The Bowels of Tender Mercy Sealed in the Everlasting Covenant, Index
AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE.
A. Aſſurance.
WHether aſſurance be of any ſpiritual advantage to him that hath it, 331
The adjuncts or properties of the Covenant, 116
Anabaptiſts anſwered, 631
Why Apoſtates are ſuch great ſinners, 681
The great danger and judgement of Apoſtates, 683
The ſlothful is prone to Apoſtacy, ibid.
What Apoſtates loſe, 677
The cauſe why ſome apoſtatize, 680
Arguments of the Arminians, 308
Whether after this aſſurance he may ever doubt again, 232
How one may know his aſſurance is true, 479
How one may know he hath a falſe aſſurance, 475
What faith precedes aſſurance, 481
What weak Chriſtians ſhould judge of their eſtates, who could never get aſſurance, 484
A man may be in a pardoned ſtate, who is not aſſured, ibid.
B. Bleſſedneſs.
IT is a difficult matter to believe. 434
A Believer may know by a certainty of faith, that Chriſt died for him, p. 212
Comfort and encouragement to Believers, 206
How far Believers may depend on God in Covenant. 217
Weak Believers muſt remember they have an Advocate with the Father, 279
Comfort for diſtreſſed, penitent, and believing perſons, 242
Benefits by good company, 692
Three things make up a Bleſſedneſs for us, 26
God and he only is our bleſſedneſs, 27
Spiritual Bleſſings are promiſed as well as temporal, 339
What courſe we ſhould take for this enjoyment of ſpiritual Bleſſings, 340
In the Covenant ſpiritual Bleſſings are firſt promiſed, 242
They are to be blamed who look not after ſpiritual Bleſſings, 343
Bleſs God who firſt bleſſeth us with all ſpiritual Bleſſings, 346
Whatſoever Bleſſings are diſpenced, God is the giver of them, ibid.
God will have the glory of all our Bleſſings, 347
After what manner God diſpenſeth his Bleſſings, 349
Inordinate cares are your burdens, 97
C. Covenant.
SLight not Chriſt any longer, 13
Chriſt is yours as to his Perſon, 54
Comfort from this that the Perſon of Chriſt is yours. p. 54
Alll is enjoyed by the enjoyment of Chriſt, Equivalently, 55
Jeſus Chriſt himſelf is the greateſt and choiceſt gift that God can give unto you, ibid.
Chriſt is yours to all his Offices, 56
Chriſt is yours as a Prophet, ibid.
Comfort from this, that Chriſt is ours, 57
All our ſins are laid upon Chriſt, 58
Chriſt diſcharged all our debts and bonds,ibid.
Jeſus Chriſt is a King, and your King; he makes Subjects by his Word and Spirit, 59
Our Union with Chriſt, confers upon us an intereſt in every good of the Covenant, 209
Chriſt will accompliſh and perform all that is good for us, 210
I fear I was never united to Chriſt, 211
The Covenant of Grace conſidered in relation to Chriſt as Mediator, 224
Chriſt hath a ſevenfold relation to the Covenant, 224
Of the exceeding love of Chriſt, 230
Of the great obligations that lie upon us to look after Chriſt, 231
In Chriſt, two Natures, 232
The two Natures united in the perſon of Chriſt, were the Principles of all the actions and works of Mediatorſhip, 233
Chriſt according to both theſe Natures, is Mediator,ibid.
Arguments to prove Chriſt laid down his life, and raiſed it again according to both Natures: he is our Prieſt, Prophet and King according to both Natures, 234
What did concern Chriſt to do and ſuffer for us as a Mediator, 235
Chriſt did perform that active obedience to the Law of God which we ſhould, but could not perform, ibid.
Concluſions concerning the paſsive obedience of Chriſt. Chriſts ſufferings were voluntary, and not conſtrained, 236
Chriſt ſuffered corporal puniſhments, 237
Chriſts ſufferings in ſoul, were exceedingly high and great, ibid.
