by al these to fetch in your Acceptance with God the Father Do you not bring your Duty into the room of Christ and into the place of Christ and do ye think that the Lord Jesus Christ will ever present such a Duty unto God the Father as steps into his room and place What a sad thing is it for a man to draw his own Works or his own Doings into his Acceptance or Justification for a man to turn aside to the Covenant of Works Object You will say But when may a man be said for to draw his own Works or Duties into his Acceptance with God the Father Or when may a man be said To turn aside to the Covenant of Works Answ Even godly men do it too much Abraham though the father of the faithful went into Hagar the type of the Law And so now the children of Abraham Beleevers do too much go into Hagar still and to the Law still When a man cannot dares not relye upon Jesus Christ till he first sees his own Duty and his own Prayer and Inlargment in Duty then he does this too much When a man does measure all his Acceptance with God the Father by his own Performance if I be Enlarged then I am Accepted if I am straightened now I am not Accepted then he does this too much When a man will not come to Christ till his heart be first quickened and warmed by some particular word then he does this too much But Oh! you you that are godly labour I beseech ye in Christ to stand clear from your own Duties and Doings The more distinct knowledge ye have in this Truth and the more ye walk in the sence of it the more Spiritual and Holy ye will be Object 1 But will some say that I may take off some scruples and answer some Cases of Conscience If these things be so then do I fear that my Obedience was never right for truly I have even turned aside to a Covenant of Works the Lord knows I have I remember the time when I had Legal-breakings and all my Obedience hath flowed from thence Is Free-remission and Justification by faith alone the fountain and spring-head of all our Obedience and Holiness then seeing that Legal-breakings have been the spring-head of all my Obedience then do I fear my Obedience was never right Oh! I fear that I have been wrong all this while that I have been but an Hypocrite all this while and have deceived my self and been under the Law all this while Answ Stay a little You read in Scripture concerning Jacob and Esau 't is said That the Elder shall serve the Younger Gen. 25.23 That is saies Luther in a spiritual way the Elder the Law shall serve the Younger the Gospel and the Elder Sin shall serve the Younger Grace Now have your former Legal-breakings made you more for to prize Grace and to prize Christ and to prize Free-remission and Justification by faith alone Here then the Elder does serve the Younger And what though Legal-breakings were first and were the Elder in your heart yet so long as the Elder does serve the Younger thou hast no reason to be discouraged in this respect Object 2 I fear that my Obedience and my Holiness is not right because it is so little and so scant Free-remission the fountain of all our Holiness that is a full Fountain and if my Holiness were a stream from that Fountain it would be more full and more abundant The Jews they knew little of this Truth Justification by faith alone and yet they were Holy David holy and Moses holy and Josiah holy is this the fountain of all our Grace and of all our Holiness Free-remission and Justification by faith alone Then the more discovery there is of this the more Holy we should be but alas I find my Holiness and my Obedience so scant and little that I am afraid it can never come from so full a fountain as this is Answ Beloved There is nothing little between God and a gracious soul There is nothing smal that comes from God to you because it comes from an infinite God There is nothing smal that goes from a gracious soul unto God again because it comes from an infinite desire of pleasing God It is one thing to be more in the Shell and another thing to be more in the Kernel Luther professes that when he was a Monke as it seems by his writings he was fifteen years in a Cloyster Saies he When I was a Monke I was a great deal more Holy then according to the outward appearance than I am now then I Prayed and then I Fasted and then I Macerated my body and then I went meanly but now I Eat and I Drink and I Cloath my self as others do and yet now one little Prayer is more accepted with God than all my fifteen years Prayers before why because saies he then I prayed in a way of Works and sought Justification in a way of Works but now I have had a taste of this Justification by faith alone and a little from thence is more pleasing unto the Lord then all the fifteen years before But who ever you are that make this Objection Give me leave to propound these Two Questions to you First