The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2

INDEX.

Stephen Charnock

Acquaintance with God.: Men are unwilling to have any, i.158.; See Communion.
Actions.: A greater proof of principles than words, i.92.; All are known by God, i.424.
Activity.: Required in spiritual worship, i.227, 228
Adam.: The greatness of his sin, ii.269, 429.; See Man, and Fall of Man.
Additions.: In matters of religion an invasion of God’s sovereignty, ii.432, 433.; See Worship, and Ceremonies.
Admiration.: Ought to be exercised in spiritual worship, i.233.
Affections, human.: In what sense ascribed to God, i.340–343.
Afflictions, sharp.: Make Atheists fear there is a God, i.81.; Make us impatient (see Impatience).; We should be patient under them (see Patience).; Many call on God only under them, i.151.; Fill us with distraction in the worship of God, i.258.; The presence of God a comfort in them, i.399; and his knowledge, i.488.; The wisdom of God apparent in them, i.547–550.; The wisdom of God a comfort in them, i.593; and his power, ii.98,99; and his sovereignty, ii.451.; Do not impeach his goodness, ii.243,244.; The goodness of God seen in them, ii.309–311.; His goodness a comfort in them, ii.342.; Acts of God’s sovereignty, ii.373–376; the consideration of which would make us entertain them as we ought, ii.456.
Age.: Many neglect the serving of God till old, i.113.
Air.: How useful a creature, i.54.
Almighty.: How often God is so called in Scripture, ii.10.; How often in Job, ii.36.
Angels.: Good, what benefit they have by Christ, i.536, ii.263,264.; Not instruments in the creation of man, ii.41.; Evil, not redeemed, ii.263,264.
Angels.: Not governors of the world, ii.328,329.; Subject to God, ii.381,382.
Apostasy.: Men apostatize from God when his will crosses theirs, i.135.; In times of persecution, i.149,150.; By reason of practical atheism, i.167.
Apostles, the first preachers of the gospel.: Mean and worthless men, ii.69–71.; Spirited by Divine power for spreading of it, ii.72–74.; The wisdom of God seen in using such instruments, i.578,579.
Applauding ourselves.: See Pride.
Atheism.: Opens a door to all manner of wickedness, i.24.; Some spice of it in all men, i.25–27.; The greatest folly, i.24–77.; Common in our days, i.26,79,80.; Strikes at the foundation of all religion, i.26.; We should establish ourselves against it, ib.; It is against the light of natural reason, i.2.; Against the universal consent of all nations, i.29,30.; But few, if any, professed it in former ages, i.32–34,80.; Would root up the foundations of all government, i.77.; Introduce all evil into the world, i.78.; Pernicious to the atheist himself, i.79.; The cause of public judgments, i.80.; Men’s lusts the cause of it, i.82.; Promoted by the devil most since the destruction of idolatry, i.84.; Uncomfortable, i.85.; Directions against it, i.87.; All sin founded in a secret atheism, i.93.
Atheism, practical.: Natural to man, i.89.; Natural since the fall, i.90.; To all men, ib.; Proved by arguments, i.99–161.; We ought to be humbled for it, both in ourselves and others, i.167.; How great a sin it is, i.169–171.; Misery will attend it, i.171,172.; We should watch against it, ib.; Directions against it, i.172,173.
Atheist.: Can never prove there is no God, i.81.; All the creatures fight against him, ib.; In afflictions, suspects and fears there is a God, i.82.; How much pains he takes to blot out the notion, ib.; Suppose it were an even lay that there were no God, yet he is very imprudent, i.83.; Uses not means to inform himself, ib.
Atoms.: The world not made by a casual concourse of them, i.50.
Attributes of God.: Bear a comfortable respect to believers, i.513.
Authority.: How distinguished from power, ii.364.

Best we have.: Ought to be given to God, i.242–244.
Blessings.: Spiritual, God only the author of, ii.357.; Temporal, God uses a sovereignty in bestowing them, ii.412,413.; See Riches.
Body of man.: How curiously wrought, i.63–67,523.; Every human one hath different features, i.66.; God hath none (see Spirit).; We must worship God with our bodies, i.219–222; yet not with our bodies only.; See Soul, and Worship.
Bodily shape.: We must not conceive of God under a, i.197,198.
Bodily members.: Ascribed to him (see Members.)
Brain.: How curious a workmanship, i.65.

Calf, golden.

The Israelites worshipped the true God under, i.195.

Callings.

God fits and inclines men to several, i.531,532; i.598.

Appoints every man’s calling, ii.421.

Cause, a first.

Of all things, i.50,51; which doth necessarily exist, and is infinitely perfect, i.51.

Censure.

God not to be censured in his counsels, actions, or revelations, i.295.

Or in his ways, i.605,606.

Censuring the hearts of others.

Is an injury to God’s omniscience, i.478.

Men, is a contempt of God’s sovereignty, ii.441.

Ceremonial Law.

