Faith, passive, 485

the gift of God, 465, 475, 541

Family duties, their importance, 259

Fanatics, of what sort their charity, 659

Fast-day, sermon on, 159

Fatal disease, Mrs. Hawkes's, 212, 232, 511

Fathers, of the church, message of one of the, 604

Favours, special, only transient, 608

Fault of an unprofitable hearer, what, 528

Faults of Christians, mentioned in Scripture as beacons, 413
Fear, right, of a Christian, 547, 653-painful fears, 535, 553
Fearon, Rev. Dr. 273, 303, 310, 434, 511

Fearon, Mrs. her death, 408

Fell, Rev. H. F., quotation from his sermon, 512
Ferment, as well as tenor in the Christian life, 188
Fellowship, divine, may be enjoyed in a dungeon, 640
-, distinguished from enthusiasm, ibid
-, not enjoyed by a hypocrite, ibid.

Fenelon, quotation from, 350

Fever, Mrs. Hawkes suffers from, 317, 361, 380

Fickleness, the character of man, 534

Fire, preservation from, 64

Flavel, quotation from, 517

Fletcher, Mrs. of Madely, visit to her, 107

Fletcher Christian, 634

Flights of fancy, and imagination, to be kept down, 498, 500

Footsteps of Christ, 154-of the flock, 162

Fool, meaning of the term in Scripture, 613

Foreboding trouble, a sinful infirmity, 337, 541-cure of, 222, 38

Foretastes of heaven, 332

Forgetfulness, a cause of chastisement, 103

Forgiveness of injuries, 62, 378-Divine forgiveness, 290

Form, substituted for the spirit of true religion, 554

Forster, Mr. and Mrs., lost in the Rothsay Castle steamer, 498

Fortitude, a feature in the character of Mrs. Hawkes, 517

Foster, Rev. Henry, his remark, 368

Foundling, chapel at the, 18

Frames, variable, 81

France, Miss A. detained there,-news concerning, 327

Freedom of Divine grace, 282, 406, 408, (see sovereign and grace)

Friends, real only among the godly, and best when unsought, 260

Friendship, hasty, 26-Christian, 54, 177, 304, 467

Friendly intercourse, unattended by profit, 406

Frown of God, the greatest evil, 165

F, Mrs., letters to, 362, 370, 405

Funeral sermon, preached for Mrs. Hawkes, 512

Fugitive, Jonah a, 546

G

Gaiety, of Mrs. Hawkes in her younger years, 4, 24

General requests, in prayer, 164

Gill, quotation from, 71

Gilbert, Rev. Nathaniel, his death, 285

Gilpin, his remark, 552

Gleanings, of remarks made by Mr. Cecil, 207-see also appendix, 632

Gloomy depression, 165-not chargeable on religion, 444

Glory of God, the Christian's object to promote, 42, 364, 374, 477

Glories of heaven, 393, 406

Glorious vision, longing for the, 423

God, a father, 475, 485, 487-love, 122-light, 150-Creator, 543—a strong tower,
493

Godly sorrow, defined, 170

Godliness the best security, sermon, 611

Good, all things to God's people, 223, 535

Good Friday, meditations on, 252

Gospel, an occasion of animosity, sermon, 584

Gossips, religious, 16

Gourd, every creature comfort is a, 604

Grace, free and sovereign, 4, 282, 406, 408, 431, 452, 636

— miracle of, 541

INDEX.

Gratitude, of Mrs. Hawkes, 192, 228

Great work, of a Christian, 362

Grief, Mrs. Hawkes highly susceptible of, 516-one cause of, 524
Growth in grace, 65, 536

Habits, importance of, 205

H

Hampstead, memorandum written at, 298, 418

Halyburton, quotation from, 152

Hall, Bishop, remark of, 544

Happiness, secret of, 64

Harmony between Mrs. Hawkes's natural and moral character, 517

Harp, hung on the willows, 301-vibrating inwardly, 433

the Christian taught to touch his harp on earth, 608

Hatchard, Mr., application to, 401

Haven, peaceful, 312, 381

Hawkes, Mr., takes a house at Holloway, 36-goes to Birmingham accompanied
by Mr. Cecll, 131-his opening prospects at Portsmouth, 182

