Sermons Volume 2, Romans 6 · Table of contents – Errata

Sermons Volume 2 · Romans 6 · Table of contents – Errata

A TABLE Of the Principal Matters contained in the Sermons on Romans 6.

A.

ABstain, it is not enough that we abstain from evil, but we must do good pag. 72

Access to God, the fruit of Holiness 145

What hinders it ibid.

Activity in the ways of Righteousness, and the ways of sin, resemblance between them in our (1) Solitude, (2) Industry, (3) Promptness, (4) Resolution, (5) Progress 128, 129

Reasons why it should be so 129

Acts, our Acts depend on Christ 25

Amiableness of a life spent in Gods service 143

Antinomian Doctrines consuted 7

Appearance of evil to be avoided 100

Appetite sensual, sin proceeds from the inordinacy of it 62

Armor Christian, the parts of it described 103

B.

BAptism sealeth the new Covenant to us 18

Faith and Repentance solemnly professed in Baptism 6

Represents to us Christs Death and Resurrection 17

Is a publick profession of our Communion with Christs Death and Resurrection 19

How we are buried with Christ in Baptism 14

Mystical Vnion signified and sealed in Baptism. Vide Union. 23

Obligeth us to dye to sin 2

And to a new life 19, 24

How Baptism obligeth us to walk in newness of life 17

How it is to be improved 13

The Rite of Dipping, why not retained 14

Believing, the necessity of believing, that if we be dead with Christ, we shall live with him 46

The grounds of believing a blessed future state in Heaven 46, 47

The profit of believing this 47

Body, why mentioned as the seat of sin 67

What care we should take to imploy our Bodies in Gods service 73

Mortal Body. Vide Mortal.

Body of sin, what is meant by it, and the reason of the expression 30

In what sense it is said to be destroyed ibid.

Burial of Christ, why Christ must be buried 17

C.

CHange, a great change wrought in all that are brought home to God 125

What this Change is 142

The effects of this Change 143

One great Change is change of Masters Vide Masters. 125

Those that are changed must away with their sinful life 131

Choice of Masters of great concernment to us 111

Whom we ought to chuse for our Master 115

What should guide us in this Choice Vide Masters. 111

Communion with God here, the fruit of Holiness 145

Communion with Christs Death, what a signifies 8

Complaining, great deceit of the heart in complaining against sin without resistance 77

Conflict spiritual, incouragements to us in our Conflict with sin 87

Objections answered 93

Conformity to Christ, wherein it consists 25

Where there is a likeness to his Death, there will be also to his Resurrection 26

Consent given to the service both of sin and of God 69

Bare Consent to Gods service will not evidence us Gods servants without obedience 114

Consideration, the want of it the cause of many sins 32

Conversion, of all spiritual mercies we should thank God for the Conversion of our selves and others 123

It is the duty of converted persons to be free from sin 40

Other duties of converted persons 123

Covenant. Vide New Covenant.

Creature, how to use the Creature to Gods glory 147

Crucifixion, why the death of sin is set forth by this Notion 29

How the old man is crucified with Christ Vide Dead with Christ. ibid.

Custom in sinning takes away all tenderness of Conscience 102

D.

DEad with Christ, what it is to be dead with Christ 42

Who are dead with Christ 43

A Condition necessary to obtain subsequent Grace 44

Freedom from sin is consequent of our dying with Christ 40

The necessity of believing, if we be dead with Christ, we shall also live with him 46

Dead to sin. What it is to dye to sin 2

Exhortation to it 27

Motives 20

Directions Vide Dying to sin, and living to God. 27

Death of Christ, the value of it 12

It shews the deadly nature of sin 33

How it mortifies sin 32

Death eternal what it is 157

The terribleness of it 141

The sinners wages 157

The certain connexion between it and sin 141, 158

The Iustice and Righteousness of God in inflicting it on sinners ibid.

Death temporal, why continued 157

The fruit of sin ibid.

