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demption through his blood, even the forgiveness of fins.

After the conclufion of the whole action.

Blefs the Lord, O my foul, and all that is within me, blefs his holy name. Blefs the Lord, O my foul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgiveth all thine iniquities, and healeth all thy difeafes; who redeemeth thy life from deftruction, and crowneth thee with loving kindnefs and tender mercies; who fatisfieth thy mouth with good things. Blefs the Lord, O my foul.

A prayer to be used in private afterwards.

I praise and magnify thy great and glorious name, O Lord, my God, for the bleffed opportunity afforded to me this day, of commemorating thy infinite goodness and mercy to me and all mankind, in fending thy only Son into the world to take our nature upon him, to fubmit to the infirmities and miferies of it, to live amongst us, and to dy for us: And to preferve the memory of this great love and goodness of thine to us for ever in our hearts, that thou hast been pleased to appoint the bleffed facrament, for a folemn remembrance of it. Grant, O Lord, that I may faithfully keep and perform that holy covenant which I have this day fo folemnly renewed and confirmed in thy prefence, and at thy table. Let it be an eternal obligation upon me, of perpetual love and obedience to thee. Let nothing feem hard for me to do, or grievous for me to fuffer for thy fake, who whilft I was a finner, and an enemy to thee, lovedft me at fuch a rate as never any man did his friend.

Grant that by this facrament there may be conveyed to my foul new fpiritual life and ftrength, and fuch a measure of thy grace and affiftance, as may enable me to a greater care of my duty for the

future :

future That I may henceforth live as becomes the redeemed of the Lord; even to him who died for my fins, and rofe again for my juftification, and is now fet down on the right hand of the throne of God, to make interceffion for me. In his holy name and words I conclude my imperfect prayers :

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UR Father which art in heaven, hallowed be name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that have trespassed against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil : For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

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TABLE

OF THE

Chief MATTERS OF THINGS

CONTAINED IN THE

First Three VOLUMES.

** The letters denote the volumes, the figures the pages.

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A

HE God of Abraham, Ifaac and Jacob. What the ex-
preffion denotes, ii. 32-

Abraham's religion. The antiquity of it, ii. 143.
Adam. The first and fecond Adam, ii. 153.

ons, or ages; what they fignify, iii. 28.

Age. The gofpel-age, or last age, i. 68.

Afflictions, i. 73. How born, i. 106, 219. Why fent, i. 165. Whence, i. 168.

Amelius, the Platonist, a more indifferent judge of the Holy Scriptures than the Arians and Socinians, iii. 27.

Angels, and bleffed Spirits. The new joy they conceive at finners repentance, i. 227. Their knowledge of human affairs, i. 284. Their appearances, iii. 71. Christ took not their nature on him. "And why, iii. 72.

Angels, or Dæmons, iii. 88.

Anger, The folly and fin, i. 85.

Antiquity. The vanity of the church of Rome's pretence to it, ii. 197.

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M. Antoninus. An excellent faying of his about the confideration of our ways, i. 236.

Apollinaris, and his followers. Their herefies concerning our bleffed Saviour, iii. 25. 74.

Apoftacy. The nature of that fin, i. 299.

Apotheofes, or canonizing of the Heathen, iii. 88.
VOL. X.

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Argu

Arguments; how to be used, ii. 26, 30.

Arians. On what texts of H. Scripture they conceit the eternal Son of God to be a creature, iii. 35. That falfe opi. nion, and the Socinians confuted, iii. 39.

Arian herefies, iii. 35.

Arianism, far greatest part of the Chriftian world fell to it,

iii. 333.

The Ariftotelian Atheist, i. 11.

Ariftotle, the first who afferted the world's eternity, i. 14. That falfe opinion fully answered, in feq.

Arnauld (Monfieur) his ways of demonftration of doctrines rejected, ii. 116. His abfurdities for tranfubstantiation,

ii. 129.

Afia and Africa. A relation of the Chriftans there, iii. 336. Arts and learning; their original, and benefit to mankind, i. 18. 1

Aurance. With reference to a man's future good condition, and true grounds of it, i. 256, &c. Atheism. The kinds of it, i. 10.