Whereas you say It is little and therefore you fear it cannot come from so full a fountain Doest thou stint or limit thy self in thy Obedience or in thy Holiness A man that seeks to be justified and saved by his working he does stint and limit himself I have enough saies he for to bring me to heaven and what need I more a great many are very precise and strict but I praise the Lord I have enough for to bring me to heaven and what need I more So he stints and limits himself And I have been Weeping and Mourning enough for to get forgivenesse and the Lord now hath forgiven me and what need I more Thus he stints and limits himself because he is under the Law and under a Covenant of Works Again Though your Obedience as you think is very little and very small Do you oppose those that have much do you oppose those that have the power of godliness and those that have more than your self A man that seeks Justification by Works he does oppose those men that have more Holiness than himself See I pray how it was with the Jews in that 9. of the Romans and the 31. vers But Israel which followed after the Law of righteousness hath not attained to the Law of righteousnesse Wherefore Because they sought it not by faith but as it were by the works of the Law for they stumbled at that stumbling stone They stumbled at Christ they stumbled at Christianity they stumbled at the corner stone And so now Moral and Civil men that seek acceptance though they do not understand themselves in a way of working they oppose those that are more godly that have the power of
By this justification I mean That act of Gods grace wherby through the imputation of our sins to Christ and Christs righteousness unto us God the father doth pronounce us righteous in his sight This is justification And this is done by the Righteousness and the Blood of Christ only as the Material and Meritorious cause 'T is done only by Faith as the Instrumental cause so we are said to be justified by Faith alone Yet not so as that a man is justified by faith which hath no works for all justifying faith is full of works but these works do not come into our justification As now a mans servants they have him to bed Servants have their Master and Mistris to bed tend upon them to bed but they do not go into the bed with them They are with them again in the morning they bring them water and necessary things but they do not come to bed to them Now saies Luther Justification is that bed where Christ and a Beleeving soul lies though good works Duties and Prayers tend upon Christ and where ever there is faith there are these yet this bed of Justification is kept free and entire and only for the Righteousness of Jesus Christ and they come not to bed they come not into this work Or if you will thus Ye know that when an Israelite was stung in the wilderness by a fiery biting serpent he was then to look upon the Brasen serpent and by the beholding of the Brasen-serpent he was cured the looking of his eyes cured him He had other members there was the Arms and the Legs and other members that did accompany the Eyes but though there were other members that did accompany the Eyes it was the seeing of the Eyes that did cure the person And so though works do accompany faith and there is no saving justifying faith but works accompany it yet it is only the beholding of this Brasen-serpent by the eye of faith that does cure the soul as to the point of Justification When Abraham went up into the mountain to offer up his son he spake to his servants to stay below Gen. 22.5 Stay you here till I come again at the foot and the bottom of this hill and so they did Servants he had but they stayed below And so when a man goes up into this hil of justification this high mountain he takes only his faith with him and he sayes unto all his works and unto all his duties stay you below at the bottom of the hil and there they attend So that faith justifying faith though it hath alwaies works yet they come not into this matter of Justification 'T is Faith alone that justifies This by way of Explication Quest 2 But Secondly You will say How may it appear now that this free-justification of a poor sinner by Faith alone is the original of all our Holiness and Spiritual life Answ 1 Thus it appears by contraries Contraries have contrary Consequences If the Law and Justification thereby be no friend but a real enemy unto all our Grace and Holinesse then Justification by faith alone is a friend to it But now take the Law and you shall find that justification thereby is no friend but a real enemy unto all our Holiness and the power of godliness What greater enemies had the world ever to the power of godliness than the Jews were and they sought to establish their own Righteousness and to be justified by the Law And now a dayes What