Piety influences health, v. 87; reputation, 89; fortune, 91;
happiness, 92; peace, 93; comfort in death, 94.
The piety of Ephraim and Judah transient, 273.
So is the piety excited by public calamities, 277; by re-
ligious solemnities, 280; by the fear of death, 283.
Transient piety implies a great want of allegiance to God
as a king, 286, 287; exemplified by Ahab, 288.
It is unjust, 287. It implies a contradiction of character,
It is an action of life perverted by a return to fol-
It is inconsistent with the general design of
religion, 291. It renders God's promises of grace to us
doubtful, 292. It is imprudent, 294.
Piety of taste, and sentiment defined, viii. 215.
The judgment we form of our state under privations, 219.
When privation is general, it indicates an unregenerate
state, 227.
PILATE: the baseness of his conduct, ii. 91.
His cruelty to the Galileans, viii. 137.
PLATO: a sketch of his republic, vii. 168.
Plato's opinion of God, i. 140.
PLAGUE, an argument for fasting and humiliation, viii. 71.
National plagues sevenfold, 82, 83.
Appalling horrors of the plague, 90.
PLEASURE: mischiefs arising from unlawful indulgencies, i. 96.
POLITENESS, as practised by men, iv. 414, 415.
POOR: (the) a fine series of arguments in begging for them, 312.
POPERY: sketch of its corruptions, i. x11, &c. ii. 327, 328. See
Papists.
POVERTY: God who quickeneth and disposeth all things, often
leaves his servants in misery and want, 220.
PRAYER: a source of consolation, vi. 62.
PREACHERS: the liberty of the French exiles in that respect,
v. 278, 279.
Preachers: (the primitive) advantages they possessed in
addressing the heathens, and the Jews, ii. 295-298.
PREDESTINATION: the impossibility of explaining it: but God
who cannot err declares, that it offers violence to no crea-
ture, and that our destruction proceeds from ourselves,
v. 409---414.
PRINCES and judges: their qualifications, viii. 50.
PRINCIPLE: purity of principle must be the basis of all our
conduct, iv. 352.
PROPHECY: objections against it answered. Its characters as-
serted, ii. 106-112.
Difficulties of affixing a literal meaning to the prophecies
concerning the Messiah and his kingdom, 233, &c.
Prophecies respecting the fall of Jerusalem, vi. 48; respect-
ing Christ's death accomplished by his sufferings, 130.
PROPHETIC ELOQUENCE: its superiority, iv. 136.
PROFESSIONAL MEN: the conditions of their salvation, v. 167.
PROTESTANTS of France distinguished by their attendance on
public worship, and on the days of communion, ii. 168.
The exiles are exhorted to pray for the restoration of their
churches, v. 328.
The faith of a Protestant, vii. 80.
The abject situation of those who remained in France, 209.
An address to French Protestants, 394.
The care of Providence over them in exile, viii. 127.
PROVERBS of Solomon: some of them reconciled with his as-
sertions in his Ecclesiastes, v. 216.
PROVIDENCE asserted, i. 435.
Complaints against it answered, iv. 148.
Complaints against its severities refuted, 153.
The doctrine of Providence should operate on public
bodies of men, 189.
Examples of Providence over nations, 192-198.
Mysteries of Providence in the secession of Henry the
VIIIth of England from the Roman Pontiff; in the
singular success of Zuinglius; and the courage of Luth-
er, v. 348, 349,
Christians often reason ill concerning Providence, viii. 25.
Six marks of God's mercy and care of good men when Je-
rusalem was destroyed by the Chaldeans, 145.
The same care over the persecuted Protestant exiles, 149.
PURE: (the) all things are pure to them, iv. 363.
PURGATORY: unsupported by scripture, v. 325.
PYRRHONIANISM: viii. 112.
RABBINS their extraordinary assumptions over the conscience
of the people, ii. 165.
RECAPITULATION of a sermon: fine specimens of it, iii. 451,
vi. 142, vii. 130.
REDEMPTION: the harmony of the Divine attributes in this
work, as asserted, Psa. xl. Heb. x. 6. Mic. vi. 6, 7.
1 Cor. ii. 9, i. 198, 299; three mysteries of redeeming
love not discovered by reason, 298.
REFORMATION: the necessity of it, i. xi.
The reformation in France. Francis I. persecuted the
reformed at home, and protected them in Germany,
xvi. It very much increased under Henry II. xviii.