Chriſt did feel and ſuffer the torments of hell, 238
Chriſt was indeed made a curſe for us, 239
There was willingneſs on all ſides for this paſsive work of Chriſt, 240
Behold your ſins what they will bring upon you, without a part in Chriſt, 241
Remember the ſufferings of Chriſt in all fears and conflicts, 243
The vertue and benefits depending on, and flowing from Chriſt as Mediator, 244
Concluſions about the ſatisfaction of Chriſt, 245
Chriſt by his death and ſufferings did really make ſatisfaction, 246
Chriſt ſuffered ſo much as fully diſcharged our debt, 247
The ſufferings of Chriſt, were more then meer ſufferings, 248
Then reſt in the ſatisfaction of Chriſt, 249
Comfort that Chriſt ſhed his blood for our remiſsion; it looſeth our bonds, and diſchargeth our debts. 252
Get into Jeſus Chriſt, 258
Accept of the Redemption by Chriſt, 264
Jeſus Chriſt did ſtep in between God and us, to make up the breach, 254
Let trembling hearts make into Chriſt, and truſt on him to make their peace, 260
No peace with God, but by Christ, ibid.
He that lies in bondage and would be redeemed, let him by faith look up to Jeſus Chriſt, 265
Chriſt hath purchaſed for all the Elect everlaſting life, 266
Strive to believe the ſufferings of Chriſt to be a purchaſe, 267
Why do you not go to Chriſt, and get from him all that's good, 268
Your eſtate is not full without the purchaſe of Chriſt, 269
The ſufferings of Chriſt, are the confirmation of the Covenant, 270
What Chriſt ſtill doth for his people as Mediator, p. 272
Jeſus Chriſt doth act for his people at the right hand of his Father, 273
What is the eminent work that Chriſt doth in heaven for us, 274
The benefits of Chriſt's Interceſsion, 273
Whether Chriſt died for every man, 280
In what reſpect Chriſt may be ſaid to die for all, 281
Jeſus Chriſt did effectually die for all the Elect, ibid.
There is ſuch a ſufficiency in the death of Chriſt, that if any will come unto Chriſt, he ſhall partake of redemption by him, 283
The Death of Chriſt was not effectual for all, 285
Chriſt did not intend ſuch a latitude for all by his death, 293
Whether any man can know that his particular ſalvation was intended in the death of Chriſt, 312
How a perſon may know that Chriſt did die effectually for him, ibid.
Some may be in Chriſt, but do not know it, 316
One may certainly know that Chriſt died for him, by the deſcription of thoſe for whom Chriſt intentionally died, 317
How I may know my Faith doth intereſt me in Chriſt, 220
How one may know he is deluded in his confidence of Chriſt's dying for him, 224
What a perſon ſhould do, who as yet cannot certainly affirm that Chriſt died for him, 325
Whether every one who is indeed redeemed by Chriſt, may know ſometime or other that Chriſt died for him, 328
What a heavy weight did lie upon Chriſt, 432
How there can be ſuch an efficacy in the blood of Chriſt, 459
How we ſhould look after Chriſt, 462
Who hungers and thirſts for Chriſt, 463
What this ſprinkling or application of Chriſts blood is, 4 …6
No benefit by the blood of Chriſt without application, 468
There is a Covenant with Chriſt perſonally and mystically conſidered, 4
The ſeals of the Covenant are given unto his people ibid.
Gods people plead this Covenant, 5
God is faithful in his Covenant with us, ibid.
Why God makes a Covenant betwixt himſelf and his people, ibid.
There is an abſolute Covenant, 6
And an Hypothetical Covenant, ibid.
Differences of the Covenant of Grace from the Covenant of Works, 8
The condition of man with whom God doth covenant, 9
The Covenant of works was made without a Mediator, ibid.
The Covenant of Grace with a Mediator, ibid.
Whether faith were not required in the Covenant of Works, 10
Whether the Covenant of grace requires works, 11
Admire the goodneſs of God in making this Covenant of grace, 12
Support for troubled conſciences, 13
The Covenant deſcribed and opened, ibid.
It is a new Covenant with man, 14
This Covenant ſpringeth from the mercy and grace of God, ib.
