One Hundred Select Sermons, Old Testament
An Alphabetical Table of the chief Matters contained in the Fifty Sermons of the Old Teſtament. The ſecond Alphabetical Table following is of the chief Matters contained in the Fifty Sermons on the New Teſtament.
A
Angels.
Why called Angels of God 4
Their aſcending and deſcending, what 4, 5, 8
Why they have a ſpecial regard to Chriſt 5
Have a double Ministry 5
Why willing to attend the Church 5
Not only one but many attend every Chriſtian 5
Why they appear not ſo frequently as formerly 5
How they aſſist a Chriſtian 6, 8
Afflictions.
Lawful to pray againſt them, but how? 39, 40, 41
Why compared unto fire and Iron furnace 47, 244
Gods ends in them 48, 187, 247, 186
Why God delivers out of them Comfort under them. See comfort. 52
On the godly, why called chaſtenings 185
Afflistions improved 187
Dangerous not to improve them 351
Aged.
Advice to aged perſons 67, 374
Mercies of former, ſhould be acknowledged in after ages 105
Awaking.
How taken 201
What to awake with God 202
Why we ſhould awake with God 204, 205, 206
Helps to awaking with God 206
Awakening conſiderations for preſumptuous ſinners 231
See Sinner 129
Apoſtacy.
The odiouſneſs of it 357
Whence it ſprings 371
Adultery.
A horrid ſin 378
B
Bleſs.
How God bleſſes his people 32
Bones.
How taken in Scripture 65
Birth.
The mercies attending our natural births 107
Lawful to celebrate birth-days, but how? 108
Breaſt.
The bleſſings of the Breaſt 108
Blaſphemy.
What it is 119
A distinction concerning it 119
Brethren.
Three ſorts of them 194
For Ʋnity amongſt them, ſee Ʋnity. Touching diſcord amongst them, ſee Diſcord.
Behold.
Carries a threefold Emphſis 198
Branch and Root.
How taken 273
Bowels.
How taken 359, 365
C
Chriſt.
How reſembled by Jacob's Ladder 2
How inferior to God the Father 6
With what eyes we ſhould behold him 7
Why reſembled to the Sun 151
Why called the ſon of man 400
Church.
Doubly conſidered. 4
Why God will deliver it 49
How to endeavour its continuance 51
Why its deliverances ſhould be had in perpetual remembrance 52, 105
When God will deliver it 125
Comfort to the Church in General 127
Care.
In God; What? 17
Why God cares for his Church 18, 21
How to improve Gods care 22
Charity.
Motives to it towards the poor 37, 189
Chriſtians.
The Hypocritical, or almost Christian, ſee hypocrite 371
In three caſes (eſpecially) God renews their ſtrength 309
Comfort to weak Chriſtians 310
A touchſtone of true Christianity, why called Gods Inheritance 311
See Inheritance.
Compared to Eagles in ſeveral reſpects, how God keeps them 311
See Temptation.
Special comforts 55, 62, 93, 130, 154, 210, 246, 254, 257
Should not mingle with others corruptions, Why? 369
Why they mourn under deſertion 96
Why called the ſons of men 149
Why God continues them in the world 189, 190
How the awe is still with God 202, 206
VVhy in the 17. Pro. 3. compared to Silver and Gold 243
In what reſpects wiſe 259
Care.
Arguments againſt carking cares 109, 241
Cake.
Not turn'd, what it ſignifies 370
Converſion.
Touching, knowing the time of it 112
Its Act 293
VVhether a man can convert himſelf or no? 295
Cup.
What it ſignifies in Scripture 128, 129
Conference.
Chriſtian conference a profitable and excellent duty 175, 195, 218
Communion,
Or converſe with God, wherein it conſiſts 203
Commit.
Touching committing our works to God, ſee Works.
Crying.
What it ſignifies 408
Counſel.
Liſtning to good counſel, a threefold Argument of VViſdom 224
How far the counſels of God may be known, how not 258
Means tending to the knowing of Gods counſels 258
Company.
The danger ariſing by bad Company 368
Cities.
Why God often ſends greater judgments on them than other places 401
D
Deſpiſe.
The ways wherein God is deſpiſed 114, 119
Whence deſpiſing of God ſprings 116
The danger of deſpiſing God 117
Dregs.
What they ſignifie 135
Death.
