Activity of the devil, vol. iii., page 244
Affliction and its duties, iii., 193
Affliction a state of anxiety, iii., 216
Afflictions of Christians-trials, i., 65
Amen, import of, iii., 289, 313
Angels subject to Christ, ii., 375
Angels, subjection of, to Christ, the
result of his expiatory sufferings,
ii., 377

Angels, reasons why they study the
Christian salvation, i., 92, 93
"Answer of a good conscience,"
meaning of the phrase, ii., 402
Antediluvian history, facts in, ii.,

385

Antediluvian revelations, ii., 390
Antediluvian and postdiluvian worlds,
analogies of, ii., 396

Apostle, characteristics of an, i., 11-
13; no successors, i., 13
Ascension of Christ to heaven, ii.,
369; the result of his expiatory suf-
ferings, ii., 372

Atonement, connexion of, with sanc-
tification, i., 143

"Babes, new-born," meaning of the
expression as applied to Christians,
i., 174

Babylon, Church in, iii., 305
Baptism, water of, emblematized by
the water of the deluge, ii., 398;
how it saves, ii., 400

Basis of sanctification, the atonement
of Christ, ii., 442

"Bearing sin," meaning of the phrase,
ii., 97

Bishops, proper meaning of the word,
iii., 106

Brethren, Christians are, ii., 21
"Bring men to God," meaning of the
expression, ii., 305

Brotherhood, duty of Christians to,
ii., 20, 29

Brotherly kindness, duty of Chris-
tians to cultivate and manifest, ii.,
169

Brotherly love, maintenance of, iii., 20
Brotherly love, manifestation of, iii.,

37

"Building up on faith," meaning of the
expression, iii., 390

"Called," meaning of the term, as
applied to Christians, i., 283, 286
Calumnies against the Christians.—
Note, 336

"Casting our care on God," meaning
of the phrase, iii., 218

Catholic Epistles, origin and meaning
of the term, i., 4

"Ceased from sin," meaning of the
phrase, ii., 433

"Ceased from sin," various interpre
tations of the phrase, ii., 472
Character, common, of Christians, a
motive to brotherly love, i., 162
Charity, mistaken views of, iii., 27
true import of, iii., 29
"Chosen generation," meaning of the
term, i., 253

Christ the foundation of the spiritual
temple, meaning of the figure, i.,

233

Christ the great object of his peo-
ple's affection, i., 57

Christ, meaning of the term, ii., 278
Christians, condition of, previously to
conversion, i., 225

Christians' duties in reference to the
devil, iii., 251

Christians' duties to each other, ii.,
157

Christians' duties to mankind gene-
rally, ii., 173

Christians' duties under persecution,
ii., 203

Christian freedom, abuse of, guarded
against, i., 395
Christian salvation, grandeur, excel-
lence, and security of, a motive to
Christian duty, i., 124

Church, Christian, constitution of, iii.

154

21

Church order, divine authority, iii.,
157

Civil government, description of its
origin, nature, and ends, i., 347
Civil government, duty of Christians
in reference to, i., 349

"Coming to Christ," meaning of the
phrase, i., 230

"Commit the keeping of the soul,"

meaning of the expression, iii., 91
Condition of Christians as free, i., 361
Condition of Christians as the ser-
vants of God, i., 373

Conjugal duties of Christians illus-
trated, ii., 109

Conscience good, connexion with good
conversation, ii., 261

Conscience, what is it? ii., 251
Conscience, a good, what is it? ii., 252
Conscience, an evil, what is it? ii., 253
Conscience, how made good, ii., 255
"Conscience towards God," meaning
of the phrase, ii., 78
"Conversation coupled with fear,"
meaning of the phrase, ii., 116
Conversation good in Christ, ex-
plained, ii., 258

Conversation good, connexion with
good conscience, ii., 261
"Conversation honest," meaning of
the phrase, i., 329
"Conversation," meaning of the term,
i., 106

"Corner-stone," meaning of the
phrase, i., 241

Courtesy described, ii., 186
"Covereth sin," the meaning of the
phrase, iii., 29; how charity does
so, iii., 30.

Cruelty of the devil, iii., 246

Darkness, out of which God's people

are called, reference and meaning
of the expression, i., 295

"Day of visitation," meaning and re-
ference of the expression, i., 337
Deacons, their office, iii., 105
Deluge described, ii., 393

Desire of the milk of the word de-
scribed, i., 199

Doctrines taught by our Lord, sum-
mary of, iii., 448
Doxology, iii., 57

Dress, duty of Christian wives in re-
ference to, ii., 118

Duty, Christian, general view of, i., 101
Duty, Christian, particular view of,
i., 104

Duty of the Christian as a servant of
God, i., 409

Duty, Christian, means for the per-
formance of, i., 107

Duties of elders, motives to the dis-
charge of, iii., 134

Duties and rights, reciprocal, ii., 136
"Dwell according to knowledge,"
meaning of the phrase, ii., 143