more bitter more fel enemy unto the power of godliness than a Moral Civil man Why Because though he do not understand himself yet he doth secretly seek his acceptance with God by his own doing and good meaning A man can never live to God that lives in himself So long as a man seeks Justification by his own doing working he lives in himself Therefore saies the Apostle Phil. 3.9 I desire not to be found in mine own righteousness to be found in it Hope is the Spring of action The Plow-man plowes in hope he sows in hope Hope is the Spring of action Now if a man seeks to be justified by the Law or the works of the Law there is no hope for all works are imperfect and if no hope saies the soul why should I work as good never a whit as never the better That cannot be the Principle of our grace and holiness which can neither Convert a man nor mortifie his sins nor quicken one to what is good nor comfort or free him from temptation Now I pray What is it that Converts a soul to Christ is it the Law or the preaching of the Law Nay Joh. 16.9 saies our Savior I will send the Comforter and he shall convince the world of sin But where do I receive the Spirit Saies the Apostle in the next chapter the 3. of the Galatians O ye foolish Galatians this would I know of ye Received ye the Spirit by the preaching of the Law or by the hearing of Faith Not by the preaching of the Law And as for Mortification of sin Can the Law do that Nay saies the Apostle in the 8. of the Romans The Law is weak What the Law could not do being weak God sent his own Son to condemn sin in the flesh So that the Law cannot mortifie sin the Law cannot do it And as for our Quickening unto what is good Can the Law do that Nay saies the Apostle The Law is a dead letter and the Law is the ministration of death And can that which is a dead letter and the ministraction of death quicken us unto what is good certainly it cannot And as for our Temptations and freedom from them Does the Law do that Ye know the Apostle triumphs Rom. 8.33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect And who shall lay any thing to may charge shall the Anger and Wrath of God shall Satan or mine own Conscience I will not be much afflicted saies he why for It is God that justifies He does not say for it is Moses that justifies but 't is Christ that died and God justifies not Moses Sampson ye know found honey-combs in the body of the dead lyon not in hives at home or trees abroad but he found honey-combs in the body of the dead lyon So does a poor tempted soul find all the honey-combs of comfort in the body of the dead Lyon of the tribe of Judah not in his own hive I have read of a certain man that was much in prayer fasting and reading and the Devil came to him and told him Friend Why doest thou Pray so much and Reade so much and Fast so much 't is all to n purpose for thou shalt go to Hell at the last thou shalt never go to Heaven Saies he As for that I leave that to God it is not my Question whether I shall go to Heaven or Hell but my Question is How shall I serve God
the Transactions of things between God the Father and Jesus Christ And then you will find That Jesus Christ had satisfied God the Father before ever you came into the world and therefore your souls when you think of this will say How therefore can my Work or my Duty any way bring in Satisfaction or Acceptance with God the Father Study I say the Transactions between God the Father and Jesus Christ Thirdly Acquaint your soul much with the difference between the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace In the Covenant of Works a mans Work is first accepted and then his Person But in the Covenant of Grace a mans Person is first accepted and then his Work And when you understand this then you will say I if this be true That a mans Person is first accepted and then his Work How can my Work any way fetch me in acceptance with God the Father O my soul for ever stand clear in this great matter of my Acceptance in my Duties Fourthly when ever your Duties your Works and your Graces are Highest then and then especially use thy soul to be beyond them and say thus Though now I blesse the Lord my heart is thus and thus Inlarged yet I do not count upon my Acceptance by reason of this Inlargment Though I blesse the Lord I have now Prayer that before had none yet I do not count my Acceptance with God the Father by this Prayer When I say thy Duty is Highest use thy soul to be beyond it Fifthly When your Duty Grace and Holiness is lowest then know that now ye have an opportunity to stand clear from your own Duties and Workings as to the matter of your Acceptance and Justification by faith alone If I have a friend in my house that lives in my house with me whom I would not have privy unto a Work or a business I 'le take the