Should be nothing in our esteem, so far as it would be something separate from God, or in co-ordination with God, i. 276.
And providence, God's greatness and majesty seen in, i. 403,
Is either out of nothing, or ex inhabili materia, ii. 387.
New, is more than a moral change, ii. 386 ; or a temporary change, ib. ; or a change of outward form, ib. ; or a partial change, ib. ; belongeth to God, ib.; far surpasseth that which maketh us creatures only, 387; God's way of concurrence to, ib. ; the mediation of Christ concerned in with respect to his merit, 388 ; and in regard of efiicacy, 389 ; necessity of, ib. ; because of the badness of our former estate, ib. ; from the nature of God's work, 390 ; with respect to Christ, 391 ; with respect to the use which it serveth, ib. ; in order to present communion with God, ib. ; to service and obedience to God, 392 ; to future enjoyment of God, ib. ; known by a new mind, a new heart, and a new life, 394.
The new, doth carry a great correspondence with the old, iii. 183.
As a well-tuned instrument, but man maketh the music, iv. 294.
The morning of, xii. 180.
A work of omnipotency, xiii. 242.
Consideration of, a necessary exercise for the children of God, xiii. 389 ; discovers much of the essence and attributes of God, his goodness, power, and wisdom, ib. ; a wonderful advantage to faith in giving us hope and consolation in distress, 391 ; puts us in mind of our duty, ib. ; motives to quicken us to this necessary work of reflecting on creation, 392 ; directions how to improve it to comfort and profit, 397 ; special occasions when we should propose to ourselves thoughts of creation, 398 ; proper objects of meditation on God's several and special excellences, 400 ; the ends of the creation, 404 ; the fruits of solemn and serious thoughts on creation, 406 ; the truths and won-
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ders of, understood by faith, and not by reason, 409 ; the world framed in an accurate, orderly, and perfect manner, 415 ; wherein this order and beauty consists, 416; objection answered, whence come all those disorders that are in the world 1 420 ; the wisdom and majesty of God discovered in the order of causes and admirable con- trivance of the world, 422 ; shows how pleasing order and method are to God, 424 ; discovers the odiousness of sin, that disjointed the frame of nature, 426 ; the instrument in creation was ' the word of God,' 429; meaning of the terra, 430; quest., whether all things were created in the twinkling of an eye by God's will and pleasure, or were done by distinct days, as the history in Genesis seemeth to intimate] 431 ; the matter or term from which the world was made, 433. Creation, opinions of the ancients concerning, xiii. 412. Creatui'e, God defrauded by over-delight in, i. 238.
Greatest glory of, to serve the will and set forth the praise of the Creator, i. 438.
In what sense nothing, ii. 321; in comparison with God, 322; in exclusion of God, ib. ; in opposition to God, ib. ; the true apprehen- sion of this mightily useful for the spiritual life, 323.
Cannot yield us any comfort without God's gift or grant, iii. 167.
Vanity of, matter of sense and plain experience, vii. 455 ; should be observed and improved by faith, 456 ; should moderate our desires, 457 ; our sorrows and fears, 458 ; our delights, ib. ; stability of the word of God often opposed to, ib.
Meaning of the word in relation to waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God, xii. 148 ; how the creature waiteth, ib. • for what, 149.
la what sense made subject to vanity, xii. 157 ; by order of its natural estate, 158; in regard of the vanity of corruption, 159; in regard of its final dissolution and last change, ib.; in regard of its end and use, ib.; the way in which the creature came into the present state, negatively and positively expressed, 161 ; by man as a sinner, 162; by the will and power of the Creator, ib. ; reasons why the innocent creature is punished for man's sin, 163; the creature still an instrument of sin, 164; in the curse on the creature man is punished, ib. ; how far the creature shall be made partaker of the same glory with God's children, 167.
The new, produced by the Spirit, and cannot subsist without his con- tinual presence, xix. 399. Creatures are sanctified to us when we enjoy God in them, i. 153.
All, put us in mind of God, vii. 82.
Men as, are some way encouraged to ask of God the grace of the new creature, vii. 271 ; man is God's immediate workmanship, ib. ; the making of man now is the work of God, as well as the making of the first man was, 272; man was created to serve God, 273; men are now strangely disabled to serve and please him, ib. ; must be new made and born again before we can know or do the will of God, 274 ; when we seek this grace, or any degree of it, it is a proper argument to urge that we are God's creatures, 275 ; it is asking another gift, because we have received one already, ib. ; God beareth much aff'ection to man as he is his creature, ib.; creation implieth some hope, because God forsaketh none but those who first forsake