Ecclesiastical duties of Christians,
iii., 101

Elders divided into the teaching and
the ruling, iii., 108

Elders, duties of, how to be performed,
iii., 123

Elder, faithful reward of, iii., 144
Elder, unfaithful, the doom of, iii., 147
Elders, manner of investing them with
office, iii., 110

Elders, origin and meaning of the ap-
pellation, iii., 103

Elders, qualifications of, iii., 109
"Elect," meaning of the term, 15
"Elect stone," meaning of the phrase,
i., 242

Election, causes of, i., 259, 260

Election, double sense of the term in
Scripture, i., 256, 257

"End of all things," meaning and re-
ference of the phrase, iii., 11
Enemy, great, of the Christians, iii.,
238; who he is, 238; what he is,
240

Epistle, First of Peter, character of
by Leighton, i., 2; Erasmus, 3; Gro-
tius, 3; Bengel, 3; authenticity and
genuineness, 3; resemblance to
Paul's Epistles, 3, 4, 22; to James',
4, 22; date, 4; object, 5.
Epistle, First of Peter, references to
the Old Testament in it, i., 22
Epistle, First of Peter, form of, iii.,
298

Epistle, First of Peter, to whom ad-
dressed, i., 14, 20; the salutation of,

20

Epistolary part of Scripture, advan-
tages of, 2

Equity of God, a motive to Christian
duty, i., 131

Evangelists, their office, iii., 105
Evidence of Christianity, importance
of a knowledge of, ii., 244
Example of Christ, how far binding
on us as a pattern, ii., 87
Excommunication, Jewish, iii., 486

"Fadeth not away," meaning of the
phrase, i., 34

Faith, how most holy, iii., 387
Faith, meaning of the term, iii., 384
"Faithful Creator," import of the ex-
pression, iii., 93

Fear of God, described, ii., 40, 59
Fear, a means of Christian obedience,
i., 120

Fellowship with God explained, ii.,

334

Fervently, meaning of the phrase,i.,154
"Flock of God," import of the phrase,
iii., 141

"Foreknowledge of God," meaning of
the term, i., 17

Freedom of Christians in reference to
God, i. 363; of state, 364; of charac-
ter, 364; how produced, 365

"Gifts," meaning of the term, iii., 47
"Glory of Christ," meaning of the
phrase, iii., 71; how Christians are
made glad at its revelation, 72
Glory of God, a regard to, the highest
motive to duty, iii., 57

God, the author of all saving blessings,
i., 44, et seq.

"God and Father of Jesus Christ,"
meaning of the appellation, i., 47
"God's heritage," import of the
phrase, iii., 142

Going of the Son of Man, iii., 342
Gospel, summary of, iii., 386
Grace of God, the Christian's duty in
reference to, iii., 295

Grace of God, one great subject of
the Epistle, iii., 295

"Grace," meaning of the term, i., 20
Grotius, ingenious conjecture of,
Note 345

Growth, analogy of natural and spi-
ritual, i., 194

Growth, spiritual, what it is, i., 189

Happiness, final, of Christians, the
subject of angelic study, i., 90
Happiness, final, of Christians, the

subject of apostolic preaching, i., 84
Happiness, final, of Christians, the
subject of Old Testament prophecy,
i., 74

"Healed by Christ's stripes," mean-
ing of the phrase, ii., 103
Hebrew language, importance of stu-
dying, iii., 493

History, Old Testament, uses of, ii.,

387

Holiness of God, a motive to Chris-
tian duty, i., 128

"Holy nation," meaning of the term,
i., 268

"Holy one," import of the appella-

tion as given to God, ii., 225
"Holy priesthood," meaning of the
phrase, i., 249

Holy Scriptures, difficulties of, ii., 341
Holy Scripture, fulness of, ii., 267
Holy Scriptures, division of, ii., 270
Holy Scriptures, not systematic, but
miscellaneous, in their form, i., 1;
advantages of this, 1, 2
"Honour the king," what implied in
this command, i., 49; its founda-
tion, 50; its limitation, 51
Honour due to all classes of men, ii., 5;
to all men, 9; this the great secu-
rity for property and life, 14
Hope of the Christian, ii., 233; scrip-
tural description of, 234; objects of,

235; seat of, 238; manifestation
of, 239

Hope, ground of, i., 37

Hope, living, meaning of the expres-
sion, i., 36; not dead, 40; not
dying, 41

Hope a means of Christian obedience,
i., 44

Hospitality of the primitive Chris-
tians, iii., 60

Hospitality, what it is not, iii., 38;
what it is, iii., 40

"House of God," meaning of the
phrase, iii., 89

Humility described, ii., 200
Humility explained, iii., 178

Husbands, Christian duties of, ii.,

66

Keeping ourselves in the love of
God," meaning of the expression,
iii., 376

"Kingdom of priests," meaning of
the appellation, i., 263

Law, difference as a covenant and a
rule, i., 400

"Live according to God in the Spirit,"
meaning of the phrase, ii., 465
"Living stones," meaning of the
phrase as applied to Christians, i.,
248

