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A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 · Nicholas Byfield

A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3, Table of contents 1 – Table of contents 2

AN ALPHABETICALL TABLE OF THE MOST Principall things handled throughout the whole Booke.

ACtion. What things marre a good Action,

630

How we are said to doe well,

ibid.

Adoption. Wherein the greatnesse and glory of our Adoption appeares,

645

their priviledges in this life,

646

What kind of persons we must be to attain this Adoption, with the markes of it,

647

How they must carry themselves,

648

Affection. We must care that our Affection grow not either cold or corrupt,

163

Foure things which abate Affection in the godly,

ibid.

Afflictions. The godlies Afflictions are but for a season,

56, 57

God tries man in Afflictions seven waies, 62, 63. comforts therein,

63

Afflictions better than gold, in divers respects,

67

Angels. Of their names and natures,

96

The singular account that God makes of them,

97

Their affection to man,

ibid. & 98

Of the Cherubims looking upon the Ark, Exod. 268.

98

Of their knowledge affirmatively and negatively,

99, 100

Antiquitie. In what things Antiquitie is ill pleaded,

621

What respect is to be had to old time,

622

Apostacie twofold: 1. inward, 2. outward,

237

Apparell. Rules for it, 105. Vide Attire,

603, 604, 605

Application. Rules of application of the word aright,

288

Assurance. Such as have the perswasion of the Assurance of salvation should looke to foure things,

77

Astray What is meant by going astray,

555

Their miserie that so doe,

ibid.

An aggravation of their miserie,

556

Causes of mens going Astray,

ibid.

Signes of a lost sheepe,

557

Attire. Eleven reasons against vain Attire in women,

603, 604

Foureteene wayes by which Attiring of our selves becomes vicious,

605

B

BAbes. Why most are Babes in religion,

228

Speciall duties of new borne Babes,

229

What Babes by nature should teach men in grace,

ibid.

Backe-biters. Vide Evill-speakers, or Whisperers,

215, 216

Behold. The diverse acceptation of the word,

274

Beleeve,

Vide Faith.

Beleevers. They onelyonly have benefit by Christ,

154

We may be said to beleeve five waies,

156

What it is to be a true beleever,

290

In how many things it is seen,

ibid. &c.

Its excellencie,

625

Helpes to it,

ibid.

Rules for a right trusting in God,

626

It is by Christ that wee beleeve in God, and that for divers reasons,

157

Birth, Borne. The necessitie and ho…ur of our new Birth,

32

Why repentance is called a new birth,

184

We had need often to be put in mind of our new Birth,

185

Lets of it, with excellent uses thereof,

ib.

Bishop. The word expounded,

566

Christ excels all other Bishops in ten respects,

561

All are happy that live under the charge of such a Bishop,

567

The duties of such as be under his charge,

568

Blesse, Blessing. How man blesseth God, how God man, how man blesseth man,

29, 30

Divers kinds of Blessings,

688

When we blesse indeed, and wherein it stands,

688, 689

Godly men inherit the Blessing many wayes,

694

In this life three wayes,

ibid. &c.

What we must do to get Gods blessing,

695

How godly men may grow in the comfort of Gods Blessing,

696

Bloud. The benefits flowing from Christs Bloud,

21

This his Bloud diversly taken,

145

Why shed,

ibid.

Why this is most urged,

ibid. &c.

The uses of it,

146

The preciousnesse of it,

ibid.

What makes it so precious,

ibid.

Bowels. What Bowels of mercy doth import.

183

When they are right,

684

Motives to affect the having such Bowels,

685

Brother, Brotherhood. How we should expresse our love to the Brotherhood,

477

In what respects godly men are Brothers,

178, 478, 680

Reasons perswading to love as Brethren,

680

With what kind of love we are to love the Brethren,

681

Rules for Brotherly love,

682

Build, Builders. Meanes to build up a Christian,

260

Causes why men are so little edified,

261

How farre wicked men may be said to be Builders,

295, 296

The causes why many great and learned are oft times Destroyers rather than Builders,

296

How Builders, that is, Churchmen, refuse Christ, 298. and how Christ refuseth them.

299

C

Calling. It is a matter of great weight to shew a good warrant for our Calling,

2, 3

Seven sorts of men transgresse about their Calling,

3

Those sorts of lusts which must be hatefull to us after our Calling,

114

Eight reasons why we should avoid lusts after our Calling,

ibid.

How many waies God calleth us,

119, 120

What our effectuall Calling is,

120

Why our conversion is termed our Calling,

ibid.

How a true Calling may be discerned,

ib.

Seven things which we are called to,

121

Three sorts of Calling; 1 personall: 2 naturall: 3 supernaturall,

334, 335

Distinction of Callings,

335

Foure things in the order of working in our Callings,

ibid.

Eight signes of effectuall Calling,

336

Five rules to shew us how to walk worthy of our Calling,

ibid.

The danger of such as refuse their Calling, in eight things,

337

Of the C. of the Gentiles in generall,

345

Why Christians should be affected with the consideration of their Calling,

689

The Calling of a Christian is a hard Calling,

690

The necessity of knowing our Calling,

ib.

By what meanes,

691

Ceremonies. About taking and giving scandall in the use of Ceremonies,

436

Chastity twofold, 1 of body: 2 of mind,

594

Chastity must be as well in married persons as in single,

595

Motives to Chastity,

596

It is specially charged upon the woman,

ib.

Preservatives of Chastity,

ibid.

How a chaste wife may be discerned,

597

Christ. The benefits flowing from his bloud,

21, 22

His generation and ours how unlike,

31

In three things wee should learne of Christ to carry our selves towards God as our Father,

31

Christ hid till his second comming in sixe respects,

69

Seven signes of his love in the sparkle,

71

Seven more in the flame.

ibid.

The word Christ is a word collective,

144

His bloud precious,

146. &c.

He is said to be a Lamb in sixe respects,

147

Christ manifested five wayes,

152

Beleevers onelyonly have benefit by Christ,

154

Excellent uses of the manifold descriptions of Christ,

248, 249

As he is a Lord how he excels other Lords,

249

How said to be both a stone, and a living stone,

249, 250. &c.

Christ is precious many wayes,

254

How we may get an esteeme of Christ above all things,

281

How we may manifest this esteeme,

ibid.

