indeed Some Physicians are onely expert for some one disease but Christ is for every disease Now for thee who art a patient to Christ 1 Thou must come to him Joh. 6.37 So let thy disease be what it will he will not cast thee off He saves to the uttermost them that come to God by him Heb. 7.25 2 Thou must acknowledge thy disease to him as the patient doth to the Physician 1 Joh. 1.9 If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive them Not but that Christ knows them well enough but he will have thee to be sensible whence thy healing comes As in the blind man Matth. 21.33 who begging mercy of Christ in general had it not but being sensible of his blindness and desiring sight Christ gave it him 3 As it is a good help to the Patient to have a good subordinate confidence in the Physician so it 's requisite if thou come to Christ to place all thy confidence in thy Physician Act. 4.12 as knowing salvation is not in any other V. 13. But go ye and learn what that meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Christ brings a second argument from the Scripture to justifie his eating and conversing with sinners Go ye and learn what that meaneth Christ upbraids their ignorance and sends these doctors to school So did he Matth. 12.3.5.19.4.21.16.22.31 I will have mercy and not sacrifice That is 1 not outward ceremonies without inward obedience 2 Not sacrifice in comparison of mercy mercy ought to overweigh sacrifice and sacrifice must give place to mercy Among men when two laws are made which interfere that which tends most to righteousness profit and honesty ought to take place So that Christ shews that all the commands of shunning familiarity with wicked men must be so observed that occasions and opportunities of bringing them into the way of holiness must not be neglected And therefore when that Christ endeavoured to bring back these Publicans who were as so many fugitives from God he was not to be blamed herein So that place 2 Thess 3.15 Count him not as an enemy but admonish him as a brother Lest any man should think that when a man was cast out all coming to him was forbid the Apostle adds they are not to be counted enemies as the Jews counted such but they are to be brotherly admonished When the bond of Church Communion or Christian Communion is dissolved yet there remains a bond of humane nature and the remembrance of former friendship So that Christ by his example and doctrine proposes to the Pharisees to follow mercy as if he should say I had rather have mercy on poor sinners then offer many sacrifices with you and this my practise you may see justified Hos 6.6 Not sacrifice Obj. But did not God command it Answ Yes but God will not have Sacrifice 1 Primarily 1 Sam. 15.22 To obey is better then Sacrifice Psalm 40.8 Sacrifice and Offering thou didst not desire 2 Disorderly he will not have them but in order to Christ 3 Abstractively considered from vvorks of mercy and piety Psal 50.12 13 14. 4 I vvill not have Sacrifice after the offering up of my body for sin 5 I vvill not have Sacrifice as a ransom as Carnal Hypocrites thought to appease God by the vvork vvrought vvhich vvas the great controversie Psal 50.13 asserted by Hypocrites and opposed by the Godly then living Hypocrites alledged Levit. 4.5 c. where Sacrifices vvere to be offered for sins 6 I vvill not have it as the principal vvorship Obs It 's not onely a vvork of mercy to succour persons in their outvvard afflictions but it s also a vvork of mercy to dravv a sinner from his evil vvayes to the true fear of God For I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Here 's a third Reason whereby Christ defends his action of conversing with sinners to wit his Office of Mediatour I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance By Righteous he means Pharisaical self-justiciaries who are drunk with the opinion of their own righteousness by sinners are not meant onely excommunicate persons and such as live a loose and dissolute life but also all men out of Christ Again Christ taxes them that they made no distinction betwixt penitent and impenitent sinners It was always lawfull to keep company with penitent sinners though not with impenitent To conclude persons called by Christ are called to repentance Let no man upon pretence of his interest in Christ live in a state of loosness The grace of God that brings salvation teaches us to deny ungodliness Titus 2.12.13 V. 14. Then came to him the Disciples of John saying Why do we and the Pharisees faste oft but thy Disciples faste not Here are two things considerable 1 A Question moved by the Scribes and Pharisees as the authours and Johns Disciples as the actours which was why they fasted oft but the Disciples of Christ fasted not 2 Christs Answer v. 15. Can the Children of the Bride-chamber faste c. which he backs from three Reasons 1 That they had no cause at present of fasting but of rejoycing he the Bridegroom being with them 2 That though at