Abolished to promote spiritual worship, i.213.

Called flesh, ib.

Not a fit means to bring the heart into a spiritual frame, i.214.

Rather hindered than furthered spiritual worship, i.215,216.

God never testified himself well-pleased with it, nor intended it should always last, i.216–218.

The abrogation of it doth not argue any change in God, i.346.

The holiness of God appears in it, ii.131,132.

Ceremonies.

Men are prone to bring their own into God’s worship, i.133,134.

See Worship, and Additions,&c.

Chance.

The world not made nor governed by it, i.59.

Charity.

Men have bad ends in it, i.153.

We should exercise it, ii.353,354.

The consideration of God’s sovereignty would promote it, ii.456.

Cheerful, in God’s worship.

We should be, i.235.

Christ.

His Godhead proved from his eternity, i.291–293.

From his omnipresence, i.392,393.

From his immutability, i.346–348.

From his knowledge of God, all creatures, the hearts of men, and his prescience of their inclinations, i.465–469.

From his omnipotence, manifest in creation, preservation and resurrection, ii.80–86.

From his holiness, ii.190.

From his wisdom, i.558.

Christ.

Is God man, ii.62.

Spiritual worship offered to God through him, i.241,242.

The imperfectness of our services should make us prize his mediation, i.261.

The only fit Person in the Trinity to assume our nature, i.558–560.

Fitted to be our Mediator and Saviour by his two natures, i.563–565.

Should be imitated in his holiness, and often viewed by us to that end, ii.200–207.

The greatest gift, ii.266–269.

Appointed by the Father to be our Redeemer, ii.424–426.

Christian religion.

Its excellency, i.167.

Of Divine extraction, i.580.

Most opposed in the world, i.111.

See Gospel.

Church.

God’s eternity a comfort to her in all her distresses and threatenings of her enemies, i.299,300.

Under God’s special providence, i.406.

His infinite knowledge a comfort in all subtile contrivances of men against her, i.483,484.

Troublers of her peace by corrupt doctrines no better than devils, i.498.

God’s wisdom a comfort to her in her greatest dangers, i.594.

Hath shown his power in her deliverance in all ages, i.277, ii.55; and in the destruction of her enemies, ii.56–59.

Ought to take comfort in his power in her lowest estate, ii.101.

Should not fear her enemies (see Fear).

His goodness a comfort in dangers, ii.344.

How great is God’s love to her, ii.449–515.

His sovereignty a comfort to her, ii.452,453.

He will comfort her in her fears, and destroy her enemies, ii.472,473.

God exercises patience towards her, ii.504,505; for her sake to the wicked also, ii.506.

Why her enemies are not immediately destroyed, ii.513.

Commands of God.

See Laws.

Comfort.

The holiness of God to be relied on for, ii.190,191.

Comfort us.

Creatures cannot, if God be angry, ii.448.

Comforts.

God gives great, in or after temptations, ii.311–313.

Communion with God.

Man naturally no desire of, i.161.

The advantage of, i.172.

Can only be in our spirits, i.202.

We should desire it, i.308.

Cannot be between God and sinners, ii.183.

Holiness only fits us for it, ii.204,205.

Conceptions.

We cannot have adequate ones of God, i.196,197.

We ought to labor after as high ones as we can, ib.

They must not be of him in a corporeal shape, i.197,198.

There will be in them a similitude of some corporeal thing in our fancy, i.198,199.

We ought to refine and spiritualize them, i.200.

Conceptions, right.

Of him, a great help to spiritual worship, i.272,273.

Concurrence of God.

To all the actions of his creatures, ii.156,157.

Concurring to sinful actions.

No blemish to God’s holiness, ii.157–163.

Conditions, various.

Of men, a fruit of Divine wisdom, i.531,532.

Conditions of the covenant.

See Covenant, Faith, and Repentance.

Confession of sin.

Men may have bad ends in it, i.153.

Partial ones a practical denial of God’s omniscience, i.480,481.

Conscience.

Proves a Deity, i.69–73.

Fears and stings of it in all men upon the commission of sin, i.70–72; though never so secret, i.71,72.

Cannot be totally shaken off, i.72.

Comforts a man in well-doing, i.72,73.

Necessary for the good of the world, i.73.

Terrified ones wish there were no God, i.97.

Men naturally displeased with it, when it contradicts the desires of self, i.123.

Obey carnal self against the light of it, i.140,141.

Accusations of it evidence God’s knowledge of all things, i.463.

God, and he only, can speak peace to it when troubled, ii.79,386.

His laws only reach it, ii.390,391,432,433.

Constancy in that which is good.

We should labor after, and why, i.360,361.

Content the soul.

Nothing but an infinite good can, i.73,74.

See Satisfaction, and Soul.

Contingents all foreknown by God.

See Knowledge of God.

Contradictions.

Cannot be made true by God, ii.26–30; yet this doth not overthrow God’s omnipotence, ib.

