Chapter L

_Law_ of God.
How opposite man naturally is to it (see _Man_).
There is one in the minds of men, which is the rule of good
and evil, i. 69, 70.
A change of them doth not infer a change in God, i. 346.
Vindicated, both as to the precept and penalty, in the death
of Christ, i. 565‒567.
Suited to our natures, happiness, and conscience,
i. 527‒529; ii. 253.
We should submit to them, i. 603, 604.
The transgression of them punished by God, ii. 132, 133,
393, 394.
God’s enjoining one which he knew man would not observe, no
blemish to his holiness, ii. 143.
To charge them with rigidness, how great a sin, ii. 178, 179.
We should imitate the holiness of them, ii. 199‒201.
The goodness of God in that of innocence, ii. 252‒254.
Cannot but be good, ii. 339, 340.
He gives laws to all, ii. 388, 389.
Positive ones, _ib._
His only reach the conscience, ii. 390, 391.
Dispensed with by him, but cannot by man, ii. 391‒393,
430, 431.
To make any, contrary to God’s, how great a sin,
ii. 431, 432;
or make additions to them, ii. 432, 433;
or obey those of men before them, ii. 433‒435, 467, 468.
See _Governor_ and _Magistrates_.

_Licentiousness._
The gospel no friend to, i. 504.

_Life_, eternal.
Expected by men from something of their own (see
_Justification_).
Assured to the people of God, i. 356.

_Light._
A glorious creature, ii. 343, 344.

_Light_ of nature.
Shows the being of a God, i. 27‒29.

_Limiting_ God.
A contempt of his dominion, ii. 439.

_Lives_ of men.
At God’s disposal, ii. 421, 422.

_Love_ to God.
Sometimes arises merely from some self‑pleasing benefits,
i. 149‒151.
A necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, i. 231, 232.
A great help to it, i. 272.
God is highly worthy of it, i. 308; ii. 196, 197, 332‒335.
Outward expressions of it insignificant without obedience,
ii. 213, 214.
God’s gospel name, ii. 257, 259.
Of God to his people, great, ii. 449, 450.

_Lusts_ of men.
Make them atheists, i. 24, 25.

{b534} M.

_Magistracy._
The goodness of God in settling it, ii. 300, 301.

_Magistrates_ are inferior to God.
To be obedient to him, ii. 444, 445.
Ought to govern justly and righteously, ii. 445.
To be obeyed, ii. 445, 446.

_Man._
Could not make himself, i. 45‒49.
The world subservient to him, i. 53‒55.
The abridgment of the universe, i. 64; ii. 248, 249.
Naturally disowns the rule God hath set him, i. 99‒117.
Owns any rule rather than God’s, i. 117‒121.
Would set himself up as his own rule, i. 121‒127.
Would give laws to God, i. 127‒135.
Would make himself his own end. (see _End_).
His natural corruption how great, ii. 53, 54.
Made holy at first, ii. 126, 127, 248;
yet mutable, which was no blemish to God’s holiness,
ii. 140‒143.
Made after God’s image, ii. 248.
The world made and furnished for him, ii. 249‒252.
In his corrupt estate, without any motives to excite God’s
redeeming love, ii. 268‒273.
Restored to a more excellent state than his first,
ii. 291‒293.
Under God’s dominion, ii. 384‒386.

_Means._
See _Instrument_.
To depend on the power of God, and neglect them, is an
abuse of it, ii. 96.
Of grace, to neglect them an affront of God’s wisdom,
i. 589, 590.
Given to some, and not to others, ii. 403‒407.
Have various influences, ii. 407, 408.

_Meditation_ on the law of God.
Men have no delight in, i. 101, 102.

_Members_, bodily.
Attributed to God do not prove him a body, i. 188‒190.
What sort of them attributed to him, i. 189;
with a respect to the incarnation of Christ, i. 189, 190.

