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Commentary on 2 Peter

Thomas Adams (fl 1612-1653) · 3,735,999 words · 16604 min

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1237. Of the uncertainty, 1306. Of the peril, 1310. Before death, most necessary, Page 1140. 1142. 1392, 1393
  • Presumption of mercy dangerous, 24. Of salvation no less, 221. Presumption defined, 801. Described by examples, and instances, 802. How it differs from assurance, 803. A great number of presumptuous sinners, 807. A pleasing sin, 808. A rebellious and foolish sin, 809. The Character of it 810. It takes slight encouragements, 974. What it dares do, 1017, To sin by precedent, presumptuous, 1094 Presumption of mercy, disheartened, Page 1127
  • Price of our Redemption, Page 402
  • Pride, foolish, 67. Intemperate, 126. Remedies against it, 127. It contemneth others, 154. It is overcome, 177. It loves to be painted, 346. The cause of heresy, 382, 383. Likely to be the first sin, 493. It is still the worst sin, 494. One of Sodom’s sins, 624, 625. The impudence of it, 850 The sottishness, 857. In great request, 858. A swelling sin, 993. A mighty inchantresse, 1034, 1035. The way to Atheism, 1163. An itch of it, on all, Page 1431
  • Profanesse, how it despiseth the word of God 1070, 1071. Reprocheth all goodness, 1150, 1151. It is adverse to piety, Page 144
  • Profession, without an honest heart, vain, 1004, 1005. A wanton professor, exceedingly culpable, 1007. Profession should proceed from a sincere heart, 1104, 1105 To be joined with practice, 1124. It requires a holy mind, Page 1342
  • Progression in goodness, required of Christians, 39. 41. 162. 166. Encouraged, Page 249, 250
  • Promises belong to the Gospel, Page 61, 62
    • How precious God's promises are, Page 63
    • How ratified, Page 67, 68
    • They are infallible, Page 1171, 1172
    • Our promises are to be kept, Page 68, 69
    • Promises are cheap things, Page 1009
    • Yet strong enchantments, Page 1010
    • The issue of deceitful promises, Page 1011. 1029, 1030
    • God makes good his promises, Page 1280
    • Let us make good ours, 1281. God's promise, the foundation of our faith, Page 1371
  • Prophets, of how many sorts, 335, 336. The word of prophecy, wherein a sure testimony, 337, 338, 339. Prophets and Apostles testify one and the same thing, 339. Prophecies, most punctually fulfilled, 343, 344. How long they are useful, 354. The doctrine of the Prophets is the law of God, 1112. The honor done to them by the very heathens, convinceth us, 959, 960. False Prophets, 369, 370. They may speak true things, 959. Their knowledge, how great, Page 1536, 1537
  • Proverbs, their use, 1079. Commended by their antiquity, brevity, significancy, 1080. For experience, and for their truth, Page 1081, 1082
  • Providence of God by whom velicated, 617 618. He provides for the safety of his children, when they least dream of eminent danger, 943. He ordereth all things to the best, 1131, 1132. His providence preserves the world, 1177. 1221. It keeps us whether on Land or Sea, 1201. If the heavens, much more his faithful ones, 1222. If it seem slack to help us, the fault is in ourselves, Page 1276, 1277
  • Provocation of others to sin, is sin, Page 438
  • Provocation of God, continual, Page 1412
  • Punishment, of loss the greatest, 498, 499 The punishments of hell, eternal, and why, 524, 525. Punishment follows sin, 848. If slow, yet sure, 849. Agreeable to the quality of the sin, 874. It is ever sorest when it is put off to the last, 949. The infallible wages of sin, 956, 957. The punishment of Atheists, severe & exemplary, 1179. God hath many punishments in store, 1205. One most fearful, 723, 724. Temporal, not always forborne to the wicked, Page 725
  • Purchase, Christ's and ours, Page 447, 448
  • Pureness, wherein it consists, 1104, 1105. Two fountains to purify us, Page 1323, 1324
  • Purging away of sins, how • y Baptism, and other ways, 193. 196. Purgatory, a fable, 1364. A spiritual purge, Page 1369
  • Purpose of God, unchangeable, Page 840

    • Q

    • QVestion; whether S. Peter were ever at Rome, 268. Whether all that were drowned in the flood, did everlastingly perish, Page 542, 543

    R

    • RAiling, the language of hell, 831. At equals, bad; at Princes and Magistrates, worse, Page 832
    • Rainbow, a pledge of our safety, 1210. Many signs of mercy in it, Page 1211
    • Receiving, Christ became a receiver, to give us, 306. So he received honor, Page 308
    • Recidivation, most dangerous, 40, 41. 208 A deadly sin, 1040, 1041. In how many respects, it makes the state of a sinner worse, 1049, 1050, &c. It is odious to God, 1060. The best ought to be fearful of it, Page 1075, 1076
    • Reconciliation, some things never to be reconciled, Page 909
    • Redemption, by Christ, 97. A greater work than Creation, 178. Those he hath redeemed, he will never lose, 399, 400. Reprobate Christians may seem to be redeemed in four respects, 400, 401. Four kinds of redemption, Ibid. The end of Redemption is to serve God with new obedience, 405. The grace of Redemption, greater than the grace of Creation, Page 495, 496
    • Regenerate, they are not sins voluntaries, Page 1107
    • Religion, the bond of union, 151. Not to be made a cloak for naughtiness, 800, 802. Some religion, universally embraced, 961. It hath two extremes, 1159. Christian religiō why it hath prevailed, Page 1177
    • Relics, how much valued by the Papists, Page 283. 829, 830
    • Remembering of God's benefits, necessary, 197. Of our sins, profitable. 198. Though the remembrance of thē be grievous unto us, 199. The Office of God's Ministers is to call us to remembrance, 247. 1103, 1104. All our Sermons are in effect, but remembrancings; or repetition. Sermons, 285, 286. Good lessons, to be remembered, 1119, 1120. Remember, how many ways taken, 1261. The remembrance of former sins with remorse, a help against further falling, 1094. Of God's promises, upholds us, 1372. Of good lessons, Page 1475, 1476
    • Renegates, who they be, Page 393
    • Repentance killeth sin, 86. Her character, 97, 98. An argument of election, 216. No repentance in hell, 510. If we repent not of our sinning, God will repent of our making, 537 The season of it, 541, 543. A riddle of repentance, 643. If not learned before, hardly at our death, 674. Presumed upon, and deferred, a desperate misconfidence, 807, 808. In all threatenings there is a reservation to repentance, 840. To be joined with tears, 878, 879 Called for, even of Christians, 937 Ever necessary, 1062. How it purifies the heart 1106 A merchandize for heaven, 1144 Repentance and obedience necessary, notwithstanding Christ suffered for us, 1169 Repentance the remedy of judgments, 1026. Universal judgments call for universal repentance, 1213. Great plagues, for deep sorrows, 1214. It is not to be protracted, 1267, 1268. The necessary way to salvation, 1293, 1294. God's good will to us, & to all men, 1295. We must labor for repentance, 1296. Not to be deferred, 1298. A fountain to purify us, 1324. A reparation of us to goodness, 1334. A laver to wash us from uncleanness, 748. How it cleanseth us, 1398, 1399. It must take the due time, Page 1423
    • Reprehension, like salt, 84. The part of a brother, 154. It is generally hated, 519 Yet very necessary, 673. By an inferior 963, 964. A slop in the ways of sin, Ib.
    • Reproches hurt them that give, more than them that suffer, Page 1149
    • Residence, required of Ministers, Page 247, 248
    • Restitution, necessary to repentance, Page 50
    • Resurrection assured, 888. A day of amazedness to those that are out of Christ, Page 1248
    • Retaliation of sins or good works, 160. Of sin most just, 467. Copiously instanced, 851, 852, &c. By this matter of sin is read in the punishment, 611, 873, 874. Further exemplified, Page 988, 989
    • Revenge in many respects, how injurious, Page 138, 139
    • Reverence in the Temple, how requisite, Page 147
    • Reward, every man shall have according to his works, 851. The reward of piety, infinite, Page 1029
    • Riches; uncertain, yet too much trusted in, 342. 954. Gotten by deceit, poison the getters, 883, 884. They inflame a covetous heart, 919, 920. How to be rightly valued, 925. A dangerous bait to a worldly mind, 945. The inveighers against them, 951. They are not utterly denied to the righteous, 952. How they become the wages of unrighteousness, 953. The mischief of them, 955. They are dangerous snares, 1033, 1034. False to their adherents, 1406, 1407. Rich men ought to be benificent, 158. They have no dispensation to sin, Page 526
    • Righteous, some are only in opinion, Page 195
      • The righteous are sure of persecution; Page 1146
      • They shall be kept safe in the day of fire, Page 1234
      • They cannot escape temptation, Page 688
    • Righteousness, what is the way of it, Page 1061
      • It is the way of salvation, Page 233
      • The righteousness of God, vindicated, Page 542
      • Righteousness of three sorts, Page 640
      • One only saves us, Page 641, 642
      • Moral righteousness, Page 643
      • Comparative, Page 644
      • Righteousness well proved, Page 665
      • Evangelical righteousness, Page 706, 707
      • Where righteousness dwells, Page 1378
    • Ringleaders of wickedness, very damnable, Page 1008
    • Righteousness, how sinful, Page 394
      • Ioyned with infidelity, Page 426
      • Riot in how many things discovered, Page 857 858
      • How expensive a vice it is, Page 862, 863
    • Romish religion hath a glorious outside, Page 393
    • Ruffian, a wild horse, Page 835
    • Rule infallible, God's word, Page 183. 346
      • The most perfect, 1113. 1118. Ever to be intended, Page 347

