One Hundred Select Sermons, New Testament
A Table of the chief Matters contained in the Fifty Sermons on the New Teſtament.
A
Afflictions.
QƲieting conſidertions under them 51
See Contentment.
Anthropomorphites.
Confuted 135
Accurſed.
VVhat it ſignifies 340
VVhy many in Scripture might, but we muſt not curſe others 341
Apoſtacy.
The evil of it 421
Twofold 431
B
Behold.
How uſed in Scripture 65
Boſom.
VVhat it implies 136
C
Converſion.
Morality (accidentally) may ſet a man further from it than profaneneſs 12
See Morality.
VVhether Cornelius, Nathaniel, the Eunuch, Lidia, &c. were converted or not 13
A twofold converſion 79
How men may be ſaid to convert themſelves, how not 79
Labour to convert others, why 81
By what means to endeavour others converſion 82
Cannot be promerited 86, 156
How far we may, how we cannot reſiſt it 87
Touching knowing the moment of it 89
Counſel or advice.
How to be given 41
Chriſtian.
Ʋnprofitable Chriſtians hurtful to others 32
Chriſtians ſhould improve one another 37
Take heed of diſcouraging young Chriſtians 54
His choice juſtified. See Election.
Support to weak Chriſtians 69
Lawful for them to eye the recompence of reward 423
In what reſpects Kings and Prieſts 444
Their excellency 445
Why they deſire Chriſts ſecond coming 449
Cenſoriouſneſs or evil ſurmiſings.
A check to it 14, 39, 57, 61, 63, 64, 73
Children.
How the word is taken 364
Weak Chriſtians compared to children 365
Calling.
Over-doing in a mans particular calling, whence it ſprings 44
How men offend in their particular callings 44
A double end of particular callings 50
Touching effectual calling 286
Chriſts inviting thoſe that thirſt is favour and honour 455
Care.
The evil, the cauſes, the remedies of diſtracting cares.
See Thoughts.
Converſion.
Travails in converſion, what 365
Its nature 368
Why God converts by the word preached 93, 285
Both Jews, and fulneſs of the Gentiles ſhall be converted 288
We ſhould labour to convert others 429
Church.
What, and why ſo called 286
How its cenſures ſhould be adminiſtred 344
Why called Chriſts Bride or ſpouſe 447
Contentment.
Arguments to it 51, 116
Coming to Chriſt, what 105, 109, 144, 145
Various comings of Chriſt 125, 152
Touching Chriſts coming to Judgment. See Judgment.
Comfort.
When others forget us in their prayers 69
From Chriſts Interceſſion. See Interceſſion.
Choice comforts to believers 137, 132, 437, 442
Comfortleſs, what it denotes 149
Comfort when friends deſert 150
Chriſt why ſtiled the firſt-begotten of the dead 438
Why ſtiled Prince of the Kings of the earth 439
Touching his eternal Generation. See Generation.
Forming Chriſt in us, what 368, 369
Is true God 135, 136
How the Way 140, 141
How a faithful Witneſs 434
How the Truth 142
How the Life 143
How the Reſurrection 144
How the Power of God 289
How the Wiſdom of God 289
Diſtance.
From God threefold 9
Perſons at a diſtance from God in one ſenſe, may be near in another 11
Diſcretion.
Lies in two things 15
Diſcretion.
Lies in two things 15
Duties.
Man by nature apt to think he pleaſes God by outſide duties, the ground thereof 421
We may over-do ſome duties 44
Take heed that duties interfere not 54
Why continued under weakneſſes in them 165
What ſtrength cannot carry us acceptably through them 165
Diligence.
Motives to it in Religion 47, 59
Motives to diligent hearing the word preached 98
Doctrines.
General rules to judg of Doctriues 49
Diſciple.
A diſciple indeed diſplayed 101, 103
Several ſorts of diſciples 102
Diſcord, diviſions, contentions.
Amongst neareſt relations, whence they eſpecially ariſe.
See Relations.
Touching Ʋnity. See Unity.
Decays.
How to recover from under ſpiritual decays 80
Death.
Comforts againſt death 118, 131, 438
Comfort under the loſs of near and dear relations 132, 450
Several kinds of it 314
A great death, what 314
Why God delivers his people from death, threatning dangers 316
Deſpiſe.
How ſinners deſpiſe the goodneſs of God 349
Whence a ſinners deſpiſing Gods goodneſs ariſes 350
Take heed of deſpiſing Gods goodneſs, why 351
Deſtruction.
