A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3

The benefits flowing from his blood,

21, 22

His generation and ours how unlike,

31

In three things we should learn of Christ to carry ourselves towards God as our Father,

31

Christ hid till his second coming in six respects,

69

Seven signs of his love in the sparkle,

71

Seven more in the flame.

ibid.

The word Christ is a word collective,

144

His blood precious,

146. &c.

He is said to be a Lamb in six respects,

147

Christ manifested five ways,

152

Believers only have benefit by Christ,

154

Excellent uses of the manifold descriptions of Christ,

248, 249

As he is a Lord how he excels other Lord's,

249

How said to be both a stone, and a living stone,

249, 250. &c.

Christ is precious many ways,

254

How we may get an esteem of Christ above all things,

281

How we may manifest this esteem,

ibid.

How Christ is an honor to us,

292

Christ many ways refused,

298

In what respects Christ bare our sin,

531

Christian. A Christians life is a joyful life,

54

What they must do to preserve that joy in their hearts,

55

How far he may rejoice in earthly things,

56

Privileges of weak Christians,

229

Encouragement for weak Christians,

237

Christians have divers sacrifices,

266

Only Christians come of the best generation,

317

They are royal many ways,

318

The priesthood of a Christian is a singular privilege,

320, 321

It should put us in mind of divers duties,

321

Christians are holy many ways,

322

How Christians are said to be all of one Nation,

325

Why called a peculiar people,

326, 327

A sound Christian shows himself so by his conversation,

388

For what reasons Christians should be much affected with the consideration of their Calling,

689

The necessity of knowing our calling,

690

How it may be known,

691

Divers sorts of Christians,

ibid.

Carnal Christians know not their Calling,

ibid. &c.

The reasons of it,

692

Good Christians have a blessed estate above all men,

693

True Christians inherit nothing but blessing, 693. and that many ways,

694

Church. Eleven prerogatives of the Christian Church,

79, 80

The Church like Mount Zion in many respects,

276, 277

The uses hereof,

ibid.

The excellency of the word above all other assemblies of the world besides,

277

Cleane, Cleanenesse. Eight things to be done for the getting of a clean heart,

175

Come. We Come to Christ many mayes,

256

Eight ways to come to Christ,

257

Encouragements thereto,

ibid. &c.

Compassion. It was shown by Christ five ways,

332

In man how,

679

Motives to it,

ibid.

What bowels of Compassion doth import,

683

Confound. Believers shall never be Confounded,

284

The diverse acceptation of the word Confound,

ibid.

How Confounded may be taken in a good sense,

285

Means by which God keeps the Believer from being confounded,

ibid.

In what he shall not be confounded,

ibid.

How far he may be confounded,

286

Conditions of such as will not be confounded,

287

What sorts of men shall suffer shame and Confusion,

ibid.

Conscience. It ought to be adorned with nine things,

18

Kinds of Conscience,

503

Reasons why men ought to be instructed about Conscience,

499

What Conscience is,

ibid.

Its proper work,

500

How Conscience is employed in us,

ibid.

The law by which Consc. judgeth, & the manner of proceeding in judgment,

502

Prerogatives of Conscience,

ibid. &c.

Divers kinds of Conscience,

503

Differences of evils in men's Consciences,

504

Signs of an evil Conscience that is still, and stirred,

505

Hurts of an ill Conscience, with four effects • hereof,

506

Aggravations of the misery of an ill Conscience,

507

What must be done to make an ill Conscience good,

508

Two things for guiding the Conscience,

509

Signs of a good Conscience,

ibid.

Benefits of it,

510

How far Conscience may be bound,

510 511

Conversation. Our conversation said to be vain in six respects,

140

The sins which make it so,

ibid.

There is vanity in the Conversation of the Saints themselves,

ibid.

Five degrees of our redemption from a vain conversation,

141

Seven signs of it,

ibid.

Special rules for the right ordering of a holy Conversation,

323

Means to • ttain • it,

324

Differences between a holy Conversation and a civil,

ibid.

A sound Christian shows himself so by his Conversation,

388

Vide Honest.

Six things which make an honest Conversation,

389

An honest Conversation is the way either to convert or convince the Gentiles,

392

By what means we may win wicked men in our Conversations,

594, 595

Reasons why a Christians Conversation should be coupled with fear,

598, 599

Conversion. Nine signs to know whether we be effectually converted,

585

Rules for it,

586

Courtesie. It containeth seven things,

685

Creation. The wonderfulness of our Creation shown many ways,

151, 152

The use of it,

ibid.

D

DAy. Many sorts of Days n • ted in Scrip •••• ,

416

How the Day and season of grace may be known,

417

Darkness. The acceptation of the word Darkness,

338, &c.

Degrees of it,

339

Nine aggravations of the Darkness that is in wicked men,

340

The use of it,

ibid. &c.

Four signs of spiritual Darkness,

341

There is some Darkness even in the children of Light,

ibid.

There are seven differences between the Darkness of the godly, and the darkness of the ungodly,

341, 342

Death, Vide Die,

198, 534

Deceit, Vide Guile. The misery of Deceitfull persons,

206, 207

Of Deceitfull Servants,

207

The iniquity of our times herein,

208

Signs of a man without Deceit,

209

Despair. How many ways wicked men may Despair,

307

Preservatives from Despair,

308, 309

Special differences between the Despair of the godly and wicked,

309, 310

Desire. The necessity, utility, and nature of this affection of Desire largely handled,

221

The true Desire of the word hath four distinct things in it: first, Estimation of it: secondly, Longing for it: thirdly, Content in it: fourthly, Constancy in the renewing of it,

221, 222

How we may discern our affections to it,

222

Signs both external and internal of our Desire to the word,

222, 223, &c.

Impediments,

223

Means of getting true Desire to the word,

225

Rules for preserving these Desires,

226

Motives thereto,

227

How far wicked men may desire the word,

230

Die, Vide Death. Men Die many ways,

534

The many inconveniences by forgetting to Die,

198

How to prove willing to Die,

ibid.

