God does all and we do all; God produces all and we act all; for that is what he produces, an ELECT-God has absolutely elected the particular persons that are to be godly 11.521. END-for which God created the world; chief and ultimate; inferior; subordinate; defined II. 193 one 252. END-great and main one of separating the children of Israel from other nations what? I. 154. EQUILIBRIUM-of the will, perfect, no volition II. 3-the mind in, as likely to choose one way as ERROR―or mistake, may be the occasion of a gracious exercise of a gacious influence of the Spirit ERRORS-in rejecting the revival, not distinguishing the good from the had, &c. III. 289-in judg ERSKINE, Rev. JOHN-his view of President Edwards's writings and advertisement to the History of ESSAYS on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion-remarks on; its author holds a neces- ETERNITY of hell torments, proved to be just and real 111. 267-276. EVASION attempted with reference to the application of the term saints, &c. I. 100. EVE reason to believe, that Adam in giving this name to his wife had reference to the promise to his posterity II. 401, 402. EVENT-dependent on a cause, must be connected with it; not necessarily connected with its cause comes to pass without cause II. 46-contingent in existences without all necessity is without evidence 74-so contingent, that it possibly may not be, cannot be foreknown 75-events in the moral world, proper that they should be ordered by God 161-necessity of it, the only way of proving that a thing will certainly be 168-every one that is the consequence of any thing whatsoever, or connected with any foregoing circumstance either positive or negative, as the ground or reason of its existence, must be from God 177. EVIDENCE-no event can be known without it II. 74. EVIDENCES, of grace-those exercises and affections which are good ones differ from all that devils are subjects of, in foundation; viz. an apprehension or sense of supreme holy beauty and comeliness of divine things, as they are in theinselves, or in their own nature IV. 468; also in their tendency 470; tend to destroy Satan's interest, to wound and weaken his cause 471. EVIL, Moral-consists in a certain deformity in the nature of certain dispositions of the heart and acts of the will II. 120-God may order and dispose of that event which in the inherent subject and agent is moral evil and yet his doing so may be no moral evil 161-coming to pass, may be an occasion of greater good than that is an evil 520-if God be truly unwilling that there should be any in the world, why does he not cause less to exist than really does? 560. EXCOMMUNICATION-nature of, a punishment; privative IV. 639; cut off from the charity of the church; how? 640; from brotherly society; how? 641, 642; from its fellowship of the worship 643; from other privileges of more internal nature; the positive part of it what? 644-by whom is it to be looked on as inflicted ?-who are its proper subjects? 645-the end of it 646. EXERCISES of grace, two kinds of; immanent acts; and practical or effective exercises III. 204. EXHIBITION that which is essential to a thing to be repressed in an exhibition or declaration of; applied to profession of the Christian religion I. 99. EXISTENCE-mode of proving our own II. 28-of men, dependent on acts of the will 67, 68-understanding and will the highest kind of 216. EXPERIENCE against the Arminian doctrine of the self-determining power, &c. II. 173 Note. EXPERIENCES that are agreeable to the Word of God, cannot be otherwise than right III. 32persons may be said to live upon theirs, when they make a righteousness of them 57-false ones commonly raise the affections high, &c. 121-case of enthusiasts, &c. 122-difference of persons' under conviction 256-of true Christians, things with regard to inward, by which the devil has many advantages 381-390; mixture there is in them 381-384; human or natural affection and passion, considered in reference to various affections, love, &c. 382, also impressions on the imagination; self-righteousness or spiritual pride 383; unheeded defects give the devil an advantage 384-386; not the defect or imperfection of degree as in all even the most holy in this life, ill consequences 384; talking of divine and heavenly things with laughter or light behavior 385-how to judge of them; those that have the least mixture, most spiritual; those that are least partial or which are proportionable; those raised to the highest degree 386-another danger in the degenerating of experiences 386-390; causes which contribute to this; mixture 387; defect; aiming at that which is beyond the rule of God's word 388-things with regard to the external effects of, which give Satan an advantage 390, 391; secret and unaccountable influence of custom in respect to external effects and manifestations of the inward affections of the mind, &c. 390; as the practice, so all the visible marks of distinction and separation it should be avoided 395. FACULTY of the Will II. 1-there can be none on the Arminian notions of moral agency 118. FAITH-only special and saving, the condition of the