Preservatives from being brought to it by ill customs 193
The way to it, by sinful pleasures, shut up 196
The passage to it, by distracting cares, barred up 198
The way to it, by groundless presumption, shut up 202
The way to it, by principles of atheism, barred 205
The way of profaneness leading to it, barred up 208
The way to it, by prejudices against godliness, closed up 211
The passage to it, by formal hypocrisy, barred up 214? The way of depending upon moral honesty, barred by three
Jgnorance, of the evil and danger of sin, one of the causes of
men's not coming to Christ 216
When affected it is the high- way to destruction 217
Means to prevent the dangerous effects of it ibid.
Indignation of God, why sometimes poured out upon the world 328
God's own people are concerned in the time of it 330
How we should be affected when it breaks forth 331
God usually gives warning before he pours it out 339
Signs of its likelihood to break forth 340
Infants, the baptizing of them vindicated 495
Vide Baptism Judgments, Why God usually gives warning before he inflicts
Unsensibleness of their approach, to be lamented 334 Vide Indignation.
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3I0RAL Jtonestij, how it comes short of saving grace 216 Vid. Civility.
Name (of God) compared to several things 327
Neck^ what is meant by reaching to it, (Isa. viii. 8.) 242
Pardon, what an invaluable mercy it is 143
Pleasures, Those of sin are very dear bought 141
Multitudes perish through the bait of sensual ones 195
Considerations to prevent the danger of sinful ones 196
Prejudices, against religion, a great cause of damnation 210
Prison, why hell is so called 131
The wide difference between that of God, and that of men 131 Vide Hell
Presnmptio7i, how it is a great cause of losing the soul 201
Five considerations to awaken from it 202
Prqfaneness, a most notorious and assured way to hell 208 Considerations to prevent the ruin of those who are guilty of
it ihicL Professors, Scandals given by them, one cause of souls being
lost 211 Considerations to prevent the danger of being scandalized
People of God, a negative and positive description of them 398 Why none but these have a hiding-place in the time of
The shiftless condition of those who are not so 400
They ought not to droop like others under trouble 402
Their safety, by having their refuge in God 404«
Power of God, a security to the saints in trouble 344
It is omnipotent, sovereign, and everlasting ihid. It works beyond creature-power, creature-expectation, and
human probability 347 Considered in relation to his promises, 349, and providen- ces 350 Encouragements to trust in it under difficulties 351
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Page Preservation^ (in danger) not extended to all saints, nor to
Why it is usually granted to some good men ibid.
Pi'omises, several kinds of them enumerated 368
Medeeming the time, what this means 25
Redemption, the application of the benefits of it largely
considered, 452. Vid. Application. Refuge, the folly of making any thing so, short of God 403
Regeneration, how it differs from vocation, sanctification, and
conversion, (Prop. 1.) 455
Rereward, an ignorant mistake of this word noted 448
Resig^iation of God, the nature of it shewn in several par- ticulars 408 What encouragement God's people have to it 409 Ruin, (of a people) tokens of its approach 339
Seasons (of salvation) are of two sorts 225
What things are necessary to render any time so 227
Five special ones instanced in 228
Several arguments to engage our improvement of them 230
Ten considerations to awaken us to take hold of the present one 235
Self-tormentors, that, and how the souls of wicked men are so
Sin, the pleasures of it are very dear bought 141
The evil and danger of it argued from its punishment ihid.
It is wisdom to endure any thing, rather than commit it 149
Soul, How fitly it is called a spirit, after its separation from
Its separation from the body mental or real 24
Its actual separation considered, injieri, and in facto esse 26 The wonderful change made by its separation from the body 28 That of the godly received at death by the angels 31
It thinks and acts out of the body 34
After death, that of the righteous is complete in holiness, 35.
Is advanced into heaven, 38. And filled with delight 40
It then easily advances in knowledge 45
And is in a more excellent way of communion with God 48
Here we may conceive of it when separate from the body 60 Its value above the whole world, proved in twelve particu- lars 155
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Soul, How grossly it is abused by serving fleshly lusts 168
Salvation, securing it, is the greatest business of life 170
It is the special care of heaven 271
How valuable are the means of its salvation 17S
Why it cannot live upon earthly things 177
It is wisdom to venture the loss of all things for preserving it 178
How great and irreparable the eternal loss of it is 181 Twelve ways of losing it, with means to prevent it, Aid. Hell Souls, (of men) in how different a manner they are stjmrated
from the body 63 What notices some have had, before-hand, of their separa- tion 67 Arguments to prove their not desiring re-union with their
Arguments to prove their desire of being re-united 91
The excellency of them inferred from their large capacity 121 How reasonable it is they should be heavenly while in the
What duty lies upon them who have charge of them 407
Sph'its in prison, what this expression means in St. Peter 130
Striving is necessary to obtain salvation 226
Slavish Jear, (of sufferings) a plea for it, from the strangeness
of suffering for religion, answered 312 What is pleaded for it from the weakness of constitution
answered 314 A plea from experience of fainting under former trials an- swered 316 Replies to the plea for it from a melancholy temper ibid. That which springs from a dread of God's hiding his face en- couraged against 318 The plea from the length and sharpness of religion replied to 319
Time, Five considerations against the presuming upon that
What reasons we have diligently to improve it 12
The shortness of it should wean us from the world 16
What St. Paul means by it, and redeeming of it 226
Truth is the proper object of the understanding 426
Things less, and more necessary to the knowledge of it 428
Error, under the appearance of it, binds the conscience 429
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VISION, Several excellent properties of the beatific one 119
Unbelief, It is a sure way to hell 204?
Six weighty considerations to prevent the danger of it 205
Unregenerate, How little reason such have to boast of their
thriving in the world 220 Unchangeableness, of God discovered, and confirmed three