the wisest men, x. 143 ; most of it is from a new gift of God, ib. ; of things heavenly, none
without supernatural light and assistance, 144. Of spiritual things that the unregenerate may have, its difference from
that which the regenerate have, x. 158 ; is not merely in degree, ib. ;
the one is speculative or barely knowing knowledge, the other affect
ing knowledge, 159 ; the one is by hearsay, the other by contact,
162 ; the regenerate man s is through the Spirit of God dwelling m
him, who perfectly knows the things of God, 163; the regenerate man hath a sight of things by faith, which the other hath not, 164 ;
a godly man s is evident, 165 ; and satisfying, 166.
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LAMB slain, Christ why called, iii. 10, 215. That was slain, hath seven eyes for all knowledge, and seven horns for
all power, iv. 141.
Lamps, seven, denote the Holy Ghost, iii. 5. Last days, times of the gospel so called, v. 533 ; implying more than one
period to have gone before, ib.
Aarnvog, explained by Irena3us to be the number of the beast, v. 154. Law, dead to, what, i. 443 ; weak through the flesh, i. 389. Of God, in the heart of Christ ; a special law of love, mercy and pity to sinners, as mediator, over and above the moral law, iv. 114 ; this law is indelible in his heart, and is as strong now as when he was
upon the cross, 115.
Compared to a husband, as being the guide of the heart, iv. 167 ; and
conscience, when they meet, make up but one law, 168.
Glorious, both in the promulgation of it, and in the matter of it, iv. 315 ;
moral, glorious as holding forth the image of God s mind, 316 ; was a copy of that originally written on the heart of Adam, 317.
Moral, a glass to shew man to himself ; gospel, to shew God to him,
iv. 823 ; ceremonial, was the gospel in shadows, ib. End of giving, to declare and shew forth God s justice and hatred
of sin, v. 18 ; these ends fully accomplished by the substitution of
Christ, ib.
Is the pattern or original copy of the grace of saints, v. 85 ; consists of a preceptive and a penal part, ib. Of God is backed with his prerogative ; therefore his honour is injured by every sin, v. 94 ; in what senses fulfilled by Christ, 102.
Its bond cancelled, v. 131 ; fulfilled by Christ s service and obedience,
ib. ; his fulfilling of is as properly the obedience of God as his blood
is the blood of God, 132 ; his obedience to it was complete, 133. We born under, Christ made under, v. 180. Of God to be fulfilled out of a principle of love and ingenuity, v. 221. Whatever it can say against us, Christ answers, v. 352. Of Moses, to the gospel, as earth is to heaven, v. 457.
Satisfied, if the reason of making it be satisfied, v. 490. Why it must be prescribed, v. 512. The works or effects of it written in the heart or conscience by nature,
distinguished from the law written in the inward parts by grace, vi. 234.
Its bodily or literal, and its spiritual part, vi. 263 ; unregenerate men have but the form of the knowledge and truth of, 265.
Mosaic, was a covenant subservient to the gospel, vi. 354 ; was not a covenant of salvation to the Jews as such, but only to the elect among them, 356.
Necessary to work conviction, in order to conversion, vi. 362 ; its uses
to men unregenerate, under conviction, and regenerate, 365.
Writing on the heart, what is implied in, vi. 403.
Of God reacheth to all that is in man, x. 57 ; in what sense the cause of sin, 60. Of God ; on every part of it his sovereignty and royal prerogative are
enstamped, x. 113; hence every breach of it is an act of treason ; 114 ; his image is enstamped on it, ib. Laws, human, all presuppose the corruption of man, x. 46.
Learning, inordinate love of, a great sin, vi. 112. LETTERS, TWO, CONCERNING A CHURCH COVENANT, xi. 526.
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Liberty and freedom which the gospel affords, the fruit of Christ s being bound, v. 229.
Life m God, ii. 16; spiritual, the cause of all true mortification of sin, ii. 205.
Spiritual life, what, ii. 207; why it cannot die, ii. 211. Of a Christian, made up of seeming contradictions, iv. 276. Of Christ in the believer, iv. 338. Eternal, Christ and we hold by different tenures ; he by nature and
right, we by gift, iv. 367. Eternal, does^not only abide upon us, but in us, vi. 198. Hid with Christ, not in heaven merely, as a place, but in God, ix. 335. Light, between ordinary rational, and saving, there is a middle kind, iv. 184.
Of God s countenance, vouchsafed to believers, iii. 239 ; the withdrawal of this for a time not inconsistent with God s love, 240. Arising from the sight of his own graces, vouchsafed to the believer,
iii. 240 ; this is his comfort when the light of God s countenance is withdrawn, ib. ; when this also is withdrawn he is in darkness, ib. Want of, to see one s own graces, may consist with a state of grace,
iii. 240 ; and with the continuance of his gracious influence, ib. In the soul of a Christian, by which he sees Jesus Christ, is created out
of the darkness that is naturally in him, iv. 321. Of nature, both in the understanding and the conscience, is compara tively darkness, vi. 256. Of nature, its defects, x. 97.
Lights, Father of; explanation of the title, ix. 295.
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Lily, the new creature compared to, iii. 458.
Lilies, of the Scriptures, are our tulips, ix. 299. Lion of the tribe of Judah, Christ why called, iii. 9, 215.
Aoyog, in what sense the second person in the Godhead is called, iv. 415 ; not merely the idea of the creation in the mind of the Creator, 416 ; a person to whom God makes known all his designs, 417 ; John did not borrow the term from Plato, but from the Old Testament, 418 ; used by him in opposition to the Gnostics, ib.
Lord, title of, one of the first given to Christ in the Old Testament, iv. 519;
is of a larger extent than Saviour, ib. ; necessarily denotes and sup poses his divinity, ib. ; conferred upon him not with reference to his
being second person, but to his office as God-man, 522 ; proofs of
this, 523, et seq. Lord s Supper, not a commemorative sacrifice to God, but a remembrance of
his sacrifice to men, iv. 65.
Its intent, on G-od s part, to represent and exhibit the whole of Christ,
as crucified for us, vii. 311 ; on our parts, publicly to solemnize and shew forth his death, with profession of our interest in his person, his death, and all the benefits thereof, ib. ; danger of profaning, 312. Whether it ought to be administered every Lord s day, xi. 388; whether
a church may be divided into sections for the administration of, 415.
Lordship of Christ implies his Sonship, iv. 351.
Twofold, belongs to Christ, one absolute and underived, the other de
rived, economical, dispensatory, iv. 522. Of Christ, parted into two administrations or commissions, one towards
all things, the other towards us, iv. 530.
Fitness of Christ to sustain the office of, both in relation to all things
to be by him, and especially to the elect, iv. 525 ; his person fit for
it, ib. ; a mere creature could not have been fit for this office, 526 ;
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yet in order to be made Lord, he must be also a creature, ib. ; and the fittest creature is man, 528.
