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ren-Trembling, salvation to be wrought out
with, ii, 236

Stewardship, an account of, to be
dered to God, i, 453
Strength of angels, what, ii, 135
Striving to enter in at the strait gate,
what, i, 290

Sufferings, consistent with happiness,
ii, 230-productive of various advan-
tages, ii, 45

Sun, the creation of, ii, 28-our igno-

Trespasses, what, i, 241

Trinity, mode of the, no man required to
believe, ü, 21-discovered by faith,
ii, 407-objections to the belief of,
answered, ii, 21-doctrine of, con-
nected with all religious experience,
ii, 24

rance of the nature of, ii, 118-mag-Toopos, explained, ii, 236
nitude of, ii, 364
Zvvednoεws, explained, ii, 377
Supererogation, works of, have no ex-
istence, i, 457

True religion, described, i, 61. See Re-
ligion.

Swearing, common, forbidden by Jesus
Christ, i, 201-before a magistrate,
not forbidden by Jesus Christ, i, 201
Swift, Dean, a sermon of his, commend-
ed, ii, 20

Tale bearing, what, i, 433

Taylor, Bishop, referred to, ii, 195—his"
"Holy Living," recommended, ii, 446
-mistake of, corrected, ii, 295
Taylor, Dr. John, his character of
Christ, ii, 379

TEKvia, explained, ii, 184
Teλcio, explained, ii, 224
Temper, of great importance in public
reformers, i, 466

Tempers, of more importance than ideas,
ii, 485

Temporal things, folly of preferring,
ii, 17
Temptation, what, i, 242; ii, 213, 251-
our liability to, i, 168, 358; ii, 144-
a cause of spiritual heaviness, i, 421-
a cause of spiritual darkness, i, 412-
deliverance from, ii, 216
Tempting God, the danger of, ii, 218
Tender conscience, what, ii, 380
Terence, quotation from, ii, 343
Tertullian, testimony of, concerning the
church, ii, 63

Thankfulness, due to God for salvation
from sin, ii, 67
Θελειν, το, what, ii, 235
Theophylact, quoted, ii, 416
"Thorn in the flesh," what, i, 363
Thought for life, and the body, in what
sense forbidden, i, 272

Thought for the morrow, in what sense
to be guarded against, i, 275
Tillotson, erroneous doctrines of, ii, 493
Time, what, ii, 13-to be redeemed from
sleep, ii, 295

Tindale's Bible, referred to, ii, 280
Tityus, fable of, explained, ii, 231
Toad, singular account of a, ii, 482
Trade, immense, of North America, i, 501
Trapp, Dr., remark of, concerning Mr.
Law's writings; ii, 389

Treasure, possessed by believers, ii, 479
Treasures, not to be laid up on earth, i,

258

Truth, importance of speaking, ii, 276-
neglect of, in Great Britain, i, 519
Tythes, regularly paid by the Pharisees,
i, 228

Unbelief, no pretence for, in prayer, i,

284

Uncharitable conversation, Christians
often guilty of, i, 119

Unction from the Holy One," what, ii,
379

Under the law, state of a person who is,

described, i, 80-in what sense be-
lievers are not, i, 320

Understanding, the human, what, ii, 60
-of an angel, ii, 134
Understandings of men, not stronger
formerly, than at present, ii, 359
Ungodly, those whom God justifies, i, 48
Unhealthy employments, to be avoided,
i, 422

Unholy men, advices respecting, ii, 210
Unholy tempers, produced by riches, ii,
398

Unity of God, what, ii, 429
Unity of the Spirit, what, ii, 160
University of Oxford, departure of the,
from the truth, ii, 492-practice of, ii,
495-statutes of, quoted, ii, 497—
powerful and affecting address to,
i, 41

Unjust steward, case of, explained, i,
440
Unworthily eating and drinking the
Lord's supper, what, ii, 353
YTELKETE, explained, ii, 325
Usher, Archbishop, dying prayer of, i,
120

Vain repetitions in prayer, to be avoid-
ed, i, 235

Vanity, engendered by gay apparel, ii,
260 in what respect brutes are sub-
jected to, ii, 52

Vegetable kingdom, our ignorance of
the, ii, 119

Vegetables, original state of, ii, 28
Veracity, what, ii, 276
Verbal religion, what, i, 299
Vestments, unworthy disputes respect
ing, ii, 292

Vineyard, God's, what, ii, 388-brought
forth wild grapes, ii, 394

Virgil, sentiment of, concerning future
punishment, ii, 148-quotations from,
ii, 342, 357, 417, 471

Virtue, not greater formerly, than at
present, ii, 360-ineffectual attempts
to recommend the practice of, ii, 67
Virtue of humility, the term censured,
i, 183

Visiting the sick, what, ii, 330-recom-
mended, ii, 272

Vocation, what, ii, 158

Volcanoes, the principal referred to, i,
132; ii, 26, 86

Voltaire, taught practical Atheism, ii,
433

Waiting upon God for salvation, what,
i, 143

Walk, sense of the term, explained, ii,

158

Walking after the flesh, what, i, 69
Walking after the Spirit, what, i, 69
Walking by faith, what, ii, 423, 426
Walking by sight, what, ii, 423
Walking in darkness, what, i, 415
Walpole, Sir Robert, maxim of, ii, 477
Walsh, Rev. Thomas, mentioned, ii, 223
-Biblical knowledge of, ii, 285
Wandering thoughts, what, i, 370-oc-
casions of, i, 371-which are sinful,
and which not, i, 373-which we may
be delivered from, and which not, i,

