Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...

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Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...

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Contents

• title page
• dedication
• TO THE READER.
• The Names of the severall Authors cited in this COLLECTION.
• God to be consulted, at all times: but more especially, in the begin∣ning of all Publique concernments.
• Dreams, not to be altogether sleighted.
• Sin mortified, the Devill's terrour.
• Worldly thoughts and distractions, in the time of Prayer, condemned.
• How it is, that Tyrants are usually not long liv'd.
• Policy above strength.
• The state of a kingdomc or Common-wealth known best by the administration of Iustice.
• The prevalency of fervent Prayer.
• God onely to be seen in Christ Iesus.
• Riches availe not in the day of Wrath.
• Affliction, from God, is for his Children's good.
• The peaceable Man's comfort.
• Knowledge, very useful in the matter of Reformation.
• How to know whether a Man belong to Heaven, or not.
• God's way, the safe way to walk in.
• God's time, the best time for deliverance.
• The difference betwixt Spirituall and carnall Prayers, in respect of Answer.
• God's knowledge, and Man's knowledge, the diffe∣rence in event of things.
• Riches, Honours, Preferments, &c. transitory.
• The Church of God still on the decaying hand.
• A good Neighbour a great blessing to all men, especially a Minister of Gods Word.
• Christ fully revealed in the New Testament.
• The danger of trusting to worldly greatnesse, in time of distresse.
• Riches cannot follow us out of this World.
• Not to be over hasty in the desire of Justice, for wrongs sustained.
• Gods favour above the world's contentments, to a godly man.
• A good Heart is a melting Heart.
• An idle man subject to the least temptation.
• A cheap Religion, the beloved Religion with most men
• Charity to the poor to be reall, not verball.
• Distractions will prove Destructions.
• Love for the most part is but complementall.
• A great folly not to provide for Heaven.
• No personall security to be had, in time of publick danger.
• Governours, as they are qualified, are a curse or a blessing to any People.
• Tyranny, Oppression, Murther, &c. are not long lived.
• Gods Children must have God's qualities.
• The devout Soul will admit of none but Christ.
• The way to Greatnesse is full of danger.
• Not to be affraid of Afflictions, because God sends them.
• To be carefull of our duty to God and Man.
• The grouth of Sin to be prevented.
• More care for the Body than the Soul, condemned.
• The basenesse of Ingratitude.
• Every man to speak Truth to his neighbour.
• A little with God's blessing goes far.
• The things of this World, a great stop in the way to Heaven.
• The condonation of the Inured, is a conquest over the Injurious.
• Man alwaies in a dying condition.
• The Devill's aime, to strike every man with spirituall blindnesse.
• The obstinate Sinner deserving eternity of punishment; and why so?
• Civill dissention, attended by uncivill destruction.
• A poor Child of God comorted with the hopes of Heaven.
• God's choice of eminent Persons to be exemplary to all others.
• The Church's Enemies are in Gods hands.
• A singular Saint is a pretious Saint.
• The glory of God is to be the aime of all our actions.
• Gods infinite Power in the Resurrection of the Body.
• Fears of the losse of Gospell-light more at home, than from abroad.
• Zeal and Knowledge must go hand in hand together.
• Not so much the quantity, as the quality of Devotion, accptable to God.
• The deceitfulnesse of Riches.
• Glory is to be given to God onely; and why so?
• God must be loved for himself onely.
• Every motion towards God, is not a true motion towards God.
• God is not to be provoked to anger.
• Religion and Unity, the onely supporters of Church and State.
• Peace with Men will make our peace with God.
• The great folly of too late Repentance in any thing.
• The Church robbed of her maintenance, upon pretence of Reformation.
• Time to be well used.
• Christ and the good Christian are companions inseperable.
• How the Spirit is said to be quenched in our selves and in others.
• To be carefull in the choice of a Wife.
• Contemplation and Action are requisite for every good Christian.
• No quietnesse in the soul, till it come to Christ.
• The true Christian takes no comfort in this World.
• Man's nature is altogether sinfull.
• The Law of God a perfect Law.
• The guilt of Innocent blood crying to Heaven for vengeance.
• To joy in the light of the Gospell.
• Censurers condemned.
• Grace in the heart cannot be smoothered.
• Impossible, but that a true Christian will be a thankfull Christian.
• A factious spirited Man, unfit for the work of the Ministry.
• Bitter Spirits, no gracious Spirits.
• We must not be carelesse hearers of the Word.
• Protestant Religion, the onely comfortable Religion to die in.
• God brings good out of evill, for his People's good.
• The World like a Fisher-man's Net.
• God and his Graces go together.
• A government of the Tongue required.
• Forgetting of Injuries past is necessary, upon a making of Peace.
• The silent Christian is the sound Christian.
• A totall deprivation of Grace in the heart of man, is deplorable.
• God is the onely object of his Children's delight.
• A peaceable disposition is a God-like disposition.
• Christs victory over Sathan.
• Propriety in God is the onely comfort.
• Killing of men heretofore made ordinary.
• Reverence to be used in the service of God.
• The condition of Temporizers.
• God doth not onely deliver, but also comfort his Children.
• How a man is said to pray continually.
• A bad reformation of a Church, is the deformation of the Church.
• Carnall pleasure to be changed into Spirituall pleasure.
• The manifestation of God in severall respects.
• The seven Sacraments of the Papists, not of divine Institution.
• Christian Liberty abused by the Sectarian party.
• How to take Pleasure safely.
• The Secrets of God's Counsells not to be pryed into.
• Ministers to be wise Master-builders.
• Parity in the Church or State, not to be admitted.
• The true Christian's hopes of Heaven.
• What true Repentance is.
• Content, a great blessing of God.
• Not to envy each others Gifts or Preferments.
• Riches have wings.
• Rulers and Governours are the supporters of a Commonwealth.
• The Devill a deceiver, deceived by Christ.
• A young raw Minister is blame-worthy.
• The blessed Trinity cooperate in the righteous man's Prayer.
• Christ's government is a peaceable government.
• Almes given to the Poor are the Giver's gain.
• Officers to be honest in their places.
• Prosperity of wicked men destructive.
• No peace to the wicked.
• Rulers actions exemplary
• Peace of the Church, pretious.
• Publick men to have publick spirits.
• Every man to be employed in his Calling.
• Death strips us of all outward things.
• Selfishnesse condemned.
• To blesse God for the peace of Conscience.
• A forraigne Enemy to be prevented.
• Husbands to bear with the Wife's infirmity.
• The time of Repentance not to be deferred.
• Sathan's endeavour to hinder the hearing of God's Word.
• The Minister's Authority should be as much looked on as his sufficiency.
• Self-praises condemned.
• Complaint of the want of Faith, is an argument of true Faith.
• Conversion of Heathens to be endeavoured.
• Want of Love is the cause of all our sorrowes.
• Vncertainty of the Multitude.
• Profession without Practice not acceptable.
• Man's being is from God.
• The Doctrine of free Grace abused by licentious Libertines.
• The Souls steighting of Christ offering mercies, deplorable.
• God's goodnesse satisfied with Man's thankfulnesse.
• The Ruler's sins hasten the ruine of a State.
• No man a loser by giving himself up to God.
• Excellency of the Robe of Iustice.
• Miracles, why ceased.
• Other mens harms to be our arms.
• Encompassed by death on all sides.
• A rich man had rather part with God, than his gold.
• How sin is made the prevention of sin.
• An ungracious Son, not worthy to be his Father's Heir.
• Young Schollars to mind their Books.
• The life of Faith, the happy life.
• Shortnesse of time will not admit of long discourse.
• Curiosity in the hearing of God's Word, condemned.
• Ambition proves its own ruine.
• To be content in the present condition.
• A godly Christian is a constant Christian
• An impatient condition is a discontented condition.
• God, all in all.
• If the Soul be safe, all's safe.
• Though a weak Christian, yet a true Christian.
• A cheap Religion is the Worldling's best Religion.
• The godly man's afflictions, not destructive, but corrective.
• Grace, not Greatnesse, maketh Magistrates glorious.
• To make good use of good men, while we have them.
• Discord ill beseemes the Disciples of Christ.
• The Soule's comfortable union with Christ.
• False Doctrine is Treason against God.
• How the Soul lives in Christ onely.
• Division amongst Christians is the disgrace of Christians.
• God's Eternity.
• Ill company to be avoided.
• That it is lawfull to praise the Dead.
• Men, though differing in judgment, must not differ in affection.
• A man dead in sin, is a senslesse man.
• Antinomians compared to Thieves.
• Not to censure others, but look to our selves.
• The least of sins to be prevented.
• One God and three Persons, demonstrated.
• God knowes his own People, however distressed.
• For the abuse of a thing, the use is not to be taken away.
• Get but God, and get all.
• Afflictions, the ready way to Heaven.
• To be provident for daies of triall.
• A good Man is the prop and stay of his Country.
• It is Peace that sets up Religion.
• Children to be brought up in the fear of God.
• Heavenly Principles tend Heaven-ward.
• Sathan suiting himself to all humours.
• Love, the bond of all perfection.
• Forgivenesse of others, an argument of God's forgivenesse of us.
• Popular Government, popular confusion.
• Sathan's restlesse uncessant employment.
• Spirituall desertions, no distractions to the child of God.
• Every impenitent sinner, is his own Tormentor.
• There's no dependance for great Men upon Popularity.
• The resolved Christian.
• Sin trampleth on Christ.
• The happiness of good Government.
• Faith is the fountain of all graces.
• Hypocrites in their saying well, but doing ill, reproved.
• Zeal in God's service, made the worlds derision.
• The great danger of Sacriledge.
• The Hypocrites inconstancy.
• The laughtr of the wicked, is but from the teeth outwards.
• Gods omnipotency.
• Prayers and tears are the Weapons of the Church!
• The gradation of Faith▪
• The Christians humiliation, the Christians exaltation.
• The works of God in the Creation of the World, are to and beyond admiration.
• Self-examination required,
• Riches without content, yield no comfort.
• A great comfort to have a faithful Counsellor.
• The grace of God above all Riches
• The just Man's joy is more inward then outward.
• A godly Man desires not to be rich but in God's way.
• Riches oft-times prove pernicious to the owners thereof.
• The security of a good Conscience.
• Not to mourn for losses, because all is made up in Christ.
• An ill tongue never speaks well of any one.
• It is the glory of a Christian, to passe by offences and injuries.
• Little sins, if not prevented, bring on greater, to the ruine of the soul.
• The sense of sin is an entrance to the state of Grace.
• An ill-liv'd Minister is a scandall to the Gospell.
• Every Christian ought to be an ingenuous Christian.
• Philosophy to be subservient to Divinity.
• Impossible for a man to know all his sins.
• Children to be well principled.
• God must be served like himself.
• The difference betwixt a carnall and a spirituall Man, in point of Knowledge▪
• Christians ought to be loving one to another.
• Discord in Church or Commonwealth, prejudiciall.
• Sin to be renounced as the cause of Christ's death.
• Ministers not to be afraid of the faces of Men.
• The Creature moves not but in and by God.
• The Schismaticks abuse of Scripture.
• A fearful Minister is a Soul-murthering Minister.
• Sins in men regenerate and unregenerate, the difference.
• Immediate addresses unto God by prayer find acceptance.
• Sacriledge never thrives.
• A seeming Religion no saving Religion.
• The vanity of needless and intricate questions.
• The life of Man subject to all sorts of Calamity.
• Sacriledge cursed with a curse.
• God, the proper object of Man's memory.
• Carelesse Churchmen condemned.
• The pretious life of Man to be preserved.
• The Churches complaint for want of Maintenance.
• Ministers and Magistrates to be diligent in their places.
• To blesse God for our Memories.
• Christ is the true Christians All in All.
• Blessings turn'd into Curses.
• Young Ministers to be well principled
• Many seem to be willing, yet are loath to die
• A Minister to be able and well furnished.
• Dangerous to be sed uced by fals-Teachers.
• Tongue-Prayer, not the onely Prayer.
• The way to have our Will, is to be subject to God's Will.
• The excellency of good Government.
• We must learn to live well before we desire to die.
• A negligent Christian, no true Christian.
• Hypocrisie may passe for a time undiscovered▪
• Though the graces of godly Parents cannot avail for bad children, yet their good example may prevail with them.
• To look upon every day as the day of death.
• A contented Christian is a couragious Christian.
• Many are the troubles of the Righteous.
• Hospitality commendable.
• A covetous man, good for nothing till death.
• Others Harms to be our Arms.
• The vanity and danger of Repentance.
• The Saints knowledge of one another in Heaven.
• Satan tempteth by degrees.
• National Iudgements call for National Repentance.
• How Christ's sufferings are made ours.
• A Worldly-minded man speaketh of nothing but worldly things.
• Censurers not to be regarded.
• The certainty of God's will and purpose.
• A wicked man believes not there is a Hell till he be in it.
• The World's dangerous allurements.
• The Excellency of the Scripture in its fulness.
• The fulness of God.
• The blessing of God is to be eyed more then our own endeavours.
• Sacriledge condemned by the example of Cyrus.
• The Minister's Blessing after Sermon, to be attended.
• A rich Fool described.
• Not to continue angry.
• The onely comfort of a Christian, is his propriety in God.
• Ministers and Physicians, of all men, not to be covetous.
• The losse of Grace made good again in Christ onely.
• To love our enemies, and do them good.
• Plain preaching is profitable.
• The very approaches of afflictions torment the wicked.
• Malice and Envy, not fit guests for God's Table.
• Preparation to religious Duties, must be free from worldly distractions.
