Day. How necessary, [i. 523]. Death of Christ. Its value is from his Divine Nature, [i. 564]. Vindicated the honor of the law, both as to precept and penalty, [i. 566]. Overturned the Devil’s empire, [i. 568]. He suffered to rescue us by it, [ii. 268]. By the command of the Father, [ii. 425], [426]. Debauched persons. Wish there were no God, [i. 97]. Decrees of God. No succession in them, [i. 285]. Unchangeable, [i. 582], [583], [ii. 451], [452]. See [Immutability]. Defilement. God not capable of it from any corporeal thing, [i. 201], [390], [392]. Delight. Holy duties should be performed with, [i. 234–236]. All delight in worship doth not prove it to be spiritual, [i. 235]. We should examine ourselves after worship, what delight we had in it, [i. 252]. Deliverances. Chiefly to be ascribed to God, [i. 406]. The wisdom of God seen in them, [i. 550–552]. Desires, of man. Naturally after an infinite good,[i. 73], [74]; which evidences the being of a God, [i. 74]. Men naturally have no desire of remembrance of God, converse with him, thorough return to him, or imitation of him, [i. 159–161]. Devil. Man naturally under his dominion, [i. 118], [119]. God’s restraining him, how great a mercy (see [Restraint]). Shall be totally subdued by God, [i. 498]. Outwitted by God, [i. 568]. His first sin, what it was, [ii. 427–429]. See [Angel]. Direction. Men neglect to ask it of God (see [Trusting in ourselves]). Should seek it of him, [i. 585]. Not to do it, how sinful, [i. 589], [590]. Should not presume to give it to him, [i. 591]. Disappointments. Make many cast off their obedience to God, [i. 115], [116]. God disappoints the devices of men, [ii. 418–420]. Dispensations. Of God with his own law, [ii. 391–393]. Distance from God. Naturally affected by men, [i. 158], [159]. How great it is, [ii. 180]. Distractions in the service of God. How natural, [i. 114], [256]. Will be so while we have natural corruption within, [i. 256], [257]; while we are in the Devil’s precinct, [i. 257]. Most frequent in time of affliction, [i. 258]. May be improved to make us more spiritual, [i. 258–261]; when we are humbled for them in worship, [i. 258], [259]; and for the baseness of our natures, the cause of them, [i. 259]. Make us prize duties of worship the more, [ib.] Fill us with admirations of the graciousness of God, [i. 260]. Prize the meditation of Christ, [i. 261]. They should not discourage us, if we resist them, [ib.]; and if we narrowly watch against them, [i. 262]. Should be speedily cast out, [i. 274]. Thoughts of God’s presence a remedy against them, [i. 404]. Distresses. See [Afflictions]. Distrust of God. A contempt of God’s wisdom, [i. 593]; and his power, [ii. 93]; and of his goodness, [ii. 319], [320]. Too great fear of man arises from it, [ii. 94]. 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, [i. 139]. See [Truths]. Dominion of God. Distinguished from his power, [ii. 364]. All his other attributes fit him for it, [ii. 364], [365]. Acknowledged by all, [ib.] Inseparable from the notion of God, [ii. 365], [366]. We cannot suppose God a creator without it, [ii. 366]. Cannot be renounced by God himself, [ib.]; nor communicated to any creature, [ii. 366], [367]. Its foundation, [ii. 367–372]. It is independent, [ii. 372], [373]; absolute, [ii. 373–377]; yet not tyrannical, [ii. 377], [378]; managed with wisdom, righteousness, and goodness, [ii. 378–380]. It is eternal, [ii. 386], [387]. It is manifested as he is a lawgiver, [ii. 387–394]; as a proprietor, [ii. 394–413]; as a governor, [ii. 413–422]; as a redeemer, [ii. 422–426]. The contempt of it, how great, [ii. 426], [427]. All sin is a contempt of it, [ii. 427], [428]. The first thing the devil aimed against, [ii. 428], [429]; and Adam, [ii. 429]. Invaded by the usurpations of men, [ii. 430], [431]. Wherein it is contemned as he is a lawgiver, [ii. 431–435]; as a proprietor, [ii. 435], [436]; as a governor, [ii. 436–441]. It is terrible to the wicked, [ii. 446–448]. Comfortable to the righteous, [ii. 449–453]. Should be often