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Commentary on 2 Peter

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

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1072. They may command but shall go without, 1114, 1115. They must be men of excellent knowledge, 1183, 1184. Their love to the people, 1098, 1099. It ought to be in a great measure, 1253, 1254. It is so manifested, Page 1471. 1473
  • Precipitation, or over-hastiness puts business out of order, 1273. God cannot be charged with it, Page 1274
  • Preordination of plagues for impenitent sinners Page 485
  • Preparation for death, continually necessary, 275, 276. Preparation of ourselves for heaven, what, 500, 501. Preparation for the day of judgment, 533, 534. 1232, 1233. By reason of the suddenness of it, 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



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    • 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



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    • 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



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    • 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



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