How Christ is an honour to us,

292

Christ many waies refused,

298

In what respects Christ bare our sinne,

531

Christian. A Christians life is a joyfull life,

54

What they must doe to preserve that joy in their hearts,

55

How farre he may rejoyce in earthly things,

56

Priviledges of weake Christians,

229

Encouragement for weak Christians,

237

Christians have divers sacrifices,

266

Only Christians come of the best generation,

317

They are royall many wayes,

318

The priesthood of a Christian is a singular priviledge,

320, 321

It should put us in minde of divers duties,

321

Christians are holy many wayes,

322

How Christians are said to be all of one Nation,

325

Why called a peculiar people,

326, 327

A sound Christian shewes himselfe so by his conversation,

388

For what reasons Christians should be much affected with the consideration of their Calling,

689

The necessity of knowing our calling,

690

How it may be knowne,

691

Divers sorts of Christians,

ibid.

Carnall Christians know not their Calling,

ibid. &c.

The reasons of it,

692

Good Christians have a blessed estate above all men,

693

True Christians inherit nothing but blessing, 693. and that many wayes,

694

Church. Eleven prerogatives of the Christian Church,

79, 80

The Church like Mount Sion in many respects,

276, 277

The uses hereof,

ibid.

The excellencie of the word above all other assemblies of the world besides,

277

Cleane, Cleanenesse. Eight things to be done for the getting of a clean heart,

175

Come. We Come to Christ many mayes,

256

Eight wayes to come to Christ,

257

Encouragements thereto,

ibid. &c.

Compassion. It was shewed by Christ five wayes,

332

In man how,

679

Motives to it,

ibid.

What bowels of Compassion doth import,

683

Confound. Beleevers shall never be Confounded,

284

The diverse acceptation of the word Confound,

ibid.

How Confounded may be taken in a good sense,

285

Meanes by which God keepes the Beleever from being confounded,

ibid.

In what he shall not be confounded,

ibid.

How farre he may be confounded,

286

Conditions of such as will not be confounded,

287

What sorts of men shall suffer shame and Confusion,

ibid.

Conscience. It ought to be adorned with nine things,

18

Kindes of Conscience,

503

Reasons why men ought to be instructed about Conscience,

499

What Conscience is,

ibid.

Its proper worke,

500

How Conscience is imployed in us,

ibid.

The law by which Consc. judgeth, & the maner of proceeding in judgment,

502

Prerogatives of Conscience,

ibid. &c.

Divers kinds of Conscience,

503

Differences of evills in mens Consciences,

504

Signes of an evill Conscience that is still, and stirred,

505

Hurts of an ill Conscience, with foure effects …hereof,

506

Aggravations of the miserie of an ill Conscience,

507

What must be done to make an ill Conscience good,

508

Two things for guiding the Conscience,

509

Signes of a good Conscience,

ibid.

Benefits of it,

510

How farre Conscience may be bound,

510 511

Conversation. Our conversation said to be vaine in sixe respects,

140

The sins which make it so,

ibid.

There is vanitie in the Conversation of the Saints themselves,

ibid.

Five degrees of our redemption from a vaine conversation,

141

Seven signes of it,

ibid.

Speciall rules for the right ordering of a holy Conversation,

323

Meanes to …ttain… it,

324

Differences betweene a holy Conversation and a civill,

ibid.

A sound Christian shewes himselfe so by his Conversation,

388

Vide Honest.

Sixe things which make an honest Conversation,

389

An honest Conversation is the way either to convert or convince the Gentiles,

392

By what meanes we may win wicked men in our Conversations,

594, 595

Reasons why a Christians Conversation should be coupled with feare,

598, 599

Conversion. Nine signes to know whether we be effectually converted,

585

Rules for it,

586

Courtesie. It containeth seven things,

685

Creation. The wonderfulnesse of our Creation shewed many waies,

151, 152

The use of it,

ibid.

D

DAy. Many sorts of Dayes n…ted in Scrip…,

416

How the Day and season of grace may be knowne,

417

Darknesse. The acceptation of the word Darknesse,

338, &c.

Degrees of it,

339

Nine aggravations of the Darknesse that is in wicked men,

340

The use of it,

ibid. &c.

Foure signs of spirituall Darknesse,

341

There is some Darknesse even in the children of Light,

ibid.

There are seven differences between the Darknesse of the godly, and the darknesse of the ungodly,

341, 342

Death, Vide Die,

198, 534

Deceit, Vide Guile. The miserie of Deceitfull persons,

206, 207

Of Deceitfull Servants,

207

The iniquitie of our times herein,

208

Signes of a man without Deceit,

209

Despaire. How many wayes wicked men may Despaire,

307

Preservatives from Despaire,

308, 309

Speciall differences between the Despaire of the godly and wicked,

309, 310

Desire. The necessitie, utilitie, and nature of this affection of Desire largely handled,

221

The true Desire of the word hath foure distinct things in it: first, Estimation of it: secondly, Longing for it: thirdly, Content in it: fourthly, Constancie in the renewing of it,

221, 222

How we may discerne our affections to it,

222

Signes both externall and internall of our Desire to the word,

222, 223, &c.

Impediments,

223

Meanes of getting true Desire to the word,

225

Rules for preserving these Desires,

226

Motives thereto,

227

How farre wicked men may desire the word,

230

Die, Vide Death. Men Die many waies,

534

The many inconveniences by forgetting to Die,

198

How to prove willing to Die,

ibid.

Disobedience. How unbeleevers are guilty of Disobedience, and their Disobedience aggravated,

293

Drunkard, Drunkennesse. Reasons against it well applied,

106

E

EArth, Earthly. In what the vanity of Earthly things appeares,

700

No reason to be in love with them,

ib. &c.

What daies are Evill in respect of wicked men,

703

Wherein godly mens daies are Evill,

ibid.

Great difference of the evill daies of good and evill men,

ibid.

How farre Christians may rejoyce in Earthly things,

56

Elect. The Elect have eight priviledges above all men in the world,

7, 8

Three sorts of Elect,

150

Election. A fourefold Election,

7

How they may be knowne,

ibid. 315

Good use of the point,

8

There are many things in our Election which may ravish us,

314

Rules to live so as becommeth the assurance of Election,

316

Envie. It is a hatefull sin,

214

Signes of a man free from Envie,

215

Evill-doers. Who are pointed out for such,

446

Evill-speaking, Vide Backe-biting. Report, the aggravation of it,

213

Reasons against it,

216

The effects of it foule,

217

The use to be made of it, with Rules against it,

218

What to doe to avoid it,

219

In what cases odious,

395

Helpes to beare it,

396

The wicked usually speake Evill of the godly,

456

Example. Excellent documents from the word Example,

519, 520

Ten things for us to follow in the Example of Christs sufferings,

521

In what cases Christs Examples binde not,

522

Two singular vertues in a good Example,

620

When an Example binds,

621

Excell. The godly Excell others in divers respects,

313

F

FAith. It doth ten things to further our preservation,

45, 46

What Faith will not preserve us,

47

How to shew it in affliction,

65

The praises of it then,

ibid.