_Mercies_ of God to sinners.
How wonderful, i. 161, 162.
A motive to worship, i. 206‒208.
Former ones should be remembered when we come to beg new
ones, i. 277, 278.
Its plea for fallen man, i. 556, 557.
It and justice reconciled in Christ, i. 557, 558.
Holiness of God in them to be observed, ii. 197, 198.
Contempt and abuse of them (see _Goodness_).
One foundation of God’s dominion, ii. 371, 372.
Call for our love of him, ii. 232‒235;
and obedience to him, ii. 338, 339.
Given after great provocations, ii. 496, 497.

_Merit_ of Christ.
Not the cause of the first resolution of God to redeem,
ii. 265, 266.
Not the cause of election, ii. 396.
Man incapable of, ii. 343, 344.

_Miracles._
Prove the being of a God, though not wrought to that end,
i. 29, 76.
Wrought by God but seldom, i. 550.
The power of God, ii. 34, 35;
seen no more in them than in the ordinary works of nature,
ii. 51, 62.
Many wrought by Christ, ii. 64.

_Moral_ goodness.
Encouraged by God, ii. 303, 304.

_Moral_ law.
Commands things good in their own nature, i. 94, 95; ii. 389.
The holiness of God appears in it, ii. 128.
Holy in the matter and manner of his precepts, ii. 128‒130.
Reaches the inward man, ii. 130.
Perpetual, ii. 130, 131.
See _Law_ of God.
Published with majesty, ii. 390.

_Mortification._
How difficult, i. 164, 165.

_Motions_ of all creatures.
In God, ii. 49.
Variety of them in a single creature, ii. 50.

_Mountains._
How useful, i. 54.
Before the deluge, i. 278.

_Mouth._
How curiously contrived, i. 65.

N.

_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.

O.

_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._
{b535} 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.

P.

_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 {b536} 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, 163; ii. 326, 327.
Of sinners eternal, i. 296, 297.
The wisdom of God seen in them, i. 548.
Necessarily follow sins, ii. 181‒183.
Do not impeach God’s goodness, ii. 236‒244.
Not God’s primary intention, ii. 240, 241.
Inflicting them a branch of God’s dominion, ii. 393, 394;
necessarily follow upon it, ii. 447.
Of the wicked unavoidable and terrible, ii. 447‒449.

_Purgatory._
Held by the Jews, i. 126.

R.

_Rain._
An instance of God’s wisdom and power, i. 522.

_Reason._
Should not be the measure of God’s revelations, i. 602, 603.

_Repentance._
How ascribed to God, i. 341, 342.
A reasonable condition, i. 573.
The end of God’s patience, ii. 502‒504.
The consideration of God’s patience would make us frequent
and serious in the practice of it, ii. 517, 518.

_Reprobation._
Consistent with God’s holiness and justice, ii. 146, 147.

_Reproof._
May be for evil ends, i. 154.

_Reputation._
Men more concerned for their own, than God’s glory, i. 140.

_Resignation_ of ourselves.
Would flow from consideration of God’s wisdom, i. 604, 605;
should from that of his sovereignty, ii. 457.

_Resolutions_, good.
How soon broken, i. 351.

_Restraint._
Of men and devils by God in mercy to man, i. 532, 533,
ii. 52‒54, 154, 301, 416‒418.

_Resurrection._
Of the body no incredible doctrine, i. 471, 472, ii. 90‒92.
The power of God in that of Christ, ii. 65.
Of men, ascribed to Christ, ii. 84, 85.

_Reverence._
Necessary in the worship of God, i. 236, 237.

_Revelations._
Of God are not to be censured, i. 590, 591.

_Riches._
Inordinate desire after them a hindrance to spiritual
worship, i. 273.
God exercises a sovereignty in bestowing them, ii. 411, 412.

_Rivers._
How useful, i. 522, 523.

_Rome._
Why called Babylon, i. 39.

S.

_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 {b537} 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 {b538} 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.

T.

_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.

U.

_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 {b539} 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.