"Loins of the mind, girding up of,"
meaning of the phrase, i., 107
Love, brotherly, its distinctive cha-
racter, i., 153

Love, brotherly, illustrated and re-
commended, i., 149

Love, brotherly, its objects and ele
ments, i., 150

Love of God, meaning and reference
of the expression, iii., 370
"Lusts, fleshly," the term explained,
i., 323; abstinence from, what, i.,
325

"Lusts of men, to live to," meaning of
the phrase, ii., 423

Malice, meaning of the term, i., 183
Mankind, state of, previous to the
deluge, ii., 390

Marcus, notice of, iii., 307
"Marry in the Lord," meaning of the
phrase, ii., 126

"Marvellous light," what it is, i., 298
Members of the church, their duties
to each other, iii., 170

Members of the church, their duties
to the office-bearers, iii., 149
Mercy of God, the moving cause of
saving blessings, i., 49

"Mighty hand of God," meaning of
the expression, iii., 197; duty of
humbling ourselves under it, 201;
motives to do so, 207
"Milk of the word," the phrase ex-
plained, i., 197, 198
Ministry of our Lord. iii., 441
Ministry of our Lord, results of, iii.,
476

Miracles, evidence of, iii., 462

Misery of those who refuse to come to
Christ, i., 311

Moderation a means of Christian
duty, i., 111

Morality, Christian, bearing on Chris-
tian evidence, i., 341

Mutual subjection the duty of church
members, iii., 172. What it implies,
172. What it does not imply, 173

Noah, his character, ii., 391; his
preaching, ii., 392

Obduration, judicial, how to be under-
stood, iii., 482

Obedience, Christian, i., 101.
Obedience the duty of servants, ii.,
67; its limits, 67; leading charac-
ters, 69

Obedience, meaning of the term, i., 18
"Obtained mercy," meaning of the
phrase, i., 305

"Ordinance of man," meaning of the
phrase, i., 345

Partakers of the sufferings of Christ,
in what sense Christians are, iii.,
68

Pastor, meaning and reference of the
appellation, iii., 105

Peace, meaning of the term, i., 20
"Peculiar people," meaning of the
phrase, i., 275

"People of God," meaning of the
term, i., 302

Persecution, good effects of, iii., 65
Peter, history and character of, i., 6-11
"Pilgrims and strangers," force of the
appellation as applied to Chris-
tians, i. 332

Pitifulness described, ii., 174
Postscript of the Epistle, iii., 292
Power of the devil, iii., 247

Prayer, account of, iii., 401
Prayer, what it is, iii., 7
"Praying in the Holy Ghost,” mean-
ing of the expression, iii., 404
"Precious stone," meaning of the
phrase, i., 247

Principles, doctrinal, in which all
Christians are agreed, ii., 160:
principles practical, in which all
Christians are agreed, 161

Privileges of Christians, and how they
obtain them, i., 220, 230

"Pure heart," meaning of the phrase,
i., 153

"Quick and dead," meaning of the
phrase, ii., 458
Quotations from the Old Testament
in the New Testament, principles on
which they are made, ii., 272
Regeneration baptismal, absurdity of,
ii., 400

Relation, influence of, on character, ii.,
449

Relation, mutual, of Christians, a mo-
tive to brotherly love, i., 159

Relief and United Secession Churches,
union of, ii., 57

Reproaches cast on Christians, iii.,
74, 75

Resolution a means of Christian duty,
i., 107

Results of our Lord's ministry, iii., 476.
Resurrection of Christ, connexion of,
with Christian hope, i., 43
Resurrection of Christ, evidences of,
ii., 365; importance of knowing
these evidences, ii., 367

Resurrection of Christ, the result of
his expiatory sufferings, ii., 368
Revelation, analogy of, to the sun, ii.,
109

Revelation, Divine, connexion with
the atonement, ii., 308

"Right hand of God," meaning of the
phrase, ii., 372

66

"Royal priesthood," meaning of the
term, i., 261

Rulers of the Christian church, duties
of, iii., 103

Sacraments, efficacy of doctrine of
Westminster Assembly respecting,
ii., 405

Sacrifice of Christ a motive to Chris-
tian duty, i., 138

Sacrifice of Christ, its worth and effi-
cacy, i., 145

Salutation, practice of the primitive
churches, iii., 308

Salvation, Christian, described and
acknowledged, i., 25-54

Salvation, to what in Scripture it is
ascribed, ii., 401

Sanctify," proper meaning of the
word, ii., 224