The Covenant of grace is a Covenant of promiſe, 15
What it is to be a people in Covenant, 17
How we come to be Gods people in Covenant, 18
Try our ſelves whether we be in Covenant with God, 20
Characters of a people not in Covenant, ibid.
The evidences that God is our God in …ovenant, 23
Make out your Covenant-Relation, 90
Maintain and juſtifie your Covenant-relation, p. 91
Of the unchangeableneſs of our Covenant-relation, ibid.
The graciouſneſſe of your God in Covenant, 92
Walk and live like a people in Covenant with God, ibid.
How a people in Covenant ſhould walk, ib.
Of the gifts of the Covenant, 335
God gives his people in Covenant ſpiritual bleſsings as well as temporal, 336
How dreadful is the condition of ſuch as refuſe to be in Covenant with God, 376
All uncovenanted people are unforgiven people, 377
If you will not conſent to a Covenant-relation, you cannot expect the Covenant-advantages, 105
A ſinner that hath no worthineſs at all, may be taken into Covenant, 107
A perſonal worthineſs is not expected for admiſsion into this Covenant, ibid.
It is a giving Covenant, 120
God will refuſe none from this Covenant, who are willing to have him for their God, 109
Directions what courſe a ſinner ſhould take to be brought into this Covenant, 110
Exhortation to them that are not in Covenant with God, ibid.
Get into Covenant-relation, 104
It is a new Covenant, 116
It is a free and gracious Covenant, 123
This Covenant is a well-ordered Covenant, 128
Its a perfect and plentiful Covenant, 118
It is a holy Covenant, 131
It is a ſure and ſtedfaſt Covenant, 138
It is the laſt Covenant, 148
It is an everlaſting Covenant, ibid.
All the things of the Covenant, are ſtiled everlaſting, 149
The certainty of the Covenant, is the glory of it, 141
It is the beſt Covenant, 166
Whether faith only be the condition of the Covenant, p. 187
Why faith is the only condition, ib.
The condition of the Covenant, 181
How any condition can be allowed in the Covenant of grace, 182
There is a Covenant betwixt God and believers, 2
Of a Covenant in general, ibid.
Some Covenants are ſinful, ibid.
That there is a Covenant betwixt God and Believers, 3
There is a Covenant betwixt God the Father and Jeſus Chriſt, ibid.
Differences betwixt the conflicts in a regenerate and unregenerate man, 514
How to know whether we act upon Gods command alone, 672
Parallels betwixt Gods commands and his precepts, 701
Twelve things in reſpect of God to remove our cares, 98
D. Duties.
GOd Commands not duties that we ſhould be juſtified thereby, 660
We muſt not perform duties to ſtill our conſciences, 663
We muſt not perform duties to ſelf-ends, ibid.
How we may ſo perform duties, as to pleaſe God, 664
E. Eternity.
Every work is a ſtep to Eternity, 667
What is Evangelical obedience, 652
F. Faith.
WHat is to be done to obtain the Faith which brings us into Covenant, 201
Conſider the Author of this faith, ibid.
God, and God only is the Author of Faith, 202
Conſider the means of working this faith, ib.
The Goſpel is the means of Faith, ibid.
Four things to be done to get Faith, 203
Faith is poſsible and probable to be had, 207
No ſinner to whom the Goſpel is preached, can conclude that God never intended to give him Faith, ib.
God will never deny Faith to them that cordially ask it, 208
Improve your Faith to a dependence upon God, 216
Improve your Faith to a keeping Covenant with God, 220
A neceſsity of the uſe and exerciſe of Faith, 405
All men have not Faith, 406
All Faith doth not bring us in remiſsion of ſins, ibid.
