plant Christ and the principles of Christ in their hearts and I feare that there is not one in ten but will miscarrie in the remooving as you find it often with your Trees when you remove and transplant them I say abundance of those Professors will come to nothing for when the feare of Hell and damnation is gone from their conscience when the Whip is gone they will turne the grace of God into Wantonnesse Nay some will turne downe right Enemies and persecuters of the Gospell as the Pharisees and of those that would come in in all probabilitie in removing and translating them from the law to the Gospell there is not one in ten but would turne the grace of God into wantonnesse and there goes all their Religion The way to Heaven is narrow our Lord Christ saith and I think it will be found far more narrow then we conceive of it Therfore as another godly man sayth we are exceedingly mistaken in judging of Professors we looke upon them and those that begin to amend from their sins we call them Professors But this Professors to be judged by their principles is the true way of judging that there are but two roots in the World the old Adam and the new Adam There are but two Covenants Sinai and Jerusalem there are but two wayes of walking after the flesh and after the spirit after the law and after the Gospell Now I judge him to be a Saint and a beleiver and God calls and ownes him as a Saint though he be weake and be not so glorious in the eye of the World as many formall Professors yet if I see any principles of the Gospell in him if there be a little of Christ in him in power though it be but in a little measure and he can pray but little and he cannot keepe fasting dayes and dayes of Humiliation so plausibly as many that make a Trade of it in this Cittie yet if that prayer and repeating and reading and hearing or preaching or whatsoever it be if it flow from the Lord Jesus Christ as a naturall man knowes naturall things soone Saint knowes another the spirit of God knowes the things of God It is true we all of us have a great deale of flesh The best have somwhat of old Adam in them and there is somewhat of good old Adam as well as of corrupted Adam but surely we ought not to conceive him to be a Saint let him be never so glorious in the eye of the World and in the performance of duties if there be not somwhat of Christ in him You may see a poore despicable creature and see a great deale of Christ in him and on the other side you may see great Professors that are Ringleaders of others and yet there is not a jot of Christ in them but all is old Adam scrued up in his brave parts and all is but Flesh a little more Resined and he that is Flesh and all that is Flesh cannot inherite the Kingdome of God Looke to your selves seriously especially you that are most emynent that think best of your selves that are ancient Professors unless you look to your selves you may take a great deale of pains and when all comes to all after all your praying fasting and repeating and preaching you may be found to be nothing in the world but men that walk according to the Flesh that is according to the refined and well educated principles of old Adam you may be Ishmaeils and be built upon Mount Sinai when all is done Therfore I say we may hence learne to judg How to judg who are Saints and who not rightly of Persons who are Saints and who are not who are the Children of God and who are not For in most things we doe not judg rightly we doe not judg as God judgeth We usually judg of men and things according to naturall wisdome or according to some distinctions and desinitions that we have of things in that naturall divinitie we have As for instance If a man leave his drunkennesse and whordome and come up to some kind of holinesse in his lips in appearance if he come to heare Sermons and repeat them and pray a little in his Familie that man we call a Saint a godly man and it may be he may be so and it may be not so Now the way that God judgeth of all men is as they are the Children oyther of the old or of the new Adam and not according to such a proportion of strictness in their lives for the Pharisees went beyond many weak Professors in common righteousnesse And this should be a mayne ground of our Ground of fellowship with others communion and fellowship and delight in others whether in Churches or otherwise It should not be grounded on this if such a man be of my opinion in such things if he agree with me he is for me and another that agrees with another he is for him These kind of communions will proove nothing but faction in the end But the true communion is when Saints together keepe fellowship Church fellowship or other upon spirituall grounds That is when Christ in his soule and Christ in myne close together this is the maine ground that makes communion and fellowship whatsoever comes in besides that is additionall but if there be a communion of people without this I say it will proove but faction but walking according to the Flesh I should shew now what course we should take to bring our selves to spirituall walking And Secondly what they should doe that God hath brought up in some measure to this condition But I must leave that till God give another opportunitie SERMON IIII. Rom. 8. 