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Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680 • SECTION 245

Section 245

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519. Williams' Library, I. xxxiv. Wilson, Joshua, Esq., I. xxiv. Winckelmann, ii. 155. Winterton, iv. 248. Wolfius, i. 252 ; v. 125. Wood, Anthony-a, I. xxvi. Wood, i. 279 ; ii. 299. Woodbridge, I. Ixxxi. Woodman, v. 438. Wright, Martha and Mary,

I. Ixv, Ixxxi. Wurtenburgh, iv. 272 ; v.

Xavier, i. 72, 280. Xenocrates, iii. 328. Xenophon,i. 268; ii. 67,366,

483 ; iii. 157 ; iv. 15, 37,

171, 332; vi. 267. Xepilinus, (of Trapezus,) v.

126. Xerxes, i. 197, 201 ; ii 21,

34, 329 ; iv. 443 ; v. 6, 208,

Yates, John, I. xxvi. Yonge, ii. 227.

Zalencus, i. 273 ; iv. 10 ; vi.

103. Zanchius, i. 75, 238, 318, 410 ;

ii. 15, 273, 332; iv. 146;

V. 150, 258, 314. Zediolaus, i. 73, 282. Zegedine, vi. 126. Zclimus, V. 273 ; vi. 272. Zeno, i. 88, 195 ; ii. 284 ; vi.

103, 231. Zenobia, i. 45 ; ii. 45 ; v. 5. Zeuxes, i. 182, 183 ; ii. 297,

305. Zisca, ii. 314 ; iv. 355. Zophar, i. 265. Zophyrus, vi. 241. Zoroaster, vi. 260.

IV.— GENERAL INDEX OF MATTERS.

Abilities, a snare, i. 125 ; engaged against Christ, ib.; leaning on, leads to ruin, i. 126. Abused, merc}% i. 47. Acceptance of Brooks's books, i. 289. Acceptation, the second part of justification consists in tlie, of tlie sinner's person as perfectly righteous in God's sight, v. 220, 221. Access by Christ, v. 192, 193. Accidents turned to good, i. 72 ; vi. 351. Account, call self to, I. Ixiv ; to be ren- dered, i. 40, 47 ; wicked will be called to, ji. 46, 47. Ache, sin makes God's head, i. 48. Acquaint with Scripture, i. 235, 236 ; with yourselves, i. 238, seq. ; with Christ, i. 240 ; with those who are good betimes, i. 246. Acquaintance, seek of glorious things, i. 67,

68. Action, 1. 9 ; spiritual, i. 100 ; iii. 136. Adam, holiness of, in iunocency, iv. 38, 39 ; the greatness of the sin of, in four parti- culars, iv. 70 ; first and second, v. 95, seq. ; we recover more by Christ than we lost by, V. 244 ; the righteousness of tlie second transcends the righteousness of the first, in three resjjects, v. 244-247 ; that there was a covenant of works, or a reciprocal cove- nant betwLxt God and, together with all his posterity before Adam fell from his primitive holiness, &c., is proved by five arguments, v. 292, seq. Admiration, holy persons are much taken up in the, of the holiness of God, iv. 104, 105. Adoption, real lioliuess is a sure evidence of

a man's, iv. 419, 420. ''Advantage,' explained, i. 11. Adversity, not to know, an unhappiness, i. 26 ;

and prosperitj', i. 13, 50. Affections, i. 89 ; engaged to the world, i.

230, 231. Afflictions, use of, I. Ixix ; design of, to God's children, I. Ixxi; shaip, I. Ixxii ; lighter than least sin, i. 23 ; correction, not execu- tion, i. 26 ; saying of Luther on, i. 26 ; never to be in, a misery, i. 43; profitable, i. 48 ; a glass, ib. ; mortify sin, ib. ; pre- servatives, ib. ; God's furnace, ib. ; fruit- ful, i. 49 ; keep humble, i. 49, 50 ; bring nearer to God, i. .50 ; revive graces, i. 50, 51 ; reach only the worse purt, i. 51 ; momentary, i. 51, 72 ; from love, i. 52 ; to be measured, not by the smart, but the end, i. 52 ; a dark entry, a dirty lane, to our father's house, i. 53 ; the design to try not wrong, i. 53 ; greater attending wicked- ness than holiness, ib. ; goldsmiths, ib.; do not hurt, i. 70 ; do not rob of heavenly jewels, i. 71 ; delivered from, by, i. 72 ; gain by, greater than the loss, i. 73 ; per- sonal, of Brooks, i. 287, 288 ; God acknow- ledged in, i. 298, 299 ; quietness in, i. 300 ; acquitting of God in, i. 300, 301 ; soul- quieting conclusions about, i. 301, seq. ; work for good, i. 301, 302 ; felt, i. 306, 307 ; deliverance from, to be sought, i. 307, 308 ; teach others by, i. 308, 309 ; groaning under, i. 310, 311 ; complaining, i. 312 ; wrong to seek for particular, i. 321, 322 ;

