Aaron's rod, vii. 110.

Abasement, of Christ, i. 6; whence, i. 7; fruit of,
i 7; contrast with his exaltation, v. 346; our's
justified, vi 63; greatness of Christ's, vi. 61,
62, 63; his word powerful in, vi. 149; his
Godhead appeared in it, vi. 318; sanctified,
whence, vi. 239; considerations to abase us,
vii. 251.

Able, v. 181; a Christian has an abler Spirit than
his own, v. 181, 182; the act, v. 190.
Above, seek things, v. 200, 201.

Absence, of God's Spirit discourageth, i. 398;
from Christ solaced, ii. 203; Christ absent,
vi. 406; how know he is not, vi. 407.
Absolute, go not to God as, iv. 333; no evil,
v. 270.

Abundance, of grace, iv. 471, 475; abound or
want, v. 179, 180; abounding, v. 215.
Abuse, ii. 242.

Accepted, in Christ, i. 12; acceptance, vi. 72;
acceptable to God, vii. 214.

Accusations of Satan, how to answer, ii. 179, 181.
Achaia, the country wherein Corinth was, iii. 11.
Acknowledge, the good as well as evil in us, ii. 47;
or acknowledgment, what, iii. 300, 314; to
acknowledge Christ, what, iii. 315; Christ
acknowledged in the minister, iii. 315, 316;
how to know whether we acknowledge the
minister, iii. 315, 317.

Acquaintance with God, ii. 515, iv. 186; and
familiarity with God, vi. 17.

Action and Actions, how to know whether from a
good ground, i. 82; what, are to be imputed to
weak Christians, i. 75, 76; what are the prin-
ciples of them, i. 191; holy, rightly performed,
bring strength, ii. 85, 89; of Christ, all pre-
cious, ii. 153; good always with comfort, ii. 364;
three sorts of, good, ill, indifferent, iii. 241;
holy, by change, iv. 258; principles of, iv. 380;
imperfection of good, v. 184; act, v. 190;
answerable, v. 199; measure of, v. 301; of
grace, reflected actions, vi. 46; follow good,
vii. 89; principles in, vii. 199; holy, shunned,
vii. 211; be not discouraged in doing good,
vii. 214.

Activity, grace is active and vigorous, i. 60, 61.
Acts of Apostles, quotations in, iii. 529.
Adam, advance from Adam's state in Christ,
i. 19, 31, iii. 419, 425, iv. 208; his sin what, v.
520; redemption, exceeds our estate in Adam,
vi. 326, 1st and 2d, vii. 191.
Adoption by Christ, iv. 134, 146, 502.
Admiration, admire God's love, i. 263, iv. 174;
admire God, v. 284; holy admiration, vii. 19.).
Adultery, corporal and spiritual adulterers, hardly
reclaimed, ii. 387.

Advancement, v. 347, 352.
Advantage, take, ii. 206.
Advantages, vi. 553, 554.

Adventure, of faith, makes a rich return, i. 266.
Advise, iv. 185.

Affection and Affections, their conflict one with
another, i. 152; how to be ordered, i. 159 ; in
case of God's dishonour no affection is exces-
sive, i 159; why they do not always follow the
judgment, i. 254; God most to be affected, i.
268; ought not to cleave to base things, ii. 25;
are like their objects, ii. 25; of Christians are
in Christ's government, ii. 109; where it is in
truth, it will discover itself by outward expres-

G.

sion, ii. 110; true, are serious in the things of
God, ii. 124; Christ the best object for them to
be spent on, ii. 157; chaste, ii. 205; not con-
cealable, ii. 243; their use, ii. 368, 369; ought
to be placed on their right objects, ii. 375; why
planted in the soul, ii. 390, 391, v. 478; look to,
iv. 102, 187, 193, vii. 217; large, iv. 469; not
taken away by religion, vi. 305; commanding
affection, v. 276; as the wind, v. 368; to God,
vi. 10; on right objects, vi. 55; avoid opposite,
vi. 58; to religion, strong in women, vi. 52) ;
mixed, vii. 187; cold, vii. 195; drawn out after
truth, vii 196; stirred up, vii. 202; try our
state, vii. 440; wanting, shew want of faith,
vii. 442; shame ourselves in want of, vii. 443;
pray for, vii. 443; to be kept tender, vii. 445,
why sometimes dead, vii. 448. (See Gospel,
Hatred, Mystery.)

Affectionate, converse with, iv. 197.
Affinity, v. 282.

