A Body of Practical Divinity, Index
An Alphabetical INDEX of the chief Matters of this Book.
A.
ABstaining from external Acts of Sin, not sufficient to entitle us to Salvation. Pag. 879
Acts of Sin, how we may keep from them. 871
Adam, how long he continued in Paradise before he fell. 79
Adam's Sin, how made ours. 82
Adoption,
what it is. 134
—From what, and to what it is. 135
Adopted Son, how free. Ibid.
Adoption, the instrumental Cause of it. ib.
Adoption, Signs of it. 137
Adultery, the heinousness of it, wherein it appears. 370
Adultery, how we may abstain from it. 372
Afflictions of the Godly, how they differ from those of the Wicked. 261
Afflicted, how they are happy. 262
Affliction, what kindness there is in it, when God seems most unkind. 525
Affliction, what profit is in it. ib.
Afflictions, how they contribute to our Happiness. 528
Afflictions, how they magnifie us. 864
Aggravation of Adam's Sin. 81
Aggravations of the loss of the Kingdom of Heaven. 488
Angels, their Society, how can it add to the happiness of Souls, when God is infinite to fill the Soul with delight? 474
Anthropomorphites Objection answer'd. 24
Aphori…ms about Sin and Forgiveness. 805
Apostacy from Religion, whence it proceeds. 485
Appearance of Evil, the mischief of it. 871
Arguments to persuade us to seek after obtaining the Kingdom of Heaven. 503
Arrians Error about the H. Ghost, refuted. 64
Arminians Objections against Perseverance. 220
Arminians deny Saints Perseverance, and why. 493
Assurance, what it is. 201
True Assurance, the difference between it and Presumption. 202
Assurance, its Excellency. ibid.
Assurance, how to know if we have right to it. 204
Assurance, what we must do to get it. 203
Assurance, they that have it, how they must carry themselves. 205
Atheist, the wickedest Creature that is. 22
B.
Baptism,
what it is. 409
The Benefit of it. ibid.
Believers, why they have not all the full enjoyment of Peace. 209
Believers
Privileges at Death. 225
How they come to have those Privileges. 227
What they are. 228
How shall we know that we shall gain them at Death? 230
Believers Privilege after Death. 231
Believers, when they enter upon possession of Glory. 233
Benefits of Believers at the Resurrection. 234
Benefits of God's Children, what they are. 138
Bodies,
how shall we know they shall be raised at the Resurrection. 236
Since they must lie long in the Grave, what shall support us till then? ibid.
Bodies of the Saints shall be glorious at the Resurrection. 237
C.
Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, what meant by it. 28
Call twofold. 127
Call effectual,
the Means of it. 128
The Cause of it. ibid.
The Qualifications of it. ibid.
Cerinthian Hereticks, their Error. 94
Change in the new Creature, wherein it consists. 981
Charity, the excellency of it. 366
Children, wherein they are to shew their respect to their Parents. 353
Child of God, how it appears that he has worldly things in Love. 432
Children of God, how they should behave themselves to such a Father. 440
Christ, the several Names given him in Scripture. 93
Christ, why called foreign, the Word. 94
Christ is eternal. ibid.
Christ a Prophet, how he teaches. 96
Christ, what are the Lessons he teaches. ib.
Christ's Teaching, how it differs from others Teaching. 97
Christ, what we shall do to have him for our Teacher. 98
Christ, the Parts of his Priestly Office. 100
Christ, how he could suffer being God, ibid.
Christ's Sufferings, wherein the greatness of them did appear. ibid.
Christ, why he did suffer. ibid
Christ,
who he intercedes for, and what he doth in the Work of Intercession. 103
—How he intercedes. 104
How we may know that Christ intercedes for us. 107
Christ,
how he comes to be a King. 108
In what sence he is a King, and where he rules, and what he rules by. 108, 109
When will Christ deliver his People. ibid.
Christ, how he came to be made Flesh. 111
Christ,
why born of a Woman. ibid.
—Why born of a Virgin. 112
How Christ thus born could be free of Sin. ib.
Christ, why made Flesh. ibid.