What it implys 414
Dectrine.
Of Chriſt, how taken 425
E
Error.
General rule for diſcerning errors 49
Something tolerating it. See Toleration.
Election.
Helps to right chooſing 55
A Saints choice vindicated 59
All elected ſhall be converted 106
None converted but the Elect 110
Ear.
The evil of an itching ear 277
Enthuſiaſts.
Condemned 340
See Propheſie.
Examination.
A Chriſtians duty 385
Motives to it 385
Whence non-examination ariſes 385
By what we ſhould examine our ſelves 386
F
Fool.
Sinners are fools, in what reſpect. See Sinners.
Feet.
Sitting at the feet, what it ſignifies 38
Fleſh.
Luſts of the fleſh, what 377
Feaſts.
The faults attending them 38
Faith.
How it helps in temptation 75
Threefold 94
Its excellency 263
Saving faith, what 263, 264
Signs of true faith 264
Free-will, and free-grace.
How to be able to judg aright touching both 91, 92
Touching free-will 155, 405
G
God.
The ſeveral ways God ſpeaks 17
How far God is ſeen, and in what ſenſe not ſeen 133
VViſdom of God, how taken 251
Given.
Men given to Christ ſeveral ways, 105, 106
Godlineſs.
Vindicated againſt its being charged with folly 20
Rewards of it twofold 58
Grace.
No falling from it 58, 74, 87
How far we may, how far we cannot reſiſt it 87
Free-grace 259
Its excellency above gifts 294
Caution againſt decays in it 421
How Chriſt derives it to Chriſtians 427
One difference between common and ſaving Grace 428
Glory.
Different degrees of it 120
How Chriſt prepares it 122
How Chriſt makes us meet for it 124
Generation.
Touching Chriſts Eternal Generation 135
Goſpel.
Its Excellency above the Old Teſtament 138, 327
Why God deprives a people of it 148
How men act againſt it 328, 329
Dangerous to oppoſe it 328
How we further its progreſs 340
Its unvariableneſs 344
Greeks.
Who are meant by them in Scripture 268
Gifts.
Touching Gifts 292
Grace more excellent than Gifts 294
H
Hearing.
Right hearing 38, 97, 262, 263, 345, 460
Reproof to mandering hearers 38, 96
We muſt labour to underſtand what we hear 461
Helps to the keeping of the word which it heard Ibid.
Why we must give moſt diligent heed not to let what we hear ſlip 462
Hearing Preferred before reading 262
Why, take heed of an itching ear in hearing 277
Whence it becomes unprofitable 263, 279, 280
Why we ſhould ſtay the Miniſterial Benediction 407
How people loſe what they hear 420
Habitation.
Directions in chuſing one 50
Humbling Conſiderations 257, 291, 430
Houſe.
Of God: how taken? 117
Manſion-houſe; What? 119
Comfort to houſeleſs Chriſtians 131
Hell.
The puniſhment of loſs moſt dreadful 430
I
Interruptions.
Which God gives, twofold 18
Infirmities.
Many Chriſtian infirmities diſcovered 39, 40
Juſtification.
How Chriſt makes way for it 122
Interceſſion.
Comfort from Chriſts 70, 71
Ignorance.
Of a ſinner in four particulars 90
All men ignorant reſpecting Providence in two things 111
Three ſorts of ignorance 354
Judgment.
Why Chriſt will come to it 126
How Chriſt will come to it 126
How Chriſt knew? how not? the day of judgment 172
The ſuddenneſs of it 415
Image.
Images in worſhip condemned 134
Jealouſie.
Its nature 326
Reproved Temporal 383
Reproved Spiritual 419
K
Kingdom.
OF God: how taken? 8
Knowledg.
How wicked men know God: how not? 254
Its oppoſites 102
A twofold knowledg implied 435
L
Life.
Threefold Chriſt communicates 143
A Chriſtians life compared unto a walk.
See Walk.
Learning.
Commended 255, 258
In what reſpects diſparaged 256, 270, 283
Love,
Of God, ſafe and ſweet, as conveighed thorow Chriſt 430
The love of Christ amplified 440, 443
M
Morality.
Not meritorious of ſpecial Grace 11
Let alone to it ſelf, would never be Grace 12
Morality (accidentally) may ſet a man further from Converſion than Prophaneneſs 12
Miniſtry.
