Divine considerations treating of those things which are most profitable, most necessary and most perfect in our Christian profession by John Valdesso.

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• WHy God required the sa∣crifices of the law, and yet delighted not in them, 412
• Salvation why attributed to faith, and why to good works 364
• The full satisfaction of Christ set forth, 376. Who have certain satisfaction in all things, and who not, the rea∣ons of both, 335.
• Scandall and the differences of it, 269. When it is tolerable and when not, 277. How to behave our selves for the a∣voiding of it, ibid.
• Scripture how to be made use of for conserving the health of the mind, 8. How to be read by us, 106. 197. How the knowledge of it is gotten and when, 199. What are the best means of interpret∣ing of it, 192 The difference between the spirits and the scriptures guiding of pious persons, 22••. How the scri∣pture confirms our hope in the promises, 109. How far onely the scripture and ex∣amples of Saints may direct men in the Christian way while they are without the Spirit, 154. The scripture compared to a candle, the ho∣ly spirit to the sun, ibid. 2••2.
• Securi••y or certainty divine, 436
• Wherein s••lf-denyall consists, 225
• Hebrew servitude what, 119
• Sinne made man subject to Gods mediate will, 137. The difference of sinnes and sin∣ners, and how men sinne a∣gainst themselves, their neighbours, Christ and God, 66. The signes of divers kinds of sinnes, 69. Sinnes

• of ignorance and whence they arise, 398. When they excuse and when not, 399. How sin both originall and actuall was satisfied for by Christ, 376
• Sonnes of God and Adam who, 5. By what each do govern themselves both for the reco∣vering and conserving of bo∣dily and spirituall health, 6, 7
• Sorrow, see grief.
• How diversely God communi∣cates his spirit to his, 18. How to exercise our selves that we may obtain the holy spirit, 155. How we may know when the holy spirit prayes works or understands in us, 161, 193. The holy spirit compared to the sun 154 155, 222, 223 How we know God by the communication of the holy spirit. 309 The spirit is alwayes opposed by the flesh, 1••4. 1••5. A signe of the spirits work in us, 118. The holy spirit executes Gods immediate or particular will 1••7. The effects of them that live according to the spirit, 279 Humane wisdome erres in presuming to under∣stand the things of the pi∣rit, 153, 218 How Christi∣ans in the beginning of their incorporation into hrist are deceived about the fruits of the spirit, 378
• How God bestowes spirituall things and why he bestows them not ordinarily without mans industry. 58, 98. The contrary judgement of spiri∣tuall things in men that have the spirit and that are without it 64, 265. Pious persons ought to be modest in judging of spirituall things, 265. Spirituall gifts are not understood till they be enjoyed, 431
• The evil spirit is more impetu∣ous in its motions in the wicked, then the holy spirit is in the pious, 230. How evil spirits disquiet pious persons, 145, 38••. By what the evil spirits hinder faith, ibid 390, 391
• How and where men account themselves strangers or pil∣grimes, 360. How we are strangers or pilgrimes with God in this life, 181, 195. Who account themselves strangers in this world, who not, and the reasons of each, 360
• What suffering is most Christi∣an, 344. What suffering is a signe of mortification, ib. 345 Suffering by our own and o∣thers wills, when good and when not, 346
• Who are superstitions 380. Su∣perstitious men believe with

• ease, and why so, 381. Su∣perstitious and ceremonious persons are severe and rigo∣rous 213
• THe most ordinary temptati∣on which befalls pious per∣sons, 287
• The Testimony of Jesus Christ what, 194. Two parts of it, ibid.
• Divine Treasures, see Know∣ledge.
• The Tree of knowledge of good and evil why forbidden to man, ••20. And what vir∣tue God had set in it 321. The Tree of life and what naturall virtue God had set in it, ibid.
• How God tries our graces and dispositions, 71. The ends of Gods trials of men and the signes of piety and impiety by it, ibid. & 72
• Troubles or Tribulation, see Afflictions.
• We must trust in God in out∣ward afflictions 47. How we must trust in him when we suffer as Saints, and how when we suffer as men of the world, 49