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M. H. who oft travaileth into those parts, that you require of me letters of comfort for relief of your afflicted and distressed conscience. Wherein I could be glad to perform any duty that is within the compass of my poor ability. But your best and soundest comfort (as I take it) lieth in those that have themselves been exercised with that trial: who from the comforts of Christ that have abounded in them, are best able to comfort those that are in like sort afflicted by the hand of God. Again, I have written unto you many times of this argument: if my Letters remain with you, they may always speak for me that which I am able to say to that point. If you require more than I have written before this; then were it reason you should send me my former letters, that I might know where to begin that which remaineth. My leisure is not great, as you know, and there is nothing whereinto I enter more unwillingly, than into this labor of writing. Yet that you may understand that I have not altogether forgotten your old love towards me, nor have suffered mine affection towards you utterly to decay; I will endeavor at once as briefly as I may to remember unto you, so far as I can cal to mind, the sum of all that I have written unto you heretofore. The question (as I take it) that lieth in controversy between your conscience and the enemy, is of the assurance of your salvation. Wherein I would have you first to consider what is, or at any time past hath been the testimony of the spirit of God unto your spirit, and then I doubt not, but either from present sense of the same spirit of God, crying in your heart, Abba Father; or from the remembrance of the days of old, wherein you had a comfortable assurance of God's favor, you shall be able to repel the force of this temptation, considering that the holy Ghost cannot lie, that God, whom he loveth, unto the end he loveth, and because his gifts and calling (as the Apostle saith) are such as whereof he doth not, nor cannot repent him. Then consider the nature of faith, which how weak and vnperfit soever it be, it cannot be divided even by Satan himself, to be faith: according to that which is said, I believe, Lord help thou mine unbelief. And if you have faith even as much as a grain of mustard seed, &c that faith apprehendeth Christ Jesus, in whom there is all sufficiency of salvation, and in whom we are complete: so that whatsoever scruple ariseth from our selves, or is enforced of the enemy from any imperfection that is in us, it need not at all to dismay us, because we save not our selves, but are saved by him, Who is made unto us from God, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption: that who so glorieth should glory in him. And indeed there is no surer refuge when the enemy distresseth us, than renouncing our selves to profess the only name of Christ Jesus, who died for our sins, and rose again for our justification. For if the enemy shall say, we have sinned: our answer is, Christ hath died for us, yea is risen again, yea is ascended into heaven, &c. If he say, we want the righteousness of the Law, we must answer, Christ hath fulfilled the Law, that we by him might be made the righteousness of Christ: If he say, we are in nature corrupt, and therefore both unworthy and unfit for the kingdom of heaven; we must answer him with the words of Christ himself: For their sakes have I sanctified myself. Finally, whatsoever shall be objected against us by the enemy, our answer must be, that in Christ all the promises of God are Yea, and in him they are Amen. That all fullness dwelleth in him, and that in him we are perfected: so that we may boldly say with Saint Paul, There is no damnation to those that are in Christ Jesus. If Satan's importunity and impudency will not thus be answered, we must end all disputation with him by our selves, and send him unto Christ, who amongst other parts of his office towards us, performeth also this for us, both before his heavenly father, and against all our adversaries, that he is our advocate to plead and defend our cause, which yet is not so much ours as his own; because the question is not of our merits or satisfactions, which we freely renounce: but of the merit of his obedience, and of the value of his death unto the salvation of those that believe in him. So shall we at once stop up the mouth of the enemy, when refusing to plead our own cause, we refer our selves unto Christ, whom we know to be the wisdom of God, and able to answer all that can possibly be objected against us. For seeing Satan is a wrangling and subtle Sophister, it is our surest and safest dispatch, to break off all dispute with him, and to send him thither where he may receive his best answer; and we need not to doubt, but he that hath answered the justice of God, and cancelled the obligation that was against us before his heavenly father, will easily defeat whatsoever the old Serpent our accuser the devil is able to allege against us. But if we cannot so avoid his assault, but needs we must enter the combat with him, let us take unto our selves that courage that becometh the soldiers of Christ, and in the name of the Lord Jesus manfully oppose our selves, knowing that he which hath brought us into the battle, will both save us and deliver us out of all dangers. Then if the enemy shall say that we have no faith, and therefore have no interest in Christ, we may answer, that our believing dependeth not upon his testimony, it is enough that our selves do know, and feel by the grace of God, that we do believe. As for him, we do the rather persuade our selves of faith, because he saith that we believe not: knowing that he is not only a murderer, but also a liar from the beginning and the father of lying. Now, he that was neither ashamed nor afraid to charge God himself with untruth, will make less scruple to deal falsely with us, and that therefore we utterly reject his witness, as the witness of a notorious and treacherous deceiver, unworthy all credit, and whom we cannot believe, even in the truth it self without danger. For which cause he was so oftentimes silenced by our Savior Christ and his Apostles, even then when after his deceiveable manner he bare witness unto the truth. Again, when the question is of our faith in Christ, whether we believe in him or not, we must beware that we stand not here upon perfection of knowledge, which in the best Divines is imperfect: or upon the perfection of our persuasion, which in all flesh is mingled with imperfection: It is enough for our present comfort, and to the silencing of our adversary, that we have a competent knowledge of the mystery of our salvation by Christ; far removed from that ignorance and implicit understanding, which Satan hath planted in the kingdom of Antichrist. For persuasion also, we acknowledge, that partly by the corruption of nature, and partly by his assaults, by the grace of God it is such, as the same is oftentimes assailed and shaken; yet faileth not, nor falleth unto the ground, but standeth invincible against all his attempts and invasions whatsoever. And finally, for that faith whereby we rest for our salvation upon Christ Jesus, we glory not in our own strength: but we say everyone for himself with him in the Gospel, We believe, Lord help thou our unbelief. Fo • if faith he, as it is indeed, a repose, settling, placing, and putting of our trust and confidence for our salvation in Christ whom the Father hath sealed; then we doubt not to prove against Satan and all his instruments of infidelity, that we do believe: and that the weakness of our faith, which we willingly acknowledge, and that remnant of unbelief which yet hangeth upon us, is so far off from dismaying us, that it is both a warning and motive unto us of great force to stir us up, and to set a work by all good means to establish and to increase our faith, when we find the good hand of the Lord not to be wanting unto us, and his ears not to be shut up against our prayers; in which we always say with the Apostles of Christ, Lord increase our faith. If it shall be objected, that because we have not the same sense and feeling of faith which sometime we had, as Satan himself could not then den • e, therefore we have now no faith, but have utterly lost the same: we may answer, the argument followeth not: for even in many diseases of the body it is so with them that have them, that they seem little better than dead corpses, and yet there is life in them, which hidden for a time, after is recovered and raised up again: so it is many times with the children of God, that being ouerborne and distressed with extremity of affliction and temptation, they seem for the time both to themselves and others, to have lost the life and light which once they enjoyed. Yet so it is, that when the tempest is ouerblowne, and the gracious countenance of the Lord again beginneth to shine upon them, the faith which was as it were hid for the time, taketh life, and steweth forth it self, and plainly proveth, that as the trees when they bud in the spring time and bring forth their fruit, were not dead in the winter as they seemed to be: so the faith of God's children, springing afresh after the stormy winter of temptation, declaring manifestly that it was not dead when it seemed so to be, but was only respited for the time, that afterward it might bring forth more fruit: and whereas the afflicted soul desireth nothing more than to believe, though it feel not a present operation of comfort by faith; even that desire argueth a secret sense that cannot easily be discerned, together with assurance of better estate in time to come, according to that of our Savior Christ: Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. And that of the blessed Virgin, He filleth the hungry with good things, but the rich he hath sent empty away. Also that bewailing and deploring of unbelief which is found in the afflicted, is not only a st • p unto their former comfrort, but a certain proof and demonstration of the return thereof. For the Lord working by his spirit in the hearts of his children's groanings that cannot be expressed, thereby assureth thē that in his good time he will hear them & grant their requests. And so much the more we may be persuaded hereof, because the love of God towards us, as it began not of us (as S. John saith) so it dependeth not upon us, but upon the truth & constancy of him, with whom there is no change nor shadow of change. Again, the temptation it self, from which our affliction doth arise, though it have of itself a most bitter and sharp taste, even unto the wounding of our souls near unto death: yet hath it also in it an argument of comfort, the Lord himself out of darkness raising up light unto his childrē. For even by this, that Satan so busily and so fiercely assaileth us, it doth appear, that as once he lost his possession in us, & was cast out by one more mighty than himself, which is Christ: so now he findeth no peaceable entrance, but a strong and mighty resistance, & therefore there yet remaineth such part of the former work, which he could not hitherto overthrow, nor shall be able forever, which is the secret seed of faith still sustained and nourished by the spirit of God in us, when we would think it were utterly extinguished. For as the fire when it wrestleth with the water thrown upon it, ceaseth not till it have overcome: so this resistance of the spirit against the flesh, will not cease until the full victory be obtained, and Satan himself trodden under our feet. Neither is there anymore sure testimony, either of our present deliverance begun, or of our full & perfect victory in time to come, than this, that by the word of God we do (though but weakly) resist the temptations of the enemy, and continue in the battle against him: mourning indeed and travailing under the burden of affliction, but yet standing upright before the enemy, so that he cannot fully prevail against us, much less overthrow & destroy us. But here one thing must carefully be looked unto, that we be not so far discouraged, either with want of feeling, or ouerborne with desire of that we have not, as we forget what mercy hereto fore we have received. When Job so earnestly, and (as one would think) impatiently wisheth the good things he had sometimes enjoyed, he doth not only express the great affection he had to be restored unto his former estate, but also giveth the attentive reader to understand a secret work of that grace of God; from the remembrance of that which had been, insinuating an hope of that which should be, as the event it self afterward declared; which issue of his troubles S. James would have us diligently to consider when he saith: Ye have heard of the sufferings of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord. But it fareth in this case with the afflicted soul many times, as it doth with those that greedily strive for the goods of this world; their affections of having more is so strong, and doth so violently possess and carry them, as it not only depriveth them of the use of that they have, but also maketh them forget the same, and which is yet more, protest against it, as if they had it not at all. So the humbled and afflicted spirit, one borne for the time with present grief and anguish of mind, not only useth not the comforts it hath, and cannot presently discern; but also causeth an utter forgetfulness of them, and which more is, protesteth against them, as if they were not: yea (as we see often in Job ) he so complaineth of the contrary, as if the Lord had not only forsaken his servant, but had armed himself, and did fight against him to destroy him. Here therefore we must bridle and chastise our impatient and murmuring spirit: and remember that of Job, so far contrary to the other, that though the Lord should destroy him, yet he will trust in him. Neither must we so much vex and unquiet our hearts for that we want, as labor to make use of that we have: which though it seem little unto us for the present, yet in truth is more than Satan by all his force is able to overcome, as may appear unto us by that endless resistance which the spirit of God dwelling in us maketh against him. For he that so fighteth is not yet captive: and he that standeth in face of the enemy, and endureth all his assaults, is not yet vanquished. Yea for that he holdeth out in so great weakness of his own, against so strong and furious assaults of the enemy; it plainly argueth, that he standeth by a greater strength than his own; by which, as he is presently preserved that he falls not into the hand of his adversary; so need he not doubt thereby to be finally delivered, and crowned with victory and triumph in despite of Satan & all he is able to work against him. But the enemy, whose quarreling with us is endless, as his malice is insatiable, will not thus leave us and give us rest, then (as I said before) it is our best and safest way, at once to end all disputation with him. And we cannot better shake him off, than by exercising our selves in prayer, reading, and meditation of the word of God, and by diligent walking in the works and labors of our calling: for there is no greater opportunity nor advantage that can be given unto the adversary, than if he shall find us idle and unoccupied. If the mind be already possessed of, and occupied in good things, it cannot so easily be transported unto that which is evil: but if he find the house empty and fit for him, he then entereth without difficulty. In the question of faith we have comfort also from the works and effects thereof in our selves: For as the tree is known by the fruits; so faith wanteth not her fruits whereby she may be discerned. These are of diverse sorts, sorrow for sin past, hatred of evil, care and endeavor to avoid it both in general and particular, the love of God and of his righteousness, desire and care with labor and contentation to please him, both in general and particular duties. And here again we have a lawful and necessary recourse unto time past. For albeit we have nothing to glory in before God, when the question is of the cause of our salvation; yet the effects of the grace and favor of God towards us in the former fruits of our faith, may yield us no small comfort in the time of our heaviness and of the anguish of our spirits; hereof it is that the Prophet in the Psalms doth so often protest his obedience unto God▪ and care to do his commandments: hereof it is that Job, unto the comforting of his distressed conscience, remembereth the course of his former life, led in the fear of God and obedience of righteousness. For although we may not attribute any merit unto our works, but must give the whole glory of our salvation unto Christ alone; yet our works do witness for us, that we are the children of God, because we are guided by his spirit, & as the Apostle saith, though the body be dead in respect of sin, yet the spirit is life for righteousness sake. Also the gracious effects of Christ himself dwelling in our hearts by faith, are sure & certain testimonies that we are members of his body and do belong unto him, because as branches implanted into him which is the vine, we bring forth fruit according to the nature of the vine. It is said we do yet sin; our answer is, that that happeneth unto us not from the new creature, but from that other part yet remaining in us still subdued under sin, in which the Lord of mercy doth not esteem us, but in that new man which is fashioned again according unto his own Image. In so much as S. Paul doubteth not to say, that the sins of the faithful proceeding from the remainder of corruption, yet abiding in them, are not their works, but the works of the flesh, which being already wounded unto death by the power of the death of CHRIST, languisheth more & more, and shall finally be abolished by death, which is the ende and accomplishment of our mortification, and fully endeth the battle between the flesh and the spirit. What shall I say of the loathing of this life, and the vanity thereof, & of that desire which is in the children of God, to be dissolved, and to be with Christ? of contentment in all estates, patience in afflictions, constancy in truth, love towards those that love the Lord, pity towards those that are in misery, and the desiring of the good (even of their enemies) and thos that hate them? Which virtues, though they bear not an equal sails, by reason of the weakness of the flesh, and of the malice and resistance of the enemy; yet are they undoubted testimonies of our love towards God, which is not but in those who are first beloved of him, and have tasted how good and gracious he is. If we shall look unto the exercises of piety, & of the worship of God, though we may here (a • else-where) complain of our wants and defects, yet we shall through God's goodness find matter of comfort. Remember therefore what mercy the Lord hath shown you in this part; with what desire & affection you have heard the word of God: how precious it hath been unto you, above gold, even the most fine gold: how sweet and comfortable, even above the honey & the honey comb. Remember with what fruit of knowledge in the will of God, increase of Faith in his promises, purpose and endeavor of amendment of life, you have oftentimes heard the same. Call to mind with what zeal and earnestness of spirit you have sometimes called upon the Name of God, both publicly and privately, with others, and alone by yourself: with what joy and rejoicing of the soul you have praised the Lord for his mercies towards his Church, and towards yourself. Call to mind what hath been in you at any time, the power of those Sacraments which are annexed as seals unto the promise of salvation by Christ, and how far they have by the blessing of God, erected your mind in hope and assurance of his goodness towards you.