meditated upon by us, [ii. 453], [454]. The advantages of so doing, [ii. 454–457]. It should teach us humility, [ii. 458]. Calls for our praise and thanks, [ii. 459], [460]. Should make us promote his honor, [ii. 461], [462]. Calls for fear, prayer, and obedience, [ii. 462], [463]. Affords motives to obedience, [ii. 463–466]; and shows the manner of it, [ii. 466–469]. Calls for patience, [ii. 469]. Affords motives to it, [ii. 469–471]. Shows us the true nature of it, [ii. 471]. Duties of religion. Performed often merely for self‑interest, [i. 150–154]. Men unwieldy to them, [i. 151]. Perform them only in affliction, [i. 151], [152]. See [Service of God], and [Worship]. Dwelling in heaven, and in the ark. How to be understood of God, [i. 385], [386].
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Ear of man. How curious an organ, [i. 65]. Earth. How useful, [i. 54], [55]. The wisdom of God seen in it, [i. 522]. Earthly things. See [World]. Ejaculations. How useful, [i. 272]. Elect. God knows all their persons, [i. 485], [486]. Election. Evidenced by holiness, [ii. 205]. The sovereignty of God appears in it, [ii. 394–396]. Not grounded on merit in the creature, [ii. 396]. Nor on foresight of faith and good works, [ii. 396–399]. Elements. Though contrary, yet linked together, [i. 52], [53]. End. All creatures conspire to one common end, [i. 53–60]; pursue their several ends, though they know them not, [i. 60–62]. Men have corrupt ends in religious duties, [i. 132], [150–154]; for evil ends, [i. 105], [106]; desire the knowledge of God’s law, for by ends, [i. 104]. Man naturally would make himself his own end, [i. 135–141]; how sinful this is, [i. 141], [142]; would make anything his end rather than God, [i. 142–144]; a creature, or a lust, [i. 144–146]; how sinful this is, [ib].; would make himself the end of all creatures, [i. 147], [149]; how sinful this is, [i. 149]; would make himself the end of God, [i. 148–154]; how sinful this is, [i. 154], [155]; cannot make God his end, till converted, [i. 163], [164]. Spiritual ones required in spiritual worship, [i. 239–241]; many have other ends in it, [ib.] God orders the hearts of all men to his own, [ii. 54]. God hath one, and man another in sin, [i. 161], [162]. We should make God our end, [ii. 206]. God makes himself his own end, how to be understood, [ii. 228–230]. His being the end of all things is one foundation of his dominion, [ii. 370], [371]. Not using God’s gifts for the end for which he gave them, how great a sin, [ii. 435], [436]. Enemies. Of the church (see [Church]). We should be kind to our worst enemies, [ii. 354], [355]. Enjoyment of God. In heaven always fresh and glorious, [i. 298], [299]. We should endeavor after it here, [ii. 344–346]. Envy. Men envy the gifts and prosperities of others, [i. 131], [132]. An imitation of the devil, [ib.] A sense of God’s goodness would check it, [ii. 351]. A contempt of God’s dominion, [ii. 435]. Essence of God. Cannot be seen, [i. 184], [185]. Is unchangeable, [i. 319]. Eternity. A property of God and Christ, [i. 278], [279], [293], [294]. What it is, [i. 280]. In what respects God is eternal, [i. 280–286]. That he is so, proved, [i. 286–291]. God’s incommunicable property, [i. 44–46], [291–293]. Dreadful to sinners, [i. 295], [296]. Comfortable to the righteous, [i. 297–301]. The thoughts of it should abate our pride, [i. 302–304]; take off our love and confidence from the world, [i. 304–306]. We should provide for a happy interest in it, [i. 306]; often meditate on it, [i. 307], [308]. Renders him worthy of our choicest affections, [i. 308]; and our best service, [i. 308], [309]. Exaltation of Christ. The holiness of God appears in it, [ii. 136], [137]. His goodness to us as well as to Christ, [ii. 268], [269]; and his sovereignty, [ii. 426]. Examination of ourselves. Before and after worship, and wherein our duty, [i. 252–256], [275]. Experience of God’s goodness. A preservative against atheism, [i. 86], [87]. Extremity. Then God usually delivers his church, [ii. 101].