Seven things should move us to trust on God in affliction,

60

Faith is onelyonly seated in the hearts of the Elect,

155

God is the object of our Faith, and that not only in his nature, but in his mercies and promises also,

156

It is Faith that makes difference among men before God,

282

Its necessitie,

ibid.

Markes of true saving Faith.

290

Signes of a true though weake Faith in a weake Christian,

291

The Christians continuall use of Faith,

157

What we should doe for comfort when the sense of Faith is gone,

158

Seven rules for the daily use of Faith,

ibid.

The difference between Faith and Hope,

160

Helpes to continue in the Faith,

161

All Faith and Hope in other than in God i… vaine,

162

Faithfull. The life of the Faithfull is a joyfull life,

54

Seven things should move … to be Faithfull in affliction,

66

The Faithfull bow precious in Gods sight.

ibid.

Familie Vide Houshold. What makes a Familie happie,

484

We are bound of God to care for Familie duties,

ibid.

Why inferiours are first commanded Familie duties,

485

Fashion ▪ Fashioning our selves to sinne hath seven things in it,

115

Father. How God is a Father to Christ, Angels and Man,

11, 12

His affection is Fatherly, that is, first, Free: secondly, Tender: thirdly, Constant,

12

So i… his provision, both in respect of, first, Attendance: secondly, Diet: thirdly, Preservation in trouble: fourthly, Portion,

ibid.

Of what excellencie Gods Fatherly love i…, first, … godly men: secondly, to carnall men: thirdly, to earthly Fathers,

13, 14

The name of Father given to divers sorts,

492

Feare. Three sorts of it; first, worldly: secondly, servile: thirdly, filiall,

134

Our conversation must be coupled with Feare,

ibid.

The Feare of God what,

480

Sixe things in God of which we are to stand in awe,

480, 481

Motives to get this Feare,

481

What kinds of men doe not Feare God,

481, 482

The signes of it,

482

Reasons why wicked men are stricken with a servile Feare,

597, 598

A conversation coupled with Feare required of all Christians,

598, 599

How we should shew this Feare,

600

What sorts of men have not Gods Feare,

601

Wherein wives should shew Feare to their Husbands,

601, 602

Fight, Vide Warre. The Flesh fighteth against the Soule five waies,

384

Why God doth suffer this Fight,

385

How we may get victorie in this Fight,

387

Flesh. Lusts are Fleshly in divers respects,

365

Eight evill properties and effects of the Flesh,

ibid.

How they hurt the soules of wicked men, 366. as also of the godly,

ibid.

The Flesh fights against the Soule five waies,

384

Fooles. Unregenerate men are Fooles,

459

Signes of spirituall Follie,

ibid.

Wherein godly men sometimes shew Follie,

462, 463

Fore-knowledge, Vide Prescience, 3. Vide Foresight,

149

Fore-sight, Vide Fore-knowledge,

8

Three kinds of Fore-sight,

149, 150

Foundation diversly accepted,

151

Christ the maine Foundation of all grace and holinesse,

247

With the use of it,

ibid. &c.

The only Foundation of his Church,

250

That Christ is laid as a Foundation stone imports many things,

276

Freedome, Vide Libertie, From what Christ is made Free,

467

To what a godly man is made Free,

468

The Freedome of the Old and New Testaments,

469

In what respects we are But as Free,

469 470

Hypocrites in bondage whilst they seeme Free-men,

471

Frowardnesse. Reasons against Frowardnesse both in Masters and Servants,

494, 495

Helpes against it,

ibid.

Frowardnesse how odious, shewed by the causes and effects,

615

G

GEneration. It is threefold; first, corporeall: secondly, metaphysicall: thirdly, singular,

30

Three things wherein Christs and our Generation is not alike.

31

The acceptation of the word Generation,

316

OnelyOnly Christians come of the best Generation,

317

Gentiles. Of the Calling of the Gentiles in generall,

345

Gird. We must Gird up our minds, and that divers wayes,

103. &c.

Eight rules for it,

ibid.

Glorie, Glorifie. How God is glorified by himselfe,

404

How of us in generall, how in particular,

406

Motives to the care of glorifying God,

408, 409

Helpes thereto,

ibid.

The thoughts of Gods glory two wayes established,

411

Foure caveats for making others to Glorifie God,

ibid. &c.

Vaine-glory, wherein it is seene,

512

Wherein true Glorie doth consist,

ibid.

The Glory of man but vaine in sixe respects,

196

What is his true Glory,

197

God. Of his fore-knowledge,

8, 9, 10

How a Father to Christ, Angels and Men,

11, 12

Gods power in keeping us,

43

Excellent uses of it,

44

Wherein Gods graciousnesse is seene,

238

By what meanes God may be brought to our minds,

410

Helpes to conceive of God aright,

ibid.

By what meanes he is to be magnified in our hearts,

411

God is a Iudge,

529

And thereby terrible to wicked men,

530

Comfortable to the godly,

531

Rules of committing our selves to God,

ib.

Godly. The Godly dispersed, and the good that comes thereby,

6

The Godly are Priests in many respects,

264

The Godly excell others in divers respects,

313, 314

How the Godly come to be Gods heirs,

645

That the Godly are Brethren,

178

Godlinesse. It hath many lets,

102

The use of it,

ibid.

Foureteene internall lets of Godlinesse,

102, 103

Gospel: The word taken divers wayes,

90, 91

Eight effects of this Gospel,

91

Eight things required of every one that would have part in it,

ibid.

How it differs from the Law,

92

Excellent uses of it both to Priest and People,

92, 93

Grace what, and how it and Peace is multiplied,

27, 28

What we must doe that it might be multiplied,

28

That we may not faile of the Grace of God we must doe foure things,

8

How we frustrate the grace of God,

ibid.

We must labour to walke worthy of that grace by doing foure things,

ibid. &c.

The divers acceptations of the word Grace,

109

The glory of heaven called Grace in three respects,

110, 111

Seven things in which we should imitate Gods Grace in shewing mercy,

111

Why God giveth not heaven as soone as he giveth Grace,

112

Wherein Gods Graciousnesse is seene,

238

The state of such as have but temporary Grace,

338

Grace is either a gift in us, or an attribute in God,

665

Grace as it is in God considered two waies,

666

What priviledges such have as enjoy Gods Grace,

ibid.

Men transgresse against the Grace of God many wayes,

667

Grasse. Mans life is but Grasse,

193 194. &c.

Grow, Growth. Divers kinds of it,

232

In what graces Christians ought to grow,

233, 234

Helpes thereto,

234

L…ts thereof,

235, 236

Signes,

ibid. &c.

Guile, Vide Deceit, Hypocrisie. The words acceptation,

205

Why and how to be avoided,

206

The miserie of Guilefull persons,

ibid.

