communicated, 424, 425. How any becomes partaker thereof, 428-430. It is not tied to the ceremony of breaking bread and drinking wine, which Christ used with his disciples, this was only a figure, 424, 431-442. Whether that ceremony be a neces- sary part of the new covenant, and whether it is to be continued, 442- 461. Spiritual communion with God through Christ is obtained, 93. Community of goods is not brought in by the Quakers, 464, 490, 491. Compliments; see Titles. Conscience; see Magistrate.—Its de- finition, what it is; it is distinguished from the saving light, 137-140, 462, 463. The good conscience, and the hypocritical,253. He that acteth con- trary to his conscience sinneth; and concerning an erring conscience,462, 463. What things appertain to con- science, 463, 464. What sort of li- berty of conscience is defended, 464. It is the throne of God, 465. It is free from the power of all men, 480. Conversion, what is man's therein, is rather a passion than an action, 141, 142. Augustine's saying, 142. This is cleared by two examples, 142, 143. Correction, how and against whom it ought to be exercised, 464. Covenant, the difference betwixt the new and old covenant worship, 48, 49, 329, 330, 357-360, 403-406. See also Law, Gospel.
Cross, the sign of the cross, 420.
Dancing; see Plays.
Days, whether any be holy, and con- cerning the day commonly called the Lord's Day, 332, 441. Deacons, 450.
Death; see Adam, Redemption.-It en- tered into the world by sin, 100, 101. In the saints it is rather a passing from death to life, 102.
Devil, he cares not at all how much God be acknowledged with the mouth, provided himself be worshiped in the heart, 24, 171, 172. He haunts among the wicked, 237. How he may seem to be a minister of the gospel, 301-303. When he can work nothing, 352, 353. He keeps men in outward signs, shadows, and forms, while they neglect the sub- stance, 433, 434. Dispute, the dispute of the shoemaker with a certain professor, 296. Of a heathen philosopher with a bishop in the council of Nice, and of the unlet. tered clown, 297.
Elector of Saxony, the scandal given by him, 383.
Eminency, your eminency; see Titles. Enoch walked with God, 243. Epistle; see James, John, Peter. Esau, 340.
Ethics, or books of moral philosophy, are not needful to Christians, 296. Evangelist, who he is, and whether any nowadays may be so called, 307, 308. Excellency, your excellency; see Titles, Exorcism, 421.
Faith, its definition, and what its object is, 32-36. How far, and how ap- pearances,outward voices,and dreams were the objects of the saints' faith, 34. That faith is one, and that the object of faith is one, 36. Its foun- dation, 62. See Revelation, Scripture. Farellus, 448.
Father; see Knowledge, Revelation, 32. Fathers, so called; they did not agree
about some books of the scripture, 67, 77. They affirm that there are whole verses taken out of Mark and Luke, 77. Concerning the Septuagint interpretation,and the Hebrew copy, 78. They preached universal re- demption for the first four centuries, 119. They frequently used the word merit in their doctrine, 226, 228. Concerning the possibility of not sin- ning, 249, 250. The possibility of falling from grace, 253. Many of them did not only contradict one another, but themselves also, 300. Concerning baptism, and the sign of the cross, 420. Concerning an oath,
the Holy Ghost, 22. God is to be sought within, 23. He is known by sensation, and not by mere specula- tion and syllogistic demonstrations, 22. He is the fountain, root, and beginning of all good works, and he hath made all things by his eternal word, 26. God speaking is the ob- ject of faith, 33. Among all, he hath his own chosen ones, 19. He delights not in the death of the wicked; see Redemption. He hath manifested his love in sending his Son, 193, 215, 216. See Justification. He rewards the good works of his children, 227, 228. Whether it be possible to keep his commandments, 230-232. He is the Lord, and the only judge of the conscience, 462, 465. He will have a free exercise, 472. Gospel; see Redemption.-The truths of it are as lies in the mouths of pro- fane and carnal men, SO, 44, 45. The nature of it is explained, 47, 48. It is distinguished from the law, and is more excellent than it, 49, 70. See Covenant, Law. Whether any ought to preach it in this or that place is not found in scripture, 283, 284. Its works are distinguished from the works of the law, 220. How it is to be propagated, and of its propaga- tion, 466. The worship of it is in- ward, 406. It is an inward power, 159, 160.
Grace, the grace of God can be lost through disobedience, 251, &c. Sav- ing grace (see Redemption) which is required in the calling and qualifying of a minister; see Minister. In some it worketh in a special and prevalent manner, that they necessarily obtain salvation, 144, 145. Your grace;
Hands, laying on of hands, 284, 456. Head, of uncovering the head in saluta. tions, 487, 490, 503-506, 541. Heart, the heart is deceitful and wicked, 74, 93, 94.