4. That the righteousnesse of the law might be fullfilled in us who walke not after the flesh but after the spirit THERE were three Lessons that the Lord did Teach us from these words The First is implied in the begining of the Verse that Every man is bound to get him a righteousness to fulfill the law of God And Secondly that All those that rightly beleive in Christ have in them a righteousnesse perfectly to fulfill it And Thirdly that Those that thus beleive and have this great priviledg for it is the Foundation of all others they are knowne or described by this they walk not after the Flesh but after the spirit The two former I have finished I entred upon the third the last day I opened it at larg and prooved it to you and came to make one Use of it That from hence we may learne how to judg of Use How to judge who are Saints and who are not Persons how to judg of those that are Saints and those that are not Saints not according to some kind of holynesse they may come up to but according to the principles they walk by eyther as they walk according to the Flesh or according to the spirit For I told you there be diverse Profesors among
319 To be after the flesh what 321 see works weaknesse spirit corruptions actions carnall righteousnesse Fire Afflictions as fire 125 G Garrison The Devills strongest Garrison 389 Gentlenesse Ground of gentlenesse in the godly 373 Giving To looke to God in his giving 92 Glory glorious Saints condition glorious 235 Glory in Heaven unspeakable 294 Expectation of glory in former Saints 295 Glosses Scripture to be studied without mens glosses 310 God The Devill God of this world how 65 True humiliation known by our carriage to God 100 What hinders from enjoying of God 239 Godlinesse See Reason Good We are not more justified for the good we doe 220 Naturall men in great place do little good 385 The fountaine of all good in the soule 411 Gospell Preaching of the Gospell to be highly prized 24 Excellency of the Gospell why not seene 25 See rules liberty fall Grace Saints rejoyce at grace in others 198 See nature undervalue greater Greater Saints not discouraged by greater grace in others 193 Grow Growth A pure heart labours to grow in purity 52 See grace Guilt Saints dead to sin in regard of guilt 275 See conscience H. Happie happinesse Foundation of a Christians happinesse 297 See World Heart Saints thankfull for a heart to receive mercy 159 See pure Heaven Christs ascending to Heaven shews God is satisfied 228 See joy High A humble heart hath High thoughts of God in affliction 128 Hypocrite Difference betweene saints and Hypocrites 54 See satisfie dye Holy holinesse Those that have seen God should be holy 67 Holinesse wrought by seeing of God 87 Best motive to holinesse 244 Saints more holy then others 277 Hope Hope of glory in saints 281 Humble humiliation Causes of humiliation 2 Sight of God in Christ the true way to humiliation 75 Difference in working humiliation and other graces 79 Unregenerate Men not truely humbled 93 Wicked men may doe acts of humiliation 94 Wicked Men shall one day be humbled 96 True humiliation how known 100 Ground of humilitie 232 Saints to walke humbly 301 See Ministers afflictions Revelations I Jealous see Truth Jerusalem Jerusalem from above 291 Illumination Sight of God by common illumination 5 Saints illumination by the spirit 407 Impression True sight of God known by the impressions of it â—1 Imperfect Sight of God in this world imperfect 8 Infirmities Saints gentle to others infirmities 197 Instruct Saints willing to be instructed by others 189 Intellectuals Godlinesse hath that that will excercise the intellectuals 382 Job Why Satan desired to tempt Job 125 Joy Saints apprehensions of God full of joy 38 Joy of Heaven what 39 Judge Judgement Sight of God at the day of judgment 5 How godly men judge of things 337 A spirituall man judgeth all things 385 Justice Justice of God how thought of by Saints in affliction 129 Justification A humble Saints carriage to God in Justification 101 Justification upon what it is built 219 See good faith K. Kingdome He that