opportunity to do the Work when that friend is out of doors now say I he is abroad if he were at home he would be prying over my shoulder and he would have a singer in the business and he would see it but now he is abroad now I will take the time to do it My brethren your Duties Prayer and Humiliation they are all friends to your Justification but when Prayer is out and Duty is out and abroad and out of sight and not at home Now take your time to be clear in the matter of nesting upon Christ ad one and say Now my Prayer is gone and Duties gone and all out of sight Oh! Lord now I have an opportunity to rest upon Christ alone had my Prayer been at home and Duties at home they would have been peering and prying into this Work but now they are all out of sight now I will rest upon Christ and his righteousness alone This is certain that this Justification by faith alone and Free-remission of a poor sinner 't is the great fountain and principle of all our Grace and Holiness and therefore if you would be more Gracious and more Holy I beseech ye in the Name of Christ study it much and walk in the sence of it And what 's the reason that many Professors are no more Holy and Humble but waspish and peevish and harsh and of a rugged disposition but because they have not studied the Gospel more and Free-remission and Justification by faith alone and they have not the sence of this upon then hearts poor souls you want the Experience of this you think some of you there is no such way to be Holy and Gracious as to have Legal-breakings to have the Law prest upon you but I do here tell you in the Name of the Lord and I lie not That Justification by faith alone and Free-remission is the principle of all our Obedience and all our Holiness And when Paul came to this and the sence of this Now I live saies he And so wilt thou say poor foul when thou comest to the sence of this Truth I was dead before but now I live indeed I was down and my heart dead when I hung upon my owne Duties but now I live Now there fore as you desire to live and liue spiritually the Lord give you hearts to live in the sence and experience of this great Truth Justification and Free-remission by faith alone SERMON III. Preached at Stepney July 16. 1648. GALATIANS 2. part of the 20. vers Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me THE Apostle Paul having spoken of our living to God in the former verse of our spiritual life in those words Yet now I live He proceeds unto the Properties of this spiritual life and those are Three First It is a Self-denying life Yet not I. I live yet not I. Secondly It is a Christ-advancing life But Christ liveth in me Thirdly It is The life of Faith And the life which I live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God I begin with the First at this time in those words Yet not I. The words hold forth a Self-Depression or Self-Annihilation The words are spoken in the Person of a Beleever So that in all these I's I through the Law and I am crucified and I live Paul doth personate a Beleever one that seeks Justification by faith alone according to the tenure of the Gospel And so the Observation is this Doct. Every true Beleever that seeks Justification by faith alone is an Humble Self-Denying person denying himself in Spiritual things The way of the Gospel is a Self-denying way Though a Beleever that seeks Justification by faith alone and not by the Works of the Law does live a spiritual life and so does act move and work towards God yet he cannot endure to write an I upon his own Performance Yet not I. He will Obey God but he will not have an I to be written upon his Obedience He will Pray to God but he will not have an I to be written upon his Performance Yet not I. I live yet not I. Where ever the Gospel comes in Power it does work this Self-denying frame of soul and spirit And thus it was with Paul in regard of his own Person as ye reade in the 1 Cor. 15. chapter speaking with relation unto the other Apostles at the 10. verse I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I but the grace of God which was with me I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I. I have been a Preacher of the Gospel and have been a means to convert many souls unto Jesus Christ Yet not I but the grace of God with me I have comforted many Afflicted souls yet not I. I have been a means to plant many Churches Yet not I but the grace of God with me He will not have his work defil'd with Self or this I to be written upon what he doth And so it is with every Beleever more or lesse this is the way and this
