brought a curse on the creatures.-See
Creatures.
Falls of God's children turned to their
good, 348-355.
Fear, not the cause of the belief of a God,
13, 14. Men that are under a slavish
fear of him wish there were no God, 52,
53. Of man, a contempt of God's power,
456. Should be of God, and not of the
pride or force of man, 464, 465. God's
sovereignty should cause it, 706, 707.
Features different in every man, and how
necessary it should be so, 31, 337.
Fervency. See Activity.
Flesh, the legal services so called, 130.
Fools, wicked men are so, 1, 382, 383.
Folly, sin is so.--See Sin.
Forgetfulness of God, men naturally are
prone to it, 94, 95. Of his mercies a
great sin (see Mercies). How attributed
to God, 270.
Foreknowledge in God of sin, no blemish
to his holiness, 491, 492.-See Know-
ledge of God.
Future things, men desirous to know
them, 307, 308. Known by God.-See
Knowledge of God.
Gabriel, on what messages he was sent,
443, 444.
Generation, could not be from eternity,
16, 17.
Gifts, God can bestow them on men, 653,
654. His sovereignty seen in giving
greater measures to one than another,
670, 671.
Glory of all they do or have, men are apt
to ascribe to themselves, 80, 81. Öf
God little minded in many seemingly
good actions, 70-72. Men are more
concerned for their own reputation than
God's glory, 81. Should be aimed at
in spiritual worship, 148, 149. God's
permission of sin is in order to it, 497,
498. Should be advanced by us, 705,
706.
God, his existence known by the light of
nature, 45; by the creatures, 5, 14-29.
Miracles not wrought to prove it, 5.
Owned by the universal consent of all
nations, 6. Never disputed of old, 7.
Denied by very few, if any, 7, 8. Con-
stantly owned in all changes of the
world, 8, 9; under anxieties of con-
science, 9. The devil not able to root
out the belief of it, 9, 10. Natural and
innate, 10. Not introduced merely by
tradition, 11; nor policy, 11, 12; nor
fear, 13, 14. Witnessed to by the very
nature of man, 29-37; and by extra-
ordinary occurrences, 37, 88; impossi-
ble to demonstrate there is none, 41.
Motives to endeavour to be settled in
the belief of it, 43, 44. Directions, 44,
45. Men wish there were none, and
who they are, 51-53. Two ways of
describing him, negation and affirma
tion, 109. Is active and communica-
tive, 122, 123. Propriety in him a
great blessedness (see Covenant). In-
finitely happy, 451
Good, that which is materially so may be
done, and not formally, 67, 68, 70-72.
Actions cannot be performed before
conversion, 97. The thoughts of God's
presence a spur to them, 258, 259. God
only is so, 535, 536.
Goodness, pure and perfect, the royal pre-
rogative of God only, 538. Owned by
all nations, 538, 539. Inseparable from
the notion of God, 539, 540. What is
meant by it, 540. How distinguished
from mercy, 540, 541. Comprehends
all his attributes, 541, 542. Is so by
his essence, 542, 543. The chief, 54,
544. It is communicative, 544, 545;
necessary to him, 545, 546; voluntary,
546, 547; communicative with the
greatest pleasure, 547; the displaying
of it, the motive and end of all his
works, 547, 548. Arguments to prove
it a property of God, 548, 549; vindi-
cated from the objections made against
it, 549-558; appears in creation, 558
-567; in redemption, 568-592; in
his government, 592-605; frequently
contemned and abused, 605, 606; the
abuse and contempt of it, base and dis-
ingenuous, 606, 607; highly resented by
God, 607. How it is contemned and
abused, 605-613. Men justly punished
for it, 614, 615. Fits God for the go-
vernment of the world, and engages him
actually to govern it, 615. The ground
of all religion, 616, 617. Renders God
amiable to himself, 617, 618. Should
do so to us, and why, 618-620. Ren-
ders him a fit object of trust, with mo-
tives to it, drawn hence, 620-622; and
worthy to be obeyed and honoured, 622
-624. Comfortable to the righteous,
and wherein, 624-627. Should engage
us to endeavour after the enjoyment of
him, with motives, 627, 628. Should be
often meditated on, and the advantages
of so doing, 628-631. We should be
thankful for it, 631, 632; and imitate
it, and wherein, 632-634.
Gospel, men greater enemies to, than to
the law, 98. Its excellency, 99, 100,
324, 325. Called spirit, 130. The only
means of establishment, 324. Of an
eternal resolution, though of a tempo-
rary revelation, 325. Myterious, ib
The first preachers of it (see Apostles),
Its antiquity, 325, 326. The goodness
of God in spreading it among the Gen-
tiles, 326. Gives no encouragement to
licentiousness, ib. The wisdom of God
in its propagation, 374-378; and
power, 437-442.-See Christian Reli-
gion.
