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31. contentions about, the worst of all, 124. contentions about, reproved, 125. how rightly to contend for, 126, 135. Christian, most pure before the time of Constantine, 228. of Christ Jesus, plain, simple, and sincere, 310.

Religions and sects among the Jews, 46.

Remission of sins, received without works, by faith only, freely, 21. in respect to, the bishop of Rome teacheth against Christ, 105. everlasting life consequent thereon, 247. Repentance, shut out from the office of justifying, 19. to be joined with faith in the justified, 19. not accepted without restitution, 393. God preventeth our will, and disposeth us to, 432, 476. God giveth to all time and place for, 437. the doctrine of, most necessary, 467. four principal points with respect to, 469. of the false opinions we have had of God, 469. they who preach it without Christ, and teach that it consists only in works of men, greatly deceived, 470. their state who think they have done much towards, of themselves, 471. who have not true, 472. why open profession of, necessary, 472. contrition of heart and detestation of sin necessary in, 472. true, can never be unprofitable-against the Novatians, 473, &c. illustrated by the cases of David and Peter, 475. the turning again of the whole man to God, 476, &c. described more largely, 477. four parts of, 477. they who teach, without a lively faith, teach none other than Cain's and Judas's repentance, 482, &c. Reprobate, 298.

Restitution, must be joined with confession and repentance, 393. Resurrection of believers, through Christ,

and like his, 84. resurrection of Christ, a sermon on the, 384. the foundation, &c. of our religion, 384. proofs of it, 386, &c. signified by divers figures of the Old Testament, 388.

resurrection with Christ, nature and evidences of, 392, &c. Riches, how they will esteem, who re

member Christ's cross, 229. Righteous, by virtue of what, we are made again in God's sight, 381. Righteousness, it were folly, when endowed with, to lose it again, 390. Rome, the bishop of, his pretenced and usurped power, 104. the bishop of,

ought to be called Antichrist, &c., 105, . church of, its abominations exposed, 50. Rosaries, 52.

Rule, the desire of, a folly that grows up with us, 447.

Rulers, obedience to, enjoined, 95. that wicked, have their authority from God, 99.

Sabbath, how far Christians are bound by the commandment relative to the, 302, &c. on what day observed from the time of Christ's ascension, 304. the breaking of the, lamented, 304. Sacrament, of our regeneration or new birth, 258. to what the name may be applied, 316, &c. to administer, is by the outward word and element to preach to the receiver the inward and invisible grace of God, 317. Sacraments, need not golden vessels, but golden minds, 230. mysteries of our redemption, 244. are holy signs (Augustine), 313. have a certain similitude, and therefore for the most part receive the names of the selfsame things they signify, 313. do, as it were, seal in our hearts the promises of God, 314. are but two, 316. are visible signs, &c., 316. there is annexed to them the promise of free forgiveness of our sins, and of our holiness, and joining in Christ, 316. why first instituted, and ministered in face of the congregation, 317. sacrifices were such before Christ's coming, 319. to be ministered in a known tongue, 317, &c. a mockage and abuse of, 393. we are not to trust in the outward receiving of, 401. administered according to Christ's holy institution, a mark of the true church, 414. what they be, and how many, 316. why confirmation, penance, &c. are not, 317.

Saints, churches ought not to be built for them, 175, 228. no true image of, can be made, 196. attributing the defence of countries, &c. to, idolatry, 202. prayers to, and sermons of, &c. &c., 204. papists have the same opinion of, as the Gentiles had of their gods, 204. whether they know what is done on earth, doubted by many ancient fathers, 289.

Salvation, man's, cometh only of Christ, 14, 17. would have been lost again by the thief, had he lived and not regarded faith and its works (Chrysostom), 44. whom the glorified will

thank for it, 422.--See God, Christ, Justification, &c.

Satan, hath always stirred up the ex-
treme enemies of God and his infal-
lible truth, to pull with violence the
holy Bible out of the people's hands,
326.
Scorners, described, 335, &c. of Heze-
kiah's days, 335. of the old world,
336. of Sodom, 335. of God's holy
word, wilful murderers of their own
souls, 336.

Scripture. See Holy Scripture.
Sects, among the Jews, 47.

among

Christian men, 50. the many, among Christians, deplored, 124, &c.

Shoes, holy, 50.

had none but common houses, 227. dedicated to no saint, till that abuse began in Justinian's time, 228. gorgeousness in decking, disapproved in early times, though borne with, 228, &c. Testament, the New, a more lively image of our Saviour Christ than any other, 236.

Thief upon the cross, saved by faith without works, 43.

Time, how they who have wisdom from God value it, 437.

