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
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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