• Dangerous to interpose with a divided People.
• A good man is bettered by afflictions.
• The triall of faith, is the enlargement of faith.
• Unprofitable hearers of the Word described.
• All divisions are against Nature.
• The hell of a guilty Conscience.
• Love of Gods children, is a sincere love.
• Ministers to be men of merciful dispositions.
• Election known by Sanctification.
• Men commonly are loath to die, though seemingly willing thereto.
• A special Sacrament-duty to bless God for Christ's death.
• Not lawful to fight for Religion.
• The weight of sin to be seriously peized.
• Licentious libertines impatient of Government.
• Preaching Trades-men, Preaching-souldiers, &c. not sent of God.
• Scholars, not to be unthankful to the Vniversity that bred them.
• Sin rooted in the heart, hardly to be plucked up.
• Good works are not the cause of, but the way to happiness.
• A true Christian, the more he is afflicted and troubled, the better he thriveth.
• Troubles not to be so much questioned how we came unto them, as how to get out of them.
• The good of Adversity, and the ill of Prosperity.
• The great danger of malitious turbulent spirits.
• Heaven, the best Inheritance.
• A sinfull man is a senslesse man.
• Revenge, above all other passions, is of a growing nature.
• Saving Grace and seeming Grace much resemble one another.
• Prosperity divides, affliction unites the hearts of Christians.
• Newtrality in Religion, enmity of Religion.
• The direfull effects of War.
• God accepts the will for the deed.
• Not the assurance onely, but the joy of Salvation, gives content.
• To take heed whom we trust.
• The poysonous nature of Ambition.
• How to recover spirituall sight.
• The Minister's repetition in Sermons warrantable.
• Windy Knowledge and windy doctrine to together.
• God is to have the glory of all things.
• Not to be reconciled to God before we sleep, very dangerous.
• No such thing as Independency in this life.
• The remembrance of sins past, the onely way to prevent sins to come.
• The not returning thanks unto God for grace received, is the ready way to be gracelesse.
• Crosses and afflictions, not to be sleighted.
• In death, there is no difference of persons.
• Every man to follow his own Trade.
• God the proper Agent in all things.
• Afflictions, crosses, &c. a surer way to Heaven then pleasures
• Desperate Devils.
• Forgetfulness of injuries commendable.
• How God is said to be angry with his children.
• The very thoughts of former pleasures, adde to present sorrows.
• Prayers to be made for all Men.
• The Prayers of sin-regarding sinners are not heard of God.
• Temporal pleasures, a great hinderance to spiritual joys.
• A Drunkard hardly to be reclaimed.
• Riches without grace yield no true comfort.
• Submission to the wisdom of God as concerning outward worldly things.
• Magistrates and Ministers not to be too forward for dignity, preferment, &c.
• True Grace is diffusive.
• True Grace is accompanied with humility.
• Riches are snares.
• Worldly things dispensed by God in Wisdom.
• The sinners estate, miserable.
• Relapses in sin, dangerous.
• Scripture-knowledge, the onely necessary knowledge.
• Pleasures of the World, counterfeit Pleasures.
• God's Husbandry.
• Heresies and moral vices to be timely avoided.
• Custom in sin, makes content in sin.
• Repentance is to be universal.
• In the loving our Neighbour, we love God.
• A Graceless sinner will continue to be a sinner still.
• Gods blessing upon the means doth all.
• Condescension is the great Mans glory.
• A true Christian is to be a true picture of Christ.
• The Temporizer described.
• Afflictions to be looked on as coming from God onely.
• Ceremonials and Circumstantials of Religion, not to be much contended for.
• Why God delivered the Law with such Majestick ceremonies.
• The danger of Division.
• Fears and jealousies, their danger.
• Pleasures herein this life are usually attended with pains hereafter.
• Our sanctification is not perfected all at once.
• Our whole life to be a life of Repentance.
• The safest way is to trust God with our Riches.
• Fear of the loss of Gospel-light.
• The Christians inside-Religion, and outside, must be suitable.
• Rpetition of good things helpful to Memory.
• All the Creatures are at peace with good Men.
• Impossible to know God perfectly here, in this World.
• Not onely the good but the bad also are imitable in things they do well.
• Injuries not onely to be forgiven but forgotten also.
• Afflictions lead to Heaven.
• Eternity of punishment in Hell.
• God and his Attributes are answerable
• Prosperity of the wicked is destructive.
• Justifying faith accompanied with good works.
• Talkers and not doers of Religion, are to be condemned.
• The endeavours of Christ are for peace.
• Study of the Tongues, to be encouraged.
• The anger or wrath of God best appeased, when the sinner appeareth with Christ in his armes.
• The Vanity of heaping up Riches.
• The way to God, is a cross-way to the World.
• How to know God's dwelling-place, Heaven.
• The dissolution of all ages past, is to be a Memento for Posterity.
• National knowledge of God, no true knowledge.
• A formal specious Christian, no true Christian.
• Order both in Church and State commanded and commended.
• Security in time of danger condemned.
• An ungodly life will have an ungodly end.
• A child of God is restless, till he come to Heaven.
• The use of the Creatures is conditional.
• Vnpreparedness for death, very dangerous.
• The wisdom of Christ above all earthly wisdom, even to admiration.
• Not to be malicious in the exercise of holy duties.
• Special places of Scripture marked with Gods special Authority.
• In all our doings we should have our eye upon Eternity.
• At the time of death to be mindful onely of Heaven.
• A tongue nimble to evil, slow to goodness, is reproveable.
• A Minister is to distinguish his Auditors.
• Hopes of Heaven are the good mans encouragement.
• The brevity of our life, may moderate our life.
• Sacramental bread and wine, better then ordinary.
• Our Affections to be regulated.
• A contented man, no base spirited man.
• The resolved Christian makes his way through all difficulties.
• Afflictions adde unto the beauty of a true Christian.
• A good Prince no advantage to a bad People.
• Contentment brings in all things on a sudden.
• A Godly man is bettered in evil Company.
• The wonderful love of a true Christian to Christ Iesus.
• Memory must be active.
• Contentment keeps up the Soul in the saddest of conditions.
• Outward blessings do not alwayes make a blessed Man.
• A wicked man, hardly drawn to examine himself.
• Pride, the complement of all sins.
• A meer Souldier, an Enemy to peace.
• Mortalities Memorandum.
• Worldly men look after worldly things.
• Goodness and Greatness seldom meet together.
• Perseverance is the Crown of all good actions.
• Prayers of the godly, the unanimity of them.
• The powerful effects of Rhetorical Elocution.
• A Caveat for unworthy Communicants.
• Every good Minister to speak a word in season, opportunely.
• Pardon of sins, the onely comfort.
• The difference betwixt Sermons preached, and Sermons printed.
• Princes and Governors to be prudetinally qualified.
• A sad thing to lose both soul and body at one and the same time.
• A good Magistrate or Minister is the support of the place where he lives.
• The certainty of Faith.
• The danger of unworthy Communicating.
• A Minister to be careful in the delivery of God's message.
• Graces lost in the soul, are to be made up onely in Christ.
• Gods speciall love to his Children.
• The strength of a true Christians love to Christ.
• Self-tryall smoothes the way to all other tryals.
• Adversity seeks God.
• Carnall and spirituall men, their difference in doing good.
• Faith makes us partakers of every good thing in Gods Ordinances.
• Forgivenesse of one another, commanded and commended.
• Good meanes, how to be used.
• God by Afflictions drives us to Heaven.
• A Sermon preached many years before, may be the means of salvati∣on many years after.
• The danger of Conventicles
• The whole Armour of God to be put on.
• God, slow to anger.
• Harmony of the Scriptures.
• Reformation pretended, Deformation intended.
• Prayers not prevailing at present with God, how to be regulated.
• The great danger of security in times of danger.
• Promises of the Gospel are the poor mans supporter.
• Ras, inconsiderate Preaching condemned.
• It is Man, not God that changeth.
• Adversity rather then Prosperity, is the preserver of Piety.
• The thought of Gods omnipresence, a great comfort in affliction.
• The downfall of Piety and Learning to be deplored.
• The exceeding bounty of God.
• To wait with Patience God's leisure.
• To be mindful of the day of Death.
• The ruine of the Churches enemies to be desired.
• The necessity of Catechising.
• Time well spent.
• A child of God is best known by his affections to God.
• Iudges and Magistrates are to be the Patrons of Justice.
• An argument of extream folly not to be mindful of death.
• The sins of Blasphemy and Swearing, the commonness of them.
• The consideration of eternall pain, to deter from the commission of sinne.
• Seasonable Repentance, is safe Repentance.
• The godly mans desires are above his reach.
• The good of Government.
• Death, the good Mans gain.
• The greatest of Men, subjects of Mortality.
• Death strips us of all worldly outward things.
• The worth of a true Christian.
• Magistrates to be advised in point of Iustice.
• In getting the things of this World, Gods way is the best way.
• How to judge of an Hypocrite.
• A vain rich Man.
• Reason must submit to Faith.
• The patience of God provoked, turns to fury.
• Distrustfull cares reproved.
• No harm in Humility.
• Mortality of the sinners life to be considered and deplored.
• Satan subdued by Christ's death.
• The experience of God's love, is to be a motive of better obedience.
• A good Man is mindful of his latter end.
• Patiently to wait God's leisure.
• A good man will be a good Example to others.
• Mortification of sin breedeth sense of sin.
• How to take our pleasures and serve God too.
• Consideration of Gods Omnipresence, to be the Sinners curb.
• The readiest way to get Riches, is to trust God for them.
• Time ill spent.
• The worlds hard censure of the Godly Man.
• The godly and ungodly, their different motions in goodness.
• Self-conceited Men, blameworthy Men.
• Great Men, to be merciful Men.
• A Rich Man is Gods Steward.
• An Orthodoxal Christian, hath a like esteem of all Gods Ordinances.
• Gods two hands, of Mercy, and Judgement.
• A Wife to be subordinate to her Husband.
• The fiery triall on the Church of God.
• Religion pretended, mischiefe intended.
• The Churches enemies, the Churches good.
• The Devil's endeavour to darken the understanding.
• The Devil's charge, and the sinners discharge.
• The dangerous effects of Riches, being not well used.
• Sin onely is the Godly man's terror.
• Want of Love to be deplored.
• Preparation, necessary before Prayer.
• The Magistrate is to do Iustice and Right.
• Weak ones, how to be catechised and instructed.
• The Law, Gods Rhetorick in the delivery of it; Mans duty to attend it.
• Not to make use of the present time, dangerous.
• Ministers of all Men to be men of knowledge and understanding.
• The Consideration of death, will cure all distempers.
• How to use the things of this World.
• Slandering of our Brother, the danger thereof.
• An unregenerate Man, a careless Man.
• Curiosity in the hearing of Gods word, condemned.
• An humble heart, a contented heart.
• Jobs true Heraldry.
• Busie-bodies condemned
• A Blessed thing to have God for our Lord.
• A good Christian to be Heavenly minded.
• The reward of Heaven will make amends for all
• Extream folly, not to be mindful of Death.
• A good name once lost, very hardly recovered again.
• The best Christian, is the best Artist.
• Magistrates, Ministers, and People, to be peaceably minded.
• How it is that we may hate our Enemies.
• Riches ill gotten, never prosper.
• The excellent connexion of the Scriptures of God.
• God the onely delight of his children.
• A faint-hearted Christian described.
• Diligence in our callings, commendable.
• Different measures of Grace in different persons.
• Drunkenness condemned.
• God's time, the best time.
• Truth seeks no corners.
• To beware of the lusts of the flesh.
• Ministers to cry down the sins of the time.
• No Appeal from God's tribunal.
• Corrections, Instructions.
• Vnworthy Communicants, condemned.
• Religion, not Reason, is the square of good actions.
• God chastiseth his childrens security.
• Christ in all his Excellencies, to be the Christian's Object.
• The convenience of Virginity.
• The certain prevalency of Prayer.
• Infirmities to be in the best of God's children, and why so.
• Man to be peacable, and why so.
• Sanctification not wrought all at once, and why.
• God, onely wise.
• Magistrates to look to their Attendants.
• God's Mercy above his Iustice.
• Remedy for a hard heart to cure it.
• Grace sometimes seemingly lost to a child of God.
• The Scripture not to be jested withal.
• The New Testament an exposition of the Old.
• Interest in Christ, best of all.
• God, slow to anger, and of great patience.
• The fruits of Repentance, are to be as well outward as inward.
• Government of the Tongue, commendable.
• Ministers to stand up for the Truth.
• Sin overthrows all.
• Busie-bodies condemned.
• Great Promises in Adversities, without performance in Prosperity, condemned.
• Resurrection of the body proved by a natural demonstration.
• Upon any great undertaking, God is first to be consulted withal.
• Memory ought to be the Treasury of all goodness.
• The retaining of one sin, spoiles a great deal of good in the soul.
• Weak beginnings of Grace, not to be despised.
• How to receive benefit from the Word and Sacraments.
• Faith in the time of trial, needful.
• Good Laws, and good men, are the Pillars of State.
• Man's corrupt Judgement upon the bare appearance of things, condemned.
• Beginnings of Goodness to be encouraged, and why?
• Vnworthy Communicants reproved.
• Self-conceitedness condemned as dangerous.
• The Romanists error in the point of the Antiquity of Ceremonies
• The Terrors of a guilty Conscience.
• Atheism advanced by the distractions of the Church.
• How to benefit by the Sacrament.
• To submit to Gods will in all things.
• The powerful effct of the Word of God preached.
• Great engagements to love one another.
• The winning of a Soul unto God, very acceptable with God.
