A men against the objection of its being gion and one who does not en- 385 266 the primitive Christians were mo- dels of charity i 420 contentious Christians are only novices in religion ii 88 246 forbearance recommended in opi- nions 107 332 Christians should be distinguished by love 151 they are not of the world 164 ries i 420 his exposition of the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost "ii 328 274 Church, the, often established by the means which tyrants employ to destroy it i 76 the church has often varied her situa- 157 tion in regard of worldly glory, of 160 poverty and of persecution 348 162 ji 316 her children should love one another 157 with a superior attachment 313 ing the heart of Cæsar and saving Ligarius i 200 158 ii 95 üi 419 i 5 161 ib. 162 | Commandınents, charges to keep them ii 150 the importance of the com- i į mand to love one another 151 411 183 Conflict and triumph of Christian believers 418 417 ji 8 he is a fool who denies its power 322 it founds its decisions on three i 323 it is to the soul what the senses 163 366 175 ii 152 177 i 410 it must be adorned with chastity 407 exempt from slander in seven re- 401 409 from unfounded complaisance ib. and from idle words 410 i 148 five vices of conversation 411 three maxims of conversation 412 i 48 it consists in illumination and 245 ii 242 natural difficulties of conversion ib. 248 the habits of old age obstinately oppose conversion ib. ii 221 it is greatly obstructed by the re- currence of former ideas 243 277 the habit of loving God, an essen- tial fruit of conversion, is diffi- 278 cult to acquire in old age 243 and new ones formed 244 a in old age . Conversion, a powerful exhortation to conver- bend the knee, Psal. xcv. 6. 248 2 Chron. vi. 13. Gen. xxiv. II. 2. To solicit or to confer good, Gen. xxiv. 35.-3. To imprecate 251 evil, Job i. 5, 11.-ii. 5. ib. on Matt. xxiii. 23. i 358 on Gen. vi. 3. ii 70 on Hosea xiii. 9. 115 252 Cross, five bucklers against the offence of the cross—the miserable condition of a lost world ii 148 261, &c. ib. the sovereign command of God to save mankind 149 263 ib. ib. i 305 the cross of Christ relatively consider- ed, assorts with all the difficulties and trials of this life 222 i 300 or immolated to the divine justice 224 i 398 ib. proofs of his love ib. ib. 399 225 D ib. 400 David, his preference of God's affliction ia- ther than of man's ii 42 ii 256. 305 403 his affected epilepsy before Achish was an innocent stratagem to save his life, and imitated by many illustri- ii 129 John Ortlob supposes it a case of real affliction 130 he was too indulgent to his children 25 his piety ii 283 ii 94 ii 211 ib. Death, the reflections of a dying man i 186 terrors at the aspect of death 295 306 death considered as a shipwreck 416 îi 41 the terrors of dying 126 41 eloquence 86 Jacob and Simeon both wished to die 140 very impressive ii 156 i 211 the death of Christ is to the Jews an atrocious crime 170 the death of Christ an expiation of sin, and a model of confidence 167 284 death vanquished by Christ 171 414 172 ii 130 by giving us remission of sins 234 the complete assurance of immortality i 192 and life, removes the terrors of death 232 301 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, (seo 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. 312-42 miracles and prodigies gave the first preachers a superiority over i 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 ii 8. 294 i 127 dences, and the sacrifices which ac- company it i 160 129 299 justifying faith described ib. the faith inculcated by the Arians and 366 by many of the Romanists, refuted 300 the distinction between being justified by faith, and the having only a de- sire to be justified, illustrated in five 368 301 304 ib. the weakness of our faith 349 ji 31 372 obscure faith defined ii 174 32 an act of faith in regard to retrospec- tive and to future objects 180 62 Family of Christ, five characters of it ji 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 ii 419 i 293 an avaricious and a voluptuous man 296 298 a ii 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 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- bon, exemplified in five points 208 102 109 235 111 315 115 122 ib. in regard to his regal sovereignty and im- 124 i 182 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 52 74 75 76 61 God's long-suffering has limits, as appears 62 rate sinners, from dying men 266 ü 404 63 ii 94 pel for the day, which accounts for i 99 God 327 65 its doctrines are infallible îi 160 the great sin of not profiting by its su- ib. 333, &c. invites all men to repentance 395 ii 142, &c. 67 181 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 73 254 the day of grace, or time of visitation 301 84 the doctrines of grace admirably stat- ed in six propositions 396, &c. five cautionary maxims against mis- 87 395 89 H old, in five cases ii 245 66 86 come Heaters, some may be moved with tenderness, Hobbes and Machiavel, a word to their disci- & ples ii 350 70 six cautions to that nation 385 389 111 a sketch of its vices îi 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 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 ii 52 its dogmas revolt our moral feel- ings ib. 286 it followed the spirit of blind credu- lity 186 it has insuperable difficulties 359 the nature of that economy i 107 ii 295 ii 163 ii 169 i 150 ib. Isis, an Egyptian god alluded to ï 35 341 Ishmael preserved by providence ii 26 ib. Invocation adapted to the subject ii 395 ib. J 340 Jamos, (St.) the paradoxes or high morality of his epistle i 350 i 71 his boldness at fourteen years of ago 159 ii 364 his severe mission to his country ii 187 ven |