English Puritan & Reformed

The Triumph of a True Christian Described

Edward Elton (d 1624) · 369,321 words · 1641 min

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True Believes are assured that all things work together for the best, both of themselves and of all that truly love God. p. 615

All true Believes brethren to Christ. p. 679

And they are Brethren one to another. p. 682

True Believes cannot possibly be condemned for their sins. p. 786

C

THe poor weak Christians comfort. pag. 6. 48.
The near conjunction of Christ and true believers. p. 16
Constant holiness found in God's children. p. 25
The course of life, the rule by which we are to judge of God's Children. p. 27
Comfort in a constant course of holiness. p. 34
In the best of God's Children there is both flesh and spirit. p. 35
Such as are in Christ partake of the most holy conception, and birth, and of the perfect purity of his most holy nature. p. 40
In Christ is found absolute perfection of holiness and purity. p. 43
Christ fulfiled not the Law to merit eternal happiness and glory for himself. p. 45
The force of Christ his perfect holiness to justification. p. 47
Our own Corruption makes the holy things of God unprofitable to us p. 66
Our Calling must be from God. p. 73
How a man may know that he is Called to the office of the ministry. p. 74
Christ is true and very God. p. 76 745
Whence it is that Christ his blood is of infinite worth. p. 77. 752
Christ was true and very man, like to us in all things, sin only excepted. p. 79
Christ his infinite love to God's chosen manifested in his incarnation. p. 81
Christ is both God and man in one person. p. 84
In Christ our nature and the corruption of nature were severed asunder. p. 90
Christ is powerful to abolish sin out of all his members. p. 92
The regenerate and unregenerate are of contrary minds and affections. p. 110
Carnal persons savor carnal things. p. 114
Who may be accounted carnal persons. p. 118
Concupiscence without consent of will evil and sinful. pag. 165
No excellency or privilege can yield true Comfort to a man that wants the spirit of grace and holiness. p. 208
Only the being of the Spirit of Christ in a man by his true powerful working presence, gives him true comfort. p. 211
Civil honest persons have no true ground of comfort that they belong to Christ. p. 215. 244. 291. 294
Comfort against fear of death. p. 238. 252. and in the pangs of death. p. 250
Comfort to God's children in their greatest extremities. p. 255. 389. 424
Comfort here and happiness hereafter in heaven belongs only to God's children. p. 327
Comfort to poor sanctified souls. p. 399. 404
God's chosen believing in Christ highly advanced. p. 407
God's Children are heirs. p. 414
The Cross must go before the crown. p. 439
God teacheth excellent truths from the creatures. p. 467
We are to learn some good from every Creature. p. 470
The dumb Creature hath that in it in great measure, which many men have not in them in any measure. pag. 471
It is God's curse on the Creatures that they serve not for man's good. pag. 483
They are forced to serve the wicked by God's mighty hand. p. 490
The visible Creatures in the world are under vanity for man's sin. p. 488
They are in better Case then the reprobate. p. 493
God's children are much more then that they are by creation. p. 519
By the wise disposing hand of God are all things ordered for the good of the spiritual state of God's Children. p. 618
A special qualification of such as have all things working together for the best unto them is, that they are effectually called. p. 639
Notes of effectual Calling. p. 642
Effectual Calling a free calling. p. 650
It is also unchangeable. p. 653
Christ is to be preferred in honor and dignity before all his members. pag. 677
God's chosen shall be effectually Called in time. p. 700
They only, and none but they, are or shall be effectually called. p. 706
Comfort to such as are effectually called. p. 710. 716
God's Children meet with opposition. p. 737
Neither men nor Angels opposing them, can prevail against them to their hurt. p. 704
Christ and his benefits cannot be severed. p 763
The best of God's children are liable to be accused as guilty of sin. p. 772