What the Faith is, that will certainly bring in remiſsion of ſins, 408
Who ſtrives with God for Faith, 464
The neceſsity of Faith; is, we will walk in Gods wayes, 657
Three degrees of Faith, neceſſary, 114
How we may know whether our faith be a faith of union, 190
Walk without inordinate care before your faithful God, 97
Walk without inordinate fears, 98
What is meant by Filthineſs, 437
Upon forgiveneſs, all diſpleaſure ceaſeth, 364
Get a capacity of forgiveneſs, 380
Some put themſelves out of a capacity of of forgiveneſs, 385
Gods Promiſe of forgiveneſs extends to all the ſins of all his people. 422
Whoſe ſins God forgives, he becomes their friend, 424
The blood of Chriſt is the cauſe, and the only Meritorious cauſe of Forgiveneſs, 458
G. Glorying.
A twofold Glorying, 12
The miſery of ſuch who have not God for their God, 22
The anſwerable and reciprocal acts betwixt God and us, 23
Of the Loving-kindneſs of God, 27
Comfort in this, that God is our God, 26
The more or leſs you enjoy of God, the more or leſs perfect, 27
In all other enjoyments, our condition is low without God, ibid.
God, and he only is our reſt, 28
God is the moſt deſirable good, ibid.
God unites himſelf to us by way of donation, ibid.
Every one who hath God for his God, doth enjoy all things, 29
If God be our God, we are the Objects of Gods Eternal Love, 30
All the glorious Attributes of God, are engaged for their good, 31
God is a merciful God, 33
Six Comforts to thoſe who have God for their merciful God: he will forgive you, though not others, ibid.
Comforts from this, that God will be a holy God to you, he will make you holy, 34
God is an omniſcient God, 35
The Omniſcience of God, is comfort againſt all our enemies, 36
God is a wiſe God, 37
Your wiſe God will give you wiſdom, 38
God is an infinite eſſence, and therefore of infinite power, ibid.
What comfort is this, that our God is omnipotent, 39
When God will do you good, none can hinder him, 40
Gods faithfulneſs is engaged for you, 41
Four things in the faithfulneſs of God, 42
God is a gracious God, 43
What comfort from hence, that our God is gracious, 44
The immutability or unchangeableneſs of God, 45
Six comforts from hence, the unchangeable God will never caſt you off, 46
Gods Omnipreſence, 47
God is at once, and wholly preſent everywhere with his Eſſence and Attributes, 48
If God be ours, then all the promiſes are ours, 76
Comfort from this, that Gods promiſes are ours, ibid.
The promiſes are ſufficient encouragements to pray to God, & to depend on him, p. 78
If God be ours, then all the immunities and priviledges annexed to the Covenant are ours, 79
Ten immunities by the Covenant with God, ib.
Priviledges by being in Covenant with God, 83
The priviledges of the children of God, are yours, ibid.
Your Communions with God, are by the Mediator, 84
You may go to your God when you will, ib.
You may with confidence wreſtle with God, ibid.
You may expect help from God in all your works, 85
The Angels of God are miniſtring Spirits for you, ibid.
God will be your God in life and death, 86
If God be ours, all is ours, ibid.
God makes a Covenant with the creature to be ſerviceable for your good, 87
All creatures are in a ſubordination to the will of your God, ib.
As God hath command of all good in the creatures, ſo he hath engaged to ſettle it upon you, 88
Inſtructions for the people of God in Covenant: Thankfully bleſs your God for bringing you into Covenant, ibid.
Make uſe of your God in all your occaſions, wants, troubles, 89
Encourage your ſelves in the Lord your God, ibid.
There is a near relation betwixt God and you, 218
Make out to your God for all your ſouls do need, 271
God the Father did never intend this latitude of Redemption for all, when he ſent Chriſt into the world, 289
Why God gives ſpiritual bleſsings as well as temporal, 337
God will do more for his people in Covenant then for any, 338
Gods ſoveraignty engag'd for our good, p. 49
You can never be brought into any ſtraits, but God is able to help you, 50
Ten things concerning the goodneſs of God to his people, ibid.
Twelve things may aſſure you, that God will be kind to his people, 51
Gods Eternity, 52
It gives confidence to live upon God, as long as we live; 53
If God be your God, then Chriſt is your Chriſt, 54
Comfort to the people of God in Covenant, 339
God would have the hearts of his people fixt on him alone, 348
God doth confine our prayers to himſelf alone, ibid.
