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AARON, caused the Israelites to sin, i. 15.
Unfaithful in his office, ib. 33. A
type of Christ, ib. 40, 67. His anointing typical of Christ's, ib. 40.
ABNER'S works illustrative of the wicked, i. 307.
ABRAHAM, God's blessing of Abraham typical of that conferred on the saints,
i. 77, 80. Met and blessed by Melchizedec as he came from battle, typical of
Christ and his spiritual warriors, ib. $3. Christ discovered to him, ib. 245.
Abraham and Hagar, typical of believers and the law, ib. 333. He believed
when all means failed, ii. 307. Our example in the work of believing, ib. 307.
ABSOLUTION, the nature of, i. 72. Alone the prerogative of Christ, ib. 72.
ACCEPTANCE, of persons first, then works, i. 48.
ACCUSATIONS, against believers, answered by the Saviour, i. 26.
ACHAN'S sin and its discovery, instructive to the saints, iv. 52.
ACTIONS, their end descriptive, i. 307. Whereby it appears that Christ hath a
greater hand in the actions of believers, than themselves, ib. 382, 388.
ADAM, parallel betwixt the first and the second, i. 202, 325. Christ discovered
to him, ib. 244. Christ our second Adam, ib. 280.
ADOPTION, the fruit of Christ, i. 22. The grace of it had in a way of receiving,
ib. 223. God's adoption superior to man's, ib. 249.
ADVOCATE, Christ as an, i. 28, 38, 41. His work, ib. 28.
AFFECTIONS, what they are, v. 61. In what respect we are to set them on
things above, ib. 62. Why we are to set them on things above, ib. 63.
Marks of having them so placed, ib. 67. The result of having them placed
on things above, or not so, ib. 69. How to draw them off from things below,
and place them on things above, ib. 71. How to settle them more on things
above, ib. 72.
AFFLICTION, a christian must give thanks to God in, iv. 95.
AFFLICTIONS, no legal punishment to believers, i. 16. Arrests to reprobates,
ib. 16. Sometimes the discouragements of the saints arise from their outward
afflictions, ii. 187. Saints apt to be much discouraged by them, ib. 187.
What they are in the saints, ib. 189. Whence they come, ib. 190. What
comes with them, ib. 191. Their fruit and benefit, ib. 193. No cause for
discouragement, ib. 193. They open a new work, ib. 197. They both dis-
cover and heal sins, ib. 197. What visible characters of love are upon them,
ib. 200. Whether christians are to be discouraged by those of the public, ib.
201. Afflictions should lead us to search out our sins and the cause of them,
iv. 52.
ALLEGIANCE, the oath of, v. 323.
ALTAR, the Jewish typical, i. 61.
ANABAPTISTS, the tenets of the, v. 314.
ANGEL of the Covenant, Christ as the, i. 50.
When the destroying angel is
abroad, then is a fit time for the protecting angel to step in, ib. 492. The
same angel may destroy and spare, ib. 492.
ANGELS fittest for the execution of providence, i. 487, 490. They are strong
and potent, ib. 487. They are wise, ib. 488. They are quick and active, ib.
488. They are faithful to God and man, ib. 488. They are loving towards
the saints, ib. 489. Why they are called to the protection of the saints in
time of plague, ib. 489. They supply the wants of God's people in a time of
plague, ib. 492. The extraordinary interposition of angels still continues,
ANGER of God, difficult to be appeased, iv. 68. It is compared to a stream, ib.
68. God hath his days of anger, ib. 349. God is willing to hide his own
people in the day of his anger, ib. 354. God sometimes leaves his people at
uncertainties at the time of his anger, ib 357. When the tokens of God's
anger are abroad, then especially it is the saints' duty to seek unto God, ib.
359. Signs of God's anger, ib. 360. What the saints shall seek in the day
of God's anger, ib. 363. What they shall then do, ib. 363. Only the meek
of the earth can do any good in that day, and their duty, ib. 368.
ANOINTED, Christ as the, i. 41.
ANTICHRIST, what and who is, iii. 92.
His unbloody sacrifices, ib. 93.
APOSTATE, persecutors always headed by some, iii. 304.
APOSTLES, a commendable thing to discover false, iv. 241. False ones dan-
gerous and mischievous, ib. 241. A hard matter to discover false ones, ib.
243. Whether to find out false ones we may go to their meetings, ib. 245.
Why we should all strive to discover false apostles, seeing it is a com-
mendable work, iv. 246. How we shall discover false ones, ib. 248, 254.