    S

    • SAcrifice: great judgments have gone off with sacrifice, Page 1216
    • Sacrilege, the wickedness of it, 451, 452, 453. 456. A desperate and willful sin, 815, 816. It attempts to deceive God himself, 883. A high degree of injustice, 918. No love in it, Page 1433
    • Safety in sin, a fond presumption, Page 802
    • Saints, to be followed, but wherein, Page 653
    • Salt, spiritual, Page 84
    • Salvation, sure in the Lord, Page 37
      • To work it up, much diligence is required, Page 103
      • How it may be made sure to us, Page 209, 210 213, 214
      • How God intends it to us in all his actions, Page 1417, 1418
    • Salutations, their use, 32. Exceptions against them, Page 33
    • Sanctification ought to be throughout, 1342, 1343. The means of it, Ibid.
    • Satiety in holy things, should not be, Page 286
    • Saved is every Christian by his own faith, Page 113, 114
    • Scandalizers of great Persons, seditious sinners, 820, 821. Compared to Asps, 836. Their bitterness, Page 844
    • Schismatics, their brotherhood, 154, 155 They come in the name of Christ, 374. Why God suffers Schisms, 377. They love to trouble the Churches peace, 387. The way to suppress a Schism, is to cut off the head of it, 419. Schismatics, and hypocrites conjoined, 458. Their Impostures, Page 1482
    • Scorning of goodness, the profundity of sin, Page 1147, 1148
    • Scriptures holy, the rule of truth, and object of faith, 110. Earnestly to be consulted, malgre all Popish exceptions against them, 183. To be read continually, 287. They are the infallible Canon of truth, 339, 340. Our life should be answerable to that rule, 341. How perfectly the Scriptures are fulfilled, 343, 344. To be interpreted by the holy Spirit that indicted them, 360, 361. Reasons that the Scriptures were by the inspiration of God, 361, 362, 363. Why God would have his will written, 1069, 1070. The Scriptures a spiritual banquet, 1097 God reveals his will to us by his writings, 1100, 1101. It is a Book out of which we shall be judged, 1243. Why given us in writing: 1438, 1439. No dumb rule, 1446. No repugnancy in them, 1447. Difficulties in them, 1448. How they are wrested, Page 1459, 1460 to 1468
    • Sea, an element of wonders, 1193. God is to be glorified by the use of it, 1194. Sea and earth, two loving companions, 1200. It hath no power to hurt, where God will preserve, Page 1202
    • Secrets, some not to be inquired into, Page 325
    • Security of sin, 481, 483. The sin of the old world, 558, 559. It will take no warning, 619. It shall be a sin of the last days, 1135. It can find no place of safety, 1201. A vain self flattery, 1309. A dead sleep, Page 1350
    • Seducers, pestilent sinners Page 1012
    • Self -murder, detestable, 263, 264, 265 Self will, defined, 810. Distinguished, 811. Described, 812, &c. The character of the self-willed sinner, 817, 818. Self-homicide damnable, 722. All our ruin is from ourselves, Page 1492, 1493
    • Seminaries Popish, desperate sinners, 805. Wherein their presumption appears, 806, Their frauds discovered, 882, 883. Errant seducers, Page 1012
    • Sending, whom God sends, he furnisheth with abilities, Page 375, 376
    • Senses, corrupted by nature, 82. How God accommodates them, 325. They are all at the hearts command, Page 896
    • Sensuality, a vice provoking God's wrath, 556, 557. A brutish sin, 837. A sensual life, below reasonable men, Page 1157
    • Sentence of Christ intolerable to reprobates, Page 1249, 1250
    • Separatists, in some sort deny Christ, 393, 394. Separation from holy public duties, not to be admitted • ecause of some sinners, Page 872, 373
    • Servant of Christ, why our Apostle so stiles himself, 6. The liberty of this service, 8. The properties of God's servants, 8, 9. The dignity of that service, 10. The privileges of those servants, 72, 73 The benefits they have by it, 399. The servants of the Saints have no privilege, unless they serve God, 587. None serve God for nothing, Page 654, 655
    • Servitude of sin, most intolerable, 1017, 1018. In how many respects, 1020, 1021 1022. A miserable bondage, 1045. The kinds of serv ce, Page 750
    • Shame once gone, sin is desperate, Page 659. 859
    • Sight of sin, the first step to repentance, Page 874, 875
    • Silence, intolerable in a Preacher, Page 251, 252.
      • A selling of souls, Page 450
    • Similitudes, their use, Page 1304
    • Simony, spiritual, 450, 451. The heinousness of Simony, Page 916, 917
    • Singularity of opinion, merely fantastical, Page 435
    • Sin, the sight of it, exceedingly necessary, Page 85. 874
    • Sin to be mortified betimes, Page 86
      • A prodigious birth, Page 170
      • Circumstance aggravate it, Page 172
      • The most sordid corruption, Page 191
      • All sins old in example, Page 192
      • It still crucifies Christ, Page 164
      • To be remembered of us, Page 198
      • All sins are the works of darkness, 350, 351. Sin is a crafty serpent, 385. It must take no liberty from our redemption, 405 It is seen in the effects, 410. Of a raging power, 430, 431. It naturally draws on punishment, 463, 464. It is punished in the one kind, Page 468, 469
    • Sin, though finite, deserves punishment infinite, 472, to 479. It is clamorous, and importunes judgment, 485, 486. It makes men their own tormentors, 517. The impudence of it, 519. It must have punishment either in the sinner, or the Savior, and therefore to be hated, 526. Such is the contagion of sin, that it infects the very creatures made for man, 539. We may read our sins in the misery of the creatures, 540. Sins universal bring universal judgments, 545, 546. The sins of our times, 559, 560. Strange sins bring strange punishments, 564. It can diminish a people, 588. It destroys the strongest Cities, 600. The stench of it, odious, 609. Sin not to be prevented with sin, 648. The object of a good man's vexation, 667, 668. Others sins should grieve us, 682. Much more, our own, 683. How many ways it finds to hell, 846, 847. It naturally begets punishment, 848. It makes the own rod, 849, 850. Growes impudent by custom, 859. It defiles the committers, 866. 870 And so is odious to God, Angels and men, Ibid.
      • The matter of it may be read in the punishment, Page 873
      • How damnable to be plaid withal, Page 878
      • It knows no mediocrity, Page 902
      • The race of sin, in some things like the course of the Sun, Page 904, 906
      • It may have security, never safety, Page 970
      • How it is matched with the penaly, Page 988, 989
      • All sin is a Labyrinth, Page 1005
      • A grievous servitude, Page 1017, 1018, 1020, &c.
      • Vile, irksome, damnable, Page 1048
      • It likens men to beasts, Page 1083. 1085
      • The foulness of it, Page 1095, 1096
      • How loathsome it appears to a penitent eye, Page 1126
      • Sins, a very deluge, Page 1208, 1209
      • The proper cause of all judgments, Page 1211
      • When it is general, it brings on a general plague, Page 1212
      • The vast extent of it, Page 1224, 1225
      • Our sins are so infinite, that none can number them but God, Page 1246, 1247
      • Sin, the most perilous thief, Page 1314, 1315
      • A spiritual death, Page 711, 712
      • The epidemical disease, Page 1377
      • Not the least, contemptible, Page 1524
    • Sinner, he is a sleep, 254. 481. 483. The wretchedness of his estate, 1048. How he becomes worse, 1409. Sinners seek one thing and find another, 1152. Their variety of ways, 1153. Their woeful appearance at last, 1345. Wrapd up in spiritual slambers, 1349, 1350. Difference of sins and sinners, 729. How sinners abuse God's mercy, 1426, 1427. How they are sold, Page 1490
    • Slacknesse, how imputed to God, 1273. In men it may be a fault, 1274. In God, it is never but a mercy, 2275, 1276. He is slow to wrath, till the last day, Page 1308
    • Sleep: God never sleepeth, 467. Natural sleep, and spiritual, compared in seven respects, 481, 482, 483. Spiritual sleep sometimes possesseth the children of God, 486. It dwells upon the wicked, 254. The signs of it, 1319. How it is to be wakned, 150. Who sleep, Page 2390
    • Son of God, Christ is by nature, Page 316
      • Yet not inferior to the Father, Page 317
      • For our sakes, grievously afflicted by him, Page 319
    • Soul, how endangered, Page 358
      • How delivered Page 359
      • It is corrupted before the body be prostituted, Page 907, 908
      • It dies not with the body, Page 1170, 1171
      • It is known to Atheists, by the sting of conscience, Page 1258
      • Let us be sure, in that last fire, to save the Jewel, our soul, Page 1332, 1333
      • The immortality of it proved by reasons, Page 721, 722
    • Speculation and Action, the two wings of the soul, Page 1334
    • Speech evil, how noxious, Page 844
      • Good, how necessary, Page 846
    • Spiritual blessings, the only true comforts, Page 38
      • They are freely given us, Page 65
      • Spiritual things, not seen with carnal eyes, Page 187, 188
      • Spiritual riches, chiefly to be desired, 1047. Spiritual men, discerned from carnal Page 1090
      • Spiritual husbandry, Page 1124
    • Spots in us all, Page 1394
      • How we must get them off, Page 1395, 1397
    • Strife against sin, an argument of election, Page 217
    • Studiousnesse in good things, Page 101
      • Study required in Preachers, Page 366
    • Stupidity of avarice, Page 962
      • The slavery of the covetous, Page 963. 1045
    • Success in wickedness, the greatest unhappiness, Page 994, 995
    • Subjects have many benefits by their Prince and so have we by Christ, Page 73, 74
    • Sudden destruction to the impenitent, 413, 414. Sudden death may be prayed against 466, 467. Suddennesse aggravates any Judgment, Page 609, 610
    • Suffering without warrant, shall have no thanks, Page 141, 142
      • The sufferings of Christ remembered, an Antidote against sin, 193, 194. His infinite sufferings, proceeding from an infinite love to us, Page 321, 322
    • Sun to us, is Christ, Page 354
    • Superstition worships relics, 282, 283. It hath the devil for its author, 829. It is full of mischief, 1001. In how many respects, worse than Atheism, Page 1159, 1160
    • Swearing vain, a presumptuous and willful sin, Page 813, 814
    • Swiftness of judgment, Page 415
      • There are many swift things, but that out-runs all, Page 416

    T

    • Tabernacles, S t Peter wished for three, Page 433
    • Takers, how many fearful ones, Page 848
    • Tears, the true sign of repentance, Page 878, 879
      • A sovereign water for the soul, Page 899
    • Teachers of others, should be good themselves, 972, 973. And full of abilities to perform that office, 978. Vnlearned teachers misled souls, Page 1163, 1164
    • Temperance, the moderator of virtues, Page 123
      • The balance of the soul, 124. Commended, 129. The sister of patience, Page 156
    • Temporal things are but lent us, be uncertain, yet too much sought after, 341, 342. No trust to be put in them, 565, 566. How they are to be valued, 1046 1047. Neither to be coveted, nor utterly contemned, 1141, 1142. They shall have their change, Page 1299
    • Temporizers, Page 39
    • Temple, the hearing place, 326. Some fly to other auditories, 327. It ought to be frequented, 984. What hinders us from it, Page 1518
    • Temptations, manifold, 1019, 1020, 689, 690. God delivers us out of them, 691, 692. He knows how, Page 702, 703
    • Testament, books of the New Testament distinguished, 1. The two Testaments have both one and the same Author, and testify one truth, 339, 340. How sweetly they both accord, Page 885, 886, 1261
    • Thankfulness, the debt of beneficence, 45, 66. The rent of blessings, 985, 986. To be paid for all our deliverances, Page 1032
    • Theevery, no way to be tolerated, Page 1304
      • Metaphoricall thieves, manifold, Page 1313, 1315, 1316
      • The day of the Lord, like a fatal thief, Page 1314
      • It is no warrant for theft, because the day of Judgment shall come as a thief, 1316, 1317. There is a holy theft, Page 1317, 1318
    • Threatenings intend to prevent Judgments 174. Hell is threatened, that we might escape it, Page 503
    • Time, very precious, 252, 253. The time of our death, unknown to us, Page 273, 274. 466
      • What is the nature of time, 1262. God is the only giver, and disposer of time, 1263. We ought to be covetous of no worldly thing, but time, and that to good purposes, 1265, 1266. The benefit of it taken, shown by an Apologue, Page 1270, 1271
    • Tongue; it is bound to praise God, 46. It is naturally corrupt, 83. The instrument of blasphemy, in the wicked, 442. It is a pestilent engine, 822. Full of mischief, 844, 845. The instrument of fraud, 912. Of cursing, 964, 965. Of all manner of sin, 965. It dissembles, Page 1009
    • Trades-men, their covetous practices, Page 919
    • Tradition, how far it was necessary, Page 1100
    • Traitor, a viper, Page 835, 836
    • Transfiguration of CHRIST, Page 328, To 334
    • Travelers, what is required of them Page 1063, 1064
    • Treasure, how to lay up the best, Page 1222, 1223
      • Sins and punishments are also called a Treasure, 1230. Where all precious treasure is reposited, Page 1326, 1327
    • Trials, the Church militant never without, Page 373, 374. 6 • 2
    • Tribes, the twelve of Israel described with their counterpanes, Page 911, 912
    • Trinity; the inscrutable mystery of it, Page 307, 378,
    • Truth, to be kept, 69. It can never want enemies, 373. To be preserved in peace, 419. Truth is but one, 435. That only to be followed, 436. The sincerity of it. Ibid.
      • Not the less glorious in it self for men's disgraces, 444. Yet it may appear so to others, 445. It ever makes the least noise, 992, 993. It is woefully trodden down in these latter days, 1011. The rule of truth, is the word of GOD, Page 1118
    • Trust ought to be in God, not in wealth, Page 956
      • And firm in God's promises, 1281. Not in ourselves, Page 1521
    • Turning from the word of God, the way to Hell, Page 1070

