God, new character of revealed in the gospel, whether true, considered, iii. 246. 290. and passim. God of this world, ii. 489.
Goodness of God to sinners, self-moved,
i. 87. 330. ii. 263. Glory of God, the principal motive and ultimate end of virtuous actions, i. 64.
a sense of it, a cure for false no- tions in religion, iii. 35.
declarative glory of God, whether God does always design and act to promote it, ii. 135.
Gospel, definition of, ii. 340.
nature of, what, ii. 340.
requirements of, what, i. 332.
offers a good of infinite value, ii. 433. offers of made to all, i. 381.1
its offers and encouragements to sin- ners, what, ii. 309. iii. 109. -compliance with, what, i. 430. (See covenant of grace.)
calls us to love that character of God, exhibited in the law, iii. 318. Gospel at variance with the Arminian scheme, iii. 42.
Government of God, wisdom and recti- tude of, ii. 114. 175.
the joy of holy beings, ii. 112-117. + 524.
his government of the world consi- dered, i. 70-92.
Grace, free, the only ground of hope and salvation, i. 107. 125. iii. 54. -- common, resisted, i. 230-236. special, irresistible, i. 237. ineffectual, i. 240.
extent of, i. 421.
different measures of, ibid. restraining, i. 216.
discriminating, i. 239. sovereignty of, i. 238. indefectibility of, i. 440, 449. Grace, true, evidences of, what, i. 247. ascertainable, i. 248. how, 249. false grounds of judging of them, ibid.
rules for determining and ascer- taining these evidences, i. 267.
false experiences, what, i. 421. --growth in grace, the best evidence of grace, i. 442. ii. 296.
common and special grace different, iii. 246.
Guilt of the damned ever increasing, i. 109.
necessary for receiving the gospel, i.
reasons for, motives to, and means of, what, i. 276-283.
errors of Antinomians, respecting it, i. 283.
evangelical, nature of, what, i. 433. Humility, the distinguishing character- istic of the Christian, ii. 521.
- effects of, what, ii. 522. Hypocrite, legal, his hopes built on the sand, i. 126.
evangelical, the foundation of his faith and joy, what, i. 126. Hypocrites see no need of Christ, î 434.
deceptions of, what, i. 445.
Idolatry, prevalence of, after the flood, i. 412. iii. 804.
Illumination, spiritual, nature and ne- cessity of, i 95. 116. 376. 440. ii. 299.
necessity of, i. 426. 431. Illumination, Divine, nature of, what, ii. 499.
peculiar to the saved, ii. 506. different from what natural men experience, how, ii. 509.
effects of, what, ii. 510.
is the beginning of spiritual, and the earnest of eternal life, ii. 526. Impenitence of the wicked, voluntary, i. 395. and criminal, i. 396. Imperfection, remains of, in believers, what, i. 60 and Note. Imputation of Adam's sin to his poste- rity, considered, i 221. 300. 312. of Christ's righteousness to believers, doctrine of, i. 457.
Inability, moral, criminal and punish- able, i. 150-163.
extent of, i 226.
nature of, what, ii. 496.
consequences of denying it, what,
Indignation of God against sin, reason-Justification by free grace, doctrine of,
ableness of, ii. 359. Indwelling sin, in believers, i. 246.
of the Spirit in do. i. 449. Infants, baptised, whether members of the visible church, considered, iii. 187. consequences of supposing them entitled to all church privileges, what, iii. 188. and passim. Infidelity, in the hearts of unregene- rate men. i. 459. ii. 210. 299. Infinite wisdom and rectitude of the Di- vine nature and government, ii. 114. belief of this essential to the founda- tion of true religion, ii. 129. 175. Israelites, dealings of God with, i. 76. 170-176. 415.
- inexcusable in their disobedience and unbelief, i. 170-175.
their receiving the law upon mount Sinai, iii. 15.
their unbelief, and its consequences, what, ii. 115
designs of God, in his dealigs to- wards them, what, i. 76.
- how they obtained pardon, ii. 444. Isralites, circumcised, duties of, what, iii. 138. Note.
Irresistible grace, necessary to conver- sion, i. 237.
Invitations of God, the ground of a
sinner's encouragement to come to him, i. 400. ii. 241. 263. 396. 434. Note.
