Existence and Attributes of God, Index – Errata
THE INDEX.
A
MEN are unwilling to have any Acquaintance with God. Pag. 97
Vide Communion.
Actions a greater proof of Principles than words. Pag. 49
All are known by God. Pag. 285
Activity required in Spiritual Worſhip. Pag. 144, 145
Adam, the greatneſs of his ſin. Pag. 625, 754
Vide Man, and Fall of man.
Additions in matters of Religion an invaſion of God's Soveraignty. Pag. 756, 757
Vide Worſhip and Ceremonies.
Admiration ought to be exercis'd in Spiritual worſhip, Pag. 148
Affections human, in what ſenſe aſcribed to God. Pag. 224, 225, 226
Sharp Afflictions make Atheiſts fear there is a God. Pag. 42, 43
Make us impatient, Vide Impatience.
We ſhould be patient under them, v. Patience.
Many call on God only under them. Pag. 92
Fill us with diſtraction in the Worſhip of God. Pag. 166
The Preſence of God a comfort in them Pag. 267
And his knowledge, Pag. 322
The wiſdom of God apparent in them. Pag. 369, 370, 371
The wiſdom of God a comfort in them Pag. 405
And his Power, Pag. 485, 486
And his Sovereignty. Pag. 771
Do not impeach his Goodneſs, Pag. 604
The Goodneſs of God ſeen in them. Pag. 657, 658
His Goodneſs a comfort in them, Pag. 683
Acts of God's Soveraignty, 711, 712. The conſideration of which would make us entertain them as we ought, Pag. 774, 775
Many neglect the ſerving of God till old Age. Pag. 65
Air, how uſeful a Creature. Pag. 23
Almighty, how often God is ſo called in Scripture. Pag. 421
How often in Job. Pag. 440
Good Angels, what benefit they have by Chriſt, Pag. 360, 618, 619
Not Inſtruments in the Creation of Man. Pag. 443
Evil not redeemed. Pag. 619, 620
Angels, not Governors of the world, Pag. 673, 674
Subject to God, Pag. 717, 718
Men Apoſtatize from God, when his will croſſes theirs, Pag. 80
In times of Perſecution, Pag. 90
By reaſon of practical Atheiſm, Pag. 102, 103
Apoſtles, the firſt Preachers of the Goſpel, mean and worthleſs men, Pag. 463, 464
Spirited by Divine Power for ſpreading of it, Pag. 464, 465
The Wiſdom of God ſeen in uſing ſuch Inſtruments, Pag. 393, 394
Applauding our ſelves, v. Pride.
Atheiſm opens a Door to all manner of wickedneſs, Pag. 2.
Some ſpice of it in all men, Pag. 2, 4
The greateſt folly 3 ad Pag. 39
Common in our days, Pag. 3, 41
Strikes at the Foundation of all Religion, Pag. 3
We ſhould eſtabliſh our ſelves againſt it, ibid.
'Tis againſt the light of Natural Reaſon, Pag. 4
Againſt the univerſal conſent of all Nations, Pag. 6
But few, if any, profeſt it in former Ages, Pag. 8, 41
Would root up the Foundations of all Government, Pag. 39
Introduce all evil into the world, Pag. 39, 40
Pernicious to the Atheiſt himſelf, Pag. 40, 41
The cauſe of Publick Judgments, Pag. 41
Mens Luſts the cauſe of it, Pag. 43
Promoted by the Devil moſt ſince the deſtruction of Idolatry, Pag. 44
Uncomfortable, Pag. 44, 45
Directions againſt it, Pag. 45, 46
All ſin founded in a ſecret Atheiſm, Pag. 50
Practical Atheiſm natural to Man, Pag. 47
Natural ſince the Fall, Pag. 48
To all men, ibid.
Proved by Arguments, 54 ad Pag. 99
We ought to be humbled for it, both in our ſelves and others, Pag. 103, 104
How great a ſin it is, 104 ad Pag. 106
Miſery will attend it, Pag. 106
We ſhould watch againſt it, ibid.
Directions againſt it, Pag. 106, 107
Atheiſt can never prove there is no God, Pag. 41, 42
All the Creatures fight againſt him, Pag. 42
In Afflictions, ſuſpects and fears there is one, Pag. 42, 43
How much pains he takes to blot out the notion of a God, Pag. 43
Suppoſe it were an even lay that there were no God, yet he is very imprudent, ibid.
Uſes not means to enform himſelf, ibid.
Atoms, the World not made by a caſual concourſe of them, Pag. 20
Attributes of God bear a comfortable reſpect to believers, Pag. 342
Authority, how diſtinguiſht from Power, Pag. 704
B.
THe Beſt we have ought to be given to God, Pag. 155, 156
Bleſſings Spiritual, God only the Author of, Pag. 698
Temporal, God uſes a Soveraignty in beſtowing them, 740 Vide Riches.
Body, of Man, how curiouſly wrought, Pag. 30, 31, 350
Every Human one hath different Features, Pag. 31, 32
God hath none; v. Spirit.
We muſt worſhip God with our Bodies, Pag. 139, 140, 141
Yet not with our Bodies only; Vide Soul and Worſhip.
We muſt not conceive of God under a Bodily ſhape, Pag. 124, 125
Bodily Members aſcribed to him. Vide Members
Brain, how curious a workmanſhip, Pag. 30
C.
THe Iſraelites worſhipped the true God under the golden Calf, Pag. 122
God fits and enclines men to ſeveral Callings, Pag. 356, 357, 650
Appoints every mans Calling, Pag. 747
There is a firſt Cauſe of all things, Pag. 20, 21
Which doth neceſſarily exiſt, and is infinitely perfect, Pag. 21
We muſt not Cenſure God in his Counſels, Actions, or Revelations, Pag. 192, 193, 403, 404
Or in his ways, Pag. 415, 416
Cenſuring the hearts of others, is an injury to God's Omniſcience, Pag. 324, 325
Men is a contempt of God's Soveraignty, Pag. 763
Ceremonial Law aboliſht to promote Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 135
Called Fleſh, ibid.
Not a fit means to bring the heart into a ſpiritual frame, Pag. 135, 136
Rather hindred than further'd Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 136, 137
God never teſtified himſelf well-pleaſed with it, nor intended it ſhould always laſt, Pag. 137, 138
The abrogating of it doth not argue any change in God, Pag. 228, 229
The Holineſs of God appears in it, Pag. 510, 511
Men are prone to bring Ceremonies of their own into God's Worſhip, 79 Vide Worſhip and Additions, &c.
Chance, the World not made nor governed by it, Pag. 26
Charity, men have bad ends in it, Pag. 93
We ſhould exerciſe it, Pag. 691, 692
The conſideration of God's Soveraignty would promote it, Pag. 774
We ſhould be Chearful in God's worſhip Pag. 150
Chriſt, his Godhead proved from his Eternity, Pag. 191, 192
From his Omnipreſence, Pag. 261, 262
From his Immutability, Pag. 229, 230
From his Knowledge of God, all Creatures, the hearts of men and his preſcience of their Inclinations, Pag. 315, 316, 317
From his Omnipotence manifeſt in Creation, Preſervation, and Reſurrection, Pag. 472 ad 476
From his Holineſs, Pag. 551
From his Wiſdom, Pag. 395
Is God-man, Pag. 458
Spiritual Worſhip offered to God through him, Pag. 154, 155
The imperfectneſs of our Services ſhould make us prize his Mediation, Pag. 168
The only fit Perſon in the Trinity to aſſume our Nature, Pag. 378, 379
Fitted to be our Mediator and Saviour by his two Natures, Pag. 381 382, 383
Should be imitated in his Holineſs, and often viewed by us to that end, Pag. 559, 563
The greateſt Gift, Pag. 622 ad 625
Appointed by the Father to be our Redeemer, Pag. 749, 750, 751
The Chriſtian Religion, its Excellency, Pag. 103
Of Divine Extraction, Pag. 551
Moſt oppoſed in the World, Pag. 63
Vide Goſpel.
Church, God's Eternity a comfort to her in all her Diſtreſſes and Threatnings of her Enemies, Pag. 193, 194
Under God's ſpecial Providence, Pag. 272, 273
His Infinite Knowledge a comfort in all ſubtil contrivances of men againſt her, Pag. 328, 329
Troublers of her Peace by corrupt Doctrines, no better than Devils, 341 †
God's Wiſdom a comfort to her in her greateſt dangers, Pag. 406
Hath ſhewn his Power in her deliverance in all Ages, Pag. 180, 453, 454
And in the deſtruction of her Enemies, Pag. 454, 455, 456
Ought to take comfort in his Power in her loweſt Eſtate, Pag. 487, 488
Should not fear her Enemies; v. Fear.
His Goodneſs a comfort in dangers, Pag. 684
How great is God's love to her, Pag. 769, 820
His Soveraignty a comfort to her Pag. 771, 772
He will comfort her in her …ears, and deſtroy her Enemies, Pag. 787, 788
God exerciſes Patience towards her, Pag. 812
For her ſake to the wicked alſo, Pag. 812, 813
Why her Enemies are not immediately deſtroyed, Pag. 819
Commands of God; v. Laws.
The Holineſs of God to be relied on for Comfort, Pag. 551
God gives great Comforts in or after Temptations, Pag. 659
Creatures cannot Comfort us if God be angry Pag. 768
Communion with God, man naturally hath no deſire of, Pag. 98
The advantage of Communion with him, Pag. 106, 107
Can only be in our Spirits, Pag. 127
We ſhould deſire it, Pag. 201, 202
Cannot be between God and ſinners, Pag. 548, 549
Holineſs only fits us for it, Pag. 562
Conceptions, we cannot have adequate ones of God, Pag. 123
We ought to labour after as high ones as we can, Pag. 123, 124
They muſt not be of him in a corporeal ſhape, Pag. 124, 125
There will be in them a ſimilitude of ſome corporeal thing in our Fancy, Pag. 125, 126
We ought to refine and ſpiritualize them, Pag. 126
Right Conceptions of him, a great help to Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 176, 177
God Concurs to all the Action of his Creatures, Pag. 529
His concurring to ſinful actions no blemiſh to his Holineſs, Pag. 530 ad 533
Various Conditions of men, a fruit of Divine Wiſdom, Pag. 356
Conditions of the Covenant; v. Covenant, Faith, and Repentance.
Confeſſion of ſin, men may have bad ends in it, 93. Partial ones a practical denial of God's Omniſcience, Pag. 326
Conſcience, proves a Deity, Pag. 33 ad 36
Fears and ſtings of it in all men upon the commiſſion of ſin, Pag. 34, 35
Though never ſo ſecret, ibid.
Cannot be totally ſhaken off, Pag. 35, 36
Comforts a man in well-doing, Pag. 36
Neceſſary for the good of the world, ibid.
