The Morning Exercise Methodized

SCRIPTURES CONTAINED IN THE BOOKS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, are THE WORD OF GOD;

2 Tim. 3.16. All Scripture is given by Inspiration of God.

By these Scriptures that great Mysterious Doctrine of the Trinity, which the light of nature can no more discover than deny, was asserted and opened as far as so profound a Mystery can well admit; and so

The third mornings work was to show,

[Subject. 3] THAT IN THE GODHEAD THERE IS A TRINITY OF PERSONS IN UN • TY OF ESSENCE; GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON, AND GOD THE HOLY GHOST, God blessed forever;

1 Joh. 5.7. There are three that bear Record in Heaven, the FAHER, the WORD, and the HOLY GHOST, and these three are ONE,

[Subject. 4] The Creation of Man in a perfect, but mutable Estate, by the joint Power and Wisdom of these three glorious Persons, was the

Fourth Subject opened from that Text, Eccles, 7.29. God made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions.

Man thus Created, God entered into a Covenant with him, and so the COVENANT OF WORKS which God made with Adam and all his posterity; succeeded in order to be the Subject matter of the

[Subject. 5] Fifth morning Lecture: the Text was, Gen. 12.17. In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.

This Covenant no sooner made (almost) then broken; the work of him that preached the

[Subject. 6] Sixth Sermon was, THE FALL OF ADAM, and therein more specially of PECCATUM ORIGINALE ORIGINANS, or ORIGINAL SIN IN THE

FIRST SPRING and fountain of it; the Scripture Rom. 5.12. By one man, sin entered into the world, &c.

The Fruit and sad effect whereof being the loss of God's image, and the total depravation and corruption of man's nature;

[Subject. 7] The seventh thing that fell naturally to be handled, was, Peccatum original originatum, or, Original corruption in the STREAM and DERIVATION OF IT TO POSTERITY; from

Psal. 1.5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in Sin did my Mother conceive me.

This is the Source of all that evil that hath invaded all Mankind; that therefore which naturally succeeded in the

[Subject. 8] Eighth course of this morning Exercise, was, MANS LIABLENESS TO THE CURSE; or the MISERY OF MANS ESTATE BY NATURE;

Deut. 27.1. Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all the things of the Law to do them; or Ephes. 2.3. By nature the children of wrath;

[Subject. 9] Ninthly, Mans impotency to help himself out of this miserable estate, was the next sad Prospect presented to your view, by that Reverend Brother that preached the ninth course, and he took his rise from Rom. 5.6. When we were without strength, Christ died for the ungodly.

That the doctrine of man's impotency, when it had laid him in the dust, might not leave him there; the

[Subject. 10] Tenth Preacher discoursed to you of the COVENANT OF REDEMPTION, consisting of the transaction between

God and Christ from all Eternity; from that Text, Isa. 53.10. He shall see the travel of his soul and be satisfied.

In the eleventh place, THE COVENANT OF GRACE REVEALED IN THE GOSPEL, came next to be unfolded, as being (if I may so say) the Counterpart of the Covenant of Redemption, which the Preacher to whom the

[Subject. 11] Eleventh course fell, opened to you out of Heb. 8.6. Jesus Christ, hath obtained a more excellent Ministry, by how much also he is the Mediator of A BETTER COVENANT.

This done, it was very seasonable to let you hear of the Mediator of the Covenant; which was performed by the

[Subject. 12] Twelfth Minister who preached to you JESUS CHRIST in his PERSON, NATURES, and OFFICES, from that Scripture,

1 Tim. 2.5. There is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.

Next to his Natures and Offices, it was proper to treat of the two states of Jesus Christ; and therefore the

[Subject. 13] Thirrteeth Preacher opened to you Christ's state of Humiliation, out of

Phil. 2.7, 8. He made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a Servant, and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the Cross.

[Subject. 14] The fourteenth, CHRIST'S STATE OF EXALTATION, out of the ninth verse, Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him a Name which is above every Name, &c.

Time not allowing a more copious and distinct enquiry into this great Mystery, God manifested in the flesh; that which came in the [Subject. 15] Fifthteenth place under consideration, as most proper, was, THE SATISFACTION WHICH CHRIST MADE TO DIVINE JUSTICE; and that was done on that Text,

Col. 1.20. And (having made peace through the blood of his Cross) by him to reconcile all things unto himself; I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

And because the Redemption made by Christ upon the Cross, signifieth nothing in effect without the Application of it to the conscience: The Minister to whom the

[Subject. 16] Sixteenth turn fell, Treated of EFFECTUAL CALLING, from Rom. 8.30. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called.

In, and by which Call, the soul being really, but yet Spiritually joined and united to Jesus Christ; that which fell next under consideration in the

[Subject. 17] Seventeenth Course of this Exercise, was that exceeding precicious Mystery; The SAINTS UNION WITH JESUS CHRIST.

His Scripture was, 1 Cor. 6.17. He that is joined to the Lord, is one Spirit.

And inasmuch as Union is the Foundation of Communion, Interest in Christ the Fountain and Spring-head of Fellowship with Christ; the Subjects which followed naturally to be handled, were Justification, and Filiation.

[Subject. 18] JUSTIFICATION in the eighteenth Course, out of Rom. 5.1. Being justified by Faith, we have peace with God. And the Nineteenth, [Subject. 19]

FILIATIN, or Divine Son-ship to God; which branching itself into these two great privileges of the Covenant

• ADOPTION.
• REGENERATION;

the one whereby out State is changed; by the other, our Natures, they were twisted together into one Sermon, on that portion of Scripture, John 1.12. To as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the SONNES of God, even to them that believe on his Name.

In which Filiation, it being evident by the Scripture quoted, that Faith hath such a special ingrediency, therefore it was seasonable in the next place to speak of SAVING FAITH; which was the Subject preached on in the

[Subject. 20] Twentieth morning of this Moneths Exercise; the Text being Acts 16.31. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

And although Repentance be usually before faith, in the order of sense and feeling; yet faith being before Repentance, in the order of Nature and operation, it being the primum mobile in the orbe of grace, (as unbelief in the orbe of sins, Heb. 3.12.) hence it was proper, next after Faith, to speak to you of REPENTANCE, [Subject. 21] which was handled by him that preached the one and twenty Lecture; his place of Scripture being Acts 5.31. Him hath God exalted to be a Prince, and a Savior, for to give repentance, and remission of sins.

And because true repentance is always accompanied with fruits meet for Repentance; therefore as the great and comprehensive fruit thereof,

[Subject. 22] the twenty second Exercise was spent in setting forth the Nature, necessity, and Excellency of HOLINESSE from these words of the Apostle,

Heb. 12.14. Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which none shall see the Lord.