Disobedience. How unbelievers are guilty of Disobedience, and their Disobedience aggravated,

293

Drunkard, Drunkenness. Reasons against it well applied,

106

E

EArth, Earthly. In what the vanity of Earthly things appears,

700

No reason to be in love with them,

ib. &c.

What days are Evil in respect of wicked men,

703

Wherein godly men's days are Evil,

ibid.

Great difference of the evil days of good and evil men,

ibid.

How far Christians may rejoice in Earthly things,

56

Elect. The Elect have eight privileges above all men in the world,

7, 8

Three sorts of Elect,

150

Election. A fourfold Election,

7

How they may be known,

ibid. 315

Good use of the point,

8

There are many things in our Election which may ravish us,

314

Rules to live so as becometh the assurance of Election,

316

Envy. It is a hateful sin,

214

Signs of a man free from Envy,

215

Evil-doers. Who are pointed out for such,

446

Evil-speaking, Vide Back-biting. Report, the aggravation of it,

213

Reasons against it,

216

The effects of it foul,

217

The use to be made of it, with Rules against it,

218

What to do to avoid it,

219

In what cases odious,

395

Helps to bear it,

396

The wicked usually speak Evil of the godly,

456

Example. Excellent documents from the word Example,

519, 520

Ten things for us to follow in the Example of Christ's sufferings,

521

In what cases Christ's Examples bind not,

522

Two singular virtues in a good Example,

620

When an Example binds,

621

Excell. The godly Excell others in divers respects,

313

F

FAith. It doth ten things to further our preservation,

45, 46

What Faith will not preserve us,

47

How to show it in affliction,

65

The praises of it then,

ibid.

Seven things should move us to trust on God in affliction,

60

Faith is only seated in the hearts of the Elect,

155

God is the object of our Faith, and that not only in his nature, but in his mercies and promises also,

156

It is Faith that makes difference among men before God,

282

Its necessity,

ibid.

Markes of true saving Faith.

290

Signs of a true though weak Faith in a weak Christian,

291

The Christians continual use of Faith,

157

What we should do for comfort when the sense of Faith is gone,

158

Seven rules for the daily use of Faith,

ibid.

The difference between Faith and Hope,

160

Helps to continue in the Faith,

161

All Faith and Hope in other than in God i • vain,

162

Faithful. The life of the Faithful is a joyful life,

54

Seven things should move •• to be Faithful in affliction,

66

The Faithful bow precious in God's sight.

ibid.

Family Vide Household. What makes a Family happy,

484

We are bound of God to care for Family duties,

ibid.

Why inferiors are first commanded Family duties,

485

Fashion ▪ Fashioning ourselves to sin hath seven things in it,

115

Father. How God is a Father to Christ, Angels and Man,

11, 12

His affection is Fatherly, that is, first, Free: secondly, Tender: thirdly, Constant,

12

So i • his provision, both in respect of, first, Attendance: secondly, Diet: thirdly, Preservation in trouble: fourthly, Portion,

ibid.

Of what excellency God's Fatherly love i • , first, 〈◊〉 godly men: secondly, to carnal men: thirdly, to earthly Fathers,

13, 14

The name of Father given to divers sorts,

492

Fear. Three sorts of it; first, worldly: secondly, servile: thirdly, filial,

134

Our conversation must be coupled with Fear,

ibid.

The Fear of God what,

480

Six things in God of which we are to stand in awe,

480, 481

Motives to get this Fear,

481

What kinds of men do not Fear God,

481, 482

The signs of it,

482

Reasons why wicked men are stricken with a servile Fear,

597, 598

A conversation coupled with Fear required of all Christians,

598, 599

How we should show this Fear,

600

What sorts of men have not God's Fear,

601

Wherein wives should show Fear to their Husbands,

601, 602

Fight, Vide War. The Flesh fighteth against the Soul five ways,

384

Why God doth suffer this Fight,

385

How we may get victory in this Fight,

387

Flesh. Lusts are Fleshly in divers respects,

365

Eight evil properties and effects of the Flesh,

ibid.

How they hurt the souls of wicked men, 366. as also of the godly,

ibid.

The Flesh fights against the Soul five ways,

384

Fools. Unregenerate men are Fools,

459

Signs of spiritual Folly,

ibid.

Wherein godly men sometimes show Folly,

462, 463

Fore-knowledge, Vide Prescience, 3. Vide Foresight,

149

Fore-sight, Vide Fore-knowledge,

8

Three kinds of Fore-sight,

149, 150

Foundation diversely accepted,

151

Christ the main Foundation of all grace and holiness,

247

With the use of it,

ibid. &c.

The only Foundation of his Church,

250

That Christ is laid as a Foundation stone imports many things,

276

Freedom, Vide Liberty, From what Christ is made Free,

467

To what a godly man is made Free,

468

The Freedom of the Old and New Testaments,

469

In what respects we are But as Free,

469 470

Hypocrites in bondage whilst they seem Free-men,

471

Frowardness. Reasons against Frowardness both in Masters and Servants,

494, 495

Helps against it,

ibid.

Frowardness how odious, shown by the causes and effects,

615

G

GEneration. It is threefold; first, corporeal: secondly, metaphysical: thirdly, singular,

30

Three things wherein Christ's and our Generation is not alike.

31

The acceptation of the word Generation,

316

Only Christians come of the best Generation,

317

Gentiles. Of the Calling of the Gentiles in general,

345

Gird. We must Gird up our minds, and that divers ways,

103. &c.

Eight rules for it,

ibid.

Glory, Glorify. How God is glorified by himself,

404

How of us in general, how in particular,

406

Motives to the care of glorifying God,

408, 409

Helps thereto,

ibid.