Deceitfulness of sin, wherein it consisteth 136

Devil always watchful to destroy us 98

Difference between carnal and regenerate 41

Doctrine of the Gospel imprinted on the heart in conversion 119

The fruit and benefit of it 120

Dominion of sin. As no sin in general, so no particular sin should have dominion over us 79

Actual and habitual what 80, 81

More gross or more secret 79

Who are they that are more openly under the Dominion of sin Vide Predominancy and Reign of sin. 79

Duty, it is of great concernment to us to know what is our Duty 115

Dying to sin and living to God. How we are said to dye to sin, and to be alive to God through Iesus Christ 57

Motives to dye to sin, and live to God 59

E.

EAsie, why the work of Religion is easie to a renewed person 146

End and means joyned together 108

The End is better than the means 151

The enjoyment of God our great End ibid.

The End and issue of things to be often thought of 142

Eternity of Torments of Hell, the Iustice of God in them 141, 158

F.

FAith, what it is 5

The difference between Faith and Presumption ibid.

How it preserves from sin 97

Falling into sin, Gods people may sometimes fall into scandalous sins 78

Falls of Believers into sin punished by the withdrawing of the Spirit 37

Fear of God, how it preserves from sin 97

Flesh takes all occasions to indulge it self 3

Nor to be indulged and gratified 99

Filthiness of sin 180

Folly and filth of sin causeth shame Vide Shame. 138

Free Grace, to live in sin a false inference from the Doctrine of Gods Free Grace Vide Living in Sin. 2

Three Doctrines of Free Grace apt to be abused to licentiousness 104

Such Doctrines of Free Grace vindicated 106

Whence abuse of the Doctrines of Free Grace proceeds 2

How we should fortifie our selves against these abuses 7, 109

Freedom from Righteousness, what it signifies Vide Liberty. 130

The servants of sin carry it, as if they were free from Righteousness 131

Freedom from sin. The nature of it 36

The kin…s of it 131

The degree which we attain to in this life 37

The value of the benefit 38

Who are they that are freed from sin 42

The visible Professor to … after Freedom from sin 40

What we should do to be freed from sin 41

How we should show that we are freed from sin 134

How it is a consequent of our dying with Christ 40

We are assured of it by Christs undertaking 87

Converted persons should be as free from sin as they were before from righteousness 132

How far this should be ibid.

Reasons of it, (1) the equity, (2) the necessity, (3) the conveniency of it 132, 133

Fruit, those that have their Fruit to Holiness, the advantage of it 144, &c.

G.

GIft of God eternal-life 160

What a kind of Gift this is ibid.

Gospel looks not back to what Believers were before Conversion, but forward to what they should be 31

Government of God, the life of it consists in rewards and punishments 153

Grace, the opposition it meets with 90

We are to honour it 7

Is followed with Grace and Glory 45

Life of Grace. Vide Life spiritual.

Free Grace. Vide Free.

H.

HAted, sin to be hated 135

Holiness, the Image of God in the Soul 147

Esteemed by God 148

It breeds peace of Conscience 145

And clears up and confirms our title to the heavenly Inheritance ibid.

Access to God and communion with him the fruit of Holiness ibid.

Honour of Gods service 126, 147, &c.

Hope of eternal life, some want it, and why 154

The solly of the Hopes of wicked men 159

I.

IMage of God in the Soul, what it is 147

Defaced by sin 38

Infirmities incident to the best 78

Jus Postliminii in the Civil Law, what it signifies 113

Justification, the nature and branches of it 36

Constitutive and executive 37

K.

KNowledge a help to mortification 31

L.

LAw, the use of it 4

How Believers are under the Law 107

Law written in the heart, what it is 120

The fruits and benefits of it ibid.

Liberty, the kinds of it 131

The Liberty we have by Grace 107

Service of God the greatest Liberty 108

Liberty sinful, what 107

Wicked men affect a Liberty to sin 3

Liberty to sin, no Liberty 107

Christ never came to establish it ibid.

