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INDE X.

A.

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,

417.

Angels, good, what benefit they have by
Christ, 348, 571, 572. Not instruments
in the creation of man, 420. Evil, not
redeemed, 571, 572.

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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.

B.

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.

C.

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.

D.

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.

E.

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,

314.

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.

In

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.

F.

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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