This giveth the Believer a capacity, though not a merit of a joyful resurrection, and the next Preacher took therefore the RESURRECTION [Subject. 23] for his Subject, upon the

Twenty third morning, and for his Text, those words of St. Paul. Acts 26.8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

And as upon the Resurrection follows the day of Judgment; in the same Method, the discourse of the LAST JUDGEMENT succeeded, and was the work of the

[Subject. 24] Twenty fourth day the Preachers Text was Acts 17.31. G • d hath appninted a day in the wich he will judge the world in Righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained.

[Subject. 25] The sentence of that day was the next thing in order to be considered: and although the sentence of the Elect be first in the process, yet because it is last in the execution, as appeareth in comparing the 34. verse of the 25. of Matth. with the 46. therefore the TORMEMTS of HELL was the sad and startling Subject which the twenty fifth Preacher insisted on, from Math. 25.41.— Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels, &c.

And when the Righteous have had the honor as Assessors with Christ, to behold with their eyes that sentence executed upon the Reprobate, and their persons dragged away into everlasting burnings by the Ministry of the infernal Angels:

Then the joyful sentence shall be accomplished upon the Elect of God, and they shall ride in triumph with Jesus Christ the King of Saints, into the gates of the New Jerusalem; and so the

[Subject. 26] Twenty sixth, and most blessed Subject with wich the last Minister did most sweetly close this morning Exercise, was the JOYES of HEAVEN; and his Text was Matth. 25.34. Receive the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

And thus honorable and beloved, I have prese ted you with the Epitomy or Compendium of sound words, which hath Methodically been delivered in the course of this month in divers of the chief Heads and Points of Gospel-D • ctrine.

There is no man that is acquainted with the Body of Divinity, but may easily observe this Method or S • st • me to have been in some Points (possibly) redundant, but in more defective: He that will object the former, may consider that eve • y man sees not by the same light; insomuch as if twenty Divines should have the drawing up of twenty several Models of Divinity, not two of them would meet exactly in the same heads or order; in this case therefore, veniam p • timus{que} damusque vicissim.

And he that will object the latter, must also remember, that if we had taken in more Points, there must have been more days, which the course of this Exercise doth not allow.

Sufficient to the days hath been the labor thereof; and when we cannot do all we would, it his honorable to do what we can: To the glory of God be it spoken; since this Exercise was first set up, such a month hath not been known in this City.

A word of Exhortation.

What now remaineth, men and brethren, but that the Ministers of the Gospel having done their work in holding out unto you a Form or Model of sound words; you stir up yourselves in the strength of Jesus Christ to do yours? and what is that, but that which is commended here to Timothy, That you hold fast the form of sound words, which you have received of them?

They have held it forth, it concerns you to hold it fast.

First see therefore that you hold it fast in your understandings.

My brethren, in this Moneths Exercise you have had many of the chief Heads and Points of the Christian Faith unveiled to you, not only as so many single truths, and several precious Jewels to lie by you, but (that to which possibly most of you have been strangers hitherto, as far as the design could well suffer) Methodized as it were into a Chaine of Pearls to wear about necks; truths fitly joined together and compacted into a body, by that which every joint supplieth.

Now your duty is, to wear this Chain or Bracelet carefully that it may not be broken. Your labor must be to imprint this Method of truth in your minds and judgments, by virtue whereof you may be able to know them in their Series and Connection; and when you hear any of these Points handled in Sermons, you may be able to know one truth from another, where they are to be fixed in the Orb of Divinity, and so to refer them to their own proper place and station; which will prove to be a greater advantage to your proficiency in the knowledge of Christ then you can easily believe. It is observable, Rom. 8.28. when the Holy Ghost having hinted effectual calling as the ground of that blessed truth, that all things work for good to those that love God; yet he mentions it again in the very next verse; and why? but to show us what place it obtains in the golden chain of salvation; how it takes its room between Predestination and Justification; Whom he did predestinate, them also he CALLED, and whom he CALLED, them he justified; of so great moment it is not only to know Gospel-truths, but how to posture them in their proper rank and file, where every truth is to stand: This advantage in a great measure you have had by this Moneths Exercise; see that you improve it to the clearing of your understandings in the Method of Gospel Doctrines.

Secondly, Hold them fast in yor Memory.

Truly the Order of this Moneths Exercise, if you be not wanting to yourselves, will not contribute less strength to your memories than light to your understandings. The truths themselves have been a Treasure given you by your heavenly Father; and the Method will serve you for a sack or purse to keep them in: and truly it would be a labor neither unprofitable nor uncomely to take so much pains yourselves, and to teach your Families to do so too, scil. to Conne this Model without book; and the Lord teach you to get them by heart.

You may once a week, or so, revolve them thus in your minds.

• I. There is a God.
• II. The Scriptures are the Word of God.
• III. In the God-head there be three Persons or Subsistencies, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, God blessed forever.
• IV. God Created man in a perfect, but in a mutable estate.
• V. The Covenant of works God made with man in his innocence.
• VI. Original sin in the first spring of it, in Adams first transgression.
• VII. Original corruption derived from thence into man's nature.
• VIII. Mans liableness to the curse, or the misery of man's state by nature.
• IX. Mans impotency to help himself out of this estate.
• X. The Covenant of Redemption, or the transaction between God and Christ from all Eternity, about man's salvation.
• XI. The Covenant of Grace revealed in the Gospel.
• XII. Christ the only Mediator between God and man, considered in his Person, Natures, and Offices.
• XIII. Christ's state of Humiliation.
• XIV. Christ's state of Exaltation.
• XV. Christ's satisfaction to Divine Justice.
• XVI. Effectual calling.
• XVII. Union with • hrist.
• XVIII. Justification by Christ's Righteousness.
• XIX. Son-ship to God, consisting in
  • Adopition.
  • Regeneration.
• XX. Saving Faith.
• XXI. Repentance.
• XXII. Holiness.
• XXIII. The Resurrection.
• XXIV. The last Judgment.
• XXV. Hell.
• XXVI. Heaven.

Christians, this, and other such like Catalogues or Forms of the Articles of Christian Faith imprinted upon your memories, will be of great benefit and service to you. Do ye serve your memories, and your memories will serve you; labor to get them so imprinted upon your memories, that they may never be blotted out.

Thirdly, Hold fast; yea hold forth these precious Truths delivered to you in your lives and conversations.

Christians, let it be your care (and behold it shall be your wisdom in the eyes of all the beholders) to live this morning Exercise, the glory whereof hath filled this Assemblie for a month together. To engage and quicken you herein, let me mind you of one rare advantage this Model carrieth with it, above most of the acute and learned Treatises of Schoolmen, or solid Tractates of Catechetical Divines, who have taken great pains in opening and stating the Principles of Christian Religion.

