what,
Perfons infpired, how to be
judged of, 242.
Distance of Time,
St. Philip and St. James the
Lefs, 200. What may
be
learned from this Feftival, 207
Places, how holy, 499. Set
apart for public Worship in the
Apofiles Time, ibid. How to
be reverenced,
501
Poverty, what ought to reconcile
us to that State,
55
Prayer, when it afcends as In-
as
cenfe, 110. The Nature of it,
453. How necessary, 454•
Foravl at we ought to ask, 455.
What Encouragement, ibid.
Upon what Conditions, 456.
How to be performed, 457.
Wandering Thoughts confider-
ed, ibid. What Prayers moft
acceptable to God, and necefja-
ry for us, 458. By the Spirit,
what, 460. Advantages of fre-
quently performing it, ibid.
Family Prayer, a Duty incum-
bent on Mafters of Families,
459. Why we ought to pray
for the Minifters of God, 533
Prefentation of the First-corn,
what
what required concerning it
under the Law,
Prefumption, what, 305.
bad Effects of it, 306.
Cure of it,
Pride, the Folly of it,
Priest or Prefbyter, his office,
416. Qualifications required
in him, 417. The Church's
Careto admit fit Perfons, ibid.
They have not the Power of
Ordination,
Priefthood, its Dignity, 481
Honourable and happy Employ-
ment, 482. The Benefits of
it, 483. The Senfe of Man-
kind about it, ibid. Hor
efteemed among Heathens, 484.
How before the Law, 485.
How among the Jews, ibid.
Why confined by them to one
Tribe, 486. Why Levi prefer-
red, ibid. Exercifed by honour-
able Perfons, 487. How
esteemed among Chriftians, ib.
With what Title honoured in
the New Testament, 488. What
be learned from the Dig-
nity of the Priesthood,
Prophecy, what, 237. When
counterfeited, the Punishment,
ibid.
Prophecies of the Meffias, ful-
filled in Chrift Jefus, 250
Public Worship, how to be
performed,
501, 503
Purification of the Bleed Vir-
gin Mary, 124. The Law of
it, what, ibid. What it im-
ports, ib. What may be learned
from this Festival,
127
Publicans, how esteemed among
the Romans, 326. How
Rachel's Lamentation, what, 90
Reafon, its Ufe in Religion,271.
Knowledge of Religion, boru
attained,
233
Religious Matters, how to be
debated, 281. See Chriftian
Religion.
Remembrance of Chrifl, what
implied in it,
Repentance, what, 402. What
proper to excite it, 403. Obli-
gation to it, 405. The Con-
dition of Pardon, ibid. How
Men delude themselves about
it, 406. The Danger of it up-
on a Death-bed,
407
Reproof, the Nature of it, 291.
Obligation to it, ibid. The
Difficulty, whence, 292. How
to be performed,
293
Refolution of Amendment when
firm, and how made effectual,
403, 404.
Refpe&t to Spiritual Superiors,
what,
Reftitution neceffary in order to
Pardon,
404,
Refurrection of Jefus, what
we are to believe concerning
it, 154. The Proof of it,
ibid. Why he did not appear
to the Jews, 155.. Why ne-
ceflary he should rife, 156.
When he rofe, ibid. How three
Days in the Grave, ibid. An
Argument of our Refurrection,
PP
157. The Blefjedness of it to
the Righteous, ibid. What may
we learn from Chrift's Refur-
rection,
ibid.
Refurrection of the Body, what,
177. Why thought impoffible
by the Heathen Philofophers,
178. Poffible from Reafon,
idid. The Objection frem
Cannibals and Fishes eating
kuman Bodies, anfvered, 179.
Probable from Reafon, 181.
Certain from Scripture, 182.
Examples of it in the Old Te-
ftament, 183. In the New,
185. Who ball rife, 186.
How our Bodies fould be chang-
ed, ibid. The Influence this
Belief ought to have upon us,
187
Revelation, fupernatural, what,
233. Pofible, ibid. Necef-
Jary and expedicat, 234. Se-
veral Kinds, 235. Collected
in the Scriptures, 240. The
Charaters of it, ibid. What
may be learned from them, 245.