Traditions, devised by man, what they be, 2. of the Romish church, their effect, 51.

Treason cannot be hid, 103.
Trentalles, 51, 245.

Shoe, the Jewish custom of pulling off a Trinity, 2. distinction of Persous in

man's, explained, 330. Shrines, relics, &c., 50.

Sickness, in Christian men, the rod of our heavenly and loving Father, 87. many plain passages of Scripture to console believers in, 89.

Sin, man's misery by, 9, &c. remission of, how received, 21. no sin can condemn those who are surely grafted in Christ, 85. good men feel the heavy burden of, 248. man a lump of, 357. so much do we love God and Christ, as we hate sin, 368. in what sense Christians are, and in what sense they are not, delivered from it, 380. in captivity to Christ, that it may no more hurt its members, 433. how its filthiness appears, 486.

original, remitted when, 24. Sins, we daily and hourly commit many great, 143. how forgiven, 247. what we should learn from those of good men recorded in scripture, 332. Sinners, their description, 335Stations, 52.

Strife.-See Contention.

Sun, when said to have been darkened for seventeen days, 186. Sunday.-See Sabbath. Supererogation, works of, 50. Swearing, how and in what causes, lawful, 62. lawful swearing commanded by God, 63. lawful only by the name of God, 64. all swearing forbidden in our daily communication, 65.

Taxes, should be duly paid, 106. Temperance in eating and drinking a remedy against uncleanness, 122. Temple of the Lord, to be resorted to, 135. what it is, 230.

Temples, in Tertullian's time, Christians

the, 2, 361, 389, 408, 481.

Try himself, every Christian should, &c., 38.

Turning, from God, several ways of, 71, &c. of God from man, 73.

Unbelief, the children of, be of two sorts, 78. Uncleanness, remedies against, 122. Ungodly, who they be, 335. Union, with Christ, a great cause of joy, 85. blessed consequences of, 85. who have it, 400.

Unity, required of God among Christians, 128.

Vain-glory, of all vices most universally grafted in all mankind, 9. Visitation, of the sick, not a sacrament, 317.

Vocation, certainty of the Christian's, how to be declared, 340.

Washpot, what meant when Moab is so called, 330.

Water-fowls, on what ground some eat them as well as fish in fasting, 258. Water, holy, 310.

Wheel, wherefore it turneth round (Augustine), 247.

Whitsuntide, feast of, its origin, 406, &c.

Whoredom, sermon against, 108. forbidden by VIIth commandment, 108. what men become by, 114. all evils meet in, 115. punishments with which God has plagued, 118. laws devised by man against, 119. how to avoid, 121. Wife, duties of, to husband, 449, &c. why more than one allowed to the fathers, 331. case of the philosopher who had a bad wife, 456.

Wisdom of this world to be renounced,
436.

Word of God, they who neglect it have
turned from God, 72. the withdraw-
ing of it from us, one of God's sorest
judgments, 73. the great evil of re-
jecting the, 78. living waters, with
which we should wash ourselves, 399.
who are instructed in the knowledge
of it by the Holy Ghost, 412. the
ignorance of, what evils it has pro-
duced, 525. princes, subjects, &c.
must learn out of it, 531. the shining
lamp, &c. 532.-See Holy Scripture.
World, this, what they have done who
are entangled with the cares of, &c.
72. the whole, what meant by it,
381.

Works, all our, imperfect and impure,

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13, 14. good works not to be done
with a view to be justified by them,
19. spring from faith, 20. do not
justify us, 24. cannot be done with-
out a lively faith, 26, 40, 41.
hath, whosoever receiveth grace (Au-
gustine), 248. go not before, but
follow justification (Augustine), 248.
three reasons why they should be
done, 248. different sorts of, 252.

to seek justification by, is to direct
them to an evil end, &c. 253- do
not make a man good, but are done
by him who is first made good by the
Spirit and grace of God, 348. done
from thankfulness for redemption by
Christ's death, 348. works that seem
good, without faith, are like the
course of a horse that runneth out of
the way, 42. of God's moral law, the
works of faith, '45. of supereroga-
tion, or overflowing abundance, 50.
to put any confidence in, is mere
blasphemy, &c. 247, 252. to what
end evil men do their works, 348.
men addict to the advancing of their
own works, content with no answer,
&c. 349. godly and reasonable men
not puffed up with confidence in their
works, &c. 349. they who ascribe
the honour of their works to them-
selves are justiciaries and hypocrites,
423.-See Christ, Faith, God, Grace,
Heaven, Justification, Mercy, Merit.

Zeal, of holy men, in sharply rebuking
vice, vindicated, 134. sources from
whence it springs, 135. good, ex-
amples of it, 134, 135.

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