Comfort againſt it 192
Sinful in three caſes to deſire it 413
Diſcord.
The evil of it implied 197, 198
Whence it ſprings 222
Delight.
What in Chriſtians God delights in 208
The properties of Gods delighting in his people 209
Signs of Gods delighting in us 211
The ground of it, or what it is 220
A threefold delight reſpecting Religion 221
Doubtings.
Whence they ariſe 211
Day.
The Sabbath, a pleaſant day 218
Day of the Lord, taken three ways 412
A threefold wicked deſiring a day of the Lord, or death 412
The day of Judgment deſirable on a threefold account 416
Darkneſs.
What it ſignifies in Scripture 352
Day of the Lord darkneſs to wicked men, with the ground thereof 41
Day of the Lord darkneſs and not light, threefold Emphaſis in it 148
Devouring.
What ſignified by it 379
Deſpair.
Motive to a deſpairing ſinner to hope 385
The evil of deſpair 385, 386
Whence it ſprings 386
E
Eye.
Look on Christ with a fourfold eye 7
Gods Eye, what it ſignifies 20
Gods Eye hath three properties 21
Examples.
Bad, their evil 46
Examination.
Why we ſhould be much in ſelf-examination 245
England.
See Nation.
Deliverance from Gun-powder-treaſon, a great Mercy. 52, 62
Error.
Prejudicial to the ſoul 303, 394, 377
On the right, and on the left hand; what? 302
Ezekiel.
Why called the ſon of man 401
Feaſts.
The evils oft attending them 79
When laudable 78
Faith.
Incouragements to it 150
Fruitfulneſs.
Arguments to it 189
Fear.
The advantages of holy fear 212
Forgetfulneſs,
Of God, opened in four particulars 287
Formality.
See Hypocrite.
Its conſiſtency with prophaneneſs 345
The dreadful evil of it 375
Setting of the face, its different notion 402
G
God.
His ſtanding, What? 6
His face, What? 84, 140
What the hiding of his face implied 85, 96
VVhy reſembled to the Sun 151
How to know he is our God 111
VVhat his being our God implies 111
God ſpeaks to the hearts of men three ways 138, 298
To ſeek Gods face, VVhat? 141
His wings, VVhat? 149
The ways wherein deſpiſed
See deſpiſe
God.
See forward.
Grace or Holineſs.
See Godlineſs.
VVhy God will certainly perfect it 113
Whence indiſpoſition and averſeneſs unto it ſprings 384
A Chriſtians duty, diſpoſition, and priviledg to grow in it 306
Motives to recover decaying grace 306, 307
A threefold difference between ſaving-grave and meer morality 308
Helps to recover decaying, and ſtrengthen weak grace 309
God.
What kind of ſhield he is 153
Gods comforts; What? 165
Why called the moſt high 183
Gods right hand; What? 183
Gods ſongs in the night; What? 202
Gods counſel, how taken? 253
What Gods ſaying ſignifies? 278
A double object of Gods guidance 301
Godlineſs.
See Grace.
The gain of Godlineſs 224
Guide.
How to diſcern between the guidance (or dictates) of Gods Spirit, and the ſpirit of deluſion 303
H
Hearing.
The right hearer 139, 300
Why many get no good by hearing the word Preacked 139, 140, 385
Heart.
The ſpeaking of the heart; What? 119
Gods trying it; What? 245
How taken 252
How a grieved heart eaſes it ſelf 362
Diſcovery of a tender heart 365
Humbling.
Humbling conſiderations 251, 253, 392
Head.
What it ſignifies in Scripture 124, 127
Head and tail, how taken 273
Hypocrite.
See Profeſſor.
See Formality.
Terror to Hypocrites 246
Condemned by God, and often by conſcience, deſcribed 347, 348, 371
Its odiouſneſs 347
Its danger 349
Hell.
How taken 282
How to eſcape it 288
Heathens.
What to think of thoſe who never heard of Chriſt 287
I
Inheritance.
Implies three things 50
Juſtification.
Why no condumnation to juſtified perſons 95
Infancy. Mercy vouchſafed in it.
See Mercy.
Judgments.
When God will pour them upon a people 133
Pouring out Judgments; What? Ibid
Why God ſometimes brings great Judgments upon his own people Ibid
Dregy judgments; What 135
How Chriſtians foreſee them 363
Who moſt like to be ſecured, and who to be expoſed under publick judgments 409, 410, 411
Joy.