    V

    • VAnity of all earthly things, Page 95, 96.
    • Vanity is full of words, Page 995, 996
    • Vengeance, not satisfied but with utter ruin, Page 413, 414
    • Virtue, a Divine grace, 58. What it is in it self, 114. The proof of faith, 115. The necessity of it, 116. Her definition, 117. Her character, 118. Never without knowledge, 121, 122. Seasoned by discretion, 123. Encouraged by praise, 249. Deserveth it, 345. To be married with knowledge, 1528. The right end of it, 1544, 1545. The manifold enemies of it, Page 1564
    • Vexation; sundry causes of it, Page 677
    • Vigilancie, required of us, 99. It guards all our virtues, 1344. It keeps off all spiritual dangers, Page 1348
    • Vnbeleefe, how malicious, 396. How it shall speed, Page 1250
    • Vncertaintie of the day of Judgment, when it shall come, Page 1305, 1306
    • Uncleanness, hateful, 87. How it may be cured, 88. Remedies against it, 125, 126. That is a wicked doctrine, which teacheth it, 426. The sin of Sodom, 627. Arguments against it, 628, 629. To be lamented. 662. The cursed effects of it, 894, 895, 896. Of all sins, Satan hath most power over it, 1095. The manifold kinds of it, 738, 739. The causes, and cure, 740, 741. The effects of it, 744. 746. A character of the unclean person, Page 749
    • Vnfruitfulnesse in good works, ill becoming Christians, Page 984
    • Vngodlinesse; the course of it, 620, 621. The strange effects it produceth, 622. The ungodly man's character or description, Page 623, 624
    • Union with Christ, facilitates our entrance into heaven, Page 230, 231
    • Unity of faith, 111, 112. Unity and harmony becomes the Church, Page 996, 997
    • Vnthankefulnesse to God for his blessings, odious, 197. It is ever forgetful, 201, 202. Universally condemned, 986. It aggravates all other sins, 1049, 1050. Our wretched unthankfulness to Christ, 1235. Vnthankefulnesse for former deliverances, takes away the hope of future, Page 1279, 1280
    • Until, the various acceptions of it in the Scriptures, Page 354, 355
    • Vocation, what, when, where, how, 55. To be readily embraced, 56. Effectual, and glorious, 57. The especial way to know our election, 209. 211, 212. How our own is known to us, Page 219, 220
    • Voice of God, how powerful, 313. The excellency of man's voice, yet how far short of Christ's, 314. How many voices there are to teach us, Page 970
      • The voice of GOD, above all, Page 1220
    • Voluptuousness, how justly condemned, Page 856
    • Vowes, not to be broken, 68. To God, they must be paid, Page 1032
    • Usurers, their trade, 346. Their covetous practices, Page 918, 919

    W

    • WAlking after our own lusts, pernicious, 1155, 1156. The slavery of it, Page 750
    • Wantonness, a dangerous snare for the soul, Page 1006, 1007
    • Warnings, how profitable, if taken, 372. In prepared hearts, they give some ease to future Judgments, 465, 466. They are arguments of God's mercy to us, 561. Warning was given even to sinful Sodom, 603, 604. Let us take the hint of them to repent, 605. Woe to the contemners of warning, 629, 630 God plies us with them, 1237. He ever warns, before he strikes, Page 1303, 1304
    • Washing off our spots, necessary, 868. 875, 876. Ungodly sinners grow fowler after their washing, Page 1095
    • Water, an emblem of Inconstancy, 982 At first, it overwhelmed the face of the earth, 1199. It is a severe master 1204. Some would have it a kind of Principium, Page 1223
    • Way to heaven must be kept, or the end missed, 227. It is not so difficult as some would make it, 236, 237. The ways to hell, innumerable, 422. 435. The way of truth, but one, 436. Way is twofold, good or evil, 930. God's law is the right way, 931, 932. The ways of the wicked are manifold, 935, 936. The way of righteousness, what it is, 1061. The ways of wickedness, without number, Page 1095. 1153. 751
    • Wicked, they disturb our peace, 133. wickedness is ever watchful, Page 385, 386.
      • They shall be denied of Christ, Page 403
      • They are the causes of their own condemnation, Page 407
      • They work up their own destruction, Page 409, 412
      • A multitude of them, Page 427, 428
      • They are greedy of sin, Page 429, 430
      • How to be loved of the righteous, or conversed with, Page 433
      • They are compared to diverse homely things in the Scriptures, Page 833
      • Called beasts, for sensuality, improvidence, shamelesnesse, Page 834
      • Their mis-conceit, Page 864, 865
      • How they are turned into sins, Page 868, 869
      • They are overcome of the world, Page 1044, 1045
      • They bring plagues upon the world, Page 878, 879
      • They willfully destroy themselves, Page 1052 1053
      • They will sin by precedent, Page 1094
      • Their end, Page 711
      • They profane the Scriptures, Page 1480
    • Will of God, most just, 839. The cause of causes. Ibid. He would have none to perish, 1286, 1287, 1288. But all come to repentance, Page 1293. 1244, 1295
    • Will of man, what freedom it hath, 105. 496. It cannot turn it self, 208. It is naturally prone to sin, 428, 429. Hard to tame, 810. Diverse consideration about man's will, 816, 817. A moral upon the will of man, 818, 819. No necessity imposed on it, 839. It is the first that takes the fire of holiness, Page 1400
    • Wisdom divine, the best, 120. How great was given to the Apostles, 1436, 1437. Gained by degrees, Page 1557, 1558
    • Wittes, we have some so called that despise the word of God ordinarily preached, 803. Wit may be without sound knowledge, 1129, 1130. Great wits should be employed in confuting Atheism, Page 1173, 1174
    • Witnesses of Christ, who they are, 299, 300, 301, 302. How they are qualefied, 301. Witnesses of Christ's transfiguration, three, 330. Why three, those three, and no more, 331. God gives us many, Page 1429
    • Whore, her innumerable mischiefs, 661 Whore-haunters, compared to goats, 835. Whores, to Bears. Ibid. A whore is the devils choicest instrument, Page 901
      • Whoredom, an epidemical disease, Page 903
      • The cunning of strumpets, Page 904
    • Wonders, to be made use of, Page 904
    • Word of God, the true guide, 183. The wonderful effects of it, 287. Of mighty power, 297. Of unspeakable operation, 313, 314. God governs his Church by it, 339. The infallible rule, 346. Evermore to be heeded, 347. The majesty, modesty and sweetness of it, 362. The profit we have by it, being written, 364. It is our warrant, 562. The most perfect guide for us, 936. Like rain, it will bring forth either herbs, or weeds, 985 The only ordinary means of salvation, 1117. The world was made by it, 1195, 1196. How diversely it is taken, 1198. What a Divinity there is in it, 1220. The creating & preserving word, 1221. It is operative as fire, Page 1347
    • Words of dying men, memorable, 266, 278. So the words of Ministers living, preach after they are dead, Page 283
    • Works of God, of two sorts, 462. Good works praise God, 46. Evil works come from a corrupt heart, 83. Good works to be joined with faith, 114. They are proofs of our faith, 115. They are the fruits of grace, known by their odour and taste, 171. Our good works, how to be remembered, or forgotten by us, 200, 201. They are true signs of grace, 244. They cannot merit of God, 225. Our best works are imperfect, 652, 653. They are the Christians way, 1062, 1063. The necessity of them, to be pressed, 1122, 1123. They are a commodity for heaven, 1144. They make our faith known, Page 1550, 1551
    • World the diverse acceptions of it, 93, 94 The misery, inconstancy, insufficiency of it, 95, 96. Worldly things blind us, 186. They are a hindrance of our getting into heaven, 229. The miserable vanity of this world, 324. It is grown an old man, 531. Fitly so compared, 532. How called old, 546. Manifestly decaying, 549. How to be esteemed of us, 865. It is a glass representing to us our own sins, 867. A dangerous walk, 1030. The occasion of sin, 1033. How worldly things entangle the soul, 1042. 1044, 1045. The dotage of it, expressed by a similitude, 1137, 1138, 1139, 1140. How it is presented to the Saints, 1142. Wherein, a man of war, 1151. As created, so dissolvable by the power of God, 1175, 1176. It was made by his word, 1195, 1196. How it was made ready for the flood, 1204. If it must perish, why do men dote upon it? 1226, 1227. It goes round, 1229, 1230 The languishing diseases of it, Page 1379, 1380, 1382
    • Worldlings compared to swine, 1087, 1088, 1089. The vanity of their choice Page 1229
    • Worm of conscience, one of hell-torments Page 504
    • Worship of God, what, Page 145, 146
    • Wrath of God, for sin, Page 535, 536

    Y

    • YOuth, apt to vanity and sin, 192, It may be both virtuous and reverend, 269. It hath death at the back of it, 274. It is prone to error, Page 933

    Z

    • ZEale, without temperance, indiscreet, 123, 124. It is qualified with patience 142. and moderated with brotherly kindness, 149, 150. Beautified with meekness, 322. It denies all for Christ, 404 405. It is grieved at sin, 668. It is rarely found, 669. The definition of it, 674. The description, 675. The constancy of it, Page 680, 681
    FINIS.



    A

    • A Betters, and Accessaries of faction, not guiltless, Page 437
    • Above: let us set our minds on those things, Page 515, 516
    • Abstinence, praised, Page 130
    • Abundance, required in Spiritual things, Page 166
    • Abuse of God's creatures, sinful, Page 127
      • Of his graces, far worse, Page 172, 173
      • Of lawful things, turns to sin, Page 557
      • Of any good thing, evil, Page 1033
    • Accusation of our brethren, savors of the Devils office, 830. It is safest to accuse ourselves, Page 831
    • Account, to be given, Page 53
    • Adoption: by this we are God's children, 74, 75. Adopted only through Christ, Page 320
    • Adultery, a condemning sin, 893, 894, 895. The wickedness of it aggravated, Page 900, 901
    • Affections, on what they are to be placed, Page 1362, 1363
    • Affliction, a means of calling home, 56. It is of God's sending, 136. Comforted with the light of his countenance, 353. It may trouble, shall not over-whelme us, 1216, 1217. How it may be feigned, 694. It prepares us for salvation, Page 1415, 1419
    • Age: old age, how a blessing, 269. The miseries and inconveniences of it, 270. The comforts and advantages of it, 271, 272. Neare to dissolution, 275. If found in iniquity, a worse estate than youth, 547. 551. In what respects best. Ibid.
    • Agreement of the Scriptures, the confirmation of our faith, Page 344, 345. 361
    • Agreement in 〈…〉 not tolerable, Page 909
    • Air; many take it for 〈◊〉 place where the last Assizes shall be kept, Page 1328
    • Ambition of worldly honor, vain, 1324, 1325. The worlds ambition, what it is, Page 1344
    • Anabaptists, enemies to government, Page 761
    • Anger, a traitor to love, Page 153
    • Angels, their creation, 488. When 489 Their nature, and office, 490, 491. Their fall, 492. The cause of it wholly in themselves, Ibid. Once lost never more restored, 523, 524. Good Angels accuse not evil Princes, 827. Our guardians, 828. What they did about the body of Moses, 829. They bear up our souls, and even watch over our graves, Ibid. They hinder malicious designs, 948. Preserve the faithful. Page 949
    • Antiquity of the Scriptures, 361. Antiquity, without piety, no privilege, Page 547, 548
    • Apparel; many riot in it, Page 857, 858
    • Application of God's promises, comfortable, Page 64, 65.
    • Apologues, and moral Fables may be used, 292, 293. An apologue, Page 358, 359
    • Apostle: the Apostleship, a high office, 11. Their humility, 205. Their honor and privilege, to be the witnesses of Christ, 299, 300, &c. They and the Prophets testify one & the same thing, 339. They had power to command, 1113. They could convey this power to others, 1114. Their number, in diverse resemblances, 1115. Their fidelity, 1439. Vnanimity, 1440. Why sent by couples, Page 144. 1441. to 1444
    • Apostasy, the brink of hell, 40. How full of danger to the soul, 842. 932. A stubborn sin, 933. How men run into it, 1041. The fatality of it, 1055, 1056. Whether of faith or of manners, Page 1073, 1074
    • Ark of Noah, the mystery of it, 589. What it taught, 590. Figure of the Church, Page 591, 592, &c.
    • Arithmetic; how God's, and the worlds differ, Page 105, 106
    • Arrows of God, his judgments, Page 1205, 1206
    • Arts; all good ones are God's gifts, and to be employed to his service & glory, Page 1184 1185
    • Ashes; a fearful degree of punishment, to be brought so low, Page 610
    • Ass; her several properties, Page 961, 962
    • Astrology, a coozening vanity, Page 291, 962
    • Astrologers, false Prophets, Page 369
    • Assurance, how it differs from presumption, Page 803
    • Assurance of salvation, 209. The arguments against it, answered, 211, 212, 213 Manner of it, 215, 216. Our endeavor to get it, 217, 218. Character of the assured Christian, Page 220
    • Atheism, the absurdity of it, 16. 345. It confounds the advancement of human nature, 1064. Compared with superstition, 1159, 1160. The nature and measure of it, 1161. The kinds, 1162. The causes, 2163. The conviction of it, 1165. 1168, 1169, 1170, 1171. The quarrels of Atheists, and fearful ends, Ibidem. It is the main disease of the soul, 1177. Must be preached against, 1178. The punishment of Atheists, severe and exemplary, 1179. Their willful blindness, 1256. They fight against natural reason, Page 1257
    • Authors of Schism, in a fearful estate, Page 437
    • Authors of any evil, most abominable, Page 939