Affliction and Afflictions, must take heed of im-
patiency in, i. 67; why we are oft foiled with
small and courageously pass through great,
i. 94; a sign of Christ's love, ii. 11; a means
to make us prize Christ, therefore not to mur-
mur, ii. 146; Christ never more near his church
than when in, ii. 140; sweetest communion
with Christ under the greatest, ii. 140; strength
in, ii. 204, 207; how to know they are not in
wrath though continued, ii. 326; not to com-
plain of, ii. 257; profitable to God's children,
ii. 358, 359; necessary, ii. 376; happens in the
sunshine of the gospel, ii. 378; small ones not
regarded make way for greater, ii. 379; oui
carriage therein must be good, ii. 404; God will
deliver his out of all, ii. 317; how, ii. 317, 318;
godly afflicted more than others, and why, ii.
317; discovers false brethren, ii. 317; God's
children subject to, and why, iii. 52, 53, 65, 79,
117; God's people are sensible of, and why,
iii. 120, seq, good men lying under afflictions
and crosses are subject to rash and hard cen-
sures, iii. 111, 112, 115, 116; of the saints are
for the good of others, how, iii. 94, 95; the good
we get by others' afflictions is by stirring up
grace in us, iii. 101; God aims at many things
in the same affliction, iii. 106; effects of to God's
children and to the wicked, iii. 153; affliction
called death, iii. 161; sharp, iv. 106; bearing,
iv. 362; multiplied, iv. 399; sweetest, iv. 408;
life discovered in, iv. 418; Christ most glorious
in, iv. 419, 434; fresh faith needed in, iv. 442;
light affliction, iv. 478; weans, iv. 478; daily,
v. 375; conform us to Christ, v. 491, vi. 237 ;
Christ works in the afflictions of his church,
v. 492; how Christ rules in, v. 532; church,
when afflicted, v. 533, 534; why sent of God,
vi. 143, 144; prayer a remedy in, vi. 144; lead
to gentleness, vi. 162; stir up devotion, vi. 165;
benefit of, vi. 184; God appears in the night of,
vi. 318; to whom afflictions are sanctified, vi.
547; seasonable, vi. 395; how to prevent, vii.
103, 104; comfort in, vii. 141; no loss, vii. 141,
142; seek not vain relief from, vii. 143; needed,
vii. 143; envy not the unafflicted, vii. 144; no
strange things, vii. 144; God's ends, vii. 144
a time for rest from, vii. 145; best are sorest
tried, vii. 146; not to dismay, vii. 147; will not
overbear, vii. 148; wisdom of God in, vii. 148;
deliverance from not to be hindered, vii. 149;

seasonable and speedy end of, vii. 159; how
glory follows, vii. 189; discover soul and sin,
vii. 190; Christ manifested in, vii. 209.
'Against' us, vii. 390; how far the enemies of
God's children are against them, vii. 390; in
what respect none are, vii. 390, 391.
Age, vii. 43, 44, 45.

Agreement, of God, vi. 5.

Aim, high, iv. 194; spiritual man's, iv. 39, 57 ;
aims, v. 289; gracious, v. 291, 339, 340; men,
as their aims are, v. 322.

All, Christ is all in all, iii. 371, 372; ‘all,' we,
iv. 255; from God, iv. 393; in necessity we
must give to, iv. 524; all by Christ's strength,
v. 181; 'for your sakes,' iv. 466; all things
work together,' v. 251, 252; causes, v. 262, 263;
sin itself, v. 266; all, whether Christ loved and
gave himself for, v. 388, 389, 391; all-sufficiency
of Christ, v. 407.

Alms, alms-deeds, or sacrifice, ii. 270.
Alteration, essential, iv. 176; of our nature, vi.
99.

Alone, the devil set on Christ when he was alone,
iii. 76 (see Solitariness); Christian never,
vii. 391.

Alphonsus, anecdote of, ii. 157.

Ambition, vii 214.

America, progress of, i. 101.

Amen, iv. 117, 118; what and how taken, iii.
382, 383; a double, iii. 421; all promises in
Christ are yea and amen, iii. 382, seq., 390, seq. ;
why, vi. 540, 541.

Amity, with papists dangerous, il. 381.
Angels, ii. 231; Christ's poverty not for, iv. 501;
admire, iv. 506; ministering, v. 253; not to
envy them, v. 489; knew the incarnation of
Christ beforehand, v. 496, 497; office of, v. 496,
497; attendance, whence it is, v 499; why they
appear not now, v. 499; comfort from, v. 500;
communion with, v. 500); conflict between good
and bad, v. 500; not to grieve, v. 501 ; wherein
we are advanced above, v. 501; good motions
stirred in us by, v. 502; why God uses the
ministry of, v. 502, vi. £20 ; our enemies, when,
v. 502; description, v. 503; office, double, v.
50; guard of comforting, vi 319; praise, a
duty fit for, vi. 151; attended Christ, vi. 419;
acclamations. of, vi. 315, 356; cause of their
fall, vi. 504. (See Church and Host.)
Anger, i. 118; of God, what it is, ii. 322; what
effects it hath against us, ii. 322; the special
thing in afflictions, ii. 322; makes the least
cross terrible, ii. 323; turned away by repent-
ance, ii. 323; means to avoid it, ii. 326, 327;
humility a certain means to avoid it, ii. 327;
fatherly, vii. 226.