See Scriptures.
Riches, how to be employed, 110.
When eagerly dfired, faulty,
330. The mischievous "Effects
of them,
331
Rogation Days, why so called,
451. When eftali fbed, and
the Piety of them,
Sabbath day, how anciently eb-
jerved, 16. See Lord's Day.
Sacrament of the Lord's Sup-
per, what Preparation necef-
Jary, 506. Who abjelutely un-
fit, 507. Unworthiness in St.
Paul's Senfe, and the Punish-
ment, what, ibid. The Danger
of receiving, no Argument a-
gainst it, 508. The Obligations
to receive, 509. The End and
Defign of it, 510. The Confe-
cration of it, 511. What im-
plied in the Remembrance of
Christ, ibid. How often we
ought to receive, 512. Men
of Bufinefs not to be excused,
513. How we ought to receive,
514. Church's Care to prevent
the Profanation of it, 515.
Frequency does not diminish
Reverence, 516. Advantages
of frequent Communion, 517
Sacrifice, Chriftian, what, 510
Sacrilege, what, 529. The Pu-
nishment of it,
Saints, what, 365. How ac-
commodated to our Imitation,
369
Saturday, why obferved by the
Jews,
13
Schifm, what, 534. The Nature
of it is not altered by Laws of
Toleration,
535
Scriptures,to be read by all Chrif
tians, 194. The Jews and
frimitive Church practifed it,
195. Their divine Original,
196. Their Perfection and
Perfpicuity, 197. How to be
read to the left Advantage,
403. by Mei are not influ-
enced by them, 504. See Gol-
pel Infpiration.
Self devial, what, 207. How
reprejented in Scripture, 208.
Of indifpenfille Obligation,
209. The Reajonableness of it,
Seventh-Day, why cbferved, 13
Seventy, a diftinct Order from
the Apofiles,
464
Sicknefs, bow to be borne, 445.
With Patience, 446. With
Truf
127
St. Simon and St. Jude, 355.
What may be learned from
this Festival,
359
Simony, what, 530. Why jo
called, ibid. The Punishment
of it,
531
Sincerity, as it refpects God,
what, 323. As it refpects
Man, ibid. The Method of
attaining it,
324
Sins of Common, what, 539.
Of Omiffion what, 540. What
implied in Chrift's faving us
from Sin, 160. Aggravations
of Sin, what, 545. Par-
taking of other Men's Sins,
what,
121
Sitting at the Right Hand of
God, what,
Sorrow for Sin how to be excited
and expreffed,
385, 403
Soul, what meant by it, 161
Its Immorta ity, 162. Prov
ed from Realon, 163. From
Scripture, 170. What Af-
Jurance the Jews had of it,
169. Does not fleep till the
Refurrection, 171. The Chrif-
tian Evidence for it the
greateft, 172. The Effect it
ought to have upon us, 174.
See Immortality.
Star at our Saviour's Birth,
what,
106
St. Stephen, 65. What may be
learned from this Festival, 69
Steward of God's Mysteries,
what meant by it,
Submition of a Chriftian,
what,
Sufferings of Chrift, what,
426. Not the Torments of
the Damned, 428. Why b
Suffered, 429. A Proof of
his being the Mellias, 431.
Typified under the Law, 432.
For the Caufe of Religion,
when, 39. How good Men
are fupported under them, 40.
When we may expect God's
Affiftance under them, ibid.
Suffering Chriftians, what due
to them,
332
Supremacy of Sovereign Magi-
Strates what,
491
Subordination of Church Officers,
whence,
St. Thomas the Apostle, 42.
Chriftians called by his Name,
where, 45.
What may
learned from this Festival, 46
Time why valuable, and how to
be employed,
Tithes, due to the Clergy, 527.
To jubmit to the Payment of
Tithes highly reafonable, ibid.
Thoughts when finful, 541.
Wandering Thoughts in
Prayer, confidered, 457
Interpretation of Tongues, what,
191. See Gift of Tongues.
Trinity Sunday, 267. What
may be learned from the Ob-
fervation of it, 271. The
Mystery of the Trinity, what,
269. No Contradiction, ibid.
Explications dangerous, 270
Vigils,
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