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Existence and Attributes of God

Stephen Charnock (1628-1680) · 678,061 words · 3014 min

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bodily attributed to God, do not prove him a Body, Pag. 118, 119
  • What sort of them attributed to him, ib.
  • With a respect to the Incarnation of Christ, ib.
  • Mercies of God to Sinners, how Wonderful, Pag. 99, 100
    • A Motive to Worship, Pag. 130
    • Former ones should be remembered, when we come to beg new ones, Pag. 180
    • Its Plea for Fallen Man, Pag. 376, 377
    • It and Justice reconciled in Christ, Pag. 377
    • Holiness of God in them to be observed, Pag. 557
    • Contempt and abuse of them, vide Goodness.
    • One foundation of God's Dominion, Pag. 709, 710
    • Call for our Love of him, Pag. 676, 677, 678
    • And Obedience to him, Pag. 680, 681
    • Given after great Provocations, Pag. 805, 806
  • Merit of Christ, not the cause of the first resolution of God to Redeem, Pag. 621, 622
    • Not the cause of Election, Pag. 728, 729
    • Man uncapable of, Pag. 764
  • Miracles prove the Being of a God, though not wrought to that end, Pag. 5, 38
    • Wrought by God but seldom, Pag. 371
    • The Power of God, Pag. 438
    • The Power of God seen no more in them, than in the ordinary works of Nature, Pag. 450, 451
    • Many wrought by Christ, Pag. 460
  • Moral Goodness encouraged by God, Pag. 652
  • Moral Law, commands things good in their own Nature, Pag. 51, 723
    • The Holiness of God appears in in it, Pag. 508
    • Holy in the matter and manner of his Precepts, Pag. 508, 509
    • Reaches the Inward Man, Pag. 509, 510
    • Perpetual, ib. V. Law of God.
    • Publish'd with Majesty, Pag. 724
  • Mortification; how difficult, Pag. 101
  • Motions of all Creatures in God, Pag. 449
    • Variety of them in a single Creature, Pag. 449, 450
  • Mountains; how useful, Pag. 23
    • Before the Deluge, Pag. 181
  • Mouth; how curiously contrived, Pag. 30
      • N.
    • NAture of Man must be sanctified before it can perform Spiritual Worship, Pag. 142
      • Human highly advanced, by its union with the Son of God, Pag. 628, 629
      • Human and Divine in Christ, vide Union.
    • Night, how necessary, Pag. 350
      O.
    • OBedience to God, not true unless it be universal, Pag. 61
      • Due to him upon the account of his Eternity, Pag. 202
      • To him, should be prefer'd before Obedience to Men. V. Laws.
      • Of Faith only, acceptable to God, Pag. 336
      • Distinct, but inseparable from Faith, ib.
      • Shall be rewarded, Pag. 354
      • Redemption, a strong Incentive to it, Pag. 387, 388
      • Without it nothing will avail us, Pag. 580, 581
      • The goodness of God in accepting it, though imperfect, Pag. 656, 657
      • Due to God for his goodness, Pag. 680, 681, 682
      • Due to God as a Sovereign, Pag. 779, 780, 781
      • What kind of it due to him, Pag. 781, 782, 783, 784
    • Objects; the proposing them to Man, which God knows he will use to sin, no blemish to God's Holiness, Pag. 533 ad 536
    • Obstinacy in Sin, a contempt of Divine Power, Pag. 480, 481
    • Omissions of Prayer, a practical denial of God's Knowledge, Pag. 328
      • Of Duty, a contempt of his Goodness, Pag. 666
    • Omnipresence; an Attribute of God, Pag. 243
      • Denied by some Jews and Heathens; but acknowledged by the wisest amongst them, Pag. 244, 245
      • To be understood negatively, Pag. 245
      • Influential on all Creatures, Pag. 245, 246
      • Limited to Subjects, capacitated for this or that kind of it, Pag. 246
      • Essential, ib.
      • In all places, Pag. 246, 247, 248
      • With all Creatures, Pag. 248
      • Without mixture with them, or division of himself, Pag. 248, 249
      • Not by multiplication or extension, Pag. 249
      • But totally, ib.
      • In imaginary spaces beyond the World, Pag. 249, 250, 251
      • God's incommunicable Property, Pag. 251, 252
      • Arguments to prove his Omnipresence, Pag. 252 ad 256
      • Objections against it answered, Pag. 257 ad 261
      • Ascribed to Christ, Pag. 261, 262
      • Proves God a Spirit, Pag. 262
      • And his Providence, ib.
