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Full, many believers want, v. 394.
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Assurance always presupposes first act of faith of recumbency, v. 403.
Of God s love is either from signs only, or from an immediate light of the Spirit revealing God s heart and mind towards us, vii. 66. Not essential to faith, viii. 265 ; in all faith there is an assured per suasion of the things I believe, but not necessarily of my personal interest in them, 266 ; true faith may be without, 339 ; follows upon
faith, 345 ; comes in as a reward of faith, 346. May be obtained, viii. 351; blessed effects of, 354; objections answered,
356 ; how it is produced in the heart of the believer, 360 ; by the three who bear witness on earth, 361 ; how they witness, 363 ; the three who bear witness in heaven, 367 ; to be earnestly sought, 372 ; and that by all believers, 373.
Atheists, of two kinds, direct and indirect, x. 239; in what sense it may be affirmed that all wicked men are, ib. et seq. Atonement, extent of, universal as to all sins, v. 428.
Day of, purpose of its institution, v. 428 ; signification of its services, ib.
Attributes of God, engaged to believers, i. 336 ; subjected to his love, ii.
152, 160.
Infinitely more really and livelily set forth to us by what we know of Christ in the gospel, than they could have been by the creation of
millions of worlds, iv. 267.
Distinguished into communicable and incommunicable, iv. 380 ; grace is an imitation of the former, and an application of the latter, ib. Put forth most superlatively in the work of grace, vi. 428. Are partly communicable and partly incommunicable, viii. 78 ; often mentioned in pairs, 90 ; mercy and power, ib.; mercy and grace, 91; goodness and truth, 93; mercy and goodness, ib.; kindness and
mercy, 94 ; truth and mercy, 95. A prime object of faith in prayer, viii. 422 ; his all-sufficiency and power, 423 ; his mercy, 425 ; his wisdom, 426 ; his glory, ib. Of Christ, power, that is, authority, iii. 223 ; riches, 226 ; wisdom, 226. Christ s divine, blasphemed, v. 128. Awakening by the Spirit may be without regeneration, vi. 434.
Babes in Christ, in what respects they have more communion with the Father,
and old men with Christ, vii. 477.
Babylon, deliverance from, a type of the Reformation, xii. 108.
Babylonish Captivity, the sufferings and dangers of it, ix. 415. Bacon, Sir Francis (Lord), his confession of faith, iv. 541.
Backslider, restoration of, answers in all respects to the conversion of a
sinner, vi. 510.
Backsliding, in true believer, ix. 381. Baptism seals our communion with Christ, both in sanctification and in jus
tification, iv. 41 ; how it produces the answer of a good conscience, 42. Of Christ, manifestation of the three persons of the Godhead at,
vi. 420. Christ the significancy of, ix. 51. In what sense it saves, ix. 82. The seal more eminently of regeneration or calling, and therefore administered but once, ix. 362. And the Lord s supper, for the substance of them, enjoyed by the
Jews, xi. 37 ; these ordinances received and practised by Christians
in apostolic times, 38 ; are to continue to the end of the world, 39.
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Baptism, to whom and by whom it may be administered, xi. 451. Beams of the sun, why called wings, iv. 451.
Beast, the pope, iii. 20 ; its number, 72.
Beasts, four, represent the office-bearers in the church, iii. 3.
In Noah s ark, typical of the Gentiles calling into the church, ix. 65, 77.
Being, threefold : actual, purposed, possible, ix. 166.
Believers, their relation to Christ s person, i. 96 ; ordained for Christ, 98 ; have a representative being in Christ, 110; power working in them, 211; power of God engaged to them, 330; how far they may be
ignorant of the power working in them, 424 ; their position in the new world, 523 ; their state before conversion, ii. 8 ; quickened with Christ, 204 ; risen with Christ, 233, 251.
Left in darkness, to shew God s power and faithfulness in restoring them, iii. 300 ; to make them conformable to Christ s sufferings, 801; to enhance the joys of heaven, ib.; to set them in whence
spiritual comforts come, 302 ; to prove them, 303 ; especially their
faith, ib.; to destroy the flesh, 306; to humble, ib.; to lead to assurance and establishment, ib.; to train them to fear God more and
obey him, ib. ; to make them pray more and more earnestly, ib. ; to lead them to prize the light of God s countenance the more, 307. Have the same reason to trust in God that Christ had, iv. 9 ; have communion with Christ both in his condemnation and his justifica tion, 10. Not one with the Father and the Son, but one in them, iv. 363. Condition of under the New Testament much better than theirs under the Old, v. 536.
Seeing Christ in the gospel by true faith, are changed into his image vi. 218. The height of their privilege and happiness in Christ s dwelling in them.
ix. 101. Committed to God by Christ, ix. 806 ; and by themselves, 308. Have power from Christ to embody themselves into a church, xi. 802 ; they may do so without being guilty of schism, 806, 462.
Believing, before sealing, i. 238 ; mighty power of God in, 844. In Christ is, in the nature of it, a marriage act, viii. 145. Belshazzar sinned against knowledge, iv. 164.
Benefits are all the effects of God s mercy, viii. 117.
Bernard, an erroneous conceit of, exposed, v. 22.
Bible, its main argument is reconciliation, iv. 222.
Birthright, a spiritual privilege, involving the priesthood of the family
ix. 191.
Bishops, in the first ages of Christianity, were in churches and villages xi. 157. Blamelessness of the saints in the day of Christ, is not in respect of justifica
tion, but sanctification, vii. 153 ; is a privilege common to all saints, 154 ; includes perseverance, ib. ; voidness of offence against the light of conscience, 157 ; this latter a special privilege of some, ib. BLESSED STATE OF THE SAINTS IN GLORY, vii. 337. Blessedness of God lies in enjoying himself and his own glory, so the height of ours in apprehending his glory and rejoicing in it, iv. 382. Of God, a confluence of all happiness and glory, iv. 898 ; his blessed ness, in a desire to communicate it, the origin of the gospel, ix. 129. A state of full and perfect, to be entered into by the souls of saints as soon as they are dead, vii. 341.
158 INDEX.
Blessing, Christ s, of the disciples at his ascension, what it signified, iv. 46.
Of the disciples at his ascension, an indication of his heart towards his
people, iv. 107.
God, is a matter beyond the doing of his will otherwise, iv. 384.
Blessings bestowed, signs that they are in answer to prayer ; when a thing
is done in such a way that God s hand is manifestly seen in it, iii. 384 ; as when he brings it to pass against many difficulties, ib. ; or when he makes all means combine to facilitate it, 385 ; when he doth it suddenly, ib. ; when he grants the thing with an overplus above what was asked, ib. ; when there is some particular circum stance concurrent with it, shewing that his hand is in it, ib. ; when
it comes at the very time when we have been most instant and earnest,
386 ; or at the time which is evidently the fittest, 387 ; when in
regard to a matter God deals in a proportion to prayer, 388 ; when the thing granted draws the heart more to God, 389 ; and enlarges the heart with thankfulness, ib. ; and encourages the heart to pray more confidently and fervently afterwards, 390 ; when the heart is
careful to perform the vows made while praying for it, ib. ; when
faith sees clearly God s hand, ib. ; when with the mercy there comes the assurance of God s love, 391 ; when the things obtained have few thorns in them, ib.
Super-creation, of the elect, of two sorts, their being, and the endowments
of that being, iv. 535 ; of both these Christ is the foundation, ib. ; these endowments of two sorts, such as are supernatural even in
respect of our first creation state, and such as are supernatural with
respect to our fallen state, 537 ; the first sort have their foundation
in Christ s person, the second sort in his work of redemption, ib.
