Tra^c/i/t</«e,'?5 needed against occasions of sin, x. 398; and privy distempers of heart, 399.
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Watchfulness, omission of, xi. 286 ; when we growbolder with sin, and the temp- tations and occasions of it, ib. ; when we make a small matter of those corruptions which were once so grievous and intolerable, 287 j when we content ourselves with the customary use of holy duties, ib. ; when we neglect the state of our hearts, ib. ; spring and rise of, in the soul, from faith, 289 ; fear, ib. ; love, 290 ; is never out of season, ib. ; must be against Satan, 291 ; the world, ib. ; the flesh, 292 ; more particularly the object is our thoughts, 293 ; occasions, 294 ; all appearance of evil, ib. ; to prevent the sin itself, ib. ; the mischief of heinous or presumptuous sins, 295 ; evil customs, 296 ; darling sins, 297. Necessity of continual, xx. 82 ; the course of temptation may be altered, ib.; corruptions are sometimes strangely disguised, ib.; there is danger after suffering, ib. ; when there seemeth to be least danger, there is often most cause of fear, ib. j when conscience is asleep, a child of God may fall into grievous sins, ib. Watching is made up of prudence and diligence, ix. 413; with respect to our present state and safety, 414; for the avoiding of evil, ib. ; for the performance of our duties, 416 ; ttnto prayer, w prayer, after prayer, ib. ; with respect to our future state, that we may be ready to meet Christ at his coming, 417 ; consisteth in a deep and lively sense of Christ's appearing, ib. ; in preparation, 418 ; and that speedy, ib. ; serious and thorough, 419 ; constant and daily, 420; reasons to move us to, 421. Way, every man naturally turneth to his own, iii. 308 ; implieth a defect or want of guidance, 309 ; a following the dictates of our own corrupt minds, ib. ; and a fulfilling the desire of a corrupt will, 310; our own way not the right way to please God, 311 ; or to do good to ourselves, 313 ; cautions against our own way, ib. Wa^/s of God, undeserved censures cast upon, yet at length wisdom found in, ii. 101. And laws of God, the more others despise, the more should a gracious heart love and esteem, viii. 308 ; because the ways of God are still the same they were before, ib. ; God exjjects more from gracious hearts, 309 ; the good and bad do exercise and keep one another in breath and vigour, 310 ; unless our love be exercised at such a time, it will not hold out against so great a trial, ib. ; because it is very acceptable to God, and a note of sincerity, to increase in zeal when others desert him, 311. Of God, the privilege and duty of those whose hearts are set upon, to go from strength to strength, xviii. 317 ; reasons, 318; that we may re- cover what we have lost, ib. ; to preserve what we have, ib. ; to at- tain to what is promised, ib. ; to perform what is required, 319 ; t(j answer the patterns set before us, ib. ; to answer our many experi- ences, ib. ; to answer the care and cost that God hath been at with us and for us, 320 ; motives, 322. In which God and Christ are glorified when the work of faith is fulfilled with power, xx. 324 ; passively and actively, ib. ; in the heart, ib. ; with the tongue, 325 ; in our lives, ib. ; by fixing this glory as the end of our lives, ib. ; by doing such things as best suit with this end, 326 ; by our patience and constancy under troubles and persecutions, 327 ; by open confession and praise, 328 ; in deeds many ways, ib. Weakness, God pardoneth much, where he findeth anything of grace and sin- cerity, iv, 268.
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Weakness, a sense of, sliould not be a discouragement, but an advantage, iv. 350. WearT/ of God, what it is to be, xv. 306 ; is a sin incident to persons and communities, ib. ; the causes of it, 310 ; the effects of it, 311 ; the heinousness of it, 313 ; the terribleness of the judgment, ib. Wedding Seemon, ii. 163.
Wedding garment, the danger of coming to God's feast without one, xvi. 13 ; what is meant by God's feast, 14 ; this feast serveth two purposes, the honour of God and the refreshment of man, 14 ; there is in it all that can be expected in a feast, ib. ; what coming to this feast is, 15 ; what the wedding garment is, 16 ; the odiousness of the sin of coming to the feast of God without a wedding garment, ib. ; the certainty of discovery, 18 ; the dreadfulness of the doom and punishment, 20. Weddings, Jewish, description of, ix. 320.
Weight, kinds of, to be laid aside, ii. 415 ; delights of the world, ib. ; busi- ness and cares of the world, 416. ' Weight of glory,' meaning of the phrase, xx. 371.
Well-doing is obeying righteousness, or acting agreeably with those obliga- tions which lie upon us with respect to our relations to God, to others, and to ourselves, xix. 150 ; is obeying the truth, or acting agreeably to the will of God revealed in the scriptures, 151 ; must be patient continuance in, ib. ; two arguments for patient continuance in, 155. What Kind of Perfection is Attainable in this Life, ii. 56. ' What shall we do to be saved 1 ' (Acts ii. 38), the usual question of men wounded in spirit and in straits of conscience, xxi. 256 ; the weightiness of the question, ib. ; not a legal question, 257 ; when it is fitly propounded, ib. WJbispering is privy defamation of our neighbour, ii. 279 ; great evil of, ib. ;