will see God must be delivered from Satans Kingdome 64 Know Knowledge A misery in the knowledge of Saints 33 Of such as thinke they know more then others 185 Carnall men know not spirituall things 320 See Saving Licentiousnesse L. Lasting Comfort of spirituall duties lasting 375 Law Saints content that God make Lawes for his mercies 160 Law fulfilled three wayes 210 Vanity of such as think to fulfill the Law 211 See Righteousnesse Beleevers Spirit Learne Humble Saints readier to learne then teach 192 Learning Learning too much extolled by some 306 Learning of what use it is 307 Learning of Christians and others different 311 Led see Spirit Least A humble heart thankfull for the least mercy 158 A humble Saint thinks himselfe the least 181 How a Saint judgeth himselfe the least 183 Liberty Liberty not to be abused 298 Liberty brought by the Gospell 299 Danger of abusing Liberty ibid. Life The minde not good if the life be naught 352 A Saint can look with comfort on his past life 374 Spirituall reasonings bring life 413 See Vision earthly face faith Light Those that have seene God desire to bring others to the light 59 A humble Saint will abate of his owne light 196 A new light in the soules of godly men 376 Saints have a powerfull light 407 Licentiousnesse Knowledge of Christ no ground of licentiousnesse 315 Love Love to our Brethren how wrought 56 How Saints should bee loved 57 Love of God how esteemed by Saints in affliction 130 True Saints can love though not loved 199 Ground of Saints loving good things 392 Low Why Christians spirits are so low 236 Lust Worldly mens lust their rule 240 To fulfill sinfull lusts called flesh 332 Lusts may drive men to duty 395 M. Man True humiliation known by our carriage to Man 166 Things of the flesh called the things of a Man 324 Meanes Saints humbled in regard of the meanes they have had 183 Meeke Meeknesse Humble hearts are meeke to sinners 166 Christs meeknesse to sinners 167 Cautions in meeknesse to sinners 169 Ground of meeknesse to sinners 173 see mind Mercies Mercies abused humble saints 21 Carnall men cannot see God in his mercies 95 Carriage of humble Saints to God for mercies 148 See least denyed waite heart Minde minding Saints meek to those of another minde 188 Minding the things of the flesh what 334 Best thing in a carnall man his minde 344 Misery of a carnall man in his minde 345 God inflicts the greatest punishment on the minde 347 Greatest happinesse of a Chrstian in his minde 348 Misery of a carnall minde in six particulars ibid. Minde of three sorts 360 Spirituall minde what 378 See Throne Life Ministers God humbles his Ministers before he sends them 1 Mistery see Knowledge More Those that see God desire to see him more 37 Saints what humbles them more 182 Motions Motions of the spirit neglected humbles Saints 148 Mourne The right way to mourne for sin 232 N. Nature naturall Grace crosseth not principles of nature 153 Sinners may be conversed with in naturall things 170 And in naturall duties ibid. Prayer a naturall duty 171 Naturall minde 360 Naturall reasonings 362 O Offend A humble Saint will not offend others 106 Liberty Not to be used to offend others 300 Old How Saints of old spake of the spirit 308 Things of the flesh old things 327 Old man what 378 Ordinances Carnall men see not God in Ordinances 95 In what Ordinances wee may converse with sinners 170 Why people care not for Gods Ordinances 340 Others Saints humbled to see more good and lesse evill in othes Outward A Christian may provide and care for outward things 334 P. Patience Patience wrought by seeing God 87 Why Saints beare injuries with patience 341 Part. Saints see God but in part 15 Perpetuall Sight of God to his Children perpetuall 40 Persecution Ground of persecution 313 Please Nothing from naturall Adam can please God 284 Power Pure hearts cleansed from the power of sin 51 Sin dead in
likenesse of sinfull flesh like one of us and he hath fulfilled the law of God and condemned sin therefore there is no sin to condemne us nor no jot of the law that is not fullfilled therefore we are just and righteous and cleare There is no condemnatiom to them that are in Christ Jesus For God hath sent his son to condemne sin c. Now in this fourth Verse it is more particularly expressed That the righteousnes of the law might be fullfilled in us who walke not after the flesh but after the spirit I shall not orderly goe over to shew the Coherence distinctly as I might but breifly as I can come to those lessons that the Lord is to teach us That the righteousnesse of the law might be fullfilled in us c. There are in the words two things Here is a great priviledge as any can be to have