The Disabled Debtor Discharged, Index – Imprimatur
AN ALPHABETICALL INDEX OF THE CHIEFE Points handled in the foregoing Expoſition, on LVKE 7.40, 41, &c.
A.
ABſolution is a power belonging to Chriſt, Page 225.
Whence Miniſters have their power to Abſolve pag. 226.
Difference betwixt us and Papiſts concerning it, pa. 224
How God abſolves, how Chriſt and how man, pag. 224
Particular Abſolution is to be ſought after, pag. 230.
Accuſation none againſt the godly, pag. 254
Acquaintance is not friendſhip, pag. 236.
Actuall ſins of ſundry ſorts and kinds, pag. 51.
Adultery a great ſinne, page 206.
Affections are the ſoules Sentinell, pag. 163
They betray us to Satan. Ibid.
Signes of Affection to be ſhewen, pag. 185
Afflictions come in love to the Godly, page 70.
Annoynting how in uſe at Feaſts, pag. 191
What was ſignified by Maries annoynting Chriſt, pag. 196
Whither Chriſt was once annoynted by Mary or oftner. ibid.
Arrowes Gods Miniſters ſhoot pag. 113
Aſſurance of Salvation in this life is to be had, pag. 217.
It muſt bee ſought after, page 231.
It tends not to licentious liberty, pa. 122.
B.
Baptiſme of Repentance what it is, pag. 171.
Bagge God hath for a ſinner and the bottle for the Saint, p. 175.
Bath twofold, of Juſtification and Sanctification, pa. 162
Banquerouts ſinners are, pa. 59.
Bailiffes are abroad to attach the Sinner, pa. 48.
Body we muſt be carefull of i…, pag. 162.
The members of the Body are ſervants to the ſoule, ibid.
Borrowing lawfull, p. 36.
It is a fruit of ſin, p. 37
We may not needleſly become Borrowers, p. 38.
It is more baſe not to pay then it is to borrow, pag. 39.
C.
Cenſure raſh is dangerous, p. 212
Eſpecially of Governours and what it is like unto, p. 251
None ſo holy that can eſcape it, p. 245.
Ceremonies of courteſie may not be ſleighted, p. 152
Creditor, God is to all, p. 41
Yet denied by many, p. 42
He is a free and bountifull Creditour, p. 43.
There are few Creditors mercifull, p. 61
Credit is by repentance recovered, p. 14….
Chriſt is true God, p 241.
How he is the Son of man, p. 242
Who holds him up higheſt preacheth him beſt, p. 80
Chriſtians there are both ſtrong and weake, pag 99. 103.
Circumſtantiall omiſſions are blame worthy, p 151
Our beſt actions receive their life or bane from their Circumſtances, p. 154
Conſcience is like an il wife, 271
If good it affoordeth joy, p 194.
The Peace of it ariſeth from Faith, pag. 271.
A benummed and ſleepy Conſcience how knowne, p. 274.
Company, how and when to frame our ſelves to it, p. 234.
What Company we are to ſhun ibid
Community Anabaptiſticall unlawfull, p. 37
Conſideration neglected a cauſe men ſeek not pardon, p. 65.
Converſion a greater work than Creation, p. 2.
Converſation outward no ſure ſigne of Converſion, p. 239
Coſt beſtowed on Chriſt we are apt to grudge, p. 199.
Curioſity is the nurſe of detraction, p. 247.
Curteſie is commendable, yea neceſſary. p. 155.
It is much reſpected by men, pag. 156.
D.
David the greatneſſe of his ſin, p. 204
Debt owing to God, p. 44.
Sinne is the worſt Debt and ſinners are greateſt Debtors, pag. 8, 45.
All are not alike indebted, p. 5.
Yet none able to ſatisfie, page 55.
A Diſcharge may be had, p. 64.
It is ſpeedily to bee ſought for, p. 48.
Being had carefully lay it up p. 70.
Debts owing to man may be required, p. 62.
It is a griefe to an honeſt mind to be in Debt, p. 40. 47.
No Debt is to be exacted without mercy, p. 62.
Degrees there are of ſinne, pag. 52.
