Acquaintance with God, men are un- willing to have any, 94.-See Commu- nion.
Actions a greater proof of principles than words, 48. All are known by God, 272.
Activity required in spiritual worship, 139, 140.
Adam, the greatness of his sin, 575, 684. -See Man, and Fall of man. Additions in matters of religion an inva- sion of God's sovereignty, 686, 687.— See Worship, and Ceremonies. Admiration ought to be exercised in spiritual worship, 143.
Affections, human, in what sense ascribed to God, 216, 217.
Afflictions, sharp, make Atheists fear there is a God, 42. Make us impatient (see Impatience). We should be patient under them (see Patience). Many call on God only under them, 89. Fill
us with distraction in the worship of God, 161. The presence of God a comfort in them, 255; and his know- ledge, 307. The wisdom of God ap- parent in them, 355-357. The wisdom of God a comfort in them, 387; and his power, 459, 460; and his sovereignty, 699. Do not impeach his goodness, 558. The goodness of God seen in them, 603, 604. His goodness a com- fort in them, 625. Acts of God's sove- reignty, 646, 647; the consideration of which would make us entertain them as we ought, 703.
Age, many neglect the serving of God till old, 63.
Air, how useful a creature, 22.
Almighty, how often God is so called in Scripture, 400. How often in Job,
Angels, good, what benefit they have by Christ, 348, 571, 572. Not instruments in the creation of man, 420. Evil, not redeemed, 571, 572.
Angels, not governors of the world, 615, 616. Subject to God, 651, 652. Apostacy. Men apostatize from God when his will crosses theirs, 77, 78. In times of persecution, 87, 88. By reason of practical atheism, 99.
Apostles, the first preachers of the gospel, mean and worthless men, 440, 441. Spirited by Divine power for spreading of it, 442. The wisdom of God seen in using such instruments, 376, 377. Applauding ourselves.-See Pride. Atheism opens a door to all manner of wickedness, 2. Some spice of it in all men, 2, 4. The greatest folly, 3-38. Common in our days, 3, 40. Strikes at the foundation of all religion, 3. We should establish ourselves against it, ib. It is against the light of natural reason, 4. Against the universal consent of all nations, 6. But few, if any, professed it in former ages, 7, 8, 40. Would root up the foundations of all government, 39. Introduce all evil into the world, 39, 40. Pernicious to the atheist him- self, 40. The cause of public judg- ments, 40, 41. Men's lusts the cause of it, 42. Promoted by the devil most since the destruction of idolatry, 43. Uncomfortable, 44. Directions against it, 45. All sin founded in a secret atheism, 49.
Atheism, practical, natural to man, 46. Natural since the fall, 47. To all men, ib. Proved by arguments, 53-96. We ought to be humbled for it, both in our- selves and others, 100. How great a sin it is, 101-103. Misery will attend it, 103. We should watch against it, ib. Directions against it, 103, 104. Atheist can never prove there is no God, 41. All the creatures fight against him, 42. In afflictions, suspects and fears there is a God, ib. How much pains he takes to blot out the notion, ib. Suppose it were an even lay that there were no God, yet he is very
imprudent, ib. Uses not means to in- form himself, 43.
Atoms, the world not made by a casual concourse of them, 19, 20. Attributes of God bear a comfortable respect to believers, 332.
Authority, how distinguished from power, 639.
Best we have, ought to be given to God, 150, 151.
Blessings, spiritual, God only the author of, 635. Temporal, God uses a sove- reignty in bestowing them, 672, 673.- See Riches.
Body of man, how curiously wrought, 29-31, 339. Every human one hath different features, 31. God hath none (see Spirit). We must worship God with our bodies, 134-136; yet not with our bodies only. See Soul, and Worship. Bodily shape, we must not conceive of God under a, 119, 120. Bodily members ascribed to him.-See Members.
Brain, how curious a workmanship, 30.
Calf, golden, the Israelites worshipped the true God under, 118.
Callings, God fits and inclines men to several, 344, 345, 598. Appoints every man's calling, 678.
Cause, a first, of all things, 20, 21; which doth necessarily exist, and is infinitely perfect, 21.
