Declaring our ways mito God, notes the laying open of our businesses or undertakings before him, vi. 243 ; all our straits, sorrows, and dangers, 244 ; our temptations and sins, 245.
Declinings, necessary to watch against the first, viii. 40.
Decree of election is of both end and means, iii. 105 ; sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth, not causes but fruits of, 106 ; these being necessary fruits, are also evidences of, ib.
Decrees, God's, do not compel men to evil, iii. 374.
Of God, do not exclude the duty of creatures, and the work of second
causes, iv. 338. Of God, respect not only actions and events, but persons also, v. 125. Of God showeth what slialL be, his law what must be, v. 133.
Defection and apostasy, considerations to dissuade from, vi. 474 ; it is equal that our duty lasts as long as we would have God's blessing last, ib. ; we have the same reason to continue that we had to begin, ib. ; dan- ger and mischievous effects of, 475 ; loss of the crown, ib. ; falling off more dishonourable to God than a simple refusal, ib. ; position after defection worse than at first, 476 ; all the promises are made to per- severance, ib. ; essential to assurance, ib. In times of, when others contemn and forsake the ways of God, we should esteem them the more, viiL 320 ; to make amends for the contempt of others, ib. ; to show that we do not choose the ways of God upon foreign reasons, for fashion's sake, 321 ; there is an ajiir- peristasis in grace as well as nature, ib. ; to show the difference between God's people and others, ib. ; to defeat the enemies' purpose, ib.
Dejection and discouragement, in times of great, the work of a christian is not to tr?/, but to believe, iv. 250.
Delay in turning to God, dangers of, vii. 138; life is uncertain, ib. ', the means of grace may not be continued, or not with the same power, 139 ; uncertainty of grace,, ib. Of religion, reproof of, ix. 408 ; your hearts are not like to be better, 4(»9 ; the terms of the gospel will not be easier, ib. ; the suspicion that is upon a late repentance, ih.
Delays, in following Christ, exhortation against, ii. 128 ; causes of delay, 130; unbelief, ib. ; security, ib. ; averseness of heart, ib. God's, to answer prayer designed to exercise our faith, vi. 250 : to
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exercise our patience, 251 ; to try our love, ib. ; to enlarge our
desires, ib. Delight, God's, is in liimself and all his attributes, and the manifestation of
thein in the world, but above all in his mercy, i. 195. In God, one of the radical acts of love to him, ii. 237. The saints', in God's statutes, vi. 148 ; in reading the word, in hearing,
in conferring of it, in meditating and exercising the mind upon it ; iu
practice, ib. In God implies a new nature, vi. 367 ; peace of conscience, or a sense
of our reconciliation with God, ib. ; a good frame of heart, 3G8 ; some
experience, ib. ; effects of, ib. And complacency, the most acceptable to God of all our affections,
vi. 369. In God's love implieth obedience, vii. 317 ; love to the work for the
work's sake, ih. ; they who have this are alone lit to ask mercy, 318 j
alone qualified to receive it, ib. Delights which the godly find in God and a holy life far greater than all
the pleasures and delights of the earth, vii. 4 ; more substantial, ib. ;
more perfective, ib. ; their object is the commandments of God, 5 ;
not folly or filthiness, ib. ; not only the promissorj^, but also the
mandatory parts of the word, ib. ; not the study or contemplation
of the justice of the commandments, but the obedience and
practice of them, 6 ; reasons, 7 ; the matter of the commandments,
ib. ; the state and frame of a renewed heart suited to them, ib. ;
the helps and assistance of the Spirit, ib. ; the great encouragements
which attend obedience, ib. ; present comfortable experiences, 10 ;
because of their love of God, they have a value for all that cometh
from God, and that leadeth to him, 11. Deliverance of his people, God cometh iu for, in times of greatest despair
and unlikelihood, iii. 245. From trouble never to be sought by carnal compliance, or the use of
indirect means, vii. 357. Or release from our troubles, we may beg of God, provided we do not
beg it out of imnatiency of the flesh, but a desire of God's glory, ix.
142. From temporal troubles, we may ask, ix. 133 ; God has promised it, ib. ;
much of God is seen in it, ib. ; we have thereby greater opportunities
to serve God, 134. Delphos, oracle of, silenced at the coming of Christ, ill 206. Deluge, similitude between, and the day of judgment, xiv. 175.
Whether all that were drowned in, were eternally lost, xiv. 216. Delusion, the punishment in this world of those seduced by antichrist, iii.
85 ; God the author of it, ib. ; sense in which he is, 87. Denying the Lord is either open or covert, v. 156 ; in opinion, 164 ; and iu