Men envy the gifts and prosperities of others, i. 131, 132.
An imitation of the devil, _ib._
A sense of God’s goodness would check it, ii. 351.
A contempt of God’s dominion, ii. 435.
_Essence_ of God.
Cannot be seen, i. 184, 185.
Is unchangeable, i. 319.
_Eternity._
A property of God and Christ, i. 278, 279, 293, 294.
What it is, i. 280.
In what respects God is eternal, i. 280‒286.
That he is so, proved, i. 286‒291.
God’s incommunicable property, i. 44‒46, 291‒293.
Dreadful to sinners, i. 295, 296.
Comfortable to the righteous, i. 297‒301.
The thoughts of it should abate our pride, i. 302‒304;
take off our love and confidence from the world, i. 304‒306.
We should provide for a happy interest in it, i. 306;
often meditate on it, i. 307, 308.
Renders him worthy of our choicest affections, i. 308;
and our best service, i. 308, 309.
_Exaltation_ of Christ.
The holiness of God appears in it, ii. 136, 137.
His goodness to us as well as to Christ, ii. 268, 269;
and his sovereignty, ii. 426.
_Examination_ of ourselves.
Before and after worship, and wherein our duty,
i. 252‒256, 275.
_Experience_ of God’s goodness.
A preservative against atheism, i. 86, 87.
_Extremity._
Then God usually delivers his church, ii. 101.
F.
_Faith._
The same thing may be the object of it, and of reason
too, i. 27‒29.
Must be exercised in spiritual worship, i. 230, 231.
The wisdom, holiness, and goodness of God in prescribing it
as a condition of the covenant of grace (see _Covenant_).
Must look back as far as the foundation promise, i. 499.
Only the obedience flowing from it acceptable to God,
i. 504, 505.
Distinct, but inseparable from obedience, i. 505, 506.
Foresight of it not the ground of election, ii. 396‒399.
_Fall_ of man.
God no way the author of it, {b530} ii. 123‒125, 142, 143.
How great it is, ii. 480, 481.
Doth not impeach God’s goodness, ii. 231, 232.
It is evident, ii. 325, 326;
brought a curse on the creatures (see _Creatures_).
_Falls_ of God’s children.
Turned to their good, i. 537‒547.
_Fear._
Not the cause of the belief of a God, i. 41.
Men that are under a slavish fear of him wish there were
no God, i. 98, 99.
Of man, a contempt of God’s power, ii. 93, 94.
Should be of God, and not of the pride or force of man,
ii. 106, 107.
God’s sovereignty should cause it, ii. 462.
_Features._
Different in every man, and how necessary it should be
so, i. 66, 67, 520.
_Fervency._
See _Activity_.
_Flesh._
The legal services so called, i. 213, 214.
_Fools._
Wicked men are so, i. 23, 586, 587.
_Folly._
Sin is so (see _Sin_).
_Forgetfulness_ of God.
Men naturally are prone to it, i. 159, 160.
Of his mercies a great sin (see _Mercies_).
How attributed to God, i. 421.
_Foreknowledge_ in God of sin.
No blemish to his holiness, ii. 145, 146.
See _Knowledge of God_.
_Future_ things.
Men desirous to know them, i. 476, 477.
Known by God, (see _Knowledge of God_).
G.
_Gabriel._
On what messages he was sent, ii. 75.
_Generation._
Could not be from eternity, i. 44‒46.
_Gifts._
God can bestow them on men, ii. 384, 385.
His sovereignty seen in giving greater measures to one
than another, ii. 408‒410.
_Glory_ of all they do or have.
Men are apt to ascribe to themselves, i. 139.
Of God little minded in many seemingly good actions,
i. 124‒127.
Men are more concerned for their own reputation than God’s
glory, i. 140.
Should be aimed at in spiritual worship, i. 239‒241.
God’s permission of sin is in order to it, ii. 154‒156.