• The great difficulty of forgiving one another.
• Death is the true Christians advantage.
• The great danger of not listning to the Word preached.
• Vniversal Repentance.
• Prudence and worldly Policy, uncertain.
• Matter enough within us, to condemn us.
• The giving up of our selves, an acceptable Sacrifice to God.
• Heaven worth contending for.
• Adoption of God's children, known by their Sanctification.
• The danger of Worldly mindedness.
• Gods delight in a relapsed Sinners repentance.
• Vnworthy Communicants, condemned.
• A sense of the want of Grace, a true sign of Grace.
• Experimental knowledge, the onely knowledge.
• The danger of loose Travel into forraign parts.
• St. Augustine's Iudgement of the time of Christ's birth.
• Good endeavours assisted by God.
• To rejoyce with trembling.
• Magistrates to be alwayes ready to do Justice.
• Lex Talionis.
• The power of God's word.
• A good mans life preserved for the good of others.
• The great difference of both good and bad, in life and death.
• Opportunities of sin to be avoided.
• How the good and the bad look upon death in a different manner.
• The confidence of much knowledge, an argument of no knowledge.
• Afflictions follow the godly man close in this world.
• How to read the Scriptures, and books Apocryphal.
• True Repentance will not admit of any sin.
• The Scriptures Rhetorick.
• God suffers wicked Men to torment his People.
• Prosperity of the Wicked, a stumbling block to the Godly.
• Time to be well husbanded.
• Better live amongst beasts, then beastly minded Men.
• One Man is to help another as God hath enabled him.
• The health of the Soul, is the true health of the body.
• Sorrows in this life, not comparable to the joyes of the other life.
• Dangerous to pry into Gods Counsells and Secrets.
• We die daily.
• How faith justifieth alone.
• To be mercifully minded, is praise-worthy.
• To do as we would be done by.
• Wisdom of the World proves folly.
• Destruction is from our selves.
• The Worlds Opposition, no obstacle to a child of God.
• Unworthy Communicants, condemned.
• Not to be children in understanding.
• A competent Estate, the best Estate.
• Not to continue angry.
• Hearers and not doers of the Word, condemned.
• Rich poor men.
• The event of War uncertain.
• No true comfort but in God.
• Heart and tongue to go together.
• All Creatures subject to Gods pleasure.
• The inconsiderate Multitude.
• The great goodness of God in sending his Son Iesus Christ to save sners.
• Wantonness in Apparel, reproved.
• The prevalency of repentant Tears.
• The danger of introducing useless Ceremonies in the Church.
• Momentany pleasure attended by sorrow eternal.
• Knowledge not to be reserved.
• Not to admire our own Learning or parts.
• Consideration to be had in all undertakings.
• Englands distractions.
• The Hypocrite described.
• God hath a peculiar blessing for his children.
• To be active in the service of God.
• Sin, attendant on the best of religious performances.
• Not so much to eye the Creature, as the Creator, in all occurrents.
• To have particular safety, in the midst of generall dangers is impossible.
• Temperance cannot preserve a mans life, when God calls for it.
• The sinner's care is more for his body, than for his soul.
• Worldly thoughts to be set aside, before the receiving of the Sacrament.
• Gods care of his Children, notwithstanding their severall aberrations.
• The wicked worker hateth the light.
• The word Brother, how far extended.
• Salvation is the Lord's.
• One sin never goes alone.
• The great power of Envy.
• Listning after vanity, reproved.
• Knowledge and Practice must go together.
• Dulness and drousiness in the service of God, reproved.
• A good man bettered by Afflictions.
• Christ compared to an Eagle.
• The Hypocrites discovery of himselfe.
• The Churches condition under the two Testaments.
• The Kingdom of Heaven an everlasting Kingdom.
• Gods Lawes obeyed, are the support of a Common-wealth.
• All have not the same measure of Christ.
• Ministers to teach as well the practice, as the knowledge of Religion.
• Iustice described.
• The Minister's labour though in succesful, yet rewarded by God.
• The happy meeting of Body and Soul in the Resurrection.
• The Popes policy to advance his Holiness.
• The power of Faith reviving the deadly sin-sick soul.
• To sin against the mercies of God, is to double our Sins.
• A true sense of wanting Grace, is an argument of ha∣ving Grace.
• Not to rest in outward performances of Duty, because dangerous.
• The great return of a faithfull Prayer.
• Moderation, little set by.
• The powerfull effect of Gods Word painfully preached.
• Anabaptisticall zeal, condemned.
• Grace in the heart may be a long time concealed.
• How to prevent wavering mindednesse.
• Parents care, only to enrich their Children, reproved.
• The folly and danger of self-conceitedness.
• Hope well, and have well.
• Bloody-minded Men condemned.
• Sathan's policy to ensnare us, by the observance of our Natures.
• All things come from God, who is therefore to be praised.
• Sanctification wrought by degrees.
• To be thankfull unto God at all times, especially in Pro∣speritie.
• To be carefull for our Souls good.
• To be alwaies prepared for Death.
• God will have the whole heart in his service:
• A good Sermon not to be so much questioned as practised.
• Gods goodness ought to procure Mans thankfulnesse.
• Strange sins, strange punishments.
• The souls▪ delight once set upon God, hardly to be re∣moved.
• The Incorrigibility of Errour.
• The sloathful contractednesse of our prayers unto God, reproved.
• The difficulty of returning unto God, having long stray∣ed from him.
• The Grace of God, the onely Armour of proof.
• God both powerfull and merciful.
• The excellencies of Christ are theirs that are in him.
• The best improvement of worldly sorrow.
• Flesh and Spirit, their opposition.
• The conversion of great ones to be endeavoured for ex∣amples sake.
• The differences betwixt Papist and Protestants, not easily reconciled.
• The souls breathing after Christ in time of trouble.
• Gods moderate answer to the Prayers of his people.
• Baptismall water, the power and virtue thereof.
• The folly of Youth, discovered and reproved.
• To shun ill Company.
• Hearing the Word, and not meditating thereon, dangerous.
• Outward formality onely, in the service of God, condemned.
• Conversion of a sinner, wrought by degrees.
• Not to be ashamed of the profession of Christ.
• Man to be Sociable.
• Ministers, to live according to that Doctrine, which they teach others.
• Englands Ingratitude to God.
• The Papists blind Zeal discovered.
• Saints in glory, what they hear and see:
• God, a mighty God.
• Drunkennesse, the shame of England.
• To trust in God, who is the great Lord Protector of his people.
• How to come off well, in ill Company.
• Greatness and Goodness, well met together.
• Prosperity of the wicked, destructive.
• Gods people meet with many discourgements in the World.
• The great comfort of heavenly meditation.
• God gives warning before he smites.
• Excess of Apparell, condemned.
• The dangerous example of wicked Governours.
• How to use Riches.
• The great danger of concealed knowledge.
• How the Gospel propagateth it selfe.
• Englands distractions to be Englands peaceable directions.
• Deformity of body not to be contemned.
• Profession and Practice, to go together.
• All men and things subject to Mortality.
• Faith in Christ, the onely support in the time of Trouble.
• Nothing but Christ to be esteemed, as of any worth.
• Humility, the way to Glory.
• A Kingdome divided within it self, cannot long stand.
• Not to continue angry.
• The great State of Heaven.
• Every man to be active in his place.
• How to get into Heaven.
• The strength of Imagination, demonstrated.
• The heavenly Conquerour, the happy Conquerour.
• Ignorance of Gods minde, will not excuse at the last.
• Preposterous Zeal reproved.
• The danger of Stage-plaies.
• Profit, is the great god the World.
• The poor distressed mans comfort, by his appeal unto God.
• The Charity of former times, abused in these times.
• Covetousness and Contentment, inconsistent.
• Not to be in love with Sinne.
• The sad effests of a wounded Conscience.
• Multitudes of Times-servers.
• Gods spiritual blessing upon a mans employment in his Calling.
• Good Men as the Pillars of both Church and State, to be preserved.
• A contented Mind, suits with all Conditions.
• To be thankfull unto God in all Conditions.
• Church-spoilers, condemned.
• Wicked Men, instrumental for the good of Gods Children.
• Riches, Honour, &c. the Devils bait.
• Neglect of Prayer unto God, condemned.
• Not to serve Time, but Eternity.
• Gods tryal of his Children by Afflictions.
• Cares and Crowns inseparable.
• God wills not the death of a sinner.
• Married men, better Common-wealths-men than Batchelers.
• One foul sin spoyleth a great deal of grace.
• The benefit of keeping close to good Principles.
• The sinner's Memento.
• Kings and corrivalls, inconsistent.
• Easie to come into trouble, hard to get out.
• Divisions usher in destruction.
• When sins are at the heighth, then comes destruction.
• The Tongue is the Hearts Interpreter.
• Gods Power, Wisdom, &c. To be seen in all the Creatures.
• Great safety, in attending to the Ministry of the Word.
• Hypocrifie discovered.
• To speak well of the Dead.
• The encrease of Drunkennesse in England.
• How to walk circumspectly.
• The great danger of Law-suits.
• Conscientious Preachers, not to be sleighted.
• The benefit of self-Examination.
• Harlots, the Devils night-nets to ensnare us.
• The Pharisee and the Publican, differenced.
• The Court-favourite's condition.
• Every Man haunted with one evill spirit or other.
• Want of Maintenance, the waste of Religion.
• Spoilers of Church and State, condemned.
• God regardeth and rewardeth his People.
• Gods wisdom, to be attended with Patience.
• A worldly minded Man, no publique spirited Man.
• Time present to be well husbanded.
• Mortalitie's Memorandum.
• Worldly men are easily taken off from the service of God.
• The reverence of Man more than God, a true signe of a decaying State or Kingdom.
• The honour and dignity of the Ministry, and why so?
• How Enemies are to behated.
• The great good which commeth by Enemies.
• Prayers for the Dead, unavailable.
• Knowledge without Practice, reproved.
• Blamelessnesse of life, enjoyned.
• The tedious length of Law-suits.
• The true Christians safety in danger.
• Godlinesse, the best friend.
• When the Hypocrite is discovered.
• Manna, the heavenly food of God's Word, how to relish it.
• The joyes of Gods Children, invisible.
• Gods trial of his Children by Afflictions.
• The silent coming of Gods spirit into the heart of Man.
• Gods trial of his Children by cleansing their hearts.
• The Sinners security.
• Man, the best and the worst of Creatures.
• The fall of Man described.
• The sloathful Christian, reproved.
• Prosperity of the wicked, destructive.
• Gods acceptance of Sinners through Christ.
• The Christians heart never quiet till it be in Christ.
• Christ, the proper food of the Soul.
• Prayers of the wicked ineffectuall.
• The ingratefull Christian, reproved.
• The great danger of little Sinnes.
• A worldly minded Man, no heavenly minded Man.
• The great power of fervent Prayer.
• University-Learning, to be countenanced by men in Authority.
• The life of Man, miserable▪
• Ministers, of all men, to be painfull in their Calling.
• Joy, how to be regulated.
• The study of Divinity, most necessary.
• Severall varieties to be found in Scripture.
• Ministers, how to preach profitably.
• The Scriptures but a dead letter, without operation of the Spirit.
• The falls of good Men, presage the Nation's ruine.
• Neutrality in Religion, dangerous.
• The Devill most busie in time of Prayer.
• Sense of sin, is from God onely.
• Leud Ministers, what they are like unto.
• Not to admit of impediments in our way to Heaven.
• But one sure way to Heaven.
• Love of the World, enmity to God.
• The Papists abuse of Scripture by Traditions &c.
• Who fit for Government in point of temporall estate.
• The unthankfull Husbandman, condemned.
• The providence of God, to be eyed at all times.
• To make Christ our Lord and Master.
• A wanting Ministery will soon become a contemptible Ministery.
• God to have the glory of all.
• How it is that one Man censureth another.
• To be thankfull to God as well in Adversity as Pro∣sperity.
• The doctrine of Seducers dangerous.
• God seeketh his People more especially in his own House, the Church.
• The sincere Preachers comfort.
• God afflicts his Children for their good
• The Godly Man is Gods favourite.
• Christians and their Knowledge, to be communicative.
• The waies of Hypocrites, not easily traced.
• Mans Inconstancy.
• The sincere Preacher's courage.
• To make God our Counsellor.
• Minding of the great day of Judgement, a meanes to live Godlily.
• The great power of faith seated in the heart of Man.
• Blasphemous language condemned.
• Drowsiness in Prayer to be avoided.
• The least measure of true faith, rewarded.
• Hypocrisie, the generality of it.
• The justice of God what it is, and how defined.
• Iustification by Christ, the extent of it.
• How is it that the proceedings of God in his Justice, are not so clearly diserned.
• Resolution in the cause of God, very requisite.
• To be carefull in the censure of others.
• Prejudice in Judgement, very dangerous.
• The Hypocrite Characteristically laid open.
• The policy of Tyrants, in doing many good things for the publique.
• To make good use of Opportunity.
• Not to talke of our good Deeds.
• God, a mercifull God.
• Change of Government, not to be affected.
• Like to like.
• A Man full of talk, full of Vanity.
• How to read with profit.
• The severall expressions of God in his Mercies, and why so?
• Love to Christ, how to be recovered when it is once lost.
• The generality of Gods knowledge.
• Gods goodness, and Mans ingratitude.
• The right use that is to be made of Dreams.
• Consultation with flesh and bloud, in the waies of Hea∣ven, is very dangerous.
• The sad condition of adding sin to sin.
• Preaching and Prayer, to go together.
