A commentarie or exposition upon the prophecie of Habakkuk together with many usefull and very seasonable observations / delivered in sundry sermons preacht in the church of St. James Garlick-hith London, many yeeres since, by Edward Marbury ...

An Alphabetical TABLE of the principal heads contained in this precedent Commentary.

The Contents thereof in the first and second Chapters.

A.

• ADam's sin did not violate God's glory so much as the womans. page 298
• Adrian the sixth his allegory. 35. applied. page 36
• A good conscience declares a mans faith to himself, 225. and a godly conversation to others. page 226
• All evill actions are justly judged by the intentions of their agents, but good actions are not so. page 75
• All injuries we do to our brethren, are done with God's privity, 76. and so are all treasons and conspiracies. page 120
• All Churches wherein Christians meet to call upon God, are Temples of Gods presence. page 341
• All excesse in drinking is drunkennesse. page 306
• Alexander excused by his flatterers for killing of Clitus. page 324
• Ambition is an inordinate desire of honour. page 271
• Ambition came in with sin, and cannot be without sin. page 273
• Ambition puts us out of the way of life. page 275
• Ambition is painful. page 286
• Ancientnesse of writing. page 151
• As personal sins have personal chastisements, so epidemical sins have po∣pular punishments. page 64

B.

• BAbylon taken by storme on a day of feasting. page 249
• Better apta then alta sapere. page 157
• Beholding without regarding, is but a kinde of gazing. page 53
• Behold, a word to move attention. page 184
• Benefits of the righteousnesse of Faith. page 198
• Blood-guiltinesse consists not in blood-shedding only page 278
• Boldnesse in sinning. page 24

C.

• CAlvin's judgment of Habakkuk. page 117
• Cautions to order and regulate our judgment and life concerning righteousnesse. page 200
• Charity is the bond of peace, only to the children of peace. page 129
• Christ took the burthen of our sins upon him. page 5
• Christ took upon him our infirmities, but not our sinful ones. page 48
• Christian charity & cōmon justice, great props of a Common-wealth. page 37
• Committers of sin, are of two sorts. page 283
• Complaint is a part of prayer, 31. the reasons thereof. page 32
• Confession threefold. page 193
• Contempt of the Law brings in licentiousnesse, & custome of sinning. page 28
• Contempt is a provocation which moveth God to severe judgments. page 72
• Contempt is most grievous to mans generous nature
• Corruption of justice a dangerous signe of a drooping Common-wealth. 45. Reasons for it. page 43
• Covetousnesse is an inordinate desire of the wealth of this world. page 275
• Covetousnesse is Ambitions hand-maid page 275
• Covetousnesse a fruitful sin, Ʋsury, Rapine, Fraud, Bribes, and Cimo∣ny are its daughters. page 276
• Crie of blood. page 12
• Crie of a Prophet is a loud cry. page 13
• Cruelty manifold. page 278
• Cruelty is a companion of Ambition and Covetousnesse. page 278

D.

• DEsire is the whetstone of prayer. page 178
• Despisers punished with scorne and contempt. page 78
• Devill, author of Idolatry, temptor to it, and promoter of it. page 93
• Distrust in God, the mother sin of all evill wayes. page 267
• Di••ers wayes to spend the time well. page 180
• Doctrine of faith most necessary to salvation, page 205
• Drunkards the pictures of proud men. page 242
• Drunkennesse a horrible sin, confessed by all men to be a sin. page 305
• Drunken men mentioned in Scripture, page 305
• Drunken men cannot pray as they ought. page 310
• Drunkennesse a disease of former ages, but now grown epidemical. page 313
• Duties to be performed in the Church. page 345

E.

• EAstern winds most unwholsome in Judea. page 58
• Every mans mind is himself. 77 Eternity of God. page 103
• Every sin is a trespasse against God. page 103
• Expostulations and contestations with God in our prayers are lawfull 46. Objection against it, and solution of the objection, 47. Reasons for confirmation thereof. page 51

F.

• FAith defined. page 206
• Faith's greatnesse and its effects. page 20••
• Faith, how it may be gotten, 208. How proved, 225. How preserved, 228. How used. page 229
• Faith usefull in the naturall life, 230 In the spiritual life, 234. And in the eternall life. ibid.
• Faith useful both in prosperity and adversity. page 233
• Faith not rightly grounded is presumption. page 109
• Fear mingled with faith is no sin. page 48 & 49
• Few seeke the true use of riches. page 261

G.