375

Wantonness of the Americans, described,
i, 501

War, the misery of, i, 518
Warburton, Bishop, mistake of, concern-
ing the Methodists, ii, 389-haughti-
ness of, ii, 346-testimony of, respect-
ing Bishop Taylor, ii, 195
Water, state of, in the new earth, ii, 85
Watts, Dr., some of his writings com-
mended, ii, 127-amorous character
of some of his hymns, ii, 443-quoted,
ii, 154, 445, 484

Way, the, in which children should go,
ii, 308

Way to heaven, the properties of, i, 288
Way to hell, the properties of, i, 287
Wealth, the gain of, ii, 226. See Riches.
Wedding garment, what, ii, 457, 459
Wesley, Mrs., management of her chil-
dren, ii, 312

Wesley, Rev. Samuel, sen., death of, ii,
524

Wesley, Rev. John, prejudices of, i, 492

-mission of, to America, i, 492-con-
duct of, while he was only almost a
Christian, i, 22-filial conduct of, ii,
318-advice to, by Archbishop Potter,
ii, 376-experience of, in regard to
sleep, ii, 295-respect of, for the Mo-
ravians, ii, 443-conduct of, when at
Oxford, ii, 211-feelings of, on visit-
ing the school where he was brought

up, ii, 358-religious experience of,
ii, 129, 130, 131, 182-conduct of, ii,
254-anecdote of, ii, 262-held the
imputation of Christ's righteousness,
i, 172-conversation of, with a gen-
tleman, ii, 487-defence of, against
the charge of instability, ii, 459-re-
gret of, on surveying the Methodist.
plan, ii, 439

Wheels, in Ezekiel's vision, what, i, 499
Whitefield, Rev. George, mission of, to

Georgia, i, 499-prejudices of, against
the church, i, 497-sketch of his life,
i, 470-account of his death, i, 474—
view of his character, i, 475

Wicked men, a source of temptation to
others, ii, 214

Wickedness of men, both before and
since the flood, i, 393, 394
Wickedness of the human heart, ii, 473
Widows, neglected in the primitive
church, ii, 60

Wife, the soul of a, to be cared for, ii, 302
Wilderness state, what, i, 408
Will, the, what, ii, 69-freedom of, as-
serted, ii, 404, 460. See Freedom
Will of God, how discovered, i, 333-
how done in heaven, i, 239-not the
cause of spiritual darkness, i, 410-
not the cause of spiritual heaviness,
i, 422

Willingness of the Lord to save from all
sin, asserted, i, 122
Winchester, inscription over the gate of
the city of, ii, 419
Witherspoon, Dr., quotation from a ser-
mon of, i, 503
Wisdom, what, ii, 277

Wisdom of God, remarks upon the, ii,
102-what, ii, 108-displayed in the
Wisdom of building upon a rock, i, 301
government of his creatures, ii, 108
Wisdom of submitting to the righteous-
ness of Faith, i, 58

Wisdom of angels, what, ii, 134
Witness of the Spirit of God, what, i,
87, 93-enjoyed by those who are born
of God, i, 157-how distinguished
from presumption, i, 89-not to be
separated from the fruit of the Spirit,
i, 100-antecedent to the witness of
our own spirit, i, 95 antecedent to
the fruit of the Spirit, i, 88-question
respecting, stated, i, 95-objections
to, answered, i, 97-obstructed by the
doctrine of absolute predestination, i,
485-the doctrine of, a part of the
testimony which is committed to the
Methodists, i, 93

Witness of our own spirit, what, i, 85
Witnesses against sinners in the day of
judgment, described, i, 134
Wollaston, Mr., antichristian system of,
ii, 387, 433-writings of, censured, ii,
274

Women, should visit the sick, ii, 335
Work of God in the soul, described, ii,
235-order of the, ii, 39, 41
Work of God, among the Methodists,
the character of the, i, 495-in North
America, i, 499

Work of patience, what, ii, 220
Works, not the condition of a sinner's
justification, i, 48

Works of God, original state of the, ii,
25--our ignorance of the, ii, 118
Works of the devil, what, ii, 68-how
destroyed, ii, 72

World, gaining the, what, ii, 225-can-
not make men happy, ii, 230-love of,
reproved, ii, 113-impregnated with
the spirit of Satan, i, 103

World, the, who constitute the, ii, 198-
seclusion from the, ii, 374-conversion
of, how to be effected, ii, 76
World, the spiritual, discovered by faith,
ii, 409

World, the eternal, discovered by farth,
ii, 408, 466

Worldly folly, described, ii, 452.
Worldly goods, entrusted to men by
God, i, 451

Worm that dieth not, what, ii, 149
Worshipping in spirit and in truth,
what, ì, 218

Yieldingness, injured by riches, ii, 398
Young, Dr., quotation from, ii, 292
Young men, in Christ, who, ii, 410
Young persons, should visit the sick, ii,
335-duty of, to avoid public diver-
sions, ii, 530

Zeal, a sort of, mischief occasioned by,
ii, 287-Christian, nature of, ii, 288
Znλos, explained, ii, 288
Zinzendorf, Count, held that there is no
sin in believers, i, 108, 111, 115–
saying of, ii, 176

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