Commensurablenessof the distinct propriety of the three persons of the God- head in, X. 256 ; all of them and none other are elected by the Father, all of them and none other are redeemed by the Son, all of them and none other are sanctified by the Spirit, ib. ; follows from the unity of essence, ib. ; from the unity and agreement in will and design, 257 ; denied by the Arminians in doctrine, and by common people in practice, ib.
Private, the honour put upon them, xi. 16.
Their condition better than if Adam had not fallen, xi. 58.
Reckoned sufferers wnth Christ, xiii. 191 ; what their being crucified with Christ imi:)lieth, 192.
The merits of Christ's obedience and death are applied and made bene- ficial to penitent, xviii. 218 ; and working, ib. Believing, is that which gives most honour to God, i. 85.
A holy obstinacy in, viii. 269 ; the less sensible evidence there is of the object of faith, the greater and stronger is the faith, if we believe it upon God's word, 270.
In Christ, implies a lively sense of our own misery and the wrath of God due for sin, xi, 19 ; its explicit act is when a soul thus humbled casts itself upon Christ for grace, mercy, and salvation, 20 ; must be wrought by the word, 21.
With the heart, implieth not a dead faith, but operative, xviii. 244. Benefactor, God is a, to all men in the way of creation and providence, viL 394;
to his people in the way of grace and recovery by Christ, 395. Benefits, memory of former, an encouragement to ask anew, x. 129. Bernard's note on Martha's complaining of Mary, xiv. 71.
Pteply to the devil when tempted to vaingloriousness, xiiL 125. Bible, nothing but a book of precedents, v. 168,
Not only for novices and young christians, but for all, viii. 78.
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Blackness of darkness, a Hebraism for exceeding great darkness, v. 287. Blackwell, Mrs Jane, Sermon at her Funeral, ii. 45-5.
Mrs Jane, her character, ii. 473. Blasphemy, -wicked rich men above all others prone to, iv. 204 ; they who love God must hate blasphemer?, ib. Against the Holy Ghost, what it is, xxi. 398 ; why against the Holy Ghost, 399 ; cautions against, 403. Blessed Estate of them that Die in the Lord, ii. 455, Blessed, God may be said to be, either objectively, as he is the object of our blessedness, vi. 108; or subjectively, and so either in an active or a passive sense, ib. ; in himself, as he hath the fulness of perfection and contentment, ib. ; as he is the fountain of all blessedness to us, 110 ; passively as he is blessed by us, or as worthy of all praise from us, ib. ' Blessed of my Father,' x. 47 ; opposed to the world's judgment of them, ib. ; opposed to the sentence of the law, ib. ; opposed to their own fears, 48 ; the fountain-cause of all their happiness, ib. ; shows how the divine persons do glorify one another, ib. Blessedness, not to be Offended in Christ the Ready Way to, ii. 79. Blessedness, perfect, consists in a complete vision of God and Christ, a complete possession and fruition of God, a complete similitude and transfor- mation into the image of Christ, a complete delectation arising from all these, ii. 65. A great degree and step towards, yea, a considerable part of, is to obtain
the pardon of our sins by Christ Jesus, ii. 178. Includes the removal of all evils, ii. 462 ; of sin, ib. ; and of suffering,
463 ; and a confluence of all good, 464. Future, fulness of, v. 355 ; certainty of, ib.
And blessed men, important to have a true notion of, vi. 5 ; all desire it, lb. ; all without grace are much mistaken in, 6 ; mistakes about it will cost us dear, 7 ; sincere, constant, uniform obedience to God's law the only way to, 9 ; of a close walker not only future, but present, 14. Blessing, God's of us is operative, ours of him declarative, i. 244.
In every, conferred on a sinner, there is not only bounty, but pardon, iv. Ill ; spiritual, the best, 112. Blessings, to be milked out by prayer, i. 29 ; this necessary for God's honour, 30 ; and for our profit, ib. Common, twofold right to, providential and covenant, i. 151. Temporal, may be prayed for, i. 158 ; but not in the first place, nor in immoderate proportion, but with humility and submission, and for good ends, 159. Outward, matter of thankfulness, i. 160; as good in themselves, ib. ; as coming from God, ib. ; as coming from his free grace and mercv, 161. Most proper to Christ as mediator are spiritual, ii. 207. When God meaneth to bestow, he stirreth up the hearts of his people
to pray for them, iv. 471. There is a blessing by way of prayer, and a blessing by way of pro- phecy, xiv. 380 ; blessings and curses of parents, if uttered in a right spirit, are not spoken in vain, 381 ; in the blessing of Jacob and Esau, the younger brother preferred, ib. ; other instances of the like in scripture, 382 ; wherein lay the peculiarity of the blessing of Jacob over that of Esau, 383 ; this difference founded in an eternal