Being a creator, is also an owner, xii.'29 ; his being an owner qualifieth him for being a ruler, ib. ; his power and right in us cannot be alien- ated by our sin, 30 ; nor made away by his bestowal of gifts on the creature, 31 ; this right so inherent in God that he cannot communi- cate it to another, ib.
A searcher of the hearts of men, xii. 243 ; in what sense he is said to know the mind of the spirit in prayer, 251.
The patron of human societies and the refuge of the oppressed, xii. 323 ; he is with and for his children, ib. ; his providence either external or internal, 324.
The nature and providence of, an evidence of the certainty of eternal rewards and punishments, xiii. 47.
A threefold justice of, distinguished, xiii. 73.
His essence and attributes may be discovered in creation, xiii. 389.
Method and order pleasing to, xiii. 424.
What it is to please God, xiv. 48 ; what it is to come to God, 49 ; what it is to walk with God, 52 ; the necessity of pleasing God, 62 ; impossible without faith, 73.
Belief in the being of, the first point of faith, xiv. 1 25 ; the advantage to the sj^iritual life derived from meditation on this truth, ih. ; the existence of God proved by reference to conscience, 127 ; the consent of all nations, 129; the book of creation, ih. ; providence, 131 ; and several experiences, 132 ; we should charge this truth upon our hearts to check whispering and suspicion against the being and glory of God, 133 ; reproof of those that either wish down or live down this supreme principle, 134; cautions against such opinions and prac- tices as strike at the being of God, 135 ; religious libertinism, ih. ; denying particular providences, 136 ; denying the immortality of the soul, 137; Popery, ^6. ; expectation of light beyond scripture, ih.\ hypocrisy, epicurism, and scoffing, 138 ; directions for times of strong temptation, 139 ; certain seasons when this principle is most liable to be assaulted, 140 ; direction to us in our addresses to God to avoid customariness, irreverence, and deadness, and to beget confidence, 142 ; how we may keep our hearts in prayer under a sense of God's being, so as to conceive of him aright, 144.
Is not ashamed to be called their God, meaning of the phrase, xiv. 338 ; what it is to have God for our God, 342 ; who they are that have God for their God, 344 ; this doctrine should be improved by us to contentment with our portion, comfort in distress, and dependence on God for future supplies, 346 ; but especially to a hope and expecta- VOL. XXII. P
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tion of better happiness than the world yields, 348 ; exhortation to take God for our portion, and to make sure that he is so, 349 ; how we may know whether God be our God, 351. God, truth of, meditation upon, a help to faith, xiv. 370 ; power of, the great encouragement of faith, 371 ; how hard a matter it is to believe in, 371 ; how sinful this is, 373 ; directions how to make use of God's power so as to find support in it, ih. ; how we may improve it in meditation, 374 ; God's power reacheth to and beyond the grave, even to giving life to the dead, 376 ; if we believed this as much as we should, we should not be so easily amazed at lesser diffi- culties, ib.
The cause we have to praise him above angels and naen, xvi. 48.
Why Christ is so called, xvi. 230 ; that he is God proved from the nature of his offices and work, and from scripture, 234.
How he is said to have winked at ignorance in Acts xvii 30, xvL 398.
Of peace, in what sense God is said to be, xvii. 377 ; the grounds of this peace, 378 ; the evidences that God is pacified, ib. ; the con- veyance of this peace to us, 380 ; reasons why all increase of grace comes from God as the God of peace, ib.
To be loved not only for the goodness that floweth from him, but for the goodness that is in him, xviii. 135.
And Satan in earnest competition for the heart, xviii, 403.
We should endeavour to resemble, as near as may be, xix. 169 ; in moral goodness and holiness, 170 ; in doing good to all, enemies not excepted, ib. ; and that either in giving or forgiving, 171.
Delights not in the death of a sinner, but in his conversion to life, xxi. 464 ; it is contrary to the nature of God to be otherwise afi"ected, 467 ; wherein God hath shown that he takes pleasure in our conver- sion rather than in our ruin and destruction, 468 ; God not the cause of man's destruction, 471. God's if we be, God is ours, vii. 447 ; the former is first in our apprehension, ib. ; the best check to temptation, 448 ; the former most appropriate as a plea with God, the latter when we would revive our drooping souls, ib. ; the former the more humbling way, ib.