Anguish, v. 258.

Annoyance, none in this life or another but God
has provided some defence, ii. 396.
Anointing, what kind of persons were formerly
anointed, iii. 442, 444, 446; the order of our
anointing in Christ, iii. 443, 446; the graces
of the Spirit compared to an ointment, why,
iii. 443, 446; anointed, iv. 129, 130; anointing
and sealing, iv. 132; name of Christian, v. 182.
Antichrist, iv. 389.

Antinomians, error refuted, ii. 316.

Antiquity, of our church and religion proved
against the papists, iii. 375, 376, seq.; popery
not ancient, iii. 377.
Antitheses, iv. 395.

Apology, Christians often driven tó, iii. 204; just,
v. 177.

Apostasy, why so many apostatize under the
word, ii. 57; the ground of it, vi. 244.
Apostle, the privilege of, above ordinary ministers,
and how they differ from, iii. 8; St Paul's pre-
rogative above other apostles, iii. 8; apostles
and prophets, how subject to err, and mistake
and how not, iii. 355, 356; their privilege, v.
508, 509.

Appearance, of salvation in the countenance,
whence and why, i. 260. Appear, v. 208, 209;
Christ shall, v. 212.

Appetite, how to be procured toward Christ and
spiritual things, ii. 34; appetite, ii. 51; bless
God for, vi 142; spiritual, how recovered, vi.
156.

Applause, seek not, i. 30, 31.

Application, of mercy in particular, necessary,
reasons, i. 264, iii. 421 ; in the wicked it is a
lie, i. 265; no easy matter to say 'my God,' i.
265; when it is right, i. 267; a shame not to
improve it, i. 272; wrought by the Spirit, v.
241; faith in, v. 241; particular, v. 316, 391,
392; means of popish, ridiculous, v. 515; the
ground of obedience, vi. 115, 116; necessity
of, vi. 116, 117, 344; principle of, vi. 117; beg
the spirit of, vi. 117, 118; danger in want of,
vi. 118. (See Faith and Preaching.)
Appliei, salvation, v. 385, 408.
Approach, comfort in to God, i. 13.
Appropriation, v 436.

Apprehend, not comprehend, vii. 217; sins, vii.

278.

Arguments, with God, i. 21; for faith to come to
God, i. 246; argue from less to greater, iv. 158,
167; strong in prayer, vi. 95.

Ark, of the temple, vii. 203. (See Baptism.)
Arm of God, iv. 367.

Art, in bearing of troubles, i. 148; in misery to
think of matter of joy, i. 240; aggravates sin,
i. 298; of contentment, v. 175–193; of self-hum-
bling, vi. 44, 58; of mourning, vi. 59, 75; of
faith, vii. 214.

'As,' iv. 292.

Ascension, the Spirit given more abundantly since
Christ's, i. 23; circumstances of Christ's, v. 526,
vi. 443; a mystery, v. 527; how know, vi.
444 and vi. 445, 447; not separated from us by,
vi. 449.

Ashamed, be not, of Christ, vi. 433.
Astrology, vi. 157.

Assemblies, calling of, vi. 89.

Assent, vi. 542; four degrees of, iil. 523.
Association, must join with those that are good,
ii. 337; all wicked will end in everlasting
hatred, ii. 375, 376.

Assurance, by the Spirit, i. 19, 22; faith and yet
no full assurance, i. 62; what to do in the want
of, i. 252; to be sought betimes, i. 417; of
Christ's love, ii. 205, 207; why pray still, ii.
225; how know, ii. 243; causeth thankfulness,
ii. 273; a Christian may and ought to be assured
of his state in grace, iii. 466; all Christians
have not the like, nor at all times, iii. 466, 467;
God's children may be, that they shall persevere
to the end, iii. 468; we may be assured from a
little measure of grace, iii. 470; may know,
iv. 141, 142; base to lose, iv. 179; grow in, iv.
198; known, iv. 450; no enemy to good works,
iv. 518; labour for, v. 317, 401; springs from
faith, v. 393; freely given, v. 395; not full
always, v. 400; freed from objection, v. 401;
what to do when not, v. 402; command, v. 403;
may get, v. 446; time to come, v. 448; lesser,
v. 454; how to get, vi. 178, 179; may attain it,
vi. 389, 479, 480; peace with, vi. 339, 390;
maintain, vi. 481, vii. 212; how it worketh, vi.
545; makes not secure, vii. 207; distractions
in, vii. 212; how to know our state in want of,
vii. 431.

Atheism, brings judgment, i. 302; atheists, iv.
341. (See Nature.)

Attend, Attention, God opens the heart to, vi.
525; necessary, vi., 527; directions to attend
on the word, vi. 527; trials of attending aright,
vi. 529.

Attendance, occasional at church, ii. 240; on.
teaching, iv. 146.

