Refurrection of the dead, how represented by the fpring ing of feed Serious reflections on the certainty of it Ripeness of corn, a useful meditation upon it Vid. Maturity. Rocks in the fea, how an emblem of the church in this world Rofe, how an emblem of creature-enjoyments S Pag. 98 ΠΟΙ 121 270 224 Ails, too much spread, how an emblem of carnal mirth 306 Salvian, a remarkable expreffion of this antient writer 351 Satan, how the fisherman's skill is an emblem of his sub tility Sea, its purging itself, an emblem of the regenerate The ebbing and flowing of it represents the world's un- The waves of it fhould awaken finners to repentance 298 232 286 290 294 296 228, 232 254 259 The riches gained from it, call for great thankfulness Seamen, two ferious epiftles to them Their watchfulness teachable to us Their dangers difcover God's power and goodness A catechifm for them A ferious addrefs to them What mercies they fhould chiefly pray for when going a voyage 263 265 273 320 322 372 383 318 396 Reproved for neglecting prayer at their going to fea Efpecially rebuked for their oaths and blafphemies 398 Motives exciting them to begin their voyages with prayer 399 Their prefervation in ftorms is a wonderful providence 404 Sharply reproved for forgetting and neglecting God's wonderful mercies Useful inftructions to them Some account of their privilege and duty 410 413 373, &c. Pag. 415 Seamen, When and how they are peculiarly obliged to be 421 The non-expectation of it improved against temptations 425 Seed-corn, principles of grace compared to it 417 73 79 Its corruption and fpringing, an emblem of the death and refurrection of faints 98 81 Vid. Rain. Seeth the fins of men, how God does it 417 Vid. Knowledge. Seed time, meditations on fpringing-weather after it Ship, launching of it an emblem of the firft and fecond birth 241 256 The helm of it an emblem of conscience mirth 306 A neglected leak in it reprefents the danger of indulged fin 308 It was usual for the ancient Chriftians to pray there The impudence of open ones Sparrows, meditation on their mixing with goldfinches How God's power and goodness is manifefted in them Success in our affairs, to be afcribed to God's bleffing Vid. Profperity. Swearing profanely, the great evil and danger of it 322 386 428 308 425 427 207 309 259 289 404 406 413 435 343 TAres, their likeness to wheat, confidered and improved 104 Thankfulness due to God for recovery from dangerous fickness 363 365 416 What things are included in this duty 460 The reasonableness of it 464 Five arguments to excite to it 469 Threfbing of corn, how an emblem of God's afflicting his people 146 Tongue, a ferious caution against the fins of it 340 An obfervable remark concerning the numerous fins of it 341 It is compared in fcripture to a tree ibid. Rules to prevent the fins of it 349 Trade, the badnefs of it chiefly caused by fin 301 268 301 By fea, how it is an emblem of communion Vid. Calling. heaven Trade-wnid, how the faints always have it in their way to Trees, how barren ones reprefent useless profeffors Occafional meditations on feveral forts of them Vegetables, meditations upon the ftrange means of pre ferving them Uncleanness, directions for avoiding it Unthankfulness to God, the exceeding evil and danger of it 465 Vows, the nature of them The great evil and danger of breaking them W WHeat, a fpiritual improvement of its being represented by tares, 104. Vid. Tares. How good men are compared to it 226 360 369 370 146 116 Will of God, a remarkable example of fubmiffion to it Wings of the morning, what is fignified by this phrase Winter, the husbandman's care to provide for it, fpiritually 265 404 417 150 153 120 Winter, Various reflections upon it Pag. 132 Worm, a meditation on one catched by a Robin Red-breast 208 VOLUME Α VII. ADAM, bow all men fell in him, explained and im proved Afflictions, are fometimes very heavy How far we may complain under them Aflembly's-Catechijm, the several things in it explained and Pag. 493 400 448 449 458, c. Alfurance of falvation, on what grounds a fincere Chri ftian builds it Bbles B Ibles, what a bleffing it is to enjoy them C 197 424 297 Candle, what is meant by the phrafe of God's lighting it 299 Converfion, the nature of the change wrought by it 328 It is a real change in the whole man How it prepares for choice fervices and fufferings The evidencing of it a neceffary preparative for fuffer ings, 336. Vid. Evidence. 331 333 Covenant, (of grace) the comfort it yields under trouble 258 Several excellent properties of it explained Thofe who are interested in it may be expofed to great 398 afflictions It is able to remove all the grounds of a believer's trouble 400 It difarms afflictions of their fting, and turns them into a bleffing 406 408 It makes calamities work for the Christian's falvation Covenant (of grace), It is fure to thofe who are interest ed in it Their condition deplorable who have no title to it Pag. 422 425 426 How our intereft in it must be known 429 Courage, the neceffity of it to prepare for sufferings An explication and improvement of it 483 Creation, the nature of it confidered and improved D Eath, confiderations to raise a Chriftian above the fear of it A fuppofed mistake about means to prevent it thould not cause exceffive grief How that of good men is not, and how it is to be la- Deceivers, (of themselves) the danger of being fuch 87 286 Directions to those who are fatisfied they are not fo 130 Decrees of God, the properties of them explained and im proved 481 372 396 397 Dependance on Christ, neceffary to fit us for fufferings. Domeftic-evils, the best men are liable to them How the covenant of grace relieves under them Vid. Covenant. Doubtful feafons, how we fhould keep our hearts in them 74 Vid. Heart. Duties of religion, how fincerity is discovered by the per; formance of them Election E Lection to eternal life, feveral questions and answers for explaining it End of man, queftions and anfwers concerning his chief and inferior end 176 497 458 290 467 Eftate, trouble for want of heirs to enjoy it, confidered about it. 337 339 |