D

DIsagreement between the godly and wicked whence it is. pag. 111
All men good and bad are subject to Death, and to the forerunners of death. p. 225
Sometimes sore diseases and sudden and strange kinds of Death do befall wicked persons. p. 234
Death had power over Christ for a time, and how. p. 251
Difference between the testimony of God's Spirit, and satanical illusion & carnal presumption discovered. p. 394
Difference between the godly and the wicked in regard of their desire of death. p. 542
Christ his Death a sufficient expiation of the sins of all God's chosen. p. 792

E

THe regenerate and unregenerate cannot possibly meet together in their Ends. pag. 128
Enimitie against God is deadly and damnable. p. 148
Enemies to God are such are such as will not subject themselves to God's Law. p. 159
Luke-warm professors Enemies to God. p. 162
How God's Elect are loved of God before their calling. p. 178
How God's children are to be esteemed of. p. 406
The godly continually Expect the day of full deliverance from sin and misery. p. 540
Uniuersall Election held by Anabaptists, confuted. p. 694

F

THe ground of Freedom from the curse of the Law and God's wrath due to sin. pag. 12
Only to those that are in Christ belongs that Freedom. p. 14
Proper Fruits of true sanctifying faith. p. 51
Whence it is that the godly cannot join in Fellowship with the wicked. p. 112
True Faith in Christ a supernatural gift and grace of God. p. 169
God's children may Fear God's wrath, and how. p. 298
Familists confuted. p. 299. 338
The Feeling of God's love in Christ only from the work of God's Spirit. p. 362
God is Father of all true believers, Jews and Gentiles. p. 380
We must Feele sin cleaving to our souls, as an heavy burden. p. 588
We must have a Fellow feeling of one another's misery. p. 511

G

THe holy Ghost hath his personal being from the Father and from the Son. pag. 217
In what respects he is the Spirit of Christ. p. 217
The glory of God's children shall be one day manifest to men and Angels. p. 461
Men must be fitted for the Glory of heaven before they come to enjoy it. p. 498
How men may know that they have true saving Grace in them. p. 525
God's children have in them in this life so much grace as the Lord seeth meet and fit for them. p. 527
God's children groan heartily for sin cleaving to them. p. 536
Only the good and godly are such as have all things work for the best to them. p. 626
Glorification in heaven follows on justification in God's sight. p. 724
God is with his chosen, called and justified, after a special manner. p. 734
God had a principal hand in the betraying of Christ, and in the crucifying of him, yet none in the sin. p. 755
God will not withhold any good thing from true believers. p. 761
The good things of this life that true believers do enjoy, are God's free gifts. p. 767
The Glory of Christ his manhood in heaven far exceeds the glory of the most glorious creatures. p. 800

H

THe study and endeavor after Holiness leads God's children to life & salvation. pag. 136. and it brings true peace and true comfort in this life and in the life to come. p. 139
How Hearers of the word must behave themselves when they are justly reproved. p. 187
Good Hearers must be answerable to their teaching. p. 276
Holiness of life how excellent in the account of our Church. p. 317
Holiness of life how comfortable. p. 318
How we may lay claim to heaven. p. 329
All God's children are Heirs. p. 419
They are great Heirs. p. 425
Their great honor in that they are joint Heirs with Christ. p. 428
What Hope makes not ashamed. p. 554
We must labor to maintain our Hope of heaven. p. 555
What true saving Hope is. p. 556
Sauing hope abolished after this life. p. 559
It must be accompanied with patient waitnig for the good things Hoped for. p. 561
How saving Hope may be strengthened. p. 564
True Holiness most glorious. p. 721
True Holiness here begun, shall hereafter be made perfect. p. 723

I

IUstification by Christ his righteousness imputed, a truth. pag. 17
The Impurenesse of nature is enough to make men liable to death of body and death of soul. p. 53
Why Infants die in their infancy. p. 55
Justification in God's sight by the works of the Law confuted. p. 61
Impossibilitie in man's judgment cannot hinder God's working. p. 68
Ignorant persons have no good evidence that they are God's children. p. 333
Importunitie in prayer needful. p. 380
Invocation of Saints departed, confuted. p. 598
Effectual calling and justification are together in time. p. 712
Our Justification in God's sight most free. p. 715
Intercession of Angels and Saints departed, confuted. p. 807