Attire, selling and wearing rich, lawful, vi 521.
Attributes, of God are to be applied to ourselves,
i. 412; of God in Christ, vi. 325.
Austerity, in ministers to be used wisely, i. 53, 98.
Authority, iv. 167; of Holy Spirit, ii. 441, 493;
why St Paul alleged human in his epistles and
dealings with men, iii. 9, 10; what power of
authority the church gives to the Scriptures,

iii. 9, 10, 523; of Christ from his Father, vi.
374. (See Church and Scripture.)

Babylon, ii. 248.

Back, faith with strong reasons and arguments,
i. 245.

Backsliding, God's children prone to, ii. 302 ; the
Returning Backslider, ii. 248-435; backsliding,
v. 259; danger of, vii. 408-413.
'Balaam's Wish,' vii. 1–15.

Baptism, made an idol by papists, ii. 379; rested
in, v. 317; faith sealed, v. 392; and circumci-
sion, vi. 22; want of, no prejudice to salvation,
vi. 22; ground of baptizing infants, vi. 22;
aggravation of sins after, vi. 24; the ark a
figure of, vii. 478; parts of, vii. 479; children,
why baptised, vi. 486; binds, vi. 487; cove-
nant in, vi. 487; what sins renounced in, vi.
487; how to use, vi. 488; a seal of salvation,
vi. 530; how to think of, vi. 530.
Barrenness, in goodness ought not to discourage
us, ii. 333; under means, not endured by God,
ii. 349.

Barsillai and David, vii. 35, seq.; old, vii. 35;
incapable of service, vii. 36; done duty only,
vii. 36; his son, vii. 36; to be imitated, vii.
40, 41.

Base-minded, be not, vii. 125; base things, what
like, vii. 195.

(See

'Beast's Dominion,' vii. 517–533; the beast, who,
vii. 519; and dragon compared, vii. 520; state
of Rome the beast, why, vii. 521; ill carriage
towards kings, vii. 527; to further the destruc-
tion of, vii. 531; shall fall, vii. 532.
Hatred.)
Beauty, of a well ordered soul, i. 167; of Chris-
tian's works performed in season, i. 248, 249;
wherein it consisteth, ii. 137, 138; of Christ is
especially spiritual, ii. 138; Christ most beau-
tiful, ii. 138; of God, ii 229, 236; why not dis-
covered, ii. 236; everything in its own place
beautiful, v. 315.

Beg, grace, iv. 128, vii. 221; the Spirit, iv. 147,
172, 301; will be carried on, vii. 288.
Beggar, Christ not a, iv. 500; a beggar, iv. 526,
527.

Begin, when we should, vi. 87; Christ a media-
tor from the beginning, iv. 497; great things
from small beginnings, vi. 520.
Behaviour, good, vii. 38.

Behold, i. 4, 5, vi.78, vii. 109; beholding, iv. 269,
270.

Belief, believe, believing, believing in Christ more
glorifies God than if we wereas pure as Adam, ii.
184; how hardly man's heart is brought to be-
lieve, iii. 54, 464; believe not but love, iv. 175 ;
God and his servants, iv. 346; belief after
Spirit of faith, 449; belief against belief, v.
273; believe, all to, v. 389; condemned for not,
v. 390; Christ believed on, how, v. 517; en-
couragements to believe, from Christ, v. 520,

521.

'Beloved,' Christ, i. 11, 12; how we come to be
Christ's, ii. 179.

Benefits, v. 282.

Bent, of the soul, vi. 98.

Best, things at the feast, ii. 446; at the last, i.
341, 383, ii. 508; a true Christian is best, where
best known, iii. 259; not seen, iv. 479, 480; of
everything, vii. 222.

Betimes, God to be sought; vi. 128.
Better, Christians than others, v. 304.
Bilney, his offence at a preacher, i. 230.
Blackness, Church's, vii. 93–104; admitted, vii.
95; but not to be despised for, vii. 96; confess,
vii. 97, 98; why so black, vii. 102.
Blame, to be laid upon ourselves in judgments,
vi. 198.

Blameless, Christians must be, v. 23; how St
Paul was when he was without the law, v. 80.
Blasphemous, thoughts, how known and expelled,
i 63; temptations of blaspheming, and how
checked, i. 227.

Blessed, vii. 304.

Bless, to bless God, what, iii. 23; how God blesseth
us and how we bless God, iii. 23; we add
nothing to God, when we bless him, iii. 23;
why we ought to bless God iii. 23; we ought to
bless God for Christ, iii. 27.

Blessings, of God not to be spent on our lusts, ii.
274; outward may be prayed for, ii. 266; how
to know they came from God's love, ii. 267,
268; blessing, what, iii. 15; the pope's nothing.
worth, iii. 15; how to be valued, iv. 515; defile
ourselves in, vi. 239; better for those removed,
vii. 200, 209. (See Praise, Thankfulness, and
Ministers

Blindness, spiritual, vii. 101.
Blood, shed, vii. 267

Boasting, is idolatry, ii. 283.