Government of the world: God could not
manage it without immutability, 211;
and knowledge, 299, 300; and wisdom,
334. The wisdom of God appears in
his government of man, as rational, 341
-345 ; as sinful, 345-353; as re-
stored, 353-355. The power of God
appears in natural government, 423-
428; moral, 428-430; gracious and
judicial, 430-432. The goodness of
God in it, 592-605. God only fit for
it, 378, 379, 352, 519, 615; doth ac-
tually manage it, 378, 379, 615, 616.
Is contemned, 689-692.-See Laws.
Governor, God's dominion as such, 673-
679.
Grace, the power of God in planting it,
443-445 (see Conversion); and pre-
serving it, 446, 447.-See Perseverance.
God's withdrawing it no blemish to his
holiness, 505-508. Shall be perfected
in the upright, 522. God exercises a
sovereignty in bestowing and denying
it, 664-666. Means of grace.-See
Graces must be acted in worship, 140—
144. We should examine how we acted
them after it, 157, 158.
Growth in grace annexed to true sancti-
fication, 635. Should be laboured after,
533.
Habits, spiritual, to be acted in spiritual
worship, 140, 141. The rooting up evil
ones shows the power of God, 444, 445.
Hand. Christ's sitting at God's right hand
doth not prove the ubiquity of his
human nature, 240, 241.
Hardness, how God, and how man, is the
cause of it, 505, 506.
Harmony of the creatures show the being
and wisdom of God, 21-27.
Heart of man, how curiously contrived,
30. We should examine ourselves, how
our hearts are prepared for worship,
156, 157; how they are fixed in it, and
how they are after it, 157-159. God
orders all mens' to his own ends, 429,
4.30.
Heaven, the enjoyment of God there will
be always fresh and glorious, 187, 188.
Why called God's throne, 245, 246.
Heavenly bodies subservient to the good
of the world, 22.
Hosea, when he prophesied, 725.
Holiness a necessary ingredient in spi-
ritual worship, 147, 148. A glorious
perfection of God, 467. Owned to be
so both by heathens and heretics, 467,
468, God cannot be conceived without
it, 468. It hath an excellency above
all his other perfections, ib.
loftily and frequently sounded forth by
the angels, ib. He swears by it, 468,
469. It is his glory and life, 469. The
glory of all the rest, 469, 470. What it
is, and how distinguished from right-
eousness, 470. His essential and neces-
sary perfection, 470, 471. God only
absolutely holy, 471, 472. Causes him
to abhor all sin necessarily, intensely,
universally, and perpetually, 472-475.
Inclines him to love it in others, 475,
521, 522. So great, that he cannot
positively will and encourage sin in
others, or do it himself, 475-477.
Appears in his creation, 478, 479; in
his government, 479–484; in redemp-
tion, 484-486; in justification, 486;
in regeneration, 487. Defended in all
his acts about sin, 487-509. How
much it is contemned in the world,
and wherein, 509–515. To hate and
scoff at it in others, how great a sin,
512. Necessarily obliges him to pu-
nish sin, 516, 517; and exact satis-
faction for it, 517, 518. Fits him for
the government of the world, 519.
Comfortable to holy men, 521, 522.
Shall be perfected in the upright, 522.
We should get, and preserve right and
strong apprehensions of it; and the
advantage of so doing, 522-525. We
should glorify God for it, and how, 525
-528; and labour after a conformity to
it, and wherein, 528, 529, 533; motives
to do so, 529-532; and directions,
532, 533. We should labour to grow
in it, 533. Exert it in our approaches
to God, ib. Seek it at his hands, 533,
534.
Holy Ghost, his Deity proved, 451.
Humility a necessary ingredient in spi-
ritual worship, 146, 147. We should
examine ourselves about it after wor-
ship, 159. A consideration of God's
eternity would promote it, 190, 191;
and of his knowledge, 321; and of his
wisdom, 389, 390; and of his power,
464; and of his holiness, 523, 524;
and of his goodness, 612; and his so-
vereignty, 703, 704.
Hypocrites, their false pretences a virtual
denial of God's knowledge, 311, 312;
it is terrible to them, 318.
Idleness, it is an abuse of God's mercies
to make them an occasion of it, 612.
Idolatry of the heathens proves the belief
of a God to be universal, 6, 7. The
first object of it was the heavenly bo-
dies, 15. Springs from unworthy ima-
ginations of God, 92. Not countenanced
by God's omnipresence, 248, 249.