Lordship, a main part of the mediatorial office, iv. 530.
God s, over all things, not founded upon his being their Creator, but on
a sovereignty in himself, iv. 547.
Love, antecedent and consequent, i. 109 ; the guide of mercy, ii. 147 ;
greatness of God s love set forth, 156 ; specialness of, 162 ; free, 172 ; unchangeable and invincible, 173. Of God to his elect, not caused by the work of Christ, but expressed, iv. 86 ; Christ adds not one drop to his heart, only draws it out, ib. Christ s, towards his own which were in the world, iv. 97. Greatest exercise of, is in the reconciliation of enemies, v. 13. Works of, have, of all works, most delight in them, v. 487. Mercy and grace, distinguished, vi. 89 ; towards the elect, like a stream
running underground till they are converted, 91.
Proportioned to forgiveness, vi. 109. Is the principle immediately preceding holiness, vii. 133. God s, special properties and singularities by which it is commended to
us, vii. 243 ; its priority, ib. ; its peculiarity, 245 ; its beneficence, 246 ; his not only loving us, but delighting to love us, 248 ; its
everlastingness, ib. ; its constancy and unchangeableness, 249. Must be to Christ, and to other objects subordinately, faith must be upon him alone, viii. 306. Is the foundation of mercy, ix. 98. To God, a proper note, and fruit, and effect of their calling, ix. 285.
Love-feasts were not a church ordinance, xi. 389. Lowliness of Christianity, furnishes carnal men with reasons for not em
bracing it, x. 388. Lust not only leads to sin, but is sin, x. 59.
Inordinate in the heart, is flat and plain idolatry, x. 312 ; and is in many things worse than simple idolatry, 313 ; wrongful to the crea tures it is occupied about, ib. ; most injurious to the soul itself, 314.
Lusts, having our conversation in, ii. 91 ; sinfulness of, 98 ; of the mind
strongest, 113.
All evil, are in the best of men, x. 59. Luther and his followers, represented by the third angel (Rev. xiii. 9-12),
iii. 88. His fears and suspicions from misapprehending the righteousness of God, iv. 208.
Lutherans, their doctrine of ubiquity, i. 478. Their error in holding the act of justifying faith to be an assured per suasion that our sins are pardoned, viii. 211.
Magistrates, called gods, i. 489.
Ministers, and people, as long as either hold by the truth, it will not be taken from the nation, iv. 248. And eminent men called gods in the Old Testament, because they were types of Christ, iv. 432. Malchus seems to have been the first to lay hands on Christ, v. 219. MAN S RESTORATION BY GRACE, vii. 519. Man, his misery by nature, ii. 5, 8, 22. The second, why Christ is called, ii. 134. The abstract and epitome of all the creatures, iv. 529, 542.
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Man, nature of, a middle nature in creation, between the earthly and the
heavenly, v. 42. As created, mutual fitness of him and the world prepared for him, vi. 166. Excellence of his nature as originally created, vii. 98. Not to be trusted since Adam fell, x. 32.
Every part of him made to glorify God, x. 131 ; originally made en
tirely holy, ib. ; spiritual objects and acts suited to every faculty, ib. ;
all in him capable of glory, 132 ; not only his inferior powers, but the
highest, corrupted, ib. Compared to a ship, x. 289. Manhood of Christ, not a person but a nature, v. 53 ; was our whole nature
for substance in all the parts of it, 54 ; his body made out of the
substance of the virgin, 56 ; his conception a new thing in the earth, 58 ; though conceived not begotten, 59.
Manasseh, commonly reckoned the greatest sinner whose pardon is related in
the Old Testament, x. 475 ; his Prayer, though reckoned among the Apocrypha, yet is pious, and certainly expresseth the true sense
of a deeply-humbled soul, ib. ; his confession runs mainly on the number of his sins, ib.
< Manifestarians (who hold that Christ is only a manifestation of God) con
futed, iv. 413 ; their system a trick of the devil, 450.
Manifestation of God to his people, i. 293.
Marcion, his apocryphal Gospel, iv. 337.
Mark, name and number of names of the beast, what, iii. 68.
Marriage into a wicked family may be an occasion of much evil to a man,
v. 235.
Martyrs, Book of, i. 250. Are the eldest sons of blessedness among all the sons of election,
vii. 343.
Martyrdom, a sacrifice, iii. 40 ; a perfection, 42.
Measuring of the temple, what, iii. 116, 123, 128.
Mede, his Apostasy of the Latter Times, quoted iv. 524.
His explanation of the measuring of the temple examined, iii. 133.
Mediation, Christ s, prevails for all the world, to put a stop to the proceed
ings of justice, iv. 193.
Mediator, end of his kingdom, i. 504.
Necessary between sinners and God as a superior wronged, iv. 61.
Christ not only of union but of reconciliation, v. 19. Man s conscience tells him of the need of one, v. 174.
Mediatorship of Christ founded upon his person (mediatio operativa e v
tione substantiali pendet), v. 48.
Meekness of Moses, ii. 447, 458. r
, That is, lowliness and submission, the grace most acceptable to I
vii. 554 ; ariseth out of a conviction of sin, 574.
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Melchisedec, his priesthood of a higher order than Aaron s,iv. 5 J , typ.ne
Christ s priesthood in heaven rather than on earth 60, 6d. A type of Christ s eternity, iv. 411 ; and that as to the past as we!
the future, 412. ... Men, sons of, the most eminent praisers oi
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MEKCY, AGGRAVATIONS OF SINNING AGAINST, iv 189.
Mercy natural to God, ii. 178 ; riches of, 182-190.
More than goodness ; always respects misery, iv. 191.
To sin against is to kick against God s bowels, iv. 202.
Manages the whole plot of the gospel, iv. 2dl.
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Mercy and grace, attributes of God, never saw the light till the gospel, iv. 270. Of God is his greatest glory, iv. 325. 1 And truth represented as God s harbingers, iv. 389. In pardoning one sinner greater than all goodness in preserving all the
angels, v. 100. Manifestation of, has respect to misery, vi. 91. Eminency of, shewn in the work of regeneration, vi. 405. Shewn in regeneration, an incitement to shew mercy to others, vi. 415. In God s heart and nature, consideration of, the strongest support of
faith, viii. 3 ; the most ample view to be taken of and pleaded before God, 6 ; the knowledge of, not alone an adequate ground of faith, 7 ; are all exposed unto the sinful sons of men by millions of promises, 9.
Is in the nature of God, viii. 55 ; arises from his blessedness, 56 ; whence comes goodness, 58 ; whence love, 59 ; whence mercy, ib. ;
is not purely ascribed to God e similitudine effective, 75. Is love extended to those who are in misery, ix. 98.