      • And Omniscient and Incomprehensible, Pag. 263
      • Calls for Admiration of him, Pag. 264
      • Forgotten and contemned, 264, Pag. 265
      • Terrible to Sinners, Pag. 265, 266
      • Comfortable to the Righteous, and wherein, Pag. 268
      • Should be often thought of, and the advantages of so doing, Pag. 268 ad 270
    • Opposition in the hearts of Men naturally against the Will of God, Pag. 57
      P.
    • PArdon; God's Infinite Knowledge a comfort when we reflect on it, or seek it, Pag. 334 †
      • The Power of God in granting it, and giving a sense of it, Pag. 470, 471
      • The Spring of all other Blessings, Pag. 698
      • Always accompanied with Regeneration, ib.
      • Punishment remitted upon it, Pag. 698, 699
      • 'It is perfect, Pag. 699
      • Of God, and his alone, gives a full security, Pag. 769, 770
    • Patience under Afflictions a duty, Pag. 415
      • God's Immutability should teach us it, Pag. 237, 238
      • A sense of God's Holiness would promote it, Pag. 555, 556
      • And his Goodness, Pag. 688
      • Motives to it, Pag. 784, 785, 786
      • The true Nature of it, Pag. 786
      • Consideration of God's Patience to us would promote it, Pag. 822
    • Patience of God, how admirable, Pag. 99, 100, 263, 806, 807, 808
      • His Wisdom the ground of it, Pag. 396
      • Evidences his Power, Pag. 460, 789
      • 'It is a Property of the Divine Nature, Pag. 791
      • A part of Goodness and Mercy, but differs from both, Pag. 792, 793
      • Not insensible, constrained or faint-hearted, Pag. 793, 794
      • Flows from his fullness of Power over himself, Pag. 794, 795
      • Founded in the Death of Christ, Pag. 795, 796
      • His Veracity, Holiness and Justice, no bars to it, Pag. 796, 797, 798
      • Exercis'd towards our First Parents, Gentiles and Israelites, Pag. 799, 800
      • Wherein it is evidenced, Pag. 800 ad 808
      • The reason of its exercise, Pag. 808 ad 814
      • 'It is abused, and how, Pag. 814, 815
      • The abuse of it sinful and dangerous, Pag. 816, 817, 818
      • Exercis'd towards Sinners and Saints, Pag. 819
      • Comfortable to all, Pag. 819, 820
      • Especially to the Righteous, ib.
      • Should be meditated on, and the advantage of so doing, Pag. 821, 822
      • We should admire and bless God for it, with Motives so to do, Pag. 823, 824, 825
      • Should not be presumed on, Pag. 825 826
      • Should be imitated, Pag. 826, 827
    • Poems; fewer Sacred ones good, than of any other kind, Pag. 86
    • Peace; God only can speak it to troubled Souls, Pag. 471
    • Permission of Sin, what it is, and that 'tis no blemish to God's Holiness, Pag. 522 ad 529
    • Persecutions; the Goodness of God seen in them, Pag. 657, 658
      • Vide Apostasy.
    • Perseverance of the Saints a Gospel Doctrine, Pag. 333
      • Certain, Pag. 235, 486, 487, 551
      • Motives to labor after it, Pag. 238, 239
      • Depends on God's Power and Wisdom, Pag. 333, 471
    • Pleasures, Sensual men strangely addicted to, Pag. 86
      • We ought to take heed of them, Pag. 107
    • Poor, the Wisdom of God in making some so, Pag. 356, 357
    • Power infinite belongs to God, Pag. 421
      • The meaning of the word, Pag. 421
      • Absolute and ordinate Pag. 421, 422,
      • Distinct from Will and Wisdom, Pag. 424
      • Gives life and activity to his other Perfections, Pag. 425
      • Of a larger extent than some others, ibid.
