With Christ, the nature and character of, xxi. 219 ; why a privilege peculiar to those who keep his commandments, 224. Comjianions of them that fear the Lord, in what sense we are to be, vii. 176 ; we must join with them in the profession of the same faith and obed- ience to God, ih. ; must often meet together to join in the same worship, 177; must love them and prize them, and converse with them intimately for mutual edification, ih. ; must own them in all conditions, and take part and lot with them, ih. ; to this com2:>anion- ship our relation enforceth us, 178; the new nature welcometh us, 179 ; gratitude to Christ maketh us prize all that belong to him, ih. ; profit and utUity redounding, ih. Company, we are sooner made evil by evil, than good by good, i. 342.
In heaven, part of the blessedness of those who die in the Lord, ii. 468.
Ill, a man that keepeth, is like him that walketh in the sun, tanned insensibly, iv. 178.
And fellowship of his people, Christ taketh great delight in, xi. 98. Complaint to God the best resource when we fail in our efforts to do good to a people, iii. 193.
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Complaints should not be of God, but to God, vii. 371.
Extorted under affliction, viii. 98 ; that none were ever afflicted as we are, ib. ; that God is unfaithful, ib. ; that we are cut off, ib. <€onc.urrence of God as a judge in sending strong delusions, iii. 87 ; consists in his withdrawing the light and direction of his Holy Spirit, ib. ; delivering us up to the power of Satan, 88 ; raising such instruments and propounding such objects as, meeting with a haughty heart, do sorely blind it, ib. Of God to sinful actions, but not to the sin of the actions, iii. 372 ; takes not away the sinner's blame, 373 ; nor casts it upon God, 374. ■Concurrent grace, not only a habit, but actual help in the work of obedience, i. 145 ; this endeareth God to a gracious soul, ib. ; engageth to con- stant dependence on God and communion with him, 146; keeps humble, ib. ; is for the honour of the Lord's grace, 147. ■Condemnation, in the general, is a sentence dooming us to punishment, xi. 385 ; exemption from, is upon account of Christ's satisfaction to God's justice, 387 ; upon account of the new covenant grant, 388 ; free- dom from, is the portion of those that are in Christ, ib. ; remaiueth upon all that are out of Christ, 394. Of sin in the flesh, equivalent to the destruction of sin in our nature, xi.
428. Preedom from the fears of, a privilege of true believers, xii. 359 ; the greatness of this privilege appeareth from the dreadfulness of the sentence, the difficulty of getting rid of these fears, and the sure and solid grounds of a believer's peace, ib. ; in order to this, three things must be done, God's honour secured, the law satisfied, and the conditions of the gospel fulfilled, 362; the course we should take to assure ourselves of escajje from condemnation, 364 ; our triumph over the fears of condemnation mainly ariseth from the seve- ral acts of Christ's mediation, and especially his death, 366 ; this appeareth from the notions by which it is set forth, the effects ascribed to it, and the sufficiency of it to these ends and effects, ib. CondesceTision of Christ, xviii. 431. Condition, the vilest and most abject, does not justify murmuring, iv. 62.
Every, is as the heart is, vii. 259. Conference, mutual, a means of perseverance, v. 336.
Holy, exhortation to, both occasional and set, vii. 127. Confession the ready way to pardon, iv. 456 ; auricular, has no authority from scripture, 458 ; in what cases necessary to be made to man, 459. See Auricular confession. Of sin, made to be one of the conditions of pardon, vi. 245 ; the only means to have our peace settled, ib. ; prevents Satan's accusations and God's judgments, 246 ; argueth sincerity, ib. ; somewhat of the spirit of adoption, 247 ; makes us serious and affected with our con- dition, 248 ; is of great advantage to the spiritual life, ib. ■Of truth very necessary, and in a time of dangers and distresses very difficult, vi. 459 ; required by express law, 460 ; is of great use, con- ducing much to the glory of God and the good of others, 461. Is both in word and deed, and the one must not contradict the other,
xviii. 244. With the mouth is a solemn outward declaration that we take Christ for our Lord and Saviour, xviii. 252 ; the matter to be confessed is the great truths which we do believe, ib. ; is verbal or real, 253 ; its necessity to salvation, 257.
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Confidence, false, wliich keeps men from God and Christ, ii. 50 ; imaginary happiness and counterfeit righteousness, ib.
False, reasons of, ix. 378 ; self-love, ib. ; an overly sense of duty, ib. ; want of self-examination, ib. ; building upon false evidences, ib.
And comfort arise from a good conscience, or from sanctification as Avell as justification, ix. 453 ; the review of a well-spent life a great comfort in death, ib.