the fruit of it, xi. 15. What we are to do and what we are to expect in, xiii. 444, What we ought to do before coming to, xiv. 483 ; how we ought to come, 484 ; what we are to do in, 486 ; what we are to do after, 487. At the table of the Lord our graces should be exercised in a special lively manner, xv. 429 ; the general use which a sacrament has beyond other duties, 430 ; the special use and intent of this duty, 431 ; what graces are to be exercised, 432. Are we bound to have assurance of our sincerity before we come to the
table of the Lord? xv. 461. In approaching the table of the Lord, we should consider our aim and what we are going about, xv. 488 ; the benefits arising from this, 489 ; the ends of the Lord's supper, 490; the duties our profession bind us to in regard of it, 492, A commemoration of Christ's death, not as a tragical story, but as a mystery of godliness, xviii, 327 ; two affections most proper and seasonable, 328 ; mourning for sin, ib. ; rejoicing in Christ Jesus, 329 ; reflection on the cause, occasion, and benefits of the death of Christ, ib. ; the act is annunciative or showing forth, 332 ; to our-
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selves, ih. ; to others, ih. ; to God, 333 ; annunciation must be serious, 334 ; applicative, ih. ; practical, ih. Lordship, Christ's, is a new right of propriety and government over all men and things, xx. 27 ; superadded to the dominion of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as creator, ih. ; is derivative and subordinate, ih. ; is comfortable and beneficial to us, 28 ; accrues to him by his ovpii purchase, and his Father's grant, ih. ; we come under, by voluntary submission, ih. ; privileges and duties of the subjects, 29. Loss, converted men count those things to be, which before they counted gain,
XX. 4. Lost, in what sense we are said to be, xviii. 155 ; really and indeed, ih. ; in our own sense and apprehension, 156 ; Christ's seeking of, implieth Ms pity of us in our lost estate, 158 ; his diligence and pains to reduce us, ih. ; his saving of, is by merit and by power, 160. Lofs ivife, her sin, xv. 370; her judgment, 371; the profitableness of
meditation on this instance, 373. Love feasts not obligatory, but allowed, v. 274.
How far they are warranted in scripture, xv. 345. Love, Mr Christopher, Sermon at his Funeral, ii. 439. Love both acted and increased in prayer, i. 30.
By the world's maxim, should begin at home ; by Christ's direction it begins with God, i. 71.
In God, is twofold, of benevolence and of complacency, i. 385.
Of God and our neighbour, better exercised in the shop than in the cloister, ii. 97.
To God, its radical and internal acts are desire after him, ii. 236 ; and delight in him, 237 ; its external effects are doing and suffering his will, 238 ; its properties, 239 ; not speculative, but practical, ih. ; transcendental, ih. ; must be directed by God himself, 240 ; necessity of this for the unregenerate, 242; and the regenerate, 243; sanctifying Spirit given for this end, 245 ; ordinances appointed for this end, ib. ; providences tend to this end, 246.
At the bottom of all God's grace, should be at the bottom of all our duties, ii. 344.
Of God to sinners, manifested in our redemption by Christ, giveth great boldness and encouragement in prayer, iii. 148.
God's general, to a lost world, the devil seeketh to hide and obscure, iii. 150 ; special, when this grace is applied to us, ih.
The freeness of God's, doth not exclude the fulness of Christ's merit, iii, 269.
God's, greatness of, iii. 375 ; ancientness of, ih.
Is the effect of faith, and the ground of all duty, and so the best dis- covery of a spiritual estate, iv. 199.
A gracious and holy affection, v. 72 ; ariseth from the sense and appre- hension of God's love in Christ, ih. ; its immediate cause the grace of God, 73 ; its object is God himself, ih. ; carried out to its object by desire and delight, ih. ; God hath commanded, 74 ; God hath de- served, 75 ; nature of, showeth that God is its proper object, 82 ; evidences of, 85 ; helps to, 86.
God's, to us, ancientness of, v. 75 ; freeness of, 76 ; frequency of the expressions of, ih. ; variety of the expressions of, 77 ; effects 'of, 78 ; creative, ih. ; preservative, 79 ; redemptive, 80.
Mutual, between christians, reasons for, v. 94 ; none can have better grounds to love one another, ih. ; none can have higher motives than
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the love of Christ, 95 ; none have a greater charge — Christ's new commandment, ib. ; directions, 96. Love, of all graces, most needs keeping, v. 344 ; decay of, seen in a remission of the degrees, 345 ; or an intermission of the acts and exercises, ib. ; rules to prevent declining in, 346 ; to God, will put us upon looking for Christ's second coming, 347,