Degree of Love is anſwerable to the Degree of Faith, pag. 221.
Delight God allowes as well as for neceſſity, p. 191.
Despaire of any we may not, p. 208, 210.
It is a greater ſin then other, p. 82.
Devotion of many is a Stage-devotion, p. 163
Detraction, the vileneſſe of it ſhewed, p. 246
The kinds of Detraction, ibid.
The father, mother and nurſe of it, and whence they are, p. 247
Doctrine, it ſhould be well grounded, p. 201.
E.
Eare is the ſoules taſter, page 108.
A good Eare deſcribed, p. 31.
By it Chriſt takes poſſeſſion of the ſoule, p. 34.
To an obedient Eare, reproofe is an Earing. p. 110.
Effects are good markes and proofes, p. 215.
Elect before converſion differ not from the wicked, p. 50.
Envie the mother of detraction, pa. 246.
Equivocation, the ſorts and kinds pag. 118
Ieſuiticall Equivocations are lying aſſertions, pag. 17.
It was firſt taught by Satan, page 116.
Logicall Equivocation may be uſed in ſome caſes, pag. 118.
Examples of others ſhould draw us to Repentance, p. 209, 210
Eye is the moſt ſinfull ſenſe, pag. 164
Our Eyes are Springs, page 171.
They are the two Turtles which we muſt offer to God, pag. 176.
Eye-water runs not waſte, pag. 175.
F.
Face of God is againſt Sinners, pag. 133
His Face and Favour brings all good with it, Ibid
Repentance brings us into Favour, pag. 134, 145.
Faith, how alike in all believers and how not, pag. 99.
How it is the common Faith, p. 264.
It hath a twofold ſubſiſtence, p. 259.
It muſt be every mans owne, pa. 261
How the Faith of another may help us, pag 263.
It is accompanied with other graces, pag. 258.
It is obtained by meanes, page 264.
The Faith of many how it is cloathed, pag. 266
That Faith which ſaves is a working faith, pag. 267
It kindles Love, pag. 216.
According to the degree of Faith is our Love, pag. 220.
Feaſts, mirth and chearfullneſſe allowed at them, pag. 192.
Feet of Chriſt we muſt waſh and how, page 164.
Why the Apoſtles waſhed not Chriſts Feet, pag. 162.
Our Feet are moſt apt to gather ſoyle, pag 161.
They muſt be waſhed as well as our Face or hands, pag. 161.
Fellowſhip with ſinners how farlawfull, pag 235
Forgiveneſſe of ſin muſt be ſought for, pag. 64.
It is of free grace and how, pag. 65
It belongs to every one that will believe, page 79.
Whence it is that ſo few ſeeke after it, pag. 65.
How man may forgive, page 224.
We muſt forgive as God forgives, pag. 76.
Frienas are to be kindly entertained, pa. 152
And not treacherouſly to be uſed, pag. 1…3
Friendſhip and acquaintance much differ, pag 236.
G.
Grace univerſall, how far it may be taught, pag 79.
It is in its nature inviſible, pag. …15.
And beſt diſcovered by the Effects, ibid
When it is after the patterne it is right, pag. 218.
Al Graces may be counterfetted except Love, pa. 217
Gifts offered by the wiſe then to Chriſt what they notified, p 195
Griefe the greatneſſe of it how to be judged of, pag 179.
Gueſts are to be chearfully entertained, pag. 152.
H.
Harlot doth Satan the greateſt ſervice, pag. 207.
Hands eſpecially regarded by the Phariſees, pag. 163.
Hate God many do, and who they are, pa. 94.
How God can be hated, pag. 95.
Heare we muſt with a… open ca…e, pa. 32.
Hearing muſt be brought into practice, pag. 33.
Heart firſt to be reformed, page 238.
It hath an eare in it, page 240
The Heart of a ſinner is his worſt peice, pag. 238.
It is like the deepe Sea, page 239.
How we may judge of the heart and how no…, p. 240, 243
Honour given to the Son is given to the Father, pag. 189.
Hope remains for great ſinners, pag. 209.
How the valley of Achor is the doore of Hope, pag. 210.
I.