present they did not faste and mourn yet in a short time they should have cause so to do 3 The Disciples being young Converts the duty of fasting was not so sutable v. 16. and that the Gospel-doctrine was not so sutable to them in regard of their old carnal natures and legal customes v. 16 17. Then came to him the Disciples of John saying Why do we c. Mark saith The Disciples of the Pharisees together with them propound this Question Mark 2.18 Luke saith The Scribes and Pharisees asked him Luke 5.33 The reconciliation is easie the Pharisees by their Disciples stirred up the Disciples of John to ask this Question so that both askt the Question the Pharisees as the authours their Disciples and Johns as the actours the Pharisees were affraid to encounter Christ themselves hence they use Emissaries the Devil hath a notable art in sowing contention Why do we and the Pharisees faste oft but thy Disciples faste not The occasion of this Question was some Faste-day which the Pharisees appointed and kept wherein Christs Disciples did eat and drink by which is not meant a publick Faste which was to be kept by all the members of the Jewish Church and so consequently by Christ seeing he acknowledges himself a member thereof John 4.22 All the Jews upon pain of cutting off were to observe the tenth day of the seventh moneth Levit. 16.29 30 31.23.27 this was their onely prescribed Faste but it was some private Faste to gain glory and praise to the Pharisees Luke 18.12 The Pharisee fasted twice a week But Johns Disciples kept it out of some other end but Christs Disciples did use to eat and drink as at other
his own power Matth. 8.3 4. but the Apostles did what they did by the power of Christ Acts 16.18 2 Christ had this power at all times to heal whensoever he would so had not they Heb. 2.4 for then would not Paul have left Trophimus sick at Miletum 2 Tim. 4.20 3 The miracles the Apostles did were sometimes for the hurt of men as Peter in the destruction of Ananias and Sapphira and Paul in the smiting Elymas with blindness but all Christs miracles and cures tended to the benefit of men Obj. But Christ bade the devils go into the Gadarens Hogs Answ It was onely a permission whereby Christ kept back the power that was able to hinder them not a command This should embolden us in all our maladies to come to Christ He that had such bowels on earth is not without bowels in heaven he that would do so much for Malchus one of them that came to take him Luk. 22.51 who set on his ear and healed him when Peter cut it off will he not do as much or more for his children in their maladies V. 17. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the Prophet saying himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses Here is the final cause to wit the fulfilling the prophesie of Esaias He took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses 1 The diseases of our soul to which Esaias hath respect Esai 53.4 He bore our griefs and carried our sorrows 1 Pet. 2.24 He himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree Esai 53.6 John 1.29 He takes away the sins of the world Col. 2.14 2 The diseases of our body which flow from sin Christ bore these not by taking them upon him for Christ was never sick he took not the passions which were proper to this or that man but those which were common to the whole nature Christ was never sick sicknesse arises from the unfit or unequal temperature of the humours or from intemperance of labour study but none of these were in Christ he had no sin and therefore no sickness so that Christ took not our sins by taking them upon him but out of compassion he took them away and restored the sick to health The end why Christ cured the bodily diseases of persons as Matth. 9.2 was that they might seek to him for the healing of their souls as in the blinde man John 9.5 6. So that as the living Goat had the sins of the children of Israel laid upon him and carried them into a Wilderness and land not inhabited Levit. 16.21 22. So Christ took our sins and the punishments flowing from them and carries them into a Land of forgetfulnesse In that Christ took our weaknesses learn 1 To bear the weaknesses of others 1 As in journeys strong Travellers bear the burthens of the weak so should we Rom. 15.1 We that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak 2 All infirmities are burthens to a gracious heart Gal. 6.2 let them be part of thy burthen also 3 Many infirmities may be in a dear childe of God Cant. 5.2 Mark 9.23 as passion in Jonas unbelief in Thomas fearfulnesse in Peter to keep us from admiration of their persons 4 As thy brother is overtaken to day so mayest thou be to morrow Gal. 6.1 As often as we behold sinners we had need to bewail our selves in them because we have fallen or may fall into the like if God leave us God hath suffered many great men to fall from Adam to this day to shew mans weaknesse and that they might not become lovers of their name 5 If envy did not blinde thee thou mightest see many good things in him as well as infirmities 6 If any man shall raise his comfort from other mens failings to seem to himself holy because he sees imperfections in his brethren this will be no true comfort in a day of trial Gal. 6.4 7 Beware of having a mean and base esteem of any of the Saints of God because of their infirmities so as to set them at nought Rom. 14.10 No man casts away his nose because it abounds with impure flegme and is as it were the sink of the brain so the weak in time of weakness are part of Christ's Kingdom who therefore are not to be cast away but to be healed and raised up Luth. in Psalm 90. 