Of God (plural), notes the plenty and perfection of this attribute in God, vi. 441 ; the frequency of it, 442 ; the variety of our necessities, ib. ; the many favours to be bestowed on us, 443.
Bestowed upon some of God's children, should be, and are, an occa- sion of joy and comfort to all the rest, vii. 281 ; they are all members of one body, 282 ; it is for the honour and glory of God, 283 ; it is for the profit and comfort of all, ib. ; joy is communicative, 284.
God's saving, not enough that we have of ; we must beg that we may have experience of them in our own souls, vii. 313 ; sense or partici- pation of, is to believers the life of their lives, and the want of it as a kind of death to them, 314 ; better than life natural, the vitality of life spiritual, the beginning and pledge of life eternal, ib.
Great and tender, are in the Lord Jehovah, ix. 159.
Spiritual, the chief subject of thanksgiving, xi. 325 ; they are discrimi- nating, ib. ; they concern the better part, ib. ; they are purchased at a dear rate, ib. ; they have a near connection with heaven, ib. ; they incline and fit the heart for praise and thanksgiving to God, ib. ; they are never given in anger, as outward mercies may be, ib. ; they render us acceptable to God, ib. ; we need acknowledge them, that God may have the sole glory of them, ib.
Received, call for answerable returns, xvii. 386 ; what it is to render according to what we have received, ib. ; it is a sign we are unthank- ful under mercies when the heart is lifted up upon the enjoyment of them, 390 ; cautions against the pride of self-dependence, 393.
Old, especially national, should not be forgotten, xviii. 41.
All swim to the believer in Christ's blood, sx. 186. Mercy and truth, the two pillarSi of the covenant, i. 67.
God no loser by acts of, i. 68.
All God's gifts are of, i. 155.
By a kind of pardoning, we subsist every moment, i. 157.
Value of, ii. 20 ; better than sacrifice, ib. ; preferred before the external observance of the sabbath, 21 • more than gospel externals of wor- ship, ib. ; more excellent than all the gifts of the gospel, ib. ; without it, faith and love to God are not genuine, ib. ; the qualification of finding mercy, ib.
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Mercy, why men not more affected with, ii. 343 ; stupid carelessness, ih. ; unbelief, ib. ; inconsideration, ib. ; want of the Spirit's light, ib.
Never obtained but in the use of means, iv. 9.
One, from God, is but a step to another, iv. 44.
' Kejoiceth over judgment,' different explanations of, iv. 225.
God exerciseth acts of, with delight, iv. 231 ; in us, a sign of our interest in God's, ib.
Shown either to those that offend, or to those that want, iv. 320.
The rise and cause of all the good we have from God, v. 56 ; the aim of the whole scripture to represent God merciful, 57 ; represented as his delight and pleasure, ib. ; scripture representeth God as exercising, though with some present disadvantage to his glory, ib. ; speaketh much of his readiness to receive returning sinners, 58 ; God not only admits them to come, but of his own accord inviteth them that are slack and backward, ib. ; they that refuse the offers of his grace long borne with, 59 ; the aim, not only of the word, but of providence, and of all the dispensations of God to the creature, to represent him mer- ciful, ib. ; represented to us in many notions, 60.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ, looking for, implies patience, v. 349 ; but chiefly hope, ib. ; bewrayeth itself by frequent and serious thoughts, 350; by hearty groans, and sighs, and longings, 351 ; by lively tastes and feelings, ib. ; sets us a-work to purge out sin, ib. ; withdraweth our hearts from present things, ib. ; maketh us upright and sincere, ib. ; supporteth us under difficulties and afflictions, 352.
Natural to God, vi. 446 ; pleasing to him, 447 ; plentiful in him, ib. ; is the great wonder of the divine nature, ib. ; he is communicative of, ib.
The fountain of all that we expect from God, vii. 124.
Of God, all men's minds possessed with, an apprehension of, vii. 187; every creature a monument and witness of, ib.
Noteth a propension and inclination to commiserate the afflicted, and the actual exhibition of help and relief to the miserable, vii. 301 ; its object is mercy, 302 ; scripture full of, 303.
Of God, is more to his people than to others, vii. 303.
God's best servants have no other and better plea than that God would deal with, them in, viii. 274 ; because since the fall there is no claim- ing but by the covenant of grace and mere mercy, ib. ; as there is no merit in the best saints, so there is much demerit, 275 ; from the humility of the saints, 276.
God's, the cause of all his favour to us, or gracious dealing with us, viii, 369 ; because there was nothing in us to move him to be gracious to us, 370 ; much to the contrary, both before and after conversion, ib.