of, a great error, III. 346, V. 539; value of, as seen in the light of eternity, III. 477, V. 542; death of the body no tendency to destroy, V. 533; death of the body no tendency to destroy the free action of, V. 535; annihi- lation of, at death, a great error, V. 538; consignment of, to purgatory, after death, an error, V. 540; passes to happiness or misery, immediately on its separation from the body, VI. 433.
SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD-a doctrine of Paul, I. 141; in the govern- ment of the world, II. 20; to be submitted to, by the bereaved, III. 39; tendency of afflictions to make saints realize the, III. 118; to be sub- mitted to in the future, as in this world, III. 124; in the death of men, III. 246, 248; what is meant by, III. 246; in calling men away, willing or unwilling, prepared or unprepared, III. 250; why displayed in men's death, III. 251; extends to all mankind, III. 372; manifest in his dealings with his peculiar people, VI. 307; a ground of rejoicing, VI. 490. SUBMISSION to civil authority, a divine requisition, II. 136-practiced by the inspired teachers, 136 – -a duty men are apt to forget, 137-a dis- agreeable duty, 138-essential to the public good, 138; proper ground of, III. 9, 12, 119; may be exercised by the afflicted under a painful sense of loss, III. 14, 270; ground of, the only source of true consolation, III. 15; to divine sovereignty, III. 117; true, in its own nature absolute, III. 123; unconditional, should be plainly preached, III. 125; under afflictions, pleasing to God, III. 267; want of, displeasing to God, III. 268; true, dif- ferent from stupidity, III. 269, 307; easy to determine whether truly ex- ercised, III. 272; habitual, the duty of all, III. 285, 298; duty of, under all the evils God inflicts by creature agency, IV. 372; unconditional, necessary to pardon, V. 273; does not imply an unconditional willingness to be lost, V. 287; doctrine of unconditional, founded in fact, VI. 426. SYMPATHY-all bound to exercise universal, III. 284.
TEACHING-divine, how imparted, VI. 74; why the subjects of divine, come to Christ, VI. 76; salvation of those under divine, more probable than of those not, VI. 81; special divine, no obstacle in the way of sin- ners coming to Christ, VI. 82; those not subjects of divine, will not come to Christ, VI. 83; divine, the only ground of hope for the impenitent, VI.
THURSTON-funeral sermon of Mr. Daniel, III. 29.
TIME-shortness of, habitually felt by christians, III. 476. TINDAL'S-Christianity as old as the creation, absurd, V. 436. TRIALS-See AFFLICTIONS.
TRINITY-scripture doctrine of, reasonable, IV. 105, 110, 111; the three persons in, equal, IV. 108; the three persons in, act in a certain order, IV. 108; name of each person in, derived from his office, IV. 109; the three persons in, one God, IV. 110; doctrine of, implies no contradiction, IV. 111; no more repugnant to reason than many other things, IV. 112; im- portance of understanding and believing the doctrine of, IV. 115; joint. operations of, foundation for union among all holy beings, IV. 116; doc- trine of, intelligible, IV. 125; disbelievers of the doctrine, not to be ad- mitted to the church, IV. 125; men indebted to each person in, for his official work in redemption, IV. 133; an essential article of Christianity, IV. 135; God the Father, the head of, IV. 137; each person of, to be worshipped distinctly, IV. 138.
TROUBLES-See AFFLICTIONS.
TRUTH-those united in the belief of, have a right to blame those who entertain different religious sentiments, I. 192.
TUFTS-ordination of Rev. James, I. 200.
TYRANNY-every form of, opposed to the reign of Christ, II. 302.
UNITY-of religious belief, the duty of christians, I. 185; of religious belief, objections against, I. 188; of religious belief, important to promote unity of affection, I. 197, VI. 214; of sentiment would tend to remove the objections of infidels, I. 197; of sentiment, important to the mutual strength of christians, I. 198.
UNIVERSALISM-every scheme of, no foundation in the Bible, V. 580; doctrine of, false and dangerous, V. 582; how to avoid the dangerous in- fluence of, V. 587; universal goodness of God, no argument for, V. 593; universal atonement of Christ, no argument for, V. 595; universal offers of pardon, no argument for, V. 596; universal goodness of mankind, no ar- gument for, V. 597; universal punishment in this life, no argument for, V. 598; no particular passages of scripture support, V. 599; the arguments for, destroy each other, V. 602; leads to the denial of all the fundamental principles of the gospel, V. 603; preachers of, criminal, V. 603; criminal to hear the preachers of, V. 604; gross delusion of, VI. 295.