• GIving of almes doth not purifie ill gotten goods page 292
• God's wrath and judgments are a burthen to him, and so is his word threatning judgment. page 8
• God's wrath and judgments are a burthen to the Prophet that utters them in respest of his fidelity to him that sends him, 9. And in re∣spect of his zeale, ibid. And in respect of his compassion. page 10
• God's wrath and judgments are a burthen to the people to whom they are sent, both to the penitent, 10. and to the impenitent. page 11
• God's servants fight against sin by prayer. page 14
• God s Ministers may by their prayers awake God's judgments against unrepenting sinners. page 15
• God sometimes suspends the successe of his servants prayers. page 20
• God doth himself take notice of the peoples sins, and acquainteth his Pro∣phets and Ministers therewith. page 21
• God doth hear the complaints of such as have just cause to complaine of violence, to execute his judgments upon them that offend, 59. Rea∣sons thereof, page 60, 61, 62
• God's justice doth not spare his own people, if they do provoke him. page 63
• God's promises made to Israel were all limited with condition of their o∣bedience

• 63. & 77. & so are all God's promises to his children page 78
• God can make good use of the vices of men, and make wicked men serve for instruments of his will. page 66
• God is author of all actions, but not of the evill of them. page 73
• God fore-knoweth the sins of men. page 86
• Gods certain knowledge of our evils will bring forth a certain judg∣ment to punish them. page 89
• Gods love to his Church is eternal as himself is. page 95
• God is sooner stirred to mercy then provoked to anger. page 100
• God loves to be sollicited for mercy. page 101
• God is eternal in himself, in his Essence, and eternal in Providence in respect of his Creatures. page 104
• Ged is holy, therefore the punishments of his Church are for its cor∣rection only. page 105
• Gods children in afflictions are not discouraged in their faith of Gods mercy. page 107
• God is author of punishment. page 108
• Gods eyes are pure. page 110
• God is a sincere searcher and punisher of sin, and his justice and truth cannot fail. page 113
• God will have his Church taught his ways in all ages thereof. page 154
• Gods promises run in semine. page 154
• God signifieth his will in divers ways, p. 167. and his will is two∣fold. page 169
• God taketh offence at such as are lifted up. page 188
• God is the author of faith. page 208
• Gods care and providence stoopeth so low as to the regard of our cattel. page 325
• God is to be worshipped outwardly as well as inwardly. p. 335. & 344
• God is glorified in the shame of the proud. page 280
• God bringeth all the labours of the ungodly to losse and vanity, yet the ungodly perceive it not. page 289
• God walketh with the righteous, and contrary to the unrigh∣teous. page 291
• God is glorious and jealous of his glory. page 296
• Gods creatures and his word are two books, wherein his wisdome is set forth to the soul. page 301
• God punisheth sin by sin. page 321
• ...

• Godlinesse hath the promises of this life and of the life to come. page 42
• Good covetousnesse. 263. Evil covetousnesse is joyned with am∣bition. page 264
• Greatnesse and power are fearful to the common man, yet he will search into the actions of the highest. page 262
• Grief mingled with faith is no sin. page 49

H.

• HAbakkuk signifieth an embracer, a wrastler. 2. The time of his prophecie is not exprest. pag. 2.
• Hatred a cause of contention. pag 26
• Hearing the word profiteth nought without faith. pag 209
• Hearing and understanding the word is a means to increase faith. pag 209
• Hearers ought to pray for their teachers. pag 144
• Heathens gods not jealous of their glory. pag 299
• He that willeth the same thing as God willeth, and doth the same thing God would have done, sinneth, unlesse he doth it in the same manner, and for the same end which God projecteth. pag 76
• How far we may complain to God against our brethren. pag 15
• How God is said to have eyes and other parts of a mans body. pag 111 and how he is said to see, hear, &c. pag 73. ch. 3
• How God is said to repent. pag 165
• How Gods righteousnesse is revealed in the Gospel. pag 237
• How drunken folks are said to discover their nakednesse. pag 314
• How man ought to carry himself in his dominion over beasts.

I.

