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183 ; to be sought of God, 184; especially to be sought wlieii we begin to decline, 185 ; in unsettled times, 186.
Estate, Blessed, of them that Die in the Lord, ii, 455.
Esteem, christians should not religiously value others for external and carnal advantages, xiii. 220 ; not to deny civil regard and honour to the wicked and carnal, but render that respect which is due to their rank and quality, ih. ; the cause of God must not be abandoned because those of the other side have more outward advantages, 221. Of Christ, how Christ must be esteemed, speculatively and practically, xiv. 463 ; reasons why Cbrist must be so esteemed that his worst may be better to us than the world's best, 465.
Eternal Existence, Christ's, i. 413.
Eternal punishment may, without injustice, be inflicted for sin of short con- tinuance, v. 288. As God is, so is his word, vii. 391. Life not a chimera, vii. 405 ; not upon impossible terms, ih. ; not upon
a defective conveyance, ib. Life everywhere propounded in scripture as the great encouragement of our endeavours either in subduing sin or perfecting holiness, xii. 83 ; reasons proving that the life promised as the reward of mortification is eternal life, 83 ; the expediency of the promise of eternal life as the fruit of the mortification of sin, 86 ; the nature of this life, its personal benefit and happiness, ib. ; a threefold use of the reward of eternal life in the work of mortification, 87 ; the sufficiency and powerfulness of the motive, because of its certainty and excellence, 88 ; compared with life natural and spiritual, 89. Life must be expected in the way of God's promise, xii. 198 ; its expec- tation is certain and desirous, 199. Life, the qualifications of those who shall enjoy this blessed estate, xii. 436 ; different persuasions in point of certainty as to interest in, 438 ; reasons why we should attend upon the work of assuring ourselves the possession of eternal life, 439 ; the virtue and force of this assur- ance, 440 ; exhortation to belief in the promised glory, 442 ; the necessity of this belief, ib. ; it constituteth a main difference between the animal and spiritual life, 443 ; it is little credited in the world, ib.; evidence of this, 444 ; how faith in the gospel worketh us to the other world, 446 ; how we should rouse up our faith, and more firmly believe the promised glory, 447 ; next to a sound belief of it there must be an earnest expectation of it, ib. ; we should diligently pre- pare and seek after it in the way of holiness, 448 ; clear up our in- terest in it, 449 ; and improve it to the vanquishing of temptations, ib. Punishments and rewards, their end is that every man may receive ac- cording to his deserts, xiii. 81 ; the distinction of persons, ib. ; as there are difierent persons, so there are difi'erent recompenses, 82 ; the notions by which these different states are expressed, 83 ; they are alike eternal, 85; how it can stand with the justice of God to cast men into everlasting torment, ib. ; the sentence certain, speedy, and unavoidable, 87 ; executed upon the wicked first, 88. Life, the right and interest of believers in, proved from scripture and by reason, xiv. 40 ; persuasions to faith on this ground and motive,
42 ; directions how to exercise and act faith in order to eternal life,
43 ; the love and grace of God in providing such an estate, 46 ; a comfort to God's children against want, trouble, and death, ib.
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Eternal life, the -n-ork of faith respecting, xv. 75. Life, what it is to have, xxi. 131.
Eternity is of infinite, interminable duration, without beginning or ending, vii. 391 ; as without beginning and end, so without change, 392 ; of God, proved by scripture and reason, ih. ; seen in his wisdom, ib. ; his power, 393 ; his goodness and mercy, ib. ; belongs to him as a governor, ib. ; as a benefactor, 394 ; of creatures must be understood as communi- cated, dependent, and extending to the future, but not to the past, 395 ; thouo;hts of God should lessen our estimation of all other thincrs, 396. Frequent and serious meditation upon, doth greatly promote the great
ends of the gospel, vii. 399. And time, things of, compared, xiv. 468.
We were made for, xviii. 284 ; puts a value upon things in themselves small, whether good or evil, 288.
Euchites, the ancient, their error as to prayer, xvii. 492.
Eusebius on the Chocabites and Nazarites, xiii. 228 ; the Epistle to the Gala- tians supposed to be written against these sects, ib.
Evangelists, their narratives of the temptation of Christ reconciled, i. 270.
Events, the glory of, belongs to God himself, i. 81.
Everlading life, Enoch an assurance of, to the fathers, as Christ to believers, xiv. 37.
Evidence (iki-/yjiQ), meaning of the word, xiii. 345.
Evil of Looking Back, ii. 130.
Evil, may either be 'the evil one' or ' the evil thing' (Mat. vi. 13), i. 232. Deliverance from, implies God's Aveakening the strength of inbred cor- ruption, that we may not be foiled by it, i. 239 j if we be foiled by it, that we may not lie in it, nor cease to resist it, ib. Speaking, of another, not always unlawful, yet hard to keep from sin,