Covenant, in what sense it was a covenant of grace, ii. 481.

the law of Moses the rule of duty in this covenant, how understood by
Jesus Christ, ii. 475.

the law required holiness, ii. 475–477.

Covenanting, church, qualifications for, what, ii. 495-498, 654, 661, 692.
promises of sincere endeavors insufficient, ii. 496, 497.

unregenerate unbelieving persons improper subjects for, ii. 498; have no
right to promise obedience by divine assistance, ii. 593, 598.

compliance with the covenant of grace alone entitles to its blessings, ii. 501,
546, 547.

views and feelings with which we ought to covenant, ii. 501, 502.
assurance not necessary to it, ii. 503, 656.

different circumstances of the first Christians and professors of the present
day, to be considered in judging of qualifications, ii. 507, 508.

unregenerate persons improper subjects for covenanting, ii. 538, and passim,
ii. 587; have no title to any divine blessings, ii. 591; have no holy exercises,
ii. 294; their enmity against God disqualifies them for sealing ordinances, ii.
617; directions given to such, how to become fit and worthy subjects of it,
ii. 710.

Covenant, half-way, considered, ii. 667.

nature of, what, ii. 705.

not practised upon at the first settling of New England, ii. 668, 683, 684.
sets aside the command of Christ, ii. 670.

profession made by those who own it, what, ii. 671, 672.

absurdity of, ii. 690.

effects of, what, ii. 683.

why this covenant is retained and practised upon, ii. 684, 699, 700.

Church of God miraculously preserved in the world, i. 326.

primitive, not an example to others in the admission of members, and
why, ii. 654.

visible, nature of, ii. 466.

believers the only proper subjects of admission into it, ü. 479; none others
comply with the conditions of the covenant, ii. 525, 526.

Churches, duty of, respecting the admission of members, what, i. 600. ii. 653.
duty of, towards baptized persons, what, i. 544.

Creation, account of, ii. 43.

Cross of Christ, motives and encouragement from thence to repentance and
reconciliation, ii. 253-255.

calls to repentance, ii. 387, 388.

displays the divine perfections and the evil of sin, ii. 258, 259, 387.

Creed, Apostles', so called, very ancient, ii. 637

638.

articles of, what, ibid.

Christian, compared with the Arminian, and that of Mr. Mather, ii.

belief of, implies what, ii. 640.

Creeds and confessions, necessity and use of, i. 391, 598.

Dunlap's decision of, respecting, i. 599, 605.

Christian communities have a right to form and impose them, i. 598, 599.
in what cases they may be altered, i. 604, 605.

Cudworth, Dr., his notions of the present system of the world, as being the best,
ii. 111.

Mr., errors of, respecting the foundation of love to God, ii. 290, note, 303,
note, 305, note, 344.

D.

Dana, Rev. Mr., strictures upon, i. 611, and passim.

David, the great evil of his sin, in the case with Uriah, consisted in, what, i. 466.

conduct of, what, ibid.

Day of grace, enjoyed by all gospel sinners, i. 328.

Death, threatened to Adam, temporal, spiritual, and eternal, i. 227.

Death, the same implied in the curse upon all transgressors, ii. 588.
Declarative glory of God, does God design to promote it, ii. 111.

Decreeing the misery of his creatures, inconsistent with the goodness of God,
objection to, answered, i. 45, note.

Delight in God, true and false, what, ii. 620.

Depravity of man, i. 137.

its extent, i. 142-153.

manifest in children, i. 137-140.

seen in their love of self and contempt of God, i. 143–148.

in their departure from God and hatred of him, i. 148–150.

in their resisting the spirit of grace, i. 163.

in their opposition to the gospel, i. 165.

in their criminality of it, i. 153–155.
evidences of it, i. 238.

total, definition of, ii. 554.

Devotedness to God, what, i. 131, 132.

reasonableness of, i. 201, 208.

necessity of, i. 210.

obligations to, what, i. 360.

directions to it, i. 214.

Difference of sinners under the strivings of the Spirit, i. 327.
Difficulties of believing the gospel, from what arising, ii. 220.
Discipline, not maintained by false churches, ii. 517.
Directions to be given to awakened sinners, what, ii. 574.
Doubting, mistakes about it, what, i. 181, 182.

is different from weak faith, ii. 162, 163.

Divinity of Christ, i. 417, and passim.
Divine illumination, nature of, ii. 414—423.

effects of, ii. 423-448.

Edwards's views of, ii. 423.

Divine will, can that be evil which coincides with the, considered, ii. 122.
Duty, what God requires of us in his law, i. 14, 15.

motives from which it must be done, i. 25.

the measure of which God requires in his law, what, ibid. i. 125.

E.

Edwards, President, opinion of his works, ii. 423, 425, 662.
Election, personal and absolute, i. 300.