the righteousnesse of the law fullfilled in us And here are secondly the parties that have the benefit of this priviledge Those that walke not after the flesh but after the spirit Concerning the priviledge to understand the words a little That the righteousnesse of the law might be fulfilled in us That the law might be fully satisfyed in poynt of righteousnesse that the law might have such a righteousnesse which indeed the law requires that it might have a full and compleat righteousnesse in us So that breifly these are the lessons which I shall open from hence which I desire that our souls may feed upon First that The law requires of every man a righteousnesse to fulfill it Or that Every man is bound to get him a righteousnesse to fulfill the law of God Every man is bound to fulfill the law of God That is one thing The second lesson will be this that The law is perfectly fulfilled or satisfied in all true beleivers And thirdly that All those that are true beleivers or that have these priviledges they are those that walke not according to the flesh but according to the spirit These are the three lessons I shall speake of I say first The law requireth a righteousnesse from every Doct. The law requires a perfect righteousnesse man to fulfill it Or Every man is bound to fulfill the law of God That is the first thing The grounds of that are these I shall but touch them First because that God made man man was his creature and the Lord was his soveraigne and Reas 1. From Gods soveraignty when God made all Creatures you know hee made Lawes for them hee made a Law for the Sunne and Moone and Starres c. and every thing goes according to the law that God determined for it Now when God made man who was but his creature though he were a more excellent creature he made a law for him this blessed law of God which is in his booke here the Covenant of works as it was sometimes called therefore as all other creatures were bound to goe in their course and keep their peculiar laws that God layd on them so man also was bound to keepe the law of God that God made for him Another thing is this that besides the soveraigntie 2. From mans covenant with God of God that might impose a law upon him there was secondly a compact between God and man and so there was a kind of bargaine for God layd that law upon man and Adam as a publike person he undertooke to keepe that law by a contract or bargaine If God as it were had had no right before to lay it on him yet now man undertooke it by way of bargaine to keep the law of God Adam first did it and might have done it and afterwards the people of Israell professe to doe it All these words we will doe we will keepe them That is another reason whereby it appeares that every man and woman in the World is bound to fulfill the law of God Thirdly another thing is this if you consider 3. Nothing can exempt man from it what there is that might free a man from keeping a law that is layd upon him you shall see that there are none of those things that can help him in this As First of all our laws many times are repealed 1. It is not repealed and that law that a man was bound to keepe a few yeares agoe he is bound to protest against now as the Service-booke the common prayer c. There is that penaltie now for using it as there was for not using it a few yeares since now it is not so with the law of God Heaven and Earth shall passe away but one jot or tittle of the law shall not passe That law is an eternall law there is no repealing of it Then Secondly you know Judges and Law-givers 2. The Law-giver cannot be bribed among men may be corrupted and bribed and may be brought to dispense with their owne laws nay sometimes to goe against their owne laws but God is a just God and when his owne son the son of his love did take upon him to be borne under the law and to be a suretie for man he endured the smart of the law and was dealt with as if he had been another Then there is no evasion or escaping among 3. There is no escaping men there is If a man breake the law and goe into another Countrie he is cleare and free but here is no escaping one cannot goe away VVhither shall I goe from thy presence sayth David where Psal 139. shall I hide my selfe from thee A man can goe no where but the law of God will be on him So that every man and woman in the World are still bound to fulfill the whole law of God or to get a righteousnesse a perfect righteousnesse to satisfie the law of God Now there are but three wayes in the World 3. Wayes to fulfill the law to fulfill the law of God Eyther a man must doe it in his owne person as 1. In a mans owne person most men doe besides Papists more or lesse