Nature, of fallen man, sinful, 182, 177 Patience, under the world's hatred, 382 under persecutions, 381, 464 recommended, 283 of God producing repentance, 31, 309 Pattern, Christ the Christian's, 113, 153 v. 6 saints a, 337 Peace, of the nations, 560, 476 of conscience, 116 and love, &c. 300, 301 on earth and good will, 105 and holiness encouraged, 566 and pardon through Christ, 164 and subiu ission under trials, 314, 315 trust and strength, 472 Pearl of price, 94 Perfection, of scripture, 97, 94 of the christian ruigion, 245 of Christ's righteousness, 202 of holiness in heaven, 654, 655 of happiness in heaven, 656---662 Perfections of God, 43--50 of Gud, displayed in the gospel, 249 shining in the cross, 518 Persecuted saints praying and pleading, 463_-466 their prayer and faith, 467 God, their avenger, 16 Persecution, courage and perseverance under it, 276, 341 victory over and deliverance from it, 469,371,343 Persecutors, punished, 342, 443, 387 their fosiy, 468 complained of, 563 deliverance from them, 74, 573, 343 PERSEVER.INCE, of the saints, 210--214 in duty, 42, 338 in honness, 214, 230 under persécution and trials, 341 the effct of truth and mercy, 100 connected with al, the graces, 370 in grace desired, 232 v. 4 of saisits to glory certain, 106, 214,322, 628, 125 Person, of Christ, 104, 103 and giories of Christ 491, 457 the blessed, 205, 206, 208, 370 Pestilence, preservation in it, 601 Pharisee and Publican, 282 Physician, Carist, 136, 269 Pilgrimage, the christian, 371 - Pisgah's mount, 624 Pity, to the poor and afflicted, 291, 292 in words and deeds, 293 blessed and rewarded, 293----295 of Christ, 530,..512, 215 v. 2 Pleading, under affiictions without repining, 250,596 the promises, 264 under pain of mind, 313 under persecution, 463_-466 Pleasures, of re igion, 287, 288 danger of sensual, 431 sinful, forsaken, 331, 332 heavenly, aspired after, ib. Pollution, removed and prevented, 257 v. 4-8 Poor,charity to them, 291, 292 friends of the, rewarded, 293_-295 Porti God our only, 169, 170 the best, 362 of saints and sinners, 686, 384, 382 Positive institutions, the use of, 508 Potter and the clay, 192 Poverty, of spirit, 370, 253 confessed, 239, 659 v. 6, 7 and goodness, 51, 52 and majesty of God, 53, 55, 22, 23 and wisdom in Christ crucified, 249, 518 and grace of Christ, 258 of the Spirit in converting sinners, 324, 183 of faith, 268, 276 of grace and sin, 231 of Christians through Christ, 258 Powers of hell vanquished by Christ, 685, 529, 235 Pride, danger and mischief of it, 194, 195 abased, 515, 193-195 deprecated, 283 and humanity, 282, 253 atheism, and oppression punished, 573, 574 and death, 637 Priesthoorl, of Christ, 88, 164, 144, 494 levitical, ending in him, 145 Pricsts, and kings, christians made, 155 y, 7, 152 v. 2 Prince of peace, 148 Princes vain, 18, 19, 321 Privileges of the gospel valued, 250 Prison, of the body, 629 of the grave, 634, 421 of sin, 234, 235 of hell, 653 Prisoners of Satan released, 234 y. 4 Prodigal, son, 307 Professions, insincere, 316, 317, 651, 652 norance and unbelief, 428, 247 of the covenant, 257, 175 faithfulness of God in them, 265 and truth of God unchangeable, 176 our security, 175, 266 interest in them 'desired, 265 pleaded, 264 and threatenings, 437 Prophecies and types of Christ, 108 Prophecy and inspiration, 93 Prophet, Christ our, 151 v. 4, 53 4.4 priest and king, 149 Prosperity, and adversity, 315 dangerous, 390, 434 of sinners vain, 33, 431 Prosperous sinners cursed, 381, 637, 73 truth and grace, 80 by day and night, 64, as of the church, 472, 210 Providence, of God, directing human affairs, 6 ov+r afflictions and death, 07 bereaving, adored, 315 executed by Christ, 155 v 4 5 its darkness, 71 dark and frowning, attended with faith, 71 prosperous and afflictive, 315 its wisdom and equity, 74 and creation, 61, 444, 445 general, and special grace, 75, 76 and perfections of