Creation teacheth us a lesson in, xii. 181. ■ The fruit of hope, as hope is of faith, xii. 222; is of a threefold character — bearing, waiting, and working, ib.
And comfort of the scriptures, a higher thing than what is learnt by the institutions of philosophy, xix. 12.
A contrasted endurance of painful evils, xx. 203 ; under trials, is a manifestation of faith, 204.
And constancy under troubles, the honour done to Christ by, xx. 327. Patriarchs had the same kind of faith that we have, siii. 374. Panl, commending himself to the Corinthians, furnishes an occasion of offence to the vainglorious, xiii. 100 ; his answer and defence, ib.
Valued the glory of God above that personal contentment and happi- ness that should come to him by his own salvation, xiii. 137.
Though an eminent christian, groaned under the relics of corruption, xiii. 172.
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JPauVs thorn in the flesh, what it was, xvii. 402.
Apology against the accusation of Tertullus (Acts xxiv.), xvii. 419.
Contempt of worldly and external privileges, xx. 13 ; universality of this contempt, ib. Peace and Holiness, Discourses Tending to Peomote, ii. 1. Feace purchased by the sufferings of Christ that reconciliation and amity wrought out between God and a sinner, iii. 279; Christ by his death hath slain all hatred, 280 ; the just wrath of God, and sin in us in its guilt and power, ib. ; he hath taken away all show of hatred, by abolishing the ceremonial law, ib. ; hath procured us favour, 281.
False, grounds of, iii. 282 ; ignorance of our condition, ib. \ careless- ness, ib. ; avoiding whatever may put us in mind of our misery, ib. ; distraction, 283.
And healing must go together, iii. 294.
With God, and peace of conscience, different, iv. 247.
The purchase of Christ, the work of the Spirit, iv. 313; true chris- tians will strive to keep, 314 ; and to make, 315 ; may be broken in truth's quarrel, 316 ; for sake of, truth must never be violated, ib.
Without righteousness is but a sordid compliance ; righteousness without peace but a rough austerity, iv. 324.
By itself the Old Testament benediction ; in the New Testament, grace conjoined, v, 53.
Is a tranquillity of mind arising from a sense of a sure estate with God, V. 67 ; man by nature at enmity with God, and upon ill terms with him, ib. ; man being at enmity with God, all God's creatures are at enmity with him, 68 ; being in this estate, we can only be recon- ciled by Jesus Christ, ib. ; God being reconciled in Christ, all things else are at peace with us, 69; yet some troubles are left for our exercise, but not for our hurt or destruction, 70 ; in heaven perfect, ib.
Of the church, a call to the more strictness and holiness, vi. 220; when not called to suffer for Christ, our active obedience should be the more strictly performed, ib.
Is external in the house, city, country, society in which we live, ix. 199 ; internal, arising either from justification or sanctification, 200 ; eternal in heaven, ib.
They that love God's law have great, ix. 206 ; because the God of peace is their God, 207 ; Jesus Christ, the prince of peace, is their Saviour, ib. ; the Spirit worketh it in us as a sanctifier and as a comforter, ib. ; great as to the nature of it, 208 ; and the degree, ib. ; doth not exclude troubles in the world, ib. ; keeps from sin, 215.
With God, the fruit of justification, xv. 62.
Sound, cannot be enjoyed till sin be forgiven, xviii. 223 ; is more and more settled in the heart by waiting on the duties of the gospel, ib.
With God, those who have found, may best invite others to the same course, xxi. 450. People.^ God hath a special, in the world, whom he will own for his, vii. 442 ; trial of, belonging to, 443 ; when did you solemnly dedicate yourself to him 1 ib. ; what have you that is peculiar ] ib. ; doth your resignation appear in your living and acting for God 1 444.
Their duty to endeavour after unity, v. 393. Perdition, son of, name given to Judas, iii. 32 ; and to Antichrist, ib. ; the
Pope the successor, not of Peter, but Judas, ib. 'Perfect (Phil, iii, 12), an agonistical word, xx. 75. Perfection, what Kind of, is Attainable in this Life, ii. 5(^.
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Perfection, a kind of, attainable in this life, ii. 57 ; not of the reward whicb the saints shall have in heaven, ih. ; but of grace and holiness, ih. ; and that not legal, but evangelical, 58 ; not absolute, but compara- tive, 59 ; not in degrees, but in parts, 61 ; reasons for seeking after - ■ absolute, 62 ; we have a perfect God, a perfect rule, a perfect Re- deemer, a perfect reward, ih. ; means of attaining, 64 ; notes of perfection, 65.
Enjoined on christians is either sincerity, or constancy and persever- ance, or the perfection of parts, iv. 34.
Christians must aim at, and press on to, iv. 36.
Of holiness probably attained in the moment of expiring, v. 27.