Terrified ones wiſh there were no God, Pag. 52, 53
Men naturally diſpleas'd with it, when it contradicts the deſires of ſelf Pag. 71, 72
Obey carnal ſelf againſt the light of it, Pag. 84
Accuſations of it evidence God's Knowledge of all things, Pag. 313
God, and he only can ſpeak peace to it when troubled, Pag. 471, 720, 721
His Laws only reach it, Pag. 724, 725, 756, 757
Constancy in that which is good, we ſhould labour after, and why? Pag. 238
Nothing but an Infinite good can content the Soul, Pag. 36, 37
Vide Satisfaction and Soul.
Contingents, all foreknown by God. Vide Knowledge of God.
Contradictions cannot be made true by God, Pag. 432, 433, 434, 435
Yet this doth not overthrow God's Omnipotence, ibid.
'Tis an abuſe of God's Power, to endeavour to juſtifie them by it, Pag. 483
Contrary qualities linkt together in the Creatures, Pag. 22, 351
Converſion, carnal Self-love a great hindrance to it, Pag. 82
There may be a converſion from ſin which is not good, Pag. 90, 91
Men are Enemies to it Pag. 98, 99
The neceſſity of it, Pag. 100
The difficulty of it, Pag. 101
God only can be the Author of it, Pag. 102, 655
The Wiſdom of God appears in it, in the Subjects, Seaſons, and Manner of it, Pag. 367, 368, 369
And his Power, Pag. 467 ad 470
And his Holineſs Pag. 516
And his Goodneſs, Pag. 654, 655
And his Soveraignty, Pag. 730 ad 734
He could convert all Pag. 730, 731
Not bound to convert any, Pag. 732, 733
The various means and occaſions of it, Pag. 747, 748
Genuine Convictions would be promoted by right and ſtrong Apprehenſions of God's Holineſs, Pag. 552, 553
Corruptions, the Knowledge of God a a comfort under fears of them lurking in the heart, Pag. 333 †
The Power of God a comfort, when they are ſtrong and ſtirring, Pag. 486
In God's People ſhall be ſubdued, Pag. 770
The Remainders of them God orders for their good, Pag. 362 ad 366
The Covenant of God with his People eternal, 194. and unchangeable, Pag. 234, 235
God in Covenant an eternal good to his people, Pag. 194, 195
The Conditions of the Covenant of Grace evidence the Wiſdom of God, Pag. 388
Suited to mans lapſed ſtate, and Gods glory ibid.
Oppoſite to that which was the cauſe of the Fall, ibid.
Suited to the common Sentiments and Cuſtoms of the World and Conſciences of men Pag. 388, 389
Only likely to attain the end, ibid.
Evidence Gods Holineſs, Pag. 515, 516
The Wiſdom of God made over to Believers in it, Pag. 4…5
And Power Pag. 485
And Holineſs, Pag. 552 †
A Promiſe of Life implyed in the Covenant of Works, Pag. 612
Why not expreſt, Pag. 614, 615
The Goodneſs of God manifeſt in making a Covenant of Grace, after Man had broken the firſt, Pag. 629.
In the na… … …o… of it, Pag. 629, 630, 631
In the …ice gift of himſelf made over …n it, Pag. 631, 632
In its confirmation, Pag. 632
Its Conditions eaſy, reaſonable, neceſſary, Pag. 533, 534, 535, 536
It promiſes a more excellent Reward than the life in Paradiſe, Pag. 642, 643
Covetouſneſs, vide Riches and World.
Creation, the Wiſdom of God appears in it, 347 ad 351. & ſhould be meditated upon, 351. motives to it, Pag. 417 ad 4…0
His Power, Pag. 439 ad 445
His Holineſs, Pag. 507, 508
His Goodneſs, Pag. 604 ad 615
Goodneſs the end and motive of it, Pag. 592, 593
Aſcribed to Chriſt, Pag. 472 ad 475
The Foundation of God's Dominion, Pag. 707, 708
Creatures evidence the Being of God, 5 & Pag. 14 ad 29
In their production, Pag. 15 ad 21
In their harmony, Pag. 21 ad 27
In purſuing their ſeveral ends, Pag. 27 28, 29
In their preſervation, Pag. 29
Were not, and cannot be from Eternity, Pag. 16, 17, 190, 191
None of them can make themſelves, Pag. 17, 18, 19
Or the World, Pag. 20
Subſervient to one another, Pag. 22 251, 252
Regular, uniform, and conſtant in it, Pag. 24, 25
Are various, Pag. 25, 26, 347, 348
Have ſeveral Natures, Pag. 27
All fight againſt the Atheiſt, Pag. 42
God ought to be ſtudied in them Pag. 45
All manifeſt ſomething of God's perfections, ibid.
Setting them up as our end, v. End.
Muſt not be worſhip'd, v. Idolatry.
Uſed by man to a contrary end than God appointed, Pag. 89
All are changeable, Pag. 220, 221
Therefore an immutable God to be preferred before them, Pag. 237
Are nothing to God, Pag. 264
Are all known by God, Pag. 284, 285
Shall be reſtored to their primitive end, Pag. 205, 206, 207, 644, 645
Their beautiful order and ſituation Pag. 348, 349
Are fitted for their ſeveral ends, Pag. 349, 350
None of them can be Omnipreſent, Pag. 251, 252
Or Omnipotent; Pag. 426, 427
Or infinitely perfect, Pag. 431
God could have made more than he hath, Pag. 427 ad 430
Made them all more perfect than they are, Pag. 430
Yet all are made in the beſt manner, Pag. 431
The Power that is in them demonſtrates a greater to be in God, Pag. 436
Ordered by God as he pleaſes, Pag. 455
The meaneſt of them can deſtroy us by God's order, Pag. 491, 768
Making different ranks of them, doth not impeach God's Goodneſs, Pag. 595, 596, 597
Curſed for the ſin of man, Pag. 609, 643
What benefit they have by the Redemption of man, Pag. 643, 644
Cannot comfort us if God be angry, Pag. 768
All ſubject to God, Pag. 717 ad 721
All obey God, Pag. 781
Curioſity in enquiries about God's Counſels & Actions, a great folly, Pag. 192, 193
'Tis an injuring God's knowledge, Pag. 323
'Tis a contempt of Divine wiſdom Pag. 404
Should not be employ'd about what God hath not reveal'd, Pag. 414
The conſideration of God's Soveraignty would check it, Pag. 775
D.
DAy, how neceſſary, Pag. 350
Death of Chriſt, its value is from his Divine Nature, Pag. 382
Vindicated the honour of the Law, both as to precept & penalty, Pag. 383
Overturn'd the Devils Empire, Pag. 385
He ſuffered to reſcue us by it, Pag. 623
By the command of the Father, Pag. 750
Debauch'd perſons wiſh there were no God, Pag. 53
Decrees of God, no ſucceſſion in them, Pag. 186
Unchangeable, 397, 477. v. Immutability.
Defilement, God not capable of it from any Corporeal thing, Pag. 126, 260 261
Delight, holy Duties ſhould be performed with it, Pag. 149, 150
All delight in worſhip doth not prove it to be ſpiritual, Pag. 150
We ſhould examin our ſelves after worſhip, what delight we had in …t, Pag. 164
Deliverances chiefly to be aſcribed to God, Pag. 272, 273
The Wiſdom of God ſeen in them, Pag. 371, 372 373
Deſires, of Man, naturally after an infinite good, Pag. 36, 37
Which evidences the being of a God, Pag. 37
Men naturally have no deſire of Remembrance of God, converſe with him, thorough return to him, or imitation of him, Pag. 97, 98, 99
Devil, Man naturally under his Dominion, Pag. 67, 68
God's reſtraining him, how great a mercy; v. Reſtraint.
Shall be totally ſubdued by God, Pag. 341 †
Outwitted by God, Pag. 385, 386
His firſt ſin, what it was, Pag. 753, 754
Vide Angel.
Direction, Men neglect to ask it of God, Vide Truſting in our ſelves.
Should ſeek it of him, Pag. 399
Not to do it, how ſinful, Pag. 403
Should not preſume to give it to him, Pag. 404
Diſappointments make many caſt off their Obedience to God, Pag. 66
God Diſappoints the devices of Men, Pag. 745, 746
Diſpenſations of God with his own Law Pag. 725, 726
Diſtance from God naturally affected by Men, Pag. 97
How great it is, Pag. 546, 547
Diſtractions in the Service of God, how natural, Pag. 65, 66, 165
Will be ſo while we have natural Corruption within, Pag. 165, 166
While we are in the Devil's Precinct, Pag. 166
Moſt frequent in time of Affliction, ibid.
May be improved to make us more Spiritual, Pag. 166, 167, 168
When we are humbled for them in worſhip, Pag. 166, 167
And for the baſeneſs of our Natures, the cauſe of them, Pag. 167
Make us prize Duties of Worſhip the more, ibid.
Fill us with admirations of the graciouſneſs of God, Pag. 167, 168
Prize the mediation of Chriſt, 168
They ſhould not diſcourage us, if we reſiſt them, Pag. 168, 169
And if we narrowly watch againſt them Pag. 169
Should be ſpeedily caſt out, Pag. 178
Thoughts of God's Preſence a remedy againſt them, Pag. 270
Diſtreſſes, v. Afflictions.
Diſtruſt of God, a contempt of God's Wiſdom, Pag. 405
And of his Power, Pag. 481
And of his Goodneſs, Pag. 665
Too great fear of man ariſes from it, Pag. 481, 482
Vide Truſting in God, and in our ſelves.
Divinity of Chriſt, v. Christ.
Of the Holy Ghoſt, v. Holy Ghoſt.
Doctrines that are ſelf-pleaſing deſired by men, Pag. 83
Vide Truths.
Dominion of God, diſtinguiſht from his Power, Pag. 704
All his other Attributes fit him for it, ibid.
Acknowledg'd by all, Pag. 704, 705
Inſeparable from the notion of God, ibid.
We cannot ſuppoſe God a Creator without it, Pag. 705
Cannot be renounced by God himſelf, ibid.
Nor communicated to any Creature, Pag. 706
Its foundation, Pag. 706 ad 710
It is independent, Pag. 710, 711
Abſolute, Pag. 711 ad 714
Yet not tyrannical, 714
Managed with Wiſdom, Righteouſneſs and Goodneſs, Pag. 714 ad 717
'Tis Eternal, Pag. 721
'Tis manifeſted as he is a Law-giver, Pag. 721 ad 727
As a Proprietor, Pag. 727 ad 741
As a Governor, Pag. 741 ad 748
As a Redeemer, Pag. 748 ad 751
The contempt of it, how great, Pag. 752
All ſin is a contempt of it, Pag. 752, 753
The firſt thing the Devil aim'd againſt, Pag. 753
And Adam, Pag. 754
Invaded by the Uſurpations of men, Pag. 754, 755
Wherein it is contemned as he is a Law-giver, Pag. 755 ad 758
As a Proprietor, Pag. 758, 759
As a Governor, Pag. 759 ad 763
It is terrible to the wicked, Pag. 766, 767, 768.