If your present discouragement resist the comfort of these meditations, it is no new thing, that in our weakness we should after the manner of those that be sick, disadvantage our selves of that which might do us good: yet remember how injurious a thing it were, to esteem the children of God by their present agonies and conflicts of conscience, rather then by the comfort of that estate wherein the grace of God shined plentifully upon them and in them. For as when men are diseased, it cannot thereof be concluded, that they were never in health: so the present discomforts of the children of God, though they take away the sense of his mercy for a time, yet they are no repeal of his former goodness and favor towards them, nor deny them to have been, even in their own judgment and feeling dear unto the Lord, and still to be, though the storm and tempest of their present affliction suffer them not so lively and comfortably to enjoy the same, as before. For which cause they must with Job and David call to remembrance the comforts of times past, from thence to assure themselves of the return of the good hand of the Lord in due time. I doubt not, but you can be witness unto God, and to your own self, that the time hath been when your comfort and assurance of God's favor was such, as Satan himself could not deny the testimony which then the spirit of God did bear unto your spirits. Now the gifts and calling of God are without repentance, and whom he loveth he loveth unto the end: neither doth our salvation depend upon anything of our own, (for then we should a thousand times perish and fall before the enemy) but upon that eternal and everlasting love of God, wherewith he hath loved us in JESUS CHRIST, before the foundations of the world were laid: which love of his, if it hath at any time been made known unto us, and apprehended of us, we have assurance greater then the testimony of men and Angels. But you will say, that which sometimes I felt is now gone, and instead thereof I am perpetually oppressed with the horror of the wrath of God, just against me for my sins. It is true, that the power and sense of Faith is not always alike in the children of God: yet is it a false and sophistical conclusion, suggested from him that is a liar from the beginning, and the father of lying, to say, we feel not faith, therefore there is no faith in us. For in many diseases of the body we have no sense of life, and yet we live: the Sun shineth not in the night season, nor when it is obscured with clouds: shall we say therefore that there is no Sun, or that it hath utterly no operation? Admit also (which yet may not be admitted) that the Lord had for a time utterly given us over: can we conclude thereof, that he will never again be merciful unto us? Nay, he that found us when we sought him not, will surely return unto the work which he hath begun, though he seemeth for a while to have forsaken it. There is sometime as it were an eclipse of our faith, and of the feeling of the grace of God towards us: but let us assure our selves, that as the Sun and Moon do not perish in their eclipses, nor loose their light forever: so in this eclipse which happeneth for a time unto our faith, and sense of God's goodness, the same shall not perish or lose his virtue forever: but shall in good time be restored, or rather quickened in us again, unto our further and more assured comfort. This you have seen in many dear children of God, whose heaviness hath been known unto you, that they have not been forgotten forever, but that the Lord, who seemed for a while to frown upon them, did in the end cause his most gracious and loving countenance to shine upon them again: you have felt it in yourself, that there hath been an interchangeable course of sorrow and comfort, of faith and fear, and that the one hath continually succeeded the other, that the same hand that humbled you, did raise you up again; that he that inflicted the wound into your soul, applied thereunto the most sweet and sovereign remedy of his grace. So ancient and so experienced a soldier as you are in this spiritual battle, should now be valiant and strong unto the combat: and though victory be not to be hoped from the weakness of flesh, yet the experience we have had of the goodness of God in our former troubles, ought to assure us of the return of his helping hand in all our necessities. Shall I put you in mind of the grace of God towards you in your comforting of others, even then when yourself have been in some discouragemēt? If others have received comfort from you, raise up the same comforts unto yourself. Neither is there any cause you should fear, least the spirit which in you was able to erect and confirm others, should not be able to refresh and comfort your own soul. In other things we love our selves too much, and do well unto our selves rather than to others: but here many times by the fraud and deceit of the enemy, we are made cruel unto our own bowels, and become his abused instruments to torment our selves: Who will put a sword into the hand of his adversary to wound himself withal? And who will strengthen his enemy that is already too strong for him? Yet this is our folly, that we will conspire with Satan against our selves, and arm him with weapons unto our own destruction. Saint Peter saith, Resist the devil being strong in faith. We must not therefore yield our selves unto his tyranny, nor cast away that weapon of faith by which alone we may be able to overcome. But I will urge this argument no further.

