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ness, 423 ; the greatest sinners, when they are once converted to G(jd, have afterwards the greatest compassion towards other sinners, 424 ; there must be not only a constant disposition to mourn over tlie sins of others, but on special occasions it must be exercised and set a-work, 425 ; in times of abundance of flagrant sin, ih. ; and when judgments are felt or feared, 42G ; God has laid it upon his people as a duty, that it may be an alloy to zeal, ib. ; to engage them to seek redress and reformation, 427 ; to keep their hearts more tender and upright, 428 ; it is their disposition as well as their duty, ib. ; from the tender- ness of God's glory, ib. ; from their compassion, and pity, and love to men, 429 ; from their antipathy and zealous displeasure against sin, ib. ; from the sagacity of faith, and serious foresight of the effects of sin, 430 ; from their public spirit and tender respect to the common good, ib.
Murvivring at providence taxes God, instead of adoring him, i. 81.
A great sin, v. 299 ; against men, ib. ; against God, 300 ; his decrees, ib. ; his laws, ib. ; his providence, 301 : its causes, 302 ; pride and self-love, ib. ; impatience, ib. ; presumption of merit, 303 ; carnal affection, ib. ; unbelief and distrust, ib. ; injurious to God, ih. ; to others, 304 j to ourselves, ib. ; at the times, 305; is not godly sorrow, complain- ing to God, and bewailing the corruptions of the times, ib. ; nor zeal in public reproof, ib. ; nor holy dislike and singularity, standing aloof from public corruptions, 30G ; but such a fond and unthankful admira- tion of former times, that we have not a good word for the present, ib. ; passing over the good, and looking only on the evil, 307 ; charg- ing our guilt on the times, ib. ; remedies, ib. ; private, 309 ; imder wants, losses, pains, 310. And repining thoughts against God's providence, reproof of, vii. 297.
M^irrmirings and taxings of God's providence, caution against, vii. 257.
Musings, a class of vain thoughts, viii. 158 ; vanity appears in the slipperi- ness and inconstancy of them, ib. ; the unprofitableness and folly of them, 159 ; the carnality and fleshliness, ib. ; the impiety and appar- ent filthiness, ib.
Mystery, every article of faith in the gospel is, vi. 171. Depth of, contained in the scriptures, viii. 336.
Nakedness a type of sin and shame, xii. 462; our great business is to get the garments of salvation to cover our nakedness, 463.
Name of God, means either God himself, i. ^2 ; or anything whereby he is made known to us, 83; is hallowed or sanctified when it is used with that reverence and respect which is not given to any thing- else, ib. ; is hallowed by God himself, 84 ; by us, ib. ; and by others, ib. ; is sanctified upon us and by us, '^Q. Of God, study of, the best remembrance of him, vii. 83 ; of his essence, ib. ; his attributes, 84; see Attributes; increaseth love, faith, fear, 89. In what sense believers are kept through God's (John xvii. 11), x.
310 ; put for his attributes, because by them he is known, as a man by his name, ib. ; so by his truth, in opposition to their fickleness and falsehood, ib. ; his mercy in opposition to their unworthiness,
311 ; his power against their weakness, ib. ; his holiness against their sinfulness, ib. ; nothing else could keep them but God's, ih. ; it is meet that none else should, 312.
Of Christ, a holy God will accept nothing but as tendered in, xi. 63.
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Name and title of God hath been made known by degrees, xi. 132 ; fully in the gospel, ih. ; none but Christ can discover, 133. Of Christ, how it is glorified in us by suflering, xx. 327. Narrowness of the way engageth believers to the exercise of care, iii. 307 ; to a great deal of pains and sorrow, ih. ; to a great deal of self- denial, ib. Nathan, his innocent and pious mistake, xviii. 62. Natioxd light chiefly reacheth to duties of the second table, i. 26.
V, Men bound to pray and perform duties, vi. 241. Nature, divine, of which ciiristians are partakers, not the essence of God, but his communicable excellencies, ii. 214; considered as begun, increased, and perfected, 217. ' V Can discover a God, and a reason that he should be worshipped, but fiot such a worship as is proper to him, ii. 371. Light of, antecedently to any external revelation, will sufficiently
convince of the being of God, and our dependence on him, iii. 22. Whatever is good in, is from God, iii. 174. Our, horrid defilment and depravation of, iv. 117. They that plead for the power of, shut out the use of prayer, vL
370. Makes us sensible of the evil of trouble ; grace, of the evil of sin, viii.
3G8. New, is the product of the Holy Ghost, xi. 405 ; is a spirit of love and power, and a sound mind, ib. ; answering to the nature of God, whom we apprehend under the notions of wisdom and goodness and power, 406 ; it belongeth to Christ to give, 408 ; given by the gospel, 409. Light of, sufficient for the condemnation of those who have not the