God, 73 its mystery unfolded, 72 recorded, 82, 446, 449 sovereign and distinguishing, 192, 197 Provisions, of the gospel, 252, 520, 528, 171 v.3-5 of God's house, 75 v. 5, 6 of the Lord's table, 509, 521-523 Prudence and zeal, 306 Psalm, for soldiers, 576, 584, 585 for old age, 571, 572 for husbandmen, 558 for a funera, 519, 539, &c. for the Lord's day, 420 before prayer and sermon, 425 for magistrates, 590 for a master of a family, 392 for mariners, 70 for gluttons and drunkards, 440 for New-England, 582 morning and evening psalms, 547_-557 for deliverance, 251 worship, absence of it complained of, 28 worship attended on, 249 ordinances, their benefit, 406 Publican and Pharisee, 282 and dissolution of this world, 68 Punishment, of sinners, 43, 377, 378, 380, 334 of unbelievers, 272, 271, 246 Punishment, and salvation, 439, 437, 442 RESURRECTION of Christ, 123, 124, 421 and death of Christ, 123 ground of faith in him, 126 v. 3, 4 gives hope of heaven, 125 of the body, 629, 642, 643, 386 hope of it, 641, 642, 386 and death, 638 of a saint, and death of a sinner, 636 Retirement and meditation, 388 Returning, sinner, 312 backslider, 327, 364, 303, 179, 180, 43 with sef-abhorrence, 356 Revelotion, the scripture, evidence of its divinity, 93 of Christ to Jews and Gentiles, 250, 458 Revenge against our own sins, 310 Reverence, due to God, 20 in worship, 53, 26 Revivals of religion, prayed for, 363, 491, 492 enjoyed by prayer, 363, 488, 361 Rewards, of duty and sincerity, 320 of the righteous and the wicked, 382 of liberality, 293-295 their vanity, 637, 433, 412 Rich sinner, dying, 433 unenvied, 433 Righteous, their birth, 219, 161 their temper and character, 370, 101 their conduct, 230, 268 their company, 239, 487, 217 v. 3 their raiment, 202, 252 v 6, 7 their happy end, 623–625 difference between the, and the wicked, 378, 381 Rightcousness, of Christ, valuable, 201 our robe, 202, 252 v. 6, 7 and strength in Christ, 200, 234, 235, 259, 260 internal, breathed after, 233 and grace thirsted for, 370 v. 4 our own, insufficient, 179 renounced, 209, 225 Robes, of righteousness, 202, 252 v. 6, 7, 511 v. 4 white, 202, 656, 657 Rock, of ages, 217 v. 3 and corner stone, Christ, 150 v. 10, 13 smitten, a type of Christ, 436 v. 17, 18 benefit of it. 397, 598 of Moses, 436 v. 9 Rome. See Babylon. Rose, Christ compared to a, 150 v. Ruin, and restoration of man, 177 of Babylon, 478, 479 Ruins of Sion built again, 488 Rulers, good, described, 570 : advised, 127, 146, 147 warned, 594 S. Sacrifice of Christ, and atonement, 117 the noblest, 270, 162 all-sufficient, 163, 308, 179 faith in the, 270 praise for it, 104 and incarnation, 162 and intercession, 164 Safe, to land, 70, 69 at home, 375 in heaven, 655 Safety, in God, 368 in the covenant, 176 of saints in the hands of Christ, 263 of believers, 217 at the foot of the cross, 228 of the church, 472, 473 in publick dangers, 601 and delight in the church, 407 and triumph of the church in national deso- lations, 574 Suines, characters of, 161, 450-beloved in Christ, 191, Shipwreck prevented, 70 Shortness of time improved, 617 Sick-bed devotion, 590, 606, 000, 360 mortifies to the world, 330, 172 Signs of Christ's coming, 574, 111 of implanted grace, 391, original & actuai,confessed & pardoned, 179,180 and chastisemeni of saints, 438, 442 indweiling, conviction of, 240 against the law and gospel, 246_evil of it, 184 abounding, 574-decertfulness of it, 185 custom in it, 183-foily and madness ut it, 186 and sinners' end, 331,380,384. - See Righteous. resolutions against it, 31, 310, 335 Prayer for victory over it, 236 v. 5,335 y. 5,31 v.5 crucified,334--parduned and subdued,236,257,232 Sincerity, 31), 200 or evidences of grace, 391 professed, 318, 319–proved and rewarded, 320 and hypocrisy, 316--and watchfuiness, 415 Sinner, man by nature and pracuce a, 182 cursed and saint happy, 378, 384 and saints portion, 385, 