Hawkes, Mrs., her birth, 2-her marriage, 5-is taken by Mrs. Jones to hear the
Rev. Mr. Cecil, 7-receives deep religious impressions, 8-goes to reside at
Holloway, 36-leaves Holloway, 181-is received into Mr. Cecil's house, 176—
visited with a fatal disease, 212-removes to the house of Mr. Collyer, 240-
goes to Betchworth, 303-returns to town, and settles in Penton Place, 312-
removes to Queen's Row, 365-and afterwards to Cross Street, Islington, 463
-final residence in Park Street, 504-her severe sufferings and death, 511-her
character, 515-her letters to Mrs. Jones, 22, 28, 41, 54, 85, 105, 118, 149, 221,
265, 270, 278, 282, 283, 288, 324, 325, 332, 344, 368, 370, 373, 380, 382, 389, 391, 396
Health, Mrs. Hawkes retained the look of, 447

Heavenly savour, of the correspondence between Mrs. Hawkes and Mrs. Jones,
367

Heart, Lydia's opened, sermon, 136

Hebrews, Mr. Cecil's comment on chap. iv. 139

Henry, Matthew, remark of, 71, 307

Herbert, George, quotations from, 283, 293, 447

Hesse, John of, Luther's letter to him, 529

Hiding place, Christ, sermon, 603

Highgate, memorandums made at, 433-Mrs. Hawkes passes the summer at, 456
Hill difficulty, reference to, 54, 172

Hill's sermon, reference to, 167

Hints, dropped in Mrs. Hawkes's dying hours, 509

to the young, 523

Historical parts of Scripture, advantage derived from, 660

Hodson, Mr. George, editor of Mr. Vaughan's life, 346, 455

Holy calling of a Christian, 148-of a minister, 480

Holy joy, antidote to melancholy, 165

Holy Spirit's influences, 378, 466

Holloway, Mrs. Hawkes goes to reside at,36-sale of house at, 181
Honeyborne, Mrs. Hawkes visits, 31

Home, Mrs. Hawkes without a, 181-delight in, 191, 194, 216, 455
Hope, value of, 222-compared to a flower, 300-an anchor, 300, 636

remarks upon, see appendix, 532

Horne, Rev. Melville, his voyage to the new settlements, 108

Hopkins, Bishop, quotation from, 321-his observation, 542

Humility, 149, 324, 351, 352, 378, 382, 403-proper criterion of, 378
Humiliation, 159, 165, 204, 473

Hypocrisy, what, 554

Hypocrites in the church in all ages, 640, 659-unmasked, 584

Idleness, opposed to religion, 655

I

Idolatry, more sorts than one, 141, 559

Imagination, a faculty little under controul, 339

Impatience, compared to a worm, 214

Impenitence, often warned, an awful state, 613

Improvements, in religion, not possible, 567

Income of Mrs. Hawkes, how supplied, 262

Inconsistency of conduct, 522, 638

Independence of mind, a strong feature in Mrs. Hawkes's character, 178

Indiscretions, small, of serious consequence, 49, 50

Industry, Mrs. Hawkes a pattern of, 273

Indwelling sin, 327, 334, 457

Inflammation of the eyes, Mrs. Hawkes suffers from, 310, 314, 337
Infidels, their objections of no weight, 557

Infidelity, practical, 283, 370

Infirmities, bodily, how to gain improvement by them, 128

Influence, of the world, how lessened, 163

Ingenuousness, a trait of Mrs. Hawkes's character, 413, 517

Inscription, on Mrs. Hawkes's tombstone, 512

Instruction, derived from the life of Mrs. Hawkes, 525
Instrument, well tuned, Mrs. H. compared to, 516
Intercession, Christ's, 51, 387-Holy Spirit's, 55

sermon on, 580

Intercourse with worldly persons to be avoided, 439

with select Christian friends, a sweet cordial, 444
Interview, with Mr. Cecil, Mrs. Hawkes's first, 9
Integrity, its value, 297

