Idleness. It is an abuse of God’s mercies to make them an occasion of it, [ii. 323]. Idolatry. Of the heathens proves the belief of a God to be universal, [i. 30], [31]. The first object of it was the heavenly bodies, [i. 43]. Springs from unworthy imaginations of God, [i. 157]. Not countenancedby God’s omnipresence, [i. 389], [390]. Springs from a want of due notion of God’s infinite power, [ii. 92]. A contempt of God’s dominion, [ii. 436], [437]. Image of God. In man consists not in external form and figure, [i. 192], [192]. Unreasonable to make any of him, [i. 193–195]; it is idolatry so to do, [i. 195], [196]. The defacing it an injury to God’s holiness, [ii. 173], [174]. Man, at first, made after it, [ii. 248]. Imaginations. Men naturally have unworthy ones of God, [i. 155], [156]. Vain ones the cause of idolatry, and superstition, and presumption, [i. 156], [157]; worse than idolatry or atheism, [i. 158]; an injury to God’s holiness, [ii. 172], [173]. Imitation of God. Man naturally hath no desire of it, [i. 161]. We should strive to imitate his immutability in that which is good, [i. 360], [361]. In holiness, wherein, and why, and how, [ii. 199–207]; and in goodness, [ii. 353–355]. Immortal. God is so, [i. 202]. See [Eternity of God]. Immutability. A property of God, [i. 316], [317]; a perfection, [i. 317], [318]; a glory belonging to all his attributes, [i. 318]; necessary to him, [i. 318], [319]. God is immutable in his essence, [i. 319–321]; in knowledge, [i. 321–325]; in his will, though the things willed by him are not, [i. 325–328]. This doth not infringe his liberty, [i. 328]. Immutable in regard of place, [i. 328], [329]. Proved by arguments, [i. 320–334], [582], [583]; [ii. 87]. Incommunicable to any creature, [i. 334], [335], [ii. 141]. Objections against it answered, [i. 337–346]. Ascribed to Christ, [i. 346–348]. A ground and encouragement to worship him, [i. 348–350]. How contrary to God in it man is, [i. 350], [353]. Terrible to sinners, [i. 353], [354]. Comfortable to the righteous, and wherein, [i. 354–356]. An argument for patience, [i. 359]. Should make us prefer God before all creatures, [i. 358]. We should imitate this his immutability in goodness, motives to it, [i. 360], [361]. Impatience of men. Is great when God crosses them, [i. 130], [131]. A contempt of God’s wisdom, [i. 592]; and of his goodness, [ii. 317], [318]; and of his dominion, [ii. 437], [438]. Impenitence. An abuse of God’s goodness, [ii. 319]. It will clear the equity of God’s justice, [ii. 506], [507]. An abuse of patience, [ii. 508], [509]. Imperfections. In holy duties we should be sensible of, [i. 232]. Should make us prize Christ’s meditation, [i. 261]. Impossible. Some things are in their own nature, [ii. 26], [27]. Some things so to the nature and being of God, and his perfections, [ii. 27–29]. Some things so, because of God’s ordination, [ii. 29], [30]. Do not infringe the almightiness of God’s power, [ii. 29–30]. Incarnation of Christ. The power of God seen in it, [ii. 59–65]. Incomprehensible. God is so, [i. 394], [395]. Inconstancy. Natural to man, i. 350–353. In the knowledge of the truth, [i. 350], [351]; in will and affections, [i. 351]; in practice, [i. 352–354]; is the root of much evil, [ib.] Infirmities. The knowledge of God a comfort to his people under them, [i. 488], [489]. The goodness of God in bearing with them, [ii. 309]. His patience a comfort under them, [ii. 516]. Injuries. Men highly concerned for those that are done to themselves, little for those that are done to God, [i. 140]. God’s patience under them should make us resent them, [ii. 517], [518]. Injustice. A contempt of God’s dominion, [ii. 435]. Innocent person. Whether God may inflict eternal torments upon him, [ii. 375], [380], [381]. Instruments. Men are apt to pay a service to them rather than to God, [i. 144]; which is a contempt of divine power, [ii. 94], [95]; and of his goodness, [ii. 324], [325]. Deliverances not to be chiefly ascribed to them, [i. 407]. God makes use of sinful ones, [i. 534], [535]. None in creation, [ii. 40–42]. The power of God seen in effecting his purposes by weak ones, [ii. 58], [59]. Inventions of men. See [Addition] and [Worship].