• Man losing himselfe in the pursuit after knowledge Extraordinary.
• Slanders of wicked men, not to be regarded.
• How to be truly Humble.
• Men of other Callings, not to meddle with that of the Ministry.
• Charity mistaken.
• The necessity of umane Learning.
• No Man able to free himself from Sin.
• To promise much and perform little, reproveable.
• Partiall Hearers of Gods word, reproved.
• Afflictions happen both to good and bad, but to seve∣rall ends.
• The study of School-divinity, not altogether necessary.
• Atheism condemned.
• Heaven, the inheritance of Gods children.
• God in wisdom ordering all things to work together for the good of his Children.
• The unprofitable Rich man.
• To beware of erronious Doctrine.
• Atheism punished.
• Truth beloved in the generall, but not in the particular.
• The confident Christian.
• To take Time, while time serves.
• The workings of God and Man, very different.
• A wicked life hath usually a wicked end.
• The telling of Truth, begets batred.
• Men not repairing to the Church of God, reproved.
• Grace seemingly lost in the Soul.
• Men, not to run themselves into trouble.
• How to behold our selves in the Glasse of Gods Law.
• Men of all sorts to stand up for the Truth.
• Kingdom of Christ, a peaceable Kingdom.
• Recreation, the necessity thereof.
• The great benefit of Devotion at bed time.
• To accept the event of things with Patience.
• To be carefull in the prevention of Danger.
• The folly of late Repentance.
• Watchfulnesse of life, rewarded.
• How to behave our selves in the hearing of Gods word.
• Learning and Honesty to go together.
• Carnall Security reproved.
• The time of our Youth to be given up to God.
• Time, the least moment thereof cannot be assured.
• Lawfull Recreation, the benefit thereof.
• A man not well principled in his Religion, unstable in all his waies.
• The want of Zeal in the cause of God, reproved,
• How Faith alone may be said to justifie.
• The Commandements of God, the reasonablenesse of them.
• To be servent in Prayer.
• Parents not to be over carefull, to make their Children rich.
• To be zealous in the cause of God.
• Christ to be received into our hearts by Faith.
• Sermon not done, till practised.
• Christ, the poor mans Object, as well as the rich mans.
• Ministers to be encouraged and protected against the plots of wicked men, and why so?
• Meditations of Death, the benefit thereof.
• Men to be helpfull one to another.
• Graces, to stock them up against a day of trouble.
• Man since the fall of Adam, subject to the Creatures.
• To trust in God onely.
• Insensibility of Death, reproved.
• Men to bear with one anothers Infirmities.
• The great danger of sleighting the least Sinne.
• Marriage to be sought of God by Prayer.
• The heighth of Patience.
• The prevalency of a good Example.
• Faults in manners, and Errours in Doctrine, to be distin∣guished in the matter of Reproof.
• Judgement-day, the terrors of it to the wicked.
• Christ seen more clearly under the Gospel, than under the Law.
• Not to give occasion that Religion be ill-spoken of.
• The loss of a faithfull Ministery, not to be sleighted, And why so?
• The secure Worldlings suddain ruine.
• A child of God preserved by God, though never so much slighted by the World.
• True knowledge never rests on the Creature, till it cen∣ter in God the Creator.
• How it is that wicked men are said to hasten death.
• How to be made like unto Christ.
• The certainty, not the time of our Calling, to be so much looked into.
• Without Faith, impossible to please God.
• All alike in Death.
• Ingratitude reproved.
• Gods fundamentall love of Election, and actuall love of Adoption, how distinguished.
• Faith, the root of all Graces.
• The Ministers partiality in the reproof of sin, condemned.
• To be charitable Christians, and why so?
• Regeneration, the necessity thereof.
• A man of Learning speaks little.
• Death, the end of all.
• The incorrigible Sinners stupidity.
• Regeneration the onely work of Gods spirit.
• Scripture-comforts, the onely true comforts.
• The deaths of friends and others, not be sleighted.
• Prayers to be made unto God in Christs name.
• To be mindfull of Death at all times.
• Scripture-knowledge to be put in practice.
• Gods Omniscience.
• Worldly things cannot really help us.
• Whether it be lawfull to desire Death.
• Knowledge in Politicall affairs, very uncertain.
• Sacramentall Bread and Wine, how differenced from others.
• Worldly things, their suddain downfall.
• Magistrates called to do Justice at all times.
• All Knowledge but in part.
• To be deliberate in our Prayers unto God.
• Merit-mongers confuted.
• Humility occasioned, by the consideration of our former and present condition.
• Profession to be joyn'd with Practice.
• Time, to be well husbanded.
• The sad condition of Church and State, not to be sleighted.
• The great comfort of a good Conscience.
• Active Christians, the onely Christians.
• Sin not consented unto, excusable before God.
• Humility advanced.
• Negligent hearing of Gods word, condemned.
• To persevere in goodness to the end.
• Prayer, the onely meanes to supply all defects.
• The faithfull Servants of God, well Rewarded.
• Sinnes of infirmity, how to be known from other sins.
• Christ the onely object of the devout Soul.
• God a just God, as well as a merciful God.
• The Ministers duty.
• God bringing Order out of Confusion.
• The lawfulnesse of Stage-playes questioned.
• Ministers to be painfull, in the discharge of their duty.
• Danger of distracted Prayer.
• The danger of Self-confidence.
• The Devills plot, to root out Learning.
• Ministers of Gods Word, to be constant in the preaching thereof.
• The Heart of Man, author of all good and bad actions.
• Custom of sin, no excuse for the committing of sin.
• Peoples ingratitude to their Minister, condemned.
• Self-seeking men reproved.
• The true cause of Christian thankfulnesse.
• Perjury attended by Gods Iudgments.
• Swelling big words of wicked men, not to be regarded.
• Men of self-ends condemned.
• Good Christians alwaies thankful unto God.
• Parents to be carefull what they say in presence of Chil∣dren.
• To beware of Relapses in sin.
• Excellency of the Scripture-phrase.
• Christian Apparrelling.
• Changing of this life for a better, no matter of griefe.
• Drunkennesse, Whoredom, &c. the generality of them amongst us.
• Ministers to preach plainly as well as learnedly, to the ca∣pacity of their Hearers,
• The Sinners wilfull blindness, condemned.
• The hasty unexpected death of friends, not to be matter of excessive sorrow.
• Death, the meditation thereof profitable to the Souls conversion.
• The great usefulnesse of Scripture-phrase.
• Conversion of a sinner, painfully wrought.
• The Hypocrite characterised.
• Scripture-knowledge and Scripture-practice to go together.
• Eloquence, if not affected, an excellent gift of God.
• Profession without Practice, signifieth nothing.
• The heart of a true Christian restlesse, without Christ.
• A bsie-body described.
• God rewarding the least of faithfull service done unto him.
• God accepts the meanest of Graces.
• The Name of God to be had in reverence.
• Slanderers discovered.
• God onely to be eyed in the midst of Afflictions.
• Great sins attended by great judgments.
• The mystery of the blessed Trinity unconceivable.
• A Man to be wise for himselfe as well as for others.
• To be Patient under Gods afflicting and, And why so?
• Sin, of a destructive nature.
• Mans happinesse consisteth onely in Gods free Election.
• Glory, to be given unto God onely.
• Children to be begged of God by prayer.
• Parsimony in times of publique danger, condemned.
• The Devils policy to defile the Soul with Sin.
• Reconciliation with God in Christ, to be made sure.
• Husbands not to be Uxorious.
• Restitution, the necessity thereof.
• Riot and excesse, condemned.
• How God may be said to will and nill the death and punishment of a sinner.
• Morning Prayers commended.
• Faithfull servants of God, the paucity of them.
• Men and Women are not to wear each others Apparell.
• Sorrow that is true, is for the most part silent.
• The known Law of any Nation, to be the rule of Obedience.
• No true cause of Rejoycing in this world.
• Controversies, especially in matters of Religion, dangerous
• Daily Examination of our selves, the comfort of it.
• Repentant tears purging the Heart from pollutions of Sin e.
• Scandalous and seditious Books and Pamphlets fit for the fire.
• Men easily drawn by their own Naturall corruption.
• To be affected with the falling of others into Sin.
• The World to be contemned in regard of Heaven.
• Christian Modesty, commendable.
• Not to be daunted at Afflictions.
• The Law bringing Mento the sight of themselves.
• The painfull Preachers poverty, the idle Impropria∣tors plenty.
• Every Man to be perswaded of his own death.
• The great danger of any one Sin unrepented of.
• Curses usually fall on the Cursers own head.
• To be alwayes prepared for Death.
• The sad condition of Man falling away from God.
• The madnesse of Ministers, Magistrates, &c. not to be gui∣ded by that Counsell they give to others.
• Christ nothing but Love all over.
• Needfull Requisites, to make up a profitable Hearer of Gods Word.
• Friendship to be made with God in Christ Iesus.
• Heaven, Men desirous to be there, but will not take pains to come thither.
• To be Charitable to the poor and needy.
• Why God suffereth the dearest of his Children to want outward things.
• Men to be compassionate one towards another.
• The impartiality of Death.
• Unhappy prosperity of the wicked.
• Heaven, the way to it through tribulation.
• The Scriptures not to be plaid withall.
• Vncertain prosperity of the wicked.
• Atheism will unman any Man.
• Riches ill gotten, never prosper.
• God onely heareth and answereth the Prayers of his People.
• Happiness and blessednesse, the onely things esirable.
• The just Reward of Treachery, and false dealing.
• The great danger of sleighting Church-assemblies.
• Conversion of a Sinner, not wrought all at once.
• Not to answer one angry word with another.
• The compleatest armed Man of War, naked without Gods protection
• Works of Mercy, very rare to be found amongst us.
• Eloquence not to be abused.
• The poor Debitors comfort.
• Works of mercy, not to be put off from one to another.
• God, to be eared in his Judgments.
• Conscience to be looked on, as a Register of all our actions,
• Trades and occupations, the wisdom of our fore-fathers, in the invention and keeping them up.
• Not to rejoyce at the afflictions of others.
• Cares attendant on the Kingly office, and men in Authority.
• Prayer, turning Earth into Heaven.
• To passe by the offences of our Brethren.
• Kingdomes and Common-wealths, their successions from God.
• The whole Heart to be given to God.
• The good Christians comfort, in time of the Chur∣ches trouble.
• The sad condition of People, under Tyran∣nicall Government.
• Graces of Gods spirit not given in vain.
• Sacriledge justly rewarded, to take heed of committing it.
• The comfortable Resurrection of Gods poore despi∣sed People.
• Conversion of a sinner, matter of great rejoycing.
• Childrens Christian instruction, the great benefit thereof.
• The joyes of Heaven, not to be expressed.
• Love to be preserved with all Men.
• Every Man to labour that he may be a new Creature.
• Vnder-agents and Instruments to be looked unto, in matters of Justice.
• Remedy against Vain-glory.
• The sad condition of a Worldly-minded Man at the time of Death.
• Not to regard what men say Ill, if Conscience say Well.
• All sin to be repented of, and the reason why.
• Publick Worship of God, not to be entered upon, without due preparation.
• Man to be a sociable, communicable Creature.
• Papists and Sectaries, seducing their followers.
• Not the length, but the fervency of Prayer, required.
• Division, the great danger thereof.
• Desperation, the Complement of all sins.
• A covetous man never satisfied.
• A true child of God, half in Heaven, whils the is on Earth.
• Hope in God, the best hold-fast.
• An account of Gods knowledge, not to he made out by the wisest of men.
• Atrue child of God being delivered out of the bondage of Sathan, made more carefull for the future.
• Riches, Beauty, Wisdom, &c. in comparison of God, are lying vanities.
• Joy in the midst of Affliction.
• Reverend and devout behaviour to be used in the Church of God.
• No Promise to be made, but with reference to Gods good pleasure.
• All men to be highly affected with the Name of Jesus.
• To attend upon God in his Ordinances.
• To see a necessitated Minister, matter of great grief.
• Baptism renounced, by the leudnesse of life and conversation.
• Sinfull Prayers, not heard by God.
• The blessed guidance of Gods holy Spirit, to be implored.
• Angells, ministring unto Gods people for their good.
• Men are apt to be unthankful in Prosperity.
• How it is that the strength of Imagination prevailes so much in matters of Religion.
• Submission to the Will of God in all things en∣joyned.
• Every day to be looked on as the day of Death.
• It is Grace, not place, that keeps a Man from sinning.
• Every peaceable frame of Spirit and confident perswasion of Gods love, is not a sure testimony that such a one is in the state of Grace.
• True comfort in the Word of God onely.
• God afflicting his Children for the improvement of their Graces.
• The readinesse of God to pardon poor Repentant Sin∣ners.
• How it is that Ministers find so little success of their labours in Preaching the Gospel.
• Christ the eternall Son of God, properly and significantly called, The Word, Iob. 1. 1.
• True Christians are fruitfull Christians.
• Christ making himself and all that be hath over, to the good of his Church and People.
• How it is, that every man hath one darling sin or other.
• How to make a right use of Gods Promises.
• God looking upon His Church, with a more speciall eye of Providence.
• The sad condition of all impenitent Sinners.
• God, as he is a God of mercy, so he is a God of judgment, and therefore not to be provoked.
• Promises of God, the excellency and comforts that are to be found in them.
• The griping Usurer and his Broker, characterised.
• The danger of fleshly lusts to be avoided.
• A prudentiall piece of State-policy, for the continuance of Peace.
• How it is that Age becomes truly honourable.
• To commit our selves to God in all things, and to be thank∣full to his holy Name.