The thoughts of God's glory two ways established,

411

Four caveats for making others to Glorify God,

ibid. &c.

Vain-glory, wherein it is seen,

512

Wherein true Glory doth consist,

ibid.

The Glory of man but vain in six respects,

196

What is his true Glory,

197

God. Of his fore-knowledge,

8, 9, 10

How a Father to Christ, Angels and Men,

11, 12

God's power in keeping us,

43

Excellent uses of it,

44

Wherein God's graciousness is seen,

238

By what means God may be brought to our minds,

410

Helps to conceive of God aright,

ibid.

By what means he is to be magnified in our hearts,

411

God is a Judge,

529

And thereby terrible to wicked men,

530

Comfortable to the godly,

531

Rules of committing ourselves to God,

ib.

Godly. The Godly dispersed, and the good that comes thereby,

6

The Godly are Priests in many respects,

264

The Godly excel others in divers respects,

313, 314

How the Godly come to be God's heirs,

645

That the Godly are Brethren,

178

Godliness. It hath many lets,

102

The use of it,

ibid.

Foureteene internal lets of Godliness,

102, 103

Gospel: The word taken divers ways,

90, 91

Eight effects of this Gospel,

91

Eight things required of everyone that would have part in it,

ibid.

How it differs from the Law,

92

Excellent uses of it both to Priest and People,

92, 93

Grace what, and how it and Peace is multiplied,

27, 28

What we must do that it might be multiplied,

28

That we may not fail of the Grace of God we must do four things,

8

How we frustrate the grace of God,

ibid.

We must labor to walk worthy of that grace by doing four things,

ibid. &c.

The divers acceptations of the word Grace,

109

The glory of heaven called Grace in three respects,

110, 111

Seven things in which we should imitate God's Grace in showing mercy,

111

Why God giveth not heaven as soon as he giveth Grace,

112

Wherein God's Graciousness is seen,

238

The state of such as have but temporary Grace,

338

Grace is either a gift in us, or an attribute in God,

665

Grace as it is in God considered two ways,

666

What privileges such have as enjoy God's Grace,

ibid.

Men transgress against the Grace of God many ways,

667

Grass. Mans life is but Grass,

193 194. &c.

Grow, Growth. Divers kinds of it,

232

In what graces Christians ought to grow,

233, 234

Helps thereto,

234

L • ts thereof,

235, 236

Signs,

ibid. &c.

Guile, Vide Deceit, Hypocrisy. The words acceptation,

205

Why and how to be avoided,

206

The misery of Guilefull persons,

ibid.

Of secret Guile,

207

Signs of a man without Guile,

209

Guile in words many ways, so in Hypocrisy,

525

H

HArdnesse. Hardness of heart seemed to be f • lt more after assurance than before,

113

Healing. Wherein Christ's Healing excels for our comfort,

550

That we are all healed by Christ's stripes,

551

What we must do to be healed by Christ,

550

The bodies of all men by nature need Healing,

552

Christ is a Physician as well for the body as the soul,

553

Rules for such as desire to Heale their bodily griefs,

554

Heart. Adorned with eight graces maketh it acceptable to God,

17

Eleven things in which a sanctified Heart rejoiceth,

ibid.

Three special signs of a new Heart,

415

What the hid man of the Heart is,

607

Wherein it excels the outward man,

608

By what means it may be mended,

609

How to know when it is right,

ibid.

Eight things to be done for getting a clean heart,

175

How our Hearts are purified in obeying the truth,

176

Heaven. Where, and what, wi •• its excellency above all other pl ••• s,

41

The glory of Heaven •• ll • d grace in three respects,

110, 111

Heavinesse. Four sorts of Heavinesse,

56

Heirs. How godly men become Heirs,

645

How they must behave themselves,

648

Godly men and women are Heirs together many ways,

688

Holy Ghost. The Spirit why called the Holy Ghost,

93

He is a Person distinct from Father and Son,

94

Whether its mission doth signify any inequality,

95

Holiness. Four sorts of Holiness,

122

God Holy three ways,

ibid.

Helps, with motives thereto,

123

Christians are Holy many ways,

322

Rules for the right ordering of a Holy conversation,

323

Inward Holiness wherein it consists,

174, 175

Honest. Honesty. What it signifies,

388

Six things which make and manifest an Honest conversation,

389

An Honest conversation is the way either to convince or convert the Gentiles,

392

Honor. How Christ is an Honor to us,

292

By what ways we may express our Honor to men,

477

How we must honor the King,

483

Honey. The Word for sweetness compared to Honey,

240

The excellent uses of it,

ibid.

Hope. The differences between a living and a dead Hope,

36

Nine ways to show our Hope,

108

Five things to be done to get assured Hope,

108, 109

The difference between Faith and Hope,

160, 161

Household, Householders,

Vide Family.

Humble, Humbleness. Humbleness of mind hath six things in it,

16

Humbleness is shown in three things,

330

Husband. For Husband and Wife to live together quietly there are sixteen motives,

576

Five special causes of disorder between man and wife,

577

Motives to make Husbands careful of their duties,

633

Their cohabitation,

634

In what cases they may be absent,

635

He must dwell with her in knowledge,

637

How they honor their wives,

641

Hypocrisy. How many ways men commit it,

210

Motives against it, with effects of it,

ibid. &c.

Excellent uses hereof,

211

The sorts of Hypocrisy that we are most in danger of,

212

Preservatives against it,

ibid.

Hypocrites. How an open Hypocrite may be discerned,

213

What makes an Hypocrite, and how a man may know himself not to be one,

ibid. &c.

Hypocrites in bondage whilst they seem Freemen,

471

Eight things for the discovery of Hypocrites,

177

I

IGnorance. The unregenerate charged with Ignorance,

116

Signs of their Ignorance,

117

How different from the Ignorance of the godly,

ibid.

