they should believe. For this intention or appointment of God is general, and is plainly revealed in the Holy Scriptures, although the absolute and not to be frustrated intention of God, concerning the gift of faith and eternal life to some persons, is special, and is limited to the elect alone.
So I have maintained, and do maintain.
SUBJECTS IN THE EXPOSITION.
ABEL, Christ the head of, 1. 212. Abraham's bosom, a celestial place and happiness, 471.
Abstinence, see Fastings, see Meats. Abstinence of Paula, 541; should be moderated, 543.
Acceptance of persons, none with God, II. 90, 211; should not be among men, 212. Admonishing, what it signifies, and the duty of, I. 318. Adoption, what, II. 207. Adverbs, peculiar effect of, 246. Adultery, how it differs from forni- cation and rape, II. 38. Affections and desires, naturally re- bellious, 1. 252, 452; what it is to set them on things above, II. 7.
Afflictions, to be endured by Chris-
tians with a cheerful mind, I. 270; ours are the afflictions of Christ, 271; honourable to suffer them for Christ, 274; the greatest consolation, ibid. Our afflictions are not satisfactory for others, but tend to edification, 275; on what accounts afflictions are borne by saints, 290; future glory a conso- lation against the afflictions of the godly, II. 29.
Afflictions of Paul, I. 328, 329.
the afflicted ought to be re- membered on four accounts, II. 307.
Almsdeeds, to be exercised, 104. Altars, should be erected to God alone, I. 507; are erected by Pa- pists to angels and saints, ibid.
Ambrose, a passage of his vindicated from falsifiers, Il. 298.
Amen, whence derived, and what it signifies, 308.
Angels, when created, I. 197; how
sons of God, ibid.; could not cre- ate the world, 191; their orders and distinctions, according to the Schoolmen, 194, 195; these or- ders are not curiously to be en- quired into, 196; in what sense reconciled to God by Christ, 244 -246; could not reconcile us to God, 239.
are reconciled to us by Christ, 244; the ministry of, in keeping the elect and promoting their sal- vation, 431; are not to be adored, 428; are not mediators, 429; do not impart grace, ibid.; are not to be invoked as intercessors, ibid.; are not as mediators for Christ, 429; how they may be worship- ped, 502; ought not to be wor- shipped religiously, or with the worship of doulia or latria, 504- 506; are worshipped by Papists with the latter worship, 504, 505; the worship of them the doctrine of the Platonists, 498; worship- pers of them do not acknowledge Christ for the head of the Church, 511; vows are not to be paid to them, 506; doubtful whether they hear prayers, 427; are but our fellow-servants, 428.
Anger, what it is, and how it differs
from wrath, II. 65; why it is to be avoided, 66, 67; what is law-
ful, and what evil, 68; in what sense attributed to God, 54; is in God twofold, paternal and hos- tile, 58; follows sinners, 55. Apologues, are neither lies materi- ally, nor formally, II. 79. Apostles, etymology of the term, I. 3; appointed by the whole Trinity, 5; are God's ambassa- dors to mankind, 6; which of them preached the Gospel to particular nations, 91; sent generally to the whole world, but some destined for certain provinces for the advan- tage of the Church, 297. Apostleship, three things required in it, 3, 4; Paul truly partook of it, 2, 3; the Pope of Rome not so, and hath not apostolic autho- rity, 9-19.
Appearing of Christ threefold, II. 25; his appearing for judgment will be soon, and sudden, 28. Archippus, who, II. 304. Aristarchus, who, and how the com-
panion of Paul's captivity, 280. Assurance, of believers, concerning grace and the remission of sins, I. 37-41; of final salvation, 79, 80, 151; II. 29; full assurance, what, and whence obtained, 1. 354.
Attributes, the Divine, not conimu-
nicated to the human nature, I. 364.
Avarice, what it is, 11. 50; the greatness of the sin of, 51, 53.
Baptism, the rite of, what it sig- nifies, I. 441; is efficacious through faith, 22, 445; faith re- quired prior to its administration in adults, afterwards in infants, 448; infants are to be baptized, 449; how we are buried thereby, 441; in baptism we rise again sa- cramentally and really, II. 10; its mystery should be duly held and ever retained in the memory, I. 437; II. 19. Baptized persons called saints, and wherefore, I. 20; II. 99; were formerly arrayed in white robes, I. 21; spiritual graces infused into them, ibid.; they are espe- cially consecrated to God, 22; 11.
Barnabas, who he was, II. 282. Beguile, what it signifies, I. 368; 496.
Believer, is sure that he hath faith, I. 37; and that by the certainty of faith, 43; is sure of grace and the remission of his sins, 37; some of the Papists confess this, 52; does not doubt as a believer, 49; a true one is like to a man awake, an apparent one to a dreamer, 48; how he may fall from grace and how not, II. 57; has always an habitual intention of pleasing God, I. 226; and therefore his person is acceptable to God not- withstanding his failures, ibid. ; ought to be fruitful, 127. Blasphemy, whence the word is de- rived, and what it signifies, II. 69; God blasphemed in a three- fold manner; men in a twofold way, ibid.; the great evil of either, 70, 71.