      • Originally and essentially in the Nature of God, and the same with his Essence, Pag. 426, 427
      • Incommunicable to the Creature ibid. & Pag. 431
      • Infinite and Eternal, Pag. 427 ad 432
      • Bounded by his Decree, Pag. 432
      • Not infringed by the impossibility of doing some things, Pag. 432 ad 435
      • Arguments to prove it is in God, Pag. 435 ad 439
      • Appears in Creation, Pag. 439 ad 445
      • In the Government of the world, Pag. 445 ad 456
      • In Redemption, Pag. 456 ad 461
      • In the publication and propagation of the Gospel, Pag. 461 ad 467
      • In planting and preserving Grace and pardoning sin, Pag. 467 ad 472
      • Ascribed to Christ, Pag. 472 ad 476
      • And to the Holy Ghost, Pag. 476
      • Infers his Blessedness, Immutability and Providence, Pag. 476, 477
      • A ground of Worship, Pag. 478
      • And for the belief of the Resurrection, Pag. 479
      • Contemn'd and abused, and wherein, Pag. 480 ad 484
      • Terrible to the Wicked, Pag. 484
      • Comfortable to the Righteous, and wherein Pag. 485 ad 487
      • Should be meditated on, Pag. 488
      • And trusted in, and why, Pag. 489, 490
      • Should teach us humility and submission, Pag. 491
      • And the fear of him, and not of man, Pag. 491, 492
    • Praise, consideration of God's Wisdom and Goodness, would help us to give it to him, Pag. 409, 689, 690
      • Men backward to it, Pag. 697
      • Due to him, Pag. 776
    • Prayer, men impatient if God do not answer it, Pag. 92, 93
      • We should take the most melting opportunities for secret Prayer, Pag. 178
      • Not unnecessary, because of God's Immutability & Knowledge, Pag. 220, 231, 335
      • to Creatures a wrong to God's Omniscience, Pag. 322, 323
      • Omission of it a practical denial of God's Knowledge, Pag. 328
      • 'It is a comfort that the most secret ones are understood by God, Pag. 331
      • God's Wisdom a comfort in delaying or denying an answer to them, Pag. 406
      • For success on wicked Designs, how sinful, Pag. 543
      • God fit to be trusted in for an answer of them, Pag. 551
      • The goodness of God in answering them, Pag. 654, 655
      • His Goodness a comfort in them Pag. 682
      • God's Dominion an Encouragement to, and ground of it, Pag. 770, 771, 779
    • Preparation, we should examine ourselves concerning it before worship, Pag. 162
      • Consideration of God's Knowledge would promote it, Pag. 338 †
      • How great a sin to come into God's Presence without it, Pag. 544
    • Presence of Men more regarded than God's, Pag. 86, 87
      • We should seek for God's special and influential Presence, Pag. 270, 271
        • Vide Omnipresence.
    • Preserve himself no Creature can, Pag. 19, 447, 448
      • God only can the World, Pag. 29
      • The Power of God seen in it, Pag. 445
      • One foundation of God's Dominion, Pag. 709
    • Presumption springs from vain imaginations of God, Pag. 95, 96
      • A contempt of God's Dominion, Pag. 761, 762
    • Pride how common, Pag. 82, 83
      • An exalting ourselves above God, Pag. 89
      • The thoughts of God's Eternity should abate it, Pag. 197, 198, 199
      • An affront to God's Wisdom, Pag. 405
      • Of our own Wisdom, foolish, Pag. 411
      • God's Mercies abused to it, Pag. 668
      • A contempt of his Dominion, Pag. 761
    • Principles, better known by actions than words, Pag. 49
      • Some kept up by God to facilitate the Reception of the Gospel, Pag. 392
    • Propagation of Creatures, the Power of God seen in it, Pag. 448, 449
      • Of Mankind, one end of God's patience, Pag. 811, 812
    • Prophecies prove the Being of God, Pag. 39
    • Promises, Men break them with God, Pag. 66, 67, 232, 233
      • Of God shall be performed, Pag. 196, 486, 821
      • We should believe them, and leave God to his own season of accomplishing them, Pag. 342
      • Distrust of them a contempt of God's Wisdom, Pag. 405
      • The Holiness of God in the performance of them to be observed, Pag. 557
    • Providenc of God proved, Pag. 262, 317, 318, 477
      • Vide Government of the World.
        • Especially to his Church, and the meanest in it, 272, 273
        • Extends to all Creatures, 646 ad 649
        • Distrust of it a contempt of God's Goodness, 665
    • Punishments, v. Judgments.
      • God always just in them, Pag. 100, 671
      • Of sinners Eternal, Pag. 193, 194
      • The wisdom of God seen in them Pag. 370
      • Necessarily follow sins, Pag. 547, 548, 549
      • Do not impeach God's Goodness Pag. 598, ad 604
      • Not God's primary intention, Pag. 601
      • Inflicting them a branch of God's Dominion, Pag. 726, 727
      • Necessarily follow upon it, Pag. 767
      • Of the Wicked unavoidable and terrible, Pag. 767, 768
    • Purgatory held by the Jews, Pag. 73
      R.