Kaowledge of our guilty and helpless condition, necessary to our under- standing and embracing the gospel, i. 337. 355 and to our accepting the righteousness of Christ, i. 364 Knowledge, speculative, insufficient to beget love to God, iii. 307. 308.
errors of Pelagians, Socinians, and Antinomians, on this point, iii. 307.
Law of God, duties required in it, what, i. 53. iii. 268.
extent of its requirements, i. 143. unalterable and incapable of any a- batement, i. 110-127. 145. - fitness of, i. 111. 147.
threatenings of, what, i. 120. 159. [See threatenings not abated, i. 145.] consequences of supposing it abated and altered, what, i. 116, 117. 254. the criterion of moral character and of blame worthiness, ii. 371.
· repentance presupposes a love and approbation of it, ii. 373.
-fulfilled by Christ, how, i. 358. this necessary, why, i. 359.
- the rule of life to the believer, ii. 518.
is perfect, requiring sinless obedi- ence, iii. 237.
— submission to, necessary, in order to receiving the gospe, i. 125.
Law, holy, just, and good, independ- ently of the gospel, ii. 205-212. 349.
antecedently to a consideration of the gift of Christ, and the work of re- demption, ii. 359. iii. 267.
approbation of, necessary to our embracing the gospel, ii. 209. 212. 265. Note. 361. 384.
objection answered, ii. 362. Laws of God display his goodness, i. 84. Law, our schoolmaster, iii. 9.
view of it as given on Mount Sinai, iii. 14-17.
-uses of, what, ibid.
requirements of, what, iii. 17, 18. promises life on condition of sinless obedience, iii. 18. 19.
threatens eternal damnation for eve- ry violation of it, ii. 320. iii. 19—22. - in what sense understood by St. Paul, considered, iii. 21. Note.
by the deeds of it, no flesh justified,
Israelites obliged to approve of it, iii. 23.
- devotedness to him, i. 64. [See de- votedness.]
motives from which true love to God takes its rise, i. 67.
from his infinite amiableness, i. 67. from what he has done, and pro- mises to do for us, i. 131.
from his command and authority, i. 133. iii. 466.
measure of love to God, what is re- quired, i. 143.
Love to God, obligation to it binding, originally from what he is in himself, i. 97.
infinitely, i. 99.
eternally, i. 108.
- unchangeably, i. 109.
the foundation of all religion, ii. 266 - the foundation of all holy obedience, i. 66. 192.
- fruits and effects of, what, i. 138. Love to God arising from an apprehen- sion of his love to us, and not from a discovery of his moral excellence, false and spurious, i. 58. Note. 126. 128. ii. 219. 404. iii. 461.
- primary and chief motive that ought to induce us to love, what, ii. 200, 201. Loving God, not for what he is, crimi- nal, i. 128.
Love, true, distinguished from self-love, i. 135-139. ii. 221. 316.
- counterfeit, its nature and effects described, i, 139–142.
-to our neighbour, i. 179. [See neigh- bour.]
Love to our neighbour, none without | Means which God uses for the recovery
love to God, i. 87.
of Christ, greatness of, ii. 347. to Christ, necessarily implies love to God, ii. 301. Note.
essential to true faith, i. 458. -to Christians, what, i. 182. Lord's supper, a seal of the covenant of grace, iii. 161. and passim. nature and design of this covenant here sealed, iii. 166.
- qualifications necessary to receiving this seal aright, what, ibid.
- is not a converting ordinance, iii. 167. 419.
infant baptism does not qualify a per- son for it, iii. 402. 442.
indispensable duty of all godly per- sons to come to it, iii. 397.
Man, original state of, ii. 54.
made a free-agent, ibid. and lord of this lower world, ibid.
his natural capacity and faculties the same as before the fall, i. 148.
his natural capacity to fulfil the law of God considered, i. 144-149. destitute of the moral image of God, by nature, i. 200. 316.
- perishing condition of, i. 299. ground of it, what, ì. 300. 314.
Mankind, all equally sinful by nature, i. 240. 317. ii. 34. Note. iii. 305. Note.
- naturally enemies to God, i. 162. 317. iii. 303. 311. Note.
-evidences of it, i. 318. iii. 306. in their opposition to the gospel, i. 420. iii. 305.
