Distance, keep, at a, from sin, i. 13.
Distinctions, of true Nathanaels, ii. 422, seq.
Divisions, i. 128, 129, 132.
Do, i. 291, 292 ; things for God, only believers can, ii. 109, 110.
Doctors of this age, i. 127.
Doctrine, the, of the crown and glory of Christianity stated, iv. 37 ; proved by ten arguments, iv. 47, seq.
Dominion of sin, he over whom presump- tuous sins have no dominion is upright, iii. 267 ; eight ways for a man to know whether he be under, or no, iii. 275, seq.
Dov.hting, faith, with, i. 96 ; making sense the judge of their condition an impediment to assurance, ii. 385, 386.
Doubts, how to remove, ii. 76, 77; what they do, ii. 400.
Draw, seek to, to Christ, ii. 106, 107.
Dregs of wrath on dregs of days, i. 211.
Duty, necessity, not difficult}', i. 74; required of us, i. 77 ; affliction increases religious, i. 357 ; secret, i. 405 ; if any, then secret prayer, ii. 165; of weak saints, iii. 75, seq.; do, and leave issue with God, iii. 167, 168 ; three arguments against trusting in our own, iii. 494, seq. ; the holy man's duties are most delightful to God, iv. 424, 425 ; real holiness naturalizeth holy, to the soul, iv. 120-122 ; the more holy any man is, the more singular delight and pleasure God will take in all his religious duties and services, iv. 357, 358 ; when men in the main are as holy out of religious duty as they are in religious dutj% it is an evidence of a great measure of holiness that they have attained to, iv. 402, 403 ; the more a man is exercised in the right spiritual and inter- nal, of religion, the more holiness he hath attained to, iv. 406, 407 ; the more solid and exact a Christian is in religious, and services, the more holy he is, iv. 407, 408 ; absolute and necessary, not to be multi- plied, iv. 21 ; what are the duties that are incumbent upon them that have been burned up? (1.) To see the hand of the Lord in this late dreadful fire, vi. 216, 217 ; (2.) To justify the Lord in all that he has done, vi. 217, seq.; (3.) In patience to possess their own souls, vi. 240, seq.; (4.) To set up the Lord in a more eminent degree than ever as the great object of their fear, vi. 242, 243; (5.) To be content with their present condition, vi. 243-245 ; (6.) To lie low, to keep hund^le, under this dreadful judgment of fire, under the mighty hand of God, vi. 245-247 ; (7.) To encourage themselves in the Lord their God, vi. 247, 250; (8.) To keep in their hearts a con- stant remembrance of the late dreadful coiiflagiation ; eight arguments to encour- age to this, vi. 250-252; (9.) To see the vanity, mutability, and uncertainty of all worldly comforts and enjoyments, and ac- cordingly to set it loose from them, vi. 252, seq.; (10.) To be very importunate with God to take away those sins that have laid
our city desolate, vi. 275-277 ; (11.) To pre- pare and fit for greater troubles and trials, vi. 277 27'J ; (12. ) To secure the everlasting welfare of their precious and immortal souls, vi. 279, 2S0; (1.1) To get a God for their portion, vi. 280, 281; (14.) To make God their haliitation, to make God their dwell- ing-place, vi. 281, 282; (15.) To make sure an aliiding city, a city that hath founda- tions, wiiose builder and maker is God, vi. 2S2-285 ; (1(5.) To sanctify the Sabbath and to keep it holy all their daj-.s, vi. 285, icq.; what are the duties that are incum- bent upon tho.se whose habitations are yet standing as monuments of divine wisdom, power, and grace? these eight that follow, (1. ) To take heed of those sins which bring the fiery rod, vi. 300, 307 ; (2.) Not to think those greater sinners than gene- rally, whose habitations have been laid in ashes, vi. 307 ; (3.) To be much in bless- ing of God, ih. ; (4.) To take heed of se- curity ; do not say ' the bitterness of death is past,' vi. 307, 308; (5.) To shew much love, pity, and compassion to those who are burned up, and turned out of all, vi. .308, 3 '9 ; (0 ) To lift up a prayer for all those who are fallen under the heavy judgment of fire. vi. 309, 310; (7.) Seriously to con- sider that some men's escai-)ing of very great judgments is not properly a preser- vation, but a reservation to some greater destruction, vi. 310 ; (8.) Not to rejoice or glory in your neighbour's ruin, vi. 311, 312.
Divc'J, on necessity, not difficulty, i. 74.
Diiinff, upon six grounds there was a necessity "of Chi-ist's, v. 254, 255 ; who those are for wliora Christ died, v. 255, 256.
Earhi, seeking, i. 185, 186 ; what is implied in,'i. 186, 187.
Earthquakes, vi. 192, scq.
Easi/, duty made, i. 74.
Elect, cannot tell but any one may be, i. 149 ; real holiness is a sure evidence of election, iv. 412, scq.
El Elim, God, ii. 13.
Embracing : poor sinners should embr.ace Christ as they would have his signal pre- sence with them in theii- greatest trials .•vnd deepest distresses, v. 553, 554.
Emperor and rel)el, iii. 123.
Encourar/evient, to sin from God's mercy, provoking, i. 43 ; to duty, L 78 ; poor sin- ners encouraged to como to Christ, v. 187, 188.
Eiitl, not beginning of affliction, to be looked at, i. 52, 53.
Ends of God in recording sins of saints, i. 20, 27 ; other than justification in duties, i. 80. of the exercise of gifts and graces, iii. 136, scq. ; a holy man i)ropounds holy, to himself in all his actings and undertakings, iv. 141, scq.; how persons may know when they make the glory of God their end, an- swered five ways, iv. 143, seq.
Endurinrj .• such as can't endure holiness in others shall never go to heaven, iv. 94, 95.
Enemies, the, of the church are weak and con- temptible, V. 48, seq.
Enjoyment of Christ, i. 103, 104. ; of God. i. 253.
Enjovments, sins in, i. 348, 349.
Enmitu, by nature man is at, with God, iL 115.'
Enough, never of God, ii. 99.
Enr;i, ii. 47; iii. 191, 192.
' E/iii^tles ' prefixed to others' writings by lirooks, I. xxxii, Ixviii-lxxvi.
Errors, polluting, i. 50 ; odious to God as a vicious life, i. 50, 57 ; leads to loss, i. 58 ; hate, ib.; evils of, i. 01; .and folly, knots of Satan, i. 170 ; we are to have no special communion with such as err in fundamental truths, iv. 05, CO.
Estate not good, i, 113, 114.
Esttcm the godly, ii. 103, 104.
Esteeming of God above all : a man that hath God for his portion sets the highest esteem, the highest price, the highest value upon (!od imaginable, ii. 90, 97 ; five ways whereby a man may know whether God be highest in his estimation or no. ii. 97-100.
Eternal dangers, i. 72; everything that is conducible to the torments of the damned is : proved five ways, vi. 199.
Eternity, i. 183; be fervent in serious con- sideration of, ii. 297; as ever you would keep close to closet-pr.ayer, be frequent in the court of, ii. 297, 298.