Difference betwixt true and false apostles, ib. 251. The special work of
church officers to discover false ones, ib. 256. Christ hath said to all, Be-
ware of false apostles, ib. 258.
APPEARANCES, of God for his people. iii. 387.
APPOINTMENTS of Christ, what they are, iv. 131.
Ass, Christ riding upon an, i. 292.
ARMS, may be lawfully taken up by subjects conjunctively, for self-preservation
against the king's commandment, v. 201. Motive of the parliament in taking
them up, ib. 201. The taking up of them for self-preservation, justified from
nature, ib. 202. The same from Scripture, ib. 202. The same from the laws
of the kingdom, ib. 203. The same from the being of a parliament, ib. 204.
The same from the trust reposed on princes, ib. 205. Whether the parlia-
ment may at any time take up arms, ib. 336.
ASSURANCE, the ground of, i. 16. It is the flower of faith, ib. 156. The want
of it a bar to comfort, ib. 221. Exhortation to get it, ib. 222. Christ hath
a greater hand in our's than ourselves, ib. 390. The want of it no cause of
discouragement, ii. 124. The disadvantages of the want of it, ib. 125. The
want of it not damning unbelief, ib. 126. The want of it works for good, ib.
127. How to get assurance of God's love, ib. 273.
It cannot stand with a
Difference betwixt it
ASTROLOGY, judicial, cried up by some as a great light, i. 437. It is a work of
darkness, ib. 437. It is forbidden of God, ib. 437.
perfect heart, ib. 437. It destroys prophecy, ib. 437.
and Astronomy, ib. 438. It is contrary to Scripture, ib. 440. It is some-
times correct in its predictions, through the assistance and impressions of
Satan, ib. 440. Wholly from the devil, ib. 440.
AUTHORITY, derived from the people, v. 268. When there is a reflux of it, ib.
BABYLON, the destruction of ancient, great and dreadful, iv. 294. What is
meant in the Revelation by this late Babylon, ib. 295.
array against antichristian and Romish Babylon, ib. 297.
Exhortation to set in
What we shall do
to help forward its fall, ib. 298. Antichristian and Romish Babylon shall as-
The duty of the saints to speak of its fall as already
BACKSLIDER, the child of God not a, iv. 233.
BACKSLIDING, in Scripture phrase, is called rebellion, ii. 71.
relapsing defined, iv. 233.
BACKSLIDINGS of the saints, the pleasure of Satan, as an occasion of the dam-
nation of reprobates, i. 132. Greatly the work of Satan, i. 139. A reason
for grief and humility in the saints, i. 140.
BALAAM, typical of the church's enemies, i. 79.
BAPTISM, of Christ, attended with glory, i. 292. An appointment of Christ,
BEGGARS, spiritual, relieved by Christ, i. 59.
BELIEVE, the command to, i. 155.
BELIEVER, a true, may meet with most unworthy usage from the hands of men,
ii. 359.
BELIEVERS, the blessedness of, arising from Christ's fulness, i. 213. Christ is
in all believers, ib. 362. How Christ may be said to be in them, ib. 362, 370.
Believers in Christ as their common Head, ib. 370. Christ in them by his
Spirit, ib. 370. Christ in them not only in the habit of grace, ib. 370. The
profit arising from Christ being actually in them by his Spirit, ib. 371. Christ
liveth in them, ib. 382. Christ hath a greater hand in their actions than they
themselves, ib. 382, 388. Few believers in the world, ib. 391.
Their num-
ber in time of the old testament not small, ii. 354. They stand in need of
daily pardon, v. 386.
BELIEVING in Christ, commanded by God, i. 38. Warranted by the promise,
ib. 38. Taught by example, ib. 38. The hardest thing possible, ib. 164.
What it is, ib. 176. A mark of spiritual life, i. 306. The saint beholds God
as a faithful Creator when in the act of believing, ii. 305. The first work, ib.
311. Believing in the face of difficulty most pleasing to God, ib. 335. Be-
lieving against all opposition recommended, iv. 125.
BELLARMINIAN religion destroys law and gospel, iv. 399.
BEZA's arguments before the court of France, iv. 344.
BIRTHRIGHT, warning to saints against selling their spiritual, iii. 123.
BLESS, Christ's willingness to, i. 73. Christ blesses when the world curses, ib.
77. Christ blesses when under persecution, ib. 77.
Or, ordinances, ib. 78.