Miniſters, their work 27, 31, 99, 271, 332
Several titles given them 28
Incouragement to them in their work 31, 32, 93, 262, 285, 310, 371
Puſillanimity a great evil in a Minister 41
VVhy the devil most tempts them 64
The chief ſubject of their preaching 97, 274
Mind.
Take heed of worldly-mindedneſs, why 43
Earthly-mindedneſs reproved 48
Helps to heavenly-mindedneſs 48
Marriage.
Directions in chooſing a yoke-fellow 50
The difference between Chriſts and Miniſters teaching.
Millenaries.
No perſonal reign 128
Miniſters.
Two things Miniſters ſhould take heed of in preaching 260, 272
Reproof to ſcandalous Miniſters 279, 298
Cautions reſpecting their ſtudies 297
Touching their preaching. See Preaching.
Motive to promote their diligence 302
Two parts of the Miniſtry 332
Muſt be aſſured of the truth of what they preach 341
Their travelling in birth, what 365
Aſſiduity required in a Miniſter 366
The honour of it 371
See their titles 434
Reproof to the invaders of the Miniſtry 384
How faithful Miniſters ſhall receive a (though it may be not a full) reward 424
Mercies.
Outward, when ſanctified 348
Meanneſs and ſinfulneſs hinder not from partaking of mercies 459
Memory.
Helps to it 420
Magiſtrates.
A main ground of ſubjects obedience to Princes 429
N
Neceſſity.
The one thing neceſſary 46
All things diſparaged in compariſon of the one thing neceſſary 51, 58, 59
To chuſe the one thing neceſſary, an argument of four things 55
Natural ability. See free-will, and free-grace.
What it may, what it cannot do 155
Pelaginas confuted 166
Natural condition.
A miſerable condition 159, 160
O
Ordinances.
Touching thoſe who are without Goſpel-ordinances 9
Whence their efficacy ariſes 31
P
Phariſee.
What their righteouſneſs was 1
Touching Phariſaical righteouſneſs. See Rightouſneſs
Prodigies and ſigns 266
Puniſhments.
Degrees of puniſhments 4
Peace.
What peace Christs death obtains 275
What it implies 406
Patience,
Of God 29
Why God bears long Ibid
Pride.
How it diſcovers it ſelf 39, 430
Proveing.
How taken 385
Prayer.
Satan ſometimes prays 65
Comfort when we cannot pray. See Comfort.
VVhy Christ prayed, although he could do all things without it 72
Incouragement to it 446
Papiſt,
And Jew, wherein a like 266
Tranſubstantiation 267, 269
Against their Tradition 339
Perſeverance.
True Christians ſhall perſevere. 76, 87, 369
See Grace.
Perſevere in two things 103
Helps to it Ibid
VVhence the opinion of falling away ariſes 369
Motives to it 408
Providence.
Our ignorance touching Providence twofold 111
The intricacies of Providence, and the reaſon thereof 112
Not for us to foretell its future events 113
VVhat in Providence God will at last make manifest 114
The properties of Gods Providence Ibid.
VVhen God will vindicate his Providence 115
Propheſie.
See Enthuſiaſts.
Not for its to foretell future events of Providence 174, 213
Imagainary Revelations cenſured 337
Oppoſers of Christs prophetical office 436
Perſwading.
How taken 305
Preaching.
How men come to count it fooliſhneſs 261
VVhat it is 261, 337
VVhence its efficacy ariſes 261
VVhy it profits not without faith 263
Directions touching it 270, 271, 298, 350, 274, 278, 437, 382, 301
VVhat it is to preach Christ crucified 276
VVhence it becomes unprofitable 263, 279, 280
Parents.
Duty to their Children 266
R
Pighteouſneſs.
OF Scribeds and Phariſees; what? 12
Defectiveneſs of the righteouſneſs of Scribes and Phariſees 3, 10
The Principles of Phariſaical righteouſneſs 3
VVhy Phariſaical righteouſneſs cannot bring to Heaven Ibid.
Phariſaical righteouſneſs (in a ſenſe) worſe than notorious ſins 4
Civil righteouſneſs commended 5
The righteouſneſs exceeding that of Scribes and Phariſees Ibid.
Moral righteouſneſs not meritorious of ſaving-grave 11
Reproof.
How to be administred 41, 46
The best of Christians ought to be reproved 41
Cautions to be obſerved in reproving a good man 42
Riches.