Of secret Guile,

207

Signes of a man without Guile,

209

Guile in words many wayes, so in Hypocrisie,

525

H

HArdnesse. Hardnesse of heart seemed to be f…lt more after assurance than before,

113

Healing. Wherein Christs Healing excels for our comfort,

550

That we are all healed by Christs stripes,

551

What we must doe to be healed by Christ,

550

The bodies of all men by nature need Healing,

552

Christ is a Physician as well for the body as the soule,

553

Rules for such as desire to Heale their bodily griefes,

554

Heart. Adorned with eight graces maketh it acceptable to God,

17

Eleven things in which a sanctified Heart rejoyceth,

ibid.

Three speciall signes of a new Heart,

415

What the hid man of the Heart is,

607

Wherein it excells the outward man,

608

By what meanes it may be mended,

609

How to know when it is right,

ibid.

Eight things to be done for getting a cleane heart,

175

How our Hearts are purified in obeying the truth,

176

Heaven. Where, and what, wi… its excellencie above all other pl…s,

41

The glory of Heaven …ll…d grace in three respects,

110, 111

Heavinesse. Foure sorts of Heavinesse,

56

Heires. How godly men become Heires,

645

How they must behave themselves,

648

Godly men and women are Heires together many wayes,

688

Holy Ghost. The Spirit why called the Holy Ghost,

93

He is a Person distinct from Father and Son,

94

Whether its mission doth signifie any inequalitie,

95

Holinesse. Foure sorts of Holinesse,

122

God Holy three wayes,

ibid.

Helpes, with motives thereto,

123

Christians are Holy many wayes,

322

Rules for the right ordering of a Holy conversation,

323

Inward Holinesse wherein it consists,

174, 175

Honest. Honestie. What it signifies,

388

Sixe things which make and manifest an Honest conversation,

389

An Honest conversation is the way either to convince or convert the Gentiles,

392

Honour. How Christ is an Honour to us,

292

By what wayes we may expresse our Honour to men,

477

How we must honour the King,

483

Hony. The Word for sweetnesse compared to Hony,

240

The excellent uses of it,

ibid.

Hope. The differences betweene a living and a dead Hope,

36

Nine wayes to shew our Hope,

108

Five things to be done to get assured Hope,

108, 109

The difference betweene Faith and Hope,

160, 161

Houshold, Housholders,

Vide Familie.

Humble, Humblenesse. Humblenesse of mind hath sixe things in it,

16

Humblenesse is shewed in three things,

330

Husband. For Husband and Wife to live together quietly there are sixteen motives,

576

Five speciall causes of disorder betweene man and wife,

577

Motives to make Husbands carefull of their duties,

633

Their cohabitation,

634

In what cases they may be absent,

635

He must dwell with her in knowledge,

637

How they honour their wives,

641

Hypocrisie. How many wayes men commit it,

210

Motives against it, with effects of it,

ibid. &c.

Excellent uses hereof,

211

The sorts of Hypocrisie that we are most in danger of,

212

Preservatives against it,

ibid.

Hypocrites. How an open Hypocrite may be discerned,

213

What makes an Hypocrite, and how a man may know himselfe not to be one,

ibid. &c.

Hypocrites in bondage whilst they seeme Freemen,

471

Eight things for the discoverie of Hypocrites,

177

I

IGnorance. The unregenerate charged with Ignorance,

116

Signes of their Ignorance,

117

How different from the Ignorance of the godly,

ibid.

It is hatefull to be Ignorant in spirituall things,

457

A hard thing to cure Ignorance,

463, 464

Imitation. We must imitate God,

118

Five things in which we are not to imitate Christ,

328

Immortalitie. Foure degrees of it,

186

Incorruptible. Seven things which are Incorruptible,

611

Incorruptible things doe wonderfully adorne,

612

Grace begotten in the hearts of the godly is Incorruptible in divers respects,

188

Indifferent. Things …Indifferent in matters of religion, though som…times inconvenient, may be commanded, and must be obeyed,

434

Pretended inconveniences by humane lawes surveyed,

435

About taking and giving of scandall at humane ceremonies,

436

How Christian libertie is made a cloake of maliciousnesse in things indifferent,

472

In thongs indifferent there be cases wherein Christian libertie is vilely abused,

ibid.

Inheritance. How the Saints inheritance is incorruptible, even in foure respects,

39

Undefiled in five respects,

ibid.

Inventions. Whether any Inventions of men may be obeyed,

433

A catalogue of such Inventions as were used for religious ends without any commandement,

434

Joy. A Christian life is a joyfull life, manifested in nine things,

54

Gods servants may joy nine wayes,

ibid.

How that their joy is preserved,

55

How full his joy may be in earthly things,

56

Six… kinds of joy,

72

Five kinds of divelish joy,

ibid.

Eight signes of discerning the joy of the holy Ghost from all other joyes,

73

Whether the joyes of the holy Ghost be felt of every Christian,

74

What we must do to get the joy of God,

ib.

How to preserve that joy,

ibid.

The differences betweene joy temporarie and true joy,

188

Judge. God is a terrible Iudge to the wicked,

529

He judgeth righteously,

530

Judgement. The day of judgement why called The last day,

52

Why deferred,

ibid.

Why the Day of judgement is called The Revelation of Iesus Christ,

111

Of the last judgement, and the certainty thereof,

128

All must appeare at the day of judgement,

129

We shall be judged according to our workes,

iibid.

How infants can be judged according to their workes,

130

Iudgements inflicted on some particular offenders belong to all for divers reasons,

301

K

KIll, Repentance for sin doth in divers respects kill a man,

538

Kings. Differences betweene spirituall and earthly Kings,

319

Christians should live like Kings,

320

King is a note of the highest dignitie on earth,

440

The originall of Kings,

441

The excellencie of Kings above others,

442

Many encouragements to Subjects to beare Kings superioritie,

ibid.

Kings must be honoured, first, in heart: secondly, in word: thirdly, in worke:

483

Kin, Vide Generation. OnelyOnly good Christians are of the best kin,

317

The uses of it,

ibid.

They are of Royall kin, and that in many respects,

318, 629

Knowledge. The excellencie of divine Knowledge in many respects,

637

It is required of all sorts of men,

638

It is given for use and practice,

ibid.

It ought to have a commanding power,

ibid.

Meanes to give power to our knowledge,

ibid. &c.

It makes an impression in every mans life,

639

In it men should excell women,

ibid.

What it is for the husband to dwell with the wife in knowledge,

640

Knowledge must have three properties and effects of it,

652, 653

L

LAmb. Christ a Lamb in sixe respects,

147

The Lambes in the ceremoniall law types of Christ,

ibid. &c.