Christ, how we shall know that he is formed in us. 115
Christ, in what sence God exalted him, and how many ways. 118
Christ's sitting at the Right Hand of God, what is meant by it. 119
Christ, how he doth redeem us, and from what, and to what. 121, 122
Christ, how he was made a Curse for us. 270
Christ, how he will preserve the Saints Grace till they come to Heaven. 439
Christ's Glory in Heaven, how it can stand with it to have a Fellow-feeling in our Miseries. 849
Christ, how he succours them that are tempted. 850
Commandments of God,
how we must keep them. 292
—How we shall keep them. 295
Comforts of a pardoned Soul. 823
Comforts for those that bewail their want of growth. 470
Convictions, what makes them prove Abortive. 462
The Covenant of Works. 74
Covenant,
why God made Man, with Adam and his Posterity in Innocency, and what it was. ibid.
—Why he gave it to Adam, since he foresaw he would transgress. ibid.
Covenant of Grace,
what it is. 89
—What Names are given to it. ibid.
Why God would make such a Covenant with us. ibid.
Covenant of Grace, how it differs from that made with Adam. 90
Covenant of Grace,
if Works be required in it. ibid.
What we must do to be in Covenant with God. 91
To Covet, what it is. 382
Covetousness,
the danger of it. 383
—How we may be cured of it. 385
Creation, what it is. 65
Creation and Generation, difference between them. 66
Creation, 2 things to be considered in it. ib.
D
Darling-Sin, otherwise called, our own, how it may be known. 492, 869
Day of Judgment,
how it appears there shall be one. 238
—Why it must be. ibid.
—Who shall be Iudge. ibid.
Deceit, how many sorts of it there are. 878
Decrees of God, what they are, and execution of them. 65
Deliverance of Israel out of Egypt, why God mentions it in the Preface to the Commandments. 257
Deliverances of the Godly and Wicked out of trouble, how they differ. 265
Deliverance, how it may be known that it comes out of Love. ibid.
Deliverance,
when we are fitted for it. ibid.
—How we should praise God in a right manner for it. 266
Desires unfeigned, how they may be known. 463
Desires after Heaven, wherein they come short. 488
Dignity of such as have God for their Father, wherein it lies. 427
Directions to obtain Pardon of Sin. 826
Directions to such as have overcome Temptation. 858
Doing of God's Will, why so requisite. 512
Doing Duty unseasonably, an effect of Satan's Temptation. 844
Doves, we should be like them in three respects. 972
Drunkenness defaces God's Image as much as any Sin. 969
Duty of Christians,
it is to be settled in the Doctrine of Faith. Prelim. Disc. 1
—This is accomplished by being well grounded. 111
Duties of such as have their Sins forgiven. 825
E
Earth, whether it did bear Thorns in Innocency. 67
Elect People, how we shall know that we are of it. 820
Encouragements to Faith in Prayer. 444
Encouragements to Hallowing of God's Name. 453
Encouragements to Perseverance. 501
Chief End of Man, what it is. 1
Enjoying of God, two fold, and what. 9
Eternity of God. 33 —Comfortable to the Godly, and frightning to the Wicked. 34
Evidence of Pardon, why it may not appear for a time. 818
What Evil we should pray to be delivered from. 860
Examine we must our Sins and Graces. 417
F
Faith, why more the condition of the New Covenant, than any other Grace. 90
Faith, the Kinds of it. 124
Iustifying Faith, what it is. ibid.
Faith, how it is wrought. 125
Faith, the preciousness of it,
wherein it lies. ib.
—How it justifies. ib.
Faith, why it should justifie and save more than any other Grace. 126
Faith,
how to know if it be true. ibid.
—How to judge of the growth of it. 127
Faith, a most precious Grace, and how it comes to be so. 398
True Faith, how it may be known. 400
Faith, how it comes to be strong. 502
Fallen Man could be restored no other way but by God's assuming Flesh. 111
False Witnessing,
what is condemned under it. 379
—The Evil of it. 381
Father, who meant by it in the Fifth Command. 350
Father in Heaven, how we shew our Honour to him. 429
Forgiveness of Sin, what it is. 804
Forgiveness of Sin, the necessity of it. 812
Forgive others, how can we when God only forgives Sin? 828
Forgive, how we must. 831
G
Gifts, whether sufficient for the Ministerial Office. 965
Give us this day our daily Bread,
the meaning of it. 537
Why 'tis said give us in the Plural 540
Why 'tis called our Bread. 541
Bread, what is meant by it. 542
Glory, what is comprehended in it. 231
God's Glory, what we are to understand by it. 1
To glorifie God, wherein it consists. ibid.
