Of God, the true test of the value of life, xiv. 443 ; determined by the call of God's providence, ib. ; may as well be in a lower station as in a higher, 444.
A gracious heart will not serve God with that which is little worth, xxii. 81 ; reasons, ib. ; cautions, 86. Services, in all, we must honour both the Father and the Son, iv. 18. Several Discourses tending to Promote Peace and Holiness among
Christians, ii. 1. Severity in reproof to be used to seducers, v. 360 ; to the hardened, ib. ; to secure libertines, ib. ; must arise from zeal, a desire of God's glory, and their salvation, ib. Shame of a guUty conscience and of a tender conscience, vi. 58.
The fruit of sin, vi. 322 ; by reason of its folly and filthiness, ib.; is fear of a just reproof from God and from ourselves, ib.
An act of repentance, xi. 347 ; there is a confounding and a penitential,
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ih. ; the penitential continuetli and increaseth under the greatest assurance of forgiveness, ib. ; the first sort considereth sin as it damneth or destroyeth, not as it defileth ; the second, as it is an act of filthiness or folly, 348 ; the first is accompanied with slavish fear, the other with love, ih. ; of hypocrites, is because of the world; of the godly, because of God, ib. ; the effects are different, ib.
Shameful sin, a man that hath long kept close to God should yet pray to be kept from falling into, vi. 323 ; they who are most steadfast are not past all danger, ib. ; the miscarriages of God's children are most shameful, ib. ; because of the hopes they have of speeding in prayer, ib.
Sheep, no creature more prone to wander and lose its way, iii. 300 ; irrecover- ably lost when it wanders, unless sought and found by the shepherd, 301 ; animal sequax, ib. ; exposed to a thousand dangers when it wanders, ib. Going astray like a lost, may refer either to sin or misery, ix. 300 ; implies that we are brutish in our sin and defection from God, 301 ; our proneness to err, ib. ; our inability to return, 302 ; our readiness to follow evil example, ib. ; the danger of straying, 303 ; the best liable to, ib. Why the godly are compared to, x. 43 ; they are gregarious, ib. ; inno- cent and harmless, ib. ; obedient to the shepherd, ib. ; poor dependent creatures, because of their tendency to wander, and their weakness, ib.
Shepherd, we have a good, who loves us, ix. 310 j one great part of his office is to reduce his people from their straggling, ib. ; he delights to guide us in our wanderings, ib. ; he will bear with our infirmities, and, if humbly sought, will take care of us, 311. Christ represented under the notion of, x. 40 ; as Mediator, he is put in trust of the flock, ib. ; he keeps, feeds, and defends them, ib. ; the good, ib. ; in care and vigilance, 41 ; in pity and wisdom, t6. ; in constantly performing all parts of a shepherd's duty to them, ib. ; dififers from others in giving his life for them, ib. ; in making them to become his sheep, 42.
Shield, divine protection set forth under the notion of, viii. 170; excellency of, lies in the largeness and breadth of it, ib. ; in the hardness and im- penetrableness of it, ib. ; stones and darts flung upon, are beaten back upon him that flings them, ib.
Sichiess, God's children never question his love so much as in, iv. 450 ; chief care of a sick man should be for his soul, 451.
Sight, great difference of believers' and unbelievers', vii. 457.
Of God, walking as in, is a note of sincerity, and a good means to make us keep his precepts, ix. 237 ; all men are in, but few think of it, ib. ; implieth a looking upon God as witness and judge, 238 ; we are to re- member, not only in the duties of piety to God, but also in those of righteousness to men, ib. ; not only our actions, but our principles and aims, and the secret motives of our hearts, are in, ib. ; a good means to make lis keep his precepts, 239 ; maketh for the restraint of evil, ib. ; and ft)r encouragement to every good work, ib. ; makes us serious in all our addresses to God, 240 ; sincere in our whole course, ib. ; faithful in our relations, 241 ; a noble thing to live always in, 242.
Signs frequently used by the prophets, ii. 327.
Simony, the true, consists in making religion subservient to private profit, xiii. 45G.
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Simple, in a good sense, tlie sincere and simple-hearted, viii. 347 ; in a bad,
the ignorant, 348. Sin of God's people brings dishonour on God's name, i. 78.
The least reserved, is a pledge of the devil's interest and right in us, i,
123. Requisites to the pardon of, i. 174 ; acknowledgment of the debt, ih. ; pleading of the satisfaction of Christ, ib. ; an unfeigned purpose to forsake sin, ib. Putting off, will not put away, i. 175. In the children of God is cast down in regard of regency, but not yet