Elect, God's designs towards, what, i. 250.

under condemnation while unbelievers, i. 306. ii. 588.

Election Sermon, i. 577.

Enlightened sinners invited to come to Christ, i. 516, 517.

Enmity against God and Christ the same, ii. 622.

against God, whether arising from considering God as our enemy, ii. 601.
are we enemies only to false ideas of his character, ii. 607; or to his true
character, ii. 609.

in what does this enmity consist, ii. 615.

criminality of it, ii. 617.

Encouragement to return to God through Christ, ground of, ii. 216.

to all sinners to return, i. 297.

Enthusiasts, love and zeal of, what, i. 141, 162.

- faith of, i. 347.

delusions of, i. 348.

conduct of, what, ii. 237, 241, 242.

false pretensions of. i. 10, 11.

Eternal damnation of the impenitent, just and glorious, i. 56—60, 102.

Eunuch, faith of the, what, ii. 485, 681.

Evidences of revelation, external, insufficient to convince the heart, ii. 173, note,
274.

Examination, self, how to be performed, i. 193.

Examination, standard by which, i. 194, 195.

Excellency of the divine nature, the foundation of moral obligation, i. 75.
Excellence, moral, odious to sinners, i. 96-100.

Existence, whether a blessing, considered, i. 251.

Exhortation and promises of the gospel, a view of, ii. 563.
Experiences, difference of, in the unconverted, i. 327.

F.

Fall of Adam foreknown, i. 229, and decreed, how i. 230.
man's deplorable state by it, i. 251.

manner of, what, ii. 45.

temporal evils entailed on mankind by it, what, i. 312.
reflections of the elect angels upon, ii. 55.

of angels and men wisely permitted by God, i. 43. ii. 52.
to display his own perfections, i. 44. ii. 64, 67, 139.

Faith, saving, nature of, i. 331, 338.

definition of, ii. 248.

consists in, what, i. 338. ii. 248.

all unregenerate men destitute of, i. 359.

various senses of, i. 339.

justifying, what, i. 340, 341.

not a persuasion that Christ died for me, ii. 161, 185.

fruits of, what, i. 338-341.

perpetuity of, i. 343.

unites to Christ, i. 356, 492. ii. 197, 223.

conviction of sin and ill desert precede, i. 404.

is before justification, i. 493.

of the legal hypocrite, what, i. 344.

of the evangelical hypocrite, what, i. 347.

self-righteous, what, ii. 198.

passive, not evangelical, ii. 566-570.

appropriating, mistakes about, i. 509, 515. ii. 185-187, 206.

doctrine of appropriating, dangerous, i. 519.

blind, condemned, ii. 234.

always founded on evidence, ii. 190, 206.

required of the Israelites, what, i. 517.

of miracles, what, i. 523.

true and counterfeit, difference between, ii. 221-224, 385.
living by, ii. 162, 243.

Filial frame of spirit, peculiar to believers, i. 352.

Finite beings, mutable and peccable, why, ii. 47.

incapable of making atonement for the least sin, ii. 484.

Flavel, Mr., his notions respecting the priority of regeneration to faith, what, ii.
634, note.

Forbearance of God to a sinful world, i. 312.

Foreknowledge of God, i. 258.

connected with foredetermination, i. 299.

Foreordination, ii. 25, 26.

Forgetfulness of God, criminality of, what, i. 538.

Forgiveness, a spirit of, necessary to our being forgiven, ii. 369.

Free grace, the only ground of hope and salvation, i. 59, 73, 74, 400.

gives ample encouragement to return to God through Christ, i. 221, 307, 517.

G.

God, his natural perfections, what, i. 26.

his infinite understanding displayed, i. 29.

his infinite power, i. 30.

his infinite wisdom, i. 31. ii. 27.

his infinite purity and holiness, i. 33.

his impartial justice, i. 37. ii. 324.

God, his infinite goodness, i. 39.

displayed in the gift of his Son and Spirit, i. 40, 484.

in his providence, i. 40.

his truth and faithfulness, i. 46.

his sovereignty vindicated, i. 42, 46.

his love of holiness and hatred of iniquity, how manifested, i. 36.

his last end in creating and governing the world, what, i. 44.

the display of his own perfections, i. 44. ii. 277, 278.

not merely the happiness of his creatures, i. 45, 535. ii. 89.

objection to this stated and answered, i. 188, 189.

to be loved for what he is in himself, ii. 169, 262, 335.

worthy of being loved and obeyed, i. 56, 75.

his claims to our homage, love, and obedience, reasonable, i. 34, 534, 539.
mean and contemptuous thoughts of him which the wicked have, i. 145.

in what sense grieved by the wickedness of men, i. 473. ii. 129.

- will overrule it to his own glory, and the good of the system, i. 456, 457.
(See Sin, Permission of.)

the supreme good, ii. 353–358.