Glorifie God,
why we must do it. 2
—How many ways we may do it. 3
God's Glory, how we shall aim at it. 4
Glory, who bring none to God. 8
God's Glory, who fight against it. ibid.
Glory of God ought to be preferred before our Personal Concerns. 537
God is the chief God, and how. 11
God,
that he is proved. 20
—What he is. 24
God is a Spirit, what is meant by it. 24
God, how he differs from other Spirits. ibid.
God, how we may conceive his being a Spirit without making an Image or Resemblance of him. 25
God, what kind of Spirit he is. 27
God, there is but one. 59
God from what, and to what he calls men. 128
God, how we shall see him. 231
God
is a King, and how. 455
—What it requires of us. 456
—'Tis a Comfort to the Godly, and Terrour to the Wicked. 457
God, what it is to make him a God to us. 273
What it is to cleave to him as our God. 275
God, what it is to have other besides the true God. 276
[God spake all these Words] how we must understand them since he has no bodily Organs. 249
God,
how he comes to be our God, and what it implies. 252
—How we may know it. ibid.
God, in what sence he is a Father. 426
God's being Father to Christ, and to the Elect, how differ. ibid.
What makes God our Father. ibid.
God, wherein it appears that he is the best Father. ibid.
God, that he is our Father, how to know it. 428
That God is in Heaven, what we may learn from it. 442
God's Name, what is meant by it. 446
God's Name dishonoured by all sorts of Persons, and how. 451
Grace,
how a Christian may be said to grow in it. 215
The right manner of growing in it. ibid.
Why Grace must needs grow. ibid.
Grace,
why we should grow in it. ibid.
—How to know when we grow in it, and when not. 217
—How to comfort them that don't grow in it. 218
Grace, why called a Kingdom. 460
Greatness of Sin, an Argument for Pardon. 817
H
Happiness of having God for our Father, wherein it lies. 433
Hallowing of God's Name,
what is meant by it. 446
—When we may be said to do it. ibid.
Hallowing God's Name the Character of a Godly Person. 450
How we may Hallow God's Name. 455
Heart, how it may be bettered. 992
Hell, how we shall know we are delivered from it. 269
Hell's Torments consist of two parts. 865
Holiness of God, what it is. 47
Our Holiness wherein it consists. 48
Holiness, how we may resemble God in it. 49
What Honour is due to Political Fathers. 350
What Honour is due to Spiritual Fathers. ibid.
Holy Ghost, what is meant by its Power overshadowing the Virgin. 112
House of Bondage, a Type of Israel's Deliverance from Sin. 266
House, why 'tis put before the Wife in the Tenth Command. 387
Humiliation, wherein it comes short of Grace. 462
I
Idolatry, how we may be kept from it. 281
Idolatrous Places, a great Blessing to be delivered from them. 258
Idolatry, why we are so prone to it. 258
Illumination and Conviction, how many ways a Man Sins against it. 392
Illumination, when it comes short of Grace. 462
Image-Worship, the Evil of it. 299
Image of Christ, whether we may lawfully make it. 280
Image, or resemblance, of God, if none lawful, how shall we conceive of God aright. 281
Impotency, why God suffers it to lie on Man that he cannot keep the Law. 389
In dwelling-Presence of the Spirit, how to know if we have it. 204
Infallibility and certainty of the Kingdom of Glory, wherein it appears. 479
Infant-Baptism
proved. 410
—The benefit thereof. ibid.
Intercession of Christ, what are the Fruits of it. 105
Invocation of Saints unlawful. 880
Joy in the Holy Ghost, what it is. 211
Divine Joys, when God usually gives his People them. ibid.
Joys, Worldly and Spiritual, the differences between them. 212
This Joy
to be sought for, and why. 213
—What we shall do to obtain it. 214
This Joy, those that want it, how we shall comfort them. ibid.
