Is a worshipping of a creature with divine worship, iii. 99 ; Papists guilty of, ib. ; worship angels, saints, the Virgin Mary, images, the cross, the bread in the sacrament, ib.
Of the heathens, turned the glory of God into the image of a man ; of christians, judges of God according to the model and size of their own minds and dispositions, iv. 43.
Is not only worship of false gods, but worship of the true God in a false manner, v. 252 ; the most plausible and seductive is idolatrous respect to the bodies and relics of dead saints, 253. Idols must be renounced before our hearts can incline to God, ii. 104. Ignorance, an obstacle to the reception of the gospel, iii. 198.
Is either necessary, through want of means, or through want of due means, iii. 428 ; or negligent, when men have means and do not use them, 429.
Set forth by the notions of darkness and blindness, xiii. 284.
From natural defect and imperfection, is no sin, xviii. 119.
How far it excuseth from sin, xix. 27.
Great danger of, to ourselves and others, xix. 384 ; pretences for re- maining in, 385. Illumination cometh from God only, ii. 75 ; given by degrees, ib.
By the Spirit accompanies the word, to make it effectual to us, to show us God as revealed in Christ, iii. 24.
Even common, is from the Spirit, iii. 211.
Divine, God's best serviints think they can never enough beg, viii. 924.
Divine, a great gift, especially obliging to praise and thanksgiving, ix. 245 ; for every mercy we should praise God, ib. ; and most for the best gifts, 246 ; especially for spiritual benefits, ib. ; amongst these, divine illumination one of the best, 247 ; its worth appeareth in its author, 249 ; in the objects known, 250 ; in the use for which it serveth, 251 ; in the manner of knowing, 252. Image of God in man and in Christ, difference between, i. 430.
Of God in man, iv. 295 ; his intellectual nature, ib. ; in the qualities of knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness, ib. ; in his state, a happy confluence of all inward and outward blessings, 296 ; a dis- suasive from evil-speaking and slandering, ib. ■ images not to be wor- shipped, yet the image of God not to be bespattered with re- proaches, 297.
Of God our primitive glory and excellency, xix. 172 ; its restoration the effect of our new creation, ib. ; its completion in heaven the object of our hope, 173 ; involved in our being his children, ib. ; and dear children, 174.
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Images, Romish, adoration of, idolatry of a foul kind, iii. 100.
Imitation, of Christ, in those acts which he did for satisfying his Father's justice or proving his deity, were high presumption, ii. 100 ; but in actions moral we are bound to imitate him, ib. An evidence of approbation, v. 169.
Immortality, a sense of, rooted in the minds of all nations, xii. 85 ; ex- emplified in the ancient Goths, the Egyptians, in Peru, and in Mexico, ib.
Impatience under crosses, feeders of, ix. 129 ; men think none suffer as they do, ib. ; that they could bear any cross but that which is now upon them, ib.
Impatiency is partly natural, and partly voluntary, i. 143 ; lies in obstinacy, ib. And obstinacy in a course of sin is pride, vi. 195 ; and the greatest of pride, 196.
Impotency, Man's, to Help Himself out of -his Misery, v. 473.
Impotency of man to obey the law of God doth not dissolve his obligation to obey it, v. 480 ; is voluntary, 481 ; though unable to convert himself, must be pressed to the use of means, 482.
Incarnation of Christ, not for passion only, but for glorification, that therein he might be an instance and pattern to us, i. 357. Of Christ, xi. 423 ; his coming in the likeness of sinful flesh implieth that it was the nature of sinful men, but not a sinful nature, ib. ; he took not the human nature as it shall be in glory, ib.; he was counted as a sinner, exposed to many afflictions, such as sinners endure, ib. ; came in the flesh that he might be under the law, 424 ; that he might sufier the penalty and curse of the law^ which, as God, he could not, ib. ; that he might cross and counterwork Satan's design, ib. ; to give us a pledge of the tenderness of his love and compassion towards us, 425 ; to be a pattern to us of what shall be done both in us and by us, ib. Of Christ affordeth an ample foundation for faith against the im- probability of the blessedness ofi'ered, xviii. 433 ; we may the better expect the exaltation of the creature when we consider the abasement of the Son of God, ib. ; an answer to the plea of unworthi- ness, 434 j supports against the terribleness of God's majesty, ib. ; against the pollution of our nature, ib. ; against the unbelieving supposition of God's mindfulness of human affairs, ib. ; against the doubt of strangeness, ib. ; against fear of arrogancy in assuming the privilege of adoption, ib.
Inclination of the heart by God to his testimonies implies our natural obstinacy and disobedience to his law, vi. 370 ; and God's gracious and powerful acting upon the soul, ib. ; is by the word and Spirit, persuasion and power, 371.