    • RAin, an instance of God's Wisdom and Power, Pag. 349, 418
    • Reason should not be the measure of God's Revelations, Pag. 413, 414
    • Repentance, how ascribed to God, Pag. 224, 225, 2 • 6
      • A reasonable Condition, Pag. 389
      • The end of God's patience, Pag. 810, 811
      • The consideration of God's patience would make us frequent and serious in the practice of it, Pag. 821
    • Reprobation consistent with God's Holiness and Justice, Pag. 522
    • Reproof may be for evil ends, Pag. 93
    • Reputation, men more concerned for their own, than God's glory, Pag. 83
    • Resignation of ourselves, would flow from consideration of God's Wisdom, Pag. 414, 415
      • Should from that of his Sovereignty, Pag. 775
    • Restraint of Men and Devils by God in mercy to man, Pag. 357, 451, 452, 527, 528, 650, 744, 745
    • Resolutions good, how soon broken, Pag. 232
    • Resurrection of the Body no incredible Doctrine, Pag. 319, 320, 479, 480
      • The Power of God in that of Christ, Pag. 460
      • Of Men, ascribed to Christ, Pag. 476
    • Reverence necessary in the worship of God, Pag. 150, 151
    • Revelations of God are not to be censured, Pag. 403, 404
    • Riches, inordinate desire after them a hindrance to Spiritual worship Pag. 177
      • God exercises a Sovereignty in bestowing them, Pag. 740
    • Rivers, how useful, Pag. 349
    • Rome, why called Babylon Pag. 13
      S.
    • SAcraments, the goodness of God in appointing them, Pag. 639
    • Salvation of men, how desirous God is of it, Pag. 636, 637, 638, 808, 809, 810
    • Sanctification deserves our thanks as much as Justification, Pag. 698
      • Vide Holiness.
    • Satisfaction of the Soul only in God, Pag. 36, 37, 127, 128, 200
      • Necessary for sin, Pag. 549, 550
    • Skeptics must own a first Cause, Pag. 21
    • Scoffing at Holiness a great sin, Pag. 543, 544
      • And at Convictions in others, Pag. 553
    • Scriptures are wrested and abused, Pag. 58, 59, 79
      • Ought to be prized and studied, Pag. 107
      • The not fulfilling some Predictions in them, doth not prove God to be changeable, Pag. 226, 227
      • Of the Old Testament give credit to the New, and of the New illustrate those of the Old Pag. 334, 335
      • All Truth to be drawn thence, ibid.
      • Of the Old Testament to be studied, ibid.
      • Something in them suitable to all sorts of men, Pag. 354, 355
      • Written so as to prevent foreseen Corruptions, Pag. 355, 356
      • To study Arguments from them to defend sin, a contempt of God's Holiness, Pag. 542, 543
      • The goodness of God in giving them as a Rule, Pag. 652, 653, 654
    • Sea, how useful, Pag. 23
      • The Wisdom of God seen in it, Pag. 349
      • And his Power, Pag. 419, 446, 447
    • Searching the Hearts of Men, how to be understood of God, Pag. 287
    • Seasons, the variety of them necessary, Pag. 350
    • Secrecy a poor refuge to sinners, Pag. 335
    • Secret sins cause stings of Conscience, Pag. 35, 313
      • Known to God, Pag. 263, 265, 334, 335
      • Shall be revealed in the Day of Judgment, Pag. 318, 319
      • Prayers and Works known to God, Pag. 331
    • Security, Men abuse God's blessings to it Pag. 668
    • Self, man most opposite to those Truths that are most contrary to it, Pag. 60
      • Man sets up as his own Rule, Pag. 70
      • Dissatisfied with Conscience when it contradicts its desires, Pag. 71, 72
      • Meerly the agreeableness to it the spring of many materially good Actions, Pag. 72, 73, 90 ad 94, 153, 154
      • Would make it the rule of God, Pag. 74 ad 80
      • And his own end, and the end of all Creatures, and of God; vid. End.
      • Applauding thoughts of it, how common, Pag. 82
      • Men ascribe the glory of what they have or do to it, Pag. 82, 83
      • Desire Doctrines pleasing to it, Pag. 83
      • Highly concerned for any injury done to it, ibid.