They that labour for carnal Liberty are the servants of sin 131

The true notion of Liberty 107

Life of Christ after his Resurrection, how to be improved 53

Life eternal, that there is such a thing, proved 153

What it is 150

Compared with Life natural ibid.

Compared with the Life of Grace 151

Connexion between it and the Life of Grace 45

Those that have their fruit to Holiness are capacitated for it 153

The gift of God. Vide Gift 160

Purchased by Christ ibid.

Christs Resurrection the cause and pattern of it 52

The happiness of it 151

No fear of loving it 152

Why it is our final reward ibid.

Life spiritual, the excellency of this Life 59

The Resurrection of Christ, the cause, pattern and pledge of it 17, 18, 51

The connexion between Life spiritual and eternal Vide 45

Newness of Life.

Living to God. Vide Dying to sin, and living to God.

Living in sin, a false inference deduced from the Doctrine of Free Grace Vide Free Grace. 2

That it is an unjust inference 4

An absurd inference 5

A blasphemous inference 6

The corrupt heart of man apt to draw such an inference 2

The Devil hath a great hand in such an inference 4

Likeness, where there is a Likeness to Christs Death, there will be a Likeness to his Resurrection 26

Lord's Supper, what our work is at it 154

How we shew forth Christs Death in it 10

The influence of it on mortification 92

Love of God, those that serve God shall be assured of his Love 144

Love to God makes us tender of offending him 97

Lusts bodily, why we should take heed they do not reign in us. 66

M.

MAster, the great business that belongs to our duty is choice of Masters 111

Whom we ought to chuse for our Master Vide Choice. 115

God and Sin different Masters 57, 68, 112

All men have God or Sin their Master 112

No man can serve both ibid.

God a great and good a Master 132

Mercies spiritual. We are chiefly to thank God for spiritual Mercies, and why 122

Above all spiritual Mercies for the conversion of our selves and others 123

Middle state, there is no middle state, but all either good or bad 112

Objections answered ibid.

Mortal Body, why the Apostle useth this expression of sin reigning in our mortal Body Vide Body. 63

Mortification of sin, what it is 55

Habitual and actual, what 27

Knowledge a help to mortifie sin 31

We must be dead to carnal pleasures, if we would mortifie sin 32

The influence the Lords Supper hath upon Mortification 92

The necessity of the Spirit's concurrence to Mortification 90

The incouragement we have from the Spirit's concurrence 91

The Graces of the Spirit cannot thrive in an unmortified Soul 44

Till Sin be mortified, all the good we do is but a covering of Sin ibid.

N.

NEw Covenant, the design of God in setting it up 105

The tenor and constitution of it ibid.

Sealed in Baptism 18

New Nature opposite to Sin 88

Yet still Sin to be watched against ibid.

Newness of Life, what it is 15

The properties of it 16

Christ the Cause and Pattern of the New Life 53

How Baptism obligeth us to walk in Newness of Life 17

Motives to walk in Newness of Life. 21

O.

OBedience, the necessity of it 115

The fruit of it 116

Motives to make it more clear and explicite 129

It is the fruit of the word implanted in our hearts 121

Resolutions of Obedience, how to continue them 115

Our being Servants of God appears not by bare consent, but by Obedience 114

Obedience from the heart, what it signifies 118

Why we should be obedient from our hearts 122

Obey, bodily lusts may be obeyed two ways 64

Occasions of Sin to be avoided 100

Old man, why Sin called the Old man 28

The Old man is to be crucified 29

Why the Old man is to be crucified Vide Crucifixion. 29

Ordinances encourage us to strive against Sin 92

Own, how God ownes his Servants 144

P.

PArdon, Gods freeness to pardon, no allowance to sin 106

Belongs only to the Penitent ibid.

God will pardon the sins of those that serve him 144

Perseverance, the Doctrine of Perseverance no encouragement to sin 108

Means to persevere ibid.

