INDEXES, &
I.-BIBLIOGEAPHICAL LIST OF THE WOKKS OF EICHARD SIBBES, D.D.
NOTE.
Agreeably to my promise in Preface, there is herewith appended a chronological catalogue of the several books and tracts of Dr Sibbes, with references to the places in the respective volumes of our edition in which they will be found. To save mere repetition, these references are intended also to guide therein, to the exact title-pages and accounts of different editions of every volume and single sermon. I have departed from my intention to record more modern reprints of the few treatises that have been reprinted, as, witli the exception of Pickering's two volumes, these are of no bibliographi. cal interest or value. G.
I. Latin Verses in Unirersifj/ Collections. — 1. On death of Dr William Whitaker, 1595. See Memoir, vol. I. p. Ixxxii. 2. On birth of James, liuke of York, 1633. See Memoir, vol. I. p. Ixxxiii.
II. The Sainfs Cordials. Folio (lai'ge). 1st edition. There is no date in the general title- page ; but the separate sermons all bear the date of 1629. Besides title, pp. 453. 2d edition- Folio (small), general title-page, titles, texts, and doctrines of the sermons, jip. 8 (unpaged), and pp. 395. 3d edition — Folio (small), general title- page, titles, texts, and doctrines of the sermons, pp. 8 (unpaged), and pp. 3D5.
*jf* The third is the handsomest book, and contains the same sermons with the 2d edition. For the full title-pages of the three editions, see vol iv. p. 60.
The following are the contents of the 1st edi- tion. At end of each 'sermon' in this list is given its place in the original, and in our edi- tion : — 1. The Art of Contentment, title, and pp. 2-17, vol. V. p. 176. 2. Discouragement's Reco- very, title, and pp. 21-32, vol. vii. p. 50. 3, 4. Judgment's Reason, title, and pp. 35-50, 51-62, vol. iv. p. 76. 5. Experience Triumpliing ; or the Saint's Safety: also called ' The Danger of Back- sliding' (as infra), title, and pp. 65-85, vol. vii. p. 408. 6, 7. The Matchless Love and In-being, title, and pp. 89-101, lu3-113, vol vi. p. 384. 8-11. Josiah's Self-Reformation, title, and pp. 117-129, 131-141, 143-157, 159-171, vol. vi. p 28. 12. The Witness of Salvation, title, and pp. 175- 191, vol. vii. p. 367. 13. The Pattern of Pui-ity, title, and pp. 195-204, vol. vii. p. 505. 14, 15. Spiritual Mourning, title, and pp. 207-217, 219- 231, vol. vi. p. 2S6. 16. The Knot of Prayer Un- loosed, title, and pp. 235-253, vol. vii. p. 230. 17. The Church's Blackness, title, and pp. 259- 2j7, vol. vii. p. 94. 18. The Vanity of the Crea- ture, title, and pp. 271-2S1, vol. vii. p. 34. 19. The Right Receiving, title, and pp. 285-297, vol. iv. p. 60. 20. A Glimpse of Glory, title, and pp. 301-311, vol. vii. p. 492. 21. The General Resur- rection, title, and ]ip. 315-330, vol. vii. p. 316. 22. The Matchless Mercy, title, and pp. 333-343, vol. vii. p. 1 52. 2.3. The Poor Doubting Chris- tian Drawn to Christ. (By Thomas Hooker of New England, and therefore necessarily ex- cluded.) 24. The Touchstone of Regeneration, title, and pp. 369-376. vol. vii. p. 128. 25. Sin's
Antidote, title, and pp. 379-393, vol. vii. p. 262. 26. The Discreet Ploughman, title, and pp. 397- 405, vol. vii. p. 140. 27, 28. The Life of Faith, title, and pp. 409-421, 4.;3-432 (misprinted, 418), vol. V. p. 358. 29. Salvation Applied, title, and pp. 423-453, vol. v. p. 386. The 2d edition of Saint's Cordials does not contain No. 2, nor 12 to 26 of the 1st edition, these having probably been withdrawn to make room for others that were included in it ; and these sermons prefer- al)ly as being imperfectly reported, and, more- over, consisting, in nearly every case, of single sermons of a series not preserved. Of the omitted sermons, the whole, except Nos. 13, 17, and 23 (Hooker's), are ascribed to Sibbes in that valuable and authoritative compilation by Qsborne and Crowe, ' The Catalogue of our English Writers of the Old and New Testa, ment, either in whole or in part : whether Commentators, Elucidators, Annotators, Expo- sitors, at large or in single Sermons.' Our references are to 'The second impression, corrected and enlarged, 1668,' 12mo. Nos. 13 and 17 seem to have been overlooked; they authenticate themselves, being full of Sibbes's recurring phrases and words. Nos. 3 and 4 of the 1st edition are in the 2d entitled ' The Art of Self-judging.' No. 5 of the 1st edition, from 2 Timothy iv. 17, 18 (misprinted 1 Timothy, in 2d and 3d editions), has its title changed to 'The Danger of Backsliding,' evidently because of the other sermons entitled, ' The Saint's Safety.' Nos, 6 and 7 in the 1st edition, are called ' The Saints' Assurance' in the 2d ; and so No. 11, ' The Saints' Refreshing,' instead of ' The Peace-gathering Privilege' in the 1st. The following nine ser- mons, contained in the 2d and 3d editions, were not in the 1st. As before, I append to each the reference to om* edition — 1. Christ's Sufferings for Man's Sin, vol. 1. p. 352. 2, 3. The Saint's Safety in Evil Times, vol. i. p. 296. 4 Christ is Best, vol. i. p. 336. 5, 6. The Church's Visita- tion, and The Ungodly's Misery, vol. i. p. 372, and p. 385. 7. Difficulty of Salvation, vol. 1. p. 395. 8, 9. The Saint's Hiding-place, vol. i. p. 401. Nos. 1 to 4, and 5 to 9 respectively, had previousy been published. For the former, see under IV ; for the latter, under V.