God gives all needful good aſſuredly, 349
All the bleſsings which God promiſeth to his people in Covenant, he gives only upon account of his graciouſneſs, 353
God doth not enjoyn, nor expect any worthineſs as a reaſon of his bleſsings, 354
God will have us acknowledge our ſelves unworthy, 356
Under the ſenſe of unworthineſs, let us go to God, and truſt in him, 358
Arguments to demonſtrate God is great in mercy, 441
God brings great ſinners into Covenant, in a perfect league of love and peace, ibid.
God makes uſe of great ſins to humble men, 442
They are no ſmall matters that God doth for us, ibid.
God takes away the ground of deſpair, 443
The people of God may be guilty of great ſins, 444
God will be praiſed for Chriſt, 469
God himſelf undertakes to ſanctifie his people, 493
God doth not expect that you ſhould bring, but receive, 108
Difference betwixt reſtraining and renewing grace, 506
Why ſuch as have grace, ſhould labour to grow in it, p. 635
I but I am under much weakneſs of grace, and many wants, Anſ. 215
H. H…neſs.
OF the kinds of hardneſs in men, 529
Some are ſenſible of their Hardneſs, 538
Remove what breeds this Hardneſs, ibid.
God takes away hardneſs of Heart from his people, 544
A difference betwixt the hardneſs remaining in the beſt, and that in the wicked, 547
Reſiſt hardneſs returning, ibid.
They who partake of this mercy, ſhould beware of hardning themſelves again, 550
Of the judgements of God upon hardned ſinners, ibid.
Three ſorts of hardned ſinners, ibid.
When we make moſt Haſte, we ſhall hardly finiſh all we have to do, 685
A new Heart is a changed heart, 497
God gives a new Heart and a new Spirit to his people in Covenant, 496
Ten Characters of a new Heart, 511
Why God gives a new Heart, 501
Then many are not Gods people, they have their old hearts ſtill, 502
Exhortation to uſe the means to get a new Heart, 522
The miſery of an old Heart, ibid.
The neceſsity of a new Heart, 523
Hearken not to the prejudices of your old Heart, 524
The way to get a new Heart, 525
There is a ſtony Heart in every man, 527
Why called a ſtony Heart, 528
Comfort to thoſe, that have a new Heart, 519
Of the evil of an hard Heart, 540
Why God takes away the ſtony Heart, and that by promiſe, 546
The means how God takes hardneſs of heart away, ibid.
Labour to be cured of this hard Heart, 534
The effects and fruits of a hard Heart, 536
Means to cure a hard Heart, ib.
They are none of the people of God, whoſe hard heart is not removed, 548
Keep up the tenderneſs of heart, 554
Search your Hearts often, ibid.
All the people of God have a ſoftned heart given them, 555
What a heart of fleſh is. A fourfold ſoftneſs, 556
Characters of a heart ſpiritually ſoft and tender, 567
This tenderneſs of Heart appears towards …od. 557
Why God gives a heart of fleſh, 559
Tryals, whether we have a tender Heart, 560
Bleſs God for this Heart of fleſh, 549
Convictions that many deceive themſelves in a falſe ſoftneſſe of Heart, 564
Get newneſs of Heart, 583
Cet Hearts to love the Lord, ib.
How the tender Heart is affected in caſe of Gods honour, 574
The workings of a tender Heart, in caſe of Gods diſhonour, 575
The miſery of perſons deſtitute of ſoftneſs of Heart, 566
The benefits of a tender heart, 579
How to know which is true humiliation, 598
The carnal heart counts any one common and burthenſom, 668
Our helps are more then our work, 693
Six things affirmed of Holineſs, 33
Why men look after mercy, and not holineſs, 492
Be not diſcouraged in the ſenſe of the want of holineſs. 495
The nature of holineſs, 136
How true holineſs may be known, ibid.