Censure. God not to be censured in his counsels, actions, or revelations, 185, 186. Or in his ways, 395, 396. Censuring the hearts of others is an in- jury to God's omniscience, 308, 309. Men, is a contempt of God's sovereignty, 692.
Ceremonial Law abolished to promote spiritual worship, 130. Called flesh, ib. Not a fit means to bring the heart into a spiritual frame, 131. Rather hindered than furthered spiritual wor- ship, 131, 132. God never testified himself well-pleased with it, nor in- tended it should always last, 132, 133. The abrogation of it doth not argue any change in God, 219, 220. The holi- ness of God appears in it, 481, 482. Ceremonies, men are prone to bring their own into God's worship, 77.-See Wor- ship, and Additions, &c.
Chance, the world not made nor governed by it, 26.
Charity, men have bad ends in it, 90. We should exercise it, 633. The con- sideration of God's sovereignty would promote it, 702.
Cheerful, in God's worship we should be, 145
Christ, his Godhead proved from his eter- nity, 183, 184; from his omnipresence, 250, 251; from his immutability, 220, 221; from his knowledge of God, all creatures, the hearts of men, and his prescience of their inclinations, 300- 302; from his omipotence, manifest in creation, preservation, and resurrection, 447-451; from his holiness, 521, 522; from his wisdom, 378.
Christ is God man, 434, 435. Spiritual worship offered to God through him, 149, 150. The imperfectness of our services should make us prize his mediation, 162. The only fit Person in the Trinity to assume our nature, 363, 364. Fitted to be our Mediator and Saviour by his two natures, 366— 368. Should be imitated in his holi- ness, and often viewed by us to that end, 529-533. The greatest gift, 573-575. Appointed by the Father to be our Redeemer, 680–682. Christian religion, its excellency, 99, 100. Of Divine extraction, 379. Most opposed in the world, 61.-See Gospel Church, God's eternity a comfort to her in all her distresses and threatenings of her enemies, 188, 189. Under God's special providence, 260. His infinite knowledge a comfort in all subtile con- trivances of men against her, 312, 313 Troublers of her peace by corrupt doc- trines no better than devils, 322. God's wisdom a comfort to her in her greatest dangers, 387, 388. Hath shewn his power in her deliverance in all ages, 173, 430; and in the destruction of her enemies, 431, 432. Ought to take com- fort in his power in her lowest estate, +61. Should not fear her enemies (see Fear). His goodness a comfort in dangers, 626, 627. How great is God's love to her, 697,743. His sovereignty a comfort to her, 699, 700. He wil comfort her in her fears, and destroy her enemies, 713, 714. God exercises patience towards her, 735, 736; for her sake to the wicked also, 736. Why her enemies are not immediately de- stroyed, 741, 742.
Commands of God.Se-e Laws.
Comfort, the holiness of God to be relied on for, 521, 522.
Comfort us, creatures cannot, if God be angry, 697.
Comforts, God gives great, in or after temptations, 604, 605.
Communion with God, man naturally no desire of, 95. The advantage of, 103. Can only be in our spirits, 123. We should desire it, 194. Can- not be between God and sinners, 517. Holiness only fits us for it, 531, 532
Conceptions, we cannot have adequate ones of God, 119. We ought to labour after as high ones as we can, ib. They must not be of him in a corporeal shape, 119, 120. There will be in them a similitude of some corporeal thing in our fancy, 120, 121. We ought to refine and spiritualize them, 121, 122. Conceptions, right, of him, a great help to spiritual worship, 170.
Concurrence of God to all the actions of his creatures, 498, 499.
Concurring to sinful actions no blemish to God's holiness, 499-503. Conditions, various, of men, a fruit of Divine wisdom, 344, 345. Conditions of the covenant.-See Cove- nant, Faith, and Repentance. Confession of sin, men may have bad ends in it, 90. Partial ones a practical denial of God's omniscience, 310, 311. Conscience proves a Deity, 33-36. Fears and stings of it in all men upon the commission of sin, 34, 35; though never so secret, 35. Cannot be totally shaken off, ib. Comforts a man in well-doing, ib. Necessary for the good of the world, 36.
