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men, 103 ; to check our murmurings, ih. ; to encourage us in well- doing, ib.
Precepts of God, esteem of, presupposeth knowledge and a right discerning, viii. 323 ; advertency or application, 324 ; is such an approbation as doth engage affection, such an affection as doth engage practice, ib. ; not a simple, but comparative approbation, 325 ; not only a judgment of general esteem, but of particular application, ib. ; not slight and superficial, but deep and solid, ib. ; such as hath a lively and effectual influence upon our hearts and ways, 326 ; universal, not partial, 327. Choosing of God's, implies deliberation, ix. 265 ; esteem or prefer- ence, ib. ; voluntary inclination, 266 ; firm and immutable purpose, ib. ; contentment and complacency in that which we have chosen, 267 ; reasons for choosing, ib. ; from the necessity of it, ib. ; the congruity and convenience of it, both to the honour of God and the nature of man, 268 ; the utility and benefit of it, 269.
Pi'edestination, God's eternal purpose, will, or decree is the first rise of all things, xii. 310 ; what God so willeth and purposeth doth in- fallibly come to pass, 312 ; whatever so cometh to pass is brought about in the most convenient order, ib. ; God doth not find this order in causes, but maketh it, 313; this order of causes is so settled and joined together that none can separate them, 314 ; effectual calling is the fruit of predestination, ib. ; predestination is free, not depending on foreseen works and faith, 316 ; but does not exclude the means by which it is brought about, ib. ; the effects of predestination, 318.
Preference of Duties, ii. 5.
Preparation, redemption needeth none, but conversion doth, v. 21.
For the coming of Christ is either habitual, ix. 400 ; in the state of the person, ib.; the frame of the heart, ib. ; the course of the conversation, ib. ; or actual, ib. ; this should be made clear, 401 ; when God summons us by his providence to make up our accounts, ib. ' Of the gospel of peace,' what it is, xii. 378.
Preparative Sermon for Receiving the Sacrament, xv. 329.
Preseiit things, the wicked enjoy, more than the righteous, viii. 321.
With the Lord, our happiness in the world to come lieth in being, xiii. 23 ; reasons why, ib. ; the excellency of this blessed estate, 26 ; that we are in the immediate presence of the Lord as soon as the soul flitteth from the body proved, ib. ; presence with the Lord should be earnestly desired by christians, 31.
Presentation by Christ of his people to God, v. 364 ; as an account of his charge, ib. ; as an act of delight and rejoicing in his own success, 365 ; as an act of his love and recompense to the faithful, ib. Threefold spoken of in scripture, by believers themselves, by minis- ters, by Christ, xix. 488.
Preservation a daily renewal of creation, xx. 182.
Presumers are either ignorant or inconsiderate, iv. 243.
P7-esumpticous sins, their nature, xxi. 338 ; sins of infirmity and sins of presumption distinguished, 339; the heinousness of these, 343; the danger of them, 344 ; reproof of those that live in known sins, 346 ; dissuasives, 347 ; things men usually presume upon, 348 ; the danger of the regenerate in presumptuous sinning, 352 ; of such as persuade themselves their sins are but infirmities, 356.
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Pretences, vain, by which sinners usually liarden their hearts, xix. 222 ; that God will not call them to account, or punish them for their sins, ih. ; that God will not be severe against his creatures, 223 ; that they are christians, 224 ; that none is perfect, ih. ; that they depend on the righteousness of Christ, 225 ; that they hope to repent at last, ib. ; that they make amends for a course of sin in one kind by abounding in other duties, ib. ' Priclced in lieart' (Acts ii. 37), considered as the fruit of sin and the begin- ning of grace, xxi. 242 ; what it is, 244 ; God's course to bring home sinners to himself, 245 ; reasons why, ib. Pride gave us the first merit of death, and envy the first instance of it, iv. 309. Two sorts of, one in the mind, the other in the affections, iv. 354 ;
nothing causeth madness so much as, 355. Good to shame, with consideration of God's power and our own base- ness, iv. 386. Dissuasives from, v. 244. Is moral or spiritual, vi. 195.
In mind, self-conceit; in affections, vainglory, vi. 414, 415. Puts wicked men upon being troublesome and injurious to the people
of God, vii. 322. Acts of, vii. 325 ; wittingly and willingly opposing any command of God, ib. ; entertaining crosses with anger and blessings with dis- dain, ib. ; despising any of Christ's little ones, ib. ; a lofty conceit of ourselves, with contempt of others, 326 ; disdain of inferiors, ib. ; contention with equals, ib. ; undutifulness to superiors, 327 ; impa- tience of admonitions and reproofs, ib. ; building too securely upon earthly enjoyments, 328 ; remedies against, ib. Of life, in what it consists, xvi. 94, 95, 116.