The spiritual sacrifice, or, A treatise wherein several weighty questions and cases concerning the saints communion with God in prayer are propounded and practically improved by Mr. Alexander Pitcarne.

An Alphabetical TABLE.

A

• TO pray absolutely what it importeth. For what should we thus pray, whether for such a measure and degree of grace, &c. Page. 214 &c.
• Whether grace may be abused. Page. 223 227
• No acceptance without the help of the Spirit. Page. 332
• There are no theandrick acti∣ons. Page. 37
• What faith did Adam in in∣nocency act? Page. 530
• We should pray for all men. Page. 260
• Christ our altar and Priest. Page. 324
• To pray alwayes what it im∣porteth. Page. 668 &c.
• Whether the Angels and Saints in glory pray for us. Page. 78
• We may not pray to Saints or Angels. Page. 106
• Whether all good floweth from the suggestion of good, and all evil from the suggestion of evil Angels. Page. 362 367
• Angels, why called Sera∣phims. Page. 446
• Whether Angels may be said to pray, and to pray in faith? Page. 531
• The wicked receive nothing in answer to their prayers. Page. 704 721
• A delay, or denial, may be a gra∣cious answer to our prayers. Page. 711
• Whether the Lord alwayes an∣swers when he hears prayer. Page. 720
• Rules for discerning an an∣swer to our prayers. Page. 723. &c.
• The appropriation of works and attributes to any of the per∣sons of the glorious Trinity, not exclusive, except in the my∣stery of incarnation, redemp∣tion, &c. Page. 569
• Aquinas his empty speculati∣ons. Page. 17
• Our assurance, confidence and boldness admitteth a latitud. Page. 345
• The necessity of attention: the impudence and tergiver∣sation of the Popish Doctors. Page. 427
• The Atheists great prejudice against prayer, removed. Page. 701

B

• Mr. Baxter interpreted. Page. 336
• The blasphemy against the ho∣ly Ghost unpardonable. Page. 239
• Whether we may pray for such as are guilty of that blas∣phemy. Page. 249

C

• Calmness after prayer an evi∣dence of faith in praying. Page. 525
• There are not three first causes and principal Agents, but one onely. Page. 569
• Characters of such as will ne∣ver be heard. Page. 763 &c.
• Of the many that are called, few only are chosen. Page. 767
• Christ's intercession, (see the first Table) Page. 34 &c.
• Whether Christ's prayer, that the cup might pass, was heard. Page. 70
• Whether all Christ's prayers on earth were mediatory. Page. 75
• Whether we should pray to Christ as Mediator. Page. 104
• Whether we may ask any mer∣cy in Christ's name to them for whom he died not. Page. 271
• Christ hath removed from us a two-fold incapacity of drawing nigh to God. Page. 299
• We must ask in Christ's name, (see the first Table) Page. 301 &c.
• Some Gentiles knew Christ. 312
• Whether the Jewish Church and the Disciples before Christs death, tendered up their prayers in Christ's name. Page. 318
• When we pray for the Church how alwayes heard? Page. 486
• The Saints prayers, the Church treasure. Page. 295
• Why the Lord will often ra∣ther make a compensation, then give to his honest supplicants the mercy in kind which they askt? Page. 734
• In what sense prayer is said to be conditional. Page. 194
• What is askt conditional∣ly is not askt, if the condition fail. Page. 713
• Whether confession of sin be a part of prayer. Page. 19
• Confused knowledge, a me∣dium between ignorance and distinct or more perfect know∣ledge. Page. 309
• Whether, and in what sense, we should be content with a small measure of grace? Page. 227
• We should continue instant in prayer. Page. 456 541
• Several motives to continue instant in prayer; with an an∣swer to objections. Page. 791 &c.
• What copy should we set be∣fore us in working out our sal∣vations? Page. 643
• A voluntary covenant the ground of conveighance of all good to the Saints, from the Fa∣ther,

• thorough the Son, by the holy Ghost. Page. 577
• Of cursing and imprecati∣ons. Page. 664 &c.

D

• Popish praying for the dead confuted. Page. 233
• Deadness and indisposition in prayer, it's kinds, causes and cure, (see the first Table) Page. 602 &c.
• Deadness excuseth not our negligence or ommission of du∣ty. Page. 637
• The decrees of God are not our rule. Page. 816 142 &c.
• A delay or denyal sometimes a gracious answer of prayer. Page. 711
• Why the Lord delayes to give what at length he will give. Page. 736
• Sathans design in moving to good. Page. 369
• The desire needs not an in∣terpreter. Page. 23
• We should (said a Divine) pray desperatly. Page. 449
• Dev••ls and the damned in hell cannot pray, and why? Page. 83
• A spiritual disposition neces∣sary in prayer. Page. 409
• Whether doubting believers may pray in faith. Page. 497
• Prayer considered as a duty and as a means. Page. 9

