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Pilgrimage of the saints, 405.

Pilgrims, God the guide of, 563; song of, 567, 702, 718.
Pisgah, 403.

Pleasures, of a good conscience, 408, 709; of religion, 391, 409;
sinful, forsaken, 380; vain and dangerous, 436. See De-
light.

Poor, charity to the, 115, 223, 624.

Popish idolatry reproved, 228.

Power, of faith, 532, 701; of God, 655 (See God); and goodness,
423; of the Gospel, 120, 455, 221; of prayer, 590; and wis-
dom in Christ crucified, 480.

Praise, to Christ, 401, 422, 377 (See Christ); to the Creator, 201,
506; to God, 179, 374, 417, 720, 766-68, 278-87; from
angels, 390; from children, 63; for creation, &c., 209; and
redemption, 395; for deliverance, 103, 232; for Gospel, 199;
for health, 95, 229; for prayer heard, 149; for protection,
139, 377; for providence and grace, 106; for temporal bless-
ings, 152; temptations overcome, 76; universal, 230, 232-
84, 417, 768.
Prayer, what? 744; answered by crosses, 540; for children,
610; for consolation, 713; exhortation to, 590; for grace to
quicken, 245; heard, 65, 102, 138, 147, 149, 308; for help,
693, 542, 538-39; and hope, 93; Lord's, 589; for pardon,
holiness, &c., 691, 132-34; of a penitent, 690; power of, 590
psalin before, 194; for regeneration, 451-52; for reign of
Christ, 723 (See Missionary Hymns); for revival, 747;
secret, 745; for spiritual healing, 580; and watchfulness,
542, 705.

Prayer-meeting, 737, 745.

Preaching, baptism, &c., 456; different success of, 353.
Predestination. See Election.

Presence of Christ, 435, 382; of God, 431, 406, 445.

Preservation, 248, 377, 314, 121: Preserver, God our, 385, 267.

See God.

Pride, and death, 125; and humility, 357.

Priesthood of Christ, 221, 381. See Christ.

Prodigal repenting, 354, 696.

Professors, false, entreated, 577.

Promises, to Abraham, 349, 212; to believers, &c., 606; of the
covenant, 309, 349; pleaded, 241; our security, 397, 410,
415; and threatenings, 173; unchangeable, 362.

Prophecies and types of Christ, 454; and inspiration, 462.
Prosperity dangerous, 137, 435, 110, 124, 157, 160-62; temporal
and spiritual, 150.

Providence, 147, 209, 280, 401; affliction under, 334; darkness
of, 441; mystery of, 162, 548; recorded, 169, 216; submis-
sion to, 293, 549, 711; wisdom and equity of, 64.

Prudence and zeal, 111.

Punishment, and pardon, 215; for sin, 51-66, 343, 352, 652. See
Judgment.

Purity, of heart blessed, 234; in heaven, 345-46.

Purposes of God, 506, 548.

RACE, Christian, 312.

Rain, 148, 636.

Ransomed of the Lord, 718.

Reason humbled, 427,

Reconciliation in Christ, 460, 554.

Redeemed in heaven, 716-17.

Recovery, from sickness, 229. See Fall.

Redeemer, 520-25, 560. See Christ.

Redeeming love, 526, 601, 695.

Redemption, 391, 395, 421, 523; fulness of, 694.

Refuge, Christ a, 559, 600; in God, 66, 76, 136, 188.

Regeneration, 341; happiness of, 531; necessity of, 527, 341:
prayer for, 132, 451-52; vital union to Christ in, 699; work
of the Spirit, 453.

Reign of Christ, 523, 728-30. See Christ.

Religion, all in all, should be, 675; duties of, 359, 467; excel.
Tency of, 452, 675; genuine, 71; hypocritical, 361, 534; one
thing needful, 634, 675; pleasures of it, 391, 409, 695-97;
revival of, hoped for, 579; prayed for, 747; vain, without
love, 360; in words and deeds, 109, 115, 223.
Remembrance of Christ, 477, 664.

