Natural ability 350, 403, 557 Persecution before millenium 421

Law 342, 369, 612 Perseverence 495-505
Nature of sin 148–151

Peter's rank 507
Of regeneration 552 Pity to the poor 512
Of repentance 562

Plausibility of errorists 456
Of faith 182

Polity of the church 91-97
of infidelity 195

Polygamy 399
Of true prayer 520 Popery 506-9
Necessity of atonement 22 Popularity of Christ 70
Of using means 405

Popular opposition to Christ 71
of regeneration 553

Population of millenium 414
Neutrality moral 150

Poverty 510_516
Non-Resistance 471-483

And piety 513
Number of saints 592-3. Praise to God 236

Prayer 517-525
Obedience of Christ 62 74 Prayerfulness of Christ 68

To God essential 295 Pre-eminence of Christ 75
Expedient 296

Of saints 596
To parents 54

Prejudice 528, 609
To husbands 398

Preservation 252
Objections - Objectors 264–5 Prevalence of prayer 522
Obstinacy in sin 156, 169 Pride 526-8
Offences avoided 442

Will fall 527,

445
Officers of the church 92

Probation 534, 352
Offices of Christ 83

Procrastination 351
Of the Holy Spirit 326 Profession of religion 100-1
Onnipotence 214

Profitable preaching 209
Omnipresence 216

Promises to faith of miracles 199
Omniscience 215

To serving God 275
Oppositioa to grace 245

To loving God 279
Oppression 512, 610

To fearing God 282
Order domestic 398

To irusting God 284
To liberality 378--9

To using means 406
Ostentation 526-7

To parental faithfulness 409
Parental duties 466-9

To prayer 521
Neglect 470

To sabbath keeping 586
Partiality 528, 609.

Prophecy fulfilled 48
Patience 473

Prosperity 573
Peace 471-483

or the wicked 542
of the millenium 412

Providence, 529—531
Penalty of God's law 298

Public worship 273—4
Of civil codes 305-6

Punishment future 532–570
Perfection 487-494

Reasons for 547
Required 294

Capital 305—6
or future knowledge 366 Purposes of God 236—246

Of saints 489-493
Persecution 444-5

Qualifications of rulers 303
Of Christ 71

Of ministers 436

Ordinances of gospel 98–9

Threat’nings to oppressors610 613 Vanity of life 137
To thieves 616

Of the world 574
Title to heaven 295

Vessels of wrath 246
Titles of Christ 76

Vices 175, 198, 341, 367, 390,615
Tongue 624-7

Vindicative justice 233-4
Total depravity 160-1
Trials 1-9, 181

War 480-2
Of the Jews 429

Warfare Christian 440-1
Trinity in Unity 208-9

Warning before judgments 422
Trust in God 283-5

Watchfulness 628
In man 171

Against corruption 453
Truth of God 232

Wickedness to abound, 421
Unbelief 192-5, 550

Widow and fatherless 514-516
Ungodliness 291

Wiles of Satan 19
Union, Unity 104-8

Wisdom 360-4

Of God 218
Unity of God 209
Universal

Of obedience to God 296
Agency 250

of exhibiting God 269
Unpardonable sin 537

Women 397-8

Teachers 451
Unregenerate doings 161, 523,
525, 561

Works of Christ 78
Unrighteousness inexpedient 578 Worldly idolatry 573-5
Use of means 403-6

Worship of God, 270-4
Of afflictions 4,5

Zeal 173
Vain amusements 10

Of God 235

purposes 238

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CHARLES SIMMONS. North Wrentham, Mass. April, 1844.

SCRIPTURE MANUAL

Afflictions. 1. Are afflictions common to mankind ?

Job 5. 7. Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Job 7.17. What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon

him And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

Job 14. 1. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

2. Who sends afflictions ?

Dt. 32. 39. I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

1 S. 2. 6. The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. The. Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth

up. Job 5. 6. Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground. 17. Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

Ps. 39. 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, bem cause thou didst it. Remove thy stroke away

from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

Ps. 66. 11. Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidest affliction upon our loins.

Ps. 102. 10. Thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. 23. He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.