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The Riches of Mercy · Richard Sibbes

The Riches of Mercy, Table of contents

The Table.

A.

Abasement.

part.

page.

CHrists word powerfull in his abasement.

2.92

Affections.

Affections ▪ to Religion strong in women.

1.9

Affliction.

Affliction, why sent of God.

2.58

Prayer a remedy in affliction.

2.60

Angels.

Praise, a duty fit for Angels.

2.108

Appetite.

To blesse God for appetite,

2.46

Spiritual appetite how recovered.

2.140

Attend, Attention.

God opens the heart to attend.

1.46

Attention necessary.

1.54

Directions to attend on the Word.

1.57.

Trials of attending aright,

1.69

Attire.

Selling, and wearing rich Attire lawfull.

1.17

Atheisme, see Nature.

B.

Baptisme.

Baptisme, a seale of salvation.

1.76.

How to thinke of our Baptisme.

1.78

Beginning.

Great things from small beginnings.

1.11

Boldnesse, see Sinceritie.

C.

Callings.

Callings, allowed of God,

1.14

Censure.

Censure of wicked men not to be regarded.

2.24

Command.

Command of God over all things.

2.84

Commerce.

Commerce lawfull.

1.15

Confirme.

Approbation of strong Christians confirmes the weak.

1.95

Crie.

Gods children crie in afflictions.

2.57

D.

Death.

Gates of death what.

2.49

Death how to disarme it.

2.53

Deferre.

God why hee deferres helpe.

2.81

Dishonour.

Only wicked men dishonour God.

2.104.

displease.

To take heed of displeasing God.

2.87

Distemper.

What to doe in spirituall distempers.

2.141

Divinitie.

Divinitie transcends other Arts.

2.37

E.

End.

Fooles forget their End,

2.17

Epicures.

Happinesse of Epicures unstable.

2.45

Extremitie, see Crie.

F

Faith.

Faith, trialls of it.

1.104

Fooles, Folly.

Wicked men, fooles.

2.9

Why they are fooles

2.10

Folly in Gods children.

2.25

Fruitfull.

True faith fruitfull.

1.101

G.

Garments.

Garments, the use of them,

1.16

Gates, see Death.

God.

God to bee sought in trouble.

2.35

Gospell.

Gospell, the ground of faith.

1.50

H.

Heathen.

God heares the prayers of the Heathen.

2.21

Heart.

Heart opened by God,

1.32.34

Heart what meant by it,

1.40

Humiliation.

Ground of humiliation of wicked men.

2.21

I.

Iesting.

Iesting with sinne a signe of folly.

2.16

Invitation.

Lydia's invitation.

1.99

Iustifie.

To justifie God in his judgements.

2.33

L.

Labourers.

Labourers to be prayed for in Gods harvest.

1.52

Love.

Trials of faith by love,

1.104

M.

Meanes.

God brings the elect under meanes.

1.29

Mind.

The mind must be sanctified to attend to the Word.

1.43

Miserie.

Miserie of wicked men,

2.50

Why God suffers men to fall into great miserie.

2.55

Murmuring.

Murmuring in trouble, the cause of it.

2.39

N.

Nature.

Atheisme against nature,

2.57

Notice.

God takes particular notice of his.

1.7

O.

Open.

Trials whether the heart bee open.

1.46

See heart.

Passion.

Wicked men fooles for their passion.

2.12

Passion, how it presents things.

2.13

Patience.

Patience to others, the ground of it.

1.38

Patience in our selves.

2.34

People.

People of three sorts before Christ.

1.19

Pestilence.

To praise God for deliverance from the pestilence,

2.129.

Physitian.

God the best Physitian,

1.71

Power, Powerfull.

Gods word Powerfull.

2.83

Incouragements to pray from Gods power.

2.89

See Abasement.

Poyson.

Sinne as poyson.

2.41

Prayer.

What state we are fit to pray in.

2.62

Prayer to God successefull,

2.73

See affliction.

Praise.

All men to praise God,

2.99

Other creatures how they prayse God.

2.102

Prayse the end of all we doe,

2.109

Helps, and meanes to prayse God,

2.113

Preached.

The Word preached, the usuall meanes of faith.

1.51

Preaching how to be prized,

1.54

Preparation.

Workes of preparation necessary.

1.20

Preparation from God,

1.21

Preparations remove hindrances.

1.22

Progresse of preparation,

1.24

Preparations not to bee rested in.

1.31

Providence.

Instances of Gods providence.

2.3

R.

Rod.

Sinne puts a rod into Gods hand.

2.40

S.

Sicknesse.

Sinne, the cause of sicknesse,

2.32

Sicknesse how from God,

2.38

Extremitie of sicknesse,

2.43

Naturall cause of sicknesse,

2.44

How to converse with the sicke.

2.47

To have recourse to God in sicknesse.

2.73.

Sight.

Foure things requisite to sight.

1.55

Sinne.

Aggravation of sinne.

2.22

Vnhappy succession of sinne,

2.31

Beginnings of sinne to bee avoided.

Ibid.

Particular sinnes to be searçhed out

2.34

What sinnes hinder prayer,

2.82

Sinceritie.

The boldnesse of sinceritie,

1.95

Soule.

God by his Word heales the soule.

1.137

T.

Table.

Whence the breach of the second Table comes.

2.27

W.

Waiting.

Waiting after prayer necessarie.

2.79

Weake.

How to judge of weake Christians.

1.77

Wisdome.

Spirituall Wisdome to bee begged.

2.23

Wittie.

Wicked men wittie in their Generation.

2.18

Women, See Affections.

Word, See Power.

Worldling.

The course of Worldlings,

2.35

Wound.

Fooles wound themselves,

2.20

FINIS.