they will goe and doe their best and doe the good leave the evill and performe duties and they think by their doing to keepe the law Or else secondly by suffering that is partly in 2. By suffering this World and afterwards in Hel for that is the businesse of Hell for Hell is nothing but the place where people are fulfilling the law of God What doth Caine and other wretches doing in hell They are paying the debt fulfilling the law of God to eternity by suffering because they did not fullfill it by doing while they were here That is the reason that they are in Hell for ever because they can never pay the debt therefore they must abide there for ever for if it could be supposed that they could give a compleat righteousnesse that might satisfie the law they should stay in Prison no longer they should be in Hell no more Then
the transgression of the law So that a man that walks according to the law and not according to the way of the Gospell in spight of his heart he shall walk according to the flesh that is according to the lusts of nature he can never walk holily let him doe what he can A second reason why it is called flesh is in allusion 2. In allusion to the allegorie Gal. 4. to the two Sons of Abraham as we see in Gall. 4. 22. The Apostle there speaking of these two Covenants he sayth Abraham had two Sons â—he one by a bond-maid the other by a free Woman But hee who was of the bond-woman was borne afâ—er the flesh but he of the free Woman was by promise which things are an allegorie or a comparison â—r these are the two Covenants the one from Mount Sinai which gendereth to Bondage which is Agar â—r this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her Children But Jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all He is proving that the old Covenant was to be done away Agar was to be throwen out with her Children He prooves that those two Sons of Abraham Ishmaell and Isaak were types of the two Covenants that Ishmaell and Isaak Types of the two Covenants God made with mankind the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of grace Now the Covenant of Works he compares to Ishmaell that was borne after the flesh as other Children were Abraham went in to Hagar and she conceived and bare a Child as other Women But Isaak was not borne after the flesh all Fleshly wayes could not produce Isaak he was a Child of promise and the spirit of God breathing in the promise and working mightily in Abraham and Sarah Isaak was produced This is an allegorie there is a great Mysterie that you think not of when you read of Ishmaell and Isaak By Ishmaell is meant the Covenant of works and the principles of it and the practicioners of it and they walk according to the flesh as Ishmaell did and by Isaak is meant the Covenant of grace and those that goe that way are Children of promise as Isaak was So God hath set this comparison and I conceive the Apostle alludes to it and calls it a walking according to the Flesh As if he had sayd thou shalt never have this righteousnesse by walking in the way of thy Father Ishmaell by Mount Sinai in Arabia by walking in the law to turne away the wrath of God but if thou wilt get this righteousnesse thou must walk according to the spirit thou must get the spirit and be a Child of promise The third and last reason that I shall give why it is called walking according to the Flesh is because of weaknesse for Flesh is put for weaknesse as the Scripture sayth They are Flesh and not spirit that is they are poore weak things so those that walk in that way in the way of the law they are weak creatures there is nothing but wishing and woulding and covenanting and promising and protesting and vexing and fretting but there is no strength Now one Saint that is truly planted in Christ and the Gospell hath truely taken place in his heart he hath more strength then five hundred of the other Sayth Paul I can doe all things I can want and I can abound I can goe to Prison freely I can rejoyce with them that rejoyce and mourne with them that mourne Because the spirit that dwells in Christ and works effectually the same spirit dwells in us and works in us Therfore that is the meaning of it they that walk after the Flesh that is they that goe after the law they are weake they tugg and are never the nearer Heaven and if they should live a thousand yeares they would be no better but wishers and woulders and say I have a good desire to doe as the Preacher sayth but I have no power Let me conclude with one word of Use from all this that hath been sayd which I hope you Vse That few shal be saved will consider of From this Doctrine thus opened you may hence see the saying of our