Temporal, enumeration of, iv. 195, et seq. BLOOD OF CHRIST, RECONCILIATION BY, v. 499.
The price of redemption, iii. 14. Preciousness of Christ s, inferred from the excellence of his person,
iii. 220. A voice ascribed to it, iv. 76 ; all blood shed calls to justice for ven
geance, 77 ; Christ s for acquittal, ib. Of the covenant, how Christ was brought back by it from the dead, v. 372. Of Christ, made precious by his person, v. 418. A perpetual fountain, that daily runs and washes after it is opened at
conversion, ix. 312.
Boasting, would not be excluded if we were justified by inherent righteous
ness, though evangelical, v. 365.
Bodius, his parallel between the mystery of Christ ""and the marriage of Adam, iv. 503.
Body, generation of, is the channel through which sin is derived to us, xii. 8. Body of Christ, the Church so called, i. 539 ; influence from the head to, 552 ; glory of, 564 ; disputes about, 560 ; unity of shewn in the
Supper, ii. 389. Boldness of access into the holiest, what ? v. 407 ; imports a removal of
fear or shame, arising from a sense of unworthiness, 408 ; a freedom from every danger, ib. ; free liberty to come if we will, 410 ; an
enlargement of heart to express our desires, 411 ; a confidence that God will grant what we ask, 413.
Book, sealed ; the decrees of God, iii. 7.
Bounty, in God, is a free, willing, and large giving of what is merely his
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own, looking for no recompense again, iv. 189; how it leads to
repentance, 194.
Branch, a name of Christ, v. 167.
Branches, such as make a profession of being in Christ, iii. 489.
In Christ, though they bear little fruit, are not taken away, iii.
451 ; because in Christ God accepts a little good, and it pleaseth him
more than sin in his displeaseth him, 452 ; because he hath ordained
that all the fruits of his children should remain, ib. ; because he
loves the person, and hates only the sin, therefore he preserves the
one, and destroys the other, 453 ; therein he shews his skill, in
that he is able to sever the corruptions without destroying the
branch, ib.
Unfruitful, cut off, iii. 454 ; because they dishonour the root upon which they profess to be graffed, ib. ; the husbandman hath no
profit of them, ib. ; because vine branches, if they bear not fruit, are
fit for nothing else but burning, 455 ; their casting out, what ? ib. ;
their withering, what ? ib. ; their gathering, what ? 456 ; their burn
ing, what ? ib.
All true, grow in grace and fruitfulness, iii. 457. Bread and wine, signify and seal the conveying to us of one whole Christ,
v. 508.
Breathing, Christ s on his disciples, the utmost expression of his heart,
iv. 105.
Brightman, Mr, his explanation of the restoring of the temple, examined,
iii. 138.
Broicnists, i. 545.
Burning of the unfruitful branches, what ? iii. 456.
Cabalists, Jewish, say that the Messiah is the treasure in which God hath hid all the riches he means to communicate to us, and also the great
steward and governor under God Jehovah, iv. 530.
Caiaphas, the first to propose that Christ should be put to death, v. 236 ; his speech at once a prophecy and a wicked counsel, ib. Cain led to offer sacrifice by education and the authority and influence of
his parents, x. 36 ; excommunicated, ib.
Calamities, duties of God s people when public and common are threatened
or feared, vii. 559 ; God s chief end in sending, is to purify his own
people, and make them better and fitter for heaven, 560 ; and to
avenge their quarrel as well as his own, 561 ; special exercises suit
able to times of, 562 ; take him for our portion and refuge, ib. ; trust perfectly in him, 563 ; be fearful of offending him, 565 ; more than ever make him the end of all our actions, 566 ; pray to him, and call upon him, and keep communion with him, ib.
Call*of office-bearers, includes choice and ordination, xi. 231.
Calling, two parts of, i. 128 ; hope of, 302. Twofold : one proper only to the elect, the other common to non-
elect, ix. 185 ; the one called according to purpose, the other not,
ib. ; the one a holy calling, the other not, 186.
Is not to grace only, but to glory, and that eternal, ix. 237.
Effectual, is the proof of election, ix. 260. The first immediate fruit and breaking forth of electing and purposing grace, ix. 277. Of the elect is of grace, of others of providence, ix. 270,279 ; the two
classes have no actings about spiritual things in common, 281.
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Calling, true ; its proper notes and effects are love to God, and holiness, ix.
286.
According to purpose, a work of that perfection in kind, with difference
from all other works found in others, as God is engaged to carry it
on unto perfection, ix. 288. The centre of two eternities, a past of purpose, a future of glory, ix. 329.
Is part of Christ s purchase, 349. The necessary consequent of election, 422.
Of Christ to his priestly office, v. 23 ; grounded on the authority of the
Father, ib. ; was on his birth-day, ib. ; confirmed by oath, ib. ; his
acceptance of it voluntary, 24 ; included a recommendation to him
of the persons to be saved, 25.
Calvin, his exposition of Col. i. 15, iv. 459.
Calvin Judaizing, the work of a wretched papist, iv. 460 ; answered by
Pareus, ib.
Cambridge, the greatest mart of truth under heaven, iv. 246, 313.
Suspected of unsouudness of doctrine, iv. 257.
Capacities, weak, God s condescension to, i. 143.
Care of God for his people, ix. 410 ; consists in the vigilancy of his eye over them, ib ; his presence continually accompanying them, 411 ;
his holding them by the hand, ib. ; taking them into his hand, ib.;
into both his hands, ib. ; the attentiveness of his memory, 412 :
objection answered, ib.; chiefly over our souls, 413.
Carnal men, ignorant of gospel mysteries, i. 141. Men may know the things which the gospel reveals, but not the riches
and glory of them, iv. 338 ; their judgment not to be trusted in
matters of grace, 240.
Men, how they know the gospel, iv. 295 ; they know it to their cost,
ib.; they know it by hearsay, ib.; they make it not the main of their
knowledge, 297, they know it not in the riches and glory of it, 299 ;
they know it not so as to have their hearts comforted by it, 300 ;
they know it not with the riches of assurance, ib.; they know it not, so that it is to them the hope of glory, 301.
Casting out of the unfruitful branches, what ? iii. 455.
Cedar, Christians compared to, iii. 458.
Censures, God s institution must put efficiency into, xi. 13.
The matter of is scandalous sin, judged so by common light and
received principles, xi. 48 ; order of proceeding in, ib.
Centuries, changes in the church often proceed by, iii. 203.
Challenge, Christ s, in Isa.l., compared with the Christian s in Rom. viii., iv. 7.
Chance, God orders all that come by it, i. 212.
Changeableness is the condition of the creature as a creature, with difference
from God, vii. 29.
Chanty, Christ lived upon, iii. 226. Cherubims over the ark represented ministers of the gospel, iv. 253, 257.
Children, an inheritance, both of their parents given by God, and of God
himself, ix. 427 ; of godly parents are the most of God s elect, 428. Of wrath, ii. 117.
Choosing and predestinating, how different, i. 83.
Chorus, in ancient plays, part of, sustained by the four beasts and twentyfour elders, in the Revelation iii. 1. Chosen in Christ, what. i. 65 ; with and in Christ, how to be distinguished, 70. CHRIST SET FORTH, iv. 1. His HEART IN HEAVEN TO SINNERS ON EARTH, iv. 95.
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CHRIST THE MEDIATOR, v. 1. His SUPER-EMINENCE ABOVE MOSES, v. 437. His DEATH DESIGNED AND EFFECTED THE RECONCILIATION OF ALL THE
PEOPLE OF GOD, v. 463. RECONCILIATION BY THE BLOOD OF, v. 499. GOVERNMENT AND DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCHES OF, xi. 485.