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Faith. The same thing may be the object of it, and of reason too, [i. 27–29]. Must be exercised in spiritual worship, [i. 230], [231]. 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, [i. 499]. Only the obedience flowing from it acceptable to God, [i. 504], [505]. Distinct, but inseparable from obedience, [i. 505], [506]. Foresight of it not the ground of election, [ii. 396–399]. Fall of man. God no way the author of it, [ii. 123–125], [142], [143]. How great it is, [ii. 480], [481]. Doth not impeach God’s goodness, [ii. 231], [232]. It is evident, [ii. 325], [326]; brought a curse on the creatures (see [Creatures]). Falls of God’s children. Turned to their good, [i. 537–547]. Fear. Not the cause of the belief of a God, [i. 41]. Men that are under a slavish fear of him wish there were no God, [i. 98], [99]. Of man, a contempt of God’s power, [ii. 93], [94]. Should be of God, and not of the pride or force of man, [ii. 106], [107]. God’s sovereignty should cause it, [ii. 462]. Features. Different in every man, and how necessary it should be so, [i. 66], [67], [520]. Fervency. See [Activity]. Flesh. The legal services so called, [i. 213], [214]. Fools. Wicked men are so, [i. 23], [586], [587]. Folly. Sin is so (see [Sin]). Forgetfulness of God. Men naturally are prone to it, [i. 159], [160]. Of his mercies a great sin (see [Mercies]). How attributed to God, [i. 421]. Foreknowledge in God of sin. No blemish to his holiness, [ii. 145], [146]. See [Knowledge of God]. Future things. Men desirous to know them, [i. 476], [477]. Known by God, (see [Knowledge of God]).
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Gabriel. On what messages he was sent, [ii. 75]. Generation. Could not be from eternity, [i. 44–46]. Gifts. God can bestow them on men, [ii. 384], [385]. His sovereignty seen in giving greater measures to one than another, [ii. 408–410]. Glory of all they do or have. Men are apt to ascribe to themselves, [i. 139]. Of God little minded in many seemingly good actions, [i. 124–127]. Men are more concerned for their own reputation than God’s glory, [i. 140]. Should be aimed at in spiritual worship, [i. 239–241]. God’s permission of sin is in order to it, [ii. 154–156]. Should be advanced by us, [ii. 461], [462]. God. His existence known by the light of nature, [i. 86]; by the creatures, [i. 28], [29], [42–64]. Miracles not wrought to prove it, [i. 29]. Owned by the universal consent of all nations, [i. 30], [31]. Never disputed of old, [i. 31], [32]. Denied by very few, if any, [i. 32], [33]. Constantly owned in all changes of the world, [i. 34]; under anxieties of conscience, [ib.] The devil not able to root out the belief of it, [i. 35]. Natural and innate, [i. 35], [36]. Not introduced merely by tradition, [i. 37], [38]; nor policy, [i. 38], [39]; nor fear, [i. 41]. Witnessed to by the very nature of man, [i. 63–75]; and by extraordinary occurrences, [i. 76], [77]; impossible to demonstrate there is none, [i. 81]. Motives to endeavor to be settled in the belief of it, [i. 84], [85]. Directions, [i. 86], [87]. Men wish there were none, and who they are, [i. 96–99]. Two ways of describing him, negation and affirmation, [i. 181], [182]. Is active and communicative, [i. 201]. Propriety in him a great blessedness (see [Covenant]). Infinitely happy, [ii. 86], [87]. Good. That which is materially so may be done, and not formally, [i. 120], [124–126]. Actions cannot be performed before conversion, [i. 163], [164]. The thoughts of God’s presence