Exposition of Job 8-10, Subject index
A TABLE, Directing to ſome ſpeciall Points noted in the precedent EXPOSITIONS.
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ABib, the Jewiſh monethmonth, why ſo called, p. 73:
Adamant, why ſo called, 160.
Affliction, A good heart give … teſtimony to the righteouſneſſe of God, in the midſt of greateſt afflictions, p. 14; God laies very ſore afflictions upon them that are very dear to him, p. 279.
Afflictions continued cauſe …s to ſuspect that our praier is not anſwered, p. 280. A godly man may be much oppreſt with the fears of affliction, p. …54. There was not ſuch a ſpirit of rejoycing in affliction among the Saints of the old Teſtament, as is under the New, p. 358. After purgings God goes on ſometimes with afflictions. p. 372. It is lawfull to pray againſt affliction, p. 399. Affliction removed three waies, p. 400. Great afflictions carry a charge of wickedneſſe upon the afflicted, p. 432. An afflicted perſon is very ſolicitous about the reaſon of his afflictions, p. 436. Afflictions are ſearchers, p. 469. Afflictions affect with ſhame, p. 573. Ʋnder great afflictions our requests are modeſt, p. 579.
Age, what meant by it? taken three waies, p. 55.
Ancient of daies, why God is ſo called, p. 460.
Angels falling, why their ſinne greater then mans, and God ſo irreconcilable to them, p. 506.
Anger in man, what it is, p. 180 How God is angry, p. 181. The troubles that fall upon the creature are the effects of Gods anger, p. 181. It is not in the power of man to turn away the anger of God, p. 247. How praier is ſaid to do it, 10. The anger of God is more grievous to the Saints, then all their other afflictions, p. 433.
Anſwering, of two kindes, p. 250.
Antiquity, True antiquity gives teſtimony to the truth, p. 58. What true antiquity is, p. 59.
Appearance, we muſt not judge by it, p. 360.
Arcturus deſcribed, p. 209.
Aſſurance that we are in a ſtate of grace poſſible, and how wrought, p. 479.
Awake, In what ſenſe God awakes, p. 37, 38. His awaking and ſleeping note only the changes of providence, p. 39. Two things awaken God, the praier of his people, and the rage of his enemies, p. 40.
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BItterneſſe put for ſoreſt affliction, p. 285. The Lord ſometime mixes a very bitter cup for his own people, p. 286.
Body of man the excellent frame of it, p. 516. Five things ſhew this, p. 517.
Body of man an excellent frame, p. 494. How called a vi… body, ib.
Bones and ſinews, their uſe in the body of man, p. 516.
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CAbits a ſect of babling Poets p. 7.
Cauſe. Second cauſes can doe nothing without the first, p. 493.
Chambers of the South, what, and why ſo called, p. 210.
Chiſtu the tenth monethmonth among the Jews, why ſo called, p. 209.
Chriſt is the medium by which we ſee God, p. 231
Clay. that man was made of clay, intimates three things, p. 504.
Commands. God can make every word he speaks, a command p. 192. Every creature muſt ſubmit to his command, ib. God hath a negative voice of command to ſtay the motion of any creature, p. 193.
Comfort comes only from God, p. 348. Yet a man in affliction may help on his own comforts or ſorrows, p. 351. Comforts put off upon two ground, ib.
Commendation, To commend our ſelv…s very unſeemly, p. 296, 297.
Con…emnation hath three thing in it, which make it very g…evous, p. 432. It is the adjudging a man to be wicked, p. 434.
Conſcience, A good conſcience to be kept rather then our lives, p. 303. God and conſcience keep a record of our lives, p. 540.
Conſent to ſinne how proper to the wicked, p. 478.
Contention, Man naturally loves it, p. 150. Man is apt to contend with God, p. 152. Eſpecially about three things, p. 153. Man is unable to contend with God in any thing, p. 154.
Counſels of wicked men not ſhined on by God, p. 447.
Cuſtom in ſin, what, p. 476.
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DAies-man, who, p. 385. why ſo called, p. 386. Five things belonging to a daies-man, p. 387. A three-fold poſture of the daies-man in laying on his hand, p. 389. No creature can be a daies-man between God and man, only Christ is, p. 392.
Daies of God not like the days of man, p. 459.
Death, Sudden death, or to be ſlain ſuddenly, in what ſenſe a mercy, p. 313.
Death, Man dies by ſtatute, p. 508. Whether death was naturall to man or no, p. 509. Death without order two waies, p. 584. No naturall return from it, p. 580.
Delight in ſinne worſe then the committing of ſin, p. 478.
Deſpair is the cutting off of hope, p. 88.
