Seuen goulden candlestickes houlding the seauen greatest lights of Christian religion shewing vnto all men what they should beleeue, & how they ought to walke in this life, that they may attayne vnto eternall life. By Gr: Williams Doctor of Divinity

THE TABLE,

AB.

• ABstaine from sinne is from God. 205
  • God neuer absolueth vnrepentant sinners. 242
• Absurdities, God shunneth in all things. 324
• Absurdities of the Lutheran doctrine, touching the communication of properties. 377. &c.
• Absurdities following the high-Priest, saying that the Disciples stole Christ away. 564
  • Nature not able to shew the reason how the world should be made. 138
  • God able to doe what he will. 147
  • To hinder what he will not haue done. ibid.
  • To doe more then he did, or doth, or will doe. 148. 149. &c.
  • Phrases of being able or not able how to be vnderstood. 158
  • God able to produce any thing of nothing. 163
  • God able to forgiue all sinnes. 164
  • God not able to doe contrary to what hee decreed. 165
  • Not able to doe things contrary to his Na∣ture. 165
  • Gods ability to helpe vs, a great comfort to the godly. 177
• Absurdities of the doctrine of transubstantia∣tion. 174
  • God able to saue men, without the Incar∣nation of his Sonne. 320
  • None able to know God as hee is in him∣selfe. 120
• Abstract names of all excellencies most pro∣per vnto God, 122
  • Goodnesse of God abused by the wicked. 225
• Abuse of Christ not paralelled in any age. 474

AC.

• To be an Accepter of persons, what it is. 210
• We should acknowledge whence wee haue all our goodnesse. 211
• Inward actions of God, euer in doing, neces∣sary, incommunicable. 275
• Christ how falsly accused by his enemies. 471
• Whereof accused before Pilate, and how false those accusations were. 472
• Acts meerely voluntary, no sinnes. 15. & 32
• Actuall sinne, what it is. 10
  • All actions adiudged according to the dis∣position of the will. 55
• Act of punishment, least agreeable to Gods nature. 195
  • No act can exceed the power of the agent. 209
• Actors in the Tragedy of Christ his Passion who they were. 421
  • Gods free actions not curiously to be sear∣ched into. 555
  • Chiefest Acts of Dauid, types of Christ. 617

AD

• Adam sinning we all sinned. 3
• Adams fall brought on vs a two-fold euill. 3
  • What God commanded Adam, how small a thing it was. 98
• Adamant, how mollified. 5••6
• Aduersity makes the Saints more resplendent then prosperity. 207
• Aduersity and affliction not simply good. ibid.

AE.

• Aescilus how he came by his death. 613

AF.

• Affirmatiue precepts, how many, viz. 248. 230
  • Christ why afflicted by God. 496
• Affections of Christ, how they differ from ours in three respects. 444

AG.

• Agony of Christ what was the cause thereof. 443
  • The seuerall ages of the world. 402. 403
• Agents, that there be three sorts. 162

• ...
  • Christ borne in the six•• age of the world, and why. 403
• Age of man diuided into foure parts. 68

AL.

• How all we haue is from God. 129
• All men taste of Gods goodnesse. 201
  • How all men may be said to hate the Prea∣chers. 435
• Alcestes how deerely she loued her Husband. 425

AN.

• Anabaptists heresie, what it is. 344
• Angels, for three things most excellent. 535
• Angels appeared like men but were neuer made men. 534
  • Alwayes serued Christ. 535
  • How they punish the wicked. 536
  • How they comfort the women. 537
  • Testifie of the resurrection of Christ. 566
  • The birth of Christ. 411. 411
• Angell, a name of office, and Christ often cal∣led an Angell. 330
• Angels, how they are said to ascend. 609
• Anger, what euill it doth. 229
  • That it is two-fold. 355
• Angell cannot beget another. 4
• Anselmus what he said. 66
  • Christ, why hee would not answere Pilate. 477

AP.

• Approbation of sinne, how euill it is. 15
• Apuleius his Asse what she said. 92
• Appearance and shew of truth, how vaine it is 213
• Apollinaris and some Arrians heresie. 348, & 343
• Apostles words, He is the first borne of euery crea∣ture, how vnderstood. 290
• Apelles his heresie. 343
• Application of Christs Resurrection, is that onely thing which helpeth vs. 586
• Apostacy, what a fearefull sinne. 595
• Apostles onely filled with the holy Ghost, on the day of Pentecost. 658
  • To approue sinne in others, what a great sinne. 25
• Appollodorus what he dreamed. 55
  • Christ appeared ofen in the shape of man, before he was made man. 329
  • Christ appeared like a man, vnto Adam. 329
  • To Abraham. 330. to Iacob, and Ioshua. 322
  • Christ appeared to the Patriarches in a true body. 345
  • Chr••st appeared like a sinnefull man, but without sinne 346
  • Christ how he appeared to Saint Paul going to Damascus. 388
• Apparitions of Christ after his Resurrection, twelue times at least. 505
  • Why he appeared first to Mary Magdalene. 565
  • Why he appeared first to Saint Peter, among the men. 570
  • Why he appeared to Saint Iames. 574

AR.

• Arrius his heresie, and obiections answered 248, &c. 299
• Arrians, whether they corrupted the Text of Salomon, God created, &c. 287
• Armour of a Christian of two kindes. 730
• Arrogancy of Iudas seene. 461
  • To argue from Gods power without testi∣mony of his will, not good. 172

AS.

• God made man to ascend. 561
• Christ ascended three times. 615
• Time, place, and manner of Christ his ascen∣tion. 620. 621
• Christ ascended aboue all heauens. 624
• Our ascention to Heauen depends vpon our vnion with Christ. 626
• Doctrine of Christs Ascention to what end it serueth. 618
• That we should alwayes ascend to heauen. 630
• Our wings to ascend what they be. 631
• Christ ascended for foure speciall ends. 639
• Christ before his ascention would not be∣stow the gifts of the Holy Ghost, and why. 640
• That there be foure sorts of ascenders. 609
• Angels how said to ascend. 609
• Christ whether wholly destitute of all assistance from the Godhead. 447
• That Christ assumed our flesh. 369

AT.

• Athiests deny the power of God. 136

AV

• First Author of our conuersion to God, is God. 529
• Saint Augustine reading the death of Dido, what he said. 51
• Christ borne in the raigne of Augustus, and why. 494
• Desparagement to Augustus his worth to ioyne any other with him. 504
• What the Author thinketh of transubstanti∣ation. 549

BA.

• BAcke-parts of God, what it signifieth. 117
• Balaam prophesied of Christ. 412

BE.

• Being of God not safe to search too farre into it. 124
  • God giueth being to all creatures. 125
  • Wee beleeue not the assertions of the Ie∣suites, not because we know not how they may be done, but because wee know they cannot be done. 177
• Beauty of God incomprehensible. 191
  • We are begotten to God by the truth. 215
  • Saint Bernards preaching two kindes of Sermons. 266
  • The father alwaies begetteth the sonne. 275
  • Christ made the beginning of our wayes. 288
• Benefits of Christs Incarnation. 359
• Benefits of the vnion of the two natures of Christ in respect of Christ. 382
  • In respect of vs. 390
  • Gods benefits recommended to our memo∣ries. 60
• Benefits how many Christ bestowed on Iudas. 458
  • Euery benefit requires a dutie. 542
  • To beleeue in Christ, is to eate and drinke him. 681
• Best men most hated in the world. 435
• Bethelem, the place where Christ was borne. 407 &c.
  • Christ, why betrayed by Iudas. 459

BJ.

• Birds flying hardly catched. 13
• Birth of Christ, how meane it was, & why. 409
  • Why first reueiled to the Shepheards. 412

BL.

• How blinde sinners be. 58
• Our blindnesse seene and confessed by the Philosophers. 59
• A fable of a blinde widdow. 58
• Bloud of Christ shed fixe speciall times. 164
• Bloud of Christ, the price that paid for all men. 501
• Blasphemy against the truth, what a heauy sin, 240
  • Shedding of mans bloud, what a fearefull sinne. 240

BO.

• Bodies cannot beget soules. 4
  • That Christ had a true body, proued. 341. 342 &c.
  • All the obiections to the contrary answe∣red. 344. 345. &c.
  • A naturall body must be locall. 155
• Body of Christ cannot be euery where. 157
  • How it may be said to be euery where 169
  • To be a true body, and to be euery where is meerely contradictory. 170
• Bodies glorified haue their dimensions. 170, &c.
• Body of Christ glorified from the first moment of his conception. 171
  • Still a physicall body. 172
  • For a body to be in one place, and in many places at the same time is vnpossible. 175
  • We may not referre that to the body, which is truely spoken of the whole person of Christ. 344
  • Christ appeared to the Patriarches in a true body. 345
• Body of Christ how said to doe diuine operati∣ons. 38
• Body of Christ how it may be truely said to bee in the Sacraments. 549
• Bodies raised at the resurrection of Christ, te∣stified of the resurection of Christ. 579
• Bodies in heauen shall be still quantatiue. 171
  • What a bondage it is to serue sinne. 99
  • Christ why borne in the raigne of Augustus and Herod. 404
  • Why borne in December. 405
  • Why vpon the Sabbath day. ibid.
  • And why presently after midnight. 406.
  • Why borne of a woman. 334
  • And why of a Virgin. ibid.
  • A bountifull man is gracious. 190

• ...
  • God most bountifull vnto all people. 192
  • God not bound to giue power to the wic∣ked to serue him. 210

BR.

• Brethren, how variously taken. 689
• Brotherhood in respect of the Spirit, greater then that in respect of flesh and bloud. 689
  • Gentile brethren how they loued one ano∣ther. 690

CA.

• GIuing Canaan to the Israelites, a type of gi∣uing heauen to vs. 127
  • God calleth effectually none but the elect. 203
  • God not the cause why the wicked serue not God. 210
• Causes of Christs sufferings. 493
  • Instrumentally manifold. 494, &c.
  • Efficient, God himselfe, and why. 496
  • Finall. 590

CE.

• Cerinthus his heresie. 374

CH.

• Substance changed cannot be what it was and what it is both at once. 173
• God can change any substance into ano∣ther. 173

• Charity most requisite for Preachers. 642
• Charity, what it is. 652
  • The surest signe of saluation. ibid.
• Children liable to death. 9
  • Tainted with sinne before they are borne. 9
• Childhood & the miseries therof described. 69
  • Our children to be married to the godliest men. 109
  • The wicked shall bee punished in their children. 245
  • How it stands with Gods iustice to punish the fathers sinnes vpon the children. 245
• Childrē very apt to imitate their Parents. 246
  • All children of the wicked not punished for their fathers sinnes. 247
  • A childe how conceiued in the wombe. 337
  • God chooseth no man in respect of any thing that is in man 211
• Christ the word, the summe of all things. 258
  • Signified by all the most memorable things of the old Testament. 258
• Christ would not reueale himselfe to the world all at once. ••59
  • To know him is the onely thing that makes vs happy. ibid.
• Christ despised all vanities. 260
  • Suffered all miseries. ibid.
• Christ the most perfect patterne of all vertue. 260
• Christ knowne suppresseth all vices. 261
  • He alone is all sufficient to supply all our neede. 262
  • Without Christ the whole world will auaile vs nothing. 263
• Christ onely should be preached by all Prea∣chers. 266
  • The Name of Christ should be alwayes in our mouthes to be honored, not to be blas∣phemed. 267
• Christ in the Father, not as we are in the Fa∣ther. 270
• Christ a true God proued. 278. 279. &c.
• Christ is truely rich 281
• Christ created all things, and gouerneth all things. 283
• Christ prayed vnto. 283
• Christ began to be a God existing in the man∣hood, when he was made flesh. 248
• Christ no accidental, but an essential word. 285
• Christ how he may be said to be created and begotten. 289
• Christ made the beginning of our wayes. 288
• Christ demaunds the earth as man, and giueth heauen as God. 290
• Christ how the first begotten, and how the onely begotten Sonne of God. 291
• Christ, how God of himselfe. 293
  • How said to be with God and in God. 298
• Christ equall to the Father. 299
• Christ after what manner conceiued. 335. Not of the Essence, but by the vertue of the Holy Ghost. ibid.
• Christ conceiued a perfect man in the first moment of his conception. 337
  • How wonderfully he was made man. ibid.
• Christ why conceiued of a Virgin. 338
  • How he commeth from Adam. ibid.
• Christ made a perfect man. 340
  • That he had a true body. 341, &c.

