all private complaints against others are not, 280. Wicked, certainty of their resurrection, i. 469 ; raised by Christ as a judge, not as a redeemer, ib. Their present state sad, at death worse, in hell worst, ii. 449 ; their death usually full of terror, ib. ; conscience and Satan accuse, the body curseth the soul for an ill guide, and the soul the body for a wicked instrument, 450. Or lawless one, the Antichrist, iii. 57 ; manifestly the Pope, ib. ; what meant by his revelation, ib. ; progress of his tyranny, 58 ; his ruin, 59 ; not presently to be destroyed, but to waste away by a lingering consumption, 60 ; the Lord the author, his word the instrument, of this consumption, 63 ; his providential word, ib. ; his gospel, 64 ; his final destruction, 65 ; his prevalency no blemish to providence, 93. Men, God usually retaliates and dealeth with, according to the manner,
and way of their wickedness, iv. 230. Men, can they have good desires 1 vi. 50.
Company of, how far to be avoided, viii. 180; necessary civil converse allowed, ih. ; must not forsake the church because of some wicked men therein, ib. ; not hindered from endeavouring to do good to their souls, 181 ; should not be familiar with them, ib. ; should not enter into a durable relation with them, such as will put us in con- tinual converse, ib. ; if necessitated to keep company with them, must not comply with them in their sins, ib. ; hard to keep familiarity with them, and escape the contagion of their example, 182 ; they will molest and disturb us in the exercise of godliness by their scoffs and persecutions, 183 ; will seek to pervert us by carnal suggestions and
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counsels, ib. ; familiarity with, will be a blemisli and scandal upon our good name, ib. ; if we have any love for God, their company must be grievous and offensive to us, ib. ; a familiarity with them may harden them in their sin^ 184 ; great judgments follow evil com- pany, ib. Wiclced of the earth are as dross, viii. 223 ; as to external show, ih. ; their intermingling with purer metal, ib. ; their worthlessness in God's esteem, ib. ; their inability to stand trial, 224 ; God's business in heaven is to put them away as dross, 225.
Prosperity of, not incompatible with the divine justice, viii. 444 ; God's word doth sufficiently declare his displeasure against them, though his providence do not, ib. ; there are other punishments besides out- ward afflictions, 446 j providence must not be viewed by halves, but in its whole frame and connection, ib. ; the solemn triumph of God's justice will be at the last day, ib.
Men, authors of their own ruin, ix. 153.
Impenitent, and persecutors, and contemners of the word, we ought to pray for, because we know not the secret purposes of God's grace, X. 251.
Cannot hurt the godly but when God permitteth, xviii. 44 ; God can protect against the fraud as well f^s the violence of, ib.
Prosperity of, they have from the hand of God's providence, but his heart is not with them, xviii. 379; they are hated and rejected of Gud, which is the greatest calamity that can befall a creature, ib. ; God can, when he pleaseth, easily ruin and destroy them, 380 ; he will not always bear with them, 381.
Filled with his own ways, xviii. 470 ; it may be in this life, 471 ; cer- tainly in the world to come, ib.
Their punishment at the last day exceeding great and terrible, xx. 254 ; eternal destruction, 255 ; objection answered, ib. ; punishment of loss and of sense, 257 ; God inflicts with his own hands, 259 ; this very dreadful, 260 ; pledges of, 261. Wickedness, the vilest, will have a fair covert and pretence, iv. 206.
The word and rule discovereth, when our blind consciences do not, iv. 211.
Studied, is worst of all, iv. 303.
Of his enemies, God doth for a while bear with, viii. 298 ; to show his bounty and goodness to all his creatures, ib.; to chastise, exercise, and prove his own people, ib. ; though. he bears long, he hath his times to punish, 300 ; with respect to himself and his own glory, ib. ; with respect to his people, 301 ; with respect to the wicked, ib. ; when the time is come, he will make speedy work, 302 ; his time is usually when the impiety and insolency of wicked men is come to a height, ib. ; when disobedience and contempt of God is general, 303 ; when it groweth impudent and outrageous, ib. ; despe- rate and incorrigible, ib. ; when they run into unnatural sins, ib. , excessive violence and vexation of the saints, ib. ; in such times, we may mind God of the deliverance of his people, 305. Will of God, is either his decree concerning future events, or that which he hath revealed concerning our duty, i. 121 ; it is for accomplishment of the latter we pray, ib.
God's, that we may do, we must have a heart to do it, skill to do it, and strength to do it, i. 123.