Comfortable to the Righteous, Pag. 769 ad 772
Should be often meditated upon by us, Pag. 772
The Advantages of ſo doing, Pag. 773, 774, 775
It ſhould teach us Humility, Pag. 775, 776
Calls for our praiſe and thanks, Pag. 776, 777, 778
Should make us promote his Honour, Pag. 778, 779
Calls for Fear, Prayer, and Obedience, Pag. 779, 780
Affords motives to obedience, Pag. 780, 781
And ſhews the manner of it, Pag. 782, 783, 784
Calls for Patience, Pag. 784
Affords motives to it, Pag. 784, 785, 786
Shews us the true nature of it, Pag. 786
Duties of Religion performed often meerly for ſelf intereſt, Pag. 91 ad 94
Men unwieldy to them, Pag. 91
Perform them only in affliction, Pag. 92
Vid. Service of God, and Worſhip.
Dwelling in Heaven, and in the Ark, how to be underſtood of God, Pag. 257, 258
E.
EAr of man how curious an Organ, Pag. 31
Earth, how uſeful, Pag. 23
The Wiſdom of God ſeen in it, Pag. 348, 849
Earthly things, v. World.
Ejaculations, how uſeful, Pag. 176
Elect, God knows all their perſons, Pag. 330
Election evidenced by Holineſs, Pag. 562
The Soveraignty of God appears in it, Pag. 727, 728
Not grounded on Merit in the Creature, Pag. 728, 729
Nor on foreſight of Faith and Good Works, Pag. 729, 730
Elements, though contrary, yet linkt together, Pag. 22
End, All Creatures conſpire to one common one Pag. 22 ad 27
Purſue their ſeveral Ends, though they know them not, Pag. 27, 28
Men have corrupt Ends in Religious Duties, Pag. 78, 91, 92, 93, 94
For evil Ends, Pag. 58
Deſire the knowledge of God's Law for by Ends, Pag. 57, 58
Man naturally would make himſelf his his own End, Pag. 80 ad 84
How ſinful this is, Pag. 84, 85
Man would make any thing his End rathan God, Pag. 85, 86, 87
A Creature, or a Luſt, Pag. 87, 88
How ſinful this is, ibid.
Would make himſelf the End of all Creatures, Pag. 88, 89
How ſinful this is, Pag. 89
Would make himſelf the End of God, Pag. 90 ad 94
How ſinful this is, Pag. 94
Cannot make God his End, till converted, Pag. 100
Spiritual ones required in Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 153, 154
Many have other Ends in it, Pag. 154
God orders the Hearts of all men to his own, Pag. 452, 453
God hath one, and Man another in ſin, Pag. 532, 533
We ſhould make God our end, Pag. 563
God makes himſelf his own End, how to be underſtood, Pag. 592
His Being the End of all things is one foundation of his Dominion, Pag. 708, 709
Not uſing God's gifts for the End for which he gave them, how great a ſin, Pag. 758, 759
Enemies of the Church; v. Church.
We ſhould be kind to our worſt Enemies Pag. 692
Enjoyment of God in Heaven always freſh and glorious, Pag. 195
We ſhould endeavour after it here, Pag. 685, 686
Men Envy the gifts and proſperities of others, Pag. 77, 78
An imitation of the Devil, ibid.
A ſenſe of God's Goodneſs would check it, Pag. 689
A contempt of God's Dominion, Pag. 758
Eſſence of God cannot be ſeen, Pag. 115, 116
is unchangeable Pag. 210, 211
Eternity a property of God and Chriſt, Pag. 181, 191, 192
What it is, Pag. 182
In what reſpects God is eternal, Pag. 183 ad 186
That he is ſo, proved, 186 ad 190
God's incommunicable property, Pag. 16, 17, 190, 191
Dreadful to ſinners, Pag. 193, 194
Comfortable to the Righteous, Pag. 194 ad 197
The thoughts of it ſhould abate our Pride, Pag. 197, 198, 199
Take off our love and confidence from the World, Pag. 199, 200
We ſhould provide for an happy Intereſt in it, Pag. 200, 201
Often meditate on it, Pag. 201
Renders him worthy of our choiceſt Affections, Pag. 201, 202
And our beſt Service, Pag. 202
Exaltation of Chriſt, the Holineſs of God appears in it, Pag. 514, 515
His Goodneſs to us as well as to Chriſt, Pag. 624
And his Soveraignty, Pag. 751
Examination of our ſelves before and after worſhip, and wherein our duty Pag. 162, 163, 164, 178
Experience of God's Goodneſs a Preſervative againſt Atheiſm, Pag. 45, 46
Extremity, then God uſually delivers his Church, Pag. 487, 488
F.
FAith, the ſame thing may be the object of it, and of Reaſon too, Pag. 4
Muſt be exerciſed in Spiritual worſhip, Pag. 146, 147
The Wiſdom, Holineſs, & Goodneſs of God in preſcribing it as a Condition of the Covenant of Grace; v. Covenant.
Muſt look back as far as the foundation promiſe, Pag. 341 †
Only the obedience flowing from it acceptable to God, Pag. 336
Diſtinct, but inſeparable from Obedience, Pag. 336, 337
Foreſight of it not the ground of Election, Pag. 729, 730
Fall of man, God no way the Author of it, Pag. 505, 506, 519
How great it is, Pag. 546, 547
Doth not impeach God's Goodneſs, Pag. 594, 595
'Tis evident, Pag. 670, 671
Brought a Curſe on the Creatures v. Creatures.
Falls of God's Children turned to their good, Pag. 361 ad 369
Fear, not the cauſe of the Belief of a God, Pag. 14
Men that are under a ſlaviſh fear of him wiſh there were no God, Pag. 53, 54
Of Man a contempt of God's Power, Pag. 481, 482
Should be of God, and not of the pride or force of man, Pag. 491, 492
God's Soveraignty ſhould cauſe it Pag. 779
Features different in every man, and how neceſſary it ſhould be ſo, Pag. 31, 32, 348
Fervency, v. Activity.
Fleſh, the Legal Services ſo called, Pag. 135
Fools, wicked men are ſo, Pag. 1, 400
Folly, ſin is ſo; v. Sin.
Forgetfulneſs of God, men naturally are prone to it, Pag. 97
Of his Mercies a great ſin; v. Mercies.
How attributed to God, Pag. 283
Foreknowledge in God of ſin, no blemiſh to his Holineſs, Pag. 520 521
Vide Knowledge of God.
Future things, men deſirous to know them, Pag. 323
Known by God; v. Knowledge of God.
G.
GAbriel, on what Meſſages he was ſent, Pag. 468
Generation, could not be from Eternity Pag. 16, 17.
Gifts, God can beſtow them on men, Pag. 719
His Soveraignty ſeen in giving greater meaſures to one than another, Pag. 738
Glory of all they do or have, men are apt to aſcribe to themſelves, Pag. 82, 83
Of God little minded in many ſeemingly good actions, Pag. 72, 73
Men are more concern'd for their own reputation than God's glory, Pag. 83
Should be aim'd at in Spiritual worſhip, Pag. 153
God's permiſſion of ſin is in order to it, Pag. 528, 529
Sould be advanced by us, Pag. 778
God, his Exiſtence known by the light of Nature, Pag. 4, 5
By the Creatures, Pag. 5, 14 ad 29
Miracles not wrought to prove it Pag. 5
Owned by the univerſal conſent of all Nations, Pag. 6
Never diſputed of old, Pag. 7
Denied by very few, if any, Pag. 8
Conſtantly owned in all changes of the world, Pag. 9
Under anxieties of Conſcience, ib.
The Devil not able to root out the belief of it, Pag. 9, 10
Natural and innate Pag. 10
Not introduced meerly by Tradition Pag. 11
Nor Policy Pag. 12, 13
Nor Fear Pag. 14
Witneſſed to by the very Nature of Man Pag. 29 ad 37
And by extraordinary Occurrencies Pag. 37, 38
Impoſſible to demonſtrate there is none, Pag. 41. 42
Motives to endeavour to be ſetled in the belief of it, Pag. 44, 45
Directions, Pag. 45
Men wiſh there were none, and who they are, Pag. 52, 53, 54
Two ways of deſcribing him, Negation and Affirmation, Pag. 113
Is active and communicative, Pag. 126, 127
Propriety in him a great Bleſſedneſs. Vide Covenant.
Infinitely happy, Pag. 476, 477
Good, That which is materially ſo may be done, and not formally, Pag. 69, 72, 73
Good Actions cannot be perform'd before Converſion, Pag. 100
The thoughts of Gods Preſence a Spur to them, Pag. 270
God only is ſo, Pag. 578, 579
Goodneſs, pure and perfect, the Royal Prerogative of God only, Pag. 581
Own'd by all Nations, Pag. 582
Inſeparable from the Notion of God, Pag. 582, 583
What is meant by it, Pag. 583
How diſtinguiſh'd from Mercy, Pag. 584
Comprehends all his Attributes, Pag. 585
Is ſo by his Eſſence, Pag. 586
The Chief, Pag. 587
'Tis communicative, Pag. 588
Neceſſary to him. Pag. 589
Voluntary, Pag. 590
Communicative with the greateſt pleaſure, Pag. 591
The diſplaying of it, the Motive and End of all his Works, Pag. 592
Arguments to prove it a Property of God, Pag. 593, 594
Vindicated from the Objections made againſt it, Pag. 594 ad 604
Appears in Creation, Pag. 604 ad 615
In Redemption, Pag. 615 ad 645
In his Government, Pag. 645 ad 660
Frequently contemn'd and abus'd, Pag. 660, 661
The Abuſe and Contempt of it, baſe and diſingenuous, Pag. 661, 662
Highly reſented by God, Pag. 662
How 'tis contemn'd and abus'd, Pag. 660 ad 670
Men juſtly puniſh'd for it, Pag. 671
Fits him for the Government of the World, and engages him actually to govern it, Pag. 671, 6 2
The ground of all Religion, Pag. 673, 674
Renders God amiable to himſelf, Pag. 674, 675
Should do ſo to us, and why, Pag. 675 ad 678
Renders him a fit object of Truſt, with Motives to it, drawn hence, Pag. 678, 679, 680
And worthy to be obey'd and honour'd, Pag. 680, 681, 682
Comfortable to the Righteous, and wherein, Pag. 682 ad 685
Should engage us to endeavour after the enjoyment of him, with Motives, Pag. 685, 686
Should be often meditated on, and the Advantages of ſo doing, Pag. 681, 682, 683
We ſhould be thankful for it, Pag. 690
And imitate it, and wherein, Pag. 691, 692
Goſpel; Men greater Enemies to, than to the Law, Pag. 101
Its Excellency, Pag. 103, 334
Called Spirit, Pag. 135
The only Means of eſtabliſhment, Pag. 333
Of an Eternal Reſolution, tho of a Temporary Revelation, Pag. 334
Myſterious, ibi….