The uses of it,

148

Libertie, Vide Freedome. Christian Libertie is a great gift bestowed by Christ,

466

A man may use his Libertie as a cloake of malice five wayes,

470

How Christian Libertie is a cloake of malice in things indifferent,

472

Cases in things indifferent wherein Christian Libertie is vilely abused,

473

Life, Live. How we may live like Gods children,

13

A religious Life is the best Life,

541

Naturall Life but a meane thing in divers respects,

649

The degrees of a spirituall Life,

650

Whence it hath its originall, even from God, and that in three respects,

651

Divers things nourish this spirituall Life,

654

It differs from eternall Life in many wayes,

657

Mans Life is grasse,

193

Excellent uses of it,

193, 194

What we must doe to attain eternall Life,

661

A Christians helps hereto,

662

Sixe signes of it,

663

Five properties of it,

664

What duties this Life should imprint in us,

ibid.

For what reasons men should take off their affections from the love of this Life,

698, 699

In what cases some men may be in love with this Life,

702

Mans Life short, in what respects, and why,

705

The uses of it,

706

Light. The acceptation of the word Light,

342

Gods servants are brought into great Light,

ibid.

Excellent instruction and consolation drawne from it,

342, 343

In how many respects the Light of the godly is called A marvellous Light,

343, 344

Excellent uses thereof,

344

Love. Seven signes of the Love of Christ in the sparkle, and seven more in the flame,

71

What we must doe to get that Love,

72

Seven things to be observed to keepe our hearts in this Love,

ibid.

Christs Love to the godly,

332

How many wayes the people of God are Gods only beloved ones,

361

How to preserve this Love,

ibid.

How we should shew our Love to the Brotherhood,

477

Nine signes of unfained Love,

180

The impediments of brotherly Love,

181

Seven signes of fervent Love,

182

Nine causes of the want of it,

183

What to doe that we may have and hold it,

ibid.

Reasons to perswade to the Love of the Brethren,

680

With what kind of Love we ought to love them,

681

Rules for it,

682

Three caveats to be looked unto in loving our Brother,

683

Lusts. The sorts of Lusts which must be hatefull unto us after our Calling,

114

Eight reasons why we should avoyd Lusts after our Calling,

ibid.

Foure preservations against Lusts,

115

Lusts how to be avoyded,

362

Three differences of Lusts in the godly and wicked,

363

Helpes to avoid them,

ibid.

Lusts are fleshly in divers respects,

365

How Lusts hurt the soules of godly and wicked men both,

366

How we may get victory over our Lusts,

387

How we may know that we have gotten this victorie,

ibid.

M

MAdnesse. Signes of spirituall Madnesse,

460

Magistrates. They are to be submitted to,

424

This submission hath in it sixe things,

425

Objections against it answered,

427, 428

We must be subject to all sorts of Magistrates,

428, 429

In what things Magistrates are not to be obeyed,

431

In what matters Ecclesiasticall Magistrates have no power,

ibid.

In what he hath power,

432

Whether we must obey Magistrates in things unlawfull,

437

Divers motives in God to move man to the obedience of Magistrates,

438

Excellent uses of the point,

439. &c.

In what cases not fit to complaine to the Magistrates,

529

Malice. Its acceptation,

203

Signes of it, and reasons against it,

ibid.

Remedies,

204

Aggravations of it,

ibid.

Men may use the libertie as a cloake of Malice five wayes,

470

Man. He is but grasse,

193, 194, &c.

His glory vaine in sixe respects,

196

What his true glory is,

197

Manifest, Manifestation. Christ manifested five wayes,

153

We must shew our affection to this his Manifestation foure wayes,

153, 154

Marriage. Sixteene motives for man and wife to live together quietly and comfortably in Marriage,

576

Masters. The originall of Masters,

492

Signes of good Masters,

493

Reasons against frowardnesse in Masters,

494

Signes of good Masters,

495

Meditation. Rules for Meditation,

289

Meeknesse. It is shewed in foure things,

330

What things are requisite to Meeknesse,

613

Motives to it,

ibid. &c.

Helps to attaine to Meeknesse,

616

Mercy. Gods Mercy abundant,

32, 33

It ought not to be any cause of libertie either to the godly or wicked,

33

Whether the Lord shewes any Mercy to the wicked,

33, 34

Shewed foure wayes… ▪

331

What sorts of people God will not be mercifull unto,

352

What wicked men in particular are not under Mercy,

354

Why many obtaine not Mercy,

355

Foure properties of Gods Mercy,

356

It is tender many wayes,

ibid.

It is free many wayes,

ibid. &c.

Eternall,

357

Nine effects of it,

358

Excellent uses of it,

358, 359

Helps to obtaine mercy,

359

What Bowells of Mercy doth import,

683

Milke. The word called Milke in many respects,

…30

Excellent uses thereof,

231, …32

Mind, Vide Unitie. Our Minds must be rightly ordered,

6…4

For what reasons we ought to be all of one Mind,

ibid.

Minister. This word Minister sounds Servic…,

89

Miserie. All Miserie referred to … heads: …: of ….: … Of …: 3. Of adversities: 4. Of death,

77

The remembrance of our past Miserie is profitable in sixe respects,

338

Mortification. None but mortified Christians are true Christians,

536

Repentance for sin doth in divers respects kill a man,

538

Signes of Mortification,

539

Men truely mortified shall live happily,

540

N

NAme. Of a good and evill Name.

Vide Report.

Nature. The naturall condition very miserable many wayes,

608

New, Newnesle. The necessitie and honour of our New birth,

32

The meanes of the New birth,

34

The lets,

ibid.

Foure signes of it,

35

Uses of it,

35, 36

Speciall duties of such as are new borne,

229

Priviledges of such,

ibid.

Speciall-signes of a New heart,

415

A New behaviour discovered divers wayes,

416

Why repentance is called a New birth,

184

Why we had need to be put in mind of our New birth,

185

Lets of it▪

ibid.

O

OBedience. What▪ the causes of it, with sixe rules for it,

19

Motives to it,

20

Of obedience in word…,

ibid.

Our Obedience must be the Obedience of children in sixe respects,

113

Our Obedience to God a speciall sign… of his feare,

482

Sixe things required to … sound Obedience,

588

The extent of our Obedience in respect of times, truths places, and persons,

176, 177

How … may know their Obedience to be right,

177

In … things the Spirit worketh … Obedience,

ibid.

P

PArents. How many wayes children are infected by the traditions of their Parents,

142

Why they are so infectious,

ibid.

Seven rules for Parents ordering their children,

ibid. &c.

Passeover. The manifold passages concerning the sprinkling of the Passeover expounded,

25, 26. &c.