K

HOw far the Saints shall Know one another in heaven. p. 476
God perfectly Knowes the secret thoughts, intents and purposes of men's minds. p. 592
And he only Knowes the meaning of the unutterable sighs and groans that are in the hearts of his children in time of their great affliction, & regards them. p. 599

L

Such as are in Christ, Live an holy sanctified life. p. 21
God's unspeakable Love manifested in sending his Son into the world. p. 72.
God's Law is of absolute perfection. p. 99
The perfect fulfilling of God's Law performed, the person of Christ is truly and really theirs who believe in Christ, by imputation. p. 103
How we truly fulfill the Law of God. p. 105
An holy Life a due debt to God. p. 281
Every man in the world, either Liues a carnal life, or an holy and spiritual life. p. 290
The certain fruit of a carnal Life, an accursed death temporal, and also death eternal. p. 299
The certain consequent of an holy Life, is a comfortable life here, and happiness hereafter in heaven. p. 315
All that are Led by God's Spirit are God's children. p. 330
How we may know that we are so Led. p. 336
The best of God's children have need so to be still Led. p. 339
God's children are Led by God's Spirit in a special manner. p. 342
The expounding & applying of God's Law needful. p. 348
God makes known his eternal Love to his chosen in this life. p. 387
God Loves his chosen believing in Christ with a fatherly love. p. 403
Only the Liberty of God's children shall be glorious at the day of judgment. p. 502
A special Lesson to be learned of all God's children. p. 623
A special qualification of such as have all things working together for the best, is that they Love God. pag. 629
Notes of true Love to God. p. 631
Motiues to stir up to it. p. 635
True Love of God is found only in such as are effectually called. p. 636
God's Louing of his to life and salvation, begins not with their conversion, but was before they had a being in the world. p. 658
God's free Love the cause of all good things coming from God to his chosen. p. 664
God's chosen shall one day be Like to Christ in heavenly glory. p. 675
God's exceeding Love to his chosen manifested in giving his Son for them. 742
God's Love in Christ cannot possibly be severed from true believers, nor they from it. p. 819
No particular evil, trial, or afflictiō whatsoever it be, can possibly separate or keep back God's Love from true believers. p. 825
A Christian may know infallibly that God Loves him in Christ. p. 865
How he may come to know it infallibly. p. 868
No creature whatsoever can possibly break off or keep back God's Love from his children. p. 869
Neither the death of the body whatsoever it be, nor the pangs and pains of it, can possibly break off or keep back God's Love from his children. p. 874
No event of things in this world can possibly break off or keep back God's Love from his children. p. 880
The ground of God's Love to his children only in Christ Jesus. p. 883
God's special Love to his comes to them in and through Christ. pag. 885

M

GOds Mark on such as be in Christ. p. 24
Markes by which we may know that we walk after the Spirit. p. 29
The Moral Law teaching perfect righteousness, justifies none in the sight of God. p. 61
It is impossible to fulfill the Moral Law of God in time of this life. p. 63
The Moral Law of God requires conformity to it, as well in man's nature as in his thoughts, words, and actions p. 98
Merit of congruity confuted. pag. 172
How God's children Merit salvation. p. 240
Ministers must evidence their love to their hearers. p. 279
Merit of good works confuted p. 282
The work of Mortification must be continual. p. 307
The Mortified Christian, the right holy Christian. p. 311
How Men may know that they are truly mortified. p. 314
Sinful Motions and lusts of the heart must be mortified. p. 320
How we shall know that they are so. p. 321
Mortification of sin a work of God's holy Spirit. p. 322
Meditation on good things heard and learned out of God's word, needful. p. 731
Motiues to that purpose. p. 734
The infinite Merit of Christ his death belongs to every true believer. p. 758