Inventory of the believer, 224

Isle of Wight, 195, 208, 216, 324, 437, 479

Israel's last testimony, sermon, 610

Ithuriel's spear, faith compared to, 359

Jacob, his depression, sermon, 535
Jacob's ladder, emblem of Christ, 436

J

thigh must halt-cure of presumption, 129

Jesse, Rev. William, his remarks, 140

Joy, ornament of the Christian profession, 166

of the Holy Ghost, 53, 66, 84, 107, 371, 373

Joyfulness, under affliction, 368

Jones, Mr. Thomas, brother in law to Mrs. Hawkes, 7-his death, 406
Jones, Mrs. sister of Mrs. Hawkes, takes her to St. John's chapel, 7--writes to Mr.
Cecil, 8-requests an asylum for Mrs. Hawkes, in Mr. Cecil's house, 176--
comes to town to nurse her sister, 237-arranges her removal to Mr. Col-
lyer's house, 240-her illness and death, 395-references to her, 397, 399, 402-
letters to Mrs. Hawkes, 8, 19, 27, 42, 52, 62, 87, 95, 122, 150, 179, 196, 223, 249,
293, 367, 395

Jones, Master Charles, his death, 47

Jones, Mr. E. T. Mrs. Hawkes's letters to him, 397, 406, 409, 470, 490, 491, 504
Joseph, his preferment, sermon, 533

Justification, clear views concerning, 256, 486

Judicial hardness of heart, 528

Legacy, of Christ, 309

Legal, slavish fear, a state of torment, 353, 466, 475, 485, 487
Legislator, Christ how distinguished as a, 620

Leighton, Archbishop, quotation from, 200

Lent, season of, 409

Lessons, taught by affliction, 457, 478-by a sick-bed, 208
Letters, dislike of, 190

Letter, on Mr. Cecil's paralytic affection, 294

on the estimate formed by near views of eternity, 257
on the illness of Mr. Cecil's second son, Israel, 291
on making the care of the soul the first object, 259
to a friend removed from hearing the Gospel, 313
on the benefit of affliction, 317, 473, 411

on domestic trials, 93

on the danger of indulging melancholy, 319

on indwelling sin, 330

Retrospective view of thirty years' christian walk, 331
on sin, as the original cause of affliction, 333

on giving loose to a roving imagination, 338

INDEX.

Letter, on the right manner of jndging of affliction, 341
on the danger of being engrossed by lawful pursuits, 359
on reading the Holy Scriptures, 375

- on the duty of abounding in passive graces, 402

on the death of Mrs. Mynors, 409

on studying the Scriptures with appropriating faith, 409
on the evil of a discontented spirit, 413

on nervous disease, as distinguished from a morbid turn of mind, 416
Answers to prayer, 420

on the joy derived to a Christian parent by a child's conversion, 421
Reply to friends who had wished her to remove into Buckinghamshire,
433, 447

on adoring contemplations of God, as connected with deep contrition, 449
on floating speculations in religion-and on the subject of assurance, 450
to a friend whose mind was harassed by perplexing doubts and fears with
regard to spiritual subjects, 465

to a young relative, on the subject of entering the sacred ministry, 483
to a friend of her early years who had lately engaged in a school, 359
to the same at a later period, 410

on ejaculatory prayer, 503

Liberty, of the children of God, 475

Licentiousness, objection against the gospel as leading to, 329

Life, importance of, to an enlightened mind, 323

Light of reason, an improper phrase, 658

Lingering, painful to the Christian, 171

Lily of the valley, sweetness of the, 369

Litany, reference to the, 491

Lodgings, continual change of, 218-anxiety about, 455

Loiterers, Christians are, 97

Longing to depart, 58, 389, 392 306, 399, 405, 429, 436, 448, 458, 488, 495, 500
Long Acre Chapel, 19, 58, 61, 74, 80

Look of health, Mrs. H. always retained the, 447

Lord's supper, comfort of the, 32

Lothbury, early worship at, 21, 98

Love to God, 106-to enemies, 62

Love of Christ an inexhaustible theme, 425, 430

comfort derived from, 353, 438, 449

Luther, his letter to John of Hesse, 529-remark, 550, 566

Madeley, Mrs. Hawkes's visit to, 107

M.