Terrified ones wish there were no God, 51, 52. Men naturally displeased with it, when it contradicts the desires of self, 69, 70. Obey carnal self against the light of it, 81. Accusations of it evidence God's knowledge of all things, 298. God, and he only, can speak peace to it when troubled, 446, 654. His laws only reach it, 658, 686, 687.
Constancy in that which is good, we should labour after, and why, 229. Content the soul, nothing but an infinite good can, 36, 37.-See Satisfaction, and Soul.
Contingents all foreknown by God.--See Knowledge of God.
Contradictions cannot be made true by God, 410-413; yet this doth not over- throw God's omnipotence, ib. It is an abuse of God's power to endeavour to justify them by it. 457,
Contrary qualities linked together in the creatures, 21, 22, 339, 340.
Conversion, carnal self-love a great hin- drance to it, 79. There may be a con- version from sin which is not good, 88. Men are enemies to it, 95. The necessity of it, 97, 98. God only can be the Author of it, 98, 99, 601. The wisdom of God appears in it, in the subjects, seasons, and manner of it, 353-355; and his power, 442-445; and his holiness, 487; and his goodness, 601; and his sovereignty, 662-666. He could con- vert all, 663. Not bound to convert any, 665. The various means and oc- casions of it, 678, 679.
Convictions, genuine, would be promoted by right and strong apprehensions of God's holiness, 522, 523. Corruptions, the knowledge of God a com- fort under fears of them lurking in the heart, 316, 317. The power of God a comfort when they are strong and stir- ing, 460. In God's people shall be subdued, 698, 699; the remainders of them God orders for their good, 349- 353.
Covenant of God with his people eternal, 186, 187; and unchangeable, 225. Covenant, God in, an eternal good to his people, 187.
Covenant of grace, conditions of, evidence the wisdom of God, 372. Suited to man's lapsed state, and God's glory, ib. Opposite to that which was the cause of the fall, ib. Suited to the common sentiments and customs of the world and consciences of men, 372, 373. Only likely to attain the end, 373. Evidence God's holiness, 486. The wisdom of God made over to believers in it, 386, 387; and power, 459; and holiness, 522. A promise of life implied in the covenant of works, 565; why not ex- pressed, 567. The goodness of God manifest in making a covenant of grace after man had broken the first, 579. In the nature and tenor of it, 579-581. In the choice gift of himself made over in it, 581. In its confirmation, 581, 582. Its conditions easy, reasonable, necessary, 582-585. It promises a
more excellent reward than the life in paradise, 590, 591.
Covetousness.-See Riches, and World. Creation, the wisdom of God appears in it, 336-340; and should be meditated upon, 340; motives to it, 396-399: his power, 416-423; his holiness, 478, 479; his goodness, 558-567. Good- ness the end and motive of it, 547, 548. Ascribed to Christ, 447-450. The foundation of God's dominion, 642, 643.
Creatures evidence the being of God, 5, 14-29; in their production, 15—21; in their harmony, 21-27; in pursuing their several ends, 27, 28; in their preservation, 28, 29. Were not, and cannot be, from eternity, 16, 17, 183. None of them can make themselves, 17-19; or the world, 19, 20. Sub- servient to one another, 22, 240, 241. Regular, uniform, and constant in it, 24, 25. Are various, 25, 26, 336, 337. Have several natures, 27. All fight against the atheist, 42. God ought to be studied in them, 44, 45. All mani- fest something of God's perfections, ib. Setting them up as our end (see End). Must not be worshipped (see Idolatry).
Used by man to a contrary end than God appointed, 86, 87. All are change- able, 212. Therefore an immutable God to be preferred before them, 228. Are nothing to God, 252, 253. Are all known by God, 270, 271. Shall be restored to their primitive end, 197, 198, 592. Their beautiful order and situation, 337, 338. Are fitted for their several ends, 338, 339. None of them can be omnipresent, 240, 241; or omni- potent, 405; or infinitely perfect, 409. God could have made more than he hath, 406-408. Made them all more perfect than they are, 408, 409. Yet all are made in the best manner, 409, 410. The power that is in them demon- strates a greater to be in God, 413, 414. Ordered by God as he pleases, 431, 432. The meanest of them can destroy us by God's order, 465, 697. Making different ranks of them, doth not impeach God's goodness, 550-552. Cursed for the sin of man, 562, 591. What benefit they have by the redemption of man, 591, 592. Cannot comfort us if God be angry, 697. All subject to God, 651— 655. All obey God, 709. Curiosity in inquiries about God's coun- sels and actions, a great folly, 185, 186. It is an injuring God's knowledge, 307, 308. It is a contempt of Divine wis- dom, 385. Should not be employed about what God hath not revealed, 393, 394. The consideration of God's sove- reignty would check it, 703.