• The good of Quietnesse, and evill of Contention.
• The sin of Bribery, condemned.
• Commendable silence.
• The distemper of Sin, not easily cured.
• Men to stand up for the credit of their places.
• The great mystery of the Hypostaticall union in Christ, shadowed out by way of Similitude.
• Rich men to consider their beginnings, and be thankfull.
• Sloathfulnesse and luke-warmnesse in Religion, fore∣runners of evill to come.
• Mans great Vanity in proposing to himselfe long life.
• How it is, that a prudent man may lawfully comply with the Times.
• The difference betwixt a good and bad Memory.
• Oath, or Covenant-breakers, not to be trusted.
• The unresolved mans inconstancy.
• The truly noble Souldier.
• How it is, that the self-conceited vain-glorious man deceives himself.
• How it is, that Children are very bardly drawn from their naturall inclinations.
• The different conditions of men in the matter of So∣ciety, laid open.
• Ministers to be accountable unto God, for what they have received.
• How it is, that the People, as to the generality, are incompe∣tent judges of the Preacher and his Doctrin.
• How it is, that at the second comming of Christ to Judg∣ment, the frame of the World shall not be consumed, but repairednew.
• To be warned by the miseries of others.
• Repentance not to be put off till old Age.
• In all Deliverances spiritual and temporall, to give God the Glory.
• Self-conceitednesse in matters of Religion, condemned.
• The wrath of God to be appeased by timely Repentance.
• Rash, inconsiderate Service or worship of God, con∣demned.
• Faith, though weak, yet rewarded; And why so?
• All must dye.
• Why it is that we must be Charitable to all Men.
• Not to grieve or be troubled at the worlds discourtesies; And why so?
• To regulate our Wills by Gods Will.
• To appear before God in all humility, how high soever our condition be.
• How it is, that Faith is the first act of Repentance.
• The comfortable art of spiritualizing the severall occurrences of the world and observing God's providences therein.
• Men hardly drawn out of old customs and forms in Re∣ligious Worship.
• The great love of Christ, to he at an high esteeem; and why so?
• Faith to be preserved as the head of all Graces, and why so?
• Troubles and vexation of spirit, not to be allayed by wrong means and waies.
• Prosperity will discover what a man is.
• Gods ends, and mans ends, as to the persecution of his Church, the vast difference betwixt them.
• The serious confession of one sinner to another, may be the conversion of one the other.
• The not laying of the Church's troubles to heart, reproovable.
• Heaven, the poor Saints comfortable inheritance.
• The not growing in Grace, reproved.
• Whilst we are here in this World to provide for Heaven hereafter.
• As we are called Christians, to bear up our selves like Christians.
• To take especial care for the Soul's safety.
• Idlenesse, the very inlet to all Temptations.
• Action, the very life of the Soul.
• The true Repentant sinners encouragement, notwithstand∣ing all his former wickedness.
• Not to be troubled at the Prosperity of the Wicked; And why so?
• Godly and wicked Men, their difference in the hatred of Sinne.
• Custome in Sin, causeth hardnesse in Sin.
• The more a Man is now troubled for sinne, the lesse shall he be troubled hereafter; And why so?
• How it is that the singling out of one beloved Sin, makes way to a full sight of all sin.
• Assured Christians, must be patient Christians.
• Worldly-mindednesse, a great inderance to the com∣fortable enjoyment of spirituall graces.
• God so ordereth it, that few or none of his People live and dye without assurance of their Salvation.
• Grace in the heart is certain, though the feeling thereof be uncertain, And how so.
• The great danger of taking up a false perswasion of our effectuall Calling.
• Sin committed with deliberation, premeditation, &c. greatly provoke the Spirit of God.
• A Reprobate and Regenerate Man, their different enjoy∣ment of the motions of the holy Spirit.
• The motions of Gods Spirit in wicked Men, tend to outward formality.
• How it is to be understood, That the Holy Spirit dwel∣leth in us.
• To take heed of smaller sinnes, as bringing on greater.
• Corruption of Nature, left even in the most Regene∣rate Men to humble them.
• Not to consult with Gods secrets, but his revealed word.
• The consideration of Mercies formerly enjoyed, an excellent means to bear up our spirits under present Afflictions.
• Not to mourn excessively for the losse of any worldly enjoyment whatsoever; And why so?
• Not to be troubled at Afflictions, because God intends good by them.
• How to know whether we are more grieved for sin, then for worldly Sorrow and Trouble.
• Worldly-crosses turned into spirituall advantages.
• How to become true Possessors of Riches.
• All Wordly comforts, transitory.
• How it is, that a Man may be said to abuse the lawfull comforts of this life.
• The things of this World, vain and uncertain.
• Present occasion of Time to be made use of.
• The sick Mans sorrow.
• True saving faith, though never so weak, is all in all.
• God onely to be sought unto for safety, in the time of eminent distresse.
• The abundant love of Christ in dying for our Sins.
• How it is that the Hypocrite deceives himselfe in seek∣ing after God.
• Men covering their Sins with specious pretences, reproved.
• Miseries attendant on the Haters of Gods People.
• All out of Order.
• The excellency of godly Sorrow for Sin.
• Evill Company, a great hinderance in the wayes of God.
• The difference betwixt a Spirituall and Worldly Man, in the wayes of God and goodnesse.
• Parents to be careful in the education of their Children.
• Excellency of the Knowledg of Jesus Christ, above all humane Learning whatsoever.
• How it is that we must follow the things that make for Peace.
• How it is, that War there may and must be, in the Church of God, but not Contention.
• Difference of Judgment hath, and ever will, be in the Minds of Men; And why so?
• Men not to be Censurers of one another.
• The joyful coming of Christ Jesus in the Flesh.
• Hard to be drawn from Custome in Sin.
• The commodity and discommodity of Learning.
• Holinesse, an excellent thing.
• The least Man in the Ministery, not to be contemned.
• The Minister and Magistrate to go hand in hand together.
• The great danger in commission of little Sins.
• The Worldling's inordinate desires; And why so?
• To beware of masked specious Sins.
• No true Happinesse to be found in the best of Creatures here below.
• How it is, that Faith challengeth a superiority above other Graces.
• Men not living as if they had Souls to save, reproved.
• Honour and Greatnesse, the Vanity of them.
• Present Time to be well husbanded.
• Frequent Meditation of Death, the great benefit thereof.
• The great difference betwixt life naturall, and life Spirituall.
• Men not to hasten their own Deaths, but submit to the Will of God, And why so?
• Assurance of Gods Love, the onely Comfort.
• A Faithfull, modest Friend, very hard to be found.
• The good Names of Gods people, though now ob∣scured, yet hereafter will be cleared.
• Men to be thankfull for the little strength of Grace that God affordeth.
• True real Friendship very hard to be found.
• How it is, that the Preaching of the Gospel is of a double and contrary operation upon different persons.
• Tongue, the Hearts interpreter.
• The Sin of Bribery condemned.
• No Man free from Temptations.
• The Holy Scriptures to be made the rule of all our actions.
• Charity rewarded to the full.
• Why it is, that they which have the strongest Graces are subject to the strongest corruptions.
• Grace and goodnesse to be highly esteemed even in Men of the lowest condition.
• Love, Vnity, and Peace, the best supporters of Kingdoms, Common-weals, &c.
• Self-seekers, reproved.
• How it is, that Men are so much mistaken in the thoughts of long life.
• The generality of Men, nothing mind∣full of Death.
• Beloved Sins hardly parted withall.
• The Wicked Rich Mans sad condition at the time of Death.
• Conscience spoils the wicked Mans mirth.
• Sathans subtilty in laying his Temptations.
• How it is that Soul and Body come to be both punished together.
• A blessed thing to have Riches and a Heart to use them aright.
• The great danger of Use in jesting at Religion and Piety.
• Service of God, perfect Freedome.
• The excellency of Resolution in the cause of God.
• Gods omniscience necessarily demonstrated from his omnipresence.
• To be Zealous for the honour of Jesus Christ as he is the eternal Son of God.
• Politicians spoyled in the height of wicked designs.
• Consideration of Gods omnipresence, a strong mo∣tive to Christian confidence.
• The consideration of Gods omnipresence, to be a disswasive from Sin.
• Courts of Iudicature to be free from all manner of Injustice.
• Ministers advised in the method of Profi∣table Preaching.
• Fear of Hell to be a restraint from the least Sin.
• Daily amendment of life enjoyned to the ma∣king up of the new Creature.
• Gods great patience, notwithstanding Mans provocations.
• How it is, that there may be partial desertions of Spiritual Grace in the Souls of Gods dearest Children, but never totall nor final ones.
• Compleat Christian duty.
• Directions for both strong and weak in Faith how to demean themselves as to the matter of Gods Providence.
• How it is, that the strength of Imagination per∣swades so much out of the way in mat∣ters of Religion.
• How it is that so many deceive themselves in their not rightly searching the Scriptures.
• The Subtile-Hypocrite.
• The danger of immoderate Zeal against those of another judgment; And how so.
• The All-sufficient Goodnesse of Christ Iesus.
• Men easily taken off from their Holy Pro∣fession upon removall of Iudg∣ment, condemned.
• Humility appeaseth Gods anger.
• Pleasures of Sin, the miseries of them.
• The People of God to be at Peace one with another, and why so?
• The emptinesse of all Worldly delights without Christ.
• People to shew love to their Ministers in the Vindication of their credits.
• Every Man to be wise for himself, as well as for others.
• Neglect of the main duties of Christia∣nity, reproved.
• Pleasures of Righteousnesse, not discerned by unrighteous Men; And how so.
• Gods different disposal of his blessings.
• The encrease of Atheism amongst us at this day.
• Men to be willing to have their Sins reproved; And why so.
• The great danger of not reconciling our selves unto God.
• Ringleaders of Faction and Schism, their condition deplorable.
• When it is that a Man is said to thorowly forsake his Sin.
• Mortification, the excellency thereof.
• Consideration of the brevity of life, to work the heart of Man to Contentment.
• The Scripture discovering Satan and Sin in its colours.
• Sathan's policy in keeping us off from timely Repentance.
• Men through spiritual Pride preferring one Preacher before another, reproved.
• The weaknesse of a Christian without Christ.
• Men seeking after the Vanities of all World∣ly things, reproved.
• The true Christian's desires are all for Heaven.
• Men to keep up the credit of their Names.
• Negligence in the wayes of God, reproved.
• No way to Happinesse but by Holinesse.
• Men deluded by Satan in not taking the right notion of Sin.
• Gods love to his Children in the midst of spirituall desertions, And how so?
• The day of Death becomes the good Mans comfort; And how so?
• Heavenly happinesse not to be expressed.
• Men to be constant in the performance of holy Duties.
• How it is that there are so many Professors of Religion, and so few Christians and Practi∣sers of Religion.
• Gods comfortable presence in the midst of spiritual desertions.
• The Christians spiritual growth, when seemingly dead and declining.
• Backwardnesse in the service of God, reproved.
• Religion consisting in duty both to God and Man.
• The paucity of true Believers.
• Spiritual sloath in the wayes of God, reproved.
• To be more carefull for the Body then the Soul, a thing justly reproveable.
• The nature and properties of the Holy Spirit set forth for our instruction in the similitude of a Dove.
• Magistrates, Ministers, &c. to be Examples of good unto others, and why so?
• God to have all the glory.
• Man to be thankfull unto God upon consideration of the Creatures.
• Riches, the danger of them being not well used.
• Mortification, the great necessity thereof.
• The excellency of Vnity in Church and Common-weale.
• Love, the great want thereof to be deplored.
• Alms-giving, how to be regulated.
• Vnanimity, the excellency thereof.
• The formal Christian described.
• God afflicting his Children to try their sincerity.
• The Original and excellency of the Hebrew Tongue.
• Justice commutative, to do as we would be done by.
• God exercising the Graces of his Children.
• Inhumanity condemned.
• How far there may be a lawful compliance with others of different Judgment.
• Rulers and Men in Authority, subject to many failings in Government.
• The least degree of true saving Faith, accepted by God.
• Gods Children afflicted, to make them perfect.
• Resurrection of the Just, asserted.
• The inestimable valew of Christ Jesus.
• To depend upon Gods bare Word.
• The day of Death better then the day of life.
• Men to be prepared for Crosses, Afflictions, Troubles, &c.
• Mans Extremity, Gods Opportunity.
• Parents not to be too much dejected for the death of an onely Sonne or Child.
• How it is that Men may be said to learn of little Children, dumb shews, &c.
• Gods Judgments, the causes of them to be considered.
• The Love of God, the onely true Love.
• The Active Christian, object of the Devil and Wicked Mens malice.
• When lighter Afflictions will not serve the turn, God will send heavier.
• Zeal of Heathens to their false Gods, condemning that of Christians to their true God.
• Ministers to be carefull in the practice of that which they preach unto others.
• No comfortable return of Prayer till Sin be removed.
• Knowledge and Learning to be owned wheresoever they be found.
• Merit-mongers condemned.
• He that truly feareth God, passeth not for the affronts of Men.
• How every good Christian is to order his life.
• Men to hear the Word of God, though they come with prejudicate thoughts.
• The great work of Repentance not to be deferr'd; and why so?
• Likenesse to be a motive to lovelinesse.
• Spirituall and corporall blindnesse, their difference.
• Good Conscience, a Mans best Friend at the last.
• The captivated Soul, restless till it be in Christ Iesus.
• Sin, of a dangerous spreading Nature.
• Lex talionis.
• Anabaptisticall spirits, their madnesse.
• Not to be at peace with Sin.
• Ministers, to be had in respect by the People.