Duties, dangerous to lean upon them, p. 97. How hypocrites duties fail, p. 98. How we muſt hold duties faſt, and how not, p. 99.
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EAgles flight, time compared to it, p. 339.
Earth taken five waies in Scripture, p. 321. How the earth is given to wicked men, p. 322.
Earth-quake, the force of it, p. 183. The cauſe of it, ib.
Eclipſe of the Sun when Chriſt ſuffered was miraculous in two respects, p. 190.
Egypt called Rahab in Scripture, and why, p. 245.
Eternity is Gods day, p. 462. Difference between eternity, eviternity and time, ib. God hath time enough to do his work in, p. 463.
Evil-doers who, p. 127. God will not help ſuch, ib. How God concurs with evil-doers, and how not, p. 128, 129. God reſiſts them, a two-fold reſiſtance, p. 131.
Example, The examples of others falling into ſin, or under puniſhment, ſhould be our warnings, p. 31.
Eyes of God what, p. 451. Seven differences between the eyes of God and man, p. 452.
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FAces of Judges covered, what it imports, p. 326. Face put for anger, &c. why, p. 346.
Faith muſt have ſomewhat to lean upon, p. 93. Faith neceſſary in prayer, p. 273. Faith in prayer doth not deſerve an anſwer, though it get one, p. 274. Faith hath its decaies, pag. 276.
Fear taken two waies, p. 404. Sutream fear binders speech, p. 405.
Forgetfulneſſe of God conſiſts in four things, p. 78. Hypocrites are forgetters of God, p. 79. To forget God is a very great ſinne, p. 80. Forgetfulneſſe of God is a mother ſinne, p. 81. Forgetfulneſſe of three ſorts, p. 345. Some things can hardly be forgotten, others as hardly remembred, p. 346.
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GIfts not to be truſted to, p. 95
God gives to men two waies, p. 322.
God, The best way for man to get his heart humbled is to look up to the holineſſe of God, p. 148. God is inviſible and incomprehenſible, p. 229. As God is, ſo he works above man, p. 375. The conſideration that God is above man, ſhould humble man, p. 376. The unevenneſſe of mans acting towards God, ariſes from thoughts of his evenneſſe with God, p. 377. 378. Man was made in the image of God, but God is not in the image of man, p. 380. Man ſhould take heed of meaſuring God eſpecially in three things, p. 381. Man cannot contend with God, ſhewed in ſeven things, 384. Why it is ſo fearfull to fall into the hands of God, p, 394. Preſence of God both joyfull and terrible, p. 402, 403. Man cannot bear the anger of God; p. 403. God knows the ſtate of every man, p. 471. God knoweth all things, in and of himſelf, p, 473.
Godly man ſhall never be cast away, p. 122. How God may be ſaid to eaſt his people away, p. 123 God highly honours them, p. 124. A godly man exalts God, while God is caſting him down, p. 222. Godly men are a ſafety and a ſupport to the places where they live, p. 244. Yet ſometimes God will not be entreated by the godly, ib. A godly man may put the worſt caſes to himſelf, p. 543.
Good and bad, alike dealt with by God in outward things, p. 310.
Grace acts alwaies like it ſelf, but a gracious man doth not, p. 364.
Guilt, Till guilt be removed, fear will not, p. 357. Guilt of ſin wearieth the ſoul, p. 413.
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HAnd, Putting forth the hand notes three things in Scripture, p. 125, 126. Hand put for outward converſation or action, p. 367. Waſhing hands an emblem of freedom from guilt, p. 368. Laying on of the hand, what it ſignifies, p. 387. Hands, How aſcribed to God, his hand implies two things, p. 442. Hands of God what. p. 489.
Hardning the heart, what, 160 A hardning the heart to do either good or evil, ib. The heart hardned appears in ſix things, p. 161. A three-fold hardneſſe of heart, p. 162. Man hardens himſelf againſt God upon four grounds, p. 163. Nine degrees or ſteps of hardneſſe of heart, p. 164, 165. None ever prospered by hardning themſelves againſt God, p. 166. A hard heart is Satans cuſhion, p. 166.
Hatred taken two waies, 137. Wicked men haters of the righteous, p. 141.
Hearkning is more then hearing, p. 272.
Head, Lifting up of the head, what it imports in Scripture, 545.
Heart the beſt repoſitory for truth, p. 70.
Heaven, The various acceptations of it in the Scriptures, 199.
Heaven is a building of three ſtories, p. 200.
Help given by God, two-fold, p. 128.
Holy perſons fit for holy duties, p. 34. It is not contrary to free grace, to ſay we muſt be holy, if we would be heard, p. 35.