It is an abuse of God’s power to endeavor to justify them by it, ii.95.

Contrary.

Qualities linked together in the creatures, i.52,53,524.

Conversion.

Carnal self-love a great hindrance to it, i.137.

There may be a conversion from sin which is not good, i.150.

Men are enemies to it, i.160,161.

The necessity of it, i.163,164.

God only can be the Author of it, i.165,166, ii.396.

The wisdom of God appears in it, in the subjects, seasons, and manner of it, i.544–547; and his power, ii.72–78; and his holiness, ii.139; and his goodness, ii.306,307; and his sovereignty, ii.396–404.

He could convert all, ii.399.

Not bound to convert any, ii.401,402.

The various means and occasions of it, ii.421.

Convictions, genuine.

Would be promoted by right and strong apprehensions of God’s holiness, ii.191.

Corruptions.

The knowledge of God a comfort under fears of them lurking in the heart, i.489,490.

The power of God a comfort when they are strong and stirring, ii.99.

In God’s people shall be subdued, ii.450,451; the remainders of them God orders for their good, i.538,544.

Covenant of God.

With his people eternal, i.297,298; and unchangeable, i.354.

Covenant, God in.

An eternal good to his people, i.297.

Covenant of grace.

Conditions of, evidence the wisdom of God, i.571.

Suited to man’s lapsed state, and God’s glory, ib.

Opposite to that which was the cause of the fall, i.572.

Suited to the common sentiments and customs of the world and consciences of men, i.572,573.

Only likely to attain the end, i.573. Evidence God’s holiness, ii.138.

The wisdom of God made over to believers in it, i.593,594; and power, ii.98; and holiness, ii.190,191.

A promise of life implied in the covenant of works, ii.253,254; why not expressed, ii.527.

The goodness of God manifest in making a covenant of grace after man had broken the first, ii.274,275.

In the nature and tenor of it, ii.275–277.

In the choice gift of himself made over in it, ii.277,278.

In its confirmation, ii.278,279.

Its conditions easy, reasonable, necessary, ii.279–284.

It promises a more excellent reward than the life in paradise, ii.291–293.

Covetousness.

See Riches, and World.

Creation.

The wisdom of God appears in it, i.518–525; and should be meditated upon, i.525; motives to it, ii.5–9; his power, ii.35–44; his holiness, ii.126,127; his goodness, ii.244–258.

Goodness the end and motive of it, ii.228,229.

Ascribed to Christ, ii.81–85.

The foundation of God’s dominion, ii.368–370.

Creatures.

Evidence the being of God, i.28,42–64; in their production, i.43–51; in their harmony, i.52–60; in pursuing their several ends, i.60–62; in their preservation, i.62,63.

Were not, and cannot be, from eternity, i.45,46,292.

None of them can make themselves, i.47–49; or the world, i.49,50.

Subservient to one another, i.53,378.

Regular, uniform, and constant in it, i.56,57.

Are various, i.58,519,520.

Have several natures, i.60.

All fight against the atheist, i.82.

God ought to be studied in them, i.86.

All manifest something of God’s perfections, ib.

Setting them up as our end (see End).

Must not be worshipped (see Idolatry).

Used by man to a contrary end than God appointed, i.148.

All are changeable, i.355.

Therefore an immutable God to be preferred before them, i.358.

Are nothing to God, i.395.

Are all known by God, i.422,423.

Shall be restored to their primitive end, i.313, D.

Day.

Ear of man.: How curious an organ, i.65.
Earth.: How useful, i.54,55.; The wisdom of God seen in it, i.522.
Earthly things.: See World.
Ejaculations.: How useful, i.272.
Elect.: God knows all their persons, i.485,486.
Election.: Evidenced by holiness, ii.205.; The sovereignty of God appears in it, ii.394–396.; Not grounded on merit in the creature, ii.396.; Nor on foresight of faith and good works, ii.396–399.
Elements.: Though contrary, yet linked together, i.52,53.
End.: All creatures conspire to one common end, i.53–60; pursue their several ends, though they know them not, i.60–62.; Men have corrupt ends in religious duties, i.132, 150–154; for evil ends, i.105,106; desire the knowledge of God’s law, for by ends, i.104.; Man naturally would make himself his own end, i.135–141; how sinful this is, i.141,142; would make anything his end rather than God, i.142–144; a creature, or a lust, i.144–146; how sinful this is, ib.; would make himself the end of all creatures, i.147,149; how sinful this is, i.149; would make himself the end of God, i.148–154; how sinful this is, i.154,155; cannot make God his end, till converted, i.163,164.; Spiritual ones required in spiritual worship, i.239–241; many have other ends in it, ib.; God orders the hearts of all men to his own, ii.54.; God hath one, and man another in sin, i.161,162.; We should make God our end, ii.206.; God makes himself his own end, how to be understood, ii.228–230.; His being the end of all things is one foundation of his dominion, ii.370,371.; Not using God’s gifts for the end for which he gave them, how great a sin, ii.435,436.
Enemies.: Of the church (see Church).; We should be kind to our worst enemies, ii.354,355.
Enjoyment of God.: In heaven always fresh and glorious, i.298,299.; We should endeavor after it here, ii.344–346.
Envy.: 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.