Body, sickness, iv. 80, 81; base and hard, v. 143,
144; how to be regarded and cared for, though
base, v. 144; shall be changed by Christ, v.
146; when, v. 147; how like unto Christ's glo-
rious body, v. 148; redemption of, v. 155-173;
vile, v. 162, 163; abate pride in, v. 164; satisfy
not lusts of, v. 164; offend not God for, v. 164;
shall be changed, v. 164, 165; by Christ, v. 165;
like to Christ, v. 165; glorious as, v. 166, 167 ;
wherein, v. 167; perfect, beautiful, transfigured,
immortal, powerful, spiritual, v. 167, 168; con-
secrate to Christ, v. 169; best to come, v. 169,
170; change begins in the soul, v. 170; use
body is put to by us, v. 170; evidences from Paul,
v. 171; pledge and earnest here, v. 172; com-
fort at hour of death, v. 173; evils of body, v.
260; bought, v. 312; wholly Christ's, v. 316;
distemper, effects of, v. 393; same that suffers
shall be glorified, v. 534; of others, not to be
doated on, vi. 514. (See Vile.)

Boldness, to come before the throne of grace, how
bred in us, i. 47; of conscience, i. 95, iv. 232,
233, 326, 327, 452, 453, v. 274; spiritual, v.
442, vi. 41, vii. 200; ground of, v. 484; evi-
dence of peace, vi. 342, 343. (See Sincerity.)
Bondage, to Satan, iv. 218; freedom in sin is
bondage, v. 231.

Books, all written to amend the book of con-
science, i. 149; at home. ii. 240.
Bountiful, to all, iv. 524, 526
'Bowels Opened,' ii. 1–195.

Breach, of inward peace: still look at thyself
therein, i. 171.

Bread, in the Lord's Supper, made an idol of by
papists, ii. 379; of life, ii. 440; daily, vii. 185.
Breathing after God, ii. 209–218.

Brethren, false, discovered by affliction, i. 317,
vi. 435, 439, 440; Timothy, St Paul's brother,
how, iii. 10; all Christians as believers are
brethren, iii. 10, v. 36, 57; brother, relation of,
vi. 458.

'Bride's Longing,' vi. 535-560; the church of
God a bride, vii. 536; why so called, vii. 538.
'Bruised Reed,' i. 33-101; what, i. 43; they must
be as, with whom Christ deals, i. 43; Christ
will not break the, i. 43, 44; signs of one truly
bruised, i. 46; why it is necessary, i. 44; means
of, i. 47; measure of, i. 47, 48.

'Builder, Unprosperous,' vii. 17-31; build, iv.
128.

Burial, comely, vi. 80.
By-work, ii. 218,

Calamity, in the common, the wicked dare not
appear, i. 400.

Calling, mean, i. 294; doing things in our general
or particular calling, with respect to God, not
man, will arm against discouragement, ii. 97;
men in Scripture often called by that which they
are led and ruled by, iii. 261, 347; called first,
iv 219; of a Christian, iv. 339; choice of, iv.
485; effectual, v. 362, 363; callings allowed of.
God, vi. 521; calling, vii. 493, 494; objection,
vii. 494; 'called in,' vii. 496, 497; to execu-
tion and action, vii. 497, 498.

Camel, eye of a needle pass through, iv. 486, 487.
Capacities, for after-use, vii. 209.

Care and Cares, ii. 214, 215, 394; ground of in our

conduct, vi. 208; God hath a care of his, vi.
234; instances of, vi. 234, 235.
Carefulness, careful Christians, vii. 206.
Carelessness, take heed of, vi. 426, 427.

Carnal, confidence, danger of, ii. 283; man, vii.
202.

Cases, put, iv. 521.

Castaway, v. 279, 280.

'Cast down,' iv. 398, vii, 52, 53; casting down
disquiets, why, i. 142; remedies against, i. 143;
what, vii. 53, 54; remedy for, vii. 55; measure
of, vii. 207 ; faithless, vii. 293.

Catholic, faith, iv. 444, 445, 446; what to be
accounted, v. 477.

Cause, in good we ought to be resolute, ii. 407;
having God for our shelter we ought to be bold
in, ii. 401; general and particular, iv. 78;
second, vii. 207.

Caution, in forecasting changes, i. 163.
Cavils, the Spirit answers, vii. 211.
Censure, of others, must not be rash, i. 44; al-
though it be the censure of the church. i. 55;
or of the civil magistrate, i. 55; or private
Christians, i. 56; censure not distempered
Christians, dangerous to do so, i. 141; comfort
against censure of the world, ii. 170; against
censuring those that are under crosses and
afflictions, iii. 115, 141; men are prone to cen-
sure men's callings for some particular actions,
iii. 357; sin must be censured and judged when
it is committed, iii. 489; heed not, iv. 101;
censuring and judging, v. 350; rash, vi. 162,
163; of wicked not to be regarded, vi. 138;
moderate, vi. 172.