• IDolatry defined and described. pag. 328
• Idolatry a grievous sin. pag 329
• Idolatry amongst Christians. pag 330
• Idolatry in the Church of Rome in worshipping the consecrated Host. pag 333
• If to omit a duty be a sin, the committing of a contrary evil must needs be abominable. pag 312
• Ill-gotten goods bring such a sin upon a man, as cannot be purged but by repentance and restitution. pag 293
• If we find in our selves an elevation above our pitch, it is a certain Symptome of a diseased soul. pag 191
• Image-worship crept into the Church of Rome by little and little. pag 332
• Imprecations forbidden. pag 17
• ...

• Infirmities of Gods servants twofold. pag. 48
• Inordinate zeal, what it is. pag. 53
• Iniquity knoweth no measure. pag. 84
• In all our considerations of the carriage of things under the Govern∣ment of Gods Providence, howsoever the effects may seem strange to us, we must not question either the Wisedom, Justice or Goodnesse of God. pag. 117
• In the Church of God there will always be some will argue against God. pag. 147
• Inconveniences of Rapine. pag. 277
• Ingredients of a saving faith by a dissection of the word Fides. pag. 187
• It was no small part of Christs Passion to be scorned and derided of his enemies. pag. 258
• It is a singular wisedome to use the fulnesse of prosperity well. 83. and a great measure of grace is required thereto. pag. 84
• Judgment beginneth at the house of God. pag. 65. and 179. ch. 3
• Just man defined. pag. 185
• Justification by faith only. pag. 237

K.

• KEeping silence, a signe of reverence and submission. pag. 327
• Knowledge of Gods glory an excellent knowledge. 300. and the pursuit of this knowledge is a labour which well rewardeth it self. pag. 301

M

• MAlice may be in looking into the vices of brethren, though it pretended desire of Reformation. pag. 21
• Man is mutable; God unchangably just. pag. 78
• Man in mercy cometh neerest Gods image. pag. 99
• Mans state in his innocency. pag. 213
• Man is but earth, and gold but clay. pag. 248
• Men and Angels have their Eternity from God. pag. 103
• Means to get an upright soul. pag. 192
• Mercy the soul of the world. pag. 100
• Ministers may in general reprove sin, but not particularize any man. pag. 54
• Ministers ought to be first Seers and then Speakers. pag. 139
• Ministers must not only watch, but also give warning. pag. 142
• Ministers must maintain Gods cause against all contradictions. pag. 143
• ...

• Ministers ought to open to the Church of God the whole Councell of God. pag. 156
• Ministers have a necessity laid upon them to preach the word. pag. 211

N.

• NO man simpliciter Atheos, but acknowledgeth some divine ruling power. pag. 89. and 328 and 80. ch. 3
• No man would do service where nothing is to be gained by it. pag. 329
• No inherent holinesse in Churches. pag. 339
• Not that as we have, but what we dispose of maketh us friends in the day of the Lord.
• Nothing ought to be so dear to us as the glory of God. pag. 300

O.

• OCcasion of offence to be avoided. pag. 33
• Oracles ceased at Christs coming. pag. 175
• Original sin what it is. pag. 216
• Outward things unsanctified to the Owner, have no power to establish the heart. pag. 84
• Out of natural and moral ways of life there is a wisedome of God to be learned. pag. 123
• Overcharge of the heart with drink, is drunkennesse. pag. 306

P.

• PApists idolaters. pag. 331
• People without a Ruler are unhappy. pag. 114 and 124
• Prayer ought to be fervent and continual. 18. as well in zeal of Gods glory as for our own necessities. pag. 19
• Prayer what it is. pag. 31
• Prayer is a help to him that prayeth, a sacrifice to God, a scourge to the devil and his agents. pag. 183
• Prayer, the Word and the Sacraments are means to preserve faith. pag. 228
• Preparation required in those who go to Church. pag. 344
• Pride a cause of strife. pag. 25
• Pride consists in three things. In thinking too well of our selves, con∣temptibly of others, boasting and glorying in vain ostentation. pag. 240
• Pride is the ground of insatiablenesse. pag. 241
• Pride, the ruine of Charity, Justice, Temperance and Religion. pag. 243
• Proofs of a sincere faith. pag. 227
• Prosperity of this world fils the hearts of men with pride, and vain e∣stimation of themselves. pag. 131
• ...

