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THE TABLE.

A.

Acting

IN a mans own ſtrength or Chriſts. 110

Adam

In innocency under a Covenant of works. pag. 100

B.

Baptiſm

With water proved. 176. 183

Of Infants vindicated. 178

Sprinkling lawful. 180

One Baptiſm, conſiſting of two parts. 178, 182

Bible

To be read and preached upon. 20

See Scriptures.

C.

Call

To the Miniſtery, how lawful. 211

Inward to be tried by the outward fruits. 214

The Churches call ſpiritual. 215

Some may counterfeit an Immediate call. 211

Some mediate calls good. 213, 214

Some bad. ibid.

Chriſt

Exalted by the Scriptures, and the Scriptures by Chriſt. 43 44

Chriſt above his gifts. 59

His Godhead aſſerted, and cleared. 54

How he leads out of the fall. 86

How he was made ſin, or a ſinner. 132

As Mediator, not in natural men. 262, 276

When and how in the ſoul: 264

His condemning ſin in the fleſh, beyond conſcience-condemnation. 266

A Savior according to Scripture. 283

Commandment.

How the general includes particular perſons. 106

What is a command in the Spirit. 109

Saints experiences about a command. 110

What is a Goſpel-command. 111

Communion

Of Saints on earth with Saints in heaven. 146

Conviction

By the Spirit, beyond that of a natural conſcience. 266

Conſcience

If but natural, and not renewed, gives no ſaving teſtimony. 269

Covenant

Of works, and of grace what. 90

Of works, in Adam. 97

Differences of the Covenant of works, and of grace. 90

Covenant of grace one, for the ſubſtance. 91

Two, for maner of adminiſtration. 93

Old and new, what. 8

The reaſon of the change. 94

E.

Elders.

Their Ordination by man, though not of man. 207

F.

Forms.

Of Religion. 291

Of Speech. 292

Fruits.

Of the Spirit. 293

Of the fleſh. ibid.

G.

God.

How God is Light. 68

His Eſſence not mixed with created Beings. 236

Goſpel.

Goſpel-Light above natural reach. 75

Grace

Given by means. 173

H.

Hearing

Of the word. 173

Holy Ghoſt.

A perſon, one of the Three in the Godhead. See Spirit. 49, &c. 207

Honor

Civil, due to Superiors, and to all men. 231 ibid.

Geſtures of honor, ſome bad and idolatrous. 233

Some civil, and but good maners. ibid.

The denial hereof what it argues. 292

I.

Imputation.

Gods imputation of righteouſneſs, his covering of our ſin. 130

A conſtant act of Gods free favor. 131

The doctrine of it, no pleading for ſin. 123, &c.

Juſtification.

The material cauſe not the new-birth. 119

Not ſanctification. 132

Its difference from ſanctification. 126

God juſtifieth ſinful perſons, believing. 120, 121

How juſtified by faith. ibid.

Defilements of ſin remain in a pardoned ſoul. 125

Peter in his falls, not out of a ſtate of juſtification. 128

Perfect, at firſt believing. 135

L.

Law

How ſet up in ſtead of Goſpel. 12

Levitical Law way Typical Goſpel. 89

Law-Levitical no Covenant of works. 95

Law-moral, poſitions concerning it. 97

How ſubſervient to the Covenant of grace. 98

How inſervient to the Covenant of works. ibid.

Gods Law above the conſcience 307

Letter

What in a large, or in a ſtrict ſenſe. 4, 5

The Spirits Letter is Gods written word. 9

How denied. 244

Light

Of the Godhead in every man, not redemption-light. 52

Strange notions of the Light in every man. 53

How light without Scripture is no light. 64

The Light-giver not to be confounded with the light-given. 59, 84

Light in every man no Teacher of ſaving truths. 60

Not Goſpel-light. 75

Not the light of Saints, as ſuch. 61, 261

Much leſs equal with Chriſts perſon. 59

Not ſupernatural. 61

Not above, but beneath the Scripture-light. 66

Not a part of the New-creature. 77

Not the Corner-ſtone. 80

Nor the firſt principle of Chriſtian Religion. 82

Leads not out of the fall. 83

Obeyed, gives no ſaving excuſe, or teſtimony in the conſcience. 269

Creature and Scripture-light compared. 76

Not to be confounded. 275

Myſterious abſurdities. 263

How the leaſt degree of light is perfect. 274

How counterfeit. ibid.

