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repented action, God will not condem us for them all together.

If our own heart therefore does not accufe us for the particular, wilful, and unrepented breaches of fome or other of these laws above-mentioned, which God has made the rule of our life, and our obfervation of which he hath made the indifpenfable condition of our acceptance, we are fecure as to the next world, and may comfortably hope to be acquitted in the laft judgment. Being confcious of no wilful fin, but what we have repented of, and begging pardon through Chrift for our involuntary fins, we hall have nothing that will be heavy upon us at the last day, but may go out of the world with eafe, and die in comfort. Our departure hence may be in peace, because our appearance at God's tribunal fhall be in fafety; for we shall have nothing worse charged upon us there, than we are able here to charge upon ourselves. But leaving this world with a good confcience, we shall be sentenced in the next to a glorious reward, and bid to enter into our Mafter's joy, there to live with our Lord for ever and

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Bfolutions useless without repentance, Page 225 Abftinence gloried in by the Epicureans, 13. Adam liable to be tempted before he knew what fin

was, 297

Actions, the natural order of them, 295

Admiration of God, its entertainment, 55

Adultery spiritual, no more to be listened to by ladies than carnal, 28

Amusements, the ladies at church, 197

Affections, the objects of them fleeting, 87-Their zeal depends upon temper, 311-Their dulnefs no hindrance of the fuccefs of prayer, 313

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Anxiety of the mind perpetual without truft in God,
116

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Apoftates, their great danger, 334

Appetites, how man is difordered by them, 83-The
reftraints God has laid upon them, 293

Archetype of all reasonable creatures, God fo, 105
Army with banners, why the church compared to it,
205

Atheists, how they affront women in charging them
with credulity in religion, 16-Never a collected
body of them, 21-Heathens not fo, ibid-The
folly of hearkening to them, ibid-Not so happy
in this life as Christians, 22, 23, 24-Their dan-
ger, 26

Attention of mind in prayer cannot always be pre-
ferved, 309

Audit, the great one, how it fhould be confidered,
19, 20

B.

Blafphemers, to be abhorred by ladies, 29

Blafphemy, how near to the fin against the Holy Ghost,
327-Not unpardonable, 328-The provoking na-
ture of this fin, 330

Body, the actions of it, as it ferves to religion, 64-
The adorning, too much care taken about it, 191
Books, good ones to be carefully chofen, 67

Brave men, their character, 159-Despise false cou-
rage, 161, 162

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Bread and wine in the facrament reprefent Chrift's
body and blood, 249

C. Cares,

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Cares, worldly, to be removed, 59
Catholicon, the facrament fo for fouls, 236

Charity the child of faith, 44-Is the fulfilling of the
law, 55-Confidered with refpect to God, 57-The
duty of it in fasts, 216

Choices, how unfit we are to make them for ourselves,
115

Chrift, the story of his life should be often read, 65—
What the pardon of finners coft him, 229-How
perfect his zeal was, 270-His life the fulleft com-
ment on his doctrine, 277-His difciples how vir-
tuous and happy, ibid-He was fubject to a conflict:
of flesh and fpirit, 299

Christianity, its prefent happinefs, 23 What dan
gers there are in it, 25-What pleafures, 23, 24,
26
Church, the duty of decent deportment there, 39-
In what the beauty and ftrength of it confift,,
261*

Civilities, human, to be practifed by Christians,
315

Clergy, beft judges of and guides in religion, 27.9

28

Clofets, how they are abused, 32

Cloifter, the devotion of it defective, 30

Communion of faints a concord of fouls, 134

Complacency in God, the duty of it, 103

-Confeffion a part of prayer, 188, 189

Confidence in God's promifes, what creates it, 51-
Entire, taught in the gofpel, 117

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Confolations, fenfible, not to be looked for in acts of
devotion, 186

Contemplation of God, the pleasure of it, 101, 102
Converfation, the freedom of it in heaven, 129

Courage, falfe, defcribed, 90, 91-True, acquired by
fubmiffion to God's will, 113

Creatures, reasonable, their beings defined, 2
Credulity, womens, a charge upon them by Atheists,
16

Creed of nature, what it is, 3, 4

Crofs of Chrift, the doctrine of it, 10
Curiofity in hearing fermons to be avoided, 195

D.

David, his confideration of God's prefence in all
things, 37-His delight in reading the fcriptures,

72

Death, a duty in the beginning of Chriftianity, 10,
11-All finners looked upon as in that state,

170

Death-bed repentance not effectual, 228, 231
Delay, the danger of it in repentance, 231
Dependence, man's upon God, 114-What a happi-
nefs and fecurity, 117, 118

Deprecating, a part of prayer, 189

Defire after God, how it is entertained, 56-Outrage-
ous and despairing, the torment of it, 87, 88
Defires, evil, not to be hindered, 290-The dangers -
and guilt of them, 292

Despair, Chriftians must never give way to it, 52, 53—
How to check it, 54-The greatest torment of the
mind, 87, 88

Devils,

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