Christ, why he spoke obfcurely of his deftroying Jerufalem, (Matt. xxiv.) Judas being gone, he fpake more explicitly of his kingdom, to the laft, he required of his difciples only to believe him to be the Meffiah, exprefly applied the promises of the Meffiah to himfelf after his refurrection, -much oftener mentioned his kingly office than any other, 68, &c. Benevolence, what it fignifies, (1 Cor. vii.) 356, a. Boafting, how taken from the Jews by the Gofpel, J20 vindicated from contradicting himself, 254, 255, 258 his opponent's fcurrilous reflections on him,. 257, &c. how falfely his words are cited, 264 feveral remarkable paffages in him not anfwered, 263, 264, &c. groundlefly charged with not antwering his opposer, 268, &c. why fo much of his reafoning is mentioned by the author, 268 Bondage, what it fignifies, (2 Cor. xi.) 444, C. Book, two ways of making one unanfwerable, 125 Bookfellers, ftirred up against our author by his adverfary, 242, 243, Born after the flesh, and fpirit, beautiful expreffions, 316, c. out of due time, the apoftle Paul's faying fo of himfelf explained, 398, a.. Brother, why Paul called Timothy fo, By his own power, how to be understood, By, fometimes fignifies, in the time of, 410, a. 355, a. 591, e how he fulfilled the moral law, 70 what we may think to be the state of those who never heard of him, 82: the neceffity of his coming to make God known, 85-To teach men their duty, 87-To inftruct in the right forms of divine worship, 92, &c. To give fufficient encouragement to a good life, 93-And to affure men of divine affiftance, 95 his deity not understood by the Jews by the phrase "Son of God", 239 the word Chrift often ufed as a proper name, 240, 24L Chriftians, what is neceffary to be believed to make men fo, 147, &c. whether all things of this fort were revealed in our Saviour's time, 224, &c.. what was fufficient to make men fuch in Chrift's time, is fo ftill, 230 are obliged to believe all that they find our Saviour taught, 259 all things neceffary to be believed by them, not neceflary to their being fuch, 259, &c. why they must believe whatever they find revealed by Chrift, 261 Christianity, the fundamental articles of it easy to be understood, 592, e.. Creed, of the apostles, not new modelled by the author, 129 contains all things neceffary to be believed to make a man a Chriftian, 125 the compilers of it may be charged with Socinianifm by the fame rule the author is, 176, 177 D. DEAD in trofpasses and fins, meaning of that phrafe, 581, e. Deeds Deeds of the law, what are meant by them, 473, Epistles of Paul, caufes of their obfcurity, 277, blamed for readinefs to find unknown faults in his oppofers, 268 Election, what it fignifies, (Rom. xi.) Ends of the world, what that expreffion 535, b. means, 370, e. Endured with long-fufferance, what that expreffion implies, 527, b. Enemies, how the unbelieving Jews are fo called, 538, d. Epiftles, of the apoftles, why written, and how to be understood, 95 not defigned to teach fundamental articles. of faith, ibid. wifely explain the effentials of Christianity, 95 the author's notion of them vindicated, 109, &c. no contempt caft on them by him, 153 paffing by any of them, no argument of defpifing them, 154, &c. 161, 162 doctrines neceffary and not neceffary hard to be distinguished in them, 525, C. 457, d. 155 Establishment of the Gentile Chriftians, how taken care of by St. Paul, Evangelifts, numerous citations out of them ill termed a tedious collection, though they wrote for believers, yet relate Chrift's doctrine to unbelievers, 156 no good reason to suppose them defective in relating fundamentals, 204, 205 contain all doctrines neceffary to make a man a Chriftian, 206, &c. fome things wrote by them not neceffaryto this end, 209, &c. when they made the greatest omiffions, yet they recorded all things neceffary to Chriftianity, 208, &c. wifely obferve the genuine rules of hif FACT, common juftice makes allegations of, falfe until proved, 125. Faith, what kind of, is required as the condition of eternal life, II, &c. juftifying, confifts in believing Jefus to be the Meffiah, 64. very acceptable to God, and why, 82. confifts in relying on the goodness and faithfulness of God, ibid. the fundamental articles of it, well explained, though not taught in the epiftles, 96 the effentials of it, beft learned from the Gofpels and Acts, 96 the author does not make only one article of it neceffary, 128 other truths useful, beside the necessary article of it, 149, 150 but one article of it, not pleaded for, that religion may eafily be understood, 137, 138 Faith Grace how it is faid much more to abound, (Rom. v.) what