wherein lay the difference between, 442. Christ's death hath the true notion and full virtue of, xviii. 79 ; the
new covenant made and confirmed by virtue of this, 80. Christ's, accepted of God, xix. 182 ; the greatness of his sufferings, ib. ; from the dignity of his person, ib. ; the merit of his obedience, ib. ; God hath himself declared it, 183 ; by his resurrection, ib. Sacrifices, what was figured in the old, must be spiritually performed in the duty of prayer and praise, viii. 109 ; brokenness of heart, ib. ; eye- ing of the Redeemer, ib. ; renewing of the covenant, 110. Legal, were glasses to represent their misery, and the debt contracted by sin, xviii. 81 ; were figures of the mercy of God and the merit of Christ, 82 ; were obligations to duty, ib. Sad, reproof of those who are always, x. 359 ; makes unfit for duty, dark- eneth the ways of God, and brings a scandal upon Christ's spiritual kingdom, 360. Saint's Tkiumph over Death, ii. 439. Saints, a praying people, i. 12.
Their privileges and benefits in the world to come, i. 374 ; freedom from
all evil, ib. ; enjoyment of all good, 375 ; their glorified bodies, ib. We must be here, or we shall never be hereafter, v. 33. In what sense they shall judge the world, v. 293. Cannot give grace, ix. 383 ; have not a sufficiency for themselves and us too, ib. ; have no power to transfuse and put over their righteousness to another, 384 ; nor authority and commission to do so, ib. Permitted so often to fall that they may stand the firmer, x. 337. Of all places and ages make but one perfect body, xi. 72. They only are acquainted with the operations of the Spirit, xii. 254 ;
they only are fit to converse with God in prayer, ib. All believers are or ought to be, xix. 194; some are so only by exter- nal dedication and profession, ib. ; others by internal regeneration, 195. Blessedness of in the resurrection is complete felicity in body and soul, XX. 64 ; why the body shows the felicity, ib. ; because the man cannot be happy till the b )dy be raised, ib. ; the body had its share of the work, and shall have of the reward, 65 ; the estate of those
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who die ■will not be worse than that of those who are changed, ib. ; in the heavenly state there are objects which only the bodily senses can discern, ib. ; as Christ's body is in heaven, so shall those of his people be, ib. ; felicity of the soul in the vision of God and the likeness of God, ib. ; perfection of justification, adoption, and re- demption, G6 ; means of attaining, ib. ; holiness, dying to sin, and living to God, 67 ; sufi"erings, 68 ; rather than fail of, we must sub- mit to any means which God hath appointed, 69. Saints, their examples set before us for our imitation, xx. 110 ; those who lived in former ages, ib. ; their examples suited to persons of all degrees, and for all christian ends, 111 ; show that there is nothing impossible in our duty, and nothing so difficult but can be overcome by Christ's help, ib. ; confirm by experience the truth and reality of our hopes, 112; those now living, ib. ; they are in our eye, ib. ; greater provocation in their examples, 113; their circumstances are more like our own, ib. • how to be imitated, ib. ; how far, 114 ; why, 115. In glory, all have the same felicity in substance, but not in degree,
XX. 233. Glory reserved for, at the day of judgment, xx. 265 ; absolution pro- nounced by the judge on the throne, ib. ; a participation of judicial power, ib. ; Christ's public owning of them before God and his angels, 266 ; in the immortality, charity, and spirituality of their bodies, 267; the full satisfaction of their souls, ib. And believers, identical, xx. 271. Salt, wherewith the christian or a sacrifice is salted, is the grace of the Holy Spirit, by which sin is subdued and prevented, ii. 226 ; fitness of the comparison, ib. ; necessity of, 228. Salting with fire and with salt, what it means, ii. 222.
Salvation, what it is, ii. 152 ; what the right of believers is to, 153 ; what the faith is that giveth a title to, 154. Beginning and first cause of, the mere love of God, ii. 340. Every well of, hath its proper stream, iii. 353 Business of man's, transacted by way of covenant between God and
Christ, iii. 376. Of sinners, Jesus Christ taketh an infinite contentment and satisfac- tion in, iii. 408 ; pleased and entertained himself in the thought of it before the world was, ib. ; the end and aim of his coming into the world, 409 ; his rejoicing in heaven to see the work thrive, ib. ; shall be his triumph and his joy when he cometh to judge the world, ib. ; nature of this satisfaction, ib. We are not only to take care of our own, but of that of others,
iv. 474. None but Christ, iv. 479 ; none can be saved by him but those that know him and believe in him, ib. ; and that according to the tenor of the scriptures, ib. ; lesser differences in and about the doctrine of the scriptures, though consistent with the main tenor of salva- tion, yet if held up out of bye-ends, or against conscience, are damnable, ib. ; gross negligence, or not taking pains to know better, is equivalent to reluctation or standing out against light, 480. Course of, first rise and spring in election, breaketh out in effectual calling, floweth down in the channels of faith and holiness, till it lose itself in the ocean of everlasting glory, v. 18.