Springs from a want of due notion of
3 C 2
God's infinite power, 455. A contempt
of God's dominion, 689, 690.
Jehovah signifies God's eternity, 182;
and his immutability, 208, 209. God
called so but once in the book of Job,
417.
Image of God in man consists not in
external form and figure, 115, 116. Un-
reasonable to make any of him, 117,
118; it is idolatry so to do, 118, 119.
The defacing it an injury to God's holi-
ness, 510, 511. Man, at first, made
after it, 561.
Imaginations, men naturally have un-
worthy ones of God, 91, 92. Vain ones
the cause of idolatry, and superstition,
and presumption, 92, 93; worse than
idolatry or atheism, 93, 94; an injury
to God's holiness, 509, 510.
Imitation of God, man naturally hath no
desire of it, 95, 96. We should strive
to imitate his immutability in that
which is good, 229, 230. In holiness,
wherein, and why, and how, 528-533;
and in goodness, 632-684.
Immortal, God is so, 123.-See Eternity
of God.
Immutability a property of God, 199,
200; a perfection, 200; a glory be-
longing to all his attributes, 200, 201;
necessary to him, 201. God is immu-
table in his essence, 201-203; in
knowledge, 203-205; in his will,
though the things willed by him are
not, 205-207. This doth not infringe
his liberty, 207. Immutable in regard
of place, 208. Proved by arguments,
208-211, 379, 380, 451, 452. Incom-
municable to any creature, 211–213,
488. Objections against it answered,
213-220. Ascribed to Christ, 220, 221.
A ground and encouragement to worship
him, 221, 222. How contrary to God
in it man is, 222-224. Terrible to
sinners, 224, 225. Comfortable to the
righteous, and wherein, 225, 226. An
argument for patience, 228, 229. Should
make us prefer God before all crea-
tures, 228. We should imitate this his
immutability in goodness: motives to
it, 229, 230.
Impatience of men is great when God
crosses them, 74, 75. A contempt of
God's wisdom, 386; and of his good-
ness, 608, 609; and of his dominion,
690.
Impenitence an abuse of God's goodness,
609. It will clear the equity of God's
justice, 736-738. An abuse of pa-
Imperfections in holy duties we should
be sensible of, 143. Should make us
prize Christ's mediation, 162.
Impossible, some things are in their own
nature, 410, 411. Some things so to
the nature and being of God, and his
perfections, 411, 412. Some things so,
because of God's ordination, 412, 413.
Do not infringe the almightiness of
God's power, 410-413.
Incarnation of Christ, the power of God
seen in it, 432-437.
Incomprehensible, God is so, 252.
Inconstancy, natural to man, 222—224.
In the knowledge of the truth, 222; in
will and affections, 223; in practice,
223, 224; is the root of much evil, il
Infirmities, the knowledge of God a com
fort to his people under them, 316. The
godness of God in bearing with them,
602, 603. His patience a comfort under
them, 743.
Injuries, men highly concerned for those
that are done to themselves; little for
those that are done to God, 81. God's
patience under them should make w
resent them, 744.
Injustice, a contempt of God's dominion,
688.
Innocent person, whether God may in-
flict eternal torments upon him, 647,
650, 651.
Instruments, men are apt to pay a service
to them rather than to God, 84: which
is a contempt of divine power, 456, 457;
and of his goodness, 613. Deliverances
not to be chiefly ascribed to them, 260.
God makes use of sinful ones, 346, 347.
None in creation, 420, 421. The power
of God seen in effecting his purposes by
weak ones, 432.
Inventions of men.-See Addition and
Worship.
Job, when he lived, 398.
Jonah, how he came to be believed by
the Ninevites, 348.
Joy, a necessary ingredient in spiritual
worship, 144, 145. Should accompany
all our duties, 711.
Judging the hearts of others, a great sir,
308, 309. Their eternal state a greater,
309.
Judgment-day, necessity of it, 303, 304,
380, 381.
Judgments, extraordinary, prove the being
of God, 37. Men are apt to put bed
interpretations on them, 76, 77. Go
is just in them, 96, 97; especially after
the abuse of his goodness and patience,
614, 615, 736, 737. On God's enemies
matter of praise, 467. Declare God!
holiness, 482-484; which should be
observed in them, 526, 527. Not sent
without warning, 556, 557, 724-726.
Mercy mixed with them, 557, 558. God
sends them on whom he pleases, 677
678. Delayed a long time where there
is no repentance, 726, 727. God un-
willing to pour them out when he can
not delay them any longer, 727. Poured
out with regret, 727, 728; by degrees,
728, 729; moderated, 729.-See Pu-
nishments.