I know that the benefits of this life are common for the most part, both to the reprobate and to the elect; yet both in those which are common, there is a great and large difference, and there are some so singular as carry with them a stronger testimony of the favor of God, than that it may without impiety be denied. In common benefits it holdeth, that as things most adverse are yet turned unto our good, so much more the good gifts and blessings of God do carry with them a testimony of his love and favor towards us. For as the Lord speaketh unto us in the word and by his spirit; so his good and fatherly providence towards us, is not without voice, but soundeth aloud unto the declaration of his love. But there are (as I said) some benefits so special, that the use of them is proper only unto his children. Remember with me the first time of this trouble & dismaying of your conscience; and remember withal how many means the Lord hath ministered unto you for your comfort What shall I say of those whom the Lord hath put even into your bosom, the more nearer to apply his mercy unto you, Master C. Master B. Master R. &c. all so furnished unto your comfort, that you may well think, they were as so many hands stretched out from heaven to support and strengthen your weakness withal? If I should set myself to remember how many other the servants of God have by divine providence been directed to minister comfort unto you, the number would be innumerable: Master S. Master F. Master D. Master B. Master G. Master G. and almost who not, of those that have been trained and brought up in that school. Consider how great a mercy this hath been, that so many excellent Physicians of the soul, should at several times apply themselves, if not unto the cure, at the least unto the mitigating of your disease, I will not examine how many and great comforts you have received from them by word in presence, and by letters in absence: this only I ask of you, whether you have not known all these to bear unto you the same testimony, to speak the same comfort, and to cōfirm you in the same assurance of the love of God towards you?

Now what spirit must that be, that shall contradict the spirit of God in the mouths of so many and faithful witnesses? My good friend, mark what I will say unto you: as the patient that is sick in body willingly resigneth himself unto the sentence and direction of his skillful and faithful Physician; so must the children of God in their spiritual maladies, yield themselves unto the Physicians of their souls, so much the more, because the Lord hath given unto the ministers of his Gospel the power of binding and loosing, both in the public ministry of his word, and also in the private consolation of his children. I will not speak of that which is public, although not altogether unfit unto my purpose, considering that that which is publicly spoken as unto all, hath also a particular address unto those that are the Lord's. As whē the Lord saith by his Prophet, Blessed are all they that mourn in Zion. I will for the present rest in that use of this power of binding and loosing which is private and particular. Remember that of Saint James, who saith, that upon the prayers of the Elders of the Church, the sins of the diseased shall be forgiven him: which words can have no other sense, but that by them shall be pronounced unto him the forgiveness of sins. A most excellent practice whereof, we have in our Savior himself, Luk. 7. where first he proveth by argument unto Simon the Pharisee, that the mourning sinner was pardoned all her sins, and therefore was now no sinner and wicked one, as he uncharitably esteemed her to be; then turning himself unto the distressed soul, first saith, Thy sins are forgiven thee; and afterward, Thy faith hath saved thee, go in peace. Wherein, though there be some things extraordinary in our Savior Christ as the son of God; yet is it that power which he hath communicated unto all his servants, saying, Whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven, &c. which is nothing else, but, whose sins upon due examination and trial of their repentance, you pronounce to be forgiven, they are forgiven. Here again remember (my dear friend) how many of the faithful and expert servants of Christ have examined your estate by conference with yourself, & have found all signs unto health and salvation. Unless therefore Satan dare contradict the spirit of God, speaking by the mouths of so many witnesses, he cannot say but you are the Lord's. Now for yourself, I am assured that you will not, nor dare not say, but this hath been the constant testimony of all the servants of God sent unto you; and that they were such as you had no cause to suspect their partiality or flattery in any sort. How is it then, that the voice of so many should not be unto you as the voice of God himself? Who, though he do not speak unto us now immediately from heaven, as in sometimes past; yet he speaketh unto us by the mouths of his servants, his Prophets. When David said in the horror of his soul, I have sinned against the Lord; was it (think you) a small comfort that Nathan said immediately unto him, The Lord hath pardoned thy sin? I will say nothing of the prayers of so many of the servants of Christ as have commended your cause unto the Lord, which cannot be frustrate, the Lord himself directing them to pray according to his word, and upon the assurance of his promise. Read Job 33. 23. If there be present with him (that is, with the afflicted soul, as verse 22.) a messenger from God, an interperter (of the will of God) such as is one of a thousand, who may signify unto man the equity of the Lord, and entreating him for favor shall say: Redeem thou him that he go not down into the pit, by that redemption which I have found; when he hath humbly be sought the Lord, he doth graciously receive him that he may behold his face with joy, and he restoreth unto man his righteousness. In which words there are many excellent things to be noted for the comfort of those that are afflicted. The first is, that the anguished soul finding no comfort at home and in her self, by reason of the strength of temptation, must seek relief abroad at the hands of those whom God hath appointed to make glad the sorrowful mind, and to give rest unto the wearied and distressed conscience. Wherein you must consider with all thankfulness, how great mercy the Lord hath shown unto you: for I do persuade myself, as before I have said, that since the time of your affliction, there hath not been almost one, that hath any special gift in that kind, who by conference, writing, or otherwise, hath not bestowed some part of his travail unto your comfort. I could myself name a great number besides those above mentioned, but yourself can remember many more. Now the testimony of many faithful servants of Christ witnessing the grace and goodness of God towards you, must be as the voice of God himself, who is not as man that he should lie, or as the son of man that he should repent, or alter that which he hath once testified. And if Job do acknowledge, that the comfort of one faithful witness on the behalf of God, is enough to the erecting & cherishing of the heaviest mind, what can Satan say unto the testimony, not of two or three witnesses which the law only requireth, but unto the testimony of two or three score, the meanest and weakest whereof should be able to answer in your behalf unto all that the enemy is able to object against you? The second thing I note, is that these have not come unto you by error or by chance, but by special address of God's providence, as sent from the throne of grace to bind up your wound, and to minister comfort unto your conscience. The third, that these speak not their own words, nor of themselves but are the faithful interpreters of the will of God, not indeed immediately from himself, but by viewing and esteeming of the work of God, and the fruits of his grace in those that are his. The fourth, that as they declare unto the afflicted, that favor of God towards them, which themselves are not able for the present to discern, so they commend them by prayer unto the Lord, who hath promised to hear & to grant their requests. The fifth, that for comfort in this case, we must pass out of our selves, in whom there is nothing that may ease our grief, and cast our eye and cogitation only upon Christ, in whom all fullness of salvation doth dwell, considering that this is one of the means whereby Satan doth most distress and anguish the afflicted souls, that he holdeth them in the cogitation of their sins and transgressions against God, and suffereth them not to see that length, breadth, height, and depth, and to know that love of Christ that passeth all knowledge, that they might be filled with all the fullness of God. The sixth, that the Lord both mercifully blesseth the labors of his servants in comforting his children, and also graciously heareth their prayers and supplications made in their behalf unto his Majesty. And the last, that God in his good time erecteth the minds of the afflicted, and openeth their mouths to praise his name & to protect his goodness, that he hath brought again their soul from the pit, and hath shined upon them with the light of life▪ Which effect of the grace of God, because you have both seen in others, and felt in yourself many times, you have great cause to hope and expect the return of his comforting hand in due season, who also shall once determine these conflicting days, and set us in that peace which shall never be interrupted, and wherein all tears shall be wiped away from our faces forever.

The malice of the enemy, during this life, hath no end nor measure at all, and therefore we may justly fear all extremity of attempt against us; but we must strengthen our selves in him, who can and will enable us unto all things.