Patience. It is to be shewed foure wayes,

331

People. Many sorts of People in Scripture,

346

Why wicked men are said not to be a People,

ibid.

Who are not Gods People,

347

Men are Gods people three wayes,

348

The miserie of those that refuse their calling to be Gods People,

337

How Gods people excell all others,

349

The uses thereof,

350

Rules for Gods People to carry themselves to God,

351, 352

How many wayes Gods People are the only beloved one…

361

S. Peter, what he was by name and office,

1, 2

Plagues. Spirituall Plagues are worse than …mporall … for … reasons,

302

Power. Questions concerning Gods Power in keeping of us,

43

Excellent uses of it,

44

Prayer. What we must doe that God may answer our Prayer,

85

Prayer how it may be hindred both in the bearing and making of it,

671

The excellencie of Prayer in … respects,

669

From whence its … doe arise,

670

Praise. Wherein it is unlawfull to seeke the Praise of men,

448

If … would be praised they must doe well,

449

… to get Praise from men,

450

P…ecious. Christ is so … wayes,

254, 255

The reasons why he is … with men,

…55

What uses are …,

…, 256

Prescience. Prescience, 1. Absolute: 2. Speciall: 3. Of approbation,

8

How God for…knoweth,

9

How his Foreknowledge may comfort us in our distresses,

9, 10

What it may teach us,

10

Terrible to the wicked in foure respects,

11

Preservation. Faith doth ten things to further our Preservation,

45, 46

Presumption. How to know whether we sin presumptuously or no,

115

Priests. The godly are Priests in many respects,

264, 265

The uses of it,

265

The Priesthood of Christians is a singular priviledge,

320

Princes. All good Christians must be obedient to their Princes,

422

Ministers should teach and presse this duty,

423

The submission that belongs to them hath sixe things in it,

425

Pure. In what respects godly men may be said to be Pure,

597

A Christians Puritie hath in it many things,

597, 598

Q

QUicken. What we must doe to Quicken our hearts,

260

Quiet. Sixteene helps to a Quiet life in marriage,

576

Five speciall causes of their unquietnesse,

577

Helpes to cause them to bee Quiet,

578

Helps to attaine quietnesse,

616

… things of singular use to keepe us quiet in trouble,

673

R

RAiling, Reviling. The wicked are prone to it,

687

It is a great sin,

ibid.

Though we be reviled we must not revile againe,

ibid.

Excellent uses of it,

ibid. &c.

Reason. The facultie of Reason in the soule, and wherein it excels,

382

Recreations. Rules for them,

104, 105

Redemption. Of all other doctrines we must be sure to know the doctrine of our Redemption,

137, 138

Wee are redeemed from sixe things,

139

Five degrees of Redemption from vaine conversation,

141

Seven signes of it,

ibid.

Two wayes our Redemption is ratified,

159

Refuse. Christ many waies refused,

298

Regeneration. How it depends on Christs resurrection,

38

Rejoice, Rejoicing, Vide Joy.

54, 55, 56, 72, &c.

Religion. How hard a thing it is to reduce a man from his Religion though it be never so absurd,

390

A religious life is the best life,

541

Repentance. Against such as presume on late Repentance,

417

Their vaine objections for it answered,

ibid. &c.

Repentance of sin doth in divers respects kill a man,

538

Divers things in Christs death which ought to be in our Repentance,

539

Why Repentance is called a new birth, with five differences betweene false and true Repentance,

184

Report. The lot of the righteous is to be evill spoken of,

393

The causes and causers,

ibid. &c.

How hurtfull it is to report evill of the good,

394

Reasons against it,

ibid. &c.

In what cases it is odious,

395

Helps to beare them,

396

To have a good Report among men is a great blessing of God,

447

Reproaches. They are to be avoyded as much as in us lies,

457

That onelyonly fooles reproach good men,

465

Reprobation. Proofes of Reprobation,

311

Observations for consolation in the point of Reprobation,

312

Resurrection. Foure benefits of Christs Resurrection,

35

Christ risen in the Old Testament three waies,

37

How our regeneration depends on Christs Resurrection,

38

It is a great wonder, with an excellent use thereof,

159

The glory given to Christ after his Resurrection shewed in eight things,

160

Revelation. A twofold Revelation of Christ,

69

God hath revealed his will three waies: 1. By the light of nature: 2. By the booke of the creatures: 3. By his word,

77

And by that many wayes,

ibid.

Distinctions of Revelations,

86

A difference betweene Revelation and Knowledge,

ibid.

We have sixe sorts of Revelations under the Gospel,

87

Why the day of judgement is called The Revelation of Iesus Christ,

111

Revenge. It is unlawfull,

686

Reviling. What it is,

526

Who are guilty of it,

527

Not to render Reviling for Reviling,

528

Rich, Riches. The wofull estate of Rich men,

138, 139

Vertue and grace are a Christians best Riches,

618

Righteous, Righteousnesse. Signes that desery a Righteous man in himself,

542

Sixe other signes of Righteousnesse as it groweth,

543

How the Righteousnesse of a Righteous man differs from the Righteousnesse of a Pharisee,

ibid.

Why so few embrace Righteousnesse,

544

Helps thereunto,

545

Defects of Righteousnesse,

546

Defects in the manner of doing Righteously,

547

Royall. Christians are Royall many wayes,

318

S

SAcrifices. Christians have divers sorts of Sacrifices,

266

Speciall lawes to be observed in offering our Sacrifices,

268, 269

The use of it,

ibid.

What to doe to make our Sacrifices acceptable,

270, 271

Three comforts from an acceptable Sacrifice,

271

Saints. Saints are strangers,

4

In foureteene things they should be strangers,

4, 5

See more,

132

Salvation. What it imperteth in the originall.

48

Salvation may be said to be prepared for us five wayes,

49, 50

To whom revealed,

50

In the last day revealed three wayes,

ibid.

Excellent uses of this revelation of Salvation,

ibid. &c.

Foure signes of the perswasion of our Salvation,

75, 76

Such as have the Assurance of Salvation should looke to foure things,

77

Why such a multitude of men enquire so little after Salvation,

81

We ought to devote our selves to the study of it,

ibid.

We must study our Salvation with diligence,

82

Divers wayes from God to further our Salvation,

594

Salutation. Of the usuall forme of Salutations,

27

Sanctification. Man is sanctified three wayes: 1. Ex non sancto privativè: 2. Ex minùs sancto: 3. Ex non sancto negativè,

14

What need our spirits have to be sanctified,

15

This lyeth in two things: 1. In cleansing it from sin: 2. In adorning it with grace,

ibid.

The Spirit is cleansed by eight things,

16

Three things which adorne the mind in Sanctification: 1. A heavenly light: 2. A humble mind: 3. A pure imagination,

ibid.