Christ, in Christ and with Christ, difference of, ii. 246 ; a common person, i. 72 ; a root of a new being to saints, 86 ; his fulness, what, 94, 561 ; a head to angels and men, 153 ; to the church, 545 ; came in fulness of time, 201 ; a pattern of G-od s working in us, 95, 427 ; his exaltation, 475, 513 ; his sitting at God s right hand, 466 ; believers reconciled in his cross, ii. 375 ; the subjectftof the
gospel, i. 451 ; his fulness, 561 ; his remaining in the state of death,
456"; his resurrection proves his Sonship, 429; power that raised him up, what, 460 ; his resurrection a pledge of ours, 459 ; necessity of his resurrection, 457 ; the author of it, 461 ; his twofold rela tion to his people, 119 ; his blessedness, 479 ; extent of his do minion, 499 ; his natural kingdom, 502 ; his dispensatory kingdom, 503 ; all judgments committed to him, 503 ; reasonableness of obedience to, 526 ; filleth all in all, 555 ; his dwelling in us by faith, ii. 404, 409 ; his patience, 433. The rider on the white horse, iii. 33 ; why the horse was white, 35.
Prophet, priest, and king, iii. 211. A king by three titles: by inheritance, by conquest, and by his death,
iii. 222. Lived by faith, iv. 8 ; needed justification from imputed sin, ib. ; exer cised faith in God for the salvation of those who should believe in him, 9 ; was made the greatest sinner that ever was, by imputation, ib.
Is the object of our faith, in joint commission with God the Father, iv. 11 ; in opposition to our own humiliation or graces, or duties, 13 ; his person, and not merely his promises, ib. In his personal excellencies, is rather an object of love than of faith, iv. 17 ; his person gives us title to all the promises, his blood shews the tenure they hold on, 18. His death the greatest and strangest design that ever God undertook and acted, iv. 20 ; as it hath satisfied God for the sins of many thousand souls now in heaven, so it may satisfy the heart and con
science of any sinner now on earth, 21 ; an answer to all aggrava tions of sin, 22. His sufferings more in his soul than his body, iv. 22. His death pays the sinner s debt, his resurrection tears or cancels the
bond, iv. 26 ; at once a surety and a common person, 27 ; a common
person or representative in all the conditions in which he was, all
that he did and all that he suffered, 31. The surety of the covenant, both on God s part and ours, iv. 29 ; a common person in his resurrection, 84. Downwards, to us, carries it as a king, with power to justify or con demn, but upwards, to God, as a priest, who must still intercede, iv.
61. His heart in heaven to sinners on earth ; indicated by his washing his
disciples feet, iv. 96 ; his last discourse, 98 ; his promise of the
Spirit, 101 ; his prayer for them, 103 ; his mefesage to them after
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his resurrection, 105 ; his carriage and speech on meeting them, ib. ;
his blessing them at his ascension, 107 ; his gift of the Spirit, ib. ; the miracles and conversions wrought by them, 108 ; his appearance
to Paul at his conversion, ib. ; and to John in Patmos, 109 ; his
last words in the book of Revelation, 110 ; the positive assurances
he gives in his word, 111. His work imposed on him by his Father by command, and put into his
heart, iv. 114. The natural Son of the Father, both in privileges and in properties, iv.
115 ; as God is love, so he is love covered over with flesh, 116 ;
laid down all infirmities of our nature when he ascended to heaven, but none of the graces that were in him while on earth, ib. His love; increased by what he did and suffered for us, iv. 125 ; the
engagement of his office as mediator requires of him all mercifulness
i and graciousness, 127 ; with compassion according to the measure of
every man s distress, 129 ; if he will be faithful, he must be merci
ful, 130. His own joy, comfort, happiness, and glory are enlarged by his shewing
grace and mercy, iv. 132 ; his joy in heaven twofold, communion
with the other persons, and the good of his church, 133 ; the former
invariable, the latter capable of increase, ib. ; his assumption of human nature requisite to make him compassionate, 135 ; also a
pledge of the everlasting continuance of God s mercies to him, 136 ; his manhood had all its largeness of mercy from his deity, but his
assumption of human nature adds a new way of being merciful, ib. ; may now as soon cease to be God as to be a man, 137 ; and to be
either as cease to shew mercy, ib. ; his compassion, how to be under
stood, 138 ; as God simply, incapable of any feeling of our infirmities, 139 ; his love and pity more tender and human than those of the
angels, ib. ; his human nature hath knowledge of all occurrences which befall his members here, 141 ; remembers his death, both to
put his Father in mind of it, and to affect his own heart with what we feel, 142 ; his sympathy, no man in this life can fathom how far
it reacheth, 143 ; difficult to apprehend the precise differences of his
affections now, and those he had on earth, 144. His affections of pity and sympathy do not afflict and perturb him so
as to make him sorrowful or heavy, iv. 145 ; his perfection destroys not his affections, but corrects and amends the imperfections of them,
ib. ; his affections make him not again a man of sorrows, but a man
of succours, ib. ; his joy is imperfect until all his members be set
free from sin and suffering, 1 47 ; how he can pity his people under
their sins, 148 ; how he bore our sicknesses, 149 ; sins of his people move him to pity more than to anger, ib. Hath such riches of merit as are able to pay all the sinner s debts, and
to purchase for him more grace and glory than all the angels have in
heaven, iv. 161. His giving himself for us, what is implied in it, v. 175 ; he gave all his
doings, works, operations, and actings, ib. ; he gave up the comforts of life, 176 ; he gave his body and soul, ib, His willingness to save sinners, shewn by the greatness of the work he
undertook for this very end, iv. 209 ; and by its being his Father s
will and appointment that he should do so, ib. Died as a testator, and is alive to be his own executor, iv. 215. Second to his Father in order of being, of working, and of willing, but
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not in heartiness of willing, iv. 216 ; his oneness in will with the Father, the security of his people s salvation, 217 ; his delights set from eternity on the salvation of men, 218.
Christ, his friendship to sinners so notorious that it was made a matter of
reproach to him, iv. 219 ; his only joy recorded was at the conver sion of souls, ib. ; his whole heart set upon it now, 220. More glad to save us than we to be saved, iv. 223 ; would be preaching the gospel on earth now, but that he has more important work to do for his redeemed in heaven, ib. The riches of his mystery set forth to spoil the lustre of all other wis dom, iv. 227. Is the compendium and model of the world, having all the excellencies of all the creatures summed up in him, iv. 232.
Knowledge of, contains in it all the treasures of wisdom, and all that is
worth knowing, iv. 241. His person contains all the excellencies of all creatures, and the know
ledge of him the excellency of all knowledge, iv. 309.
4 Formed in you, not spoken in respect of sanctification, but of the
apprehension of Christ, iv. 322. In the believer, implies that the object of his knowledge is Christ, iv. 334 ; that all the glory and riches of Christ are his, 337. Though he is in heaven, is in the heart of every Christian by faith, iv. 336.
Applied as necessary for salvation as Christ redeeming, iv. 343. His human nature not turned into the divine, iv. 351. Made another Christ, either by adding to him or by taking from him,
iv. 453 ; his glory does not consist only in his being a redeemer, but in whatever God himself can challenge glory from, 454 ; as God-man, had, in the decrees and purposes of God, the joint honour to be the
eldest or first-born therein, 455 ; his person consists of all sorts of
things in heaven and earth, 456 ; his personal excellencies are either
native and inherent in his person as God-man, or are: extrinsecal
royalties, inconceivable to any mere creature, 457. The Creator and upholder of all God s works, iv. 458 ; is head of his
church, ib. ; has all manner of privileges, in which any in heaven or
earth may be supposed to excel, and that with a pre-eminence, 459 ; his pre-eminence and fulness apart from his work of redemption and
reconciliation, ib. As God-man, the first-born of every creature, iv. 468; the final cause
or end of all things, 471 ; at once the appointed heir and the rightful inheritor of all things, 474. Holds his personal glory in heaven by the tenure of natural right, of
purchase, and of decree, iv. 476. As second person, had, from all eternity with God, the glory of being Godman, iv. 491.