Ceremonies, v. 197; bondage of in the Law, vi.
310.

Certainty, a double, iii. 111, 421; how the pro-
phets and apostles were certain and infallible,
and how not, iii. 355, 366; breeds security, a
cavil, v. 453.

Chains, sin as, v. 227.

Challenge, St Paul's, vii. 386-397.

Change, of nature, changeth all, i. 181; changes
must be forethought of, i. 165; caution in,
i. 163; directions for forethinking in troubles,
i. 163, 164; iv. 256; necessity of, iv. 256, 257,
258; real and gradual, iv. 257; how changed
into likeness of Christ, iv. 264, 265; bodies
shall be, v. 164, 165; by and like to Christ, v.
165; comfort in all changes, v. 216; changes,
vi. 78.

Character, of a good soul, i. 234, 235.

Charter, the Christian's, or Portion, vi. 1–37.
Chastisement, iv. 104, 105; sanctified, ix, 105.
Cheerfulness, spiritual, ii. 455, v. 215, 366, 367,
454, vi. 480; do good to others cheerfully, iv.
523.

Cherished, a little grace, vii. 194.
Cherubim, what they signify, v. 498.
Children, of God are known by God's correcting
them, i. 383; the devil their enemy, i. 397;
must be committed to God, i. 424; ought not
to hinder our standing out in a good cause,
ii. 296; ought not to make us worldly, ii. 296,
297; at our death, in faith to be commended to
God, ii. 296, 297; of God are always in his
sight, ii. 394, 395; comfort arising from hence,
ii. 395; a contrary disposition to the world, ii.
423; not to fear future things, ii. 408; in
variety of conditions, v. 178; know how to
conduct themselves in, v. 178, 179; care for,
v. 377; seed, vi. 21; God's gracious dealing
with, vi. 177; keep back judgment, vi. 84;
value of, vi. 84, 85, vii. 503; difference between
God's children and those not, vi. 163, 164 ; chil-
dren signify 'building,' vii. 32; of God sorely
afflicted, vii. 67, 82; opposite to the world, vii.
68, 84, 85; guided by the Spirit, vii, 68, 195;
conflict, discovery, recovery, victory, vii. 81;
suffer for not working, vii. 103; measure of
trial appointed, vii. 147, 148; God with his,
vii. 388; ground of, vii. 389.

Choice, should rest in God's, i. 10; things, ii. 447 ;
our choice, what, iv. 183, 184; or not, vi. 484;

A

Mary's, vii. 287-297; stand by our, vii. 295; of
the good part, vii. 295, 296; not to be taken
away, vii, 297.

Chosen, Christ of God, how, i. 10.
CHRIST, Description of, i. 1-31; withdraws himself,
i. 4, 30; prophecy fulfilled thereby, i. 4; near-
ness to God; i. 4-11 ; calling and qualification,
i. 4, 15, 16; execution of that calling, i. 4, 15;
manner thereof, i. 4, 15, 29; a servant, i. 5-11;
abasement, i. 6, 7; head of elect, i. 9; chosen and
choice, i. 10; the Beloved, how, i. 11, 12; com-
fort, i. 12, 13, 14; God and man, i. 17; a priest,
i. 17; full supply in, i. 20; fulness of, i. 21; to
be offered to God, i. 21; ascended, i. 23; riches
of, i. 24; strives not, i. 29; an especial servant
of God in the work of our redemption, i. 42 ; he
will not break the bruised reed, i. 43; his office
calls him to this work, i. 43; he was clothed
with our nature, that he might succour the
tempted, i. 45; though oft he seem an enemy,
yet he is a true friend indeed, i. 71; is an all-
sufficient comforter, i. 72; we should not har-
bour hard conceits of, i. 72; he doth rule as
Lord over his own, i. 82; the government of
his church is well ordered, i. 82; we should all
submit to his government, i. 91; he along
maketh us victorious. i. 91, 92, 93; is salvation,
clothed in man's flesh, i. 259; is Best, or St
Paul's Strait, i. 335-350; his sufferings for
man's sin, i. 351-369; his presence more and
more desired where there is true grace, ii. 13;
why earnestly desired of the church, ii. 14;
how to know he is present with us, ii. 21 ; his
presence a heaven to Christians, ii. 21; having
his presence need fear nothing, ii. 22; is our
brother, ii. 22, 23; we ought not to be ashamed
of him or of his cause, ii. 23; the comfort of
his being our brother, ii. 23, 24; he only is the
church's husband, ii. 24; being our husband,
our sins or unworthiness should not discourage
us, ii. 25; how to know we are espoused to him,
ii. 26; we must be ruled by him, ii. 26; is to
be followed in all conditions, ii. 26; directions
for such as are not yet in him, ii. 26; excel-
lency of their condition who are one with him,
ii. 26; wheresoever he comes, he comes not
empty, ii. 28, 29; communion with to be en-
deavoured after, ii. 29; he and the church
mutually feast each other, ii. 32; compared to
a feast in sundry respects, ii. 32; there is that
in him which answereth to all our wants, ii.
32, 33; in him we enjoy choice rarities, ii. 33;
in him there is an overflowing of all that is
good for our good, ii. 33; how he is our friend
and we his, ii. 36; why he sometimes uses us
hardly, ii. 37; is a constant friend, ii. 37; he
still desires a further and further communion
with his church, ii. 58; why he withdraws him-
self from us, ii. 58, 59; how to know he dwells
in us, ji 64; we should cherish good concep-
tions of him, ii. 64; labour to entertain him,
ii. 66; benefits of entertaining him, ii. 67; he
hath never enough of his church till he hath it
in heaven, ii. 70; low stooping for the good of
our souls should quicken us to receive him, ii.
71; all love scattered in relations is united in
Christ, ii. 72; his love to his church is free,
tender, and invincible, ii. 73, 74; his love is
incomparable, ii. 76, 77; his wonderful love
set forth in his low abasement for us, ii. 77;
compared to a dove, ii. 78; how his righteous-
ness is made ours, ii. 81; he looks not upon us
in our present imperfections, but as he means
to perfect the work of grace in us, ii. 83; com-
munion with him is not easily attained, ii. 87;
communion hindered by false reasonings and
excuses, ii. 87; he sometimes leaves his church
and particular members, ii. 101; the kinds of
Christ's leaving his church, ii. 101; ends why
he leaves his church, ii. 101; the cause of his
withdrawing comfort from us rests in ourselves,
ii. 103; never leaves his totally, ii. 104, 105;
his grace the cause of ours, ii. 104, 105; won-
derful in his goodness to his saints, ii. 109;

