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Jeremiah, his complaints against them 347
Jews, their hardness and opprobrium inferred
from the various methods Jesus Christ
adopted for their conversion i 164
we should have a little patience with
their prejudices
189

two answers

187

the Jews safer guides to prophecy than
some Christians,-(perhaps the author
alludes to Grotius, who affected an
unpardonable singularity in his expo-
sitions of the prophecies,)
could they be persuaded though one
rose from the dead
202
ib.
their fair promises before Sinai were
transient
ii 82
six of their calamities deplored by
Ezekiel
character of their apostate kings 367
the Jews perished as the Galileans
381
the calamities of the Jews and those
of Europe, compared
ib.
John and Mary, address of Christ to ii 417
Judas went to his own place
ii 109
it were better that he had not been born,
in four arguments
ib.
the circumstances in which he sinned
113

365

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we shall be judged according to the
dispensations under which we
lived

325,
these are light, proportion or ta-
lents
ib.
and mercy
326, &c.
Judgments (national,) the erroneous and the
just light in which they should be
viewed
ii 378, &c.
four erroneous dispositions in which
they are viewed
ib. &c.
God is not only the author of all
judgments, but he determines
their ends in three respects 379
a provisional or particular judg-

ment on every man as soon as
his soul leaves the body i 321
the judgment or opinion must
often be suspended ii 76
Justification, Anselm's mode of expressing on
that subject
i 301
299

Justification by faith

K

Keduscha Kadytis, or holy, the name of Jeru-
salem in many of the ori-
ental languages ii 364
King, the term defined
ii 18
responsible
343
The kingdom of Christ is not of this
world, as is apparent from his design,
his maxims, his marvellous works,

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360

five reasons why our knowledge
is circumscribed
man cannot know as God knows,
which is an adequate apology
for the mysteries of faith 362
L
Latitudinarianism, or Deism
ii 359
Law, offending in one point, &c. refers to ca-
pital offences, not to daily frailties, mo-
mentary faults and involuntary pas-
i 352

sions
it refers to wilful and presumptuous sins,
which virtually sap the foundation of
the whole law in three respects 354
the law requires us to consider God as a
sovereign, a legislator, and a father ib.
the excellent design of God's law in
four arguments
381
Lawyers, their method of false pleading ii 73
Learning and knowledge should be acquired
by Christians
i 219
Legends, a specimen of them
ii 140
Lent, apparently observed with great reve-
rence by the author's hearers i 187
this festival is strongly recommended
ii 164
Levitical law supported by three classes of
persons
ii 219

i 52

ib.
i 270

Libertines, their objections against revelation
refuted in four arguments
Liberty, (Christian) described
Liberty described in five points: in the power
of suspending the judgment, in having
the will in unison with the under-
standing, the conscience superior to
the control of the senses, superior
to our condition in life
i 268
Liberty is incompatible with sin
269
Life, arguments on its shortness and uncer-
tainty
ii 215
the life of men divided into six periods
214
this life is a season of probation assign-
ed for making our choice
215

the grand object of life is to prepare for
eternity

216

ib.

sinners should be grateful for the re-
prieve of life
life well spent affords satisfaction to old
i 289
an idle life, however exempt from gross-
er crime, is incompatible with a state
of salvation
371

age

Life, the viscissitudes of life

reflections on it

GENERAL INDEX.

ii 59 | Marlborough, (Duke of) his victory over
Marshal Villars

63

65

we should value the good things of life ib.
some men hate life, through a disposi-
tion of melancholy
through a principle of misanthropy 66
ib.
through discontent and disgust
and through an excessive fondness of
life
rectitude and delicacy of conscience pro-
mote disgust of life

siastic man

to

ib.

