Chapter D

_Day._
How necessary, i. 523.

_Death_ of Christ.
Its value is from his Divine Nature, i. 564.
Vindicated the honor of the law, both as to precept and
penalty, i. 566.
Overturned the Devil’s empire, i. 568.
He suffered to rescue us by it, ii. 268.
By the command of the Father, ii. 425, 426.

_Debauched_ persons.
Wish there were no God, i. 97.

_Decrees_ of God.
No succession in them, i. 285.
Unchangeable, i. 582, 583, ii. 451, 452.
See _Immutability_.

_Defilement._
God not capable of it from any corporeal thing, i. 201,
390, 392.

_Delight._
Holy duties should be performed with, i. 234‒236.
All delight in worship doth not prove it to be spiritual,
i. 235.
We should examine ourselves after worship, what delight we
had in it, i. 252.

_Deliverances._
Chiefly to be ascribed to God, i. 406.
The wisdom of God seen in them, i. 550‒552.

_Desires_, of man.
Naturally after an infinite good, i. 73, 74;
which evidences the being of a God, i. 74.
Men naturally have no desire of remembrance of God, converse
with him, thorough return to him, or imitation of him,
i. 159‒161.

_Devil._
Man naturally under his dominion, i. 118, 119.
God’s restraining him, how great a mercy (see _Restraint_).
Shall be totally subdued by God, i. 498.
Outwitted by God, i. 568.
His first sin, what it was, ii. 427‒429.
See _Angel_.

_Direction._
Men neglect to ask it of God (see _Trusting in ourselves_).
Should seek it of him, i. 585.
Not to do it, how sinful, i. 589, 590.
Should not presume to give it to him, i. 591.

_Disappointments._
Make many cast off their obedience to God, i. 115, 116.
God disappoints the devices of men, ii. 418‒420.

_Dispensations._
Of God with his own law, ii. 391‒393.

_Distance_ from God.
Naturally affected by men, i. 158, 159.
How great it is, ii. 180.

_Distractions_ in the service of God.
How natural, i. 114, 256.
Will be so while we have natural corruption within,
i. 256, 257;
while we are in the Devil’s precinct, i. 257.
Most frequent in time of affliction, i. 258.
May be improved to make us more spiritual, i. 258‒261;
when we are humbled for them in worship, i. 258, 259;
and for the baseness of our natures, the cause of them,
i. 259.
Make us prize duties of worship the more, _ib._
Fill us with admirations of the graciousness of God, i. 260.
Prize the meditation of Christ, i. 261.
They should not discourage us, if we resist them, _ib._;
and if we narrowly watch against them, i. 262.
Should be speedily cast out, i. 274.
Thoughts of God’s presence a remedy against them, i. 404.

_Distresses._
See _Afflictions_.

_Distrust_ of God.
A contempt of God’s wisdom, i. 593;
and his power, ii. 93;
and of his goodness, ii. 319, 320.
Too great fear of man arises from it, ii. 94.
See _Trusting in God_, and _in ourselves_.

_Divinity._
Of Christ (see _Christ_).
Of the Holy Ghost (see _Holy Ghost_).

_Doctrines._
That are self‑pleasing desired by men, i. 139.
See _Truths_.

_Dominion_ of God.
Distinguished from his power, ii. 364.
All his other attributes fit him for it, ii. 364, 365.
Acknowledged by all, _ib._
Inseparable from the notion of God, ii. 365, 366.
We cannot suppose God a creator without it, ii. 366.
Cannot be renounced by God himself, _ib._;
nor communicated to any creature, ii. 366, 367.
Its foundation, ii. 367‒372.
It is independent, ii. 372, 373;
absolute, ii. 373‒377;
yet not tyrannical, ii. 377, 378;
managed with wisdom, righteousness, and goodness,
ii. 378‒380.
It is eternal, ii. 386, 387.
It is manifested as he is a lawgiver, ii. 387‒394;
as a proprietor, ii. 394‒413;
as a governor, ii. 413‒422;
as a redeemer, ii. 422‒426.
The contempt of it, how great, ii. 426, 427.
{b529} All sin is a contempt of it, ii. 427, 428.
The first thing the devil aimed against, ii. 428, 429;
and Adam, ii. 429.
Invaded by the usurpations of men, ii. 430, 431.
Wherein it is contemned as he is a lawgiver, ii. 431‒435;
as a proprietor, ii. 435, 436;
as a governor, ii. 436‒441.
It is terrible to the wicked, ii. 446‒448.
Comfortable to the righteous, ii. 449‒453.
Should be often meditated upon by us, ii. 453, 454.
The advantages of so doing, ii. 454‒457.
It should teach us humility, ii. 458.
Calls for our praise and thanks, ii. 459, 460.
Should make us promote his honor, ii. 461, 462.
Calls for fear, prayer, and obedience, ii. 462, 463.
Affords motives to obedience, ii. 463‒466;
and shows the manner of it, ii. 466‒469.
Calls for patience, ii. 469.
Affords motives to it, ii. 469‒471.
Shows us the true nature of it, ii. 471.

_Duties_ of religion.
Performed often merely for self‑interest, i. 150‒154.
Men unwieldy to them, i. 151.
Perform them only in affliction, i. 151, 152.
See _Service of God_, and _Worship_.

_Dwelling_ in heaven, and in the ark.
How to be understood of God, i. 385, 386.

E.

_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.

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.