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Flavel, John, 1630?-1691 • SECTION 259

Section 259

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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.

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE FOR THE THIUD VOLUME. 61 9

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

620 AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE FOU THE THIRD VOLUME.

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

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE FOR THE THIRD VOLUME. CSl

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

622 AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE FOR THE THIRD VOLUME.

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

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