True concluſions about light. 69

Lords Supper

The viſible outward part no carnal invention. 185

Bread and wine the outward matter. 186

The Inſtitution ſpiritual. 188

The benefit great. 190

A ſtrange trans-mutation by 192

James Nayler

His reaſons broken. 193

Antidotes againſt the diſſolution of the Lords Supper. 200

M.

Magiſtrates

Their forbearance. 308

Means of grace, attended with a promiſe of bleſsing. 174

N.

Nakedneſs

No Commiſsion for going naked in theſe times. 291

O.

Oaths,

ſee Swearing.

Ordinances

How owned or diſowned. 302

P.

Perfection

Of holineſs, but comparative. 162, 164

Not abſolute in all degrees till death. 143, 144

How denied, how not. 141, 158, 161

This life a time onelyonly of preſſing after it. 290

Perſon

What it is. 48

What a perſon in the Godhead is. ibid.

How diſtinguiſhed. 49

Prayer

Publique not forbidden. 201

Gods Spirit is there. 204

Preaching

By Doctrine, Reaſon and Ʋſe, &c. juſtified. 72, 293

How free, and conſiſtent with taking Wages 209

Printing

When invented. 21

The benefit of printed Bibles. ibid.

Promiſe

Of grace, and leading out of the fall, none annexed to the good uſe of natural light. 87

Yet the light of a promiſe helps to lead out of the fall. 86

Prophets

Some immediately inſpired, ſome mediately taught. 217

They ſtudied the Scriptures. 218

Some diſtinguiſht from men in office. 217

Pſalms

Not ſung without ſome kinde of meeter. 205

Q.

Quaking

From viſible manifeſtations of Gods majeſty, how and by whom imitable. 287

See Trembling.

Queſtions

Their fit place. 223

Which are of the devil. 224

R.

Reconciliation

Of the perſon perfect, before the heart is perfectly ſanctified, and how. 134, 135

Regeneration

By the Scripture-promiſe. 132, 257

Remorſe

What. 171

Repentance

How decryed. 171

Righteouſneſs

What our own. 145, 329

What the Quaking Papiſts mean by Chriſts righteouſneſs. 278

S.

Sabbath

A mercy, as a duty 303

Saints

Their light beneath Scripturelight for the degree. 271

Their higheſt degree of light, and grace not here attained. 272

Experimentally imperfect. 148

Scriptures

The word of truth. 1

To all. 2

The word of God, and truly ſo called. 3, 40

In what ſence. 25

The witneſs of God. 4

The Letter of God, and the Scripture of God all one. Ib.

A ſtanding Rule. 7

A more ſtanding Rule then viſions and revelations. 13, 15, 37, 38.

Not mans word, or other mens words. 18

The Touch-ſtone of Doctrine. 23, 253

And Judge of controverſies. 258

Not carnal. 24

The Spirits ſword. 26

Powerful. 153

The ground of the Saints acting. 26, 31

And how. 27

Interpretation by Scripture. 37

A Voice, a Light, a Rule, a Guide. 43, 44

Scripture-light above the light of nature. 66, 74, 76

Its further preeminence. 271, 281

Scripture-light, Salvationlight. 73

Its fulneſs. 284

It magnifies Chriſt above it ſelf. ibid

A more excellent Teacher then the creatures. 70

To be ſtudied. 218, 220

Who deny them. 244

Gods mouth is in the Letter. 247, 252

Sin

Viſible in, and to the Saint. 112

Groaned under, all the life time by true Saints. ibid

in what reſpect. 113

Sin and purity dwell in one ſoul, not as one. 118

Sin confeſſed, is not pleaded for. 125

It dwelleth and acteth in the Saints. 138

It continueth in them, they continue not in it. 151

No heart perfectly pure form it. 158, 159, 160

Singing

See Pſalms.

Spirit of God

How in the Scripture-Letter. 4, 254

How proceeding from the Letter, how not. 5

How given by it. 6, 10, 255

Leads to the Scripture-Rule and and by it. 9, 10

His Prerogative above the Scripture. 31

Swearing

By creatures forbidden. 235

By God, commanded. ibid.

Not in ordinary ſpeech. 237

Oaths lawful. 238

Ʋnlawful 239

By a book, unlawful. ibid.