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, 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).

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).; 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Obedience to God.: Not true unless it be universal, i.108,109.; Due to him upon the account of his eternity, i.308,309.; To him should be preferred before obedience to men (see Laws).; Of faith only acceptable to God, i.505.; Distinct, but inseparable from faith, i.505,506.; Shall be rewarded, i.529,530.; Redemption a strong incentive to it, i.571.; Without it nothing will avail us, ii.213,214.; The goodness of God in accepting it, though imperfect, ii.309.; Due to God for his goodness, ii.338–341.; Due to him as a sovereign, ii.462–466.; What kind of it due to him, ii.466–469.
Objects.: The proposing them to man which God knows he will use to sin, no blemish to God’s holiness, ii.161–166.
Obstinacy in sin.: A contempt of Divine power, ii.92,93.
Omissions.: Of prayer, a practical denial of God’s knowledge, i.481; of duty, a contempt of his goodness, ii.320,321.
Omnipresence.: An attribute of God, i.366,367.; Denied by some Jews and heathens, but acknowledged by the wisest amongst them, i.368.; To be understood negatively, i.369.; Influential on all creatures, i.369,370.; Limited to subjects capacitated for this or that kind of it, i.370.; Essential, i.371.; In all places, i.371,372.; With all creatures, i.373,374; without mixture with them, or division of himself, i.374.; Not by multiplication or extension, i.375; but totally, ib.; In imaginary spaces beyond the world, i.375–377.; God’s incommunicable property, i.378.; Arguments to prove his omnipresence, i.378–385.; Objections against it answered, i.385–392.; Ascribed to Christ, i.392,393.; Proves God a Spirit, i.393; and his providence, ib.; and omniscient and incomprehensible, i.394,395.; Calls for admiration of him, i.395,396.; Forgotten and contemned, i.396,397.; Terrible to sinners, i.397,398.; Comfortable to the righteous, and wherein, i.398–402.; Should be often thought of, and the advantages of so doing, i.402–405.
Opposition.: In the hearts of men naturally against the will of God, i.102,103.

Pardon.

God’s infinite knowledge a comfort when we reflect on it, or seek it,i.490,491.

The power of God in granting it, and giving a sense of it, ii.78–80.

The spring of all other blessings, ii.357.

Always accompanied with regeneration, ib.

Punishment remitted upon it, ii.358.

It is perfect, ib.

Of God, and his alone, gives a full security, ii.450.

Patience.

Under afflictions a duty, i.604,605.

God’s immutability should teach us it i.359.

A sense of God’s holiness would promote it, ii.195,196; and his goodness, ii.350.

Motives to it, ii.469,470.

The true nature of it, ii.471.

Consideration of God’s patience to us would promote it, ii.518.

Patience.

Of God how admirable, i.161, 395,396; ii.497–500.

His wisdom the ground of it, i.581,582.

Evidences his power, ii.64,474.

Is a property of the Divine nature, ii.477,478.

A part of goodness and mercy, but differs from both, ii.478–480.

Not insensible, constrained, or faint-hearted, ii.480,481.

Flows from his fulness of power over himself, ii.481,482.

Founded in the death of Christ, ii.482,483.

His veracity, holiness, and justice no bars to it, ii.483–486.

Exercised towards our first parents, Gentiles, and Israelites, ii.486–488.

Wherein it is evidenced, ii.488–500.

The reason of its exercise, ii.500–507.

It is abused, and how, ii.507–509.

The abuse of it sinful and dangerous, ii.509–513.

Exercised towards sinners and saints, ii.513,514.

Comfortable to all, ii.514–516; especially to the righteous, ib.

Should be meditated on, and the advantage of so doing, ii.516–518.

We should admire and bless God for it, with motives so to do, ii.518–522.

Should not be presumed on, ii.522,523.

Should be imitated, ii.523,524.

Peace.

God only can speak it to troubled souls, ii.79.

Permission of sin.

What it is, and that it is no blemish to God’s holiness, ii.146–156.

Persecutions.

The goodness of God seen in them, ii.309–311.

See Apostasy.

Perseverance of the saints.

A gospel doctrine, i.501.

Certain, i.355,356; ii.100,189.

Motives to labor after it, i.360,361.

Depends on God’s power and wisdom, i.500,501; ii.79,80.

Pleasures.

Sensual men strangely addicted to, i.144.

We ought to take heed of them, i.173.

Poems.

Fewer sacred ones good, than of any other kind, i.143.

Poor.

The wisdom of God in making some so, i.531,532.

Power.

Infinite, belongs to God, ii.10.

The meaning of the word, ii.12.