69

Live, how shall we, the expression beautifully
ii 417
applied
Louis XIV, a cruel, superstitious and enthu-
i 389
his monarchy obviously alluded
391
his secret policy against the
395
neighbouring states
his glory, and the humiliation of
his pride
ii 108
i 291
the sinner is exhorted to enkindle his
292
heart with love
effects of Christ's love on the heart 294
his love is an inexhaustible source of
consolation in all the distresses of
life, and in the agonies of death 295
it is a source of universal obedience ib.
Love to God described

Love, the energy of the love of Christ

Machiavelian politics

M

371

i 396. ii 350
portrait of the infidel who shall
presume to govern a king-
dom on those principles 367
ii 217
ii 355

Magistrates addressed
Mahomet, character of that monster
Maimonides, this learned Rabbi agrees with
St. Paul, Rom. xii. 2. that God
requires our persons, not our
i 288
sacrifices

Malachi, character of the people to whom he
preached

ii 192

and the character of the priests 196
Malebranche, his admirable exposition of the
ii 73
passions
Man, in the simplicity of youth admires the
perfections of God, and the theory of
ii 278
religion
man is born with a propensity to vice

281

Martyrs, a fine apostrophe to them

ii 89

i 123

158

the Jews believed in their resurrec-
tion

the moral martyrs are sometimes ac-
cused of rebellion

ii 19

21

they have a fourfold reward
arguments of support to martyrs 13
the fear of martyrdom

Mary, the mother of Christ
Marvellous, the, a caution against it
Materiality of the soul refuted
Maxims of the world

320

ii 421

ii 182

i 261

ii 31

Mediator, Christ in this office is one with God
ii 157
in three respects
Merchants, apprised of a heavenly treasure
ii 217
Messiah, a comfort to the church under the
i 76
idea of the Jewish captivity
i 58
Metaphysical mode of reasoning, concerning
spirit and matter

Ministers or casuists, cautioned ii 50. 71. 107
humility must be their character 93

St. Paul divides them into three
classes

ib.

217

their glory in the day of the Lord 97
Ministers should be distinguished by love 151
an address to them
their duty when attending profli-
gate men in their last moments
249

295

woe, woe to the faithless ministry
259
Ministers must strike at vice without respect
to persons
Ministry, the little success of Christ's ministry
accounted for by five considera-
i 166
tions
the christian ministry excites digni-
177
fied enemies
attendance on it must make us
either better or worse
it was greatly abused by the Jews
ii 8

Miracles

386

a striking transition from preaching
the most tremendous terrors, to
the ministry of consolation ii 250
an apology for the ministry of ter
ror to certain characters
were performed in the most public
place and before the most compe-
i 197
tent judges

224

the folly of asking miracles while we
live in sin

209

the dangers to which a well disposed
man is exposed to in public life
his faculty of thinking, loving and feel- Miser, a, his reflections at a funeral but tran-

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ii 61

in their doom to suffer and die 256
our lot in life, and our faculties
prove our designation for another
world

19

ib.

21

and by the power of its motives 22

Morality, the morality of a soldier, of a states- | Origen, his avowal of the Godhead of Christ
man, of a merchant, of a minis-

ter

i 397

Moral evidences, its difference from mathe-
matical
ii 183
i 56

Moses, his advantage as a preacher

he is the reputed author of the xcth
Psalm

ii 210

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i 280
his ideas of hell
335
Original sin, or seed of corruption, attributed
to the depravity of nature i 215

ii 281. 397

it is hostile to truth and virtue 424
it disorders the soul with unholy dis-
positions

417

ib.
the depravity of nature is increased
by acts of vice
it descends from parents to children,
and therefore is a strong argument
for diligence in education 23
ii 355 Orobio, (Isaac) a learned Jew
i 184

Murrain of the cattle in Holland
Mysteries render a religion doubtful in four

respects

Mysteries of Mahometism, of popery, of pa-
ganism, of infidelity, contrasted with
Christianity

N

P

ib. Pagans, their belief in the presence of the
gods at their festivals, largely
illustrated
ii 194

Nations cautioned against placing an ultimate
reliance on fleets and armies i 126

their major and their minor myste-
ries too abominable for description
358

Nations are regarded as one body, in the visi- Papists, their uncharitableness in denying sal-

tation of the iniquities of our fathers

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Nature and grace abound with marvels i 93
the study of it unsearchably sublime
ii 100
Natural religion, the disciple of it embarrassed
on contemplating the miseries of
man, &c. but all these are no diffi-
culties to the disciple of revealed
religion
i 213
the disciple of natural religion, is
equally embarrassed in studying
the nature of man in three respects
214

the disciple of natural, and the disci-
ple of revealed religion, at the tri-
bunal of God, soliciting pardon 216
fortifying themselves against the fear
of death
the confusion of Pagan philosophers,
respecting natural religion, in four
respects