The last and most grievous assault of Satan against the afflicted is, that he calleth into doubt their election. For that salvation is only of the elect, he laboreth by all means to snake this ground and pillar of comfort, and if it be possible to subvert and overthrow the same. It behooveth us here to take heed how we carry our selves, as in that temptation which of all others is most difficult and dangerous. First therefore, we must beware of that gulf wherein the enemy hopeth to devour us, that we enter not into the secret and hidden counsel of God. For the secrets of the Lord are for himself; but the things that are revealed, are for us and our posterity after us forever, as Moses saith. What then hath the Lord revealed concerning our election? First, the spirit of God witnesseth unto our spirits that we are the children of God: then it teacheth us to cry Abba Father, and stirreth up in us those groanings that cannot be expressed. From these let us descend unto faith it self: the voice whereof, if it be not suppressed by the grievousness of temptation, soundeth cheerfully unto us, that we are beloved of God, redeemed by Christ, and fellow heirs with him of his fathers kingdom. If here also the enemy have darkened our senses and obscured our light, we must of necessity with Job, relieve our selves from the fruits of our faith: These what they are hath already been said. If necessity do so compel us, we must fly unto the times that are past, and refer our selves unto the testimonies of the faithful ministers of God: who as they are for their wisdom and manifold experience better able to judge of our estate than our selves: so have they power and authority from God to decide the controversy between us and our enemy, and to plead our cause against him. Also where the enemy from our present trouble and torment of mind, seeketh to drive us unto despair, we are to use against him his own weapons: for among many testimonies of our estate in grace & favor with God, there is none more evident and sensible, than is that conflict which we find and feel in our selves of the spirit against the flesh, of faith against unbelief, of a sanctified mind against that part that is unregenerated: and finally, of the new creature against the old man, and of Christ himself in us, against the power of Satan. If he reply that this is not so, but the contrary; we may answer, that albeit there have been many times, wherein we had a more present and mighty hand of the Lord upon us; yet even now Satan himself cannot deny, but we hate sin and love righteousness: that we love God and (to our power) obey his will, and fly the baits and occasions of evil: whereof if there were for the present no manifest and apparent effects, (as yet by the grace of God there are) notwithstanding the only affection and desire of the heart, thirsting and longing after God's kingdom and his righteousness, are sufficient arguments of the work of grace begun in us, which shall so long be continued by the good hand of our heavenly father, until it be consummated and perfected in the life to come. For if it be God (as the Apostle saith) that giveth both the will and the deed: he that hath given us to desire to obey his will, will also enable us unto the doing of the same. And seeing the work of sanctification beginneth in the heart, and thence floweth into our whole life, we nothing doubt, but God, who hath given us joy in the holy Ghost, and thereby a love unto him & unto his law, will further confirm & strengthen us, that we may be vessels of honor unto his name, and glorify the Gospel of our profession with fruits agreeable and according thereunto. Yea the thoughts, meditations, and desires of the heart, are deeds before God, and principal parts of that obedience which he requireth at our hands. And therefore if the faithful man should be taken away by death before he hath done any of the outward works of the law; yet should not his faith be without fruits, in that being sanctified in the inward man, he doth now in soul & spirit serve the Lord, and desireth ability and opportunity in act to do his will, and to honor his name; as appeared in that penitent malefactor that died with our Savior Christ.

Another thing I am to admonish you of, that you be not as the covetous men of the world, who so gape upon that they further desire, as they consider not, but rather forget that which they already have, and having much indeed, in their opinion have nothing: and to all purposes and uses do as well want that which they have, as that which they have not. So it oftentimes happeneth to the dear children of God, that whilst they look and breath after that which they have not yet attained unto, they forget and neglect that which they have received, and use it not to their comfort and rejoicing, as otherwise they should. This ouerreaching & importunity of theirs, Satan abuseth against them, from the opinion of having nothing, to blind their eyes not to see the present grace and goodness of God towards them. It is true that the Apostle saith, that in the course of godliness and religion, we may not think we have attained the goal, or are come unto the ende of our race: but, forgetting that which is behind us, and endeavoring unto that which is before, must contend (as to a mark) unto the reward of the most high calling of God in Christ Jesus. But he speaketh it not to this end, that we should not in thankfulness acknowledge the former mercies of God bestowed upon us, or not use them unto our comfort, as testimonies of his love & favor towards us: but that we may not stay in our present profiting but add daily a new and fresh increase; that as from a larger and greater heap o • benefits, we may more and more assure our selves, that we are beloved of God, and shall enjoy the inheritance of his kingdom. When the Apostle saith, Work your salvation, &c. and labor to make your calling and election sure: though the meaning be not, that we should put confidence of salvation in works, yet it telleth us, that the works & fruits of our faith are testifications of God's spirit dwelling in our hearts more evident and pregnant, than that Satan himself can or dare deny them. We may not suffer our selves to be so ouerborne of the enemy under the color of zeal and desire to do well, as not to remember wherein the Lord hath already given us some part of well-doing: not so to strive unto that we have not, as to forget that which by his grace we already have: but rather with all thankfulness acknowledging the goodness of God, from thence assure our selves of the continuance & finishing of the work begun. In the courses of the world, as slowness getteth nothing, so preposterous haste looseth all. It is the subtlety and malice of the enemy, when he cannot hold us with himself, to hasten and push us on so fast and so headlong, as by rashness we may fall into that, which by forwardness we had escaped. Good things to come therefore we must hold them in hope, and pursue them in peace: but the good we have already attained unto, we must so far rejoice and comfort our selves in, as from thence we may be able to sustain and support our cause against the enemy, and from that we have, to let him understand that we doubt not of that which remaineth: that the Lord will both continue and confirm the work of his own hands, and not forsake the same until it be accomplished in his kingdom of glory. Thus I have in great hast and confusedly set down so much as presently came unto mind, of those things which often heretofore I have written unto you: humbly beseeching the Father of all mercy and God of all consolation, who hath anointed you with the oil of his grace, sealed you with the spirit of adoption, and given you a sure earnest and pledge of everlasting salvation, to increase upon you, and in your heart the measure of faith, and multiply your fruits in all manner of well doing, make you strong against the face of your enemy, & crown you with victory in the day of battle, that you may praise his name in the day of your deliverance, glorify him in the whole course of your life; and finally enjoy with the rest of his Saints, that eternal kingdom of glory, prepared for all those that love and fear him.

A TABLE OF THE CHIEFE POINTS OF DOCTRINE HANDLED IN THIS VOLVME, GATHERED INTO AN Alphabetical order.

A
• A Bstinence used, 807. want of it hurt the godly, 808.
• Admonition, 28. 256, 789 to whom it is to be given, 205. and in what manner, 547. 698. 58. of inferiors to superiors, 257. how it should be taken, 58. Rules of it in general, 629. 630. 631.
• Adoption, what it is, and trials thereof. 450
• Adultery, what it is, and how many ways committed, 676. 767. 790. Remedies against it. 635. 636.
• Affection natural is corrupt, 1. 103. 638. 681. 727. 57. 515. 325. always to be suspected, 274. 651. the trial of it, 1. 671. 680. how it is renewed, 243. 175. 742. good affections required in good works, 264. 161.
• Dead Affections, 459. 827.
• Affliction, 2. 262. 638. causes of it, 35. 640. 197. 234. 235. necessity thereof, 80. how grievous a thing, 97, joys in it. 686. 782. who are afflicted, 95. 96. 639 766. the ende and use of affliction, 1. 2. 112. 686. 533. 334. how to comfort the afflicted. 6. 106, 1107, 114. 116.
• Affliction soon tries godly and godless, 489. three rules for it. 864. 865.
• Ambition, 99. how to fight against Ambition, 466.
• Amitie turned into enmity, 798.
• Anger, godly, 243. evil anger, 79 • . cause of it, 466. Trial of anger, 3. 641. 204. 547.
• Angels watch over ve • , and how; 3. 646 not seen, but extraordinarily. 641. evil Angels. 310. 311. 312.
• Antichrist. 666
• Apparel. 712.
• Apostasy how great a sin, 627.
• An Arian Heretike. 110.
• Armor of a Christian, 308. 309.
• Assurance of salvation, 322. 323. 328. See Salvation.
• Astonishment. 24 • .
• Atheism. 3.
• Austeritie. 769.

B
• BAptisme, 642. Our vow in Baptism, ever to be remembered, 477. on what day to be remembered. 157.
• Belieuers like children 18. the believer not hasty, 408.
• Blessedness, 314. the causes of it, 207. the effects of it, 209. true blessedness wherein it consisteth. 394
• Blessing denied because of sin, 784 786. the way to obtain temporal blessings, 644. these are no signs of God's favor, 645.
• Blindnes of men, 165. causes of it, 197.
• Book of GOD, especially to be taken up, with the examples thereof, 421. All that can delight the heart of man, contained in the book of God, 446
• Brethren most vehement in Love, and so in hatred, 685.
• Brownists, 258