Justice of God, a motive to worship, 125,
126. Its plea against man, 360, 361.
Reconciled with mercy in Christ, 362,
363. Vindictive, natural to God, 516,
517. Requires satisfaction, 518, 519.
Justification cannot be by the best and
strongest works of nature, 99, 305, 513,
514, 518, 519. The holiness of God
appears in that of the gospel, 486. The
expectations of it by the outward obser-
vance of the law cannot satisfy an in-
quisitive conscience, 536, 537. Men
naturally look for it by works, 537.
Kingdoms are disposed of by God, 673,
674.
Knowledge in God hath no succession,
178, 185, 292-294. Immutable, 203
-205, 296, 297. Arguments to prove
it, 251, 252, 297-300. The manner
of it incomprehensible, 205, 275, 276,
281, 282. God is infinite in it, 261,
262. Owned by all, 262. He hath a
knowledge of vision and intelligence,
speculative and practical, 263, 264; of
apprehension and approbation, 264,265.
Hath a knowledge of himself, 265-267.
Of all things possible, 267-269; of
all things past and present, 269, 270,
Of all creatures, their actions and
thoughts, 270-274. Of all sins, and
how, 274-276. Of all future things,
he alone, and how, 276-282. Of all
future contingencies, 282-287. Doth
not necessitate the will of man, 287—
290. It is by his essence, 291, 292.
Intuitive, 292-294. Independent, 294,
295. Distinct, 295, 296. Infallible, 296.
No blemish to his holiness, 251, 252,
297-300. Infinite, attributed to Christ,
300-302. Infers his providence, 302,
303; and a day of judgment, 303,
304; and the resurrection, 304, 305.
Destroys all hopes of justification by
any thing in ourselves, 305. Calls for
our adoring thoughts of him, 305, 306;
and humility, 306. How injured in the
world, and wherein, 307-312. Com-
fortable to the righteous, and wherein,
312-317. Terrible to sinners, 317-
320. We should have a sense of it on
our hearts, and the advantages of it,
320-322.
Knowledge of God's will, men negligent
in using the means to attain it, 54.
Enemies to it, and have no delight in
it, 54, 55. Seek it for by-ends, 56, 57.
Admit it with wavering affections, 57.
Seek it, to improve some lust by it, 57,
58. A sense of man's, hath a greater
influence on us than that of God, 84,
309, 310. Sins against it should be
avoided, 104. Distinct from wisdom,
329. Of all creatures, is derived from
God, 298. Ours, how imperfect, 306
Law of God, how opposite man naturally
is to it. See Man. There is one in the
minds of men, which is the rule of good
and evil, 33, 34. A change of them
doth not infer a change in God, 219,
220. Vindicated, both as to the precept
and penalty, in the death of Christ,
368, 369. Suited to our natures, hap-
piness, and conscience, 341-343, 564.
We should submit to them, 394.
transgression of them punished by God,
482, 659, 660. God's enjoining one
which he knew man would not observe,
no blemish to his holiness, 490. To
charge them with rigidness, how great a
sin, 514. We should imitate the holi-
ness of them, 528, 529. The goodness of
God in that of innocence, 564-567.
Cannot but be good, 623, 624. He gives
laws to all, 656. Positive ones, 656,
657. His only reach the conscience, 558.
Dispensed with by him, but cannot by
man, 658, 659, 684, 685. To make any,
contrary to God's, how great a sin, 685,
686; or make additions to them, 686,
687; or obey those of men before them,
687, 688, 710.-See Governor and Ma-
gistrates.
Licentiousness, the gospel no friend to,
Life, eternal, expected by men from
something of their own.-See Justifi-
cation. Assured to the people of God,
226, 626.
Light, a glorious creature, 544, 545.
Light of nature shews the being of a
God, 4, 5.
Limiting God, a contempt of his domi-
nion, 690, 691.
Lives of men at God's disposal, 679.
Love to God, sometimes arises merely
from some self-pleasing benefits, 87, 88.
A necessary ingredient in spiritual wor-
ship, 142, 143. A great help to it, 170.
God is highly worthy of it, 194, 526,
532, 618-620. Outward expressions of
it insignificant without obedience, 537,
538. God's gospel name, 568, 569. Of
God to his people, great, 698.
Lusts of men make them atheists, 2.
Magistracy, the goodness of God in
settling it, 597.
Magistrates are inferior to God; to be
obedient to him, 694, 695. Ought to
govern justly and righteously, 695. To
be obeyed, ib.