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vation to all Christians out of their
communion

i 375
they cannot be saved as idolaters 376
they are guilty of adoring the host,

&c.

ib.
they are but a novel people, compared
with the primitive Christians ii 28
their preachers censured
96
Pardon, promises of it to various classes of
sinners
ii 94

Parents cautioned how to look on their chil-
dren
ii 217
Party spirit, the dangers of it
i 44
Paul, (St.) he kept his body under for the
race and the fight

an eulogium on his character
the time of his rapture into the
heaven

ii 12

13

third

ii 200
201

the transports of his rapture
the obscurity of some parts of his writ-
ings arise for the want of historic
reference

219

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of taste and sentiment defined 384
the judgment we form of our state un-
der privations

385

387

i 173

ii 377

ii 278

i 57

humilia-
ii 349

352

354

when privation is general, it indicates
an unregenerate state
Pilate, the baseness of his conduct
his cruelty to the Galileans
Plato, a sketch of his republic
Plato's opinion of God
Plague, an argument for fasting and
tion

national plagues sevenfold
appalling horrors of the plague
Pleasure, mischiefs arising from unlawful in-
dulgences

i 47. 78
Politeness, as practised by bad men ii 19
Poor, (the) a fine series of arguments in beg-
ging for them
i 409
Pope, his kingdom compared with Christ's i 185
Popery, sketch of its corruptions, pref. i 5. 205
(see Papists)
Poverty, God who quickeneth and arranges all
things, often leaves his best servants
in indigence and want i 180
Prayer, a source of consolation
ii 152
Preachers, the liberty of the French exiles in
that respect
ii 84
Preachers, (the primitive) an admirable ad-
vantage in addressing the heathen
and the Jews
i 197
Predestination, the impossibility of explaining
it; but God, who cannot err,
declares that he offers violence
to no creature, and that our
destruction proceeds from our-
selves
ii 116
Princes and judges, their qualifications ii 344
Principle, purity of principle must be the ba-
sis of all our conduct
ii 4
Prophecy, objections against it answered; its

38

courts

character asserted i 152, &c.
difficulties of affixing a literal
meaning to the prophecies of the
Messiah and his kingdom i 183
Prophecies respecting the fall of Jerusalem
ii 149
Prophecies respecting Christ's death, accom-
plished by his sufferings 169
Prophets, how they conducted themselves at
i 399

ib.

39

ib.

of peace

ib.

of confidence in death

ib.

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of reputation

of fortune

of happiness

by religious festivals

by the fear of death

transient piety implies a great want of
allegiance to God as a king ib.
exemplified by Ahab

87

it implies an absurdity of character ib.
it is an action of life perverted by a re-
turn to folly

Prophetic eloquence, its superiority i 379
Professional men, the conditions of their sal-
vation
ii 57
Protestants of France distinguished by their
attendance on public worship,
and on the days of communion
i 167
the exiles are exhorted to pray for
the restoration of their churches
ii 97
the faith of a Protestant 256
the abject situation of those who
remained in France
289
an address to French Protestants
368, &c.
the care of Providence over them
in exile
366

ib.

116.24

Proverbs of Solomon, some of them reconciled | Reformation, the reformed obtain the free ex-
with his assertions in his Ecclesi-

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ercise of religion

ib.

the massacre of Paris cruelly

ib.

plotted under a marriage with
Henry of Navarre
Guise attempts to dethrone
Henry III. by a league
Henry IV. of Navarre, embraces

xi

popery, and ascends the
throne

xii

ib.

the edict of Nantes
the Jesuits founded by Loyola,
no doubt with good intentions,
at first, confounded by Riche-
lieu with the Protestants xiii
Louis XIII. persecutes the Pro-
testants by Richelieu's advice

ib.
the final revocation of the edict
of Nantes

XV

the horrors and the exile of 800,
000 persons
xvi
uniformly

this persecution

charged on the French clergy;
its impolicy exposed in forty
arguments

xvii

the glory of Louis XIV. waned
from that period

Regeneration, character of it

ib.

i315

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