Should be advanced by us, ii. 461, 462.
_God._
His existence known by the light of nature, i. 86;
by the creatures, i. 28, 29, 42‒64.
Miracles not wrought to prove it, i. 29.
Owned by the universal consent of all nations, i. 30, 31.
Never disputed of old, i. 31, 32.
Denied by very few, if any, i. 32, 33.
Constantly owned in all changes of the world, i. 34;
under anxieties of conscience, _ib._
The devil not able to root out the belief of it, i. 35.
Natural and innate, i. 35, 36.
Not introduced merely by tradition, i. 37, 38;
nor policy, i. 38, 39;
nor fear, i. 41.
Witnessed to by the very nature of man, i. 63‒75;
and by extraordinary occurrences, i. 76, 77;
impossible to demonstrate there is none, i. 81.
Motives to endeavor to be settled in the belief of it,
i. 84, 85.
Directions, i. 86, 87.
Men wish there were none, and who they are, i. 96‒99.
Two ways of describing him, negation and affirmation,
i. 181, 182.
Is active and communicative, i. 201.
Propriety in him a great blessedness (see _Covenant_).
Infinitely happy, ii. 86, 87.
_Good._
That which is materially so may be done, and not formally,
i. 120, 124‒126.
Actions cannot be performed before conversion, i. 163, 164.
The thoughts of God’s presence a spur to them, i. 404, 405.
God only is so, ii. 210, 211.
_Goodness._
Pure and perfect, the royal prerogative of God only, ii. 214.
Owned by all nations, ii. 215, 219.
Inseparable from the notion of God, ii. 216, 217.
What is meant by it, ii. 217.
How distinguished from mercy, ii. 218, 219.
Comprehends all his attributes, ii. 219, 220.
Is so by his essence, ii. 221, 222.
The chief, _ib._
It is communicative, ii. 223, 224;
necessary to him, ii. 224‒226;
voluntary, ii. 226, 227;
communicative with the greatest pleasure, ii. 227, 228;
the displaying of it, the motive and end of all his works,
ii. 228‒230.
Arguments to prove it a property of God, ii. 230, 231;
vindicated from the objections made against it, ii. 231‒244;
appears in creation, ii. 244‒258;
in redemption, ii. 258‒294;
in his government, ii. 295‒313;
frequently contemned and abused, ii. 313, 314;
the abuse and contempt of it, base and disingenuous,
ii. 314, 315;
highly resented by God, ii. 315, 316.
How it is contemned and abused, ii. 316‒325.
Men justly punished for it, ii. 326, 327.
Fits God for the government of the world, and engages him
actually to govern it, ii. 327, 328.
The ground of all religion, ii. 329, 330.
Renders God amiable to himself, ii. 331.
Should do so to us, and why, ii. 332‒335.
Renders him a fit object of trust, with motives to it,
drawn hence, ii. 335‒338;
and worthy to be obeyed and honored, ii. 338‒341.
Comfortable to the righteous, and wherein, ii. 341‒344.
Should engage us to endeavor after the enjoyment of him,
with motives, ii. 344‒347.
Should be often meditated on, and the advantages of so
doing, ii. 347‒351.
We should be thankful for it, ii. 351‒353;
and imitate it, and wherein, ii. 353‒355.
_Gospel._
Men greater enemies to, than to the law, i. 165.
Its excellency, i. 167, 501, 502.
Called spirit, i. 213.
The only means of establishment, i. 501.
Of an eternal resolution, though of a temporary revelation,
i. 502.
Mysterious, _ib._
The first preachers of it (see _Apostles_).
{b531} Its antiquity, i. 503, 504.
The goodness of God in spreading it among the Gentiles,
i. 504.
Gives no encouragement to licentiousness, _ib._
The wisdom of God in its propagation, i. 574‒580;
and power, ii. 65‒73.
See _Christian Religion_.
_Government_ of the World.