hearts of God's children sometimes fail them
for want of his presence, ii. 111, 112; his pre-
sence and absence makes the summer and
winter of a Christian's soul, ii. 112; we should
depend upon him when he seems to be absent,
ii. 115; we ought to be in love with his govern-
ment, ii. 120; he is a most beautiful person,
ii. 138; his beauty spiritual, ii. 138, 139; he
is the chiefest of all, ii. 139; all our fulness
comes from him, ii. 139; he is set forth by all
the excellencies of the creatures, ii. 139; he
only was king, priest, and prophet, ii. 140; of
his kingly, priestly, and prophetical offices, ii.
140; he is set forth in his graces of mercy and
meekness, ii. 141; he hath the pre-eminence
in all things, ii. 141; his excellency is the
church's, ii. 142; his supereminent excellence
ought to draw those to him who are not yet in
him, ii. 142; two forcible reasons to draw us to
him, ii. 142, 143; our sins should not hinder
our coming to him, ii. 142, 143; Christians
justified in their choice of him, ii. 150; folly of
those who refuse him and choose base transi-
tory things, ii. 143; the woeful state of those
who accept not him being offered them, ii. 143,
144; we must have respect to him, in choice
and love, to other things, ii. 144, 145; means
how to highly esteem of him, ii. 145; exalting
of him in our hearts is a strong preservative
against sin, despair, and all discouragements,
ii. 145; folly of delaying to seek him till old
age, ii. 145, 146; how his death is a sufficient
satisfaction for the sins of the whole world, ii.
147; he hath many excellencies in him, ii.
148; it should be the care of Christians to
study the several excellencies of Christ, ii. 148,
149; signs of Christ that God shews to the
souls of Christians, ii. 149; sights of faith
which the soul frames to itself of him, ii. 149 ;
why compared to an head of gold, iï. 149; he
hath clear eyes, able to discern all things, ii.
151; his doctrine is sweet and sound, ii. 153 ;
all his actions are precious, ii 153; his ways
are all constant and firm, ii. 154; every way he
is 'altogether lovely, ii. 156; most lovely in his
abasements for us, ii. 157; his righteousness
ought to be perfectly trusted in, ii. 157; he is
the best object for our best affections to be
placed on, ii. 157; how to know we love him,
ii. 157; a desire of the appearance of him is a
sign of our flaming love to him, ii. 159; how to
attain to an high esteem of him, ii. 75, 76; ends
of the church's setting forth his excellencies,
ii. 162, 163; his excellencies meditated on will
justify our pains in the exercises of religion,
ii. 163; Christians have more cause to boast
of their portion in him than worldlings of the
world, ii. 165; he will not be long absent from
his church, ii. 171; we must be first united to
him before we can receive comfort and com-
munion of his graces, ii. 173; Christ and Chris-
tians have a mutual property in each other, ii.
174; there is a mutual love, familiarity, and
likeness between Christ and Christians, ii. 174,
175; they have a mutual care of each other's
good, ii. 174, 175; there is a mutual com-
placency between Christ and the church, ii. 174,
175; they that are Christ's will be resolute in
owning his cause, ii. 174, 175; in order of
nature he is ours first, though not in order of
knowing, ii. 177; how he comes to be ours, ii.
177, 178; being ours, we have all things, ii.
177, 178 ; being ours, it should make us be con-
tented with our condition whatsoever it be, ii.
178; his excellencies to be studied, ii. 178;
how we come to be his beloved, ii. 179; our
giving ourselves up to him is an evidence
that he is ours, ii. 180; reasons why he must
be first given to us before we can give our-
selves over to him, ii. 182, 183; he hath the
same care of every particular Christian as of
the whole church, ii. 184: how to be enabled
to love and embrace him, ii. 184; love to him,
how it may stand with love to other things, ii.

