cast out in regard of inherency, i. 176. Its evil not lessened by the death of Christ, i. 181. God alone can pardon, i. 191 ; as the wronged party and as the supreme
judge, ib. ; officers of the church can remit declaratively, 192. The greatest of evils, because it endamageth our inward man, and en- dangereth our everlasting hopes, i. 233 ; to be kept from the evil of, a greater mercy than to be kept from the trouble of temptation, ib. Eeigns when there is no course of mortification set up against it, i. 239 ;
distinction between reigning and remaining, ib. The evil of, greater than of affliction and trouble, i. 241. What it is, i. 417; there is in it fault and guilt, ib. ; forgiveness of, a dissolving the obligation to punishment, 418 ; not a disannulling of the act, as a natural action, ib. ; nor its abolition as a faulty or criminal action, ib. ; nor a lessening of the demerit of the sinful act, ib. ; but a passing by the fault so as not to punish it, ib. Made more hateful by the agonies, blood, shame, death of Christ, i. 423. God's nature engageth him to hate, and his justice to punish, ii. 182. Four things in — the fault, the guilt, the stain, the punishment, ii. 199. What it is to be turned from, ii. 204 ; to be freed from its guilt and power, ib. ; this a blessed thing, ib. ; the great cause of off"euce between God and us is taken out of the way, ib. ; we are freed from the great blemish of our natures, 205 ; we are freed from that which . is the great burden of the creature, ib. ; we are freed from the great bane of our persons and happiness, 206 ; it is the matter of our serenity, comfort, and peace here, ib. ; and the pledge of our eternal felicity hereafter, 207 ; this blessing is through Christ, ib. ; in what way he doeth it, 209 ; he hath purchased thi^ grace for us, ib. ; and he works it in us, ib. Worse than money, ii. 208.
Christ bore the punishment of, in the essence, though not in the acci- dentals, ii. 272. Original, emphatically called, ii. 417 ; that doth so easily beset us is original, improved into some tyranny or evil custom, ib. ; what it is to lay aside, 418 ; how, ib. Our soul-sickness, iii. 266.
The great sickness and wound of the soul, iii. 287 ; a wasting disease, ib. ; a pahiful disease, 288 ; a loathsome disease, 289 ; an infectious and catching disease, ib. ; a mortal disease, 290. See Healing. Original, three branches of, iii. 297 ; the communication of Adam's guilt by imputation, ib. ; the want of original righteousness, ib. ; corrup- tion and pollution of nature, ib. The guilt and punishment of, laid on the back of Christ, iii. 324 ;
taken off from the sinner, 325 ; transferred to Christ, ib. Heinousness of, seen in the sufferings of Christ, iii. 404.
330 INDEX.
Sin, Christ's bearing, importeth the susception of our guilt, and the
sustaining of our punishment, iii. 480 ; comfort from this, ib. Always driving away and casting out, iv. 19.
God not the author of, iv. 89 ; passages of scripture cleared, ib. ; his efficiency and concurrence about it, 90 ; without God, sin would not be, ib. ; yet he can by no means be looked on as the author of it, ib. ; concerned about it by foreknowledge and pre-ordination, ib. ; by per- mission, 91 ; concurrence to the action, though not to the sinfulness of it, ib. ; desertion of a sinner and leaving him to himself, ib. ; con- cession and giving leave to wicked instruments to stir up to evil, 92 ; presenting of occasions, ib. ; judicial tradition to the power of )Satan and their own vile affections, ib. ; limitation of sin, ib. ; turning of it to the uses of his glory, 93 ; pedigree of, 100 ; progress of, 101. Is a judging of the law, iv. 381 ; to make more than God hath made, is
to judge the law, 382. The soul's sickness, iv. 462 ; resembles bodily sickness in distemper,
deformity, pain, weakness, ib. Of the godly is a kind of sacrilege, stealing a holy thing from God,
V. 26. How far it may be in a child of God, vi. 32 ; he has a corrupt nature, ib. ; has daily failings and infirmities, ib. ; may be guilty of some sins which by watchfulness may be prevented, ib. ; may now and then fall foully, ib. ; may have some particular sins which may be called predominant, 33 ; but cannot fall into those iniquities wherein there is an absolute contrariety to grace, ib. ; does not sin with the whole heart, ib. ; it is not his course, 34 ; when he falls he does not rest in sin, ib. ; his falls are sanctified, ib. ; grace discovers itself by the constant endeavours he makes against sin, ib. Caution to God's people to beware of all, vi. 34 ; of gross, committed
against light and conscience, 36 ; of continuance in, ib. Every, is an affront to God's authority, a despising of his command,