Temptations. The presence of God a comfort in them, [i. 399]; the thoughts of it would be a shield against them, [i. 403]. The wisdom and power of God a comfort under them, [i. 594]; [ii. 99]. The goodness manifested to his people under them, [ii. 311–313]. The would arm and make us watchful against them, [ii. 456]. Thankfulness. A necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, [i. 233], [234]. Due to God, [ii. 351], [352], [460], [518–522]; a sense of his goodness would promote it, [i. 351]. Theft. An invasion of God’s dominion, [ii. 435]. Thoughts. Should be often upon God, [i. 87], [88]; seldom are on him, [i. 143], [159], [160]. All known by God only, [i. 424–427]; and by Christ, [i. 467–469]. Cherishing evil ones a practical denial of God’s knowledge, [i. 482], [483]. Thoughts of God’s knowledge would make us watchful over them, [i. 495]. Threatenings. The not fulfilling them sometimes, argue no change in God, [i. 342–345]. Are conditional, [ib.] The goodness of God in them, [ii. 255]. Go before judgments (see [Judgments]). Time. Cannot be infinite, [i. 44], [45]. Times of bestowing mercy. God orders as a sovereign, [ii. 412], [413]. Tongue. How curious a workmanship [i. 66]. Traditions. Old ones generally lost, [i. 37], [38]. Belief of a God not owing merely to them, [ib.] Transubstantiation. An absurd doctrine, [ii. 95]. Trees. How useful, [i. 54], [523]. Trust in themselves. Men do, and not in God, [i. 150]. We should not in the world, [i. 304–307], [357], [358]. God the fit object of it, [i. 484], [485], [569], [570], [583]; [ii. 103], [104], [188], [335–337], [462], [463]; means to promote it, [i. 497]; [ii. 454], [455]. Should not in our own wisdom, [i. 600], [601]. In ourselves, a contempt of God’s power and dominion, [ii. 94], [95], [436], [437]. God’s power the main ground of trusting him, [ii. 104], [105]; and sometimes the only one, [ii. 105], [106]. Should be placed in God against outward appearances, [ii. 198]. Goodness the first motive of it, [ii. 336]. More foundations of it, and motives to it under the gospel than under the law, [ii. 337]. Gives God the glory of his goodness, [ii. 337], [338]. God’s patience to the wicked, a ground for the righteous to trust in his promise, [ii. 516]. Truths of God. Most contrary to self, man most opposite to; and to those that are most holy, spiritual, lead most to God, and relate most to him, [i. 107]. Men inconstant in the belief of them, [i. 350], [351].
U.
Ubiquity. Of Christ’s human nature confuted, [i. 378]. Unbelief. The reason of it, [i. 165]. A contempt of Divine power, [ii. 95]; and goodness, [ii. 319]. Union of soul and body. An effect of Almighty power, [i. 69]. Union of two natures in Christ. Made no change in his Divine nature, [i. 339], [340]. Shows the wisdom of God, [i. 552–568]. How necessary for us, [i. 563–566]. Shows the power of God, [ii. 62]. Explained, [ii. 62], [63]. See [Incarnation]. Usurpations. Of men an invasion of God’s sovereignty, [ii. 430], [431].
V.
Venial sins. An opinion that reproaches God’s holiness, [ii. 179]. Virtue and vice. Not arbitrary things, [i. 93], [94].
W.