Judgment general,
when it will be. 238
—How it will be performed. 239
Justice of God, what it is. 50
Justice of God, how it stands with it for Sin committed in a Moment, to punish it with Eternal Torment. 269, 396
Justified Persons, in what sence they are redeemed from Sin. 122
Justification,
what is meant by it. 131
—The ground of it. ibid.
The Material, Meritorious, and Efficient Cause of Justification. ibid.
—The Essence of it. ibid.
—The Instrument of it. ibid.
—The End of it. 132
Our Justification, whether from Eternity. ib.
Justification, Positions about it. ib.
Justification and Sanctification, how they differ. 808
K
What Kingdom is meant in the Lords Prayer 458
Kingdom of Darkness, how many ways a Natural Man is in it. 459
Kingdom of Grace, why we should pray that it may come into our Hearts. 460
Kingdom of Grace, how we may know it is set up in our Hearts. 462
Kingdom of Grace, what we shall do to obtain it. 467
Kingdom of Grace, when it increases in the Soul. 468
Kingdom of Glory, what is meant by it. 471
Kingdom of Heaven,
what it implies. ibid and 476
The Blessedness of being there. ibid.
Kingdom of Heaven, wherein it excels all other Kingdoms. 477
This Kingdom, when it shall be bestowed. 479
Kingdom of Heaven, why we should so earnestly pray for it. 480
Kingdom of Heaven, how we shall know it is prepared for us. 485
Kingdom of Heaven, what advances a Man may make to it, and yet miss of it, and whence it is. 487
—What we shall do that we may not miss of it. 489
Knowledge of God. 32
Knowledge the Chief Work of Conversion. 998
Knowledge to do Good, why not followed with Practice. 999
L
Law, whether we may go to it for Debt. 829
Lead us not into Temptation, the meaning of it. 832
Live to God, what it is. 5
Lord's Supper,
what it is. 413
—What are the Ends of it. 414
Lord's Death, how we are to remember it in the Sacrament. 414
—Holy Supper, why we are to receive it. 415
Lord's Supper,
whether it be oft to be administred. 415
—Who are to receive it. ibid.
—How we may receive it Worthily. ibid.
Loss will befal us, if we give over doing God's Will. 519
Love,
what it is. 245
—Wherein its formal Nature consists. ibid.
Love to God, how it must be qualified. ibid.
Love to God,
what are the visible Signs of it. 246
How we shall do to Love God aright. 248
To Love any thing more than God, is to make it a God. 277
Love to God, how it must be qualified. 289
Love God, how we may know whether we do it. ibid.
Love to God, incentive to inflame it. …90
M.
Man being in honour, abideth not; how the Rabbins read it. 79
Man, why he does not obey God, though he knows his Duty. 244
Master, how he must demean towards his Servants. 353
Means to bring our Will to God in Affliction. 535
Means for obtaining the Kingdom of Heaven. 494
Means conducing to Perseverance. 502
Meditation, a Means to help us to Heaven. 499
Meditation on the Kingdom of Glory, what Effects it has. 509
Mercy of God, what it is, laid down in several Positions. 53
Mercy of God, Properties of it. 55
Mercy of God, what we must do to be interested in it. 56
Mercy, how many ways God is said to shew it. 285
Mercy,
how we may know if it belong to us. 287
How shall we do to get a share in it. 288
Misery of Man by the Fall, two-fold, and what. 86
Mistakes of Sin being pardoned when it is not. 826
Moderation, in what Cases 'tis good. 975
Moral Law, is it still in force to Believers? 270
Moral Persuasion not sufficient to convert a Sinner. 979
Motions of the Spirit, how they may be known from a Delusion. 498
Motion, how to know when it comes from our own Hearts, and when from Satan. 834
Murder, how many ways 'tis committed. 360
Murder, the heinousness of it. ibid.
N.
Name of God, how we may take it in vain. 295
Natural Man's opposing Sin, how it differs from the New Creature's opposing it. 982
Necessity why the Kingdom of Grace should be encreased. 469
Neighbour, how we may be kept from coveting what is his. 388
New Creature,
what it is. 977
The several Causes in it. ibid.
