Illumination, spiritual, nature and ne-
cessity of, i 95. 116. 376. 440. ii. 299.
necessity of, i. 426. 431.
Illumination, Divine, nature of, what,
ii. 499.
peculiar to the saved, ii 506.
different from what natura men
experience, how, ii. 509.
effects of, what, ii. 510.
is the beginning of spiritual, and
the earnest of eternal life, ii. 526.
Impenitence of the wicked, voluntary,
i 395. and criminal, i 396.
Imperfection, remains of, in believers,
what, i. 60 and Note.
Imputation of Adam's sin to his poste-
rity, considered, i 221. 300. 312.
Jews, dealings of God towards them,
i. 416.
- unbelief and disobedience of, ibid.
how justified under the law, iii. 52.
Jewish dispensation, an acknowledg.
ment of the holiness of the moral
law, and necessity of an atonement,
ii. 378. iii. 52.
- preparatory to the Christian dispen-
sation, ii. 29. S78. iii. 10. 21. 56.
Jewish religion, divinity of, ii. 26.
Job's religion not selfish, iii. 299.
Joy, false, what, ii 283.
-source of, what, ii. 425.
John the Baptist, preaching of, what,
ii 450
Justice of God, i. 82. 343.
Indignation of God against sin, reason-Justification by free grace, doctrine of,
ableness of, ii. 359
Indwelling sin, in believers, i. 246.
of the Spirit in do. i. 449.
Infants, baptised, whether members of
the visible church, considered, iii 187.
consequences of supposing them
entitled to all church privileges, what,
iii. 188. and passim.
Infidelity, in the hearts of unregene-
rate men. i. 459. ii. 210. 299.
Infinite wisdom and rectitude of the Di-
vine nature and government, ii 114.
- belief of this essential to the founda-
tion of true religion, ii 1.9. 175.
Israelites, dealings of God with, i. 76.
170-176. 415.
Knowledge, importance of, ii. 75.
Knowledge of God, possible no further
than God manifests himself, ii. 76.
how obtained, ii. 337.
Invitations of God, the ground of a-
sinner's encouragement to come to
him, i. 400. ii. 241. 263. 396. 434.
Note.
a source of endless and increasing fe-
licity to holy beings, ii. 77. 169.
essential to true love, i 142.
Knowledge of the glory of God, wbat,
ii. 508.
fulfilled by Christ, how, i. 358. this
necessary, why, i. 359.
the rule of life to the believer, ii.
518.
-is perfect, requiring sinless obedi-
ence, iii. 237.
submission to, necessary, in order to
receiving the gospel, i 125.
Law, holy, just, and good, independ-
ently of the gospel, ii. 205-212.
349.
antecedently to a consideration of
the gift of Christ, and the work of re-
demption, ii. 359. iii. 267.
approbation of, necessary to our
embracing the gospel, ii. 209. 212.
265. Note. 361. 384.
objection answered, ii. 362.
Laws of God display his goodness, i. 84.
Law, our schoolmaster, iii. 9.
view of it as given on Mount Sinai,
iii. 14-17.
- uses of, what, ibid.
requirements of, what, iii. 17, 18.
Law of God given on Mount Sinai, a
plainer edition and republication of
the law of nature, iii. 29.
– approbation of, necessary to receiving
the gospel, iii. 24.
Paul's experience of its efficacy,
what, iii. 27.
Law of Moses inconsistent with the Ar.
minian scheme, iii. 39.
Life, everlasting, promised to believers,
what, i. 449.
Light, spiritual, nature and effects of,
i. 426.
Libertine, his language before the tribu-
nal of Christ, considered, iii. 36.
Living by faith, mistakes about, ii. 195.
motives from which true love to God
takes its rise, i. 67.
from his infinite amiableness, i. 67.
from what he has done, and pro-
mises to do for us, i. 131.
from his command and authority,
f. 133. iii. 466.
-measure of love to God, what is re-
quired, i. 143.
Love to God, obligation to it binding,
originally from what he is in himself,
i. 97.
infinitely, i. 99.
eternally, i. 108.
- unchangeably, i. 109.
the foundation of all religion, ii. 366.
the foundation of all holy obedience,
i. 66. 192.
fruits and effects of, what, i. 138.
Love to God arising from an apprehen-
sion of his love to us, and not from
a discovery of his moral excellence,
false and spurious, i. 58. Note. 126.
128. ii. 219. 404. iii. 461.
promises life on condition of sinless- primary and chief motive that ought
obedience, iii. 18. 19.
- threatens eternal damnation for eve-
ry violation of it, ii. 320. iii. 19–22.
in what sense understood by St. Paul,
considered, iii. 21. Note.
― by the deeds of it, no flesh justified,
iii. 22.
-Israelites obliged to approve of it,
Man, original state of, ii. 54.
made a free-agent, ibid. and lord of
this lower world, ibid.
- his natural capacity and faculties the
same as before the fall, i. 148.
his natural capacity to fulfil the law
of God considered, i. 144-149.
- destitute of the moral image of God,
by nature, i. 200. 316.
perishing condition of, i. 299. ground
of it, what, i. 300. 314.
Mankind, all equally sinful by nature,
i. 240. 317. ii. 34. Note. iii. 305.
Note.
-naturally enemies to God, i. 162.
317. iii. 303. 311. Note.
evidences of it, i. 318. iii. 306.
in their opposition to the gospel, i.
420. iii. 305.
- voluntary in their bad and sinful tem-
per, i. 153.