Mercies, obtained in answer to prayer, come not singly, but in troops, iii. 385. Of David, sure, the gospel called, v. 69. Of God, out of which he pardons, have infinitely more of goodness and
sweetness in them to a humbled sinner, than the pardon itself hath,
viii. 118; believers should meditate much upon, 128. God called the Father of, ix. 252. Mercy-seat, why to be sprinkled with blood ? v. 417. Merits of Christ are ex compacto, and could not absolutely oblige God to us,
v. 31. Of Christ, in what sense infinite, v. 105.
Methuselah, his name a prediction of the flood in the year of his death, ix. 46.
Mighty, sons of, not the angels, but heroes and distinguished men, iv. 394.
Millennium, to begin after the destruction of popery, v. 333.
Condition of the church during, xii. 73 ; shall be delivered from all
enemies, and all molesting troubles, ib. ; there shall be a wonderful confluence of people to it, 74 ; it shall be most pure, ib. ; there
shall be abundance of glorious prophecies fulfilled, and promises accomplished, ib. ; abundance of hidden mysteries of godliness shall be cleared, 75 ; the gifts of the saints shall be abundantly roused,
ib. ; their glories shall be wonderfully enlarged, ib. ; religion shall be honoured, ib. ; the presence of Christ and of God in the church
shall be exceedingly glorious, 76 ; martyrs and many worthies who have lived in former times shall rise again, ib. ; there shall be most blessed union of all the churches in the world, ib. ; there shall be a
resurrection of the creatures, 77 ; the glorious titles that the church hath in the Old Testament shall be made up to the full, ib. ; not far
off, 78. Ministers too much neglect the great things of the gospel, and dwell on matters
of less moment, iv. 228. To take heed that they speak nothing but what God hath revealed, v. 527 ; to labour to get the Holy Ghost into their own hearts, ib. ; should mould truths into several forms and shapes, 531 ; should endeavour to speak plainly, 538 ; their calling honourable, 539. Their different gifts, vi. 37. Shall have personal glory for personal holiness, as Christians, and
superadded glory as ministers, ix. 368.
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Ministers, need the almighty assistance of God in their preaching, x. 251.
Are, in a true and proper sense, and for some ends, ministers to them without, as well as to them within, xi. 370 ; character and duty of a true and faithful one, 375 ; need acquire knowledge, 377 ; mainte nance of, 380.
Ministry, some have inward motives to, on their first being called, as Pau had, iv. 346.
Office of, might be an object of envy to the angels, if it were possible that they could envy, v. 5. The best calling in the world, vi. 415. The care and management of, belongs to the Holy Ghost, vi. 14. A permanent institution, xi. 108. Miracles of Christ, the immediate demonstration that he was the Son of God,
dwelling in the human nature personally, iv. 510. Of Christ, some say that the greatest of them was to cause his enemies
to fall backward, v. 205 ; will not work on the hearts of men, unless God strike with his Spirit, 206. Of Christ, were the signs and badges, rather than the duties, of his
office, v. 338.
Misery, contrast of, heightens bliss, i. 121.
Missilia, gifts scattered among the people at triumphs, v. 306. Mohammedanism, brought in in the Eastern empire under the fifth trumpet,
iii. 56. Moral virtues, corrupt nature capable of, x. 894 ; impressions of many of them to be found in beasts, 395 ; in heathen men, ib. ; in apostates, ib. ; whence they proceed in natural men, 397 ; understanding and natural conscience, ib. ; Christ s restraining work, ib. ; various pro vidential helps, as education, &c., 401 ; public opinion, 403.
Morality distinguished from regeneration, vi. 430.
A good gift of God, x. 426 ; to be honoured, ib. ; yet a man trusting to it, and looking no further, is in the most dangerous condition that a man can be in, 427.
Mortality swallowed up of life, in the soul at death, in the body at the resur
rection, vii. 407.
Mortification of sin, is from spiritual life, ii. 205. Growth in, iii. 457. Growth in, incompatible with setting a high price upon worldly and
carnal excellencies and pleasures, iii. 481 ; with desire of superflui
ties, 482 ; with such an attachment of the mind to anything, that we
cannot part with it, ib. ; with inordinateness in the pursuit of any
object, ib. ; with carnal confidence in the creatures, 483 ; with envy-
ings and heart-burnings against others, ib. ; with inability to bear
reproofs, 484 ; with speediness in yielding to temptation, ib. ; with
the power of lusts to disturb in holy duties, ib. ; with the quickening of lust by the recalling of former acts, 485 ; measured by the insight
into spiritual corruptions and conflict with them, 486 ; by power
of self-denial, ib. ; by constancy in heart and way, 487 ; by a spi
ritual taste of the spiritual word, 488 ; by shame of former carriages and ways, ib. ; by decrease of strength of lust, ib. ; by abstinence
from occasions and opportunities of satisfying lusts, 489; by not
lingering after objects which may satisfy lust, ib. ; cautions in judg
ing of, 490, et seq. Makes a man not only listless to sin, but to hate it, m. 500 ; joined
with activity and life in the contrary duties, ib. ; every new degree of,
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universal, 502; yet so that one lust may be specially mortified, 503.
Mortification, the subject of, is the old man, the body of sin, inherent cor
ruption, vi. 201. Extends to the whole body of sin, ix. 310.
MOSES, SUPEREMINENCE OF CHRIST ABOVE, V. 437.
Moses, his meekness, ii. 447, 458. Did more for his nation than any hero we read of, iv. 125. His face being covered with a veil intimated that the person of the Sa
viour was not fully revealed, vi. 172. His terror at the giving of the law, v. 441. The most extraordinary ambassador of G-od, until Christ came, viii. 27.
Mother, story of one who said that she would rejoice in the glory of God in
the damnation of her beloved son, iv. 392.
Mourning for pardoned sin, ii. 353.
Evangelical, has comfort mixed with it, xii. 65. Musical instruments, not to be used in worship, iii. 13, 215.
Mystery, of the gospel, not understood by ungodly men, i. 141. Meaning of the term, iv. 271.
Mystical sense of Scripture, cannot be used to prove matters of faith, vii. 82.
Name of the Lord, the Christian s support in darkness, iii. 236. Of the Lord, the ground of the sinner s trust, iii. 325 ; all his attributes, and the Lord our righteousness, ib. Names, what meant by, i. 495. Of men, 7000, explained, iii. 187. National sins, to be searched into and repented of, vii. 545.
Churches, as such, have no place under the New Testament dispensation,
xi. 190.
Nature, light of, its insufficiency, i. 388 ; corrupt, principles of, 403 ; de
scription of the state of, ii. 4 ; sinfulness of men by, 122.
Divine, in what sense Christians are partakers of, vi. 190, 199. Of men corrupt, yet its substance remains, x. 69. Union of the divine and human in Christ was by his assumption of the
human, v. 51 ; remain distinct, yet make one person, ib. ; the manner
of the union hath no similitude in nature to express it by, ib.
Christ s divine and human, not severed even in death, vii. 96. Natural man, cannot discern spiritually, i. 375. Men, their miserable state, ii. 55.