2 See the goodness and mercy of Christ that took our infirmities Psalm 130.3 If thou Lord shouldest be extreme to mark what is done amiss who should stand but there is compassion that he may be feared Matth. 12.20 He will not break the bruised Reed nor quench smoaking Flax. The Principle of grace in the soul doth not waste corruption all at once but by degrees John 15.2 2 Cor. 4.16 Hence God is gracious in purging the soul to bring forth more grace and less sin and renewing the inward man every day 3 Trial whether thy sins be Infirmities as 1 When they are committed against the purpose of the heart so Peter in his denial of Christ what hope had we if Peter had not denied Christ and all the Apostles been offended if Moses Aaron David had not fallen by these Examples God comforts sinners If thou hast fallen return the gate of mercy is open for thee thou that knowest no evil by thy self do not presume but let both trust in my grace and mercy Luth. in Gen. 38. 2 When we disallow the evil we do and groan under it Rom. 7.15 when others hearts are hardened under evil thine is sensible 3 When though thou fallest into sin thou walkest not in any sinfull course Rom. 8.4 though there be many Imperfections in holy Duties and sudden breakings out of the heart into evil yet is it not allowed 4 When a soul is fallen into sin and hath lost Gods countenance he cannot be quiet untill the Lord return with the sense of his love Psalm 51.8 12. there can be no sins of infirmity properly but where grace is for the sins of unregenerate men are Presumptions Good men having tasted the sweetness in God they will not change their portion nor rest content without God Saints infirmities as Davids sins complaints fears more comfort me than their heroical actions as his killing Goliath the Bear and Lion I cannot imitate these but the other greatly comfort me Luth. in Gen. 28. 4 Comfort to Saints under Infirmities There are some invincible Infirmities cleaving unto Saints in this World as dulness forgetfulness privy pride self-seeking unprofitableness wandrings in duty backwardness to Christian provocation inordinate care hardness of heart vain fears slightness in Gods service Saints partly from divine light shining in them which like the light of the Sun shews the smallest mote partly from tenderness of conscience renewed smiting them for the smallest sin are upon sight of their infirmities apt to be discouraged Now to comfort thee remember Christ took thy infirmities all thy self-sufficiency crookedness of heart failing in holy
darling sin and will not close with some duty Sauls covetous heart was loth to destroy so many good things as he could turn to his own gain so many oxen and sheep So Pharaoh and Balaam confest their sin yet Pharaoh would not let the people go and Balaam would still have cursed the people if God would have let him 5 The end of his shew of goodness is that he may seem good to others that so his wickedness may not be espied as Ananias Sapphira Herod Mar. 6.20 2 This takes in close hypocrisie which hath these properties 1 That he doth out of an overweening conceit take upon himself a shew of goodness so the Pharisee Luke 18.12 13. he thought he was in a good condition because he did some good things so do many looking upon their civility morality formality comparing themselves with others or themselves at present with themselves formerly 2 The end of close hypocrisie is that a man may seem good to himself Prov. 30.12 There is a generation pure in their own eys and yet are not washed from their filthiness So Paul in his Pharisaical estate See Acts 26.11 3 The close hypocrite harbours some secret sin Ananias and Sapphira were full of unbelief lest they should come to want hence they kept back part of the price The most refined hypocrite in the world lives in some sin 4 There is some duty the close hypocrite will not close with as to let go his estate for Christ The young man for all his forwardness startled at this and left Christ Mat. 19.20 21 22. In this sin of close hypocrisie many forward Professors live because there is some duty they will not close with There is some cross which because of the weight of it they will not take up for Christ Many a gross hypocrite is also full of this close hypocrisie as Saul 1 Sam. 15.13 Yea I have performed the Commandements of the Lord also v. 20. Yea I have obeyed the voice of the Lord and gone the way which the Lord hath sent me See how Saul though a gross hypocrite closely would bear himself in hand of his good estate Now before I come to give trials of hypocrisie I will lay down some cautions 1 That even Gods children have but too much hypocrisie in them 1 But they feel it bewail it mourn and groan against it to the Lord and make a continual resistance against it They cry out as August in another case why dost thou not put an end to this filthiness 2 They press daily towards and hunger after more sincerity so come under a promise of blessedness Matth. 