against it, vi. 218. True, is but one, and all other ways false, noxious, and pestilent,
vi. 291. None is fit to be chosen upon sound evidence but the christian, vi. 296 ; it alone revealed by God, ih. ; it notably performs all that a man would expect in a religion, and so suits the necessities of man as well as the honour of God, 297; draws off the mind from things temporal and earthly, to things celestial and eternal, ib. ; establisheth purity of heart and life, 298 ; provideth for peace of conscience, and freedom from perplexing fears, ib. Without self-denial, is Christianity of our own making, not of Christ's,
vii. 155. True, the peaceablest and meekest thing that can be, viL 390, Confuta,tion of those who say that every man shall be saved in his own,
X. 151. There is no salvation out of the true, x. 425.
The sum of the christian religion is, that ' God hath chosen us to salva- tion through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth, where- unto he hath called you by our gospel, to the obtaining the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ' (2 Thes. ii. 13, 14), xii. 442. Sinful respect to the benefits and rewards of religion bewrayeth itself in four things — when Christ is loved for worldly advantages, xiii. 152 ; when we have a carnal notion of the true rewards of godliness, ib. ; when our respects to benefits are not in the frame wherein God hath set them, 153 ; when we rest in the lowest acts of love, and do not go on to perfection, ib. Not illiterate, xiii. 414. A friend to human societies, xix. 278.
Must be our recreation, in opposition to tediousness and weariness, our business in opposition to slightness, xx. 105 ; to be regarded as a race or passage from earth to heaven, 107 ; correspondencies, ib. Folly of taking up, on a carnal design of honour, ease, and plenty in the world, xx. 201. llemembering God supposeth some knowledge of God, vii. 77 ; some faith, 78 ; expresseth a reviving of these thoughts, ib. ; is notional and speculative, or afl"ective and practical, ib. ; the latter is either con- stant, ib. ; occasional, 79 ; or set and solemn, ih. ; is a notable help to godliness, 80 ; doth encourage us,- and quicken us to diligence in our work, 81 ; thoughts of God bridle and restrain the madness of our nature, ib. ; comfort and revive us in our faintings and dis- couragements because of the evils of the present world, ib. ; exhor- tation to, ib. Beviembrance of God's dealings with his people, and with their enemies, in all ages, a great relief in distress, vii. 48 ; a righteous God governeth the world, ib. ; he governs by a law, 49 ; from the beginning of the world the observance of this law bringeth blessings, and the violation of it judgments, ib. ; examples of his justice, power, and goodness should comfort us, though we do not perfectly feel the eflfects of his righteous government, ib. ; why his judgments of old are a comfort to us, 50. Remission, conversion, renovation, or repentance must precede^ i. 423. VOL. XXII. U
306 INDEX,
Renouncing the world, God's children do not contemn the world out of necessity, but choice, xiv. 333.
When we have renounced the world and sin, we must take heed of hankering after these things again, xiv. 335 ; it is not enough to despise this world, but we must have our hearts carried forth after better things, ih. ; how we are to renounce the world, 336 ; how we are to look after better things, 337 ; those that renounce the world will be no losers, 339. Renunciation of evil the first thing taught us by grace, xvi. 71. Repeiitance, Christ both requires and gives, i. 104. .
God's great pleasure in, i. 133.
No merit in, i. 196 ; God both requireth and giveth, ib,
A tormenting but a curing sorrow, ii. 34.
And remission of sin cannot be separated, ii. 204.
Late, is seldom sound, vii. 141.
And humiliation, creation teacheth us a lesson of, xii. 182.
What it is, xiii. 119 ; must be our main work, 120.
The Jewish rabbi's answer to his disciple as to the fittest time for, xiv. 66.
What it is, xvi. 361 ; what is ofi"ered in scripture to persuade us to, 364 ; how we may improve the scriptures in this work, 370.
What it is, xvi. 405 ; what the gospel doth to promote it, ib. ; the necessity of it, 406.
Is a turning of the whole heart from sin and Satan to serve God in new- ness of life, or a turning from sin, because God hath forbidden it, to that which is good, because God hath commanded it, xviii. 7 ; is general, ib. ; or occasional, ib. ; is the way of our recovery in order to the enjoyment of the privileges of the new covenant, 8 ; suitableness of the qualification, 9 ; it is much for the honour of God, ih. ; the duty of the creature is secured when he is so firmly bound to future obedience, ib. ; it is most for the comfort of the creature that a stated certain cause or remedy should be appointed for our peace, which may leave the greatest evidence upon our consciences, 10; motives to, ib. ; means of, 11.