• Christ made subiect to all humane frailties. 351
• Christ how hee hath performed all things for vs. 360
• Christ an infallible patterne for all men to imi∣tate. 360
• Christ brought vs more good then we lost in Adam. 361
• Christ how made inuisible vnto the Iewes. 387
• Christ how he came in, the dores being shut. ibid.
  • How he walked vpon the seas. 388
  • How he appeared to S. Paul. 388. 389. &c.
• Christ came from Nathan, and not from Salo∣mon, 3••8
• Christ why born in the raigne of Augustus. 404
  • Why in the sixt age of the world. 403
  • Why in December. 405
• Christ what manner of person he was. 429
  • That he was a man. ibid.
  • A iust man. ibid.
  • A good man. 430
  • A King, a Priest, a Prophet. 431
  • A true and eternall God. 432
• Christ his sufferings expressed. 436. &c.
  • His whole life a continuall suffering. 437
• Christs sufferings chiefly in three places, 437
• Christ suffered in soule. ibid.
• Christs first degree of suffering, in being made passible. 438
• Christs sufferings most admirable, 439
• Christ why he went out to be taken. 439
  • Why out of the citie. 440
  • Why into the garden. 441
• Christ whether wholly destitute of all diuine assistance. 447
  • How lightly he esteemed of death. 446
• Christ how by his death he ouercame death 84
• Christ deliuered from what he feared. 448
• Christ to vndergoe the punishment of all o∣thers. ibid.
• Christ how he sought to reclaime Iudas. 461. &c.
• Christ how handled presently after he was ta∣ken. 464
• Christ why he chose Iudas to be his Apostle. 459
• Christ how crowned with thornes. 475
• Christ why he came not down from the Crosse 481
• Christ dead, is still persecuted & raged at. 482
• Christ how said to be euery where. 540
• Christ no where to be found but in the Church. 545
• Church, the fittest place for publique prayers 711
• Church how to rule her children. 520
• Church how subiect to afflictions. 520

CL.

• Clytoria•• Well what it effecteth. 528
• Cloathing Christ in white, what it signified. 473

CO.

• Comforts that we haue from Christ his being subiect to infirmities. 361. 362
  • Whatsoeuer God commandeth is no sinne. 166
  • God compelleth not his seruants to doe good 530
  • To compell others to sinne, the practise of most wicked sinners. 25
  • Manner of Christ his comming to iudge∣ment. 622, 623
  • Gods commandements, few, short, light, and profitable. 99
  • The least comfort denied in hell. 87
  • What communicates most goodnesse vnto o∣thers, is euer best. 197
  • That we should confesse our sinnes. 113
• Conuersion to God not to be deferred. 24
  • That we should confesse our sinnes the di∣uell cannot abide. 28
  • An excellent consideration of Saint Augu∣stine. 51
• Consciences of the wicked opened before they die. 80
  • We can conceiue but the least part of Gods excellencie. 118
  • What are contrari•• to the nature of God. 152
  • How contradictories destroy each other. 153
  • God cannot doe contradictories, proued. 154
  • That we should not contest about trifles. 265
• Consultation in heauen about the restitution of man. 319
  • God worketh one contrarie out of another. 351

• Contentednesse requisite in any state. 410
• Conception of Christ ineffable. 336
• Consideration of Christs sufferings most admi∣rable. 439
• Condemnation of all the infidels that would not beleeue in Christ, grieued Christ. 454
  • That we should condole the sufferings of Christ. 506
• Conuersion of a sinner first wrought by God. 529
• Conuersion of any man not to be despaired of. 533
• Contempt of vanities most requisite for Prea∣chers. 642
• Constancie most requisite for Preachers. 642, 643
• Conquest of Christ ouer Satan, not onely by suffering, but also trampling him vnder feete. 583
• Couetousnesse what a horrible sinne. 460
  • To be auoided. 704
• Couenant with hell should be broken. 26
• Colours vsed by the ancients to expresse diuers things. 474
  • The great courage of the Apostles present∣ly after the resurrection of Christ. 576
• Corporall presence of Christ no where now but in heauen. 545
  • Christ not corporally present in any secrets. 546, 547
• Correction how burthensome to children. 69
  • No cost to be spared to get truth. 217

CR.

• All creatures heape miseries on man. 74
• All creatures haue their being from God. 125
• The creatures haue many impressions of Gods goodnesse infixed in them. 256
• All creatures how inriched with good. 201
• Foure crying sinnes. 41
• No creature can be capable of infinitenesse, or of infinite perfections. 156
• Crueltie of Satan against the Preachers. 644

CV.

• Custome of ancient times, to expresse our mindes by visible signes. 680
• Cup that Christ was to drinke of, what it was. 444
• Cup which dranke vp, killed Christ, but ouer∣ceme not Christ. 449
• Curiositie to be shunned in searching out the manner of diuine mysteries. 277
• Curiositie to be auoided in searching what God is. 122, 124
• Custome of sinning, makes the sinner bold to sinne. 20
  • It makes the greatest sinnes seeme no sins. 21
  • It bindeth vs in sinne. 22
  • It indammageth the soule. 23
  • And makes the sinners almost incurable. 65

DA.

• DAmage receiued by Adam, two-fold. 3
  • What a danger it is to neglect publique prayers. 717
• Dauids words, This day haue I begotten thee, how to be vnderstood. 290
• Dangerous to reproue great men. 233
  • Who most subiect to dangers. 433
• Daughters of sinne are two. 82
  • In the day of Christs natiuitie, three things obseruable. 435

DE.

• Death the fruit of sinne. 2
  • Seauen deadly sinnes. 40
  • By death is contained all that is vnder the curse of God. 47, 67
• Death, three-fold. 49
• Death of the soule, three-fold. 53
• Death what it is. 67
  • How largely it extendeth it selfe. 75
  • How vnresistable it is. ibid.
  • How expressed by the Egyptians. 76
  • How it shortens life diuers wayes. 77
  • How it taketh men of all ages. 78
  • How it smiteth in euery place. 79
  • How comfortable it is to the godly. 79
  • How terrible to the wicked. 80
  • How it equalizeth the bodies of all men 81
• Death of Christ the sole cause that maketh our death happy vnto vs. 84
• Death eternall, what it is. 86
• Death of Christ a sufficient satisfaction for the greatest sinnes. 164

• Death how little Christ respected it. 446
  • Saints at their death supported by God. 447
• Death of the crosse, grieuous in foure respects. 479 480
• Death of Christ maketh the wicked without excuse. 504
  • Certainty of Christs death shewed in that her rose not til the third day. 556
• Deceit of sinne how great. 44
• Deceits, no deceits, vnlesse cunningly carried. 461
• Deformitie of sinne greater then we can com∣prehend. 107
• Deferring of Christs suffering grieued Christ. 451
  • Wicked men, how they deceiue them∣selues. 517
  • God a debter to no man. 531
  • To defend the truth, with the hazard of all that we haue. 217
  • Why God deferreth to giue vs what we de∣sire. 723
• Delight in sinne, maketh vs exceeding sinfull. 15
  • Our deliuerances from punishments to be ascribed to Gods goodnesse. 203
  • God deliuereth not alwaies his deerest Saints from afflictions. 206
  • Christ deliuered from what he feared. 448
  • To derogate from Gods power, how great a sinne. 161
  • God denieth his grace vnto the children for their Fathers sinnes. 251. Why. 252
  • Why God denieth what we aske. 725
  • To descend from the crosse easier then to rise from the graue. 562
• Descention of Christ into hell, handled 580. 581, &c. proued by Scripture, and by the stimonie of antiquitie. 484. 618
  • That Christ descended before hee could as∣cend. 609
  • Why Christ descended not from the crosse. 481
  • We ought to despaire of no mans conuersi∣on. 533
• Descending of Christ, signifieth the assuming of our flesh. 301
• Description of God by way of negation, affir∣mation, and super eminencie. 121
• Desire to sinne, is an act done. 96
• Desperate men thinke God cannot forgiue them. 139
  • We ought neuer to despaire of mercie. 226
  • To despaire, what a haynous sinne. 228
  • Saints desired nothihg but Christ. 264
• Demosthenes his Parable vnto the Athenians of the wolues request vnto the sheepe. 644
  • Of the young man that hired an Asse to Megara. 678

DI.

• Christ, whether hee died for all men and how. 505
• To die to sinne, what it is. 50 a punishment for sinne. ibid.
• To die in sinne what it is. 51
• Difference betwixt spirituall and eternall pu∣nishment. 250
  • How the word God differeth from our Word. 309
  • A great difference betwixt appearing in the forme of man, and to be made man. 329
• Difference betwixt assuming flesh, and to bee made flesh. 345
• Difference betwixt the two-fold generations of Christ and of the Saints. 364
• Difference betwixt Law and Gospell. 3••4
• Difference betwixt the sinnes of the godly, and the wicked three-folde. 35
• Difference betwixt feare and sorrow. 449
  • Philosophers most diligent to attaine to all kinde of knowledge. 315
  • How diligent we ought to be to know Christ. 393
• Dirt nothing so foule as sinne. 52
• Diseases of the soule, what they be. 63
• Discontent with God, what a heauie sinne. 239
• Disobedience to God, what a haynous sinne. 293
• Disobedience to parents, what a fearefull sinne. 240
  • To distinguish of Gods power reconcileth diuers Authors. 150

• Dispertion of the Apostles grieued Christ. 453
  • In distresse how wee ought to seeke vnto God. 488
• Disciples whether they stole Christ from the graue or not. 562
• Discretion how needfull for Preachers. 696
• Diuels know God, and Christ, and the my∣sterie of the Trinitie. 314
  • Confest Gods power. 162

DO.

• Doctrine touching the person of Christ, how alwaies opposed by Satan. 304
• Doctrine of diuinitie how deepe and difficult. 392
  • Whatsoeuer God doth, is no sinne. 166
  • Doores being shut, how Christ came in. 387
• Doubting of Gods goodnesse, what a fearefull sinne. 239
  • That we should neuer doubt of Gods pro∣mises. 130

DR.

• To draw neere to vs, how God is said. 165
• M. Drusus desired all men might see what he did. 604

EA.