C
• CAlamities, public, fearful Tokens thereof, 464. causes of it, 791. public most, affect us most, 2 •
• Calling, general & special, 645. misliking thereof dangerous, 4. 30. 38. 613. 493.
• Of calling upon GOD, with diverse circumstances thereof. 449.
• Care immoderate of outward things hurtful. 464 644
• Catechising of Children whiles they are young required, 2▪ 8. 642. 664. families must be catechized, • 9 • how and by whom it must be done, 649 6 • 5 distinguished from preaching: ibid. reasons for it. 665
• Cause good, why it hath ill success, & who are enemies to it. 8. constancy in it. 50 how to prosper in a good cause, 461 they may look to be potected, that have a good cause, and handle that cause well, 504 (256 651
• Censuring of others how it must be done, 4
• Ceremonies 787 their first original, 152 good and profitable, 652 evil, and to be hated. 353 321 364
• Charity, 820 void of suspicion 79
• Chastity, 78
• CHRIST, 654 his excellency in all knowledge, 751: how, and where we must labor to find CHRIST, & to apply him, 397 his Temptations, 490 his Passion in • oule, • 4 186 his Burial, and the use of it: 84 his Resurrection; 85 178 he holdeth his Kingdom by two Titles; 655 two Crowns, 6 • 6 his incercession, how he must be followed; 692 654 his power; 852
• Christians; their estate; 308 who be true Christians, 231 A Christians life is the Meditation of the Law of GOD, &c. 459 Difficulties in Christianitic, 384
• Church, why called holy and Catholic; the Authority and dignity of it, 648 the prospetitie thereof should make us rejoice, 275 a care of the prosperity, a note of God's children, 620 wants in it, and yet tolerable, 74 648 819
• Childrē foolish, 276 why God giveth such to parents, 2 • 2 how to be brought up▪ ibid: 662 66 • how to be corrected, 278 marks of God's children, 853 316 their calling and privileges, 782 their comfort in this life, 341 their love to parents, and the Trial of it 76: chastized, and wherefore, 640 787 subject to two extremities, 307 how God's children have many changes in this life, and wherefore, 497 God's goodness towards them, when he plagueth the wicked, 499
• Circumcision, 668 705
• Combat of the faithful, 81
• Cōfort for a troubled mind, 6. 33 109 112 681. 768. See afflicted; false comfort. 778.
• Company of the wicked to be avoided, 332
• Communion with CHRIST 1 • 2 with his members, 1 • 3 318 the benefit of observing all God's commandments, 395 He that offendeth in any one commandment is guilty of all, ibid.
• Concupiscence, how to avoid it. 8. (458
• Conference necessary, 5. 614, 12 • , 647. 662
• Confession of sin. 38 484
• Confession of sin, 649. of all▪ 690, of special, 107 hard to confess sin, 32 33 the benefit of the confession of our sins 409. confession twofold: public, private; to God, to men, 360 361
• Conscience afflicted, 5. 6. 37. See afflicted, Of sin, 701. tormented, 9 • . 99. 639 hardness, 651. a good conscience, 5. notes of i • , 313. examination of it, 650, peace of it, 650 209 tender, 650 773. 611 troubled, yet pardoned 867 Scriptures for a weak conscience, 854 what it is, 3 • 8
• Constācie in a good cause, in the faith, 511
• Contempt of the Gospel punished, 791
• Contention, 801 419
• Contentation, 26 678 759 770
• Cont • act of Matrimony used of the heathē 122 commended in Scripture, 123 what it is, and how the contracted must be taught, 123. 124. a form of contract. 1 • 8
• Controuersies, how far permitted in the Church, and wherefore. 727
• Conversion, 281 how hard a thing 252 the only outward means of it. 282
• Correction; how the Lord correcteth, and why, 34, 6 • 2 7 • 5. How men ought to rect, 278 651 See Censure,
• Corruption natural, 8. 636 703 secret corruption, 10 • how known, 58. knowledge and feeling of it necessary, 11. 681 delighteth in means it cannot have, 92 hindereth good actions. 27
• Couenants particular. 477
• Couering infirmities. 7
• Covetousness insatiable. 643. 6 • 4 how discovered. 6 • 0. 604. how to fight against it, and overcome it. 466
• Curtesie of the wicked what it is, 837
• Counsel. 612
• Creation, what it is, 82. right use of the creatures. 312 783 what it is to be a new creature, 370 joy therein, • 64
• Crosses refine the Faithful, 2. 38. 117▪ they are necessary, 649 the use of it 116 joys under it. 68 • three things required to find comfort therein, 2 the wicked cowa • ds under the cross 48 • Cross of CHRIST, what is meant thereby, 366 36 • how crosses of wood and other things came. 36 •
• Curiositie, 475
• Curse, a secret curse, 662 680
• Custom, 332

D
• David, 552 his adultery, 7 • 2
• • auncing a sin, 169
• Death sudden, 66 • good, 465 violent, • 8 quiet, to some men an evil • ig •• , 2 • 1 measurable fear of it commendable, • 250 wishes of it unlawful, 9 meditation of it profitable, 656 6 • 3 how to die the death of the righteous, 49 the godly die in the fittest time, 45 their sin abolished by it, 875 806 no man to be judged according to his state in death, 9
• Debt two kinds of it, 754
• Decalogue, 73
• Deceir, 688
• Delights, 612
• D • sertion, what it is, 398 It is twofold, Ibid. Three ends for which God useth desertions, 401 the use that Christians ought to make thereof, 402
• Desire, 735 respected of God more then the deed, 9 6▪ 8 How to examine it, 680 800 7 • 2 man's desire insatiable, 6 • 3 why we have it not, 760
• Despair, and remedy against it, 8 • 9
• Diet, 10 charitable judgments of professors in cases of desperation, 400 their judgment to be left to God, ibid.
• D •• t, 10
• Differēce between persons & callings, 49 •
• D • ligence to serve God, 55
• D • sobedience, 3 • 0
• Discipline of the ancient Church, 768 842
• Discretion necessary therein, 84 •
• Dispraise, 10
• Distraction frō a good matter, & the cause of it. 10
• Divine, • . things make a good divine, 410
• D • uell▪ how he may hurt, 2 how he tempteth and accuseth▪ • 04 his subtlety, 7 • 4 his strength, 7 • 0 of diverse names given unto him, 845
• Doctrine, 772 three rules to examine it by 11 false doctrine infections, 491
• Dreams, the causes & use of them, 10, 326
• Dulnes and deadness, 10. causes of it, 6▪ 30 273. 496. 584. how to avoid it, 160. 662 329 the most perfect earhly things are imperfect, & shall have an end. pag: 4 • 2

E
• ECclesiastes, a brief sum of it, 628
• Education of children, See children. Elders, 352
• Election, 719 Elect, their privilege, 782
• Enmitie, 798 the way to overcome our enemies, 464 rules to be observed when we pray against them. 512
• Envy, 732
• Error, 817
• Examination of our sins, 101, of our selves, 31, 284 1 • 7. 642 671. 703.
• Example, 247, 249▪ 263, 268, 96, 632, use of example, 9 666, how far to be followed, 11 720 721
• Excommunication, what it is, and how dangerous to despise, 842 discretion required therein, 843 who were excommunicated in the ancient Church, 792
• Exercises of religion public, 11 75 private, 158 498 the use & benefit thereof, 6 • 3 to strengthen judgment, to whet affection, 19 778 to whom unprofitable, 241 498 wherefore the Lord doth no more bless public exercises, 498
• Exhortation, Legal, Evangelical, 3 • 9
• Experience. 11
• Bucharist, what we eat and drink therein, and how, 192 why, 193 examination before, and the reasons thereof, 187
• Eye of idleness 676
• Eyes, the government of them 671 677 not governed, how hurtful, 792 5 • the vanity of them, 416

F
• FAlling, the child of God may fall, 13 the strongest may fall, 761
• Family, what care is to be had of it, 12 278 the whole family punished for the sin of the master. 684
• Family of Love. 453
• Famliaritie with the wicked, forbidden, punished▪ 492
• Fasting 8. no set time for it, 135. public fast. 152. How expedient in our Time, 151. the austerity of the Fathers in it. 653. Humility therein required, 674
• Favor of God, 682. found in affliction, 687. to be sought more then the favor of men, 686
• Fairs on the Sabbath day, 165
• Faith, 11. what it is, 81. How needful, 12. 484. faith worketh, 588. trial of it, 640. 814. How the faith of God's children differeth from the vain imaginations of the wicked, 492. the trial of our Faith, when God delays to perform his promises, 508. decay of it, 176. 510. Eclipse of it, 265. the life secret, 54. without feeling. 655. 662. faith only justifieth, 86. want of faith, and of a good conscience, make many barren in good things, 464. Spirit of faith, 484 faithful, how far they are said to be wise, 461
• Fear: Three kinds of fear, 682: properties of it, 683. godly fear, 248. 528. 3 • 3. 353. 55. difference of the godly and wicked therein, 31. 53. immoderate fear, 504. 13. 504. scrupulous fear, 1 • 5. false fear, 857 few men truly fearing. 491
• Feastings 14. on the Sabbath day, hazard souls, 168
• Feeling, 1. 6. 12. 40. 273. 286. 679. 777. 804. 481. under the cross, 27. of the forgiveness of sins, 254. of a spiritual g • ace, 655. David lost it, 248. 866 867. of wants, 507
• Figures, 132
• Fire, the properties thereof. 244
• Flesh, what it is, 289. 224. how it must be kept under, 808. combat between it and the spirit, 221. 225
• Fools, who be, 625. diverse kinds of folly, 732
• Forgetfulnes, the cause of it, 609,

• Fornication, 501 See Adultery.

  Why God seemeth sometime to forsake his children 397 39 •

• Frailtie to be borne with, 545
• Friendship, Rules to be observed therein, 14, with whom it should be made, 624
• Friends, not profiting in godliness, 857
• Free-will, 477, 525
• Freedom of joy, and freedom of sorrows, 484
• Fruits, 12
• Furies, 589

G
• GIfts extraordinary, 15. of the spirit, 694
• Glory, vain. 273
• God, his patience & mercy, 694, his countenance, 544. to see & feel it, 662 two notes of his goodness, 847. three notes of his favor, 680 his works, 748 his Temple, 804 his judgments, ••• no flying from it, 6 • 8 his Anger and wrath, 696 his word, the power and privilege thereof, 8 • 8 his providence, 466 850

• Godlines, 533 hard to come to 466 the mirror of it, 525 true godliness and religion to be preferred before all wordly things, 383 two special things to attain true godliness, 466 godly often troubled with unbelief, 495

  Blasphe▪mers of the godly, 3. • orts, 419

• Good name, 264 261 259
• Good works, 15 See Works.
• Gospel, what it is, 72 88 772 824 the trial of our love to it, 766▪ contempt thereof punished, 649 • 24 How it is said to kill, 20
• Grace, 649 692 decay of God's graces how dangerous, 15 what misery grace doth free us from, 38 what good things it maketh us to enjoy, 381 the fruits and effects thereof, 381 382 the price of Grace, Ibid. the rareness of it, 382 the continuance of it, ibid. He which is once in the estate of Grace▪ shall be in the same forever, 398 how God takes away one grace from his servants, and puts another in the room thereof, ibid.
• Griefe, 25 7 • 8 522 for sin, 15 242 for other men's sin, 457 good to be grieueed, 102 681 grief, because we cannot grieve, 194
• Gripings fallen in the body, 2