    B

    • BAptisme; the efficacy of it, 195. The duties it requireth, 196. The door of the Ark, 594. The ends of it, Ibidem. The necessity of it, what, 595. The neglect of it, sinful, 596, 597. The constrained want of it, damneth not, Page 597, 598
    • Backsliding, a bundle of sins, 1059, 1060. The fatality of it, 1073, 1074. Why it is bestial, Page 1091, 1092, 1093
    • Barrenness spiritual, a curse, 167, 168. Better barren than fruitful of sins, 169, 170. The punishment of spiritual barrenness, Page 173, 174
    • Beasts, and ungodly men compared, 835, 836. Good lesson may be learned from the beasts, 837. So the Ass taught Balaam, 961, 962. Mercy to be shown to them, 968, 969. Sinners like beasts, 1083, 1084, 1085. Wherein profitable or hurtful, Page 1089
    • Beauty, a snare to the soul, Page 556, 742
    • Beggars in corrigible, whom we call vagabonds, presumptuous sinners, 804. Their wickedness discovered, Page 805
    • Bels, their use, Page 1345
    • Beloved; Christ the beloved of GOD, Page 318
    • Benificence, praised, 51. 107. Encouraged, 158. Directed, 159, 160. The ease of the burden of riches, 925, 926, 927. A treasure laid up in heaven, Page 1327
    • Blame; how to live blameless, Page 1402, 1043
    • Blasphemy; the nature of it, 440. The kinds, 441, 442. A prodigious and selfewilled sin, 813, 814. A swelling against God, 994. Blasphemers, in a sort deny Christ, Page 395
    • Blessings, all to us only through Christ, 27, 28, 29. They bind us to thankfulness, 45. The blessing of God makes fat, Page 130
    • Blindness, commended by the Papists, 121, 122. Dangerous to the soul, 185. The causes of spiritual blindness, 186. Affected by the Romists, Page 294
    • Blind obedience, one of their precious Jewels, Page 428
    • Blood of Christ, the Bath of our souls, 876. The sole fountain to cleanse us, Page 1323
    • Boasting of sin, doubles the malice of it, Page 892, 893.
    • Bondage in many regards miserable, Page 1020 1021, 1022, 1023
    • Books of judgment, how many, 1243, 1244, 1245. Only two can save us, 1247, 1248. We are to be tried by the whole Book of God, Page 1291
    • Bounty of God gives all freely, 49. Liberally, 53. Nobly, Page 65
    • Brimstone mingled with fire, makes it more terrible, Page 609
    • Brotherly kindness, a true mark of Christians, 151. Brethren in diverse respects, 152. The necessity of brotherly love, 152, 153. Brother-hood of the Saints, 205. Of the Apostles, Page 1432
    • But, in the Scriptures, a main difference between the faithful and ungodly, Page 184



    C

    • CAlamity, a troublesome darkness, Page 348
    • Calling into the Ministry; the way of it, 12, To grace, Page 55
    • Censurers, uncharitable sinners, 844. Unjust Judges, Page 1290, 1291
    • Change of all temporal things, Page 1299 1363
    • Charity: without it, we are wretched, 150. The excellency of it, 155. The necessty of it, 156. The pulse of faith, Ibid. The dignity, 157. The commodity, 158. None in hell, 511. Never did man lose by his charity, 635. Not to be left out in the censures of Christians 842. A good remedy against covetousness, 925, 926. The several degrees of it, 1252, 1253. It is liberal, 1471. How we may know our own charity. Page 1551, 1552
    • Charity praised, Page 749
    • Children have manifold benefits from their father, Page 74, 75
    • Christ, the Conduit of all blessings, 27, 28, 29. He seeks sinners, 54. He is our head, 78. The true Vine, 79. His patience, 140 Ours, in many relations, 174, 175, 176. Our King suffering for us, 241. The object of all our desires and delights, 304. The Son of God, without inferiority to the Father, 316, 317. All love of God to us through him, 320. In his humility he manifested his glory, 332. The fulfiller of the law, 343, 344. A light in many respests, 357, 358. He is our Lord, we his servants, 399. How grieved with our sins, 682, 683. The fountain of all true joy, 865, 866. The portion of Christians, 1038, 1039. Why called the Corner stone, 1116. The only person in whom justice and mercy might be reconciled, 1168, 1169. How the price of him goes down among sinners, 1242, 1243. How happy it is for us to make him our friend, 1251. What use we are to make of him, 1562, 1563. How he is our Lord and Savior, From 1574, To 1583. All glory due to him, Page 1584
    • Christians have a fellowshlp with God in Christ, 75, 76. Are espoused to him, 80. Their happiness, 81. They ought to live according to the rule of that grace which saves them, 240. Through Christ we are Noble, 318. The privileges of the Jews devolved to them, 340. Which we may lose by our sinfulness, 341. The Christian, a great wonder, 662, 663. They have higher delights, than worldlings, 863, 864. They should be constant in the truth Page 910, 911
    • Christianity a hard task, Page 1003, 1004
    • Christians only are free, 1027, 1028, 1029. They still need incitations to goodness, 1103. They must look for contumelies and reproaches, 1148, 1149. Wherein the poorest is rich, 1374. Three of their rarest Jewels, Page 1427
    • Christianity, how honorable, 57, 58. A warfare, 197. It makes us truly noble, Page 310. 318
    • Church, her espousals, 79. She shall never be left destitute of Preachers, 369. Nor free from impostors, 372. Her peace troubled, 374. She cannot scape Incendiaries, 376, 378. Her disturbers, many, 380, 381. A Field not without tares, Ibidem. Prefigured by Noah's Ark, 591, 592, &c. It is not built up with noise, 997. The Apostate Church, full of swelling words, Page 996
    • Church of God, is built up by degrees, 1102. A Pinnace of peace, Page 1152
    • Cleansing our souls, how, Page 1398, 1399
    • Clouds; many representations of things in them, Page 481
    • Combat of a Christian, 1041, 1042. The continuance of it, Page 1103
    • Combination; none to prevail against God, Page 411
    • Comfort of faith, 21. Comforts may be gathered from the power of God, Page 48
    • Commandment of God, how to be heeded, 1065, 1066. Our commanding of sin is sin, Page 438
    • Comming of Christ, with power, 295. The coming of God, diverse, 1166, 1167, 1168. One manner of Christ's coming, 327, 328. The necessity of his coming, laid to the conscience, 1168, 1169, 1170 His first, and last coming have a near similitude, 1172, 1173. 1240. Commings of Christ, fourfold, 1235. Difference betwixt his first and second coming, 1302, 1303. His second coming, for the time uncertain, 1305. Sudden, Page 1307, 1308
    • Company, evil, infectious, 84. Christ's society, true felicity, 327. Malicious company, 350, 351. They corrupt others, 388 Many go to hell for company, 428. Ill company is infectious, two ways, 431, 432. To be abandoned, 432. All company with unbelievers, or mis-believers, not condemned, 446. The best to be chosen, 656, 657, 658, 659. Bad provokes to lust, 741. Page 741
    • Compassion, of others miseries, becoming Christians, Page 1213
    • Complaints, some frivolous, Page 33
    • Concupiscence, in all men, 1154. It neither reigns in the faithful, nor shall condemn them, 1155. What it is, 87. A sin of it self, Page 732, 733
    • Condemnation, the extremity of judgment, Page 606
    • Confederacy in sin, Page 438
    • Confession of Christ, necessary for Christians, 397. Confession of sins, 875. An ease of the burdened soul, 1093. Christians must confess Christ, Page 1553
    • Connivence at others sins, makes us guilty. 439. At any sin, evil, Page 671
    • Contempt of God's word never scapes with impunity, 629, 630. Of the means of salvation, miserable, 979. Or of the Temple of God, 984. Contempt of God's Ministers, severely punished, 873. Contempt of the world becometh Christians, 945. Contempt of Preaching provokes God, Page 1121, 1122
    • Content, ever joined with godliness, 148. Not to be found but in Christ, 178, 179. Content with our condition, a happy resolution, Page 924
    • Contention, odious among Christians, 135 Betwixt Pastor and people, the devils Master-piece. Page 234
    • Continuance in sin a woeful estate, 660. And discontinuance of good duties, loseth men much virtue, 681. Continued acts make a habit, Page 751
    • ontrariety, of some sins, Page 1154
    • Conscience, cheered by the remembrance of our past good deeds, 200. The peace of it, how comfortable, 234. The liberty thereof, 1014. It will be heard, 1035, 1036. In some, obstupified, 1039 It is the conviction of Atheists, 1165. It may be lulled asleep, never extinguished, 1179, 1180. Our book, out of which we shall be judged, 1244, 1245. Be sure to have that found good and quiet, 1333. Reasons why every man hath one, 713, 714. Conscience good, the figure to the cyphers of all acts, Page 1538, 1539
    • Consent, the midwife of sin, 92. Consent to sin, is sin, Page 438
    • Consecration of ourselves to God, but just, Page 66. 160
    • Constancy, in goodness, 69. Required of us, 680, 681. The incommunicable property of God, Page 1175
    • Conversion of a sinner, only God's work, 24. How wrought by him, 1025, 1026. Not in man's power, 208, 209. 633, 634 Not to be protracted, 1102, 1103, 1267 1268. For fear of missing it, Page 1297, 1298
    • Conversation of Preachers, should be answerable to their doctrine, 281. Of all Christians to their profession, 341. Ill conversation causeth the truth to be blasphemed, 442, 443. Good, doth adorn the Gospel, 1123. Ill, an occasion of Atheism 1164. The Index of our estate, Page 1339, 1340
    • Corruption of our nature, universal, 82. The cause of dissolution, Page 1335
    • ovetousnesse, restless, 102. It conquers all, 284. Sinful in all men, odious in Ministers, 454. A mighty sin, 456. It can get up none of Christ's stairs, 457, 458. A base and sordid vice, 672. The devils main snare, 913. Defined, and described, 914. The signs of it, 915. Not found among the Saints of God, Ibid. The principal practices of it, 916. It breaks all the Commandments, 921, 922. How universally condemned, 959. A self-willed and head-strong madness, 967, 968. The fury of it, 1335. It is cured by the due consideration of our ends, 1141. Covetous men likened to hogs, 835. To the moule, 1043. To the dog, 1086, 1087. How the covetous wretch is cursed, 927, 928, 929. His full character, 930. He is easily taken with riches, 945. The baseness of a covetous heart, Page 953, 954
    • Countries, the richer, the more given to excess and wantonness, Page 601, 602
    • Counselors of State, fit to be about Princes, 820. Bad counsel, how pernicious, 951. Counselling to sin, is sin, Page 438
    • Cowardly spirits fain dangers, Page 232
    • Creation of the world, and of a pure heart, compared, 1108, 1109, 1110. The world must needs have a creation, 1175. Proved against the Atheists by manifest reasons, Page 1176, 1177
    • Creatures, all at God's command, 562, 563. Punished for man's sin, justly, 537, 538. All did not perish in the Flood, Ibid. They are made our teachers, 970, 975. The irrational, not without some good properties, 1087. The obedience of them all to the will of God, 1196, 1197. Their expectation, 1331, 1332. Subject to vanity, 1335. They suffer for man, with man, 1336. Their servitude, 1337. Their natural disposition, Page 1359
    • Creditors, some too unmerciful, Page 918
    • Criticall days, we have six, Page 1236, 1237
    • Cross of Christ: the material one reserved by the Papists from the worlds conflagration, 1331. Crosses may prove blessings, 137. Shall be taken from the righteous, and laid on the wicked, Page 139
    • Cruelty, a canine property, Page 1087
    • Curiosity, of busy inquirers, 1133, 1134. 1305, 1306. A fault of wanton wits, 1262. It hath strange dreams, Page 1320
    • Cursing, a grievous sin, 33. Devilish, 831, 832. The mischief that cursers intend to others, shall fall on themselves, 941. God averts the causeless curse, 942, 943. Cursing, a prodigious impiety, Page 964, 965.
    • Custom in sin, dangerous, 86. The nurse of iniquity, 92, 93. Hard to be cured, 191, 192. Exceedingly prevalent, 660. 858. A very Tyrant, 937. It hardens the heart, 1051. And obstupefies the conscience, Page 1179