• EArth accursed for the sinne of man. 48

EF.

• The effects that Christs sufferings should worke in vs. 505

EG.

• Egyptians how they expressed death. 76

EL.

• Electionis of some men, not of all. 203
  • The elect onely are effectually called. 203
• Elizabeth, the wife of Zacharias, of what Tribe she was. 397

EN.

• Enemies that besot the godly, 177
• Enuie of Satan against Christ. 493 and why he enuied him. 434
• Enemies of Christ ascribe to him in mockery, what he was in deed. 432 433
• Enemies of Christ, what they testified of him. 578
• Enemies of man especially three. 582

EP.

• Epicurus confest the world had beginning and shall haue ending. 137

EQ.

• Equalitie of sinnes confuted. 37
• Equitie of eternall punishment for a tempora∣rie sinne, shewed in two respects. 97
  • Christ equall with the Father. 299

ER.

• Error of the Philosophers, touching the eter∣tie of the world. 136
• Error of the Vbiquitaries, touching the pow∣er of God. 141
• Error of the Iesuites about the power of God. 141
• Error of Pellagius about the abilitie of mans nature. 63▪ 64
• Error of Nouatus, about sins after Baptisme. 112
• Errors of the vulgar, about the absolute pow∣er of God. 151
• Errors expelled by truth. 215
• Errors boulstered with lies. 175
• Error of Saint Gregorie, and Saint Bernard con∣futed. 94. 95
• Error of Lactantius and Pellagius confuted. 63
• Error of the Philosophers, Stoicks, Arist. Seleu∣cus, Hermias & Hermog▪ confuted. 136, 137, &c.
• Error of the Vbiquitaries shewed. 141
  • Confuted, 155. Their Obiect. anws. 165
• Error of Bellarmine, and the Iesuites shewed. 141. Their Obiections answered. 172, &c.
• Error of Saint Hierom. 330

ES.

• Essence of God in heauen, cannot bee seene but in the face of Iesus Christ. 118
• Essence of God not safe to search too farre in∣to it. 124
• Essence of God distinguished into three per∣sons. 272
  • The word essence deriued our of Scripture, and vsed in Scripture, 294
  • Christ of the same essence with his Father. 292.
  • Vnpossible to escape out of the hands of the Angels. 337

ET.

• Eternity of Christ proued, and the obie∣ctions against the same answered. 278 279, 280, &c.
• Eternall punishment how inflicted for a tem∣porary sinne. 94

EV.

• Eua beleeueth the Deuill. 3
  • The euill that oppresseth euery sinner two-fold. 321
• Euangelist, why hee saith the Word was made flesh, rather then man. 349
• Eutichian heresie, what it was. 367, &c.

EX.

• Excuses of sinners to iustifie themselues. 24
• Excuses of sinners to lessen sinne. 110
• Examples of wilfull and spitefull sinners. 33
• Excellency of God cannot be conceiued of vs. 118
  • All the excellencies of Christs man-hood were created excellencies. 146
  • God expressed to Moses what he is, three manner of wayes. 121
• Examples of Gods mercy in seeking after sin∣ners. 181
  • We should carefully examine whether we loue God or not. 189
• Examples of Gods slownesse to punish sin. 194
  • Good examples a great meanes to further godlinesse. 360
  • Three sorts of men excluded from the Pas∣chall Lambe. 682
• Excellency of diuine truth. 215

EK.

• The word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, whether rightly transla∣ted, created, or not. 287

FA.

• THree faculties of the soule of man. 53
  • Euery faculty of the soule defiled by sinne. ibid.
• Fathers how they extoll the power of God. ibid.
• Faith seeth what reason perceiueth not. 176
  • God called Father of mercies, neuer cal∣led Father of vengeance, and why. 195
• Faults of some not to be ascribed vnto all. 221
  • God the Father alwayes begetteth the Sonne. 275
  • The name of Father taken two wayes. 278
  • God the Father of Christ, not as he is our Father. 291
  • The Father, how greater then Christ. 300
• Father sent not Christ by way of command. 301
  • Christ the fairest among the sons of men. 353
• Family from whence Christ descended, 396, &c.
• Faults of the Disciples Christ would not re∣ueale. 466
• Faith foure-fold. 647
  • Iustifying faith the properties of it. 648

FE.

• That we should feare our Lord. 131
• That we should aswell feare Gods iustice, as hope for his mercy. 244
• Feare is two-fold. 355
• Feare and sorrow how they differ. 449
  • What Christ feared. 450. 455, &c.
  • Whom we neede not feare. 538
  • God in what sence to be feared. 539
  • Magistrates and parents in what sence to be feared. 538
• Feare brought into the world by sinne. 540
  • God how he ought to be feared. 541
  • That we ought to feare in euery state of grace, lapse, and recouerie. 441

FI.

• Fire and sinne cannot be concealed. 20
  • Fire and sinne not resisted will necessarily increase. 22
  • Christ in what respect sayd to be the first begotten Sonne of God. 291
  • That we should striue to be the first in Gods seruice. 590
  • Apostles onely filled with the holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. 658
• Fiue kindes of kisses. 460

FL.

• Flesh apt to conceiue sin. 14
• Flesh taken for the corrupted qualitie of man. 8
• Flesh of Christ made by all the three persons of the Trinity. 325
• Flesh diuers kindes. 339
  • Our flesh assumed by Christ. 369

• Flesh of Christ, how said to be Deified. 369
  • How said to doe diuine operations. 389
  • Christ how flouted by all men. 481, 482
• Flesh the tenderer, the more sensible of paine. 483

FO.

• Forgetfulnesse an infernall Fiend. 60
  • To forbeare to punish sinne, increaseth the number of sinners. 90
• Fore-sight of good and euill is not the cause of punishment, or reward of either. 95
  • Heathens f••lsly ascribed to Fortune, what is true of God. 139
  • To forgiue sinne, the greatest worke of Gods power. 140
  • God able to forgiue sinnes. ibid.
  • In the forgiuing of sinnes, many particulars to be considered. 183
  • God forgiu••th all sinnes, or no sinne. 184
  • God cannot forget to be mercifull. ibid.
• Fo••giuen••sse of sinnes our chiefest comfort. 224
  • That wee ought to forgiue one another. 236
  • And to fo••get all iniuries. ibid.
  • Our fo••e fathers how they exceeded vs in deuotion. 731
  • To be in the forme of God, is to be very G ••. 280
  • To lay a good foundation, the best way to teach. 392
• Fortitude of the women seeking Christ. 521
  • Christ in heauen forgetteth not his seruants on earth. 629
• Foure points handled touching the power of God. 13••
• Foure sorts of men erre about the doctrine of Gods power 135
• Foure speciall graces bestowed vpon the elect. 204
• Foure kindes of redemption. 500
• Foure sorts of ascenders. 609
• Foure-fold end of Christs ascention. 639
• Foure points considered about the gifts of God. 640
• Foure signes of fulnesse. 665
• Foure-fold feales or signes wherewith Saints are sealed. 669
• Foure sorts or receiuers of the Sacraments. 680

FR.

• Christ assumed all our humane frailties. 351
• Friends of Christ how dearly he loued them. 488
  • God expecteth not the like fruits from all men. 602
  • The Saints are freed from all their ene∣mies. 636
  • Christ freeth vs from Satan to place vs in his owne seruice. ibid.
  • We are not freed from Satan, to doe what we list. 637

FV.

• Fury of the wicked restrained. 178
  • All men are full of somethings. 665

GA.

• WHy Christ went to the garden of Gethse∣mane to bee taken, and what befell him there. 441
• Gaufredus Clareuallensis what he said. 613

GI.

• Gifts of God of two sorts. 192, & 641
  • Hee giueth spirituall gifts to the godly. ibid.
  • And temporall gifts to the wicked. ibid.
• Gifts of God are free gifts. 640
  • Diuersly bestowed. 523
  • Euery man should be contented with the gifts God giueth him. 523
  • Diuersity of gifts among the Apostles and Fathers. ibid.
• Gifts requisite for Preachers. 641
• Gifts to edifie the Church, how giuen. 657
  • Speciall gifts of God, whereby the elect are saued, vnpossibly to be knowne. 646
• Gifts of prayer the chiefest of all Gods graces. 730
• Gifts of the Magi, what they shewed Christ to be. 413.

GE.

• Generation of Christ two-fold. 288.
• Gentiles were not altogether ignorant of the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. 311
  • What they writ of this name of Christ. 312, 313

• Gentiles how they might come to the know∣ledge of this word. 313, 3••4
• Gentiles expected the comming of the Messias. 316, 412
• Generality of Christ his suffering. 483

GO.

• God how said to bee the Father of Spirits. 6
• Go••ly mens sinning differ in three things from the wicked. 35, 36
• Godly life maketh a happy death. 82
• God loueth righteousnesse. 90
  • No respect of persons. 91
  • Most iust. ibid.
  • Iudgeth euery man according to his de∣sert. 92
  • How great and how mighty he is. 102
  • How ineffable. 125
  • A most faithfull performer of all his promi∣ses. 127
  • How he guideth and gouerneth all things. 138
  • Of his owne nature most intelligible. 120
  • To vs incomprehensible. 120, 121
  • That there is but one God, proued many wayes. 269, 270
• God onely to be prayed vnto. 710
  • Christ no titular, but a true God by nature proued. 278, 279, 280, &c.
  • To deny the God-head of Christ what a hai∣nous sinne. 305
• God-head of Christ suffered not, but sustained the man-hood to suffer. 438, 485
  • The godly how they doe ascend. 614
  • Loue of goodnesse should make vs hate sin. 66
• Goodnesse of God to man, how incomprehensi∣ble. 101, 103
• Good and godly men ought to be cherished and promoted. 110
• Goodnesse what it is. 196
• Goodnesse of things two-fold. 197
• God good to all things. 197
  • Perfectly, absolutely, and vniuersally good. 198
  • Nothing absolutely good but God. ibid.
• Goodnesse of God two-fold. 198
  • Generall goodnesse of God seene in two things. 198
  • All things made good in their kinde. 199
• Good for some vse, yet not vniuersally good ibid.
• Goodnesse of God withholdeth the wicked from many sinnes, suspendeth our iust de∣serued punishments. 200
  • How it extendeth it selfe to all men. 201
  • Yet not alike good to all men. 202
  • Gods speciall goodnesse seene in two things. 203
  • It preserueth the Saints from sinning. 204
  • From punishments. 205
• Goodnesse of God most of all seene in our af∣flictions. 206
  • All our goodnesse to bee ascribed to God 208
  • To the glory of Christ. 264
  • We can doe no good of ourselues. 209
  • The boundlesse goodnesse of Gods proui∣dence. 257
  • Many impressions of Gods goodnesse infix∣ed in the creatures. 2••6
  • Best good we can doe vnto our children, is to serue God. 251
  • Not to doe good, a sinne. 230
  • Gods goodnesse, how abused by the wicked. 225
  • Ill-gotten-goods neuer thriueth. 253
  • No good in the Saints but what God wor∣keth in them. 2741
  • Why goodnesse is ascribed to the holy Ghost 273
• Gospell biddeth and forbiddeth many things which the Law doth not. 12
• Gospell in the Law, and Law in the Gospell. 224

GL.

