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)