First ordained absolutely to be God-man, and the church elected with
relation to him, iv. 504. In what sense called the everlasting Father, iv. 516,. As God-man, ordained from eternity as a middle person between God and his creatures, iv. 518. Created all things in his special character or relation of God-man, iv. 533 ; difficulty solved, 538 ; is Lord of all creatures, but head only of elect men and angels, 542 ; not known as the Creator until re
vealed as the redeemer, 543. In what sense called the Wisdom of God and the Power of God, iv. 556.
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Christ, as God-man is the upholder of all things, iv. 563 ; the governor of all
things, 564 ; the judge of all, ib. ; the founder of that other world
into which he shall bring his people, 565. Must be both God and man in order to be fit for his office as Mediator, v. 34. The fulness of his abilities for the work of reconciliation, v. 68.
One action of his capable of more worth than another, though all had
an infinite moral dignity from his person, v. 119 ; his obedience ex
ceeded in goodness the utmost evil that was in sin, 120 ; his obedience
invested with the glory of his person, 121.
Being God, able to be his own priest, sacrifice, and altar, v. 134. His willingness from eternity to the work of redemption, v. 138 ; his
consent renewed on his coming into the world, 141 ; when his human
nature gave consent ? 143. From his infancy, acted not only holily, but mediator-like, v. 166 ; his
stedfast resolution in prospect of his last sufferings, 168. Made under the law, v. 180
; under its accusing and its condemning
power, 181 ; made sin for us, ib. ; only by imputation, 182 ; repre sented in the Psalms as confessing the sins thus laid upon him, 183 ; was not only a messenger but a surety, 184 ; died not for proposi
tions, to make them true, but for persons, 185 ; knows all the sins
for which he made atonement, 186. How made a curse for us, v. 188 ; not only bore the curse of the judi
cial law in hanging on a tree, but of the moral, 189 ; though beloved
of God, yet punished not out of love, but wrath, ib. ; dignity of his
person gave an infinite merit to his sufferings, but not so as to pro cure an abatement, 191 ; his sufferings, in an exposition of John
xviii., 196. His willingness to suffer, v. 202. His great care for his people, v. 212, 214.
Acutely sensible of the disgrace of his arrest, v, 228 ; supposed to have been led seven miles between his arrest and his death, 230. Taken through the sheepgate, through which the animals were brought
to the temple for sacrifice, v. 230. His examination by the high priest, v. 251 ; in his answers does not stand upon his prerogative as the Messiah, but on his rights as a man, to hear the charges stated against him, and proved by witnesses, 258. Considered in the excellency of his person, might be an object of faith
for angels, but Christ only as crucified is for sinners, v. 292 ; con
sideration of his love works mourning for sin, 294. Overcomes Satan for us and in us, v. 302 ; a lamb and a lion, 304 ; his triumph over Satan visible to the spiritual world, 305 ; fights with him anew at the conversion of every sinner, 308 ; overcomes him
by us, 309. His and his saints final victory over Satan at the day of judgment, v. 331. His fulfilling of the law for us, v. 338. Bears and bore the same offices wherein he places his officers under him
in the church (deacon, bishop or elder, pastor or shepherd, apostle), v. 367; led through the sheep-gate to be sacrificed, 369. Hath all perfections in him to the height, and mixtures of contraries in
their full perfections, v. 379. A great high priest, as compared with Aaron, v. 383 ; he is the only
priest, ib. ; offered but one sacrifice, ib. ; takes away sin, ib. ; in
his person, higher than the heavens, ib. ; the great trust reposed in
him, 384 ; the great solemnity at his instalment, 385 ; the continu-
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ance of his office, 386 ; in his great love to us, ib. ; in the sacrifice which he offered, ib. ; in respect of the temple and tabernacle made for him to officiate in, 387.
Christ presents his people first to himself, and then to his Father, v. 435 ; his person more excellent than any or all his offices for us, 436. Gave the law on mount Sinai, v. 441 ; a proof that he is God, ib. His second coming, effects that shall attend it, v. 448 ; compared with those at the giving of the law, 449. His fulness, v. 502 ; of fitness, ib. ; of ability, 504 ; of faithfulness, 507 ; of righteousness, ib. ; of acceptation with God, 509 ; of eter
nity and perpetuity, 510. Reasons for the lateness of his coming, v. 535. How said to be appointed heir, v. 540 ; how he differs from other heirs, 541 ; as Son of God he is born heir, as Mediator he is appointed heir, 542. Why called the Sun of righteousness, vi. 219. Why called a quickening Spirit, vii. 79. Whence the value of his sufferings ariseth, vii. 109.
Represented to us as a quickening Spirit, is a proper object of our faith,
viii. 180. Ordained in election for higher ends than our salvation, ix. 94. Is the author of predestination, as well as the Father, ix. 104. His predestination the pattern of ours, ix. 105 ; his catholic prayer, 107 ; its grand subject is union, ib. ; What union ? 108. Whether he prayed as second person, or only as God-man, ix. 189. Is head and husband first, and then Jesus or Saviour, ix. 343.
Still greatly exercised with Satan on behalf of us, ix. 408 ; disputes every inch of ground he wins from him in our hearts and in the
world, ib. Took our nature, and every part of it, to sanctify it, x. 130. His character, the express image of God, x. 420. Has a double relation to his church, one as head simply considered, the other as Redeemer, xii. 85.
CHRISTIANS, THREE SEVERAL AGES OF, IN FAITH AND OBEDIENCE, vii. 473.
Christians living as Gentiles, ii. 74 ; the primitive Christians patterns of
grace to us, 298.
Young, in danger of hypocrisy, old, of deadness, iii. 467. Three degrees of, babes, young men, and maidens, v. 319 ; are born
for soldiery, and conflicts with sin and Satan, ib. The fundamental constitution of, is being in Christ and united to him,
v. 350.
Young, think that they have all knowledge, v. 530. Their life the most delightful of all lives, vii. 138.
Primitive, their ambitious aspiring after death, vii. 399 ; not for the sake of getting rid of their bodies, 401 ; nor to escape their suffer
ings, 403 ; but to be admitted into glory, 405. Liable to fall into remissness, ix. 890. CHURCH-COVENANT, TWO LETTERS CONCERNING, xi. 526. CHURCHES OF CHRIST, GOVERNMENT AND DISCIPLINE OF, x. 425.
Church, universal, what meant by, i. 172, 538 ; particular, what, 540 ; is
the body of Christ, 539 ; how Christ filleth, 555 ; is the Father s
gift to the Son, 535 ; all offices in, must be held from the Head, 537.
Unity of in all ages, iv. 302. Of the elect, their special dependence upon the one Lord Christ, as
166 INDEX.
God-man, iv. 533 ; receive from him a super-creation being and supercreation blessings, ib.
Church, different opinions concerning the constitution of, xi. 3.
Universal, not a political body, xi. 50 ; never met in that capacity, 51. In the New Testament, means a single congregation, xi. 86 ; never the
meeting of the elders alone, 88 ; its chief object is worship, 89.