State, we should remember what it was, ii. 68 ; use of such remem
brance, 348. Nazarene or Nazarite, in what sense Christ was, v. 147.
Nestorius, held that Christ was at first mere man, and merited to be united
to the divine nature, v. 543. Noah s ark, a figure of the covenant of grace, viii. 165 ; expounded at length from Isa. liv. 9-13, ib., et seq. Saved by grace, ix. 9. A special instance of electing grace, ix. 41 ; understood that his deliver ance from the flood by the ark was a type of salvation by Christ, 44 ; was the first man to whom God spoke of a covenant, 45. A type of Christ, the second Adam, ix. 47 ; his ark, also a type of
Christ, 49 ; two covenants made with, 52, 57 ; these covenants made guages of the covenant of grace, 56; particular analogies between these and the covenant of grace, 65.
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Noah preached the righteousness of Christ, ix. 81. Number of the beast s name, what, iii. 69. Of the beast, what, iii. 72.
Oath of God, gospel sealed by, i. 244. Of God, does not make his purpose immutable, but shews it to be so
iv. 212.
Obedience, passive, might without injustice be laid by God upon the creature,
not as a punishment, but as a trial of obedience, v. 88. Two principal ingredients in acceptable, the matter and the principle, v. 137. In the soul, is the soul of obedience, v. 286. Active and passive, of Christ, what they severally contribute towards
reconciliation, v. 509. Acts of, how it may be known whether it proceed out of good will to God, vi. 138. Motives which the New Testament affords to invite unregenerate men
to, vii. 233 ; follows upon faith, 234 ; God s love in electing, a great motive to, 238 ; the greatness of his love in giving his Son to die for
us, 246 ; that disobedience is Satan s great work and interest, 254 ; that there is a common engagement of all believers against Satan, 264 ; that there is a glory and majesty in the graces and lives of holy men, 274 ; that it is the great design of the gospel to promote, 291. The greatest and highest is to renounce our own righteousness, past,
present, and to come, and to submit ourselves to the righteousness of God, vii. 538. New and holy, requires both a change of the will and affections, and wisdom to direct them, x. 191 ; these the unregenerate want, 192. OBJECTS AND ACTS OF JUSTIFYING FAITH, viii. 1. OBJECTS OF FAITH, viii. 3.
Offence, to be without, is needfully to avoid all such footsteps and ways before
others as may induce them to sin, vii. 146 ; not to walk in any action contradictory to his own principles he professeth before others, 147 ; not to do anything contradictory to that light which a man s own conscience hath received to walk by, ib.
Offices in the church, Trinity concurring to, i. 8. Of Christ, as well as his person and attributes, blasphemed by the Jews,
v. 128. In the church, are not only many, but diverse, xi. 321 ; divided gene
rally into two ranks or orders : those whose duty lieth in instruction,
and those whose duty lieth in discipline, 329.
Officers and ministers in a church, necessity of, xi. 309 ; there should be
many in every church, 314.
Old Testament, its visions and types appropriated in Revelation, iii. 32.
Saints knew God as the Father of the Son, and distinct from him,
vii. 489.
Olive and vine, Christians compared to, iii. 458.
Olive-trees, the two witnesses so called, iii. 144.
Filling the lamp with oil, what they signified, xii. 106.
ONE SACRIFICE, THE, v. 479.
Oneness of Christ with the Father, is both as second person and as God-man,
ix. 133.
Opinions of the world fortify the unregenerate against conviction, x. 385.
Opportunities, neglect of, followed by darkness, iii. 294.
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Oracles, mute when Christ came, i. 494.
Heathen, silenced at the death of Christ, v. 372.
Order, erroneously restricted by popish and episcopal divines to the con
stituting of a church officer, xi. 123.
Ordinances, to be diligently used as a means of comfort, iii. 330 ; but not to be trusted in, 332. Are for a blessing or a curse to those who live under them, vii. 296 ; in carnal hearts only nourish self, and lusts, 299 ; their influence not always violent or sudden, but gentle and sweet, 300. Whether they may be forborne in times of persecution, xi. 422. Ordination of Christ to be God-man a mere arbitrary act, yet must be worthy
of him who was his Son, iv. 506 ; and therefore could not dispense with any right which belonged to him as Son, ib. ; of all things was with a view to his glory, as well as the Father s, 507. Or fore-writing to judgment ; what ? ix. 226 ; leaving out of the book
of life, 227 ; appointing them, viewed as sinners, to a certain kind
or class of sins rather than others, 228 ; is a punishment of other
sins which they first commit, 230.
Original sin, first so called by Augustine, ii. 121. The term introduced by Augustine, x. 3.
Importance of acknowledging it, x. 31 ; an object for faith, ib. ; whole
guilt of Adam s first sin abides on every man, 32. Errors about, x. 41 ; Pelagius denies it altogether, ib. ; Pighius acknow
ledges imputed guilt, but denies transmitted corruption, ib. ; others admit both, but in a limited sense, ib. ; Romanists make it consist
only in the want of original righteousness, denying concupiscence to be a part of it, 42 ; both they and others exclude some of the facul
ties of the soul from being infected with it, ib. ; these errors con
futed, ib. No necessity to suppose it to be a positive quality come in the room of
original righteousness, x. 304 ; yet it hath two parts, though in itself
it be but a want of righteousness, 305 ; doctrine of, in both its parts,
is an essential truth, which our Christianity cannot want, 324 ; errors of the Socinians, Arminians, and Papists concerning, ib. Humiliation and repentance to be exercised on account of, x. 330 ; in stanced in David, Ps. li., ib. Both its guilt and its corruption abides upon man, x. 377 ; compared to the strength of a kingdom, ib.
Pains of death, could not hold Christ, what, i. 431.
Palm-tree, Christians compared to, iii. 458.
Pantheism, a devilish system, vii. 3 ; compared with the popish doctrine of
transubstantiation, ib. ; hath haunted the world in former ages as
well as now, 4 ; more dishonouring to God than heathen idolatry, 5.
Pantheists, a generation of all others the most presumptuous, iv. 351 ; make the three persons in the Godhead but three manifestations or opera tions of God in us and to us, ib.
Papists, take part with one truth of the gospel to the exclusion of others,
iv. 277. Their doctrine of the infallibility of the pope would be reasonable if God had intended the mysteries of the gospel for the satisfaction of
all mankind, iv. 304. Their errors respecting grace, vi. 187 ; that sanctification is justifica
tion, ib. ; that habitual grace is the foundation of merit, 188.