• Glorification of a body, taketh not away the essentiall properties of a body. 170
• Glory of Christ should be chiefly aimed at by all Preachers. 266

GR.

• Grace not ••raduced from the best parents. 8
  • Word gracious, what it signifieth. 190
  • Three speciall things. ibid.
  • God is gracious in all respects. 191

• Graces especially bestowed vpon the elect. 2••4
• Grace of iustification what it is. 208
• Grace of sanctification what it is. ibid.
• Grace of glorification what it is. ibid.
• Graces of God denied vnto the children for the fathers sinnes, 251. and why. 252.
• Graces of God not giuen in the like measure to all men. 602
  • We ought to examine what graces we haue. 646
  • Chiefest graces of God, Faith, Hope, Chari∣tie. 647
• Graces of Christ to sanctifie our soules, are two-fold. 645
• Grace of Christ ought in all things to be ex∣tolled, and our selues extenuated. 265
• Great sinnes must haue great repentance 23
• Great mens sinnes, are great sinnes. 37
• Great men haue no excuses for their sinnes. 38
• Great men haue no priuiledge to sinne. 39
  • Their state very dangerous. 39. 40
  • How subiect to dangers. 704
  • Father how greater then Christ. 300
• Great sinnes punished with great punishments. 92
• Great men how they vse to deale with the poore. 235
  • What Christ grieued at in the garden. 540 541. &c.
• Griefe of Christ on the Crosse▪ aggrauated by all circumstances 4••1
• Growth of sinne how to be hindred. 108
  • A gradation in the loue of God. 202

HA.

• HAbituall sinnes hardly repelled. 23
• Harlots how they deceiue men. 45
• Haynousnesse of sinne seene in three respects. 97
  • To hazard all in defence of truth. 217

HE.

• Heart to be carefully watched. 14.
• Hell paines how intollerable. 86
• Heathens how they extolled the power of God. 161
• Hebrewes often vse the present tense, for the future tense. 288
  • The head alwaies chiefly opposed. 304
  • Christ borne in the raigne of Herod, and why. 404
• Heretickes how wicked to deny the God-head of Christ 305
• Herod what he did to Christ. 473
• Hell in the Article of our Creede, signifieth not the graue. 582
• Hell destroyed by Christ three waies. 583
  • That there be three heauens. 624
  • The man Christ in the highest part of hea∣uen. 623
  • And why. 626
  • Nothing so heauie as sinne. 631.
• Hearing of Gods Word a speciall meanes to get grace. 677
  • Diuers sorts of hearers. 678
• Heresie of Nonatus. 112, 593
  • Of Pellagius. ibid.
  • Of Arrius, and his obiections answered. 284, 285. &c. 293, &c. 299. &c.
• Heresie of Apelles and Apolinaris. 343
  • Of the Anabaptists. 344
  • Of Samosatenus. 363
  • Of Eutychos. 367, 368
  • Of Cerinthus, and of Nestorius, concerning the person of Christ, and their obiections answered. 374
• Heresies to be shewed, and why. 392

HI.

• Euery one laboureth to hide his sinnes, 19
• None can hide his sinnes from God. 19

HO.

• No sinner excluded from hope of pardon. 224
• Honorius his childishnesse. 267, 268
  • Word Homousius not first inuented by the orthodox fathers. 29••
  • Iustified as it is vsed. ibid.
• Holy Ghost, whether tearmed the word or not. 323
  • Our hope supported by the meditation of Christ his passion, 426
• Holy Ghost a true God proued. 659
• Holy Ghost appeared in the likenesse of fiue speciall things. 660
  • And why. 661, &c.

• Holy Ghost, how we may know whether wee haue it or not. 672
  • Christ, why he went out of the house to be taken. 439
• Hope what it is, and how it differeth from faith. 649
• Hope two-fold. ibid.
  • Humane hope what it doth, and diuine hope what it doth. 650
  • Euery hope in God maketh not happie. 651
  • To want the Holy Ghost, is marke of a lost one. 674

HV.

• Humanitie of Christ onely suffered. 438
• Humanitie of Christ not capable of infinite excellencies. 146
• Humane acts how said to be done by God, 165. 166
• Humilitie of Christ. 349
  • Seene in the incarnation of Christ. 358

JA.

• IAmes most like vnto Christ. 461

JD.

• Idlenesse a furtherance to sinne. 13
• Idolatrie a great master-sinne. 41
  • How horrible it is. 238

IE.

• Iewes, why they beleeue not Iesus the Sonne of Mary to be the true Messias. 561
• Iehouah the essentiall and most proper name of God. 122, 123
  • It signifieth an eternall being. 123
  • In hebrew, containeth nothing but conso∣nants, in latine nothing but vowels, and why. 125
  • Knowne to Abraham, Isaac and Iacob. 126
  • Why translated Lord. 130, 131
  • Christ true Iehouah. 278. &c.
• Iesuites what they say to proue transubstanti∣ation. 172
• Iewes rightly vnderstood Christ teaching him∣selfe to be equall to the father. 300
  • Reiection of the Iewes grieued Christ. 454
• Iewes how cunningly they sought to incense Pilat•• against Christ. 472

IG.

• Ignorance two-fold. 26, 355
  • Simple Ignorance doth extenuate a sinne. 27
  • Affected ignorance trebleth the sinne. 28
  • Wilfull ignorance what a fearefull sinne. ibid.
  • Christ was ignorant of some things, and how he may be said to be ignorant of any thing 356
• Ignorance of Gods power the cause of many heresies. 134, 135
  • How ignorant many men are of the chiefest points of christianitie. 395

IM.

• Immortalitie how to be attained. 128
• Impossible things for God to doe, of two sorts. 185
• Impossible for God to make the things which are, not to haue beene. 167
• Image of God could be repayred by none but by God. 321
  • We are apt to imitate our Parents. 247 252
  • Wherein we ought to imitate God. 228
  • To imitate Christ the safest way to walke. 360

IN.

• How ineffable God is 125
• Sinnes of infirmitie what they are. 30
• No man free from them. ibid.
• Knowne by foure speciall notes, 31
• Infirmities of Christ proue the manhood of Christ. 347
  • Our infirmities why Christ did vndertake them 352
• Infirmities of how many sorts. 352
• Infirmities not sinfull, two-fold. 353
  • What infirmities Christ tooke on him. ibid.
• Incarnation of the Word why decreed for our saluation. 318
• Incarnation of Christ what benefit it bringeth. 359
  • The greatest argument of Gods loue. 257
  • That wee are not in God, as Christ is in God 298
  • Christ as man, for euer inferiour to his Fa∣ther. 302
  • Condemnation of all infidels grieued Christ 454

• Infamie described, and the miseries thereof shewed. 68
  • Three things should expell ingratitude from vs 706
  • God looketh into the intention of the heart. 54
• Inuocation for two things. 700

IO.

• Iosephus what he writ of Christ. 577
• Iohannes Alexandrinus what he did. 265

IR.

• Sinne called irremissible three wayes. 227

IƲ.

• Iudas what benefits he receiued from Christ 458
  • Why chosen to be an Apostle. 459
  • Why made the Purse-bearer. ibid.
  • Why he betraied Christ. ibid.
  • Why he gaue them a signe. 461
  • How sought to be reclaymed by Christ. 461, 462
  • What his treason should teach vs. 461
  • His arrogancie and iniquitie how great. 461
  • Why he kissed Christ. 461
  • That it is a iust thing to punish sinne. 90
• Iustice is often peruerted with men. 91
  • God iudgeth all men according to what they haue actually done. 95
  • Euery one according to his desert. 92
  • God most iust, proued 91
  • God in the strictnes of his iustice might in∣flict more punishmēt vpon the damned 187
  • Whatsoeuer he doth, is iust. 237
• Iustice of God taken diuers waies. 237
• Iustice of God requireth a day of iudgement. 245
  • How it stands with God iustice to punish the fathers sinnes vpon the children. 245
• Iustice and truth how they pleaded against man. 319
  • That we should as well feare Gods iustice, as hope for mercie. 244
• Iudgements of God must be threatned, when his mercies doe not allure vs. 696
• Iustification what it is. 208
  • Christ Iustified by his enemies. 429

KI.

• KIngdome of heauen could be giuen by none but by God. 321
• Kisses, that there be fiue kindes. 460
• Kings and Magistrates to be prayed for, and why. 734

KN.

• God knoweth best when to helpe vs. 724

• Knowledge most necessary for Preachers 642
  • Adams desire of knowledge brought igno∣rance vpon vs all. 58
  • Sinnes of knowledge, most fearefull inexcu∣sable sinnes. 29
  • And yet we doe what we know to be feare∣full sinnes. 29
  • The excellencie of our knowledge makes our sinnes the more horrible. 30
  • All knowledge of God extinguished by sin. 64
  • Three wayes of knowing God. 120
  • We are not able to know him as hee is in himselfe. 120
• Knowledge of Gods power, the foundation of our faith. 134
  • We know many things negatiuely, as, what God is not, which we know not positiuely. 176
  • We know what God cannot doe, though we know not what he can doe. 176
  • To know Christ, the onely thing that makes vs happy. 259
  • It suppresseth all vices. 261
  • The Gentiles had a measure of the know∣ledge of God. 311
  • The diuels know God, and the mysterie of the Trinitie. 314
• Knowledge of Christ, two-fold. 356
• Knowledge of Iesus Christ, the chiefest know∣ledge in the world. 391
  • The diuell chiefly laboureth to corrupt it. 391
  • We know not what is good for our selues. 726

LA.

• LAbour vndertaken vpon hope of reward. 1
• Labourer presently to haue his p••ay. ibid.

• Law of nature and of all nations teacheth to punish sinne. 90
• Lawes of men like a spiders web. 91
• Law of God like an yron net. ibid.
• Lawes must bee made according to rules of mens abilitie to keepe them. 210
• Law in the Gospell. 224
  • That the law was not created. 286
  • To keepe Gods lawes made Dauid wiser then his teachers. 571
• Law of God giuen to be kept, not to be talked of. 600
• Languages and readie speech requisite for preachers. 641

LE.

• Letters how vsed by the ancient to signifie di∣uers things. 473

LI.

• God the verie life of all things. 125

• Life of Christ a continuall suffering. 437
  • A good life what it effecteth. 601
  • Bad life what euill it doth. 601
  • The wicked are lifted vp to bee throwne downe. 612
• Life of Christ a continuall suffering. 437

LO.

• Loaues of bread how multiplied by Christ. 174
  • God onely absolute Lord. 131
• Lord and Iehoua equiualent. ibid.
• Lord taken two waies. ibid.
  • Men may be called Lords. 131
  • Our Lord should bee feared and serued, for three speciall reasons. 132
  • Christ most properly called Lord. 132
• Logos what it signifieth. 306
  • Why, vsed by the Euangelist. 310
  • The best knowne name of Christ among the Iewes. 311
  • God loueth not the wicked. 189
• Loue of God, in giuing Christ to be incarnate, how great it was. 303
  • To loue God is not to offend him. 305
• Loue of the Father seene in giuing Christ to be incarnate. 357
• Loue of Christ seene in his incarnation. 359
  • Our loue to God increased by the meditati∣on of Christ his Passion. 424
• Loue of God to mankinde moued him to giue his Sonne to die for man. 498
  • How great his loue was to man. ibid.
• Loue of Christ to man, how vnspeakable. 499
  • How deerely we ought to loue Christ. 508
  • To loue one another, how wee are bound vnto it. 511
  • Want of loue the cause of all mischiefe in the world. 511
  • We ought to loue all men. ibid.
• Loue of money what it doth. 565
• Loue shewed foure wayes. 693
  • That there is a gradation in the loue of God. 684
  • Man lost a two-fold good. 321

LƲ.

