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-With Obedience to God.

-With Humility, Confeffion, and turning from Sin.

-With Forgivenefs toward Men.

-With Alms and good Works.

-Must be frequent, fervent, and importunate.

235 174 Prayer with Tears.

175 Private Prayer.

176 Publick Prayer, a Part of publick Worship.

236 177 Directions concerning the Words or Expreffions to be used in

Prayer.

237 178 Of the Geftures of Body used in Prayer.

179 Things to be prayed for.

180 The Lord's Prayer, a Model.

181 Spiritual Bleffings, Wisdom and Grace to be prayed for.

182 Such earthly Things as are agreeable to God's Will, and

Submiffion to it.

183 Daily Bread to be prayed for.

238 184 Health and Deliverance from Sickness.

185 The Prayer of the Poor heard.

186 Interceffory Prayer.

187 For whom we ought to pray.

188 For the Church of God.

189 Inftances of fuch Prayers.

239 190 For Enemies.

191 Inftances of fuch Prayers.

192 Motives to Prayer, it is a commanded Duty.

193 God promiseth that he will hear Prayer.

240 194 God hath heard Prayer.

195 Teftimony of God's People that he hath heard their Prayer

196 Their Expectation that God will hear their Prayer.

197 Their Intreaties that their Prayers may be heard.

198 Their Grief at not being heard.

199 The Efficacy of Prayer, Miracles wrought by it.

241 200 Armies defeated by Prayer, and God's People delivered.

201 Prayers against Evil from Enemies.

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202 Prayer in Trouble, Inftances thereof.

243 203 Prayerlefs Perfons, or not praying.

244 204 The Prayers of Hypocrites.

205 The Prayers of the Wicked not acceptable to God.

245 206 Praise and Thanks due unto God, and required by him from

the Righteous.

246 207 Praise from the Wicked unacceptable to God.

208 The Wicked, their Unthankfulness.

209 Praise must be frequent.

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246 210 Praise must be with Sincerity.

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211 God prepareth his People for his Praise, or the divine Influ-

ences therein.

212 Thanks to God through Chrift.

213 Praife is a Part of publick Worship.

248 214 Of finging the Praises of God.

249 215 Subjects of Praise, God's Goodness and Mercy.

250 216 Praise for Christ.

217 For Bleflings from God by and through Chrift.

251 218 For God's Will revealed.

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219 For the Obedience and Faith of Chriftians as owing to God.

220 For God's Care of his Church.

221 For God's great and marvellous Works.

222 For God's marvellous Acts upon the Bodies and Minds of

Mankind.

223 For daily Bread.

253 224 For Deliverance from Trouble and Affliction.

225 For Deliverance from Enemies.

255 226 Honour due to God, and claimed by him.

227 God is honoured by Acts of Worship, Praife and Thanks.

228 By Holinefs of Life in his People.

229 By his People in keeping the Sabbath.

256 230 By Acts of Charity and Mercy to the Poor.

231 Honouring Chrift, Motives to it.

232 The Wicked dishonour God, and are punished.

233 Glorifying God.

234 Chrift glorified God on Earth.

235 Men glorify God by Praise and Thankfulness.

257 236 By Faith.

237 By good Works.

238 By various Duties.

239 Doxologies, or Glory afcribed to God in Worship.

258 240 God is glorified in the Reftoration and Prevalence of true

Religion among his People.

259 241 The Wicked glorify not God, and are punished.

242 God is glorified in the Deftruction of the Wicked.

243 Sanctifying God.

260 244 Threats against thofe who fanctify not God.

CHA P. XV. Characters good and bad, with Promises and

Threats.

260 I Godliness in Heart and Life.

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2 Promises to the Godly.

3 Means of Godliness given.

4 Godliness mifreprefented.

5 Ungodly defcribed by their Practice.

6 Threats against the Ungodly.

7 Righteoufnefs required.

8 Promifes to the Righteous of peculiar Favour from God.

Promifes

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9 Promises of Bleffings to the Righteous, as the Confequence of

Righteoufnefs by the Appointment of God.

264 10 The Righteous fhall be delivered from Enemies.

11 The Death of the Righteous blessed.

12 The Righteous bleffed after Death.

265 13 Unrighteoufnefs forbidden.

14 Threats against the Unrighteous.

15 Pardon promifed to thofe that forfake Unrighteoufnefs.
16 Zeal a Duty.-Want of Zeal.

266 17 Upright.

18 Promifes to the Upright.

267 19 Uprightness prayed for, and Prayer for the Upright.

20 Integrity.

21 Particular Inftances of Integrity.

22 Sincerity.

23 Perfection a cominanded Duty.

268 24 Directions for attaining Perfection.

25 Means of Perfections are, God and Christ.

26 The Holy Scriptures, a Mean of Perfection.

27 The Ministry, a Mean of Perfection.

28 Promises to the Perfect.

29 Inftances of Perfons called perfect.

269 30 Hypocrify forbidden.