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Papists, profess to trust in Christ, but do not really so, vi. 314. Their errors have usually a shadow of some truth, which they miss speaking either over or under, vii. 159. Acknowledge God to be the first in the benefits of salvation, but deny that he is the last, viii. 39. Their error as to the nature and character of justifying faith; viii. 290. Deny that concupiscence is sin, x. 42. Error of, in holding that the higher faculties of the soul are not injured
by sin, x. 174. Admit original sin, but hold that it is cancelled in baptism, x. 325 ; different opinions of Bonaventure, Estius, Aquinas, and Suarez, ib. Parables, rule for interpreting, ix. 50. Paradise, Adam s, a type of the paradise above, vii. 50. Paradox, the greatest ever uttered, is that of James, Count it all joy, ix. 289.
Pardon, popish doctrine of, ii. 319. Power of God seen in, iii. 326. Of sinners, the procuring of, the end of Christ s death, iv. 213. If lightiy procured, would be less valued, v. 16. Of sin, a greater gift than of millions of worlds ; pardon through Christ, and Christ with the pardon, though but of one sin, is more than the pardon of worlds of sin, v. 22. Of our sin more precious than all gifts, short of grace, that have been bestowed upon all men since the beginning of the world, ix. 210. Pardoning grace, a fulness, a plenitude of grace, ix. 309 ; a security for the continuance of grace, 361.
Parents, their sins not transmitted, ii. 127. The guilt of their sins not conveyed to their children, though the guilt of Adam s sin is conveyed through them, x. 20. Parliaments and public persons, necessity of praying for, x. 33.
Of England, their responsibility, xii. 58.
Pastor, his power of ruling flows from, and is adjunct with, his power to
preach, xi. 227. And teachers are of equal rank and power, xi. 333.
Pastures, green (Ps. xxiii.), are ordinances, v. 375.
Patience, ii. 429 ; what the grace of, is, 436 ; how wrought 438 ; its perfect work, 446. And long-suffering of God extends only to sinful men, iv. 190. A further thing than mercy, as mercy than goodness, iv. 191 ; is not
slackness, ib. ; riches of it in his bearing with so much dishonour, ib. ; from so many sinners, 192 ; for so long a time, ib. ; to so great an
extent, ib. ; preciousness of it shewn in that it cost the blood of his
Son, ib. ; in regard of the usefulness of it to us, 193. Of God with his people, greater than his long-suffering with the vessels
of wrath, ix. 323.
Paid, his name, i. 7 ; his call to the apostleship, 9. His tender compassion for souls derived from Christ, iv. 118. His converts endeared to him by the sufferings they cost him, iv. 129.
Set free at once from those Jewish prejudices which long adhered to the
other apostles, v. 476. His conversion and experience, iv. 380.
After his conversion never on any occasion fell into inconsistency, vii.
157. VOL. XII. O
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Paul, a man that came nearest to Christ of any other, iv. 114. Grace rose in him to the highest elevation, ix. 254. The next man in heaven to Christ, ix. 400. In one place reckons his talent-sins, blasphemy persecution, and injuri-
ousness ; in another his farthing-sins, all manner of concupiscence, x. 475. Pawn, and earnest, how different, i. 254.
Peace, God does not always speak to his people, iii. 405 ; the cause of this
ordinarily their folly, 406 ; in proportion as they are at peace with
sin, God will be at war with them, ib. ; when they have not peace, they cannot have it nntil God speak it, 407. Of conscience is a creation of God, iii. 407 ; yet it is easy for him to
give it, 408. Made by Christ, brought by the Holy Ghost, vi. 24.
True and false, illustrated by an allegory, vi. 306 ; way in which God
gives by the tenor of the covenant of grace, 309 ; true comes from
without, false from within, 815.
False, spoken by the corrupt conscience, x. 263 ; is not a peace that comes after a war, ib. ; its effects rather negative than affirmative,
ib. ; is not from the true foundation, from reconciliation of God by Christ s blood, and justification by his righteousness, 264.
Pelagians, and semi-Pelagians, the dross they mingle with the truth, iv. 309.
Most professing Christians are essentially, in conceiving conscience and
the light thereof to be grace and holiness, vi. 248. And semi-Pelagians would have natural conscience, enlightened by the
word, to be what the Scripture calls grace, vi. 272.
Pentecost, three thousand converted on, through the efficacy of Christ s
prayer on the cross, iv. 64. Was the feast of first-fruits, and therefore the fittest time for the first
putting in of the sickle to the field, vi. 9 ; law given by Moses on the
day of, 10. PEOPLE OF GOD, THE EECONCILIATION OF ALL, DESIGNED AND AFFECTED BY
CHKIST S DEATH, v. 463.
Perfecting, stablishina, strengthening, and settling, accomplished both in this
life, and for ever, ix. 373 ; these words not absolutely synonymous, 379.
Perfecting, inquiry into the meaning of the term (xaragr/^g/i/), ix. 378.
Perfection of Christ s death, to outvie the demerits of our sins ; of his inter
cession to save our souls, iv. 68.
Its property to manifest itself, iv. 229. Alone ascribed to Christ, iii. 222.
Persecution of the saints, with malice, after knowledge of it, is unpardonable,
iv. 166.
Persecutors are seldom without fear, v. 207. Perseverance of the saints, secured by the perpetuity of the fulness of Christ,
v. 511. In grace, more remarkable than conversion, ix. 418. Person of Christ, strange and monstrous opinions respecting, ix. 404 ; im
portance of right knowledge of, 405 ; as necessary to know ichat
Christ is, as who he is, 406 ; did actually exist before he came into
the world, and was made flesh, 407 ; before his conception, 408 ; before John the Baptist, ib. ; when all the prophets wrote and spoke,
ib. ; in the time of Moses, ib. ; in and before Abraham s time, 409 ; in the days of Noah, ib. at the creation of the world, 410 ; from
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titl6S given him in his Pre-
, theSon of God,414; theopinions as to the import of the term Word, 415 ; whether it merely notes out the relation he hath to his * ather, as begotten of him, ib. ; or whether it imports his appointment to manifest God to us, 418 ; both may be included, 419 ; called the Son f trod, m respect of the substance of his person, ib. ; and that not only as taking man s nature, but as existing as such from eternity, 420 not constituted the Son of God by his divine conception in the womb of the virgin, 423 ; this title given him by way of singularity, in com parison of all other who bear the title of sons, 425 ; generation or be getting, the foundation of his Sonship, 427 ; this generation absolutely peculiar to him, ib. ; is God by an identity, or oneness of one and the same essence of the Godhead, 428 ; professed himself to be God, 430 ; is necessarily of equal height and dignity with the Father iv. 431 ; is God by nature, ib. ; otherwise were not to be worshipped, ib. ; dis tinguished from those whom the Old Testament called gods, 432 ; impossible to express more clearly that he is our God substantially or by nature, than it is expressed by Christ, 433 ; called the living God, 434 ; the true God, ib. ; Jehovah, ib. ; this name never given to a mere creature, 435 ; called the great God, ib. ; the only true God, ib.; creation ascribed to Christ, 437 ; worship, ib. ; power to forgive sins, ib. ; this person, who was and is God, took unto himself, into an unity of person with himself, the man Jesus, 440 ; see Incarnation of Christ. Person of Christ, more precious to the believer than all his benefits, iv. 481. The second, the fittest to be appointed Lord of all, iv. 527. Of Christ, its worth gives worth to his satisfaction, v. 104. Of Christ, a fulness of fitness in, for the work of reconciliation, v. 35.
