The cross of Christ relatively considered, assorts with all We must either be crucified by the cross, or immolated to the divine justice, 362. The atrocious guilt of those who nailed the Lord to the The cross considered relatively to the proofs of his love, D DARKNESS at our Saviour's death, vi. 116, 118. DAVID: his preference of God's affliction to that of man, v. 104. God's long-suffering to him, i. 378. His gratitude to Barzillai, vol. iv. 229. His affected epilepsy before Achish was an innocent strat He was too indulgent to his children, v. 35. He wept for sinners, 431: his piety, vii. 187. DAYS, the wisdom of numbering them, vi. 323, &c. Death considered as a shipwreck, iv. 289. The terrors of dying, vi. 373. The death of good men, v. 100 vi. 212. Death is a preacher of incomparable eloquence, v. 283. Jacob and Simeon both wished to die through excess of The words of dying men are usually very impressive, 77. The death of Christ an expiatory sacrifice, and a model of The death of Christ an accomplishment of the prophe- The death of Christ is to the Jews an atrocious crime, 133. The death of Christ a mystery inaccessible to man, 137. He has removed the terrors of dying by unveiling futurity, The complete assurance of immortality and life, removes Arguments to fortify a Christian against the fear of death 406 A striking thought to dying sinners on the word perhaps, viii. 275. DEISTS: Dr. Samuel Clarke divides them into four classes, ii. Pref. 2. DEISM is incumbered with insuperable difficulties, viii. 111. DESCARTES Contributed to remove the absurd notions of God, DESPAIR and gloom: ten arguments against it, 303. Despair from the death of the head of a house, viii. 22. DEVIL: his malice and wiles, vi. 372. DIFFICULTIES of succeeding a great character, viii. 49. Abstruse doctrines are difficult to weigh, iv. 342. DRUSILLA: her character, iv. 367, & vii. 231. DUELLING attended with bad consequences, v. 92. DUMONT (Professor) his life, iv. 427: his essay on David's DUTIES: the smaller duties of religion, iv. 77. Attention to Duties of professional men, v. 59. Duties of ministers when alone with dying people, 68, 69. E ECCLESIASTES: a caution against misquoting that book, v. 198. ECCLESIASTICAL domination attended with six evils, ii. 166. EJACULATIONS for divine aid in preaching, ii. 454. iii. 240. ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI : our author illustrates the con- ETERNITY: efforts to calculate its length, 448. EVIDENCE of object, and evidence of testimony defined, vi. EXILE recommended during a bloody persecution, vii. 208. 37 EXORDIUMS: our author's method in that point was singularly Miracles and prodigies gave the first preachers a superior- An exordium of negatives, iii. 366, 367. An exordium of prodigies; an incomparable one on the EXPERIENCE is the best preacher, vii. 95, &c. F FAITH: the circumstances-the efforts--the evidences-and Justifying faith described, 271, 275. The faith inculcated by the Arians, and many of the The distinction between being justified by faith, and Faith without works is dead, 293. Inattention to providences, a cause of the weakness of our Faith or belief described, iv. 105. Obscure faith defined, vi. 151. An act of faith in regard to retrospective, and to future ob- FAMILY of Christ; five characters of it, vii. 325. Fasting enforced from the tempest; the murrain of FEAR, as applied to God, has three acceptations: terror-—wor- possesses every thing to make us happy or miserable, i. 387-395. Arguments against the fear of man, 406. FELIX his character, vii. 230. He is considered as a heathen, a prince, an avaricious, and His procrastination is imitated by sinners, 247. The figurative style of Isaiah xl. i. 170. It is inadequate to express divine things, ii. 112. FIRE it burns the wood, hay, and stubble; and purifies the The FRAILTIES of nature distinguished from wilful sins, iv. FRIENDSHIP; must be faithful and honest in admonitions, as is G GAMES in Greece and Rome; five remarks on them, iv. 375-381 GENEALOGY of Christ, vii. 316, &c. A solution of its difficulties apparently correct, 319: GOD's eternity, i. 107. His supreme felicity, 112-116. God's presence realiz- His Omnipresence, 110-115, 135–142. Proved by his God is a spirit, and matter, however modified, can never |