God could not manage it without immutability, i. 394;
and knowledge, i. 464, 465;
and wisdom, i. 575, 576.
The wisdom of God appears in his government of man,
as rational, i. 525‒532;
as sinful, i. 532‒544;
as restored, i. 544‒547.
The power of God appears in natural government, ii. 44‒52;
moral, ii. 52‒54;
gracious and judicial, ii. 55‒58.
The goodness of God in it, ii. 295‒313.
God only fit for it, i. 580, 581, 544; ii. 186, 327;
doth actually manage it, i. 580, 581; ii. 328, 329.
Is contemned, ii. 436‒441.
See _Laws_.
_Governor._
God’s dominion as such, ii. 413‒422.
_Grace._
The power of God in planting it, ii. 74‒78 (see _Conversion_);
and preserving it, ii. 79, 80 (see _Perseverance_).
God’s withdrawing it no blemish to his holiness, i. 166‒170.
Shall be perfected in the upright, ii. 190, 191.
God exercises a sovereignty in bestowing and denying it,
ii. 400‒404.
Means of grace (see _Means_).
_Graces._
Must be acted in worship, ii. 229‒234.
We should examine how we acted them after it, i. 253, 254.
_Growth_ in grace.
Annexed to true sanctification, ii. 358.
Should be labored after, ii. 206, 207.
H.
_Habits._
Spiritual, to be acted in spiritual worship, i. 229, 230.
The rooting up evil ones shows the power of God, ii. 76, 77.
_Hand._
Christ’s sitting at God’s right hand doth not prove the
ubiquity of his human nature, ii. 378.
_Hardness._
How God, and how man, is the cause of it, ii. 166‒168.
_Harmony_ of the creatures.
Show the being and wisdom of God, i. 52‒60.
_Heart_ of man.
How curiously contrived, i. 65.
We should examine ourselves, how our hearts are prepared
for worship, i. 252, 253;
how they are fixed in it, and how they are after it,
i. 253‒256.
God orders all men’s to his own ends, ii. 54.
_Heaven._
The enjoyment of God there will be always fresh and
glorious, i. 298, 299.
Why called God’s throne, i. 385, 386.
_Heavenly_ bodies.
Subservient to the good of the world, i. 53, 54.
_Hosea._
When he prophesied, ii. 490.
_Holiness._
A necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, i. 238, 239.
A glorious perfection of God, ii. 110, 111.
Owned to be so both by heathens and heretics, ii. 111.
God cannot be conceived without it, ii. 111, 112.
It hath an excellency above all his other perfections,
ii. 112.
Most loftily and frequently sounded forth by the
angels, _ib._
He swears by it, _ib._
It is his glory and life, ii. 112, 113.
The glory of all the rest, ii. 113, 114.
What it is, and how distinguished from righteousness,
ii. 114, 115.
His essential and necessary perfection, ii. 115, 116.
God only absolutely holy, ii. 116‒118.
Causes him to abhor all sin necessarily, intensely,
universally, and perpetually, ii. 118‒122.
Inclines him to love it in others, ii. 121, 190, 191.
So great that he cannot positively will and encourage sin
in others, or do it himself, ii. 122‒126.
Appears in his creation, ii. 126, 127;
in his government, ii. 127‒135;
in redemption, ii. 135‒138;
in justification, ii. 138;
in regeneration, ii. 139.
Defended in all his acts about sin, ii. 139‒171.
How much it is contemned in the world, and wherein,
ii. 171‒180.
To hate and scoff at it in others, how great a sin, ii. 176.
Necessarily obliges him to punish sin, ii. 181‒183;
and exact satisfaction for it, ii. 183, 184.
Fits him for the government of the world, ii. 186, 187.
Comfortable to holy men, ii. 190, 191.
Shall be perfected in the upright, _ib._
We should get, and preserve right and strong apprehensions
of it, and the advantage of so doing, ii. 191‒196.
