The bond of union between us and Christ, xii. 22.
His work doth either concern the duties of the new covenant, or the privileges of the new covenant, or what is common to them both, xviii. 220. Molf/ Spirit, right carriage towards, in mortifying the deeds of the body, xii. 80. Hoi?/ things, it argueth a gracious frame of heart to take all occasions to set our minds a-work on, ix. 81 ; argueth plenty of divine knowledge, ib. ; spiritual delight and strong love, 82 ; sincerity, ib. Home, people of God may be reduced to such exigencies that they have none on earth, xviii. 172; to correct and humble them for the dishonour done to God in their dwellings, ib. ; for their trial,*to see how they will bear it for God's sake, 173; to show God's sovereignty over them, 173 ; to spread the knowledge of the gospel, ib. VOL. XXII. Q
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Honour, God hath twisted his own, with our interest, and ordered both for his own glory, vii. 320
Double, put upon man, that God hath ordained him to conquer his enemies, and hath made him lord over his other creatures, xviii. 13. Hope, christian, not a devout sloth, but an encouragement to dilifrence, ii. 63.
Good, its objects, without excluding intervening blessings, are the coming of Christ to our comfort, iii. 157 ; the resurrection of the dead, ih. ; the vision of God, ih. ; our heavenly inheritance, ib. ; as a grace, is twofold — a hope which is the immediate effect of regeneration, and a hope which is the fruit of experience, 159 ; its effects, consolation in troubles and confirmation in holiness, ih.
A gift of God, not only as he giveth the objects, but as he worketh the grace, iii. 160 ; by illumination, ib. ; by inclination, ib. ; by excita- tion, ih. ; his free gift, ib. ; the gift of hope an encouragement in prayer, 161 ; God would not raise a hope to disappoint it, ib. ; he that giveth us hope will give us all things necessary to the thing hoped for, 162; they that have received good hope through grace have God's nature and promise to rest on, ib. ; they that have this hope are thereby exposed to the scorn of the world, and so God is in point of honour engaged to stand by them, and justify their hope and trust, 163 ; advantage to the spiritual life to have wrought in us by grace, 165 ; it maketh us diligent and serious, ib. ; patient and mor- tified, 166 j heavenly and holy, ih. ; how to get, ib. ; remove the impediments, ib. ; wait on all means of profiting, and use the known means of grace more conscionably, ib.
Distinguishes christians from pagans, from temporary and slight be- lievers, and from the glorified, iii. 164.
Keepeth the believer alive in his fainting, vii. 357 ; draweth off the mind from things present to things future, 358 ; representeth the excellency and the certainty of these future things, ib. ; lays hold of the great promise of eternal salvation, ib.
Bred or nourished in us by the word of God, vii, 360 ; to expect things not promised, or not as they are promised, is groundless presumption, ib.
That Will bring shame and confusion, viii. 199 ; worldly hope, ib. ; carnal security, 200 ; of the wicked, characteristics of, ib. ; of God's children, characteristics, of, 201.
Lively, grounded upon the word of God, will put us upon vigilancy and diligence in prayer, ix. 76.
There is a vain and groundless, ix. 220 ; a rational and probable, ih. ; a firm and certain, ih. ; a full assurance or an assurance not full, ib. ; necessary to quicken and enliven our duties, 221 ; to sharpen our affections after heavenly things, ib. ; to set our heart at rest, so that we may go on cheerfully in God's service, ih.
Cheereth itself by frequent and serious thoughts and delightful medita- tions of the thing hoped for, x. 53 j by hearty groans, sighs, and lan- guage, 54 ; by lively tastes and feelings, ih. ; of heavenly blessedness should put us upon serious diligence and earnest pursuit after it, ih. ; must moderate our fears, sorrows, and cares, so as no temporal thing should unreasonably affect us, 55.
An effect of regeneration and also an effect of experience, xii. 118.
In sorrow, creation teacheth us a lesson of, xii. 182.
Is a desirous expectation of some promised good, xii. 197 ; the pro-
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mises a ground of hope, ib. ; the great promise and object of our hope I is salvation by Christ, or eternal life, 198 ; called the 'hope of salva-
tion,' ib.; it is patient and earnest, 199 j reasons proving that hope is a necessary grace, 200 ; from the state of the believer in this world, ib. ; from the new nature, ib. ; the uses for which it serves, ib. ; quickening our duties, ib. ; vanquishing temptations, 201 ; com- fort in tribulations, ib. ; that we may die peaceably and with com- fort, ib.; the cognation between faith and hope, 202 ; wherein they differ, ib. ; the excellency of hope, ib. ; none can be saved without hope, 203 ; how far all are bound to hope for salvation, ib. ffope, Several kinds of, distinguished, xii. 205 ; hope in the creature and hope in God, ib. ; carnal men hope for that in the creature which is only to be found in God, ib. ; hope in God is either irrational or rational, 206 ; irrational hope is vain and groundless, ib. ; rational hope is built on solid grounds, ib. ; there is a firm and certain hope, without which no man can be a christian, 207 ; this certain hope is twofold — one sort necessary, grounded upon the ofTers of the gospel, the other profitable, grounded upon the evidence of our sincerity, and is the fruit of assurance, ib. ; implieth a certain persuasion and an earnest expectation, 210 ; to strengthen the certainty of our persua- sion we must often revive the grounds of hope, and encourage earnest expectation by a diligent pursuit after the thing hoped for by all holy means, ib. May be either a natural affection or a spiritual grace, xii. 216 ; the object of hope as a natural affection is a future benefit, possible but difficult to be attained, ib. ; the object of hope as a spiritual grace is something promised by God and believed by us, 217 ; reasons why we may surely hope for that which neither sense nor reason can inform us of, 218. They only hope for eternal life who continue in the pursuit of it with patience, xii. 222 ; this hope which produceth patience is well- grounded and lively, 223 ; how this hope produceth patience, 224 ; persuasions to this patience of hope, ib. There is a twofold hope — the one necessary, the other profitable, the one the fruit of regeneration, the other of experience, xii. 448 ; the prin- ciple of all human acts, ib, ; showeth itself both by looking and longing, ib. And faith distinguished, xiii. 325 ; not a presumptuous conceit, but a