Of Christ, as God and man, fits him for his mediatorial office, v. 48 ; both natures have their appropriate work, 50 ; is one, though the natures are two, 51. The second, the fittest to be mediator, v. 41 ; as the mediator, was to be
* Son of man ; if either of the other persons had been appointed, there would have been two sons, ib. ; so the due order of the persons is kept up, ib. ; being the middle person of the three, he bears the best resemblance to the work of a mediator, 42 ; fittest to convey to us the benefits of adoption, 43 ; as Son, was fittest to be priest, 44 ; as the Word and Wisdom of the Father, fittest to be prophet, ib. ; as heir of all things, fittest to be king, ib. Of Christ, error regarding, both easy and dangerous, ix. 204.
Persons, the three, in the Godhead, have a distinct part in every saving work, iii. 438 ; as Christ is the vine, the Father the husbandman, and the Spirit the sap, ib. In the Godhead distinct from each other, iv. 359 ; are found addressing each other, ib. ; speaking of one another, 360 ; each speaks of him
self as a person, ib. ; works proper to each are assigned, ib. ; spoken of as distinct, when also they are called God, ib. ; the second person having taken the human nature into one person with himself, mani
festly distinct from the Father, ib. ; have a union and communion
among themselves, which is incommunicable to us, 362. Of the Godhead held the highest and freest mutual converse among themselves from eternity, iv. 492 ; formed mutual engagements and
promises, and glorified one another, ib. Of the Godhead willing and content to take their turns of manifesting
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themselves in our narrow hearts, vii. 498 ; each glorifies the other,
ib. ; when we have a more eminent communion with one, we have an implicit communion with the other two, 499. Persons of the Godhead, in all works besides that of our salvation, have a joint
concurring, yet not any visible appearance in any one, vii. 529 ; in
our salvation they concur, each acting a distinct part, 532 ; the Father electing, the Son redeeming, the Spirit applying, 533 ; reasons
of this, 534. In the Godhead, their mutual fellowship and communion matter of in
finite delight, ix. 146 ; their delight in the sons of men next to it,
ib. ; the latter dependent on the former, ib. Personal reign of Christ, probable, xii. 70.
Reign of Christ on earth denied, xii. 96.
Peter, his release from prison, an illustration of God s manner of answering
prayer, iii. 384. An example of repeated relapsing into the same sin, iii. 420.
Christ s dealing with him after his resurrection an indication of his
heart towards his people, iv. 106.
Comparison of his sin with that of Judas, iv. 180. His striking with the sword had something good and something bad in
it, v. 216. His denial an addition to our Lord s sufferings, v. 241 ; sinned in
going into the high-priest s hall, ib. ; who was the other disciple who admitted him ? 243 ; providences connected with the denial, 245 ; his sin greatly aggravated by the time of its commission, 248 ; his silence when he stood by the fire, before being challenged, was
itself a sort of denial, 250. His vision, and the purpose of it, v. 472. In what his sin lay, vii. 517. And Judas, an instance of election and non-election, ix. 194, 273. His fall made him an able forewarner and instructor of others, ix.
231, 375.
Pharisees, the aggravation of their sin, that it was against conviction, iv. 175.
Pilate, aggravation of his sin, iv. 179. Plato thanked God that he was a man, an Athenian, and a philosopher,
iv. 167. And other philosophers stole their knowledge from the Jews, and vended it as their own, iv. 418.
Pleasures, living in, ii. 91.
Pollution, distinguished from corruption, x. 72.
Pope, the successor of the western emperors, iii. 28.
Temporal and spiritual power of the, iii. 67.
Popery, invented by the devil, in imitation of the gospel, iv. 235 ; the
greatest mystery that ever created imagination hatched, ib. A composition of all sorts of policies, and therefore called the mystery of iniquity, iv. 273. A consistent system, depending upon two assumptions, that the church
cannot err, and that theirs is the true church, x. 224. And Pelagianism natural to men, x. 419.
Popish worship, adopted from heathens, iii. 68.
Postures, sin expressed by, ii. 23. Power which works in believers, i. 211, 423; importance of knowing it, 421. Of God, limited by his will, i. 216 ; how shewed to believers, 341 ;
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in keeping his saints, 346 ; in subduing sin, 359 ; in the new crea tion, 365 ; in working faith, 373, 440 ; in renewing the will, 380 as an object of faith, 425 ; in believers, compared to his power in raising Christ, 436. To save, God s, men do not generally question, but his will, iv. 208. Of Christ s human nature, how distinguished from the divine omnipo tence, iv. 464.
Almighty, manifested in regeneration, vi. 425. And mercy of God go together, viii. 47 ; his mercy proceeds from strength, 49. Of God engaged to keep the elect from falling, ix. 213.
Spiritual or ecclesiastical, is an impress of the authority of Christ, xi. 22.
Praise, a higher exercise than thanksgiving, iv. 376 ; example of in Ps.
cxlv., ib.
Prayer, remembrance of others in, i. 279. Answers to, may be deferred, iii. 42. The grand resort of the distressed, iii, 332. Ordained of God to be a means to obtain what is prayed for, iii. 360 ; not to expect a return is to take God s name in vain, 361. Answers to, a ground of self-examination, iii. 362 ; one of the purest^of the Christian s joys, ib.
Prayers, some we cannot see answered in this world, iii. 365. For others, often answered, iii. 367 ; but not always, so as to obtain the special thing prayed for, ib. ; if not answered, turn to our good, 370. For others, if not to be answered, will cease, iii. 370.
United, each one who has joined in may take comfort from the answer,
iii. 372. Indications of God s design to answer, iii. 375 ; when he bespeaks a
prayer, that is, secretly speaks to the heart to pray much about a
thing, ib. ; when he quiets, calms, and contents the heart in prayer, 376 ; when in prayer he draws nigh to the soul, and reveals himself
to it in connection with a particular petition, 377 ; when he stirs up in the heart a particular faith in a business, and upholds the heart
to wait for it, notwithstanding all opposition, 878 ; when he puts a
restless importunity into the heart, joined with subjection to God s
will, 380 ; when the spirit of supplication becomes the spirit of obe
dience, 381 ; and the spirit of waiting, -ib. And thanks, like respiration, iii. 390. May be heard, although the thing prayed for be not granted, iii. 393 ; when the prayer itself was made conditionally, and with a reservation
of God s will, 394 ; or when the denial is the foundation for a greater
mercy, ib. ; or when a greater blessing of the same kind is granted
instead, ib. ; or when the comfort that is desired through the thing
prayed for, is given otherwise, 395 ; when God grants all that may
be, yet not the whole, 396 ; when the heart is enlarged to acknowledge
(rod s holiness and righteousness, is filled with a holy contentment
in the denial, and with thankfulness to God for not granting what he
knew to be not for the best, 397.