• The good Mans comfort in Death.
• To beware of Errors and erronious Teachers.
• The way of Religion irksome in the beginning, but comfortable in the end.
• Lewdnesse of the Preachers life, no warrant to sleight the Ordinance of Preaching.
• Wicked Men, made by God instrumentall for the good of his People.
• How it is that one Man may be said to be punished for another Mans sin.
• The Souls comfortable enjoyment of Christ.
• Unhappy Prosperity, happy Adversity.
• Every Wicked Man, a curse to the place he lives in.
• The Souls restlesnesse till it be united unto Christ.
• Partiality of affection in hearing Sermons, condemned.
• Every Man to confesse that his own Sin is the cause, though not alwaies the occasion, of punishment.
• Ministers of the Gospel, to be of godly lives and conversations.
• The right use of humane Learning.
• Happinesse of him that hath the Lord to be his God.
• Catechizing, an excellent way to instruct Youth.
• To rest contented with Gods good will and pleasure.
• The Poorest Man may in his Calling do very very good service unto God.
• The happy succession of a Christian Family.
• No Salvation but by the Mercies of God in Christ Jesus.
• An Hypocrite being true to none, is beloved of none.
• The Churches sad condition to be laid to heart.
• Mercies of God in Christ Jesus, the danger of dallying with them.
• God, not to he set out by any Representation or Image to the eye of Man.
• In time of Prosperity to provide for Adversity.
• Mercies of God in Christ Jesus to be sought while they may be found.
• A great fault in Women not to nurse their own Children.
• The implacable malice of Wicked Men against Professors of the Gospel.
• The Multitude, not to be guided by them.
• Every Man to think the best of his own Wife.
• To be ready to suffer persecution by Christs Example.
• Pride, the vanity thereof.
• More Teachers then Learners.
• Prosperity of the Wicked, not to be envied at.
• To be Watchfull in the performance of holy Duties.
• Magistraes, Ministers, &c. to be Men of courage.
• To be Temporate in meat and drink.
• Consideration of the shortnesse of life, to be a Memento of Death.
• Practice of the Law abused.
• Flesh and bloud not to be hearkned unto.
• The benefit of Meditation, as to the mollifying of the Heart.
• A good Wish to good Government.
• The wayes of Godlinesse more comfortable then Worldly Men can imagine.
• The necessity of divine Meditation.
• A Wife to be an House-Wife.
• Few or no Friends to be found in time of Adversity.
• Divine Meditation, the beginnings thereof in the matter of practice, very difficult.
• Men to bear with the Infirmities of their Wives.
• Piety, not promotion, that makes up a Godly Minister.
• Friendship tryed in times of Affliction.
• Natural Wants and weaknesses, not to be objected against the practice of Divine Meditation.
• The greatest boasters, the smallest doers.
• God rewarding the least of good done to his People.
• Want of matter not to be pretended against the practice of Divine Meditation.
• More comfortable to have a strong Faith, then a weak one.
• Men to be forward in promoting the cause of God and Religion.
• Gods Omnipresence, the consideration of it to be a restraint from Sin.
• The holy Scriptures to be valewed above all other Writings.
• Men to be forward in frequenting the Ordinances of God.
• Experimental Knowledge, the onely Knowledg.
• The Church of the Gospel, it's amplitude above that under the Law.
• The Company of Wicked Men to be avoided.
• Time mis-spent, to be carefully redeemed.
• Sacriledg, the heavy Iudgments of God depending thereon.
• Nothing but Eternity will satisfie the gratious Soul.
• The Ranters Religion.
• Flatterers to be avoided.
• The Vanity of temporal things compared with those Eternall.
• Crowns have their periods, length of dayes their date, Triumphs their tombs, Felicity it's Fate.
• Ceremonies of the Church, not to be any cause of Separation.
• The Tongue for the most part a mischie∣vous member.
• In the midst of Worldly enjoyments to mind Eternity.
• Popery, a meer heap of Confusion.
• Children to have a care how they marry with∣out consent of Parents
• Afflictions of this life, the comfortable use that is to be made of them.
• Constancy of holy Duties makes the per∣formance of them easie.
• Men to be Provident Christians.
• Hell-torments, the Eternity of them to be considered.
• Christian perfection to be attained by degrees.
• The Lyers reward and punishment.
• In all our doings to think upon Eternity.
• Gluttony, reproved.
• Innovations in Church or State, very dangerous.
• To be carefull how we come under the evill of a reviling Tongue.
• Correction of Children and Servants, how to be moderated.
• Christians not to revile and reproach one another.
• A Child of God bettered by Afflictions.
• The great benefit of repentant Tears.
• How to bear the Reproaches of Men.
• The true Love of God will cause a Man to love his Ordinances.
• The Vanity of gay Apparrell.
• Reproaches to be born chearfully, because God is concerned therein.
• The true Love of God, will cause familiarity with God.
• No Man too good, to learn.
• Consideration of the Name of Christ to be a motive from Sin.
• How to be truly thankfull unto God.
• A Man to be clear of that fault he reproves in another.
• Reproaches and Sufferings for the Name of Christ, marks of Salvation.
• Mercies of God to be particularly record∣ed to Posterity.
• Parents not to be forsaken, though they be Infidels and Wicked.
• The Martyrs Wellcome to Heaven.
• The Formal Christian, discovered.
• The Printing of Learned Mens Works instrumentall to Gods glory.
• Reproaches and Sufferings made Honou∣rable by God.
• God shewing Mercy, onely for Christ Iesus sake.
• Gods goodnesse to us, to be a Motive from vain Swearing.
• The sword of Warre, impartiall.
• Afflictions it us for Heaven.
• The great weight of Government.
• New inventions of Sin, condemned.
• To blesse God for all.
• Godlinesse, a great mystery, and why so.
• How a Man should demean himself, being fallen into bad Company.
• The desperate Sinner's madnesse.
• Christ-masse day to be held in remembrance.
• How to Feast comfortably.
• Heaven not to be found upon Earth.
• Afflictions, if any thing, will make us seek God.
• Deceipt and Unfaithfulnesse in Trade and Commerce, condemned.
• The great danger of living in any one known Sin.
• Rich Men to be mindfull of what they have received at Gods hand.
• Sin unrepented of, heavy upon the Soul, at the time of Death.
• Godlinesse, a very gainful Trade.
• Consideration of our secret Sins, a motive to Compassionate others.
• Ministers to preach the Gospel, notwithstanding the discouragements of their Auditory; And why so?
• The mis-giving Thoughts of a Worldly-minded Man, in reference to the enjoy∣ment of Heaven.
• An Heavenly-minded Man looks through and beyond Afflictions.
• Deliberation to be used in all our wayes.
• Heavenly mindednesse of a Child of God.
• To be carefull of our pretious Souls.
• The Worlds uncertainty.
• How to know whether a Man be Heavenly or Earthly-minded.
• Children to be ready in relief of the Parents Necessities.
• Captious Hearers of the Word, condemned.
• Things of Heaven to be waited for with Patience.
• Children to be Religiously educated.
• How the Devil is said to know our thoughts.
• Faithful and seeming Servants of God, diffe∣ferenced by way of Reward.
• Wicked persons may be in a godly Family.
• The Soul of Man pretious in the sight of God.
• Christians having an eye upon the Heavenly Rewards, not to be daunted at any outward troubles.
• The mystery of the blessed Trinity, shadowed out in familiar resemblances.
• How to be truly Rich, and truly Honourable.
• The difference of good and bad Men in their preparation for Death.
• Christ to be the summe of all our Actions.
• Gods Immutability.
• The Godly Man rejoycing in Death.
• Sin to be looked upon as the cause of all sorrow.
• The Good Mans comfort in matter of Worldly losse.
• Men, upon hearing of the joyes of Heaven, to be much taken therewith.
• Order to be in the Church of God.
• How the Humane nature may in some sort be said to excell the Angelical.
• Mention of the joyes of Heaven to be a win∣ning subject upon the Souls of Men.
• Reverence to be used in the Worship of God.
• A good Christian will rather part with his life, then his Integrity.
• To have Children male and female, Gods great blessing.
• The Multitude alwaies desirous of change in Government.
• Worldly Policy, not to be prejudiciall to the honour of God.
• To be thankful unto God in the saddest of times and conditions.
• Ministers to be Men of gravity and experience.
• Worldy Policy, not to prejudice the truth of a good Conscience.
• Holy duties call for holy Preparation.
• Attention in Hearing Gods Word, com∣manded and commended.
• Worldly Policy, not to be in any thing pre∣judiciall to commutative Iustice.
• The best of Men not free from Sin in this life.
• Children of persons excommunicate to be Baptized.
• No Man so old but he may learn something.
• Religion not to be made a stalking horse to Policy.
• The painfull Ministers joy at the time of his death.
• Parents to shew good Examples to their Children.
• The tryall of true and false Professors.
• The necessity of being found with Christ's Righteousnesse.
• The scoffing Drunkard's sad condition.
• Graces of the Spirit to be held fast in the midst of temporall losses.
• Children not to marry without their Parents consent.
• How it is that Wicked drunken Men think well of themselves.
• The evil of Division.
• The persons of Poor Men not to be sleighted.
• To be carefull of extraordinary drinking.
• The great pains that Wicked Men take to go to Hell.
• Proper Names of Men, not to be so much regarded as Appellative.
• Excessive drinking, condemned.
• Books of Piety and Religion, testimoniall at the great day of Iudgment.
• Atheistical Wicked Men, at the hour of Death forced to confesse Gods Iudgments.
• Fleshly-lusts, the danger of them.
• The grand impostory of pretended Revelations.
• To be favourable in the Censure of our brother.
• The Worlds Deceitfulnesse and Treachery.
• Commonnesse of the Death of others, taking away the sense of Death.
• Silence, in the cause of Gods honour, condemned.
• The deepest Dissembler at one time or other discovering himself.
• Wise Men dying as well as Fools.
• Neglect of Restitution, condemned.
• Wives to love their Husbands cordially.
• The Wicked Mans Folly in his Worldly choyce.
• Custome in Sin hardly broken off.
• Wives to be subject to their Husbands.
• The Safety of Gods people.
• Not to Consent unto Sin.
• Children to submit to their Parents Correction.
• The different effects of the Gospel preached.
• Content with Gods good pleasure, a great blessing.
• Children to be carefully educated by Parents.
• God loveth a cheerfull giver.
• An uncharitable Rich Man, no Heavenly-minded Man.
• Children to set their hands to all honest employments.
• The right use of humane Learning in Divinity.
• Drunkennesse a great punishment of it self.
• Men to be carefull in the choyce of Servants.
• The necessity of using humane Learning in Divinity.
• Blessednesse of the Poor in spirit in the matter of Hearing Gods Word.
• Christ to be our Example and Pattern of Imitation in life and death.
• The greatest of things wrought by God without means.
• Not to be Angry with our Brother.
• The Natural Mans blindnesse in Spiri∣tuall things.
• Negligent Hearing of Gods Word, condemned.
• God himself to be only expected as a Reward of all good endeavours.
• Hope of future joy sweetneth present sorrow.
• The Law abused by Libertinism.
• How to think of God in Prayer.
• A Child of God triumphing over Death.
• To be diligent Hearers of the Word of God, and remember what we hear.
• Reconciliation to be made with all Men.
• The Saints everlasting Peace.
• To make our Calling and Election sure.
• Repentance not to be put off till old age.
• The uncertainty of temporal Victories and Successe.
• The place of Purgatory, a meer dream.
• Men by Nature, desirous of things unlawfull and prohibited.
• Christs Wounds, the onely hiding place of a Christian.
• No Safety to be expected in the midst of publique danger.
• How it is that the Law is said to be the strength of Sin.
• Gods Promises are for the most part conditional.
• To be careful of Vowes and Promises made in the time of Extremity.
• The good Christian's absolute Victory over Death.
• To be alwaies prepared for Death.
• Religion pretended, Mischief intended.
• Why God suffers his Children to be in a wanting condition.
• All Men alike in Death.
• Ignorant Worldly Purchasers.
• Men to be careful of what they promise unto God in the matter of Charity.
• Things of the World, not to be so highly prised.
• How it is that Godfathers and Godmothers undertake for Children in Baptism.
• The Poors relief, Heavens treasure.
• Ill-gotten goods, never prosper.
• Men to be careful of their principles in Religion.
• To be fruitfull in Children, a great blessing of God.
• Better to be Honestly, then hastily Rich.
• Gods Watchfulnesse over his People for their good.
• Husband the Head of the Wife.
• Riches, the danger that attends them.
• The unconstancy of Worldly honours and preferments.
• God fetching testimonies of Truth out of the mouths of Adversaris.
• God the onely searcher of the Heart of Man.
• The Vnion and fellowship of Gods Children one with another.
• Excellency of the Crown of glory.
• The slavery of Sin to be avoided.
• How to use the World rightly.
• Christianity the best Nobility.
• The Devill rewarding his Servants.
• Every thing in specie made perfect at one and the same time in the Creation.
• Men to argue themselves into a mood of Contentment.
• To do good for evill.
• Gods dwelling in the Humble spirit.
• The quietnesse of Contentment.
• The most silent Conscience will speak out at last.
• Excellency of the Soul of man.
• The spirituall benefit of Poverty.
• A foul polluted Soul, the object of Gods hatred.
• The high price of the Soul.
• Prosperity for the most part draws Envy to it.
• Liberty the cause of Licentiousnesse.
• The Folly of Men in parting with their Souls for trifles.
• The spiritual benefit of divine Contentment.
• Hope, to be kept up in the midst of all Perplexities.