Upon a book, ſuperſtitious. 240

T.

Teaching

All Believers not immediately taught. 216

Who were, or were not immediately taught in the Apoſtles days. 217, 220

They that pretend to immediate Teaching, have had it by men and means. 279, 280

Tranſubſtantiation

A blinde dotage. 189

Trembling

True, at and by the word, or Scripture rightly underſtood. 6, 286

Trinity

A Trinity of Perſons in the Godhead, proved. 46

W.

Warfare

Saints not out of it, till out of their bodies. 167

Woman

A woman not to ſpeak in the Church. 33

Word of God

Eſſential, or ſpiritual. 22, 25

Language of the Spirit and Word of the Scripture, all one.: 292

Scriptures vindicated and explained.

Pſalmpage
Pſ. 119.10540
Proverbs
Cap.Verſe
209158
2220, 2132
Eccleſ.
720166
Iſaiah
82023, 24 64, 65
202291
302042
4816, 1730
Jeremiah
53142
20941
2329Ibid.
Daniel
91219
Matthew.
5815834 to 362353723748228
652016202
112714
238 & 10245
28194719 & 20177
Luke
16297
1721Ep. to Ch.
2232129
John
1125
11 to 1454 to 58
1953, 55, 261
544232
645216
81253, 260
15542
161310
Acts
217, 183438, 3917942 46195
132, 4620839122
2028160, 2073420935210
Romans
118, 19274
24170126315, 1626929268
3322192
512631399
61411
79, 1011014 to the end1131713823, 251392512 & 115
811152168
832663, 4144414510139 & 1401492614937169
108411882
12362
1417190
161 & 2 6 & 1235
1 Cor.
115, 161082172
26162, 16491017
611156
914209
1111126191, 19829197
1273012, 13178
1414, 1520226 29217313434, 3533
161935
2 Cor.
32716516 with 1413
179
462324, 263
521132
1172099208
127, &c.App. 2
1311164
Gal.
1121116263
217, 18, 1912320, 21124
3191042089219927178
517138
61744
Epheſ.
11715
217, 182081
317
44, 5
51926179
621061725
Phil.
25226
212286
31216115, 16162
43351342
Col.
123822726427, 2862
21789
1 Tim.
21133
5183524267
Titus
21175
Heb.
4124115212, 1315415153
57 Ep. to R.11
6116216238
71624
8794
1014135
12111623146 to 150
138277
19, 10234
512237, 240
1 Pet.
11316151562216023 with 2528
47App. 2
2 Pet.
116, 1915193620, 2137, 21921248
1 John
156877878
2274129142
33117515667879, 16510142
4416917164
5745 4610245127318
Rev.
191039
201245

FINIS.

ERRATA ſic emendanda in the Book.

PAge 4. Line 8. read, the two witneſſes: p. 9. l. 35, r. is to make: p. 21. l. 15, r. Blockhouſes: p. 33. l. 26. r. he may: p. 39. l. 31. for, immediately, r. mediately: p. 41. Marg. r. Jer 23. 29. p. 55. l. 21. r. re-aſſumeth: p. 58. l. 2. r. arbitrement: p. 60. l. 21. r. Rom. 1. 18. p. 91. l. 2. dele, is the old: p. 100. l. 24. dele, to be: p. 103. Marg. r. Gen. 3. laſt. p. 106. l. 8. r. the word of: p. 117. f. 28. for, now, r. know: p. 120. l. 11. for, form, r. from. p. 124. l. 34. for, that, r. but. p. 134. l. 4. the parentheſis to end at (Book) p. 137. l. ult. dele▪ his. p. 138. Marg. r. Gal. 5. 17. p. 209. l. 26. r. Acts 20. 34. p. 215. l. 23. for to, r. till. p. 221. l. 2. for, we are, r. were. p. 238. l. 13. dele, to them. p. 245. l. 11. r. we ſhould. p. 256. l. 1. r. be not. p. 258. l. 32. for, that, r. the.

In the Epiſtles: Epiſt. Ded. for debate, r. debaſe. Epiſt. to the Reader, for. Bellarmine, r. Bellarmine. p. 9. l. 9. for profeſſed, r. poſſeſſed.

Julii, 18. 1656.

Imprimatur

JOSEPH CARYL.

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