A believer's, God's word and oath the immutable grounds of, xvi. 294 ; the power and certainty of God's word, ib. ; reasons why God gives his oath over and above his word, 295 ; the advantages we have by God's oath, 303 ; application, 305 ; objections answered, 310 ; the fruit of this assurance is strong consolation, 314 ; what is meant by 'strong consolation,' ib. ; how this ariseth from assurance, 316; how it is dispensed on God's part, and how far required on ours, 318 ; exhortation to look after this consolation, 325 ; how to get it, 328 ; how to keep it, 333. Of good estate before God, his children may have, xx, 76 ; when grace is in some degree of eminency, ib. ; when their evidences are not blotted by frequent sins, ib. ; when they have the spirit of adoj^tion in a more eminent degree, 77 ; when they have a more abundant sense of the love of God, ib. ; when the change wrought in them by grace is most sensible, ib. ; yet they cannot look upon themselves as out of all danger, and past all care and holy solicitude, 79 ; because there is no period put to our duty but life, ib. ; because all through their life they are imperfect, ib. ; nature of, is to exclude the fear which hath torment, but not the fear of caution and diligence, 80 ; gotten with diligence and kept with watchfulness, 81 ; in order to, we need diligence, ib. ; caution and watchfulness, 82 ; self-denial, 83. Graces really and soundly exercised beget assurance of our con- dition before God, xxi. 155 ; graces thus really, constantly, and self-denyingly exercised leave a suitable impression on the con- science, 161.
Jitheisvi not so bad as blasphemy, iv. 84.
Contemplation of creation an antidote to, xiii. 398.
Atheistical men deride reliance upon God in distress, vii. 39 ; and obedience to his precepts, 40.
Atheists are of all men most credulous, xii. 220.
Atonement required by the holiness of God's nature, i. ; 496 ; the honour
of his governing justice, ib. ; to keep up the authority of his law,
497 5 to make sin odious, and obedience more acceptable to us, 498 ;
to commend the love of God to us, ib. ; to give us hope, ib. ; proofs
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of its acceptance, 499 ; Christ's resurrection and ascension into glorj^ ib. ; the grant of the new covenant, ib. ; the pouring out of the Spirit, oOO ; peace enjoyed by believers, ib.
Atonement, satisfaction -by the blood of Christ causes a glorious soul- appeasing light to break upon the hearts of men, vi. 85.
Attention, serious, to the doctrine of the gospel the means appointed for the attaining of saving grace and a plentiful increase therein, xviii. 421; the gospel deserveth, ib.] our profiting requireth, 422; con- sisteth in sound belief, serious consideration, and close application, ib.
Attributes, a thorough belief of God's, as i-evealed in Christ, taketh oli' all disquiets and perplexities of spirit, iv. 51. God's, in themselves terrible and dreadful to a sinner, being derived to
us through Christ, yield comfort and sweetness, iv. 242. Of God seen in creation, vii. 85 ; his goodness, ib. ; his power, ib. ;. his wisdom, ib. ; tliese manifested in the whole structure of his word, 8G ; in his daily providence, 87 ; these three suit with his threefold relation to us — power as our creator, wisdom as our governor, goodness as our benefactor, 88 ; do most bind our duty on us, ib.
Auriadar confession, the great artifice and engine by which Popish priests keep the people in devotion to their interests, knowledge of secrets rendering them the more feared, iv. 458 ; disproof of the absolute necessity of it, ib. ; the improbability of making such a confession as is required, 459 ; their making it part of a sacrament of divine in- stitution, ib. ; the manner it is used, and the consequences of it, make- it justly odious, ib.
Axdhovity, supreme, two acts of, legislation and judgment, usurped by the Pope, iii. 41. Or dominion, God's, is his right over all things, to dispose of them at his pleasure, vii. 414; a right of making or forming anything as he willeth, ib. ; of having or possessing all things so made by him, ib. \ of using, disposing, and governing all things thus in his possession according to his pleasure, 415. Of Christ's mediation, the object of justifying faith, x. 239. It doth not become a private man to resist, xix. 3.
Awe of God's majesty called for in worship, i. 407 ; suitable to faith and' love, ib. ; must not degenerate into servile fear and discouragement, 408.
Babel, purpose of the tower of, i. 85.
Babes and sucklings, who they are, xviii. 13 ; man in general, 14 ; David in particular, ib. ; more especially our Lord Jesus Christ, ib. ; the apostles, ib. ; the children who cried Hosanna to Christ, ib. ; all that fight under Christ's banner, ib.
Baclcbiting, diflferent forms of, ii. 280 ; its heinousness, 282.
Baclcslider in heart contrasted with the good man, ii. 233.
In heart, is he that turneth his heart from God and his ways, and daily groweth worse and worse, xviii. 465 ; meant chiefly of the ordinary wicked person, ib. ; may be understood to comprise the apostate, ib.