5.6 3 They are enabled by the grace of God to do their actions with more and more sincerity The Disciples were first asking Who should be greatest After they become so sincere as to refer the matter wholly to God Acts 1.26 Lord shew whether of these two thou hast chosen 2 Virtues and vices do not denominate their subject unless they be therein in so high a degree as to prevail As we say it's light when the light is more then the darkness we say a thing is white when it partakes more of whiteness then of any other colour though it come short of perfect whiteness So he is a hypocrite in whom hypocrisie prevails as it doth in those who do not lament and bewail it He is sincere whose purpose is to be sincere and usually looks at God no condemnation to such Rom. 8.1 Because he walks after the spirit 3 That because of the remainder of hypocrisie in them even Gods children in time of temptation are apt to count themselves hypocrites 1 Because they do not feel their righteousness of justification as they do their corruption whereas that righteousness being in Christ and corruption in our selves we must not think to have a sensitive righteousness as to justification as we have a sensitive corruption 2 Because when the Apostle speaks of the fruits of the flesh he saith they are manifest but he doth not say so of the fruits of the spirit Gal. 5. Yea grace is called the hidden man of the heart 1 Pet. 3.4 3 Their little fruitfulness this should humble not discourage us 4 The mixture of by respects with duty to God but this may comfort that duty set thee on work and moved thee to do what thou didst though by-ends came crowding in 5 Thy feeling thy hypocrisie to be a burthen argues thou art no hypocrite Rom. 7.15 Psalm 119.80 6 Sincerity may stand with many evils though not with the allowing of any When we lament it be we not discouraged If thou art not fruitfull in a hundred fold yet be in thirty 4 A man may be an hypocrite and yet have many good things in him as 1 to God he may read hear pray come to ordinances See Esa 58.2 c. Herod did many things Mark 6.20 He feared John because he was a just man and an holy and heard him gladly and observed him and did many things yea he may write sermons and repeat them and shew countenance to the Preachers c. 2 As to men he may deal justly be a good neighbour Matth. 6.20 And as to himself he may escape the pollutions of the world 2 Pet. 2.2 5 Many Saints have been and are jealous of themselves least they should be hypocrites Psalm 139.24 Search me O God and know my heart try me and know my thoughts and see if there be any wicked way in me Psalm 119.80 Contrary some hypocrites are confident of their good estate Jer. 3.4 5. They call'd God father yet did evil as they could Jer. 42.4 5. Hypocrites call God to witness that they would do whatsoever God commanded by Jeremy and so consequently could not but think themselves sincere whereas they did the clean contrary to what they professed Jer. 43.2 3. 6 After examination of thy estate be not alwaies questioning whether thou be sincere or a hypocrite but be not too hasty in determining of either but when thy conscience hath given judgement of the truth of thy heart after several examinations thereof hold fast this conclusion that though thou hast many failings yet thou art not an hypocrite So Job c. 27.5 6. 7 Though it be very difficult to distinguish betwixt sincerity and hypocrisie because of the many counterfiets that look like grace but are not as the common graces in hypocrites yet is it possible to distinguish the one from the other else would not the word bid us to prove our own works Gal. 6.4 1 Cor. 11.28 Yea sundry Saints have found their hearts upright David Psalm 101.2 I will behave myself in a perfect way I will walk in mine house with a perfect heart Hezekiah Isa 38.3 Paul and other believers 2 Cor. 1.12 In simplicity and Godly sincerity we have had our conversation in the world 8 We must not from any observation of hypocrisie in our hearts deny any true work of grace in our selves and so bear false witness
