Conceit We should have a good couceit of others,
306, 307 ; it is good to have a good conceit of others, 327. (See Hope, Opinion.)
Confidence Certain account of, and looking for
death, is a notable means to draw us from self- confiiience, 127; God's children prone to self- confldence, 128. (See Trust.)
Conformity A three-fold conformity with Christ,
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Conscience Conscience, what, 208, 209, 210, seq ;
three things joined with conscience, 2U9 ; God hath set up a court in man, wherein conscience is,( I.) register, (2.) witness,(3.)accuser,(4.) judge, (5.) executioner,2U),211; consc ence, God's hall, wherein he keeps his assizes, 211 ; judgment of conscience a forerunner of the great and general judgment, 210,211; conscience beareth witness, 211 ; what manner of witness conscience is, viz., (1.) faithful, (2) inward, 211, 212 ; how to have conscience witness well, 212-215, seq ; an igno- rant man cannot have a good conscience, 213 ; why men have bad consciences, 213 ; papists Cannot have a good conscience, why, 21-1; the
witness of a good conscience the ground of joy, why, 215-219; a good conscience breeds joy, (1.) in life, (2.) in death, (.3.) at the day of judgment, 216-219 ; a good conscience comforts in all estates and conditions whatsoever, 216-219; why a good conscience doth not always witness comfort, 219, 22U ; means how to joy and rejoice in the witness of conscience, 221 ; no- thing worse than a bad conscience, 223-226 ; labour for a good conscience. 226 ; commenda- tion of a gold conscience, 226 ; how to have a good conscience, 227; (fod's children have place in the con-cience of others, 304. Contraries — God is able to raise comfort out of contraries, 48 ; God curries on the work of our salvation hy contraries, why, 137. Conversation. — Conversation, what, 252 ; Chris- tianity may stand with conversing abroad in the world, 253; religion makes a man converse abroad in the world untainted, 254; a Chris- tian's conversation is best where lie is best known, 259.
Corinth Corinth a very wicked city, yet even
there God hath a church, 10 ; what is now be- come of the church of Corinth, 10, 11 ; Ci)rinlh the metropolis or mother-city of Acliaia, 11. (oee Achaia.)
Danger. — God suffers his children sometimes to fall into extreme perils and dangers, why, 117, 118, seq.
Day — Christ hath a day, 323 ; there be two special days of Christ, 323 ; the measure of a Christian's joy is, as it will be esteemed at the day of judgment, 324: we should often think of the day of the Lord Jesus, 325. (See judgment.)
Death. — God's children are sometimes very st nsible, and much afraid of death, why, 120-122, seq. ; how and in what respect the saints desire death, 124 ; Christ was afraid of death, and yet thirsted after it, how, 124; God's children are often de- ceived concerning the time of their death, why, 125; death uncertain, how, 125; the time of death uncertain, why, 125, 126 ; certain account of, and looking for death is a means to draw us from selt-confidence, and from the world, and to make us trust in God, 126, 127 ; physicians fault in flattering the sick, and feeding them with false hopes of long life at the point ot death, taxed, 127; affliction called death, 161.
Deliver God doth not deliver his children at the
first, but suffers them to be brought to a low ebb, to a very sad condition, and wliy, 161, 162 ; God delivers after he hath done his work, 16J; God's time to deliver, when, 163, 164 ; God's children alway stand in need of deliverance, 165 ; God delivers both outwardly and inwardly, 166, 170 ; Christians have deliverance from trouble, 167 ; a double deliverance of God, 168; experience of God's deliverance in time pa.st, a ground of confidei.ce to expect the like for time to come, 162. 168,171; objection against the doc- trine of God's delivering his people from trouble answered, 169; deliverance various or manitold, 170, 171 ; God will deliver his people out of all trouble, 171.
Dispense. — No dispensing with God's law, 380.
Dissembling, />is>im!/?a(ion.— Grounds of dis.simula- tion, 231 ; a threefold dis>imul'ition, (1.) before, (2.) in, (3.) after, the project, 231, 232 ; objection for dissembling answered, 234 ; man naturally prone to dissemble, 231-237 ; dissembling to be avoided and declined, 300, 301 ; a Christian is no dissembler, 301. (See Simulation.)
Dominion — No man hath dominion over another's faith, 499 ; wliat is no domineering over the faith of others, 500 ; what is domineering over the faith of others, 500 ; who are guilty of domi- neering over other men's faith, 501 ; the Church of Rome guilty of domineering over the faith of others, how, and wherein, 501 ; grounds from whence this domineering over other men's taith ariseth, 505.
Double Doubling a great sin, 234 ; man by nature
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1h prono to (InuWo, and the irrounds of It, 237 ; somu porKoiis ami callings are inoru prone to doubliiiK than ulliers, '^7 i a Christian is no doubler, 3ul.
Sarntst.—Whnt the Spirit Is (in earnest of, 4i't'i ; tlie Spirit resi'inblcil to an earnest In five par- ticulars, 4iw, 40U ; how to knn\w whether we have the earnest of the Spirit, 4TO-47J ; how to get this earne^t of the Spirit, 4S0482 ; motives to labour for this earnest, 482. 4s;i