Good, the reason of the sentence of absolution, x. 56 ; hence Papists in- fer their merit and causal influence upon eternal life, ib. ; answer, ih. ; it is one thing to give a reason of the sentence, another to express the cause of the benefit adjudged, ih. ; works merit not the blessing, for they are due ; they are imperfect ; tbey are done by servants redeemed at an infinite price, 57 ; they are produced as undoubted evidences and fruits of a true and sound faith, ib. ; faith is implied in all the works mentioned, 58.
Their room and place with respect to punishment and reward, xiii. 79.
Not a joint cause with faith of justification, xiii. 477.
Not the condition of justification, but the evidence of it, xiv. 5.
Only the works of those who are righteous are accepted with God, xiv. 22 ; reasons why, ib.
Not excluded by grace, xvi. 41 ; opinions of Chrysostom, Ambrose, Bernard, and Bellarmine, 43.
Of the Lord, both his works in the days of his flesh, and all his works of creation, redemption, and daily providence, are all good, xx. 364. World is, as it were, the devil's chess-board, i. 237 ; men of, their evil influ- ence upon christians, 238.
Good and evil things of, used by Satan as means of temptation, i. 265.
And worldly things are the bait and snare which the tempter ofFereth to Christ and his followers, i. 308 ; made use of to divert from God and heavenly things, ib. ; and to draw to some open sin for the world's sake, 309 ; temptations from, may prevail with christians, ih. ; all its glory should be an ineffectual and cold motive to a sanctified soul, 311.
Carnal, its opposition to the gospel, ii. 103.
Carnal, cries up a false happiness as its god, and a false righteousness as its Christ, ii. 181.
Think christians credulous fools, iii. 163.
Usual customs of, most opposite to Christianity, iii. 225.
To seek the friendship of, the ready way to be God's enemy, iv. 345 ; and grace incompatible, ih.
Its false judgment of sins and graces, iv, 383.
Motives to wean the heart from, vii. 69 ; he that taketh up his rest in this world is but a higher kind of beast, ib. ; none are of so noble and divine a spirit as those who seek the heavenly kingdom, ib. ; worldlings choose a sorry immortality, a mock eternity, instead of the true, 70 ; when once our qualification is clear, every step of our remove out of this world is an approach to our abiding city, ih. ; every degree of grace makes our qualification clearer, ib. ; directions, ib ; entertain with delight the promises of the life to come, ih. ; take heed of what may hinder the heavenly journey, ib. ; be content with the provisions that God affordeth in the way, 71 ; if the world increase upon us, take the more care to have the comfort of it iu the world to come, ib.
Who prefer it before the word, vii. 268 ; those who revolt from the pro- fession of the truth for the world's sake, ib. ; those that will not forsake anything for the word's sake, 269 ; in part by those who turn back on the word and ordinances for grace's sake, ib. ; those who are drawn off by earthly things from the pursuit of heavenly, ib.
Its temptations generally either by terrors, ix. 212 ; or allurements, 213.
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World, Christ's refusal to pray for, x. 241 ; Arminian explanations answered, ib. ; did not, could not, doth, not, pray for the reprobate world, 243. Why God does not take his people from, immediately on their con- version, X. 284 ; for his own glory, that the sweetness and power of his grace may be discovered, ib. ; to try them, 285 ; to convince the world by their example, 286 ; to fit them for glory, ib. ; by weaken- ing their desires to the world, ib. ; making them long for glory, ib.
A christian must live in, as one who is not of, x. 381 ; there is a difference in the inward principles, ib. ; they are under different rulers, 382 ; there is a difference in their course and conversation, ib. ; and in their aims and ends, ib. ; reasons, ib. ; the example of Christ, ib.; their new birth, 383 ; their great and glorious hopes, ib.
Their general conviction of the truth of Christianity, a very great blessing to the church, xi. 39. See Conviction, &c.
Reprobate, can never have any true knowledge of God, xi. 124; ob- jection answered, 126.
Condition of, at the coming of the Lord, xii. 168.
A book, God's power the hand that wrote it, his wisdom the pen, and the letters the creatures, xiii. 392.
Com^Dared to the body, a host, and a house, xiii. 415.
Wherein the order and beauty of it consists, xiii. 416; the disorders in, the fruit of the fall, 420 ; whether made in six days, 431.
What is meant by, xv. 112; in what sense we are said to have victory over, 113; the great hindrance from keeping the command- ments, 116; the work of faith in overcoming, 117; how we may bring our hearts to such a frame that we may most easily obtain a victory over the world, 119.