Hopeleſſe, To be ſo is the worſt condition, p. 84, 88. Where hope faileth, indeavour faileth alſo, 364
Humility, a godly mans thoughts are loweſt of himſelf, p, 251. The more holineſſe any man hath, the more humility he hath, p. 547.
Hypocrite compared to a ruſh in ſix particulars, p. 75, 76, 77. What an hypocrite is, p. 82. Two ſorts of hypocrites, p. 83. They are filthy, they may be full of hopes, their hopes will deceive them, p. 84 He ſhall loath himſelf, p. 85, 86. his whole courſe is nothing but fooliſhnes, p. 87. He ſhall be hopeleſſe, 88. His hope like a ſpiders-web, ſhewed in five things, p. 90, 91. He hath two houſes, p. 94. His hopes may be very ſtrong, p. 96. He hath three witneſſes, ib. All he trusts to ſhall fail, p, 97. He may abound in outward bleſſings, p. 104. They do all to be ſeen, p. 105. They may endure perſecution a while, p, 105. They care not whom they wrong, ſo they may thrive, 108. They are often deſtroied in the height of their proſperity, 110. They ſhall be forgotten or remembred with diſgrace, p. 113, 114 He may have much joy. p. 115. His joy is moſt from outward things, 116. His joy is ſhort, ib.
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IDol. The ſame word in Hebrew ſignifies ſorrow and an idol, two reaſons of it, 353. Idols, why called Emims, p. 401.
Immortality three-fold, 510.
Inſtruments and ſecond cauſes. What God doth by them is to be reckoned as his own act, p. 235.
Joy is the portion of the Saints, and they ſhall receive it in good time, p, 135. They rejoyce in the works of Gods mercies to themſelves, judgements on enemies, 136
Juſtice and judgement, how they differ, p. 12. Judgement oppoſed to three things, ib. Judgement ſubverted two waies, p. 14. To pervert judgement what, p. 13, 15. Judgements of God finde most men ſecure, p. 178. Judgement taken three waies, p. 291. Judgement of God unlike mans in four things, p. 455, 456.
God is moſt exact in juſtice, p. 15. Three things cauſe men to pervert juſtice. p. 16. Juſtice of God how acquitted, when he afflicts us without cauſe, p. 282. Juſtice or righteouſneſſe two-fold, p. 148.
Juſtification cannot be by works, p. 155 299. Self-juſtification will prove ſelf-condemnation, p. 295. Three reaſons of it, ib. Juſtification ſure, though the perſon juſtified have doubts concerning it, p. 359. We are never ſo black in Gods eye, as when we are whiteſt in our own, p. 369.
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KNowledge, Life of man ſo ſhort that he cannot get much knowledge, p. 64. We ſhould have humble thoughts of our own knowledge, ib. A godly man is a knowing man, p. 146. The more we know God, the more humble we are, p. 252.
Knowledge of ourſelves two-fold, p. 301.
Knowledge of God concerning man, and all other things deſcribed, p. 471, 472. 473. &c. It is matter of great conſolation to the Saints, that God knows them, p. 475. His knowledge of us, gives us an aſſurance of four things, ib. and 476.
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LAughter, Filling the mouth with it, what, p. 133. Laughter of two ſorts, ib. How the Lord laughs at the afflictions of his people, opened, p. 315, 316, &c.
Law, Why God cals his laws, judgements, 12. Good laws without good men, never made a happy people, p. 48.
Law-ſutes to be avoided, 392.
Life, What it is, p. 412. Life taken two waies, ibid. Life may grow to be a burthen, p. 419 Grounds of this burdenſomnes of life both in wicked and godly men ſhewed, p. 419, 420, &c. Life is the gift of God, p. 521. a favour, p. 523.
Loathing two-fold, p. 86.
Lion, God comes forth as a lion againſt his own ſervants, p, 555.
Loſſes, Great loſſes have great repairs, p 50.
Love of God everlasting, 132.
Luſt, The ſhorteſt time is too long to ſerve any luſt in, p. 5.
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MAle children, why expreſſed in the Hebrew by a word which ſignifies memory, p. 500.
Man is the work of Gods hands, p. 443. Three cautions from it, p. 444. It moves the Lord to compaſſion, to tell him we are the work of his hands, p. 445.
Memory or remembrance, how aſcribed to God, p. 55. It implieth two things, ib.
Mercies come in by degrees; we may be over-mercy'd as well as over afflicted, p. 51.
Miſery, vid. Afflictions.
Mountains, Figurative mountains of two ſorts, p. 171, 172. To remove a mountain, uſed proverbially for doing the moſt difficult things, p. 174. 175.