It is hateful to be Ignorant in spiritual things,

457

A hard thing to cure Ignorance,

463, 464

Imitation. We must imitate God,

118

Five things in which we are not to imitate Christ,

328

Immortality. Four degrees of it,

186

Incorruptible. Seven things which are Incorruptible,

611

Incorruptible things do wonderfully adorn,

612

Grace begotten in the hearts of the godly is Incorruptible in divers respects,

188

Indifferent. Things • Indifferent in matters of religion, though some • times inconvenient, may be commanded, and must be obeyed,

434

Pretended inconveniences by human laws surveyed,

435

About taking and giving of scandal at human ceremonies,

436

How Christian liberty is made a cloak of maliciousness in things indifferent,

472

In thongs indifferent there be cases wherein Christian liberty is vilely abused,

ibid.

Inheritance. How the Saints inheritance is incorruptible, even in four respects,

39

Undefiled in five respects,

ibid.

Inventions. Whether any Inventions of men may be obeyed,

433

A catalogue of such Inventions as were used for religious ends without any commandment,

434

Joy. A Christian life is a joyful life, manifested in nine things,

54

God's servants may joy nine ways,

ibid.

How that their joy is preserved,

55

How full his joy may be in earthly things,

56

Six • kinds of joy,

72

Five kinds of devilish joy,

ibid.

Eight signs of discerning the joy of the holy Ghost from all other joys,

73

Whether the joys of the holy Ghost be felt of every Christian,

74

What we must do to get the joy of God,

ib.

How to preserve that joy,

ibid.

The differences between joy temporary and true joy,

188

Judge. God is a terrible Judge to the wicked,

529

He judgeth righteously,

530

Judgment. The day of judgment why called The last day,

52

Why deferred,

ibid.

Why the Day of judgment is called The Revelation of Jesus Christ,

111

Of the last judgment, and the certainty thereof,

128

All must appear at the day of judgment,

129

We shall be judged according to our works,

iibid.

How infants can be judged according to their works,

130

Judgments inflicted on some particular offenders belong to all for divers reasons,

301

K

KIll, Repentance for sin doth in divers respects kill a man,

538

Kings. Differences between spiritual and earthly Kings,

319

Christians should live like Kings,

320

King is a note of the highest dignity on earth,

440

The original of Kings,

441

The excellency of Kings above others,

442

Many encouragements to Subjects to bear Kings superiority,

ibid.

Kings must be honored, first, in heart: secondly, in word: thirdly, in work:

483

Kin, Vide Generation. Only good Christians are of the best kin,

317

The uses of it,

ibid.

They are of Royal kin, and that in many respects,

318, 629

Knowledge. The excellency of divine Knowledge in many respects,

637

It is required of all sorts of men,

638

It is given for use and practice,

ibid.

It ought to have a commanding power,

ibid.

Means to give power to our knowledge,

ibid. &c.

It makes an impression in every man's life,

639

In it men should excel women,

ibid.

What it is for the husband to dwell with the wife in knowledge,

640

Knowledge must have three properties and effects of it,

652, 653

L

LAmb. Christ a Lamb in six respects,

147

The Lambes in the ceremonial law types of Christ,

ibid. &c.

The uses of it,

148

Liberty, Vide Freedom. Christian Liberty is a great gift bestowed by Christ,

466

A man may use his Liberty as a cloak of malice five ways,

470

How Christian Liberty is a cloak of malice in things indifferent,

472

Cases in things indifferent wherein Christian Liberty is vilely abused,

473

Life, Live. How we may live like God's children,

13

A religious Life is the best Life,

541

Natural Life but a mean thing in divers respects,

649

The degrees of a spiritual Life,

650

Whence it hath its original, even from God, and that in three respects,

651

Divers things nourish this spiritual Life,

654

It differs from eternal Life in many ways,

657

Mans Life is grass,

193

Excellent uses of it,

193, 194

What we must do to attain eternal Life,

661

A Christians helps hereto,

662

Six signs of it,

663

Five properties of it,

664

What duties this Life should imprint in us,

ibid.

For what reasons men should take off their affections from the love of this Life,

698, 699

In what cases some men may be in love with this Life,

702

Mans Life short, in what respects, and why,

705

The uses of it,

706

Light. The acceptation of the word Light,

342

God's servants are brought into great Light,

ibid.

Excellent instruction and consolation drawn from it,

342, 343

In how many respects the Light of the godly is called A marvelous Light,

343, 344

Excellent uses thereof,

344

Love. Seven signs of the Love of Christ in the sparkle, and seven more in the flame,

71

What we must do to get that Love,

72

Seven things to be observed to keep our hearts in this Love,

ibid.

Christ's Love to the godly,

332

How many ways the people of God are God's only beloved ones,

361

How to preserve this Love,

ibid.

How we should show our Love to the Brotherhood,

477

Nine signs of unfeigned Love,

180

The impediments of brotherly Love,

181

Seven signs of fervent Love,

182

Nine causes of the want of it,

183

What to do that we may have and hold it,

ibid.

Reasons to persuade to the Love of the Brethren,

680

With what kind of Love we ought to love them,

681

Rules for it,

682

Three caveats to be looked unto in loving our Brother,

683

Lusts. The sorts of Lusts which must be hateful unto us after our Calling,

114

Eight reasons why we should avoid Lusts after our Calling,

ibid.

Four preservations against Lusts,

115

Lusts how to be avoided,

362

Three differences of Lusts in the godly and wicked,

363

Helps to avoid them,

ibid.

Lusts are fleshly in divers respects,

365

How Lusts hurt the souls of godly and wicked men both,

366

How we may get victory over our Lusts,

387

How we may know that we have gotten this victory,

ibid.

M

MAdnesse. Signs of spiritual Madness,

460

Magistrates. They are to be submitted to,

424

This submission hath in it six things,

425

Objections against it answered,

427, 428

We must be subject to all sorts of Magistrates,

428, 429

In what things Magistrates are not to be obeyed,

431

In what matters Ecclesiastical Magistrates have no power,

ibid.