E

• The efficacy, effects and fruit of prayer. Page. 2 473 698
• What end should we propose in prayer? (see first Table) Page. 415 &c.
• An exhortation to pray for enemies. Page. 273
• Whether we may pray for in∣corrigible enemies and haters of godliness? Page. 268
• Enlargement in prayer an evidence of faith. Page. 521
• Whether we may be too much enlarged in prayer? Page. 648
• Whether the Saints use to be more enlarged in private or pub∣lick. Page. 650
• Popish enthusiasme. Page. 648
• Euchites confuted. Page. 669
• Whether we may pray for any evil either of sin or suffering? Page. 652
• Example a bad rule. Page. 150
• The condition of expediency doth not diminish the fulness of the promise. Page. 483
• The Saints experience of the success of prayer. Page. 513
• The Popish explicit faith. Page. 313

F

• Whether the unconverted may pray in faith. Page. 99
• Whether the Saints may pray

• for the reprobat in faith? Page. 255
• We should especially pray for such as are of the houshold of faith. Page. 277
• Of the Popish blind faith, with four degrees of their explicit faith. Page. 313
• What faith required in pray∣er? (see the first Table) Page. 460
• If we walk not as children, we cannot call God Father. Page. 519
• It's not presumption, but a du∣ty, to call God Father. Page. 559 &c.
• Five bonds, whereby a child of light walking in darkness may lay hold on God as a Father. Page. 564
• Why Christians most ordi∣narily address themselves to the Father. Page. 575
• What kind of fear required in supplicants? Page. 435
• Fervency required in pray∣er. Page. 442
• Whether it be a mercy to have our formal and cold prayers an∣swered? Page. 651 729
• Of frequency, it's necessity and fruit. Page. 656 693
• It's foolish to fret because of the prosperity of the wicked, or the Saints afflictions. Page. 718

G

• We know not but the Lord may have mercy on all this ge∣neration. Page. 264 272
• The Gentiles not left with∣out a testimony concerning Christ. Page. 312
• Prayer considered as a gift and as a grace. Page. 9
• The Lord alwayes giveth what we ask in faith or what is bet∣ter. Page. 477
• The Popish glass of the Tri∣nity. Page. 120
• How we should conceive of God when we draw nigh to him in any Ordinance. Page. 553 &c.
• We may worship God abso∣lutely, not actually, minding the personal relations. Page. 581
• Whether our prayers may be said to move God? Page. 822
• Papists have made many new gods. Page. 107
• Mr. Goodwins assertions con∣cerning Christ's intercession, considered. Page. 62
• Grace, how it should be askt. Page. 211
• The measure and degree of grace must be absolutely desir∣ed. Page. 214
• Whether grace may be abused. Page. 223 227
• Whether we should submit and be content with a small measure

• of grace. Page. 227
• Whether grace alwayes grow∣eth till it be perfected in glo∣ry? Page. 588

H

• Whether we may love them whom the Lord hateth? Page. 255
• The Lord's stile, to be the hearer of prayer. Page. 510
• What his hearing of prayer importeth? Page. 703
• Four different wayes of hear∣ing. Page. 710
• The Lord hears to our profit, when not to our desire. Page. 716
• Whether the Lord alwayes an∣swers, when he hears prayer? Page. 720
• When and whose prayer the Lord will not hear Page. 738 763 &c.
• Whether the habitual inten∣tion of the heart be sufficient for offering up our prayers in Christs name? Page. 321
• Whether Sathan hath an im∣mediat access unto, and influence on, the heart? Page. 351
• Whether Sathan knoweth the secrets of the heart, and can turn it? Page. 355
• How the Spirit helpeth us to pray, (see the first Table) Page. 329
• Though we must pray in the holy Ghost, yet not in the name of the holy Ghost. Page. 301
• Holiness of heart expressed in the life and conversation, is necessary to the acceptance and audience of prayer. Page. 407
• Humility required in suppli∣cants, which is not inconsistent with, but rather is a ground and foundation of, filial boldness and confidence. Page. 437

I

• Prayer no cloak for idleness. Page. 542
• Mental idols and false repre∣sentations of the infinit Majesty of God, dangerous. Page. 555
• The Jewish Church worshiped not Angels or Saints. Page. 109
• How Gospel-mysteries were made known, and in what mea∣sure to the Jews. Page. 308
• Whether they tendered up their prayers in Christs name? Page. 318
• Many impediments in our way to the throne of grace. Page. 338
• Importunity required in pray∣er Page. 442
• Of imprecations and curs∣ing. Page. 664
• How the Spirit is said to in∣terceed for us. Page. 29
• Christ's intercession, (see the first Table) Page. 34 &c.
• Saint-invocation a Pagan

• dream. 107 By what steps it crept into the Church? &c. (See the first Table. Page. 108 &c.