The Reverend Divines who have travelled in this service of your Faith, have in their several Sermons with singular skill and piety, brought down Principles unto practice, and improved all their Doctrines to Use and Application; wherein they have shown themselves Workmen that need not be ashamed; wise Builders that know how to handle the Trowel as well as the Sword; and that made it their design to build up their hearers in holiness as well as in knowledge: The School and the Pulpit met together; the Doctor and the Pastor have kissed each other. They have not discust the Doctrines of Faith in a jejune frigid speculative way only; but what they cleared to the judgment, they wrought it home upon the heart and affections, with such warmth and sweetness, as that the hearers seemed for the present to be carried into the mountain of transfiguration, where they cried out with Peter, It is good for us to be here: So that although their Sermons were very large, yet the greatest part of their Auditories thought they had done too soon; and went away praising God that had given such gifts unto men.

Oh let it be your care, dearly Beloved, that as this Model hath been delivered unto you, so you may be delivered into it: What a sore judgment will abide such as suffer all these morning influences to pass away as water over a swans back; that come the same from these morning visions, they came to them. How shall we escapt, if we neglect so great salvation?

Hold it forth I say Christians, in your lives; the Conversation is a better testimony to the truth then the confession.

I have met with a general vote in the Auditory, that attended this morning Ordinance, that these Sermons might be Printed; that so what hath once past upon your ears, might be exposed to your eye; whereby you might stay and fix upon it with the more deliberation. Whether I may prevail with the Brethren, or no for their second travel in this Service, I know not.

There is one way left you, wherein you may gratify your own desires, and Print these Sermons without their leave, though I am confident, not without their consent, and that is,

PRINT THEM IN YOUR LIVES AND CONVERSATIONS.

Live this morning Exercise in the sight of the world, that men may take notice you have been with Jesus:

You have been called up with Moses into the Mount to talk with God. Now you come down, oh that your faces might shine; that you would commend this morning Exercise by an holy life, that you may be manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministered by US.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

To that end

Take along with you these two great helps in the Text

• FAITH.
• LOVE.

Hold fast the form of sound words in FAITH and LOVE. I know some Expositors interpret these as the two great COMPREHENSIVE HEADS of sound words or Gospel-Doctrine, in this 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ; Faith and Love: Faith towards God, and Love towards men: Faith the sum of the first Table, and Love of the second; or Faith in Christ, and Love to Christ; or Faith as comprehending the Credenda, things to be believed; Love as comprehending the Facienda, things to be done. But I am sure it is not against the Analoge of Faith, or the Context to improve these two as Mediums to serve this command of holding fast sound Doctrine. And so in the entrance it was propounded, as the fourth Doctrine, scil. Faith and Love are as it were the two hands whereby we hold-fast the Form of sound words.

First then (Christians) look to your Faith; that is an hold-fast grace, which will secure your standing in Christ. As unbelief is the root of Apostasy, and falling back from the Doctrine of the Gospel, Heb. 3.12. So Faith is the spring of Perseverance. 1 Pet. 1.5. Kept by the power of God through faith to salvation. Faith keeps the Believer, and God keeps his faith; Now faith keeps the believer close to his Principles upon a twofold accompt.

1. Because faith is the grace which doth REALIZE all the Truths of the Gospel unto the soul. Evangelical Truths to a man that hath not faith, are but so many pretty Notions, which are pleasing to the fancy, but have no influence upon the Conscience; they may serve a man for discourse, but he cannot live upon them: suffering Truths (in particular) are pleasing in the Speculation, in times of prosperity; but when the hour of temptation cometh, they afford the soul no strength to carry it through sufferings, and to make a man go forth unto Christ without the Camp, bearing his reproach.

But of Faith, saith the Aposte, it is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ; the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen; faith makes all Divine Objects (although very Spiritual and subtle in their own nature) faith makes them (I say) so many realities, so many solid and substantial verities; it gives them a being, not in themselves, but unto the believer: and of invisible it makes them visible; as it is said of Moses, he saw him that was invisible; How? by faith, verse 23.24: that which was invisible to the eye of nature, was visible to the eye of faith. Faith brings the object and the faculty together. Hence now men yet in their unregeneracy, though haply illuminated to a high degree of Gospel-Notion, in time of tribulation will fall away, and walk no more with Jesus, because through the want of Faith. Divine Truth had no rooting in their hearts; all their knowledge is but a powerless notion floating in the brain, and can give no reality or subsistence to Gospel-verities: Knowledge gives luster, but Faith gives being; knowledge doth irradiate, but Faith doth realize; knowledge holds ou • light, but faith adds life and power.

It is Faith my Brethren, whereby you stand; Faith is that whereby a man can live upon the truth, and die for the truth; I know whom I have believed; and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Look to your Faith Christians. For again,

Secondly, Faith will help you to fetch strength from Jesus Christ, to do, to suffer, to live, to die for Jesus Christ, and the truths which he hath purchased, and ratified by his own blood, Phil. 4, 13. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Faith invests the soul into a kind of Omnipotency; I can do all things: Other men's impossibilities are faiths triumph: Faith is an omnipotent grace, because it sets a work an Omnipotent God. In the Lord I have righteousness and strength, is the boast of faith, Isa. 45.24. Righteousness for Justification, and strength for Sanctification; and for carrying on all the duties of the holy life: this is insinuated in my Text, Hold fast, &c. in FAITH which is in CHRIST JESUS: So that if it were demanded How shall we hold fast? the answ. is by Faith: how doth faith hold fast? in Christ Jesus; scil. as it is acted by, and as it acts upon Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is a Fountain of strength, and that strength is drawn out by faith; hence David's Resolve, I will go in the strength of the Lord God, I will make mention of thy Righteousness, even of thine only.

The second grace which you must look to is LOVE. Love is another hold-fast grace, I held him, and would not let him go, said the Spouse of her Beloved, Cant. 4.3. I tell you sirs, Love will hold fast the truth, when Learning will let it go; the reason is, because Learning lieth but in the head, but Love resteth in the heart, and causeth the heart to rest in the thing or person beloved.

I cannot dispute for Christ, said the poor Martyr, but I can die for Christ.

Love will say to the truth, as she said to her Mother in Law, Whether thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest, I will die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part me and thee.

Love is the glue that makes the heart cleave to the Object; as it is said of Shechem, His soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob.

Love is the twist of souls Crederes unam animam in duobus esse divisam, it is but one soul that informs Lovers.

Christians, if you would hold fast the truth, LOVE IT. Love hates putting away: when ever your love begins to decay, you are in danger of Apostasy. For this cause God shall send them strong delusions to believe lies; for what cause? why, because they received not the love of the truth.

Christians, look to your standing; there is much of this judicial blast abroad; the generality of Professors have contented themselves w • th, and rejoiced in the Light of the Truth, and in the Notion of the Truth, and in the expressions of the Truth, but they have lost their love to the truth. Parts without grace hath been the precipice of this evil and adulterous generation: the foolish Virgins of this age have got Oil only in their Lamps, but none in their Vessels, and so perish.