And the unreasonableness thereof; particularly of fpeculative atheism. The danger, i. 35. The folly and madness of the fame, i. 40, 41, 210. Its progrefs and power, i. 79. Destructive of human focieties, i. 134. The unreafonableness of it. See p. 7, c. of the preface.

Atheists. Their great danger if their opinions prove falfe, i. 63. Their mifery here, and hereafter, ibid. Their vain opinions when clearly difcovered, ii. 383.

Atoms, according to Epicurus, i. 22. His account in making them the original of the world, fully examined, ibid. and confuted, vid. 44.

The Divine Attributes, ii. 397. and the happiness in firm belief of them, in feq.

St. Auguftine noted concerning tradition, iii. 411.

B

H. Baptifm, i. 133. The obligation therein, i. 138. And profeffion, i. 191. Infant baptism, iii. 185. Whereon the benefit of that H. facrament depends, ii. 120. Bafilides, his herefies, iii. 28.

Batramus, or Bertram. His opposing the doctrine of transubstantiation, ii. 117.

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Berengarius, his recantation of the doctrine and error of -tranfubftantiation, ii. 115.

Belief and Believers: Of what comprehenfive fignification those terms are in H. Scripture, i. 2. In religion: The proper grounds of it, i. 367.

Bellarmine's (Cardinal) errors for transubstantiation, ii. 113.

His two goodly marks of the Church, univerfality and fplendor, ii. 140.

Bishop of Rome, vid. church of Rome, iii. 157, & in feq.
Blafphemous thoughts, how mistaken fometimes, i. 301.
Blafphemy, wherein appearing, i. 293.

Blood of Chrift. Whence called, the blood of the covenant, iii.

112.

Books. Pious books: The charity in bestowing them, ii. 48.

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C

Abbala of the Jews; called Gematry, iii, 374-
Cabbala, or oral tradition of the Jews, iii. 375.
Cafar. Julius Cæfar: A remark on him, ii. 303.
Cain and Abel's facrifice confidered, ii. 35.

Canaan. Land of Canaan, a Type: Of what, ii. 283.
Care of our fouls: The one thing needful, ii. 260.
Carpocrates's herefy against the divinity of Chrift, iii. 28.
Cafaubon (Dr.) vindicated from S. S. cavils, iii. 399.
Catechifm. The Roman Catechifm fet forth by the council of
Trent; and what it teaches of oral tradition, iii. 389.
Catechifing. The neceffity and advantages, iii. 201.
ry in the neglect, ibid.

Cenfors of doctrines at Rome, iii. 392.

Cenfuring of others. The fin, i. 263.

Mife

Ceremonies of the Jewish religion, ii. 156. Of the church, iii. 159. Of the church of Rome. Their number and vanity, ii. 156.

Cerinthus's herefy, iii. 28.

Chaldean philofophy.

The antiquity thereof, iii. 28.

Chance could not make the world, i. 23.

Chance, ii. 299, 300.

Charity. An effential mark of the true church, i. 202. The want of it in the church of Rome, i. 285. The abuse of it, i. 310. The profit in this life, i. 318. Exhortation to it, the nature of it, i. 339. To our neighbour, ii. 310. The promises made to charity, ii. 39. To the poor, i. 318, 319. ii. 311. To be joined with religious fafting, ii. 365, 367. To the poor directed, and the benefits, i. 316, 317. To mens fouls, how exercifed, i. 305. Whence learnt, iii. 121. How to be extended, ii. 64. Difference between conceffions of charity and neceffity. ii. 145. In what sense a new commandment, i. 338. The degrees and measures of it, i. 340. The obligations to it, ibid. Chastity, i. 73. iii. 192.

Chiliafts, in J. Martyr's time, the perfuafion of all orthodox Chriftians, iii. 376.

Children. Education of them. The duty and intereft therein, iii. 163. & in feq. Their tempers to be known, in order to their good education, iii. 203. Many arguments

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