is the spirit of the Gospel where it comes in Life Truth and Power thus it is For the clearing of this great Truth unto you First I shall spend a little time in the Explication and shew ye What it is for a man to deny himself in spiritual things Secondly I shall labor to give you some Demonstrations of the Truth Thirdly Answer One Objection And Fourthly shew ye What there is in the Gospel or the way of the Gospel that can work a mans heart to this frame Quest 1 First If ye aske me What it is for a man to deny himself in Spiritual things Answ Ye know that there is a Three-fold Self mentioned by Divines A Natural Self as a mans Parts Wit Reason Will Affections and Inclination are called ones Self Then there is a Sinful Self and so a mans Corruption Lust and Sinful Disposition is called ones Self And then there is a Religious Self and so a mans Duties Graces Obedience Righteousness and Holiness are called ones Self Now though a man is to deny all these yet I am not at this time to speak of the Common-place of Self-Denial this Scripture does not lead me to it but only of Self-Denial in Spiritual things Denial of Religious Self There is a great difference between a mans denying of his Sinful and of his Religious Self When a man does deny his Sinful Self for Christ then he is wholly to leave and forsake his sin and that Self But when a man is to deny his Religious Self for Christ he is not to leave and forsake his Duty only in point of Justification he is to renounce all and in point of Sanctification he is to attribute the strength the power and the glory of all his Graces and Duties unto Jesus Christ and to himself nothing and when a man in point of Justification does renounce all and in point of Sanctification does attribute the strength the power and the glory of all unto Jesus Christ and unto himself nothing then he denies himself in Spiritual things For there is a Two-fold denial of ones self even in Spiritual things One that is opposed to Self-Seeking And another that is opposed to Self-Advancing When a man seeks himself he makes himself his End When a man does Advance himself he makes himself his Prey Now though a man be to deny himself in opposition to all Self-Seeking yet that is not the Argument that lies here it is not the Argument of this Scripture but a man is called upon by this Scripture to deny himself in opposition to Self-Advancing I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me But yet again that we may rightly understand things Though every Beleever is to deny himself in spiritual things and so to depress himself yet notwithstanding he is not to speak evil of the grace of God within him For there are Two things in every Duty or Service There is something of Gods something of a mans own something of the Spirit of God somthing of a mans own Now though a man may trample upon all his Duties and upon all his Graces as to the point of Justification yet as to the point of Sanctification he may not mis-cal the Graces of God in him and his Duties saying These are nothing but the fruits of Hypocrisy for then he should speak evil of the Spirit whose works they are A man tramples and treads upon the Dirt but he will not trample upon Money upon Gold and Silver why because that is a precious mettal or hath the stamp or the image of the Prince upon it Now our own Duties our own Righteousness and Holiness as to the matter of Justification they are nothing worth and so we trample upon all but as to the matter of Sanctification they have the image of Christ upon them they are precious mettal and therefore for a man to say This is Hypocrisie and all is nothing but Hypocrisie this is not Self-Denial properly Self-Denial in Spiritual things is as to the matter of Justification to renounce all and as to the matter of Sanctification to attribute the strength the power and the glory of all unto Jesus Christ and to ones self nothing and when a man does attribute all the strength the power the glory of all to Jesus Christ and to himself nothing then he is said to deny himself in Spiritual things This by way of Explication Quest 2 But now Secondly Whereby may it appear that the Gospel works this grace in the heart of man Answ 1 If the Law and the preaching of the Law cannot make a man to deny himself in Spiritual things then the Gospel must do it for this grace is to be obtained and found some where something must work it Now the Law and the preaching of the Law can never make a man to Deny himself in Spiritual things but rather it will make a man to Seek himself in Spiritual things For what is it to preach the Law but when I shall come from God and tell ye That if ye do keep the Ten Commandements and fail in nothing ye shall be Saved but if ye fail in any one point ye shall be Damned and lost for ever This will not make a man to Deny his own Righteousness but rather to Seek himself his own Salvation to avoid Damnation and seek himself in Spiritual things But now when I come to ye and speak thus unto ye from the Lord That if you do throw down all