Absolute and ordinate, ii.12,13.

Distinct from will and wisdom, ii.14,15.

Gives life and activity to his other perfections, ii.15,16.

Of a larger extent than some others, ii.16.

Originally and essentially, in the nature of God, and the same with his essence, ii.17,18.

Incommunicable to the creature, ii.18,24.

Infinite and eternal, ii.18–26.

Bounded by his decree, ii.25,26.

Not infringed by the impossibility of doing some things, ii.26–30.

Arguments to prove it is in God, ii.30–35.

Appears in creation, ii.35–44; in the government of the world, ii.44–59; in redemption, ii.59–65; in the publication and propagation of the gospel, ii.65–74; in planting and preserving grace, and pardoning sin, ii.74–80.

Ascribed to Christ, ii.80–86; and to the Holy Ghost, ii.86.

Infers his blessedness, immutability, and providence, ii.86–88.

A ground of worship, ii.88–90; and for the belief of the resurrection, ii.90–92.

Contemned and abused, and wherein, ii.92–96.

Terrible to the wicked, ii.96–98.

Comfortable to the righteous, and wherein, ii.98–102.

Should be meditated on, ii.102,103; and trusted in, and why, ii.103–106.

Should teach us humility and submission, ii.106; and the fear of him, and not of man, ii.106,107.

Praise.

Consideration of God’s wisdom and goodness would help us to give it to him, i.597,598; ii.351.

Men backward to it, ii.356,357.

Due to him, ii.459,460.

Prayer.

Men impatient if God do not answer it, i.152,153.

We should take the most melting opportunities for secret prayer, i.275.

Not unnecessary because of God’s immutability and knowledge, i.348–350,479.

To creatures a wrong to God’s omniscience, i.475,476.

Omission of it a practical denial of God’s knowledge, i.481.

It is a comfort that the most secret ones are understood by God, i.486–488.

God’s wisdom a comfort in delaying or denying an answer to them, i.593.

For success on wicked designs how sinful, ii.175,176.

God fit to be trusted in for an answer of them, ii.188,189.

The goodness of God in answering them, ii.307–309.

His goodness a comfort in them, ii.341,342.

God’s dominion an encouragement to, and ground of it, ii.451, 462,463.

Preparation.

We should examine ourselves concerning it before worship, i.252,253.

Consideration of God’s knowledge would promote it, i.495,496.

How great a sin to come into God’s presence without it, ii.176,177.

Presence of men.

More regarded than God’s, i.144.

We should seek for God’s special and influential presence, i.405.

See Omnipresence.

Preserve himself.

No creature can, i.48,49; ii.46,47.

God only can the world, i.62,63.

The power of God seen in it, ii.44–47.

One foundation of God’s dominion, ii.371.

Presumption.

Springs from vain imaginations of God, i.157.

A contempt of God’s dominion, ii.440,441.

Pride.

How common, i.139.

An exalting ourselves above God, i.147,148.

The thoughts of God’s eternity should abate it, i.303.

An affront to God’s wisdom, i.592.

Of our own wisdom, foolish, i.600,601.

God’s mercies abused to it, ii.323.

A contempt of his dominion, ii.439,440.

Principles.

Better known by actions than words, i.92,93.

Some kept up by God to facilitate the reception of the gospel, i.576,577.

Promises.

Men break them with God, i.116, 117, 351,353.

Of God shall be performed, i.300,301; ii.99, 100,516.

We should believe them, and leave God to his own season of accomplishing them, i.499.

Distrust of them a contempt of God’s wisdom, i.593.

The holiness of God in the performance of them to be observed, ii.197,198.

Propagation of creatures.

The power of God seen in it, ii.47–49.

Of mankind one end of God’s patience, ii.504.

Prophesies.

Prove the being of God, i.76,77.

Providence.

Of God proved, i.393, 394, 469, 470; ii.87,88.

See Government of the world.

Especially to his church, and the meanest in it, i.406–408.

Extends to all creatures, ii.296–300.

Distrust of it, a contempt of God’s goodness, ii.319,320.

Punishments.

See Judgments.

God always just in them, i.162,R.

Rain.