Heathens, albeit they were ignorant of the history, yet they were sensible of the loss by the fall, 182. Some heathens would not swear, 526. Hea- thenish ceremonies were brought into the Christian religion, 420, 421. Henry IV. King of France, 476. Heresies, whence they proceeded, 544,
Holy of Holies, the high priest entered into it once a year, 31. But now all of us at all times have access unto God, 50.
Holiness, your holiness; see Titles. Honour; see Titles. Hypocrite, 468, 472, 473.
James the apostle, there were of old divers opinions concerning his epis- tle, 67.
Idolatry, 328, 346. Whence it pro- ceeded, 389.
Jesting; see Plays, Games. Jesuits; see Sect, Ignatian. Jesus; see Christ.-What it is to be saved, and to be assembled in his name, 175, 176, 191, 192, 336. Jews, among them there may be mem- bers of the church, 260, 261. Their error concerning the outward succes- sion of Abraham, 271. Their worship is outward, 406. Illiterate; see Mechanics. Indulgences, 189. Infants; see Sin.
Iniquities, spiritual iniquities, or wick- edness, 344. Inquisition, 474.
Inspiration, where that doth not teach, words without do make a noise to no purpose, 20, 21. John the apostle, concerning his second
and third epistles,and the Revelation, there were sometimes divers opinions, 67, 68.
John the Baptist did not miracles, 282. John Hus is said to have prophesied, 90. John Knox, in what respect he was
called the apostle of Scotland, 308. Judus fell from his apostleship, 273. Who was his vicar, 289. His minis- try was not purely evangelical, 292. He was called immediately of Christ, and who are inferior to him, and plead for him, as a pattern of their ministry, 292.
Justification, the doctrine thereof is and hath been greatly vitiated among the Papists, and wherein they place it, 187, 188, 189, 191. Luther and the Protestants with good reason opposed this doctrine, though many of them ran soon into another extreme, and wherein they place it, and that they agree in one, 190, 191, 196. It comes from the love of God, 193, 215. To justify signifies to make really just, not to repute just, which many Pro- testants are forced to acknowledge, 205, 206, 208-213. The revelation of Christ formed in the heart is the
formal cause of justification, not works (to speak properly) which are only an effect, and so also many Pro- testants have said, 187, 189-192, 205-225. We are justified in works, and how, 187, 196-198, 218-225. This is so far from being a Popish doctrine that Bellarmine and others opposed it, 196, 226, 227.
Kingdom of God, 362, 457, 466. Knowledge, the height of man's happi- ness is placed in the true knowledge of God, 3. Error in the entrance of this knowledge is dangerous, 15. Superstition, idolatry, and thence atheism, have proceeded from the false and feigned opinions concerning God, and the knowledge of him, 17. The uncertain knowledge of God is divers ways attained, but the true and certain only by the inward and immediate revelation of the Holy Spirit, 19. It hath been brought out of use, and by what devices, 24. There is no knowledge of the Father but by the Son, nor of the Son but by the Spirit, 18, 25-31. The know- ledge of Christ, which is not by the revelation of his Spirit in the heart, is no more the knowledge of Christ than the prattling of a parrot, which hath been taught a few words, may be said to be the voice of a man, 30. Laicks, 305, 306. Laity, 309, 311. Lake of Bethesda, 140. Law, the law is distinguished from the gospel, 49, 405. The difference thereof, 49, 240, 241. See Gospel. Under the law the people were not in any doubt who should be priests and ministers, 268. See Minister of the law, Worship.
Learning, what true learning is, 293, 294.
Letter, the letter killeth, quickeneth not, 241.
Light, the innate light is explained by Cicero, 182, 183.
Light of nature, the errors of the So- cinians and Pelagians, who exalt this light, are rejected, 91. Saving Light; see Redemption.-Is universal; it is in all, 126. It is a spiritual and hea- venly principle, 131. It is a substance, not an accident, 133, 134. It is su pernatural and sufficient, 152, 158. It is the gospel preached in every creature, 158. It is the word nigh in the mouth and in the heart, 162, 163. It is the engrafted word, able to save the soul, 168. Testimonies
of Augustine and Buchanan concern ing this light, 185, 186. It is not any part of nature, or reliques of the light remaining in Adam after the fall, 137. It is distinguished from the con science, 139. It is not a common gift, as the heat of the fire, and outward light of the sun, as a certain preacher said, 174. It may be resisted, 127, 130, 140, 141, 251, 252. By this light or seed, grace and word of God, he invites all, and calls them to sal- vation, 164-166. None of those to whom the history of Christ is preach- ed are saved, but by the inward ope- ration of this light, 167-173. It is small in the first manifestation, but it groweth, 168. It is slighted by the Calvinists, Papists, Socinians, and Arminians, and why, 169. None can put it to silence, 170. There are and may be saved by the operation there- of, who are ignorant of the history of Christ, 104, 105, 128, 135, 136, 165, 173-183. An answer to the objec- tion, That none can be saved, but in the name of Jesus Christ, 176, 177.
