Christ must be served faithfully, I. 36; II.148.
his appearing and manifestation threefold, II. 25; coming to judg- ment will be soon and sudden, 28; our life, and how, See Life. Christ, put for the Church of Christ, I. 272. Christian, as to the name is nothing, I. 23, 443, 445; serving any other than God is guilty of sacri- lege, 23; living in sin is a walking monster, 443.
Christian, the true, ought always to advance, 116, 380, 381; II. 9, 86; is like a fruitful tree, I. 127; in what respects, 129.
is dead to sin, the world, and the flesh, II. 16; in what man- ner, ibid.; he grows in faith daily, and how, I. 350, 351; does all things in the name of Christ, II. 146.
is in Christ through faith and the Spirit, I. 316; ought to imi- tate Christ. II. 10, 115. Christian, his enemies, T. 133; 469.
his life ought not to be a scandal to the Gospel, II. 251; his con- versation is in heaven, II. 6, 7. Christians, ought to teach, and ad- monish, and restrain one another, II. 138, 139; are called saints in Christ, and why, I. 20, 22; faith- ful in Christ, 24; brethren in Christ, and why, 26.
are brethren among themselves, ibid.; II. 270, 297, 348; there- fore live in concord, I. 26; and united, 348, 349.
Church, whence it is called, I. 217;
of what Church Christ is the head, 218; hypocrites are not members of the Church, 219-221, 515; the Church is as the family of God, 294, 295; receives all things from Christ, 514; increase of the Church, what, 516; how the whole is united to Christ, and the members of it with one another, 513-515.
Church hath the power of ordaining external rites, I. 401.
may consist of manifold divisions, 218; each particular one may fall, 12, 20; II. 293.
a domestic family may be a Church, II. 299.
Circumcision, internal what it is,
I. 448; the Christian excels the Jewish in three things, 434; its author, and the instrument of it, 438; ought to be total, 439. Jewish what it signified, 460; chief among their ceremonies, 433.
Circumcision, put for the Jews themselves, Ï. 451.
Citizenship, a bond of love, II.
Colosse, where situated, see Pre- face, lxxi; overturned by an earthquake, II. 293.
Comfort, what it comprises, I. 345, 346.
Commendation, conduces to perse- verance, I. 374.
Commodus, base deeds of that Em- peror, II. 95. Communication,
or impartation, proper, I. 364; 414–417. not to be had with the ungodly or superstitious, II. 252.
of benefits should be mutual, 301. Communion of saints, in what it consists, I. 289.
Compassion, what, II. 104. Conclusion concerning faith, where there is only one proposition of the Scriptures, I. 47. Concord, see Peace.
the concord of love arises from agreement in faith, I. 348. Concupiscence, its first motions are sins, II. 48.
threefold: natural, carnal, and spiritual, 49.
Conservation of all things wholly from God, I. 203. Consolation, spiritual, does not ex- ist without love, I. 342; Papists confess the same when they ap- peal to their consciences, 347.
all strengthened by the gratui- tous promises, 346. Conversation of a Christian ought to be on heavenly things, II. 5—
7. Corruption natural, in the under- standing, will, and affections, I. 452; compared to a state of dark- ness, 156. Covetousness, a vice partly spiritual and partly carnal, II. 51.
how a covetous man is said to be an idolater, ibid.
the greatness of the sin, 52. Creation and preservation alike the act of God, I. 204.
Creatures, cannot create, not even as instruments, I. 191.
our right to them, civil and evan- gelical, II. 147,
Cross, the punishment of, best suit- ed for our redemption, I. 242. upon it Christ triumphed, 474; the devil was affixed, ibid. Custom, changes nature, I1, 41, 42. does not prevail against right, I. 15; nor against the truth of a doctrine, 379, 380.
Darkness signifies the state of cor- rupt nature, I. 156, 157; how we are delivered therefrom, 158. Days, no difference of, to Christians, 480; what was heretofore the case among the Jews, 478; how the Jewish holy-days were to be observed for ever, 482; what each prefigured, 231. holy-days to be observed by Chris- tians, and how, 485.
cautions in the observance of them, 487.