You therefore Beloved seeing ye know these things before, beware lest you also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own steadfastness.

Let it be your care to receive the truth in the power of the truth, in the impressions of the truth upon your hearts, in the love of the truth: Love the truth, even when the truth seems not to love you; when it makes against your Carnal interests; when it calls for your right eye, and your right hand: The right eye of your sinful pleasure; the right hand of your dishonest gain: when the truth comes to take away all your false Principles, and to take away all your false evidences; not to leave you worth a Duty, or a Church-privilege, not to leave you so much as a Creed, or a Pater-noster, or a good meaning: but casts you out of all, which self, and flesh hath counted your gain in point of salvation, ( Phil. 3.7.) to the loathing and abhorring of your persons, &c. Yet even then I say, Receive the truth in the love of it: God intends you more good in it then you are aware of: and therefore say with young Samuel, Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth; and with Bernard, do Lord, wound me, scorch me, slay me, spare me not now, that thou mayest spare me forever.

Thirdly, There is yet another means, and that is in the verse next to my Text, relating to the same duty, though under a various expression.

That good thing which was committed to thee. KEEP. The good or excellent trust and depositum; was either the Ministerial Office, with the gifts and graces which Timothy received by Ordination for the edifying of the Church; or else

The form of sound words here committed to him in my Text: whichsoever, this duty is incu • cated upon Timothy again and again, that he must keep it, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ; preserve it as under Lock and Key; and saith Beza, He keeps his depositum that improveth it so, that the depositor finds no cause why he should take it away.

But how shall Timothy, or any other Evangelical Minister or Christian be able so to keep it? it followeth 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , &c. by the Holy Ghost; The duty indeed is very difficult, but by calling in the help of the Spirit of God, Believers shall be enabled to do it; and he is not far from every one of them; for so it follows by the Holy Ghost WHICH DWELLETH IN US; He is IN them as a Principle of life and power by his virtue and influence helping their infirmities, and working in them mightily: Great is the opposition that Believers meet withal: and Satan, and this present evil world hath been too hard for many; not Professors only, but Ministers also, men that seemed to be stars of the first magnitude, they have proved to be but falling-stars, mere Comets, that for a time make a great blaze, but quickly extinguish: They went on from us, because they were not of us, 1 Joh. 2.19.

But real Saints, true Believers shall hold out; why? because, greater is he that is in them, then he that is in the world, 1 Joh. 4.4. — keep, by the HOLY GHOST THAT DWELLETH IN US.

Christians, walk in the Spirit, and pray for the Spirit; cry mightily to God for the continual presence and operation of the Holy Ghost; and for your encouragement, take along with you that blessed promise of our Savior.

If ye then being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Books Printed for Ralph Smith, at the Bible in Corn-Hill.

• THE works of that learned and laborious Divine John Weems, in four Volumes, 4.
• Mr. Byfield on the Collossions, fol.
• Mr. Thomas Edwards Gangraena, four Volumes in 4.
• Ainsworth's works, fol.
• And his communion of Saints, 12.
• Dr. Staughtons heavenly conversation, 12.
• Bp. Downam on the Covenant of grace, 12.
• Robins Essays, 12.
• Mr. Dicksons Exposition on Matthew.
• Mr. Brinsley a learned Treatise of Christ's Mediatorship, and the souls implantion, 8.
• Mr. Brinsley Brazen Serpent, and Christ's Membership—
• Mr. Dicksons Exposition on the whole book of the Psalms, one Volume, 8. second edition.
• Mr. Watson's works, viz.
• 1. The Art of Divine Contentment, the fourth edition.
• 2. The Christians Charter, showing the privileges of believers in this life, and the life to come, the fifth edition.
• Mr. Ashes Sermon, at Mr. Whitaker's funeral—
• Dr. Spurstow on the Promise, second edition.
• Retorford on the Covenant of grace —
• Mr. Cottons Exposition on the book of Ecclesiastes and Canticles, second edition.
• A learned Treatise, proving the Deity of the Holy Ghost, by Mr. Estwick.
• Mr. Gurnals Christian Armor, third Edition.
• Mr. Hutcheson on the Gospel according to St. John, in fol.
• On the twelve small Prophets, second edition.
• Mr. Gurnals Christians Armor, the second part.
• Dr. Guile on the Canticles.

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE Relating to the chief Heads handled in this TREATISE.

A.
• ADAM able of Creation, to keep the Law. p. 108, 109. The one man by whom sin entered into the world. p. 136. His sin is entailed on all his seed. 137, 138. transmitted by imputation. p. 139, and 140. made ours without any impeachment of God's justice. p. 141. by generation, not imitation. p. 142, 143. hurt received by him, must quicken the acceptance of the second Adam. p. 145. his sin will not be our acquittance. p. 148.
• Advantage great by systems and modules of Religion. p. 16, 17, 18, 19.
• Adoption, its kinds. p. 436. its name explained. 437. Divine differs from human Adoption. p. 438.
• Adoption presupposeth Uocation, Regeneration, and Justification. p. 438. it entitles to God, Christ, and Heaven. ibid.
• Adoption, the properties. p. 439. and privileges of it. p. 440.
• Adoption is different from Regeneration, yet not divided from it. p. 446.
• Adoption an effect of faith. p 469.
• Affections unruly, cashier'd when we come to heaven. p. 650.
• Angels, their service to the Lord Jesus Christ. p. 323, 324. not confirmed, not reconciled by Jesus Christ as Mediator. p. 338, 339.
• Antinomians refuted. p. 423, 424.
• Apparel of Saints in heaven. p. 652. 653.
• Atheism three sorts.
  • Uita. pag. 51, 52.
  • Uoto. pag. 51, 52.
  • Judicio. pag. 51, 52.
• Assent to God's being and bounty, ground of Addresses to him. p. 30.
• Assurance an effect of faith. p. 472.

B.
• Bars to communion with God, three; and how removed. p. 272.
• Barring sin, imports punishment. p. 346.
• Belief of God's being, the foundation of Religion. p, 30. fountain of obedience. p. 54.
• Belief of Christ to be the Son of God, is not easy. p. 66.
• Believing sinner, the subject of Gospel-repentance. p. 489.
• Believers, their dignity and duty. pag. 433.
• Believers united to Christ. p. 278.
• Believers whom. p. 379.
• Believers persons, graces, and duties, relate to Christ. p. 395, 396.
• Birth-right despised, is dreadful. p. 448.
• Blessedness of man's-natural rectitude. p. 111.
• Blessed estate of the New Covenant. p. 254, 259.
• Blessed, how said of the Saints. p. 664, 665.
• Bodies of Saints re-united to souls. p. 657.
• Bodies of Saints and sinners differ at Resurrection. p. 591, 592.
• Body of man subject to God's wrath. p. 184.
• Body, its very self-same substance shall be raised. p. 591, 592, 593. Its prime endowments at Resurrection. p. 593, 594.
• Bodily infirmities shaken off in heaven. p. 651.
• Blood of sin to be shed for the blood of Christ. p. 296.
• Bowing at the Name of Jesus, what it means. p. 321. by whom to be done. p. 322, 323.