- naturally insensible of their guilt and
perishing condition, i. 318.
are restrained by the goodness of
God, how, i. 407.
greater part of, may yet be saved, i.
Magistrates, duty of, i. 535.
Manicheans, their notions respecting
the origin of evil, what, ii. 170.
173.
Mather, Dr. Increase, observations of,
respecting the proper subjects of bap-
tism, and the qualifications which
give parents the right of baptism for
their children, iii. 395–397.
Marshall, Mr. his notions about assur-
ance, what, ii. 228. 244.
mercy, iii. 450.
Mediation of Christ, design of, what,
ii. 376.
the procuring cause of all benefits to
man in the present world, i. 389. 403
-408.
procures a reprieve from, and sus-
pension of the threatened ruin, i. 403.
-lays men under infinite obligations,
iii. 467.
Messiah, final judge of the world, ii. 83.
Merit, personal, insufficient to obtain a
title to heaven, i. 15.
none in the perfect obedience of
creatures, i. 99, 101. 129.
false notions of, i. 107.
Mercy, God's, designs of, by what ex-
cited, considered, i. 320.
not to mitigate the severity of the
constitution made with Adam, ibid.
nor of the law of nature, i. $22.
nor by man's inability to keep it, i.
326. nor by any goodness in man, i.
329. but are from his own self-moving
goodness and sovereign grace, i. $50.
Mercy, exercises of, what, i. 348.
door of, opened by Jesus Christ, i.
$80. 428. ii. 399.
God's purposes of, how carried into
effect, i. 409.
Millennium, i. 496.
commencement of, i. 503.
certainty of, i. 504.
glory of, i. 510.
duration of, i. 511.
Ministers, duty of, i. 538.
in the admission of persons into
the church, iii. 124. 408.
in the administration of baptism,
iii. 401.
Misery in itself undesirable to God, i.
88. love of it not to be attributed to
him, iii. $25.
Moral excellency of Ged, a sight of, | Obedience of creatures to God, rea-
sonableness of, i. 79,
lays the foundation for divine love, i.
i. 179-183.
how manifested, i. 186.
why approved and rewarded, i. 79
-80.
Obedience, perfect, lays God under no
obligations, i. 101.
the condition of life by the first
covenant, i, 101.
the condition on which the law
promises life, iii. 18.
- sincere, not all that is required, i.
motives by which we are to be in- Pardon of sin, inconsistent with the
fluenced to it, i. 183.
it is right and fit, ibid.
the command and authority of
God, i. 184.
example of God, i. 185.
standard and measure of it, what,
i. 186.
- its counterfeits, natural compas-
sion, i. 188. good-nature, ibid. natu-
ral affection, i. 189. party spirit, i
190. that arising from other's love to
us, ibid. from their being as bad as
we, ibid.
Nicodemus, his coming to Christ for in-
struction, i. 293.
Christ's conference with, i. 294.
Non-elect, dealings of God towards,
what, i. 394. 421.
subjects of common mercies and
common grace, i. 396.
causes of their own destruction, i.
395.400.
Obedience, active, of Christ, necessa-
ry, i. 358.
-the ground of our acceptance with
God, i. 363. [See Christ.]
Obedience of Christ, meritorious, why,
ii 382.
Divine perfection, without an atone-
ment, ii. 343.
how obtained, ii. 454.
Parents, obligations of, to their baptised
children, iii. 185.
their right to their children, what,
iii. 464.
duties towards them, what, iii. 486.
Passive faith, insufficient and unscriptu-
ral, ii. 397. note. 403.
- Mr. Sandeman's notions of, errone-
ous, iii. 258.
Patience and forbearance of God, abu-
sed by sinners, i. 406-408.
- greatness of, towards a rebellious,
guilty world, iii. 520.
Patriarchs, dealings of God with, i. 413
-415.
Paul's way of reasoning, in his epistle
to the Galatians, shown, iii. 12, 13.
Perfections of God, natural and moral,
i. 69.
- how discovered, i, 69-97.
by his works, i. 70-93.
by his word, i. 93-95.
by his Holy Spirit, i. 95-97.
- gloriously displayed in the death of
Christ, ii. 337. 356.
Permission of sin, lessens not the evil
and criminality of it, i. 145. 155.
[See sin.]
Perfect obedience, required by the law, | Promises of grace, performed to them
that seek aright, iii 254.
required of the Israelites, iii. 57. Providence of God, i. 70. and passim.
[See obedience.]
Perseverance of saints, doctrine of,
242. 440.
-a motive to Christian diligence, i.
244.
- inseparable from effectual calling, i.
Perseverance, christian, motives to,
what, i. 285.
extent of, ii. 178-180.
Punishment, eternal, a doctrine of scrip-
ture, iii. 32. 460.
the just desert of sin, iii. 31-38.
inconsistent, except sin be a viola
tion of infinite obligation, and an in
finite evil, iii. 459.
— not designed merely to confirm the
righteous in everlasting obedience,
ibid.
essential to admittance to heaven, Punitive justice essential to the charac-
- manner of it, what, ii. 517.
whether the gospel calls sinful men
to be reconciled to the true character
of God which they hate, or to an-
other character of God, considered,
iii. 314. and passim.
new state of, to sinners, i. 348. 350. Reconcileable to the world, God is, i.
under the gospel, i. 393. 403.
Promises of God to Christ, absolute, iii.
Redemption, by Jesus Christ, the great-
est work of God, ii. 80. 337.
Regeneration, nature of, i. 431.
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