Deacon, Alanovos, taken largely and strictly, 103, 293; II. 304. Death, not to be feared by Chris- tians, I. 226.
of Christ, hath delivered us in two ways, 167; was in a measure not absolutely necessary in itself, but more suited to reconcile us, and why, 241, 242; applicable to all, but not applied to all, 255, 256; to be exhibited in our life, 445.
Demas, why he went back, II. 296. Desire after temporal riches may be threefold, 49.
of spiritual treasures should be paramount, I. 312. Detraction, II. 69-71; worse than theft, I. 102.
Devil rages mostly against theChris- tian, 374.
how Christ hath delivered us from him, 166, 474.
Devils, why called principalities and powers, 469.
how Christ triumphed over them upon the cross, 474.
how being conquered they yet harass us, 475.
Dignities, ecclesiastical to be de- fended, I. 8; 295; 375.
Dignity twofold, viz. of equality and suitability, 128.
Discourse of Christians, what it ought to be, 1I. 144; 260. Doctrines not to be received without examination, I. 308; 534. general, should be specially ap- plied, I. 248.
and commandments of men, not to be received, 518.
Doubt concerning the remission of sins may exist in believers, but not as believers, I. 50. Duelling, unlawfulness of, II. 116, 117.
Earthly things, what are so called, II. 8; are perishing, 9; are vain, ibid.; are contrary to heavenly things and opposed to our true hap- piness, ibid.; are not to be sought after, 8, 9; and that on two ac- counts, 9. Education of children, ought nei- ther to be too severe, nor too lenient, II. 190, 191. Effeminacy what, II. 47; to be mortified and banished, 48. Effectual calling of the elect, I. 146, 147.
Elect, they alone truly believe, I. 146; 307,
Election, temporal and eternal, II. 98; of which it is that the consi- deration influences to holiness, 99. Eloquence of the Scriptures, I. 336. not to be affected by ministers,
of heretics deceitful and ensnar- ing, 368, 370.
End the, determines the moral ac- tion, I. 125; 201.
how God acts from love to a final one, 199.
of all things is Christ, ibid. Enemies, we are such to God by na- ture, 250, 251.
who are those of a Christian, 134; 470; Christ overcame them, 474; who are the enemies of the cross of Christ, 476.
Enemies, our's, are to be loved, I. 74; we must forgive them, and do them good, 75, 76.
Envy makes another's good our own punishment, 58.
Epaphras, his commendations, 102-
has a twofold meaning, 484. Evil-speaking, what, ÏÏ. 69; hei- nousness of the sin, 70, 71. those given to it not to be listen- ed to, 72.
consolations of the godly under it, 72, 73.
Example of sympathy in Mezentius, I. 273; of insensibility in Lici- nius, 8; of abstinence in Paula, 540; of the Monks of Palestine, 539; of the austerity of the Fla- gellantes, 540; of the martyrs tempted to Idolatry, II. 253; of prayer in the Egyptian Monks, II. 225; in Old Testament saints, 226; of watchfulness, 233.
for Christians is the life of Christ, II. 114-116.
Exordium of a discourse, its parts, I. 334; regarded by St. Paul, 335.
Faith, twofold; the one unformed, historical, and general; the other formed, justifying, and particular, I. 66;
in what justifying faith differs from that which does not justify, 62, 67-69.
Faith, the object of it in general, whatever is delivered in the Scrip- tures, 61; specially and princi- pally Jesus Christ under the cha- racter of a Mediator, 62; the same faith reposed in Christ before his incarnation and since, 164; 212; 471, 472; 492.
imparted by God alone, I. 85, 86; 307; II. 242, 243; it is the gift of God, I. 447; when infused at once shews the thing believed, and the reason of believing, 353; in what manner the word preached is the instrument of producing faith, 85; is the foundation and the root of religion, 59; what is done without faith is not good, 60. Faith justifies as to its truth, not as
to its degree, 53; it alone justi- fies, 261; justifying faith is stable, is not lost, 262; the stability of faith twofold; stedfast and firm, 382; both required, 383; stedfast faith what, 376.