Universal, and an instituted particular church, wherein they agree, xi. 292 ; wherein they differ, 296. The best needs further reformation, xii. 110 ; mountains of opposition in the way, 111 ; God s power shewn in their removal, ib. ; hopes
of, in Christ s love to his church, 115.
Church-members, the communion they ought to have with one another, xi. 353.
Churches, only congregational, xi. 6 ; their constitution hath a necessary dependence on the authority of Christ, 8 ; right government of, a
part of worship under the New Testament, 9 ; the law of nature not
sufficient to set up any thing that is parallel to a divine institution,
ib. ; there must be a special divine institution for the government of, 10 ; all the duties performed in, are duties amongst all Christians by the common law of Christianity, 11 ; constitution of, is uniform, and of one kind and sort, 14 ; the New Testament contains many parti cular directions and notes for government of, 17 ; men s hands and
skill excluded from the constitution of, 20 ; all under the apostles ordered by the same rule, 32. Their privileges and institutions do not depend on the charter given to
the church universal, xi. 52. In the apostolic times, were bodies cast into fixed relations both in
respect of public worship and judicature, xi. 63. Are only particular congregations, xi. 67.
The same assembly that meets for worship is to meet for discipline, xi. 80 ; the congregational government hath its bounds natural from a sufficiency of elders, ib. from the time appointed for worship, which is the Lord s day, ib. ; the duties of elders to teach and to rule should be of the same extent, 81. What intercourse or communion they should hold with each other, xi. 261 ; should afford part of their spiritual good things, 267 ; should communicate in privilege, but not in jurisdiction, ib. ; should acknow
ledge one another s censures, ib. ; may send out elders to those that are in want, but without jurisdiction, 268 ; should counsel one another, ib. should communicate their temporal things, send alms, &c., 269 ; should manage common things in common, ib ; these
obligations more special upon churches in the same nation, 276 ; may declare non-communion with other churches, 279. Circumcision was not merely the seal of a temporal covenant, vi. 86.
City, fall of tenth part of, not the destruction of Rome, iii. 184 ; though it may be one of the means towards it, 185 ; one of the kingdoms of Europe, 186 ; perhaps France, 188 ; or Britain, 189. Where our Lord was crucified, means Rome, iii. 160.
Clergy, Romish, became more corrupt after the gospel began to be preached,
iii. 101.
Colossians, Epistle to, sets out Christ in all his personal excellencies and fulness, more than any other of the Epistles, iv. 450. Comfort, degrees of, iii. 9.
Spiritual, not necessary to the being, but to the well-bein^ of a Chris
tian, iii. 292.
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Comforter, the Holy Ghost a" better than Christ could have been had he remained on earth, iv. 101 ; dwells at once in Christ s heart and in
ours, and so communicates Christ s thoughts of love to us, and our
prayers and faith to him, ib.
Comforts, outward, the sparks of a man s own fire, iii. 348. God of all ; God so called because he has in readiness a particular
special comfort to give forth to every discomfort, ix. 251.
Coming of Christ ; to see his spouse, and to fetch her, iv. 100.
Commission, sins of; more heinous than of omission, ix. 384. Communication of God to his people is of himself, his attributes and per
sons, ix. 102 ; is founded upon union, 105. Communion of the persons in the Godhead consists in the Divine eternal
life, iv. 365 ; the mutual interest or propriety which they have in
the things of each other, 367 ; in their mutual communication and
enjoyment, 368 ; in their mutual knowledge and acquaintance each
with the others, ib. ; in the imparting of secrets and the discovery of
each other s minds, ib. ; in their mutual love and delight, 369 ; in
their possession of one common and equal glory and blessedness, 370.
Of the Divine persons, the original of the communion of the saints wit)
God, ix. 130 ; in two particulars, 133, 145. With God, emptiness of duties without, i. 287. One hour of, gives more joy than an eternity of sinful pleasures,
iii. 415. To be maintained by taking occasion to come into his presence, vii.
198 ; telling him still how well we love him, 199 ; delighting much
in him, 201 ; unfolding our secrets to him, 202. Two ways of, and only two ; faith here, and sight hereafter, vii. 420.
With God and Christ, the only source of the fulness of joy, viii. 394 ; is
most vital, 397 ; hath for its seat both the understanding and the will,
398 ; hath the most perfect object, ib. ; is founded on the closest of
all unions, ib. ; faith, ib. ; the conjugal union of the will to God in
the bonds of love, 399.
Two, and but two ways of, to all eternity ; by faith and by sight, xii. 11.
Of saints, is the end of a church as such, xi. 108 ; is more intimate
under the gospel than under the law, ib. ; the greatest that is pos
sible on earth is by public worship, 109 ; and that of the same per
sons, under the same elders, ib. ; this end best secured by congrega
tional churches, 110.
Conception of Christ s human nature did not defile, because without genera
tion, v. 59. Of Mary, was immediately upon her consent to the angel s message,
v. 146.
Concupiscence, denied by the papists to be sin, x. 42.
Conditions of the covenant of grace on our part are only necessary means o
being made partakers of Christ and salvation, ix. 72.
Confession of sin, an eminent ingredient in reconciliation to God, vi. 1 3b.
Confidence, carnal, followed by darkness, iii. 293.
In inherent grace may lead to the withdrawal of grace, iii. 494.
Congregation, a single, of saints, having a sufficient number of elders ana
officers, is an entire seat of all acts of government, as well as
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worship, xi. 132 ; objections answered, 174.
Congregational churches, argument for, from the village churches, xi. Vo ;
from the city churches, 101 ; exactly accommodated to the various
conditions of saints, 107.
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Congruity, Jesuit doctrine of, i. 351.
Conscience, natural, does not discover unbelief, ii. 340. In the believer, may foment doubts and fears, iii. 254.
Through its remaining defilement, Satan has a certain power over it in
the believer, iii. 271 ; God alone can fully search and know it, ib.
Answer of a good, how by the resurrection of Christ, iv. 42.
Natural, the peace that it gives in doing well, v. 304.
Natural and enlightened, its effects often mistaken for regeneration, vi. 231 .
Is the Zion or David s-tower in the soul, from which the law goes
forth to the utmost ends thereof, vi. 236 ; hath had great and power
ful effects upon men whom the Scriptures pronounce unregenerate, 238 ; in heathens, 239 ; in Jews under the law, ib. ; particulars of
these effects, 243.
Its light is from God, yet is not the relics or remainder of original
holiness, vi. 253 ; why called the candle of the Lord, 254 ; is a light vouchsafed to all, more or less, through the mediation of Christ, ib. ; has a power over the rest of the faculties, 257 ; is the seat of the
dominion which the law has over a natural man, 258 ; is God s means of punishing sinners in their spirits, 259.
All its strength and force lies in the law, vi. 260 ; in an unregenerate man, turns the gospel into law, as faith, in a regenerate, turns law
into gospel, 261 ; exercises a tyrannical and forced government over
the heart, ib. ; has a goodness above that which is merely natural, and yet is not holiness, or any degree of it, 267 ; goodness of, is
only in the regenerate, 268 ; is always joined with faith, 270 ; defi
ciency of in the unregenerate, 274 ; that alone good which maketh
the heart good, 277. Proofs of its deficiency, in its highest operations upon heathens, vi. 278 ; none had a universal goodness, ib. ; their highest virtues were
only in the letter, not in the spirit, 279.
Natural, urgeth that a duty ought to be done, but does not give the
will to do it, vi. 280 ; gives light and enforcement from legal motives
to the duty, but gives no new inward strength, 281 ; cannot sweeten
the law to a man, and cause him to delight in it, 282 ; discovers sin, but does not kill it, ib. ; why men mistake for true grace, 283 ;
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God, what is implied in, 297. Not subordinated by faith, sets a man into a legal way, ix. 203.