Day, how necessary, 339. Death of Christ, its value is from his Divine Nature, 366, 367. Vindicated the honour of the law, both as to pre- cept and penalty, 368. Overturned the Devil's empire, 369, 370. He suffered to rescue us by it, 574, 575. By the command of the Father, 681, 682. Debauched persons wish there were no God, 52.
Decrees of God, no succession in them, 179. Unchangeable, 379, 380, 451, 452. -See Immutability.
Defilement, God not capable of it from any corporeal thing, 122, 249, 250. Delight, holy duties should be performed with, 144, 145. All delight in wor- ship doth not prove it to be spiritual, 145. We should examine ourselves after wor- ship, what delight we had in it, 150. Deliverances chiefly to be ascribed to God, 260. The wisdom of God seen in them, 357-359.
Desires, of man, naturally fter an infi- nite good, 36, 37; which evidences the being of a God, 37. Men naturally have no desire of remembrance of God, con-
verse with him, thorough return to him, or imitation of him, 94-96.
Devil, man naturally under his dominion, 66, 67. God's restraining him, how great a mercy (see Restraint). Shall be totally subdued by God, 322. Outwitted by God, 369, 370. His first sin, what it was, 683, 684. See Angel.
Direction, men neglect to ask it of God (see Trusting in ourselves). Should seek it of him, 381. Not to do it, how sin- ful, 384, 385. Should not presume to give it to him, 385, 386. Disappointments make many cast off their obedience to God, 64, 65. God disap- points the devices of men, 676, 677. Dispensations of God with his own law, 658, 659.
Distance from God naturally affected by men, 94. How great it is, 515. Distractions in the service of God, how natural, 64, 159. Will be so while we have natural corruption within, 159,160; while we are in the Devil's precinct, 160. Most frequent in time of afflic- tion, ib. May be improved to make us more spiritual, 161, 162; when we are humbled for them in worship, 161; and for the baseness of our natures, the cause of them, ib. Make us prize duties of worship the more, ib. Fill us with ad- mirations of the graciousness of God, 161, 162. Prize the mediation of Christ, 162. They should not discourage us, if we resist them, 162, 163; and if we nar- rowly watch against them, 163. Should be speedily cast out, 171, 172. Thoughts of God's presence a remedy against them, 259.
Distresses.-See Afflictions. Distrust of God, a contempt of God's wis- dom, 386; and of his power, 455, 456; and of his goodness, 609, 610. Too great fear of man arises from it, 456.— See Trusting in God, and in ourselves. Divinity of Christ.-See Christ. Of the Holy Ghost.-See Holy Ghost. Doctrines that are self-pleasing desired by men, 81.-See Truths. Dominion of God, distinguished from his power, 639, 640. All his other attri- butes fit him for it, 640. Acknowledged by all, ib. Inseparable from the notion of God, 640, 641. We cannot suppose God a creator without it, 641. Cannot
be renounced by God himself, ib.; nor communicated to any creature, ib. Its foundation, 641-645. It is indepen- dent, 645, 646; absolute, 646-648; yet not tyrannical, 648, 649; managed with wisdom, righteousness, and good- ness, 649, 650. It is eternal, 654, 655, It is manifested as he is a lawgiver, 655 -660; as a proprietor, 660-673; as a governor, 673-679; as a redeemer
679-682. The contempt of it, how great, 682, 683. All sin is a contempt of it, 683. The first thing the devil aimed against, 683, 684; and Adam, 684. Invaded by the usurpations of men, 684, 685. Wherein it is contemned as he is a lawgiver, 685-688; as a proprietor, 688, 689; as a governor, 689-692. It is terrible to the wicked, 695-697. Comfortable to the righteous, 697-700. Should be often meditated upon by us, 700, 701. The advantages of so doing, 701-703. It should teach us humility, 703, 704. Calls for our praise and thanks, 704, 705. Should make us pro- mote his honour, 705, 706. Calls for fear, prayer, and obedience, 706, 707. Affords motives to obedience, 707- 709; and shows the manner of it, 709- 711. Calls for patience, 711. Affords motives to it, 711, 712. Shows us the true nature of it, 712, 713.
