Future, demonstration of, from the sufferings of the godly, xx. 209. Judgments, spiritual, the sorest of all, ii. 275,
God's internal, are chiefly blindness of mind and hardness of heart, iii. 86.
Of God on the wicked do exceedingly amplify his mercies towards us, iii. 109.
The way to escape, is to mourn for them before they come, iv. 401,
God's, under the gospel, more spiritual, but not less severe, than of old ; formerly he smote with death, now with deadness, v. 169; great, do usually follow great mercies, if great sins come between, 175.
Of righteousness, God's precepts are, and are accounted by his people, vi. 61 ; because they are the judicial sentence of God concerning our state and actions, ib. ; because of the suitable execution that is to follow, in this world and the next, 63.
Of God (misliphatim), are either laws enacted, or judgments executed according to those laws, vii. 47.
Of God upon the wicked compared to treading them down, viii. 209 ; implies a full punishment, 210; a disgraceful punishment, i6, ; cer- tainty of, ib. ; he can, ib.; he hath, ib. ; he will, 211 ; because of his invariable justice, ib. ; because of the suitableness between judgment and sin, ib. ; for the undeceiving of the world, ib. ; to undeceive sinners themselves, ib. ; to check the insolency of those who abuse their power, 212.
God's, upon others should be observed, viii. 214 ; the observation must be to a good end, ib. ; must be sure that we do not make providence speak the language of our fancies, ib. ; we may reason from the pro- vocation to the judgment, but must not infer special wickedness from affliction, ib. ; when there are remarkable circumstances in which the sin and the judgment meet, 215 ; when judgments fall upon them in the very act of their provocation, ib. ; when they are the authors of their own destruction, 216 ; when they are brought down wonder- fully, suddenly, ib. ; when judgments are executed by unlikely means, ib. ; when such accidents bring a great deal of glory to God, ib. ; when God supplies the defects of men's justice, ib. ; when the word, in the express letter, is made good upon men, ib. ; observation of, a mighty cure to atheism, ib. ; a notable curb to keep us from sin, 217.
Of God in ancient times ought to be laid to heart by us, especially when like sins abound, viii. 232 ; that light upon other countries should be made use of, because usually they go in a circuit, 233 ; when executed before our eyes, must be the more considered, ib. ; though we be well at ease in our own persons, ib. ; though they pursue but a few, all
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should fear, ih. ; though they light upon enemies to us and God, their fall is not to be insulted over, 234 ; much more should we tremble at his judgments upon his own people, ib.
Judgments, Avhen God's, were abroad in the earth, the church had con- tinual thoughts of God, and her endeavours were early and earnest, xii. 275.
Judiciousness, or soundness of mind, a great blessing, vii. 203 ; its office, to distinguish and judge rightly of things that differ, that we may not mistake error for truth and evU for good, ib. ; to determine and resolve, 204 ; to direct as well as decree, 20-5 ; a great defect in most christians, 206 ; mischief arising from this defect, ib. ; they are apt to be misled and deceived, ib. ; they are fickle and irresolute, both in the profession and practice of godliness, 207 ; they easily miscarry, and make religion a burden to themselves, or else a scorn to the world, ib. ; makes them troublesome to others, by preposterous carriage, rash censuring, needless intermeddling, 208 ; makes them troublers of the church of God, ib. ; must be sought of God, 209 ; must be sought in the word, 210; increased by long use and exercise, 211 ; by sense and experience, ib. ; hindrances, 212 ; a passionate or wild addicted- ness to any carnal things, ib. ; pride, ib.
Jurisdiction, God hath an absolute, over us, vi. 197.
Just man is a renewed man, xviii. 388 ; a man furnished with knowledge of the things that concern his duty, ib. ; a mortified man, ib. ; a man biassed with a love to God and Christ and heaven, 389 ; his tongue as choice silver, ib. ; for purity, ib. ; for profit, 391.
Justice, severity of God's, seen in the scattering of the twelve tribes, iv. 19. Divine, impartiality of, v. 170. See Righteousness. Much of, in all God's judgments, vii. 293 ; must be from God's nature, ib. ; judgment never without a cause, 294; judgment not immediately executed when there is a cause, 295 ; judgments inflicted always short of the cause, ib. An attribute that belongs to God as a governor, xx. 216 ; is legisla- tive or judiciary, 217 ; rewarding or punishing, ib. ; exercised more darkly in this world, more plainly hereafter, 218.
Justification, as opposed to crimination, is the work of an advocate ; to condem- nation, of a judge, ii. 94. Of sinners, privilege of the gospel to discover away for, iii. 416 ; can be done by no other way, doctrine, or knowledge in the world, ib. ; in the gospel fully and amply done, 417. See Gospel. Eeconcilement of Paul and James regarding ; Paul speaketh of the justifying of a sinner from the curse of his natural condition, the accusations of the law, &c., and accepting him into the favour of God, which is of grace, and not of debt ; James, of the justifying and approbation of that faith by which we are thus accepted of God, iv. 245 ; in Paul, is opposite to the condemnation of a sinner in general ; in James, opposite to the condemnation of a hypocrite in particular (Diodati), 246 ; Papists say that Paul speaketh of the first ciualifica- tion, and excludeth works done before baptism ; James, of the second justification, by which a justified man is made more just, and the works he speaketh of are performed in faith, and by the help of divine grace, 261 ; confutation of this, ib. ; Arminians and Socinians make new obedience the instrument of justification, and that the grace of God is seen only in the acceptance of our imperfect obedience, 262 ; confutation, ib. ; orthodox, though they differ somewhat in words and