covenant of grace I. 110-saving, the proper matter of profession, evident from the case of the Eunuch taught by Philip 130. Faith-what it is, shown from the Scriptures II. 601-606, 613, &c.; a belief of a testimony; the proper act of the soul towards God as faithful; belief of the truth from, at least with a sense of the glory and excellency; from a spiritual taste of what is excellent; its object the Gospel as well as Jesus Christ 601-includes a knowledge of God and Christ; a belief of the promises; a receiving of Christ into the heart; true, is accepting the Gospel; obeying the Gospel from the heart 602-a trusting in and committing ourselves to Christ; gladly receiving the Gospel 603-includes being persuaded of and embracing the promises; being reconciled to God revealing himself by Christ; a sense of our own unworthiness is being drawn to Christ 604-arises from or includes love; is being athirst for the waters of life; submitting to the righteousness of God 605-justifying, the clearest and most perfect definition of, is, the soul's entirely embracing the revelation of Jesus Christ as our Saviour; explained 606-the essence of the first act as exercised in justifying, is a quitting other hopes and applying to Christ for salvation, choosing and closing with salvation by Him in His way with a sense of His absolute, glorious, sufficiency and mercy; hope so essential to it, that it is the natural and necessary and most immediate fruit of true faith 607-not every receiving of the Gospel, but such as is suitable to its nature and its relation to us and our circumstances; reasons why it is the most proper word to express a cordial reception of Christ 608-justifying is the soul's sense and conviction of the reality and sufficiency of Jesus Christ as a Saviour; pre pares the way for the removal of the gult of conscience 608, 609-difficulty of defining, that we have no word that clearly and adequately expresses the whole act of acceptance, or closing of the soul or heart with Christ 611-justifying, in the essence of, hope is implied 612; good works also; prayer is the expression of that inward sense or act of which it consists 613-a saving belief of the truth arises from love 617, 619, 625-various expresssions of Scripture to signify it 620, &c.-the saving nature of, eighteen queries respecting it 623, 624-common, not a supernatural thing any more than belief in histery; obtained by the same means 633-saving, arguiments to prove that it differs from common in nature and essence; not merely a difference of degree 634-637; not difference only in effects 637--641-that which is without spiritual light is not true faith III. 53-in the view of many persons deceiving themselves, is believing that they are in a good state 54, 126-one act of, to commit the keeping of the soul to Christ, to keep it from falling 514-not only the first act of, but subsequent acts of perseverance in, justify the sinner 516-the two ways in which the first act of justifies 517. Faith-by which we are justified, means not the same thing as a course of obedience or righteousness IV. 64 as a condition of salvation; not sufficiently clear explanation as condition is ambiguous; as commonly used not the only condition of justification 67-that qualification in any person that renders it meet in the sight of God that he should be looked upon as having Christ's satisfaction and righteousness; belonging to him, because it is that which on his part makes up the union between him and Christ 70-it is the Christian's uniting act, done on his part toward this union of relation 71-justifies or gives an interest in Christ's satisfaction and merits and a right to the benefits procured thereby, as it makes the Leliever and Christ one in the acceptance of the Supreme Judge 72-meaning of divines, when they say that it does not justify as a work of righteousness 73-justification by the first act of 103-also necessary that it remainsfuture looked on by the justifier as virtually implied in the first act of 104-consequences of considering future acts of as having no concern with our justification 105-perseverance of necessary to congruity of justification 106-justifying in a Mediator is conversant about sin or evil to be rejected, and good to be accepted; the former evangelical repentance 119-speculative, or belief of the doctrines of religion, no evidence of good estate 451-reasons stated, why this, which is possessed by devils, cannot be so; without holiness they are not subjects of even common grace 451, 452; unreasonable to suppose that a person's being like a devil is a sign that he is unlike him 453; use of the doctrine for instruction, &c. 454. FALL of man, the ruins of, how manifested? IV. 29. FAULTINESS-common idea, what? II. 131. FEAR-cast out by the Spirit of God only by the prevailing of love III. 56-great variety as to the degree of in awakened persons 241. FITNESS-proper that God should act according to the greatest, and he knows what is so? II. 203of a thing to answer its end, its goodness 224-is twofold to a state, one a moral the other natural 1V. 72. FLAVEL, Mr. quotations from his works III. 29 Note, 50 Note, 57 Note, 58 Note, 78 Note, 172 FOREKNOWLEDGE-God's, of man's moral conduct and qualities, &c. proved by cases of Pharaoh, Peter and many others II. 62, 63-of events dependent on moral conduct of persons as in case of children of Israel going to Egypt, on Joseph's, and many others in Scripture history 63-65— of the Messiah, &c. 65, 66-proof of God's, of the volitions of moral agents from predictions of facts consequent on certain great events, as the fall, the deluge, &c.