New Creature, does God give a new Soul in it? 978
New Creature, what kind of Work it is. ibid.
New Creature, the Counterfeits of it. 979
New Creature, how far one must put off the Old Man, that he may be one. 982
New Creature,
the necessity of being so. 984
What we shall do to be so. 985
O.
Obedience,
how it must be qualified so as to be acceptable. 242
Arguments, or Incentives to it. 244
Means in order to attain it. ibid.
Obedience, perfect to the Moral Law, cannot be given. 388
Original Sin, what Names it has. 82
Original Sin has something Privative and Positive in it. ibid.
Original Sin,
the Vniversality of it. 83
The Effects of it. ibid.
Original Sin, why God leaves it in us after Regeneration. 84
P.
Pardon of Sin, why so few seek after it. 811
Parents, how they should carry it towards their Children. 357
Right Participation of the Sacrament is in three things. 419
Peace, the several kinds of it. 207
Peace Spiritual, whence it comes. ibid.
Peace, whether graceless persons have it. 208
False Peace, the Signs of it. ibid.
True Peace,
the Signs of it. ibid.
How to attain it. 210
Perseverance, by what means effected. 219
Perseverance of Saints, how we may prove it. ibid.
Perseverance,
Motives to it. 222
Means that may be used for it. 223
Perseverance of Saints built upon three unmovable Pillars. 493
People of God, why so frequently in an afflicted state. 260
People of God,
how he delivers them out of Trouble. 263
Why he brings them out of Trouble. 264
Pleasing God, what it implies. 60
Prayer,
what it is. 421
Why made to God only. ibid.
What are the Parts of it. ibid.
The several sorts of it. ibid.
What Prayer is most like to prevail with God. 422
Prayers, in what order we must direct them to God. 425
Praying in Faith,
what it implies. 443
How we may know that we do so. ibid.
Pray in Faith, how we may do it. 445
Prayer a sovereign Means to elude Temptations. 857
Power of God, how it seen. 43
Presumptuous sinning, what it is. 392, 1001
Presumptuous Sin, how we may keep from it. 1007
Promises of God, two things in them to comfort us. 57
Properties of bad Debtors, wherein we have them. 803
Prosperity, the danger of it. 530
Providence of God, That and What it is. 69
Positions about it. ibid.
Providence of God, how exerted towards Sin. 70
Prudence and Holiness, wherein a Christian joyns them together. 973
Punishment of Sabbath-breaking. 348
Q.
Qualifications of our Intercessor, what they are, 103
Qualifications and Properties of the Kingdom of Heaven. 476
Qualifications of God's Mercy. 285
R.
Redeemed, how we shall know that we are of the number. 123
Regenerate Person, what Comfort he may have under the imperfections of his Obedience. 390
Repentance, the Counterfeits of it. 401
Repentance,
the Advantages of it. 403
How we may attain a penitential Frame of Heart. 404
Repentance, the Ingredients in it. 806
Resignation to God's Will in Afflictions, how it may be obtain'd. 523
Resurrection, by what Arguments may it be proved. 235
Righteous, shall they only be raised. ibid.
What Rocks of Support there are for tempted Souls. 848
Rule of Obedience, what it is. 242
S.
Sabbath, why God appointed it. 332
Seventh-Day-Sabbath, why we do not keep it. 332
Sabbath, why the first day of the Week substitute in place of it. 332
Sabbath, how we are to sanctifie it. 334
Sacrament, what Names and Titles are given it in Scripture. 412
Saints in Glory, whether know each other. 232
Saints, why God suffers them to be buffetted by Satan's Temptations. 847
Sanctification,
what it is. 139
The Counterfeits of it. 140
Sanctification
its necessity, wherein it appears. 141
What are the Signs of it. 142
How it may be attained. 144
Sanctified Persons, have they all Assurance? 201
Sanctified Persons, whether they have such an Assurance as excludes all doubting. ib.
Sanctified Persons, whether they have all true Peace. 209
Satan's Temptation, the Subtilty of it. 80
Satan's Malice in Temptation. 832
Satan's Diligence and Power in tempting. 833
Satan's Subtilty in tempting. 834
Satan comes upon us at two times in our weakness. 836
Satan tempts five sort of Persons more than others. 83…
Satan, why he sets chiefly on our Faith. 842
Satan, by what Methods he disturbs the Saints Peace. 846
Satan, in what respect he is the evil one. 876
Scriptures, how proved to be the Word of God. 13
Scriptures, why called Canonical. 15
Scriptures, a compleat Rule. ibid.