some use any ' shifts ' to escape, i. 322, 323 » work good, i. 327, 328 ; greater, deserved' i. 329 ; how to know whether be sent in love, i. 341, seq. ; when the heart is drawn to the Lord by, i. 341 ; if more careful to glorify God by, than to escape, i. 341, 342 ; if presence of God be enjoyed, i. 342 ; if made more like Christ by, i. 343 ; if brought under inward teachings by, i. 343, 344 ; if they be suited to our condition, i. .344 ; if willing to lie in the furnace, i. 344, 345 ; if we live a life of faith, i. 345 ; benefit of, i. 350 ; not so long as our sins have been, i. 354 ; heaven at last will be the sweeter by, i. 354, 355 ; not long compared with eternity, i. 355 ; enxiched by, ib. ; long preparatives for long- mercies, i. 356 ; the more of, the more glory hereafter, i. 357 ; graces increased by, ib. ; religious duties multiplied by, ib. ; transformed into image of Christ by, i. 358; impatience under lengthens, %b. ; last no longer than need, i. 359 ; not so many as our sins, ib. ; if saints are not silent under, none will, i. 359, 360 ; not so many as God might send, i. 360 ; nor as mercies, ib. ; nor as have befallen others, ib. ; nor as Christ's, i. 360, 361 ; muttering and murmuring adds to, i. 361 ; not so many as our joys, ib. ; great, yet not so great as our sins, ib. ; not so great looked at in Scripture, i. 361, 362; the greater the nearer deliverance, i. 362 ; not great compared with the glory to be revealed, i. 362, 363 ; nor with the tor- ments of the damned, i. 363 ; madness . to make greater by murmuring, i. 364 ; greater because sins are, ib. ; distemper magnifies, ib. ; needful to be greater, i. 364, 365 ; more have greater, i. 365 ; mercies greater than, ib. ; greaten graces, i. 365, 306 ; fruits of divine love, i. 390 ; only in this life, i. 391 ; assurance lightens, i. 391, 392 ; benefits of, to be dwelt on, i. 392, 393 ; chiefest treasure is safe, i. 393 ; come through the covenant, i. 395; reach our worser part, i. 395, 396 ; keep up faith in, i. 396; God company in, i. 397; higher ends in, of saints than in worldly men, ib. ; times of, special times of God's mani- festation, i. 397, 398; are God's rod, ii. 141 ; various things in, symbolised by a rod, ii. 141-144 ; end of, in seven things, ii. 144-149 ; God the author and limiter in places, persons, degrees, continuance, ii. 156, 1.57 ; times of, times of assurance, ii. 366, seq. ; sanctified, ii. 307, 368 ; holy persons are much afllicted, &c., with their own unholiness, iv. 118-120; and much affected and afllicted with the unholiness of others, iv. 129-131 ; of great and heavy afflictions, iv. 257, 258 ; the more a man can divinely rejoice under, the greater measure of holiness that man has certainly attained to, iv. 403, 404 ; Christ sym- pathises with his people in all theur, v. 193-195 ; the common lot and portion of the people of God, v. 417-419. Arjed sinners, hope for, i. 275, 276; Abraham

and Nicodemus examples, i. 276. Agree, not differ, i. 130 ; to walk together in BO far as, i. 134.

Ainif, liigli, i. 41.

All tilings shall be sauctificd to the holv man, iv. 422, 423.

Allcrjories, ii. 164, l(i5.

Allurements to sin, 272.

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