In what he hath power,

432

Whether we must obey Magistrates in things unlawful,

437

Divers motives in God to move man to the obedience of Magistrates,

438

Excellent uses of the point,

439. &c.

In what cases not fit to complain to the Magistrates,

529

Malice. Its acceptation,

203

Signs of it, and reasons against it,

ibid.

Remedies,

204

Aggravations of it,

ibid.

Men may use the liberty as a cloak of Malice five ways,

470

Man. He is but grass,

193, 194, &c.

His glory vain in six respects,

196

What his true glory is,

197

Manifest, Manifestation. Christ manifested five ways,

153

We must show our affection to this his Manifestation four ways,

153, 154

Marriage. Sixteen motives for man and wife to live together quietly and comfortably in Marriage,

576

Masters. The original of Masters,

492

Signs of good Masters,

493

Reasons against frowardness in Masters,

494

Signs of good Masters,

495

Meditation. Rules for Meditation,

289

Meekness. It is shown in four things,

330

What things are requisite to Meekness,

613

Motives to it,

ibid. &c.

Helps to attain to Meekness,

616

Mercy. God's Mercy abundant,

32, 33

It ought not to be any cause of liberty either to the godly or wicked,

33

Whether the Lord shows any Mercy to the wicked,

33, 34

Showed four ways • ▪

331

What sorts of people God will not be merciful unto,

352

What wicked men in particular are not under Mercy,

354

Why many obtain not Mercy,

355

Four properties of God's Mercy,

356

It is tender many ways,

ibid.

It is free many ways,

ibid. &c.

Eternal,

357

Nine effects of it,

358

Excellent uses of it,

358, 359

Helps to obtain mercy,

359

What Bowells of Mercy doth import,

683

Milk. The word called Milk in many respects,

• 30

Excellent uses thereof,

231, • 32

Mind, Vide Unity. Our Minds must be rightly ordered,

6 • 4

For what reasons we ought to be all of one Mind,

ibid.

Minister. This word Minister sounds Servic • ,

89

Miserie. All Miserie referred to 〈◊〉 heads: • : of 〈◊〉 .: • Of 〈◊〉 : 3. Of adversities: 4. Of death,

77

The remembrance of our past Miserie is profitable in six respects,

338

Mortification. None but mortified Christians are true Christians,

536

Repentance for sin doth in divers respects kill a man,

538

Signs of Mortification,

539

Men truly mortified shall live happily,

540

N

NAme. Of a good and evil Name.

Vide Report.

Nature. The natural condition very miserable many ways,

608

New, Newnesle. The necessity and honor of our New birth,

32

The means of the New birth,

34

The lets,

ibid.

Four signs of it,

35

Uses of it,

35, 36

Special duties of such as are new borne,

229

Privileges of such,

ibid.

Special-signs of a New heart,

415

A New behavior discovered divers ways,

416

Why repentance is called a New birth,

184

Why we had need to be put in mind of our New birth,

185

Lets of it▪

ibid.

O

OBedience. What▪ the causes of it, with six rules for it,

19

Motives to it,

20

Of obedience in word • ,

ibid.

Our Obedience must be the Obedience of children in six respects,

113

Our Obedience to God a special sign • of his fear,

482

Six things required to 〈◊〉 sound Obedience,

588

The extent of our Obedience in respect of times, truths places, and persons,

176, 177

How 〈◊〉 may know their Obedience to be right,

177

In 〈◊〉 things the Spirit worketh 〈◊〉 Obedience,

ibid.

P

PArents. How many ways children are infected by the traditions of their Parents,

142

Why they are so infectious,

ibid.

Seven rules for Parents ordering their children,

ibid. &c.

Passover. The manifold passages concerning the sprinkling of the Passover expounded,

25, 26. &c.

Patience. It is to be shown four ways,

331

People. Many sorts of People in Scripture,

346

Why wicked men are said not to be a People,

ibid.

Who are not God's People,

347

Men are God's people three ways,

348

The misery of those that refuse their calling to be God's People,

337

How God's people excel all others,

349

The uses thereof,

350

Rules for God's People to carry themselves to God,

351, 352

How many ways God's People are the only beloved one ••

361

S. Peter, what he was by name and office,

1, 2

Plagues. Spiritual Plagues are worse than •• mporall 〈◊〉 for 〈…〉 reasons,

302

Power. Questions concerning God's Power in keeping of us,

43

Excellent uses of it,

44

Prayer. What we must do that God may answer our Prayer,

85

Prayer how it may be hindered both in the bearing and making of it,

671

The excellency of Prayer in 〈◊〉 respects,

669

From whence its 〈◊〉 do arise,

670

Praise. Wherein it is unlawful to seek the Praise of men,

448

If 〈…〉 would be praised they must do well,

449

〈◊〉 to get Praise from men,

450

P • ecious. Christ is so 〈…〉 ways,

254, 255

The reasons why he is 〈…〉 with men,

• 55

What uses are 〈…〉 ,

〈◊〉 , 256

Prescience. Prescience, 1. Absolute: 2. Special: 3. Of approbation,

8

How God for • knoweth,

9

How his Foreknowledge may comfort us in our distresses,

9, 10

What it may teach us,

10

Terrible to the wicked in four respects,

11

Preservation. Faith doth ten things to further our Preservation,

45, 46

Presumption. How to know whether we sin presumptuously or no,

115

Priests. The godly are Priests in many respects,

264, 265

The uses of it,

265

The Priesthood of Christians is a singular privilege,

320

Princes. All good Christians must be obedient to their Princes,

422

Ministers should teach and press this duty,

423

The submission that belongs to them hath six things in it,

425

Pure. In what respects godly men may be said to be Pure,

597

A Christians Purity hath in it many things,

597, 598

Q

QUicken. What we must do to Quicken our hearts,

260

Quiet. Sixteen helps to a Quiet life in marriage,

576

Five special causes of their unquietness,

577

Helps to cause them to be Quiet,

578

Helps to attain quietness,

616

〈◊〉 things of singular use to keep us quiet in trouble,

673

R

RAiling, Reviling. The wicked are prone to it,

687

It is a great sin,

ibid.

