The creature cannot help of itself, . . . 278-281
We are not to place our confidence in forces at home or abroad, 281 War is lawful, ...... 281
How we shall know when we exceed in confidence in the creature, 282 Boasting is idolatry, ..... 283
The danger of carnal confidence, .... 284
The emptiness of the creature, .... 284-286
Men naturally prone to idolatry, .... 287-289
Bitterness of sin causeth repentance, . • . 290
Our affiance ought not to be upon the creature, but upon God, 291 What religion is, ..... 291
Why the world hates Chi'istians, .... 291
Mercy a most sweet object, .... 292, 293
Why God shews mercy to the distressed, . . . 293—295
Worldliness to be hated, ..... 296
How to retort Satan's policy in our extremity, . . 296—299
Where God gives a spirit of prayer he will answer, . 300
Wliy we should come before God in prayer, . . 301
That God's church and children are prone to backsliding, . 301-302 How shall we know we are sick of this ? . . . 303
Repentance not to be delayed, .... 304
Want of conviction makes us careless, . . . 304, 305
God is willing to save us, .... 306-308
The scope of the new covenant, .... 309, 310
The greatest sin is to deny God the glory of his mercy, . 311
An encouragement to search our sins deeply, . . 311
How to know God hath pardoned our sins, . . 311-313
Why carnal men are so quiet, .... 313
How to know the pardon of sin, .... 313
Why God sufiers infirmities, . ... . 814
Why the soul must be humbled, . . . .• 315
How God loves freely, ..... 816-321
God's anger against sin, . . . t * 822
CONTENTS.
Repentance turns away God's anger,
How anger felt may be removed, .
How to know afflictions are not in wi'ath, though continued
That God hath a salve for every sore,
God's love is a fruitful love,
Why God's grace is compared to the dew,
Grace comes insensibly and invisibly,
How to come to have gi'ace to sanctify and alter our nature
Chi'istians grow like lilies,
The fii'st spring of the gospel was speedy, .
Water every year turned into wine.
Of a necessity in gi'owth, .
We must claim the promises,
Whence comes the stability of God's children,
Why God's children are not comfortable, .
How to be rooted in grace,
We must labour to know the promises.
Why Christians fear their estate is not good,
The benefit of fruitfulness.
The church yields a shadow,
The family the better for a good governor,
God's children shall revive as com.
Christians compared to the vine in fruitfulness,
WTiy Christians send forth so sweet a scent,
A fruitful conversation very savouiy.
Time renouncing of sin must be with indignation,
The soul's aim, ....
We must not only leave sin, but loathe sin.
Limitation for expressing our hatred to sin.
How we may come to hate sin,
The consideration of what we are and hope to be will keep
us in good temper. Of idolatiy, ....
The reasons of Ephraim's hatred of idolatry, The idolatry of Christians, The scope of the new covenant. Corporal and spiritual adultery. Why we must not have any more to do with idols. Helps to hate sin,
Nothing lost by renouncing idolatry. Never better with a Christian than when he hath renounced
all wicked courses, How God sees the afflictions of his children. The most comfortable creature in the excess harmful, Renouncing idolatry brings protection. We are subject to scorchings here, The misery of those that have not God for a shadow, From man comes nothing that is good, Why some have more grace than others, . Against future fears, . .
There are but few truly wise. Worldly wisdom, what it is, . .
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Page True wisdom carries men to God's word, . . . 415
God's ways to us, . . . . . 417
The word of the Lord perfect, . . . . 419
The best way to a right end is to take, in God's ways, . 420
Who be just men, . . . . .421
The disposition of just men, .... 421,422
Men must have spiritual life before they can walk, . . 425
Helps to walk, ...... 427
Why we should walk in God's ways, . . . 429-433
Notes, ......
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THE GLOEIOUS FEAST OF THE aOSPEL
Prefatory Note, ...... 438
To the Reader, by Jackson, Nalton, and Taylor, . . 439-442
An analytical table of the principal contents in these sermons,
upon Isa. XXV. 7. 8, 9 :— The text — Ver. G. — ' And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees ; of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined,' ..... 443-458