The firſt Preachers of it. Vide Apostles.
Its Antiquity, Pag. 335
The Goodneſs of God in ſpreading it among the Gentiles, ibid.
Gives no encouragement to Licentiouſneſs, Pag. 336
The Wiſdom of God in its Propagation, Pag. 390 ad 395
And Power, Pag. 461 ad 467
Vide Chriſtian Religion.
Government of the World; God could not manage it without Immutability, Pag. 220
And Knowledge, Pag. 314, 315
And Wiſdom, Pag. 344, 345
The Wiſdom of God appears in his government of Man, as Rational, Pag. 352 ad 357
As Sinful, Pag. 357 ad 366
As Reſtored, Pag. 367, 368, 369
The Power of God appears in Natural government, Pag. 445 ad 451
Moral, Pag. 451, 452, 453
Gracious and Judicial, Pag. 453 ad 456
The Goodneſs of God in it, Pag. 645 ad 660
God only fit for it, Pag. 395, 396, 477, 478, 551 †, 671, 672
Doth actually manage it, Pag. 396, 672 ad 675
Is contemned, Pag. 759 ad 763
Vide Laws.
Governour; God's Dominion as ſuch, Pag. 741 ad 748
Grace; the Power of God in planting it, Pag. 467 ad 470
Vide Converſion.
And preſerving it, 471 V. Perſeverance.
God's withdrawing it no blemiſh to his Holineſs, Pag. 536, 537, 538
Shall be perfected in the Upright, Pag. 552
God exerciſes a Soveraignty in beſtowing and denying it, Pag. 731 ad 734
Means of Grace, vide Means.
Graces muſt be acted in Worſhip, Pag. 145 ad 149
We ſhould examine how we acted them, after it, Pag. 163
Growth in Grace annex'd to true Sanctification, Pag. 699
Should be labour'd after, Pag. 563, 564
H.
HAbits Spiritual to be acted in Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 145, 146
The rooting up Evil ones ſhews the Power of God, Pag. 469, 470
Chriſt's ſitting at Gods Right Hand doth not prove the Ubiquity of his Human Nature, Pag. 251, 252
Hardneſs; how God, and how Man is the cauſe of it, Pag. 536, 537
Harmony of the Creatures, ſhew the Being and Wiſdom of God, Pag. 21 ad 27
Heart of Man, how curiouſly contrived, Pag. 30
We ſhould examine our ſelves, how our Hearts are prepared for Worſhip, Pag. 162
How they are fixed in it, and how they are after it, Pag. 162, 163, 164
God orders all Mens to his own ends, Pag. 452, 453
Heaven; the enjoyment of God there will be always freſh and glorious, Pag. 195
Why called God's Throne, Pag. 257
Heavenly Bodies ſubſervient to the good of the World, Pag. 22, 23
Hoſea; when he Propheſied, Pag. 801
Holineſs a neceſſary ingredient in Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 152, 153
A glorious Perfection of God, Pag. 495
Own'd to be ſo both by Heathens and Hereticks, ibid.
God cannot be conceiv'd without it, Pag. 495, 496
It hath an excellency above all his other Perfections, Pag. 496
Moſt loftily and frequently ſounded forth by the Angels, ib.
He Swears by it. ib.
'Tis his glory and life, Pag. 496, 497
The glory of all the reſt, Pag. 497, 498
What it is, and how diſtinguiſh'd from Righteouſneſs, Pag. 498
His Eſſential and neceſſary Perfection, Pag. 498, 499
God only abſolutely Holy, Pag. 499, 450
Cauſes him to abhor all Sin neceſſarily, intenſly, univerſally, and perpetually, Pag. 501, 502, 503
Inclines him to love it in others, Pag. 503, 551, 552
So Great, that he cannot poſitively will and encourage Sin in others, or do it himſelf, Pag. 504, 505, 506
Appears in his Creation, Pag. 507, 508
In his Government, Pag. 508 ad 513
In Redemption, Pag. 513, 514, 515
In Juſtification, Pag. 515, 516
In Regeneration, Pag. 516
Defended in all his Acts about Sin, Pag. 517 ad 540
How much it is contemned in the World, and wherein, Pag. 540 ad 546
To hate and ſcoff at it in others, how great a Sin, Pag. 543, 544
Neceſſarily obliges him to puniſh Sin, Pag. 547, 548
And exact ſatisfaction for it, Pag. 549, 550
Fits him for the government of the World, Pag. 551 †
Comfortable to Holy men, Pag. 552 †
Shall be perfected in the Upright, Pag. 552
We ſhould get and preſerve right and ſtrong Apprehenſions of it, and the advantage of ſo doing, Pag. 552 ad 556
We ſhould glorifie God for it, and how, Pag. 556, 557, 558
And labour after a conformity to it, and wherein, Pag. 558, 559, 563
Motives to do ſo, Pag. 559 ad 562
And Directions, Pag. 563
We ſhould labour to grow in it, Pag. 563, 564
Exert it in our Approaches to God, Pag. 564
Seek it at his hands, Pag. 564, 565
Holy Ghoſt; his Deity proved, Pag. 476
Humility; a neceſſary ingredient in Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 151, 152
We ſhould examine our ſelves about it after Worſhip, Pag. 164
A Conſideration of God's Eternity would promote it, Pag. 197, 198, 199
And of his Knowledge, Pag. 339 †
And of his Wiſdom, Pag. 409
And of his Power, Pag. 491
And of his Holineſs, Pag. 553, 554
And of his Goodneſs, Pag. 668
And his Soveraignty, Pag. 775, 776
Hypocrites; their falſe Pretences a virtual denial of God's Knowledge, Pag. 328
It is Terrible to them, Pag. 335, 336
I.
IDleneſs; 'tis an abuſe of Gods Mercies, to make them an occaſion of it, Pag. 668
Idolatry, of the Heathens, proves the belief of a God to be Univerſal, Pag. 6, 7
The firſt Object of it was the Heavenly Bodies, Pag. 15
Springs from unworthy Imaginations of God, Pag. 95
Not countenanc'd by Gods Omnipreſence, Pag. 260
Springs from a want of due Notion of God's Infinite Power, Pag. 480
A contempt of God's Dominion, Pag. 759
Jehovah ſignifies God's Eternity, Pag. 189
And his Immutability, Pag. 217
God called ſo but once in the Book of Job, Pag. 440
Image of God in Man, conſiſts not in external form and figure, Pag. 119, 120
Unreaſonable to make any of him, Pag. 120, 121, 122, 123
'Tis Idolatry ſo to do, Pag. 123
The defacing it an injury to God's Holineſs, Pag. 541, 542
Man at firſt made after it, Pag. 607
Imaginations; Men naturally have unworthy ones of God, Pag. 94
Vain ones, the cauſe of Idolatry and Superſtition, and Preſumtion, Pag. 95, 96
Worſe than Idolatry or Atheiſm, Pag. 96, 97
An injury to God's Holineſs, Pag. 541
Imitation of God; Man naturally hath no deſire of it, Pag. 99
We ſhould ſtrive to imitate his Immutability in that which is good, Pag. 238, 239
In Holineſs, wherein, and why, and how, Pag. 558 ad 563
And in Goodneſs, Pag. 691, 692
Immortal; God is ſo, Pag. 127
Vide Eternity of God.
Immutability; a Property of God, Pag. 208
'Tis a Perfection, Pag. 208, 209
A glory belonging to all his Attributes, Pag. 209
Neceſſary to him, Pag. 209, 210
God is Immutable in his Eſſence, Pag. 210, 211
In Knowledge, Pag. 211 ad 214
In his Will, though the things willed by him are not, Pag. 214, 215, 216
This doth not infringe his liberty, Pag. 216
Immutable in regard of place, Pag. 216, 217
Proved by Arguments, Pag. 217 ad 220, & 397, 477
Incommunicable to any Creature, Pag. 221, 222, 517, 518
Objections againſt it anſwered, Pag. 222 ad 229
Aſcribed to Chriſt, Pag. 229, 230
A ground and encouragement to Worſhip him, Pag. 230, 231
How contrary to God in it Man is, Pag. 231, 232, 233
Terrible to Sinners, Pag. 233, 2…4
Comfortable to the Righteous, and wherein, Pag. 234, 235, 236
An Argument for Patience, Pag. 237
Should make us prefer God before all Creatures, Pag. 237
We ſhould imitate this his Immutability in Goodneſs: Motives to it, Pag. 238, 239
Impatience of Men is great, when God croſſes them, Pag. 76
A Contempt of Gods Wiſdom, Pag. 404, 405
And of his Goodneſs, Pag. 663, 664
And of his Dominion, Pag. 760
Impenitence, an Abuſe of Gods Goodneſs, Pag. 664, 665
It will clear the Equity o… God's Juſtice, Pag. 813, 814
An Abuſe of Patience, Pag. 815
Imperfections in Holy Duties, we ſhould be ſenſible of, Pag. 148
Should make us prize Chriſt's Mediation, Pag. 168
Impoſſible; ſome things are in their own nature, Pag. 432, 433
Some things ſo to the Nature and Being of God, and his Perfections, Pag. 433, 434
Some things ſo, becauſe of Gods Ordination, Pag. 435
Do not infringe the Almightineſs of God's Power, Pag. 432 ad 435
Incarnation of Chriſt; the Power of God ſeen in it, Pag. 456 ad 460
Incomprehenſible; God is ſo, Pag. 263
Inconſtancy; natural to Man, Pag. 231, 234
In the knowledge of the Truth, Pag. 231, 232
In Will and Affections, Pag. 232
In Practice, Pag. 233, 234
'Tis the Root of much Evil, ibid.
Infirmities; the Knowledge of God a comfort to his People under them, Pag. 332, 333 †
The Goodneſs of God in bearing with them, Pag. 656, 657
His Patience a Comfort under them, Pag. 821
Injuries; Men highly concern'd for thoſe that are done to themſelves, little for thoſe that are done to God, Pag. 83
Gods Patience under them ſhould make us reſent them, Pag. 822
Injustice; a Contempt of Gods Dominion, Pag. 758
Innocent Perſon; whether God may inflict eternal Torments upon him, Pag. 712, 716, 717
Inſtruments; Men are apt to pay a Service to them, rather than God, Pag. 86
Which is a Contempt of Divine Power, Pag. 482
And of his Goodneſs, Pag. 669, 670
Deliverances not to be chiefly aſcribed to them, Pag. 272 273
God makes uſe of Sinful ones, Pag. 358, 359
None in Creation, Pag. 443 444
The Power of God ſeen in effecting his Purpoſes by weak Ones, Pag. 455, 456
Inventions of Men. Vide Addition and Worſhip.