Literature, human literature is not at all
needful, 293, &c.
Liturgy, 334, 354. Logic, 296, 297.
Lord, there is one Lord, 37, 38. Love, of a love-feast, 452, 453. Lutherans; see Protestants.-They af- firm consubstantiation, 55. Of the flesh and blood of Christ, 431. They use unleavened bread in the supper, 448.
Magistrate, concerning his power in things purely religious, and that he hath no authority over the consci- ence, 462-486. Nor ought he to punish according to church censure, 465. Concerning the present magis- trates of the Christian world, 540. Mahomet prohibited all discourse and reasoning about religion, 481. He was an impostor, 139. Majesty, your majesty; see Titles. Man; see Knowledge. His spirit know- eth the things of a man, and not the things of God, 28. The carnal man esteemeth the gospel truths as lies, 30. And in that state he cannot please God, 41. The new man and the old, 64, 133. The natural man cannot discern spiritual things; as to the first Adam, he is fallen and de- generate, 64, 91, 183. His thoughts of God and divine things in the cor- rupt state are evil and unprofitable, 91. Nothing of Adam's sin is im-
puted to him, until by evil doing he commit his own, 93, 100, 101. In the corrupt state he hath no will or light capable of itself to manifest spi- ritual things, 93-99, 192, 193. He cannot when he will procure to him- self tenderness of heart, 140. What- soever he doth, while he doth it not by, in, and through the power of God, he is not approved of God, 351. How the inward man is nourished, 426-431. How his understanding cann be forced by sufferings, and how his understanding is changed, 472, 473.
Mass, 328, 333 354, 383. Mathematician, 62. Mechanics, 311. They contributed
much to the Reformation, 312. Merchandise, what it is to make mer- chandise with the Scriptures,300,301. Merit; see Justification. Metaphysics, 298.
Minister of the gospel, it is not found in Scripture, if any be called, 71— 73, 283. Teachers are not to go be- fore the teaching of the Spirit, 81. The Popish and Protestant errors concerning the grace of a minister are rejected, 91, 103, 104. are given for the perfecting of the saints, &c., 237, 238. Concerning their call, and wherein it is placed, 258, 266–284. Qualities, 259, 285- 302. Orders and distinction of laity and clergy, 305-310. Of separat- ing men for the ministry, 305-310. Concerning the sustentation and maintenance of ministers, and their abuse; of the idleness, riot, and cru- elty of ministers, 311-323. What kind of ministry and ministers the Quakers are for, and what sort their adversaries are for, 324-326. Minister of the law, there was no doubt- fulness concerning them under the law, 268, 291, 292. Their ministry was not purely spiritual; and while they performed it, they behoved to be purified from their outward pol- lutions, as now those under the gos- pel from their inward, 268, 291, 292. Miracles, whether they be needful to those who place their faith in objec- tive revelation, 34, 35, 282. Moses, 181, 356, 360, 389, 425. Munster; see Anabaptists, their mis- chievous actings, 52. Music, 387.
Mystery of iniquity, 304, 305, 361, 362.
Name of the Lord, 411. To anoint in the name of the Lord, 456.
Papists, the rule of their faith, 54. They are forced ultimately to recur unto the immediate and inward reve- lations of the Holy Spirit, 63. What difference there is betwixt the cursed deeds of those of Munster and theirs, 56-60. They have taken away the second commandment in their cate- chism, 76, 77. They make philoso- phy the handmaid of divinity, 82. They exalt too much the natural power, and what they think of the saving light, 169. Their doctrine concerning justification is greatly vitiated, 189. Concerning their man- ners and ceremonies, 262-264, 276, 277, 280, 281. Their literature and studies, 294. Of the modern apos- tles and evangelists, 307, 308. Whom they exclude from the ministry, 312. They must be sure of so much a year before they preach, 314. They do not labour, 322. The more moderate and sober of them exclaim against the excessive revenues of the clergy, 318. Their worship can easily be stopped, 354. Albeit they say, None are saved without water-baptism, yet they allow an exception, 400. Of baptism, 420, 421. Of the flesh and blood of Christ, 431, 432. Of an oath, 544.