We should glorify God for it, and how, ii. 196‒199;
and labor after a conformity to it, and wherein,
ii. 199‒201;
motives to do so, ii. 203‒205;
and directions, ii. 205‒207.
We should labor to grow in it, ii. 206, 207.
Exert it in our approaches to God, ii. 207.
Seek it at his hands, ii. 207, 208.
_Holy Ghost._
His Deity proved, ii. 86.
_Humility._
A necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, i. 237, 238.
We should examine ourselves about it after worship, i. 256.
A consideration of God’s eternity would promote it, i. 302;
and of his knowledge, i. 496, 497;
and of his wisdom, i. 597;
and of his power, ii. 106;
and of his holiness, ii. 192, 193;
and of his goodness, ii. 323;
and his sovereignty, ii. 457, 458.
_Hypocrites._
Their false pretences a virtual denial of God’s knowledge,
i. 481, 483;
it is terrible to them, i. 492.
I.
_Idleness._
It is an abuse of God’s mercies to make them an occasion
of it, ii. 323.
_Idolatry._
Of the heathens proves the belief of a God to be universal,
i. 30, 31.
The first object of it was the heavenly bodies, i. 43.
Springs from unworthy imaginations of God, i. 157.
Not countenanced {b532} by God’s omnipresence, i. 389, 390.
Springs from a want of due notion of God’s infinite power,
ii. 92.
A contempt of God’s dominion, ii. 436, 437.
_Image_ of God.
In man consists not in external form and figure, i. 192, 192.
Unreasonable to make any of him, i. 193‒195;
it is idolatry so to do, i. 195, 196.
The defacing it an injury to God’s holiness, ii. 173, 174.
Man, at first, made after it, ii. 248.
_Imaginations._
Men naturally have unworthy ones of God, i. 155, 156.
Vain ones the cause of idolatry, and superstition, and
presumption, i. 156, 157;
worse than idolatry or atheism, i. 158;
an injury to God’s holiness, ii. 172, 173.
_Imitation_ of God.
Man naturally hath no desire of it, i. 161.
We should strive to imitate his immutability in that which
is good, i. 360, 361.
In holiness, wherein, and why, and how, ii. 199‒207;
and in goodness, ii. 353‒355.
_Immortal._
God is so, i. 202.
See _Eternity of God_.
_Immutability._
A property of God, i. 316, 317;
a perfection, i. 317, 318;
a glory belonging to all his attributes, i. 318;
necessary to him, i. 318, 319.
God is immutable in his essence, i. 319‒321;
in knowledge, i. 321‒325;
in his will, though the things willed by him are not,
i. 325‒328.
This doth not infringe his liberty, i. 328.
Immutable in regard of place, i. 328, 329.
Proved by arguments, i. 320‒334, 582, 583; ii. 87.
Incommunicable to any creature, i. 334, 335, ii. 141.
Objections against it answered, i. 337‒346.
Ascribed to Christ, i. 346‒348.
A ground and encouragement to worship him, i. 348‒350.
How contrary to God in it man is, i. 350, 353.
Terrible to sinners, i. 353, 354.
Comfortable to the righteous, and wherein, i. 354‒356.
An argument for patience, i. 359.
Should make us prefer God before all creatures, i. 358.
We should imitate this his immutability in goodness,
motives to it, i. 360, 361.
_Impatience_ of men.
Is great when God crosses them, i. 130, 131.
A contempt of God’s wisdom, i. 592;
and of his goodness, ii. 317, 318;
and of his dominion, ii. 437, 438.
_Impenitence._
An abuse of God’s goodness, ii. 319.
It will clear the equity of God’s justice, ii. 506, 507.
An abuse of patience, ii. 508, 509.
_Imperfections._
In holy duties we should be sensible of, i. 232.
Should make us prize Christ’s meditation, i. 261.
_Impossible._
Some things are in their own nature, ii. 26, 27.
Some things so to the nature and being of God, and his
perfections, ii.27‒29.