• Proud men resemble death and hell. pag. 243
• Punishment in its nature is evil, yet God may work good out of it. pag. 69
• Punishment of Idolatry. pag. 334
• Punishments of Pride, 247. Just Reprehension, 155. Derision, 257 Spoyle and destruction. pag. 262
• Punishments of Ambition, 279. They consult shame to their own house, Ibid. Sin against their own souls, 283. Labour in vaine, and without successe. pag. 286
• Punishments of drunkennesse, 315. Who will punish it; God, 316 how he will punish it, 319. Why he will punish it. pag. 324

Q.

• OƲantity of the fault, is the measure of the judgment. pag. 5

R.

• REasons why Ambition makes men unhappy. Pag. 274
• Religion contemned is a signe of a diseased and desperate state, 38 Reasons thereof. Ibid.
• Riligion is the knot of true Ʋnion, that knitteth us to God, and uniteth us to one another. Pag. 78.
• Religion hath the bowels of compassion, and they have no Religion that have no mercy. Pag. 99
• Religion the best bond of brotherhood. Pag. 129
• Remedy for mans fall, 222. Which is Christ. Pag. 223
• Remedies against drunkennesse. Pag. 308

S.

• SAthan suggesteth that the way of righteousnesse is painful. pag. 287
• Sathans chiefest temptation, is by blemishing of Gods glory. pag. 296
• Seekers of strife condemned. pag. 25
• Service performed to God without zeal, is without life. pag. 51
• Shame rather hardeneth then reformeth a sinner. pag. 16
• Sincere Faith cannot be lost. pag. 228
• Sharp and satyricall tartnesse not alwayes unlawfull. pag. 259
• Sin is a burthen to God, 3. To men, 4. And awakes Gods vengeance. Ibid.
• Sins seen in others, moves man to a loathing of sin, and to charity. pag. 68
• Sin is like Leaven, a little sowreth the whole lump. pag. 204 & 283
• Sins of Omission, 218. Of evil motion, 219. Of evil affection, and of evil action. pag. 220
• Sins grow in clusters, and one sin begetteth another, 265. Examples thereof. pag. 266
• ...

• Sins committed against the Law of God, are done against the com∣mitters souls. pag. 283
• Souls in heaven wait upon the performance of Gods Promises pag. 178
• Stephens prayer at his death a means of Pauls conversion. pag. 102
• Suggestions to sin lay their foundation upon some unworthy opinion of God. pag. 298

T.

• TEares of bitternesse are the bloud of the Soul. pag. 285
• Teaching by familiar resemblances is much used in both Testa∣ments. pag. 123
• Temples not built in 200 years after Christ. pag. 336
• Temples and Churches necessary. pag. 337
• Temporall things can afford no true content. pag. 39
• There is no peace to a wicked man. pag. 6
• The sound of Gods Word preached cannot be truly heard by us, unlesse he open our hearts. pag. ••2
• The soul of prayer is the holy zeal of him that prayeth. pag. 22
• Three speciall benefits of a godly life. pag. 40. & 41
• The Chaldeans raised by God against the Jews. pag. 56
• They who are sealed with the Spirit of Promise have their infirmities, lapses, and relapses; yet sin not to death. pag. 64
• They who fulfilling the Will of God which they know not, do fulfill their own will which they aime at, are not rewarded, but rather puni∣shed for it. pag. 74. & 75
• The way to avoid contempt, is humility. pag. 81
• There is such a concatenation of duties of Religion, and Justice, that he that offendeth in one, breaketh the chaine. pag. 267
• The fear of the wicked shall come upon himself. pag. 280
• The house of the righteous shall stand. pag. 281
• The Elect sin against their own souls in regard of the fault, 283 and also in regard of the punishment. pag. 284
• The delivery of Gods Church, and his vengeance upon her enemies, gives honour to the Name of God upon earth. pag. 294
• The sting of the first sin. pag. 297
• The knowledge of Gods glory consisteth in the true consideration of his justice and mercy▪ pag. 299
• Though the Church of God live under the crosse for a time; it shall not be alwayes so. pag. 82
• Those whom God useth as his rods are limited. pag. 83
• ...

• To know the glory of God here on earth, we must observe the course of his judgments. pag. 302
• To make others drunk, is a more grievous sin then drunkennesse. pag. 310

U.