VERACITY of God, not pledged in any of his laws, IV. 473; of God, though not pledged in his simple threatenings, pledged by his predictions and promises, IV. 474.
VIRTUE- difficulty of adhering to, II. 67; essentially different from vice, in the nature of things, IV. 143; essential difference between, and vice, knowable by the ignorant of God, IV. 144; God cannot destroy the dis- tinction between, and vice, because of the nature of things, IV. 146; ob- jections against the distinction between, and vice, IV. 147; meaning of the doctrine that it consists in utility, IV. 170; absurdity of supposing it to consist in utility, IV. 172, 177; why men disposed to embrace the doctrine that it consists in utility, IV. 177, 179; reason of the fickleness of such as place virtue in utility, IV. 183.
VOLITION every, an act of obedience or disobedience, IV. 536; good, necessary to a good heart, V. 135.
WALKING-with God, what implied in, VI. 325; with God, secures pe- culiar tokens of his favor, VI. 329; with God, in a day of degeneracy, does peculiar honor to religion, VI. 337. WAR-the greatest national calamity, WARE-Mr. Phineas, III. 325.
WARFARE of christians, what, V. 213, 393; foundation in the hearts of christians for the spiritual, V. 213, VI. 264, 417.
WASHINGTON-the great, II. 154; lamentation for, II. 158; propriety of lamenting his death, II. 164.
WEALTH-of nations promoted by peace, II. 87; a great favor to possess, VI. 442.
WEEKS installation of Rev. Holland, I. 213. WHIPPLE- ordination of Rev. Edward, I. 137.
WHITING-Dea. Joseph, II. 454; Dea. Peter, III. 79. WHITMORE-ordination of Rev. Zolva, I. 238.
WILL-what God's secret, respects, IV. 287; what God's revealed, res- pects, IV. 287; God's revealed the only rule of duty, IV. 288; God's se- cret, cannot be a rule of duty, because unknown, IV. 289; God's secret cannot in the nature of things be a rule of duty, IV. 290; no inconsis tency between God's secret and revealed, IV. 291; perverted notions of God's secret, often indulged, IV. 293; God's secret can have no influence on men's actions, IV. 294; criminal to deny, or complain of, God's secret, IV. 297; all ought to rejoice in God's secret, IV. 298; no reason to think men have a self determining power of, VI. 604. WILLIAMS-installation of Rev. Thomas, I. 226, 251.
WILDER- Miss Esther, III. 93; Mrs. Esther, III. 104. WISDOM-God's, in appointing men's residences, II. 19.
WORLD-to exist many centuries longer, II. 21; happy state of, under the reign of Christ, II. 308; this, a troublesome, III. 275, 353; made troublesome, to wean men from it, III. 279; God has wise reasons for not making it more troublesome, III. 281; this, wearisome to saints, III. 352; conformity to the, why forbidden, III. 358; men bound to do their utmost while in it, that they may leave it better than they found it, III. 391; of little value to its inhabitants, III. 403; why represented so dangerous to sinners, V. 614; no reason to think this, will be the future residence of the happy or miserable of mankind, VÍ. 30; God always acts systemati- cally in governing, VI. 31; end of, a most glorious day, VI. 33; end of, will unalterably fix the destinies of men, VI. 34; this, the scene of God's brightest glory, VI. 100; this, better than if natural and moral evil never entered it, VI. 105; christians have reason to pray for a better state of things in, VI. 282; gratitude due to God for creating, VI. 502. WORSHIP-of any being not possessed of divine attributes, absurd, VI. 14; due to God, essentially different from the homage paid to creatures, VI. 16; received by Christ, proof of his divinity, VI. 17; why christians love to attend public, VI. 323.
YOUTH-in peculiar danger from corrupt example, II. 360; a warning to, III. 218; import of Solomon's warning to, Eccl. xi. 9, III. 219; impor- tance of their living prepared for judgment, III. 220; have sinful and corrupt hearts, III. 220; the world calculated to corrupt and destroy, III. 221; forming characters for eternity, III. 223; must give account for their conduct in this state of trial, III. 224; ought to consider if they can en- dure the judgment, III. 224; absurd for, to think of deferring preparation for a future state, III. 225; piety of, beautiful and amiable, III. 226; peculiarly proper for them to remember the Sabbath day, III. 227; im- proper to indulge them in sinful amusements, III. 227; death of, solemn and interesting to the living, III. 228.
ZEAL general nature of, II. 204; false, distinguished from true, II. 206; how false, will dispose men to act, II. 206, 209; criminality of those who act under false, II. 213; false, the most dangerous passion, II. 214; false political, in 1802, II. 216.
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