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Flavel, John, 1630?-1691 • SECTION 261

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Honeywood (Mrs.) a remarkable providence concerning her 385

Ignorance, how it is a great hinderance to conversion 4i

Judgment, (the last) witnesses for or against sinners in it 20

Several things which will be attested therein 22

Reasons why God will have witnesses produced in it 23

Several useful inferences concerning it 24

How much it concerns people to prepare for it 26

Idolatr?/, an earnest dissuasive from it 521

The nature, and several kinds of it 522

Arguments to engage our care for avoiding it 528

Joi/ m God, why, and how, this should be maintained under

the saddest providences 439

Joys in heaven, how much they exceed the gi'eatest joys of

Knock, at what doors Christ is said to do this 88

What is imphed in our Saviour's doing it 90

By what instruments Christ performs this work 94

In what manner our Lord does it, shewn in ten particulars 98

Several useful inferences from Christ's doing it 104

Liberty, of Protestant dissenters, how to be improved by

them, shewn in an epistle 6

A good improvement of it the best way to have it continued 12

Lodes, enumerati<5n of several which fasten up the heart against Christ, 438. Vid. Bars

Life, (spiritual) six signs by which it is discovered in tlie souls

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Ministers, some evident providences relating to them 378 Things necessary to the call of them 533 How those of our nation are called and ordained ibid. Ministry, a faithful one is a great blessing 518 The danger of attending that which leads to superstition and idolatry 527 Mortification of sin, how it is helped forward by divine provi- dence 405 Moses, his earnest prayer for admission into Canaan 308 How his prayer, for what God had before refused to give, is to be understood 310 Mystery, what is imported in this word being written on the

Neighbourhood, how, and when, We should especially en- deavour to promote religion in it 540

Opening the heart to Christ, marks whereby it may be known 44

The difficulty of this work 196

The principal and subordinate instruments of it 198

It is the great design carried on in the gospel 199

What men too often erroneously mistake for it 202

Motives to persuade people to it 229

Advices to those who have experienced it 232

Ordinances of the gospel, evidences and advantages of Christ's

presence in them ^ 31

The necessity of Christ's presence in them 34

Useful inferences concerning our Saviour's presence in them 36

Of the gospel, the great dignity of them 188

Patience of God, the nature of it explained 63

The glorious manifestations of it towards sinners 65

Several reasons of its being exercised 69

Divers useful inferences concerning it 71

What obligations we have to imitate it 77 Vol. VI. R r

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Patience of God, The great danger of abusing it 79

The happiness of rightly improving it 86

Prejudices against hohness, a great hinderance to conversion 47

Presence of Christ, the various kinds of it 31

The advantage and necessity of it in gospel-ordinances 34

Presumption^ how it resists Christ's entrance into the soul 47

Pride, how it hinders sinners from receiving Clirist 45

Pardon^ shewn to be the sweetest of all mercies S14

Parents, what a mercy it is to be born of good ones 370

How much it concerns them to take care of their children's

Peace with God, the excellency of it shewn in three things 216

Perseverance of saints, an earnest persuasion to it under greatest

trials 517 Peter Martyr, his remarkable saying upon hearing a bell ring

to mass 531 Pharisees, in what sense Christ allowed his disciples to hear

Popery, something of the danger of it in England 558

Predictions of an inundation of it ihid.

Advances made towards the introduction of it 559

The ceremonies of its being used, a token of its prevaihng 564 The persecutions and divisions of Protestants, give advantage

Abuse of mercies, lays us open to it 567 Addresses to the king, the parliament, &c. concerning the

danger of it 569 Arguments of proving it to be a false religion 574 It is a bloody, a blasphemous, an uncomfortable, and a dam- nable religion 573 Means to secure the nation against it 581 Pi^eservation from dangers, how eminently providence some- times appears in it 402 Pi'ovidence of God, best viewed, as the fulfilling of God's word 339 The contemplation of it very pleasant 346 Good men, especially in straits, should recollect the workings

The difference between the views of it now and in heaven 348

The affairs of saints are conducted by a special one 349

Why the Epicureans denied it 350

Eight demands to convince the government of it 351

How it works in our formation and protection in the womb 362

How it orders the time and place of our birth 365

How it determines the stock we spring from 370

Remarkable instances of it in the conversion of sinners 376

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Page Providence, In carrying on the work of conversion 378

How the wisdom of it shines forth in men's civil caUings 887 •Eminent appearances of it sometimes ia our relations 391

Remarkable instances of it in providing for persons and families 395 How we should depend upon it for provision 397

Eminent displays of it in preserving from sin 398

How it appears in outward preservations 402

The aid it gives to God's people, in the work of mortification 405 What reason we have to admire God's condescension in it 410 How we are obliged to observe it, especially in times of trouble 413 As thorough a knowledge of it as possible, should be endea- voured after 416 We should consider how the scripture is fulfilled in it 419 How we should eye God's perfection in it 406 Wherein we should endeavour to suit our minds to it 428 Why both sinners and saints should be content with its dis- posals 431 We should not despond under the seeming delays of it 433 We must not pry too curiously into the secrets of it 435 We may maintain sweet communion with God in it 436 The pleasures of life must consist in observing it 439 Observing it is an excellent antidote against atheism 442 Remembering the gracious workings of it, supports faith in

future exigencies 445

The recognition of it, yields continual matter of praise to God 448 The due observance of it endears Christ to our souls 450

Observing it tends to melt the heart before God 453

Remembering it will settle the heart under changes 455

The due observance of it conduces much to holiness 458

The study of it will be of singular use in a dying hour 461

It should be acknowledged in every thing that befals us 464 Six useful corollaries concerning it 465

How we may discover our duty under the darkness of it 467 It sometimes delays to give mercies prayed for 472

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