The nature, subject, forme, cause, and end of our Sanctification,

162, 163, 164. &c.

Two things in our Sanctification: 1. Healing: 2. Cleansing,

164

Scandall. It is defined,

302

Christ a Scandall to the wicked many wayes,

304

Wherein we are not to regard the offence of wicked men,

305

In what things we may be guilty in giving Scandall to wicked men,

306

Rules for the preventing of a Scandall,

ibid. &c.

Rules for it in matter of Ceremonies,

436

Scripture. Proofes of doctrine are to be fetcht from Scripture,

124

The Scripture why so called,

272

Wherein it exceeds all other writings,

ibid.

Servants, Service. How we are to serve God,

473

Who are rejected from the number of Gods Servants,

474

It is an excellent freedome to be a Servant of God,

475

Their prerogatives,

ibid.

Servants are of divers sorts,

486

For what cause Servitude came in,

ibid.

How a godly Servant may comfort himselfe in his estate,

488

They must be subject three wayes,

490

Helps in their subjection,

ibid.

They are to shew their feare of God in their callings,

492

Their feare towards their Masters shewed divers wayes,

493

Sheep. Signes of a lost Sheep,

557

Hopes of returning,

558

Motives to returne,

559

The time when, the number, and meanes,

560

The maner and signes of returning,

561

The lets,

562

Shepherd. What attributes are given to Christ as a Shepherd,

563, 564

He is the one, true, great, and good Shepherd,

564

The happinesse of such as live under this Shepherd appeares in ten things,

565

Shew. Seven wayes whereby we may offend by outward Shewes,

333

Motives to the Shew of vertue,

334

Sicknesse, Vide Healing. How it comes into the soule,

548

The Sicknesse of the soule grievous many wayes,

549

Why many feele not the Sicknesse of the soule,

ibid.

Silence. To put to Silence is diversly accepted,

455

Sin. Sixe wayes by which one mans Sin is derived on another,

141

How many wayes Sin hinders the growth of the word,

200

A man may be said to make Sin many wayes,

522, 523

How Christ had no Sin.

524

Inwhat respect Christ bare our Sins,

531

His sufferings fitted to our Sins,

532

Men are said to be alive in Sin many wayes,

535

Their miserie great that so doe,

ibid.

Sinner. To be a worker of Iniquitie what, and three wayes manifested,

397

Sion. The Church is like Mount Sion in many respects,

276

How the Citizens of this City may be knowne,

277

Their speciall priviledges,

279

Sober, Sobrietie. A fixefold Sobrietie,

104

Sojourners, Vide Saints, and Strangers,

4, 5, 132

Soule. What it is,

76

Soule taken many wayes,

367

Its description,

ibid.

Seven things considerable in it,

ibid. &c.

It is a substance, but not bodily,

368

It is immortall,

369

Its originall,

371

Anima non est ex traduce.

372

God creates the Soule,

373, 374

Objections against it answered,

374, 375

Of the union of the Soule with the body,

376

Shewed by many similies,

377

By what band the Soule is bound to the body,

ibid.

The faculties of the Soule,

378

Its five senses,

379

The inward senses three,

380

The Soule gives to the body a threefold motion,

311

The facultie of reason in the Soule, and wherein it excells,

382

The end of its creation,

383

Foure kinds of warre against the Soule,

384

The Flesh wars against the Soule five wayes,

ibid.

How the Soule comes to be diseased,

548

The sicknesse of the Soule grievous many wayes,

149

Many feele it not,

ibid.

The Soule synechdochically signifieth the whole man,

17…

Speaking,

Vide Evill-speaking, and Report

Spirit. What need our Spirit… have to be sanctified,

…5

In what its sanctification consisteth,

ibid.

Eight things belong thereto,

16

Why the Spirit is called the Holy Ghost,

93

Why the Holy Spirit,

ibid.

Sprinkling. The meaning of that ceremonie of Sprinkling Christs bloud,

22

A fourefold legall Sprinkling,

22, 23, &c.

The manifold passages of Sprinkling the Passeover opened,

25, 26

Statutes. God hath foure Statute books,

149

Foure praises of those Statutes,

ibid.

Stone. How Christ is said to be, first, a Stone: secondly, a living Stone,

249, 250

This Stone disallowed, how, and by whom,

251, 252

Wicked men compared to Stones in many respects,

258

So the godly also,

ibid.

Reasons why we ought to be lively Stones,

259

That Christ is laid as a foundation Stone, imports many things,

276

A corner Stone,

282

Elect and precious,

ibid.

Strangers. Who: and why man is a Stranger, even in five respects,

3, 4

The Elect are Strangers,

4

And in foureteene things they should be like Strangers,

4, 5

The word Stranger literally and mystically taken,

132

Prettie allusions from Israels being in Egypt,

132, &c.

We should carry our selves as Strangers,

364

Submission. The Submission which belongs to Princes and Magistrates hath sixe things in it,

425

Objections against this Submission answered,

427

Suffer. The markes of such as truely suffer with Christ,

315

Divers wayes of Suffering,

514

Christ Suffered for us in divers respects,

517, 518

His Sufferings were for our examples,

519

Ten things to be followed by the examples of Christs Sufferings,

521

Christs Sufferings …,

532

He suffered in his body and soule,

533

Why he suffered on a tree,

534

T

TAbernacle. Christ hath a fivefold Tabernacle,

261

A godly man like a Tabernacle in many respects,

262

Excellent uses hereof,

263

Taste. What will bring us unto a good Taste of Gods goodnesse,

239, 240

Our true Taste is seene both by the causes and effects.

241

Wherein the Taste of the godly and wicked differ,

242

How far the Taste of the wicked may goe,

243

The uses of it,

243, 244

We can have but a Taste of Gods sweetnesse in this life,

244

The uses of it,

ibid.

The true causes of the want of Taste to the Word,

245

When we have tasted of it we must not lose our Appetite,

246

Temptation. Foure sorts of it,

57

Sathan tempts five wayes,

58

Thirteene degrees of it,

ibid. &c.

How Sathans Temptations differ from our owne concupiscence,

59, 60

Comforts against Temptation,

60

Twelve rules in Temptation,

61

God tempts man sixe wayes,

62

Seven wayes in affliction,

62, 63

Testimonie. The Scripture is our sure Testimonie, and thence how our Testaments are to be fetcht,

124, 125

Time, Times. Foure sorts of men have enquired about Times: 1. The curious: 2. The weake: 3. The superstitious: 4. The wise,

83

Tradition. The word is taken five waies,

89, 90

How many wayes children are infected by the Tradition of their fathers,

142

Why those Traditions should be so infectious,

ibid. &c.

