What the looking for, is that is practised by the saints, xiv. 370 ; the influence of looking for, on the christian life, ib.
Various metaphors by which it is expressed in scripture, xiv. 340 ; resemblances between heaven and a city, 270, 340 ; wherein it differs from other cities, 340 ; how it is a prepared city, 341.
Our great employment in, will be to think of God, to rejoice in his- glory, to love and praise him, xix. 103.
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Heaven a city, as a place of habitation, xx. 147; as a community under the same laws, and enjoying the same privileges and immunities, 148 ; as an estate of perfect peace and eternal happiness, ih. ; be- lievers have a right to, 149 ; their manner of living should be suit- able, ib. ; in the exercise of graces, ib. ; in the use of the means whereby they may attain it, 152 ; in courses suited to its properties, 153 ; citizens of, mortify their members, ib. ; reasons, ib. ; motives to seek after, 156.
Heaven!?/ things, those who would be christians indeed must make their scope XX. 98 ; habitually and actually, 99 ; explicitly and implicitly, ib. ; necessity of, 100 ; that we maybe sincere, ib. ; to direct our way, ib. ; to quicken our endeavours, 101 ; for our joy and solace, ib. ; to defeat the temptations of sense, ib. ; to make us constant, ib. ; to engage us in a uniform course of holiness, ib. ; persuasives to, ib.
Heavens, fit emblems of the stability of the word of God, vii. 402 ; God's • constancy and truth appear in, 403 ; profit of this comparison, ib. \ that we may set the sureness of the word against the diffidence and distrustfulness of our own hearts, ib. ; to comfort us when our hopes are delayed, ib. ; to support us against the various changes in the state of worldly things, ib. ; not only when our hopes are delayed and obscured, but when they are contradicted by present appearances, 404; to wean us from the fading vanities of the world, xb.
Heinousness of sin best represented in the death and agonies of Christ, xiii, 196.
Hei7\ meaning of the word, xiv. 217.
Heirs, all God's people are, iv. 195 ; to a kingdom, 198 ; a kingdom engaged by promise, 199 ; to those who love God, ib. Of promise, how they are distinguished from others, xii. 23 ; the use of this mark of distinction, ib. ; the time how long this abideth with us, ib.
Heirship, the dignity of, inferred from our adoption as heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, xii. 131 ; the greatness and excellency of this inheritance, ib. ; is a comfort against adversities and afflictions, ib. ; the agreement between the children of God in respect of heirship and others, 132; wherein they differ, 134; the properties which show the greatness of this inheritance, ib. ; its gloriousness, ib. ; eternal and undefiled, 135 ; its blessedness, ib.
Hell, a place and state of inexpressible torments, x. 4 ; deprivation of all consolation and happiness, 5 ; suffering of woe and misery, 6 ; grief and sorrow, ib. ; vexation and indignation, 7 ; against God, ib. ; against the saints, ih. ; against themselves. God hath ever told the world of, x. 78 ; sparingly in the Old Testament, ib. ; fully in the New, 79 ; heathens had a sense of eternity and fancies of a heaven and hell, ib. ; the devils are orthodox on this point, ib. ; not merely a state of death, but of torment, ib. ; is local, 80 ; objections answered, ib. ; torments of, begin presently after death, 83 ; shall receive their full and final accomplishment at the last day, 84 ; eternity of, 87. Of hells, that the reprobates must all depart, and lose the fountain of God in Christ, x. 92 ; in this part of the torment all are equal, ib. ; is the greatest part of the punishment, ib. ; the more bitter because it is of their own procuring, 93 ; is irreparable, ib. Torments of, x. 95 ; real and horrible, such as are more terrible than fire, ib. ; extremity of, cannot be told, ib. ; the whole man, both
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body and soul, under tlie pains of, ib. ; worm that never dieth, con- science, 96 ; worketh on what is past, ib. ; fire that is not quenched, 97 ; an active sense of the wrath of God, ib. ; everlasting, 98.
Selp, God's, needed from first to last for going in the way of his command- ments, vi. 365 ; because he keeps the power in his own hand, that his grace may be all in all, ib. ; that we may be encouraged to set upon the exercise of grace in the midst of weaknesses, difficulties, and temptations, ih. ; to keep us bumble and lowly in our own con- ceit, ib. ; to incline the heart to God, and God to the heart, by acts of friendshijD and familiarity, 366. And deliverance in time of trouble to be sought of God, ix. 63 ; because he is the author of our troubles, ib. ; be challengeth the prerogative to be the God of salvation, ib. ; there is comfort in dealing with God, whatever our case be, because of his all-sufficient power, and because of his goodness and readiness to help, 64.