gospel, xx. 246. A kind of election within the sphere of, xx. 291. Nearness of God to his people, ix. 102 ; not in regard of his essence, for so he is everywhere present, ib. ; nor in regard of his general providence and common sustentation, 103 ; but his friendly and gracious pre- sence, ib. ; his visible presence in his ordinances, ib. ; distinction between a state of, and acts of, 104 ; grounds of, 106 ; his covenant with them, ib. ; our union with Christ, ib. ; the inhabitation of the Spirit, 107 ; the mutual love between God and them, ib. ; result of God's readiness to hear our prayers, ib. ; our converse with God in holy duties, 108 ; and in a course of holiness, 109 ; brought about by Christ's merit, ib. ; and by our change of heart, 110. Necessaries of life, daily bread, daily pardon, daily strength, i. 230. Necessities of christians, Satan takes advantage of, for temptations, i. 273 ; tempteth to unlawful means to supply our wants, ib. ; to question our adoption, 274 ; to distrust God's providence, ib. Lead us to the promises, the promises to Christ, Christ to God, vi. 449. Necessity a time for duty, v. 102.
Of mankind, the deep, xi. 420 ; met by Christ's incarnation, 423 ; and his passion, 427. Negatives not to be rested in, vi. 37.
Neglect, voluntary and allowed, of any portion of the law, makes us guilty of the violation of the whole law, iv. 215. Of God will keep us out of heaven not less than profaneness, viii. 186.
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Keighhour, scripture requires us to love, as ourselves, iv. 207 ; who ? 208 ; every one to whom we may be helpful ih. ; more especially those who dwell by us, and first our wife, then our children, &c., ih. ; spiritual, ih. ; what love ? 209 ; as ourselves in manner, not in measure, ib. ; to mind the good of others, ib. ; as truly, though not as much, as our own, 210. jVeitf creature, orderliness of, ii. 241 ; is the wisest creature on this side ' heaven, 263. What it is to be, xiii. 232 ; implies such a change wrought in us that we are other men and women than we were before, as if another soul came to dwell in our body, ib. ; this change must amount to a, new creation, ib. ; some changes which do not go so far, ib. ; no change amounteth to the new creation which does not introduce the life and likeness of God, 234 ; why called a new creation, 235 ; how we are united to Christ in the new creation, 236 ; how the new creation floweth from our union with Christ, ib. ; the necessity of it, 237 j how ill they can make out their interest in Christ that are noC sensible of any change wrought in them, 239 ; the new creation the work of God and the effect of the Spirit, 241 ; this appeareth from the state of the person renewed, ib. ; the nature of the work, 242 ; its connection with reconciliation, 243 ; and the effect of it, 244 ; all things belonging to the new creation are ascribed by scripture to God, 245 ; the difference between the natural man and the new creature, 247; cautions against abuse of this doctrine, 248; it is not in vain to press people to become new creatures, 249 ; the true use to be made of the doctrine, 250 ; God the author of, as recon- ciled to us in Christ, xiii. 251.
New Testament testimonies to the divinity and humanity of Christ, i. 478.
Night a special occasion for meditation on holy things, ix. ^'2 ; on account of its solitude and silence, ib.
Niohe, the christian, xvii. 217.
No Excuse against a Speedy Obeying Christ's Call, ii. 121.
Not to be Offended in Christ the Ready Way to Blessedness, ii. 79.
Nullifidians, the doctrine of the, disproved, xvii. 428.
Oath, to bind ourselves by, to God and the duty we owe to him, concerns us sometimes, viii. 81 ; lawfulness of, appears from God's injunc- tion, ib. ; and from the practice of the saints, ih. ; convenient to answer God's love and condescension to us in the covenant, 82 ; to testify our affection to his service, ih. ; very profitable becaiise of our backwardness, ib. ; our fickleness and inconstancy, 83 ; our lazi- ness, 84 ; should be used in a matter lawful, ib. ; and in a matter weighty, necessary, and acceptable to God, 85 ; must be religiously performed and observed, 86 ; the same motives which inclined us to make, should persuade us to keep, 87 ; our oath a further aggra- vation of our sin, ih. ; God hath ever been a severe avenger of breach of covenants, ib. ; should be often revived and renewed, 88 ; because we are apt to forget, and have not a lively sense of a thing long since done, ib. ; this forgetfulness an occasion of many and great troubles, 89 ; when to be renewed ; ih. ; when we stand in need of some special favour from God, ib. ; after some special mercy, ib. ; when the state of religion is collapsed, either around us or within us, ib. ; when we are to draw nigh to God in the use of the seals of the new covenant, ib. See Covenanting.