Their vanity 25
Reſurrection.
VVhy Christ is ſo called 144
Religion.
The one thing neceſſary 47
Motives to diligence in it.
See Diligence.
VVhat required unto being acceptably religous 56
VVhence staggering in it ariſes Ibid.
Religion justified 59, 47, 91
VVhat in it chiefly to be minded 296
Relations.
VVhence diſcord between neareſt relations eſpecially ariſes 53
Comfort under the loſs of them 132, 450
Reaſon.
The impotency of humane reaſon 90, 91, 112, 173 254, 255, 259, 269
How it diſcovers God 133
A check to the Contemners of it 269
Rehearſed.
In Scripture of the ſame words, what it implies 341
Repentance.
How the goodneſs of God leads unto it: how not? 353
Reward.
Touching it 423
S
Scribes.
Their office 1
Stumling-block 281
Satan.
Why he most tempts the godly, and thoſe eſpecially most godly 62
Why most of all be iempts Miniſters 64
His winnowings; what? 67
Sincerity.
A double effect of it 101
Sinner.
In what reſpects a fool 19
His danger and miſery in this life 24, 426
His ignorance 90
Incouragement ot proſligate ſinners to repent 108
His impotency 163
Different ſinners have their different corruptions, whence it is 265
Why God bestows many good things on them, and bears long with them 347
How without God in the world 426
Spirit,
Of God, why compared to wind 85
How to get its ſupplies 168
What it is to walk in it
See Walk.
How it witneſſeth the Truth of Scripture 435
Scepticiſm.
The danger of it 266
Scandal.
VVhat it is, implied 281
Lords-Supper.
What eating and drinking damnation ſignifies 282
Sin.
An umprofitable thing, in what reſpects 356
Whence men come to be aſhamed of it 359
Its aggravations 422
Its heinous nature diſcovered 442
How men ſin againſt the blood of Chriſt? 443
Speaking.
A threefold ſpeaking 411
Security.
The danger of it 416, 417
Salvation.
A Christians certainty of it 433
In what ſenſe it's ſaid a Child of God cannot ſin 325
T
Thoughts.
Vanity of them 18
The evil of diſtraction in them 45, 50
Cauſes of diſtraction in them 45, 52
Remedies againſt their diſtraction 45, 52
Taking freely what it imports 458
Temptations.
Why Satan muſt tempts the godly, and thoſe eſpecially moſt godly 62
Why he moſt of all tempts Ministers 64
Support under Temptation 65, 72, 75, 79, 87
Walk againſt them 66, 74
Why God ſuffers his to fall into them 73
How faith helps under them 75
Whence Chriſtians come to recover out of them 78
The evil that comes by them 80
The good that comes by them 62
Time.
What knowledg of the times concerns us: what not? 113, 130, 171
What times, it's not fur us to know 169
Terrors.
Of the Lord, what? 303
Thirſt ſpiritual, what it implies 455
The excellency of ſpiritual thirſt 456
Teaſon.
Gun-powder Treaſon 317
Truth.
How taken in Scripture 328
Toleration,
Againſt univerſal toleration 337
Tradition.
When equalized with Scripture, condenned 339
V
Vanity.
OF Thoughts. See Thoughts.
Unity.
Among Chriſtians 408, 409
Bounded 409
Unbelief.
The hainouſneſs of it 436
Voice of Chriſt in the Miniſtry, the voice of the ſpirit in the conſcience, and the voice of the ſpirit in the Spouſe to be heard 453, 454
W
Way.
Incourage any coming on in the Ways of God, why? 14
Word.
Ingemindation of words, its end 41, 60
World.
Take heed of worldly-mindedneſs: See Mind.
Why continued 106
How taken in Scripture 152
Watch.
Againſt temptation; why? 66, 67
Motives to it 418
Work.
How Chriſt helps to the performance of a good work 164
Good works, in what reſpects diſparaged 156
Wiſdom.
Humance, in what reſpects diſparaged 156
Walk.
To walk in the ſpirit; what? 372, 373
What it implies 374, 400
How walking in it ſecures against ſin 380
Touching a Chriſtians rule to walk by 403, 404
Water of life, what underſtood by it 456
What underſtood by, Whoſoever will let him take of the water of life.
Y
Youth.
Motives to early Godlineſs 52
Good education a great bleſſing. 266
Z
Zeal.
How Chriſtians come to decay in it 421
FINIS.
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