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Speech, in giving the anatomy of wickedness in all the members of the body, the apostle (Rom. iii. 13-15) stayeth longest on the organs of throat, tongue, lips, mouth, iv. 279 ; remedies, 280; get a pure heart, ib. ; watch and guard, 281 ; seek God's help, ib. ; employ speech oftener about holy uses, ib. ; Christianity doth not take away the use of, but rules it ; doth not make us dumb in converse, but gracious, 282. Speeches, as well as actions, come under the judicatory of God and the word,
iv. 22i. Spirit, his great work to bring us and Christ together, i. 114-.
Of God, christians to be led by, in all things, i. 259.
Holy, sometimes said to pray in us, sometimes we to pray in him, i, 351.
Worshipping of God in, opposed to the legal ordinances, ii. 24 ; implieth the worship of God with the inward and spiritual affections of a renewed heart, ib. ; implies the assistance and continual influence of the Holy Spirit, ib, ; why a true christian doth worship in the spirit, 26.
And flesh, difi"erent acceptations of, ii. 284 ; both in a christian, 286 ; he is at liberty to walk after the one or the other, 287 ; duty of living according to the operation and influence of the better principle, 289 ; to do so implies conversion, 291 ; pre valency and increase of the Spirit, how known, 292.
To walk in, the sum of all christian piety, ii. 284; it is to direct and order our actions according to the instructions of the new nature, 285 ; this is the means of mortifying and keeiiing under inbred cor- ruption, 286 ; the christian has it in his power to walk after, or after the flesh, 287 ; it lieth upon us as our duty, though the power must be from above, 289 ; the profit of so walking, ib. ; the danger of the opposite, 290.
First works and then witnesses ; first a guide and sanctifier, then a com- forter, ii, 305.
His motion and revelation to be waited for, iii. 217 ; yielded to, ib. ; cherished, i6. ; God to be praised for, 218; his revelations distinct, ib. ; give an experimental taste of Christ, ib. ; influence to obedience, 219.
His work in convincing the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, X. 40 ; Acts of the Apostles a comment upon, 42.
Things of, are such things as the Spirit revealeth, xi. 442 ; sucli things as the Spirit worketh, ib. ; such things as the Spirit urgeth and in- clineth unto, ib. ; minding of, what it is, 443.
Indwelling of, implies intimacy, or familiar presence, xi. 485 ; con- stancy, ib. ; sovereignty, 486 ; dwelleth nowhere but where he hath changed the heart so far as to jnit a new nature in us, 487 ; when the heart is thus prepared, the Spirit takes possession of it for God's use, 488.
Of Christ, the possession of, distinguishes the real from the nominal christian, xii. 1 ; exclusive and inclusive marks of the posses- sion of this Spirit, ib. ; what it is to have this Spirit, 2 ; not any created habit or gift, but the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, ib. ; con- sists in immediate presence in essential operation, ib. ; this operation either in a way of common gifts or special graces, 3 ; as to sanctify- ing and saving eS'ects, may be considered as moving, warning, and exciting, ib. ; as renewing and changing, ib. ; why having the Spirit is an evidence that we are true christians, 4 ; all true christians havo
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it, ih. ; the only sure and proper evidence of being true cliristiaus, 6 ; persuasives to seek after the presence of the Spirit in our hearts, 9. Spirit, the work of the, to reveal the love of God to us, and to recover our love to God, xii. 75 ; the Spirit's help necessary even after conversion and enlightenment, 76.
A guide and leader to the godly, xii. 92 ; the guidance of the Spirit promised, ib. ; it is begged by the saints as a great and necessary blessing, 93; the necessity of it, ih. ; it is both directive and persua- sive, ih. ; the way in which the Spirit performeth the office of a leader or guide, 95 ; in its nature it is twofold, restraining and inviting, ib. ; as it is the office of the Spirit to guide and lead us, so it is our duty to submit to his direction, 9G.
The work of, upon the heart, xii. 102.
Of bondage, what it is, xii. 102 ; in the profane it giveth occasion of further sinning, ib. ; in some it may prove the instrument of conver- sion, 103; how it is the fruit of the law-covenant, ib. ; whether it is good or bad, 105 ; information and instruction how to carry ourselves in relation to it, lOG ; we should put ourselves upon trial and self- reflection whether we have this spirit, 107 ; we should strive to get rid of it, and prevail upon it more and more, 108 ; motives for doing so, 108 ; means, 110.
The witness of, that we are children of God, xii. 127.