iv. 122. Not enough to do, but must do with labour, care, and diligence, v. 97. God is, primitively and originally, the creature but derivatively, vii. 108 ; the chiefest, and other things only in subordination, ih. ; infinitely, ih. ; eternally, 109. God doeth, to his servants, vii. 193 ; from the inclination of his own nature, ih. ; the obligation of his promise, 194 ; the preparation of his people, ih. ; persuasion of this truth one of the first things in religion, ih. ; arguments, 195 ; he doeth good to his enemies, therefore much more to his servants, ih. ; evil men give good gifts to their children, much more he to his, ih. ; he never giveth his people any discourage- ment, or just cause to complain of him, ih. ; if he doth not give them the good things of this world, he giveth them better things in lieu of them, 196 ; the evil things of this world he turneth to good, ih.; he doth give them so much of the good things of the world as is con- venient for them, ih. ; his doing them good is chiefly in the world to come, ih. And evil, by what measure to be determined, vii. 252 ; not our fancies and conceits, but the wisdom of God, ih. ; its respect to the chief good or true happiness, 253 ; not always the good of the flesh, or of out- ward prosperity, 254 ; a particular good must give way to a general good, and our personal benefit to the advancement of Christ's king- dom, ih. ; not to be determined by present feeling, but by the judgment of faith, 255. For christians, is not always the good of the flesh, or of prosperity, viii. 254 ; God knoweth what is good for us better than we do ourselves, ib. ; that which is not good in its nature may be in its fruit, 255 ; good is not to be determined by feeling, but faith, ib. ; that may be good for the glory of God which is not for our personal benefit, 257. That which is our chiefest, and last end, is our god, and occupies the
place of God, viii. 390. And evil, a monstrous conceit to deny the distinction between, viii. 457. Some do, by chance, ix. 270 ; some by force, 271 ; some out of craft and
design, 272 ; the man of God by choice, ib. In some sense no mere man is good, xvi. 423 ; in what sense men may be said to be good, ib. ; in what sense not, 424 ; the goodness of God explained, 428. Man is one that seeketh after the chief good, and adhereth constantly to God in Jesus Christ as his only felicity, xviii. 466 ; and chooseth the
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way which God hath prescribed to him to walk in, ih. ; is sincerely, not perfectly good, ib. Good and evil, sense of, not wholly extinguished in the heart of man, xis. 310 j shown by shame and fear, 311 ; in the unconverted produceth hypocrisy, in the converted shyness and abhorrence of sin, 312. Goodness, ail creature, but a stricture of that perfect good which is in God vii. 108. God's, to all the creatures, should confirm his people in hoping for sav- ing grace or spiritual good things, vii. 188 ; we may reason from the less to the greater, ib. ; they in their rank have their supplies, and we in our rank have ours, 189 ; God doeth good to every one according to their necessity and capacity, 190 ; the devil seeks to weaken our opinion of, 191 ; thoughts of, will be of great use in all afflictive providences, ib. ; a great motive to repentance, ib. ; sweetens the duties of holiness, 192 ; quickens and enhances prayers for grace, ib. ; and fidelity, the fountain of all that we have, ih. Of God is natural, vii. 23G ; moral, ib. ; beneficial and communicative, ib. ; God hath in him whatsoever is useful and comfortable to us, ib. ; he hath a strong inclination to let out his fulness, and is ready to do good on all occasions, 237 ; he is the fountain of aU the good we have or are, ib. ; a time will come when he will be all in all, ib. ; his good- ness manifested to us in our creation, 238 ; in our redemption, ib. ; in daily providence, ib. ; those who come to God ought to have a deep sense of, 239 ; this sense must be the fruit of faith, ib. ; of constant observation of the eflfects of his goodness vouchsafed to us, ib. ; of deep and ponderous meditation, 240 ; of new and spiritual taste, ib. ; sense of, necessary to check our natural legalism, ib. ; to enable us to justify God against the prejudices of the unbelieving world, ib. ; to humble us, 241 ; to give life to faith and trust, ib. ; to move us to repentance, 242 ; to move us to love God, 243 ; to console and sup- port us in affliction, 244 ; to be a ground of prayer, ih. God's, in creation, xviii. 136 ; in redemption, ih. ; in the mercies of daily providence, 137; in the rewards of grace provided for those that love him, ib. Eighteousness, and truth, put for all the christian graces, xix. 258 ; the Spirit, received by the gospel, worketh all, in the hearts of believers. 260. Goods, the two bastard, with which the world is enchanted are pleasure and profit, viii. 307 ; old people are all for profit, young people all for pleasure, ib. Good report, qualifications necessary to obtain, xiii. 377 ; a reward of faith, 379 ; how it is bestowed, 382 ; whether eyeing a good report is not vainglory, 384. Good worlcs, walking in, implies spontaneity and progress, ii. 397 ; kinds of, 398 ; works of worship, ib. ; of our calling, ib. ; of righteousness, ib. ; of charity, 399 ; of sobriety, watchfulness, mortification, self-denial, ib. ; requisites to, ib. ; new creatures obliged to, 400 ; fitted and pre- pared for, ib. ; necessity of, 402. See Worhs. The more advisedly done the more commendable, xiv. 430 ; the greater the temptation the more self-denial, ib. ; the more thorough the self- denial the better, ib. ; the purer the principle the better the action, ib. What they are, xvi. 275 ; the requisites of a good work, 278 ; what it is to be zealous of, 279; the place of zeal with respect to, 280; exhortation, 283.