it is to be under grace, the glory of it appeared peculiarly in the first converts, 573, b, 582, b. 228 HAbi Faith, a practical one plainly taught by the author, 185 an intire one, believes every fcripture truth, 224, 227 how but one article was taught by the Apoftles, to make men Chriftians, 226, 227 whether all the articles of it, neceffary to the being Chriftians, were difcovered in our Saviour's time, the author falfely charged with bringing no tidings of an evangelical one, 265 what it imports, (1 Cor. xii.) 385, f. what Paul meant by hearing of the Ephefians faith, 575, a. Faithful in Chrift Jefus, what this defcription fignifies, 567, a. Flesh, what to be in the flesh means, 515, C. Fleshly tables of the heart, the Apoftle's allufion in that phrafe, 418, a. Formal words, when charged, ought to be exprefly proved, From faith to faith, that phrafe means wholly of faith, 460, e. Fulfilled in us, in what fenfe to be understood, 514, b. Fundamental articles (of faith) where to be found, 140, &c. 127 whence unreasonable contentions arife a150, 151 bout them, how the fame things may be fo to one and not to another, H. Abitation of God, how the church is fo called, 589, a. Have pleafure in, (Rom. i.) what it imports, 463,d. Heavenly places, (Ephef.i.) how to be understood, 568, 577, f. Heir of the world, in what fenfe Abraham was fo, 480, a. Him, (1 Cor. xvi.) refers to the fpiritual man, 339, c. Hobbes's Leviathan, our author unjustly charged with borrowing from it, 269 Holy Ghoft, why he could not come, until our Saviour's afcenfion, 58, 59 Hoped first in Chrift, who they were, 573, b. New Teftament, 152 how all truths become fo, may ibid. many things not fo, though found in the 148 how they must be all plain to every capa146, &c. the mischief of making more than Chrift 192, &c. G. 22, &c. Jews, the power of life and death taken from them before our Saviour's time, Gentiles, 25, 26 whence they had great authority among the 453 remained zealous for the law of Mofes after they believed, 453 city, made, Gather together in one all things, what is to be understood by that expreffion, 571, d. Gentiles, feveral epithets given them by St. Paul, 483, e. -how, heing converted, they gloried in God, 486, c. St. Paul fpeaks of them in the ftile of we and us, 568, c. Glory of God, (Rom. iii. 23.) what meant by, 69, 474, d. 445, C. Glory, or boaft, how. St. Paul did it, how the Gentile converts did it, 483, b. 486, b. how God is the father of it, 577, b. God, ordinarily works by natural means, 53 his image confifts partly in immortality, 66, 68 in what fenfe it is faid God is one, (Gal. iii.) 309, b. 'Gods many and Lords many, in what fenfe to be understood, 363, c. די the only diftinction between them and the Gentiles under the Gospel, 464, a. Immortality, the image of God partly confifts in it, 66, 68 Inexcufeable, upon what accout the Jews were fo, 464, a.. Infallible guide, only the Spirit of God speaking in fcripture fo, 228 Infidels, who chiefly hinder their converfion, 105 the "Reafonablenefs of Chriftianity" written chiefly for them, Inheritance 171. became fo, the Gentiles on their believing 577, C. Inns, not used in Eaftern countries as among us, 558, a. Ifrael, in a fpiritual fenfe, includes the believing Gentiles, 518 Ifraelites, in refpect of what their minds were blinded, Juflification, how afcribed to our Saviour's refur488, a. of life, (Rom. v.) what it means, 492, a. Knowledge, rection. ufed in fcripture for a command with a penal how the phrafe the law entered (Rom. v.) is to be understood, 493, a. in what respect fincere Chriftians are not under it, 498, f. how its dominion over a man is to be underftood, 502, C. in what fenfe believers are dead to it, 503, b. how it is weak through the flesh, 512, k. of God, all have finned against it, 7 the justice of God vindicated in giving so difficult a one to man, ibid. of the Jews, how faid to be weak and beggarly, 313, b. 516 of fin and death, what is meant by it, of works, what is meant by it, is contained in the law of Mofes, of faith, how it differs from that of works, 8, 9 Mystery, the meaning of, 9 8, 9 Lord is that fpirit, the meaning of this expreffion, Lye, the Apostle plainly uses it for fin M. 421, C. general, 472,C. in 42 242. NAME of Christ, believing in it fignifies his 0. 149 505, b. 350, C.. how he was faid not to please men, 409 &c. Prieft, Jefus never affumed this character, 71 Redemption, what it reftores men to, 219 ftood, 543, a. 311, b. Q. Uicken your mortal bodies, this phrafe largely ex- 581, f. R. Sealed, (2 Cor. i.) what it fignifies, 229 tion, REafon, the infufficiency of it, without revela- 3 b. |