Natural, as a creature of God, is good with a natural kind of goodness, but not with that kind of goodness which the law hath in it, x. 97 ; good reason to believe that it is not derived to us by birth, but restored
by a new gift, 100 ; does not dwell in the mind, or become natural
ised in man s nature, 104 ; the light of, defiled by the impurity of man s nature, ib.
Corruption and defilements of, x. 257 ; the best thing in man, yet de
filed, ib. ; is exceeding partial in its office, ib. ; is partial in telling a man what is his duty, and so is unjust to God, 258 ; is often ex
ceedingly scrupulous of its own traditions, and the traditions of men, when it is lame and negligent in things which the word enjoins, 259 ; makes use of arguments drawn from self-interest and its lusts, and
urges carnal motives to persuade to good actions, 260 ; joins with
lusts to colour and countenance actions which are done chiefly out
of lusts and ill ends, 261 : is bribed to find out arguments, and to
plead in justification of actions utterly unlawful, 262 ; speaks peace when there is no reason or ground for it, 263 ; effects of, which may
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be mistaken for the workings of grace, 265 ; it causes an inward
conviction, combat, and strife in the heart against sin, ib. ; differences
of this from the working of grace, 266-277.
Liberty of, xi. 473 ; professing Christians, though they differ, should not judge or despise one another, 476.
Constantine, the male child, Eev. xii., iii. 65, 365.
Contempt of God involved in not looking for a return of prayer, iii. 398. Continuance in grace, part of Christ s purchase, ix. 350. Contribution and collection for the saints, not a civil matter, but a religious
ordinance, vii. 319.
Conversion, power of God in, i. 356; best definition of, 381 ; what things in
the soul fall short of it, 405 ; is a resurrection, 438 ; power put forth
in, 428. Of the Roman empire to Christianity, the subject of Rev. vi. and xii.,
iii. 208. Manner of, various, iii. 461 ; sudden or gradual, ib. ; doubts and fears
incident to the two classes, 462. Includes the impartation of a new Jdnd of knowledge of what was known before, iv. 295. Both in the whole, anda in every part thereof, attributed to the Holy Ghost, vi. 48.
Described, from the observation of Elihu, vi. 123. Process of, under the old dispensation, described from the book of Job,
vi. 366. Produces a gracious disposition and resolution to convert others to
God, vi. 512. Of a soul a matter of infinite moment, viii. 150 ; a believer cannot
always tell when it was done, but he can tell when it was not done, 151. Romish and protestant views of, viii. 301.
Second, ix. 380 ; an acting over again of all the parts of conversion at
first, 387. Not a thing to be ashamed of, x. 35. The great hindrance of, is false and deluding pleas in men s hearts,
x. 379.
Converted, worst state of, better than the best of the unconverted, ix. 314.
Conviction of sin, is the Spirit s proper work, vi. 18.
First produced by the law, deepened by the gospel, vi. 362. Of sin and humiliation, necessity of, vi. 382 ; to wean the heart from
the comfort that is in sin, ib. ; to make it restless after Christ and his
righteousness ; of unbelief necessary, ib. ; objections answered, 385.
Corinth, church of, the fullest model of a church in the New Testament,
xi. 82.
Cornelius, the first uncircumcised man baptized, v. 471.
Corrupt, since all are by nature equally, why do not all commit the same
sins? x. 64 ; the constitution of their bodies are not alike, 65; the
strength and largeness of their faculties are different, ib. ; some have
their sins drawn out more than others, 66 ; God restrains men s
lusts by his providence, ib.; G-od broacheth sin in a methodical
manner, making one sin the punishment of another, 67 ; corrupt
nature is not in every man capable of committing the sin against the
Holy Ghost, ib. ; though men are not inclined to every sin at all
times, yet at several times they are drawn out to them, 67.
Corruption, original, restraint of, in natural men by the Holy Ghost, i. 391 ;
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the doctrine known under the Old Testament, ii. 80 ; chiefly in the
will, 94 ; of the whole man, 109 ; comes by birth, 115, 122.
Corruption, discovery of, a means of purging, iii. 478. Of nature, various opinions respecting it, x. 40 ; Pelagius denied it al
together, 41 ; so did Pighius, ib. ; some admit it, but deny the sin-
fulness of it, ib. ; papists extenuate its sinfulness, 42 ; examination
of these opinions, ib.
Is in some sense the nature of man, x. 43 ; is the predominant prin
ciple of all his actions, ib. is a body that hath multitude of numbers, 44 ; proved by the experience of all mankind, 45 ; confirmed by testimony of the Gentiles, 46 ; assumed in the appointment of magis
trates, the making of laws, the institution of the ministry, ib. ; shewn
by the law of God, ib. ; by the gospel, 47. Of man s nature, grounds of, x. 48 ; Adam s nature corrupted, and the
image of God destroyed, by his first sin, ib. ; this follows from the nature of sin, 49 ; if his nature were thus corrupted, then must
ours, 51 ; because he represented us, ib. ; because our nature was
in him, 52 ; because we were to have our natures from him, ib. ; is not only a misery and a punishment, but a sin, 55 ; the Scriptures call it so, ib. ; godly men, guided by the Spirit of God, in the sense of their own vileness, have acknowledged it, ib. ; the law of God condemns it, 56 ; is contrary to grace, and therefore is sin, ib. ; its
effects prove it to be a sin, 58 ; every man prone to all sin, and hath
all sins in him, 59 ; Grounds and causes of this, 62 ; objections an
swered, 64 ; importance of cleansing ourselves from, 68 : nothing that is in nature can do this, 72 ; Christ came to be a refiner, 73 ; what purging is, 74 ; how it is to be accomplished, 75 ; is matter of
humiliation, 77 ; is the mother of all actual sins, 81 ; and the poten tial root of millions more, 82. Its several degrees, x. 85 ; weakness, ib. ; a total privation of all that is
good, 86 ; entireness of the weakness, 89 ; ungodliness, ib. ; consist
ing in a want and emptiness of those dispositions and abilities in our
natures, whereby once we were enabled and inclined to sanctify God as God, 90; darkness of the speculative judgment and under
standing, 91 ; bias of the practical judgment, 92 ; alienation of the
will and affections from him, 93 : is in all parts of man s nature, 126.
Is not a transformation of man s substantial nature into the image of the devil, x. 283. Is mainly manifested by the lusts of the heart, x. 306.
Inherent, a subject of repentance, x. 361 ; its great sinfulness, 362 ; more sinful than any other gross actual sin, ib. ; or than all actual sin put together, ib. ; the mother of all other sins, and capable of
producing an infinite number, 369. Two classes of, the manifest works of the flesh, and such sins as rash
anger, love of the world, spiritual pride, &c., iii.J 424. Suffered to remain in believers, iii. 448 ; that God may thereby the more set forth and magnify his justifying grace by Christ s righteous ness, ib. ; to illustrate the grace of perseverance, and the power of God therein, ib. ; to increase the confusion of the devil in the end, and make the victory over him more glorious, 449 ; to keep them from spiritual pride, ib. ; to humble them, 450 ; to give them occa sions for self-denial, ib.
Counsel, of God s will, i. 217 ; immutability of God s, 211.
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Counsel, in what sense attributed to God, iv. 471.
To be asked of God upon all occasions, and in all, especially in great, turnings of our life, vii. 203 ; and ought always to be followed, 206.
Immutability of God s in electing grace makes it not only warrantable, but a duty, for even the weakest believers to have recourse to it, viii. 241. Of God, expresses his deepest wisdom, ix. 425.