your own Righteousness at the feet of Christ and rest only upon him ye shall be saved this will make a man to deny all his own Righteousness and deny himself in Spiritual things and this is the Gospel And the Gospel must needs do it For what is the Gospel but the Voyce of Christ the Preachings and the Sermons of Christ Now look as it was with the first Adam the first lesson that the first Adam did learn practice and teach his posterity was To Advance himself in Spiritual things Gen. 3.5 The day that thou eatest saies Satan to him thou shalt not die but thine eyes shall be opened and thou shalt be as God Which he beleeved and did eat and so laboured to Advance himself in Spiritual things The first lesson that ever he learn'd and taught his posterity was to Advance himself So the second Adam the first lesson that ever the Second Adam Christ put in practice was Self-Denial in Spiritual things Phil. 2.6 7. For saies the Apostle He thought it no robbery to be equal with God and yet humbled himself unto the form of a servant and became of no reputation This was the first thing Now I say the Gospel is nothing else but the Voyce of Christ the Sermons and Preachings of Jesus Christ the Second Adam and there and there only is this lesson to be learned Secondly Every Godly Gracious man that lives under the Gospel Is of a spirit and disposition contrary to the world This is the disposition
woman did pray to Christ he answered her not a word and yet she did hang upon him yet shee did beleeve and shee is commended for her beleeving Object You will say I am one that have been a great sinner an Unclean wretch even as a Dog surely there is no hope and no mercy for me Ans Did the Lord Jesus Christ ever Himself say to you as he said to this woman seeming to call her Dog yet she did hang upon him yet she did wait upon him yet she did beleeve and the Lord commended her for her faith Object I Pray indeed but it 's my Necessities makes me go unto God in Prayer and when I go unto God in Prayer my Necessities put me on Ans And was it not so with this woman Her daughter was grievously vexed with a Devil and thereupon her Necessity drave her unto Christ and yet poor woman she is welcome Object But I do not go unto Jesus Christ I go not unto Christ at all But Jesus Christ yet will come to you This woman did not come to Jerusalem Christ went down unto the coasts of Tyre and Sidon Christ came to her and yet she beleeved this stood with faith and Christ commended her faith Object I have no Assurance of Christs love and mercy towards me Answ Tell me Had this woman any assurance of the mercy that she prayed for She only brings in her wants propounds them to Jesus Christ laies them at his feet hangs upon him and this was her faith and she is commended for her faith and the greatness of her faith O woman great is thy faith So that do but now hang on Christ though thou hast not assurance of thy Salvation or of the love of God yet in the face of all Temptation and all Discouragment hang on Christ never away never be beaten off by any Discouragment hang on Christ wait on Christ and the Lord Christ will at last commend thee for thy faith and he will say unto thee Be it unto thee as thou wilt How shall people that go on in a continued way of Doubting and Unbelief ever look this poor woman in the face at the great day of Judgment this poor Canaanitish woman How will you be able you that go on in a continual way of Doubting and Unbelief to look the Lord Jesus Christ in the face Stir up your selves stir up your selves I beseech you to this great work of Beleeving I confess it 's a hard thing to Beleeve and harder to Beleeve than to keep all the Ten Commandements there is something in Nature to contribute towards the keeping of the Ten Commandements but there is nothing in Nature to contribute to thy Beleeving on the Lord Jesus Christ It is a very hard thing to Beleeve truly and those that make it an easie matter they do not know what it is to Beleeve But reade over this story and your hearts will be provoked to Beleeve to hang upon Jesus Christ do it and the Lord will commend your faith and own you and your faith FINIS AN EXACT ALPHABETICAL TABLE Of THE CHIEF MATTERS HANDLED In the Third VOLVMNE A Premonition to the READER COurteous Reader Be pleased to understand that the Two latter of these SERMONS being Preached the one before the House of Commons the other before the House of Lords we thought good to give thee notice that in this Alphabetical Table when thou seest the letter C. before the Page it directs thee to that Page in that Sermon preached before the House of Commons but when the letter L. then it directs thee to that Page in the Sermon preached before the House of Lords this if you be but heedful of you wil not er A ACTIONS see Godly Adam A paralel