arguments to fortify a christian against trates the conjecture of some Jews, that 233 ii 167 ii 362 400 i 375 i 302 Essenes, it is highly probable that many of them embraced Christianity, (see i pref. 20 i 245 ii 358 Evidence of object, and evidence of testimony defined ii 174 i 391 Exile recommended in a bloody persecution ji 288 i 105 Existence, the consciousness of it proved after the Cartesian manner i 50 i 56 was singularly striking i 186. 312-ii 42 miracles and prodigies gave the first preachers a superiority over ii 337 us in point of exordiums ii 195 ji 226 an exordium of negatives i 321 an exordium on alms 413 an exordium of prodigies; an in- comparable one on the oblation of Christ 165 ii 3 Experience is the best of preachers, &c. ii 260 F ji 8. 294 ji 127 dences, and the sacrifices which ac- company it i 160 129 299 justifying faith described ib. 366 by many of the Romanists, refiited 300 the distinction between being justified by faith, and the having only a de- sire to be justified, illustrated in five 368 301 of real love to God, than greater inattention to providence, a cause of ib. the weakness of our faith 349 faith or belief described 372 ji 174 32 an act of faith in regard to retrospec- tive and to future objects 180 62 Family of Christ, five characters of it îi 316 325 rain of the cattle, and the loss of 347 Fatalism, its manner of comforting the afflict- ed i 229 ii 65 Fear, as applied to God, has three accepta- tions: terror, worship, and homage, i 167 arising from a conviction that God i 334 possesses every thing to make us hap- py or miserable i 18 arguments against the fear of man 119 ji 419 ii 293 an avaricious and a voluptuous man 296 298 ji 371 ners Figurative language, specimens of its beauty has afforded, and by the rewards he 90 i 64 God's anger and wrath, are ideas borrowed 53 with rage, but anger with God is 379 knowing how to proportion punish- ment to crime; this idea is striking- ly exemplified in six instances 100 i 374 of all his perfections, they all act in uni- son, exemplified in five points 208 102 109 235 ji 314 God's long-suffering abused four ways 111 315 115 122 ib. in regard to his regal sovereignty and im- 124 i 182 the tyrants of the church ib. i 51 the whole creation fights for God at 52 125 56 God, the object of praise; to join with angels 58 &c. i 58 in this duty, we must have the senti- 127 72 74 of providence 75 76 61 God's long-suffering has limits, as appears 62 rate sinners, from dying men 266 ii 404 63 ii 94 his long texts i 99 God 327 65 its doctrines are infallible ii 160 the great sin of not profiting by its su- ib. 333, &c. invites all men to repentance 395 ii 142, &c. 67 there are degrees of grace 181 ib. the folly of sinning that grace may abound 255, &c. a day of grace, or time of visitation allowed to nations and to individu- als 366 73 284 the day of grace, or time of visitation 301 84 the doctrines of grace admirably state ed in six propositions 396, &c. 87 395 89 H old, in five cases ii 245 64 come Hearers, some may be moved with tenderness, | Hobbes and Machiavel, a word to their disci- 86 ples ii 350 70 six cautions to that nation 385 augurs of its prosperity from its tears 389 111 a sketch of its vices ii 351. i 110. 221 three sources of hope for Holland, ii 251 ii 353 its high and mighty lords called to repentance 383 religious disputes in Holland 395 i 79 330 it is virtue, rectitude, order, or a con- ib. 80 331 81 or fitness ib. i 94 Jewish and Pagan laws ii 372 i 130 i 364 the hypocrite described i 363 I i 329 change of ii 401 153 Idleness, mischiefs arising from it i 371 i 69 155 it disgraces man made in the image of God ii 29 i 332 its remains 83 208 ii 75 203 from the Godhead of Christ i 280 206 Inferences from the being of God i 94 a caution against wrong inferences 162 the multitude ought not to be our rule 171 ils dogmas revolt our moral feel- ib. 286 it followed the spirit of blind credu- lity 186 it has insuperable difficulties 359 the nature of that economy i 107 ji 295 ii 163 ii 169 i 150 ib. Isis, an Egyptian god alluded to ji 35 341 Ishmael preserved by providence ii 26 ib. Invocation adapted to the subject ii 395 ib. J the cries of its inhabitants 340 James, (St.) the paradoxes or high morality of his epistle i 350 i 71 i 174 his boldness at fourteen years of ago 159 ii 364 his severe mission to his country ii 187 ven ings 113 ib. Jeremiah, his complaints against them 347 his weapons, his courtiers, his re- wards i 180 monstrates the authenticity of his mission 184 183 a search for the subjects of the Mes- siah's kingdom among the Jews, in Rome, in Protestant countries 185 Christians are at dissonance 186 187 of heaven, meaning of the expression ji 401 202 Knowledge, the imperfection of it, no proof ib. of the non-existence of God, and of divine truth i 94 i 82 defects of human knowledge ii 203 365 five reasons why our knowledge is circumscribed 360 man cannot know as God knows, which is an adequate apology for the mysteries of faith 362 ib. L ii 359 ib. pital offences, not to daily frailties, mo- mentary faults and involuntary pas- i 352 which virtually sap the foundation of the whole law in three respects 354 114 the law requires us to consider God as a i 53 sovereign, a legislator, and a father ib. 54 the excellent design of God's law in four arguments 381 322 i 219 ii 140 325 rence by the author's hearers i 187 ii 164 persons ji 213 i 52 refuted in four arguments ib. i 270 judgments, but he determines of suspending the judgment, in having the wili in unison with the under- standing, the conscience superior to the control of the senses, superior to our condition in life i 268 often be suspended ii 76 Life, arguments on its shortness and uncer- ii 215 i 301 the life of men divided into six periods 214 ed for making our choice 215 the grand object of life is to prepare for eternity 216 ib. ji 18 life well spent affords satisfaction to old 343 i 289 as is apparent from his design, er crime, is incompatible with a state of salvation 371 and mercy, Life, the viscissitudes of life ii 59 | Marlborough, (Duke of) his victory over 63 ii 89 the Jews believed in their resurrec- 65 158 the moral martyrs are sometimes ac- cused of rebellion ji 19 they have a fourfold reward 21 ib. arguments of support to martyrs 13 the fear of martyrdom 320 ii 421 i 261 ji 31 i 389 Mediator, Christ in this office is one with God in three respects ii 157 391 Merchants, apprised of a heavenly treasure ii 217 idea of the Jewish captivity i 76 ii 108 Metaphysical mode of reasoning, concerning spirit and matter i 58 292 humility must be their character 93 St. Paul divides them into three classes ib. their glory in the day of the Lord 97 an address to them 217 371 their duty when attending profli- gate men in their last moments 249 woe, woe to the faithless ministry 259 to persons 295 ii 217 accounted for by five considera- tions i 166 the christian ministry excites digni- fied enemies 177 attendance on it must make us i 288 either better or worse 386 it was greatly abused by the Jews ii 8 a striking transition from preaching the most tremendous terrors, to ii 73 the ministry of consolation ii 250 an apology for the ministry of ter. ror to certain characters 224 ii 278 Miracles were performed in the most public place and before the most compe- i 197 the folly of asking miracles while we live in sin 209 sient i 208 360 Molinists, an opinion of theirs censured ïi 7 402 Montausier (Mons. de) his confession i 405 i 252 always the same, its variations therefore are siinply the effect of 253 i 324 the nature, obligations and motives 254 i pref. XXXV it has five characters: it is clearly revealed it is distinguished by dignity of principle 19 by equity of claims ib. by being within our reach 21 ii 61 and by the power of its motives 22 18 |