Of Christ, even speculative, is a great privilege, xx. 21 ; saving, is such as is accompanied with faith, love, and obedience, ib. ; better than all others, 22 ; effect of, 24 ; necessity, pleasure, and profit of, 26.
Of Christ, experimental, benefits of, xx. 52 ; experience gives us a more intimate knowledge, ib. ; a greater confirmation of the truth, ib. ; greater incitement to the love of Christ and his ways, 53 ; doth more engage to zeal and diligence in the heavenly life, 54 ; motives to get, 55 ; means of getting, 57.
Labour without God cannot prosper, against God will surely miscarry, iv.
74. Lactantius peremptorily said that the world would last but two hundred
years after his time, iii. 18. Lamb, Christ called, in scripture, for three reasons, iii. 338 ; as it is an emblem of innocence, meekness, and patience, ib. ; as it may import weakness and slenderness of appearance in the world, ib. ; it noteth the meekness and sweetness of Christ, willingly yielding to be a sacrifice for us, ib. Of God, Christ the true, xviii. 475 ; resembles a lamb in innocency, ib. ; in liableness to injuries, ib. ; in meekness and patience, 476 ; the sacrificial lamb, ib. ; the paschal lamb, 477. See Paschal lamb. Languishing, England's Spiritual, &c., v. 411.
Lapses and falls, for recovery from, is required particular and express repent- ance, ii. 199. Latitudinarians, reproof of, vi. 309.
Law, a ceremony of the Levitical, must not hinder a necessary duty of the moral, ii. 5, How the strength of sin, ii. 442 ; by discovering it, ib. ; by binding over the sinner to the curse and wrath of God, ib. ; augmenteth it by forbidding it, ib. The natural man opposes both tables of the, iii. 310. Obedience required by, must be full and entire, iii. 418; must be of the whole man, soul and body, 419 ; must be constant and universal, ib. Christ the giver of, as well as of the gospel, iv. 207. A crafty pretence when one part of it is pleaded to excuse obedience
to another, iv. 211. In the hands of Christ, a law of liberty, iv. 219 ; it is directive and imperative, ib. ; yet a law of liberty, ib. ; we are freed from the law as a covenant of works, ib. ; from the curse and condemnation, 220 ; from the irritation, ib. ; from bondage and terrors, ib.
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Laiv presupposeth an innocent nature, and requires universal, perpetual, perfect obedience, v. 476 ; its penalty a universal and eternal curse, 477 ; either terrifieth or stupefieth the conscience, ih.
Of God, the rule of life, vi. 9 ; to be consulted with on all occasions for information, that we may neither act short nor over, ib. ; and to awe us, 11 ; obedience to, must be sincere, ib. ; constant, 12; uniform and entire, ih. ; such obedience the way to true blessedness, ib.
Not obscure, but men blind, vi. 164.
Odious to the flesh, acceptable to a gracious heart, vi. 287 ; writing upon our hearts, an act of grace, 288.
To keej) God's, needeth a great deal of understanding, vi. 348 ; that we may know his way, and understand what God commandeth or for- biddeth, ib. ; to avoid the snares that are laid for us in the course of our duty to God, ib. ; that we may respect things according to their order, and places, and proportions, 349 ; that we may judge aright of time, and place, and manner of doing, 350 ; because our affections answer our understanding, 351.
Of God, to forsake, is folly, vii. 57 ; is injury done to God, ih. ; is shameful ingratitude, 58; is a disowning his property in us, ib. ; is a contempt of his glorious majesty, ib. ; punishment of, 59 ; forfeiting all the promises of this world and the next,^'6. ; endurance of eternal fire, 60.
The moral obligation of, still lieth on God's servants that are taken into the covenant of grace, viii. 283.
Made void, formally, when men deny the authority of God, viii. 297; interpretatively when they wilfully and consistently disobey it, ib.
Of God is such a rule and direction as men would choose if they were at their own liberty, provided they were wise, and not brutified by inordinate passions, evil customs, and discomposure of soul, viii. 458.
Is just and righteous, the violation of which men judge to be justly punished, viii. 459.
Word of God hath the nature and force of, ix. 8 ; to man individually, ih. ; to the church, 9 ; agrees with the laws of man in that it is an act of power and sovereignty, by which a superior declareth his will to those that are subject to him, ib. ; in that there is not only direction given to us, but obligation laid upon us, ib. ; in that it hath a sanction of rewards and punishments, 10 ; in that this sanction is enforced by a judge, ih. ; differs from the laws of man, in that these only com- mand, but God condescends to reason, and persuade, and entreat, ih. ; in that God's law binds the conscience and the immortal soul, the laws of man only the outward behaviour, 11 ; in that men may grant immunity from their laws, God granteth none from his, i6. ; in that man's laws propound only punishments, God's hath punishments and rewards, ib. ; God's, is truth, 12 ; the chief truth, the only truth, the pure truth, the whole truth, ib.