185; he feeds his church among fat pastures,
ii. 188; he feeds as well as breeds his church,
ii. 188, 189; he feeds his church plentifully and
sweetly, ii. 190; motives to entice those who
are not yet in Christ to come in, ii. 187; Christ
never asked others to pray for him, ii. 94; he
is to be loved, ii. 201; he belongs to all Chris-
tians equally, ii. 202; foretastes of his love,
ii. 203; further desires of, ii. 203; his love
manifested, why, ii 204, 205; riches of, ii. 204;
sight of him, ii. 205; take no nay from him,
ii. 206; communion with him, . 207; cannot
requite, ii. 208; power of God in Christ, ii.
474; his fear of death, ii. 475; he will come,
ii. 517; Christ three ways taken in Scripture,
iii. 82; is the main object of preaching, iii.
369; is all in all to us, iii. 371, 372; how to
think of him, iii. 371; God's love founded in
him, iii. 385, 386; how to get into him, iii.
396; a prophet, priest, and king, iii. 446; the
Scripture sets forth Christ by all comfortable
terms, iii. 60; a priest, and king, iv. 103; grand
object of preaching, iv. 115; covenant in, iv.
118; Christ that Spirit, how, iv. 205, 206, 208;
be like Christ, iv. 214; study him, iv. 214,
215, 261; he redeems, iv. 218; the only
Redeemer, iv. 243, 244; learn to be friends,
iv. 262; gentle, iv. 262; obedient, iv. 262;
kind to his enemies, iv. 263; see all in
Christ, iv. 269; the Spirit comes from, iv.
294; lay open Christ, iv. 303; designations of,
Christ, iv. 324, 325; God in Christ is sweet,
iv. 325; discovers the Father, iv. 326; rich,
496; poor, why, iv. 497, 498; made sin, iv.
499; example of, iv. 520 ; is our Lord, and how,
v. 59; 143; who chose Christ, v. 91, 92; how
excellent he is in himself, and how profitable
for us, v. 89, 90, 91; how he may be obtained,
V. 90; how we are in him, v. 93; how we
may be united to, v. 94; how and wherein
we are conformable to him, v. 97, 98; how
he apprehends us, v. 103; he first appre-
hends us, then we him, v. 104, the Spirit of
God subjects all things in us unto Christ, v.
105, 106; he shall come again, and this his
second coming is expected of his children and
desired, and why, v. 140, 141, 142; he is able
to subdue all things unto himself, v. 150; he
is risen; v. 197, 198; life, how Christ is, v.
209; how know this, v. 211; what we are to
Christ, v. 212; eternal Son, v. 253; love to, v.
277; Lord specially applied to, v. 308; excel-
lency of, v. 309, 310; side with, v. 320; lose
nothing by, v. 321; exaltation purchased by
humiliation, v. 323-356; he died as a public
person, as second Adam, voluntary, as surety,
v. 326, 327; rose, v. 327; revived, v. 330; near
at death, v. 354; high valuing of, v. 365; spe-
cial and peculiar love, v. 387; extent of Christ's
atonement, v. 388, 389; all-sufficiency, v. 407 ;
slighted, v. 420; the scope of the Scriptures, v.
479; when conceived in the heart, v. 486;
motives to get into, v. 502; no intercourse
with God without Christ, vi. 340, 341; God's
love only in Christ, and why all from Christ,
vi. 251, 351; misery of men out of, vi. 351;
act of Christ, vi. 385; God loves, vi. 386;
God's love to us in him, vi. 387; comprehensive
prayer of, vi. 397; in all believers, how, vi.
402, 403; how know so, vi. 403-405; how to
keep Christ, vi. 409: beg him to stay, vi. 410;
to perfume our souls, vi. 410; appearances of,
vi. 418; our brother, vi 433; labour to get hold
of, vi. 434; thank God for what he hath done
to Christ, vi. 462; when God was his God, vi.
463; promise of, vii. 108; Emmanuel, vii. 111,
112; human and divine, vii. 110, 111, 112;
condescension of, vii. 113; conception of, vii.
119, 120; previous presences of Christ, vii. 120;
the sun of righteousness, vii. 169; our pattern;
vii. 192, 193, 198; a public person, vii. 192
join reasoning with contemplation of, vii. 192:
come to God by, only, vii. 198; enters the
soul, vii. 199, 228; lowliness of, vii. 202; our