• Vntamed lusts what an odious sinne. 240
• Saint Lukes words, he shall be called the Sonne of God, how vnderstood. 248

• Lutherans what they teach concerning the vnion of the two natures of Christ. 377
• Lutheran doctrine what absurdities it brings foorth. 377

MA.

• MAn following his vocation is the safer from Satan. 13
• Man receiued power to beget man like him∣selfe. 7
• Manner how euerie sinne is committed foure∣fold. 26
  • Sinnes of malice haue two violent proper∣ties. 32
• Malice of Satan restrayned. 178
• Man, what a poore and a miserable thing. 104
• Manhood described, and the miseries therof. 70
• Manner how the Father begetteth the Sonne, or the Holy Ghost proceedeth, is ineffable. 227
• Manner of diuine mysteries not curiously to be searched into. ibid
  • No man truly rich 281
• Malice of Hereticks seene in denying the God-head of Christ. 305
  • Not to marrie with wicked sinners. 109
  • Mankinde produced three waies before Christ his time. 333
• Manner how Christ was conceiued. 335

• ...
  • It is ineffable. 336
  • Christ made a perfect man. 340
• Marcion his heresie. 343
• Macedonius his heresie. ibid.
• Manichaeus his heresie. ibid.
• Manhood of Christ seene by the sufferings of Christ. 343
  • Word made flesh, why the Euangelist saith. 369
  • How one thing may be made another thing three waies. 37••
• Manhood of Christ how adored. 383
• Mary rightly called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the mother of God. 385
• Mary of what Tribe she was. 397. 398
• Mathew and Michoa, how reconciled, touch∣ing the place of Christ his birth. 407
• Magi what they beleeued Christ to be. 4••3
• Man, of al creatures most subiect to sufferings. 434
• Malice of Satan, Christ prayed against. 456
• Malchus how he vsed Christ. 467
• Masters that are ill, make ill seruants. 467
• Malice of the Iewes against Christ. 495 517
• Manner of Christs suffering incomprehensible. 5••2
• Mary Magdalen a sinnefull woman. 529
  • How shee liued after her conuersion. 533
• Mary Magdalens, how many there were. 568
  • Why not suffered to touch Christ. 568
• Magistrates in what sence to be feared. 538
• Manhood of Christ, how said to bee euerie where. 5••4
• Martyrs how constantly they professed Christ 577
• Manna had twelue wonders in it. 703

ME.

• Memorie what an excellent facultie it is. 60
  • Wherein it excelleth all other faculties. ibid.
  • God recommendeth all his benefits vnto it. ibid.
  • How defiled by sinne. 61
  • How faithfull to record vaine and vile things. ibid.
  • How faithlesse to retaine good things. 61
  • What we should alwaies remember. 62
• Meditation of our death what it doth. 82
• Mediators two sorts. 296
• Mediator betwixt God and man, to bee like God and like man. 320
  • Christ a perfect mediator. 341
  • Theesame measure of effectuall grace, must worke the same effect in all men. 209
  • Our meaning is accepted, where meanes are wanting. 232
• Meditation of Christs Passion what it effec∣teth. 421. 422, &c.
  • Most acceptable vnto Christ. 421
  • Expelleth sinne. 423
  • Kindleth our loue to God. 424
  • Supporteth our hope. 426
  • The same measure of grace not giuen to all men. 602
• Meanes to bring vs to our end, decreed as well as our end. 654
  • The Apostles receiued not the same measure of grace. 667
  • The same measure of fruits God expecteth not from all men. 668
• Melchisedech who he was. 330
  • No inhabitant of Canaan. 330. 331
  • That he was Iesus Christ the Son of God, in the shape of man proued. 331, &c.
• Memnons heresie. 343
• Merit of Christs suffering how to bee conside∣red. 502
  • All men of note vnder the old Testament, types of Christ. 258
  • To hope for mercie and to neglect Gods seruice vaine presumption. 717.
• Mercie and peace how they pleaded for man 319
• Mercie in God what it signifieth. 180
• Mercie of God how it sought Adam, and ma∣ny more when they sinned. 180, &c.
• Mercie of God magnified. 182
  • It consisteth chiefly in three things. 182
  • It is euerlasting two waies. 184
  • The best stay to relie vpon. 185
  • How it qualifieth punishments. 186
  • Found in all places, and in all creatures 188
• Mercie of God two-fold. 188
  • How God is onely mercifull to them that loue him. ibid.

• ...
  • It proceedeth naturally from God. 195
  • How it pleadeth for sinners. ibid.
  • How largely it extendeth it selfe. 223
• Mercies of God innumerable and imme••sura∣ble. 223
  • Lasting for euer and euer. ibid.
• Mercie of God teacheth vs to bee affrayd to sinne. 225
  • God more mercifull then we are sinnefull. 226
  • We ought to imitate God in the workes of mercie. 228
  • Mercy how scarce among men. ibid.
  • Workes of mercie of two sorts. 232
• Motiues to perswade vs to be mercifull. 223
• Mercie makes vs like to God. ibid.
  • Scarce amongst vs. ibid.
  • That it is no mercie to spare wicked men. 235
• Messias expected by the Gentiles. 316

MI.

• Able ministers what a great gift. 643
• We ought to pray for our ministers. 737
• Ministers subiect to the greatest miseries. 74
  • The manifold miseries of all Ages. 68
  • Of infancie 68. Of child-hood. 68. 69. Of youth 69. Of man-hood 70. Of old age 70 71
  • The miseries of al estates. 71. Of the poore. 72.
  • Of the rich 72. Of meane men 73. Of the nobilitie, ibid. Of the common people, ibid. Of the Magistrates, ibid. Of the Mini∣sters. 74
  • How Christ suffered all miseries. 260

MO.

• Christ how mocked vpon the Crosse. 481

MV.

• How Christ multiplied the loaues of bread. 174
• To murmure against God, what a haynous sinne. 139

MY.

• Mysterie of clothing Christ in white, explai∣ned. 473
• Mysterie of the Trinitie, why not fully reuea∣led at first. 272
• Misteries of faith how farre past the reach of a naturall man. 59

NA.

• NAture is wholy defiled. 4
• Nature can neuer procure the gifts of grace. 64
• Nature teacheth vs to punish sinne. 90
• Nature notable to shew the reason how the world should be made. 138
  • The nature of all things good. 197
• Nature relieueth the part most distressed. 451
  • To the nature of God what things are re∣pugnant. 152
  • Two natures in our Sauiour Christ. 363
  • Confirmed. 365. 366.
  • By nature wee are alike indifferent to all sinnes. 204
  • Abstract names of all excellencies most pro∣per vnto God. 122. 294
  • Jehoua the essentiall name of God. 123
• Name of God taken two waies. 296
  • All names of dignitie in the old Testament types of Christ. 258
  • Christ came from Nathan, and not from Salomon. 398

NE.

• Negatiue precepts. 365. 230
• Nec••ssitie three-fold. 491
  • How it was necessarie for Christ to suffer. 493
• Nestorius his heresie. 374
  • Wherein he affirmed the vnion of the two natures of Christ to subsist. 375
  • His heresie confuted. 376
  • How he was deceiued about the person of Christ. 619

NI.

• Christ borne in the night time, and why. 406

NO.

• Nominall relation of the three Persons of the Trinitie maketh a true distinction of the persons. 278
• Nouatus his heresie 112
  • Why hee thought sinnes of recidiuation should not be pardoned. 593

OB.

• MAny obseruations about the manner of his crucifying. 489
• Obstinate sinners how hardly reclaimed. 463
• Obedience of Christ seene in the incarnation of Christ. 358
• Obiections of the Arrians against the eternall God-head of Christ answered. 284. &c.

OF.

• We offend God for trifles. 105
• Officers not to be made, but of the best and godliest men. 109
• Office of the Word to declare the minde of God. 312
  • What we should offer vnto Christ. 415

OL.

• Old age described, and the miseries thereof. 71

ON.

• One sinne brings death. 3••

OM.

• Omnisciencie cannot be communicated to any creature, 156

OP.

• Oppressing the poore what a fearefull sin. 240
  • To oppose the knowne truth what a horri∣ble sinne. 240
  • The euill that oppresseth man is two-fold. 321

OR.

• Originall corruption how traduced. 4
  • Hard to be expressed 5
• Order obserued by God in all things. 324

PA.

• HOw painefull to walke in the wayes to hell. 100
  • Christ made passible, the first degree of his passion. 438
• Patience and mercy of God shewed by two pas∣sages of Scripture. 196
• Patience necessary to retayne the truth. 218
  • No sinner excluded from hope of pardon. 224
  • Good Parents leaue the best patrimonie vnto their children. 224
  • Christ the perfect patterne of all vertue. 260
  • Meditation of Christs passion what it effe∣cteth. 421, 422. &c.
  • Cause of passions two fold. 443
• Passions of man how they inuade him, will he, nill he, but not Christ. 444
• Passions of man how they blinde and distract him, but not Christ. 445
  • Our Parents neuer to be forgotten. 488
  • All the particulars of Christ his passions vn∣possible to be expressed.
• Patience in suffering, more respected of God then our suffering. 520
• Patience what an excellent gift. 655
• Patience two-fold. 655
  • Christ set vs downe a perfect patterne of prayer. 718

PE.

• Chiefest perfection of man consisteth in the will of man. 53
• Perplexities of the wicked at their death-time. 80
  • A most earnest perswasion to forsake sinne. 87
  • God a faithfull performer of all his promi∣ses. 227, & 358
  • Each person of the Trinity a true Iehoua. 123, 124
  • Three persons in the one essence of God 272
  • The three persons of the Trinity distingui∣shed two waies 274
• Person of Christ, how alwaies abused by Satan and all heretickes. 304
  • What is true of the person of Christ, is not alwaies true being restrayned to the body of Christ. 344
  • Christ conceiued a perfect man in the first moment of his conception. 337
  • Christ was in all respects a perfect man 340
• Peters infirmities manifold. 467
  • Why suffered to fall. 468
  • How restored by Christ. ibid.
• Persecutors of Christ how plagued. 558
• Petition of the theefe on the crosse how soone granted. 487
• People how they desired the death of Christ. 495
• Person of Christ how excellent he was. 502

• ...
  • The women how peaceably they came to the graue. 522
• Peace, the badge of Gods children. ibid.
• Person of Christ still one, and most simple. 618, 619
  • Men easier wonne by perswasion then by compulsion. 694
• People to what naturally inclined. 698
• Peace what an excellent thing it is. 701

PH.

• Philosophers saw and confessed the blindnesse and ignorance of men. 59
• Philosophers wonderfull diligent to seeke out all knowledge. 315
• Philip King of Macedon what he required of the Athenians. 644
• Phrases of being able and not able how vnder∣stood. 158
• Phrases true of vs not true in the same sence of Christ. 364

PI.