K

• VVhy the Lord sheweth kind∣ness to the wicked? Page. 706
• If the Lord give not the mer∣cy that was askt in kind, he will give what is better. Page. 477 716
• VVe should pray for the King and all in authority, for the kingdom and place of our nati∣vity and abode. Page. 275 247

L

• Prayer the ladder that reach∣eth the heavens. Page. 329
• VVhether the Saints, in pray∣er, be limited to that duty? Page. 650
• VVhether we may love them whom the Lord hateth? Page. 255

M

• Prayer excludeth not the use of the means. Page. 541
• What was the least measure of knowledge in Gospel-myste∣ries, that was necessary to sal∣vation before the coming of Christ. Page. 310
• Medina, his denying Gods fide∣lity and truth, while he would plead for his soveraignty. Page. 503
• There is a medium between a full assurance of faith, and a pro∣bable expectation. Page. 345
• The Lords mercy a ground of faith. Page. 500
• Papists plead, that by their prayers they merit an an∣swer. Page. 419 437
• Saint-merit the ground of Saint-invocation. Page. 131
• Whether we should pray to Christ as Mediator. Page. 104
• A Mediator of intercession should also be a mediator of re∣demption. Page. 129
• The School-distinction of mis∣sion not full. Page. 581
• Divine motions to good, dis∣tinguished from Satanical, mo∣ral and natural. Page. 369
• Motives to pray. Page. 792
• Whether our prayers may be said to move God? Page. 822

N

• We must ask in Christs name. (See the first Table. Page. 301, &c.
• Prayer necessary. Page. 16
• It is one thing to be necessa∣ry only because commanded, and another to be necessary as a mean. Page. 315

O

• Whether faith in the object be no less necessary to the success

• of prayer, then faith in the sub∣ject? Page. 486
• How Sathan representeth ob∣jects to the mind? Page. 353
• The Atheists great objecti∣on. Page. 701
• Objections against praying answered. Page. 815
• Omission of duty not excused by our unfitness and indisposi∣tion. Page. 637
• When the omission of duty is culpable and imputed. Page. 677
• We should pray for others. (See the first Table.) Page. 286

P.

• Whether a pardoned sin can obstruct and hinder the success of prayer? Page. 742
• People oblieged to pray for their Pastors. Page. 279
• Whether Papists will have the Pater-noster to be said to the Saints? Page. 125
• The Pelagian error concern∣ing prayer. Page. 670
• For what persons should we pray? (see the first Table.) Page. 232
• What persons and prayers have met with success? Page. 511
• Gods power a ground of faith. Page. 508
• Whether Christ interceeds for us as a common person? Page. 66
• Popish devotion ridiculous. Page. 17
• Popish Saint-invocation a Platonick and Pagan inventi∣on. Page. 107
• Prayer. (See the first Table.)
• Why the heavens, earth. &c. are invited to praise God? Page. 76
• Preparation necessary; where∣in it consisteth; and what must be done before we draw nigh to God? Page. 410
• Whether a prohibition layeth a restraint on us not to pray for others? Page. 249
• Whether the unconverted have a promise to be heard? Page. 100
• The promise a sufficient war∣rant and ground of prayer. Page. 152
• The promises of grace distin∣guished from the promises to grace. Page. 208
• Whether such as are under the spirit of bondage can plead the absoute promises? Page. 209
• Whether must we doubt of the promises when we doubt of the success of prayer? Page. 469
• It is for our advantage that the promise of audience hath the condition of expedience annexed to it. Page. 483
• VVhether the promises con∣cerning

• temporals admit the ex∣ception of the cross. Page. 498
• How we may know whether we doubt of the promise, or of our own sincerity. Page. 505
• Whether the misbelief of the promises or threatnings be the greater sin? Page. 533
• How and what kind of pro∣mulgation of the rule is neces∣sary. Page. 148 218
• Providence not our rule; how it may be helpfull for clear∣ing, &c. Page. 158 &c.

Q

• The qualifications of pray∣er. Page. 400 &c.
• A word concerning the neces∣sity of such qualifications. Page. 547
• How the Spirit is quenched. (see the first Table) Page. 594

R

• In prayer we should minde our relations. Page. 274
• What repetitions in prayer are fit, and may be used. Page. 687
• Whether we may pray for re∣probats, known to be such? Page. 242 246
• Whether Judas, knowing his reprobation, ought to have re∣pented, and prayed for him∣self? Page. 247
• Whether the holy Ghost will dictat a prayer for a reprobat? and whether Christ prayed for such? Page. 269
• Reverence required in sup∣plicants. Page. 435
• The Saints have another kind of right to the creatures then the wicked. Page. 198
• The will of God our rule, but not his decrees. Page. 141
• Three things must concur for constituting the rule of pray∣er. Page. 147
• Rules for discerning the suc∣cess of prayer. Page. 723 &c.