Parable of the talents, 151, 159. Of the vineyard intrusted, 149. Of the sower, 156. Of the tares, 468, 469. Paschal Lamb, the end thereof, 436. Patriarchs, 427, 436.
Pelagians, 91, 92. How we differ from
them, 141, 421. See Light of Nature. Pelagius denied that man gets an evil seed from Adam, and ascribes all to the will and nature of men: he said, that man could attain unto a state of not sinning by his mere natural strength, without the grace of God, 249, 250. Persecution upon the account of reli- gion, 477–484. See Magistrate.
Perseverance, the grace of God may be lost through disobedience, 230, 251, 254. Yet such a stability may in this life be attained, from which there cannot be a total apostacy, 255-258. Peter, whether he was at Rome, 54. He was ignorant of Aristotle's logic, 81, 82. There were of old divers opinions concerning his second epistle,
Pharisees, 390, 441. Philosopher, the heathen philosopher was brought to the Christian faith by an illiterate rustic, 297. Philosophy, 285, 297, 298. Physics, 298.
Plays, whether it be lawful to use
them, 487, 490, 510-515, 541. Polycarpus, the disciple of John, 54. Pray, to pray for remission of sins, 248. Concerning the Lord's Prayer, 346, 347. To pray without the Spirit is to offend God, 351, 514. Concerning the prayer of the will in silence, 361. See Worship.
Prayer, the prayers of the people were in the Latin tongue, 294. Preacher; see Minister.
Preaching, what is termed the preach- ing of the word, 301, 309, 330, 331. To preach without the Spirit is to offend God, 351. See Worship. It is a permanent institution, 408. It is learned as another trade, 309. Predestinated, God hath after a special manner predestinated some to salva- tion; of whom, if the places of scrip- ture which some abuse be understood, their objections are easily solved, 145. Priest, under the law God spake imme- diately to the high priest, 31, 49. Priests; see Minister of the law, 266, 268, 270, 291, 331. Profession, an outward profession is necessary that any be a member of a particular Christian church, 262. Prophecy, and to prophesy, what it sig- nifies, 306, 307. Of the liberty of prophesying, 306, 307.1 Prophets, some prophets did not mira- cles, 282.
Protestants, the rule of their faith, 54. They are forced ultimately to recur unto the immediate and inward revelation of the Holy Spirit, 63. What difference betwixt the execrable deeds of those of Munster and theirs, 56-60. They make philosophy the handmaid of divinity, 82. They affirm John Hus prophesied of the reformation that was to be, 90. Whether they did not throw themselves into many errors while they were ex
pecting a greater light, 125. They opposed the Papists not without good cause, in the doctrine of justification: but they soon ran into another extreme, 190, 191. They say, that the best works of the saints are defiled, 197. Whether there be any difference between them and the Papists in superstitions and manners, and what it is, 264, 265, 280, 281. What they think of the call of a minister, 269-275, 280-285. It is lamentable that they betake them to Judas for a pattern to their ministers and ministry, 292, 293. Their zeal and endeavours are praised, 295. Of their school divinity, 298, 299. Of the apostles and evangelists of this time, 308. Whom they exclude from the ministry, 310. That they preach to none, until they be first sure of so much a year, 314. The more moderate of them exclaim against the excessive revenues of the clergy, 318. Though they had forsaken the bishop of Rome, yet they would not part with old benefices, 320, 321. They will not labour, 322. Whether they have made a perfect reformation in worship, 328, S29. Their worship can easily be stopped, 354. They have given great scandal to the Reformation, 383. They deny water baptism to be absolutely necessary to salvation, 400. Of water baptism, 419-421. Of the flesh and blood of Christ, 429-434. They use not washing of feet, 446. How they did vindicate liberty of conscience, 474. Some affirm that wicked kings and magistrates ought to be deposed, yea, killed, 476. How they meet, when they have not the consent of the magistrate, 484. Of oaths and swearing, 517, 518.
Psalms, singing of psalms, 386.
Quakers, i. e. Tremblers, and why so
called, 172, 341. They are not contemners of the scriptures, and what they think of them, 65, 68, 69, 7982. Nor of reason, and what they think of it, 137, 138. They do not say, that all other secondary means of knowledge are of no service, 25. They do not compare themselves to Jesus Christ, as they are falsely accused, 132. Nor do they deny those things that are written in the holy scriptures concerning Christ, his conception, &c. 132, 205. They were raised up of God to show forth the truth, 125, 126, 171, 185, 301, 302,
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