It is to be taken as out of God's Men. 346. Perfecutions Breaches of the Sixth Commandment. II. 133. Perfecution. IV. 202..262. fecution. 218. Perfecution when to be born. Petitions of the Lord's-Prayer. lawful Pleasures. I. 231, &c. Poor in Spirit. Explained. I. 110. I12. How far Humility falls within this Defcription. 114. pel-Miniftry. I. 251. 425. Pounds, Luke xix. I. 365. Holy Practice requifite to Prayer and Devotion an Effect Prayer for an Adverfary, 193. The Difficulties in Prayer. IV. 137. The Seafons for it to be em Affiduity in it recommended. 141. Prayer the great Secret of Sancti- The Qualifications for Prayer. The Manner of asking. 153, &c. Precepts. The Gofpel-Precepts Prefence. The Exercise of the Prefervation Prefervation of the World by Pride and Vanity is a robbing God of his Honour; like a General's feducing an Army, or a Master of a Ship running away with Ship and Cargo. 8. Pride and Self-conceit. 1V. 50. Primitive Church. A Character of it. I. 441. 477, &c. Princes. Earthly Princes can't reward all that fuffer for them, as Chrift doth. I. 379. Probation. This Life a State of Probation. I. 357. Profeffion. An open Profeffion of Chriftianity. I. 465. Promifes. Temporal Promifes fubordinate to eternal. I. 158. The Promifes in the feveral Beatitudes diftinct; as the Duties to which they are annexed. 183. They refult from the Virtues re commended in them. 231. The great Equity of the Promifes and Threatnings. III. It is every one's Business to guard against them. 240, &c. Prophets fignify Teachers. 241. The deftructive Doctrine of falfe Prophets. 253, &c. 255. Several of thefe falfe Doctrines inftanced. 257, &c. Particularly, (1.) All fuch as weaken the Belief of a future State. 257. (2) Such as deny revealed Religion. 257. (3.) Such as prohibit the Use of the Scriptures. 258. (4.) Such as limit the Interpretation of the Scripture to themselves. 258. (5.) Such as make the Precepts only Advices of Perfection. 258. (6.) They who reftrain them to Apoftles. 258. (7.) Such as deny the Neceffity of Grace. 259. (8.) Such as fuperfede our own Endeavours. 259. (9.) Such as fet up Soundness of Opinion before Holiness. 259. The Fruits by which we may know false Prophets. 273. Providence. An Acquiefcence therein. III. 150, &c. An implicit general Acquiefcence in Providence. 150. A particular explicit Acquiefcence. 152. The Danger of obferving Providence by halves. 212. Providence in preferving and fuftaining the feveral Creatures. 344. Prudence and Circumfpectness required. I. 450. Publick Perfons in publick Truft, their Duty. III. 71. Purity in Heart. Defcribed. I. 221. and recommended. 233. It prepares the Soul for the Knowledge and Love of God. 231, Quakers. R R Aiment. Against Anxiety From the Reports of others. 89, From Party. 92. The Difficulty of avoiding rafh Charity in pardoning them. 93. Rebellions and Infurrections con- Advices in order to it. 170, &c. Redemption. Univerfal Redemp- tion. IV. 247. 305. IV. 53. Repentance. I. 133. 140. 225. Requifite to Prayer. 148. Repetition, and inculcating of Reputation. How tender we Prayer how weak. III. 200. How Retaliation was abused by the Scribes and Pharifees. 373. The bad Confequences of private Rewards and Punishments, in It is for Chrift's Honour, that Sufferers for him fhould have known, till revealed by the Rich. The rich Man enlarging his Barns. III. 426. Riches. The Difference betwixt having and ferving Riches. III. 306. Right-Eye and Right-Hand explained. II. 258. Righteousness. Several Senfes of it. I. 162: Righteousness imputed. 162. Moral Righteousness. 