The Saints Safety in Evil Times, Index – To the reader

The Saints Safety in Evil Times · Index – To the reader

THE TABLE.

A

ABsence of Gods Spirit discourageth us in the way to salvation, Part 1. Pag. 111

Affliction, necessary, 1. 16, 17

It happens in the Sunsnine of the Gospell, 1. 25

Small ones not regarded, make way for greater, 1. 27

Our carriage therein must bee good, 1. 140

God will deliver his out of all, 2. 94

How, 2. 95, 96

Godly afflicted more than others, and why, 1. 18

This discovers false brethren, 2. 93

Art aggravates sinne, 2. 7

Assurance of Gods love is to bee sought betimes, 1. 197

Atheisme brings judgement, 1. 28

Attributes of God are to be applyed to our selves, 1. 17…

B

A Christians best things are last, Part 1. Pag. 47. Part 2. Pag. 196

Brethren th… are false discovered by affliction, 2. 93

C

Calamity, in the common calamity the wicked dare not appeare, 1. 122

Christianity contrary to nature, 1. 145

Children of God are knowne by Gods correcting them, 1. 46

The Devill their enemy, 1. 107

These must be committed unto God, 1. 232

Church of God is his house, 1. 5

Why, 1. 6

He provides for it, 1. 7

Whether the English Church bee Gods house, 1. 13

Proved, 1. 14

The Church needs purging, 1. 15

God clenseth it when need is, 1. 17

It should severely punish sinne, 1. 23

It is Gods Spouse, 1. 80

Impregnable, 2. 31

Commonnesse of sinne is a signe that it is ripe, 1. 30

Conception of minde is like the body, 2. 2

Conscience, good feares not death, 2. 189

Constancy in sinne to be shunned, 2. 7

Correction shewes we are Gods Children, 1. 46

Covenant, wee must bee in Covenant with God, 1. 187

Creator, comfort from God as a Creator, 1. 168, 180, 184

D

Death is a departing, 2. 184

How Paul desired it, 2. 186

Not to bee feared by a Christian, 2. 192

It may be desired by a wicked man, but for some by-ends, 2. 194

Our ends must be considered. 1. 58

The death of the godly to be lamented, and why, 1. 209, 211

Their deaths a signe of judgment approaching, 1. 28. 2. 23

Deliberation in what things to bee used, 2. 179

Deliverance we have dayly from God should cause us to glorifie him, 2. 151

Desire, what, 2. 182

Despaire to be avoided, 2. 101

Devill, an enemy to Gods Children, 1. 107

Diligent, we are diligent to sinne, 2. 7

Disobedience against the Gospell the greatest sinne, why, 1. 68

How knowne, 1. 86

Division (1. 44) in a land is a forerunner of judgement, 2. 29

Doctrine, we should keepe sound that doctrine which was left us pure, 2. 162

Doubting, Romish doubting disallowed, 1. 198

E

End, our end must bee considered, 1. 58

Enemies to be prayed for, 1. 146, 147

Enemies of the Church represented two waies, 2. 68

Envy snarles at greatnesse when joyned with goodnesse, 2. 13

Eternity, our desire of Gods glory should be carried to eternity, 2. 158

Evill we must not plot to doe it, 2. 48

The difference betwixt evill done and suffered, 2. 113

Manifestation thereof aggravates it, 2. 114

Examination of the grounds of Religion a meanes to escape judgement, 1. 40

Examples of Governours prevaile much, 2. 163

Experience of Gods care and love, exprest, we may collect the future, …. 201. 2. 1…

F

Faith, it's efficacy, 1. 119

It takes hold by a little, 1. 182

Active and Passive, 1. 188

It is strengthened by deliverance, 2. 129

It is a signe of our interest in heaven, 2. 147

Faithfulnesse of God to bee trusted to, 1. 177

He is faithfull, 1. 171

Wee must bee faithfull in what hee trusts us, 1. 233

Feare disturbs peace, 1. 220

Fruitfulnesse required, 2. 217

Meanes to attaine it, 2. 218

Future care and love in God collected by things past, 1. 207. 2. 108

G

Gospell, in rejecting it wee reject God, 1. 63, 68

To sinne against it is worse than against the Law, 1. 72

It layes open Christ, 1. 90

Disobedience there unto a great sin, 1. 68

How knowne, 1. 86

Glorifie GOD for his deliverances, 2. 151

Our desire of Gods glory should bee infinite, 2. 158

Our glorifying him makes others doe so too, 2. 168

Vide Honour.