Pleasure of Gods ways 126

Of a life spent in Gods service proved 143, 144

The Pleasure of sin will not countervail the pain 137

We are to be dead to carnal Pleasures, if we would mortifie Sin 32

Power against sin, the more obedient we are to the sanctifying Spirit, the more Power against sin 37

Praying against sin, the reason why it prevails not with many 94

Predominancy of one Sin over another, and of Sin over Grace 80

Presumptuous sins, the mischief of them 101

Prevent, how to prevent acts of Sin 138

Professor, the visible Professor to look after freedom from Sin 40

Profit of Gods service 126

Profit of sin will not countervail our loss by it 137

Promises of the Gospel encourage us to strive against Sin 91

Providences of God are helps and occasions for subduing Sin 93

Punishment of sin, of loss, and of sense, in this world, and in another 36

Purposes against sin, the reasons why they prevail not in many 94

R.

REckoning our selves dead to Sin, and alive to God, what it implies 58

Regeneration, the parts of it 15

Reign of sin, when Sin is said to reign 63, 64, 76

Why Sin is said to reign in the Body rather than the Soul 61

The Reign of sin may be prevented in our frail mortal state 63

Why Christians should take heed that sin reign not in them 65, 81

The mischief of reigning sin 83

A Note of a carnal heart 84

Uncomely in those that profess themselves Christ's 85

Destroys our hopes of Glory 86

The actual Reign of sin makes way for the habitual 101

Relapses into sin, which consistent with true Repentance 52

Religion Christian, the Verity of it demonstrated from Christs Resurrection 50

Repentance, what is implied in it 5

Professed in Baptism 6

Resisting sin, Objections against it answered 93

What kind of Resistance is required 96

How we are to resist sin 103

How you may know that you do not resist sin Vide Striving against Sin. 96

Resolved, we should be resolved against Sin 134

Resurrection demonstrated by the Resurrection of Christ 51

Resurrection of Christ, a pattern and pledge of the new Birth 17, 18

The cause and pattern of our life spiritual and eternal 51, 52

How we are conformed to the likeness of it 21

The Analogie between Christs Resurrection and his life after it, and our rising to the life of Grace and of Glory 49, 51

The consideration of it promotes the spiritual life 50

It demonstrates the Truth of the Christian Religion ibid.

It demonstrates our Resurrection 51

Shows the fulness of Christs Satisfaction ibid.

The advantages we have by it 50

Resurrection spiritual described 28

Reward, why few Laws propound a Reward 152

Of Sin and Righteousness, wherein they agree 155

Wherein they differ ibid.

The reason of this difference 156

Why life eternal is our final Reward 152

Right of God to us 71, 85

Right by Covenant to temporal blessings is sweeter than a bare providential Right 146

Righteousness, various acceptations of the word 68, 111

S.

SAcraments, our Vnion and Communion with Christ signified by the Sacraments 10

They are solemn means of our Communion with the Death of Christ 9

Both Sacraments chiefly relate to Christs Death, and why 10, 11

Sacrament of Baptism. Vide Baptism.

Sacrament of the Lords Supper. Vide Lords Supper.

Satisfaction of Christ, the Resurrection of Christ shows the fulness of his Satisfaction 50

Senses, much sin let in by the Senses 73

Servants by consent, and by conquest explained 110

Servants of sin. Vide serving sin.

Servants of sin carry it as if they were free from Righteousness 131

Servants of God are so by open profession 114

We appear to be so, not by bare consent, but obedience ibid.

Motives to it 149

Directions to undertake the Service of God Vide Service of Righteousness. ibid.

Servants of God, and Servants of Sin receive wages suitable to their work 114

Service of Righteousness, why so called 142

Service of Righteousness and Service of Sin opposed 127

The difference between these two Services 125

None can be the Servant of Righteousness but he that is freed from the Service of sin 127

The excellency of the Service of Righteousness 126

A Servant of Righteousness should do as much, yea more for Righteousness, than formerly he did for sin, and why Vide Activity. 127

