Humility must be their character, 313.

St. Paul divides them into three classes, 315–317.
Their glory in the day of the Lord, 331-333.
Ministers should be distinguished by love, vi. 56.
An address to them, 334.

Their duty when attending profligate men in their last mo-
ments, vii. 52, 53. N. B. On this awful subject, our
author, and Massillon in his sermon, Sur la mort du
pecheur, have a very striking coincidence of thought.
Woe, woe to the faithless minister, 91, &c.

Ministers must strike at vice without respect of persons, 235
MINISTRY: the little success of Christ's ministry accounted for
by five considerations, ii. 162.

The Christian ministry excites dignified enemies, 204.
Attendance on it must make us either better or worse, iv.
163.

It was greatly abused by the Jews, 366.

A striking transition from preaching the most tremendous
terrors, to the ministry of consolation, vii. 54, 55.

An apology for the ministry of terror to certain charac
ters, 88, &c.

MIRACLES were performed in the most public places, and be-
fore the most competent judges, ii. 291.

The folly of asking for miracles while we live in sin, 335.
A MISER: his reflections at a funeral but transient, 336.
MOLINISTS: an opinion of theirs censured, iv. 363.
MONTAUSIER (Mons. de) his confession, 242.

MORALITY: its principle, the love of God, is always the same:
its variations therefore are simply the effect of superior
light, iii. 375,

The nature, obligations and motives of morality, iv. pref. vi.
Martyrs for morality; executioners, who punish men with
martyrdom for morality, 408; the magnanimity of those
who expose themselves to it, 411; the horrors that ac-
company it, 415; the obligation to submit to it, 417;
the glory that crown it, 420.

The morality of a magistrate, a people, a minister, a con-

gregation, a soldier, 207, 208.

MORAL evidence: its difference from mathematical, vi. 188.
MOSES: his advantages as a preacher, i. 133.

He is the reputed author of xcth Psalm, vi. 307.

The MULTITUDE bad guides in faith, v. 50; in worship, 54;
in morality, 56; in dying, 65.

MURRAIN of the cattle in Holland, viii. 70.

MYSTERY of the death of Christ, vi. 137.

MYSTERIES render a religion doubtful in four respects, viii.
93, &c.

Mysteries of Mahometanism contrasted with Christianity,
95, of popery, 101, of paganism, 107, of infidelity, 109.

N

NATIONS cautioned against placing an ultimate reliance on
fleets and armies, i. 422.

NATIONS are regarded as one body in the visitation of the ini-
quities of our fathers, 350.

National dangers should especially affect those who are

most exposed, iv. 165.

NATIVITY of Christ: all nature rejoicing at his birth, ii. 93.
NATURE and grace abound with marvels, i. 285.

The study of, unsearchably sublime, v. 343.

NATURAL religion: the disciple of it embarrassed on contem-
plating the attributes of God; the nature of man; the
means of appeasing the remorse of conscience; and a
future state. But all these are no difficulties to the dis-
ciple of revealed religion, ii. 359-379.
The disciple of natural religion is embarrassed in study-
ing the nature of man, in three respects, 364.

The disciple of natural, and the disciple of revealed reli-

gion, at the tribunal of God soliciting pardon, 372.
Fortifying themselves against the fear of death, 375.

The confusion of Pagan philosophers respecting natural

religion, in four respects, 379.

NEBUCHADNEZZAR: the rapidity of his conquests, i. 184.
NEHEMIAS (Rabbi) his curious reply to a Roman Consul, who
had inquired concerning the name of God, iii. 395.
NIGHT: a christian, seeking for the evidence of religion, is
placed between the night of historic difficulties, and the
night of his future hopes, vi. 147.

The faith which respects the night of futurity, 170.
NINEVEH: the fall of that metropolis, viii. 130.
NOBILITY of birth often extravagantly panegyrized, 44.
A virtuous descent the highest nobility, 45.

OPINIONS of the fathers respecting the salvation of certain
heathens, ii. 386, &c.

ORIGEN: his avowal of the Godhead of Christ, iii. 194, 196.

His ideas of hell, 423.