The Author of this Covenant commands holineſs, 132
What the ſin againſt the holy Ghoſt, is, 385
No creature can make another holy, 494
What is to be done that we may be holy, 137
I. Jeſus.
JEſus the Mediator of the Covenant, p. 222
Whilſt we live we are imperfect, 676
A threefold interceſſion in Scripture, 274
How ſad is their condition who have no part in Chriſts interceſſion, 276
The Popiſh Doctrine of other Interceſſors confuted, 275
Idolatry, the greatneſs of that ſin, 440
Every juſtified perſon hath cauſe of rejoycing, 442
The difference between Juſtification and Sanctification, 489
Wonder not to ſee little good done upon many by private Inſtructors, 532
Its a great judgement not be accepted with God, 664
K. Knowledge.
HOw Knowledge contributes to obedience, 655
Without Knowledge obedience is not practical, ibid.
Some more ſlow in point of Knowledge, ſome in point of practice, 684
Get a clear Knowledge of the wayes of God, 698
L. Laws.
THe obſervation of Gods Laws belongs to all that are in Covenant with him, 643
How Gods people being not under the Law, are bound to obedience, 646
How the Moral Law never ceaſeth, ibid.
How we are ſaid to be under the Law, 647
What is Legal obedience, 652
A Legal obedience is indeed impoſsible, 670
In what caſes God leaves his Servants, 710
Love is not the only rule of our obedience, 658
M. Mediator.
WE cannot ſerve a better Maſter then God, 696
God is the beſt Maſter, and why, ibid.
God is no hard Maſter, 707
Of the Mediator of the Covenant, 225
What is a a Mediator, ibid.
Chriſt the Mediator betwixt God and us, ib.
There is a neceſsity of a Mediator betwixt God and us, 226
There cannot be a New Covenant without a Mediator, 227
Jeſus Chriſt, and he only is the Mediator, ibid.
Three conditions in a Mediator agree only to Chriſt, 228
How Chriſt is to be conſidered as being a Mediator as God-man. ibid.
A Mediator muſt be a middle perſon twixt differing parties, ibid.
This Mediator undertakes all betwixt God and us, 231
According to which Nature in Chriſt, he is a Mediator, 132
The works of Chriſts Mediation were ſuch as no perſon could effect, except he were both God and man, 229
There is in us an unworthineſs of any mercy, 355
That God is a God of infinite mercy, 431
Though your ſins be great, yet there is hopes of mercy, 445
What is to be obſerved about mercies and bleſsings, 662
N. Newneſs.
A Natural man can of himſelf do no good, 706
Try our ſelves what newneſs is in us, 504
O. Obedience.
HOw to pleaſe God in our obedience, 664
Progreſsive Obedience is true Obedience, 676
Three things in Chriſts obedience for our imitation, 677
P. Pardon.
SOme plead for a capacity of pardon upon falſe grounds, 381
Who are in a right capacity of pardon, 391
All who do truly believe in Jeſus Chriſt, are within the promiſe of pardon, 403
There is a neceſsity of Faith for pardon, ibid.
Reſt not till you have got the aſſurance of your pardon, 420
God doth ſometimes pardon ſin, and not give the aſsurance of it, ibid.
God cals us to repent of great ſins, and promiſeth pardon, 441
God hath great glory in the pardon of great ſins, 442
God would have his people to pray for pardon of great ſins, ibid.
Chriſts blood the only cauſe of pardon, 460
The happineſs of a pardoned condition, 411
Whether all ſins be pardoned together at once, 426
A multitude of ſins is not inconſiſtent with pardoning mercy, 432
Gods people muſt perſevere in their obedience to God, 674
In our way we have protection, 686
How we may be enabled to perſevere, 687
Papiſts confuted, ibid.
Carnal Proteſtants confuted, ibid.
The qualifications of penitential confeſsion, 395
How to prove our ſelves to be of the number of Gods people, 653
Popiſh Satisfactions confuted, 249
Gods wayes are poſſible and paſſable, 708
Six Antidotes againſt preſumption, 449
To diſcover the Preſumption of many who plead their intereſt in the promiſes without the penformance of the condition, 188
Parallels betwixt Gods promiſes and the Saints experiences, 702
R. Repentance.
REpentance is required to the obtaining of forgiveneſs, 369 .
Though repentance be not a cauſe, yet it is a means of pardon, ibid.