C.
• Cause encourageth to suffer. p. 2, 3.
• Captain encourageth contest. ibid.
• Calling effectual. p. 353. what it is, and how wrought. p. 357, 358.
• Called, who. p. 359. few. p. 360. by what. ib. from what causes. p. 361, 362, 363. by what means. p. 365. to what end. p. 366. when. p. 367.
• Call is holy. ib. heavenly. p. 368. without noise. p. 370. immutable. p. 371.
• Care accompanieth true r pentance. 541.
• Case of man fallen, helpless by nature 207.
• Catechisms commended. 21.
• Children of God by Regeneration and Adoption. 435.
• Children of God, their carriage directed. 448, 449, 450.
• Christ is Lord, how. 330, 331. a good Captain. 2, 3.
• Christ is truly God. 266, 267. and truly man. 268. God and man. 269.
• Christ and promises, not God the immediate object of saving faith. 460.
• Christians changes, three. 557.
• Christian Religion reasonable. 483.
• Come ye blessed, what kind of speech. 666, 667.
• Command to Adam and Covenant of works. 122.
• Complaints against God, charmed. 267.
• Compassion to brethren, showeth a sense of our own natural weakness. 215.
• Communion an evidence of union with Christ. 385.
• Conditions in order to man's Redemption between God the Father, and God the Son. p. 222, 223.
• Conquest of enemies, an effect of Faith. 470.
• Conscience proveth that there is a God. 43, 44.
• Conscience engendereth fear. 46, 47.
• Consent of Nations universal and perpetual, proves that there is a God. 48.
• Confession of sin a part of Repentance. 509, 510. How to be made. 511, 512, 513, 514.
• Conviction, wherein it consists, and how it acts. 493, 494.
• Contrition, wherein it consists. 496, 497.
• Conversion, its parts. 502.
• Crown of Saints in heaven, what. 654. Its threefold wreath. 655, 656.
• Covenant what it means. 123, 124, 235.
• Covenants in Scripture. 235.
• Covenant Natural, what it is. 236. Legal, what it is. 237, 238. Evangelical, what it is. 239.
• Covenant, an act of condescension in God. 130. Imports God's promise, and man's duty. 239.
• God's dealing with Adam in Paradise, how and why called a Covenant. 125.
• Covenant of Works wherein it consists. p. 126, 127. How and why given by Moses. 128, 129. Israel was not under it; ibid. Men out of Christ, yet under it. 130.
• Covenant of Redemption what it is, and between whom. 216, 217, 218, 219.
• It is to be particularly improved by Believers. 230, 231, 232.
• It confirms the Covenant of Grace, its blessings. 228, 229.
• Covenant what. 233.
• Gospel Covenant the best of Covenants. 235, 239.
• Covenant of Works and Grace, are to be differenced by men. 131.
• Covenant of Redemption different from Covenant of Grace. 218.
• Creation the work of God. 31.
• Man created holy and mutable. 105.
• Creatures execute God's wrath on man. 189. Themselves liable to God's wrath. 190.
• Creeds, Apostles, Athanasii, Nicene, &c. justified. 20.
• Curse of the Law due to man by nature. 181.
• Cure of fallen man, Omnipotent. 208.

D
• Death of Christ its kind, manner and grounds. p. 283. The Reasons thereof. 290, 291, 292.
• Death of Christ a sacrifice, and only so possible. 342.
• Deserving cause of Christ his death. 345.
• Death of Christ was in our place and stead. 347.
• Diligence in duty and readiness to die for Christ, but a reasonable recompense for his death for us. 297, 299.
• Christ died willingly, obediently and humbly. 287, 288, 289.
• Death of Christ a pregnant Argument to Repentance. 528, 529, 530.
• Death destroyed by the death of Christ. 303.
• Desire accompanieth Repentance. 544.
• Dependence on God the duty of such as believe God is. 60, 61.
• Devil an enemy to Faith. 481.
• Devils subject to Jesus Christ. 326, 327.
• Devil limited by Christ. 328.
• Doctrine of Trinity to be prized. 82.
• Dominion of Saints. 442.

E
• Elect dead in sin before called, and poor in the world. p. 359.
• Entrance of sin into the world, what and how. 136.
• Enemies of man foiled by the death of Christ. 301.
• Entertainment of Christ. 434.
• Epistle to the Romans, a Module of Religion. 8. to the Hebrews. 9. to Galatians. ibid. Ephesians. 10. Timothy and Titus. ibid.
• Errors are obviated by a Module of Religion. 12, 14.
• Errors about Repentance. 55.
• Error in fundamentals inconsistent with Faith. 480.
• Morning Exercise when it begun, and how profitable it hath been, 23, 24. Duties towards it. 25.
• Extremity of hell torments by their inflammation, fire, and preparation, and association with Devils. 628, 629, 630, 631.
• Eternity the property of hell torments. 632, 633.
• Evidences of eternal life laid down in a Module. 15.
• Exaltation of Christ opposed to his Humiliation. 306, 307. Its priority to his humiliation, as a merit or mere antecedent, discussed, 308 309. it was exceeding high. 311.
• Exaltation of Christ by three steps 312, 313, 314.

F
• Faith commended. p. 455, 456.
• Faith distinguished into its kinds. 456, 457.
• Faith defined. 449. By its genus and subject. 460. causes 461, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 467. Effects. 468, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473, 474. properties. 475, 476, 477, 478. and opposites. 479. 480, 481.
• Faith if saving, receiveth whole Christ on judgment and choice. 475.
• Faith groweth and persevereth, and purifieth. 477, 478, 479.
• Faith and salvation how connected. 473, 474.
• Faith strengthened by the Covenant of Redemption. 228.
• Faith how it justifieth. 421.
• Faith greatly opposed. 480.
• Faith goeth before Repentance in order of nature as its cause. 490.
• Faith in its essential acts without its reflections, is the cause of Repentance. 491.
• Faith of Scriptures authorities to be strengthened. 103, 104.
• False Repentance seven kinds; viz. Popish. 515. Pagan. 516. Profane. ibid. Legal. 517. Slaves. ibid. Sullen. p. 518. Quakers Repentance. ibid. 519.
• Fall of man was from his own mutable, self-determining will. 111.
• Federal transaction did pass between God the Father and Son, and that from all eternity. 219, 226.
• Fear of God, the duty of such who believe God is. 58, 59.
• Fear accompanieth true Repentance. 542.
• Filiation to God is by Adoption and Regeneration. 447.
• Filial privileges Believers comforts. 451, 452, 453.
• Flesh an enemy to Faith. 480.
• Flesh crucified by union with Christ. 391, 392.
• Form of sound words to be held fast. 670. By Magistrates how. 674, 675, 676, 677. By Ministers how. 678, 679. By the People how. 680, 681.
• Freedom of God, Father and Son in transacting the Covenant for man's Redemption. 224.
• Free-grace the ground of Adoption and Regeneration. 477.
• Fruitfulness a note of union with Christ. 392, 393.