Court, outer, treading down of, what, iii. 123, 127 ; purpose of, 181. COVENANT, A CHUKCH, TWO LETTERS CONCERNING, xi. 526.
Covenant, of grace, mutual engagements of the Father and the Son in, v. 27 ;
is the subject of supreme delight to all the persons of the Tri
nity, 32. Of grace, makes over to us, for our good, all that is in God, both per sons and attributes, vi. 59. Of works, was united to the nature of Adam as a creature, and such as
became his Creator to make with him, vii. 49. Of grace, how figured by the two covenants made with Noah, ix. 56 ;
justification mainly by the first, perseverance by the second, 59, 64 ;
its absoluteness, 70 ; how this is to be understood, 71 ; its stability, 72 ; confirmed by sacrifice, 74. Of grace eternal, both a parte ante, and a partepost, ix. 397. Of the gospel, is a collection of promises, ix. 423.
Covenants, both among the Jews and the Eomans, made by striking hands,
iv. 28.
CREATION, CONDITION OF THE STATE OF THE CREATURES BY, vii. 3.
Creation, days of, i. 520. God imperfectly revealed in, iv. 26.
God s eminent purpose in, was the manifestation of himself, and his
perfections, to creatures reasonable, iv. 477 ; and to shew his love and communicate his goodness to those creatures, 480 ; these ends most fully accomplished in the assumption of a human nature into union with the divine, 477. And government of the world ordained to depend upon Jesus Christ as
Lord, as well as upon God the Father as God, iv. 517. Did not involve any obligation on God to bestow grace on the creature,
vii. 22 ; it became God to endow intelligent natures with his own
image of holiness, 24 ; and to continue his favour and goodness to
them, if they continued to keep their state of holiness, 25.
Creators, often spoken of in the plural, an argument for the doctrine of
the Trinity, iv. 355. CREATURES, THE CONDITION OF THEIR STATE BY CREATION, vii. 3.
Creatures might be annihilated by God without injustice, iv. 466.
Would not have been made but for Christ s undertaking to be himself a
creature, iv. 544. Their inability to take away sin, v. 75 ; as the blood of bulls and goats, 78; ourselves either by suffering or by doing, 79 ; saints, 80 ; angels, ib. A mere, could not have been our mediator, because it was not fit that such an one should be made the object of our faith, v. 38 ; nor a fit
person to whom to yield that obedience which must be due to the
mediator, 40 ; not being almighty, could not have assured our salva
tion, ib. Though they can rob God of his glory, can add no glory to him, v. 123. Why they could not make satisfaction for sin, v. 492. In what sense they live, move, and have their being in God, vi. 459.
172 INDEX.
Creatures are not God, vii. 3 ; absurdities of Pantheism, ib. ; have not existed
in God from eternity, 7 ; if they had, their existence would not have
been the bestowal of a benefit, but a putting of them into a worse con
dition, 10 ; it is a humbling of God to cast an eye upon, 17 ; their
being is but the shadow of being, 18 ; their distance from non-
existence is finite, from the being of God is infinite, 20.
All made mutable, vii. 28 ; no obligation upon God to keep them from
falling, ib. ; yet did not exert any influence to make them fall, ib. ; as made out of nothing, would fall to nothing again, if not sustained
by God s power, 32 ; if any be confirmed in goodness, and made
indefectible, it is not of creation right, but supernatural grace, 45.
Crucifixion, accounted a cursed death by the Gentiles as well as the Jews, v.
262 ; the most painful kind of death, 270.
Curse, how Christ was made for us, v. 188 ; consisted in the whole wrath of
God, and therefore comprehended all curses, 191 ; the frailties of man s
nature, 192 ; the miseries incident to man s life, 193 ; death both
bodily and of the soul, 196. Of God may be upon man in this life, vii. 299.
Curses which men utter upon themselves, dangerous, v. 240.
Daniel, the 12th chapter of his prophecy identical with Eev. xi., iii. Ill, 203.
Darkness, spiritual, the greatest evil that can befall us, iii. 235.
Walking in, sometimes taken for living in sin, iii. 237 ; sometimes for
living in ignorance, ib. ; sometimes for a state of discomfiture and
sorrow, ib. ; arising either from temporal suffering, ib. ; or from the want of spiritual comfort, 238 ; as unbelievers may
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rejoice in the light, so a child of God may for a time walk in dark
ness, 247. Directions to a soul in, iii. 315; take heed of rash, desperate, impeni
tent, and unbelieving speeches and wishes, ib. ; make diligent search
into the cause of God s hiding himself, and into the main doubt in
thy heart, 316 ; consider as well what may work for comfort as what may work against thee, 319 ; call to remembrance former light, 320; renew faith and repentance, 322 ; be peremptory and resolute in faith and turning to God, let the issue be what it may, 324 ; Trust in the name of the Lord, 325 ; wait upon God, in the constant use of all ordinances and means of comfort, 330 ; pray, 332 ; rest not in ease, but healing, 337. Walking in, a rare experience of believers, iii. 341.
Davenant, Bishop, on supralapsarianism, ix. 87.
David, his behaviour when Shimei cursed, ii. 450. Often deprived of the light of God s countenance, iii. 239. His master-desire was to dwell at Jerusalem, iii. 378.
Aggravation of his sin in the matter of Uriah, iv. 180. His hope founded on the covenant of God, ix. 240 ; confirmed by his own experience, 246 ; his dying testimony to God s faithfulness, 249. A specimen of his intercourse with God (exposition of 2 Sam. vii. 18-
22), ix. 263 ; his last and best work, 268. His confession of the multitude of his sins, x. 479. Day of judgment, a long day, i. 525. 1260, 42 months, and a time, times and half a time, identical, iii. 119. For a year, iii. 120. Of Christ, what ? vii. 150.
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Day of judgment, a mistake to suppose that Paul expected in his own age, vii. 150 ; solemnity of, constantly before our eyes, would make us to be sincere and blameless, 159.
Deaconship, the lowest office in the church, xi. 347.
Death, pains of, Christ could not be held by, i. 431.
Spiritual, ii. 9 ; unlike bodily, 10 ; threefold, 17 ; degrees of, 19 ; what meant by, 202. Of the believer with Christ and in Christ, how to be understood, iv. 33. Of Christ, can be put to no other use than the salvation of souls, iv. 221. Of Christ, valuable in proportion to the value of the life as by him abandoned, iv. 328. The most terrible of terrible things, v. 90. Of Christ, a superabounding satisfaction for sin, v. 130. In itself is a curse for sin, v. 262 ; of Christ, the shame of it, 263 ; the
pain of it, 269.
Spiritual is the main part of the curse, v. 271 ; the pains of this en dured by Christ in the sorrows of his soul, 273. The shooting the gulf into the separate state of souls, vii. 339. To be enabled to exercise faith and hope in Christ at the hour of, a
singular blessing, vii. 342.
Declarations, absolute, and unconditional promises, the proper object of the
faith of recumbency, viii. 205 ; no qualifications already wrought in a man can be a ground and object for his first act of faith, 208.
Decrees, of the end and the way, i. 115 ; blessings designed for us in, 117. Of God immutable, iv. 212. Of God are but the preparations of all those benefits and mercies which
God intended to bestow on us, iv. 282.
Especially of election, and of reprobation also, matter of praise, iv. 391.
Of God admit of a subordination of one to another, iv. 471. And purposes of God all presupposed and took in Christ to be the Lord
of us and of all things, iv. 517. Of God backed and guaranteed by his attributes, ix. 243. Of election and predestination are absolute and infallible, ix. 419.
Defilements of the mind distinguished from its defects and imperfections, x. 141.