Job; when he lived, Pag. 439
Jonah; how he came to be believed by the Ninivites, Pag. 361
Joy; a neceſſary Ingredient in Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 150
Should accompany all our Duties, Pag. 784
Judging the Hearts of others, a great Sin, Pag. 324
Their Eternal ſtate a greater, Pag. 325
Judgment Day; a neceſſity of it, Pag. 318, 319, 398
Judgments, Extraordinary, prove the Being of God, Pag. 37, 38
Men are apt to put bold Interpretations on them, Pag. 78, 79
God is Juſt in them, Pag. 100
Eſpecially after the abuſe of his Goodneſs and Patience, Pag. 671, 813, 814
On God's Enemies matter of Praiſe, Pag. 494. 495
Declare God's Holineſs, Pag. 511, 512, 513
Which ſhould be obſerved in them, Pag. 557
Not ſent without warning, Pag. 602, 800, 801, 802
Mercy mix'd with them, Pag. 602, 603, 604
God ſends them on whom he pleaſes, Pag. 746, 747
Delay'd a long time where there is no Repentance, Pag. 802, 803
God unwilling to pour them out, when he cannot delay them any longer, Pag. 803
Pour'd out with regret, Pag. 803, 804
By degrees, Pag. 804
Moderated, Pag. 805
Vide Puniſhments.
Juſtice of God, a motive to Worſhip, Pag. 130
Its plea againſt Man, Pag. 375, 376
Reconciled with Mercy in Chriſt, Pag. 377
Vindictive, natural to God, Pag. 547, 548, 549
Requires Satisfaction, Pag. 550
Juſtification cannot be by the beſt and ſtrongeſt works of Nature, Pag. 102, 320, 544, 545, 550
The Holineſs of God appears in that of the Goſpel, Pag. 515
The expectations of it by the outward obſervance of the Law cannot ſatisfie an Inquiſitive Conſcience, Pag. 579
Men naturally look for it by Works, Pag. 580
K.
KIngdoms are diſpoſed of by God, Pag. 742, 743
Knowledge in God hath no ſucceſſion, Pag. 185, 186, 192, 307, 308
Immutable, Pag. 211, 212, 213, 311, 312
Arguments to prove it, 263, & Pag. 312 ad 316
The manner of it Incomprehenſible, Pag. 214, 215, 288, 295
God is Infinite in it, Pag. 274
Own'd by all, Pag. 274, 275
He hath a Knowledge of Viſion and Intelligence, ſpeculative and practical, Pag. 276, 277
Of Apprehenſion and Approbation, Pag. 277, 278
Hath a knowledge of himſelf, Pag. 278, 279, 280
Of all things poſſible, Pag. 280, 281, 282
Of all things paſt and preſent, Pag. 282, 283
Of all Creatures, their Actions and Thoughts, Pag. 283 ad 287
Of all Sins, and how, Pag. 287, 288, 289
Of all future things, he alone, and how, Pag. 289 ad 296
Of all future Contingences, Pag. 296 ad 301
Doth not neceſſitate the Will of Man, Pag. 301 ad 304
'Tis by his Eſſence, Pag. 305, 306
Intuitive, Pag. 306, 307, 308
Independent, Pag. 308, 309
Diſtinct, Pag. 309, 310
Infallible, Pag. 310, 311
Arguments to prove it, Pag. 263, & 312 ad 315
No blemiſh to his Holineſs, ib.
Infinite attributed to Chriſt, Pag. 315, 316, 317
Infers his Providence, Pag. 317, 318
And a Day of Judgment, Pag. 318, 319
And the Reſurrection, Pag. 319, 320
Deſtroys all hopes of Juſtification by any thing in our ſelves, Pag. 320
Calls for our adoring Thoughts of him, Pag. 320, 321
And Humility, Pag. 321, 322
How injured in the World, and wherein, Pag. 322 ad 228
Comfortable to the Righteous, and wherein, Pag. 328 ad 334 †
Terrible to Sinners, Pag. 334 ad 337 †
We ſhould have a ſenſe of it on our hearts, and the advantages of it, Pag. 337, 338, 339 †
Knowledge of God's Will, Men negligent in uſing the Means to attain it, Pag. 55
Enemies to it, and have no delight in it, Pag. 56
Seek it for by-ends, Pag. 57, 58
Admit it with wavering Affections, Pag. 58
Seek it to improve ſome Luſt by it, Pag. 58, 59
A ſenſe of Man's, hath a greater Influence on us, than that of God, Pag. 86, 87, 325, 326
Sins againſt it ſhould be avoided, Pag. 107
Diſtinct from Wiſdom, Pag. 338, 339
Of all Creatures is deriv'd from God, Pag. 313
Ours, how imperfect, Pag. 321
L.
LAw of God, how oppoſite Man naturally is to it. Vide Man.
There is one in the Minds of Men, which is the Rule of Good and Evil, Pag. 33, 34
A change of them doth not infer a change in God, Pag. 228. 229
Vindicated, both as to the Precept and Penalty, in the death of Chriſt, Pag. 383
Suted to our Natures, Happineſs, and Conſcience, Pag. 352, 353, 354 610, 611
We ſhould ſubmit to them, Pag. 414, 415
The Tranſgreſſion of them puniſh'd by God, Pag. 511, 512, 726, 727
God's enjoyning one, which he knew Man would not obſerve, no blemiſh to his Holineſs, Pag. 519, 520
To charge them with Rigidneſs, how great a Sin, Pag. 545
We ſhould imitate the Holineſs of them, Pag. 559
The Goodneſs of God in that of Innocence, Pag. 610 ad 615
Cannot but be good, Pag. 681, 682
He gives Laws to all, Pag. 722, 723
Poſitive ones, Pag. 723, 724
His only reach the Conſcience, Pag. 724, 725
Diſpenſed with by him; but cannot by Man, Pag. 725, 726, 754, 755
To make any contrary to God's, how great a Sin, Pag. 755
Or make Additions to them, Pag. 756, 757
Or obey thoſe of Men before them, Pag. 757, 758, 782, 783
V. Governour and Magiſtrates:
Licentiouſneſs; the Goſpel no friend to, Pag. 336
Life Eternal, expected by Men from ſomething of their own, vide Juſtification.
Aſſured to the People of God, Pag. 236, 683, 684
Light; a glorious Creature, Pag. 588
Light of Nature ſhews the Being of a God, Pag. 4, 5
Limiting God; a contempt of his Dominion, Pag. 761
Lives of Men, at God's diſpoſal, Pag. 748
Love, to God, ſometimes ariſes meerly from ſome ſelf-pleaſing benefits, Pag. 90
A neceſſary ingredient in Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 147, 148
A great help to it, Pag. 176
God is highly worthy of it, Pag. 201, 202, 556, 557, 563, 675, 676, 677, 778
Outward expreſſions of it inſignificant without Obedience, Pag. 580, 581
God's Goſpel name, Pag. 616
Of God to his People, great, Pag. 769
Luſts of Men make them Atheiſts, Pag. 2
M.
MAgiſtracy; the Goodneſs of God in ſetling it, Pag. 650
Magistraees are inferiour to God, to be obedient to him, Pag. 765, 766
Ought to govern Juſtly and Righteouſly, Pag. 766
To be obey'd, ib.
Man could not make himſelf, Pag. 17, 18, 19, 20
The World ſubſervient to him, Pag. 23
The abridgement of the Univerſe, Pag. 29, 30, 608
Naturally diſowns the Rule God hath ſet him, Pag. 54 ad 67
Owns any Rule rather than God's, Pag. 67 ad 70
Would ſet himſelf up as his own Rule, Pag. 70 ad 74
Would give Laws to God, Pag. 74 ad 80
Would make himſelf his own End. V. End.
His Natural Corruption, how great, Pag. 452
Made holy at firſt, Pag. 507, 508, 607
Yet mutable, which was no blemiſh to God's Holineſs, Pag. 517, 518, 519
Made after God's Image, Pag. 607
The World made and furniſh'd for him, Pag. 608, 609, 610
In his Corrupt eſtate, without any motives to excite Gods Redeeming love, Pag. 625 ad 628
Reſtored to a more excellent ſtate than his firſt, Pag. 641, 642
Under God's Dominion, Pag. 719, 720
Means. Vide Inſtrument.
To depend on the Power of God, and neglect them is an abuſe of it, Pag. 483, 484
Of Grace to neglect them, an affront of God's Wiſdom, Pag. 402, 403
Given to ſome, and not to others, Pag. 734 ad 737
Have various influences, Pag. 737, 738
Meditation on the Law of God, Men have no delight in, Pag. 56
Members bodily attributed to God, do not prove him a Body, Pag. 118, 119
What ſort of them attributed to him, ib.
With a reſpect to the Incarnation of Chriſt, ib.
Mercies of God to Sinners, how Wonderful, Pag. 99, 100
A Motive to Worſhip, Pag. 130
Former ones ſhould be remembred, when we come to beg new ones, Pag. 180
Its Plea for Fallen Man, Pag. 376, 377
It and Juſtice reconcil'd in Chriſt, Pag. 377
Holineſs of God in them to be obſerved, Pag. 557
Contempt and abuſe of them, vide Goodneſs.
One foundation of God's Dominion, Pag. 709, 710
Call for our Love of him, Pag. 676, 677, 678
And Obedience to him, Pag. 680, 681
Given after great Provocations, Pag. 805, 806
Merit of Chriſt, not the cauſe of the firſt reſolution of God to Redeem, Pag. 621, 622
Not the cauſe of Election, Pag. 728, 729
Man uncapable of, Pag. 764
Miracles prove the Being of a God, though not wrought to that end, Pag. 5, 38
Wrought by God but ſeldom, Pag. 371
The Power of God, Pag. 438
The Power of God ſeen no more in them, than in the ordinary works of Nature, Pag. 450, 451
Many wrought by Chriſt, Pag. 460
Moral Goodneſs encouraged by God, Pag. 652
Moral Law, commands things good in their own Nature, Pag. 51, 723
The Holineſs of God appears in in it, Pag. 508
Holy in the matter and manner of his Precepts, Pag. 508, 509
Reaches the Inward Man, Pag. 509, 510
Perpetual, ib. V. Law of God.
Publiſh'd with Majeſty, Pag. 724
Mortification; how difficult, Pag. 101
Motions of all Creatures in God, Pag. 449
Variety of them in a ſingle Creature, Pag. 449, 450
Mountains; how uſeful, Pag. 23
Before the Deluge, Pag. 181
Mouth; how curiouſly contrived, Pag. 30
N.
NAture of Man muſt be ſanctified before it can perform Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 142
Human highly advanced, by its union with the Son of God, Pag. 628, 629
Human and Divine in Chriſt, vide Ʋnion.
