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, 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).
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.

I.

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.