The pleasure, profit, and honour of Gods Service 126, 143, 144

The amiableness of a life spent in Gods Service 143

Serving sin, what it is to serve sin 31

Servitude of sin natural and acquired 117

Men voluntarily enter into this Service 113

Before Regeneration we were all Servants of sin 30, 113, 114, 117

Yea naturally we were under a fatal necessity of serving Sin 114

It is necessary and useful to Gods people to reflect on this, that once they were Servants of sin 118

Our former Servitude to sin should stir up in us thankfulness to our Redeemer 118

And quicken us to more diligence for the future 119

Why Sin should not be served 69

The fruit of serving sin 115

It is impossible to serve sin and God too 113

Service of sin and service of righteousness opposed Vide Service of Righteousness. 125

Shame for sin, the object of it 116

Sin is really matter of shame 140

In carnal men and Gods people, how they differ 139

The cause of true shame for sin ibid.

Folly and filth of sin causeth shame 116, 138

Motives to excite to this shame 140

Sin, three things in sin; (1.) Culpa, the fault; (2) Reatus, the guilt; (3.) Macula, the stain 101

The evil and malignity of it 12, 140

The aggravations of sin 33

The evil effects and consequences of it 38, 39

The danger of it 159

All sin in its nature mortal 114, 159

There is no fruit of sin comparatively to the fruit of Holiness 137

There is no solid benefit nor profit to be got by sin 136

Sin is represented as unfruitful and deceitful ibid.

The mischief of presumptuous sins 101

The filthiness of sin 140

Sin is real matter of shame ibid.

Sin should not be served, and why 69

Sin remains in Gods people 81

Is always working and warring in them 81, 82

The more it acteth, the more strength it getteth 82

Sins of incu…sion incident to the best 78

Gods people may sometimes fall into scandalous sins ibid.

Sins of Christians more scandalous than the sins of Heathens 33

And are a greater injury to Christ than the Persecution of the Jews 34

Little Sins to be watched against 101

God doth not make little reckoning of sin 27

Darling Sins especially to be watched against 102

The longer sin is spared, the worse it grows 44

Spirit of God, how it opposeth Sin 89

The necessity of the Spirit's concurrence to begin, carry on, and accomplish the work of mortification 90

The encouragement we have thereby 91

Striving against sin, what it implieth 102

The reasons why it prevails not in many Vide resisting Sin. 94

T.

TEmptations to Sin to be avoided 135

Thanksgiving, we are chiefly to give thanks for spiritual mercies, and why 122

Above all for the conversion of our selves and others 12

Thought, sins in Thought to be suppressed 100

Torments of the damned, the greatness of them 157

The Eternity of them vindicated 141, 158

V.

VIvification, what it is 55

It promotes mortification 135

The certain connexion of Mortification and Vivification 56

First we are to dye to sin, then to live to God Vide Life spiritual, living to God. ibid.

Union with Christ, there is a strict Union between Christ and Believers 22

Represented by the similitude of a Graff ibid.

Difference between these two Unions 23

The likeness and resemblance between them ibid.

Signified, and sealed in Baptism ibid.

This Union sealed in Baptism infers a likeness and conformity to Christ Vide Conformity to Christ. 24

The effects of this Union 23

Union with Christ the ground of Communion 9

Union and Communion with Christ signified and sealed by the Sacraments 10

Unregenerate men, difference between them 131

Unrighteousness, why sin is so called 68

W.

WAges of Righteousness better than of sin 133

Warfare, a Christians life a Warfare 75

Watchfulness against sin, when we are said to omit it 95

The spring and rise of it, Faith, Fear, and Love 97

The time when this duty is to be practised 98

The object, what we should watch against 98, 99, 100, &c.

Work of Righteousness better than of Sin 133

Why the Work of Religion is easie to a renewed person 146

World, what an enemy it is to the Soul 99

Y.

YJelding our selves to God, the manner how it is to be done 70

The end wherefore we yield up our selves to God ibid.

Why we should yield up our selves to God, reasons of it 71

Motives to it 73

Tryal of it 74

Yielding our selves to obey sin or God, makes us servants to the one, or the other 113

Places of Scripture explained in the Sermons on Romans 6.

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