innocent blood The Jews scrupled to give Paul one stripe above the Law the Law was Deut. 25.3 that the Judge determine him forty stripes but not exceed now the Jews whipt Paul five times and they scrupled so to transgress the Law herein that they gave him but thirty nine stripes but they scrupled not to whip an innocent person Saul would not eat with the blood he scrupled it yet would he not scruple to take away the lives of fourscore of the Lords Priests at one time 15 Still urge thy soul to give a reason of thy scruple So David Psal 43.5 Why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted within me If the soul cannot render a reason of it be sure it comes either from Satan or melancholy or some such cause or its some injected temptation such as the devil cast into Christs minde to make him scruple whether God was his father 16 Answer the scruples When thou seest them manifest fallacies in grace though true consequences in nature for example Satan saith thou art a sinner God is just therefore he hates thee therefore inflicts punishment therefore he hears thee not this consequence cannot be denied in nature The consequence of grace is thou art a sinner therefore believe and when Satan opposes thy sins say What is that to thee Satan I have not sinn'd against thee but against my God I am not thy sinner what power hast thou over me Satan if it be truly a sin whereof thou accusest me Satan sometimes terrifies the minde also with those things which are not sins but he alledges them to be sins as Christ will not quench smoaking flax no more will I quench it in my self FINIS An Alphabetical Table of some of the Common places which are handled in these first Ten Chapters of MATTHEW A. ADultery Matth. 5.27 Five disswasions from it Ten remedies against it Alms. Grounds thereof Properties therein Helps thereto Objections answered Matth. 5.42 And the manner of doing it Matth. 6.1 2. Anger Matth. 5.22 Holy Six properties Fifteen remedies against sinfull Anger Apparel Matth. 6.26 Grounds of moderation herein Astrology Judicial the vanity of it in Matth. 2.2 Assurance Eight reasons that it may be had it breeds not security Matth. 6.12 B. THe point of Baptism handled Matth. 3.6 Eight Reasons why Christ was Baptized though he had no sin Matth. 3.13 What is meant by fulfilling all righteousness in six particulars Matth. 3.15 C. CArking Cares Matth. 6.25 26. Thirty four helps against them Cross to be taken up Seventeen grounds Matth. 10.38 Companying with wicked men how far lawfull how far unlawfull Eight helps how to carry our selves when cast among them Seven means to get rid of them Eleven grounds thereto Confession and Denial of Christ in Matth. 10.32 33. Contentions about Religion Matth. 10.34 D. OF Demoniacks Matth. 8.16 Of Divorce Matth. 5.30 Of doing as we would be don to Matth. 7.12 Of Dreams Matth. 1.20 Four sorts uses to be made of them E. ENemies to be loved Five grounds of it How the Prophets prayed against Enemies Six objections answered Seven means to love them Motives thereto Matth. 5.44 F. FAith weak and strong In what respects faith admits degrees in six particulars Six notes of a strong Faith Mat. 6.26 Fasting Matth. 6.16 Nine rules in Fasting Seven rocks to be shunn'd Fewness of saved ones Seven reasons of it Matth. 7.13 Fear of God Matth. 10.28 First the causes The degrees The necessity in six particulars Eleven trials Five means to it Five differences betwixt filial and slavish fear Ten motives Slavish Fear Matth. 8.26 1 Kindes Seven grounds against it Four motives to rid the heart of it Of Flight in persecution Matth. 10.23 Seven rules therein Forgiveness of sins as from God Matth. 6.12 Six comforts to drooping souls Nine grounds of begging pardon 11 signes to know whether our sins be pardoned Forgiveness of sins to men Matth. 5.25 Where 1 The manner of forgiveness 2 The order of forgiveness 3 The Motives thereto See chap. 6.14 15. Following Christ Matth. 10.38 Six grounds thereof Four means Seven hinderances Five motives H. HUnger and thirst after righteousness Five reasons Eleven grounds Four motives on Matth. 5.6 Hearing and doing must go together Matth. 7.24 Eleven grounds thereof Who are right Hearers Fifteen rules in right hearing Matth. 7.26 Twelve causes of unprofitable hearing ibid. on Matth. 7.26 Hell the punishment of the damned therein Matth. 8.12 There is material fire therein or that which is worse Matth. 10.28 Hypocrisie First the kindes 2 What it is Seven cautions before trial of our selves Twelve marks of an Hypocrite Ten remedies against Hypocrisie Matth. 10.42 I. INvocation of Saints Seven grounds against it Infirmities Matth. 8.17 Four trials whether thy sins be Infirmities Seven grounds to bear with others Infirmities Matth. 8.17 Judgement Rash First what it is Eleven grounds to take us from it Six sorts of rash judgement condemned on Matth. 7.1 2. K. OF the Kingdome of Christ 1 Of Grace which comes six ways 2 Of Glory in which 3 things 1 The beginning of it 2 The end of it 3 The gloriousness of it Set down 1 By similitudes 2 By plain Scriptures 3 By the excellent things therein which are 1 In general 8 In particular Seven evils Saints shall be delivered from Four goods they shall enjoy therein Matth. 