a spur to them, [i. 404], [405]. God only is so, [ii. 210], [211]. Goodness. Pure and perfect, the royal prerogative of God only, [ii. 214]. Owned by all nations, [ii. 215], [219]. Inseparable from the notion of God, [ii. 216], [217]. What is meant by it, [ii. 217]. How distinguished from mercy, [ii. 218], [219]. Comprehends all his attributes, [ii. 219], [220]. Is so by his essence, [ii. 221], [222]. The chief, [ib.] It is communicative, [ii. 223], [224]; necessary to him, [ii. 224–226]; voluntary, [ii. 226], [227]; communicative with the greatest pleasure, [ii. 227], [228]; the displaying of it, the motive and end of all his works, [ii. 228–230]. Arguments to prove it a property of God, [ii. 230], [231]; vindicated from the objections made against it, [ii. 231–244]; appears in creation, [ii. 244–258]; in redemption, [ii. 258–294]; in his government, [ii. 295–313]; frequently contemned and abused, [ii. 313], [314]; the abuse and contempt of it, base and disingenuous, [ii. 314], [315]; highly resented by God, [ii. 315], [316]. How it is contemned and abused, [ii. 316–325]. Men justly punished for it, [ii. 326], [327]. Fits God for the government of the world, and engages him actually to govern it, [ii. 327], [328]. The ground of all religion, [ii. 329], [330]. Renders God amiable to himself, [ii. 331]. Should do so to us, and why, [ii. 332–335]. Renders him a fit object of trust, with motives to it, drawn hence, [ii. 335–338]; and worthy to be obeyed and honored, [ii. 338–341]. Comfortable to the righteous, and wherein, [ii. 341–344]. Should engage us to endeavor after the enjoyment of him, with motives, [ii. 344–347]. Should be often meditated on, and the advantages of so doing, [ii. 347–351]. We should be thankful for it, [ii. 351–353]; and imitate it, and wherein, [ii. 353–355]. Gospel. Men greater enemies to, than to the law, [i. 165]. Its excellency, [i. 167], [501], [502]. Called spirit, [i. 213]. The only means of establishment, [i. 501]. Of an eternal resolution, though of a temporary revelation, [i. 502]. Mysterious, [ib.] The first preachers of it (see [Apostles]). Its antiquity, [i. 503], [504]. The goodness of God in spreading it among the Gentiles, [i. 504]. Gives no encouragement to licentiousness, [ib.] The wisdom of God in its propagation, [i. 574–580]; and power, [ii. 65–73]. See [Christian Religion]. Government of the World. God could not manage it without immutability, [i. 394]; and knowledge, [i. 464], [465]; and wisdom, [i. 575], [576]. The wisdom of God appears in his government of man, as rational, [i. 525–532]; as sinful, [i. 532–544]; as restored, [i. 544–547]. The power of God appears in natural government, [ii. 44–52]; moral, [ii. 52–54]; gracious and judicial, [ii. 55–58]. The goodness of God in it, [ii. 295–313]. God only fit for it, [i. 580], [581], [544]; [ii. 186], [327]; doth actually manage it, [i. 580], [581]; [ii. 328], [329]. Is contemned, [ii. 436–441]. See [Laws]. Governor. God’s dominion as such, [ii. 413–422]. Grace. The power of God in planting it, [ii. 74–78] (see [Conversion]); and preserving it, [ii. 79], [80] (see [Perseverance]). God’s withdrawing it no blemish to his holiness, [i. 166–170]. Shall be perfected in the upright, [ii. 190], [191]. God exercises a sovereignty in bestowing and denying it, [ii. 400–404]. Means of grace (see [Means]). Graces. Must be acted in worship, [ii. 229–234]. We should examine how we acted them after it, [i. 253], [254]. Growth in grace. Annexed to true sanctification, [ii. 358]. Should be labored after, [ii. 206], [207].