163. Righteousness: for Justice and Honesty. 164. Righteous moral and imputed. II. 73. Pharifaical Righteousness. 77) &c. 93.95: Evangelical Righteousness. 81. 94. Righteoufnefs taken for all Duty. III. 3. God's Righteousness. 400, &c. Rome. The Cruelty of that Church. I. 218. That Church guilty of imposing new Doctrines. 248. Inventions in that Church to feed Hopes without real Holinefs. IV. 248. Ignorance owing to their Ob- Scribes and Pharifees false Pro- The Study of the Scripture re- This the Study of all Chriftians. ibid. Sects and Parties. Their Partia lity to their own Sect. II. 179. Seeing God described. I. 227. The felicity of it. 228, &c. Self-defence. When lawful. II. 380. Self-denial. Learned by fuffering. I. 294. Self-denial compared to a Ship that bears up well against the Wind. IV. 226. Self-Examination. II. 149, &c. and IV. 79, &c. Self-Flattery. II. 33. 187. Self-Love and Self-Intereft, blind the Understanding, that we can't fee our Duty. IV. 193. Senfes. The Senfes to be watched. II. 162. Separation. When not to be made. I. 252. Sermon on the Mount. Chriftian Duties plainly and perfectly taught in it. I. 20. Dedication. The Occafion of the Sermon on the Mount. I. 51. The Key to it. 58. The Hearers of it. The Multitudes and the Disciples. 68. Whether the fame with that Luke vi. 78. All preached at once to one Auditory. 88. It It was defigned to cure the common Errors about the Meffiah's Kingdom, and the evil Confequences of them. 91. All it's Precepts belong to all Chriftians, and all the Arguments enforcing them. I. 91. III. 376. The Style of it different from what is used to Apoftles. I. 92. It belongs all to private Chriftians, not Clergy, nor Magiftrates, nor Monaftick Orders. 96, &c. 186. III. 62. It is a general standing Rule to all Chriftians. I. 98, &c. It contains all things at that time neceffary to the Salvation of the Hearers. IV. 299. It is a perfect Syftem of Chriftian Morals. 304. All delivered at one Time. 357All the People Hearers of it. 360. The Frame and Contexture of it. 362. It contains the choiceft Rules of Life. 371. Sermons ought to be cloathed with the Notion of the Text. I. 21. Dedication. Sheep. The Sheeps Cloathing explained. IV. 249, &c. Shining of our Light before Men, is the giving a good Example. I. 473.. Shortening Life. Unlawful Actions occafioning it, are Breaches of the Sixth Commandment. II. 134. Sickness. Our Duty to our Neighbour in it. I. 196. 202. Simplicity and Veracity in Converfation. II. 357, &c. Simplicity in Speech recommended. 361. Chriftian Simplicity. III. 28. Sin. Several degrees of it. II. 147. We are not to dwell near the Confines of it. 152. Slanderer compared to a difho neft Trader. IV. 22. Small Faults to be born with in others. IV. 58. 81. Sobriety and Temperance. I. 130. They are good Preparatives for Troubles. 330. Socinians cenfured for impofing forced Senfes on the Scripture. I. 249 Solitude. The Advantage of it for Devotion. III. 64. Chrift's Example in it. 65. Solomon's Choice of a wife Heart. III. 405. 424. Soul. How it is improved in the future State. IV. 231. Sounding the Trumpet. III. 16. 32. Spirit. The plentiful Effufion of it by the Gofpel. II. 437. Strength. Spiritual Strength to refift Temptations. III. 198. Stumbling in good People occafions greater Cautioufnefs. 199. Subjects. Practical Subjects not all clear. I. 29. Preface. Subfiftence. We are not to doubt of Subfiftence we doing our Parts. III. 373. 385. Suffering. Our Saviour's Suf ferings voluntary. I. 318. The Sufferings of the first Chri ftians were not for Crimes, but purely for Religion. 321. The Ff |