Trust. Five things pertaining to a perfect Trust,

105

Nine wayes to shew our Trust,

108

Truth. What it is,

175

What it is to obey the Truth, & how,

176

V

VAine-glory. Wherein it is seene,

512

Verily. The word oft used in Scripture, and that for three speciall causes,

150, 151

How many wayes we shew forth the Verilies of Christ,

332, 333

Why the Verilies that are in us are called Christs Verilies,

334

Vertue. How the word is taken in the Originall,

327

Nine Vertues in Christ which we should shew forth,

329

Vertue and Grace are a Christians best riches,

618

Vessell. The word Vessell diversly taken,

642

Visit, Visitation. Men are said to visit diversly,

412

So God also,

ibid. &c.

First, in judgement,

413

Secondly, in mercy,

414

Signes of such as he visits in mercy,

415

What glorious things the day of Visitation brings forth,

419

Uncleannesse. Two waies contracted,

25

Unitie. Of Unitie in mind or judgement,

674, 675

Helpes thereto,

676

Aggravations against discord in opinion,

677

Many ill causes of the contrary,

ibid. &c.

In what cases we may not be of one mind with the Church of Rome,

678

W

WArre, Warfare, Vide Fight. The Christian condition is military,

42

He must keepe a fivefold garison,

43

Foure kinds of Warre against the soule,

384

The flesh warres against the soule five wayes,

ibid.

Why God doth suffer this Ware,

385

Our armour in this Warre what,

386

How we may get victorie in this Warre,

387

Weake. Priviledges of Weake Christians,

229

Encouragement for Weake Christians,

237

Well-doing. Well-doing is the best way to stop the … of wicked man,

…65

Excellent uses of it,

ibid.

How we are said to doe well,

639, 631

Reasons why we ought alwayes to be Well-doing,

631

Whisperers, Vide Bac…biters.

216, 217

Wicked, Wickednesse. What Wicked men in particular are not under merciemercy,

354

God doth oft suffer his children to live among Wicked men,

391

In what case we may converse with wickedmen,

392

Wife. Sixteene motives for Husbands and Wives to live together quietly in marriage,

576

Five speciall causes of disorder betweene Husband and Wife,

577

Why the Apostle is so large in setting down the Wives duty,

579

Eight reasons of the Wives subjection,

581

In what,

582

How, and in what cases not,

ibid.

Particular sins of the Wife in case of subjection,

583

What meanes a Wife must use to win her Husband,

595, 596

Chastity in marriage is specially charged on the Wife,

596

How chaste wife may be discerned,

597

Wherein Wives should shew their feare to their Husbands,

601, 602

What is a Wives best ornament,

627

Obedience and reverence are a Wives ornaments,

628

Will. The Will of God is, first, Personall: secondly, Essentiall. First, Legall: secondly, Evangelicall,

451

Gods Word is his Will in two respects,

452

The Will is the rule of our actions,

452

Whether a Christian can exactly doe Gods Will,

453

Winne. Divers kinds of Winning,

590

What a Minister must doe to win soules,

591

To be won what it …,

ibid.

Why all are not won at once,

592

By what meanes we may win wicked men in our conversation,

594

Wise Wisedome. Why many Wise men are rather confounders than founders in grace and goodnesse,

296

How the ignorant may herein notwithstanding be supported,

297

Five waye's we should shew forth the Wisdome of Christ,

329

What this Wisedome must not have in is,

ibid.

Woman. In what things a Woman is more fraile than man,

643

Word. How powerfull,

55

Vide Scripture.

How many wayes sin hinders the growth of the Word,

200

How to be desired,

221

How our affections to it may be discerned,

222

Other signes of it,

ibid. &c.

Impediments thereof both externall and internall,

223, 224

Meanes to get desire to it,

225

How to preserve our desires to it,

226

Foure motives of getting it,

227

How farre wicked men may desire the Word,

230

The sweetnesse of the Word,

240

Rules for applying the Word aright,

288

When, and how a man is said to be offended at the Word,

310

The Word must be the warrant for all our actions,

422

Its praise,

189

The only outward meanes to beget the seed of grace in us.

190

Eight things needfull in us to heare the Word of God as the Word of God,

ibid.

How the Word is said to live,

191

Sixe wayes to shew the life of the Word in our conversation,

ibid. &c.

Gods Word should be our maine care,

199

The power of the Word Preached,

200

Workes. How men shall be judged according to their Workes,

129, 130

How infants,

130

How poore men,

131

Manifold distinctions of Gods works,

148

How wonderfull Gods Workes are,

274

The uses of it,

275

To be a Worker of iniquity signifies three things,

397

Wherein Workes are good,

398

Rules to be observed in doing good Works,

399, 400

The divers kinds of good Works,

400, 401

How any man that is not absolutely good can be said to doe good Workes,

401, 402

What Workes are good for,

402

How a man may lose his Workes,

403

What Works may and ought to bee shewed,

404

We should by good workes silence the wicked,

454

World. Contempt of the World shewed in foure things,

331

Worship. Actions about Gods Worship of two sorts,

432, 433

Many defects in Gods Worship,

548

Wrongs. Reasons against righting Wrongs by our owne private revenge,

498

We may not (in some cases) resist but endure Wrongs,

ibid.

To suffer Wrongs is profitable,

ibid.

Places of Scripture herein expounded occasionally.

GEnesis 10. ver. 9.

p. 428

Exodus 26. ver. 8.

p. 98

Leviticus. 14. à ver. 4. ad 32.

p. 165, ad 173.

Cap. 16. ver. 12, 13, 17,

p. 26

Numbers 19. à ver. 1, 2. ad 7.

p. 23.

Psalme 19. ver. 10.

p. 240

Psalme 119. ver. 103.

ibid.

Psalme 145. ver. 8, 9.

p. 32

Proverbs 15. ver. 30.

p. 447, 448

Proverbs 22. ver. 1.

p. 447

Esay 53. ver. 7.

ibid.

Jeremiah 11. ver. 19.

ibid.

Matthew 16. ver. 18.

p. 250

John 1. ver. 29. 36.

147

Acts 5. ver. 10, 28, 29.

p. 435

Acts 17. ver. 30.

p. 127

Romans 2. ver. 10.

p. 449

Romans 12. ver. 3.

p. 104

2 Cor. 2. ver. 14, 15.

p. 241

Ephesians 4. ver. 17, 18.

p. 458

1 Thess. 5. ver. 15.

p. 686

Hebrewes 4. ver. 12.

p. 55

Hebrewes 12. ver. 9.

p.374

2 Epist. Johan. ver. 8.

p. 593

FINIS.

End of the text · Nicholas Byfield, A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 (1637)