Away to glorifie God, 2. 153

God, the Church is his house, 5

And he ours, 9

Our bodies and estates must bee committed to him, 1. 156

He is faithfull, 1. 171

Wee must bee our owne, ere wee can give our selves to him, 1. 185

We must commit our selves to him, if we would have him keepe us, 1. 204

We must eye him in all that wee doe, 1. 221, 226

Relie on him in all our courses, 1. 229

He will be known in his Attributes, 2. 28, 29

His love to his, 2. 28

He is overcome by prayer, 2. 29

He is Author of our deliverance, 2. 106

Our glorfying him makes others doe so, 2. 168

We must bee faithfull in what hee trusts us, 1. 233

Gods Attributes are to be applyed unto our selves, 1. 175

We must be in covenant with God, 1. 187

Comfort from God as a Creator, 1. 168, 180, 184

He must bee glorified for his deliverances, 2. 151

Trust to Gods faithfulnesse, 1. 177

Godly afflicted more than others, why, 1. 18

Their sinnes greater than others, 1. 20, 21

They may seeme neglected by God, but their end is peace, 1. 213

They shall not be subdued, 2. 34

Their prosperity makes way for the subversion of the wicked, 2. 39

They suffer, 2. 88

Yet differing from the wicked, 2. 102

Sometimes in straits, 2. 179

Their death how to bee lamented, 2. 209

They bring good to the place where they are, 2. 211

They can deny their best good for the benefit of the Church, 2. 213

Good men dying is a signe of ensuing judgement, 1. 28

We must be Actively good as well as passively. 2. 23

Governours, their examples availe, 2. 163

Government, it is good to bee under Christs government, 1. 92

G…aces of the Spirit make the way to heaven easie, 1. 116

Delivering gra…e requisite against temptation▪ 2. 123

Greatnesse wh… joyned with goodnesse, envyed at, 2. 13

G…-powder Tr…ason, 2. 64

H

Happinesse present aggravates eternall misery, 1. 59

Heart of a Christian is Gods Closet, 1. 8

Discovered in affliction, 2. 92

Heaven, how to make the way thither easie, 1. 115

Faith a signe of our interest therunto, 2. 147

Pride purged, a signe of our interest, 2. 146

Honouring God we honour our selves, 2. 167

It is a signe wee are in a good estate, 2. 160

Vide Glorifie.

Hope must be exercised, 1. 119

Humility requisite to a Christian, 1. 116

I

Idolatry brings judgement, 1. 29

Impudency a sign… of the ripenesse of sinne, 1. 30

Infidelitie negative is lesse than disobedience against the Gospell, 1. 71

Judgement how to know when neare, 1. 27 duplicate page duplicate page

How to prevent it, 1. 37

It will begin at Gods house, and why, 1. 46.

What it … and its division, 1. 48

Wicked shall not appeare in the day of judgement, 1. 123

Consideration and examination meanes to escape judgement, 1. 40

Mourning for our owne and others sinnes, another way. 1. 42

No priviledge can exempt from judgement, 1. 22

L

Love, decay therein a signe of judgement, 1. 33

Requisite for a Christian, 1. 117

It descends, why, 1. 166

Assurance of Gods love to bee sought betimes, 1. 197

Wee love things present too much, 2. 91

Law, it is a lesser sinne to offend against that, than the Gospell, 1. 72

Lyons, we are all naturally such, 2. 86

M

Magistrates needfull in the Church, 2. 205

Mercy of Christ must not bee presumed on, 1. 76

Exceptions against Christs mercy refeld, 1. 91

Gods mer…y must be especially noted 2. 56

Consideration thereof is the way to glorifie him, 2. 153

Ministers, they are hardly beleeved, 2. 47

Mischiefe, to contrive mischiefe is the signe of a man notoriously wicked, 2. 18

And therefore to bee abhorred, 2. 20

Moderators Catholique, 1. 67

Mortification necessary, 1. 121

Mourning for our owne sinnes and of others is the way to avert judgment, 1. 42

N

Nature and Christianity different, 1. 145

O

Obedience to the Gospell what, 1. 63

Who have it not, 1. 65

'Tis not of our selves, 1. 82

But wrought, 1. 88

It must be free, 1. 94

And cheerfull, 1. 95

Active and Passive, 1. 136

One good man may doe much good, 2. 217

Opposition is bitterest amongst those that are nearest, 2. 11

Others matters how to bee minded by us, 2. 214

P

Peace is a signe we have committed our selves to God, 1. 218

Disturbed by cares and feares, 1. 220

Peace is the end of the godly man, 1. 213

Particulars, from particulars we must rise to generals, 2. 59

Policy, carnall to bee eschewed, 1. 191

It hinders our safety, 1. 193

Posterity must be committed to God, 1. 230

Motive, 1. 232

Pray we must e…e wee shall obtaine, 1. 204

Yea for our enemies, 1. 146, &c.

God is overcome by prayer, 2. 29

Present, we are too much addicted to things present, 2. 91

Preservation is from God, 2. 131

Vide Providence.

Pride if it be purged it is a signe of our interest in heaven, 2. 146

To be avoided, 2. 215

Priviledge, none exempts from judgment, 1. 22

Prizing religion a way to avert judgement, 1. 43

Professors, their loose life wounds the Gospell, 1. 20

Providence, God will keepe us if wee commit our selves unto him, 1. 204

Eye him in all we doe, 1. 221, 226

Rely on him in al our courses, 1. 229

Committing posterity to God, 1. 232

Vide Preservation.