358.

unchangeable, ii. 148.

reconcilable to the world, i. 300; how, ii. 253.

willing to be reconciled to all that return to him through Jesus Christ, ii.

justifier of all them that believe in Jesus, ii. 324.

love, greatness of, manifested, i. 256. ii. 181.

his love to the world, how manifested, i. 221.

new character of, revealed in the gospel, whether true, considered, ii. 561,
598, and passim.

of this world, ii. 406.

Goodness of God to sinners, self-moved, i. 41, 249. ii. 216.

Glory of God, the principal motive and ultimate end of virtuous actions, i. 22.
a sense of it a cure for false notions in religion, i. 384, 385.

does God always design and act to promote his declarative glory, ii. 111.

Gospel, definition of, ii. 281.

nature and design of, to make men holy, i. 360.

a transcript of the divine nature, i. 287.

glory of, ii. 287.

nature of, what, ii. 281.

requirement of, what, i. 250, 251.

offers a good of infinite value, ii. 359.

offers of, made to all, i. 292.

its offers and encouragements to sinners, what, i. 253, 516.

compliance with, what, i. 334. (See Covenant of Grace.)

calls us to love that character of God exhibited in the law ii. 621.

at variance with the Arminian scheme, i. 390.

Government of God, wisdom and rectitude of, ii. 94, 144.

the joy of holy beings, ii. 92-96, 435.

of the world considered, i. 28, and passim.

Grace, free, the only ground of hope, i. 58, 73, 400.

common, resisted, i. 163-168.

ineffectual, i. 172.

common, extent of, i. 327.

different measures of, i. 327.

restraining, i. 151.

discriminating, i. 171.

special, irresistible, i. 168.

sovereignty of, i. 170, 171.

indefectibility of, i. 343, 350.

true, evidences of, what, i. 177.

ascertainable, how, i. 178, 179.

false grounds of judging of them, ibid.

rules for determining and ascertaining these evidences, i. 193.
false experiences, what, i. 327.

Grace, growth in grace, the best evidence of, i. 344. ii. 242.

common and special, different, ii. 562.

Guilt of the damned ever increasing, i. 60.

H.

Happiness of creatures, whether God's last end, considered, i. 188-193.
Heathen, their moral state, means of knowledge, abuse of privileges, and inex-
cusableness, i. 105-119.

- justly punishable, ibid. ii. 169, 589.

are haters of God and objects of his displeasure, i. 325.

under the law, and bound to render perfect obedience, i. 107.

bound to love God with all the heart, ii. 168-170.

their ignorance inexcusable, i. 108.

their abuse of the means of knowledge, and rejection of the gospel, the
cause of its being withholden from them, i. 107.

Heaven, a title to, obtained by faith in Jesus Christ, i. 352.

its blessedness described, ii. 71.

High-priest, office of, under the law, i. 369, 392. ii. 314.
Holiness of God, i. 258.

displayed in the sufferings of Christ, i. 257-259.

in his punishment of the wicked, i. 260.

required in the divine law, what, ii. 580.

Hopkins, Dr., notions of, respecting the doings of the unregenerate, ii. 696.
Humiliation, the duty of Christians, i. 57.

necessary for receiving the gospel, i. 59.

reasons for, motives to, and means of, i. 201-207.

errors of Antinomians respecting it, i. 207.

evangelical, nature of, what, i. 336.

Humility, the distinguishing trait of the Christian, ii. 432.

effects of, what, ii. 433.

Hypocrite, legal, his hopes built on the sand, i. 74.

evangelical, the foundation of his faith and joy, what, i. 74.

Hypocrites see no need of Christ, i. 337.

deceptions of, what, i. 347.

1.

Idolatry, prevalence of, after the flood, i. 319. ii. 610.

Illumination, spiritual, nature and necessity of, i. 49, 66, 288, 343. ii. 245.

necessity of, i. 331, 333.

divine, nature of, what, ii. 414.

peculiar to the saved, ii. 420.

different from what natural men experience, how, ii. 422.

effects of, what, ii. 423.

is the beginning of spiritual, and the earnest of eternal life, ii. 437.
Impenitence of the wicked, voluntary, i. 305; and criminal, i. 306.
Imperfection, remains of, in believers, what, i. 103, and note.

Imputation of Adam's sin to his posterity, considered, i. 155, 223, 233
of Christ's righteousness as to believers, doctrine of, i. 357.

Inability, moral, what, i. 100.

criminal and punishable, i. 95–110.

extent of, i. 159.

nature of, what, ii. 413.

consequences of denying it, what, i. 186.

Indignation of God against sin, reasonableness of, ii. 296.

Indwelling sin, in believers, i. 176.

of the Spirit in do. i. 351.

Infants, baptized, whether members of the visible church, considered, ii. 509,

510.

consequences of supposing them entitled to all church privileges, what, ii.
611, and passim.