Repentance, command of God, 682; confession, &c., 528, 690;
at the cross, 379, 439; and faith in the blood of Christ, 135;
from God's goodness and patience, 419, 438; and impeni
tence, 449; gives joy to heaven, 343, 696; justification and
sanctification, 98; of the prodigal, 354, 696.

Resignation, 251, 549-50, 711.

Resolutions, holy, 244.

Rest, none on earth, 459, 679; in heaven, 310, 426, 752.
Resurrection, 650, 441; of Christ, 518, 664; of saints, 73, 75, 125,
436, 763-64.

Retirement, 447, 745.

Returns and backslidings, 385, 708.

Revival of religion, begun, 178, 672; hoped for, 579; prayed for,

747.

Riches, 124, 304, 407, 436.

Righteousness, Christ our, 342, 347, 335, 157, 302; our own insuf-

ficient, 463.

Rising to God, 700, 567, 380.
Rock, God a, 77, 141; Christ a,
Room for penitent sinners, 682.

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SABBATH, delightful, 382, 735 (See Lord's Day); morning,
582; prayer-meeting, 736; schools, 742-43.

Sacramental, 474-90, 611-14, 663-71, 739-41, 457, 422, 399, 391,

320-31.

Sacrifice, Christ our, 115, 457. See Christ.

Safety, of the church, 93, 252, 295; in God, 141; in disease and
danger, 188.

Saints, adopted, 322, 568; beloved in Christ, 316; characterized,
71, 365; chastised, 171, 193; cheered, 718-19; communion
with, 475; death and burial of, 375; departing, 756; die,
but Christ lives, 205; dwell in heaven, 90, 310, 413, 649,
752; example of, 456, 533; no fear in death, 710; God their
avenger, 444, 65; God's care of them, 102, 89, 138, 580; in
the hands of Christ, 362; happy, 696, 547, 391;-in death,
301, 306, 392, 483, 755-57; here, have no abiding city, 703;
hope of, 75; judging the world, 287; pilgrimage of, 405;
pleading under chastisement, 251; safety of, 67, 412, 555,
565;-in the last day, 765; sleeping in Jesus, 759; and sin-
ners, portion of, 51, 75, 110; trembling, encouraged, 715;
tried and saved, 252, 565; warned and exhorted, 173. See
Believers, Church, Christian, Death.

Salvation, 427, 234, 570; by Christ, 179, 233, 361; by grace, 348,
694; near approach of, 719; neglected, 393. See Christ,
Cross, Grace.

Sanctification, 98, 428, 342, 345, 453, 296.

Satan, 464, 69, 346. 319.
Saturday evening, 735.

Saviour, 668.

See Christ, God.

Scriptures, Holy, 80, 236-40, 316, 446; efficacy of, 581; inspiration
of, 462; law and gospel in, 446; and nature, 79; value,
582, 674.

Seasons, 281, 593, 634-39.

Secret devotion, 235, 447, 584, 745.
Sectarian spirit rebuked, 698.

Seed, sown in different grounds, 587; of the woman, 346, 454.
Seeking Christ, 324; God, 93, 142.

Self-dedication, 236, 422, 692; denial, 550, 700; examination,
539, 92, 270; righteousness, 463.

Sense assisting faith, 456.

Sermon, hymn before, 737; after, 738; psalm before, 195.

Serpent, brazen, 349.

Servants of God, safe, 565; should praise him, 573; watchful,
681, 704.

Shepherd, Christ a, 324, 364; God a, 87, 564.

Shortness of life, 185, 397. See Life.

Sickness, 59, 95, 112, 229, 317.

Sight of Christ, 387, 393-94, 419, 483.

Simeon's song, 302, 483.

Sin, abhorred, 439; actual and original, 133; cause of Christ's.
death, 423, 516; confessed, 99, 133, 690, 528; conflict of,
with holiness, 541; conviction of, 340, 350, 528, 690; custom
in, 466; dead to, by the cross, 346; deceitfulness of, 461;
evil of, 388; folly and madness of, 463; fountain opened
for, 689; indwelling, 705, 350; against law and gospel, 352;
and misery not in heaven, 426; original, 133, 318, 508, 655;
pardoned, 97, 345; prayer for power over, 706; release from
its power, 530; renounced, 346; call to renounce, 683; ruin
of angels and men, 388; slavery of, 346, 530; sorrow for,
528, 690, 432, 439; universal, 70.