    D

    • DArknesse of soul, a heavy judgment, 186, 187. Six kinds of darkness, 348. Darkness, one of hells punishments, 505, 518. Darkness inward, 987. Leads to outer darkness Page 988
    • Darling -sin, hard to be forsaken, 634. Every man is apt to make much of it, 1153. Not parted from, without sorrow, Page 1156, 1157
    • Day of judgment; the necessity of it, 529. Arguments against it, answered, 530. Reasons to prove it, 531. The severity of it, 533. Not known, 1133, 1134. The signs forgoing it, 1136, 1137. A day or reckoning, 1167, 1168. Because sudden, therefore to be prepared for, 1232, 1233. The certainty of it, 1235. The uncertainty, 1237. Every man's particular day, near, 1239. The integrity of it, 1240. The fatality of it to the unrighteous, 1248, 1249. How called the Lord's day, 1301, 1302. Comfortable to the faithful, as terrible to reprobates, Page 1346
    • Days, how prolonged, or shortened by God, 1266, 1267. All days are his, 1300. We have our day, God will have his, 1301. Day of salvation to everyone, Ibid.
    • Death of Christ, always to be remembered, 202, 203. It is no patent of licentiousness, 204. Death our enemy, 230. Generally confessed, 288. Seldom remembered, Ibid. Vnavoydable, 260. 276. What it is to the righteous, what to others, 261, 262. Not to be hastened with self-violence, 263, 264, 265. Not rashly to be desired, Ibid. A dissolution, 272. The manner, time, place, unknown, 273. The religion of darkness, 351. Terrible to the guilty, 854. The time of it uncertain, 1140, 1141. Continually to be looked for, 1239. The worst it can do, Page 1361
    • Deceit, none to be justified, 877. Some more wicked than other, 878. The ungodly make it a matter of sport, 879, 880. Under color of Religion, most detestable, 881, 882. Severely punished, 883, 884 Deceiver a Fox, Page 835
    • Declination of things in this world, Page 1175
    • Defending of sin, whether our own, or others, makes us guilty, Page 439
    • Delay of amendment, inexcusable, 968. 1102, 1103. Against the day of death and judgment, desperate, 1310. In spiritual business, dangerous, Page 1353, 1354
    • Deliverance, only from God, 631, 632, 633. In the extremity of danger, he takes pleasure to deliver, 635. Examples of it, 636. Deliverances from sin and judgment, the great mercies of God, 1031, 1302. Deliverance why deferred, Page 685, 686
    • Deluge, how caused, 561, 562. How far it prevailed, 563, 564. How long it continued, 567. An universal destruction, 1203. Likened to an arrow, 1205. It ceased by degrees, Page 1215, 1216
    • Denyall of Christ twofold: in respect of faith, or of fact, 389, 390. Denyall of those that have any relation to us, is basely unnatural, 398. The deniers of Christ, shall be denied by him, Page 403
    • Desire of sin, insatiate in the wicked, 907. Desire of spiritual things in the faithful, 979. It is one half of the work, Page 1123
    • Despair how taken away, 177. It denies Christ, 395. A self-willed sin, 812. Never to be admitted, though we have relapsed into our former disobedience, 1070. It crosseth the cross of Christ, 1292. Desperatenesse in sin, prodigious, 486. Despair a false interpreter of God's actions, 1420. It looks not up to God's goodness, Page 1496
    • Despisers of goodness, what becomes of them, 541. Of the word of God, 812, 813. 979. Their profaneness, 1072. They that despise good men, 1147. And good things, Page 1148
    • Destruction comes from ourselves, 406. Temporary destruction, many ways, 409, 410. It sweeps away the wicked utterly, 601. It makes a strange alteration of things, 605, 606. The great difference betwixt the former and latter destruction of the world, Page 1232
    • Detractor, likened to a dog, Page 1086
    • Devil, the Father of sin, 90, 91. A strong adversary of our salvation, 229, 230. He transforms himself, 349. God's ape, 362, 363. 372. A false prophet, 369, 370. His power, limited, 379. His policy, 388. His incessant malice to the Church, 417. He hath many strings to his bow, 423, 424. His condition, and abode, 494, 495. He is bound in chains, 519. His force, and malice, 520. Suffered to tempt man, 528. Hath no power over the bodies of the Saints, 829. The accuser of men, 830. Ever most busy against the righteous, 1005, 1006. He hath variety of temptations, 1019, 1020. Many ties upon sinners, 1042, 1043. His merciless tyranny, 1057, 1058. Sometimes roaring, sometimes flatering, 1145. The worst Pirate, 1218. How he will plead at last against sinners, Page 1249
    • Difficulty of the Scriptures, wherein, Page 1452
    • Diligence, in working up of our salvation, 98, 99. No hope without it, 207, 208. 1355, 1356. Described, and urged, Page 1388, 1389
    • Discretion: it seasons all virtues, Page 123
    • Discontent, the fuel of faction, 384. And of rebellion, Page 762
    • Dispositions of men, sometimes contrary, Page 1145, 1146
    • Dissimulation of faith, unlawful, 390. In promises, and oaths, intolerable, 458. Not stuck upon, in a worldly heart, 946. Simulation of holiness not within us, detestable, Page 1342
    • Dissolution, inevitable, Page 1337
    • Divinity must be allowed her handmaids, Page 1173
    • Doctrine good, distinguished from bad, by their several intentions, and ends, 424, 425, 426. The doctrine of Rome, plausible to flesh and blood, 1002, 1003. How the factious are conceited of doctrine, Page 1117
    • Dogs their good and bad properties, Page 1085, 1086
    • Doing well, a good sign of our state in grace, 221, 222. The ornament of Christians, 1122, 1123, 1124. The sister of knowledge, 1187, 1188, 1476. And the honor of it, Page 1537, 1538
    • Doubts cleared. That of Matth. 16.28, &c. pag. 328. That of Matth. 17.1. And Luk. 9.28. reconciled, 328. That of 2 Pet. 1.19. cleared, 337, 338, 339. Another, 886. Another, 1450. Another, 1451. Doubting, a way to learning, Page 1556, 1557.
    • Downewards, is the way to hell, Page 515
    • Dreams of sinners, Page 1348
    • Drunkenness condemned, 131. The causes of it, 132. The effects, 133, 134. Considerations to avoid it, 135. A monstrous sin, 564, 565. No pretext to be devised for it, 649. A riotous skin, 857. The fuel of all manner of wickedness, 890, 891. 1035. An inward deluge, Page 1202, 1203
    • Duelists, presumptuous sinners, Page 806, 807
    • Dwelling among the wicked, uncomfortable, Page 665, 666, 667



    E

    • Eare, a more necessary organ to salvation, than the eye, 325. Campared together, 326. A door to let in our pleasure or vexation, Page 669
    • Earth; the matter, form, situation, Use of it, 1192. Her three privileges, 1193. How God is to be glorified for it. 1194. Founded in the waters, 1200. Earth and sea, two loving companions. Ibid. It shall be burnt up, 1330. What folly to be taken with it, Page 1332.
      • Whether it shall continue after the worlds dissolution, Page 1366, 1367
    • Easter; how solemn a time, Page 871, 872. 884, 885, 887, 888
    • Election, made known to us by our calling, 209, 210, 211. Elect, a small number, 588, 589. Election may be made sure to us, 840. How to be done, Page 842, 843
    • Elements what they are, 1327. To be dissolved, 1328. Mans body consists of the elements, Page 1329
    • Eloquence, how useful, Page 279
    • Empty vessels, who, Page 1559, 1560
    • End; our particular near, and therefore calls for repentance, 550, 551. The end of the righteous, ever comfortable, 1058, 1059. Christ, the end of the Law, 1061, 1062. The end of the wicked, uncomfortable, 1082. End of every man unknown to himself, 1140, 1141. End, diversely taken, Page 1292
    • Enemies of our faith, 26, 30. Enemies we are to ourselves, 406. The deadlyest enemy Satan, Page 529
    • England, how often conquered, 284. Her sinful ingratitude, Page 289
    • Envy at the good of others, unchristian, 235. The coal of heresy, Page 383, 384
    • Epistle; S t Peters justified for canonical: 2. Why to their Epistles the Apostles prefixed their names, 5. How it is called General, Page 13
    • Equity, a kind of righteousness, Page 645
    • Equivocation, a Popish principle, Page 458
    • Error, once in, hard to get out, 935. It hath always most words, 992. And makes more noise than truth, 993. Full of deformity, 1478, 1479. One begets another, Page 1494
    • Eternity, the perfection of punishment, 612. It makes hell to be hell, 989, 990. Eternity of the world, a vain dream, 1228. Eternity, beyond the comprehension of mortal hearts, Page 1252
    • Evils, whether better foreknown, or not, Page 464, 465
    • Examples, how to be proposed, 5. All sins, old in example, 192. Examples, if they do not instruct us, will leave us without excuse, 393. Bad ones, how pernicious, 420. Let us follow the best, 421, 422. Exemplary sins, very heinous, 439. Too prevalent, 599, 600. Examples of God's Judgments should terrify us, 614, 615, 616, Examples of the best, not the most men, to be followed, 680. Examples prevail mightily, 937, 938. Exemplary sinners deserve sore punishments, 986, 987, Example, a cruel tyrant, Page 1128
    • Excess in meats, how noxious, 127, 128. In any carnal delights, sinful, Page 625
    • Expectation of Christ's coming, the solace of true Christians, 1321. Expectation of the creature, what it meaneth, 1331, 1332. Expectation of Judgment breaks off dissoluteness, 1352. What it is, Page 1385, 1386
    • Experiences of former mercies, gives confidence of future, Page 43
    • Eye, quickest of apprehension, of all the senses, 896. The in-let of temptation, 897. God hath provided means by the eye, to save the soul, 325. It is a window to let in our vexation, 669. Satan's first project is to take the eye, 898. Beauty the eyes attractive, 899, 900. Eye-witnesses, infallible, 303. A roving eye, Page 740