Some things so, because of God’s ordination, ii. 29, 30.
Do not infringe the almightiness of God’s power, ii. 29‒30.
_Incarnation_ of Christ.
The power of God seen in it, ii. 59‒65.
_Incomprehensible._
God is so, i. 394, 395.
_Inconstancy._
Natural to man, i. 350‒353. In the knowledge of the truth,
i. 350, 351;
in will and affections, i. 351;
in practice, i. 352‒354;
is the root of much evil, _ib._
_Infirmities._
The knowledge of God a comfort to his people under them,
i. 488, 489.
The goodness of God in bearing with them, ii. 309.
His patience a comfort under them, ii. 516.
_Injuries._
Men highly concerned for those that are done to themselves,
little for those that are done to God, i. 140.
God’s patience under them should make us resent them,
ii. 517, 518.
_Injustice._
A contempt of God’s dominion, ii. 435.
_Innocent_ person.
Whether God may inflict eternal torments upon him,
ii. 375, 380, 381.
_Instruments._
Men are apt to pay a service to them rather than to God,
i. 144;
which is a contempt of divine power, ii. 94, 95;
and of his goodness, ii. 324, 325.
Deliverances not to be chiefly ascribed to them, i. 407.
God makes use of sinful ones, i. 534, 535.
None in creation, ii. 40‒42.
The power of God seen in effecting his purposes by weak
ones, ii. 58, 59.
_Inventions_ of men.
See _Addition_ and _Worship_.
J.
_Jehovah._
Signifies God’s eternity, i. 290;
and his immutability, i. 330.
God called so but once in the book of Job, ii. 36.
_Job._
When he lived, ii. 8.
_Jonah._
How he came to be believed by the Ninevites, i. 537.
_Joy._
A necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, i. 234‒236.
Should accompany all our duties, ii. 468, 469.
_Judging_ the hearts of others.
A great sin, i. 478, 479.
Their eternal state a greater, _ib._
_Judgment‑day._
Necessity of it, i. 470, 471, 583, 584.
_Judgments_, extraordinary.
Prove the being of God, i. 74, 75.
Men are apt to put bold interpretations on them, i. 133.
God is just in them, i. 162, 163;
especially after the abuse of his goodness and patience,
ii. 326, 327, 506, 507.
On God’s enemies, matter of praise, ii. 110.
Declare God’s holiness, ii. 132‒135;
which should be observed in them, ii. 197.
Not sent without warning, ii. 241, 242, 488‒491.
Mercy mixed with them, ii. 242, 243.
God sends them on whom he pleases, ii. 420.
Delayed a long time {b533} where there is no repentance,
ii. 491, 492.
God unwilling to pour them out when he cannot delay them any
longer, ii. 492, 493.
Poured out with regret, ii. 493, 494;
by degrees, ii. 494, 495;
moderated, ii. 495, 496.
See _Punishments_.
_Justice_ of God.
A motive to worship, i. 207.
Its plea against man, i. 554‒556.
Reconciled with mercy in Christ, i. 556, 557.
Vindictive, natural to God, ii. 181‒183.
Requires satisfaction, ii. 185, 186.
_Justification._
Cannot be by the best and strongest works of nature,
i. 166, 473, 474; ii. 177, 178, 185, 186.
The holiness of God appears in that of the gospel, ii. 138.
The expectations of it by the outward observance of the law
cannot satisfy an inquisitive conscience, ii. 212.
Men naturally look for it by works, ii. 212, 213.
K.
_Kingdoms._
Are disposed of by God, ii. 413, 414.
_Knowledge._
In God hath no succession, i. 284, 285, 294, 295, 454‒456.
Immutable, i. 321‒324, 460.
Arguments to prove it, i. 393‒395, 461‒465.
The manner of it incomprehensible, i. 324, 325, 428,
429, 438.
God is infinite in it, i. 409.
Owned by all, i. 409, 410.
