J.

Jehovah.
Signifies God’s eternity, i. 290; and his immutability, i. 330.
God called so but once in the book of Job, ii. 36.
Job.
When he lived, ii. 8.
Jonah.
How he came to be believed by the Ninevites, i. 537.
Joy.
A necessary ingredient in spiritual worship, i. 234–236.
Should accompany all our duties, ii. 468, 469.
Judging the hearts of others.
A great sin, i. 478, 479.
Their eternal state a greater, ib.
Judgment‑day.
Necessity of it, i. 470, 471, 583, 584.
Judgments, extraordinary.
Prove the being of God, i. 74, 75.
Men are apt to put bold interpretations on them, i. 133.
God is just in them, i. 162, 163; especially after the abuse of his goodness and patience, ii. 326, 327, 506, 507.
On God’s enemies, matter of praise, ii. 110.
Declare God’s holiness, ii. 132–135; which should be observed in them, ii. 197.
Not sent without warning, ii. 241, 242, 488–491.
Mercy mixed with them, ii. 242, 243.
God sends them on whom he pleases, ii. 420.
Delayed a long time where there is no repentance, ii. 491, 492.
God unwilling to pour them out when he cannot delay them any longer, ii. 492, 493.
Poured out with regret, ii. 493, 494; by degrees, ii. 494, 495; moderated, ii. 495, 496.
See Punishments.
Justice of God.
A motive to worship, i. 207.
Its plea against man, i. 554–556.
Reconciled with mercy in Christ, i. 556, 557.
Vindictive, natural to God, ii. 181–183.
Requires satisfaction, ii. 185, 186.
Justification.
Cannot be by the best and strongest works of nature, i. 166, 473, 474; ii. 177, 178, 185, 186.
The holiness of God appears in that of the gospel, ii. 138.
The expectations of it by the outward observance of the law cannot satisfy an inquisitive conscience, ii. 212.
Men naturally look for it by works, ii. 212, 213.

K.

Kingdoms.
Are disposed of by God, ii. 413, 414.
Knowledge.
In God hath no succession, i. 284, 285, 294, 295, 454–456.
Immutable, i. 321–324, 460.
Arguments to prove it, i. 393–395, 461–465.
The manner of it incomprehensible, i. 324, 325, 428, 429, 438.
God is infinite in it, i. 409.
Owned by all, i. 409, 410.
He hath a knowledge of vision and intelligence, speculative and practical, i. 411, 412; of apprehension and approbation, i. 412, 413.
Hath a knowledge of himself, i. 414–417.
Of all things possible, i. 417–420; of all things past and present, i. 420–422.
Of all creatures, their actions and thoughts, i. 422–427.
Of all sins, and how, i. 427–429.
Of all future things, he alone, and how, i. 429–439.
Of all future contingencies, i. 439–446.
Doth not necessitate the will of man, i. 446–451.
It is by his essence, i. 452, 453.
Intuitive, i. 453–456.
Independent, i. 456, 457.
Distinct, i. 458, 459.
Infallible, i. 459.
No blemish to his holiness, i. 461–465.
Infinite, attributed to Christ, i. 465–469.
Infers his providence, i. 469, 470; and a day of judgment, i. 470, 471; and the resurrection, i. 471, 472.
Destroys all hopes of justification by anything in ourselves, i. 472, 473.
Calls for our adoring thoughts of him, i. 473, 474; and humility, i. 474, 475.
How injured in the world, and wherein, i. 475–483.
Comfortable to the righteous, and wherein, i. 483–491.
Terrible to sinners, i. 491, 492.
We should have a sense of it on our hearts, and the advantages of it, i. 492–497.
Knowledge of God’s will.
Men negligent in using the means to attain it, i. 100, 101.
Enemies to it, and have no delight in it, i. 101–103.
Seek it for by‑ends, i. 104.
Admit it with wavering affections, ib.
Seek it, to improve some lust by it, i. 105, 106.
A sense of man’s, hath a greater influence on us than that of God, i. 144, 145, 479, 480.
Sins against it should be avoided, i. 173.
Distinct from wisdom, i. 508.
Of all creatures, is derived from God, i. 462, 463.
Ours, how imperfect, i. 474, 475.

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.

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.
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 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.