Though we be reviled we must not revile again,

ibid.

Excellent uses of it,

ibid. &c.

Reason. The faculty of Reason in the soul, and wherein it excels,

382

Recreations. Rules for them,

104, 105

Redemption. Of all other doctrines we must be sure to know the doctrine of our Redemption,

137, 138

We are redeemed from six things,

139

Five degrees of Redemption from vain conversation,

141

Seven signs of it,

ibid.

Two ways our Redemption is ratified,

159

Refuse. Christ many ways refused,

298

Regeneration. How it depends on Christ's resurrection,

38

Rejoice, Rejoicing, Vide Joy.

54, 55, 56, 72, &c.

Religion. How hard a thing it is to reduce a man from his Religion though it be never so absurd,

390

A religious life is the best life,

541

Repentance. Against such as presume on late Repentance,

417

Their vain objections for it answered,

ibid. &c.

Repentance of sin doth in divers respects kill a man,

538

Divers things in Christ's death which ought to be in our Repentance,

539

Why Repentance is called a new birth, with five differences between false and true Repentance,

184

Report. The lot of the righteous is to be evil spoken of,

393

The causes and causers,

ibid. &c.

How hurtful it is to report evil of the good,

394

Reasons against it,

ibid. &c.

In what cases it is odious,

395

Helps to bear them,

396

To have a good Report among men is a great blessing of God,

447

Reproaches. They are to be avoided as much as in us lies,

457

That only fools reproach good men,

465

Reprobation. Proofes of Reprobation,

311

Observations for consolation in the point of Reprobation,

312

Resurrection. Four benefits of Christ's Resurrection,

35

Christ risen in the Old Testament three ways,

37

How our regeneration depends on Christ's Resurrection,

38

It is a great wonder, with an excellent use thereof,

159

The glory given to Christ after his Resurrection shown in eight things,

160

Revelation. A twofold Revelation of Christ,

69

God hath revealed his will three ways: 1. By the light of nature: 2. By the book of the creatures: 3. By his word,

77

And by that many ways,

ibid.

Distinctions of Revelations,

86

A difference between Revelation and Knowledge,

ibid.

We have six sorts of Revelations under the Gospel,

87

Why the day of judgment is called The Revelation of Jesus Christ,

111

Revenge. It is unlawful,

686

Reviling. What it is,

526

Who are guilty of it,

527

Not to render Reviling for Reviling,

528

Rich, Riches. The woeful estate of Rich men,

138, 139

Virtue and grace are a Christians best Riches,

618

Righteous, Righteousness. Signs that desery a Righteous man in himself,

542

Six other signs of Righteousness as it groweth,

543

How the Righteousness of a Righteous man differs from the Righteousness of a Pharisee,

ibid.

Why so few embrace Righteousness,

544

Helps thereunto,

545

Defects of Righteousness,

546

Defects in the manner of doing Righteously,

547

Royal. Christians are Royal many ways,

318

S

SAcrifices. Christians have divers sorts of Sacrifices,

266

Special laws to be observed in offering our Sacrifices,

268, 269

The use of it,

ibid.

What to do to make our Sacrifices acceptable,

270, 271

Three comforts from an acceptable Sacrifice,

271

Saints. Saints are strangers,

4

In fourteen things they should be strangers,

4, 5

See more,

132

Salvation. What it imperteth in the original.

48

Salvation may be said to be prepared for us five ways,

49, 50

To whom revealed,

50

In the last day revealed three ways,

ibid.

Excellent uses of this revelation of Salvation,

ibid. &c.

Four signs of the persuasion of our Salvation,

75, 76

Such as have the Assurance of Salvation should look to four things,

77

Why such a multitude of men inquire so little after Salvation,

81

We ought to devote ourselves to the study of it,

ibid.

We must study our Salvation with diligence,

82

Divers ways from God to further our Salvation,

594

Salutation. Of the usual form of Salutations,

27

Sanctification. Man is sanctified three ways: 1. Ex non sancto privative: 2. Ex minùs sancto: 3. Ex non sancto negative,

14

What need our spirits have to be sanctified,

15

This lieth in two things: 1. In cleansing it from sin: 2. In adorning it with grace,

ibid.

The Spirit is cleansed by eight things,

16

Three things which adorn the mind in Sanctification: 1. A heavenly light: 2. A humble mind: 3. A pure imagination,

ibid.

The nature, subject, form, cause, and end of our Sanctification,

162, 163, 164. &c.

Two things in our Sanctification: 1. Healing: 2. Cleansing,

164

Scandal. It is defined,

302

Christ a Scandal to the wicked many ways,

304

Wherein we are not to regard the offense of wicked men,

305

In what things we may be guilty in giving Scandal to wicked men,

306

Rules for the preventing of a Scandal,

ibid. &c.

Rules for it in matter of Ceremonies,

436

Scripture. Proofes of doctrine are to be fetched from Scripture,

124

The Scripture why so called,

272

Wherein it exceeds all other writings,

ibid.

Servants, Service. How we are to serve God,

473

Who are rejected from the number of God's Servants,

474

It is an excellent freedom to be a Servant of God,

475

Their prerogatives,

ibid.

Servants are of divers sorts,

486

For what cause Servitude came in,

ibid.

How a godly Servant may comfort himself in his estate,

488

They must be subject three ways,

490

Helps in their subjection,

ibid.