Night, how neceſſary, Pag. 350
O.
OBedience to God, not true unleſs it be univerſal, Pag. 61
Due to him upon the account of his Eternity, Pag. 202
To him, ſhould be preferr'd before Obedience to Men. V. Laws.
Of Faith only, acceptable to God, Pag. 336
Diſtinct, but inſeparable from Faith, ib.
Shall be rewarded, Pag. 354
Redemption, a ſtrong Incentive to it, Pag. 387, 388
Without it nothing will avail us, Pag. 580, 581
The goodneſs of God in accepting it, tho imperfect, Pag. 656, 657
Due to God for his goodneſs, Pag. 680, 681, 682
Due to God as a Soveraign, Pag. 779, 780, 781
What kind of it due to him, Pag. 781, 782, 783, 784
Objects; the propoſing them to Man, which God knows he will uſe to ſin, no blemiſh to Gods Holineſs, Pag. 533 ad 536
Obstinacy in Sin, a contempt of Divine Power, Pag. 480, 481
Omiſſions of Prayer, a practical denial of God's Knowledge, Pag. 328
Of Duty, a contempt of his Goodneſs, Pag. 666
Omnipreſence; an Attribute of God, Pag. 243
Denied by ſome Jews and Heathens; but acknowledged by the wiſeſt amongſt them, Pag. 244, 245
To be underſtood negatively, Pag. 245
Influential on all Creatures, Pag. 245, 246
Limited to Subjects, capacitated for this or that kind of it, Pag. 246
Eſſential, ib.
In all places, Pag. 246, 247, 248
With all Creatures, Pag. 248
Without mixture with them, or diviſion of himſelf, Pag. 248, 249
Not by multiplication or extenſion, Pag. 249
But totally, ib.
In imaginary ſpaces beyond the World, Pag. 249, 250, 251
God's incommunicable Property, Pag. 251, 252
Arguments to prove his Omnipreſence, Pag. 252 ad 256
Objections againſt it anſwer'd, Pag. 257 ad 261
Aſcribed to Chriſt, Pag. 261, 262
Proves God a Spirit, Pag. 262
And his Providence, ib.
And Omniſcient and Incomprehenſible, Pag. 263
Calls for Admiration of him, Pag. 264
Forgotten and contemn'd, 264, Pag. 265
Terrible to Sinners, Pag. 265, 266
Comfortable to the Righteous, and wherein, Pag. 268
Should be often thought of, and the advantages of ſo doing, Pag. 268 ad 270
Oppoſition in the hearts of Men naturally againſt the Will of God, Pag. 57
P.
PArdon; Gods Infinite Knowledge a comfort when we reflect on it, or ſeek it, Pag. 334 †
The Power of God in granting it, and giving a ſenſe of it, Pag. 470, 471
The Spring of all other Bleſſings, Pag. 698
Always accompanied with Regeneration, ib.
Puniſhment remitted upon it, Pag. 698, 699
'Tis perfect, Pag. 699
Of God, and his alone, gives a full ſecurity, Pag. 769, 770
Patience under Afflictions a duty, Pag. 415
God's Immutability ſhould teach us it, Pag. 237, 238
A ſenſe of God's Holineſs would promote it, Pag. 555, 556
And his Goodneſs, Pag. 688
Motives to it, Pag. 784, 785, 786
The true Nature of it, Pag. 786
Conſideration of Gods Patience to us would promote it, Pag. 822
Patience of God, how admirable, Pag. 99, 100, 263, 806, 807, 808
His Wiſdom the ground of it, Pag. 396
Evidences his Power, Pag. 460, 789
'Tis a Property of the Divine Nature, Pag. 791
A part of Goodneſs and Mercy, but differs from both, Pag. 792, 793
Not inſenſible, conſtrained or faint-hearted, Pag. 793, 794
Flows from his fulneſs of Power over himſelf, Pag. 794, 795
Founded in the Death of Chriſt, Pag. 795, 796
His Veracity, Holineſs and Juſtice, no bars to it, Pag. 796, 797, 798
Exercis'd towards our Firſt Parents, Gentiles and Iſraelites, Pag. 799, 800
Wherein it is evidenc'd, Pag. 800 ad 808
The reaſon of its exerciſe, Pag. 808 ad 814
'Tis abus'd, and how, Pag. 814, 815
The abuſe of it ſinful and dangerous, Pag. 816, 817, 818
Exercis'd towards Sinners and Saints, Pag. 819
Comfortable to all, Pag. 819, 820
Eſpecially to the Righteous, ib.
Should be meditated on, and the advantage of ſo doing, Pag. 821, 822
We ſhould admire and bleſs God for it, with Motives ſo to do, Pag. 823, 824, 825
Should not be preſumed on, Pag. 825 826
Should be imitated, Pag. 826, 827
Poems; fewer Sacred ones good, than of any other kind, Pag. 86
Peace; God only can ſpeak it to troubled Souls, Pag. 471
Permiſſion of Sin, what it is, and that 'tis no blemiſh to Gods Holineſs, Pag. 522 ad 529
Perſecutions; the Goodneſs of God ſeen in them, Pag. 657, 658
Vide Apoſtacy.
Perſeverance of the Saints a Goſpel Doctrine, Pag. 333
Certain, Pag. 235, 486, 487, 551
Motives to labour after it, Pag. 238, 239
Depends on God's Power and Wiſdom, Pag. 333, 471
Pleaſures, Senſual men ſtrangely addicted to, Pag. 86
We ought to take heed of them, Pag. 107
Poor, the Wiſdom of God in making ſome ſo, Pag. 356, 357
Power infinite belongs to God, Pag. 421
The meaning of the word, Pag. 421
Abſolute and ordinate Pag. 421, 422,
Diſtinct from Will and Wiſdom, Pag. 424
Gives life and activity to his other Perfections, Pag. 425
Of a larger extent than ſome others, ibid.
Originally and eſſentially in the Nature of God, and the ſame with his Eſſence, Pag. 426, 427
Incommunicable to the Creature ibid. & Pag. 431
Infinite and Eternal, Pag. 427 ad 432
Bounded by his Decree, Pag. 432
Not infringed by the impoſſibility of doing ſome things, Pag. 432 ad 435
Arguments to prove it is in God, Pag. 435 ad 439
Appears in Creation, Pag. 439 ad 445
In the Government of the world, Pag. 445 ad 456
In Redemption, Pag. 456 ad 461
In the publication and propagation of the Goſpel, Pag. 461 ad 467
In planting and preſerving Grace and pardoning ſin, Pag. 467 ad 472
Aſcribed to Chriſt, Pag. 472 ad 476
And to the Holy Ghoſt, Pag. 476
Infers his Bleſſedneſs, Immutability and Providence, Pag. 476, 477
A ground of Worſhip, Pag. 478
And for the belief of the Reſurrection, Pag. 479
Contemn'd and abuſed, and wherein, Pag. 480 ad 484
Terrible to the Wicked, Pag. 484
Comfortable to the Righteous, and wherein Pag. 485 ad 487
Should be meditated on, Pag. 488
And truſted in, and why, Pag. 489, 490
Should teach us humility and ſubmiſſion, Pag. 491
And the fear of him, and not of man, Pag. 491, 492
Praiſe, conſideration of God's Wiſdom and Goodneſs, would help us to give it to him, Pag. 409, 689, 690
Men backward to it, Pag. 697
Due to him, Pag. 776
Prayer, men impatient if God do not anſwer it, Pag. 92, 93
We ſhould take the moſt melting opportunities for ſecret Prayer, Pag. 178
Not unneceſſary, becauſe of God's Immutability & Knowledge, Pag. 220, 231, 335
to Creatures a wrong to God's Omniſcience, Pag. 322, 323
Omiſſion of it a practical denial of God's Knowledge, Pag. 328
'Tis a comfort that the moſt ſecret ones are underſtood by God, Pag. 331
God's Wiſdom a comfort in delaying or denying an anſwer to them, Pag. 406
For ſucceſs on wicked Deſigns, how ſinful, Pag. 543
God fit to be truſted in for an anſwer of them, Pag. 551
The goodneſs of God in anſwering them, Pag. 654, 655
His Goodneſs a comfort in them Pag. 682
God's Dominion an Encouragement to, and ground of it, Pag. 770, 771, 779
Preparation, we ſhould examine our ſelves concerning it before worſhip, Pag. 162
Conſideration of God's Knowledge would promote it, Pag. 338 †
How great a ſin to come into God's Preſence without it, Pag. 544
Preſence of Men more regarded than God's, Pag. 86, 87
We ſhould ſeek for God's ſpecial and influential Preſence, Pag. 270, 271
Vide Omnipreſence.
Preſerve himſelf no Creature can, Pag. 19, 447, 448
God only can the World, Pag. 29
The Power of God ſeen in it, Pag. 445
One foundation of God's Dominion, Pag. 709
Preſumption ſprings from vain imaginations of God, Pag. 95, 96
A contempt of God's Dominion, Pag. 761, 762
Pride how common, Pag. 82, 83
An exalting our ſelves above God, Pag. 89
The thoughts of God's Eternity ſhould abate it, Pag. 197, 198, 199
An affront to God's Wiſdom, Pag. 405
Of our own Wiſdom, fooliſh, Pag. 411
God's Mercies abuſed to it, Pag. 668
A contempt of his Dominion, Pag. 761
Principles, better known by actions than words, Pag. 49
Some kept up by God to facilitate the Reception of the Goſpel, Pag. 392
Propagation of Creatures, the Power of God ſeen in it, Pag. 448, 449
Of Mankind, one end of God's patience, Pag. 811, 812
Prophecies prove the Being of God, Pag. 39
Promiſes, Men break them with God, Pag. 66, 67, 232, 233
Of God ſhall be performed, Pag. 196, 486, 821
We ſhould believe them, and leave God to his own ſeaſon of accompliſhing them, Pag. 342
Diſtruſt of them a contempt of God's Wiſdom, Pag. 405
The Holineſs of God in the performance of them to be obſerv'd, Pag. 557
Providenc of God proved, Pag. 262, 317, 318, 477
Vide Government of the World.
Eſpecially to his Church, and the meaneſt in it, 272, 273
Extends to all Creatures, 646 ad 649
Diſtruſt of it a contempt of God's Goodneſs, 665
Puniſhments, v. Judgments.
God always juſt in them, Pag. 100, 671
Of ſinners Eternal, Pag. 193, 194
The wiſdom of God ſeen in them Pag. 370
Neceſſarily follow ſins, Pag. 547, 548, 549
Do not impeach God's Goodneſs Pag. 598, ad 604
Not God's primary intention, Pag. 601
Inflicting them a branch of God's Dominion, Pag. 726, 727
Neceſſarily follow upon it, Pag. 767
Of the Wicked unavoidable and terrible, Pag. 767, 768
Purgatory held by the Jews, Pag. 73
R.
