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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

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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-
certainty

The waves of it fhould awaken finners to repentance
How Chrift's filling its waves is a comfortable confide-
ration

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286

290

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296

228, 232

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259

The riches gained from it, call for great thankfulness
Vid. Ocean.

Seamen, two ferious epiftles to them

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Their watchfulness teachable to us

Their dangers difcover God's power and goodness
Their prudence in fhifting their fails teachable
Their care not to lofe their wind, fpiritually improved
How the dangers they run are inftructive to us
Their chief danger near land confidered and improved
Their coming fafe to fhore, an emblem of faints get-
ting to heaven

A catechifm for them

A ferious addrefs to them

What mercies they fhould chiefly pray for when going a

voyage

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265

273

320

322

372

383

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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

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413

373, &c.

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415

Seamen, When and how they are peculiarly obliged to be
thankful to God
Secrefy, People often induced to fin from the hope of it 419
The vanity of loping for it, in finning

421

The non-expectation of it improved against temptations 425
The wickedness of thofe who fin without regarding it 427
Security, The vanity of hoping for it in finning against
God

Seed-corn, principles of grace compared to it
Reflection, a poem concerning it

417

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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

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256

The helm of it an emblem of conscience
Meditation upon the means ufed to preferve it in a ftorm 291
Spreading its fails unfeafonably, an emblem of carnal

mirth

306

A neglected leak in it reprefents the danger of indulged fin 308
Shore, the danger of a fhip near it spiritually improved 320
Joy of making it, represents that of the faints coming
to heaven

It was usual for the ancient Chriftians to pray there
Sin, the nature and evil of it explained and improved
Sins, Indulged ones reprefented by leaks in a ship
Sinners, the vanity of those who hope to conceal them-
felves

The impudence of open ones

Sparrows, meditation on their mixing with goldfinches
Storms at fea, an emblem of worldly troubles

How God's power and goodness is manifefted in them
Are fometimes executioners of God's threatenings
The principal and inftrumental caufes of them
How God's wonderful providence appears in them
Leffons to be learned from them, and from prefervation
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

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309 259

289

404

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413

435

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TAres, their likeness to wheat, confidered and improved 104 Thankfulness due to God for recovery from dangerous

fickness

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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
Sins which peculiarly blast the fuccefs of it

Vid. Calling.

heaven

Trade-wnid, how the faints always have it in their way to

Trees, how barren ones reprefent useless profeffors
Serious reflections upon cutting them down

Occafional meditations on feveral forts of them

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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

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WHeat, a fpiritual improvement of its being represented by tares, 104. Vid. Tares.

How good men are compared to it

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370

146

116

Will of God, a remarkable example of fubmiffion to it
Winds, the mariner's skill in improving them, fpiritualized 263
The danger of losing them fpiritually improved
The principal cause of them is God's will

Wings of the morning, what is fignified by this phrase
Winnowing of corn, how it reprefents God's judginents
Serious reflections upon it

Winter, the husbandman's care to provide for it, fpiritually
improved

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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
The great evil of murmuring under them
Vid. Sufferings.

Aflembly's-Catechijm, the several things in it explained and
applied

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
Bradford, a remarkable expreffion of his before his
martyrdom

C

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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

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It difarms afflictions of their fting, and turns them into a bleffing

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It makes calamities work for the Christian's falvation
It fecures God's prefence to believers in their distress
It fecures the believer's happiness from all hazards
It affures God's people that their afflictions are the strokes
of love

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Covenant (of grace), It is fure to thofe who are interest

ed in it

Their condition deplorable who have no title to it
Believers should study it much

Pag.

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425

426

How our intereft in it must be known

429

Courage, the neceffity of it to prepare for sufferings
Vid. Fortitude.

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An explication and improvement of it

483

Creation, the nature of it confidered and improved
That of man more particularly explained and improved 485

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-
mented

Deceivers, (of themselves) the danger of being fuch
There are too many fuch among profeffors
Four causes of men's being fuch

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286

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Directions to those who are fatisfied they are not fo

130

Decrees of God, the properties of them explained and im

proved

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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

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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
Eternal, questions and anfwers about God's being fo
Evidence of converfion, fix things fhewing the nature of it 336
The neceffity of it to prepare us for fufferings
Several rules for attaining it, and preventing mistakes

about it.

337

339

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