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Afar-off, how God understands our thoughts fo
Arable-ground, foul-improving meditations upon it
Autumn, foul-profiting meditations upon gathering fruits
in it, 166.

Vid. Fruits.
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BAd-ground, edifying meditations upon the improvement

of it

The improvement of it fpiritualized in a poem

An awakening meditation on the incurablenefs of fome fuch

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Barren-ground, a foul-awakening meditation concerning it ibid.
Barrenness, (Spiritual) the dreadfulness of this judgment
Beafts, meditations upon clogging of them when they go
aftray

Believers, how far true grace may prevail in them
Birds, meditations upon the early finging of them
Meditation on their being catched with an hair
Bird-nefts, a useful meditation on the curious frame of

fome

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Callings, God fometimes blafts mens greatest industry

in them

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ibid.

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294

Why providence frequently disappoints people in them 447
Canute, (king of England) a remarkable story of him
Cattle, a meditation on the husbandman's care of them
Thoughts on the hard labour, and cruel ufage of fome
of them

Meditation upon feeking them when loft
Obfervations and reflections on fattening them
A poem on preparing them for slaughter

Chaff, how the wicked are compared to it

Compass, the neceffity of it in navigation spiritualized

Vid. Mariner's Compass.

Concealment, many encourage themfelves in fin, by the
hope of it

The vanity of hoping for it, in finning against God
Vid. Secrefy.

Confcience, how it is represented by the helm of a ship

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256

Contentment, Why good men have it

Queries to excite good men to abound in it

Corn, the danger of it between sowing and harvest, spiritualized

Corn-land, meditations upon the plowing of it

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Earth, (through want of rain) the terribleness of this
judgment

Meditation, and a poem upon the dreadfulness of it, in
a fpiritual fenfe, 94, 96. Vid. Famine.

Decays of faithfulness, may be great in a Chriftian
Encouragements to endeavour a recovery from them
Deeds, (written) meditations upon mens care to prove and
preferve them, 197. Vid. Hufbandmen.

Deer, a meditation on the hunting of one

Delays, the danger of making them in religion

Vid. Repentance.

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Delight, (in fpiritual duties) when it is of the right kind
It is very reasonable, and the want of it to be lamented 42
Difappointments, (in mens callings) feveral caufes of them

mentioned and explained

Divers fins which fometimes are the procuring caufe of

them

Several confiderations to quiet our minds under them
We should efpecially take heed of eternal ones
Difcontent, confiderations to fortify the mind against it
Dog, meditation on his love to his master
Drunkenness, an elegant description of it from St. Austin
It was odious to many of the heathens
The exceeding evil and danger of it fhewn in ten par-
ticulars

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FState, Meditation on mens care for fecuring their temporal one

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ibid.

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FAmine, of God's word, the nature and dreadfulness of it 89 Finch, a meditation upon the finging of a blind one 210 Finches, meditation on fhooting two of them when fight

ing in the air

Fifbes, God's providence to be obferved in the plenty and variety of them

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296

The greater devouring the leffer, is an emblem of op

preffors

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Filbermen, their art is an emblem of Satan's fubtilities Flavel, (the author) his epiftle to Robert and William Savery, Efqrs.

Poems to him on his Husbandry Spiritualized

His epiftle to the country reader

His poem to the reader

Flowers, a meditation on the fudden withering of them

Meditation on the tenderness of some choice ones Fornication, the great evil and danger of it

Vid. Uncleanness.

Frederick (Sir John) the author's epiftle to him, &c.

Fruit-trees, a meditation on the ingraffing of them

Vid. Ingraffing.

Fruits, a meditation on gathering them in

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Garden, meditation on the new modelling of one

A meditation on a heedless tread in a curious one Goldfinches and sparrows, a meditation on their mixing to

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gether Graff, a fpiritual improvement of its union with the stock 161

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ibid.

HArvet, a meditation on the patient expectation of it 115 The season of it fpiritualized in feveral inftances Meditation on the joy occafioned by it

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Helm of a fhip, an emblem of confcience, 256. Vid. Ship. Hind, the hunting of it, an emblem of Chrift's fuffering 216 Horse, a meditation concerning one in a fat pasture Hufbandman, his industry, a lively emblem of the Chri

ftian life

The advantages of his diligence is an encouragement to a Chriftian's hope

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His chearfulness, how teachable to a Christian

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His patient waiting for harvest spiritualized

115

Vid. Harveft.

A meditation upon his care for posterity

195

His diligence in proving and preserving his deeds, fpi

ritually improved

197

Hufbandry, how fitly the church is called God's, shewn

in twenty-fix propofitions

Ufeful inferences from God's church being his husbandry 24 How we may spiritualize the several parts of it

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Dle words, the evil of indulging ourselves in ufing them 342 Rules for avoiding them

Impotency, the unreasonablenefs of pleading it for the neglect of duty

Ingraffing of fruit-trees, a fpiritual improvement of it

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K Nowledge of God, proved to extend to all fecrets

Several useful inferences from the perfection of it

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LAbours, God fometimes blafts those of men in their
callings
Launching of a fhip, an emblem both of the natural and
fpiritual birth

Leek, meditation on the pulling up of one

Lufts, of men, are reprefented by the monftrous things in the fea

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"Agnanimity, the neceffity and nature of it shewn
Vid. Fortitude.

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Manton (Dr.) a remarkable citation from him
Mariner's Compass, how it is an emblem of God's word
Maturity of grace, three figns of it mentioned
of fin, fix tokens which give evidence of it
Useful reflections upon that of grace and fin
Mediocrity, is the most defirable ftate, in reference to
worldly things

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Mirth, excefs in it represented by too much fail in a storm 306 Miry-ground, reprefents the incurable ftate of many fouls 59

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Navigation, the excellency of that which is fpiritual Motives preffing to the serious study of that which is fpiritual

Trading by it is an emblem of Christian communion

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4ths, the evil and danger of profane ones

Have an imprecation expreffed or implied in them

Vid. Swearing.

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Ocean, how it is an emblem of God's mercy and eternity 245 The monftrous things in it, render it an emblem of

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Ocean, The multitudes of creatures fed therein, should

encourage our faith

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The fweet waters drained from it, are an emblem of the faints afflictions

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315

God's limiting bounds of it fpiritually improved
The ebbing and flowing of it, is an emblem of the
world's uncertainty

The depth of it an emblem of God's judgment
The multitude of men buried in it, fhall certainly be
raifed again, 317. Vid. Sea.

Oppreffors, reprefented by the greater fish devouring the

leffer

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Pilot, his skill moft peculiarly discovered in a storm
How the wisdom of God is fhadowed forth by skill
Pleafures of fin, confiderations to prevent the power of

them

Plowing, reprefents the convincing of finners

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Reflections, and a poem on the fpiritual fenfe of it 72 Poly, a meditation upon a withered one

Pofterity, a fpiritual improvement of the husbandman's care for it

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Prayer, what influences it has in the obtaining of mercies
How that of others conduces to our benefit

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The great evil of neglecting it, or performing it flightly 396 Strong motives to be frequent and earnest in it

Prefence of God, what is included in it

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417

Profperity not to be ascribed to our own abilities, but

God's bleffings

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Five things neceffarily included in it

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The feveral ingredients in it depend upon God's providence

Useful inferences from its dependance on God's bleffing 410 Providence, the evil of those who depend upon means in

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Eight things wherein the gospel is compared to it Reflections upon it as an emblem of God's word Rams, how profeffors are refembled by two fighting Reaping the fame we fow, how to be fpiritually improved 134 Reflections upon it profitable for finners and faints

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