Of the difference between Legal and Evangelical Repentance, 429
How one may know he doth truly repent, 391
God threatens eternal wrath to them that repent not, 450
Whether the firſt work of a ſinner be to repent or to believe, 454
What that ſinner ſhould do who cannot find a heart to repent or believe, 454
Never was any great ſinner pardoned, but he repented, 449
The Relation betwixt God and his people, ſtill continues, 675
To whom God hath a tender regard, 712
S. Sanctification.
SAnctification is promiſed as well as Juſtification, 488
We cannot glorifie God without Sanctification, 491
Reaſons why God doth ſanctifie as well as juſtifie, 490
What we ſhall find when our hearts are ſanctified, 656
Why Gods people ſhould walk in his ſtatutes, 849
What conſiderable in Gods ſtatutes, 675
Why God promiſes to make his people to walk in his ſtatutes, 705
Take heed of ſelf-confidence, 709
Truſting in ſelf is a great ſin, 710
The danger of ſelf-confidence, ibid.
Of the hainouſneſs of ſin, 230
See whether to go under the ſenſe of ſin, and what to truſt to, 253
What it is in ſin, the forgiveneſs of ſin doth reſpect, 362
Whether God ſees no ſin in juſtified perſons. 365
Gods covering of ſin, is not excluſive of his ſeeing ſin, 367
Whether juſtified perſons may charge themſelves with ſin, p. 369
Pardon of ſin doth moſt of all ſet forth the glory of God, 374
Mourning perſons for ſin, are in a capacity of pardon, 392
They who turn from ſin, are under the promiſe of pardon, 393
The qualifications of penitential mourning for ſin; It is a ſupernatural grief, 394
A ſincere grief for ſin, as ſin, ibid.
How we may know that we greive for ſin as ſin, 395
The qualifications of a right turning from ſin, 396
But no man turns from every ſin, 398
But we have often ſinned ſince we have endeavoured to turn from ſin, 401
A true penitent may ſin again, ibid.
The right ſtating the penitents turning from ſin, 402
The people of God may believe that he will pardon all ſin, 428
Forgiveneſs of ſins, one of the firſt mercies promiſed by God to all his people in Covenant, 359
Forgiveneſs of ſins deſcribed, 360
How Gods diſpleaſure and anger againſt his people, is conſiſtent with his diſcharging of their ſins, 367
God is diſpleaſed with the ſins of his own people, ibid.
Whether there be any reaſon to repent of our ſins that are forgiven, 268
Penitent perſons forſake their ſins, 393
The duties of ſuch whoſe ſins are forgiven, 416
Great ſins are forgiven to the people of God in Covenant, 437
Directions how to get the pardon of great ſins, 445
Of the wonderful goodneſs of God to ſinners, 230
The ſad condition of impenitent ſinners, 341
No man is a penitent ſinner, but a mourning ſinner, 391
Repenting ſinners confeſs their ſins, ibid.
What is meant by ſinful fleſh, p. 229
Slow walking is very diſproportionable to the means, 684
Look after your ſouls in what condition they are, ibid.
Concluſions laid down againſt the Socinians, ibid.
The Spirit of God is yours, 61
The Spirit of God is ours in reſpect of his Titles and Attributes: the Spirit of God, of Chriſt, of Glory, ibid.
It is a holy Spirit, ibid.
The Spirit is ours in reſpect of his gifts or fruits, 62
Six things concerning the graces of the Spirit, 62
The Spirit is theirs in reſpect of his works and operations, 63
Five choice works which the Spirit doth for all Gods people,ib.
The Spirit is ours in reſpect of his help and vertue, 65
The Spirit is a Comforter as he opens to us all the ſprings of Comfort, 67
Three offices of the Spirit to make all the Ordinances of Chriſt effectual to us, 68
The abſence of Chriſt is made up by the preſence of the Spirit, 69
You are ſafe and ſure with whom the Spirit is, ibid.