Their strength not to be estimated by the expressions, or gifts, or
stirring of affections, but by the faith, sincerity, obedience, and the
desires expressed, iii. 400.
Requires watchfulness, iii. 515.
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Prayer, Christ s, in John xvii., a summary of his intercession in heaven,
iv. 103. Are the keys whereby the cupboard is unlocked, whence the children have their bread, iv. 256. Why to be addressed specially to the Father, v. 8. Heard presently, v. 214.
Through the work of the Holy Ghost in us, are called our prayers, v. 363. Exercise of faith in, v. 413. May be distinctly addressed to the Third person, vi. 32.
Actings of faith in, viii. 420 ; there may be a true and effectual praying in faith without an assured persuasion that we shall obtain what we
ask, 421 ; principal objects of faith in, are the attributes of God, the
promises, the name of Christ, 422 ; none of these bind him to give the
very thing that we ask, ib. ; the main act of faith in, is a firm belief and persuasion of these objects, 434 ; for temporal blessings, 443 ; for spiritual, 451 ; several elevations of faith about absolute pro mises, 455 ; success of prayer will generally be in proportion to
faith, 457. What ought to be its chief subject, ix. 113. In Scriptures, tacitly imply promises, ix. 372, 394. The apostles generally consist of a prefatory and a petitionary part,
exactly fitted to one another, ix. 395.
Preaching, which reveals the glory and beauty of grace in its strictest and most spiritual hue, is the most welcome to good hearts, iv. 251. Of the gospel, is a picturing of Christ, iv. 319.
Private, not unlawful, v. 256.
Of the gospel, is Christ s ordinance for the conversion of sinners, xi. 360 ; its advantage over reading, 363 ; consists of exhortation and
doctrine ; extempore, improper, 378.
Predestination, God s will the first cause of, i. 101, 103 ; final cause of, 89 ;
distinguished from election, 83 ; all privileges come from, 222. Of Christ, was in and for himself, of his people in and for him, iv. 489 ; was accompanied on the instant by an act of acceptance or acquies cence on the part of the second person, ib.
Distinguished from simple election, ix. 159.
Pre-existence of Christ, iv. 407. I^re-ordination applies to Christ as well as the election, 467 ; his subsisting in a human nature depends wholly upon, 473 ; but this being pre ordained, his priority over all creatures follows of right, 475.
Presbyterians, their argument against episcopacy turned against themselves,
xi. 83. Can shew no institution for their classical assemblies, xi. 181. Claims for their government invalid, xi. 179 ; incongruities and incon
sistencies of, 214.
Presbyteries, congregational, are the natural, others are but as step-dames, xi. 165.
Presbytery is in every congregation, xi. 74. Preservation in Christ, the immediate fruits of election, ix. 221.
Price, bought with a, not a tautological, but an emphatic expression, v. 73. Priesthood of Christ on earth, was mainly in the offering of the sacrifice, in heaven mainly in intercession, and presenting the sacrifice offered,
iv. 58.
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Priesthood, an office of transcendent honour, v. 36.
Irregularities in, at the time of our Lord, v. 234 : yet their acts were valid, 235.
Priests, under the law, stood, offering sacrifices daily ; but Christ, after one
sacrifice, for ever sat down, iv. 49. Primitive Christians, examples of grace to us. ii. 298.
Principalities and powers, i. 483.
Privileges, unavailing, ii. 75. Not to be valued in comparison of Christ, iv. 338. Enjoyment of, progressive, ix. 265. Outward, unregenerate men bring arguments from, to justify their state
x. 387. Prize of our calling, what, and why so called, ix. 358.
Proclamation, by God, of his attributes to Moses, viii. 12 ; mercy excels, exceeds, and is the prevailing argument in, 15 ; made immediately after the sin of the golden calf, 16 ; is the Magna Charta of the Old Testament, 19 ; frequently quoted and referred to, 20 ; by Moses
himself, ib. ; by David, ib. ; by Jeremiah, 22 ; by Joel, ib. ; by Jonah,
ib. ; by Micah, 23 ; by Hezekiah, 24 ; by Nehemiah, ib. ; the sweetest sermon that ever was preached, the richest text the whole Bible
affords, 25 ; import of the name Jehovah, 29 ; of the name El, 45 ;
merciful, 55 ; why this attribute placed first, 56 ; is of the nature of
God, 75 ; not merely called merciful because he does works of mercy, but does works of mercy because he is merciful, 86 ; proved at length,
ib. et seq. ; objections answered, 108.
Prodigal Son, parable of, doubtful whether it refers to the conversion of a
sinner or the restoration of a backslider, ix. 356.
Promise, if one belongs to a man, then all do. iii. 321.
Promises, Christ is the foundation of all, iv. 14 ; are the casket, Christ the
jewel in them, ib. ; three sorts of, viz., absolute, inviting, and assur
ing, 15.
All made and fulfilled unto Christ first, and by him to us, iv. 121. Now revealed in the gospel are but the manifestation of the grand pro
mise made to Christ in the covenant of grace, v. 29.
First, what it contained, v. 173. Of Scripture, to be taken in the largest sense that may be,j. 214. The truth of, depends on the honesty of the promiser, viii. 121 ; and
on the assured reality of the performance of it in the event, 124.
^ Absolute and unconditional, the proper object of faith, in its first acting
of recumbency, viii. 228. Of our salvation, are but extracts, transcripts of God s eternal decrees,
viii. 240. A prime object of faith in prayer, viii. 428 ; these are express or im
plied for every good thing that God means to bestow, 429 ; yet they
are indefinite *as regards the persons, 430 ; temporal, are indefinite, 444 ; and conditional, 445 ; spiritual, of three
_ sorts, absolutely ab
solute, absolute in a qualified sense, and conditional^ 451.
Of salvation are but the expression of election, stated indefinitely with
respect to the persons, ix. 37.
All made sure in Christ, ix. 341. Of all parts of the word, have most virtue for cleansing, x. Id.
More force in, than in any other words (Luther), ix. 261. .
Prophecy, from John s time to the end, contained in book of Revelation, in. 1.
Prophecies have often a twofold fulfilment, iii. 156.
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Prophecies, double sense of, v. 460 ; instances, ib. And promises, many in Scripture yet unfulfilled, xii. 72.
Prophets, sometimes received revelations in answer to their prayers, iii. 360.
Did not fully know the mystery, the meaning, and the end of those
things which they were employed to write, iv. 283. All the writers of the Old Testament Scriptures sometimes called so, v. 160.
Propitiation, Christ made, both in his dying and in our believing on him, v.