• Pilates wife how she iustified Christ. 475
• Pilate how in censed against Christ. 472
  • How cruelly he handleth him. 475
  • How vrged by a three-fold argument to crucifie him. 476, 477
  • Why he condemned him. 478
  • Sinners chiefly to be pittied. 232
• Pilate what he writ to Tiberius of Christ his resurrection. 577

PL.

• Place where Christ was borne, Bethelem, and why. 407
  • A placable man is gratious. 190
  • Mercie how it pleadeth for sinners. 195
• Plato and his followers what they thought of the word Christ. 313
  • Fittest place to pray, is the Church. 711
• Place whence Christ raysed himselfe, both in respect of his body and soule. 550, &c.
• Place from whence and into which Christ as∣cended. 623, 691, &c.
• Place whence and into which we must ascend. 630

PO.

• Pouertie an intollerable burthen. 72
  • Knowledge of Gods power the foundation of our faith. 134
  • How needfull it is. 135
• Power and authority not the same. 143
• Power two-fold. 143
  • Passiue power what it is. ibid.
  • Actiue power of God what it is, and how manifold. ibid.
  • Atheists deny the power of God. 136
  • Denied by Philosophers. 136
• Power of God proued. 137
  • By the creation of the world, 137
  • By the gouernment of the world. 138
  • By Scripture. 159
  • By the workes of God. ibid
  • How it appeared at all times. 160
  • How extolled by the Fathers. 161
  • By the Heathens. 161
  • Confest by the diuels. 162
• Power why ascribed to the Father. 273
• Power of God chiefly seene in forgiuing sins. 140
• Power of euery creature is a receiued power, and limited. 144
• Power of God considered two waies. 144
  • The proper power of each person. 145
  • The common power of God. ibid.
• Power of God so proper to God, that it can∣not be communicated to any creature. 145
• Power of God absolute in three respects. 147
  • Ordinarie power of God guided by the de∣cree and will of God. 148
  • Gods absolute power proued. 149
  • How farre it extendeth. 151
  • Diuersly answered. 152, &c.
• Power of God a great comfort to the god∣ly. 177
  • Preserueth the Saints from sinne. 178
  • It should terrifie the wicked. 179
• Power of seruing God not taken away from vs by God. 210
  • Perfect Power most requisite for Prea∣chers. 643
  • Our posteritie perpetuated by our seruing of God. 399

PR.

• Prayer of Christ on the Crosse, how effectuall. 487
  • What Christ prayed against. 456, 457
• Prayers made vnto Christ. 283

• Prayer of two kindes. 700
• Prayer in respect of the forme manifold. 707
  • That we should pray to none but God. 707
  • Euery where. 711
• Prayer two-fold. 714
  • We should alwaies pray in heart. 715
  • How we ought to pray, in humilitie, in faith, 718, &c.
  • When we pray, we should cleanse our selues from all sinne. 721
• Prayer an ess••ntiall part of Gods worship 722
  • The chiefest part of Gods seruice. 729
  • How auaileable for men. 723
  • To obtaine whatsoeuer we aske, more then we aske, better then we aske. 723, 725, &c.
  • How powerfull it is 727
  • This onely preuaileth with God, and ap∣peaseth his wrath. 728
  • The chiefest of all Gods gifts and graces. 703
  • We ought to pray in prosperity as well as in aduersity. 732
  • We ought to pray for all men. 733
  • That we should practise what we know to be good. 600
• Practise onely proueth vs christians. 601
• Preachers charge how great it is. 739
  • Their state how dangerous. 740
• Preachers why hated of all men. 435
• Preachers, three sorts of them. 697
  • How wickedly many of them doe liue. 220
  • And how zealously many of them doe liue 220, 221
• Predictions concerning the Messias, all accom∣plished in Christ. 512
• Presence of the Angels should preserue vs from sinne. 603
  • No personall presence of Christ to be ex∣pected before the day of iudgement. 547
  • God can preserue his seruants in the midst of the wicked. 658
• Prerogatiues of the blessed Virgin, in bearing Christ. 336
• Preseruation from plagues not to be ascribed to chance. 206
• Preseruation from sinne, from God. 204
• Pride how it spoileth many one. 614
  • How euery house is full of it. 358
• Priests to be made of the best men. 109
  • High-Priests did what they could to hinder the resurrection of Christ. 563
  • Euery Priest should be perfect in all parts. 341
• Priests either the best or the worst men. 460
• Price of our ransome, is the bloud of Christ. 501
• Prouidence of God how admirable. 408, 409
• Prouidence of God disposeth all things. 138, 139
  • Gods promises should neuer be doubted. 130
  • Gods promise touching the incarnation of the word. 257
  • To be proud of goodnesse, the worst pride in the world. 614
• Prouidence to foresee things, what an excel∣lent gift. 653
  • The boundlesse goodnesse of Gods proui∣dence. 257
• Prouidence of God, prouiding afore-hand to preserue vs from heretickes. 350
• Properties cannot passe their owne subiects. 157
• Properties of each nature of Christ, how indif∣ferently predicated of the whole person of Christ. 384
• Properties of the manhood, how ascribed to the God head; So properties of the God∣head, how ascribed to the man-hood. 385 & 386

PV.

• Publique sinnes are doubly sinnes. 21
• Publique sinners are publiquely to testifie their repentance 65
  • Publiquely to be punished. 37
• Publique prayers how dangerous to neglect it. 7••7
  • They should neuer be missed. 716
  • To punish sinne a most iust thing. 89
  • God punisheth onely sinnes done. 97. and no man for the sinnes hee neuer did, 95
• Punishment should be answerable to the of∣fence. 107
• Punishment of sinne should make vs to forsake sinne. 66
• Christ vndertooke the punishment of all o∣thers. 448

• Punishment, how qualified by Gods mercies. 186
• Punishment of the damned qualified by Gods mercies. 187
  • Once inflicted, neuer mitigated. ibid.
  • How slow God is to punish sinne. 194
  • Acte of punishment least agreeable to Gods nature. 195
  • God is compelled to punish. 195
  • Our punishment often suspended by the goodnesse of God. 200
  • God will punish sinners. 244
  • Wicked men shall be punished in their chil∣dren, 245
  • How this punishment may stand with Gods iustice. ibid.
• Punishment either corporall or spirituall. 249
  • Godly often punished in the corporall pu∣nishment of the wicked. 250
  • Humane lawes doe often pun sh the chil∣dren for the parents faults. 250
• Punishment spirituall and eternall differ. ibid.
• The punishment of Christ was imposed on him by God, and why. 496
  • All men not fit for all purposes. 602
  • Iudas, why made purse-bearer. 359
  • Not the purity of the Virgine, but the wor∣king of the holy Ghost caused Christ to be conceiued without sinne. 339

QV.

• The quality of sinne according to the qua∣lity of the offender. 37
• Curious questions not to be discussed. 627

RA.

• RAge of the Iewes against the dead corps of Christ. 482
  • Christ onely raised himselfe from the dead 552

RE.

• Regenerate men haue a double being. 6
• Repentance the best meanes to reuiue our dy∣ing soules. 51, 52
• Repentance killeth sinne. 82
  • God no respecter of persons. 91
  • God easie to be reconciled. 191
  • Men cannot repent when they will. 242
  • Christ would not reueale himselfe vnto the world all at once. 259
  • Certaine resemblances of the Trinity seene in the creatures. 273
  • Christ, how he reconcileth vs to himselfe. 297
  • How the word God resembleth our outward and inward word. 308
  • God reuealed many things concerning him∣selfe to the Gentiles. 313
  • The Deuils reuealed many things concer∣ning God to the Gentiles, & why. 313, 315
  • Christ would not reueale his seruants shame 466
• Reiection of the Iewes grieued Christ. 454
• Regeneration not needfull vnto Christ. 364
  • To receiue the outward Sacraments, and not the grace of the Sacraments, is no∣thing worth. 681
  • Heretickes receiue neither Christ nor the Sacraments of Christ. 682
  • Worthy receiuers of the Sacraments receiue Christ, and all his graces. 682
  • We may receiue Christ without the Sacra∣ments. 680
• Request of the thiefe, how soone granted. 487
  • What small things God requireth of vs. 99
  • To relye on God in afflictions, how safe. 489
• Redemption foure-fold. 500
  • To redeeme vs, how dearely it cost. 50
  • Our redemption paraleleth our creation. 557
• Resurrection of Christ shewed by the Angell 543
• Resurrection of Christ manifesteth the con∣quest of Satan, deliuerance of men, and Christ to haue ouercome all his enemies. 551
• Resurrection of Christ the third day fore∣shewed. 553
  • How ascribed to each person of the Trini∣ty. ibid.
• Resurrection of Christ the third day, confir∣meth our faith in foure respects. 556
  • Certainty of Christs Resurrection, shewed in his rising the third day. 557
• Resurrection of Christ the third day, is a pat∣terne of our condition. 544
• Resurrection of Christ sought to be hindered by the high Priests. 563

• Resurrection of Christ beleeued of vs for three respects 566
  • Proued many wayes. 567, &c.
• Resurrection of Christ, a patterne to teach vs how to rise from sinne. 587
  • A cause of great ioy. 598
  • An assurance of our resurrection to eternall life. 598
• Resurrection of Christians twofold. 586
• Relapsing or often falling into the same sinnes, how dangerous. 549

RI.

• Riches haue destroyed many men, and what e∣uill they doe. 73
• Riches or pouerty, whether best. ibid.
  • No man truly Rich. ••81
  • Christ truly rich. ibid.
  • God loueth righteousnesse. 90
  • The more righteous we be, the more subiect to be afflicted. 434
  • Christ to rise againe for three reasons 550
  • Typicall Testimonies that Christ should rise the third day. 554
  • Christ himselfe shewed that he should rise the third day. ibid.
  • To rise from the dead, greater then to de∣scend from the Crosse. 562
  • We should rise truly from sinne, and from all sinnes. 591, 592

Ro.

• Rossensis his parable to Henery the eight, of the axe that came to the trees for a handle. 589

SA.

• SAcraments a most excellent meanes to be∣get grace. 679
  • They shew all that the Scriptures teach. ibid.
  • Euery sacrifice should be perfect. 341
• Sacriledge, what a fearefull sinne. 241
• Saints preserued from sinne by the power of God. 178
  • More glorious in aduersity then prosperity 207
  • They alwayes prayed to Christ. 283
• Saints at their death supported by God. 447
• Salomon speaketh of a two-fold generation of Christ. 288
  • His words, the Lord created me, how vnder∣stood. 286
• Salomons posterity for his sinnes, were finished in Iechonias. 399
• Saluation, how we ought to thirst after it. 488
• Saluation by none but by Christ. 501
  • Rabbi Samuel, what he saith concerning Christ. 579
• Sanctification, what it is. 208
• Samosatenian heresie. 363
• Satan, how said to ascend. 910
  • He lifteth vp the wicked to destroy them. 612
  • His subtilty to deceiue the people. 644
  • He ought to be spied before he comes too neere vs 13
  • He is the Father of sinne. 14
  • He suggesteth sinne diuers wayes. 12
  • He laboureth to conceale the light either of preaching or of applying Gods word. 18
  • How he handleth the wicked at the time of their death. 80
  • He cannot doe what he would. 178
  • How he alwayes laboureth to vilifie the person of Christ. 304
  • His insolency against Christ. 322
  • His enuy against Christ, and why. 493, 494
  • Without satisfaction no sinne can be pardo∣ned. 163

SC.