Scriptures,
what is the main Scope and End of them. ibid.
—Who shall have the Power of interpreting them. ibid.
Scriptures, how should we so search them as to find Life. 18
Seasons Satan tempts in. 834
Seasons when God delivers his People out of Trouble, what they are. 264
Self-Murder, how many ways one may be guilty of it. 364
Self Examination,
what is required to it. 416
What it is. ibid.
By what Rule it must be done. ibid.
Why it must be done before we approach the Lord's Table. ibid.
Servant, how he must honour his Master. 351
Serpents, how we must be like them, and wherein not. 967
Sin committed in time, why it should be punish'd to eternity. 34
Sin,
the Evil of it obvious in its Original and Nature. 76
—In the Price paid for it, and the Effects of it. 78
Sin of our first Parents, what it was. 79
Sin,
why called a Debt. 802
—In what sence it is the worst Debt. ibid.
Sin, how we may know that it is forgiven. 819
Sin, the Evil of it. 860
Sin, worse than Affliction. 862
Sin, how we may so reprove it, as to love the Person. 974
Sins, how we may know they are pardoned. 286
Sins of God's People more provoke him than those of the Wicked. 874
Sin, worse than Death and Hell. 865
What Sins we should particularly take heed of. 869
Socinians Error about the Second Person of the Trinity. 63
What Sorrow goes before Forgiveness. 806
Soul-Murther, who are guilty of it. 365
Soul, the Excellency of it. 801
Soul-dress, for receiving the Sacrament, wherein it consists. 416
Souls deserted, that want assurance how they may be comforted. 205
Spiritual, what it is to be so. 25
Spirit, how it can be said to be grieved. 77
State of Nature, is a Kingdom of Darkness.
Submission to God's Will, what it is not. 520
Submission to God's Will, what may stand with it, and what not. 521
Submission to God's Will, what it is. ibid.
When we do not submit to God's Will in Afflictions. 523.
Subtilty of Satan to make Men miscarry in the use of Meat. 838
T
Temptations, whence they come. 832
Tempted, two cases of them spoke to. 852
Temptations of Satan, means to defeat them. 855
Temptation, what good may come out of it. 858
Theft,
whence it doth arise. 377
—How many sorts of it there are. ibid.
—What are the aggravations of it. ibid.
Vain Thoughts,
how they come in, in hearing the Word. 340
—The Evil of them. 341
Vain Thoughts, how we may get help against them. 342
Vain Thoughts in Prayer, how we may cure them. 422
Tongue, how it is Evil. 986
Evil Tongue, the several sorts of. 986, 987.
Tongue, rules for governing it. 991
Tongue, Sins, Motives to beware of them. 993
Torments of Hell, what they are. 473
Trinity of Persons proved. 62, 63
Truth of God. 57
U
Visiting Iniquity, what is meant by it. 282
Unchangeableness of God. 36
Unchangeable God, how to get a part in him. 38
Unpardoned Soul, how miserable it is. 816
Vorstius Objection against God's Vbiquity answered. 27
W
Several Ways of Satan to tempt Men. 853
Weariness in well-doing,
what occasions it. 994
—The Evil of it. 996
Means to keep us from being weary in Well-doing. 997
Will of God, what is meant by it. 512
Will of God, how we are to do it, that we may find acceptance. 515
Will of God, how we may Evangelically do it. 516
Will of God, how we may come to do it aright.
Wisdom of God, wherein it appears. 40
Wisdom and Innocence, necessary Qualifications of a Christian. 966
Wisdom, wherein it chiefly consists. ibid.
The Word's effectually Working, what is meant by it. 404
Word,
how it may be read effectually. 405
—How it may be heard effectually. 406
World, why God made it. 66
World, in what sence it is Evil. 877
What Worship is most suitable to God. 25
To Worship God in the Spirit, what it is. 26
Wrath to come, what we shall do to escape it. 397