H
• HArdnes, 716 79 • the cause thereof, 16 57 two kinds thereof, 255 a great plague, 718 to have a feeling thereof is good, 681
• Harvest, 165
• Haste to do good things, 36 800 too great haste hurtful. 2 • 1
• Hatred of sin. 320
• Health not to attribute it to Physic. 639
• Hearing of the Word. 72. the best hearing. 708. how we must hear, 196. 34 • . preparation thereto, 709. 53. profit thereby. 59. how many sorts of hearers, and what to be observed therein. 834. 835

• Heart, 1 • . 5. 271. 115. two causes of watching over it. 24. nourishing of evil in the heart. 171. fainting of it. 6 • 1. circumcision of it. 70 • . In of • ering our selves to God's service, we must search and dignity deep into our hearts, 387. Five marks of an upright heart 387. 388. he must have a sound heart, that would have sound happiness

  38 • . The description and properties of a sound heart, 386. 415. 416

• Hell; the t • rmens of it. 658. 695
• Help in need. 728
• Heresy, • 7. 45 • . 471. dangerous, 720 why men detest it not, 472
• Here • ikes, 529. how different from Christians. 54. Civil conversation of heretics, 454. They are discovered by the cross, 455. why so few heretics converted, 467
• Holy Ghost, of the sending of it, 216 See Spirit.
• Hope. 497. 754
• Humility, 18. 796. 467. true, 28 • . in the godly, 269▪ a special grace, 825 86 • . from whence, 8 • 0. the means of it two • 34. 3 • 5. want of it hindereth in godliness, 520. fantastical. 270
• Hypocrisy, 19. 140. 574. gross, and close, 266. Markes, 717. vn • ased 8 • 0. Trial of it. 44. kinds, 202. how it differeth from godliness, 715
• Hypocrites, God hath a quarrel against them, 386. he loathes their seruic • s. ibid. they live in continual danger, ibid.

I
• I Dolatrie, occasions of it to be a • oyded, 220.
• Idleness is occasion of sin, 646. of st • alth. 78
• Jealousy godly over our selves, a thing most necessary. 510
• Iests, 20. foolish • estings. 52
• Ignorance of the people, must make the Ministers wary. 209. 15 • . of old age, 685. cause of disobedience, 733: the Saints bewail it. 501
• Ignorance a cause to humble us, 475. willful ignorance and voluntary perdition. 473
• Ignorance and error differ, 869
• Imaginations if roving dangerous, 467
• Impatiencie, 7. 8. the cause of it, 704. a good meditation against it. 674
• Impenitency,, the causes of it. 781
• Impiety discovered. 764
• Impudencie, how it cometh, 79 • . of our time. 848
• Incredulity in God's children, 537
• Infidels have no good name. • 61
• Infirmities, to see, and to be grieved for them, 727
• Injury how to bear. 727. what are to be borne. 730
• Judgment, 727. what strengthen it, 19 how to attain to it, 175. who are hasty therein, 202. corrupt judgment, 466. day of judgment, 648. 657. how it is said to be near, 658. sudden, 7 • 8 three things in it. 65 • . consideration of them, 469. four reasons approving God's judgments to be good, 414. judgment for the word of God, 406 a visible judgment of God, 501
• Iusticiaries, 103
• Justification by Faith, 678. 848. Arguments of it, 243
• Justice two Courts of it, 679
• Joy, 323. true, 46. sweet. 986. of a good conscience. 693. to the Word, 14. trial thereof, 16. it may be lost, 248. Difference of the godly and godless therein, 31. Two kinds of it, 725
• Joy of salvation how great, 293▪ to labor for it, 294. two sortes of joys in receiving of the Word, 294

K
• KIngdome diuerslie taken, 287. none shall appear in it, which make not an entrance on Earth, 289. What must be sold before we can possess it, 302. Kingdom of CHRIST how to know where it is, 221
• Keys of the Kingdom committed to all Ministers. 288
• Knowledge. 664. • 4 general. 20. their knowledge pur • lind that either know little, or knowing never so much do practice nothing: 474. to what end God giveth knowledge: 410. the use and abuse of knowledge, ibid. true, where and how to find it. 6 • 4. wrought by the Spirit, 229. how confirmed, 498. sins after it: 10 • . to sin against it a tempting of God: 8 • 6. why we profit not thereby: 196. corrupt kinds of it. 721
• Knowledge ministerial. 453

L
• LAw of God: 138. what it is: 72. why given to all: 132. moral and natural differ: 154. moral before Moses: 829. moral and ceremonial how abrogated: 133. how to be preached: 59. difference of the Law and the Gospel. 889
• Learn what a Christian should specially desire to learn, 396: and where, ibid.
• League none with the wicked. 611
• Liberty to take heed unto it. 10 • , 457 outward liberty brings inward bondage. 468
• Libertines against them. 380
• Lies. 659
• Life, and the shortness of it, 659: it is but the present time. 660
• Light refused for darkness. • 73
• Love, a true token of it, 14, 520, of God, 113, 695, 4 • 4▪ 545, of our brethren, 685 of the word, 87, 766▪ arguments of our love to God, 454, 456, natural love must give place to heavenly love, ibid. we may not love that best which the world esteems best, 516, to love God only as we be taught in his word, 49 • , duties of love, 160, how to love best, 516, how to love superiors equal and inferiors. 120
• Love of the creatures hinder, 20. carnal love. 637
• Lust, remedies against it. 635

M
• MAdnes, the cause of it. 20 Magistrates how they may win the people's favor, 260, they must be men of wisdom, 38, have a care of God's glory, pray for the people, 778, their sin most dangerous, 79 • , si • s of the people cause evil Magistrates. 53
• Markes of God's children, 25, See children of God.
• M • riners that s • ile on the Sabbath. 164
• Matrimony, notes to know whether it be of God, 20, consent of parents, 21, choice in it, 742, the spousage before known by the light of nature, 122, the end of it. 806
• Means, 27, of saluatiō, 42▪ all good means must • e used, 615, • 70, we ought to attend thereō 736, neglect thereof a tempting of God, 674, by what means we draw to God, 690, to keep us from sin. 7 • 8, the virtue & power of the means in God, 844, means of least show bring greatest graces. 290
• Mediator who it is, 80, how dangerous to appear before God without him. 694
• Mediocritie. 29
• Meditation, 615▪ 159, 574, 564, in labor, 4, how we be hindered therein, 10, commodities of it, 22. rules for it, 23. of Christ his death: 19 • , of death in or on the word, 450. to redeem the time for it. 471
• Meditation must be continued, 459: we will always meditate & think on the things we love. 459
• Melancholy: Satan and it disquiet afflicted souls. 257
• Memory: helps for it, 23, • 5: 447
• Mercy, 209: of God▪ 9▪ 522. the rich mercy of God to the faithful, in opening their eyes when many millions are left in darkness and misery. 503: it is either in giving or forgiving: 697, to the poor: 69 • : how it worketh in the wicked, 247: to whom the mercies of God are dear • . 782
• Merit. 509
• Messengers of God how they bind and loose: 877, must be prepared for trouble. 747▪ their evil life, how dangerous. 752 messengers of Satan within us. 306
• Mind 52, cast down: 95, distempered. 482
• Ministers▪ 24. the necessity of thē. • 39. • 40 the use whereunto they are appointed 341. their duty, first to read and study. 342. secondly to teach the word. • 43 how, where, & what he must teach. 344 when, 345. to pray for himself and the people, 345. thirdly, he ought to live a godly life, • 46. fourthly, he ought to teach privately, as well as publicly▪ 347 how a Minister may ••• e, 347. Miniets the porters of heaven, 288. means to bring us to Christ. 288
• Ministers and Auditors are not always alike. 448
• Ministry. 24, 646, the haste of young men to it. 24, the dignity of it. 747, the necessity of it, 340. whether a man may desire it, 52. negligent in it, 752: 790: sufficiency for it, 546: covetous in it. 735
• Miracles given in mercy and in judgment. 736
• Mirth, 25: the way to godly mirth. 724
• Moral and Ceremonial, 132. See Law. To know things moral and ceremonial. 138
• Mortification go together with remission of sin. 105
• Mother, 76: three good mothers breeds three evil daughters. 830
• Motions secret unto sins, 108: the spirit restrains evil motions, 89: the godly are not free from evil motions, 681: we must watch over them, 703: the first motion to sin must be crucified in us. 467, why so few good motions come to us, 522: sudden motions to good. 476
• Motes: what sins are called motes, and what beams. 632
• Multitude to follow is dangerous. 704
• Murmuring, the policy of Satan therein. 26: how common in our days, 249. remedies against it, • 51: 758. how ready we are in our days to murmur. 815

N
• NAme, good name how precious, 259 260. See good name.
• Nature good and evil, 29: natural men measure others by thenselves. 715: they count all spiritual things as paradoxes. 457
• Necessity two kinds thereof. 166
• Neighbor, who is our neighbor. 79