Duties of religion performed often merely for self-interest, 88-91. Men unwieldy to them, 88, 89. Perform them only in affliction, 89.-See Service of God, and Worship.
Dwelling in heaven, and in the ark, how to be understood of God, 245, 246.
Ear of man, how curious an organ, 30. Earth, how useful, 22, 23. The wisdom of God scen in it, 338. Earthly things.-See World. Ejaculations, how useful, 170.
Elect, God knows all their persons, 313,
Election evidenced by holiness, 532. The sovereignty of God appears in it, 660, 661. Not grounded on merit in the creature, 661, 662. Nor on foresight of faith and good works, 662, 663. Elements, though contrary, yet linked to- gether, 21, 22.
End. All creatures conspire to one com- mon end, 22-27; pursue their several ends, though they know them not, 27, 28. Men have corrupt ends in religious duties, 76, 88-91; for evil ends, 57, 58; desire the knowledge of God's law, for by ends, 56, 57. Man naturally would make himself his own end, 78-82; how sinful this is, 82: would make any thing his end rather than God, 83, 84; a creature, or a lust, 84, 85; how sinful this is, ib.: would make himself the end of all creatures, 86, 87; how sinful this is, 87: would make himself the end of God, 87-91; how sinful this is, 91: cannot make God his end, till converted, 97. Spiritual ones required in spiritual worship, 148, 149; many have other ends in it, ib. God orders the hearts of all men to his own, 429, 430. God
hath one, and man another in sin, 502° We should make God our end, 532 God makes himself his own end, how to be understood, 547, 548. His being the end of all things is one foundation of his dominion, 643, 644. Not using God's gifts for the end for which he gave them, how great a sin, 688, 689. Enemies of the church (see Church). We should be kind to our worst enemies, 633, 634.
Enjoyment of God in heaven always fresh and glorious, 187, 188. We should en- deavour after it here, 627, 628. Envy. Men envy the gifts and prosperities of others, 75, 76. An imitation of the devil, ib. A sense of God's goodness would check it, 631. A contempt of God's dominion, 688.
Essence of God cannot be seen, 111, 112. Is unchangeable, 201.
Eternity a property of God and Christ, 174, 184, 185. What it is, 175. what respects God is eternal, 175–179. That he is so, proved, 179–183. God's incommunicable property, 16, 17, 183, 184. Dreadful to sinners, 186. Com- fortable to the righteous, 186-189. The thoughts of it should abate our pride, 190, 191; take off our love and confidence from the world, 191-193. We should provide for a happy in- terest in it, 193; often meditate on it, 193, 194. Renders him worthy of our choicest affections, 194; and our best service, 194, 195.
Exaltation of Christ, the holiness of God appears in it, 485. His goodness to us as well as to Christ, 575; and his sove- reignty, 682.
Examination of ourselves before and after worship, and wherein our duty, 156– 159, 172.
Experience of God's goodness a preserva- tive against atheism, 45. Extremity, then God usually delivers his church, 461.
Faith, the same thing may be the object of it, and of reason too, 4, 5. Must be exercised in spiritual worship, 141, 142. The wisdom, holiness, and goodness of God in prescribing it as a condition of the covenant of grace (see Covenant). Must look back as far as the foundation promise, 322. Only the obedience flow- ing from it acceptable to God, 326, 327. Distinct, but inseparable from obe- dience, 327. Foresight of it not the ground of election, 662, 663. Fall of man, God no way the author of it, 476, 477, 489, 490. How great it is, 515. Doth not impeach God's good- ness, 549, 550. It is evident, 613, 614,
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