He hath a knowledge of vision and intelligence, speculative
and practical, i. 411, 412;
of apprehension and approbation, i. 412, 413.
Hath a knowledge of himself, i. 414‒417.
Of all things possible, i. 417‒420;
of all things past and present, i. 420‒422.
Of all creatures, their actions and thoughts, i. 422‒427.
Of all sins, and how, i. 427‒429.
Of all future things, he alone, and how, i. 429‒439.
Of all future contingencies, i. 439‒446.
Doth not necessitate the will of man, i. 446‒451.
It is by his essence, i. 452, 453.
Intuitive, i. 453‒456.
Independent, i. 456, 457.
Distinct, i. 458, 459.
Infallible, i. 459.
No blemish to his holiness, i. 461‒465.
Infinite, attributed to Christ, i. 465‒469.
Infers his providence, i. 469, 470;
and a day of judgment, i. 470, 471;
and the resurrection, i. 471, 472.
Destroys all hopes of justification by anything in
ourselves, i. 472, 473.
Calls for our adoring thoughts of him, i. 473, 474;
and humility, i. 474, 475.
How injured in the world, and wherein, i. 475‒483.
Comfortable to the righteous, and wherein, i. 483‒491.
Terrible to sinners, i. 491, 492.
We should have a sense of it on our hearts, and the
advantages of it, i. 492‒497.
_Knowledge_ of God’s will.
Men negligent in using the means to attain it, i. 100, 101.
Enemies to it, and have no delight in it, i. 101‒103.
Seek it for by‑ends, i. 104.
Admit it with wavering affections, _ib._
Seek it, to improve some lust by it, i. 105, 106.
A sense of man’s, hath a greater influence on us than that
of God, i. 144, 145, 479, 480.
Sins against it should be avoided, i. 173.
Distinct from wisdom, i. 508.
Of all creatures, is derived from God, i. 462, 463.
Ours, how imperfect, i. 474, 475.
L.
_Law_ of God.
How opposite man naturally is to it (see _Man_).
There is one in the minds of men, which is the rule of good
and evil, i. 69, 70.
A change of them doth not infer a change in God, i. 346.
Vindicated, both as to the precept and penalty, in the death
of Christ, i. 565‒567.
Suited to our natures, happiness, and conscience,
i. 527‒529; ii. 253.
We should submit to them, i. 603, 604.
The transgression of them punished by God, ii. 132, 133,
393, 394.
God’s enjoining one which he knew man would not observe, no
blemish to his holiness, ii. 143.
To charge them with rigidness, how great a sin, ii. 178, 179.
We should imitate the holiness of them, ii. 199‒201.
The goodness of God in that of innocence, ii. 252‒254.
Cannot but be good, ii. 339, 340.
He gives laws to all, ii. 388, 389.
Positive ones, _ib._
His only reach the conscience, ii. 390, 391.
Dispensed with by him, but cannot by man, ii. 391‒393,
430, 431.
To make any, contrary to God’s, how great a sin,
ii. 431, 432;
or make additions to them, ii. 432, 433;
or obey those of men before them, ii. 433‒435, 467, 468.
See _Governor_ and _Magistrates_.
_Licentiousness._
The gospel no friend to, i. 504.
_Life_, eternal.
Expected by men from something of their own (see
_Justification_).
Assured to the people of God, i. 356.
_Light._
A glorious creature, ii. 343, 344.
_Light_ of nature.
Shows the being of a God, i. 27‒29.
_Limiting_ God.
A contempt of his dominion, ii. 439.
_Lives_ of men.
At God’s disposal, ii. 421, 422.
_Love_ to God.
Sometimes arises merely from some self‑pleasing benefits,
i. 149‒151.
A necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, i. 231, 232.
A great help to it, i. 272.
God is highly worthy of it, i. 308; ii. 196, 197, 332‒335.
Outward expressions of it insignificant without obedience,
ii. 213, 214.