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NAtural things are ſhadows to us of spirituall, p. 74.
Negative voice, God hath one upon all creatures, p. 193. Where the negative voice lies, there is the greateſt power, p. 194
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OLd-men are preſumed to know much, p. 69.
Oppreſſion two-fold, p. 439.
Orion deſcribed, p. 209.
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PAnther, His fiercenes againſt man-kinde, p. 141.
Pardon of ſin is our acquittance from ſin, p. 542.
Paſſions aſcribed to God, have no power over him, p. 247.
Path, Our ordinary courſe of life compared to a path, p. 77, 78.
Perſeverance in evil, is worſe then the doing of evil, p. 4.
Pleiades, what, and why ſo called, p. 209.
Pillars, Two ſet up before the floud, p. 56. Pillars of the earth, what, p. 185. The reall pillar of the earth is Gods power, p. 186. Metaphorical pillars of the earth, who, p. 187.
Power of God as viſible in changing, as in ſetling the courſe of nature, p. 76. Power of God can do greater things then ever he hath done, p. 184. Power of God ſuch, that he needs not the help of any creature, p. 202. None can reſcue from the hand of his power, p. 236. His power is abſolute, p. 241.
Prayer, early in the morning, p. 28. Prayer is a ſeeking of God, ib. God muſt be ſought ſpeedily and diligently, 29. In prayer we must expect all from free grace, p. 30. Prayer of the upright prevails, p. 35. Holy prayer is certainly and preſently heard, p. 39. Prayer awakens God, p. 40. It ſhould be fervent, p. 40. Prayer cannot ſtay the anger of God ſometimes againſt a people, p. 237. How praier is ſaid to prevail with God, p. 247. Prayer a reaſoning with God, p. 256. Nothing of man ſo prevailing with God as prayer, p. 367. Faith in prayer, p. 273. Prayers may be anſwered, while we are ſtill afflicted, p. 278.
Preſervation the work of God, p. 529. He preſerves both naturall and ſpirituall life, p. 530.
Pride, we are apt to be proud of ſtrength, p. 243. Pride comes from ignorance of our ſelves, 300.
Prognoſtication by the ſtars ſinfull and vain, p. 219.
Providence of God orders the greateſt confuſions in the world, p. 331. Confuſions argue the power of God, p. 332.
Purpoſes to ſin, how proper to wicked men, p. 477.
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QUeſtions, In all disputes and queſtions we ſhould yeeld as much as without wrong to truth may be yeelded to, p. 146.
Three kindes of queſtions, p. 570.
Extravagant queſtions, what fruit they produce, p. 572.
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REaſoning with God two-fold, how we may or may not reaſon with God, p. 255. Reaſoning with god in prayer, p. 256.
Remembrancer, A great honour to be ſo to God, 501. Saints uſe to put God in remembrance of four things, ib. &c.
Repentance two-fold, ſinfull and for ſin, p. 377.
Reproofs are often grounded upon miſtakes, p 6.
Righteouſneſſe, what it is, p. 44. Righteouſneſſe the mother of proſperity, p. 46. Two things make a Nation an habitation of righteouſneſſe, p. 47, 48. Man is called righteous in a two-fold oppoſition, p. 261. Two ſorts of righteouſneſſe, p. 262. How a righteous perſon may anſwer God, and how not, 262. Mans righteouſneſſe is not pleadable before God, p. 264. A godly man reckons his righteouſneſſe as nothing, p. 265
Rod, What it ſignifies in Scripture, p. 395. Affliction called a rod in a three-fold conſideration, p. 398.
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SCourge put for any kinde of affliction, p. 312. A ſudden ſcourge, what, p. 313
Sea, The ſea in its highest rage is under the command of God, p. 204.
Sealing of a thing imports two things, p. 197.
Shaddai, Three ſignifications of it opened in reference to juſtice, p. 11.
Shadow notes things, p. 66. Mans life how like a ſhadow, 67.
Shame, The fruit of ſin, what ſhame is, and how cauſed, p. 137, &c. Three degrees of Scripture expreſſion about ſhame, p. 139. To be cloathed with ſhame notes four things, p. 140.
Ship, How time paſſes like a ſhip, p. 337, 338.
Sincerity cauſeth us to rate our ſelves low, p. 407.
Sin, God gives men up to the power of ſin, p. 25. Sin is a puniſhment, p. 25. Sin ſhall not go long unpuniſhed by outward evils, p. 27. They who are equall in ſin, may be unequall in puniſhment, p. 32. How God aſſiſts, and how not in the committing of ſin, p. 128, 129. All ſin is reſiſted by God, p. 131, All our weakneſſes are the effects of ſin, p. 263. A godly man may relapſe into ſin, p. 417. Sin is a debt, p. 541.