• VAnity of Idolatry. pag. 326
• Ʋncharitablenesse corrupteth a Common-wealth, and makes all Gods servants complaine. pag. 34
• Ʋngodly men outragious, when they finde a way open to their vio∣lence. pag. 125
• Ʋngodly men have no bowels. pag. 136
• Ʋnrighteous mens labours described. pag. 287
• Voluntary and involuntary drunkennesse. pag. 318

W.

• WAnt of zeal a sinne. pag. 52
• Want of Faith the true cause of Idolatry. pag. 90
• Way to Hell all down hill, yet very uneasie, 286. And that is gotten by it, is but meere vanity. pag. 283
• We ought to avoid causes of complaint. pag. 34
• We ought not to limit God to a set time for our deliverance, nor to any set means, nor measure of affliction. pag. 107
• We must not think long to tarry Gods leasure, 173. to avoid these two evils. Of murmuring against God, or seeking unlawfull means to accomplish our desires. pag. 178
• We ought not be too busie to search into the wayes of God, to know things to come. pag. 174
• We must beleeve Gods Promises whatsoever appearances do put in to perswade us to the contrary. pag. 175
• Where God is. pag. 336
• Whatsoever God hath decreed or spoken, shall certainly take effect in the appointed time. pag. 160
• What duty is owing to him. pag. 336
• Where Religion is despised, the courts of Justice must needs be corrupt, 28. and power and authority degenerate into tyranny, and oppres∣sion. pag. 29
• When God undertaketh a work, he accommodateth all fit means (though he need none) for a full execution. pag. 71
• When we pray that Gods Will may be done, we must also pray that it may be done for the same cause. pag. 77
• ...

• Whensoever God punisheth, there is a fault deserving that punishment, 253. Objections to the contrarie answered. pag. 254
• When God putteth his hand to spoyling the oppressor, he will spoil him in all that he trusted in. pag. 263
• Whom God pardoneth, Sathan tempteth most. pag. 87
• Whosoever gives divine Worship to a creature, is an Idolater. pag. 91
• Wicked men have no peace. pag. 84
• Wicked men rejoyce at the Churches sorrow. pag. 128
• Woe to the man which gathereth not his own. pag. 275
• Written Scripture sufficient for salvation. pag. 153

Z

• ZEale against crying sinnes of the time, is discreet, and necessary pag. 52

The Contents of the third Chapter.

• A Double plainnesse of Scripture, Rationall, and Spirituall. pag. 77
• Afflictions of this life cannot separate the society of the Faithfull. pag. 5
• Afflictions of the Church are such a deading to it, that unlesse it were quickened with sou•••• beams of grace, it would be a burthen to it more then it could beare. pag. 41
• Affection of love most vehement in a woman. pag. 94
• All Gods favours to men, proceed from his love towards such as are thankfull for them. pag. 69
• As God brought Israel into the land of Canaan by the sword, so by the sword he driveth them out. pag. 144

C

• CAtesbie's speech concerning the Gun-powder treason pag. 89
• Christ descended into hell. pag. 78
• Christ was alwayes before the Gospel, and even from the beginning of the world, the hope of all the ends of the world. pag. 150
• Church musick ancient, and of holy use. pag. 22
• Comfort in afflictions, groweth out of a right understanding of the Will and purpose of God therein. pag. 43
• Commination of Gods judgments, makes the Church of God to fear pag. 174
• Consideration of former mercies strengthens faith in present troubles. pag. 50. & 68
• ...

• Cushan is Aethiopia, so called from Cush the son of Cham. pag. 80
• Cyrus angrie with the River Gyndes. pag. 103

D.

• DAvids Psalmes a common store-house of good learning. pag. 195
• Description of Repentance. pag. 1••5
• Distressing of the poor, a greivous and provoking sin. pag. 159

E

• EVery childe of God, and member of the Church, ought to pray for the whole body of the Church. pag. 34

F.

• FAith in Christ takes away the horrour of the terrour of the Lord pag. 82
• Faithfull men who worship God with fear and trembling, how they ought to be taught. pag. 33
• Fear is a proper passion of a true Believer, and is inseperably joyned with saving Faith. pag. 28
• Figurative speeches are in use in Scripture. pag. 72

G.

