Perseverance, a thing that accompanies sal- vation, ii. 433; its properties, ii. 501 ; in a holy profession, ih. ; in holy and spiritual jDrinciples, ii. 501, 502 ; abiding in the doc- trine of Christ, ii. 502 ; in holy and gra- cious actions, ii. 502, 503; Christians must persevere in their pursuit after holiness, iv. 326-328.
Petitioners against Brooks, I. xli.
Plague, sin a, i. 14 ; in fine clothes, i. 54 ; or pestilence ; a rod and its lessons told in twenty things, ii. 149, seq. ; a heavenly cordial for those who have had, vi. 410 ; various maxims concerning, vi. 411, seq. the Lord sends, vi. 411-413 ; limited as to places by God, vi. 413 ; to persons also, ib. ; no one knows love or hatred by, vi. 413, 414 ; God takes his people by, fi'om greater judgments, vi. 414 ; makes no alteration in God's afl'ection for his people, vi. 414 ; prayer of God's people efficacious during, vi. 415 ; can only reach our out- w^ard man, ih. ; ten things to shew God's l>eople may reckon on i^reservation during, vi. 415, seq. ; how comes it that in this time of mortality many of God's people die ? eight answers to, vi. 423, seq. ; such as fall by, suffer no loss, vi. 430, 431 ; though the godly die of, yet they are de- livered from the evil of, vi. 431, 432 ; God knows his own people during, vi. 433 ; the godly delivered by the, vi. 433.
Pleas, of the several that every sincere Chris- tian may form up as to the ten scriptures of the Old and New Testament that refer either to the general judgment or to the particu- cular judgment that will pass upon every Christian immediately after death, (1.) v. 61 ; (2.) v. 70, seq. ; (3.) v. 75, seq. ; (4.) V. 200, seq; (5.) v. 234; (6.) v. 256, seq.; (7.) V. 257, seq. ; of the several, that every sincere Christian may form up as to the ten scriptures in the Old and New Testa- ment that refer either to the general judg- ment or to the particular judgment that will pass upon every Christian imme- diately after death ; the 8th plea, v. 286, seq.; 9th, v. 327, seq.; 10th, v. 329, seq., 398, 399 ; 11th, v. 403, seq, 413, 414.
Pleasant and good, i. 132.
Pleasers, men, i. 149, 150.
Pleasures, sensual, i. 200, 201.
Pontaurns, a stone, i. 30.
Poor and rich compared, what results to the rich for being rich, iii. 190, seq.; in spiiit, to such who are, the kingdom of heaven belongs, iii. 2ii8, 269.
Portion, saints', ii. 1, seq. ; doctrine : that the Lord is the saints' portion, the Lord is the believers' portion, ii. 12 ; the excel- lency of, discovered by an induction of fifteen particulars, ii. 12 39 ; if God be such a portion, then God is no mjurious portion, no mischievous portion, &c. , ii. 67-71 ; what portion God is, ii. 12 ; pre- sent, ii. 12, 13 ; inmiense, ii. 13-15 ; all- sufficient, ii. 15 - 16 ; absolute, needful, and necessary, ii. 17 ; (1.) In relation to the soul and salvation, ih. ; the con- science awakened, ib. ; a dying bed, ii. 17, 18 ; unmixed, ii. 18, 19 ; symbolised by light, ii. 19, seq. ; glorious, happy, and blessed, ii. 21-22 ; peculiar, ii. 22, 23 ; universal, ii. 23-26 ; safe, secure, ii. 26-27 ; suitable, ii. 27-28 ; incomprehensible, ii. 28-30 ; inexhaustible, ii. 30-32 ; soul-satis- fying, ii. 32-35 ; permanent, indefinite, never-failing, lasting, everlasting, ii. 35-37 ; incomparable, ii. 37-39 ; think of God as, ii. 71-73 ; seek to know God to be, ii. 74, 75 ; thei'eby heart will be fixed, ii. 76 ; raised above sinful doubts, ii. 76, 77 ; and sweetens crosses, ii. 77 ; and increases joy of heart, ii. 78, 79 ; and raises communion with God, ii. 80 ; sweetens thoughts of death, ii. 81 ; present is miserable .and cursed, ii. Ill ; yet a possibility to get God as, ii. 112 ; God is a i^ortion-sweetening portion, ii. 112, 113 ; none other portion so impoi'tant, ii. 113 ; never temptation-proof till God is, ii. 113, 114 ; all other to be despised in comparison, ii. 115, 116 ; must yourself be God's, ii. 116, 117 ; such as have not yet God as, ought not peremptorily to con- clude they never will, ii. 130, 131 ; God a, vi. 281.
Possible : it is possible for unhol}' persons to be made holy : this is proved by eight arguments, iv. 153, seq. ; it is possible for those that are holy to attain to greater measm-es of holiness than any yet they have attained to, and this is proved by five arguments, iv. 340, .^q.
Positions, six special, ii. 129, seq.
Poierty, what is true, i. 69; of the saints, i. 81 ; outward, not inward, i. 81.
Praise of men, I. xlvi.
Prayer, Mrs Brooks on closet, I. Ixxix ; sought by Brooks, i. 6, 7, 293 ; difficulty of, i. 74 ; be much in, i. 102 ; reading and, i. 292 ; for deliverance from affliction, i. 307, 308 ; closet pra3'er is an indispensable duty that Christ himself hath laid upon all tliat are not willing to be under the name of hypocrites, ii. 165 ; five arguments to prove closet prayer to be a duty, ii. 165, 106 ; the most eminent saints in all ages have applied themselves to this duty, ii. 166-169; we may more freely and safely unbosom our souls to God in our closets than in the presence of others, ii. 172-173 ; Christians enjoy most of God in private, ii. 174-177 ; the time of this life is our only time for closet-duty, ii. 177; the prevalency of this duty, ii. 177, 178— (see unA^r Rules) ;