Sinai and Sion, 462.

Sincerity, 77, 92, 236, 270, 361, 703.
Sinner, alarm to, 575, 679-83, 751, 761; awakened, 689-91;
contrasted with saints, 51, 66, 75, 234, 110, 160; death of a,
645; an aged, 339; a rich, 126; entreated, 576, 684-89; ex-
cluded from heaven, 678; hastened, 681; invited to Christ,
294, 357, 529, 577, 686-89; pleading for mercy, 578, 690; re-
solving to go to Christ, 529; room for, 682; submitting to
God, 529, 688, 690; vilest may be saved, 337; wept over,

660.

Slander, 96.

Slavery, of Satan, release from, 342; of sin, 346, 530; of the

world, 701.

Sleeping in Jesus, 759.

Sloth complained of, 389.
Soldier's psalm, 79, 140.

Son of God, 404 (See Christ). Sons of God, 322, 365, 316.
Song, of angels, 292, 510, 657; of believers, Christ the, 566; of
the Christian, 571; conqueror's, 79; deliverance from dis-
tress of mind, 113; of Hezekiah, 317; to the Lamb, 291; of
Mary, 319; of Moses and the Lamb, 317; pilgrim's, 567,
702. 718; of Simeon, 302, 483; of Solomon paraphrased, 323
-331; of Zecharias, 314.

Sorrow, godly, 379, 432, 528. See Afliction, Death.
Soul, arrayed for heaven, 302-3; value of, 674.
Sovereignty, 298. See Election, God, Grace.

Spirit. (See Holy Spirit.) Spirit and flesh, 457; water and
blood, 479.

Spiritual, apparel, 302; conflicts, 541; enemies, 56, 76; food,
294, 484; healing, 580; joy, 418; mindedness, 235, 696;
sloth, 389, 394; warfare, 275, 421, 718; washing, 296, 456;
waters, 294.

Spring, 634.

Star of Bethlehem, 657, 659.
Sturm, 94, 218; the last, 651.
Strait gate, 467.

Strength, from Christ, 157, 300, 335, 489; from heaven, 308.
Submission, to affliction, &c., 711, 549, 293; pleading with, 251;
of a sinner to God, 529; in Christ, 428-29.

Success, of the Gospel, 221, 353, 458, 616, 727; in life, 254.
Sufferings of Christ, 516, 662. See Christ.

Summer, 281, 636.

Sun, of glory-Christ, 724; of righteousness, 81, 451.

Support, and counsel from God, 73-4; for the afflicted, 136, 243,
Surrender to infinite love, 610.

TABLE, the Lord's, 486, 611. See Sacramental.

Teaching, of Christ, 659; of the Spirit, 240.

Te Deum, 654.

Temptations, complaint in, 69, 468; hope in, 362, 543; overcome,
76; of Satan, 464; support in, 56, 136, 194, 558'; watchful-
ness in, 542; three chief, 436.

Tempted, Christ's compassion to, 356.

Testament, new, in the blood of Christ, 475.

Thankfulness, 554, 556, 208, 230, 232, 251.

Thanksgiving, 593, 748, 442.

Throne, of God, 192, 415; of grace, 440, 395.
Thunder, 94.

Tidings, good, to all people, 658.

Time, the accepted, 685; importance of, 640, 678, 337, 407;

short, 408 (See Life); swiftness of, 638.

Titles of Christ, 367-73.

To-day, 195, 576, 643, 681.

Tongue governed, 111.

Transfiguration, 660, 514.

Tree of life, 478, 486.

Trial, of grace, 148, 252; of the heart, 92, 268.

Trinity praised, 395, 491, 496, 289, 574.

Triumph, of Christ over our enemies, 306, 487; over death, 75,
294, 348; in God, 77; over temporal enemies, 78.

Trust, in Christ, 345, 362, 428, 532, 536, 543, 545, 561; in crea-
tures, vain, 141; in God, 565, 57, 87, 100, 141, 552.