The house of Bourbon declare for the reform, and the
house of Guise for the Catholics, xx. The king of
Navarre, allured by new promises, deserts the Protest-
ant cause, xxvii, but the queen of Navarre becomes its
most zealous advocate, ibid. The duke de Guise com-
mences a war with the Protestants, and 50,000 of them
are slain, xxix. The reformed obtain the free exercise
of religion, xxxii. The massacre of Paris cruelly plot-
ted under a marriage with Henry of Navarre, xxxiii.
Guise attempts to dethrone Henry III. by a league,
xxxv. Henry IV, of Navarre embraces Popery; and
ascends the throne, xxxviii. The edict of Nantes, xl.
The Jesuits founded by Loyola, no doubt with good in-
tentions at the first, confounded by Richlieu with the
Protestants, xliv. Louis XIII. persecutes the Protest-
ants by Richlieu's advice, xlvi. The final revocation
of the edict of Nantes, lii. The horrors and the exile
of 800,000 persons, liv. This persecution uniformly
charged on the French clergy; its impolicy exposed in
forty arguments, lvi. The glory of Louis XIV. waned
from that period, Ix.
REGENERATION: nature of it, iii. 340. See Floliness.
Its nature laid down in a change of ideas-of desires--of
taste of hopes--of pursuits, viii. 251.
RELIGION progressive in five classes of arguments, iv. 390-
Its evidences were stronger to the scripture characters
than to us, vi. 179.
REPENTANCE: possibility of a death-bed repentance proved by
six arguments, i. 326.
Difficulties of a death-bed repentance, 329.
Character of national repentance, 357.
The penitential reflections of a sinner, 368.
Repentance of a godly sort, has sin for its object, iii. 301
It is augmented by reflecting on the number-the enormi-
ty-and the fatal influence of sin, 305–310.
Exhortation to repentance, 413.
Repentance described, iv. 106. v. 116.
A powerful exhortation to repentance, 136.
Specimen of a death-bed repentance, 401.
A series of difficulties attendant on a death-bed repent-
ance, vii. 41.
Three objections answered, 38, &c.
Two arguments against a protracted repentance, 127.
A powerful exhortation to repentance, 129, &c.
REPROBATION not absolute; but may be averted, v. 426.
RESTITUTION required, iv. 70. So Judas did, v. 399.
RESURRECTION of Christ the evidences of it divided into three
classes, presumptions-proofs-demonstrations, ii. 252.
Eight considerations give weight to the evidence of the
apostles, 254.
Christ's resurrection demonstrated by the gifts conferred
on the apostles, and by the same gifts which they con-
ferred on others, 261.
If all these evidences be untrue, all those who wrought mir-
acles must be charged with imposture; all the enemies
of Christianity must be taxed with imbecility, and the
whole multitude which embraced Christianity, must be
blamed for an extravagance unknown to society, 264.
The joy of Christ's people justified by four considera-
tions, 270.
Presumptions-proofs-demonstrations of it, vi. 154.
The proofs of Christ's resurrection have eight distinct
characters, 154.
The faith in testimony worthy of credit is distinguished
from the faith extorted by tyranny, 157; from the faith.
of the enthusiast, 158; from the faith of superstition, 161
Resurrection of saints at Christ's death, 120.
The resurrection at his second coming, viii. 17, 18.
REVELATION has a sufficiency of evidence in regard to the five
classes of unbelievers, ii. 314.
Its doctrines lie within the reach of the meanest capacities,
It was gradually conferred according to the situation and
capacity of the age, iii. 459.
REVENGE: the purpose of it incompatible with the state of sal-
vation, iv. 38. v. 92.
RICH MAN: (the) apparently taxing Providence with the in-
adequacy of former means, by soliciting a new mean for
the conversion of his brethren, ii. 310, 311.
RICHES often increase profligacy, iv. 413.
When suddenly acquired, almost turn a man's brain, viii. 59
RIGHTEOUS be not righteous over-much, iv. 361.
RIGHTEOUSNESS: the word explained, iii. 270.
It exalteth a nation, iv. 174, 181, &c.
Five limits of the expression, righteousness or religion ex-
alteth a nation, 175-180.
It promotes every object of civil society, 182.
ROME: subterranean, a book of that title, v. 220.
ROMANS: the scope of the epistle to them stated. 336, &c.
SABBATH-DAY: punishment threatened for profaning it, viii. 155
The difference of the sabbath with regard to the Jews and
the Christians, 158.
The origin of the sabbath to demonstrate the origin of the
world, and that God was its Creator, 159; to prevent
idolatry, 160; to promote humanity, 162; to equalise
all men in devotion, 165.
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