Mammon, worshipper of, proud and selfish, 63

Mantle, of divine compassion, 221

Mariner's needle, a comparison, 189

Marriage, of Mrs. Hawkes, 5, 522

Marolles, reference to, 635

Martyrs, endured suspense, 179

patience of the, 186-support of, 250, 635

Means of grace, use of, 155, 235, 458, 491, 521, 538
not to be depended on, 540

Measuring rod, the Christian's, 611

Melancholy, a phantom of the imagination, 168

a mischievous worm, 166-unscriptural, 166, 643

abstractions, 202-danger of indulging, 319-a defect, 182
a dangerous disease, 537

digression on, 168

Memoirs, spiritual, 132

Memoranda, of conversation, 129

Memory, failure of, 321

Memorable day, 240

Mercies, enumerated, 213, 260, 278, 386, 433, 468

Mercy, no cause of wonder, 325

Metaphysicians, their disputes, 636

Milner, Rev. Joseph, his letter on resignation, 476

Milton, quotation from, 169, 202

Milward, George, Esq. Mrs. Hawkes laid in his family vault, 511

Miss Mary, the late, 203, 437, 441

the Misses, letters to. 437, 439, 441, 443, 458, 459, 467, 489, 493

Minister of the Gospel, qualifications for a, 483

Miscellaneous remarks, 657-662

Money, offered to a drowning person, mockery, 135
Monuments, set up by God in his word, 173

Morning devotion, 50, 338, 490, 661

Moral character considered, 517

Moral eye, importance of, 612

Morality, never to be spoken lightly of, 518

Moses, birth of, Sermon, 537, 539

Motto, the Christian's, what, 653

Mountains, removed by faith, 121-of action, or difficulty, 171

Music, Mrs. Hawkes's fondness for, 5, 17

Murmuring, sin of, 250

Mutiny, on board a ship, 634

Mutual prayer and benevolence, a duty, 566

Mystics, error of the, 100, 340, 374

Mynors, Mr., Brother in law to Mrs. Hawkes, 201

Mynors, Mrs., Sister to Mrs. Hawkes, 226-her death, 409, 415

Nehemiah, his difficulties, 634

Nelson's victory, 205

N

Nervous fever, Mrs. Hawkes suffers from, 361, 416

Nervous diseases, the most trying to the mind, 416, 421, 425

Nephews, Mrs. Hawkes's, reference to, 226, 415, 261

Neutrality in religion, sermon, 619

New discoveries in religion, 563, 567

New year's Sermons, 90, 145, 157

-reflections upon a, 145, 156, 315, 355, 389, 407, 121, 435, 470

Newton, Rev. John, his letter to Mrs. Hawkes, 246-she attends his ministry at
Southampton, 216

his remarks, 79, 138, 197, 198, 216, 411, 642

Niton, address to the Misses Milward before going to, 437

Night of affliction, a season of self-knowledge, 463
Nightingale, leans its breast on a thorn, 158

Noah, his obedience, 599

Oare, the Rev. Dr. Fearon's removal to, 310

Objections against the Gospel, 329-real nature of, 554
Objectors, spirit of, 557

Occasions, improved, 55-of wavering in religion, 625
Ocean, of eternity, awful to launch upon the, 169, 300
Old age, season to be much in prayer, 404

of Mrs. Hawkes, premature, 321, 382, 405

Operation of the Holy Ghost, needful, 163

Opportunities of reflection, 133, 163

Order of Providence, a Sanctuary. 649

Ordinances, public, 49, 56, 62, 236, 270, 371, 383, 396, 427, 454, 491
Origin of evil, a mere curious enquiry, 153

Owen, Dr. reference to, 54, 64, 300, 377

P

Pain, Mrs. Hawkes's severe, 212, 236, 252, 265, 492, 495

Parents, of Moses, their faith, 538

Partial repentance, sermon on, 621

Path of duty, uncertainty respecting, 206, 219-safety in the, 652
crooked, danger of a, 541-consecrated, 620

of a believer, to follow Christ, 154, 528

Patience, see Christian

Palm tree, Mrs. H. compared to a, 151

Parsonage house, vacant at Betchworth, 303

Park street, Mrs. H. goes to reside in, 504

Passive faith, 485

Patience, nature of, 648-sermon on, 184-of God towards us, 27

Peace, in believing, 373, 376

Pearce, Mr. reference to, 235

Pebworth, church at, 2

Penitence, true, in what consists, 574

Pensive depression, Mrs. Hawkes inclined to, 44

Melancholy, defined, 168

Penton Place, Mrs. Hawkes settles in, 312