Truth, grace, &c., 139; praise for, 278; and promises of God,
362, 410, 415; unchangeable, 181.

Types of Christ, 454, 508; centre in Christ, 381.

UNBELIEF, danger of, 343; and envy, cured, 108; and im-
penitence, 449; of Israel, 196; perverts the Gospel, 353.

Unchangeable God, 414, 191-92, 181.

Unconverted state, 466. See Sinner.

Unfruitfulness, 469.

Union, and peace, 260, 697; to Christ, 699; of saints on earth

and in heaven, 462, 698.

Unity, of God, 395, 493, 262; of spirit, 698

Unregenerate state, 466, 527, 463, 466, 318, 70.

Unseen, Saviour, 347; things, 353.

VANITY, of creatures, 459; of life and riches, 124; of man,
112, 185, 275, 334, 643; of religio 1 without love, 360; of the
world, 380; of youth, 338.

Veil. looking within, 456, 467.

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Vengeance of God, 150, 166.

Victory, of Christ over Satan, 428, 319; over death, 75, 348, 756;
over temporal enemies, 78, 83.

Virtues, Christian, 467.

Vision, beatific, 719; of the Lamb, 304, 387, 419.

Vows, fervent, 708; made in trouble, &c., 230.

WAITING, for answer to prayer, 257; for pardon. 90.

Walking with God, 547.

Wanderer entreated, 688.

Wandering, affections, 385; thoughts, 361.

Wants, God will supply, 296.

War, 78, 83, 140.

Warfare, spiritual, 275, 421, 541, 563, 718.

Warning, to saints, 173; to sinners, 575, 679. See Sinners.

Washing, spiritual, 296, 456.

Watchfulness, 704-5, 542, 272, 111.

Watchful servants, 681, 704.

Water, spirit, &c., 479.

Waters, spiritual, 294, 445.

Way, Truth, &c., Christ the, 668; broad and narrow, 465, 467.
Weakness, Christ our strength in, 300, 356.

Weary souls invited, 357, 688.

Weather, 147, 281.

Welcome to the church, 741, 611; welcoming the cross, 701.
Wicked, Wickedness. See Sin, Sinner.

Will, obstinate, 318.

Winter, 637, 281.

Wisdom, carnal, humbled, 298; of God, 222, 271; Christ the,

339, 480; of Providence, 64.

Witness of the Spirit, 366.

Word of God, Christ the, 292. See Scriptures.

Works, of creation, 209, 263; of grace, 280; good, illustrate faith,
359; profit men, not God, 72; not saving, 348, 361.

World, creation of, 458; conversion of, 724; crucifixion to, 478,
398; dangerous, 380; end of, 469, 766; farewell to, 566)
judged by saints, 287; slavery of, deplored, 701; subjected
to Christ, 322; temptations of, 436; vanity of, 677.
Worldly men, 125.

Worship, accepted through Christ, 395; Christ present at, 382;
close of, 587-8, 738; daily, 137, 261; delight in, 143, 175,
382; divine condescension to, 400; family, 629-34; formality
in, 361; Gospel and order, 123; of heaven humble, 415; pri-
vate, 235, 447, 584, 745; public, 145, 175, 249, 258, 382, 737;
reverence in, 181, 201; social, 584, 745.

Worthy the Lamb, 321, 524. See Christ.

Wrath, day of, 761; from the judgment-seat, 64, 311; treasured
up, 679.

YEAR, close of, 640; crowned with goodness, 148; new, 638,
748.

Yoke of Christ, 357.

advised, 339, 608; death of, 647; prayer for, 609; vanity

Youth, 338.

ZEAL, in the Christian race, 312, 451; false and true, 535; for
God, 445; for the Gospel, 345, 376; and prudence, 111;
against sin, 439.

Zechariah's song, 314.

Zion, 121, 123, 145, 258, 297, 309; afflicted, 601; blessedness of,
250; citizen of, 71; glorious things spoken of, 616; God,
glory of, 412;-terrible to her enemies, 166; highway to,
615; prayer for, 617; restoration of, 205, 622, 726, 728; sings.
176. See Church.

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