      • Obey it against the light of Conscience, Pag. 84
      • How great a sin this is, Pag. 84, 85
      • The giving mercies pleasing to it, the only cause of many men's love to God Pag. 90, 91
      • Men unwieldy to their duty where it is not concerned, Pag. 91
      • How sinful this is, Pag. 94
      • The great Enemy to the Gospel and Conversion, Pag. 101, 102
    • Self-love threefold, Pag. 80, 81
      • The cause of all sin, and hindrance of Conversion, Pag. 81, 82
    • Service of God, how unwilling men are to it, Pag. 63, 64
      • Slight in the performance of it Pag. 64 65
      • Shew not that natural vigor in it, as they do in their worldly business, Pag. 65
      • Quickly weary of it, Pag. 65, 66
      • Desert it, Pag. 66
      • The presence of God a comfort in it, Pag. 268
      • Hypocritical pretences for avoiding it, a denial of God's Knowledge Pag. 328
      • A sense of God's Goodness would make us faithful in it, Pag. 681
      • Some called to and fitted for more eminent ones in their Generation, Pag. 739 ad 744
      • Omissions of it a contempt of God's Sovereignty, Pag. 762, 763
    • Sin founded in a secret Atheism and Self-love. Pag. 50, 81
      • Reflects a dishonor on all the Attributes of God, Pag. 50
      • Implies God is unworthy of a Being, Pag. 50, 51
      • Would make him a foolish, impure and miserable Being, Pag. 51, 52
      • More troublesome than Holiness, Pag. 63
      • To make it our end, a great debasing of God, Pag. 87, 88
      • No excuse, but an aggravation that we serve but one, Pag. 87
      • Abstinence from it proceeds many times from an evil Cause, Pag. 90, 91, 325, 326
      • God's name, word and mercies made use of to countenance it, Pag. 94, 542, 543, 668, 669, 815
      • Spiritual to be avoided, Pag. 128
      • 'It is folly, Pag. 193
      • Past ones we should be humbled for, Pag. 197, 336 †
      • Hath brought a Curse on the Creation, Pag. 207
        • Vide Creatures.
      • Past known to God, Pag. 282, 283
      • All known to him, and how, Pag. 287, 288, 289, 336 †, 337 †
      • A sense of God's Knowledge and Holiness would check it, Pag. 337, 338 †, 554, 555
      • Bounded by God, Pag. 357
      • God brings glory to himself, and good to the Creature out of it, Pag. 358 ad 366
      • God hath shewn the greatest hatred of it in redemption, Pag. 384, 385
      • A contempt of God's Power, Pag. 480, 481
      • Abhorred by God. Pag. 501, 502, 503, 547
      • In God's People more severely punished in this World than in others, Pag. 502, 503
      • God cannot be the Author of in others, or do it himself, Pag. 504, 505, 506
      • God punishes it, and cannot but do so, Pag. 511, 547, 548, 549
      • The Instruments of it detestable to God, Pag. 512
      • Opposite to the Holiness of God, Pag. 540
      • To charge it on God, or defend it by his word, a great sin, Pag. 542 543
      • Entrance of it into the World, doth not impeach God's goodness, Pag. 594, 595
      • Those that disturb Societies most signally punished in this life, Pag. 651
      • A contempt of God's Dominion, Pag. 752 753, 754
      • How much God is daily provoked by it, Pag. 806, 807, 808, 823
      • An abuse of God's Patience, Pag. 815, 816
    • Sincerity required in Spiritual worship, Pag. 143
      • Cannot be unknown to God, Pag. 330, 331
      • Consideration of God's Knowledge would promote it, Pag. 338, 339 †
    • Sinful times, in them we should be most holy, Pag. 558
    • Sinners, God hath shewn the greatest love to them, and hatred to their sins, Pag. 384, 385
      • Every thing in their possession detestable to God, Pag. 512
    • Society, the goodness of God seen in the preservation of it, Pag. 649 ad 652
      • Could not subsist without restraining Grace; v. Restraint.
    • Soul, the vastness of its capacity, and quickness of its motion, Pag. 32, 33
      • Its union to the Body wonderful, ibid.
      • God only can satisfy it; v. Satisfaction.
      • They only can converse with God, Pag. 127
      • Should be the Objects of our chiefest care, Pag. 128
      • We should worship God with them, Pag. 132, 133
      • The Wisdom and Goodness of God seen in them, Pag. 450, 607
    • Spaces imaginary beyond the World God is present with, Pag. 249, 250, 251
    • Spirit; that God is so plainly asserted but once in Scripture, Pag. 112
      • Various acceptations of the word, Pag. 113
      • That God is so, how to be understood, ibid.
      • God the only pure one, Pag. 114
      • Arguments to prove God is one, Pag. 115 ad 118.
      • Objection against it answered, Pag. 118, 119
    • Spirit of God, his assistance necessary to Spiritual Worship, Pag. 142
    • Spirits of men raised up, and ordered by God as be pleases, Pag. 743, 744
    • Subjection to our Superiors, God remits of his own right for preserving it, Pag. 651, 652
    • Success, men apt to ascribe to themselves Pag. 82
      • Not to be ascribed to ourselves, Pag. 669, 670
      • Denied by God to some, Pag. 740
    • Summer, how necessary, Pag. 350
    • Sun conveniently placed, Pag. 22, 148
      • Its motion useful, Pag. 22, 23, 25, 148
      • The Power of God seen in it, Pag. 450
    • Lord's Supper, the goodness of God in appointing it, Pag. 639
      • Seals the Covenant of Grace, Pag. 640, 641
      • In it we have Union and Communion with Christ, Pag. 641, 642
      • The neglect of it reproved, Pag. 642
    • Supererogation, an Opinion that injures the Holiness of God, Pag. 546
    • Superstition proceeds from vain imaginations of God, Pag. 95
    • Swearing by any Creature an injury to God's Omniscience, Pag. 323, 324
      T.
    • TEmptations, the Presence of God a comfort in them, Pag. 266
      • The thoughts of it would be a Shield against them, Pag. 269
      • The Wisdom and Power of God a comfort under them, Pag. 406, 486
      • The goodness manifested to his people under them, Pag. 658, 659, 660
      • The thoughts of God's Sovereignty would arm and make us watchful against them, Pag. 774
    • Thankfulness, a necessary ingredient in Spiritual worship, Pag. 148
      • Due to God, Pag. 689, 690, 777, 778, 823, 824, 825
      • A sense of his Goodness would promote it, Pag. 689
    • Theft, an Invasion of God's Dominion, Pag. 758
    • Thoughts should be often upon God, Pag. 46
      • Seldom are on him, Pag. 86, 97, 98
      • All known by God only, Pag. 285, 286 287
      • And by Christ, Pag. 316, 317
      • Cherishing evil ones, a practical denial of God's Knowledge, Pag. 327
      • Thoughts of God's Knowledge would make us watchful over them, Pag. 338 †
    • Threatenings, the not fulfilling them sometimes argue no change in God, Pag. 226, 227
      • Are conditional ibid.
      • The goodness of God in them; Pag. 613
      • Go before Judgments; v. Judgments.
    • Time cannot be infinite, Pag. 16
    • Times of bestowing Mercy God orders as a Sovereign, Pag. 741
    • Tongue, how curious a Workmanship, Pag. 31
    • Traditions, old ones generally lost, Pag. 11
      • Belief of a God not owing merely to it, ibid.
    • Transubstantiation an absurd Doctrine, Pag. 483
    • Trees, how useful, Pag. 23, 350
    • Trust in themselves men do, and not in God, Pag. 83, 84
      • We should not in the World, Pag. 199, 200, 236
      • God the fit Object of it, Pag. 329, 386, 397, 489, 551, 552 †, 678, 779
      • Means to promote it, Pag. 339 †, 773
      • Should not in our own Wisdom, Pag. 411, 412
      • In ourselves, a contempt of God's Power and Dominion, Pag. 482, 759
      • God's Power the main ground of trusting him, Pag. 489, 490
      • And sometimes the only one, Pag. 490
      • Should be placed in God against outward appearances, Pag. 558
      • Goodness the first motive of it, Pag. 678
      • More foundations of it, and motives to it under the Gospel, than under the Law, Pag. 679
      • Gives God the glory of his goodness, Pag. 679, 680
      • God's Patience to the Wicked a ground for the Righteous to trust in his promise, Pag. 821
    • Truths of God most contrary to self, man most opposite to. And to those that are most holy, spiritual, lead most to God, and relate most to him, Pag. 59, 60
      • Men inconstant in the belief of them, Pag. 231, 232
      • Corrupters of them no better than Devils, Pag. 541 †
      • Evangelical shall prevail, ibid.
      U.
