Anger and sorrow, God's command reacheth, ii. 336.
Groweth not by degrees like other passions, therefore the best cure is deliberation, iv. 137 ; is the worst thing we can bring to a religious controversy, 138 ; is often justified when it is not justifiable, 139 ; sometimes lawful, 140 ; sometimes necessary, ib. ] when the principle is right, 141 ; when it has a right object, ib. ; when the manner is right, ib. ; sinful when hasty and undeliberate, ib. ; immoderate, 142; causeless, ib. ; without a good end, 143 ; nothing more makes room for Satan, ib. ; much woundeth our own peace, ib. ; disparageth Christianity, ib. Different from hatred, viii. 332. »
Animal and spiritual life distinguished and described, xv. 47.
Anointing the sick with oil in the name of the Lord, not a standing ordinance in the church, iv. 448 ; even in the apostles' time it was not abso- lutely necessary, ib. ; was not promiscuously used, 449 ; ceased when the miraculous gift ceased, ib. ; Popish, or extreme unction, a mere hypocritical pageantry, 450. Of Christ signifieth the nature of his oflfices as king, priest, and prophet,
V. 160; and the authority on which it is founded, 161. Of Christ, was not typical, but real, x. 167 ; implieth the giving of power and authority, 168 ; the bestowing on him of the Holy Ghost, who might make the human nature fit for the work, ib. ; was to the office of mediator in general, jiarticularly to be king, priest, and prophet of the church, ib.
Ansu'ers to prayer, importance of observing, vi. 252.
To prayer, God's children are earnest for, ix. 46 ; because they dare not take God's name in vain, ib. ; not looking for, proceedeth from an ill course^ 47 ; heedlessness, ib. ; a touch of atheism, ib. ; distrust, which is akin to atheism, ib. ; some disesteem of God's favour and accept- ance, ib. ; if we do not look after, our loss is exceeding great, 48 ; we lose our labour in prayer, ib. ; lose excitements to love and obedience, ib. ; lose encouragements to pray again, ib. ; lose the benefit of sensible communion with God, ib. ; God loseth honour, and praise, and thanks- giving, ib. ; how God grants, 50 ; extraordinarily, as in ancient times, ib. ; ordinarily, either by granting the mercy prayed for, ib. ; or by giving spiritual manifestations to the soul, ib. ; or by commutation or exchange, giving another thing that is as good or better, 51.
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Ant, the, a pattern of diligence, xxii. 3.
Anthony the Hermit, his study in the desert, xiii. 395.
Antichrist, Eiohteen Sermons on, iii. 1.
Antichrist, the head patron of the great apostasy, iii. 28; revehation of, 31 ; names or titles of, ib. ; man of sin, ih. ; son of perdition, 32 ; not a single person, but a society or succession of men, ib. Opposite to Christ, chiefly in respect of pride, iii. 37 ; exalteth himself above all human persons, 39 ; and above all that is reverenced, ib. ; usurps divine honours, 40 ; shows himself that he is God, 42 ; every tittle of this description fulfilled in the Bishop of Home, 44 ; his manifestation stayed by the Roman Empire, 49 ; this ^ taken out of the way about a.d. 600, 50 ; grew to its monstrous excess and height in Boniface III., 56. Doctrine of, profitable, and very necessary to be preached and known,
iii. 46. Sets up his kingdom by Satan's agency and influence, iii. 66 ; by pre- tence of miracles, ib. ; sophistical reasonings, 67 ; fawning or threat- ening, preferment or persecution, ib.
Antichristian state, subjects of, are drawn into it with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness, iii. 76 ; their misery, those that perish, ib. ; the
reason of this shown, they received not the love of the truth, 77, 79.
State, called Babylon for idolatry, Sodom for filthiness, and Esxypt for
ignorance and darkness, v. 254.
Antigonus advice to the governor of a rebellious city, xii. 60.
Antinomianism, refutation of, xi. 158 ; it is an unjust illation from the doc- trine of free justification, ib. ; it is absurd, and contrary to the doctrine of grace, i6. ; it is wicked and blasphemous, 160: caution against, 161.
Antinomians, doctrine of the, as to grace giving freedom from the moral law, xvi. 46.
Apostasies from God in heathenism, and from Christ in Romanism, are of the kingdom of the devil, which is to be destroyed, xviii. 32.
Apostasy, temptations to, errors, scandals, persecutions, ii. 88.
General, before Christ's coming to judgment, iii, 26 ; is any defection from him to whom we owe and have performed subjection, ib. ; that foretold, not civil, but of the visible church from the Lord of the church, ib. ; will consist in undermining his authority, 27 ; and cor- rupting and destroying the interests of his kingdom, ib. ; is notable and discernible, and its head is Antichrist, 28 ; Popery this apostasy,
The covenant of grace a comfort against fears of, iii. 384. Danger and mischievous effects of, vi. 315 ; more dishonourable to God than a simple refusal, ib. ; falling off after a taste of the sweetness and practice of godliness a worse condition than to have never be^'-un, 316. Apostate, Luther confesses that he is from the devil's service, iii. 178. Apostles, even in their private and familiar letters, very spiritual, v. 99. Their words the rule of faith, v. 322.