• Holy Scripture wholly true. 215. 216
• The best warrant for all Preachers. 606
• Scourging of Christ how grieuous it was. 475
  • Christ how scoffed vpon the Crosse. 481

SE.

• To search too farre into Gods essence is not safe. 124
• Seede of the parents, the substance of the whole man. 340
• Seed of the man whether it falleth into the substance of the childe. 340
  • God seeking after vs should make vs to seeke for him. 181
  • God not to seene with any materiall eyes 117
  • Wee shall not see Gods essence in heauen but in the face of Iesus Christ. 118

• ...
  • All men are euer seeking something. 524
  • Godly men seeke onely for God. ••25
  • Many seeke him amisse. 526
  • Many seeke Christ amisse. ibid.
  • How we ought to seeke for Christ. 526 521, &c.
  • That we cannot seeke for God, vntill God doth seeke for vs. 529
  • Why the wicked seeke not God. 531
• Sensitiue facultie soone defileth the reasona∣ble soule. 17
  • Christ not sent by way of command. 301
• Seneca what he said. 66
• Sentence of Christ his condemnation. 478
• Senate of Rome lothe to derogate from the worth of Augustus. 504
  • To serue sinne a most grieuous slauerie. 22
• Seruetus his heresie. 343
  • To serue God, the greatest good that wee can doe vnto our children. 253
  • It procureth all blessings to vs. 132
  • Not to serue God, heapeth all plagues vpon vs. 133
  • We were redeemed and preserued that we might serue him. 132
  • It is the onely way to perpetuate our po∣sterities. 399
  • Late seruice God will hardly accept, and why. 587. 588
  • The seauen words of Christ vpon the Crosse. 486

SH.

• Shamefull handling of Christ how it grieued him. 450
• Shame of sinne cast off, wee are almost past hope of goodnesse. 20
• Shedding of mans blood, what a heauie sinne. 240
• Shepherds why first informed of the birth of Christ. 412

SI.

• Sight of sinne is no sinne. 15
• Sicknesse of the soule, how worse then the sick∣nesse of the body. 63
  • A signe why giuen by Judas. 461
• Signes how we may know whether wee bee as∣cended any thing towards heauen or not. 632
• Signes of a faithfull teacher. 466
• Similies expressing how the word alone assu∣med our flesh. 327
  • A simile of Damascus and Theodorus, shewing how the two natures of Christ though vni∣ted, doe remaine inconfused. 388
• Sinne is so vgly that at the first the sinner him∣selfe would faine conceale it. 18
  • To be resisted at the first, 23
  • It blindeth vs, that we cannot perceiue it's vglinesse. 42
  • At last it tormenteth the consciences of all sinners. 42
  • How vgly and loathsome it is. 47
  • Euerie sinne payeth the same wages. 46
• Sinnes the diseases of the soule. 63
  • It extinguished all knowledge of God. 64
  • Sin of man in many things more haynous then the sinne of Satan. 106
  • The cause of all our miseries. 111
  • What it is. 166
  • In euery sinne two things to be conside∣red. ibid.
• Sinne and death indissolubly linked together. 2
• Sinne the roote of death. ibid.
  • How farre it spread it selfe. 3
• Sinne originall or actuall. 3
• Sinne to haue any thoughts of sinne. 13
  • Actuall sinne what it is. 10
  • Not a meere priuation. ibid.
  • An erring from Gods will. 11.
  • How it creepeth secretly and insensibly, like a Serpent. 12, 18.
  • How it increaseth inwardly & outwardly. 12
  • Not resisted, how it will necessarily increase more and more. 22
• Sinne is inwardly increased three waies. 12
• Sinne some way voluntarie, or no sinne. 15
• Sinne outwardly increaseth foure waies. 17
  • It is compared vnto a witch. 46
  • It brought on man a treble death. 49
• Sinne against the Holy Ghost, what it is. 227
• Sinne irremissible three waies. ibid.
  • No sinne so great but God can forgiue it. ibid.
• Sinnes not traduced from the parents vnto the children. 246

• ...
  • Our sinnes drew Christ to bee incarnate. 318
• Sinne expelled by the meditation of Christ his Passion. 422
  • Our sinnes crucified Iesus Christ. 497
• Sinne brought feare into the world. 540
  • The more sinfull we are, the more we ought to feare. ibid.
• Sinne ought speedily to bee forsaken for two reasons. 589
• Sinners how they condemne God to iustifie themselues. 24
• Sinners all, excepting Christ. 2
  • No sinner excluded from hope of pardon. 224
  • Three sisters of the destinie signifie God. 312

SL.

• God how slowe to reuenge. 193, 194

SM.

• Small things suffered, doe grow great and doe much hurt. 42
• Small sinnes ought to be resisted. 43
  • What a small matter it was that God commanded Adam. 98
  • What a small matter it is that God requi∣reth of vs. 99

SO.

• Christ the Sonne of God, not as we are the Sonnes of God. 291
• The Sonne why made flesh rather then the Father or the Holy Ghost. 322
• Sorrowes and sufferings of Christ, exceeded all other sorrowes. 486
• Sorrow is two-fold. 354
• Soule whether traduced from the parents. 4
  • Not created from the beginning. 6
  • Not created as God infuseth them. 6
• Soule the seate of sinne. 7
• Soule immortall yet hath a kinde of death. 51
• Soules diseases what they be. 63
  • That Christ had a true humane reasonable soule. 348
• Soule of Christ after it parted from the body descended into the place of the damned. 582. 619. 620

SP.

• God spareth none for his greatnesse if they offend him. 40
• He spareth the wicked for good mens sake. 187
• We ought to spare no cost to get the truth. 217
• To spare wicked men is not good. 222
• That we should speak nothing but truth. 221
• Examples of spitefull sinners. 33, 34
• How fearefull is their state. ibid.
• Spirituall and eternall punishment how they differ. 250

ST.

• Our state in Christ better then that which we lost in Adam. 361

• Starre of Christ spoken of by the Gentiles. 412
  • What time it appeared. 414
  • What effects it wrought in the Magi. 415
  • Christ why hee stayed so long before hee came. 401
  • Why he would not stay any longer. 402
  • Iudas why made steward. 459

SV.

• Christ of the same substance with his Father. 292
• Made of the substance of his mother. 342
• How subtilly Satan deales with men to make them bold to sinne, then to despaire. 41
• Christ suffered all miseries. 260
• Who most subiect to sufferings. 435
• Christ suffered both in soule and body. 437
• His first degree of suffering was to be made passible. 438
• Consideration of Christ his sufferings most admirable. 439
• The sufferings of Christ before his Iudges. 465
• The grieuous sufferings after hee was con∣demned by the high Priest. 471
• Sufferings of Christ how alone sufficient to sa∣tisfie for all sinnes. 502
• Sufferings of the Saints how they doe profit the Church. 503
  • Sufferings how they doe comfort and con∣firme all Christians. 504
• Sufferings of Christ teach vs how to suffer. 509

• ...
  • That we ought to suffer two waies. 509
  • To suffer with Christ, and for Christ, how readie and willing we ought to be. 510
• Sufferings of Christ were voluntarie. 491. 492
  • How generall they were. 483
  • How vnspeakable, farre more then are ex∣pressed by the Euangelists. 484
  • Sufferings of Christ not imaginarie, but true reall sufferings. 484
  • God prouideth sufficient for euerie man. 704
• Suggestions vnto sinnes are sinnes. 12
  • How they are to be auoided. 13
  • The surest signe of saluation. 652
  • Why Christ became our suretie. 497

SW.

• Continuall swearing, what a dangerous sin. 241

SY.

• That we sympathize in the sufferings of our brethren. 510

TE.

• TEares are speciall meanes to preuaile with God. 52
  • Best way to teach is to lay a good foundati∣on. 392
  • A perfideous tempting of God, what a hor∣rible sinne. 239
  • The temporall things of this life to be pray∣ed for. 703
  • The testimonies that proue Christ to be the true Messias. 411, 412, &c.
• Testimon••e of the Apostles to be beleeued for two speciall reasons. 572
• Text of Salomon, Pro. 8.22. whether corrupted by the Arrians. 287

TH.

• That we ought to be thankfull vnto God for all we haue. 129
• How we ought to be thankfull to God for giuing the Word to be incarnate. 305
• For the suffer••ngs of Christ. 506
• Thankfulnesse to be expressed by workes. 507
• Theator where the Tragedy of Christ his Passi∣on was acted, was Ierusalem, and why. 421
• Third day, why the appointed day of Christ his Resurrection. 555
  • The fittest day for Christ to rise in respect of his person. 556
  • Christ rising the third day did paralel our creation, and left a patterne of our condi∣tion. 558
  • What we ought to thirst after. 488
• Thomas, whether he was with the Eleuē, when Christ appeared to them the first time. 573
  • Thoughts that are wicked, bring forth wic∣ked works. 14
• Three persons in one essence of God. 272
• Three things handled touching the person of the sonne. 277
• Three sisters of the destinie what they signifie 312
• Three wonderfull things obseruable in ma¦king the Word flesh. 328
• Three things measure all durations. 400
• Three things obseruable in the day of Christ his natiuitie. 405
  • Three things that moue attention. 420
• Three things effected in vs by the meditation of Christ his Passion. 422
• Three things moue vs to loue any one. 425
• Three things happened to Christ in Gethse∣mane after his bloudy swea••. 458
• Threefold argument vrged by the Iewes to moue Pilate to crucifie Christ. 476
  • That there is a three-fold necessitie. 491
  • The three women seeking Christ, signifie three properties of the Church. 521
• Three things required to make an action good. 524
• Three things excellent in the Angels. 535
  • Christ, how he remained three dayes in his graue. 559, 560
• Three dreadfull enemies of man. 582
• Three things considered about our spirituall ascention. 630
• Three sorts of men excluded from the Pas∣chall Lambe. 682
• Three sorts of Preachers. 697
• Three reasons to moue vs to thankefulnesse. 705
  • A three-fold voice of the creature. ibid.
• Three reasons to driue away ingratitude from vs. 706
• Three degrees of thankfulnesse. 707

• Three reasons to moue vs to pray for our Mi∣nisters. 737

TI.

• No time mispent, that is spent to know the person of Christ. 305
• Christ, how made in time. 400
• Of the time when Christ was borne. ibid.
• How time hath his fulnesse. 401
• The particular time of the words incarna∣tion. 402.
• Titillation, and thoughts of sinne, is sinne. 14

TO.

• Torments of Hell, how intollerable. 86
  • Not equall to all the damned. 93
  • Not suffered by Christ. 581

TR.