    • UBiquity of Christ's Human Nature confuted, Pag. 252
    • Venial sins, an opinion that reproaches God's Holiness, Pag. 546
    • Virtue and Vice not Arbitrary things, Pag. 51
    • Unbelief, the Reason of it, Pag. 101, 102
      • A contempt of Divine Power, Pag. 483
      • And Goodness, Pag. 664, 665
    • Union of Soul and Body, an effect of Almighty Power, Pag. 33
      • Of two Natures in Christ, made no change in his Divine Nature, Pag. 224
      • Shows the Wisdom of God, Pag. 339 ad 383
      • How necessary for us, Pag. 381, 382, 383
      • Shows the Power of God, Pag. 458, 459, 460
      • Explain'd, Pag. 459, 460
        • Vide Incarnation.
    • Usurpations of Men an Invasion of God's Sovereignty, Pag. 754 755
      W.
    • WAter, an excellent Creature, Pag. 588
    • Weakness, a sensibleness of it a necessary ingredient in Spiritual Worship, Pag. 148
    • Will of God cannot be defeated, Pag. 52
      • Man averse to it; vide Man.
      • The same with his Essence, Pag. 214
      • Always accompanied with his Understanding, ibid.
      • Unchangeable, Pag. 214, 215
      • The unchangeableness of it doth not make things willed by him so, Pag. 215, 216
      • Free, Pag. 216
      • How conversant about Sin, Pag. 522
    • Will of Man not necessitated by God's Fore-knowledge, Pag. 301 ad 304
      • Of Man subject to God, Pag. 720
    • Winds how useful, Pag. 349
    • Winter, how useful, Pag. 350
    • Wisdom an Attribute of God, Pag. 337
      • What it is, and wherein it consists Pag. 338
      • Distinct from Knowledge, Pag. 338,
      • Essential, which is the same with his Essence, and personal, Pag. 339
      • In what sense God is only wise, Pag. 339 ad 343
      • Proved to be in God, Pag. 343 ad 346
      • Appears in Creation, Pag. 346 ad 351
      • In government of Man as Rational, Pag. 352 ad 357
      • As fallen and sinful, Pag. 357 ad 367
      • As restored, Pag. 367 ad 373
      • In Redemption, Pag. 373 ad 388
      • In the Condition of the Covenant of Grace, Pag. 388 ad 390
      • In the propagation of the Gospel Pag. 390 ad 395
      • Ascribed to Christ, Pag. 395
      • Renders God fit to govern the World, and inclines him actually to govern it, Pag. 395, 396
      • A ground of his Patience and Immutability in his Decrees, Pag. 396, 397
      • Makes him a fit Object of our Trust, Pag. 397
      • Infers a Day of Judgment, Pag. 398
      • Calls for a Veneration of him, ibid.
      • A ground of Prayer to him, Pag. 399
      • Prodigiously contemned, and wherein, Pag. 399 ad 405
      • Comfortable to the Righteous, Pag. 405, 406, 407
      • In Creation and Government, should be meditated on, and Motives to it, Pag. 407 ad 410
      • In Redemption to be studied and admired, Pag. 410, 411
      • To be submitted to in his Revelations, Precepts, Providences, Pag. 413, 414, 415
      • Not to be censured in any of his ways, Pag. 415
    • Wisdom; no Man should be proud of, or trust in, Pag. 411, 412
      • Should be sought from God, Pag. 412, 413
    • World; was not, and could not be from Eternity, Pag. 16, 17
      • Could not make itself, Pag. 17, 18, 19
      • No Creature could make it, Pag. 20
      • Its Harmony, Pag. 21 ad 27
      • Greedily pursued by Men, Pag. 86
      • Inordinate desires after it a great hindrance to Spiritual Worship, Pag. 177
      • Our Love and Confidence, not to be placed in it, Pag. 199, 200, 207
      • Shall not be annihilated, but refined, Pag. 205, 206, 207
        • Vide Creatures.
      • We should be sensible of the inconstancy of all things in it, Pag. 236
      • Our Thoughts should not dwell much on them, ib.
      • We should not trust or rejoice in them, ib.