Faith does not exclude all doubt, but overcomes it, 51; the full as- surance of faith what, and whence it comes, 351; true faith exists not without love, 67, 68; yet is not formed from love, 69; a blind faith is not pleasing to God, 352; is not sufficient for the people,
of the popish Collier, 354, and Note.
Family, the head of, ought to in- struct his household in Religion, II. 299. Fastings, what were in use in the primitive Church, I. 543; exam- ples of fasting, 539; in what man- ner we should fast, 542-544; how far human laws concerning fasting bind us, 482, 483; a two- fold error in the fastings of the Papists, 481.
FATHER, his being named does not exclude the other persons in the sacred Trinity, I. 55; GoD is the Father of Christ, as man, 56; the FATHER of Christ is God, both as God, and as man, ibid. ; the Father is not before the Son as God, 186; the Father is spe- cially invisible, 180, 182; is the primary author of our reconcilia- tion, 235; why we are said to be reconciled to the Father, 237, 238.
Father, the very name bespeaks kindness, II. 193.
how the authority of should be exercised, 190-195. Fathers, under the Old Testament, were saved through Christ, I. 164; 211, 212; 471; they looked to Christ through the ceremonies by faith, 492; were not in Lim- bus, 470, 471.
Fear of God, the best regulator of actions, II. 200.
Feast of tabernacles, why instituted
and what it signified, I. 491. Festivals of the Jews, how to be ob served for ever, 484; the New Moons what they signified, 492; what their other festivals shadow- ed forth, 490.
Forgiveness of injuries, yields ad- vantage to the person forgiving, II. 112.
of sins, how the phrase is to be understood, 1. 49; what the act includes, 457; is the property of God alone, 458. Fornication, what it is, and how it differs from adultery, &c. II. 38. not regarded as a crime among the heathen, ibid. ; yet disapproved of by some of the wiser, 42; the heinousness of the sin demonstra- ted, 39, 40; not to be tolerated in a Christian State, 45; opposed to charity in many respects, 43; fa- voured by the Papists, 44; where- fore reckoned among things indif- ferent by the Apostle, 41. Fortitude, Christian, in what it con- sists, I. 132; whence derived, 134; our need of it, ibid.; true, from God alone, 136; how it differs from patience, 137.
Free-will does not fit or dispose us for grace, I. 90; 149; 453. Vide Merits.
Friends, who are such, 250, 251.
Glory future, the twofold array of soul and body, II. 25, 26;
the hope of, a consolation in all adversities, 29.
Glory of Christ, ought to be the end of all our actions, II. 146, 147. vain-glory to be avoided by Mi- nisters, I. 103.
God, the author and end of all things, I. 199; the preserver of all things, 203-208; acts to a special end, 199; to be loved for himself alone, 70; not to be wor- shipped through any image, 182. is the Father of Christ, I. 56. Vide Father.
how he is invisible, 180; unknown, 181; an object of dread out of Christ, 179; omnipresent, II. 201; in a threefold manner, I. 415.
how he is said to be angry, II. 54; is not a respecter of persons, 91; 211; his righteousness in punish- ing, 56; in how many ways he is blasphemed, 69.
God, his efficiency by his Ministers, I. 8; his philanthropy shewn in appointing them, 9; prevents us, 89; is the fountain of all grace, as he is our Father, 32-34; communicates grace by his Son, 35; the first author of reconcilia- tion, 235; the author of our quickening, 455, 456; the author of salvation by fore-ordaining it, and by effectually calling to it, 145, 146.
God alone ought and could save us, 154.
hated by sinners, and in what manner, 250.
Grace, and peace, the Apostolic sa- lutation, I. 29; why joined, ibid.; why grace is put first, 31; the practice of St. Paul in reference to this, II. 308.
