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Flavel, John, 1630?-1691 • SECTION 265

Section 265

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Sins, indulged ones represented by leaks in a ship 377

Si7inerff, the vanity of those who hope to conceal themselves 378

The impudence of open ones 380

Sparrows, meditation on their mixing with goldfinches 186

Storms at sea, an emblem of worldly troubles 282

How God's power and goodness is manifested in them 234

Are sometimes executioners of God's threatcnings 261

The principal and instrumental causes of them 360

How God's wonderful providence appears in them 362

Lessons to be learned from them, and from preservation in

Success in our affairs, to be ascribed to God's blessing 386

Swearing profanely, the great evil and danger of it 308

Scandals of professors, the sight of them matter of grief 417

The unreasonableness of stumbhng at them 418

Discourse of keeping the heart designed to prevent them 419 Self-deceit, the danger of it, 517. Vide Deceivers.

Sincerity, some of the most assuring marks of it 595

Care, in keeping the heart, a good evidence of it 430

The touchstone of it discovered and applied 513

How much it concerns us to try and discover it 590

Six motives to a diligent trial of it 592

Rules for the discovery of it 595

Seven counsels for maintaining and increasing it 601

Sorrotv, for the death of relations, when it is sinful 616 Vide Mourning. Excess of that which is worldly, gives the advantage to Satan 646

VV^hen exorbitant it is dishonourable to God 647

Excess of it when God hides his face considered 663 Rules for moderating it on the death of relations 663, 4'^- Vide Godly sorrow. Sudden7iess of relations dying, no sufficient ground of excessive

Sufferings for religion, how sincerity is tried by them 573

How sincerity establishes the soul under them 574

Tares, their likeness to wheat considered and improved 95

Thankfulness due to God for recovery from dangerous sickness 325

For preservation of life in dangers 327

What things are included in this duty 408

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ThanlcfulnesSi The reasonableness of it 411

Five arguments to excite it 415

ThresMng of corn, how an emblem of God's afflicting his people 133

Tongue^ a serious caution against the sins of it 305

An observable remark concerning the numerous sins of it 306

It is compared in scripture to a tree ibid.

Rules to prevent the sins of it 313

Trade, the badness of it chiefly caused by sin 271

By sea how it is an emblem of communion 241

Sins which peculiarly blast the success of it 271

Trade-wbid, how the saints always have it in their way to heaven 279

Trees, how barren ones represent useless professors 154

Serious reflections upon cutting them down 155

Occasional meditations on several sorts of them 196, Sfc.

Temptation, arguments by which the devil backs it answered 477

Trial of grace, various ways by which it is done B'oo

Useful inferences concerning it 588

Christians should be diligent in doing it 591

T^EGETABLEs, mcditations upon the strange means of preserv- ing them 204 Uncleanness, directions for avoiding it 322 Unthanlifulness to God, the exceeding evil and danger of it 412 Vows, the nature of them 330 The great evil and danger o^ breaking them 331

Wheat, a spiritual improvement of its being represented by tares, 95. Vide Tares.

Hov/ good men are compared to it 132

Will of God, a remarkable example of submission to it 105

Winds, the mariner's skill in improving them, spiritualized 237

The danger of losing them spiritually improved 239

The principal cause of them is God's ^vill . 360

Wings of the morning, what is signified by this phrase 371

Winnowing of com, how it represents God's judgments 136

Serious reflections upon it 139 Winter, the husbandman's care to provide for it, spiritually im- proved 117

Various reflections upon it 119

Worm, a meditation on one catched by a Robin Red-breast 187

Yovthfulness of dead relations, no suflicient ground of ex- cessive sorrow for them 672

AK AlJ'HABETir.AL TABLF. FOR THE SI\TTI VOLUME. 643

Page Art AM how all men fell in liim, explained and improved 171

j{fflktio7h<, are sometimes very heavy 90

How far we may complain under them 132

The ^reat evil of murmuring under them 133

Vide Sufferings. Assemhli/s-CatecMsm, the several things in it explained and ap- plied 141, <^c Adoption, the nature and properties of it opened and improved 197 Appetite, signs of our spiritual one being right 449 Applicatw?i, (of Christ,) explained and improved 190 Assurance, of God's love, several questions and answers for ex- plaining and improving it SCO Of Christ's love, most desirable to believers 451 Directions for obtaining and securing it 4-54 Vide Love of Christ.

SiBLEs, what a blessing it is to enjoy them 111

Bradford, a remarkable expression of his before his martyrdom 4

Baptism, questions and answers concerning the nature of it 281

The several kinds of subjects on whom it is to be administered 283

Of infants, vindicated against Mr. Philip Cary 361, &i'C,

Blessedness, the perfection of it explained and improved 21-5

Bread, what is meant by it in the Lord's prayer 305

Our praying for daily bread explained and improved ibid.

Candle, what is meant by the phrase of God's lighting it 5

Conversion, the nature of the change wrought by it 30

It is a real change in the whole man 33

How it prepares for choice services and sufferings 34

The evidencing of it a necessary preparative for sufferings 37 Vide Evidence. Covenant, (of grace) several excellent properties of it explained 89 Those wlio are interested in it may be exposed to great afflic- tions 90 It is able to remove all the grounds of a believer's trouble 96 It disarms afflictions of their sting, and turns them into a

It makes calamities work for the Christian's salvation 100

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Covenant^ (of grace) it secures God's presence to believers in

It secures the believer's happiness from all hazards 103

It assures God's people that their afflictionsare the strokesof love 105 It is everlasting, and yields everlasting comfort 108

It is sure to those who are interested in it 109

Their condition deplorable who have no title to it 112

Believers should study it much 113

How our interest in it must be known 1 15

An explication and iniprovement of it 117

The conditionality of it explained and confirmed 348

Covenant^ (of works) the nature of it explained, with improve- ments- 330, 4-c. That of Sinai not the same with it 333 How it differed from that of circumcision 340

Courage, the necessity of it to prepare for sufferings 47

Creation, the nature of it considered and improved 162

That of man more particularly explained and improved 163

Carif, (^Ir. Philip) Mr. Flavel's defence of infant baptism against him ^ 327,328

His three positions concerning the covenant of Sinai, <Sx. con- sidered 330, 4t.

Christ, his offices explained and improved, 181. Vide Offices. His humiliation explained and improved 186

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