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Habits. Spiritual, to be acted in spiritual worship, [i. 229], [230]. The rooting up evil ones shows the power of God, [ii. 76], [77]. Hand. Christ’s sitting at God’s right hand doth not prove the ubiquity of his human nature, [ii. 378]. Hardness. How God, and how man, is the cause of it, [ii. 166–168]. Harmony of the creatures. Show the being and wisdom of God, [i. 52–60]. Heart of man. How curiously contrived, [i. 65]. We should examine ourselves, how our hearts are prepared for worship, [i. 252], [253]; how they are fixed in it, and how they are after it, [i. 253–256]. God orders all men’s to his own ends, [ii. 54]. Heaven. The enjoyment of God there will be always fresh and glorious, [i. 298], [299]. Why called God’s throne, [i. 385], [386]. Heavenly bodies. Subservient to the good of the world, [i. 53], [54]. Hosea. When he prophesied, [ii. 490]. Holiness. A necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, [i. 238], [239]. A glorious perfection of God, [ii. 110], [111]. Owned to be so both by heathens and heretics, [ii. 111]. God cannot be conceived without it, [ii. 111], [112]. It hath an excellency above all his other perfections, [ii. 112]. Most loftily and frequently sounded forth by the angels, [ib.] He swears by it, [ib.] It is his glory and life, [ii. 112], [113]. The glory of all the rest, [ii. 113], [114]. What it is, and how distinguished from righteousness, [ii. 114], [115]. His essential and necessary perfection, [ii. 115], [116]. God only absolutely holy, [ii. 116–118]. Causes him to abhor all sin necessarily, intensely, universally, and perpetually, [ii. 118–122]. Inclines him to love it in others, [ii. 121], [190], [191]. So great that he cannot positively will and encourage sin in others, or do it himself, [ii. 122–126]. Appears in his creation, [ii. 126], [127]; in his government, [ii. 127–135]; in redemption, [ii. 135–138]; in justification, [ii. 138]; in regeneration, [ii. 139]. Defended in all his acts about sin, [ii. 139–171]. How much it is contemned in the world, and wherein, [ii. 171–180]. To hate and scoff at it in others, how great a sin, [ii. 176]. Necessarily obliges him to punish sin, [ii. 181–183]; and exact satisfaction for it, [ii. 183], [184]. Fits him for the government of the world, [ii. 186], [187]. Comfortable to holy men, [ii. 190], [191]. Shall be perfected in the upright, [ib.] We should get, and preserve right and strong apprehensions of it, and the advantage of so doing, [ii. 191–196]. We should glorify God for it, and how, [ii. 196–199]; and labor after a conformity to it, and wherein, [ii. 199–201]; motives to do so, [ii. 203–205]; and directions, [ii. 205–207]. We should labor to grow in it, [ii. 206], [207]. Exert it in our approaches to God, [ii. 207]. Seek it at his hands, [ii. 207], [208]. Holy Ghost. His Deity proved, [ii. 86]. Humility. A necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, [i. 237], [238]. We should examine ourselves about it after worship, [i. 256]. A consideration of God’s eternity would promote it, [i. 302]; and of his knowledge, [i. 496], [497]; and of his wisdom, [i. 597]; and of his power, [ii. 106]; and of his holiness, [ii. 192], [193]; and of his goodness, [ii. 323]; and his sovereignty, [ii. 457], [458]. Hypocrites. Their false pretences a virtual denial of God’s knowledge, [i. 481], [483]; it is terrible to them, [i. 492].
I.