When holy 177
Infirmities.
Whence they flow 178
Men have their eſpecial infirmities 179
Wherein infirmity conſiſts Ibid
Impenitency.
See Preſumption.
The evil of it 268
Ignorance.
Several ſorts of it ſupplied 383
K
Knowledg.
THe difference between ſaving, and meerly notional Knowledg 148
L
Loving-kindneſs
Of God taken two ways 143, 146
The excellency of Gods loving-kindneſs 144
Love.
How to keep our ſelves in the love of God 146
M
Goſpel-Miniſters.
WHy called Angels 7
Caution to them 280, 402, 386, 362
Direction to them, 404, 405, 366
Miniſterial Qualifications 399
A ſad judgment to be deprived of their perſons 403
Magiſtrates.
Why compared to a head 272
Mercy.
Outward, when given in mercy 33
Outward Mercies in themſelves good things 36, 40
Mercies attending our Births. See Births.
Mercies attending Infancy
See Infancy.
The eſpecial mercies of God 146, 295
The extent of pardoning mercy 295
Meditation.
Whence holy meditation proceeds 170, 311
Its objects 172
Helps to it 173, 175
How taken 174
Its excellency above other duties 175
Motives to it 176
See its excellency.
When right 364
Melancholy.
The evil of it in a Chriſtian more than others 220
Mind.
Expreſs'd in Scripture by bowels, the reaſon of it 360
Why a Christian minds heaven and heavenly things 311
Marriage.
Touching mixt ours 368
N
Touching Natural ability 294, 295, 397
Nation.
Wherein a Nations strength lies 378
A Nations gray hairs, or the fore-runners of a Nations period 382
O
Orphans.
Gods care of them 110
Obedience.
The properties of true obedience implied 141
Prayer.
AGainſt praying to Angels and Saints departed 25, 137
Why God oft anſwers prayer in kind 42
When anſwer of prayer in kind is done in love 43
Special ſeaſons of prayer 138, 204
Acceptable prayer 177
The power of it 213
A pleaſant comfortable duty 217
Neglect of it a great evil 356
Preſumption.
See Impenitency.
Whence it ſprings 28, 98, 123, 263, 264, 350
One branch of it 348, 350
Caution to preſumptuous ſinners 305
Peace.
The excellency of peace with God 96
How to get and keep pease with God 92, 281
A threefold peace 221, 276, 279
Chriſtian peace conſidered as a grace and as a priviledg 277
On what a ſinners peace is grounded 278
Parents.
Mothers (if able) ought to unrſe their children 109
Patents duty towards children 110, 248
Promiſes.
How God makes good temporal promiſes, implied 158
Preaching.
What power God puts forth in it 299
Providence.
How far we may, and how far not know its events 258, 260
Pride.
In Habit, and naked Shoulders and Breaſts reproved 265
Pardon.
The extent of pardoning mercy 295
God pardons repeated ſins 296
Profaneneſs.
Its concomitancy with formality, and the grounds thereof 346
Paſſions.
The evil of them 363
Profeſſor. See Hypocrite.
Three things carry on empty profiſſors of Religion 308
R
Remember.
God what 9
Help to remember God 10
Motives to remember God 11
Riches.
How God gives power to get it,
conſidered
1. Poſitively 12
2. Negatively 13
When given in mercy 33
Religion.
Not a dull but a pleaſant thing, and thereby vindicated 216, 219
Why ſo few delight in it 200
Two extreams in the profeſſors of it 372
Reproof.
How to give it, implied 29
To receive it, a threefold Argument of wiſdom 224
to refuſe it dangerous 229, 230, 389
Rolling.
Our burthens on God, what 236
Repentance.
Wherein it conſiſts 290, 291, 293
Three things look like repentance, but are not it 291
A threefold call unto it 301
Arguments to ſpeedy repentance 182
Reaſon.
Its deficiency 287
Running. See Walk.
The Chriſtian race, what it implies 312
S
Soul.
Hath a threefold preſence 24
The companions of wicked mens ſouls 204
Sin.