Lord Jesus Christ verified and made good that few shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Doubtless Paul did not looke on sinners and Saints as we doe we account every Professor let his principles be what they will eyther from the first or second Adam if he begin to leave sin and to performe duties we account him a good man But the Lord when he comes to judge he will looke further and examine us and will I feare find abundance that shal never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven even of those that follow good old Adam I meane there are abundance of Professors that have left corrupt Adam in his grosnesse and follow good old Adam that is a sprig from that they will abstaine from sins and they will performe duties and they will doe no wrong and all is but old Adam still Now good or bad if it be old Adam it must perish the bond Woman must be cast out Therfore you that are Professors looke to your selves for the Lords sake I am mistaken if there be not many hundreds of us that will be found the Sons of Ishmaell at the last day many that make a great Profession and many that make a greater profession then others that are honest spirituall Saints before the World before men for when a man goes to keep the law every light that comes into his soule intends his resolution every thing intends it in that course he is in and he may goe to the highest and be the greatest Professor and be ready for all duties and yet be found a stranger to Jesus Christ therfore look to your selves I remember Mr. Belton that blessed man he divides the World for the fowness of them that shall be saved sayth he the greatest part of the World two or three parts of it are most intire Heathens In Europe here we have the most part Papists and but a few that are Protestants and among those parts there are few that profess Religion and among those that profess Religion there are very few that doe it in truth as another godly man sayth take a multitude of Professors that have been bred under the law that have been bred on Mount Sinai take a Congregation of such Professors as there be many such in Many legall Professors miscarry in their transplanting England and let the Gospell come and be Preached rightly among them to translate them let a Minister of the Gospell come and say there is no damnation to them that are in Christ Jesus and you are justified freely and Christ hath fulfilled the law and all is cleare whereas before there were feares least they were not righteous and they did work hard now let a man labour to draw them to the Gospell and to
it be rough for me every day to dispute with my carnall heart and not only carry on good but deny my selfe in good upon spirituall reason this is a warrefare but the end is life and it is peace too This is a hard worke you will say and therefore we will take the easiest and smallest worke Beloved I say there is more ease and sweetnesse and contentednesse in going on in the wayes of God spiritually upon spirituall reasons an hundred fold than in the other for the other will be rough and God hath cast it so God hath put a curse upon all Old Adam he curseth it with death and therefore he must dye that walks carnally and that is the reason all your naturall thoughts and actions are so bitter God hath cursed them they must dye and now all the wayes of Holinesse have enough to induce thee to endeavour to walke holily as one saith the gleanings of the Saints are better than the harvest of the wicked men if there were no Hell nor Heaven hereafter but only the wicked to have the pleasures of sinne here and the Saints to have the consolations of the Spirit dwelling in them it is more an hundred fold the one is nothing but crackling of Thornes under a Pot and the end is smoake and stinke and the other is sweet here and in the end blessed eternally if it were not suppose though the way to Heaven be bitter here yet it is sweet in the End and the way of the world sweet here and bitter in the end yet you should choose holinesse as a Philosopher said if a man were to take a bitter and sweet thing which were he best to take first saith he to take the sower or the evill first and the sweet for the hope of the good to come will sweeten the present evill but when a man hath the good first the feare of the evill to come will marre al but therefore seeing there is a reward in the way in Holinesse as well as in the end for holinesse it should move us to labour after holinesse THE TABLE A Abraham ABraham juflified how page 231 Absurd Absurd what 369 Act The cheife act of the mind 358 See Reasoning Action Actions carnall denominate men 323 Adam Two things from Adam 252 The best