—of God argued from the fact he must otherwise truly repent of what he has done and wish it were done otherwise 70, and liable to do so continually, changing his mind, &c.; also in power of man to frustrate God's designs; inconsistent with Scripture 71; also that God is liable to be disappointed of his end in creation, redemption, &c. 72-proves that the knowledge of the things to has had existence and so necessary, and thus the events themselves necessary 73-no future event can be foreknown whose existence is contingent 74-God's as inconsistent with man's liberty as his absolute decrees 76-absolute, may prove an act or event to be necessary and yet not be that which causes the necessity 77, 78-God can have none of the future moral actions of intel ligent beings on the Arminian scheme 118-God's of all future events makes him as much the Author of sin as the doctrine of the moral necessity of men's volitions 156-absolute of God, as inconsistent with counsels, &c. as is the doctrine of necessity 167-God's admitted by all that own the being of a God 513-those who hold to, contradict contingency 515-of God necessarily infers a decree 522-contradicts the Arminian notion of liberty as much as a decree 525. FORTITUDE-true Christian, in what it consists III. 162-how best to judge of it; how it differs from pretended, &c. 163. FREEDOM meaning of, in common speech II. 17-primary notion; as used by Arminians, Pelagians, &c. consists in a self-determining power in the will, contingence 18, 473-of the will, requisite to all moral agency, the grand article on which rests the decision of most of the points of the controversy between Calvinists and Arminians 176. FULNESS-of God, the term how used II. 206 Note-communicated by him to his creatures' knowledge, holiness, happiness, &c. 209. FUNDAMENTAL the same articles are not fundamental to all men, &c. III. 545. FUNERAL SERMONS III. 605, 615. FUTURE STATE-proved from the fact the beasts are made for man I. 572; from the O. T. 574. GLAS, Mr. JOHN-on evidences quoted I. 203 Note. GLORY-grace, the seed, dawning of in the heart II. 89-a sight of the divine glory of the gospel convinces of the truth of Christianity; removes prejudices; helps reason 135—a great appřehension of an external in divine things no evidence of grace IV. 462. Glory-God's, should be seen and known, valued, loved, &c. answerably to its dignity 11. 205– emanation of, implies the communicated excellency and happiness of his creatures 219-proved from the Scriptures to be an ultimate end of the creation; the end of God's saints his glory 226-the end in his happiness 227-the ultimate end of the goodness of the moral part of creation 238-the ultimate end of moral goodness and righteousness; and that in which consists the value and end of particular graces, and the end of that religion and service of God which is the end of Christ's redeeming us 229-to be the last end of all Christians and to be their delight in their best frames 230-the highest and last end of Christ 231-the last end of the work of redemption by Jesus Christ; proved by his declarations, prayers, the song of angels, &c. 232, 233; hence the glory of God the last end of the creation of the world 234-meaning of God s glory in the Scriptures; glory of God, sometimes means the second per GOLLY, or gracious-meaning, as referring to requisite of admission to communion I. 93. GOOD-how used II. 4-greatest apparent 5, 48-strength of sense of, and of evil, influence of 17-any GOODNESS-negative moral, the negation or absence of true moral evil; this belongs to certain natural GOSPEL-not unintelligible, &c. II. 359-our experience of the sufficiency of the doctrines of, to give such a sight that which most Christians have obtained; variety in the degrees of this spiritual sight, &c. 134. GRACE-efficacious, objection of Arminians to the doctrine, rest on their peculiar views of freedom of the will and therefore untenable II. 178-saving, differs from common in nature and kind 565, 591-dispute about its being resistible or irresistible, nonsense 566; the grand point of contro versy what 579-of God may appear lovely in two ways how? III. 106-restraining, how men are kept from the highest acts of sin by IV. 54; manner of its exertion by Providence; by the ordering of their state; by particular providences 55; difference of God's giving it to his children in the way of covenant mercy and to others 56-wonderfulness of God's shown by the doctrine of his justice in the damnation of sinners 252. race-the truth of, judged in the Scriptures not principally by the method and steps of the first work, but by the fruits in a holy life III. 