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Jehovah. Signifies God’s eternity, [i. 290]; and his immutability, [i. 330]. God called so but once in the book of Job, [ii. 36]. Job. When he lived, [ii. 8]. Jonah. How he came to be believed by the Ninevites, [i. 537]. Joy. A necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, [i. 234–236]. Should accompany all our duties, [ii. 468], [469]. Judging the hearts of others. A great sin, [i. 478], [479]. Their eternal state a greater, [ib.] Judgment‑day. Necessity of it, [i. 470], [471], [583], [584]. Judgments, extraordinary. Prove the being of God, [i. 74], [75]. Men are apt to put bold interpretations on them, [i. 133]. God is just in them, [i. 162], [163]; especially after the abuse of his goodness and patience, [ii. 326], [327], [506], [507]. On God’s enemies, matter of praise, [ii. 110]. Declare God’s holiness, [ii. 132–135]; which should be observed in them, [ii. 197]. Not sent without warning, [ii. 241], [242], [488–491]. Mercy mixed with them, [ii. 242], [243]. God sends them on whom he pleases, [ii. 420]. Delayed a long time where there is no repentance, [ii. 491], [492]. God unwilling to pour them out when he cannot delay them any longer, [ii. 492], [493]. Poured out with regret, [ii. 493], [494]; by degrees, [ii. 494], [495]; moderated, [ii. 495], [496]. See [Punishments]. Justice of God. A motive to worship, [i. 207]. Its plea against man, [i. 554–556]. Reconciled with mercy in Christ, [i. 556], [557]. Vindictive, natural to God, [ii. 181–183]. Requires satisfaction, [ii. 185], [186]. Justification. Cannot be by the best and strongest works of nature, [i. 166], [473], [474]; [ii. 177], [178], [185], [186]. The holiness of God appears in that of the gospel, [ii. 138]. The expectations of it by the outward observance of the law cannot satisfy an inquisitive conscience, [ii. 212]. Men naturally look for it by works, [ii. 212], [213].
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Kingdoms. Are disposed of by God, [ii. 413], [414]. Knowledge. In God hath no succession, [i. 284], [285], [294], [295], [454–456]. Immutable, [i. 321–324], [460]. Arguments to prove it, [i. 393–395], [461–465]. The manner of it incomprehensible, [i. 324], [325], [428], [429], [438]. God is infinite in it, [i. 409]. Owned by all, [i. 409], [410]. He hath a knowledge of vision and intelligence, speculative and practical, [i. 411], [412]; of apprehension and approbation, [i. 412], [413]. Hath a knowledge of himself, [i. 414–417]. Of all things possible, [i. 417–420]; of all things past and present, [i. 420–422]. Of all creatures, their actions and thoughts, [i. 422–427]. Of all sins, and how, [i. 427–429]. Of all future things, he alone, and how, [i. 429–439]. Of all future contingencies, [i. 439–446]. Doth not necessitate the will of man, [i. 446–451]. It is by his essence, [i. 452], [453]. Intuitive, [i. 453–456]. Independent, [i. 456], [457]. Distinct, [i. 458], [459]. Infallible, [i. 459]. No blemish to his holiness, [i. 461–465]. Infinite, attributed to Christ, [i. 465–469]. Infers his providence, [i. 469], [470]; and a day of judgment, [i. 470], [471]; and the resurrection, [i. 471], [472]. Destroys all hopes of justification by anything in ourselves, [i. 472], [473]. Calls for our adoring thoughts of him, [i. 473], [474]; and humility, [i. 474], [475]. How injured in the world, and wherein, [i. 475–483]. Comfortable to the righteous, and wherein, [i. 483–491]. Terrible to sinners, [i. 491], [492]. We should have a sense of it on our hearts, and the advantages of it, [i. 492–497]. Knowledge of God’s will. Men negligent in using the means to attain it, [i. 100], [101]. Enemies to it, and have no delight in it, [i. 101–103]. Seek it for by‑ends, [i. 104]. Admit it with wavering affections, [ib.] Seek it, to improve some lust by it, [i. 105], [106]. A sense of man’s, hath a greater influence on us than that of God, [i. 144], [145], [479], [480]. Sins against it should be avoided, [i. 173]. Distinct from wisdom, [i. 508]. Of all creatures, is derived from God, [i. 462], [463]. Ours, how imperfect, [i. 474], [475].