have somwhat of old Adam 270 All from old Adam condemned 28â— Somthing in Saints that was not in Adam 405 See please Adoption Spirit of adoption 280 Affliction Carriage of a humble heart in affliction 124 Ten Instances of the carriage of a humble heart in afflictions 126 See fire All Christ died not for all 107 Saints willing to know all Gods truthes 110 Amiable Sight of God to Saints amiable 16 Another Saints content with the righteousnesse of another 102 Antinomians Antinomians who Apprehensions Sight of God knowne by our apprehensions 31 Apprehensions of God how to trie them 40 See cleare pretious perpetuall Assurance Assurance in the apprehensions of Saints 32 Assurance wanting to ordinary Professors why 106 B Beleivers Beleiving None satisfie the law but Beleivers 249 Spirituall reasoning in Beleiving 363 See righteousnesse Blind Mind of a Carnall man blind 349 Bondage Spirit of bondage what 280 Books three uses of other books besides the Scriptures 311 Borne againe He that will see God must be borne againe 62 To be borne againe what 69 To labour to be borne againe 312 Bribe God such a Lawgiver as cannot be brided 209 C Change A true sight of God changeth men 54 Carnall Men meerly carnall are called flesh 323 See actions Christ Saving sight of God only in Christ 11 A Saint in the worst condition repents not of taking Christ 137 The law fulfilled by Christ 210 Motive to come to Christ 214 Invitation to come to Christ 381 See example father comming meeke lycenciousnesse rule unyon Cleare Apprehensions of God cleare to Saints 31 Coach-man The mind the coach-man of the soule 347 Coare The coare of a naturall mans heart fleshly 335 Commands A proud heart dissobeys Gods commands 117 A proud heart wearie of Gods commands 118 Who offer violence to Gods commands 119 A Saint in affliction neglects not Gods commands 142 Comfort The godly more carefull of benefite then comfort in afflictions 142 why Saints have comfort in the worst condition 371 Comming Upon what ground to long for Christs comming 292 Communion Communion with sinners wherein forbidden 169 Condemne See Adam Condiscend A humble Saint will condiscend to the weake 186 Conscience Conscience purified what 49 Consolation consolations of the spirit 409 Conversation Vnnecessary conversation with sinners forbidden 171 Constant Sight of God in this World not constant 17 Ground of Saints constancy 369 Conviction Conviction of the spirit 409 Correction Wicked men see not God in corrections 96 Corporeall Corporeall sight of God 4 Corrupt corruption Saints pure notwithstanding their corruptions 52 Corruption how discovered 149 Saints called fleshly because of their corruptions 322 Mind corrupted 360 Reasoning corrupted 361 Covenant Saints stick close to the covenant in afflictions 143 Covenant in man to keepe Gods law 208 Ishmael and Isaac types of the Covenants 266 See workes Creation Sight of God in works of creation 4 New creation by the spirit 403 Creature Creatures resemblances of spirituall things 55 Curse Sin a curse in Hell 288 D Darknesse Satans Kingdome darknesse 64 Naturall principles darke 377 Day See son of man Death die Hypocrites why â—oth to die 38 Why godly men die 287 Carnall reasoning brings death 413 See sin works Deliberation Deliberation wherein excluded 215 Deliverance Saints desire somthing more then deliverance 140 Discretion Sadnesse of Christians in Discretion 74 Devill see God Divinity Divinitie mistaken 289 Doing No man can fulfill the law by doing 212 Spirituall reasoning in doing 365 Draw How God drawes mens hearts 92 Dutie In what duties we may converse with sinners 170 Men proud of duties why 290 E Earthly earthlynesse Wicked men live on earthly things 72 Earthlynesse troubleth Christians 294 Things of the flesh things on earth Enjoy see God Envie Prosperity of the wicked not to be envied 73 Escape No escape from Gods law 209 Eve How the DEVILL tempted Eve 302 Evill Fountaine of evill in the soule 412 Example Christs example to be looked on 242 Excercise Excercise of spirituall reasoning by the spirit 410 Extoll see learning F Face Christ the face of God 11 Saints live by seeing Gods face 72 Faculties Naturall faculties corrupted by sin 378 Faith Faith the life of it 237 Justification known by faith 258 Fall Not to fall from the liberty of the Gospell 304 Father The Father shews Christ 13 Christ shews the Father 14 Fellowship Fellowship of Saints whence 59 Ground of fellowship with others 272 Few Few shall be saved 267 Flesh Flesh what meant by it 252 Walking according to the flesh what 255 Why walking after the law is after the flesh 265 Not to use liberty for the flesh 298 VVho mind the things of the flesh