Idolaters through abuſe of things lawful diſable not their uſe pag. 157.
Things belonging to them were of three ſorts, p. 159
What is counted to be Idolatrous in ſtate, pag. 160.
Ignorance of the people Chriſt ſhed his blood for, pag. 85.
Infants how they are ſaid to have Faith, pa. 263.
Ingratitude is a ſinne odious to God and man, p. 88.
Nature abhors it, ibid.
Iohn loved Chriſt more than the reſt, p. 98.
Iohn the Baptiſt was vox clamantis how p 109.
Ioy is to be found in the courſe of a Chriſtian, p. 193.
No true Ioy in exceſſe, p. 194.
K.
Kiſſes the kinds of them, p. 183
It is a ſymbole of Love, p. 124 184.
Holy Kiſſes of three ſorts, page 183.
Ʋnholy Kiſſes of foure ſorts, p. 184
A Kiſſe noted two things, pag. 184.
What it ſignified, pag. 186.
The Kiſſe of Chriſts mouth what, page 187.
Chriſt muſt be kiſſed of us, pag. 186.
A threefold Kiſſe is owing him pag. 187.
The Father is provoked when the Son is not kiſſed, p. 188.
Many falſe Kiſſes are given to him, p. 187.
When mercy and truth met and kiſſed, p. 63.
L.
Lawes judiciall bind not us as they did the Iewes, pag. 160.
Lend God doth to all, pag. 42.
Liberty greater under the Goſpell than under the Law, pag. 160.
Love hardlieſt counterfitted of any grace, p. 217.
It is the pulſe of Faith and diſcovers it, pa. 259, 260.
Without Love all we do is no. thing, pa. 260.
It muſt and will be working, p. 259.
Three things in Love, pag. 91.
It hath variety of Objects, pa. 97.
No affection ſo reciprocal as it, 96
He is nothing who loveth nothing, page 97.
Love rightly qualified how knowne, page 219.
It is the Hand-Maid of Faith, page 221.
And is bountifull (if not prodigall) page. 198.
Love God all doe, that are forgiven by him, page 92.
Some love God more then others, page 98.
The weakeſt degree of Love is not to be deſpiſed, pag. 100.
How weake Love may bee knowne from ſtrong, page 103.
Much Love argues much mercy, page 220.
Whence it is that GOD is noe more Loved, Page 222.
Signes that men Love not God pag. 93.
Reaſons why men ſhould Love God. p. 96.
No Love is loſt in loving him, p. 97
Difference betwixt true Love and mercenary, p. 107
How God is to be loved for his benefits, p. 106.
Love grounded on common favours unſound, p. 123
Yet they are pledges of Gods Love to thoſe in Chriſt, p. 124
Love of God aſſures us of pardon, p. 218.
It is no cauſe of Remiſſion but the effect, p. 213.
It reſtraines from licentiouſneſſe, p. 122.
It carries us through all difficulties, p 101
It gives great light if well kindled, p. 10….
And is aſcending, p. 104
How the Love of God in us may be encreaſed, p. 100.
Love is a lovely ſute, page 95.
No better way to be loved then to Love, p. 106.
Love our enemies, onelyonly a Chriſtian can, p. 90
Some may be loved above others, p 91.
There is a ſecret Love which is blame-worthy, p 185.
Love that is chambered is ſicke p. 185
Lust increaſeth the Divels revenewes, p. 207.
Lyes of three ſorts, p. 115.
All ſorts unlawfull, ibid.
Lying is the father of detraction and ſl…nder, p. 246
M.
Manners ſhould attend Faith as well as good workes, pag. 156.
Meanes though weake, yet not to be deſpiſed, pag. 148
All profit not by the Meanes, page 77, 79
To ſinne againſt Meanes aggravates it, page 54
MercieMercy is Gods Face, page 76
It is to be ſought for, page 77.
All to be aſcribed to MercieMercy, p. 75.
Merit double p. 73
No man can Merit, page 72.
Mildneſſe muſt bee uſed in reprooving, page 14.
Miniſters are to be honoured, p. 28.
The meaneſt Miniſter under the Goſpell honourable, pag 29.