Blessing of Christ,
spiritual, ib. 69. Of
BLESSING, the people, the work of the high priest, i. 67.
wherein it consists, ib. 68, 71, 74, 80. Of the gospel,
the law, temporal, ib. 69. Of the high priest, ib. 70. Evangelical blessing,
ib. 70. Of the high priest authoritative, so Christ, ib. 71. Blessing peculiar
to Christ, ib. 72. Christ's prodigality of it when on earth, ib. 73. Blessing
of Christ hardly to be discerned, ib. 74. Blessing of Christ the root of all
blessing, ib. 74. Blessing of the world bestowed upon the rich, ib. 74. Bles-
sing of Christ cross-handed, ib. 74. Christ's blessing unlike the world's, ib.
75. Blessing of Christ superior to that of godly men, ib. 75. Of Christ,
different to that of professors, ib. 76. Of Melchisedec, typical of Christ's, ib.
77. Of Isaac, surpassed by Christ's, ib. 79. Of Christ, draws near to him-
self, ib. 80. Increasing and multiplying natural to blessing, ib. 72, 80. Bles-
sing and bounty synonymous, ib. 80.
him, ib. 84.
Blessing of Christ a reason to bless
BLESSINGS, SO given by God to his people as that he may be seen therein, ii. 287.
BLOOD, of Christ, the ground of his intercession, i. 25. A very great privilege
to come unto the blood of sprinkling, iii. 104. Of sprinkling, what it is, ib.
104. Grounds and reasons thereof in the times of the old testament, ib. 105.
Of sprinkling speaketh better things than that of Abel, ib. 107. What the
blood of sprinkling speaketh, ib. 107. In what respect it speaketh better than
Abel's, ib. 110. Of sprinkling speaks better than the personal blood of Abel,
ib. 110. Or, sacrificed blood of Abel, ib. 111. We are come unto that of
sprinkling or of Jesus, ib. 112. How a man should know whether it be sprink-
led upon his soul, ib. 113. A very great privilege to be sprinkled therewith,
ib. 116. The benefits flowing from the blood of Jesus, ib. 116. The blood
of Jesus, the blood of sprinkling; what we shall do to get our hearts sprinkled
therewith, ib. 118. What our duty is if our hearts be sprinkled therewith,
BOASTING, excluded by the actings of spiritual life, i. 390.
BOLDNESS at a throne of grace, warranted by the indwelling of Christ by his
Spirit, i. 373.
Why should not all
How far it is to
BRAND plucked from the burning, so saints, i. 27.
BROTHER, Christ a brother to his church, i. 3, 172.
BROTHERLY love, commended, ii. 432. Profitable, ib. 434.
abound therein, ib. 436. If real, is a praying love, ib. 437.
be exercised, ib. 438. It consists in the matter of our judgments, ib. 438.
And of our affections, ib. 438. And of our practice, ib. 438.
increased, ib. 439. The things which hinder it, ib. 441.
BROWNISTS, their tenets, v. 313.
CALL, of Christ, an insurance of blessing, i. 84. Rules in calls from one condi-
tion to another, ib. 103. The advantage of considering one's call to a work,
CALLED, the duty of all who are, v. 169. How shall we know if we be so truly,
ib. 171. What we shall do that we may walk worthy of God who hath called
us, ib. 174.
A good one a great
Not absolutely unlaw-
CALLING, every man's duty to abide by his, v. 75, 77.
mercy, ib. 75. An aptness in us to change it, ib. 77.
ful for a man to change his calling, ib. 77. Some cases of conscience answered
about the change of it, ib. 79. Every man's duty to walk with God therein,
ib. 82. What a man should do that he may walk with God therein, ib. 83.
Motives to walk with God therein, ib. 87. What is the calling of the saints,
ib. 166. How God brings a man to himself in a way of calling, ib. 167.
CANDLESTICKS, figurative of the churches, iii. 352.
CARNALITY, what we shall do that we may be rid thereof, v. 130.
CARPENTERS, the three in Zechariah's vision symbolical of God's workmen, iv.
329. Their work, ib. 332. When they arise the times are troublous, ib. 337.
CAST-DOWN, a psalm for the afflicted and cast-down, ii. 25. How far it is pos-
sible for a good man to be cast-down, ib. 26.
CAUSE, actions attributable to each particular cause, not to the universal, i. 269.
CENSER, Christ's golden, i. 47.
CENSURES of the church, appointed by Christ, iv. 136.
CHANGES of believers, how they stand with grace, ii. 31. The evil therein,
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