Preacher must understand the sense of the text
Preacher must comprehend the whole subject to-
gether, and perceive the parts of which it consists
Preacher must have a general idea of theology
Preacher must study the nature of his text

Two general ways of discussing a text; explication
and observation

Rules to determine the choice

Difficult passages must be treated of by way of
explication

Difficulties arise from words or things

How to explain difficult words

Difficult and important subjects must be explained
Controverted texts, how to explain

Different ways of explaining disputed texts

How to explain an intricate subject exemplified.

322

1 Cor. iv. 1-9.

323

Matt. x. 32-39.

323

John vi. 44.

324

325

The GOSPEL MESSAGE, (Mark xvi. 15, 16.) illustrated in Four

different modes of Discussion, viz.

WHICH ARE NOT PROFESSEDLY CONSIDERED IN THE ORDER OF THE BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
IN WHICH THEY OCCUR; BUT WHICH ARE DISCUSSED IN THOSE PARTS
OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN WHICH THEY ARE CITED.*

Deut. xviii. 18, 19. XIV. 278-282. Psalm cxviii. 22.

This and the following Indexes, &c. have been prepared by the Rev. THOMAS
HARTWELL HORNE, B. D.

III.

A GENERAL INDEX

(ALPHABETICAL AND ANALYTICAL)

OF THE SUBJECTS OF THE SEVERAL SKELETONS,

AND OF

THE VARIOUS SUBORDINATE TOPICS,

WHICH ARE INCIDENTALLY TREATED OR ILLUSTRATED THEREIN.

[The Binder will be careful to place this Slip opposite p.437.]

The Reader is requested to CANCEL the Advertisement
which follows the Table of Contents to Vol. I., as the insertion of
the Chronological Index from Dr. Doddridge's Harmony of the
Four Gospels (therein referred to) is rendered unnecessary, in
consequence of the different circumstances in the Life of Jesus
Christ being so arranged in § IV. pp. 479-482 of the General
Index of Matters, that the Reader may find, as nearly as possible in
its proper chronological order, any event related by the Evangelists;
and thus form, out of the Discourses contained in these volumes,
one continued History, from the Birth of our Lord to his Ascension.
In doing this it is hoped that he will find that not one important
circumstance is omitted.

лое, circumstances
46-48. In what consisted the peculiar
excellence of his offering as contrasted
with that of Cain, XIX. 372, 373. In-
struction it affords to us, 374, 375. His
blood speaking as from the dead, 376,
377. The efficacy of his blood, 480, 481.
Contrasted with the superiority of Christ's,
481, 482.

Abiding in Christ, and its effects, XX.
383-385.

Abihu, death of, II. 613-615.
Abijah, king of Judah, remonstrance of,
with Jeroboam, IV. 96-99.
Abijah, son of Jeroboam, piety of, III.
385-387. His reward, 388, 389.

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407.

of Isaac, 175–179. XIX. 401
God's approval of it, I. 179-183; and
substitution of a sacrifice for Isaac, 183-
189. Abraham's promised seed is Christ,
190-192. His purchasing of a burial-
place in Canaan, and its design, 193-
198. His care in providing a wife for
Isaac, 198-204. Vain hopes of mercy
cherished by the Jews from their relation
to Abraham, XI. 19, 20. The spiritual
children of Abraham described, XIII.
455-458. His views of Christ, 471;
particularly as a Saviour, 471, 472; and
the method of a sinner's justification
through him, 472, 473. Why he exulted