G
• God is. p. 30, 31. God's being is evident in nature. 31. & 48. and Scripture. 48, 49.
• God's being consistent with the adversity of the just, and prosperity of the wicked, and evidenced by them. 45, 50, 51.
• God is the only efficient of Faith. 461, 462.
• God could not be the original of sin. 111.
• God's glory the ground of Adoption and Regeneration. 447.
• God as Judge justifieth, how and when. 122.
• God the object of beatifical vision. 654, 655.
• Gospel a good cause. 3.
• Gospel -means to work Faith. 465. and call loudly to Repentance. 525.
• Gospel how it justifieth. 421.
• Gospel -Covenant better than the Legal. 245, 246, 247, 248.
• Gosepl -Manner of propounding Repentance, is by way of duty and privilege. 426
• Gospel -Arguments persuading Repentance, most pregnant and moving. 527, 528.
• Gospel -Helps to Repentance, most powerful and operative. p. 533.
• Grace of God magnified by man's fall. 213, 214. First cause impulsive of justification. 420.
• Graces are the fruits of the Spirit. 390.
• Grudge not the prosperity of the wicked. 645.

H
• Of Hell. 621. the wicked turned into it. 623. its name explained. ibid. nature described. 624. its pain. ibid. The Properties of its punishment:
  • Extremity. 628, 629.
  • Eternity. 628, 629.
• Hell discerned by the Heathen. 635.
• Hell proved by
  • Equity. 636, 637, 638, 639, 640, 641.
  • Merit. 636, 637, 638, 639, 640, 641.
  • No Bar or hindrance. 636, 637, 638, 639, 640, 641.
• Heresy an hindrance to Faith. 480.
• Heresies and Errors disbanded when we come to heaven. 649.
• Hearing must be fixed and constant. 22. So it will help Repentance. p. 545.
• Heart the subject of Faith. 459. and seat of Holiness. 558.
• Heaven. 647. it is a Kidgdome, how. 649.
• Hindrances to the understanding Scripture, what they are, and how removed. 100, 101.
• Holding fast what it meaneth. 5.
• Holiness. 554. a state, trade, habit and disposition. 555.
• Holiness defined. 556.
• Holiness the design of God in all his acts. 559, 560.
• Holiness constitutes a Christian or Saint. 561, 562.
• Holiness spreads over the whole man. 558.
• Holiness changeth a man. 557.
• Holiness necessary unto communion with God. 563.
• Holiness its properties. 567. Companions, peace, righteousness, unblameablenesse. 268. its opposites, filthiness of flesh, of spirit, overreaching and hypocrisy. 569, 570.
• Holiness of the Publisher proveth the Scripture to be the Word of God. 94. And so doth the holy matter pressed in it. 91, 92. and its holy Arguments. 93.
• Humility the effect of sensible impotency. p. 214.
• Humiliation of Christ. 278. three steps of it. 280, 281. the manner of it. 287.
• Humanity of Christ, a miracle of humiliation. 280.
• Humility must go before honor. 333.

I
• Ignorance inconsistent to Faith. 479. dangerous. 483.
• Impotency of man since the fall very great. 202, 203.
• Impossible to recover of himself. 204.
• Impotent in respect of the Law. 205. Of the Gospel. 206. 207.
• Impotency determined in Scripture. ibid.
• Impotency no bar to the demand of duty, direction of means, or infliction of punishment. 210, 211, 212, 213.
• Impotency is to be seen and known. 214.
• Infants distempers and death, an effect and evidence of original sin. 143. So is their aptitude to evil, and backwardness to good. 144.
• Inheritance of Saints hath no corruption, succession or division. p. 441.
• Inheritance, why heaven so called. 661.
• Inherited by
  • Adoption. 662, 663.
  • Donation. 662, 663.
  • Redemption. 662, 663.
• Inspiration what it imports. 87.
• Inventions, and many inventions what they signify. 106.
• Indignation accompanieth Repentance. 442.
• Judgments of God prevented. 521, 522. and removed by Repentance. 523, 524.
• Last Judgment provokes holiness. 563. and persuades to Repentance. 531, 532, 533,
• Judge, whom. 608. Manner of his coming. 610.
• Last Judgment, its day. 605. It is particular and general. 606. why it must be, and when. 607. its method and order. 609.
• Justice of God satisfied by the death of Christ. 301.
• Justification, its nature opened. 402, &c.
• Differeth from Sanctification. ib.
• Justified implies guilt, plea and acquittance. p. 403.
• Justified persons are acquitted on their plea. 419.
• Justification its causes.
  • God's free grace. 421, 422.
  • Christ's satisfaction. 421, 422.
  • The Gospel. 421, 422.
  • Faith. 421, 422.
  • God Law-giver. 421, 422.
  • God Judge. 421, 422.
  • Works. 421, 422.
  • Spirit. 421, 422.
• Justification by what plea procured. 406.
• Justification not from Eternity. 423.
• Justification procured by Christ's death. 341. is evident by the
  • Possibility. 342, 343, 344.
  • Necessity. 342, 343, 344.
  • Nature. 342, 343, 344.
  • Cause. 342, 343, 344.
  • Vicegerency. 342, 343, 344.
  • Peculiarity to this end. 342, 343, 344.
• Justification doth manifest the wisdom, holiness and mercy of God. 428.
• Justification the privilege of the Gospel-Covenant. 140.
• Justification the ground of comfort. p. 429. to be sought by sinners. 430. prized by Saints. 432.

K
• Kingly Office of Christ, what it is, and how executed. 255, 256.
• Kingly Office the Saints privilege by Adoption. 441.

L
• Law Regulans. 110.
• Law Regulata. 110.
• Law of God the rule of rectitude. ib.
• Law given Adam in Creation, was partly natural, partly positive. 108.
• Law requireth duty, exacts penalty, terrifieth and stupifieth. 204, 205.
• Law general and special obeyed by Jesus Christ. 223, 224.
• Law fulfilled in Christ his death. 301.
• Law given in Paradise was not executed or abrogated, but released and dispensed with. p. 413, 414, 415.
• Light burning and shining. 1.
• Likeness of sinful flesh what it means, and how Christ was found in it. 281, 282.
• Likeness to God in dignity, offices and dominion, the privilege of Adoption. 441.
• Love of God, Father and Son, manifest in the Covenant of Redemption. 227.
• Love of Christ in his death. 293. and union with Sinners. 386.
• Love to God the evidence of Faith, concerning his being. 55, 56, 59.
• Loss of all good, the pain of Hell
  • Natural. 625, 626.
  • Spiritual. 625, 626.
  • Eternal. 625, 626.