420 ; in the one for us, in the other to us, il.
Protestants, unregenerate, are essentially papists in their ideas of righteous ness, vi. 314. Proverbial sayings, often used to excuse sin, x. 384. Providence of God, in remarkable preservations, v. 219.
Not our rule in duty, v. 245.
Equality of common, fortifies profane men against conviction, x. 386. Prudence, i. 133. Psalm xxii. is as clear a narrative of the crucifixion as Mat. xxvi., v. 224.
Publican, in the parable, an illustration of the state of heart of a pious Jew,
v. 400 The chief were equites Romani, ix. 430. Punishment, God s strange work, while mercy is natural to him, iv. 115. Of sin depends on the will of God, hatred of it on his nature, v. 15. Is not deletive of sin, v. 79 ; does not stand for obedience, 86. Which sin deserves, x. 490 ; God himself the immediate inflicter of, in
hell, 491 ; termed destruction, 495 ; inflicted by God, to the glory of his power, 498 ; is an act of justice, 514 ; of avenging wrath, 522 ; harmony between this and other divine truths, 524 ; dreadfulness of, 525.
Purging of the vines, the work of God, iii. 474 ; yet Christians not passive, but workers together with God, 475 ; purging the price of Christ s
blood, ib. ; essential to God s delight in us, ib. ; fits us for service,
ib. ; makes both persons and services more acceptable , 476. Means of, iii. 477 ; even their sins, ib. ; afflictions, ib. ; the word, ib. ; the examples of others, 478 ; inward workings upon the heart, ib.
Purity of worship, testified for by the witnesses, iii. 146. Purpose of God in himself, i. 146. Of God immutable, iv. 212. God s eternal, concerning all things, were made in Christ as God-man,
iv. 531. God s, to save men is solely of his own good pleasure, v. 12. God s, the matrix, womb, mother, in which calling and perseverance, and all lay, ix. 341 ; all made in Christ, hence their firmness and
sureness, ib.
Quakers, their error, iv. 344.
Quickening, what, ii. 205 ; with Christ, what, 209 ; all the work of God on us called so, 205.
Eachel, weeping for her children, what it means, v. 460.
Eainbow, about the throne, what it denotes, iii. 3. As God s remembrancer not to destroy the world, typical of the cove
nant of grace, and therefore said to be round the throne, iv. 397. The sign of Noah s covenant, ix. 78 ; around the throne, what it signi-
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fies, 79 ; upon the head of Christ, 80 ; the symbol of his everlasting kindness and mercy, ib.
Reading, light, iii. 518.
Reason, carnal, makes unbelievers think too favourably, and believers too unfavourably, of their state, iii. 250 ; like Ahithophel, our counsellor in worldly affairs, but not to be taken into the sanctuary, 251 ; the most desperate enemy of faith, ib. ; has most influence against faith in a time of darkness, 252. Its subserviency to faith, iv. 304 ; and human conscience were supreme in Adam, and would be so still, ib. Corrupted by sin, used in the service of lusts, x. 217 ; affords all its assistance to sin, 218 ; in justifying sinful ends, 220 ; inventing means for the accomplishment of sinful ends, 221 ; in making pleasures more delightful, 222 ; to discerning opportunities for ac complishing our sinful ends, ib. ; in inventions for concealing sin. Is able to invent some fair gloss and cover for the foulest and most gross enormities, x. 380.
Rebekah, her giving Eliezer water, an indication that his prayer was answered,
iii. 380. RECONCILIATION OF ALL THE PEOPLE OF GOD, DESIGNED AND EFFECTED BY
CHKIST S DEATH, v. 463. BY THE BLOOD OF CHKIST, v. 499.
Reconciliation, mutual, of believers, by the cross, ii. 375. Consists of two parts, peace and good will, v. 3 ; argues former friend
ship, ib. ; ministry of, consists in declaring it on the part of God, and to inculcate it on the part of men, 4 ; is represented as specially made to the Father, 7. Depends more upon fitness in the person of the mediator than on the
means that may be used, and the satisfaction that may be made, v. 34.
Begins with God, the party offended, v. 482 ; ministry of consists of two parts, to declare it on the part of God, to produce it on the part of man, ib. Work of, has been the main business of the Father from all eternity, v.
11 ; in its application is % Christ, in its design from eternity it is in
Christ, ib. May be obtained, v. 512 ; this proved by many reasons, ib. et seq ;
objections and stumbling-blocks removed, 515.
Ministry of, consists of two parts, the announcement of a reconciled
God, in order to produce reconciliation on our part, vi. 117; necessity
of, 120. In order to, there must first be a conviction that we are enemies, vi. 125 ; and an apprehension of the danger of such a state, 126 ; and
of God as placable, ib. ; and of Christ as the reconciler, 127 ; and
then a seeking of peace and reconciliation through Christ, ib. ; and
that with confession of, and mourning for, sin, 128 ; there must be
a parting with, and forsaking, all other friends and lovers, 129 ; a
resigning up of the heart, and all that it hath, to God, to be com manded and ruled by him, 131 ; a likeness of disposition, ib. ; an
endeavour to walk and behave as unto a friend, ib. ; and all proceed
ing from an inward principle of pure good will unto God, 132 ; im
portance of, 145 ; is not merely submission, 150.
Recumbency, faith of, Scriptural authority for distinguishing from assurance,
viii. 219.
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Redemption, by price, i. 124. Scheme of, not propounded by the Son to the Father, but by the Father
to the Son, v. 22. Why the contrivance of it is generally ascribed to the Father, v. 139 :
Christ s consent to it from eternity implied in its being called a cove
nant, 140.
Particular, no hindrance in coming to Christ, v. 422. Extent of, different opinions concerning, viii. 404. From a vain conversation, what it implies, ix. 349.
Reformation, how to promote it, i. 558. Defect of, iii. 140. Like the discovery of a new world, iv. 290 ; prophesied of by Ezekiel,
ib. ; and by Zechariah, 291.
Accomplished gradually, v. 528. The common people most forward in, xii. 66.
Gradual, xii. 109 ; begun with the Waldenses, ib. ; then Wickliffe and
Huss, ib.
Regenerate, in what sense they do not, and cannot, sin, vi. 213. Conformed to Christ in his condemnation, vi. 228 ; his crucifixion, 229 ; his death, ib. And unregenerate, different grounds of their assent to the law, vi. 290 ; worst estate of the former better than the best of the latter, 320. Their relish of the pleasures of sin is but by fits and paroxysms, vi. 466 ; it is but a broken delight, 467 ; their hearts are not wholly overcome with it, ib. Persons may sin against knowledge, viii. 319 ; may commit particular
sins, and omit performance of duties, 320 ; may sin against a strong pulse of conscience, 321 ; against a strong, smiting, and checking direction of sanctifying light, ib. ; may sin deliberately against
light, 323 ; the best live not fully and exactly according to their