RAin, an inſtance of God's Wiſdom and Power, Pag. 349, 418
Reaſon ſhould not be the meaſure of God's Revelations, Pag. 413, 414
Repentance, how aſcribed to God, Pag. 224, 225, 2…6
A reaſonable Condition, Pag. 389
The end of God's patience, Pag. 810, 811
The conſideration of God's patience would make us frequent and ſerious in the practice of it, Pag. 821
Reprobation conſiſtent with God's Holineſs and Juſtice, Pag. 522
Reproof may be for evil ends, Pag. 93
Reputation, men more concerned for their own, than Gods glory, Pag. 83
Reſignation of our ſelves, would flow from conſideration of God's Wiſdom, Pag. 414, 415
Should from that of his Soveraignty, Pag. 775
Reſtraint of Men and Devils by God in mercy to man, Pag. 357, 451, 452, 527, 528, 650, 744, 745
Reſolutions good, how ſoon broken, Pag. 232
Reſurrection of the Body no incredible Doctrine, Pag. 319, 320, 479, 480
The Power of God in that of Chriſt, Pag. 460
Of Men, aſcribed to Chriſt, Pag. 476
Reverence neceſſary in the worſhip of God, Pag. 150, 151
Revelations of God are not to be cenſured, Pag. 403, 404
Riches, inordinate deſire after them a hindrance to Spiritual worſhip Pag. 177
God exerciſes a Soveraignty in beſtowing them, Pag. 740
Rivers, how uſeful, Pag. 349
Rome, why called Babylon Pag. 13
S.
SAcraments, the goodneſs of God in appointing them, Pag. 639
Salvation of men, how deſirous God is of it, Pag. 636, 637, 638, 808, 809, 810
Sanctification deſerves our thanks as much as Juſtification, Pag. 698
Vide Holineſs.
Satisfaction of the Soul only in God, Pag. 36, 37, 127, 128, 200
Neceſſary for ſin, Pag. 549, 550
Scepticks muſt own a firſt Cauſe, Pag. 21
Scoffing at Holineſs a great ſin, Pag. 543, 544
And at Convictions in others, Pag. 553
Scriptures are wreſted and abuſed, Pag. 58, 59, 79
Ought to be prized and ſtudied, Pag. 107
The not fulfilling ſome Predictions in them, doth not prove God to be changeable, Pag. 226, 227
Of the Old Teſtament give credit to the New, and of the New illuſtrate thoſe of the Old Pag. 334, 335
All Truth to be drawn thence, ibid.
Of the Old Teſtament to be ſtudied, ibid.
Something in them ſutable to all ſorts of men, Pag. 354, 355
Written ſo as to prevent foreſeen Corruptions, Pag. 355, 356
To ſtudy Arguments from them to defend ſin, a contempt of God's Holineſs, Pag. 542, 543
The goodneſs of God in giving them as a Rule, Pag. 652, 653, 654
Sea, how uſeful, Pag. 23
The Wiſdom of God ſeen in it, Pag. 349
And his Power, Pag. 419, 446, 447
Searching the Hearts of Men, how to be underſtood of God, Pag. 287
Seaſons, the variety of them neceſſary, Pag. 350
Secrecy a poor refuge to ſinners, Pag. 335
Secret ſins cauſe ſtings of Conſcience, Pag. 35, 313
Known to God, Pag. 263, 265, 334, 335
Shall be revealed in the Day of Judgment, Pag. 318, 319
Prayers and Works known to God, Pag. 331
Security, Men abuſe God's bleſſings to it Pag. 668
Self, man moſt oppoſite to thoſe Truths that are moſt contrary to it, Pag. 60
Man ſets up as his own Rule, Pag. 70
Diſſatisfied with Conſcience when it contradicts its deſires, Pag. 71, 72
Meerly the agreeableneſs to it the ſpring of many materially good Actions, Pag. 72, 73, 90 ad 94, 153, 154
Would make it the rule of God, Pag. 74 ad 80
And his own end, and the end of all Creatures, and of God; vid. End.
Applauding thoughts of it, how common, Pag. 82
Men aſcribe the glory of what they have or do to it, Pag. 82, 83
Deſire Doctrines pleaſing to it, Pag. 83
Highly concern'd for any injury done to it, ibid.
Obey it againſt the light of Conſcience, Pag. 84
How great a ſin this is, Pag. 84, 85
The giving mercies pleaſing to it, the only cauſe of many mens love to God Pag. 90, 91
Men unweildy to their duty where it is not concern'd, Pag. 91
How ſinful this is, Pag. 94
The great Enemy to the Goſpel and Converſion, Pag. 101, 102
Self-love threefold, Pag. 80, 81
The cauſe of all ſin, and hindrance of Converſion, Pag. 81, 82
Service of God, how unwilling men are to it, Pag. 63, 64
Slight in the performance of it Pag. 64 65
Shew not that natural vigor in it, as they do in their worldly buſineſs, Pag. 65
Quickly weary of it, Pag. 65, 66
Deſert it, Pag. 66
The preſence of God a comfort in it, Pag. 268
Hypocritical pretences for avoiding it, a denial of God's Knowledge Pag. 328
A ſenſe of God's Goodneſs would make us faithful in it, Pag. 681
Some called to and fitted for more eminent ones in their Generation, Pag. 739 ad 744
Omiſſions of it a contempt of God's Soveraignty, Pag. 762, 763
Sin founded in a ſecret Atheiſm and Self-love. Pag. 50, 81
Reflects a diſhonour on all the Attributes of God, Pag. 50
Implies God is unworthy of a Being, Pag. 50, 51
Would make him a fooliſh, impure and miſerable Being, Pag. 51, 52
More troubleſom than Holineſs, Pag. 63
To make it our end, a great debaſing of God, Pag. 87, 88
No excuſe, but an aggravation that we ſerve but one, Pag. 87
Abſtinence from it proceeds many times from an evil Cauſe, Pag. 90, 91, 325, 326
God's name, word and mercies made uſe of to countenance it, Pag. 94, 542, 543, 668, 669, 815
Spiritual to be avoided, Pag. 128
'Tis folly, Pag. 193
Paſt ones we ſhould be humbled for, Pag. 197, 336 †
Hath brought a Curſe on the Creation, Pag. 207
Vide Creatures.
Paſt known to God, Pag. 282, 283
All known to him, and how, Pag. 287, 288, 289, 336 †, 337 †
A ſenſe of God's Knowledge and Holineſs would check it, Pag. 337, 338 †, 554, 555
Bounded by God, Pag. 357
God brings glory to himſelf, and good to the Creature out of it, Pag. 358 ad 366
God hath ſhewn the greateſt hatred of it in redemption, Pag. 384, 385
A contempt of God's Power, Pag. 480, 481
Abhorred by God. Pag. 501, 502, 503, 547
In God's People more ſeverely puniſht in this World than in others, Pag. 502, 503
God cannot be the Author of in others, or do it himſelf, Pag. 504, 505, 506
God puniſhes it, and cannot but do ſo, Pag. 511, 547, 548, 549
The Inſtruments of it deteſtable to God, Pag. 512
Oppoſite to the Holineſs of God, Pag. 540
To charge it on God, or defend it by his word, a great ſin, Pag. 542 543
Entrance of it into the World, doth not impeach God's goodneſs, Pag. 594, 595
Thoſe that diſturb Societies moſt ſignally puniſht in this life, Pag. 651
A contempt of God's Dominion, Pag. 752 753, 754
How much God is daily provoked by it, Pag. 806, 807, 808, 823
An abuſe of God's Patience, Pag. 815, 816
Sincerity required in Spiritual worſhip, Pag. 143
Cannot be unknown to God, Pag. 330, 331
Conſideration of God's Knowledge would promote it, Pag. 338, 339 †
Sinful times, in them we ſhould be moſt holy, Pag. 558
Sinners, God hath ſhewn the greateſt love to them, and hatred to their ſins, Pag. 384, 385
Every thing in their poſſeſſion deteſtable to God, Pag. 512
Society, the goodneſs of God ſeen in the preſervation of it, Pag. 649 ad 652
Could not ſubſiſt without reſtraining Grace; v. Reſtraint.
Soul, the vaſtneſs of its capacity, and quickneſs of its motion, Pag. 32, 33
Its union to the Body wonderful, ibid.
God only can ſatisfie it; v. Satisfaction.
They only can converſe with God, Pag. 127
Should be the Objects of our chiefeſt care, Pag. 128
We ſhould worſhip God with them, Pag. 132, 133
The Wiſdom and Goodneſs of God ſeen in them, Pag. 450, 607
Spaces imaginary beyond the World God is preſent with, Pag. 249, 250, 251
Spirit; that God is ſo plainly aſſerted but once in Scripture, Pag. 112
Various acceptations of the word, Pag. 113
That God is ſo, how to be underſtood, ibid.
God the only pure one, Pag. 114
Arguments to prove God is one, Pag. 115 ad 118.
Objection againſt it anſwered, Pag. 118, 119
Spirit of God, his aſſiſtance neceſſary to Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 142
Spirits of men raiſed up, and ordered by God as be pleaſes, Pag. 743, 744
Subjection to our Superiors, God remits of his own right for preſerving it, Pag. 651, 652
Succeſs, men apt to aſcribe to themſelves Pag. 82
Not to be aſcribed to our ſelves, Pag. 669, 670
Denied by God to ſome, Pag. 740
Summer, how neceſſary, Pag. 350
Sun conveniently placed, Pag. 22, 148
Its motion uſeful, Pag. 22, 23, 25, 148
The Power of God ſeen in it, Pag. 450
Lord's Supper, the goodneſs of God in appointing it, Pag. 639
Seals the Covenant of Grace, Pag. 640, 641
In it we have Union and Communion with Chriſt, Pag. 641, 642
The neglect of it reproved, Pag. 642
Supererogation, an Opinion that injures the Holineſs of God, Pag. 546
Superſtition proceeds from vain imaginations of God, Pag. 95
Swearing by any Creature an injury to God's Omniſcience, Pag. 323, 324
T.
TEmptations, the Preſence of God a comfort in them, Pag. 266
The thoughts of it would be a Shield againſt them, Pag. 269
The Wiſdom and Power of God a comfort under them, Pag. 406, 486
The goodneſs manifeſted to his people under them, Pag. 658, 659, 660
The thoughts of God's Soveraignty would arm and make us watchful againſt them, Pag. 774
Thankfulneſs, a neceſſary ingredient in Spiritual worſhip, Pag. 148
Due to God, Pag. 689, 690, 777, 778, 823, 824, 825
A ſenſe of his Goodneſs would promote it, Pag. 689
Theft, an Invaſion of God's Dominion, Pag. 758
Thoughts ſhould be often upon God, Pag. 46
Seldom are on him, Pag. 86, 97, 98
All known by God only, Pag. 285, 286 287
And by Chriſt, Pag. 316, 317
Cheriſhing evil ones, a practical denial of God's Knowledge, Pag. 327
Thoughts of God's Knowledge would make us watchful over them, Pag. 338 †
Threatnings, the not fulfilling them ſometimes argue no change in God, Pag. 226, 227
Are conditional ibid.
