union of believers with Christ
the duty of confessing Christ before
the church has often varied her situa-
tion in regard of worldly glory, of
poverty and of persecution 348
the church is a family
ii 316
her children should love one another
with a superior attachment 313
Cicero, the powers of his eloquence in soften-
ing the heart of Cæsar and saving
Ligarius
his gloomy notion of life
Cleophas, who he was
Clovis I. conversion of that king
his immoral life
Commandments, charges to keep them ii 150
the importance of the com-
mand to love one another
151
Conduct of God to men, and of men to God
411
Conflict and triumph of Christian believers 418
Conscience, Edipus, a Theban king i 199
in hell
ii 8
he is a fool who denies its power
322
it founds its decisions on three
principles
i 323
it is to the soul what the senses
366
are to the body
Consolation, six sources of it in Christ's vale-
dictory address
Conversation must be with grace,
with salt
seasoned
i 410
it must be adorned with chastity
407
exempt from slander in seven re-
409
spects
from unfounded complaisance ib.
and from idle words
410
five vices of conversation 411
three maxims of conversation
arguments to fortify a christian against
the fear of death
death unites us to the family above 319
contemplations on death
340
a striking thought to dying sinners on
the word perhaps
400
Decrees connected with means
i 302
Deists, Dr. Samuel Clarke divides them into
four classes
i pref. 20
Deism, is incumbered with insuperable diffi-
culties
ii 358
Democracy, defects of that form of govern-
i 391
Demosthenes, examples of his eloquence i 242
Depravity of men
i 105
Descartes contributed to remove the absurd
notions of God, imbibed by the
schoolmen
Despair and gloom, ten arguments against it
trates the conjecture of some Jews, that
Christ called for Elias
Elijah, his ascension strikingly illustrated
ii 362
Errors, speculative, may be injurious to the
soul
i 375
Essenes, it is highly probable that many of
them embraced Christianity, (see
Eusebius)
i 245
Eternity, efforts to calculate its length i 87
Evidence of object, and evidence of testimony
defined
ii 174
Exile recommended in a bloody persecution
ji 288
Existence, the consciousness of it proved after
the Cartesian manner i 50
Exordiums, our author's method in that point
was singularly striking i 186.
312-ii 42
miracles and prodigies gave the
first preachers a superiority over
us in point of exordiums ii 195
an exordium of negatives i 321
an exordium on alms
an exordium of prodigies; an in-
comparable one on the oblation
of Christ
ii 3 Experience is the best of preachers, &c. ii 260
difficulties of attending to abstract
Duelling attended with bad consequences ii 39 Faith, the circumstances, the efforts, the evi-
Dupont, (Professor) his life
ii 127
his essay on David's feigned epilep-
sy before Achish
dences, and the sacrifices which ac-
company it
the just shall live by it
justifying faith described
the faith inculcated by the Arians and
by many of the Romanists, refuted
the weakness of our faith
faith or belief described
duties of ministers when alone with
dying people
32
duties of preaching and hearing are
connected
62
the high duties of princes and magis-
an act of faith in regard to retrospec-
tive and to future objects
Family of Christ, five characters of it ii 316
Fast, a striking method of notifying one