      • Not to be preferred before God, Pag. 237
      • Made in the best manner, Pag. 431, 432
      • Made and richly furnished for Man, Pag. 608, 609, 610
      • A sense of God's Goodness would lift us up above it, Pag. 689
    • Worship of God; a folly to neglect it, Pag. 46
      • If not according to his Rule, no better than a worshipping the Devil, Pag. 68
      • Men prone to corrupt it with their own Rites and Inventions, Pag. 79
      • Spiritual, Men naturally have no heart to, Pag. 98
      • Cannot be right without a true Notion of God, Pag. 124, 125
      • Should be Spiritual, and Spiritually performed, Pag. 129
      • God's Spirituality the Rule, though his Attributes be the foundation of it, Pag. 130, 131, 478, 479
      • Spiritual to be due to him, manifest by the light of Nature, though not the outward Means and matter of an acceptable Worship discoverable by it, Pag. 131, 132, 133
      • Spiritual, owned to be due to God by Heathens, Pag. 132
      • Always required by God, 133 Men as much obliged to it, as to worship him at all, Pag. 134, 135
      • Ceremonial Law abolished to promote it, Pag. 135 ad 138
      • Legal Ceremonies did not promote, but rather hinder it, Pag. 136, 137
      • By them God was never well-pleased with, nor intended it should be durable, Pag. 137, 138
      • Under the Gospel 'tis more Spiritual, than under the Law, Pag. 138, 139
      • Yet doth not exclude Bodily worship, Pag. 139, 140, 141
      • In Societies, due to God, Pag. 140
      • Spiritual, what it is, and wherein it consists, Pag. 141 ad 155
      • Due to God, proved, Pag. 155 ad 160
      • Those reproved that render him none at all, Pag. 160
      • A Duty incumbent on all, ib.
      • Wholly to neglect it a great degree of Atheism, Pag. 160
      • To a false God, or in a false manner, better than a total neglect of it. Pag. 160, 161
      • Outward, not to be rested in, Pag. 161
      • We should examine ourselves of the manner of it, and in what particulars, Pag. 162 ad 164
      • Spiritual, 'tis a comfort that God requires it, Pag. 165
      • Not to give it to God, is to affront all his Attributes, Pag. 170 ad 175, 327
      • To give it him, and not that of our Spirits, is a bad sign, Pag. 173, 174
      • Meerly Carnal, uncomfortable, unacceptable, abominable, Pag. 174
      • Directions for Spiritual, Pag. 175 ad 178
      • Immutability of God, a ground of worsh p, and encouragement to it, Pag. 230, 231
      • Bringing Human Inventions into it, an affront to God's Wisdom, Pag. 402
        • V. Ceremonies.
      • A strong sense of God's Holiness would make us Reverent in it, Pag. 554
      • We should carry it holily in it, Pag. 564
      • Ingenuous, would be promoted by a sense of God's Goodness, Pag. 687
      • Slight and careless, a contempt of God's Sovereignty, Pag. 762
      • And so is omission of it, Pag. 762, 763
      • Thoughts of God's Sovereignty would make us diligent in it, Pag. 773, 774
    • Worship of Creatures is Idolatry, Pag. 123
      • Not countenanc'd by God's Omnipresence, Pag. 260
    • Wrong; God can do none, Pag. 106, 764
      Z.
    • Zeal; sometimes a base end in it, Pag. 93, 94

    ERRATA.

    PAge 7. line 17. read Principle, l. 54. what, p. 18. l. 6. Creator must, p. 50. l. 6. Principle, p. 66. l. 5. beck, p. 75. l. 22. dele a, p. 76. l. 6. discontentedly, p. 78. l. 43. contrivance, p. 103. l. 29. Man, but, p. 110. l. 48. that upon, p. 124. l. 41. a Body, but we, p. 127. l. 16. as Bodies do, p. 151. l. 31. glorious, p. 153. l. 53. seeks, p. 166. l. 37. asunder, p. 170. l. 7, Internal, p. 174. l. 37. Motive, p. 206. l. 49. dele and, p. 241. l. 30. my, p. 263. l. 16. Omniscience, p. 275. l. 17 mote, p. 307. l. 45 extent, p. 362. l. 17. add not, p. 373. l. 22. an, p. 401. l. 27. own, p. 411. l. 43. since, p. 463. l. 19. add not, p. 506. attack, p. 555. l. 7. is no, p. 585. l. 56. deify, p. 598. l. 41. nocent, p. 599. l. 56. as, p. 601. l. 29. intends, p. 641, l. 47. after Blood add, if there were not, p. 662. l. 34. upon, p. 701. l. 35. Peculiarity, p. 732. l. 48. for And r. But, p. 743. l. 33. dele as, p. 766. l. 52. another.

    FINIS.