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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, [i. 69], [70]. A change of them doth not infer a change in God, [i. 346]. Vindicated, both as to the precept and penalty, in the death of Christ, [i. 565–567]. Suited to our natures, happiness, and conscience, [i. 527–529]; [ii. 253]. We should submit to them, [i. 603], [604]. The transgression of them punished by God, [ii. 132], [133], [393], [394]. God’s enjoining one which he knew man would not observe, no blemish to his holiness, [ii. 143]. To charge them with rigidness, how great a sin, [ii. 178], [179]. We should imitate the holiness of them, [ii. 199–201]. The goodness of God in that of innocence, [ii. 252–254]. Cannot but be good, [ii. 339], [340]. He gives laws to all, [ii. 388], [389]. Positive ones, [ib.] His only reach the conscience, [ii. 390], [391]. Dispensed with by him, but cannot by man, [ii. 391–393], [430], [431]. To make any, contrary to God’s, how great a sin, [ii. 431], [432]; or make additions to them, [ii. 432], [433]; or obey those of men before them, [ii. 433–435], [467], [468]. See [Governor] and [Magistrates]. Licentiousness. The gospel no friend to, [i. 504]. Life, eternal. Expected by men from something of their own (see [Justification]). Assured to the people of God, [i. 356]. Light. A glorious creature, [ii. 343], [344]. Light of nature. Shows the being of a God, [i. 27–29]. Limiting God. A contempt of his dominion, [ii. 439]. Lives of men. At God’s disposal, [ii. 421], [422]. Love to God. Sometimes arises merely from some self‑pleasing benefits, [i. 149–151]. A necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, [i. 231], [232]. A great help to it, [i. 272]. God is highly worthy of it, [i. 308]; [ii. 196], [197], [332–335]. Outward expressions of it insignificant without obedience, [ii. 213], [214]. God’s gospel name, [ii. 257], [259]. Of God to his people, great, [ii. 449], [450]. Lusts of men. Make them atheists, [i. 24], [25].
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Magistracy. The goodness of God in settling it, [ii. 300], [301]. Magistrates are inferior to God. To be obedient to him, [ii. 444], [445]. Ought to govern justly and righteously, [ii. 445]. To be obeyed, [ii. 445], [446]. Man. Could not make himself, [i. 45–49]. The world subservient to him, [i. 53–55]. The abridgment of the universe, [i. 64]; [ii. 248], [249]. Naturally disowns the rule God hath set him, [i. 99–117]. Owns any rule rather than God’s, [i. 117–121]. Would set himself up as his own rule, [i. 121–127]. Would give laws to God, [i. 127–135]. Would make himself his own end. (see [End]). His natural corruption how great, [ii. 53], [54]. Made holy at first, [ii. 126], [127], [248]; yet mutable, which was no blemish to God’s holiness, [ii. 140–143]. Made after God’s image, [ii. 248]. The world made and furnished for him, [ii. 249–252]. In his corrupt estate, without any motives to excite God’s redeeming love, [ii. 268–273]. Restored to a more excellent state than his first, [ii. 291–293]. Under God’s dominion, [ii. 384–386]. Means. See [Instrument]. To depend on the power of God, and neglect them, is an abuse of it, [ii. 96]. Of grace, to neglect them an affront of God’s wisdom, [i. 589], [590]. Given to some, and not to others, [ii. 403–407]. Have various influences, [ii. 407], [408]. Meditation on the law of God. Men have no delight in, [i. 101], [102]. Members, bodily. Attributed to God do not prove him a body, [i. 188–190]. What sort of them attributed to him, [i. 189]; with a respect to the incarnation of Christ, [i. 189], [190]. Mercies of God to sinners. How wonderful, [i. 161], [162]. A motive to worship, [i. 206–208]. Former ones should be remembered when we come to beg new ones, [i. 277], [278]. Its plea for fallen man, [i. 556], [557]. It and justice reconciled in Christ, [i. 557], [558]. Holiness of God in them to be observed, [ii. 197], [198]. Contempt and abuse of them (see [Goodness]). One foundation of God’s dominion, [ii. 371], [372]. Call for our love of him, [ii. 232–235]; and obedience to him, [ii. 338], [339]. Given after great provocations, [ii. 496], [497]. Merit of Christ. Not the cause of the first resolution of God to redeem, [ii. 265], [266]. Not the cause of election, [ii. 396]. Man incapable of, [ii. 343], [344]. Miracles. Prove the being of a God, though not wrought to that end, [i. 29], [76]. Wrought by God but seldom, [i. 550]. The power of God, [ii. 34], [35]; seen no more in them than in the ordinary works of nature, [ii. 51], [62]. Many wrought by Christ, [ii. 64]. Moral goodness. Encouraged by God, [ii. 303], [304]. Moral law. Commands things good in their own nature, [i. 94], [95]; [ii. 389]. The holiness of God appears in it, [ii. 128]. Holy in the matter and manner of his precepts, [ii. 128–130]. Reaches the inward man, [ii. 130]. Perpetual, [ii. 130], [131]. See [Law] of God. Published with majesty, [ii. 390]. Mortification. How difficult, [i. 164], [165]. Motions of all creatures. In God, [ii. 49]. Variety of them in a single creature, [ii. 50]. Mountains. How useful, [i. 54]. Before the deluge, [i. 278]. Mouth. How curiously contrived, [i. 65].
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