380, 377, 381, 649 hatred of' and saints patience, 382 destroyed and saints chastised, 383 aged, dying, 507 Slander, compiained of, 182 v. 5 denverance from it, 347, 345 of sin, firedom rom, by Christ,334 doliverance from it dusired, 240 Sleep, swett, 281 v. 5 Sloth, spirituan, jatiented, 351, 323 Smiles of Christ alltd, 309 Suciety, of sinners, avoned, 378, 380 hated, 391 of saints chosen, 239, 402, 391 in heaven blessed, 058, 462 Sodom, fire of, 20, 384 v. 51 Sun, of God, et mua., 251 v. 2, 153 v. 2: of David, 084, 143, v. 3. Song, of the anges, 105 Otsiusts and the Lamb,479,156-of Hezekiah,607 ot' $0.0.non, 334--54jo-of Simeon, 625, 522 Sons of Guid, well citaracter and privrieges, 101 Surrow, for sill, 30-_-311. See Repentance. for the pious dead l'estrained, 631 c)niort under it, 369, 375 SOUL,va ue of 10,032-of a sinner on a death-bed,630 must leave the body, 633, 137 fureud into eternity, 020-nking into hell, 563 of a saint committed to Christ, 228 beauutuiy arrayed, 202 in stpacate statt, 380, 18, 19, 429, 629 Sovereignty, of God, 24, 28 in bereaving providences adored, 315 of grace, 194, 195 Spear in the Redeemer's side, 136 Spirit given at Christ's ascension, 130 miraculous gift of, 267-water and blood, 419 his oltices and operations, 324 his influences represented by the wind, 542 witnessing and scaling, 325 his wotk powerful and gracious, 324, 183 attending the word, 299, 340 v. 1, 428 v. 5 earliest of heaven, 629 v. 3 dwelling in the beart, 257 v. 9-fruits of the, 16L his teachtog desired, 299, 179. v. 3 breathed after,323, 542 Spiritual,apparel,202-blessings and punishments,437, Throne of grace, accessible by Christ, 191 duties, 230, 223-deliverance, 217, 473, 376 free to sinners, 204 Thrones of judgment prepared for the saints,387 v.6-8 Thunder and storm, 562, 89, 444, 49-improved, 563 Time, misimproved, 614, 553 v. 2-short, 611 to be redeemed, 609-end of it kept in view, 617 saint's safety, and hope in them, 575, 574 Title, a clear one to heaven desired, 375 Titles and offices of Christ, 148153 Tongre, siins of it, 575-glory of the frame, 603 v.o governed, 306, 566, 565 Travels, of the Israelites, 449, 447 of spiritual pilgrims, 371 Trial, of our graces by affljetions, 52, 211 of our hearts, 391, 319 375, 276-grace shining in them, 341 removed by, prayer, 484, 361 praised, 659-681 grace, Triumph, of Christ over the church's enemies for salvation, 284-for national victory, 584 and safety of the church in national desola- tions, 475_of saints at the last day, 307 Troubles. See Afflictions, Temptations. Trumpet, of the gospel, 252 of the archangel, 68 v. 5, 652 v. 1 in the word, 265, 264 v. 4 in Christ recommended, 271-well foundid, 322 and kingdom of Christ, 145, 138, 492 Truth, grace and protection, 80, 37, 18, 19 Tumult, deliverance from it, 348 Types, of Christ, 145~and prophecies, 108 U. Unbelief, and impenitence, 272 like the spear in Christ's side, 365-danger of, 271 lamented, 266 v. 5-prayed' against, 236 destructive, 247-punished, 427 Canaan lost by it, 427-and envy cured, 382 Unchangeable, God and his covenant, 174, 43, 56 love and grace, 176, 15-promises, 265, 176, 471 truth, 15, 176, Uncharitableness and charity, 301 advice to the, 20 v. 4, 653 v. 6 unfit for heaven, 654 Unholy souls not fit for heaven, 054 Union, of Christ and saints, 510 to Christ desired,150 v. 6 of faith and works,268 of Jews and Gentiles, 458 UNITY, of God, one in three, 668, 681, 677 of friends and kindred, 397 of a family and of saints, 396 of the church on earth and in heaven, 462 Unspeakable, love, 151-joys, 298 Use, of the moral law, 240, 198 ur positive juistitutions, 508 V. and deliverance from them, 281, 366, 343 Vain discourse, iu comparty, 575 none in heaven, 371 v. 11 of the soul, 632-of the saints, 239 Vanity, of man, 25-ufman as mortal,612,613,618,588 of self-righteousness, 199, 205, 252 Peing towking within the, 337, 275 |