Sacraments.: The goodness of God in appointing them. ii.287,288.
Salvation of men.: How desirous God is of it, ii.284–287, 500–502.
Sanctification.: Deserves our thanks as much as justification, ii.357,358.; See Holiness.
Satisfaction.: Of the soul only in God, i.74, 202, 203, 305,306.; Necessary for sin, ii.183,184.
Sceptics.: Must own a First Cause, i.51.
Scoffing.: At holiness a great sin, ii.170; and at convictions in others, ii.191,192.
Scriptures.: Are wrested and abused, i.105, 106, 134,135.; Ought to be prized and studied, i.173.; The not fulfilling some predictions in them, doth not prove God to be changeable, i.342–345.; Of the Old Testament give credit to the New, and of the New illustrate those of the Old, i.503.; All truth to be drawn thence, ib.; Of the Old Testament to be studied, ib.; Something in them suitable to all sorts of men, i.528–530.; Written so as to prevent foreseen corruptions, i.530,531.; To study arguments from them to defend sin, a contempt of God’s holiness, ii.175.; The goodness of God in giving them as a rule, ii.304,305.
Sea.: How useful, i.54,55.; The wisdom of God seen in it, i.522; and his power, ii.7, 45,46.
Searching the hearts of men.: How to be understood of God, i.427,428.
Seasons.: The variety of them necessary, i.523.
Secresy.: A poor refuge to sinners, i.491,492.
Secret sins.: Cause stings of conscience, i.71, 72,463; known to God, i.394, 397, 398, 490,491; shall be revealed in the day of judgment, i.470,471; prayers and works known to God, i.486–488.
Security.: Men abuse God’s blessings to it, ii.323.
Self.: Man most opposite to those truths that are most contrary to it, i.107.; Man sets up as his own rule, i.121.; Dissatisfied with conscience when it contradicts its desires, i.123,124.; Merely the agreeableness to it the springs of many materially good actions, i.124–126, 149–154, 240,241.; Would make it the rule of God, i.127–135; and his own end, and the end of all creatures, and of God (see End).; Applauding thoughts of it how common, i.138,139.; Men ascribe the glory of what they have or do to it, i.139,140; desire doctrines pleasing to it, ib.; highly concerned for any injury done to it, i.140; obey it against the light of conscience, i.140,141; how great a sin this is, i.141,142.; The giving mercies pleasing to it, the only cause of many men’s love to God, i.149,150.; Men unwieldy to their duty where it is not concerned, i.151,152; how sinful this is, i.154,155.; The great enemy to the gospel and conversion, i.165.
Self-love.: Threefold, i.136.; The cause of all sin, and hindrance of conversion, i.135–138.
Service of God.: How unwilling men are to it, i.112–114; slight in the performance of it, i.113,114; show not that natural vigor in it as they do in their worldly business, i.113–115; quickly weary of it, i.114,115; desert it, i.115–117.; The presence of God a comfort in it, i.401,402.; Hypocritical pretences for avoiding it, a denial of God’s knowledge, i.481,482.; A sense of God’s goodness would make us faithful in it, ii.339–341.; Some called to, and fitted for more eminent ones in their generation, ii.410–416.; Omissions of it a contempt of God’s sovereignty, ii.441.
Sin.: Founded in a secret atheism and self-love, i.93, 136–138.; Reflects a dishonor on all the attributes of God, i.93,94.; Implies God is unworthy of a being, ib.; Would make him a foolish, impure and miserable being, i.94,95.; More troublesome than holiness, i.111,112.; To make it our end, a great debasing of God, i.144–146.; No excuse, but an aggravation, that we serve but one, i.145,146.; Abstinence from it proceeds many times from an evil cause, i.150, 479,480.; God’s name, word, and mercies, made use of to countenance it, i.154; ii.172, 173, 321–324, 508,509.; Spiritual to be avoided, i.203,204.; It is folly, i.295,296.; Past ones we should be humbled for, i.301, 302, 492,493.; Hath brought a curse on the creation, i.315.; See Creatures.; Past known to God, i.420,421; all known to him, and how, i.427–431, 493,494.; A sense of God’s knowledge and holiness would check it, i.494,495; ii.194.; Bounded by God, i.532,533.; God brings glory to himself, and good to the creature out of it, i.533–544.; God hath shown the greatest hatred of it in redemption, i.567,568.; A contempt of God’s power, ii.92.; Abhorred by God, ii.118–122, 181,182.; In God’s people more severely punished in this world than in others, ii.120,121.; God cannot be the author of it in others, or do it himself, ii.122–127.; God punishes it, and cannot but do so, ii.132, 133, 182,183.; The instruments of it detestable to God, ii.133,134.; Opposite to the holiness of God, ii.171,172.; To charge it on God, or defend it by his word, a great sin, ii.174,175.; Entrance of it into the world doth not impeach God’s goodness, ii.231,232.; Those that disturb societies most signally punished in this life, ii.301,302.; A contempt of God’s dominion, ii.427–431.; How much God is daily provoked by it, ii.497–499, 519,520.; An abuse of God’s patience, ii.508,509.
Sincerity.: Required in spiritual worship, i.225,226.; Cannot be unknown to God, i.486.; Consideration of God’s knowledge would promote it, i.496.
Sinful times.: In them we should be most holy, ii.198,199.
Sinners.: God hath shown the greatest love to them, and hatred to their sins, i.567,568.; Everything in their possession detestable to God, ii.133,134.
Society.: The goodness of God seen in the preservation of it, ii.300–302.; Could not exist without restraining grace (see Restraint).
Soul.: The vastness of its capacity, and quickness of its motion, i.67,68.; Its union to the body wonderful, i.69.; God only can satisfy it (see Satisfaction).; They only can converse with God, i.202.; Should be the objects of our chiefest care, i.203.; We should worship God with them, i.209–211.; The wisdom and goodness of God seen in them, ii.49, 247,248.
Spaces.: Imaginary beyond the world, God is present with, i.375–377.
Spirit, that God is so.: Plainly asserted but once in scripture, i.180.; Various acceptations of the word, i.181,182.; That God is so, how to be understood, ib.; God the only pure one, i.182,183.; Arguments to prove God is one, i.183–188.; Objection against it answered, i.188–190.
Spirit of God.: His assistance necessary to spiritual worship, i.224,225.
Spirits of men.: Raised up, and ordered by God as he pleases, ii.415,416.
Subjection to our superiors.: God remits of his own right for preserving it, ii.301,302.
Success.: Men apt to ascribe to themselves, i.139.; Not to be ascribed to ourselves, ii.324,325.; Denied by God to some, ii.411,412.
Summer.: How necessary, i.523.
Sun.: Conveniently placed, i.53.; Its motion useful, i.53,57.; The power of God seen in it, i.195,196.
Supper, Lord’s.: The goodness of God in appointing it, ii.287,288.; Seals the covenant of grace, ii.288,289.; In it we have union and communion with Christ, ii.289–291.; The neglect of it reproved, ii.291.
Supererogation.: An opinion that injures the holiness of God, ii.179,180.
Superstition.: Proceeds from vain imaginations of God, i.156,157.
Swearing by any creature.: An injury to God’s omniscience, i.477,478.