    F

    • Faction, begotten by confidence of numbers, 384, 385. It cannot be without a head, Page 418
    • Faith, how a hand of the soul, 14, 15. The object of it Ib. the subject, 16. The act of saving faith, 17. 30, 31. The victory of it, 18. The comfortable use of it, 19. The preciousness, 20. How it is beleaguerd, 26. How it is well grounded, 29, 30. It rests upon the promises of God, 63, 64. The necessity of it to salvation, 109. The object of it, 110. The act, 111. How it is distracted, 112. The necessary use of it, 113, 114. To be joined with good works, 114. It is not idle, 115. It justifies alone, and yet is not alone, 116. Ignorant faith, no faith, 121. The pulse of faith is Charity, 156. It appropriates Christ, 176. Built upon the knowledge of Christ, 179. A starved faith saves not, 182. The invincible power of it, 563. It overcomes the world, 924. We are commanded to have it, 1066. A merchandise for heaven, 1144, 1145. It makes all our service acceptable to God, 1216, 1217. Relies upon the Divine promises, 1281. 1371. Not to be discouraged with delays, 1282. The best way to know Christ by, Page 1548, 1549
    • Faithful, the world preserved for their sakes. Page 639
    • Falling, how it differs, 225. Who so standeth, that he cannot fall? 498. The just do not scape it, 651. Therefore let others beware, 652. No time privileged from it, 933. Nor persons on earth, 1074, 1075. Falls of the Saints, grievous, 1125, 1126. Men may fall from their own steadfastness, 1488. A proneness in our nature to fall, Page 1489
    • Falsehood, condemned, 69. False prophets, 369, 370. It is of two sorts, 371. It could never prevail, but in the counterfeit of truth, 375. It ill becometh Christians, 892. Expresseth it self in verbositie, 992, 993. Prepensed, a damnable sin, 1010. And shall find a woeful punishment, Page 1011
    • Fame, the swiftness of it, Page 415
    • Family, to be instructed and ordered, Page 587
    • Fear, how it may be an adversary to faith, 17. Godly fear doth not destroy faith, 563. Yea doth advance it, 564. Servile fear, a mark of wicked persons, 679. Good fear, the corrective of sin, 832. It may be compounded with hope, 1352. A preservative from falling, Page 1522
    • Feasting in danger of excess, 128, 129. A spiritual feast, 131. Feasts of three sorts, 884. How the Jewish and Christian feasts accord, 885, 886. Civil feasts how far allowable, 888. Profane, wherein sinful, Page 889, 890
    • Fellowship; diverse kinds of it, Page 75, 76, 77
    • Fervencie in good, commendable, Page 676, 677
    • Fidelitie, requisite in a Christian, 69. To a man's self, 370, 371. To Christ, above all, 404, 405. Due to God and man, Page 1282, 1283
    • Fire, the torment of hell, 505. Corporal. Ibid. Exceptions against it, 506, 507. It differs from elementary fire wherein, 507, 508. The fire of sin, fuel of the fire of hell, 508. An instrument of sore destruction, 607. At peace with us, very useful; in the fury raging, 608. Eternal fire, most intolerable, 612, 613. The mighty force of it, 1230, 1231. In fire, the Law given, and required, 1234. God's word, a holy fire,
    • Flattery, verbal Simony, 345. Guilty of sin, 438. A selling of souls, 449. A coozening vice, 878. The flatterer is a fawning cur, 1086. Man will flatter himself, Page 1477
    • Flesh, an hindrance of our entrance into heaven, 229. A false prophet, 370. A treacherous counselor, 1090, 1091. Hard to be subdued, Page 730
    • Followers, of the good, let us be in good, 421, 422. Evil hath followers in abundance, 427. They are easily drawn to it, 428, 429. We are charged not to follow a multitude in evil, 433. Christ only may be followed without exception, 434, 435. No man so desparately wicked, but he hath had some followers, 938, 939. The people are more apt to follow their teachers examples, than their doctrines, Page 966, 967
    • Folly willful condemned by a beast, Page 961
    • Forbearance of punishment, no security, Page 848, 849
    • Forgetfulness, a sinful defect, 190. A good forgetfulness, 198, 199. What, evil, Page 1475
    • Forsake; God never does us, till we forsake him, Page 1042
    • Forward, we are all by nature to forbidden courses, Page 947
    • Fraud, the manifold reaches of it, 912. Condemne by every man's conscience Page 1001
    • Friends, unsure, yet too much trusted on, 342. Friendship made a mask for villainy, is horrible impiety, Page 891, 892
    • Fruits evil, 169, 170. Good fruits, required of Christians, 171. Our fruits not answerable to our knowledge, 180, 181. Fruitfulness, the proof of true Christians, Page 1122
    • Fulfilling of the Scriptures, remarkable, Page 343 344
    • Fullness of grace, to be sought for, 39. True fullness in Christ, 306. Fullness of bread called a sin of Sodom, 625. Fullness of sin, the wicked man's ambition, Page 902



    G

    • GAine of souls, the best, Page 447, 448
    • Gaming; man was not made for it, Page 857, 858
    • Gifts of God free, 49. 65. How to be esteemed, 51. Of what latitude, Page 53
    • Glory of heaven, figured by the twelve stars 242, 243, 244. How unspeakable, 59. The clarity, verity, eternity of it, 315. The light of glory, Page 355
    • Glorifying of God: we are bound to it for our creation, 536. How it must be performed by us. From Page 1584 To 1624
    • Glory vain, how pernicious, 25, 26. Gratious, how comfortable, 57. Vain-glory, what, 67. How it 〈◊〉 transported men, 314. The vain-glory of human authors, 363. In sin, most odious, 892, 893. In vanity, a swelling sin, 939, 940. Three corrosives to eat it out, Page 1568, 1569, 1570
    • Gnashing of teeth, an effect of hell-torments Page 512
    • GOD, the author of all goodness, 25. 49. He works all grace in us, 208, 209. No cause of sin, nor author of destruction, 407, 408. The certainty of his being, 519. Satan can do nothing but by his permission, 520. His favor, or anger, changeth the use of the creatures, 565. He inflicts just judgments upon sinners, 602, 603. He is in no respect the author of sin, 838, 839. He grants some requests in anger, 946, 947. Wherefore he suffers evil, 949. 1131. He can overcome all at his pleasure, 1024, &c. Immutable in his mercy, 1126, 1127. Disposeth all most wisely, 1132. How said to laugh, 1149, 1150. How to be conceived of by us, 1254, 1255. He cannot be charged with over-hastiness, 1273, 1274. Nor with slackness, 1275, 1276. His long suffering, 1283, 1284. He hates nothing that he hath made, 1286, 1287. He is slow to wrath, till the last day comes; and then sudden, 1308. His patience, though he be strangely provoked, Page 1412, 1413
    • Godliness, from above, 53. What it is, 141, 1338. What it doth, 143. It consists in the imitation of God, 148. The trial of it, 1339. Approved, Page 686, 687
    • Goodness, the best companion of knowledge, 1474, 1475. No mean must content us in it, Page 1556
    • Gospel, the message of peace, 34. Glorious among us, but our fruits are not answerable, 181. It gently leads us, 227. Now manifestly known, 293, 264. Of mighty power, 295, 296, 297. Gospel and Law, met together on the Mount, 331, 332. Both speak the same truth, 339, 340. Gospel, a fulfilling of the Prophecies, 343, 344. A light, 356. It directs us plainly, & comfortably, 358. It intends the mortification of sin, 425. Perfect and excellent Truth, 436, 437. No cause of contention, but of peace: nor of sorrow, but of joy, 548. We are commanded to believe it, 1065, 1066. The perfection of it, 1067. The honor, 1068. Yet contemned by the world, 1072. God would have it written, 1100, 1101. Our wonderful happiness by it, Ibid. Law and Gospel, not to be parted, 1117. 1120. Given in peace, Page 1167
    • Governors, not to be despised, 821. 823, 824. They are dignities and therefore should be worthy; both of admittance, 824. And in their performance, 825. Government, ordained of God, Page 754, 755, &c.
    • Grace, defined, described, 34, 35. The time of grace, 36. The mother of peace, 37. Freely given, 49. 65. Not to be abused, 58. It unites us to God, 72. Can never be idle, 176. It will be felt, 169. What keeps it from being lost, 194, 195. A blessed light, 357. It purifies the whole man, 1107. A fire to purge out our dross, 1348. The diverse acceptions of it, 1511 1512. How excellent, when it is compared with temporal things, 1513, 1514. The trial of all our graces, by their growing in us, 1515, 1516, 1517. The means to improve it, 1518, 1519, 1520. Rules to be observed, 1521, 1522. The comfort by it, 1525. The reward of it, 1526. Preserved to knowledge, Page 1531
    • Great men corrupt, the patterns & wring-leaders of desperate mischief, 939, 940. Greatness does much mischief by exemplary evils, 420, 421. Great offenders meet with great punishments, Page 526
    • Greedinesse of our nature to sin, Page 428, 429
    • Gunpowder -treason; how violent and how sudden the destruction should have been, 416, 417. A figure of the last day, 552. Our wonderful deliverance from it, 703, 704. Their malice in it, Page 764



    H

    • HAppinesse of this life, what it is to eternal blessedness, Page 1264
    • Hatred, contrary to Christianity, 153. A work of darkness, Page 358
    • Hearers, how to be disposed, 165, 166. They should regard the Preacher, 206. Their defects, 1119, 1120. Some have large swallows, ill digestions, 1131. Hearing, necessary to salvation, 325, 326. The way to get and increase grace, Page 1518, 1519
    • Heart, corrupted by nature, 82. First to be cleansed, 86, 87. A noble part, 162. The closset of all our graces, 164. Heart of man, very deceitful, 884. It commands the Senses, 896. Puts a difference into all our actions, 948. How to be manured, 981. The best or worst ground, 985. Full of fraudulency, 1012. The character of a pure heart, 1107, 1108. It is called a work of creation, the pure heart, 1109, 1110. Principally to be guarded, Page 1401
    • Heathens, how without excuse, 1182. They played upon their gods, Page 1166
    • Heaven, a glorious place, not seen with mortal eyes, 189. Opened to us by Christ, 228. 230, 231. The entrance through him, easy, 236, 237. The great glory of it, 242, 243, 324. We shall know one another there, 334. The privileges of it, 499, 500. Let us set our hearts on that, 519. Being thoroughly meditated on, it will cure us of covetousness, 925. The workmanship of God, 1188. The heavens distinguished, 1189, 1190. Described, 1191. Every thing in heaven, a beam of some attribute in God, 1195. The heavens reserved to the last fire, 1224. How we may help to purge them, 1225. Our best resting place, 1228. Compared with earth, how excellent, 1231, 1232. What heavens shall pass away, 1321, 1322. The manner how, Ibid. Heaven, the best repository of true treasure, 1326, 1327. The incorruptibility of the heavens 1360 Their duration after the danger, Page 1365
    • Hebrew tongue excels all other, Page 362
    • Hell, a fearful place, 189. Full of horror, 324, 325. The region of outer darkness, 351, 352. That there is a hell, diverse proofs, 501, 502. What it is, 503. The torments of it, 504, 505, &c. The description of it, 509. The dire effects of those pains, 510. Where it is, 513, 514. The eternal punishments there, 613. The horror of it, 855, 856. A place of uncomfortable darkness, 987, 988. The everlasting torments of it, 989, 990. What improvidence it is, not to prevent coming thither, 1227. Meditated rightly on, a prevention of sin, 1334. The extreme pains of it, Page 724
    • Helps to salvation, manifold, 1440. To understand the Scriptures, Page 1453
    • Heresy what it is, Page 376
      • The differences of it, from Error and Schism, Page 380
      • The damnability of it, Page 382
      • The causes, Page 383
      • Every Heresy makes not a religion, Page 392.
      • It ends in abominable sin, 426. A selling of souls, Page 460
    • Heretics, their strange sophistry, 290, 291. All come in the name of Christ, 374. They should make God's faithful Ministers more laborious, 377. They abuse the Scriptures, Page 1480
    • Hogs, their bad properties, Page 1087, 1088
    • Holy Ghost is God, Page 361
    • Holiness, the best seed, 162. An argument of election, 217. The best qualification of a Preacher, 365. The holiness of all heavenly doctrines, 1066, 1067. What holiness is, 1340. Too much neglected, Ib. The true trial of Doctrine, 1341. The kinds and parts of holiness, Page 1342
    • Honor is principally Christ's; yet some is communicated to us, 308. It comes from God only, 309. Worldly honor, a vain shadow, 309, 310. Most uncertain, yet eagerly followed, 342. A strong temptation to worldly hearts, 645. The honor of this world, a vanity, 1344. None sticks to us, but that which comes by adoption and grace, 1324. How much it is stood upon, Page 1412
    • Honesty cannot well be spared in a Minister, Page 376
    • Hope in Christ comfortable, 179. No hope in hell, 513. How it is a medium betwixt presumption, and despair, 817. Characterized, Ibid. Never to be rejected of Christians, 1281, 1282. Their continual solace, 1351. It sticks longest by a man, 1357. It upholds us, Page 1373
    • Humility of the Apostles, 7.21.205. The hardest of all virtues, 494. Opposed to self-willednesse, 817. In what regard with God himself, 841. A heavenly merchandize, 1144. The way to improve grace. Page 1524
    • Hunger spiritual, a traficke for heaven, Page 1144
    • Husbandry, spiritual what, 981. Not to be neglected, Page 1124
    • Hypocrisy, pieties counterfeit, 144. It is false within, 165. Found out by a man's actions, 224. It is the usher of heresy, 386, 387. The full description of it, 459, 460. Hypocrites among the faithful, 588. They can make show of zeal, 677. Hypocrisy, a sin provoking vengeance, 880, 881, 882. A swelling sin, 994. It hath a fair outside, 1004. Prevents all ways of remedy, 1051, 1052. Hypocrites, no better than sleepers, Page 1349, 1350