A twofold ſeparation from ſin, 212
I but I have not the Spirit, 213
In what poſture a Chriſtian muſt be, who may judge of the preſence or abſence of the Spirit, 214
God will put his Spirit within his people, 584
In what ſenſe the Spirit is ſaid to be put within us, 585
Many have the Spirit, yet come ſhort of what they ſhould have, 593
The miſery to be deſtitute of the Spirit, ibid.
How the Spirit unites the broken-hearted ſinner to Chriſt, 596
In what meaſure he gives the Spirit, 589
There are different gifts of the Spirit, ib.
Every one hath a portion of the Spirit, ibid.
Every one of Gods people have ſo much of the Spirit as is neceſſary to Salvation, 590
Many have not the Spirit of God, 591
Many have a falſe and deluding Spirit, 592
How to know that we have the Spirit of God, 595
What are the works of Gods Spirit in them that ſhall be ſaved, ibid.
How the Spirit convinceth of ſin, 596
How the Spirit leads Gods children, 601
Having the Spirit, may be known by the qualities of the Spirit, 603
Few have the Spirit of God, 612
What it is to worſhip God in Spirit, 613
The benefits which come by having the Spirit, 615
What the Spirit is called in Scripture, 616
Who have, and have not the Spirit, 606
Whether the ſpirit of prayer be a ſure ſign of a child of God, 607
What is the conviction of the Spirit in Gods children, 597
What is the ſpirit of bondage, ibid.
Whether all the Godly have firſt the ſpirit of bondage, 598
Gods Spirit helps us in prayer, 617
He is a reſtoring Spirit, 618
How the Spirit comforts, 619
When we may conclude our having of the Spirit notwithſtanding afflictions, 620
Duties of ſuch which have the Spirit, 625
How the Spirit may be quenched, ibid.
What grieves the Spirit, 626
How to know the motions of the Spirit, 627
How to prevent the Spirits removings, 628
Improve the Spirit, 634
Means to get the Spirit, 639
We muſt not reſiſt the Spirit, 640
How the Spirit may be injured, 629
How to know the teſtimony of the Spirit, 630
How to know that we have much of Gods Spirit in us, 636
Let all look after the gifts of the Spirit, 637
The Spirit and pardon of Sin go together, 638
T. Trinity.
OF the Teſtator of the Covenant, 225
There is a conjunction of the whole Trinity in all the buſineſſes of our eternal bleſſedneſs, 69
A conjunction of the Trinity in reſpect of Love, 70
Five Comforts in the love of the Trinity, 72
There is a conjunctive union in the will and purpoſe of the Trinity in the matters of our ſalvation, 73
There is a common engagement of the whole Trinity unto you, 75
There is a communion betwixt you, and every perſon of the Trinity, ibid.
We are to forgive all the Treſpaſſes againſt us, ibid.
Why ſome receive the Truth, and others do not, 707
V. Unbelievers.
IN what a miſerable Condition are all Unbelievers, 12
The dreadful condition of an unforgiven people, 378
Beware of uneven walking, 685
Its folly to walk unevenly, ibid.
God is the Father of ſuch as are upright, 694
W. Works.
WHo they be that walk not after Gods Commandments, 650
When do we willingly walk in Gods ſtatutes, ib.
How we may be enabled to walk in Gods ſtatutes, 653
God will enable his people to walk in his wayes, 700
The benefit which comes by walking in Gods wayes, 849
Rules concerning our walking in Gods ſtatutes, 666
Many of Gods children are ſometimes out of the way, 678
Move on in Gods wayes with more exactneſs, 689
How far God engages himſelf to keep his people to walk in his wayes, 704
Why we ſhould not be weary, 686
How we are ſtrong in God, when weak in our ſelves, 712
How deviations are the fruits of weakneſs, 678
Wherein our weakneſs appears, 711
We muſt have our hearts and wils ſanctified, if we will keep Gods Commandments, 656
Such as walk not in Gods ſtatutes, are wicked, 651
Why wicked men walk not in Gods ſtatutes, 652
Reſt not upon your works, 13
How the Covenant of works and grace differ, 706
You are not able to ſtand out and live under the Covenant of works, 105
We muſt be accountable for every work, 667
We muſt worſhip God in ſpirit and in truth, 665