And spiritual draw contrary conclusions from the same principles, vii. 404.
Men do not, and cannot, please God, xi. 478 ; it is man's duty and. happiness to please God, ib; should be our work and scope, 473 ; no easy matter to make it so, ib. ; good actions of, do not please God, 481 ; there is a defect in their state, ib. ; a defect in the root of the actions, ib. ; a defect in the manner, ib. ; a defect in the end, ib. ; why they think so meanly of the people of God, 490.
Men are fools ; proved from scripture and their own course of life, xiii. 114.
Men may for a time be raised to extraordinary quickness in duties of worship, xiii, 462.
Men are incapable of anything well-pleasing to God, xiv. 90 ; the grounds^ we have to press men to the use of means although they themselves are distasteful to God, 99.
Men, God useth to give many temporal good things to, xviii. 298 ; be- cause all his creatures shall have some taste of lii^ bounty, ib. ; that he may reward some good in them, ib. ; to show that these are not the chief good things by which his special love is manifested to us^ 299 ; misery of, before death, 302 ; at death, 303 ; after death, 304.
Men may be deeply affected with the christian doctrine, even to great agonies of conscience, and yet finally miscarry, xviii. 359.
Things, man naturally addicted to, more than spiritual, and to worldly
vanities rather than heavenly enjoyments, to the creature rather than'
to God, xviii. 468.
Carnalists, proud, who scorn the simplicity of the word, reproof of, viii. 342.
Casual and fortuitous things do certainly and infallibly fall out by God's
providence and heavenly government, ii. 320. Catechising, want of, a cause of decay of godliness, v. 435. Cause of his people, God should be desired to plead when they have to do with unjust and wicked adversaries, ix. 135 ; he pleads as a judge. 137; his pleading not verbal or vocal, but real and active, 138; tlie effect is the clearing of his people, and convincing of their adversaries, 139 ; necessity of this pleading, 140; because the people of God are often in such a condition that none will plead their cause unless God plead it, ib. ; though we have a good cause and hopeful instruments, yet we cannot plead it with any effect till God show himself from heaven, 141. Causes, second, God does not leave, to their power and force, as if he were only an idle spectator in the world, i. 151 ; not to be confided in, 159.
Second, a mutual dependence and subordination between all, iv. 472.
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Celsus' objection against Origen, that faith introduced error into the world
and cast out science, answered, xiii. 371. Censurers tisually liave their own measure returned into their bosoms, iv. 271. Censuring, wrong when we do it out of pride and conceit, iv. 272 ; when we do it as vaunting over their infirmities and frailties, ib. ; when the censure is unmerciful, 273 ; when we infringe christian liberty, and condemn others for things merely indifferent, ib. ; when we do not consider what may stand with charity as well as what will agree with truth, ib. ; v.dien we do it to set off ourselves, ib. ■Chance, what is, to men, is providence to God, ii. 317. Change, godly men wait for, on others it cometh unexpected, iv. 391. Charity and doing good with our estates a fruit of faith, ii. 150.
To the poor must be performed as worship, out of respect to God, iv.
176; and unspotted life must go together, 177. A sign and argument of the forgiveness of our sins, but not a cause,
iv. 473. Excess of, is a betrayal of the faith, vi. 291.
Works of, done out of faith and love to God, of great weight and con- sequence, X. 65 ; a command of God requireth, ib. ; the trial of our love to Christ, 'o^ ; the great question interrogated by Christ at the great day of accounts, ib. Use of faith in the duties of, xiii. 357. Is that love wherewith we love God for himself, and our neighbour for
God's sake, xviii. 135. Excellency and necessity of, above all other gifts, xviii. 306 ; iiature and properties of, ib. ; with or without, we are something or nothing in religion, 312. And purity true notes of a believer, xxi. 82. Chastisements are not in anger when they make us better, vii. 259. Chief end of man as a subject for meditation, xvii. 306. Child-heariiiff, though bringing forth children be according to the course of nature, yet God hath a great hand in it, xiv. 275 ; faith the best mid- wife, 276. Child of God hath all the divine perfections in some measure in his soul,
i. 188. Children of Wisdom, Wisdom Justified by, ii. 93. 'Children, can never merit of their parents (Aristotle), xii. 33.
Of God, the privilege of being, assured to us by a double testimony, that of the Holy Ghost and of a renewed conscience, xii. 125 ; marks in scripture whereby we may determine our sonship, 127 ; the Spirit and our consciences concur to produce the same conclusion, 129; the necessity of this conjunction, ib. ; directions to ensure this twofold testimony, ib. Of God, why they act in a manner different from others, xiii. 452 ; wherein lies the difference between the worship of, and that of nominal professors, 453. Of believing parents partakers in the privileges of the covenant for