• GOD is not so glorious in any thing that he hath wrought, as in his Church. pag. 38
• God will not suffer us to be tempted further then he thinks fit. pag. 41
• God is armed with instruments of vengeance to punish sin. pag. 57
• God never had mercy enough to swallow or consume either his justice or his truth. pag. 60
• God is glorious in Heaven and in Earth. pag. 61
• God never layeth his rod upon those creatures which he hath ordained for the service of man, but to punish man, 102. For he hath no quarrell to them. pag. 103
• God must have the glory of his own great works. pag. 104
• God is without variablenesse or alteration. pag. 113
• God sometimes declareth his power openly, to the comfort of his Church and terrour of its enemies. pag. 115
• God is above all second causes. pag. 133
• God hath taken upon himself the care of the preservation of his Church, 151. Therefore we need seek no further for it. pag. 153
• God in his judgment maketh the ungodly rods to punish one another. pag. 155
• God in Christ is the rest of his Church. pag. 158
• God never forsaketh us, till we forsake him. pag. 185
• God punisheth one evil nation by another. pag. 87
• ...

• God is the strength of his Church, 214. both in that we are, and in that we do, and in that we suffer. pag. 215
• God is the restorer of his Church, & wil renew the face & glory of it. pag. 222
• Gods word must minister matter to our prayers. pag. 25
• Gods Church is Gods work both in respect of its calling, 37. and of his perpetuall presence in it. pag. 38
• Gods mercie and our obedience are motives of re-establishing his pro∣tection upon his Church. pag. 55
• God's secrets revealed only to them that fear him. pag. 75
• God's power shewed in the terror of the wicked proves, that there is a God. pag. 80
• God's promises are either for this life, or for the life to come. pag. 124
• God's extraordinary mercies must be often remembred. pag. 166
• God's mercie in giving, must not destroy his justice in punishing of evill doers. pag. 186
• Good use is to be made of some temptations.

H.

• HOrnes in Scripture signifie strength. page 49
• How God was said to have divided the Land of Canaan amongst the children of Israel. page 63 & 73
• How many ways spiritual enemies assault the Church. page 205
• How many ways men abuse their strength. page 216

I.

• JErusalem and the Temple shall lye desolate untill the second coming of Christ. page 68
• Jewish Feasts were instituted for remembrances of favours received from God. page 166
• In the last calling of the Jews, their Common-wealth shall be restored. page 66
• In reading of holy Scripture we ought carefully to observe what is spo∣ken literally, and what figuratively. 74. and not to make figures where none are. 77. Nor understand that literally which is figura∣tive. page 79
• In all wars, God is Lord of Hosts, and General of the armies that fight his quarrels. 143. and he ordereth all wars. page 144
• Jotham's Parable. page 188
• Joy dilateth the heart. page 195
• Joyes of the ungodly compared to a candle. page 205
• Israel a type of Gods Church on earth. page 99.

L.

• LAnd of Canaan, not above 300 miles in length, and 100 in bredth, 173. The fruitfulnesse of it shewn. ibid.
• Logick and Rethorick requisite and necessary in a Minister. page 76

M.

• MAnna and Water out of the Rock were types of our Lords Sup∣per, and the children of Israels passage through the red Sea a type of Baptisme. page 168
• Matter of thankesgiving, is an acknowledgment of all benefits. page 68
• Mercy is the most glorious attribute that God hath. page 46
• Miseries of afflicted men, make them forget comforts. page 44
• Monarchie of the Assyrians lasted 1300 yeers. page 250
• Moses charged by Heathens to be a Magician. page 97 & 105
• Motives inducing us to blesse those that persecute us, and pray for those that hate us. page 70

N.

• NO lesson so hard for a child of God to take out, as to take up Christ's Crosse. page 41
• No counsel or strength can prevaile against God, 65. nor any prescripti∣on. ibid.
• No Oratory nor eloquence comparable to the holy elocution of Scripture page 75

O.

• OBjections against Church musick answered, page 13
• Obedience to God assures and gains all good things to us. page 180
• Over-weening of our fellow creatures is and hath been a cause of Idola∣try. page 134

P.