• That we doe not traduce sinnes from our parents. 246
• Transubstantiation hath a double contradiction 173
  • How full of absurdities. ibid.
  • Defenders of Transubstantiation how agree∣able to the false prophets, whereof our Sa∣uiour biddeth vs to beware. 548
  • What the Author thinketh of Transubstan∣tiation. 549
• Treason of Iudas, what it should teach vs. 463
  • Mysterie of the Trinity▪ why not fully reuea∣led at the first. 272
  • How darkly shewed in the creatures. 273
• Trismegistus, what he said of the word. 312
  • Morall truth, what it is. 312
• Truth in vs not as it is in God. ibid.
  • Physicall truth, what it is. ibid.
  • God is truth two wayes. 213
  • All truths, how they doe proceed▪ 213
• Truth of things, of vnderstanding of words. 213, 214
  • Diuine truth measureth all things. 214
  • Expressed truth is two-fold. 215
• Truth, how excellent it is. ibid.
  • How like the light. 215
  • How it expelleth errors. ibid.
  • Sheweth what euery thing is. ibid.
  • How it begets vs to God. 216
  • God true in himselfe, in his workes, and in his words. 216
  • The primarie expressed truth, contained in the holy Scriptures. 215
• Truth to be sought whatsoeuer it cost. 217
  • To be defended with the losse of all that we haue. 217
  • How alwayes handled on earth. ibid.
  • How at last it will preuaile. 218
  • How euery truth proceedes from God. 222
  • How God loueth it. ibid.
  • How it should be alwayes spoken. 222, 231
  • How hardly found in these dayes. 222, 231
• Truth makes vs like to God. 231
• Truth and iustice, how they pleaded against man. 319

TV.

• To turne from sinne, turnes away all the wrath of God. 195

TW.

• Twelue apparitions of Christ after his resur∣rection. 565
• Twelue wonders in the Manna of the Israelites 703
• Two things further the sinnes of the parents to continue in the children. 246
• Two-fold will in Christ. 296
• Two sorts of Mediators. 296
• Two reasons shewing why Christ was made flesh. 320
• Two things to be done for man before he could be saued. 321
• Two things to be considered touching the conception of Christ. 333
• Two signes of a true Teacher. 466
• Two reasons moued Pilate to condemne Christ. 478
  • That there is a two fold hope. 649
• Two kindes of prayer. 700

TY.

• Giuing of Canaan to the Israelites, a type of giuing heauen to vs. 127
• The three women seeking Christ, a type of the Church. 519, 520
• Typicall testimonies that Christ should rise the third day. 554
  • To liue vnder the tyrannie of sinne, how la∣mentable it is. 635

VA.

• VAnities of the world, how soone they passe away. 129
  • Christ despised all vanities. 260
• Vaine-glory, how it tainteth many of the Clergy. 525
• Ʋalentinus his heresie. 343

VB.

• Ʋbiquity cannot be communicated to any creature. 156
• Vbiquitie of Christ his body, ouerthrowne by the assertion of the Angell. 543
  • Obiections of the Vbiquitaries answered. 168, 388

VE.

• Ʋeniall sinnes, or the least sinnes bring death. 41
• Ʋertue is of an admirable beauty. 47
  • Christ a patterne of all vertue. 260

VJ.

• Ʋictory of Christ ouer Hell, Death, Sinne, and Satan. 634
• Ʋillanies of Satan to be shewed, and why 392
• Villanies done to Christ, not paralelled since the world began. 474
• Vineger, how giuen to Christ to drinke. 482
  • Christ why borne of a Ʋirgin. 334
  • The blessed Ʋirgin still continued a Ʋir∣gin to her death. 336
• Visitation of God two-fold. 243
  • To visite, what it signifieth. 243
  • God visiteth the afflicted. ibid.
  • God visiteth the wicked 244

VN.

• Vnderstanding of Adam in Paradise, how ex∣cellent. 57, 58.
  • Our Vnderstanding now, how darkened through sinne. 58
  • How quicke and sharpe in naturall things. 59
  • How blockish in all Diuine mysteries. ibid.
  • Our vnderstanding of God very small. 121
• Vnion of Christ his natures expressed by a si∣mily of Iustin Martyr. 371
  • Wherin the Nestorian heretickes auouched the same to consist. 375
  • Wherein the Lutherans affirmed it to con∣sist. 377
  • Wherein it doth truely consist. 378
• Vnion of the two natures, inconuertible, in∣diuisible, &c. 379
• Ʋnion of things three wayes made. 380
• Vnion of Christ his natures substantiall. 381
  • Ineffable. ibid.
  • What benefits it bringeth. 282, 283, &c.
  • We must be vnited to Christ if we will as∣cend to Heauen. 627
• Vnity of brethren. 689
  • Want of vnity amongst vs. 691
• Ʋnrepentant sinners shall neuer be absolued. 242

ƲO.

• Voice of the creature three-fold. 705

WA.

• WAight of sinne feared by Christ. 545
  • Christ how he walked vpon the waters. 388
• Warre how lawfull. 702
  • All wants supplied by Christ. 262
• Way to Heauen, how said to be hard. 98
  • And how easie. 99
  • Three wayes of knowing God. 120
  • Three wayes of expressing what God is.
• Wayes of wickednes, how hard and difficult. 99 121
  • Best way to teach is to lay a good foundati∣on. 392
• Way to saue man could neuer haue beene found but onely by the wisdome of God. 393

WE.

• Wealth, what discommoditie it bringerh. 524

WH.

• White clothing of Christ, what it signified. 473
• White, an argument of innocency. 478

WI.

• Wicked men delight in committing sinne. 36
  • They are greedy to doe it. ibid.
  • And they haue their full content when they haue done it. ibid.
  • How they should be afraid to offend Gods power. 179
  • They haue no part in the speciall mercy of God. 188

• Wicked men not loued of God. 189
  • They are with held from many sinnes by the goodnesse of God. 200
  • To giue vnto the wicked power to serue God, God is no waies to doe it. 210
  • The wickednesse of professors of the truth, ought no waies to disparage the truth of God. 219, 220
  • The wicked how they abuse Gods good∣nesse. 22••
  • How punished in their children. 245
  • That they shall be punished. 244
  • Not euery sinne of the wicked is visited vp∣on their children. 247
  • The wicked how they doe deceiue them∣selues. 517
  • How it hapneth that they seeke not God. 5••1
  • How they are terrified and punished by the Angels. 536
  • How they are said to ascend. 6••0
  • How still captiues vnto Satan. 635
• Wife of Pilate, how she iustified Christ. 475
• Will of God reuealed in our consciences, and in the scriptures. 11
• Wilfull sinners. 33
  • How fearefull is their state? ibid.
  • They can pleade no excuse. ibid.
  • The will commandeth all the faculties of the soule. 53
• Will to sinne, deserueth the punishment of sinne. 55
  • Our will cannot be compelled by Sathan, nor by any other outward enemie. 55, 57
  • Our owne will is the cause of all our woe. 55
  • How our will to doe good, is quite killed by sinne. 56
  • It is drawne to sinne by our owne corrup∣tion. 57
  • How it is guided by the iudgement. 57
  • How we may be said to haue free-will. 57
  • To will to sinne, euer is a temporarie act. 97
  • God cannot will things contrarie to his nature. 153
  • To will a thing, we may be said two waies. 167
  • In what sence God willeth sinne. 167
• Will of Christ two fold. 296, 301
  • To doe the will of God, will sooner bring vs to know God, then to heare his word 571
• Wings wherewith we flie to heauen, what they be. 631
• Wine how deceitfull it is 45
  • Why wisedome is ascribed to the Sonne. 273
  • By the wisedome whereof Salomon speaketh, Prou. 8, 22. what is meant. 285
  • How hard for the wisedome of God to please foolish man. 3••0
  • Christ how said to be with God. 297
  • Not as we are said to be with God, ibid.
  • To be with God, and in God, how the same. 298
• Witnesses of the birth of the Messias. 411

WO.

• Woe trebled to the inhabitants of the earth. 46
  • Christ why borne of a Woman. 334
• Women, why three went together vnto the Se∣pulchre. 519
  • Why they were all three called by the same name. ibid.
  • They were a type of the Church, and of euery christian soule. 520
  • How sorrowfull they were. ibid.
  • How distinguished and knowne one from the other. 521
  • How they signifie three properties of the Church. •• 521
  • How fearelesse they were in seeking Christ. 521
  • How they laboured to increase the num∣bers of beleeuers. 522
  • How peaceably they came to the graue. 522
  • Many women were made instruments of great goodnesse. 532
• Word of God diuided into two parts. 12
  • That the word was, before he was made flesh. 278
  • The word GOD, no accidentall, but an essentiall word. 285
  • The word, how he may be said to be crea∣ted

• ...
  • and begotten. 289
• Words of Dauid, this day haue J begotten thee, how vnderstood. 290
• Words of the Apostle, he is the first borne of eue∣ry creature, how vnderstood. 290
• Words of Saint Luke, be shall be called the Sonne of God, how vnderstood. 248
• Words of Salomon, the Lord created me, how vn∣derstood. 286
• Words of Christ, my Father is greater then I, how vnderstood. 300
• Words of Christ, I came not to doe mine owne will, how vnderstood. 301
• Words of Saint Paul, then the Sonne shall be sub∣iect to the Father, how vnderstood. 301
• Words of Christ, I came from aboue, how vnder∣stood. 344, 345
• Words of the Apostle, God sent his sonne in the similitude of sinfull flesh, how vnderstood. 346
• Words of our Creede, he descended into hell, how vnderstood. 580, 581, &c.
  • The seauen gratious words that Christ spake vpon the Crosse. 486
  • Christ called the Word, because he decla∣reth his father vnto vs. 322
  • How God can expresse himselfe with one word. 307
  • Why Christ is tearmed the word. ibid.
  • How the word GOD resembleth our out∣ward word. 308
  • How it resembleth our inward word. ibid.
  • How it differeth from our word. 309
  • Whether it be a name of Christ his person or h•••• office. 310
  • Why Saint Iohn vseth the Word, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the word 310
  • The word why made flesh. 317, 318
  • Why the Word, rather then the Father, or the Holy Ghost. 322
  • The word onely assumed our flesh. 326
  • How said to be made flesh. 368, &c.
  • All the world without Christ, will auaile vs nothing. 263
  • Philosophers striue to proue the world to be eternall. 136
• World made by God, proued. 137
• World diuided into his seuerall ages. 402
  • To flie the world, the next way to finde Christ. 571
• Workes of our vocation to be followed. 13
  • Outward workes of God, common to each person of the God-head. 145, 274
  • They are transient and voluntarie. ibid.
  • Inward works of God are euerin doing. 275
  • They are necessary and incommunicable, i. e. proper to each person. 275
• Worke of the incarnation, how common to the three persons, and how proper to Christ the Word. 326
  • God worketh one contrary out of another. 351
• Workes of Christ testifie him to bee the true Messias. 417
• Workes of any man testifie what he is. ibid.
• Workes requisite to expresse thankfulnes. 507
  • God worketh all the good that is in the Saints, and how God worketh our willing∣nesse to doe good. 530
  • Good workes, what they be. 670
  • God worketh foure wayes, with meanes, without meanes, with weake meanes, con∣trary to meanes. 147
• Workes of God proue the power of God. 159
  • Our best workes haue need of mercy. 185
• Workes of mercy of two sorts. 232
  • Outward workes of mercy chiefly sixe 232
  • God worketh diuers wayes. 237
• Wormewood, wherefore good 527
• Worth of the sufferings of Christ, how to bee considered. 502
• Wounds of Christ, why reserued by him. 572

WR.

• Wrath of God feared by Christ. 545
• Wrath of God quite turned away by our re∣pentance. 195

YO.

• YOuth described, and the miseries thereof shewed. 69

ZE.

• ZEno, what he said of the Word. 312

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