Contempt of their Perſons redounds to their Meſſage, pag. 30
They muſt reproove offenders, p. 23.
How they muſt reproove, page …11.
They may not reproove for every light offence, p. 24.
Who are beſt Miniſters p. 202.
They muſt preach both in life and doctrine, pag. 127.
They are F…ſhers, Phyſitians: n… Stewards, pa 1…2.
They are Heralds pa. 1 8.
Scandalous Miniſters may convert, pag 1…6
Miniſtery, ſtanding is neceſſary, pa 230.
Mirth allowed a Chriſtian, pag 193
The wicked have no cauſe of Mirth, p. 195.
Be not ſo merry as to forget God, page 195.
Mourne for thoſe who mourne not, pag. 167
N.
Names, a double uſe of them, p. 16.
Men of good Names may miſcarry, p. 26.
Good Names ſhould be made good, pa. 25.
Sinners are not worthy Naming p 143.
O.
Oyntment of Mary was very precious, page 198.
Still there is uſe of our Oyntments, pa 200.
Ornament of the body not t…o good for Chriſt. p. 182.
P.
Parables have both barke and pi…h, pag. 8.
There are as many Parables in the Scripture, as weeks in the year p. 10
Why Chriſt affected this Parabolicall way of teaching, page 9.
Great ones are to be ſpoken unto in Parables, p. 24.
The beſt of a Parable is the ſenſe myſticall, pag. 36.
Pardon is offered to all without exception, pa. 79
Peace, the ſorts and kinds of it, pag. 269
True Peace the fruit of Faith, pa. 271
It is the inheritance of the Saints p. 275
The excellency of it, pa. 276
How to get and keepe it, p. 278
All other bleſſings attend it, pag 277.
There is none to the wicked, p. 271.
They have a ſeeming peace but not true, pag 272
The difference betwixt ſound and ſeeming peace, p. 273
How peace may be loſt, pag. 278.
Penitent to be well thought off page 144.
His deportment and carriage muſt be obſerved, pa. 139
He is an excellent actor, p. 137.
A good life argues a true Penitent, pag. 139
Pennance popiſh wherein it is faulty, pag. 181.
Praiſe muſt be given to whom it is due, p. 129.
It may not be too much affected, page 130.
And is to be ſought in the way of well-doing, pag. 131.
Precepts ſhould be turned into Prayers, pag. 58.
Preachers who are the beſt, pa. 202.
Propriety of goods eſtabliſhed, pag. 37.
Q.
Question it is who loves God moſt, pa. 103.
R.
Reformation outward not ſufficient, pag. 238
Redemption plenteous to be had in Chriſt, page 81.
Remiſſion of ſinne is attainable, p. 62.
Repentance is rather ſeene then heard pag. 136
It reſtores virginity, youth and credit, pag. 144, 145
Reproofe this age will not indure, pa. 20.
How to Reproove aright is difficult, pag. 21.
It muſt be wiſely given p. 111.
It is an careting to the obedient pag. 110
Love muſt be ſeene in it, pag. 15.
So Reproove as that we doe not blemiſh, pag. 18
In ſome caſes it muſt be auricular, pag. 17
When to reproove by name and in what caſes, pag. 16
Sharpe Reproofe is ſometimes to be uſed, pa. 14.
Reproofe is like wormwood, pa. 112.
Riches of God are great, pag. 41.
Revenge taken by a Penitent wherein it ſtands, pag. 181
S.
Salvation what, pag. 255
In this life to be had, pa. 256.
Nothing can hinder the Salvation of the godly, pag. 257.
Salvation to bee remembred, page 185.
How and whom to Salute, page 156
Satisfaction to God no man can make, pag. 57, 68
To our Bretheren it may and muſt, pag. 69.
Security dangerous, pag. 49.
Sermons of ſome men are like fire-works, pag. 202.
Serpents all Detractors are, pag. 248.
Silence in the preſence of ſinne implyes conſent, pag. 21.
Sinnes how there are both mortall and veniall, pa. 52, 83.
Parity of Sinnes an idle dreame pag. 52.
How to diſtinguiſh betwixt Sinne and Sinne, pag. 53.