Grace, denotes three things, I. 29; II. 308; all derived from God, I. 301; as our Father, 32, 34; through his Son, in a threefold manner, 351.
efficacious, the property of the elect alone, 146-148; 367; sending it only not found to move the will, 453; necessity of it on account of corrupt nature, 147, 453; fulness of grace, what, 230; our duty to grow in it daily, 116; II. 49. Gratitude, duty of, I. 128. See Thanksgiving.
Hand, the right, of God, what it means, and what to sit there, II. 12-14.
Hand-writing of Ordinances, what, I. 461-463; how made void and abrogated, 405, 46C.
Hatred, mutual between God and
sinners, I. 250; perfect, in what it consists, and how evinced, I. 76, 77. Head, what required to constitute headship, I. 215, 216; 511–513. of the Church, Vide CHRIST. Hearers should have general doc- trines applied to them, I. 248; 319, 320.
Help of God in troubles and afflic-
tions, II. 15. Holiness, what, I. 20, 21; twofold as it respects the end of Redemp- tion, I. 258; threefold as it re- spects the redeemed, 259, 260; all holiness from Christ, ibid.; our inherent holiness imperfect, but real, 258.
Holiness of life must be joined to
true faith, I. 380, 381; without it no one can be happy, II. 27; increases knowledge, I. 131. Hope, human and divine, I. 51; includes not only the delightful expectation of the will; but the undoubted persuasion of the un- derstanding, 52; rightly inspired hath the same certainty as faith, ibid.; why future blessedness is called our hope, 78, 79. Hosea, in what sense he took to him-
self a wife of fornications, II. 42. Humility, suitable to every condi- tion, 11. 106; motives to the cul- tivation of it, ibid. 107.
Husband, the love of towards his wife, II. 159; the duties of three- fold, 160; how a man should choose his wife, 163.
Husbands, should exercise mildness, 164; and avoid every thing oppo- site thereto, 164-167; an exam- ple proposed to them, 161. Hymns, how they differ from psalms and odes, II. 140.
how they ought to be used by Christians, 141–143.
Hypocrites are not justified, I. 259; are not members of the Church, 515.
Idolatry, or the worship of God by an idol, unlawful, I. 182; the suspicion of severely punished by the antient Church, II. 252, 253; conduct of those allured to it af terwards, ibid.
Idols not to be overthrown by pri- vate authority, II. 253. Ignorance of Christ the cause of er- rors, I. 143.
Image, what required to constitute its nature, I. 173;
how Christ as God is the image of the Father, 174, 175;
how so as man, 179; why the
Spirit is not so called, 176; image of God one thing in Christ, and another in us, II. 87; in what the image of God in man consists, 88.
Images, made by the Papists for worship, I. 182.
Impurity encourages to sin, II. 54. In (the preposition) often taken for by in the Scriptures, I. 188. Incarnation of Christ should be ex- hibited in our life, I. 444, 445. the whole Deity incarnate at the birth of Christ, but not in regard to all the persons, 413; the as- sumption of the human nature imports the act and the end of it, 414; the whole Trinity concurred in the work of incarnation, but the Son alone was incarnated, 415.
Indulgences, papal, grounded upon four errors, I. 277; their validity refuted, 278-283; not founded in Scripture nor on the Fathers, 284-290; their use explained away by modern Papists, Note
Infants, to be baptized, 448; how they may have faith, ibid. ; in- cluded in the Covenant of believ- ers, 449. Infirmity of the Saints, I. 133; in good works, 147; See GOOD WORKS imperfect.
Ingratitude, a heinous vice, II. 129. Injustice and iniquity, the origin of all, 222.
Intercessor, Christ the only merito- rious one, II. 238, 239. Invocation, Christian, differs from Heathen and Jewish, I. 57; is to be made to God alone, I. 505, 506.
Jesting, not to be affected by Chris- tians, II. 260.
Jesus, Justus, who, and why called by the latter name, 284; the sur- name given to others, ibid. Judge, ought not to be an accepter of persons, II. 212.
absolute, no mortal is so in mat- ters of faith, I. 498; 537. Judging concerning brethren should be according to the rule of Cha- rity, I. 22.
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