31 Marks of Hypocrites.

270 32 Threats.

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33 Hypocrites hurtful to Men.

34 The Heart of the Righteous toward God, the whole Heart,

or Sincerity in Duties.

272 40 Broken contrite Heart.

41 Duties refpecting the Heart..

273 42 God taketh Notice of the Heart.

43 God influenceth the Hearts of the Righteous.

274 44 God's Judgments on the Hearts of the Wicked.

275 45 Satan influences the Hearts of the Wicked, Inftances thereof.

46 An evil Heart described.

47 The Hearts of the Wicked.

48 Keeping a good Confcience.

276 49 A good Confcience how attained.

50 Natural Confcience, Inftances of the Force thereof.

51 A weak Confcience not to be wounded.

52 Of an evil Conscience

53 Serving God commanded.

54 -With the Heart.

55 With fuitable Difpofitions of Heart.

277 56 God's Servants, Promises to them.

278 57 God's fervants, Prayers for them.

279 58 Not ferving God, Threats.

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279 59 Obedience to God commanded.

60 Univerfal Obedience required.

280 61 Obedience required with an high Efteem of God's Law.

62 -With Refolution of Heart.

63 Ability for Obedience promised.

281 64 Ability for Obedience prayed for.

282 65 Ability received from God acknowledged,

66 Intances of Obedience.

67 Promifes to the Obedient.

284 68 Threats against the Disobedient.

285 69 Obedience to Chrift commanded.

70 Promises to them that obey Christ.

286 71 Promifes to them that overcomeTemptations in obeying Chrift.

72 Difobedience to Christ, Threats.

73 God will render to Mankind according to their Works, good

or bad.

287 74 Good Works commanded.

288 75 Ability for good Works promised.

76 Promises to the Performance of good Works.

289 77 Examples of good Works.

78 Omiffion of good Works, Threats.

79 Shunning Evil and doing Good commanded.

80 Promifes to them that do Good, that do well.

81 Evil Doers, their Works to be avoided.

290 82 Evil doing, the Character of the Wicked.

83 Threats against Evil-doers.

291 84 Darknefs, and the Works thereof.

85 Threats against them.

86 The Righteous walk not in Darkness.

292 87 The Wicked and their Works called dead, the Righteous are

alive from the Dead.

88 Works of the Devil, Children of the Devil,

89 The Righteous have no Fellowship with the Children of the

Devil.

90 Works of the Flesh, living after the Flesh.

293 91 Lufts of the Flesh, forbidden to Christians.

92 Lufting after Women.

294 93 Lufting after Meats and Drinks.

94 The Evil of Lufts.

95 Corruption prevailing.

96 Confeffion of Corruption.

97 The Righteous not corrupt.

98 Defilement of Sin.

99 Threats against it.

100 Uncleannefs of Sin.

101 Confeffion of Uncleannefs.

296 103 Directions against it.

104 Threats against it.

105 Pollution.

106 Filthiness.

107 Directions.

113 Promises to the Juft, and Prayers for them.

298 114 Threatnings against the Unjuft.

115 The Unjust hurtful in the Earth.

116 The general Character of a good Man's Walk and Life.

117 Promiles to the Good.

121 Threats against the Froward.

122 The Righteous not froward.

123 Stubbornness, the Stiff-necked in their own Ways, and

Ways of their own Sight and Eyes.

124 The Wicked are Revolters.

125 Rebellion against God forbidden.

303 126 Enemies, Adverfaries of the Lord.

127 Deliverance from Enmity against God.

128 God's Threatenings against the Wicked.

305 129 Threats against the Wicked of Evils, as the Confequences

of Wickedness, under the providential Government of

God.

308 130 God's Threatnings against Sinners.

309 131 Sinners threatened with various Evils under the Providence

of God.

310 132 Tranfgreffors, Threatenings against them.

311 133 Iniquity forbidden.

134 God's Threatenings against the Workers thereof.

313 135 Iniquity, the Punishment thereof threatened under the pro-

vidential Government of God, intermixed with Inftances

thereof executed.

Firft Commandment.

314 136 Idolatry, or the Worship of strange Gods forbidden.

137 Threatenings againft Idolaters.

138 Judgments inflicted upon Idolaters.

316 139 God's Judgments upon particular Tranfgreffors of this

Commandment.

317

140 Covenants and Intermarriages with the Heathen Inhabitants

of Canaan forbidden to the Jews, left they thould thereby

be infnared to Idolatry.

141 Making Covenants and Intermarriages with Tranfgreffors of

this Commandment punished.

142 Strange Gods to be put away.

143 Tranfgreffors of this Commandment among the People of

Ifrael, and the Enticers thereto, to be put to Death by

the Hands of Men.

144 Threatenings against ftrange Gods.

145 Strange Gods are Vanity.

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