church needs purging, i. 376 ; God cleanseth it when need is, i. 376, 377 ; it should severely punish sin, j. 378 ; it is God's spouse, i. 390 ; impregn.able, i. 303 ; in what respects compared to a garden, ii. 10, 11 ; cared for and protected by God, ii. 12 ; disposition is to please her hus- band, ii. 14 ; gives all to Christ, ii. 15 ; royal descent, ii. 23 ; is the spouse of Christ, ii. 23 : hu.sband, is Christ only, ii. 24 ; the church and every particular Christian is subject to variety of changes, ii. 37 ; in this latter age is in a sleepy condition, ii. 40, 41 , none in the chui-ch but have been allured at one time or other to come in, ii. 68 ; to be prayed for, ii. 69 ; Christ's love, and why, ii. 72, 73 ; out of the church no saving love, ii. 73 ; compared to a dove, ii. 78 ; defence in her persecutions, ii. 80 ; of God hath always a rest in God in the worst times, ii. 81 ; how said to be undefiled, ii. 81 ; to be accounted a church though defiled with corruptions, ii. 85 ; never totally left by Christ, ii. 104, 106 ; how wounded by the watchmen, ii. 119 ; compared to Jerusalem, ii. 123 ; persecuted by pretenders of religion, ii. 121, 122; how to know we are members of. ii. 123 ; fair under disgraces of the world, ii. 135 ; fairness, whence it comes, ii. 135 ; is within, ii. 135 ; never more fair in Christ's eye than when she judgeth herself most deformed, ii. 135 ; how to be judged of under seeming disgraces, ii. 135 ; nothing can dis- hearten the church from commending Christ, ii. 148 ; why so exact in particularising her beloved, ii. 148, 157 ; hath no golden head but Christ, ii. 149 ; the ends why the church sets forth the excellencies of Christ, ii. 162, 163 ; heavy doom of those who are wicked, being in the church, ii. 169 ; why Christ will not be long absent from it, ii. 171 ; Church's and particular Christian's sufferings, reasons of them, ii. 179, 180 ; Christ never more near it than when it is in affliction, ii. ISO ; fed by Christ in fat pastures, ii. 188, 189 : the church, ii 226, 227 ; reverence in, ii. 227 ; how beautiful, ii. 231, 232 ; ordinances of, ii. 232-234 ; protection, provision of ii. 234 ; occasional attendance, ii. 240 ; dif- ferent churches, ii 240, 241, 242 ; what consti- tutes a church, ii. 242 ; particular churches, ii. 226, 248 ; how God governs the church by con- traries, ii. 360 ; in misery to be prayed for, ii. 294 ; yields a shadow ii. 353 ; no salvation out of, ii. 354 ; the benefits of being in it, ii. 354 ; who live out of it are in a woeful state, ii. 356, 357 ; outward condition despicable, ii. 360 ; weak of itself, ii. 360 ; miseries and desolations of, ii. 443 ; symbolised, by a mountain, ii. 444- 446 ; whether the church can give authority to the word or Scripture, iii. 9, 10, 523 ; God hath a church in the most wicked places, and among most wicked people, iii. 10 ; every Christian ought to be a member of some particular church or congregation, iii. 11, 12 ; the church has its name sometimes, (1) from the mixture in it ; (2) from the better part of it, iii. 12 ; not to be left or forsaken for some corruptions in them, iii. 322 ; world in, iv. 100 ; before Luthei', iv. 115 ; warring and triumph, iv. 168 ; works on others by the church, iv. 389, 390 ; enemies to, iv. 392 ; all for Christ's sake, iv. 467 ; Church's Riches, iv. 489-527 ; in the church men of dif- ferent dispositions, v. 135 ; live to church, v. 298 ; truth of, cathoUc, v. 232 ; state of, vi. 67 ; kings and, vi. 88 ; complaint and confidence, vi. 197 ; sorrowful men in the church, vi. 287 ; comfort for, vi. 290 ; desires, second coming, vi. 547 ; angels attend on, vi. 321 ; greatest sins committed in, vi. 329 ; of God will be after us, vi. 233 ; God's deaUngs with, vii. 74, 75 ; blackness of, vii. 93-104 ; imperfect state, vii. 96, 97 ; outward infirmities, vii. 97 ; humble vii. 97 ; why so black, vii. 102 ; Emmanuel's land, vii. 123 ; echo, vii. 535-546. , Circumcision, we must be circumcised, and wherein, v. 69 ; circumcision, vi. 22. Civil men, who, v. 495.
GENERAL INDEX.
577
Cleansed, labours to be by blood of Christ, vi. 190.
Cleaving, vii. 352.
Clergy, benefit of, v. 408.
Clothes, vi. 60 ; clothed, vii. 313, 311
Clouds, scattered, vii. 195.
Cobweb, iv. 487, 488.
Coiyii)at, spiritual, how discerned from that of common grace and light, i. 153.
Cortib-doiunes, iii. 533.