Dependence honours God more than service, v. 14.
Deposition, whether an officer may be deposed for an offence which, in a
private member, would not deserve excommunication, xi. 453.
Desires of sealed Christians, i. 288. And counsel, sometimes God fulfils both, by giving the believer what he prayed for, and as he prayed for it ; sometimes the desire, but not the counsel, iii. 883. Of all nations, an epithet of Christ, v. 443 ; illustrated by similar ex
pressions, ib. .
Despair arises not from the greatness or heinousness of a man s sins, but from
stubbornness and unbelief, vi. 887.
Devils, subordination among, i. 485 ; different orders of, ii. 39 ; their place, 43 ; their torments reserved, 45.
Prince of the power of the air, ii. 35 ; his first sin, 87 ; his subjects, 52 ; when his kingdom ends, 48 ; it consists in sin, 51 ; his pleasure in
the sins of men, 46 ; his power more limited under the new testa
ment, 65 ; his working on men, 60 ; works differently at different
periods, 63.
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Devil, the only difference between him and the glorious angels is sin, iv.
156.
According to the schoolmen, cannot repent, because of the fulness of
the knowledge against which they sin, iv. 165. Hath a special malice at the person of Christ, and at all truths concern
ing him, iv. 449. Why does he flee when resisted ? v. 324. As well as men, to be openly judged in the last day, v. 338 ; the saints
are to be their judges, 335.
Incapable of some kinds of sin, x. 65.
Hitherto hath had more subjects than Christ, xii. 69.
Diocletian and Maximinius, the greatest persecutors the church ever had,
iii. 49.
Discernment, spiritual, in what it consists, ix. 284.
Disciples, badge of, i. 277. DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST, GOVERNMENT AND, xi. 485.
Discovery, Christ s, of himself to the soul illustrated by his intercourse with
his disciples after his resurrection, viii. 380 ; the persons to whom the most special are made, are those who most love him, 382 ; no
thing can give full joy without, 385 ; Christ rises higher and higher
in, 391.
Disobedience, children of, ii. 67.
Dissensions between Christians will be shortly, though gradually, abolished,
v. 467.
Divinity of Christ essential to his being mediator, v. 37 ; otherwise he could not have been present at the making of the covenant, ib. ; he could not have undertaken the condition of it, 38 ; could not have been the
object of faith, 39. Of Christ, argued from his sayings in John xvii., ix. 141.
Divisions, caused by the fall, i. 186 ; reconciled by Christ, 188.
Donatists, new, i. 545.
J)oxologies in the epistles, their uses, iv. 372.
Most of them consist of pure praise, honour, and glory given to God
simply, and not thanks for benefits received, iv. 375. Have special reference to the matter of these epistles, ix. 208.
Dragon, his heads and horns, the arms of heathen Rome, v. 330. Dreams and visions, distinction of, v. 530.
Duties, emptiness of, without communion with God, i. 287.
Negligence in the performance of, followed by darkness, iii. 294.
Duty, distinction between privilege and, iii. 401. Two things in every, outward and inward, x. 194.
Duties, only good in their season, iii. 472. When they are spiritual, vi. 184.
Eagle, how she tests the breed of her young, iv. 456. Ear, boring of servants , its significance, v. 145.
Earnest, how it differs from a pawn, i. 254 ; of the inheritance is the Holy Ghost, 255.
Consists of the same kind with the whole that is yet behind, iv. 383. Earth, shaking of, i. 519.
Grass, and trees, signify the common people, iii. 54.
Earthquake, at the resurrection of the witnesses, what it denotes, iii. 183.
Ease, distinguished from healing, of conscience, iii. 837.
East, kings of, the Jews, iii. 193.
INDEX. 175
Eber, the head of one of the seventy nations among whom the earth was
divided, ix. 31.
Ecclesiastes, book of, a testimony of Solomon s repentance, x. 430. Eduction and creation contrasted, i. 396.
Egyptians, grossness of their idolatry, vii. 6.
EL, a name of God, signifies strong, viii. 45.
Elders, twenty-four, represent the members of the church, iii. 5. And beasts, representatives of the saints on earth, v. 77.
Ordinary, set over particular churches, xi. 64 ; they and the churches were formed up into presbyteries, ib. Their power and jurisdiction bounded by institution, xi. 117 ; under the Old Testament, 119 ; and the New, 120. Their jurisdiction depends on the call of .the church, xi. 27. Ought not to be teaching to one congregation, and ruling to others,
xi. 224.
Elect, why left so long uncalled, ii. 199. Alone redeemed, iii. 15. Given to Christ, not when they come to him and believe, but from.
everlasting, v. 26. Why allowed to continue for a time in a state of sin, vi. 88. Ordained to pass through several states and dispensations before the crown of glory be put on their heads, vii. 34 ; this accords with God s manner of working in other things, 35 ; in creation, ib. ; in intro
ducing the gospel, 36 ; this shews the perfection of his efficiency and
workmanship, 37 ; his various and manifold wisdom, ib. ; is suited
to the capacity of the creature, 38. Order of God s decrees concerning, vii. 88. Do not obtain salvation without calling, ix. 11.
Styled by God his people, even before their conversion, ix. 16. And non-elect, have divided mankind in all ages, ix. 18, 26. The highest of all titles, ix. 150. And non-elect, their condition the same, considered as to be created,
ix. 163 ; in every way nonentities, 166. And non-elect, their condition the same, viewed as fallen, ix. 168 ; the
lives of the former and their aggravations equal to those of the latter,
173 ; some of the former, even after calling, fall into great sins, 174 ; some of the latter have been far less sinners than some of the former, 175. Enhancement of the gratitude they owe to God from several considera
tions, ix. 173-182. Are chosen not only with but in Christ, ix. 339 ; and for his sake, 340. Chosen in Christ as a head according to the supralapsarian view ; in
Jesus as a saviour according to the sublapsarian, ix. 344.
ELECTION, A DISCOUKSE OF, ix. 1.
Election in and with Christ, i. 70. Not from faith foreseen, i. 65 ; Christ not the cause of, 70 ; all things further the decree of, 79 ; different from predestination, 84, 85 ; end
of, 91 ; an act of love and not of mercy, ii. 149, 156.
Is of things that are not unto being, as well as of men that are unto
salvation, iv. 195. And free grace, reconciled in the gospel, iv. 274.
Particular, doctrine of, ought not to prevent any man s seeking recon-
ciliation,v. 517 ; many signs of, but none of reprobation, 518.
Pitched not upon qualifications, but persons, vi. 59.
176 INDEX.
Election and predestination, distinction between, vi. 218.
God s love in, a great motive to holiness, obedience, and service, vii. 238 ; holy obedience the main thing pitched upon in the decree of, 239 ; hath both chosen us unto holiness, and ordained good works
for us, 240.
Expressed by finding grace in God s sight, viii. 254.
Necessary in order to the certain and sure salvation of either angels or
men, ix. 3 ; the well-head of super-creation grace, 5.
Election-grace, without it Christ should not have saved a single man, ix. 12.
Is of pure grace, ix. 19 ; depends not on works, but works on it, 20 ;
is a reservation of some persons to God, 24 ; remains in the family of Seth, 29. To glory as the end had respect to man as unfallen, to the means, to man as fallen, ix. 84 ; different opinions of divines, 86 ; objections answered, 87 ; opinions of the schoolmen, 92. The grandness of, shewn by the chosen, ix. 150 ; the blessedness of it, 151 ; the end of it, ib. ; the time of it, ib.; contrasted with reprobation, 152. The act of, expressed by God s loving us, ix. 220. Decree of, sure to an impossibility of miscarriage, ix. 244.