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Flavel, John, 1630?-1691 • SECTION 252

Section 252

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Bodies of believers. How joyful the resurrection of them will

be to their souls 494

How they should be governed and employed 497, ^c.

Children, Their duty to their parents shewn in six

How Christ's example enforces their duties upon them 388

Their disobedience to their parents, a sign of their being

Serious queries proposed to them ibid.

The danger of their undutifulness to their parents, shewn

Directions for their carriage towards either godly or ungodly

Christ, How said to be the only object of St. Paul's knowledge 32

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE I OR THE FIRST VOLUME. 593

Page Christy Several excellent properties of the knowledge of him, as crucified 34

The sufficiency of his doctrine to make men wise to salvation 37 His excellency to believers 38

His glory and pleasure with the Father before liis incarnation 43 The nature of his delight in his pre-existent state, shewn

The wonderfulness of his love in our redemption 48

The great danger of rejecting him 50

What encouragement his dearness to the Father gives

His work and reward described ihld.

How wonderfully the love of God shines forth in giving him 03 What is implied in God's giving him 6-5

How the gift of him yields us hope for all good things 69

The horrible wickedness of despising him 70

The necessity of our union with him 80

What his being sealed implies, 85. Vide Sealed. What obligations we are under to devote ourselves to him 101 The great evil of using his blood as a common thing 103

The nature of his mediation explained 107

Vide Mediator. The necessity of our being interested in him as Mediator 110 The danger of joining other mediators with him 115

What reason Christians have to be thankful to him 116

The safety of believers in him ibid.

His prophetical office explained, 118. Vide Prophet, The nature and necessity of his priesthood 145

Vide Priesthood. How he obtains the throne in the hearts of men 200

Six ways of his ruling in the souls of men 203

The privileges of the subjects of his spiritual kingdom 206

His providential kingdom explained, 211. Vide Providence How we should honour him in conderation of his abase- ment 283 How many ways he was humbled in his life 23-5 How he prepared himself for his death 246 His fatherly care discovered in his last prayer 248

Vide Prayer. The mercies he requested for liis disciples when dying 249

The special arguments pleaded in his last prayer 250

The last reasons of his praying for his disciples at his death 254 How his love and care was manifested in instituting his sup- per 259 His dignity was proclaimed by his enemies 334

5l>*4 AX ALril-AJJKTICAL TAiiLE TO THE FIRST -VOLUME.

Christ, Remarks on the title put upon his cross, 334. Vide Title. How he is called God's fellow gl4

Kis silence in his sufferings, how it is to be understood 357

The greatness of his burdens, and his patience under them 359 His last words to be most seriously considered 369

His tender care of his mother when he was dying 382

Vide Mother. His doleful complaint upon the cross explained and applied 406 How he breathed out his spirit to his Father 443

Christian religion, the excellency of it above all others 149

Christians, whence it is they sometimes differ from themselves

Circumcision of Christ, how he was humbled in it 235

City of God, the excellency of its place and company 195

Committing ouv souls to God at death, several things implied in it 444. Vide Sotd, vide Death.

Condemnation of Ch?'ist, the great injustice of it shewn in six

Useful lessons to be learned from it 304

The wickedness of Pilate in giving it against hiai 802

Several useful inferences concerning it 304

Covenant of Redemption, the general nature of it shewn 53

The persons transacting, the business transacted, and the man- ner of transacting it 54 The promises made to our Saviour therein ^^ What the Redeemer restipulated in it 57 How punctually the articles of it were performed on both

The eternity and security of it 58

Useful inferences from it 59

Cross, the death upon it shewn to be of the worst kind 322, c^t. Why Christ died upon it, rather than any other death 326'

Useful inferences from our Saviour''s enduring it 327, S^'c,

What encouragement believers have to bear theirs for Christ 329

Crucifixion, the worst kind of death, 321. Vide Cross.

Cup, a portion of sufferings so called 274

How Christ prayed that his might pass from him 273

Christ, his sitting at the right hand of God explained and ap- plied, 545. Vide Right-hand.

Christ, The reverence due to him from Christians 522

It is honourable to suffer reproach for him ihid.

Darius (king of Persia) declared filthy waters was sweet to him, in his great thirst, 420. Vide Thirst.

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE FOR THE Fill ST VotuME. 5G5

Page Death ; Christ prepared himself for it, by praying for his dis- ciples, 247. By instituting his last supper, 259. And, by praying for himself 271

It immediately brings believers into a state of happiness 398 Useful inferences concerning the immediate consequence

of it to believers 400

Preparations for it not ordinarily to be expected at the time

How much all, and particularly young people, are concern- ed to prepare for it 405 How believers are encouraged therein, to commit their

Useful deductions from the encouragement of believers in it 450 That of Christ was, in general, designed for four excellent ends 456

Dehauchery^ vide Profaneness.

Delight^ how Christ was such to his Father before his incarna- tion 43 The nature of that of Christ in the Father described 44 Desertion^ Christ's complaint of it upon the cross 407 The nature of that which Christ endured, explained nega- tively and positively 408, ^c. The ends for which Christ was exposed to it by the Fa- ther 411 It is the greatest misery of God's children 413 Comfort to sincere Christians when under it 41 4 Rules to be observed by believers when exercised with it 417 Devils^ their sin not so much aggravated as ours in rejecting

Dignity of Christ was proclaimed by his judge 334

Disciples (of Christ,) how they left their Lord in his suffer- ings. Vide SJieep. Doctrines^ how to make a right judgment of them 128

Drop of Christ's blood ; how unreasonable it is to say, one

only was sufficient to redeem the whole world 357

Death, That of Christ was, in general, designed for four

Eternity^ how eminently a gentlewoman was affected

with seeing this word 535

What abundant comfort it yields to sincere Christians 488

The several steps of it at large considered and improved 503 Vol. VI. P p

696 AX ALPHABETICAL TABLE FOR THE FIItST V0LU3IE,

Pagtf I^AiTH in Christ, the necessity of it to salvation 150

How useful it is to GocFs people both living and dying 444< Fello-ii) to God, How Christ is said to be so, 344. Vide Christ Finished, (It is) The comprehensiveness of these words, as

used by our Saviour 430

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