• The losse of the Soul, irrecoverable.
• The Hypocrite and true Christian, their difference in growth of Grace.
• Christ Jesus, the good Mans chief portion.
• The Soul not to be starved in the want of means.
• Sicknesse, immediately inflicted by God.
• Good and bad Hearers of the Word, their difference.
• The Soul's Safety and Danger.
• Wicked Men reserved for Exemplary punishment.
• Youth to be seasoned with Grace, not giving the least way to the Devill.
• A good Conscience, the best Friend.
• Christians to be carefull, that they may find comfort in Death.
• Purity and the Heart of Man seldome meet together.
• Sin of the meanest Man in a Nation may be the destruction of it.
• The Secure, carelesse Sinner.
• The Keys of Knowledg much abused by those that keep them.
• Humility appeaseth Gods Anger.
• The extream Folly of Sin.
• The Scripture to be onely rested upon.
• God a Merciful God.
• Faith not alwaies sensible.
• Minding of good things, a notable way to encrease Grace.
• The Mercies of God to be recorded to all posterity.
• The Providence of God, not secondary causes, to be rested on.
• Hell broke loose by the swarms of Secta∣ries, Ranters, &c.
• Young raw Ministers to be reproved.
• A good Man, Merciful to the very beasts.
• Negligent Ministers, advised.
• Sin may be excused here in this World, but not hereafter.
• To be carefull in the keeping and presenting our Souls clean at the time of death.
• Progresse in Piety to be endeavoured.
• Resurrection of the dead, asserted.
• The Souldiers calling, Honourable.
• Women Reformers, intolerable.
• When it may be said to be the best time for Prayer.
• Magistrates and men in Authority to be Exemplary to all others.
• Ministers to be acquainted with the state of Mens Souls.
• The Christians Library.
• The Worldlings Woe, and the Iust Mans joy at the time of Death.
• The excellency of Christs intercession.
• The force of Justifying Faith.
• No true Ioy to be found in Worldly things.
• The destructive quality of Envy.
• Not to be dejected, though the Joy of the just be not perfect in this life.
• A little with Content, sufficient.
• For a Man to be sorry, that he cannot be sorry for Sin, is a part of Godly sorrow for Sin.
• Kings, Princes, and Rulers, to hearken to good Counsell.
• The least proportion of Godly sorrow for Sin, accepted by God.
• Rash, inconsiderate Prayers, reproved.
• Insensibility of Sin, the sadnesse thereof.
• The Vanity of using many Words.
• Not to repine at the losse of Friends or Children.
• Men of few, and Men of many Words, their difference.
• Why it is, that the Children of God die usually sooner then others.
• All Men must die, and lye down in the dust.
• How it is that the Sins of Parents are visited on their Children.
• Reproofs of a Wise Man, not to be sleighted.
• Magistrates to be Men of Understanding.
• Men to be carefull how they make Oath, in Iudicature, or otherwise.
• Tedious length of Law-suites condemned.
• Cruelty of the Wicked, no prejudice to the Godly.
• Goodnesse not Greatnesse, that holdeth out to the last.
• How it comes to passe, that Death is more general∣ly excused then accused.
• A Minister to keep close to his Text.
• Kings, Princes, Protectors, &c. subject to Death, as well as the lowest of the People.
• Magistrates, to be impartial in Justice.
• The greatnesse of Kings, Princes, Protectors, &c. no protection from Death.
• Marriage not to be made for Money onely.
• The day of the last Judgment, a terrible day.
• The benefit of History.
• Men usually judging others to be like themselves.
• Neglect of the Soul reproved.
• To Compassionate others miseries.
• Folly to repent the choice of a Wife, Mar∣riage being once past.
• Charity attended by the certainty of Reward.
• Ministers to be careful in reproving Sinners.
• Uncertainty of Worldly things.
• Christian watchfulnesse, enjoyned.
• How the Vanity of Worldly things may be easily discerned.
• Occasion of Sin to be avoided.
• Christ, the best shelter in times of affliction.
• A Rich Man pleading Poverty, condemned.
• Magistrates to be active Examples of good unto others.
• Sin, the destruction of any People or Nation whatsoever.
• Magistrates not to be guilty of that which they do forbid in others.
• Not to be disquieted at the Prosperity of the Wicked.
• The greatnesse of Motherly affection to an onely Sonne.
• To have a perfect Knowledg of God, impossible.
• Parents to be carefull in the Instruction of their Children.
• Fervency in Prayer, the prevalency thereof.
• How Christ is said to be the end of the Ceremonial Law.
• Carnal, Unregenerate Men, unserviceable both in Church and State.
• The Knowledg of God through Faith in Christ, the way to true Happinesse.
• God, a jealous God of his Honour.
• Christ freely discovering himself to all that truely seek him.
• Sin to be looked on, as it is fierce and cruel.
• The book of Scripture to be preserved above all other books.
• Sin and the Sinner, very hardly parted.
• How it is, and why God loves us.
• Naturall perswasions, the invalidity of them in the point of true believing.
• Christ's Humanity, asserted.
• Sinners crucifying the Lord of life daily.
• To blesse God for the Revelation of himself in the Scripture.
• Ranters, Roaring boys, &c. their conversion not confusion to be endeavoured.
• Christ the true Light.
• Small buddings of Grace in the Soul, an argument of greater growth.
• Magistrates, Rulers, &c. the great comfort of good ones.
• Godly Company, the benefit thereof.
• The excellency of Sonday or Lords day, above other dayes.
• Men to be as well industrious in their Callings, as zealous in their devotions.
• Variety of gifts in the Ordinance of Preaching.
• To be more strict in the holy observation of the Sabbath then heretofore; and why so?
• Gods gracious return of his Peoples Prayers in the time of their distresse.
• Patiently to wait on Gods good Will and pleasure.
• Magistrates to stand up in the cause of God against all opposition.
• Men to pray for others as well as themselves.
• Not to converse with Hereticks, Seducers, &c.
• Prayer for others in the same condition with our selves, prevalent with God.
• Ministers to be (as they are called) Spiritual Men.
• Fatherly Counsel, hath and ought to be pre∣valent with Children.
• Ministers to be earnestly Zealous in Prea∣ching Gods word.
• How far Self-safety may be consulted.
• The World not to be trusted unto.
• Wherein the true Valour of a Captain or Soul∣dier in Warre consisteth.
• Ministers to be active and vigorous in the reproof of Sin.
• Not to be hasty in the matter of Revenge.
• More Converts made by Preaching, then by Reading.
• Magistrates, Rulers, &c. of all Men, to be resol∣ved in the cause of God and their Country.
• The Ministers calling, to be owned from God.
• Good and Bad Kings and Princes, &c. their difference.
• Ministers not to be Verball, but Reall in their expressions.
• Not to take notice of every angry Word that is spoken against us.
• The excellency of a good Memory.
• Some one sinful quality predominant more then other in the Heart of Man.
• The general badnesse of Memory in good things.
• Sin, the remainders thereof even in the best of Gods Children.
• Four sorts of Men undertaking the work of the Ministery.
• How the Heart of Man may be kept up steady in troublous times.
• To keep close to the word of God, especially in times of trouble.
• Faith, a sure Anchor-hold in time of distresse.
• The exceeding love of God to Mankind admirable.
• God raysing up Instruments for the deliverance of his People.
• All endeavours to be sanctified by Prayer.
• Universal Obedience unto God, injoyned.
• To be more careful for the Body, then the Soul, reproveable.
• The great danger of Repentance put off till old age.
• The danger of sleeping out Sermons.
• Reall Thanksgiving to be made unto God for benefits received.
• Plots and Contrivances of the Wicked turning to the good of Gods People.
• The sad effects of not giving unto God his due Glory.
• Invocation of▪ Saints and Angells condemned.
• Curious Inquisitors into Gods secrets, deservedly punished.
• Gods comfortable appearance to his People in the hour of Death.
• A good Man denominated from the good∣nesse of his Heart.
• Faith and Repentance to be daily renewed and encreased.
• To be much more carefull of the Soul than body.
• The Crown of Perseverance.
• How to discover our thoughts in Preparation to Prayer.
• Wherein the true Knowledg of Christ consisteth.
• To beware how we come into the debt of Sin.
• Infant-Baptism, asserted.
• Grace to be communicated.
• To be patient under Afflictions, because they will have an end.
• Every Man to find out the impediments of Repentance in himself.
• Murmuring at Gods doings, the pre∣judice thereof.
• Gospel-invitation to comfort.
• The moderate use of Worldly things.
• The work of the Law preceding the Work of the Gospel.
• Divisions in Church and State to be prevented.
• Sorrow for Sin must be in particulars.
• Perseverance in goodnesse, enjoyned.
• Sorrow for Sin must be proportionable.
• Non-proficiency in the wayes of God and Religion, condemned.
• To be patient at the time of Death, and why so?
• How it is that Wicked Men are said to be none of Gods children.
• Things unlawful not to be asked of God in Prayer.
• God alone more powerfull then all the Ene∣mies of the World.
• Charity to be well-ordered.
• Times of Trouble and danger distinguishing true Professours from false ones.
• The hardnesse of a Rich mans Conversion.
• A small plat of ground, sufficient for the greatest landed Man at the time of Death.
• Riches very dangerous in the getting of them.
• A great blessing of God to be gently used in the matter of Conversion.
• Perfection of Grace to be endeavoured.
• The pain of a Wounded Conscience greatned by the Folly of the Patient.
• No true Content to be found in the things of this World.
• A good Man, tedious to bad Company.
• Pride, the vanity and sinfulnesse thereof.
• Greatnesse of the torture of a Wounded Conscience.
• The Proud mans Memento.
• Patiently to wait Gods time for deliverance.
• Pride, a main Engine of the Devill.
• Nature cannot work out Peace of Conscience.
• Men to set an high Valew upon their Souls.
• Peace of Conscience, not wrought out by merry Company or drinking.
• The vast difference betwixt Pride and Humility.
• Much Learning to be found in a small compasse of expressions.
• The true Nature of Humility.
• Impossible to arrive at a full perfection of Learning in this life.
• The Excellency of Humility.
• Christ voluntarily engaging himself to take away the Sins of the World.
• The Virtue of Humility.
• God onely able to work Man to Will and to do▪
• Pride in Riches, honours, preferments, &c. the vanity thereof.
• Security the cause of all Calamity.
• Riches, Honours, &c. the different use that is made of them.
• The soveraign Vertue of Humility.
• The love of Riches, very dangerous.
• Worldly honours and greatnesse, their Va∣nity to be considered.
• The Heart of a VVorldly-minded Man, never satisfied.
• Pride in Apparel, condemned.
• Carelesse, Worldly hearers of Gods Word, to be reproved.
• Pride and Ambition the Folly thereof.
• Men by Nature looking more after their bodies, then their Souls.
• Magistrates, Ministers, &c. their rule to walk by.
• Graces of the Spirit to be made the Souls furniture.
• Discretion, the guide of all Religious actions.
• Humility exalted.
• No Worldly thing must hinder the Service of God.
• Every Man is to make himself sure of Heaven and Heavenly things.
• The deaths of Faithful Magistrates, Mini∣sters, &c. to be lamented.
• Antinomian madnesse.
• The Devills policy to root out Learning.
• The excellency of a good Name.
• Wicked Children, a great grief to their Parents.
• Gods Omniscience.
• The lawfull use of humane Learning in Sermons.
• God the onely searcher of the secrets of the Heart.
• The Devill's cunning to deceive.
• Men seeking after high Preferment, not fit to be entertained therein.
• Prayer and endeavour to be joyned together.
• Men to be ready to die for Christ.
• The generality of Men, not enduring to hear of Death.
• Wit, how to make a right use thereof.
• Ignorant-Reformers whether in Church or State, reproved.
• The Devill and a griping Usurer com∣pared together.
• Drinking, the excesse thereof reproved.
• The great danger of relying upon Forraign ayd and assistance.
• The Christians growth in Grace, enjoyned.
• Gods blessing upon the means doth all.
• Other Mens sins, the good Mans sorrow.
• Husband and Wife, each others Crown.
• The Churches distresse, and comfort.
• Sin in its original easie to be found.
• The Commands of God to be obeyed, not questioned.
• Tyrants, Infidels, &c. forced to acknowledg the Providence of God.
• The wicked Polititian discovered.
• Inconstancy in the wayes of God, reproved.
• The Carnal Professor described.
• Certainty of the Good Mans Reward from God.
• God onely to be served.
• To be at Gods will and disposall, is the best condition.
• Neglect in the Hearing of Gods Word, dangerous.
• How Sins may be said to out-live the Sinner.
• Heaven to be alwaies in our thoughts.
• A Non-resident sloathfull Minister, worthily discouraged.
• The true comfort of Election.
• How to be assured of our Election.
• No time to be mis-spent.
• The happinesse of good Government.
• The Laity abused by the Roman Clergy in the matter of Confession.
• The want of Hospitality, reproved.
• Multiplicity of Law-Suits condemned.
• The Sin of Sacriledg, condemned.
• Truth commended, Falshood condemned.
• Piety and Policy not inconsistent.
• Progresse in Piety enjoyned.
• The service performed unto God must be personall.
• Saving Faith, the onely Faith.
• Covetousnesse in the Clergy, condemned.
• Riches, how to be used.
• The incorrigible Sinners desperate condition.
• Wisdome, how to be regulated.
• Affectation of Novelty in the way of Religion, reproved.
• Not to be over-carefull for the place of our Buriall.
• The Christians claim to Heaven, what it is.
• How the Devill makes use of the World to destroy Man.