The goodneſs of God in them; Pag. 613
Go before Judgments; v. Judgments.
Time cannot be infinite, Pag. 16
Times of beſtowing Mercy God orders as a Soveraign, Pag. 741
Tongue, how curious a Workmanſhip, Pag. 31
Traditions, old ones generally loſt, Pag. 11
Belief of a God not owing meerly to it, ibid.
Tranſubſtantiation an abſurd Doctrine, Pag. 483
Trees, how uſeful, Pag. 23, 350
Truſt in themſelves men do, and not in God, Pag. 83, 84
We ſhould not in the World, Pag. 199, 200, 236
God the fit Object of it, Pag. 329, 386, 397, 489, 551, 552 †, 678, 779
Means to promote it, Pag. 339 †, 773
Should not in our own Wiſdom, Pag. 411, 412
In our ſelves, a contempt of God's Power and Dominion, Pag. 482, 759
God's Power the main ground of truſting him, Pag. 489, 490
And ſometimes the only one, Pag. 490
Should be placed in God againſt outward appearances, Pag. 558
Goodneſs the firſt motive of it, Pag. 678
More foundations of it, and motives to it under the Goſpel, than under the Law, Pag. 679
Gives God the glory of his goodneſs, Pag. 679, 680
God's Patience to the Wicked a ground for the Righteous to truſt in his promiſe, Pag. 821
Truths of God moſt contrary to ſelf, man moſt oppoſite to. And to thoſe that are moſt holy, ſpiritual, lead moſt to God, and relate moſt to him, Pag. 59, 60
Men unconſtant in the belief of them, Pag. 231, 232
Corrupters of them no better than Devils, Pag. 541 †
Evangelical ſhall prevail, ibid.
U.
UBiquity of Chriſt's Human Nature confuted, Pag. 252
Venial ſins, an opinion that reproaches God's Holineſs, Pag. 546
Vertue and Vice not Arbitrary things, Pag. 51
Ʋnbelief, the Reaſon of it, Pag. 101, 102
A contempt of Divine Power, Pag. 483
And Goodneſs, Pag. 664, 665
Ʋnion of Soul and Body, an effect of Almighty Power, Pag. 33
Of two Natures in Chriſt, made no change in his Divine Nature, Pag. 224
Shews the Wiſdom of God, Pag. 339 ad 383
How neceſſary for us, Pag. 381, 382, 383
Shews the Power of God, Pag. 458, 459, 460
Explain'd, Pag. 459, 460
Vide Incarnation.
Ʋſurpations of Men an Invaſion of God's Soveraignty, Pag. 754 755
W.
WAter, an excellent Creature, Pag. 588
Weakneſs, a ſenſibleneſs of it a neceſſary ingredient in Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 148
Will of God cannot be defeated, Pag. 52
Man averſe to it; vide Man.
The ſame with his Eſſence, Pag. 214
Always accompanied with his Underſtanding, ibid.
Unchangeable, Pag. 214, 215
The unchangeableneſs of it doth not make things willed by him ſo, Pag. 215, 216
Free, Pag. 216
How converſant about Sin, Pag. 522
Will of Man not neceſſitated by God's Fore-knowledge, Pag. 301 ad 304
Of Man ſubject to God, Pag. 720
Winds how uſeful, Pag. 349
Winter, how uſeful, Pag. 350
Wiſdom an Attribute of God, Pag. 337
What it is, and wherein it conſiſts Pag. 338
Diſtinct from Knowledge, Pag. 338,
Eſſential, which is the ſame with his Eſſence, and perſonal, Pag. 339
In what ſenſe God is only wiſe, Pag. 339 ad 343
Proved to be in God, Pag. 343 ad 346
Appears in Creation, Pag. 346 ad 351
In government of Man as Rational, Pag. 352 ad 357
As fallen and ſinful, Pag. 357 ad 367
As reſtored, Pag. 367 ad 373
In Redemption, Pag. 373 ad 388
In the Condition of the Covenant of Grace, Pag. 388 ad 390
In the propagation of the Goſpel Pag. 390 ad 395
Aſcribed to Chriſt, Pag. 395
Renders God fit to govern the World, and enclines him actually to govern it, Pag. 395, 396
A ground of his Patience and Immutability in his Decrees, Pag. 396, 397
Makes him a fit Object of our Truſt, Pag. 397
Infers a Day of Judgment, Pag. 398
Calls for a Veneration of him, ibid.
A ground of Prayer to him, Pag. 399
Prodigiouſly contemn'd, and wherein, Pag. 399 ad 405
Comfortable to the Righteous, Pag. 405, 406, 407
In Creation and Government, ſhould be meditated on, and Motives to it, Pag. 407 ad 410
In Redemption to be ſtudied and admired, Pag. 410, 411
To be ſubmitted to in his Revelations, Precepts, Providences, Pag. 413, 414, 415
Not to be cenſured in any of his ways, Pag. 415
Wiſdom; no Man ſhould be proud of, or truſt in, Pag. 411, 412
Should be ſought from God, Pag. 412, 413
World; was not, and could not be from Eternity, Pag. 16, 17
Could not make it ſelf, Pag. 17, 18, 19
No Creature could make it, Pag. 20
Its Harmony, Pag. 21 ad 27
Greedily purſued by Men, Pag. 86
Inordinate deſires after it a great hindrance to Spiritual Worſhip, Pag. 177
Our Love and Confidence, not to be placed in it, Pag. 199, 200, 207
Shall not be annihilated, but refined, Pag. 205, 206, 207
Vide Creatures.
We ſhould be ſenſible of the unconſtancy of all things in it, Pag. 236
Our Thoughts ſhould not dwell much on them, ib.
We ſhould not truſt or rejoyce in them, ib.
Not to be preferred before God, Pag. 237
Made in the beſt manner, Pag. 431, 432
Made and richly furniſh'd for Man, Pag. 608, 609, 610
A ſenſe of God's Goodneſs would lift us up above it, Pag. 689
Worſhip of God; a folly to neglect it, Pag. 46
If not according to his Rule, no better than a worſhipping the Devil, Pag. 68
Men prone to corrupt it with their own Rites and Inventions, Pag. 79
Spiritual, Men naturally have no heart to, Pag. 98
Cannot be right without a true Notion of God, Pag. 124, 125
Should be Spiritual, and Spiritually performed, Pag. 129
God's Spirituality the Rule, tho his Attributes be the foundation of it, Pag. 130, 131, 478, 479
Spiritual to be due to him, manifeſt by the light of Nature, tho not the outward Means and matter of an acceptable Worſhip diſcoverable by it, Pag. 131, 132, 133
Spiritual, own'd to be due to God by Heathens, Pag. 132
Always required by God, 133 Men as much oblig'd to it, as to worſhip him at all, Pag. 134, 135
Ceremonial Law aboliſh'd to promote it, Pag. 135 ad 138
Legal Ceremonies did not promote, but rather hinder it, Pag. 136, 137
By them God was never well-pleaſed with, nor intended it ſhould be durable, Pag. 137, 138
Under the Goſpel 'tis more Spiritual, than under the Law, Pag. 138, 139
Yet doth not exclude Bodily worſhip, Pag. 139, 140, 141
In Societies, due to God, Pag. 140
Spiritual, what it is, and wherein it conſiſts, Pag. 141 ad 155
Due to God, proved, Pag. 155 ad 160
Thoſe reproved that render him none at all, Pag. 160
A Duty incumbent on all, ib.
Wholly to neglect it a great degree of Atheiſm, Pag. 160
To a falſe God, or in a falſe manner, better than a total neglect of it. Pag. 160, 161
Outward, not to be reſted in, Pag. 161
We ſhould examine our ſelves of the manner of it, and in what particulars, Pag. 162 ad 164
Spiritual, 'tis a comfort that God requires it, Pag. 165
Not to give it to God, is to affront all his Attributes, Pag. 170 ad 175, 327
To give it him, and not that of our Spirits, is a bad ſign, Pag. 173, 174
Meerly Carnal, uncomfortable, unacceptable, abominable, Pag. 174
Directions for Spiritual, Pag. 175 ad 178
Immutability of God, a ground of worſh p, and encouragement to it, Pag. 230, 231
Bringing Human Inventions into it, an affront to God's Wiſdom, Pag. 402
V. Ceremonies.
A ſtrong ſenſe of God's Holineſs would make us Reverent in it, Pag. 554
We ſhould carry it holily in it, Pag. 564
Ingenuous, would be promoted by a ſenſe of God's Goodneſs, Pag. 687
Slight and careleſs, a contempt of God's Soveraignty, Pag. 762
And ſo is omiſſion of it, Pag. 762, 763
Thoughts of God's Soveraignty would make us diligent in it, Pag. 773, 774
Worſhip of Creatures is Idolatry, Pag. 123
Not countenanc'd by God's Omnipreſence, Pag. 260
Wrong; God can do none, Pag. 106, 764
Z.
Zeal; ſometimes a baſe end in it, Pag. 93, 94
ERRATA.
PAge 7. line 17. read Principle, l. 54. what, p. 18. l. 6. Creator muſt, p. 50. l. 6. Principle, p. 66. l. 5. beck, p. 75. l. 22. dele a, p. 76. l. 6. diſcontentedly, p. 78. l. 43. contrivance, p. 103. l. 29. Man, but, p. 110. l. 48. that upon, p. 124. l. 41. a Body, but we, p. 127. l. 16. as Bodies do, p. 151. l. 31. glorious, p. 153. l. 53. ſeeks, p. 166. l. 37. aſunder, p. 170. l. 7, Internal, p. 174. l. 37. Motive, p. 206. l. 49. dele and, p. 241. l. 30. my, p. 263. l. 16. Omniſcience, p. 275. l. 17 mote, p. 307. l. 45 extent, p. 362. l. 17. add not, p. 373. l. 22. an, p. 401. l. 27. own, p. 411. l. 43. ſince, p. 463. l. 19. add not, p. 506. attack, p. 555. l. 7. is no, p. 585. l. 56. deify, p. 598. l. 41. nocent, p. 599. l. 56. as, p. 601. l. 29. intends, p. 641, l. 47. after Blood add, if there were not, p. 662. l. 34. upon, p. 701. l. 35. Peculiarity, p. 732. l. 48. for And r. But, p. 743. l. 33. dele as, p. 766. l. 52. another.
FINIS.
End of the text · Stephen Charnock, Existence and Attributes of God (1682)