O
• OBedience what it is, 50: to the word, 826. it must be free, 44: trial of it. 544: strict obedience to be labored for, 292. popish observations and works of supererogation in the point of obedience confuted. 393
• Occasion of evil must be avoided. 25: 263
• Offences, 721: 47, 74, 90, 702. small sins great offenses. 727
• Oppression. 780
• Order necessary in all things. 833
• Othes. 75: 476

P
• PApists, 3, 673, disquieted in mind. 96 rest in the work wrought. 689. never felt the power of Christ his grace. 787 popish objections against the Gospel, 802, popish superstition. 455
• Papists go beyond carnal Protestants in outward things. 805, 455
• How papists follow Peter: 483. papists may not be spared for their civil honesty. 455
• Popish Doctors of reason. 520
• Parēts immoderate love, 2 • : folly, 258: for what cause the Lord afflicteth parents in their children, 277: their consent in marriage, 743: consideration in correcting their children. 798
• Pastors, the • inne of the flock their sin 259. their office 772. See ministers.
• Patience: 6 • 9, 759, 56 • : trial of it, 25, properties of it, 254: under the cross, 761 768: the use of God's patience. 694
• Pe • ce three-fold, 7, of mind, 97, of conscience, 209: false peace, ibid. of the wicked 6 • 0, of the Church. 542
• People their duty to their Magistrates, 76 to their Ministers. 349
• Perfection, God looks not for it at our hands. 390
• Periurie, how men fall into it. 333
• Persecution, 670, popish persecution how great. 791
• Perseverance, 496, 694, 721, 116, in the use of the means, 15, 764, a sure trial both of knowledge and faith. 510
• P • ruert, who they be that pervert others. 730
• Physician, properties of him. 794
• Pity, who are to be pitied. 25
• Plague, 79 • , boldness and fearfulness in it. 2 extremities, 104, plague threatened. 790 for the contempt of the word. 513
• A perfume for Christians against the plague. 444
• Pleasure, 653, 734, how we may take pleasure, 726, use of it with restraint, 7, 9, of sin. 323
• Pollution, the polluted person polluteth all things. 189
• Policy of the world evil. 838
• Polygamie. 586
• Posterity, care thereof. 798. Jehoshaphat punished in his posterity. 462
• Posts on the Sabbath. 165
• Poverty the cause and use of outward want. 26
• Poor, 261, zealous in defense of them. 258, poor in godliness, 784, collections for them on the Sabbath. 161
• Praise. 27, 733, 749
• Preaching, with prayer before & after. 272 the power thereof, 283, 708, sincere bring men to Christ, 139, needful by sea, 164 distinguished from catechizing, 664, the only means to work faith, 690, 346 173
• Preachers how they win favor, 8 • 1 how they should carry themselves, 358 247, a true mark of a faithful Preacher, 375: See Minister.
• Prayer, 2, 38, when to pray, 26: to offer up our prayers to God albeit in perplexity of spirit we know not how to pray, 484 public for the sick, 34, want of it cause want of faith, 177, what it is 90, a remedy in temptation, 873, how it is hard, and what doth season it, 507, 619, how profitable, 776, motives thereunto, 777, the more grace a man hath, the more need he hath to pray, 46, 47, it is the best sacrifice, 8 • , private prayer▪ necessary, 501, rules for prayer, 562, 563, it must be joined with the word, 775, • 36, with faith and knowledge, 711, it must be servant, 56, we must stir up our selves in prayer: 84: how to pray against enemies: 5 •• : rules thereof ibid. how many ways God heareth our prayers: 409: why God heareth not our prayers always at the first ibid. in the soul, 317, what the Lord requireth of us therein, 237, hard to perform, 238, circumstances in prayer, 240, taken for the whole worship of God. 8 • 9
• Predestination, 764, popish. 770
• Preferments how often bestowed. 668
• Preparation to holy exercises. 709
• Presumption a remedy against it. 40. what it is, 141, two ways of presuming, 765 difference between it and faith. 622
• Pride, 212, 4 • 0, how it is corrected, 34, privy pride, 269, it consumes many good gifts, 80, it is the last sin, 306, it is in four things, 711, spiritual pride. 272
• Profession double, 801, verbal. 819
• Promise, 12 • , God's promises under the Gospel, 481, God's promises ought to stir us to obedience, 753, • 81, how hard to rest on God's promises. 490
• Prophets why called Seers, 6 • 7, what prophecy is, 7 • 0, the duty of a Prophet, 771, three kinds of false Prophets, 771 prophecies tried, & notes between the true and false Prophets, 772, what they respected in their teaching. 519
• Prophanenes. 54
• Pro • perity hath no feeling of good things, 27, not to desire it too greedily, 272, in it to think on adversity, 710, 766, it should draw us near unto God, 770, it is dangerous unto some. 116
• Protestants most bound to good works, 827, ignorant, 807, carnal Protestants, 70 • , 464, 4 • 5, false Protestants. 119
• Providence, ••• , 184, 4 • 6▪ 5 •• , 316, faith in it is a remedy against murmuring, 252 it is general and particular, 253, in it is a trial of our faith, 644 it is admirable, 677 the worldlings know it not, 731, how to depend on it, 774: God in his providence will watch over us: 486: God is just in it: 5 • 5: how great it is towards mā▪ 850
• Seuerall punishments for several sins. 500

R
• RAce, how the Race of Christianity is • unne by Christians. 413
• Reading: 38: joined with preaching: 15 • publicly: 225: directions for the reading of Scriptures: 174: 175: 176: who should read Scripture. 6 • 4
• Reason natural is against faith: • 43: 645 18 • : it must be renounced: 298: to fight with it a hard matter: 299: how to strive against it. 467: 4 • 7
• Rebuking of sin: 257: who ought to be reproved. 633
• Reconciliation. 798
• Recreation: 169: on the Lord's day unlawful. 839, 840
• Regeneration: 6: good natures do not further it, nor evil natures hinder it: 29: it can never be utterly lost: • 45: feeling of sin an earnest thereof: 11 • ; far more excellent than our first creation: 4 • : meditations of the regenerate: 453: 482 how wonderful it is, 803: strife in the regenerate. 785
• Relapse, cautions observed therein, 13, 58 • the state of men after it, 249, how to rise again. 64 •
• Religion, not to have it in respect of persons, 119, we must not be of a dark religion, 801, a singular grace to love it whē it is commonly hated, 515, trial of it 803, better to be religious than seem, 305, to be truly religious is to have the means in due estimation. 384
• Religion is the way to happiness, pag. 380
• Religion corrupt, life cannot be uncorrupt, 454, the true religious and irreligious discerned in temptations. 455
• Remedies against troubles of mind. 102 See conscience afflicted. Against unclean lusts. 635
• Remission of sin and mortification. 105 See pardon.
• Repentance, 282, what it is, how to begin it and to continue it: 281: 282: 283: 284 285: 286: 6 7: 87: notes of it: 780: it must be speedy and continued: 781: it is the gift of God: 782: fruits of it: 796: the necessity of it: 46: 48: 61: late repentance. 799
• Reports evil, the use that is to be made of thē 64: 65: how an evil report should be stayed: 161: how it should be borne: 652: two occasions of evil reports: 266 false reports the use of them. 267
• Reproches, trials in it. 29
• Riches, 624, no arguments of God's favor, 251, the nature of them & how they are thorns, 643, their use, 644, they have two ends, 735, their abuse, 783, how to have earthly and heavenly riches, 784 the unworthy possession of them dangerous. 78 •
• Righteous marks of a righteous man. 613 118, 680, 839: See Justification.
• Rule for a man to examine himself. 516
• Restitution 78
• Resurrection, 252, 178, comforts arising frō it: 85: few do truly believe it, 180, of the rest of Enoch and Elijah: 180: God's judgment and mercy require it. 183
• Revelation ordinary or extraordinary. 770
• Reuenge, 68 • , remedy for it, 727, against desire of revenge. 481