Temptations.: The presence of God a comfort in them, i.399; the thoughts of it would be a shield against them, i.403.; The wisdom and power of God a comfort under them, i.594; ii.99.; The goodness manifested to his people under them, ii.311–313.; The would arm and make us watchful against them, ii.456.
Thankfulness.: A necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, i.233,234.; Due to God, ii.351, 352, 460, 518–522; a sense of his goodness would promote it, i.351.
Theft.: An invasion of God’s dominion, ii.435.
Thoughts.: Should be often upon God, i.87,88; seldom are on him, i.143, 159,160.; All known by God only, i.424–427; and by Christ, i.467–469.; Cherishing evil ones a practical denial of God’s knowledge, i.482,483.; Thoughts of God’s knowledge would make us watchful over them, i.495.
Threatenings.: The not fulfilling them sometimes, argue no change in God, i.342–345.; Are conditional, ib.; The goodness of God in them, ii.255.; Go before judgments (see Judgments).
Time.: Cannot be infinite, i.44,45.
Times of bestowing mercy.: God orders as a sovereign, ii.412,413.
Tongue.: How curious a workmanship i.66.
Traditions.: Old ones generally lost, i.37,38.; Belief of a God not owing merely to them, ib.
Transubstantiation.: An absurd doctrine, ii.95.
Trees.: How useful, i.54,523.
Trust in themselves.: Men do, and not in God, i.150.; We should not in the world, i.304–307, 357,358.; God the fit object of it, i.484, 485, 569, 570,583; ii.103, 104, 188, 335–337, 462,463; means to promote it, i.497; ii.454,455.; Should not in our own wisdom, i.600,601.; In ourselves, a contempt of God’s power and dominion, ii.94, 95, 436,437.; God’s power the main ground of trusting him, ii.104,105; and sometimes the only one, ii.105,106.; Should be placed in God against outward appearances, ii.198.; Goodness the first motive of it, ii.336.; More foundations of it, and motives to it under the gospel than under the law, ii.337.; Gives God the glory of his goodness, ii.337,338.; God’s patience to the wicked, a ground for the righteous to trust in his promise, ii.516.
Truths of God.: Most contrary to self, man most opposite to; and to those that are most holy, spiritual, lead most to God, and relate most to him, i.107.; Men inconstant in the belief of them, i.350,351.

Ubiquity.: Of Christ’s human nature confuted, i.378.
Unbelief.: The reason of it, i.165.; A contempt of Divine power, ii.95; and goodness, ii.319.
Union of soul and body.: An effect of Almighty power, i.69.
Union of two natures in Christ.: Made no change in his Divine nature, i.339,340.; Shows the wisdom of God, i.552–568.; How necessary for us, i.563–566.; Shows the power of God, ii.62.; Explained, ii.62,63.; See Incarnation.
Usurpations.: Of men an invasion of God’s sovereignty, ii.430,431.

Venial sins.: An opinion that reproaches God’s holiness, ii.179.
Virtue and vice.: Not arbitrary things, i.93,94.