ORIGINAL SIN, or seed of corruption, attributed to the depra-
vity of nature, ii. 368.

It is hostile to truth and virtue, iv. 322.

It disorders the soul with unholy dispositions, 322.

The depravity of nature is increased by acts of vice, 330.
It descends from parents to children; and therefore is a
strong argument for diligence in education, v. 30.

OROBIO (Isaac) a learned Jew, ii. 238.

P

PAGANS their belief in the presence of the gods at their festi-
vals, largely illustrated, vi. 234.

Their major and their minor mysteries, too abominable
for description, viii. 108.

:

PAPISTS their uncharitableness in denying salvation to all
christians out of their communion, iv. 120.

PAPISTS they cannot be saved as idolaters, iv. 122, 123.
They are guilty of idolatry in adoring the host, &c. 123-7.
They are but a novel people compared with the primitive
christians, v. 51.

Their preachers censured, 325.

PARDON promises of it to various classes of sinners, i. 304.
ii. 372-374.

PARENTS cautioned to look to their children, vi. 336.

PARTY-SPIRIT the dangers of it, i. 83.

PAUL: (ST.) he kept under his body, for the race and the fight,
iv. 374-380.

An eulogium on his character, 382-388.

The time of his rapture into the third heaven, vi. 262.
The transports of his rapture, 295, 296.

The obscurity of some parts of his writings arises from the
difficulty of distinguishing general arguments, from rea-
sonings addressed to particular adversaries. 344.
He preached Christ at the tribunals, where he was perse-
cuted for preaching him, vii. 228.

He selected three subjects of discourse before Felix, cal-
culated to convert that prince, 229-240.

Court-preachers contrasted with St. Paul, in a striking
apostrophe to the dignitaries of the church, who sur-
rounded the person of Louis XIVth, 233.

He is a model for ministers, 251.

PASSION: a lawless favourite passion dangerous to the soul,
iv. 43, 44.

The passions defined, v. 227, 228.

They war against the soul, 234; and against reason, 242.
The disorders they excite in the imagination exceed those
excited in the senses, 238.

Erroneous inferences occasioned by the passions, 240.
Remedies for the disorders of the passion prescribed,

243-246.

Philosophical advice for subduing them, is to suspend acts,

to avoid idleness and use mortification, 249-252.
An apostrophe to grace for power over passion, 267.
The illusive happiness acquired by the passions, viii. 74.

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PERFECTION the highest attainable in this life, is to know

:

death, without fearing it, vi. 369.

PERSEVERANCE: men must be saints before we exhort them to

persevere, vii. 140.

We cannot be saved without perseverance, 151.

The scripture characters founded their assurance, on per-
severing to the end, 152.

A caveat against unqualified perseverance, 157.

An address to carnal men who hold this doctrine, 160; to
visionary men, 162, and to sincere people, 163.

Models or examples of perseverance, 174, &c.
PENTECOST: the glories of the day, 287, ii. 283.
PERSECUTION: the agents of it fulfil the designs of the Al-
mighty, i. 415, 416.

A pathetic contrast between the persecution of the French
Protestants, and the sufferings of the Jews on the destruc-
tion of their city by Nebuchadnezzar, viii. 138–140.
PETAVIUS the Semi-arian, refuted by Bp. Bull, iii. 184.
PETER (ST.): his confession of faith, ii. 137.

His sermon on the day of Pentecost possessed five ex-
cellences, 284.

A fine specimen of what he would say, were he to fill a pul-
pit, 307.

His feelings at the transfiguration, vi. 292.
His attachment to the Levitical law, 341.
Six circumstances aggravate his fall, vii. 345.
Christ's look at St. Peter after his fall, 349.
The nature of his repentance, 353, &c.
PHALARIS: his cruelty, i. 260.
PHARISEES: their hypocrisy traced, v. 80.
PHILO had a notion of the Trinity, ii. 396.
PHILOSOPHERS: their ancient errors, 202.

Their prejudices against the gospel unreasonable, 330.
PHILOSOPHICAL apathy a great evil, viii. 67.

PIETY: its excellence, i. 130.

It is distinguished by knowledge, sincerity, sacrifice, and
zeal, v. 78, &c.