between the first Adam and the second Adam Page 31 Angels The preservation of the Saints is in the hands of Angels Page L. 13 Anger There is anger in God Page L. 4 How the word Anger is taken Page L. 5 How Anger is said to be in God Page L. 6 The extent of Gods Anger Page L 6 Gods Anger gives being to our Anger Page L 6 Anger see mercy Angry It is lawful for man to be angry and why Page L 8 B Beleeve How hard a thing it is to beleeve Page 62 Beleever Every true Beleever is an humble man Page 43 Beleevers need commandements and why Page 102 Christ lives more in a Beeleever than a Beleever himself doth proved Page 104 There are but few Beleevers in the world Page 107 Beleevers are in continual conflicts Page 107 Beleevers ought to be thankeful and why Page 113 Beleevers thinke meanly of themselves Page 208 Beleevers see Self-denying Christ Hypocrites Ordinances Meditations Benefit What benefit comes to the soule by the In-being of Christ Page 84 C Characters see Justification Carnal see Professors Children Children sometimes turn dogs Page 200 See Dogs Christ Christ is in all Beleevers Page 73 How many wayes Christ may be said to be in all beleevers Page 74 Christ is personally united to a beleever Page 75 How to know whether Christ be in a man or not Page 89 Duties flowing from the Inbeing of Christ in a soul Page 96 Christ lives in a beleever more than himself Page 98 That Christ lives in every beleever proved Page 98 The reason why Christ lives more in a beleever than himself Page 106 How to know whether Christ live more in a beleever than himself Page 108 The least of Christ is highly prized of beleevers Page 209 Christs coming is sudden Page C. 5 Christ coming how many wayes taken Page C. 6 How it may appear that Christs coming is sudden Page C. 7 Reasons why Christs coming is sudden Page C. 9 Christs coming is not far off reasons why Page C. 19 How infinitly we are beholden to Jesus Christ and why Page L. 8 See Humility In-being Benefit Love Beleever Christians see Moral Civility What morral Civility is good for Page 11 Coldnesse Difference between the coldnes of a beleever and the coldnesse of a wicked man Page 15 Conversion The Conversion of the Saints is sudden Page C. 8 Comfort The Comfort of the Saints is sudden Page C. 8 Comfort for the Saints Page 11 Comfort for Beleevers Page 88 D Dealing see Promise Death Death is the greatest evil Page 4 Deliverances Outward deliverances come to the Saints at unawares Page C. 9 Despair A caution against despair Page C. 13 Desperate A desperate sleep is now upon professors Page C. 20 Dispensation The wonderful dispensation of God shewed Page 200 Dog Dog how the word is taken in Scripture Page 207 Dogs often times turn children Page 200 See Children Duty see Spiritual Self-denial Christ E Election see Temptation Engagements Egagements for beleevers to come to duties Page 113 Example see Humility F Faith Man is Justified by faith and not by the works of the Law Page 1 Faith unites a man to God Page 4 Faith is an emptying grace Page 61
Faith laies aside all its own Righteousness Page 202 As temptations encrease so also shall faith encrease Page 206 Faith riseth above nature Page 209 Faith commends Christ above all other graces Page 210 The strength of faith doth not lie in the assurance of our salvation Page 212 See Justification Fall see Perfection Froward Froward spirits do little good in a common wealth Page L. 30 G Grace Growth in grace how it is known Page 17 Gracious The reason why men are no more gracious Page 39 The Saints should live gracious lives Page 114 See Quality God Gods willingnesse to hide his people in time of his anger Page L. 11 See Faith promise anger Godly Every godly man is a living man Page 3 Godly men reflect upon their own actions Page 8 Difference between wicked and godly men Page 112 Godly see Preachers Gospel How the Gospel causeth Self-denial Page 58 Gospel see Learned Growth see Grace H Heaven see Kingdom Hide Whom the Lord will hide in times of danger Page L. 14 Holy The reason why men are no more holy Page 39 Holiness see Original Justification House God hath 3. houses 1. A house of instruction Page L. 7 2. A house of Correction Page L. 7 3. A house of destruction Page L. 7 Humble see Beleever Humility Christ is an example of humility Page 60 Hypocrite What a Beleever hath more than an Hypocrite Page 85 Hypocrisie It is an evil thing to call Duties by the name of Hypocrisie Page 113 I In-Being What the In-being of Christ in a beleever is Page 76 The In-being of Christ in a beleever is hard to be understood Page 77 Limitations concerning the In-being of Christ in a beleever Page 78 In-being see Benefit Christ Incertainty Gods people must trust in him in incertainties Page L. 18 Injustice see Oppression Infinite The infinite love of Christ manifested Page 114 Justification The cause of our Justification Page 26 Justification by faith is a friend to Holiness Page 28 Justification by the works of the Law is an enemy to Holiness Page 29 How Justification by faith advanceth our holiness Page 36 Our Justification may be hidden from our sence Page 43 Visible Characters of Justification laid down Page 44 How a man may stand cleer to himself in Justification by faith alone Page 46 K Kingdom How the Kingdom of Heaven is taken in Scripture Page C. 1 L Law see Faith Justification Law how taken in Scripture Page 34 The preaching of the Law cannot make a man deny himself Page 52 Learned Learned men are most opposite to the Gospel Page 199 Living see Duty Life Life is the greatest good Page 4 How vegetative life is in Sants Page 5 How sensitive life is in Saints Page 6 How rational life is in Saints Page 7 Life see Spiritual Wicked Motion Little There is nothing little between God and man Page 41 Love The infinite love of Christ to man Page 87 Love see Infinite M Man see Godly Meditations Practical Meditations for beleevers Page 112 Meek Meek men do much good in the earth and why Page L. 30 Mercy Difference between Gods Mercy and his anger Page L. 5 Mercy see Temptation Mystery Mysteries that are in self-denial Page 57 Monument Monuments of praise erected and why Page C. 13 Morral Difference in self-denial between morral men and Christians Page 55 Mortification Whence mortification comes Page 33 Motion All motion comes from life Page 9 N Nation see Wrath Nature see Faith Natural see Perfection Notion Vnder what Notion the Lord looks vpon the sins of the Saints Page 13 O Obedience Obedience whence it comes Page 24 Objections against the smalness of obedience answered Page 42 Observations Waking observations for sleeping people Page C. 20 Oppression Oppression and injustice reign still in this kingdom Page L. 22 Ordinances How Ordinances are needful Page 100 Original What the Original of all our holiness is Page 28 P Papists How Papists deny themselves Page 55 People Why godly people are exposed to danger Page L. 12 Gods people are often left at great incertainties Page L. 16 Why Gods people are so often left at incertainties Page L. 18 Perfection There is some natural perfection still left in man from the fall Page 9 Pleasant The pleasant lives of the Saints Page 12 Prayers The Saints may have no present answer of their prayrs Page 204 The Saints duties when they have no present answer to their prayers Page 205 Prayer see Temptation Preachers Godly Preachers ought to be sent out and why Page L. 9 Preservation see Angel Present see Prayer Profession see Saints Promise Gods dealing sometimes seems to run cross to his promise Page 206 True faith finds out a promise in the refusal Page 208 Q Quallity The quallity of a gracious man Page 54 R Rational see Life Religion Men lose Religion by seeking after Religion Page L. 29 Repentance Repentance whenee it comes Page 33 Righteousness How Righteousness must be sought Page L. 24 Righteousness see Faith S Saints It is a desperate thing to oppose the Saints and why Page 112 Wherein Saints and carnal professors agree Page C. 2 Wherein Saints and carnal professors disagree Page C. 3 A shelter for Saints in the midst of a storm Page L. 13 Saints see Conversion Comfort Life Pleasure Self How self creeps into all actions Page 63 How self acts in man Page 10 Self-denial Self-denial what it is Page 50 Every beleever is a self-denying person Page 49 Tryal of self-denial Page 64 Self-denial is a hard duty Page 70 How self-denial may be attained Page 71 Self-denial see Beleever Law Moral Mystery Gospel Security A caution against Security Page C. 11 Sence see Justification Sensitive see Life Sleep see Desperate Sleepers Two sorts of sleepers their difference and events Page C. 21 Spirit The Spirit of Christ is in every beleever Page 98 The Spirit is the free gift of God Page 104 Spiritual What spiritual life is Page 3 Duties flowing from spiritual life Page 20 How to get spiritual life Page 23 Strength see faith Sudden see Christ T Temptations Temptations may rise higher after prayer Page 206 Temptations sometime come about Election Page 206 When Temptations come about Election the best way is to lay aside dispute and fly to prayer Page 206 Temptation see Faith Thankfulness An exhortation to thankfulness Page C. 16 Truth No truth to be dispised Page L. 27 U Vegitative see life Union Union of Christ with beleevers Page 75 Uncertainties What to do in uncertainties Page L. 24 W Wicked Wicked men are not in the state of life proved Page 8 Wicked see Godly Witness Three that bear witness in Heaven opened Page 85 Wonderful see Dispensation World The danger of the world Page 19 Wrath Gods wrath is not yet pacified towards this Nation Page L. 20 FINIS