Of God, it is the property of God's children not only to keep, but to love, ix. 201 ; they love God, and therefore his law, ib. ; they find such excellency in, that they must needs love, 202 ; thera is no proper keeping, without loving, 204.
We must not only obey, but love, ix. 233 ; we can never thoroughly and constantly keep, without love to it, ib. ; except we obey because we love, our obedience is not sincere and acceptable, ib. ; the next object to God fit for our love is his law, 234 ; want of love to, is the reason why so many miscarry in the way of godliness, ib. ; our love to, must be exceeding strong, 235. VOL. XXII. R
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Law discovereth the multitude and heinous nature of our offences, xi. 157 ; gives an awakening sense of the punishment due to sin, ih. Exemption from the rigours and curse of, abused to licentiousness, xi.
303 ; we are still under the law as a rule of obedience, ib. Of the spirit of life, and law of sin and death, mean the covenant of
grace and the covenant of works, xi. 395. Can neither give justification nor sanctification, xi. 422. Of the cleansing the leper a type of the sacrifice and intercession of
Christ and sanctification by the Spirit, xii. 73. Hath a twofold office, convincing of sin and threatening punish- ment, xii, 102. ' And the prophets,' an expression commonly used in apostolic times to
denote all the scriptures then extant, xvii. 420. Of God, all mankind are under, xx. 490 ; man being God's creature, is therefore his subject, ib. ; being God's subject, hath a certain law given to him, ib. ; being under a law, should be very tender of breaking it, 491 ; reasons why, ib. ; the heinousness of sin is determined by its contrariety to this law, 493 ; how many ways this law may be trans- gressed, ib. ; those that live in any allowed breach of this law cannot look upon themselves as God's children, 495 ; the dangerous condition of those who live in a course of sin, 497. Lawful things must be disesteemed, discountenanced, and rejected, for Christ's
sake, XX. 14. Laws, man's, do more incline to punishments than reward?, but God's pro-
poundeth rewards equal to the punishments, xi. 367. Lazarus, not every, carried into Abraham's bosom, iv. 61. Leaning on God, what it is, xiv. 115.
Legalism confuted, x. 62 ; works not the moving cause to incline God to
give us Christ, or the grace of faith, or conversion, 63 ; not the
righteousness by which sin is expiated, ib. ; not the instrument by
which we apply the merits of Christ to ourselves, ib.
Legality, partial in the regenerate, and in the carnal predominant, xii.
107. Levelling, God's providence contrary to, v. 308. Liberality of God in his gifts, iv. 42.
Liberius, Bishop of Rome, an instance of inconstancy, iv. 35. Liberty, carnal, is but thraldom, vi. 479 ; it hindereth and disableth man from prosecuting his great end, 480 ; disordereth the constitution of the soul, ib. ; sin a powerful tyrant, 481 ; the bondage increased by custom, ib. ; fear of death and damnation doggeth sin at the heels, 482 ; true, is in the ways of God, ib. ; we are directed how to attain our great end, ib. ; the noblest faculties are exercised in the noblest and most regular way of operation, ib. Holy and blessed, to be freed from the power of sin and the curse of
the law, xi. 304 ; sinful, to be free from righteousness, ib. There is one kind of, which is the perfection of human nature, and
another which is a defection from God, xi. 336. Christ procureth and purchaseth, both from the damning power of the law and the slavery of corruption, xi. 417 ; the new covenant olFeretb this gi-ace to us, 418 ; and assures and establishes it, ib. ; the Spirit applieth to us, both as to the effects and the sense, ib. Of God's children in this world, what it is, xii. 170 ; such as becometh a creature in subjection to God, 171 ; such as will leave us in a capacity to pursue our chief good and last end, ib. ; such as will suit
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witli the dignity of a. rational creature, 172 ; sucli as will bring us nearest to the state of innocency and the state of glory, ib. ; implies possession of the immunities and privileges of God's children, 173 ; their rights and prerogatives, 174; the glorious liberty of God's children in the world to come considered as to the soul and as to the body, 175 ; our liberty now and then contrasted, ib. Lie, if one, would save the world, we must not tell it, i. 134. Lies promissory, are worst of all, ii. 219.
Are assertory, vi. 278 ; or promissory, 279 ; to God, ib. ; to man, 280 ; the sporting lie, ib. ; the officious, 281 ; the pernicious, ib. ; scripture condemns all without restriction, ib. ; greatness of the sin, 282, remedies against, 285. Life of Faith, a Treatise on the, xv. 45. Life not to be valued but as it yieldeth opportunities to glorify God, i. 81.