Please, seek to, God, iv. 183.
Plenty, iv. 342
Plot, gunpowder, v. 159, 160.
Ploughman, Discreet, vii. 139 - 150 ; ploughing needed, vii. 143, 144.
Poison, sin as, vi. 141.
Policy, carnal, i. 415 ; hinders our safety, i. 416 ; to be avoided, iii. 347 ; not to subordinate religion to state, iii. 279, 280.
Poor, Christ, iv. 497,498 ; to enrich us, iv. 501. 502 ; why, iv. 502, 503 ; honour the, v. 107 ; despise none for, iv. 5(i8 ; relations to us, iv. 522 ; particulars of Christ's poverty, iv. 498, 499 ; aggravates, iv. 4a9, 600 ; our own as part of our riches, iv. 506 ; despise not for, iv. 508, vi. 240, 241 ; spiritual poverty, what, vi. 242 ; evidences of this, vi. 243 ; necessity of it, vi. 244 ; after conversion, vi. 244 ; signs of, vi. 244 ; labour for, vi. 250 ; how to get, vi. 250 ; makes us trust God, vi. 261 (see Grace) ; poor spirits, vi. 48 ; often proud, vii. 225 ; poverty of, vii. 225.
Popery, crept into the church by degrees and under glorious pretences, ii. 42 ; objection of, how we shall know the word of God to be so, ii. 57 ; error of, ii. 167 ; papist.s' gross idolatry, ii. 288, 378, 379 ; their worship of images, ii, 288 ; saints, ii. 378, 379 ; the pope, ii. 379; worse than the heathen, ii. 380 ; why so impudent in, ii. 380 ; why so hardly converted, ii. 386 ; not to be conversed with, ii. 381, 382 ; writers, be- ware of, ii. 381, 382 ; no reconciliation between, ii. 381 ; popery ii. 444, 445 ; crosses the word of God, iii. 365, 366 ; treasuiy, iii. 99 ; founded on traditions, iii. 522, 523 ; a rotten and unsound religion, iii. 523 ; full of contradictions, iii. 366 ; uncertainties, iii. 366, 367 ; how and pro- testantism agree and differ, iii. 376, seq. ; pro- testant safer, iii. 379 ; whether a papist may be saved, iii. 379, .'80 ; to be detested, iii. 1:>3 ; advances of, iv. 357 ; be thankful for freedom from, vi. 311, 312 ; opposeth preaching, why, vi.
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GENERAL INDEX.
313 ; work their own overthrow, vii. 532, 533 ; how to oppose, vii. 473 ; how it sprang, vii. 25 ; comforted, vi. 171, 118. Portion, of the godly in God alone, i. 273 ; Chris*
tian's, or Christian's Charter, iv. 1-37. Possession, v. 329. Posterity, commit to God, i. 423 ; motive, i. 424 ;
how to provide for, iv. 625, 526. Power, Christ brings us through all difficulties, I. 93, 94 ; what power this is, i. 97, 98 ; we have over ourselves, is of God, i. 197 ; of the gospel, Iv. 360 ; in ministers, iv. 361 ; excellent power against all opposition, iv. 361, 362 ; against affliction, iv. 362 ; in enjoyment, iv. 362, 363 ; how shewn, iv. 368, 369 ; after conversion, iv. 869 ; examine if we have, iv. 372 ; confounds if it draws not, iv. 373 ; objections, iv. 373 ; wrought bv degrees, iv. 375 ; ,how get, iv. 382, 383 ; depends not on ministers, iv, 387 ; power of Christ's resurrection, i v. 195-2U1 ; great, to make a Christian, v. 495 ; of Christ to give himself, vi. 378, 379 ; God's word powerful, vi. 147 ; en- couragements to pray from, vi. 148. (See Abate- ment ) Practice, ii, 468, iv. 95, 145.
Praise, in trouble, more minded by the godly than their delivery, i. 247 ; special times to praise God, i. 246, 247 ; no easy matter to praise God aright, i. 252; conditions, 1. 254, 255 ; motives, 1. 257 ; means of performing it, i. 257, 258 ; an acceptable sacrifice, ii. 270 ; helps to enable us, li 271 ; must be from a broken heart, ii. 271, 272 ; for encouragements to it, ii. 274, 275 ; an honour to God, ii. 274, 275 ; a gainful trade, ii. 275 ; a noble act of religion, ii. 275 ; larger sacrifice than prayer, ii. 275 ; an heavenly- action, ii. 275 ; brings joy, ii.275; how to know when it is accepted, ii. 2T6 ; praise, ii. 233, 234; God the object of, iii. 26 ; is the Father of Christ, iii. 27 ; follows praver, iii. 193 ; of many are grateful to God, iii. 193, 194; how the lower creation praise God, iii. 195 ; for others, Iii. 195; wherein it con.sists, iii. 196 (see Bless and Thankfulness) ; matter of, iv. 476 ; all men to, God, vi 149, 150 ; other creatures, iow, vi. 150 ; the end of all we do, vi. 191 ; helps, and means to, vi. 152, vii. 185, 188_. Prayer, means to obtain the spirit of, i. 26 ; though weak yet acceptable, i. 65 ; why God accepts, i. 65, 66 ; needful to keep ourselves in temper, i. 147; heard, signs of, i. 256; and praise depend each on other, i. 247, 257 ; must pray before we get, 1 418 ; for our enemies, 1. 405, 406 ; God overcome by, i. 303 ; order of God's bearing his church in, ii. IS ; how God prepares our heart to, and then hears us, ii. 17 ; why heard, ii. 18 ; Christians friendless, have God, U. 18 ; to be used by Christians, ii. 18 ; spirit of, lost greatest loss, ii 18, 19 ; unfit for, ii. 18, 19 ; cross our own, ii 97, 98 ; how to know God hears, 11. 20, 116 ; best of God's children cannot «ometimes prav as they would, ii. 124 ; if others are to be desired, ii. 46, 47 ; in special helps against all sin and sorrow, il. 258 ; sets God on work, ii. 259 ; answered where a spirit of prayer is given, ii. 300 ; heard when we re- nounce sin, ii. 393 ; praying, i. 26, ii. 222, 223 ; Christ never sought to be prayed for, ii. 194 ; why not immediately answered, ii. 224 ; a means, U. 246, 468, 469 ; a means to convey good and aeliver fonm ill, iii. 178 ; God's children can, Ul. 180 ; Christians ought to help, iii. 181 ; for ministers, iii. 182, 183, 189, 190 ; what for them, Iii. 190 ; Christians have not the spirit of at all times alike, iii. 182 ; not work of gifts but of grace, iii. 183 ; different, iii. 183 ; prevents, iii. 184, seq. ; how to know, iii. 188, 189 ; ill not to be able to pray, iii. 189, 190 ; (iod will deliver ministers by, iii. 190 ; in sickness, good, iii. 192 ; more eminent more need of, iii. 203 ; prayer, iv. 71 ; sanctify all by, iv. 211 ; shack- led, iv. 237 ; use, iv. 366, 374 ; observe what we pray for, iv. 474 ; incense, iv. 474 ; how to, v. 271 ; provoke to, t. 272 ; prfty for sealing, v.