Water. An excellent creature, [ii. 224]. Weakness. Sensibleness of a necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, [i. 232]. Will of God. Cannot be defeated, [i. 95], [96]. Man averse to it (see [Man]). The same with his essence, [i. 325], [326]. Always accompanied with his understanding, [i. 326]. Unchangeable, [i. 326–328]. The unchangeableness of it doth not make things willed by him so, [i. 327], [328]. Free, [ib.] How concurrent about sin, [ii. 147], [148]. Will of man. Not necessitated by God’s foreknowledge, [i. 446–451]; subject to God, [ii. 385], [386]. Winds. How useful, [i. 522]. Winter. How useful, [i. 523]. Wisdom. An attribute of God, [i. 507]. What it is, and wherein it consists, [ib.] Distinct from knowledge, i. 508. Essential, which is the same with his essence; and personal, [ib.] In what sense God is only wise, [i. 509–514]. Proved to be in God, [i. 515–518]. Appears in creation, [i. 518–525]. In the government of man as rational, [i. 525–532]; as fallen and sinful, [i. 532–544]; as restored, [i. 544–552]. In redemption, [i. 552–571]. In the condition of the covenant of grace, [i. 571–574]. In the propagation of the gospel, [i. 574–580]. Ascribed to Christ, [i. 580]. Renders God fit to govern the world, and inclines him actually to govern it, [i. 580–582]. A ground of his patience and immutability in his decrees, [i. 582], [583]. Makes him a fit object of our trust, [i. 583]. Infers a day of judgment, [i. 583], [584]. Calls for a veneration of him, [i. 584]. A ground of prayer to him, [i. 585]. Prodigiously contemned, and wherein, [i. 585–593]. Comfortable to the righteous, [i. 593–595]. In creation and government should be meditated on, and motives to it, [i. 595–598]. In redemption to be studied and admired, [i. 598–600]. To be submitted to in his revelations, precepts, providences, [i. 602–605]. Not to be censured in any of his ways, [i. 605], [606]. Wisdom. No man should be proud of, or trust in, [i. 600], [601]. Should be sought from God, [i. 601], [602]. World. Was not, and could not be from eternity, [i. 44–46]. Could not make itself, [i. 47–49]. No creature could make it, [i. 49], [50]. Its harmony, [i. 52–60]. Greedily pursued by men, [i. 143], [144]. Inordinate desires after it a great hindrance to spiritual worship, [i. 273]. Our love and confidence not to be placed in it, [i. 304], [315], [316]. Shall not be annihilated, but refined, [i. 311–314]. See [Creatures]. We should be sensible of the inconstancy of all things in it, [i. 356], [357]; our thoughts should not dwell much on them, [i. 357]; we should not trust or rejoice in them, [i. 357], [358]. Not to be preferred before God, [i. 358], [359]. Made in the best manner, [ii. 24], [25]. Made and richly furnished for man, [ii. 249–251]. A sense of God’s goodness would lift us up above it, [ii. 351]. Worship of God. A folly to neglect it, [i. 87], [88]. If not according to his rule, no better than a worshipping the devil, [i. 118], [119]. Men prone to corrupt it with their own rites and inventions, [i. 133], [134]. Spiritual, men naturally have no heart to, [i. 160]. Cannot be right without a true notion of God, [i. 198]. Should be spiritual, and spiritually performed, [i. 205], [206]. God’s spirituality the rule, though his attributes be the foundation of it, [i. 206–208]; [ii. 88–90]. Spiritual, to be due to him, manifest by the light of nature, though not the outward means and matter of an acceptable worship discoverable by it, [i. 208–211]. Spiritual, owned to be due to God by heathens, [i. 209], [210]. Always required by God, [i. 211], [212]. Men as much obliged to it as to worship him at all, [i. 212], [213]. Ceremonial law abolished to promote it, [i. 213–219]. Legal ceremonies did not promote, but rather hinder it, [i. 214–216]. By them God was never well‑pleased with, nor intended it should be durable, [i. 216–219]. Under the gospel it is more spiritual than under the law, [i. 219]. Yet doth not exclude bodily worship, [i. 219–222]. In societies, due to God, [i. 221]. Spiritual, what it is, and wherein it consists, [i. 222–242]. Due to God, proved, [i. 242–249]. Those reproved that render him none at all, [i. 249]. A duty incumbent on all, [i. 249], [250]. Wholly to neglect it a great degree of atheism, [i. 250]. To a false God, or in a false manner, better than a total neglect of it, [i. 250], [251]. Outward, not to be rested in, [i. 251], [252]. We should examine ourselves of the manner of it, and in what particulars, [i. 252–256]. Spiritual, it is a comfort that God requires it, [i. 256]. Not to give it to God, is to affront all his attributes, [i. 263–271], [481]. To give it him, and not that of our spirits, is a bad sign, [i. 268], [269]. Merely carnal, uncomfortable, unacceptable, abominable, [i. 269–271]. Directions for spiritual, [i. 271–275]. Immutability of God, a ground of worship, and encouragement to it, [i. 348–350]. Bringing human inventions into it an affront to God’s wisdom, [i. 587–589]. See [Ceremonies]. A strong sense of God’s holiness would make us reverent in it, [ii. 194]. We should carry it holily in it, [ii. 207]. Ingenuous, would be promoted by a sense of God’s goodness, [ii. 348]. Slight and careless, a contempt of God’s sovereignty, [ii. 440], [441]; and so is omission of it, [ii. 441]. Thoughts of God’s sovereignty would make us diligent in it, [ii. 455], [456]. Worship of creatures. Is idolatry, [i. 194–196]. Not countenanced by God’s omnipresence, [i. 390], [391]. Wrong. God can do none, [i. 171]; [ii. 442], [443].
Z.
Zeal. Sometimes a base end in it, [i. 154].