510. RACIOUS person, who is such a one I. 114. GRATITUDE-may be virtuous or vicious II. 282, 283-may arise from self-love III. 94-true to God arises from a foundation laid before of love to God for what he is in himself; a natural gratitude has no such antecedent foundation 96-in a gracious gratitude men are affected with God's goodness or free grace not only as they are concerned in it, &c. but as a part of the glory and beauty of God's nature 97. GUILT arising from the first existing of a depraved disposition in Adam's posterity, not distinct from their guilt of Adam's first sin II. 482-of conscience is the sense of the connection between the sin of the subject and punishment; by God's law; and by God's nature and the propriety of the thing; how removed 609-greatness of, no obstacle to pardon of the returning sinner IV. 422want of a thorough sense of, and desert of punishment, a sign that a person was never converted, &c. 460-great of those who attend on the ordinances of divine worship yet allow themselves in known wickedness 529. HABIT-fixed, attended with a peculiar moral inability, by which it is distinguished from occasional volition II. 102; habits and dispositions not virtuous, neither can be their exercise; applied to the Arminian scheme 114. APPINESS-many have wrong notions of God's, as resulting from his absolute self-sufficiency, &c. 212 --God's, nothing that is from the creature adds to or alters, &c.; it is eternal and always equally present, not in the least dependent on any thing mutable 213-the most benevolent, generous per son, in some sense, seeks his own happiness in doing good to others because he places his happiness in their good 220-salvation of inen, an end that Christ ultimately aimed at in his sufferings from redemption 249-several hundred opinions on the point wherein man's consisted IV. 24. HAWLEY, JOSEPH Esq.-letter from, regretung his activity in procuring Mr. Edwards's dismission 1. 42-46. HEART-habitual disposition of, cannot be virtuous or vicious on the Arminian scheme II. 113-moral evil consists in a certain deformity in the nature of certain dispositions and acts of the will 120— an evil thing's being the choice of the heart essential to the original notion we have of blameworthiness 174-praise or blame and virtue belong to it 251-all moral qualities, all principles of virtue or vice lie in the disposition of the; heart of man denied to be corrupt by the enemies to the doctrine of original sin 309-tendency of the natural or innate disposition of, that which appears to be its tendency when we consider things as they are in themselves or in their own nature without the interposition of divine grace 311-determination of the tendency of man's, and nature, to be looked at to determine whether his nature is good or evil, &c. 323-depravity of, shown by the fact that man has not a disposition to gratitude to God for his goodness in proportion to his disposition to anger towards men for their injuries 332-inclination or disposition of to do right the first moment of existence the same as to be created with an inclination to right action 385-a new, and spirit, the same as regeneration, &c. 469 - our duty and act to make us a new heart, &c. 580-the mind with regard to the exercises of the faculty of inclination so called III. 3-hardness, meaning of 17. HEAVEN-We ought to desire it IV. 573; to seek it by travelling in the way that leads thither; how? 575; to be growing in holiness and thus coming nearer to it; to subordinate all other concerns of life to this 576-the piace alone where our highest good is to be obtained; the doctrine improved to teach moderation in mourning the loss of pious friends 578-worthy that life should be spent as a journey towards it; the way to have death comfortable 582; those who are willing so to spend life may have heaven, &c. 583. HOBBES, Mr. agrees with the Arminians in more things than with Calvinists 142. HOLINESS-of God must be conceived of as prior in the order of nature to his happiness II. 143-no dishonor to him that it is necessary 147-of God consists in love to himself-in man in love to Him 217-kindness and mercy of God belong to his holiness; the first objective ground of all holy affections III. 102-the sum of spiritual beauty in God 103, 104-its seat in the heart rather than in the head 280. Holiness-visible, what I. 98. HOPE of the glory of God; its blessed nature and sure ground IV. 36-restrains men's enmity to God 49. HUBBARD, Mr. JOHN-quotation from his Sermons III. 529. HUMILIATION distinction between a legal and evangelical III. 137-true, the most essential thing in true religion 138-evangelical consists in self-renunciation 140-pretended how shown, &c. 142, and distinguished from Christian 143-natural for persons in judging of their own to take their measure from that which they exteem their proper height or dignity 150-two things always considered in judging of it; the real degree of dignity, and the degree of abasement, &c. 151-self. examination on the subject of humility, &c. 153. HUMILITY-pure Christian, what and how characterized III. 358-improves even the reproaches of |