Man could not make himself, 17--19.
The world subservient to him, 22, 23.
The abridgment of the universe, 29,
561. Naturally disowns the rule God
hath set him, 53-65. Owns any rule
rather than God's, 66—68. Would set
himself up as his own rule, 68-72.
Would give laws to God, 72–78.
Would make himself his own end.-
See End. His natural corruption how
great, 428, 429. Made holy at first,
478, 479, 561; yet mutable, which was
no blemish to God's holiness, 488-490.
Made after God's image, 561. The
world made and furnished for him, 562
-564. In his corrupt estate, without
any motives to excite God's redeeming
love, 575-578. Restored to a more
excellent state than his first, 590, 591.
Under God's dominion, 653, 654.
Means. See Instrument. To depend on
the power of God, and neglect them, is
an abuse of it, 457, 458. Of grace, to
neglect them an affront of God's wis-
dom, 384, 385. Given to some, and
not to others, 666-669. Have various
influences, 669, 670.
Meditation on the law of God, men have
no delight in, 55.
Members, bodily, attributed to God, do
not prove him a body, 113-115. What
sort of them attributed to him, 114;
with a respect to the incarnation of
Christ, 114, 115.
Mercies of God to sinners, how wonder-
ful, 96. A motive to worship, 125, 126.
Former ones should be remembered
when we come to beg new ones, 173,
174. Its plea for fallen man, 361, 362.
It and justice reconciled in Christ, 362,
563. Holiness of God in them to be
observed, 527. Contempt and abuse of
them.- See Goodness. One foundation
of God's dominion, 644, 645. Call for
our love of him, 618-620; and obe-
dience to him, 622, 623. Given after
great provocations, 729, 730.
Merit of Christ, not the cause of the first
resolution of God to redeem, 572, 573.
Not the cause of election, 661, 662.
Man incapable of, 694.
Miracles prove the being of a God, though
not wrought to that end, 5, 37, 38.
Wrought by God but seldom, 357. The
power of God, 414, 416; seen no more
in them than in the ordinary works of
nature, 427, 428. Many wrought by
Christ, 436.
Moral goodness encouraged by God, 598,
599.
Moral law, commands things good in
their own nature, 50, 51, 656, 657. The
holiness of God appears in it, 479.
Holy in the matter and manner of his
precepts, 479, 480. Reaches the in-
ward man, 480, 481. Perpetual, 481.
See Law of God. Published with
majesty, 657.
Mortification, how difficult, 97, 98.
Motions of all creatures in God, 426.
Variety of them in a single creature,
426, 427.
Mountains, how useful, 22, 23. Before
the deluge, 174.
Mouth, how curiously contrived, 30.
Nature of man must be sanctified before
it can perform spiritual worship, 136.
137. Human, highly advanced by its
union with the Son of God, 578, 579.
Human and divine in Christ.-See
Union.
Night, how necessary, 339.
Obedience to God, not true unless it be
universal, 60. Due to him upon the
account of his eternity, 194, 195. T
him, should be preferred before obe
ence to men.-See Laws. Of faith o
acceptable to God, 326, 327. Distinci
but inseparable from faith, 327. Shall
be rewarded, 343. Redemption a strong
incentive to it, 371, 372. Without it
nothing will avail us, 537, 538. The
goodness of God in accepting it, though
imperfect, 602, 603. Due to God for
his goodness, 622-624. Due to him
as a sovereign, 707-709. What kind
of it due to him, 709-711.
Objects, the proposing them to man which
God knows he will use to sin, no blemish
to God's holiness, 503-505.
Obstinacy in sin a contempt of Divine
power, 455.
Omissions of prayer a practical denial of
God's knowledge, 311; of duty, a con-
tempt of his goodness, 610.
Omnipresence, an attribute of God, 233.
Denied by some Jews and heathens,
but acknowledged by the wisest amongst
them, 233, 234. To be understood
negatively, 234. Influential on all crea-
tures, 234, 235. Limited to subjects
capacitated for this or that kind of it,
235. Essential, 235, 236. In all places,
236, 237. With all creatures, 237, 238;
without mixture with them, or division
of himself, 238. Not by multiplication
or extension, ib.; but totally, 238, 259.
In imaginary spaces beyond the world,
239, 240. God's incommunicable pro-
perty, 240, 241. Arguments to prove his
omnipresence, 241-245. Objections
against it answered, 245-250. Ascribed
to Christ, 250, 251. Proves God a Spirit,
251; and his providence, ih.; and on-
niscient and incomprehensible, 251,
252. Calls for admiration of him, 252.
253. Forgotten and contemned, 253,
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