Greateſt Sinnes may be pardoned, pag. 82, 211.
Some ſinnes deſerve greater puniſhment then other, pag. 83.
No ſinne is ſo ſmall as to bee ſleighted, pag. 85.
Sinne is in all, but all are not in ſinne, pag. 203
How ſinne is in the godly, pag. 204.
Sinners who are ſo to bee accounted, pag. 203
Slander is a kind of, Perſecution the godly ſuffer, pag. 250.
Magiſtrates and Miniſters eſpecially, pag. 251.
Sorrow accompanies true Repentance, pag. 1…6
It muſt bee anſwerable to the ſinne, pag. 177.
If deepe, it ſometimes wants a tongue, pag. 135
A man may exceed in it and when, pag. 178
Unſound Sorrow how diſcerned, pag. 177.
Sociable to be ſo is commendable, pag. 233
Nons may bee raſhly cenſured for it, pag. 236.
What Society wee may have with Sinners, pag. 235.
Spirit, what kind of one a ſlanderer is, page 249.
A troubleſome ſpirit is a Sacrifice for Hell, ibid
T.
Teares what they are and whence, pag. 164.
The ſeverall ſorts and kindes of them, pag. 165.
They are neceſſary appendances of Repentance, pag. 168.
Yet very deceitfull things, pag. 168.
Repentance may bee without them, pa. 169
The tryall of true Teares, page 170.
Teares of the body and ſoule compared, ibid.
The benefit and profit of them, pag. 172
Counterfeit Teares have prevailed, pag. 173.
Thoughts make conſcience of, page 11.
The Word diſcovers them, p 12.
They are knowne onelyonly to God, pag. 240.
How they are diſcovered by man and Satan, pag. 243.
Tongue may be too ſudden in anſwering. pag. 109
Truth muſt be ſpoken, pag. 114, 120.
Sometimes it may be concealed in whole or in part, and in what caſes, page 114.
It is Gods whoever brings it, pag. 125.
U.
Ʋeniall no ſinne in it ſelfe is, page 83, 84.
Two wayes ſin may be termed Ʋeniall, pag. 83.
Virginity how reſtored, page 144.
Ʋncleanneſſe that ſinne ſo called is accompanied with other, p. 216
Ʋſury, difference betwixt it and Faenory, pag. 35.
What it is and what kind lawfull, p. 35
W.
Waters-lying what they are, p. 168.
When the city of Waters is taken, the danger is great, p. 176.
Weeping proves life, p. 166.
To weepe for other things and not for ſin a bad ſigne, p. 169.
Motives to weepe, p. 167.
It is no childiſh Propertie, page 172.
Weakeſt veſſell oft holds the liquour, p. 149.
Whoredome is a pit-fall, page 207.
Wiſedome of the Serpent God allowes us, p. 119
Woemen their carriage to bee wiſely obſerved, p. 140
They may not bee ſpoken contemptibly of, p. 141.
God hath highly honoured that Sex, p. 142.
Women of ſpeciall note montioned, p. 149
Such ſhould be obſerved and imitated, p. 146
A virtuous woman hard to finde out, p. 141.
Bad women Satans chiefe inſtruments, p. 141.
Such women as are bad ſhould be ſhunned, p. 147
How a woman may lawfully ſpeake in the Church, p. 149.
How they ſhould provoke men to jealouſie, p. 150.
Whether it was one and the ſame woman that anoynted Chriſt ſo often, p. 196.
Words of Chriſts mouth ſhould prevaile with us, p. 202.
Words are the pictures of the mind and how, p. 110.
Workes, Proteſtants are no enemies unto them, p. 260.
They muſt accompany Faith, pag. 265.
They are to be preſſed, p. 267.
In what reſpects they are neceſſarie, pa. 268.
The beſt are full of imperfection, p. 74.
They are not cauſes but conditions of Remiſſion, p. 72.
How St. Paul and St. Iames agree concerning them, page 269.
Perlegi tractatum hunc, cui titulus (The Penitent CITIZEN) in quo nihil reperio, quò minus cum ſumma utilitate imprimatur.
THO. WYKES. Aprill 4. 1640.
FINIS.
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