Blessedness, future, in what it con- sists, II. 25, 26; is solid happi- ness to be possessed by every ser- vant of God, I. 151; is always to be contemplated and sought after, 11. 6; its contemplation a com- fort under all trials, 23, 29; wherein it resembles a reward, and wherein not, 206.
Body, taken for the mass of sins, I. 438; our body an object of love, and wherefore, 73; what care is to be taken of it, and what not, 544.
Body of Christ was real, not imagi- nary, 257; in which he himself truly suffered, and not Simon the Cyrenian, ibid.
Bodies, every one hath in himself
three; a natural body, the body of the old Adam, and the body of the new, I1. 35; of these the body of sin is peculiarly our's, ibid. Bodily is put for personally, because the body is taken for the whole person, I. 415.
Brethren, all Christians are, on four accounts, I. 26; and that in
Christ, 27; false ones most per- nicious, 11. 275.
Brothels, not to be suffered in a
Christian State, II. 44; condemn- ed by the Fathers, 45; evils of the toleration of them, 46; yet upheld by the Papacy, ibid. and Note.
Carthusian Monkery, not a state of perfection, I. 326. Ceremonies, may be instituted by the Church, and with what cau- tions, I. 401, 402; 522; are not to be multiplied, 402; 467; 529; whether the observance or the neglect is in itself of any or no consequence, II. 91; Ceremonies of the Jews, I. 478, 472. Chris- tian liberty in regard to all, 480; the legal ones were acknowledg ments of human guilt, 461; sha- dowed forth the grace of Christ, 489; and the very substance in Christ, 492; abrogated by Christ, and why, 404; in what manner, 465, 466; for what time, and how far they might be observed after the passion of Christ, 405. Charity, what it is, 11. 118; pre- eminent among the graces, ibid. ; how it fulfils the law, 121; parti- cipates with others in all things, I. 57; 372; how it differs from a vicious affection, II. 119; is like a garment, 120.
Charity, among neighbours, espe- cially in loving the saints, I. 74, though unknown, 102; 11. 297; towards strangers and enemies, I. 109: devils and the lost not ob- jects of it, 77; the rule of in judging, viz. presuming any thing to be good till the contrary appears, I. 22; the rule in acting, viz. what ye would not should be done to you, do not you to another, how to be understood, 11. 43.
Chastisement of the body by acts of mortification, examples of it, I. 539; errors of those who sin in this respect, 541; how far these exercises may and ought to be employed, 542, 543.
Chastisements, not inflicted upon
the faithful by God as satisfac- tions for sin, 288. Children, what ought to be the obe- dience of to parents, II. 169- 172; such obedience yields to piety towards God, 179-183; are not to be brought up effeminately, nor treated harshly, 190-192; are as parts of their parents, 193, 194; evils of severity towards them, 194, 195.
CHRIST, that he might be the Me-
diator, ought to be God-man, I. 163, 164; it behoved him to be God that he might teach salva- tion, 409, 410; and that he might be the author of salvation, 410, 411; in what manner he is one person, 415-420; yet not every where as man, 421; II. 13; is the Lord of all things, even as man, I. 35; the cause of the creatures, 187; the Creator of the world, 188; the end of all things, 203; the first-born of every creature, and in what sense, 184, 185; the first-born from the dead, and in what sense, 222— 223; he first rose, 223; the au- thor of our resurrection, 224, 225; hath a fulness of grace, 229; and why, 231; he alone hath it, 231; is the channel of grace by the ef- ficacy of operation, the benefit of intercession, and the merit of his passion, 35; he infuses grace, as man, instrumentally, 212; all grace is from him, 514; he is the way to God; he alone could and ought to reconcile us, 239; how he hath redeemed us, 166, 167; how he is the Mediator of angels, 244-246; how he is the head of angels, 427.
Christ, the sympathy of in our af- flictions, 272; our support in trials, II. 15; what knowledge was in Christ, I. 362; He alone is the head of the Church, I. 17, 18; 126; and that as to both natures, 210, 211; even of the antient church, 211, 212; in what re- spects he is called the head of the Church, 212, 513-516; of what Church he is the head, 218.
is the only meritorious intercessor, II. 238, 239.
Christ is the object of faith, I. 62;
the principal and special object, ibid.; and the adequate object of faith, because he justifies, 61-63; he dwells in us by faith, 316. Christ, is the image of the Father as God, both as God and as man, 173; the exemplar or model of the creatures, 188.
is as a tabernacle, 410-412; the conqueror of the devil on the cross, 473-475.
how he sits at the right hand of God, as God, II. 12, 14; and as man, 12, 13.
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