N

PVre Naturals confuted. p. 157
A man in his Natural state may do that which is good in it self, but he mars it in doing. p. 163
The mind and will of a Natural man cannot of it self be subject to God's Law. p. 165
The Number of such as shall be saved is great. p. 686

O

THe fearful state of such as Oppose God's truth, and the sincere profession of it. p. 151
To what degree of excellency our holy Obedience to God's will reacheth. p. 179
God's children Owe no service at all to the corruption of their nature. pag. 286

P

THe common excellent Priuiledge of all true believers. p. 4
Patience is to be learned from Christ his example. p. 83
Promises of comfort and of good things are propounded with a condition in God's book. p. 222
Sensuall Pleasures vain and uncertain. p. 228
Preachers may threaten men with hell & damnation, to drive them from sin. p. 294
Preachers may promise to such as live an holy life, both a blessed life here, and happiness and glory hereafter in heaven. p. 305
Terrors wrought in God's chosen Preparatiues to their consolation and comfort. p. 358
Prayer a fruit of the Spirit of Adoption. p. 363
The Spirit of Prayer is in every child of God in some measure. p. 367
True Prayer is earnest and fervent. p. 368
Wherein the fervency of it is to be expressed. p. 370
A set form of Prayer may be true prayer. p. 373
True Prayer is with holy boldness. p. 375
The ground of that boldness. ibid.
God alone to be Prayed to. p. 378
Grounds of Perseverance in the state of grace. p. 396
God's children shall Partake with Christ in his everlasting inheritance. p. 430
The Patience of God's children, true patience. p. 576
The grace of Prayer, how powerful in time of affliction. p. 578
God's children sometimes know not how to Pray in time of their great afflictions. p. 581
Yet then are they enabled by God's Spirit to Pray, at least by sighs and groans. p. 584
Sighes and groans of God's children in time of their great distresses, effectual Prayers to God. p. 586
Only the Prayers of God's Saints are accepted of the Lord. p. 601
Prayer a work of God's Spirit in the best of God's children. p. 606
Only Prayers made according to God's will pleasing to God. p. 609
How they are so made p. 611
Perseverance in grace may be certainly known. p. 616
Particular providence of God proved. p. 622
The cause of God's Predestination to life and salvation, what it is. p. 661
All that shall Partake with Christ in glory, must also partake with him in his sufferings. p. 669
God's Predestination to life and glory in heaven not universal. p. 692
Whom God hath Predestinate to salvation, them hath he also appointed to be called, justified, and sanctified. p. 698

Q

A Needful Question propounded and answered. p. 354
Another Question, as whether the light of nature being in the full force of it, bring men to a sight of some sins or no, propounded and answered. p. 356
God's children sometimes Question their estate in time of some grievous affliction. p. 437

R

REgenerate persons mind & affect heavenly things. p. 120
How a man may discern whether he be in the state of Regeneration or no. p. 123
And whether he shall be saved or no. p. 244
Only the truly Religious are partakers of true peace and true comfort. pag. 143
Who may certainly conclude, that they are regenerate. p. 194
Revelations of the Spirit, besides the written word of God, are mere illusions of Satan. p. 218
The R • ising up of Christ from the dead a wonderful work of God. p. 254
The raising up of the dead, a work of divine power. p. 256
The Resurrection of the body proved. p. 257
True hope of Resurrection, with comfort to whom it belongs. p. 269
Why God sometimes defers to grant the Requests of his children. p. 383
Redemption by Christ not universal. p. 693
Only such as have Christ, have true spiritual Right to the good things of this life. p. 764
Christ his Resurrection a manifestation of full redemption wrought by his death. p. 796

