Easter day, sermon for, 443.

497. Its practical tendency, 498-503.
Its suitableness to the state of man,
103, 502. What conduct" becomes" it,
504-508.

Gospels, the four, when written, 448.
Government, God's moral, 72-74.
Grace, salvatión all of, 370. False notions
of this, 289-291. Methods of, 366.
Evidences of, 471.

Graces, Christian, subsist in union, 90,
328.

H

Happiness, its nature one and unchange-
able, 280.

the expression, 374-378.
Education, effects of, 36.

Eternity, of future punishment, 13. Vast
importance of, 25-27.
Evidences, of Christianity, 445-458.
Experience, of the believer, 7, 292, 366—
374. Counterfeit, 292.
Error, criminality of, 191.

F

Faith, its tendency to produce happiness,
214 219. Dead and living distin.
guished, 391, 309, 465, 512. False,
293. Nature of True, 303-309.
Absurd to oppose it to reason, 303.
The gift of God, 304, 370. Wrong
notions of, 306.

Families, duty of instructing them in re-
ligion, 34. Best way of providing for
them, 228.

Fast day, sermon for, 384.
Fasting, publick, 395, 410.
Forgiveness, duty of, 108.

G

God, his nature and perfections as re-
vealed in scripture, 3, 4, 67-70. Man's
relations and obligations to him, 4, 23

25. Right views of, produce humi-
lity, 44, 45. His wisdom and good-
ness in creation, 71. In his moral go-
vernment, 72-74. In providence, 74
-76, 301. In redemption, 76-81,
338. To believers, 81.

Godliness, what, 211, 212, 214. Its ten-

dency to produce happiness, 211-220.
Good-friday, sermon for, 418.
Gospel, doctrines of, treated with neg-
lect and contempt, 30, 492. Reasons
of this, 140, 152. Use and ex-
cellency, 31. Man's natural enmity
against it, 80. Why not diffused
throughout the world, 80. Its tendency
to promote peace, 344. Rendered ef-
fectual only by the Holy Spirit, 484,
485. Compendious View of, 491-

282-286, 296.

Hearing, without doing, absurdity of,287.
Heart, always worse than the life, 177.
Hope, nature and uses of, 309-317. Ge-

nuine, maintained only by diligence,
312. distinguished from false, 313.
Humiliation, produced by right views of

God, 44. Often attended with dis-
couragement, 51.

Humility, its connection with happiness,
212-214.

I

Impenitence, its folly and wickedness,
105, 393.

Indolence, in religion, its fatal effects, 66.
Infants, their sufferings no impeachment
of the goodness of God, 72.
Infidelity, its alarming progress, 401,
408. Evil of, 464.

Infidels, challenged, 145.
Influences, of the Holy Spirit, 470
Isaiah, his vision, 41-43

J

Jews, vengeance executed on them for
rejecting Christ, 141

Job, his humiliation at seeing the glory of
God displayed, 44

Judgment, future, expected from the be-
ginning, 164. Order of, 167. Disco-
veries made by it, 172-180. How
according to men's works, 195-202.
Justice, of God, in the condemnation of
the wicked, 182

K.

Knowledge, a form of, worse than a form
of godliness, 283

L.

Lamb, of God, why Christ is so called,
419-424

Language, of scripture, cannot be impro-
ved, 116

Law, its uses, 27. condemns all men, 5o,

495. Its excllency attested by the gos-
pel, 498

Liberty, Christian, false notions of, 294
Life, spiritual, distinct from rational, 128
Lord's-supper, 376, 377

Love, Christian, its nature, 317-325.
How it is greater than other graces, 326:
Of God, 317, of Christ, 318. is not
merely gratitude, 319. Of our neigh-
bour, 319. brethren, 321. friends, 322.
country, 323. enemies, 324
Lukewarmness, 236-240. commonly
accompanied with spiritual pride, 245.
Its pernicious effects, 246-249. A
most awful state, 250

M

Man, his relations and obligations to God,
23-25. His state in this world, 5,
493. An apostate from God, 98
Mediatorial kingdom, 150
Ministers, 473. They must not respect
persons, 115. Servants of Christ, 162.
Their danger from lukewarm professors
248

Miracles, argument from in proof of reve-
lation, 9.
Wrought by the apostles,
evince the resurrection of Christ, 455
Miseries, of the world, no impeachment
of God's goodness, 73, 82-85. Source
of them, 280

Morality, inculcated in the scriptures from
peculiar motives, 65

Patience, tendency of the gospel to pro-
duce it, 441, 504

Paul, St. his conversion an evidence of
Christianity, 451

Peace, promoted by the gospel, 344-346
Persecutors, many persons celebrated for
virtue have been such, 142
Perseverance, of believers,wholly of grace,
371

Philanthropy, false, 386

Prayer, for the nation, duty of and di-
rections about it, 410-413
Presumption, induced by impunity, 400,
407

Prodigal son, parable of, 100
Profession, of religion a duty, 37, 261
Prophecies, argument from, in proof of
revelation, 9

Prosperity, worldly, its vanity, 221, 223,
225

Providence, 74-76, 146. Overruling,

451

139, 141. Is to be acknowledged in
public calamities, 385-392

Punishment, future, of the wicked,eternal,
13. this consists with the justice and
goodness of God, 73, 82-85, 182. is
merited by sin, 97.

R

II.

Reason, its insufficiency in religion, 3?
Its province in respect of revelation,
66, 304. Absurd to oppose faith to
303

it,

Redemption, God's perfections displayed
in, 76, 338, 348

Refuge, cities of, an emblem of Christ,121
Regeneration, 123—129

Religion, natural, 3. revealed, 3. its im-
portance, 8-14. proof of it, 9. folly
of neglecting it, 15. Absurdity of
supposing we ought to continue in what-
ever we were educated, 16. Pains ne-
cessary to discover the true, 16. In-
fluential on the heart, 17.diligence in it,
truc wisdom, 18,38.Its nature,24 means
to be used for diffusing it,. 33, 260. A
form of, of no avail for preserving a na-
tion, 406

Repentance, much insisted on in scripture,
91-96. All need it, 91, 96. Encou-
ragements to it, 92, 99. Doctrine of
scripture respecting it, 93---95. The
gift of God, III, 370. Its nature, 100
-106. Not necessarily attended with
terror, 102. Counterfeit, III
Restitution, a duty, 107
Resurrection, objections against it, con-
sidered, 169, 447. Importance of the
doctrine, 441. Of Christ, proof of it,
445-458.

Revelation, proofs of, 9. Intent of it,
281.

Riches, for what ends desired, 220. in-
adequate to them, 221
Righteousness, imputed, 426

S

Sacrament, see Lord's-supper
Sacrifices, 420. Jewish, types of Christ, 52
Salvation, only one way of, 149, 439.
All of grace, 370

Scriptures, summary of their contents, 3-
7. Duty of diligently studying every
part of them, 32, 38, 66, 253
Seclusion, from the world, not necessary
in order to religion, 257, 271
Self-deception, how effected, 290-295
Seraphim, their worship, 42
Sin, has filled the world with misery, 71.
Evil of it, 85, 97. Imputed to Christ,
425

Sincerity, an ambiguous term, 85-87