How God often diſcovers ſecret ſins 26
Impudency the height of ſin 28
How men hide them 72
VVhy men delight in them 75
Its evil 75, 373, 390, 391
Against the Holy Ghost; what? 76
VVhy other mens ſins are grievous to the godly 78, 406, 407
Three ſorts of ſins 81
Perſonal ſins may procure publick Judgments: and why? 88
Sinners.
Preſent miſery 56, 57, 176, 192, 263, 393
Future miſery 58, 59, 69, 283, 288, 231
Relief to great (if) penitent ſinners 296
God can puniſh them from within themſelves: How? 361
Silence.
How ſometimes taken 58, 59
Sighing.
What it ſignifies 408
Its aggravations 122, 133, 263
Helps againſt perſisting in it 126
Continuance in it dangerours 395
When a peoples ſin ſeems to be full 133
Whence obſtinacy in ſin ariſes 388
When is ſin come to an habit? 396
Senſoriouſneſs.
A check to it 178, 247
Salvation.
Neglecters of the great ſalvations, who they are? implied 227
Whence the neglect of the great ſalvation ſprings Ibid.
Scorner.
Deſcribed 227
Whence ſcorning ſprings Ibid.
What danger a ſcorner is in 228, 414
Soul.
How it's ſaid to hear 364
Stupidity.
Wherein it lies 382
Whence it proceeds 383
Speech.
Men ſpeak two ways 388
God ſpeaks two ways 298
Spirit.
How to diſcern between the leadings or dictates of Gods Spirit, and the ſpirit of deluſion 303
Incouragement to attend its motions 304
T
Temptations.
How God keeps Chriſtians from and under them 54
Thankfulneſs.
Its ground 105
Thoughts.
Their perplexity and inconstancy 159
Motive to watch them 160, 292
The properties of Gods thoughts towards his people 169
Whence holy thoughts proceed 170
A great bleſſing to have them eſtabliſh'd 240
Whence instability of Thoughts in buſineſs ariſes 240, 249, 250
The evil of anxious thoughts.
See Care.
Trumpet.
Signifies three things 363
Toleration.
Ʋniverſal, condemned 371
How taken 241
Touching blaſphemous thoughts. See Blaſphemy.
The corruption of the Thoughts 292
Time.
How a Christian hides himſelf in evil times 261
How God hides his people in evil times 262
Trouble.
Christians apt to much trouble and fear, with the ground thereof 117
Trouble for ſin good 118
Miſery the occaſion of trouble 119
Trouble when unlawful 120
Why Christ would not have Christians much troubled 121
How Christians may preſervs themſelves from trouble 122
V
Unbelief
The grounds of it 98
The evil of it 102, 286
Unity
How the Goſpel tends towards it 194
Who ſhould eſpecially maintain it 194
Or its extent 196
Its excellency 197
Menas to get and preſerve it 199
W
Walk.
See Way.
See Running.
Motives to circumſpect Walking 8
Ʋpright walking; what 159
Motives to diligence in our Christian courſe, implied 207
Word.
Why men under the ſame word are not a-like wrought upon 139
The excellency of Gods Word 254
Barrenneſs under it a great evil 270, 354
What it is to ſee the word of the Lord 357
Dropping of words; what 404
A word behind, how taken? 298, 299, 300
Gods word, powerful 299
Wound.
How God wounds ſinners 124
Gods wounding the head; what? Ibid.
Watch.
Motives to watch the thoughts 160
See Thoughts. 253
Works.
Arguments moving to good works
See Fruitfulneſs.
See Charity.
VVhat, and how to commit our works and ways to God 234, 235 236, 239
Why we ſhould commit our ways and works to God 235, 237
VVhat we may not commit to God 239
VVhat works me may commit to God 235, 239
Ways.
See Walk.
Godlineſs a pleaſant way in three particulars 219
Four things apt to make a Chriſtian faint in his way 312
How to be kept from fainting in Gods way 312
Wicked.
Perſons, who 275, 292
Wilderneſs.
VVhat it ſignifies in Scripture 352
War.
Its grievouſneſs 365
A foreign war in ſome reſpects more grievous than a domeſtick one 379
Waiting.
See Hope.
Y
Youth.
Sins of youth or youthful luſts, what 84
How men poſſeſs the ſins of their youth 66
VVhy ſins of youth afterwards prove dreadful Ibid.
Motives to early godlineſs 66, 70, 376
Lamentation over the ſins of the youth of this age 68