S

• Saint-invocation confuted. Page. 106
• Whether Sathan can work immediatly upon the will and understanding? Page. 351
• Whether Sathan knoweth the secrets of the heart? (see the first Table) Page. 355
• Several Scriptures concern∣ing prayer paralleled. Page. 12
• Whether we may run to the Scriptures, and apply to our case the passage that first occur∣reth. Page. 175
• Of the season of prayer. Page. 681 &c.
• When we deprecat sin, we must prevail, as to the particular askt. Page. 484
• ...

• How a pardoned sin may be said to obstruct prayer? Page. 742
• Sin••e••ity necessary in prayer, and why, &c. Page. 441
• How the Spirit is said to in∣••erceed for the Saints? Page. 29
• How the holy Spirit helpeth us to pray as we ought? Page. 328
• As the Spirit alwayes abideth, so he alwayes worketh, though not as to the growth of grace. Page. 587, 588
• How far the Spirit with-draw∣eth his influence, in reference to prayer; and why? Page. 589
• How and wherefore the Spirit is quenched, &c. (see the first Table) Page. 593, &c.
• Spiritual mercies alwayes gi∣ven when askt. Page. 486
• The state of the supplicant con∣siderable. Page. 401
• Three grounds of the success and prevalency of prayer. Page. 300
• Several grounds for support∣ing our faith. Page. 500

T

• We should pray for temporal mercies, and how? Page. 182
• Arminians and Jesuits cannot tell what they ask when they pray for temporals. Page. 187
• Whether temporals should be asked in Christ's name? Page. 321
• When do temporals become ab∣solutely good, according to Aqui∣nas his conjecture. Page. 425
• Whether we may pray for tem∣porals with importunity? Page. 452
• How should our prayers for tem∣porals be resolved? Page. 712
• We may not be anxious about temporals, though we should ask them importunatly. Page. 719
• The testimony of some practi∣call Divines, in reference to the qualifications of prayer. Page. 549
• The popish mystical Theolo∣gy. Page. 645
• Whether thanksgiving be a part of prayer. Page. 19
• Thanksgiving, in case of a seeming denyal, an evidence of faith. Page. 526
• Thanksgiving after the Lord hath heard our prayers, necessary; what it importeth, &c. Page. 544
• What things may we ask in prayer? Page. 179
• How much time should be spent in prayer? Page. 685
• The Saints prayers, the Church treasure. Page. 295
• After what order should we di∣rect our prayers to the persons of the glorious Trinity? Page. 566, &c.
• Truth and sincerity necessary

• in supplicants. Page. 441
• The Lords truth and fidelity a ground of faith; vindicated from Medina his impious gloss. Page. 503

U

• What is that vail the Lord hath drawn over the heart, for hiding it from Sathan? Page. 356
• Saints praying for the uncon∣verted, may plead the pro∣mise. Page. 486
• Some causes of our unfitness to pray, with some remedies. Page. 602 &c.
• Unfitness excuseth not our neg∣ligence and omission of duty. Page. 637
• The blasphemy against the holy Ghost unpardonable. Page. 239

W

• After prayer we must wait for an answer. Page. 535
• Wandring thoughts, their cause, cure, &c. Page. 602
• When, and what wandring thoughts hinder and marre the success of prayer. Page. 644, &c.
• We must have a warrant to draw nigh to God, and for what we ask from him. Page. 141
• We must watch in prayer, and after prayer. Page. 453, 539
• The Saints weary in, but not of, prayer. Page. 457
• The wicked ought to pray. Page. 86
• Some assertions concerning the wicked's obligation and ability to pray. Page. 88
• Whether the wicked may ask in faith, and plead any promise as having a right thereto? Page. 99, 100
• Prayer an act of the will. Page. 21
• Witches say the Lords prayer backwards. Page. 452
• Whether the Lord now worketh any wonders or miracles? Page. 508
• Words required in prayer, and how? Page. 20
• Whether Christ now in prayer uttereth words? Page. 61
• The Word of God how tasted by the unconverted? Page. 388
• How the works of the uncon∣verted may be said to please God? Page. 94
• Whether in every act of wor∣ship, we must conceive of God un∣der the personal relations, so that we may not conceive of him ab∣solutely as the alone Jehovah, first Being and Cause. Page. 581
• Who is the true worthy and invincible man? Page. 696

Z

• Zeal required in prayer. Page. 442
• Much zeal expressed by Pa∣gans in their worship. Page. 449