They are to show their fear of God in their callings,

492

Their fear towards their Masters shown divers ways,

493

Sheep. Signs of a lost Sheep,

557

Hopes of returning,

558

Motives to return,

559

The time when, the number, and means,

560

The manner and signs of returning,

561

The lets,

562

Shepherd. What attributes are given to Christ as a Shepherd,

563, 564

He is the one, true, great, and good Shepherd,

564

The happiness of such as live under this Shepherd appears in ten things,

565

Shew. Seven ways whereby we may offend by outward Shewes,

333

Motives to the Shew of virtue,

334

Sickness, Vide Healing. How it comes into the soul,

548

The Sickness of the soul grievous many ways,

549

Why many feel not the Sickness of the soul,

ibid.

Silence. To put to Silence is diversely accepted,

455

Sin. Six ways by which one man's Sin is derived on another,

141

How many ways Sin hinders the growth of the word,

200

A man may be said to make Sin many ways,

522, 523

How Christ had no Sin.

524

Inwhat respect Christ bare our Sins,

531

His sufferings fitted to our Sins,

532

Men are said to be alive in Sin many ways,

535

Their misery great that so do,

ibid.

Sinner. To be a worker of Iniquity what, and three ways manifested,

397

Zion. The Church is like Mount Zion in many respects,

276

How the Citizens of this City may be known,

277

Their special privileges,

279

Sober, Sobriety. A fixefold Sobriety,

104

Sojourners, Vide Saints, and Strangers,

4, 5, 132

Soul. What it is,

76

Soul taken many ways,

367

Its description,

ibid.

Seven things considerable in it,

ibid. &c.

It is a substance, but not bodily,

368

It is immortal,

369

Its original,

371

Anima non est ex traduce.

372

God creates the Soul,

373, 374

Objections against it answered,

374, 375

Of the union of the Soul with the body,

376

Showed by many similes,

377

By what band the Soul is bound to the body,

ibid.

The faculties of the Soul,

378

Its five senses,

379

The inward senses three,

380

The Soul gives to the body a threefold motion,

311

The faculty of reason in the Soul, and wherein it excels,

382

The end of its creation,

383

Four kinds of war against the Soul,

384

The Flesh wars against the Soul five ways,

ibid.

How the Soul comes to be diseased,

548

The sickness of the Soul grievous many ways,

149

Many feel it not,

ibid.

The Soul synechdochically signifieth the whole man,

17 •

Speaking,

Vide Evil-speaking, and Report

Spirit. What need our Spirit • have to be sanctified,

• 5

In what its sanctification consisteth,

ibid.

Eight things belong thereto,

16

Why the Spirit is called the Holy Ghost,

93

Why the Holy Spirit,

ibid.

Sprinkling. The meaning of that ceremony of Sprinkling Christ's blood,

22

A fourfold legal Sprinkling,

22, 23, &c.

The manifold passages of Sprinkling the Passover opened,

25, 26

Statutes. God hath four Statute books,

149

Four praises of those Statutes,

ibid.

Stone. How Christ is said to be, first, a Stone: secondly, a living Stone,

249, 250

This Stone disallowed, how, and by whom,

251, 252

Wicked men compared to Stones in many respects,

258

So the godly also,

ibid.

Reasons why we ought to be lively Stones,

259

That Christ is laid as a foundation Stone, imports many things,

276

A corner Stone,

282

Elect and precious,

ibid.

Strangers. Who: and why man is a Stranger, even in five respects,

3, 4

The Elect are Strangers,

4

And in fourteen things they should be like Strangers,

4, 5

The word Stranger literally and mystically taken,

132

Prettie allusions from Israel's being in Egypt,

132, &c.

We should carry ourselves as Strangers,

364

Submission. The Submission which belongs to Princes and Magistrates hath six things in it,

425

Objections against this Submission answered,

427

Suffer. The marks of such as truly suffer with Christ,

315

Divers ways of Suffering,

514

Christ Suffered for us in divers respects,

517, 518

His Sufferings were for our examples,

519

Ten things to be followed by the examples of Christ's Sufferings,

521

Christ's Sufferings 〈…〉 ,

532

He suffered in his body and soul,

533

Why he suffered on a tree,

534

T

TAbernacle. Christ hath a fivefold Tabernacle,

261

A godly man like a Tabernacle in many respects,

262

Excellent uses hereof,

263

Taste. What will bring us unto a good Taste of God's goodness,

239, 240

Our true Taste is seen both by the causes and effects.

241

Wherein the Taste of the godly and wicked differ,

242

How far the Taste of the wicked may go,

243

The uses of it,

243, 244

We can have but a Taste of God's sweetness in this life,

244

The uses of it,

ibid.

The true causes of the want of Taste to the Word,

245

When we have tasted of it we must not lose our Appetite,

246

Temptation. Four sorts of it,

57

Satan tempts five ways,

58

Thirteene degrees of it,

ibid. &c.

How Satan's Temptations differ from our own concupiscence,

59, 60

Comforts against Temptation,

60

Twelve rules in Temptation,

61

God tempts man six ways,

62

Seven ways in affliction,

62, 63

Testimony. The Scripture is our sure Testimony, and thence how our Testaments are to be fetched,

124, 125

Time, Times. Four sorts of men have inquired about Times: 1. The curious: 2. The weak: 3. The superstitious: 4. The wise,

83

Tradition. The word is taken five ways,

89, 90

How many ways children are infected by the Tradition of their fathers,

142

Why those Traditions should be so infectious,

ibid. &c.

Trust. Five things pertaining to a perfect Trust,

105

Nine ways to show our Trust,

108

Truth. What it is,

175

What it is to obey the Truth, & how,

176

V

VAine-glory. Wherein it is seen,

512

Verily. The word oft used in Scripture, and that for three special causes,

150, 151

How many ways we show forth the Verilies of Christ,

332, 333

Why the Verilies that are in us are called Christ's Verilies,

334

Virtue. How the word is taken in the Original,

327

Nine Virtues in Christ which we should show forth,

329

Virtue and Grace are a Christians best riches,

618

Vessel. The word Vessel diversely taken,

642

Visit, Visitation. Men are said to visit diversely,

412

So God also,

ibid. &c.