    I

    • Idleness, in the working up of our salvation, frustrates all, 207, 208 No way to heaven, 222. A sin of Sodom, 626. How it corrupts, 742. An enemy to knowledge, Page 1566, 1567
    • Idolatry, a pleasing sin, 145. An impudent sin, 146. Brought in by unlawful marriages, 554, 555. It is ever pompous, and spares for no cost, Page 950
    • Jesus, how our Joshua, 23. Derogation from his All-sufficiency, blasphemous, 27. No knowing of God aright, but by him, 42. To be devoutly worshiped, 147. Our Jesus, Page 175 The subject of all our tongues, but not the object of all our hearts, Page 1260
    • Jesuits, their mischief, 376. Their manifest contradictions to the Prophets and Apostles, Page 1119
    • Jews, their great privileges, 340. Which they lost by contemning Christ, Ibid. Their conviction, 344, 345. They deny Christ, 391. Their manifold disobedience, 936. The Church of the Jews was not rejected, 1097. But the unbelieving Jews accursed, Page 1098
    • Ignorance, not so dangerous as sinful knowledge, 61. Yet dangerous enough of itself, 118. Ignorant we are all by nature, 120. The cause of sin, 121. Ignorance of God's word, the gap to all sin, 183. Spiritual blindness, 186. A fearful darkness, 349, 350. It takes away the difference between man and beast, 843. Apt to talk, 844, 845. Too much applauded by the Romists, 982. All ignorance is a curse; but that which knows not Christ, the curse of curses, 1065. The state of ignorance, bad enough, 1076, 1077. Some are content with it, because they would not be troubled with the works of obedience, 1130. The way to Atheism, not to religion, 1162, 1163. Ignorance how manifold, 1181, 1182 None can excuse, Ibid. Intolerable in the Ministers of God, 1183, 1184. Affected ignorance the nurse af all sins, 1185. The cause of many Judgments, 1186. As the effect so the cause of sin, Page 1258, 1259
    • Illumination, the beginning of piety, 168. our illumination far beyond our sanctification, 180, 181. A beam of Christ's knowledge, 378. It is easier than obedience, Page 1187
    • Imitation of God is true piety, 148. A good assurance of grace, 223. For imitation, choose the best patterns, 421, 422. Christ's, a perfect coppy to be imitated, 434. Wherein, 435. How the Saints are to be imitated, 653. Wherein God, 687. If we know Christ, let us live like him, Page 1554
    • Impenitency cuts off all hope, Page 841
    • Importunity must be free from impatience, Page 1420, 1421
    • Impostors, Simon Magus, 302. The grand impostor, Satan, 362, 363. Impostors, compared to Foxes, 998. They wrest the Scriptures, Page 1461, 1462
    • Impropriators, how not to be excused, Page 455
    • Impudence of sin, 658, 659. Of sinners, Page 859
    • Impunity, no warrant of safety, Page 848, 849
    • Incitations to goodness, many afforded us, Page 1103
    • Inconstancy, a woeful condition of the soul 908, 909, The character of the inconstant man, 909, 910. Many Christians not free from it, 911, 912. Inconstant men are clouds carried with the wind, 981, 982. They pervert the Scriptures, 1457, 1458. The baseness of it, Page 1481. 1483, 1484
    • Indifferency in goodness, in danger of perishing, Page 40. 670
    • Infants, dying without baptism, where they are, Page 1364
    • Informers, how to be allowed, Page 830, 831
    • Infidelity, how damnable, Page 641
    • Injustice, in how many respects, Page 707, 708
    • Innocency, how comfortable, Page 1012, 1013
    • Instruments, what they are, when their service is done, Page 973
    • Integrity required in Pastors, Page 248, 249
    • Intemperance, described, 125, 126, 127 The ill effests of it, 129. It ill becomes men, 862. Worse, Christians, Page 863
    • Interpretation of Scriptures aright, the gift of the Holy Ghost, 360. Not to be attempted without him, Page 366
    • Invitations of God, most gracious, Page 1290
    • John, how a witness of Christ, Page 303
    • Job, how blessed most at last, Page 1563, 1564
    • Jordan, a famous River, Page 601
    • Joy in the Holy Ghost, digests all troubles, 234. Compared to light, 348. None true and solid, but in Christ, Page 865, 866
    • Judge, Christ the most absolute; wherein, 1240, 1241, 1242. His justice shall make to the aggravation of ungodly men's sins, 1249. Good to make him our friend, 1251. Rash judges of others, bold sinners, 1291. Christ no judge dormant, 1346. Most righteous, Page 716, 717
    • Judgment should be according to Justice, 470. The necessity of the general judgment, Page 471
    • Judgments of God, unavoidable, and often strike home, 411. When they come by degrees, more tolerable, 412. When they are certain, and when conditional, 461. Only to be prevented by timely repentance, 606, 607. The sight of God's judgments on others, ought to humble us, 615. They are so many real Sermons to us, 616. They are called God's arrows, 1205, 1206. General judgments proceed from general sins, 1212. Universal, call for universal repentance, 1213. The last and great judgment, 1235, 1236, &c. How terrible & fatal it will prove, 1311, 1312. To be prepare for, Page 719
    • Justice of God, blasphemed under the name of destiny, 408. It stands with the justice of God, to punish finite sin with infinite penalty, 471. Twelve reasons for it, 472 to 479. His justice cleared, 544, 545. Though the children be involved in the sufferings of their parents, 611, 612. From other imputations, cleared, 838. 1288, 1289. Objections against it, answered, 839. It must be satisfied, 851. Justice & mercy, their vicissitudes, 1214, 1215. No nation can stand without justice, Page 718



    K

    • KEyes of God are six, 164. The key of heaven God keeps in his own hand, Page 228
    • King, the best form of Governement, 819, 820. Kings are gods, yet cannot scape maligners, 823. Kings, how above other men, 239. Subordinate to Christ, 240. Obedience due to them, Page 757, 758 760
    • Kingdom of Christ, absolute and everlasting, 238. Kingdom of heaven, variously taken, 241. Gotten five ways, Page 1317, 1318
    • Knowledge, of Christ, 41. To be improved, 42. The sweetness of it, 60. How dangerous to be abused, 41. The guide of virtue, 118. A means to prevent sin, 119. The knowing man's character, 122. Without the love of Christ, ineffectual, 171. We shall know one another in heaven, 334. Knowledge a light, 353. It is ready with us, but will is untoward, 378. The guide of obedience, 845, 846. Knowledge of sin, necessary to repentance, 874, 875. Nothing more, or less esteemed, 1037. No knowledge can save us, but that of Christ, 1037, 1038. Knowledge without practice, will not avail us, 1039, 1040. Without obedience, a woeful condition, 177, 1078. It is still to be improved, 1129, 1130. Knowledge of God, how far attained to by the ancient philosophers, 1180, 1181. What knowledge is required in Preachers, 1183, 1184. If a people reject knowledge, they are near to ruin, 1186. They that have it, must use it, 1187. Knowledge of God, how confused in the wicked, 1255. The faithful know him in Christ, 1256. We cannot rightly know the father, but by the Son, 1259, 1260. Knowledge will not tarry long behind goodness, 1474, 1475. What mars it, 1476. It is pleasing to man's nature, 1526, 1527. The strange properties of knowledge, 1528, 1529. Grace preferred to knowledge, 1531. Yet not to be disjoined, 1532, 1533. The various kinds of knowledge, 1534. The manifold differences of it, 1535, to 1544. The knowledge of Christ swallows up all, 1546. How we best know him, 1547, 1548. Wherein knowledge differs from other virtues, 1572. Commended to us by an Apologue, Page 1573



    L

    • LAbour in goodness, acceptable wares in heaven, 1144. The wicked labor, 1390. Why not we more for salvation? Page 1391
    • Lacke of worldly things trouble us, not of spiritual, Page 184, 185
    • Ladders two, to heaven, Page 486
    • Last days, what they are, Page 1132
    • Laughter, how in God, Page 1149, 1150
    • Law it hath her office still, 116. Law and Gospel met on the Mount, 331, 332. Both testify one truth, 339, 340. A perfect truth, 436. The whole Decalogue broken by covetousness, 921, 922. Law of God, the right way, 931, 932. The rule of all rules, 1112, 1113. Never to be separated from the Gospel, 1117. 1120. Given in terror, 1166. Given in fire, and in fire required, Page 1234
    • Lawfull things may be abused, Page 557
    • Lawyers, corrupt and covetous ones, Page 918
    • Learning secular, how useful, 206. What required in a Minister, 278, 280. The use, or abuse of it, 290. Not to be quite abandoned, 293. Some good to be done with it, 376. Learn we may from the very beasts, 837. Learning human compared to Balaam's Ass, 973, 974. Yet requisite in Divines, for the confutation of Atheists, 1174. It cannot well be spared, 1184, 1185. A man's ornament, Page 1454, 1455, 1456
    • Libellers against Statesmen, malicious sinners, Page 820
    • Liberty, the pretence of conspiracy, 1007 1008. It is fourfold. Corporal, 1013. Conscientiall, 1014. Spiritual, 1015. Sensuall, 1016. Christians only have true liberty, 1027, 1028. Libertines, their brotherhood, Page 155
    • Life, from whom, 53. The foundation of life eternal, to be laid here below, 245, 246. Temporal life, a Tabernacle, 253. The Saints willingly part with it, 262. Not to be forsaken till God calls for it, 263, 264. Transitory, yet doated on, 342. Life of man much shortened, 540, In respect of God, as nothing, Page 1263, 1264
    • Light, it expelleth darkness of all sorts, 352, 353. The nature of light, and differences, 355. Metaphoricall lights, 356, 357. Light of truth, our happy guide, Page 358, 359
    • Long-suffering of God, how gracious, 1283, 1284. Taught us by his own example. Ibid. It invites us to repentance, 1296, 1297. How it is abused Page 1412. 1414
    • Lord; Christ is ours, 175. His Lordship manifested, Page 695, 696, 697, &c.
    • Lot, a righteous man, 640. Notwithstanding some faults noted in him, 647, 648. His wife become a monument, Page 1485, 1486
    • Lo • , of the Saints, Page 22
    • Love of God to us, only through Christ, 320. Love of Christ to us beyond measure, 321, 322. God's love to us, infinite, 401. Without any cause in us, Page 402
    • Love, the life of labor, 100. The love of God is ever coupled with the love of our brother, 150. Most due to Christ, 180. It assures us of our calling, 219. They that know Christ, cannot but love him, 396, 397. The deficiency of our love to him, 402. Love will not endure the dishonor of those they love, 664. It is the ciment of Christianity, 1099. Store of love in the world, but much of it is naught, 1384. What good love will do, 1385. It should be most fervent in Ministers, 1432, 1433. The sweetening of all doctrines, 1470. If we know Christ, we will love him, Page 1547, 1548
    • Lust, what it is, and how taken, 87. Of what latitude, 89. The progeny she brings forth, 90, 91, &c. The abundance of lusts in men, 1152, 1153. Cruel masters, 1155, 1156. They lead to a woeful end, 1158. The fatalitie of it, Page 734, 735
    • Lying against conscience, a heinous and willful sin, Page 814



