Vil in the lamp and the vessel is repentance, mortifying our inward lusts, and faith working by love, ix. 336.
Old and New Testament dispensations contrasted, xii. 105.
Old Testament testimonies to the true divinity and true humanity of Christ, i. 476.
Omission, sins of, arise from not reviving the belief of God's command- ments, vii. 220. Sins of, may be great sins, x. 11 ; there is in them the general nature of all sin, breach of the law and contempt of God's authority, ib. • their general cause is corrupt nature, 12 ; through them gifts and ^graces languish for want of employment, ib. ; they bring on many temporal judgments, ib. ; they are threatened with eternal punish- ment, ih. ; some are greater than others, 13 ; in many cases may be more heinous and damning than sins of commission, ib. Sins of, wicked are described by, x. 102 ; may be great sins, ib. ; some greater than others, 103 ; in many cases may be more hein- ous and damning than sins of commission, ib.
Omissions make way for commissions, i. 17.
Of necessary duties necessarily draw sins of commission along with them, ix. 157.
Omnipotency of God proved from scripture and reason, xvii. 82 • this power of God explained, 86 ; application, 87.
Opinion, a man's, so changed by conversion, that what things were gain are accounted loss, xx. 3.
Opinions, men's, are no ground of faith, iii. 101.
Oppjression a crying sin, especially of poor servants, iv. 409.
Of wicked men, to be left under, a grievous calamity, and earnestly to be deprecated, viii. 247.
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Oppression, a very grievous evil, often deprecated by the people of God, viii» 259 ; is an abuse of power to unjust and uncharitable actions, ib. ; the oppressors are the proud, mighty, rich, great men, at least by comparison with those whom they oppress, ih. ; a grievous evil in itself, ib. ; odious to God, as being a perversion of the ends of his providence, ib. ; offensive to his people, and burdensome to them, 260 ; is both theft and murder, ib. ; aggravated when God's servants are oppressed for religion, ib. ; most of all when power and advantage is fetched from any ordinance of God to commit it, ib. ; dissuasion from, 261.
Deliverance from, a blessing to be sought from God in prayer, viii. 399 ; we have liberty to ask temporal things, ib. ; our spiritual welfare is concerned in such temporal deliverances, that we may serve God without impediment, 400 ; the glory of God is con- cerned, ib.; prayer engagethus to constancy, 401 ; seeking deliver- ance at the hands of God doth ease the heart of a great deal of trouble, ib. ; not to be asked in the first place, as our main bless- ing, 403 ; must be asked with submission, ib. ; with the end that God may be glorified, 404 ; in faith, that God can deliver, and will in due time, when it is good for us, ib. ; deliverance should quicken and encourage us in God's service, 406. Ordinances, their purity an honour to God, of great profit to the church, and a rejoicing to God's people, i. 109.
Merit of Christ doth reach, that by them grace may be conveyed, and sin mortified and subdued in us, ii. 209.
Their end to stir up love to God, ii. 245.
Simple plainness of, an obstacle to men's believing, iii. 224 ; admin- istered by weak men, ib.
They who deny that they are useful to believers are ignorant of the nature of grace, which always, after a taste, longeth for more, iv. 129 ; are ignorant of the intent and end of the word, which is not only to beget us, but to make the saints perfect, ih. ; are ignorant of the state of their own hearts, 130.
They that would have grace must have recourse to, ix. 391.
God's people have a great value and esteem of, xviii. 147 ; by a spiritual instinct, ib. ; from experience, 148 ; from necessity, 149 ; from utility and profit, ib. ; esteem them above all other things, 150. Others, to do to, as we would have them do to us, a sure and a full rule, ii. 370 ; Severus had it written in his palace, and engraved in golden letters in the courts of justice, ib. ; considered negatively, 371 ; positively, 374 ; objections answered, 377 ; ground and equity of, 378 ; in what sense the law and the prophets, 379. Our, force of, in ' Our Father,' i. 54 ; to comfort us in the sense of our inte- rest in God, ib. ; to mind us of the common interest of all the saints in the same God, 55.
Pains, Christ not only bore, for our sakes, but those that we should have endured, or at least equivalent to what we should have borne, if we had suffered for sin, iii. 261.
Papacy, its wickedness marks it out as the man of sin, iii. 31.
Why not immediately destroyed, iii. 60; God hath uses for it, ib. ; to scourge his people for their sins, ih. ; to try his people, ib. ; to cure our divisions, 61 ; to keep up a remembrance of his mercies, ih. ; its pomp and height about a.d. 1500, ib.