- voluntary in their bad and sinful tem- per, i. 153.
naturally insensible of their guilt and perishing condition, i. 318.
are restrained by the goodness of God, how, i. 407.
of sinners, what, i. 388. 409.
of grace, their use and efficacy to sinners, what, i. 225. how, and for what ends to be used by them, i. 424 -426. [See unregenerate.]
external, sufficient to render the sub- jects of them accountable, i. 170- 177.
misimprovement of, criminal and punishable. [See heathen.] Mediator, office of, i. 295.
- necessity of, i. 339. and why, i. 351. Christ's fitness and sufficiency for, i. 366.
· God-man mediator, i. 481.
- interposition of, necessary before God could deal with man in a way of mercy, iii. 450. Mediation of Christ, design of, what, ii. 376.
the procuring cause of all benefits to man in the present world, i. 389. 403 -408.
procures a reprieve from, and sus- pension of the threatened ruin, i. 403. lays men under infinite obligations, iii. 467.
| Messiah, final judge of the world, ii. 83. Merit, personal, insufficient to obtain a title to heaven, i. 15.
none in the perfect obedience of creatures, i. 99. 101. 129.
false notions of, i. 107. Mercy, God's, designs of, by what ex- cited, considered, i. 320.
--not to mitigate the severity of the constitution made with Adam, ibid. nor of the law of nature, i. 322. nor by man's inability to keep it, i. 326. nor by any goodness in man, i. 329. but are from his own self-moving goodness and sovereign grace, i. 330. Mercy, exercises of, what, i. 348.
greater part of, may yet be saved, i. Millennium, i. 496.
Moral excellency of Ged, a sight of, lays the foundation for divine love, i. 96.
- the foundation of moral obligation, iii. 458.
- view of, convinces the mind of the truth of the gospel, ii. 510.
kills a self-righteous spirit, ii. 486. Moral government of God, original ex- cellency and design of, ii. 352. [See government.]
Moral inability, what, 149. criminal, i. 150.
- inexcusable, i. 155. 326.
Neighbour, love to him, what required,
i. 179-183.
how manifested, i. 186.
Obedience of creatures to God, rea- sonableness of, i. 79.
why approved and rewarded, i. 79 -80. Obedience, perfeet, lays God under no obligations, i. 101.
the condition of life by the first covenant, i. 101..
the condition on which the law promises life, iii. 18.
sincere, not all that is required, i.
motives by which we are to be in- Pardon of sin, inconsistent with the
fluenced to it, i. 183.
it is right and fit, ibid.
the command and authority of God, i, 184.
example of God, í. 185.
standard and measure of it, what, i. 186.
its counterfeits, natural compas- sion, i. 188. good-nature, ibid. natu- ral affection, i. 189. party spirit, i. 190. that arising from other's love to us, ibid. from their being as bad as we, ibid.
Nicodemus, his coming to Christ for in- struction, i. 293.
Christ's conference with, i. 294. Non-elect, dealings of God towards, what, i. 394. 421.
subjects of common mercies and common grace, i. 396.
―causes of their own destruction, i. 595.400.
Obedience, active, of Christ, necessa- ry, i. 358.
the ground of our acceptance with God, i. 363. [See Christ.] Obedience of Christ, meritorious, why, ii. 389.
Divine perfection, without an atone- ment, ii. 343.
how obtained, ii. 454.
Parents, obligations of, to their baptised children, iii. 185.
their right to their children, what, iii. 464.
- duties towards them, what, iii. 486. Passive faith, insufficient and unscriptu- ral, ii. 397. note. 403.
Mr. Sandeman's notions of, errone- ous, iii. 258.
Patience and forbearance of God, abu- sed by sinners, i. 406–408.
greatness of, towards a rebellious, guilty world, iii. 520. Patriarchs, dealings of God with, i. 415 -415.
Paul's way of reasoning, in his epistle to the Galatians, shown, iii. 12, 13. Perfections of God, natural and moral, i. 69.
how discovered, i, 69—97. by his works, i. 70-93. by his word, i. 93-95.
by his Holy Spirit, i. 95-97. - gloriously displayed in the death of Christ, ii. 337. 356.
Permission of sin, lessens not the evil and criminality of it, ii. 145. 155. [See sin.]
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