    M

    • MAgicke, too often diabolical, Page 941
    • Magistrates must do Justice impartially, 463. How to be qualefied, 825, 826. Some given to covetousness, Page 917, 918
    • Majesty of Christ, 303. 311. Many demonstrations of it, 312. Seene, even in his humility, Page 332
    • Malice, the cause of heresies, 383, 384. It is ever most watchful, 385, 386. A spiteful and self-willed sin, 811, 812. A rancorous vice, 822, 823. 845. Wickedly foolish, 942. A swelling sin, Page 993
    • Man, reasons why Christ did redeem mankind lost, and not the lost Angels, 523, 524. If God spared not the revolting Angels, sinful man hath cause to tremble, 527, 528. He hath made all creatures miserable, by making himself so, 539, 540. Though his Soveraigntie be abridged, yet still he hath a Lordship over the creatures, 582, 583. All men are defiled, 868. Man, a Bark, or a Chariot, 1158. All creatures made for man, yet he short of them all in thankfulness to God, 1197. Yea, rebellious against his will, 1199. Man, how he is a little world, Page 1329, 1330.
    • Marriage spiritual, 79, 80. Proved, 176. Vnlawfull marriages, 553. The causes of many inconveniencies, 554, 556. In a fit marriage, there is Society, 583. Proprietie, 584. Equality, 585. The end of marriage, 586. It is the remedy for lust, 748. Our marriage to CHRIST, indissoluble, Page 1496, 1497
    • Mariners, not always tamed by the dangers of the sea, 1193, 1194. Their antiquity, and honor, 581. Carelesse Mariners, and secure Christians, Page 1237
    • Mass, whether lawful to be present at it, Page 390, 391
    • Means must be used, or no hope of the end, 209, 210, 211. Otherwise to look for it, a foolish presumption, 802, 803. Weakenesse of means, no hindrance to the Divine operation, 973. We must use those that be ordained of God, 1038 The more means granted, the greater measure of goodness required, 1186, 1187. All subordinate to the Divine Providence, 1221, 1222. If we do not use them, in vain we complain of God's slackness, 1278. God hath ordained means, 751. And abundance of them to salvation, Page 1444
    • Mediator, but one, Page 333
    • Meekness, opposed to self-willednesse, Page 817
    • Merchants, a calling of great antiquity, and profitable use, 446. Yet not without danger of sin, 447. Merchants of spiritual traficke, how they are fraughted, 1143, 1144, &c. How wise they should be, Page 1238
    • Mercy becomes Christians, 235. The mercy of God never sleeps to us, 487. None to be looked for, except in this life, 524, 525. God the Father of mercies, yet most just, 684. Mercy to be shown to the dumb creatures, 968, 969. The mercy and justice of God, have their vicissitudes, 1214, 1245. Want of it, is damnable, Page 1424
    • Merits, none in us, whether in our faith, or good works, 115. Why none can be in us, 164. Not in our best actions, Page 225
    • Metaphors, the use of them, Page 1304, 1305
    • Midst, usually the place or position of Christ, Page 1329
    • Mindfulnesse of good duties, urged, Page 1120, 1121
    • Ministry, how to be discharged, 12. Of great labor, 146. 281, 282. The instrumental means of salvation, 254. Ministers of God's word, why men, 364. Yet men of God, 365. Holiness, a profitable, but no inseparable annection to them, 365. Their enforced poverty, 451, 452, 453. Not to be contemned, 873. Corrupt ones, compared to clouds, in diverse respects, 982, 983. Their office is still to be calling upon us, Page 1102
    • Miracles wrought by Christ, testified his Deity, 311. Popish miracles, how frivolous, Page 821
    • Miseries incident to Christians, 136. Deserved by us all, 137, Miserie, how a darkness, 348. Compared to waters, for abundance of them, 1209. Great waters, yet shall not drown the faithful, 1217, 1218. The misery of covetous Churls, 962. Of this world, Page 1376
    • Moderation, required in all our actions, 123 To 133. Moderate estate best, Page 1555
    • Modestie, still to be observed, Page 660, 661
    • Mortification, how effected, Page 425, 426, 752
    • Mortality of our bodies, 1207. In regard of eternity, as nothing, 1263. A figure of our mortality, presented to us, 1329, 1330. The necessity of it, Page 1337, 1338
    • Mount, why so often chosen by Christ, Page 329
    • Multitude, commonly prone to innovation, 384, 385. A multitude of sinners, 427. They carry away many, 428. No warrant for us, 433. Multitude of small sins, pernicious, Page 1156
    • Murmurers against our just government, seditious sinners, 821. Compared to frogs, Page 836
    • Mutiners, no less than rebels Page 821



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    • NAmes, why imposed, 3. Why changed, 4. Why prefixed to Apostolical writings, Page 5
    • Natures insufficiency, 21. Our natural estate, 57. It fights against grace, 85. It is full of ignorance, 120. The natural man sees not spiritual things, 187, 188. Natures light, 356. Our nature is greedy of sin, 428, 429. The disability of it to any good, 633. Nature affects a licentious religion, 1016, 1017. The misery of our estate by nature, 1036, 1037. Mans nature, apt to run out, 1070. The strong force of it in us, 1089, 1090. Natures light, how far it shined to the old philosophers, 1180. Our natural estate, to be deplored, Page 1490, 1491
    • Necessity, none to sin, except a Posteriore, 648. Necessity of our perishing, none, Page 1289, 1299
    • Neutralitie, a kind of denying Christ, Page 393
    • Newnesse of life, required, Page 1368
    • Night works, to be suspected, 351. The vicissitude of night and day, established by God, 352. Night, the witness of many dark deeds, 859, 860. The opportunity for thieves, 1318, 1319. Their conjectures refuted, who appoint the last Judgment to be in the night, Page 1320
    • Noah, a Preacher of righteousness, 558. He did faithfully execute his office, 559. His faith, illustrious, Page 578, 579
    • Nobility of Christ, Page 317, 318
    • Noise: the dissolution of the world shall be with a great noise, Page 1322, 1323
    • Numbers must not carry us from the truth, 433, 434. Number of souls preserved in the Ark, Page 585



    O

    • Obedience, the proof of Grace, 169. To Christ, most due, 179. A sign of election, if it be integral, 219, 220, 221. It must be right-handed, 222, 223. The effect of faith, 579. The foundation of it, to be laid in knowledge, 845, 846. The true improvement of knowledge, 1039, 1040. 1077, 1078. The way of righteousness, 1062, 1063. The obedience of all creatures to the word of God, 1196, 1197. The proof of godliness, Page 1339
    • Obduratnesse in sin, how fearful an estate, Page 1078, 1079
    • Occasion giving of sin, not blameless, 1403. Occasion of sin, to be avoided, Page 1523
    • Offenders, open and notorious, to be denied holy things, Page 870, 871
    • Old things may be good or evil, 192, 193 Old, in what sense taken, 546. Old age and the world in its decay, compared, 1137, 1138, 1139, 1140. It is not safe to defer repentance until old age, Page 1269
    • Omniscience of God, the universal book wherein all our sins are written, Page 1245, 1246, 1247
    • Opportunity, how highly to be valued, 252, 253. Not to be slipped, 266. Ever to be laid hold upon, 1265. By no means to be neglected, Page 1269, 1270
    • Oppression, a grievous sin, 130, 131. Against charity, 153. 346. Against the faith, 395. Oppressors are hellish merchants, 457. Wolves, 835. The fearful end of oppression, 957, 958 Order; the world could not consist without it, Page 828
    • Ordinances of GOD to be observed, Page 1038
    • Original sin, Page 497



    P

    • PApisme, in many points a doctrine of wantonness, 3006, 1007. What shifts are made to save it, 119. Papists, their brotherhood, 154. They lock up the Scriptures, 183. What the Hierarchy of Rome gets by that, and keeping men in darkness, 349, 350. They pretend the Name of Christ, 374, 375. All their labor is to corrupt our faith, 387, 388. They are Denyers of Christ, in many respects, 392, 393. Their vain boasts against the Gospel, 548, 549. they misconstrue God's Judgments, 618 Popish Priests, what kind of merchants, 448, 449. All their projects aim at their own profits, 458. They have forsaken the right way, 933. They frustrate the whole Decalogue, 934. Their injury to the Gospel, and our reason of forsaking them. Ibid. Their head, and Balaam, compared, 937, 938. Their miracles 971, 972. They swell in great words, 996. Eight of their cunning pretences, 999, 1000. Their doctrines plausible to flesh and blood, 1002, 1003. The falsehood of their promises, 1010. What manner of persons are commonly perverted by them, 1016. How they renounce the world, 1045. Wherefore they so magnify S t Peter, 1110, 1111. Their strange rules and orders, 1118. How they justle out the sacred Canons, 1119. They are enemies to Princes, Page 761
    • Paradise, how reserved by the Romists from the universal conflagration of the world Page 1331
    • Partaking of the Divine nature, how, 70, 71, 72, Partaking of others sins, nine ways, Page 437, 438, 439
    • Paritie of sins, an idle dream, Page 1049
    • Patience, 135. Motives to it, 136, 137. Christian, far beyond the naturian patience, 139. Taught by Christ, 140. Heartned and directed by godliness, 141, 142. No patience in hell, 512. God doth exercise our patience, 577, 578. His patience, admirable, 604. It is a celestial merchandise, 1144. The patience of GOD leads to repentance, 1272. Patience should have her perfect work in us, 1285. All virtues are lost without it, 1286. We cannot miss it, without sin; 1344, 1351, 1352. God's patience invites us to amendment, 1296. Ours must be fortified, 693, 694. How God's is provoked, 1412, 1413. Required of us, 1414. The want of it, bemoaned, 1424. The victory of patience, Page 1428, 1429
    • Patrons, who be the corrupt ones, Page 450. 456 917
    • Paul much praised by Peter, 1430, &c. his honor, Page 1435, 1436
    • Peace inward, the effect of faith, 18. The fruit of the Gospel 34. The different acceptions of peace, 36. It signifies all temporal blessings, 37. The daughter of grace, Ibid. The image of bless, 233. What peace is to be expected here, 374. Peace to be kept at home, 419. Peace in what things to be labored for, in what not, 909. How to be kept, Page 1406, 1407, &c.
    • Penmen of the holy Scriptures spare not themselves, Page 363
    • Perfection, how much in this life, 38. We must grow to it by degrees, 103, 104, 105. The perfection of a Christian, wherein it consists, 565. Page 1105, 1106
    • Perjury, an execrable sin, & willful, Page 814, 815
    • Persecutors of Christians deny Christ, 394. Persecution, the Lot of the Saints, Page 1146
    • Perseverance, the crown of all graces, 932, 933. Sure of comfort, 1405. Ten motives to it, 1501 to 1006. Rules to keep it, four, 1507, 1508. Ever to be pursued, Page 1560, 1561
    • Persons, not respected with God, Page 13, 20
    • Perswasion, what it is in Christians, Page 1419, 1420
    • Peters revelation concerning his death, 267 Why Peter is so extolled by the Papists, 1110, 1111. He commends Paul, 1430. And refers to us to him, Page 1446
    • Pestilence, a heavy judgment, Page 1212
    • Philosophical dreams, 289. What knowledge the Philosophers had of God, Page 1180, 1181
    • Piety, wherein it consists, 143. 145. Ever joined with brotherly kindness, Page 149
    • Pleased, God is with none but in Christ, Page 319
    • Pleasure temporal uncertain, yet too much sought for, 342. Pleasures dangerous, without their limits, 557. It is fickle, 858 Vain pleasure, a Sorceresse, 861. Whether lawfully to be used, Ibid. How it may be taken without sin, 862. Sensuall pleasure, to be avoided, Page 1035
    • Poetical fictions vain, Page 289, 290
    • Politicians, their abilities, Page 1534, 1535
    • Poor, the object of our charity, 159. Not spared by God, if they be impenitent, 527. Not to be despised of us, without heinous sin, 626, 627. Poorenesse in spirit, a heavenly grace, Page 1144
    • Power of God and man, 46, 47. The knowledge of God's power humbleth us, Ibid. Our power to be regulated by reason, 819. The power of God infinite, 971. It made and can dissolve the world, Page 2175, 1176
    • Practice, the visible proof of righteousness, 646. 682. The life of hearing, 1124. To be joined with contemplation, Page 1334
    • Praises of God, done many ways, 45. The praise of virtue, necessary, Page 249. 345
    • Prayer, it must be made in faith, and faith grounded upon promise, 44, 45. Whose prayers are not heard, 404. Prayer not to be slacked, because the desire is not presently granted, 944. Fervent prayer is good, but for allowed benefits, 946. It should be frequent, 972. A means to improve grace, Page 1521
    • Preachers, their necessary use, 119. Preaching breaks up the fallow ground, and sows the seed of grace, 163. It is commonly opposed, 206, 207. Preachers are remembrancers, 254, 255. They are taken away for three reasons, 259, 260. Their life should be answerable to their doctrine, 281. They must deliver their message, 294. An honorable calling, 558. God looks to the measure of their pains, not to the success, 560. They may save others, not themselves, 588. They have a kind of government over their flocks, 824. They are not to be favorable to enormous sinners in their reprehensions, 833. They are compared to wels, 975, 976, 977. They may speak the truth of God, though they be ill men, 960, 961. How the world requites them for their kindness, 966. Sinful ones convinced, Ibid. Compared to clouds, 980, 981. In what respects, profitable clouds, 984. Contemned by the world, 1072.