First, in judgment,

413

Secondly, in mercy,

414

Signs of such as he visits in mercy,

415

What glorious things the day of Visitation brings forth,

419

Uncleanness. Two ways contracted,

25

Unity. Of Unity in mind or judgment,

674, 675

Helps thereto,

676

Aggravations against discord in opinion,

677

Many ill causes of the contrary,

ibid. &c.

In what cases we may not be of one mind with the Church of Rome,

678

W

WArre, Warfare, Vide Fight. The Christian condition is military,

42

He must keep a fivefold garrison,

43

Four kinds of War against the soul,

384

The flesh wars against the soul five ways,

ibid.

Why God doth suffer this Ware,

385

Our armor in this War what,

386

How we may get victory in this War,

387

Weak. Privileges of Weak Christians,

229

Encouragement for Weak Christians,

237

Well-doing. Well-doing is the best way to stop the 〈◊〉 of wicked man,

• 65

Excellent uses of it,

ibid.

How we are said to do well,

639, 631

Reasons why we ought always to be Well-doing,

631

Whisperers, Vide Bac • biters.

216, 217

Wicked, Wickedness. What Wicked men in particular are not under mercy,

354

God doth oft suffer his children to live among Wicked men,

391

In what case we may converse with wickedmen,

392

Wife. Sixteen motives for Husbands and Wives to live together quietly in marriage,

576

Five special causes of disorder between Husband and Wife,

577

Why the Apostle is so large in setting down the Wives duty,

579

Eight reasons of the Wives subjection,

581

In what,

582

How, and in what cases not,

ibid.

Particular sins of the Wife in case of subjection,

583

What means a Wife must use to win her Husband,

595, 596

Chastity in marriage is specially charged on the Wife,

596

How chaste wife may be discerned,

597

Wherein Wives should show their fear to their Husbands,

601, 602

What is a Wives best ornament,

627

Obedience and reverence are a Wives ornaments,

628

Will. The Will of God is, first, Personal: secondly, Essentiall. First, Legal: secondly, Evangelical,

451

God's Word is his Will in two respects,

452

The Will is the rule of our actions,

452

Whether a Christian can exactly do God's Will,

453

Winne. Divers kinds of Winning,

590

What a Minister must do to win souls,

591

To be won what it 〈◊〉 ,

ibid.

Why all are not won at once,

592

By what means we may win wicked men in our conversation,

594

Wise Wisdom. Why many Wise men are rather confounders than founders in grace and goodness,

296

How the ignorant may herein notwithstanding be supported,

297

Five way's we should show forth the Wisdom of Christ,

329

What this Wisdom must not have in is,

ibid.

Woman. In what things a Woman is more frail than man,

643

Word. How powerful,

55

Vide Scripture.

How many ways sin hinders the growth of the Word,

200

How to be desired,

221

How our affections to it may be discerned,

222

Other signs of it,

ibid. &c.

Impediments thereof both external and internal,

223, 224

Means to get desire to it,

225

How to preserve our desires to it,

226

Four motives of getting it,

227

How far wicked men may desire the Word,

230

The sweetness of the Word,

240

Rules for applying the Word aright,

288

When, and how a man is said to be offended at the Word,

310

The Word must be the warrant for all our actions,

422

Its praise,

189

The only outward means to beget the seed of grace in us.

190

Eight things needful in us to hear the Word of God as the Word of God,

ibid.

How the Word is said to live,

191

Six ways to show the life of the Word in our conversation,

ibid. &c.

God's Word should be our main care,

199

The power of the Word Preached,

200

Works. How men shall be judged according to their Works,

129, 130

How infants,

130

How poor men,

131

Manifold distinctions of God's works,

148

How wonderful God's Works are,

274

The uses of it,

275

To be a Worker of iniquity signifies three things,

397

Wherein Works are good,

398

Rules to be observed in doing good Works,

399, 400

The divers kinds of good Works,

400, 401

How any man that is not absolutely good can be said to do good Works,

401, 402

What Works are good for,

402

How a man may lose his Works,

403

What Works may and ought to be shown,

404

We should by good works silence the wicked,

454

World. Contempt of the World shown in four things,

331

Worship. Actions about God's Worship of two sorts,

432, 433

Many defects in God's Worship,

548

Wrongs. Reasons against righting Wrongs by our own private revenge,

498

We may not (in some cases) resist but endure Wrongs,

ibid.

To suffer Wrongs is profitable,

ibid.

Places of Scripture herein expounded occasionally.

GEnesis 10. ver. 9.

p. 428

Exodus 26. ver. 8.

p. 98

Leviticus. 14. à ver. 4. ad 32.

p. 165, ad 173.

Cap. 16. ver. 12, 13, 17,

p. 26

Numbers 19. à ver. 1, 2. ad 7.

p. 23.

Psalm 19. ver. 10.

p. 240

Psalm 119. ver. 103.

ibid.

Psalm 145. ver. 8, 9.

p. 32

Proverbs 15. ver. 30.

p. 447, 448

Proverbs 22. ver. 1.

p. 447

Isaiah 53. ver. 7.

ibid.

Jeremiah 11. ver. 19.

ibid.

Matthew 16. ver. 18.

p. 250

John 1. ver. 29. 36.

147

Acts 5. ver. 10, 28, 29.

p. 435

Acts 17. ver. 30.

p. 127

Romans 2. ver. 10.

p. 449

Romans 12. ver. 3.

p. 104

2 Cor. 2. ver. 14, 15.

p. 241

Ephesians 4. ver. 17, 18.

p. 458

1 Thess. 5. ver. 15.

p. 686

Hebrews 4. ver. 12.

p. 55

Hebrews 12. ver. 9.

p.374

2 Epist. Johan. ver. 8.

p. 593