6.12 L. LAying on of hands after Baptism Three kindes of Laying on of hands Matth. 10.18 depraved by three sorts of men Seven Arguments to prove it an Apostolical institution Seven objections against it answered Labourers in Gods harvest Matth. 9.38 Their duty The causes why so few Of the Law and fulfilling thereof by Christ Matth. 5.17 A large discourse of spiritual Life and death Matth. 8.22 Seven trials of dead men Seven trials of men alive Three means to life Eleven motives to it Love of the world Six grounds of conviction herein Thirteen grounds of disswasion from it Eleven remedies against it Four grounds of the reign of this sin Six grounds it reigns not Matth. 6.24 Lust of the heart Matth. 5.28 Six remedies against it M. MEekness The grounds of it Properties of it Six Means to obtain it Mercifulness Three reasons Eight grounds Nine rules therein on Matth. 5.7 Murther and cruelty Matth. 5.21 The kindes of it Five objections answered Lawfull War no Murther Mourning spiritual Six grounds of it Nine trials Nine Means thereto Matth. 5.4 O. OAths Several cases about them Matth. 5.33 Outward things how promised by God Matth. 6.33 P. OF Peace and Peace-making Seven means to Peace Three means to Peace-making Eight motives in the last whereof are seven benefits Matth. 5.9 Perfection in God Matth. 5.48 Six grounds of it Seven Uses Perfection in Saints how it is taken Four trials of it Persecution for righteousness sake Nine grounds of suffering it Twelve means thereto Four consolations under it Poverty spiritual Matth. 5.2 What it is Eight trials Seven means thereto Power of God Matth. 6.14 Twofold Eight grounds setting forth Gods power Prayer Six questions handled Matth. 6.7 1 About repetitions 2 About long Prayer 3 Also v. 9. About meltings in Prayer wherein twelve things considerable 4 About delaying Prayer 5 About distractions in Prayer 6 About straitnings and enlargements in Prayer Fourteen rules in Praying 18 Motives to stir us up to Prayer Nine things concerning the object the Trinity we eye in Prayer and of the manner herein Prophets false Mat. 7.15 Four grounds why to be shunn'd Their resemblance to Wolves in six particulars Fourteen signs of them with a large answer to three Scriptures abused by the deluders of the times Preachers maintenance the manner of it the right they have to it wherein certain proposals as to the Magistrates maintenance are soberly offered not peremptorily determined with many objections on both sides largely handled on Mat. 10.9 Providence of God on Mat. 10.29 30. Nine grounds asserting it four uses made of it Powerless profession on Mat. 7.21 Five reasons of it Five remedies against it Six trials herein Of Prophesie on Mat. 10.41 Two kinds of it Nine helps thereto Of the Pharisees and Saduces what they were Mat. 3.7 Of Purity of heart Mat. 5.8 what it is Six means to it R REpentance on Mat. 3.1 Replies in publique Congregations lawful but apt to be abused Eight benefits hereby Nine rules to be observed herein on Mat. 7.26 Revilings on Mat. 5.12 Nine Consolations herein when they are for Christ Revenge private on Mat. 5.38 Reproof on Mat. 7.6 to whom to be given Eight rules in giving it Righteousness of Christians two fold where many questions are handled about Gods righteousness and mans righteousness on Mat. 10.41 Reward of Saints what it is to whom given and when on Mat. 10.42 S. SAvory life on Mat. 5.13 Eight resemblances of a Christians Life and Salt Seven disswasions from unsavoriness six helps to a savory life Sanctification of Gods name on Mat. 6.9 Six ways of Sanctifying it Self-destruction on Mat. 4.6 Thirteen helps against it Secret actions seen by God Mat. 6.3 Sight of God on Mat. 5.8 the kinds of it the happiness of a glorified sight in six particulars with answer to some objections Souls sleep not nor are annihilated till the day of the Resurrection Sincerity Mat. 10.42 Twelve grounds to it Six comforts in it Twelve trials of it Scruples their kinds nature Twelve rules about scruples on Mat. 10.14 T TEmptation of Christ on Mat. 4.1 Temptations of Christians Mat. 6.13 where 1 the kinds of it God hath five ends therein Nineteen remedies herein Thoughts the causes of evil thoughts Four ways they become evil objections answered five trials of thy thoughts seven remedies against bad thoughts seven motives to look to the thoughts on Matth. 9.4 Treasure heavenly Eleven notes of it Mat. 6.19 Teaching with authority seen in eight particulars Mat. 7.29 V USury on Matth. 5.42 what it is It s usually falsely described Understanding inlightned Matth. 6.22 23. W OF the Will of God Mat. 6.11 There are divers other common places but these belonging to the practical and savory part of Christianity I have pickt out for the benefit of some Readers who may be straitned in time to peruse the whole I would have made a larger Table but being farre from the Press it could not so well be done by me FINIS