To God, argueth not only falsity and hypocrisy, but mischief or evil thoughts of God, xix. 279 ; to men, is assertory or promissory, 280 ; different kinds of, i6. ; the sporting lie, ib. \ the officious lie, 281; the pernicious lie, ih. ; in ordinary commerce, 282 ; in courts of jus- tice, ib.
A sin most contrary to the nature of God, who is truth itself, xix. 283 ; Jesus Christ was eminent for sincerity and truth, ib. ; nothing maketh us more like the devil, ib. ; a sin most contrary to the new nature wrought in the saints, 284 ; a sin most contrary to human society, ib. ; a sin very hateful to God, 285 ; a sin shameful and odious in the eyes of men, ib.
Magistrate, his official duty regarding religion, v. 237. Magistrates, their duty to suppress error, v. 120. Are under Christ as Mediator, x. 131.
Must not be obeyed in things contrary to the word of God, xiv. 424 ; have not always been the best friends to Christ, 425. Majesty of God, great and glorious, i. 403 ; in the present state we are not able to bear any extraordinary manifestation of, 406. And composure of the scriptures, viii. 335. Malice and ill-will lead to detraction, ii. 276.
Of the Jews, acts of, ascribed to the ordination of God, iii. 369. Of the wicked against the children of God ariseth from envy at their interests, their esteem and respect in the world, viii. 129; from hatred of their holiness, ih. Man, his natural condition as set forth in scripture, i. 139 ; born in sin, ib. ; greedy of sin, 140 ; sin the constant frame of his heart, ib. ; his inability to reclaim himself, ib. Christ called the Son of, not to deny his Godhead, but to express the verity of his human nature, xviii. 155. Manifestation of God's name by Christ to his people is by outward revela- tion and inward illumination, x. 198. Of the saints, how the saints will be manifested, xii. 155 ; the circum- stances attending their manifestation, ib. ; that this manifestation ought to be earnestly desired and expected by us, 156. ManMnd universally gone astray from God and the way of true happiness, iii. 296 ; all sinneis by nature, 297 ; all that come to the use of rea-
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son have actually sinned against God, 299 ; this departing from God fitly represented by the straying of sheep, 301, See Departing.
Man of sin. the name given by the Jews to Antiochus, iii. 31 ; applicable to the Papacy, 32.
Man's Impotexcy to Help Himself out of his Misery, v. 473.
M ANTON'S, Dr, Funeral Sermon, xxii. 125.
Marriage, in its purity, may stand with the strictest rules of holiness, ii. 100. Holily entered into when the parties take one another out of God's hands, ii. 163 ; when the directions of God's word are observed as to the choice of parties, ib. ; as to consent of parents, 1G4; as to gain- ing one another by warrantable, yea, religious ways, ib. ; as to clear- ing up our right and title by Christ, ib. ; as to the end, 1 65 ; God's providence to be owned in, ib. ; to enter into, holily, a necessary duty, 166 ; in entering on, we are to ask his leave, 169 ; his direction, 170; his blessing, ib. ; advice to persons entering into, ib. ; that God be no loser, ib. ; that he be a gainer, 171. The apostle Paul's comparison of the law to, xii. 104.
Mary, the Virgin, Romanists pray more to, than to God, iii. 99.
Masters, the choice of, is the great business which belongeth to our duty, xi. 309 ; in the choice we are guided by considerations of right and interest, 310 ; the two, are sinful self and holy God, ib. ; no man can serve both, 311 ; by nature all of us are servants of sin, grace maketh us servants of God, 312 ; both sorts of servants receive wages suitable and proportionable to the work they have done, 314 ; con- siderations to choose God's service, ib. ; and to continue therein, 315. Two, divide the world between them, sin and God, xii. 248 ; both ser- vices are entered into by consent, ib. ; sin a usurper, and our enemy as well as God's, 249 ; hence our duty to yield up ourselves to the Lord, lb. ; with hearty and full consent of will, 250 ; out of a deep sense of his love and mercy, ib. ; with grief and shame that his right hath been so long detained from him, ib. ; the resolution must be full and entire, ib. ; to submit ourselves both to his disposing and commanding wiU, 251.
Matches, three must be made ere the conscience can have solid rest and quiet, iv. 123 ; God and man must be brought together, ib. ; justice and mercy must be brought together, 124; comfort and duty must be broucrht toirether, 126.
Matheo Langi, Archbishop of Salzburg, on the reformation of the Catholic church, xiii. 221.
Mean condition, they that fear God may be reduced to, viii. 490 ; that they may know their happiness is not in this world, ib. ; to cut off the visions of the flesh and the fuel of their lust, 491 ; that they may be sensible of God's displeasure against their sins, ih. ; that they may learn to live upon the promises, and exercise suffering graces, 492 ; that God may convince his enemies that there is a people who serve him disinterestedly, ib. ; that his glory may be more seen in their deliverance, ib.