• POetry ancient and of use in the Church. page 10
• Polygamy unlawfull. page 108
• Prayer a faithful messenger, page 43
• Prayer hath the same force now as it had in former times. page 141
• Praysing of God in Hymns and Songs ancient and much used in the Church.
• Prophane mens hearts are hardned with custome of sinning. page 31
• Prophane and carnal men how they ought to be taught. page 30
• Prophets, Apostles, and Ministers of the Word, are the fittest Persons to be used for direction of devotion. page 7

R.

• REading of Scripture good to make us understand what the Lord hath done in former ages. page 105
• ...

• Religion in the Head is speculation, in the Heart affection, in the Hand action. page 169
• Rich mens duties to the poor. page 161

S.

• SAlvation is a work of power, 210. of glory. Ibid. Of mercy, page 211
• Salvation only of God. page 229
• Satans Suggestions that God is merciful, animates sinners to do evil. page 58
• Satan is but Gods instrument in afflicting of the Church. page 84
• Selah what it signifieth. page 49
• Self conceited men, how they ought to be taught. page 32
• Self-opinion is a kind of spiritual drunkennesse. page 32
• Set-prayers both lawful and necessary to be used. page 6
• Senselesse and livelesse creatures are subject to Gods will page 119 & 133
• Sigionoth what it signifieth. page 2
• Signes of true spiritual joy. page 201 & 203
• Six Signes of ensuing judgment. page 146
• Sin is that which parteth God and us. page 146
• Sometimes God taketh away from his children their feeling of his love, and of the joy of the Holy-Ghost. page 56

T.

• TEmporal things have but a resemblance of good and evil, spiri∣tual favours are reall. Pag. 202
• Thanksgiving ought to be joyned with Prayer. Pag. 106
• Thanksgiving is a work of Justice, which puts us in mind of our un∣ablenesse to requite God, and of our unworthinesse. Pag. 69
• The Contemplation of Gods justice in punishing the sins of his Church, of his vengeance in revenging the quarrels of it, of his mercy, in his mercy, in healing the wounds of it, give the faithful occasion to re∣sort to God by prayer. Pag. 3
• The Churches Plea in affliction is for mercy. Pag. 45
• The Church of God hath a special interest in the power and protecti∣on of God. Pag. 54
• The best forme of thanksgiving is that which maketh particular com∣memoration of Gods mercies. Pag. 68
• The sense of Scripture is the soul thereof. Pag. 76
• The welfare of the Church, is the grief and vexation of her enemies. Pag. 82
• The truth of God is a good ground, because the word of God is a sure word. Pag. 112
• The devil knew where Moses was buried. Pag. 137

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• The effectual fevrent prayer of a righteous man prevaileth much. Pag. 139
• The poor are under Gods protection and his own flesh. Pag. 160
• The very Elect are shaken with fear. Pag. 177
• The law sheweth us how much we are in Gods debt. Pag. 178
• The same hand that put the children of Israel in possession of the land of Canaan, put them out again. Pag. 186
• The Chaldaeans armies the Troops of God. Pag. 186
• The Saints of God have their sorrows on earth, yet they always rejoyce in the Lord. Pag. 202
• The general apprehension of Gods mercy in Christ, will not justifie a man in the sight of God. Pag. 207
• The Lord will loose the bonds of his Church, and give her deliverance out of her troubles. Pag. 220
• They that joy in the Lord, rest in the Lord, and rejoyce in nothing o∣therwise then as a means to serve the Lord. 200 and because God is Lord. Pag. 201
• Three notes of a lawful promise and oath. Pag. 115

• VAin repetitions not to be used in Prayer. Pag. 33

W

• WE ought to give the whole glory and praise for all good to God. 70. And thanks to creatures as ministers and instruments of God. Pag. 71
• We must search out and confesse the true cause of all the good that God doth to us. Pag. 107
• What use may be made of Davids Psalmes, in our frequent reading and meditation of them. Pag. 19
• What is meant by the works of God. Pag. 19
• What is meant by the midst of years. Pag. 21
• Whether we ought to swear at all. Pag. 114
• Whether every oath ought to be kept. Pag. 115
• Wheresoever there is Election there is Ʋnction. pag. 130 & 154
• Where God loveth a People, his favour runneth in a full stream in the channel of his Church. Pag. 138
• Where there is the true joy of the Holy Ghost, no temporal affliction can extinguish or eclipse it. Pag. 195

X

• Xerxes angry with the sea, causeth it to be beater with stripes. pag. 102

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