M
• Mans composure of body, and powers of soul, prove that there is a God. 41.
• Man comprehends the whole species of such a creature. 106.
• Man made mutable, though holy, and why. 113.
• Man is depraved, 〈◊〉 sinful. 111.
• Mans misery by sin. 173, 174, 175, p. 176.
• Man, not Angels, subjects of Faith. 455.
• Mediator needful. 263, 264, 265.
• Mediator of the Covenant of Grace, who. 241, 261.
• Mediator one, named man, and why; named Christ Jesus, and why. ib.
• Mediator is Christ, and none but Christ. 265, 266, &c.
• Mediator comfortable in all conditions, giving man confidence of access to God. 254, 255.
• Misery inevitable to such as despise the Mediator. ib.
• Merit of Christ the ground of Adoption and Regeneration. 447.
• Method in Sermons necessary and profitable. 22.
• Means of Repentance. 546.
• Ministry needful unto Faith. 483.
• Ministers must be burning and shining lights. 1, 2.
• Ministers must suffer affliction. ib.
• Mixture of grace and sin is in the best men. 167.
• Mutability the mere cause of man's sin. 112.
• Mutability of man's created estate was just and necessary. 113.
• Mutability attended man's Happiness as well as Holiness. p. 114.
• Mutability and its sequel must lead us to God for confirmation. 119.

N
• Name of Christ part of his Exaltation. 315, what it is. 316. how it is above every Name. 317, 318, 319, 320. how Christ's Name was given by God. 320, 321.
• Nature by three Arguments proveth that there is a God. 30, 31.
• Natural Agents by their operation, proveth a God. 42.
• Natural conscience proveth a God. 43.
• Nature stained with Adams sin. 151.
• Nature without Divine revelation discovereth not a Trinity, nor yet opposeth it when revealed. 77, 78, 79, 80, 81.
• Nature of God well studied, a special help to repentance. 547.
• New Covenant better than the old. 243.
• Nobility no cause of boasting. 145.
• Notes of repentance. 539, 540.

O
• Object External could not necessitate man to sin. p. 112.
• Object of New, better than of the Old Covenant. 251.
• Obedience in
  • Subjection to Commands.
  • Submission to Providence.
• The duty of such who believe God is. 63, 64.
• Offence at preaching, God's anger against sin is groundless. 192, 193.
• Offices of Christ fit him to be the only Mediator. 271, 272.
• Offices of Christ communicated to the Saints. 441.
• Old Covenant abrogated. 252.
• Opposition of Christ consistent with subjection to Christ, how. 327, 328.
• Sin Originale originans, discussed. 135, &c.
• Originale originatum, discussed. 150, 151, &c.
• Original sin is a defection. 112.
• Original, how said of man's pravity. 155, 156.
• Original sin is hard to be understood. 134.
• Original sin confirmed by counsel. 144. Acknowledged by Heathens. ib.
• Original sin is called man, and old man, in what sense. p. 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162. a body, and a body of sin. 162, 163, 164.
• Original sin hath polluted man's nature. 151, 152, 153.
• Original sin is to be subdued. 170.
• Original sin to be conf ssed and bewailed. 165.
• Original sin imbitters all worldly comforts. 171.
• Ordinances argue original sin in man's nature. 153.
• Ordinances means of union with Christ. 383.

P
• Pain in Christ his death. 285, 286.
• Pardon of sin freely given, how. 425, 426.
• Parents beget their children in their own image. 151.
• Parents good, yet children by nature evil. 152.
• Parents care for posterity, quickened by the miscarriage of the first Parent of us all. 147.
• Parents children's looking glasses, by which they dress their lives. ib.
• Penitent must be humbled, and why. 498, 499, 450.
• Peace a duty and blessing to be pursued. 556.
• Peace an effect of Faith. 47.
• Pelagius the first opposer of original sin. p. 144.
• Person in the Godhead what it is 69.
• Persons in the Godhead three. 70.
• Plurality of persons in the Godhead proved. 71, 72, 73.
• Persons in the Godhead distinguished, not divided. 75. their order declared. 76.
• Person, promises, properties and providences of Christ, all belong to believers. 393, 394.
• Persecution of Saints a crimson sin. 386.
• Perseverance of Saints certain. 387.
• Pleading at God's bar necessary to justification. 404.
• Plea of not guilty can never procure justification at God's bar. 405.
• Popish Repentance false. 515.
• Pravity and inbred corruption, what it is. 155. the parts of it. 156.
• Pravity and a naughty nature is in every man. 150.
• Pravity of the nature of man evidenced by
  • Scripture. 151, 152, 153.
  • Salvation of Christ. 151, 152, 153.
  • Sacraments. 151, 152, 153.
  • Sad effects. 151, 152, 153.
• Prayer an help to repentance. 552.
• Prayer answered, an effect of Faith. 469.
• Prayer, its extent and encouragement. p. 262.
• Preparations of heaven, how from the foundation of the world. 660, 661.
• Preparation to last Judgment characterised. 617, 618.
• Priestly office of Christ, and its parts. 272, 273.
• Price of the soul of Christ his death. 298.
• Price paid for man, was not idem, but tantundem. 425.
• Principle and cause two distinct things. 69.
• Principles good and bad, two distinct, blasphemous to assert. 112.
• Promises were made to Christ on the account of his satisfaction for man's sin. 209, 300.
• Promises of
  • Justification.
  • Sanctification.
  • Resurrection.
  • Eternal life.
• The Promises of the better Covenant. 240, 241.
• Promises of temporal mercy, better under the New, than under the Old Covenant. 248.
• Protestant doctrine of the imputation of Christ's righteousness defended. 387.
• Profane repentance what it is. p. 516.
• Prosperity of profane, no plea against Deity. 50, 51.

Q
• Quakers repentance, vile, false and wicked. 518, 519.

