1 GENERAL INDEX. 0000000 A. ABEL: in what sense he yet speaketh, vol. vii. p. 175. His great faith in the oblation of Isaac, vol. viii. p. The character of an adultress, v. 113. They are the best means of making some men wise, viii. 63. AGED MEN: the difficulties of their conversion, vii. 24-30. ALMS: Christ's love the great motive to them, iv. 278. religion--to death--to judgment--to heaven-to God, 281. AMORITES, the nation and generation of them considered as Amorites; the whole inhabitants of Canaan were so called, i. 341. Their iniquities, 341, 342. AMUSEMENTS: men who have the love of God shed abroad in ANATHEMA MARANATHA, ii. 278. ANGELS, a defence to the church, ii. 394. Apostrophe to angels on the Godhead of Christ, iii. 166. Their happiness consists in glorifying God, 202. They bend over the ark to look into the mystery of re- Of the angel who sware standing on the earth and on the David prostrated before the destroying angel, viii. 91. ANISE, mint, cummin; improvements on the terms, iv. 95. ANTS: an emblem of the busy multitudes of men, v. 72. Seven ways of apostacy, 465. The dreadful sin of an enlightened apostacy, vii. 371, 378, The apostacy through weakness, and through enmity dis- Four degrees of apostacy, 387. An address to sinners who have not attained the highest APOSTOLICAL CONSTITUTIONS Confessedly spurious, and the APOSTROPHE to the ecclesiastics who surrounded the person ARIANS refuted in their false gloss on John xvii. 3. vi. 81. ARISTOCRACY: its corruption described, iv. 185. ARMINIUS (Van Harmine,) three replies to his system, v. 355 In the bible practical duties are placed clear, and abstruse God is in no wise accessary to the destruction of sinners, ARNOBIUS: his avowal of the Godhead of Christ, iii. 193. Eight cautions concerning it, 332–336. Assurance of justification may be attended with a mixture It is incompatible with a state of sin, 335. Assurance is demonstrated by the experience of holy men, Four cautions concerning assurance, 350. Degrees of grace and assurance, vi. 182. Assurance consists in foretastes of heaven, 204-208. Eight causes why the generality of the Christian world do ATHANASIUS: the superiority of his arguments over the ATHEISM: men embrace it to sin quietly, ii. 348. Its absurdity joined with superstition, iii. 165. ATONEMENT: the mystery of it arising from the innocence of It is illustrated under the notion of a vicarious sacrifice, iii. 67-70. Its efficacy arises from the excellence of the victim, in Its extent liberally explained, 241. The support of Christ's death against all our fears of fu- Christ's death is an expiation or atonement for sin, vi. 123. Five classes of arguments from the Holy Scriptures de- monstrative of the atonement; and comprising a refuta- AUGUSTINE proves that the texts which speak of Christ as humanity and offices, because the expressions are never He is accused of inconsistency: vis. of favouring the cause AVARICE is always classed among the worst of sins, iv. 34. The sin of avarice defined, 391. It impels men to the worst of crimes, 392. B BALAAM: his temporising character, viii. 60. BARZILLAI apparently anticipating death, iv. 236. BAYLE: an error of his refuted, iv. 173, 174. His character, 201. BEGNON (Rev. Mr.) comforted against the fears of death by BELIEVERS often receive the greatest good from the severest The believer superior to the skeptic at the tribunal of au- BENEDICTIONS on the different classes of hearers at the close BENEVOLENCE, described, iv. 106. The want of it a horrible crime, 282. It is the brightest ornament of religion, 284. BIRTH, (New) the ideas of the Rabbins concerning it, viii. 247. BROTHELS: the duty of magistrates concerning them, v. 123. C CÆSAR his maxims and conquests, iv. 373. CALAMITIES (National) often the forerunners of greater plagues, CALEB and Joshua, the only two that entered Canaan, is urg- CANTICLES: an apology for the figurative style of that book, CATO of Utica, persuaded of the immortality of the soul by |