• Not to repine at a great charge of Children.
• The least of Sin to be resisted.
• Not to admit of delayes in Religious performances
• Humility appeaseth the wrath of God incensed.
• A faint-hearted Christian described.
• The Devills hard dealing with the en∣snared Sinner.
• The great Folly of costly Apparel.
• How the wounded Sinner is to be cured.
• Minding of the day of Judgment, an excellent means to prevent Sin.
• Man and Wife to be speak one another kindly.
• The experimental Christian, the un∣daunted Christian.
• Sin, the strange nature thereof.
• Gods goodnesse, Mans unthankfulnesse.
• Popish Miracles condemned.
• The great danger of the least Sin.
• The Heart of Man, the very seed-plot of all Sinne.
• The vanity of Man, in seeking after great things, condemned.
• All Sin must be hated, and why so?
• The sad condition of borrowing upon Usury.
• Christians to walk worthy the Name of Christ.
• Afflictions, Gods Love-tokens.
• God, not the Author of Sin.
• The appropriation of Faith is all in all.
• Gods Judgment, and Mans, not concurrent.
• The uncharitable Christian described.
• The great danger and disgrace of lying under the guilt of one eminent Sin.
• The sinfulnesse of Sin.
• The several degrees of Faith.
• The uncertain comfort in Riches.
• As to beware of all Sins, so especially of beloved Sins.
• The uncertainty of Mans life.
• The biting Vsurer described.
• How to deal with Sin, being once committed.
• How to make a right use of the doctrine of Predestination.
• The Relation of Parents, Wife, Children, to be sleighted if they once appear in competition with the Commandements of God.
• The sincere upright Man, described.
• Wives to be beloved of their Hus-bands, as Wives.
• Ignorant, upstart Preachers, reproved.
• Men or Women painting them-selves, condemned.
• Neutrality in Religion, reproved.
• To be carefull in the keeping of our Vow made in Baptism.
• Men and Women to be knowing in the Scriptures.
• The vanity of an unguided Multitude.
• A Wife and no Wife
• The bountifull goodnesse of God to his Children
• Graces of Gods Spirit though seemingly lost, yet found at last.
• Men to be active in regaining their lost Souls.
• Hypocrites discovering their own shame.
• Sin, the chief cause of a Nation or Cities ruine.
• Wherein the poysonfull Nature of Sinne consisteth.
• Our own Natural corruption, the cause of Sin.
• Death of the Soul more to be lamented, then the death of the body.
• Not to wait Gods good pleasure in times of Affliction, very dangerous.
• The great benefit of timely accompting with God.
• Ignorance, especially in the wayes of God, reproved.
• All the Creatures subservient to the good Will and Pleasure of God.
• Heaven, a place of Holinesse.
• God, a sure fast Friend.
• To rely upon Gods blessing notwithstanding all opposition.
• Regeneration, the excellency thereof.
• Ignorance, especially in the wayes of God, condemned.
• A Caveat for bloudy-minded Men.
• Sincere, upright Men, the scarcity of them.
• The Borrowers duty, and comfort.
• The Time and place of a Mans spiritual Calling, very uncertain to be known.
• The Ministers Calling full of labour and toil.
• True brotherly Love, scarce to be found.
• Men to be Compassionate one towards another, And why so?
• Men to be at Peace one with another.
• Men to labour that they be Regenerated.
• The Ministers and Magistrates duty in the suppression of Vice.
• Peace linking the Church and Common-weal together.
• A Caveat for Flatterers.
• The non-performance of Vowes, Pro∣mises, &c. condemned.
• Justice duly administred, the Peoples benefit thereby.
• The Sate-Polititians Religion.
• The evill of Excesse.
• The State-Polititian siding with all parties.
• Tyrants raysing themselves by a seeming compliance with the People.
• True Obedience.
• The true improvement of Peace.
• The true Christians confidence and con∣tempt of Death.
• Mans Nothingnesse.
• Men of corrupt Judgments.
• Wanton Hearers of the Word reproved.
• The vast difference betwixt the Power of God and Man.
• The great danger of Apostasie.
• Wicked Thoughts to be carefully washed off from the Heart.
• The high price of Mans Redemption.
• Gods great tenders of Mercy to repen∣tant Sinners.
• The fulnesse of Reward reserved till after this life.
• Good meanings of bad Men, destructive.
• Gods readinesse to maintain the cause of his Church.
• Men not to be proud of Honours and Preferments.
• Moderation, the fore-runner of Peace.
• The Saints Infirmities.
• God onely to be trusted unto in time of distresse.
• The great heat of Ambition.
• Dead Men soon forgotten.
• Man by Nature, lawlesse and ill-advised.
• God the onely object of his People's trust in time of distresse.
• How it is, that God is more powerfull then all the Creatures.
• In the apprehension of Fear and courage, Mans mistaking of the Object spoils all.
• Ministers to be Men of Knowledg and Understanding.
• Christ to be made our Example in bearing the Crosse.
• The slavery of Sin.
• The great danger of not keeping close to Gods Word.
• How it is that Men fail so much in the true service of God.
• Dissention, the Forerunner of Confusion.
• Hypocrisy discovering it self in the end.
• The Devills rage an argument of the day of Iudgment near at hand.
• The Simonist discovered.
• The excellency of Justice.
• God Predestinateth to the means as well as to the end.
• Man by refusing the tenders of Grace, becomes the cause of his own destruction.
• Otherwise thus.
• The giddy uncertain disposition of the Multitude or common People.
• Sectarian, schismatical Seducers, their Company to be avoided.
• Sins Lethargy.
• The glasse of the Law, truly shewing Men what they are.
• The great danger of cherishing wicked thoughts.
• Custome in Sin, not easily removed.
• Sectarian subtilty, Diabolical delusion.
• Men not to be proud of their Lands and Livings.
• Repentance to be Universall.
• Wicked Men see the miseries, but not the Joyes of Gods People.
• Magistrates and great Men not to raise them∣selves by the ruine of the Church.
• How it is that the sweet fruits of Grace come to grow on the bitter root of Nature.
• How it is that Afflictions lye oft-times so heavy.
• The supernatural workings of the Spirit.
• Afflictions, Not to be altogether taken up with the sense of them.
• To suffer any thing for the Cause of Christ.
• The sins of our Religious duties corrected by Christ, and then presented to God the Father.
• The comfortable sight of Christ Iesus crucified to the poor Repentant Sinner.
• Heart-Communication, the want therof deplorable.
• Faithfull Soul and an Unbeliever, their diffe∣rence in relying upon God.
• Self-deniall, the excellency thereof.
• Graces divine, not parts humane, hold out in the end.
• How it is that Graces of the Spirit may at present seem to be lost.
• Sin to be removed, as the cause of all Sorrow.
• Means in the attainment of Grace, and the use thereof enjoyned by God.
• The great benefit of Hearing and practi∣sing Gods Word.
• Meditation, the difficulty in the first entrance thereupon.
• Sathan's subtilty to ensnare.
• Purity of Heart, no comfortable sight of god without it.
• Active Christian, the best Christian.
• The good Christians Hope at the death of a Child of God.
• Blessing of God attendant on People listning to the doctrine of their own Minister.
• State of Nature an absolute state of impotency.
• The state of Nature for all its specious out-side, a state of Friendship with Hell.
• The Sinner's desperate madnesse.
• The difference betwixt Sermons preached, and Sermons printed.
• The bare enjoyment of Church-priviledges doth not make up a true Christian.
• Acknowledgment of Mercies received, the rea∣dy way to have them further enlarged.
• The excellency of Christ Jesus.
• The Ministers joy in the conversion of Souls.
• Gods pardoning other Repentan Sinners, a great motive to perswade us that he will pardon us also.
• Men to be carefull in the triall of their Faith, Whether it be sound or not.
• Men not to be ashamed of their Godly Pro∣fession, though the Wicked speak evill of them.
• God ordering all things for the good of his Church.
• Sin, the godly Mans hatred thereof.
• Vanity of the Creature without God.
• How it is that God is to every one of his Children, alone.
• Excesse of Apparrell, condemned.
• God to be seen in the works of the Creation.
• To keep close to the Word of God in seeking after Christ.
• What it is to trust in God really and truly.
• The monstrous Sin of Ingratitude.
• How it is that Faith is said to be made perfect by Works.
• How to make tryall of Faith, whether it be right or not.
• The proposall of Rewards and punishments, very usefull to the bringing into Christ.
• No Man a loser by giving up himself unto. God.
• Ignorance and Wilfulnesse ill-met.
• Unsteadfastnesse, giddinesse, &c. in the profes∣sion of Religion, reproved.
• Men in the midst of their Worldly contri∣vances, prevented by Death.
• Riches, their uselesnesse in point of Calamity.
• Apparrel, whether richer or plainer, the necessity thereof.
• True comfort in God onely.
• The resolved constant Christian.
• The rage of War in the richest Countries.
• The grace of God is all in all.
• Promises without abilities of performance not to be regarded.
• The workings of God in the deliverance of his People are Various.
• Kings, Princes, Governours, &c. to be regarded by those that are under them.
• Christ the proper object of the Soul.
• Sathans aim at those that have most of God and Religion in them.
• Sin to be abhorred as the cause of Christs Death.
• A lesser Sin given way unto, makes way for the committing of greater.
• Men to prefer suffering before Sinning.
• Discretion, a main part of true Wisedome.
• The difference betwixt true and feyned Love unto Christ.
• The dangerous use of Riches.
• God's Mercies to the worst of Sinners repenting.
• Rulers, Magistrates, &c. to be Men of publique spirits.
• The heavy weight of Government ill attained.
• Worldly Professors of the Gospel, reproved.
• Riches of Christ, inexhaustible.
• Men created for the service of God.
• Prudentiall part of a Man to do as well as he may.
• Gods dwelling in the Soul that truly fears him.
• The praise-worthinesse of reading and enquiring into the Scripture.
• Truth of Religion, lost (as it were) in the crowd of many Religions.
• Ministers of all men, not to be found truck∣ing for Preferment.
• God onely able to perswade the Heart fully.
• Ingratitude condemned.
• The unhappinesse of a disordered Family.
• Signs of Heaven, as Sun, Moon, with their Eclip∣ses, &c. as we are not to be dismaied at them, so not to be contemners of them.
• The severall books of God, slighted and neglect∣ed by the most of Men.
• Gods decree of Election, not to be made the pro∣per object of Faith.
• Justice moderated.
• Neutrality in Church or State, condemned.
• The great danger of not standing fast in the Profession of Religion.
• Life, liberty, estate, &c. to be undervalued, when Religion is in danger of losing.
• The Churche's Fall, the Churche's Rise.
• Prayer, a spirituall prevailing sword.
• The losse of good Men not laid to heart, condemned.
• The woful gradation of Sin.
• The great danger of admitting the least Sin.
• Destruction is from our selves.
• Man not to be trusted unto.
• Afflictions though grievous, yet profitable.
• The excellency of divine Meditation.
• God onely to be worshipped as the great Creator of Heaven and Earth.
• The Religious Hypocrite discovered.
• Men by Nature hardly brought to the Confession of their sins.
• Not to murmure under Affictions, And why so?
• A great exceeding mercy to be one of Gods dearest Children.
• Removall of Good men by Death, a Fore∣runner of Judgment.
• Worldly-minded-Men little think of Heaven, And why so?
• Christ ready to revenge himself upon the Enemies of his Church.
• Christ, the Saints wonder and admiration.
• Christ's Watchfullnesse over his Peo∣ple for Good.
• Times redemption.
• Men not easily brought to believe the Worlds vanity.
• Every one to strive for eminency in Christianity.
• The Will of God to be resigned unto in all things.
• The great benefit of Faith truly appropriated.
• True Grace in the Soul may be seemingly, but not really at a losse.
• Christ, a sure pay-master.
• The Souls neglect, condemned.
• How our love to the Creature is to be regulated.
• How to demean our selves after we are sealed by the Spirit.
• Rulers, Magistrates, &c. to stand up for the cause of the Poor and needy.
• The Vanity of all Worldly greatnesse.
• The welfare of the Soul to be preferred before any Worldly enjoyments whatsoeuer.
• Silence, when, and how comendable.
• No pains to be thought too much for the getting of Heaven.
• Why it is that God affords some glimps of Heaven even in this life.
• Comfort nearest, when Afflictions are at the highest.
• The comfortlesse Hypocrite.
• The losse of an onely Son or nearest relation, not to be over-much lamented.
• Noreturn from Hell.
• Powerfull Preaching of the Gospell.
• Punishments of the Wicked in this life nothing in comparison of those in Hell hereafter.
• Faith and Love, inseparable.
• Sacrilegious persons, condemned.
• Prosperity attended by Fears and cares.
• Perseverance in goodnesse, enjoyned.
• Temptations from within, or without, how to be dealt withall.
• Justice to be purely administred.
• There's no fighting against God.
• Death put off from one to another.
• The sad condition of the fearlesse Heart∣hardned Sinner.
• Charity to be well and rightly ordered.
• How it is that Truth doth not alwayes apear.
• Body and Soul sinning together, lyable to be punished together.
• How Christ by his death, overcame death.
• Confession of Sins, irk some to the Devill.
• To depend upon Gods All-sufficiency in time of trouble.
• Simplicity of Men to be more affected with the losse of things temporal, then spiritual.
• The sufferings of Christ, as so many Examples to teach us to suffer.
• God hardly accepting of late service done unto him.
• Why it is that late service done unto God is seldome accepted.
• Honesty, the best Policy.
• An Alphabetical Table, pointing out the whole Matter.