II This discipline is preparatory to another which shall be exempt from affliction. 1. The Scriptures assert the existence of such a place called heaven, Kingdom of God, Paradise, New Jerusalem, &c. It is implied in the doctrine of immortality. 2. It is consistent with all rational supposition. — Analogy between this world and other planets.-3. All causes of sorrow shall cease there. - 4. It is everlasting in its duration. APPLICATION. Do I address the mourner who has lost friends, estate, health? - the aged?-youth declining in early life? &c. 3. Gal. iii. 18, "But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing." Christianity is designed to call into activity the noblest sentiments of the heart,firm resolve, intrepid daring and undaunted perseverance, – zeal.- The Christian's life is a holy warfare, - a holy chivalry. The Apostle lays down the proposition, that if anything is good, it is good to be zealously affected in that good cause, Christianity is good considered. I. In respect to its orign, divine, bears its marks, -- it is interesting to contemplate nature, but much more revelation, the noblest gift of God to man. II. In its nature, its theory of doctrines, its code of moral rules was never equalled by 1. Philosophy, -2. Education, — all improvement has failed without it. Its nature renders it efficient in its effects,- its preser vation, - triumph over infidelity. - III. Its effects,-individual effects.-1. Benevolence, -2. Death. — 3. Peace of conscience. 2. General effects,-1. It prevents crime.-2. Elevates society. -3. Sustains good government. -4. War. We should be zealous, 1. Because God commands us to be so. 2. The wants of the world call for it. 3. Our happiness hereafter will be propor tioned to our zeal, a philosophical as well as Scriptural fact, We have tgh examples to copy, the apostles, martyrs, and reformers, — Wesley Kuitfield, &c. 94. The rose. 95. The lily. 96. Remorse. 97. The voice. 98. Grace. 99. Gesture. 100. Woman. 101. Man. 102. Youth and manhood. 106. The human frame. 111. Atheism. 113. The existence of God. 114. Light. 115. Darkness. 116. Heat. 117. Cold. 118. The rainbow. 119. The wife. 120. The husband. 121. Influence of Christianity. 122. Stability of character. 123. Instability of character 124. Peevishness. 125. Art of pleasing. 126. Local associations. 127. Influence of female character 128. Discretion. 129. New England. 130. Paternal influence. 133. Fashionable Follies. 135. Intellectual dissipation. 138. The statesman. 139. The legislator. 140. The judge. 141. A field of battle. 142. A naval engagement. 144. Decision of character 145. Romance. 146. Flattery. 148. Temperance. 164. Prudence. -165. Gratitude. 166. Affectation. 171. Pleasure. 172. Gaming. 173 Religion. 174. Study: 180. Virtue and vice. 181. Parsimony and prodigality. 182. Hope and fear. 183. Reward and punishment. 184. Beauty and deformity. 185. Affection and hatred. 186. Arrogance and humility. 187. Order and Confusion. 188. Carelessness and caution 189. Contentment and dissatisfac tion. 190. Emulation and sloth.. 191. Cleanliness. 192. Religious intolerance 193. Charity. 194. Contentment. 195. Courage. 196. Hope. 197. Perseverance. 198. Conscience. 199. Death. 200. Life. 201. Sickness. 202. Health. 203. Good humor. 204. Omniscience of God. 205. Omnipresence of God. 206. Truth. 207. Sincerity. 208. Procrastination 209. Trust in God. 210. Pleasures resulting from, proper use of our faculties 211. Modesty. 220. Harmony of nature. 222. Distribution of time. 228. Despair. 229. Government. 230. Dramatic entertainment 231. Fables and allegories. 232. Figurative language. 233. Commerce. 234. Chivalry. 175. Experience. 176. l'eace and war. 177. Want and plenty. 179. Happiness and misery. 236. Natural history. 178. Ignorance and learning 235. Philosophy. 251. The influence and importance of the female character. 252. Is the expectation of reward or the fear of punishment the greater in centive to exertion? 253. The value of time, and the uses to which it should be applied. 254. The character of the Roman Emperor Nero, of Caligula,- of Augus tus, of Julius Cæsar, of Numa Pompilius. 255. The duties we owe to our parents, and the consequences of a neglec of them. 256. How blessings brighten as they take their flight. 257. How dear are all the ties that bind our race in gentleness together. 258. The advantages of early rising; and the arguments which may be ad duced to prove it a duty. 259. Misery is wed to guilt. 260. A soul without reflection, like a pile Behind the steps that misery treads 262. 'Tis Providence alone secures, In every change, both mine and yours. 263. Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below. 264. Prayer ardent opens heaven. Whatever is, is right. 265. Knowledge and plenty vie with each other. 266. When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. 267. Friendship is constant in all other things 268. 269. Save in the office and affairs of love. Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured. No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny 270. They say, best men are moulded out of faults. 272. All delights are vain; but that most vain Which, with pain vurchased, doth inherit pain. 273 Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile. 274 Too much to know is to know nought but fame. Where is any author in the world 275 Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? 276. The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. 277. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven. 278. The web of our life is of mingled yarn, Good and ill together: our virtues would be 279. Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quickest decrees Steals ere we can effect them. 280. They lose the world that do buy it with much care. I can easier teach twenty what were 281. 282. 283. Good to be done, than be one of the twenty to All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. Love is blind, and lovers cannot see The petty follies that themselves commit. 284. The world is still deceived with ornament. 285. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils. 286. 287. 288. 289. The nightingale, if she would sing by day, How many things by season seasoned are Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, In deepest consequence. I dare do all that may become a man, Who dares do more is none. 290. If it were done, when 't is done, then 't were well It were done quickly. 291. Memory, the warder of the brain. 292. Noughts' had, all's spent 293. 294. Where our desire is got without content. Things without remedy Should be without regard. When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors. 295. Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. The grief that does not speak 296. Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. 297. Courage mounteth with occasion. 298. When fortune means to men most good, 200 |