Of sincere prayer, how God manifests, vi. 249 ; inwardly by his Spirit, ib. ; outwardly by his providence, 250. Heart, never right but when it lieth under the awe of a command, i. 130.
May be overcharged when the stomach is not, i. 163.
Corruption in, makes lis liable to Satan's temptations, i. 239.
Difference between one that is hard against God and soft for God, and one that is hard for God and soft against God, ii. 329.
Stablishing of, implieth firmness of faith and constancy in grace, iv. 422.
To do good, they who have, will soon find an" occasion, v. 97.
God requireth, in his service, vi. 354 ; external profession is nothing, ib. ; external conformity is nothing worth, ib. ; it is the heart wherein God dwelleth, not the tongue or the brain, 355 ; if Christ have it not, Satan will have it, ib. ; if we love any, we give them the heart, ib. ; this is what all may give him, 356 ; the whole, ib. ; how shall we know that we give God all the heart in an evangelical sense ? 360.
Of man set between two objects ; corruption inclineth it one way, and grace another, viii. 149 ; inclination of, to good is the fruit of grace, 150; the ground of obedience, ib.; not a simple approbation of the ways of God, ib. ; not a bare desire or wish, 151 ; not a hypocritical win, ib. ; when so inclined, the judgment determineth for God, ib. ; the will is poised and swayed with love and delight, ib. ; the bent of the will is seconded with constant endeavours, ib. ; without this in- clination obedience cannot be cheerful, 152 ; or uniform, ib. ; or con- stant, ib.
A worldly frame of, may be known by the working of the thoughts, counsels, and deliberations, x, 386 ; by esteem of worldly things, 387 ; the bent and resolution of the will, ib. ; a special sagacity and dex- terity in the matters of the world, and a dulness in the things of God, ib. ; the stream of the desires, ib. ; grief at worldly losses and disappointments, 388 ; extraordinary solicitousness about outward
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provision, ih. ; excessive delight in worldly comforts, ib. ; envying the worldly haj^piness of others, ib. Heart, is terminus actiomim ad intra, et fons actionum ad extra, xi. 324. Hearts of men are under the dominion of God, i. 79.
God alone sets right, or inclines them from their natural bent to his own testimonies, vi. 372 ; the heart of man must have an object to cleave to, ib. ; being destitute of grace, is wholly carried out to tem- poral things, ib. ; cannot be set upon that which is spiritual and heavenly, 374 ; this frame of heart cannot be altered till we are clianged by God's grace, 375 ; in this change there is a weakening of the old inclination to carnal vanities, and a new bent and frame of heart bestowed, 376 ; though thus changed, the heart is ever and anon apt to return to the old bent and bias again, 377. Heathens had a sense of the necessity of worship, as well as the being of a God, i. 2^ ; ascribed to God weakness and harshness, 27.
Moral, may have a cooler hell, iv. 214. Heaven, in Avhat sense God is in, i. 57 ; why he dwells in, 59.
How God's will is done in, i. 124.
The redemption of the church by Christ the subject of the tallc and dis- course we shall have in, i. 362.
Mutual recognition of the saints in,i. 369 j and their mutual conference, ib.
The hope of, a comfort in all tribulations, i. 376; men would have, without consid ring the way that leadeth to, 377 ; considerations for the remedy of this, 378 ; God a governor as well as a benefactor, and must be respected in both relations, ih. ; the terms and means appointed conduce to mortify our love to false happiness, ih. ; the care and due observance of the means shows the value of the true happiness, ih. ; the difficulty of our salvation lies not in respect to the end, but the means, therefore the trial of our sincerity must rather be looked for there, ih. ; this self-denying resignation of ourselves to God, to bring us to heaven in his own way, is necessary, 379 \ the end and the means are inseparably connected, ib.
Our way to, lieth through the world, ii. 101.
The perfection of holiness, ii. 207.
We should live always either /or or xi'pon, iii. 159.
One way to, many to hell, iii. 304.
God will not give a double, iv. 402.
As much of, as possible should be enjoyed here, vi. 181.
Those that shall be finally rejected by the Lord may have a desire of the joys of, ix. 410 ; they desire good, happiness in the general, ib. ; they would not only have good in the general, but some eternal good, 411 ; yet their inclinations to it are but weak and ineffectual, ih. ; if they like the end, they dislike the means, ih.
The proper home of a christian, and not this present world, xiii. 3 ; rea- sons why, 4 ; qualifications necessary for the enjoyment of heaven as our eternal home, 6 ; why God's children count themselves not at home till admitted into the perpetual society of Christ, 9.