Water.: An excellent creature, ii.224.
Weakness.: Sensibleness of a necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, i.232.
Will of God.: Cannot be defeated, i.95,96.; Man averse to it (see Man).; The same with his essence, i.325,326.; Always accompanied with his understanding, i.326.; Unchangeable, i.326–328.; The unchangeableness of it doth not make things willed by him so, i.327,328.; Free, ib.; How concurrent about sin, ii.147,148.
Will of man.: Not necessitated by God’s foreknowledge, i.446–451; subject to God, ii.385,386.
Winds.: How useful, i.522.
Winter.: How useful, i.523.
Wisdom.: An attribute of God, i.507.; What it is, and wherein it consists, ib.; Distinct from knowledge, i.508.; Essential, which is the same with his essence; and personal, ib.; In what sense God is only wise, i.509–514.; Proved to be in God, i.515–518.; Appears in creation, i.518–525.; In the government of man as rational, i.525–532; as fallen and sinful, i.532–544; as restored, i.544–552.; In redemption, i.552–571.; In the condition of the covenant of grace, i.571–574.; In the propagation of the gospel, i.574–580.; Ascribed to Christ, i.580.; Renders God fit to govern the world, and inclines him actually to govern it, i.580–582.; A ground of his patience and immutability in his decrees, i.582,583.; Makes him a fit object of our trust, i.583.; Infers a day of judgment, i.583,584.; Calls for a veneration of him, i.584.; A ground of prayer to him, i.585.; Prodigiously contemned, and wherein, i.585–593.; Comfortable to the righteous, i.593–595.; In creation and government should be meditated on, and motives to it, i.595–598.; In redemption to be studied and admired, i.598–600.; To be submitted to in his revelations, precepts, providences, i.602–605.; Not to be censured in any of his ways, i.605,606.
Wisdom.: No man should be proud of, or trust in, i.600,601.; Should be sought from God, i.601,602.
World.: Was not, and could not be from eternity, i.44–46.; Could not make itself, i.47–49.; No creature could make it, i.49,50.; Its harmony, i.52–60.; Greedily pursued by men, i.143,144.; Inordinate desires after it a great hindrance to spiritual worship, i.273.; Our love and confidence not to be placed in it, i.304, 315,316.; Shall not be annihilated, but refined, i.311–314.; See Creatures.; We should be sensible of the inconstancy of all things in it, i.356,357; our thoughts should not dwell much on them, i.357; we should not trust or rejoice in them, i.357,358.; Not to be preferred before God, i.358,359.; Made in the best manner, ii.24,25.; Made and richly furnished for man, ii.249–251.; A sense of God’s goodness would lift us up above it, ii.351.
Worship of God.: A folly to neglect it, i.87,88.; If not according to his rule, no better than a worshipping the devil, i.118,119.; Men prone to corrupt it with their own rites and inventions, i.133,134.; Spiritual, men naturally have no heart to, i.160.; Cannot be right without a true notion of God, i.198.; Should be spiritual, and spiritually performed, i.205,206.; God’s spirituality the rule, though his attributes be the foundation of it, i.206–208; ii.88–90.; Spiritual, to be due to him, manifest by the light of nature, though not the outward means and matter of an acceptable worship discoverable by it, i.208–211.; Spiritual, owned to be due to God by heathens, i.209,210.; Always required by God, i.211,212.; Men as much obliged to it as to worship him at all, i.212,213.; Ceremonial law abolished to promote it, i.213–219.; Legal ceremonies did not promote, but rather hinder it, i.214–216.; By them God was never well-pleased with, nor intended it should be durable, i.216–219.; Under the gospel it is more spiritual than under the law, i.219.; Yet doth not exclude bodily worship, i.219–222.; In societies, due to God, i.221.; Spiritual, what it is, and wherein it consists, i.222–242.; Due to God, proved, i.242–249.; Those reproved that render him none at all, i.249.; A duty incumbent on all, i.249,250.; Wholly to neglect it a great degree of atheism, i.250.; To a false God, or in a false manner, better than a total neglect of it, i.250,251.; Outward, not to be rested in, i.251,252.; We should examine ourselves of the manner of it, and in what particulars, i.252–256.; Spiritual, it is a comfort that God requires it, i.256.; Not to give it to God, is to affront all his attributes, i.263–271,481.; To give it him, and not that of our spirits, is a bad sign, i.268,269.; Merely carnal, uncomfortable, unacceptable, abominable, i.269–271.; Directions for spiritual, i.271–275.; Immutability of God, a ground of worship, and encouragement to it, i.348–350.; Bringing human inventions into it an affront to God’s wisdom, i.587–589.; See Ceremonies.; A strong sense of God’s holiness would make us reverent in it, ii.194.; We should carry it holily in it, ii.207.; Ingenuous, would be promoted by a sense of God’s goodness, ii.348.; Slight and careless, a contempt of God’s sovereignty, ii.440,441; and so is omission of it, ii.441.; Thoughts of God’s sovereignty would make us diligent in it, ii.455,456.
Worship of creatures.: Is idolatry, i.194–196.; Not countenanced by God’s omnipresence, i.390,391.
Wrong.: God can do none, i.171; ii.442,443.

Zeal.: Sometimes a base end in it, i.154.

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