God’s gospel name, ii. 257, 259.
Of God to his people, great, ii. 449, 450.
_Lusts_ of men.
Make them atheists, i. 24, 25.
{b534} M.
_Magistracy._
The goodness of God in settling it, ii. 300, 301.
_Magistrates_ are inferior to God.
To be obedient to him, ii. 444, 445.
Ought to govern justly and righteously, ii. 445.
To be obeyed, ii. 445, 446.
_Man._
Could not make himself, i. 45‒49.
The world subservient to him, i. 53‒55.
The abridgment of the universe, i. 64; ii. 248, 249.
Naturally disowns the rule God hath set him, i. 99‒117.
Owns any rule rather than God’s, i. 117‒121.
Would set himself up as his own rule, i. 121‒127.
Would give laws to God, i. 127‒135.
Would make himself his own end. (see _End_).
His natural corruption how great, ii. 53, 54.
Made holy at first, ii. 126, 127, 248;
yet mutable, which was no blemish to God’s holiness,
ii. 140‒143.
Made after God’s image, ii. 248.
The world made and furnished for him, ii. 249‒252.
In his corrupt estate, without any motives to excite God’s
redeeming love, ii. 268‒273.
Restored to a more excellent state than his first,
ii. 291‒293.
Under God’s dominion, ii. 384‒386.
_Means._
See _Instrument_.
To depend on the power of God, and neglect them, is an
abuse of it, ii. 96.
Of grace, to neglect them an affront of God’s wisdom,
i. 589, 590.
Given to some, and not to others, ii. 403‒407.
Have various influences, ii. 407, 408.
_Meditation_ on the law of God.
Men have no delight in, i. 101, 102.
_Members_, bodily.
Attributed to God do not prove him a body, i. 188‒190.
What sort of them attributed to him, i. 189;
with a respect to the incarnation of Christ, i. 189, 190.
_Mercies_ of God to sinners.
How wonderful, i. 161, 162.
A motive to worship, i. 206‒208.
Former ones should be remembered when we come to beg new
ones, i. 277, 278.
Its plea for fallen man, i. 556, 557.
It and justice reconciled in Christ, i. 557, 558.
Holiness of God in them to be observed, ii. 197, 198.
Contempt and abuse of them (see _Goodness_).
One foundation of God’s dominion, ii. 371, 372.
Call for our love of him, ii. 232‒235;
and obedience to him, ii. 338, 339.
Given after great provocations, ii. 496, 497.
_Merit_ of Christ.
Not the cause of the first resolution of God to redeem,
ii. 265, 266.
Not the cause of election, ii. 396.
Man incapable of, ii. 343, 344.
_Miracles._
Prove the being of a God, though not wrought to that end,
i. 29, 76.
Wrought by God but seldom, i. 550.
The power of God, ii. 34, 35;
seen no more in them than in the ordinary works of nature,
ii. 51, 62.
Many wrought by Christ, ii. 64.
_Moral_ goodness.
Encouraged by God, ii. 303, 304.
_Moral_ law.
Commands things good in their own nature, i. 94, 95; ii. 389.
The holiness of God appears in it, ii. 128.
Holy in the matter and manner of his precepts, ii. 128‒130.
Reaches the inward man, ii. 130.
Perpetual, ii. 130, 131.
See _Law_ of God.
Published with majesty, ii. 390.
_Mortification._
How difficult, i. 164, 165.
_Motions_ of all creatures.
In God, ii. 49.
Variety of them in a single creature, ii. 50.
_Mountains._
How useful, i. 54.
Before the deluge, i. 278.
_Mouth._
How curiously contrived, i. 65.
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_Nature_ of man.
Must be sanctified before it can perform spiritual worship,
i. 223, 224.
Human, highly advanced by its union with the Son of God,
ii. 273, 274.
Human and divine in Christ (see _Union_).
_Night._
How necessary, i. 523.
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