R
• Reason and sensation evince the Divine authority of the Scriptures. 90.
• Revelation from God admitted by all, and reason it should. 88, 89.
• Revelation not to be received, until cleared to be of God. ibid.
• Rectitude is conformity to a Rule. 107.
• Rectitude of Adam by Creation, was of the whole man, understanding, will and sensitive appetite. 109.
• Rectitude natural, and not natural to man, how. 111.
• Regeneration explained. 442. its Synonimas. 443. it is defined. ib.
• Regeneration compared with natural generation. 443, 444. they agree in cause, subject and manner of production. ib. & 445. disagree in properties. 446.
• Religion making known Christ's satisfaction most excellent. 350.
• Relations of men subject to God's wrath. p. 187.
• Relation to God, reason of comfort and duty. 436.
• Repentance not to be repented, explained 485.
  • In its
    • Nature. 487.
    • Necessity. 520.
    • Notes. 539.
  • Next way to it. 546.
• Repentance defined. 487.
• Repentance is a recession from sin, and return to God. 502, 503, 504, 505.
• Return to God, the second part of Conversion. 506, 507, 508.
• Repentance, seven false kinds. 515, 516, 517, 518.
• Repentance contemned, when. 334, 335, 336.
• Repentance neglected, when, and with what issue. 537, 538.
• Resurrection possible and credible. 579, 582, 583, 584, 585. what it means. ib. who to be raised. 480. to be believed. 581. reasons of it. 586, 587, 588, 589.
• Resurrection the effect of the New Covenant, and union with Christ. 388.
• Resurrection after what manner, and with what difference. 591. how effected. p. 593. it is to be believed. 595. a ground of comfort. ib. 596, 597, 598, 599. a ground of terror. 560. how made happy to ourselves. 603, 604.
• Revenge accompanieth repentance. 545.

S
• Sacraments in the Old Testament were various and many. 122.
• Tree of life a Sacrament in Paradise. ibid.
• Sacraments prove corruption of nature. 153.
• Saints are good company. 3.
• Salvation by Christ, an Argument of original pravity. 153.
• Salvation the end of Faith. 473.
• Salvation difficult. 482.
• Sanctification Covenant privilege. 14.
• Satisfaction of Christ explained. 337, 339, 340, 341. its
  • Matter. 408
  • Form. 412.
  • Terms. 417.
• Satisfaction not made by man himself. 407. but by Christ. 408, 409, 410. and how done. 402.
• Satisfaction of Christ the only plea to procure justification at God's bar. ib.
• Scripture the Word explained. 86.
• Scripture proves a God. 48.
• Scripture similitudes show the union between Christ and Believers. 384.
• Scripture only discovers man's natural pravity. 151.
• Sea its course and confinement, proved a God. 35, 36.
• Secret sins discovered by natural conscience. 44.
• Sense of Scriptures power on the soul, prove them Divine. 98.
• Sense of sin, and sorrow for it, are precursive parts of true Repentance. 492.
• Sense of a short life helps to Repentance. 349.
• Self sinful to be studied. 168.
• Self examination an help to Repentance. 548.
• Severity of God's justice. 295.
• Sense its pain in hell. 626.
  • Constituted by
    • Real presence of all evil.
    • Impression of justice.
    • Personal Feeling.
    627, 628.
• Sentence of last day. 614.
• Sight of things invisible, an effect of Faith. 471.
• Sin to be feared, and fled from. 643, 644.
• Sin a defect, nothing positive. 112, 113. it is most unreasonable. p. 114. subjects man to an impotency of saving himself. 115. justifieth God in punishing man. 116, 117. should rather be gotten out, than inquired how it came into the world. 113.
• Sins evil seen in Christ his death. 294.
• Sin better discovered by the New, than Old Covenant. 250.
• Sin abolished by Christ his death. 302, 303.
• Sin is imputed inherent, extensive, diffusive. 165.
• Sin may exist and prevail in a true Saint. 505.
• Sin mortified by the Spirit. 389.
• Sinner elect, and called the subjects of Faith. 460.
• Shame was in Christ's death. 206.
• Sensible sinner, subject of true repentance. 489.
• Society in heaven, what. 658 659.
• Sons of God, partakers of the whole essence of the Father, is the same numerical nature. 66. 67.
• Sonship to God is by
  • Creation. 435.
  • Generation. 435.
  • Marriage. 435.
  • Adoption. 435.
• Sonship by Adoption
  • Honorable. 437, 440.
  • Free. 437, 440.
  • Permanent. 437, 440.
• Sonship to God, marks of it. p. 453, 454.
• Sorrow and humility usher faith. 476.
• Soul of Christ suffered. 410.
• Souls in heaven subject to Jesus Christ. 324, 325.
• Spirit of God in man a sign of union with Christ. 389.
• Spirit of God justifieth, how. 422.
• Spirits evil shall be chained, when Saints go to heaven. 652.
• Speed, facilitates repentance. 452.
• Sting of conscience a note of Deity. 45.
• Sting in Christ his death. 286, 287.
• Study of Scriptures a duty. 99, 100.
• Suns situation and motion proveth a God. 33, 34.
• Sullen repentance what. 518.
• Systems of Religion profitable for Ministers and people. 5. they instruct in the faith; antidote error. 7, 12. Adorn the truth. 16. help the understanding. 17. the memory. 18. affections. 19. such are found in Scripture. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. to be studied by young Divines. 21.

T
• Temptation of Satan did not necessitate man to sin. p. 112.
• Things in heaven subject to Christ, what. 323, 324.
• Things on earth subject to Christ, what they are. 325.
• Things under the earth. 326.
• Every Tongue, what it means. 329.
• Terms of Covenant between God the Father and his Son. 225.
• Torments of Hell,
  • Exquisite, Intolerable; Easelesse, Remediless; Universal and various. 629, 630 631.
• Trial of last day shall be 1. Universal. 2. Formal. 3. Impartial. 4. Exact. 5. Perspicuous. 6. Supreme. 610, 611, 612. its consequence. 613.
• Trinity proved by Old Testament text. 72. New Testament. 74, 75.
• Turning from all sin to God, is the formality of true repentance. 50.

U
• Union of two natures in Christ, without confusion or transmutation. 270.
• Union of believers and Christ necessary. p. 377. what kind it is not. 379. what kind it is. 381, 382. its causes. 383. grounds. 385. its marks. 389, 390, 391, 392. it is to be sought by sinners, and improved by Saints. 396, 397, 398, 399, 400.
• Unbelievers miserable. 48. not God's sons. 447.
• Vocation, its twofold estate. 437.
• Vocation a Resurrection, a new Creation. 361.

W
• Will of God signified in a rule of rectitude. 107.
• Witness from heaven differs in six particulars from witness on earth. 67, 68. we have both to prove Christ the Son of God. 66.
• Word of God declareth his wrath. 181, 182, 183.
• World visible, its being and parts. 31, 32.
• World an enemy to faith. 481. to be slighted by • aints. 549.
• Works, their use in point of Covenant. 126, 127. how they justify. 422.
• Wrath of God, what, and how aggravated. 177, 178, 179, 180. falleth on man here. 184. fully at the day of judgment. ibid. showeth his justice and wisdom. p. 193, 194, 195, 196. it is to be avoided. 197, 198.

Y
• Yoak of the Law borne by Jesus Christ. 280, 281.

Z
• Zeal
  • Negative. p. 2.
  • Affirmative. p. 2.
• Zeal accompanieth true Repentance. 544.