Prosperity, the seeming prosperity of the wicked shall have an end, 1. 55, 208

We must not grieve at it, 1. 57

Continuall prosperity a signe of a bad estate, 1. 129

R

Religion must not bee en…red on with hopes of pleasure and case, 1. 113 duplicate page duplicate page

Reformation thereof hath brought blessings, 2. 73

Repentance is a way to turne away wrath, 1. 38

Righteous, what meant thereby, 1. 97

They are saved, 1. 101

Yet hardly, why, 1. 106, 112

S

Saints hated of wicked men, 2. 17

Salvation, certainty of salvation, 1. 104

Scandall makes it hard to bee sav…d, 1. 109

Security a marke of the ripenesse of sinne, 1. 31

Selfe-denyall required in a Christian, 2. 215

Sinne, God punisheth it wheresoever he findes it, 1. 18

When ripe, 1. 31

Sinne, against the Gospell is against Gods Attributes, 1. 68

Sinne is greatest when against the greatest light, 1. 70

The nearest must bee parted with, 1. 77

The effects, 1. 89

It is sweet, 1. 105

It stickes to all, 1. 106

Sinnes of the second Table are grounded on sins of the first, 2. 10

It is full of deceit, 2. 45, 47, 68

God delivers us from great ones, 2. 126

Abstinence from sinne present, is the way to be delivered from sinne to come, 2. 124

Art and diligence aggravate sinne, 2. 7

Should be severely punished by the Church, 1. 23

Constancy in sin to be avoided, 2. 7

The sins of the godly greater than others, 1. 20, &c

Sinner what, 1. 121

Slander a cloake for cruelty, 2. 15

Soule must bee committed to GOD, 1. 151, 161

Why, 1. 162

It must be done sincerely, 1. 225

Reasons, 1. 223

Directions, 1. 185

What it is, 1. 209

How we know when wee commit it to God, 1. 216

Even in the most desperate estate, 1. 187

We must desire to have it kept from sinne, and the consequents, 1. 152

Wicked m…n thinke they have none, 1. 154

Soule must be respected above other things, 1. 157

Not satisfied but by strong reasons, 1. 162

The soule oft carried away with delight, ibid.

Spirit, how it workes with the Gospell, 1. 84

Its power, 1. 116

It is the chiefest part of a man, 2. 6

It supports us in spirituall losses, 2. 104

A royall spirit is a signe of our interest in heaven, 2. 147

Spouse of Christ is the Church, 1. 80

Suffering of the godly and ungodly differ, 1. 3

It is best for Gods children so to doe, 1. 127, 129

It comes when God will, 1. 132

We must look from whence it comes, 1. 136

Our wel-doing must be seene before our well-suffering, 1. 138

Suffering must not bee avoided by sinne, 1. 142

In well-suffering we … coales of fire on our enemies, 1. 146

We overcome by suffering, 1. 147

We must not have by-respects therein, 1. 149

T

Temptations, considerations against them, 1. 61

God will not be tempted, 1. 216

Grace requisite against those times, 2, 123

Time, there is a time appointed for Gods visiting his Church, 1. 23, 50

When that is, 1. 26

Wee must use time present in doing good against the day of judgement, 1. 41

The wicked shal not appeare in three speciall times, 1. 122

We must avoid sinne for the time to come, 2. 120

Trust, wee must not trust to flesh, 1. 180

Tryall, comfort against the fiery tryall, 1. 2

V

Unfruitfulnesse a sign of ensuing judgment, 1. 32

W

Weake faith how strengthened, 2. 129

Wicked, their end, 1. 56

The consideration of their torments should weane us frō the world, 1. 61

They are reserved, 1. 207

To further plagues, 1. 215

They shall not prevaile over the godly, 2. 27

Though for a time over their persons, yet not over the cause, 2. 31

They get nothing by persecuting the Church, 2. 35

In their enterprizes they are but to worke Gods will, 2. 36

Their plots against the Church miscarry, 2. 37

They are fooles, 2. 42

Will of it selfe cannot be rectified but by the understanding, 1. 4

It is Gods will that men suffer, how, 1. 130

Wilfulnesse aggravates sinne, 2. 3

Wisdome carnall is folly, 2. 20, 27, 41

Word of God like himselfe, 1, 175

Workes justifie not, 1. 66

FINIS.

Places of Scripture explaned and opened.

To the Reader.

REader, in this Booke there are two parts, the one begins at the Churches visitation, and goes on orderly to Page 240. and there it ends, this I call the second part. All the rest from the beginning and so forward I count the first part: therfore when thou art directed to the fourth or fift page, because thou shouldest not looke in both, nor mistake, I have set it thus: 1. 4. which is 1 Part and 4 Page; or …. 5. the second Part and fift Page.

End of the text · Richard Sibbes, The Saints Safety in Evil Times (1633)