S

HVmane satisfactions confuted. p 12
Sin is very hardly driven out of nature. p. 86
Sin may be removed from the soul, and yet the soul remain entire in all the powers and faculties of it. p. 94
Every Sin is deadly and damnable. p. 149
Unrepentant Sinners are in a miserable state. p. 150
The Spirit of discerning in the Prophets and Apostles extraordinarily. p. 188
God's Spirit is in God's children in special manner. p. 195
How he is in them. p. 196. 206
God's Spirit is in God's children as a continual indweller. p. 200
It is Sin that makes all men, good and bad, subject to death, and to the forerunners of death. p. 229
What is to be done in time of Sickness. p. 232
The Sanctified souls of God's children are immortal, death cannot touch them. p. 236
The Sanctified soul of a child of God is sure to live the life of glory. p. 241
God's holy Spirit never forsakes the bodies of God's children. p. 248
It is an usual reasoning in Scripture, from a benefit to a duty. p. 277
The special working of God's Spirit one and the same in many persons. p. 337
God's holy Spirit is to all God's chilchildren, first a spirit of bondage, and then a Spirit of Adoption. p. 346
God's Spirit makes both the Law and the Gospel preached effectual. p. 350
God's Spirit persuades none but sanctified persons that God loves them. p. 397
Only Suffering with Christ truly comfortable. p. 445
God's children have Christ their companion in Suffering. p. 447
Their Sufferings shall end in happiness and glory. p. 448
The greatest Sufferings in this life not comparable to the glory of heaven. p. 454
Therefore not meritorious. p. 455
The heinousness of Sin discovered. p. 494
Perfect Salvation of God's children not in present possession, but in hope and expectation. p. 552
The best of God's children cannot Stand by their own strength in time of trial. p. 568
They stand only by the help and assistance of God's Spirit. p. 572
Some living on the face of the earth truly called Saints. p. 607
Signs of salvation are in God's children themselves, but the ground of it is out of themselves. p. 647
Though the Sufferings of God's children be exceeding bitter & painful, yet are they not equal to the suffering of Christ. p. 671
Sanctification ever followeth on justification. p. 717
Satan's chief aim in all temptations, trials, crosses, and evils, that he brings on God's children. p. 815
An infallible note of Scripture to be the very word of God. p. 832.
How well acquainted we must be with Scripture. p. 833
Only Suffering for a good cause truly comfortable. p. 840
A special Subtlety of Satan discovered. p. 879

T

HOw men may Try whether they be members of Christ or no. p. 23
The distinction of the persons in the Trinity proved. p. 71
Popish Transubstantiation confuted. p. 224
God's children have just Title to all good things. p. 420
Their title to them is sure and certain. p. 423
The time shall come when the visible creatures shall be free from corruption and change. p. 500

V

VNregenerate persons are altogether fleshly. p. 172
They can do nothing pleasing to God. p. 174
Their miserable condition. p. 175
The union of Christ and his members is mystical and spiritual. p. 223
Ubiquitaries confuted. ibidem
The whole frame of the Visible world subject to vanity & corruption. p. 480
It shall be so till the end of the world. p. 514

W

WRong done to the poorest member of Christ reacheth to Christ himself. p. 18
Walking after the flesh and after the Spirit cannot stand together at the same time. p. 30
Pregnancie of Wit unsanctified is most dangerous. p. 133. 154
Wisdom is twofold, carnal & spiritual. p. 134
The Wisdom of the flesh must be laid aside in matters of Religion. p. 155
The Wisdom of the flesh is extremely opposite to God and to all goodness. p. 156
Freedom of Will taught by Papists confuted. p. 167
The right manner of dividing the Word of God. p. 185. 275
It is dangerous to Wrong the poorest of God's children. p. 199
A different Working of God's Spirit in the elect and in the reprobate. pag. 359
We must know it from God's word, that the creatures are under vanity & corruption. p. 507
God's children sigh for sin, & Waite also for deliverance out of it. p. 538
Why God will have his word preached both to the elect and reprobate. p. 708

FINIS.

Faults escaped to be thus amended.

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