Chapter C

_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 {b527} 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 {b528} 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, ii. 293.
Their beautiful order and situation, i. 520, 521.
Are fitted for their several ends, i. 522‒524.
None of them can be omnipresent, i. 378;
or omnipotent, ii. 18;
or infinitely perfect, ii. 24.
God could have made more than he hath, ii. 21, 22.
Made them all more perfect than they are, ii. 23, 24.
Yet all are made in the best manner, ii. 24, 25.
The power that is in them demonstrates a greater to be
in God, ii. 31.
Ordered by God as he pleases, ii. 57.
The meanest of them can destroy us by God’s order,
ii. 107, 448.
Making different ranks of them, doth not impeach God’s
goodness, ii. 232‒235.
Cursed for the sin of man, ii. 250, 293.
What benefit they have by the redemption of man, ii. 293, 294.
Cannot comfort us if God be angry, ii. 448.
All subject to God, ii. 381‒387.
All obey God, ii. 465, 466.

_Curiosity_ in inquiries about God’s counsels and actions.
A great folly, i. 295.
It is an injuring God’s knowledge, i. 475‒477.
It is a contempt of Divine wisdom, i. 590.
Should not be employed about what God hath not revealed,
i. 603, 604.
The consideration of God’s sovereignty would check it, ii. 457.