Small and great in a two-fold ſenſe, p. 49. We muſt not despiſe ſmall beginnings, p. 52.
Sorrow is not eaſily ſhaken off, p. 347.
Soveraignty of God, p. 284.
Soul taken two waies in Scripture, p. 412. Three things weary and load the ſoul, p. 413. Soul and life in man are diſtinct, 418.
Spirit, A three-fold work of the ſpirit, p. 480. Spirit of man taken three waies, p 528.
Starre, what it is, p. 207. The differences of the ſtars, ib. & 208. The number of the known ſtars, p. 208. The known ſtars repreſented in fourty one images, ibid. All the ſtars are particularly placed in the heavens for the good of man, p. 212. Man very apt to commit idolatry with the ſtars, p. 212, 215. God knows the number and names of all the ſtars, p. 213. Some ſtars more excellent then others, ib. The power and wiſdom of God ſhine forth from the ſtars, p. 214. Six things ſhew the power and wiſdom of God in making and ordering the ſtars, p. 215. Starres can do nothing of themſelves, but as God orders, p 217. They are for ſigns, but not for infallible ſigns, p. 219. It is a duty to ſtudy the ſtarres, p. 220.
Strength, of two ſorts, p. 158. Strength of God opened, ibid. Strength ſignified by five diſtinct words in the Hebrew, pag. 289. Strength of God inſuperable, p. 289. The ſtrength of God appears in three things, pag. 290.
Sunne at Gods command, p. 189. Shadow of the Sunne going back in Hezekiahs time, p. 193. The riſing of the Sunne is an act of favour renewed to the world every day, p. 196
Supplication, The nature of it, p. 29.
Supplication, properly what it is, p. 266.
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TEmptation makes the Saints ſometimes weary of their lives, p. 420. Great afflictions lay us open to great temptations, p. 430.
Thouſand, How taken in Scripture, p. 151. One of a thouſand, what it means, ib.
Time is very ſwift, p. 334. Swift as, and ſwifter then a Poſt, ſhewed in ten particulars, p. 335.
Tradition and immediate revelation the rule, till the Word was written, p. 56.
Truſt, what it is, p. 89. A two-fold effect of truſt, ibid. Truſt of hypocrites like a Spiders web in five things, p. 90, 91.
Truth is more ancient then errour, p. 59. Truth cannot be had with eaſe, pag. 61. Four things fit us for the ſearch of truth, ib. Truth is to be highly esteemed, p. 71. We ſhould yeeld to one another in controverſies, as farre as truth will let us, p. 146. Truth is ever the ſame, and we ſhould be the ſame to truth, p. 307. Great truths muſt be reſolutely maintained, p. 308.
Type, what it is properly, p. 32.
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Viſion of God in heaven, not in his Eſſence, p. 231. We cannot ſee God fully on earth in his Word and works, p. 228, 232. That we ſee ſo little of God ſhould humble us, p. 233.
Viſitation of God three-fold, p. 527.
Untill, notes a continued act, p. 132.
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WAſhing, What it imports, ceremonial waſhings, p. 365, 366.
Wicked men have their name from unquietneſſe, p. 309. They often abound with earthly things, p. 324. They have a juſt title to the earthly things which they enjoy, p. 325, 326. How it is in vain for a wicked man to ſeek unto God, and how not, p. 362. 363. To be accounted wicked, is a ſore affliction, p. 434. Wicked men in what ſenſe they may be ſaid to have prosperity, p. 448. To be wicked, or to do wickedly is inconſiſtent with grace, p. 476. A wicked man, who, deſcribed in five particulars, p. 476, &c. All men are either godly or wicked, p. 482.
Wiſe, What it is to be wiſe in heart, p. 156. God is infinitely wiſe, p. 157.
Witneſſe and party must not be the ſame man, p 295.
Woes of two ſorts, pag. 542. Woe is the portion of the wicked, p. 543.
Words, It is our duty to watch over our words, p. 5. It is a duty to give check to the idle or evil words of others, ib. Words like a ſtrong winde, ſhewed in ſix particulars, p. 8, 9. God is not taken with fine words, p. 259.
Worldly things have no conſiſtence, They are alwaies in motion p. 336, 337. They paſſe as if they had never been, 341. Worldly eſtate of good men, as tranſitory as that of evil men, p 342.
Works of God are to be recorded for after times, p. 57. It is our duty to enquire into former times, p. 58. It is but little of God that we are able to ſee in his works, p. 228, …32.
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YEſterday, Taken three waies in Scripture, p. 62.