Of the world, a main hindrance to love of God, xiii. 177.
To our neighbour, a means to preserve our respects to God, xv. 287 ; the engagements to this love, 288 ; how far this love to our neigh- bour is to extend, 289.
Of the world, diverts the heart from and sets it against, Christ, xvii. 18; disposeth the soul to all evil, 19; destroys the principle of obedience, ib. ; hinders the receiving of good, 21.
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Love to God, taken largely for all the duties of the first table, xviii. 137 ; or strictly for that particular grace -svhich is distinct from faith and hope, 138; desiring, ih.\ complacential, 139; returning, i6.
God's, to question, because of affliction, is folly, xix. 15.
Of Christ, greater than Ave can think or express, xix. 17.
Christ's, is the ground of man's redemption, xix. 83 ; the property that shined forth most conspicuously in the work of redemption, 84 ; a free love, 85 ; a real love, ih. ; eminent and transcendent love, ih. ; full love, 86.
To walk in, signifieth not one act or two, but the perpetual tenor of our lives, xix. 183 ; love must be at the bottom of all our actions and duties, 184; love must dwell, and bear rule, and have dominion in our hearts, 185 ; showing love to others must be the business of our lives, ih. ; Christ's love to us hath a motive, 186 ; and a pattern, 187.
Of God, in adopting us hito his family and acknowledging us for his children, is such an act of grace as cannot be sufficiently considered and admired, xx. 440 ; that there is such a relation between the parties proved, ih. ; that this is a blessed and glorious privilege, 441 ; the cause and fountain of this mercy and grace was love, 442 ; the benefits depending from it, ih. ; with respect to the present state, 444; with respect to the life to come, 445 ; believers ought to excite them- selves to earnest consideration of this great love, 446.
To others, one great duty of believers, xxi. 87 ; Avhat it is to love one another, ih. ; the acts and fruits of this love, 88 ; what it is to love all men, 91 ; reasons why we should love all men, 92 ; how God hath recommended this duty of love to others to our obedience, 93.
Of the brethren a sure note of passing from death to life, xxi. 114; what it is to pass from death to life, ih. ; what love of the brethren is to be understood, 117 ; why so much is ascribed to this love, 119.
To the brethren, in what it consists, xxi. 215 ; how it is conjoined with faith in Christ, 216. Loving -kindness of God noteth his disposition to do good upon his own motives, or his self-inclination to do good to his creatures, especially his people, ix. 90 : is general, to all his creatures, especially mankind, ih. ; or special, towards believers in Christ, ih. ; proofs and demon- strations of, 91 ; exercised for his own glory, 92. Lust, as a power, noteth that habitual, primitive, and radical indisposition to good, and disposition to evil, that is in all the faculties, iv. 94 ; as an act, is nothing else but the risings and motions of the fleshly nature in us, ih. ; ensnares the soul either by force or flattery, 96 ; violence of, 97 ; hew to be stopped, 104.
Koteth properly the earnest motion of the soul after sin ; pleasure the contentment it findeth in sin, iv. 325.
Walking after, v. 312 ; a willing subjection to lust as a law and master, ih. ; customary practice and observance, ih. ; fond indulgence, 313 ; is a note of unregeneracy, ih. ; dissuasives from, 314.
' Of the flesh,' in what it consists, xvi. 93, 94, 110.
' Of the eyes,' in what it consists, xvi. 93, 95, 113. Lusis war in the heart even of a godly man, iv. 330 ; otherwise than in that of a wicked man, 331.
Though they dispute ever}' inch with grace, do easily give way to suc- ceeding corruptions, iv. 412.
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Lusta must be prevented by mortification, and suppressed by watclifulness, and Icept by resolution from execution, v. 316.
The more they are mortified, the moce sincerely will we seek after the glory of God, xiii. 130.
Foolish, xviii. 192 ; hurtful, ib. ; destroying our peace, ih. ; injurious to grace, 193 ; their tendency is ruin in this world, ib. ; perdition or eternal damnation, ib. Luxxivy, a sin very natural to us, iv. 412 ; chiefly incident to the rich, ib. ;
their abundance doth not excuse it, ih. Lying, the way of, either means generally the way of sin, vi. 276 ; or parti- cularly the sin of falsehood, 277 ; men strongly inclined to, 278 ; most inconsistent with the temper and sincerity of a child of God, ih.
In the ordinary acceptation of it, is speaking that which is false, with an intention to deceive, ix. 187 ; or concealing the truth which ought to be confessed, 188 ; or when our practices do not correspond with our profession, ih. ; to be hated and abhorred.