S
• SAbbath, inconveniences and commodities in keeping it, 128, how it is profaned, 138, what it is to sanctify it, 132 809, when first ordained, 133, not a sign only, 134, no ceremony, yet rest as needful for us as for the Jews, 132, a Sabbath days journey: 14 • : works of the Sabbath: 144: profaning of it in harvest, 146, the special use to remember three benefits, 156, private exercises before and after the public, 157, 158 works forbidden on the Sabbath, 162 whether all callings ought to rest, 306 609, &c. the breach of it punished, 810 8 • 9, means for the sanctification of it. Ibid.
• Sacraments, 30, 687, 825, in time of the Law had two ends, 133, neglect & contempt punished with death, 787, sacramental phrases, why used. 788
• We renew our covenant so oft as we come to the Sacrament. 478
• Sacrilege of our time to be spokē against. 749
• Sadnes, 29, not to be sad. 782
• Saffron not to be gathered on the Sabbath. 167
• Salvation, 36, notes thereof, 171, the golden chain thereof, 207, joy thereof how great, 293. See Joy. A desire thereof, 610 assurance, see Assurance.
• Sanctification evident tokens thereof, 13 241, 246, 247, it cannot be utterly lost, 245, how wonderful, 803, it must not be of one part, 80 • , it must be continual. 806
• Satan is master of all sinners, • 9 • , their services to him, & their reward for their service ibid.
• Satan and his practices, 35, 796, 55, • 11, • 12 in temptation, • 99▪ he is a Surgeon to cure the faithful, 618, how to answer him in temptation, 111, 112, Satan and melancholy disquiet afflicted souls, 86 • , 868, how he fighteth, 90, his policy 801, of diverse names given him in scripture. 845
• Schism. 39, 37, 647, 796
• Scorners, who are scorners. 623, 112, • 01
• Scripture, a general rule concerning it. 153 directions for reading of it publicly in the Church, 173, privately every day, 174 general observations for it, 7 • , abused, 757, the certainty of it, • 71, scripture for a weak conscience, 854, ap • similitudes for all degrees therein, 844, why we profit not in them. 519
• Secret corruption threateneth a downfall, 103, hindereth success in good actions. 27, comfort for God's children when they feel it. 681 Carnal security. 46 •
• Security a forerunner of gross sin, or of some cross, evē the causes of it, 30, how dangerous, 274, 116, 659, 79 • , in public calamities: 767: a sign of security, 792, heresy or profaneness like to folfow it. 586
• Seeking of God. 836
• Sermons, • 6, twice on the Sabbath. 563
• Seruāts, their masters duty. 163, 177, their duty to their masters. 784
• Shame and shamefastness. 851
• Shepherds and heardsmen. 306
• Sickness in mind how cured, 5, 794, all are sick, 793, their impatiency to be borne with: 7: rules for them: 34: to visit the sick: 275: what they should do in their sickness. 640, 715
• Sign of grace, 170, how it differeth from a figure. 138
• Silence in meetings not good, 5, not too strict. 64 •
• Similitudes of things natural and better known applied to things divine, and less known unto us, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18 20, 21, 29, 4 • , 4 • , 244, 245, 247, 262, 264 285, 613, 100, • 52, 162, 164, 166, 174 874, 875, 876, 877, 294, 265, 636, 640 651, 652, 655, 656, 659, 661, 673, 676 682, 685, 689, 693, 7 • 4, 710, 713, 717 752, 722, 776, 785, 79 • , 793, 802, 809 813, 819, 822, 829
• Simplicitie godly. 715
• Sinceritie. 161, 209
• Sin, to find out specialll sins: 5: and to confess them: 10 • : 484: cause of it within us, 30, in what respect worldlings leave it: 616: fearful to make a sport of it: 626 secret sins: 37: 262: 272: 610: 5 • 1: secret sins not repented of: 461: sins not equal: 631: every sin hath two reasons for it: 670: the death of it in the faithful: 682: first motions of sin must be crucified: 467: particular sight and loathing of special sins: 475: wisdom of God's children to prevent sin: 514: of three things which may keep us from it: 697: two heads of many sins: 703 ripeness in sins: 712: four companions of sin: 7 • 0: the cause of the loss of many blessings: 786: dominion of it: 527: 528: presumptuous sins: 852: to leave sin and to repent: 85 • : differ: 858: to leave it not sufficient: 304: sin of apostasy, and five reasons to dissuade therefrom. 627
• A marvelous great prerogative to be freed from the bondage of sin, 90, we must deal with our sins as the judge doth with malefacters. 4 • 9
• Singing of Psalms with feeling. 30
• Sleep, trial therein. 36
• Slothfulnes. 1
• Sobriety at all times required, 769, 214,
• Society, 14, of the wicked ought to be shu • ned, 610, 612, • 93, God's children how sweet. 458
• Sophistry of the devil. 734
• Sorrow, two extremities in it, 16, not to delay sorrow for sin, 29, worldly, 265, godly sorrow, 282, signs of it, 284, it must be continued, 286, it is the way to heaven, 285, foolishly put off. 95
• Soul the consumption thereof, 4 • 7, starved. 846, 847
• Speech, good in meetings required of duty, 647, to speak pleasing things and serve the time. 750
• Spirit of God comes by the word, 12, two works thereof, 13, singularity of spirit, 37, religion unprofitable to those that want the spirit, 241, precepts of not quenching the spirit, 242, testimony of it, 875, of faith, 484, of cheerfulness. 556
• Spiritual man must have an alteration, 42
• Superstition, 35, 41, it breaketh off love in all estates, 801, popish superstition described. 345
• Surmises evil against others. 263, 666
• Swearing. 659, 790
• Swine who be. 455

T
• TO be taught of God, 469, temptation, 37, 702, 47, when and how it breeds, 39, we must not yield in it, 865, 866, how to know whether we be tempted, 816, why many are overtaken therewith, 300, how we conspire with Satan therein, 876, how God tempteth us, 813 what it may teach us, 874, resistance of it a sign of grace, 874, dispute not with Satan. 874
• Terrors of mind sudden. 48
• Thanksgiuing, 812, of all sacrifices most acceptable, 40, 483, to God for feeding our souls: 177: it was a chief exercise of David. 458, 459
• How a Christian may say unto the Lord, I am THINE. 449
• Thoughts evil, resting in the mind how dangerous: 267: why God's children are often exercised therewith: 27 • : evil thoughts on the Sabbath deprive us of the fruit of God's worship, 171, two kinds of thoughts, 704, what Satan doth suggest into men: 748: Conscience of thoughts. 543
• Thief on the cross: 794: notes & marks of faith in him. 693
• Time, the • ithe of it to God's worship. 1 • 5
• To redeem it for good meditations. 471
• Tinder, the efficacy of it in our nature. 676
• Trauelling on the Sabbath. 167
• Tree of life, Adam had it for a sign. 133
• Troubles necessary to feel them for four causes. 439
• Two things sustain us in our troubles. 508
• Trust. 29. to trust only in God. 494
• Truth how we ought to speak it. 622
• Truth and peace go together: 728: how God punisheth such as receive not the truth in love, 802, 3. kinds of truths. 818

V
• VAnitie both of life and religion is deceit. 501
• Virtue, two special fruits of it. 260
• Visitation of the sick. 275
• Vnbeleefe, the godly often troubled with it. 95. why we see it not. 5 • 7. how it is shown us. 549
• Vngodlines. 41
• Vnmercifulnes how great a sin. 837
• Vnthankfulnes, 41, punished, 269, cause of it. 678
• Use of the creatures. 41, 813
• Vain-glory. 518
• Why God visiteth his dearest sernants. 445
• Visions how far to be believed. 41
• Vowes rash, 822, what a vow is, 477, two things hinder us from holy vows, 478 to vow against drunkenness. 479
• Vowes in baptism must be remembered. 477 against Whoredom, Ibid. 41.
• Vowes in holy purposes. 397
• Usury. 41
• Vulgus how it may be taken. 667

W
• WAiting on God, properties thereof. 17
• Wan • to lament it in others. 457
• Wantonness ends in wickedness. 727, 799 468
• Watchfulnes, 703, 527, two causes of watching over our hearts. 616, 304
• Way, in it three things to be considered, 703, evil way, two things to be considered therein. 416
• The way of lying what it is, 411, why it is so called ibid. the good way must be chosen ibid.
• Wearines in good things. 531, 453
• Warfare of a Christian. 531, 29 • , 298
• Description of a wicked man, and why he is so called▪ 450, 451
• Wicked, their society to be avoided, 610 how they walk in sin and know it not 614, the devil helps them in meditation, 463, punished. 699
• Wickedness and wantonness. 468
• Wife, how the husband should govern her. 124
• Will free, 525, how accepted for the deed. 61
• Wisdom how to hold it fast, 609, what it is, 625, 99, how the faithful are wise, 124 461, our own wisdom to be suspected. 57
• Difference between true and false wisdom. 414, 415
• Wits, the devil chooseth the best for his service. 62
• Witchcraft, 468, advertisement against it, 42, how cured: 822: consulting with witches is to ask counsel of the devil. 578 (581
• Wonders to beware of. 822
• Word of God: 649: 549: preparation to hear it: 42: true arguments of Love thereto: 453: the power of it: 282: 283 857: it is a treasure and hidden: 289: few love it therefore: 290: wherefor so many neglect the word: 462: how it is found before it be sought: 291: famine of it: 791: love to it: 440: 5 • 4: 44 • : it is necessary for safe direction: 475. to keep it in a good conscience bringeth wisdom: 466: it yields most profit, pleasure and glory: 457: whole felicity therein: 470 direction thereof safe: 475: why God's word is wonderful: 410: it never deceiveth: 501: hard to believe it: 508: six means to profit by it: 173. 174: &c: without it no faith: sacrament or repentance: 237: three questions of the operation of it: 857: a good note of our love to the word wherein it consisteth: 470: a true mark thereof, 471, general plagues for the contmpt thereof. 513
• Words idle and evil profane the Sabbath. 170
• World: 43: their judgment of the godly: 262: the love of it: 721: in what respect it loveth s • nne: 616: how far it favoreth the Gospel. 820
• Works: 15: 826: two rules of good works: 〈◊〉 the reward is of mercy, not of merit: •• 7: motives thereunto: 827: they are necessary for all: 828: works without warrant are works of darkness: 475: why good works are to be done. 838
• Worship, God requireth the use of the body as well as the soul in it. 808: 147: will-worship condemned. 810, 826
• Wrath, what sin brings i •• 651 how to speak of the wrath of God: 696 how great it is. 197

Y
• YOuth, the sins thereof: 100: unbridled affections thereof, & how dangerous: 636: 726: it is dissolute: 637: it being spent in vanity, commonly ends old age in profaneness: 464: Satan laboreth especially to poison it: 653: it must renounce pleasure: 800: it is blessed of God. 465

Z
• ZEale, properties of true zeal, & rules of it. 255. 256. 829. 830. 50. 542. 543 &c. trial of it. 653. 814. incident to all, 517. diverse kinds of it. 541. zeal of the flesh. 46 • .

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