/Vo/)7ic/s.— How Christians are prophets, 447; pro- phets and apostles, how subject to error, how not. 355, 356.
Providence Providence, what, 107.
Pejoice—See Joy.
Iieli[jio7i.—Kot to subordinate reliffion to State policy, 279. 280 ; religion tends to practice, 280 ; popish religion is a carnal relision, 296. .<ieq. ; the most religious men are the best statesmen, 299 ; wherein our religion and the popi.sh agree and differ, 376, seq : popish religion unsound and rotten, 523 ; popish religion is not founded upon the Scriptures, hut upon tradition. 522, 523 ; pnpi.sli religion cross -th the word of God, 365, 3-16 ; popish religion is full of contra Ac- tions, 396 : popish religion is full of uncertain- ties, 3fiu, 367 ; it is safer to be of the protettant religion than of the popish, 379 ; whether one living and dying in the Romish religion may be saved, 379, 380.
Repentance. — Late repentance (.such as is in time of sickness and death) seldom true repentance, .39.
Pcprnnf.^lt is a sign of a gracious heart to endure reproof, and to esteem and att'ect the reprover, 314, 491 ; a minister must not sp.ire to reprove people for sin committed, 491. seq. ; a threefold reproof or correction, 492, 493
Pesolulion — Of good resolutions, 308, seq.
Pe^itrrcction. — The resurrection is an argument to streugtiien faith, 157 ; there will or shall be a resurrection, 157, seq ; God raiseth the dead, 157, seq.
Pock. — \Vhat is meant by rock, Mat xvi. 18, 376.
Saint. — Our love and respect should he carried to all saints, 11 ; God scatters his saints, why, 12 ; all thnt make profession of religion should in- deed be saints, 12 ; professors called saints, why, 12; four things requirel to make a saint, viz. (1.) Separation, (2.) Dedication, (3) Qualifica- tion, (4.) Conversation, 13, 14; how to know a saint from a mere civil man. 14 ; true snints wherein different from hypocrites and formal profe.ssors, 14. (See Christian.)
Siilcation — Salvation wrought by affliction or suf- fering, how, and how by Christ, 100, se/j. ; how afflictions or patience in suffering afflictions helps to salvation, lul, 102, seq. ; two ways to obtain salvation, 100, seq .
Salutalion. — Use of holy salutations threefold, 15 ; salutations should be holy, 15. 16; God's name ■when taken in vain in salutations, 15, 16 ; salu- t itions in what cases to be omitted, 16.
Sa'.i.ifnction — .Against popish merits and satisfac- tions for others, 99. (See Indulgences.)
Scripture.— Moy<' to know the Scriptures to he the
word of God and truly divine, 366, 373 ; whether the Scriptures receive any authority from the church, 9, lo ; the Scripture is to be believed for itself, not because of the church, 373, 374, 375, seq. (See Word ) ,Se«/.— Christ the head is first .sealed, and then the members, viz , Christians, 452 ; our seallne, what, 453 ; four uses of a seal, 453, 454 ; the Spirit compared to a seal, wherein, 454, 455. seq ; liow the Spirit differs from other .seals, 455, 456, seq. : how the spirit seals us, 4.'')G, 457, seq. ; four things the Spirit works In this scaling, 456 ; how to know the sealing of the Spirit, or thnt we are sealed by the Spli it, 456, 457, 458, 4.59 ; objections against tlie Spirit's sealing answered, 458. seq. ; motives to labour to get the Spirit's sealing, or to have image of Christ stamped upon our souls by the Spirit, 460, seq. Snnp/icrtv.— Simplicity, what, and how taken, 205, 229, 230 ; whv called trodly simplicity, or the simplicity of God, 240; difference between aim- plicity and sincerity, 229 ; St Paul's conversa- tio 1 in simplicity, how, 229, 230; to what things simplicity is opjiosed. 232, seq ; directions or means to get simplicity, 237, 238. iSi'mw^a^iore.— Of simulation, 231; aggravations of
this sin. 2.'52, seq. (See Di.ssembling.) .S/nr^riVy.— Sincerity, what, 240 ; how sincerity differs from simplicity, 228 ; why called godly sincerity, or the sincerity of God, 240 , a Chris- tian's conversation in the world should be in sincerity, 24o, 258 ; sincerity in good actions, how discovered or tried, 241, 242 ; sincerity, how tried or discovered in ill actions, 243 ; sin- cerity, how tried or discovered in actions indif- ferent, 244 ; motives to labour for sincerity, 245, 246, seq. ; means to get sincerity, 247, 248; cor- ruptions and imperfections may stand with sin- cerity, 250, seq. ; order in sincerity, how to be kept, 251 ; sincerity extends it.self to all the frame of a man's life, 252, 253 ; we must have our conversation in sincerity while we live in the world, 258.
Singularity There is a spirit of singularity in
many, 9.
Slander How to arm and fence ourselves against
slander, 340. Society.— The comfort and benefit of society, 76,
25.3. Solitariness — Solitariness very dangerous, 76, 253. (See Alone, Society.)
Son Christ the Son of God, how differing from
other sons, 370 Soul. — God's Spirit alone speaks comfort and peace to the soul, 514 ; God in all things that are ill intends the good of the soul, 142 ; the soul must have somewhat to trust to, 142 ; people should do well to open the case of their souls to their spiritual phvsicians, 513. Spirit. — The Sidrit with its graces compared to anointing or ointment (see Anointing, Oint- ment) ; the Spirit compared to an earnest (see Earnest); the Spirit compared to a seal (see Seal); why the work of grace is attributed to the Spirit rather than to the Father or the Son, 447 ; why the Spirit is said to seal, and to be an earnest, and not the Father or the Son, 477 ; means to attain or come by the Spirit, 480, 481, 4S2, seq ,■ how to know that we have the Spirit. 478. 479 ; of our anointing by the Spirit, 442, seq. ; of our sealing by the Spiiit, 452, seq ; Gud's Spirit alone seals comfort to the soul, 514. Stablish — Stablishiiig grace necessary, why, 422 ; Christ is the foundation of our stability, 423 ; oor judgment, will, affections, kc, are stablished In Christ, 424 ; it is only God that can stablish the soul — he must do it, none else can, 420, seq. ; as God can, so he will stablish us, 426, seq. ; God stablisheth us by woikiiig in us stablishing graces,viz., (1.) fear, (2.) wisdom, (3 ) faith, (4.) peace of conscience, &c., 431 ; means of stablish- ing, or whereby we maj' c mie to be stabli.shed, 433, 437 ; signs or evidences of our stablishing, 437, 438, seq Strength,— E.o\y these two may stand together,