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decree and purpose of God, 387 ; accomplished notwithstanding Isaac's reluctance, ib. ; Esau not actually rejected till he had himself rejected the blessing, 388 ; wherein lay the strength of Isaac's faith in blessing Jacob and Esau concerning things to come, 389 ; lessons from hence, 391.
Blessings, there is a difference not only between the blessings of the wicked and the godly, but between those of the godly themselves, xiv. 399. Prayer gets, but thankfulness keeps, xviii. 38.
Jilvidness, spiritual, caution against, iii. 93 ; take heed of sinning against light, ib. ; take heed of hyjDocrisy in the jDrofession of the truth, ib. ; take heed of pride and carnal self-sufficiency, 94. Spiritual, natural to us, vL 167 ; worse than bodily, 168; God alone can remove, ib. ; though in part cured, we need that God should open our eyes to the last, 170.
Mood of Christ, the only sufficient ransom for lost sinners, ii. 295.
^ Blood of sprinkling' (Heb. xii. 24), the persons to whom it is applied, xxii. 108; the manner of application, 109 ; the subject to which it is applied, 110; the certainty of the effect, 111 ; the value and efficacy of it, 112; reasons why, 1 1 5.
Boasting, what lawful and what unlawful for a christian, iv. 63. A usual sin of the toncrue, iv. 284.
Bodies of the saints, honour put upon, i. 475 ; they are members of Christ, and temples of the Holy Ghost, ib. What care we should take how we employ, xi. 254 ; the senses, ib. ; the tongue, 255.
Bodily presence of Christ, withdrawal of from the world, x. 278 ; that he might try the world, and yet in a way suitable to his glorious estate, ib. ; that way might be made for his spiritual presence, ib. ; confuta- tion of the Lutherans, 279.
Body, God in covenant with, as well as with the soul, i. 157.
Resurrection of the saints is incorruptible, ii. 465 ; glorious, ib. ; spiri- tual, ib. Plainly seen to have some indirect operation upon the soul, iii. 304. Of sin, means the whole stock and mass of corruption, xi. 193 ; must not only have its face scratched, but must be destroyed, 194 ; serious reflection on the death of Christ the true way of subduing, 197. Why called vile, xx. 169 ; in respect of its original, ib. ; sustentation and supports, 170 ; the many miseries to which it is obnoxious, ib. ; often made the instrument of sin, ib. ; vile in death, ib. ; more so after death, ib. ; its future condition, 171.
'Born of God,' what it is to be, xxL 63.
Bottle in the smoke, the suffering believer compared to, vii. 372; it is dry, and wrinkled, and shrunk, so his bodily strength decays, 373 ; it is blacked and smutched, so his beauty is wasted as well as his strength, 374 ; it is contemned and cast aside as useless, so he loses his esteem and regard among men, ib.
Bounty, God's common, easier to believe than his special love, i. 157. Of God, general, dispensed liberally, but not specially, iv. 38. And mercy of God an encouragement in asking spiritual gifts, vii. 186.
Brazai serpent, a type of salvation by Christ, xvii. 454 ; its history, 455 ; the typical use of it, 456 ; the resemblance between Christ and it, 458 ; the super-excellency of Christ above this and all other types and shadows of him, 460 ; the lesson in faith to be derived from, 461.
Bread, petition for daily, why put first of those that relate to ourselves, i. 149.
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Sread, in the sacraments, Romisli adoration of, is idolatry, iii. 100. Jjrethren, a word imi:)lying love and equality, xii. 28.
Christ, having taken our nature, accej^ts and acknowledges us as his,
xviii. 435; may we call him our brother? 43Gj brotherhood only
reckoned to the sanctified, 438. Brotherhood of Christ, a real privilege to us, x. 73 ; a comfort against a
sense of our own unwortbiness, ib. Burden, believers in this mortal body are burdened with a heavy load of sin
and affliction, xii. 469 ; why affliction is a burden, ih. ; why sin, 470;
•it shows our folly that we are so loath to leave this world and prepare
for a better, 471 ; the saints, being burthened, do in a holy manner
groan and long for a better life, ib. ; that this desire is not unnatural,
ib. ; nor the result of discontent or desperation, 472 ; the holiness of
these groans and desires, ib. Burial, in holy or consecrated places not necessary, xiv. 416 ; in places of
worship, as it is very unhealthy and unseemly, so very modern, ib. ;
the decent burial of the saints agreeable to the word of God, 417.
Ccesar's virtues more amiable than Cato's, xii. 277.
Cai7i, the devil's patriarch, the first root of the seed of the serpent, v. 2G9. The first-fruits of the reprobate, the patriarch of unbelievers (Tertullian), X. 90, xiii. 435.
Calamities, the greatest, to be undergone rather than the smallest sin com- mitted, vi. 223 ; the greatest nothing in comparison with desertions of God and terrors of conscience, ib. ; meek suffering of, conduceth much to God's glory, ib. Of the faithful, not incompatible with the divine justice, viii. 447 ; God has an absolute dominion over us and our comforts, and may give and take them away according to his pleasure, ib. ; intending to bestow eternal blessings upon them, he will take a liberty in disposing of outward things, ib. ; it is fit, before they go to heaven, that they should be tried, 448 ; afflictions have their profit and use, and con- duce to their good, 449 ; good men are but in part good, and it is fit their carnal part should be chastised, ib. In all, we should look to God, xix. 5 ; because nothing falleth out without his particular providence, 6 ; cross issues and punishments, <is well as benefits and prosperous successes, come from him, ib. ; a great advantage to patience under, when we can consider God not as .an angry judge, but a gracious father, 7 ; not inconsistent with adoption, 9.