Christ the pattern of, 47; con-
demnation, not for the, 85; dying
testimony of, 124; happiness laid
up for, 190; heavenly desires only
for the, 200; home sickness of
the, 209; joy of, increasing, 235;
safety of, at all times, 374; secu-
rity of, 393; sensitiveness of the,
396; sin to die in the, 417; sol-
diership of the, 432

Believers, Holy Spirit's work in
the death of, 113; salvation se-
cured for all, 380; strife among,
inconsistencies of, 449; watering
others, a work for all, 486
Believer's Garden, The, 170
Believer's Life, Gospel adorned by
the, 180; providence of God in
all a, 344

Believer's pattern, Christ the, 47
Beloved, leaning on the, 242

Birth, Spiritual, travail preceding,
464

Blessedness of the righteous, 368
Blessing, harvest of, from seed of
sorrow, 193

Blessings, temporal, the guarantee
of spiritual, 457; troubles turned
into, 474

Blessings of dying daily, 123
Blindness of the sinner, 420
Bliss of communion, 82
Body, death refining the, 106
Brotherhood of sorrow, 436
Buildings consecrated, 89

C.

Calling, salvation before, 377
Care, Christ's, of his people, 55
Cares, daily, brought to Christ, 103
Carnal security, danger of, 392
Change of trials, 467
Changes in life, 244

Character of Christ, perfection of, 40;
transparency of, 53
Character of Judas, 236
Cheerfulness and despondency, 116
Child's prayer, a, 315

Christ, acquaintanceship with, 2;
believers influenced by, 18; Bible
full of, 19; blood of, the great
necessity, 20; call to decision for,
114; Christian a memorial of,
58; communion with, a means of
growth, 83; deep experience of,
114; empire of, lasting, 133;
eternal punishment preached by,
139; faint hearts cared for by,
144; fulness of, 170; fulness of
mercy in, 273; heaven opened by,
199; humble work for, 496;
image of, in the believer, 218;
incarnation of, the wonder of an-
gels, 221; ingratitude of despising,
226; intimacy with, 230; key to
heaven, 197; kingdom of, advanc-
ing, 237; kingdom of, coming,
238; knocking at the heart, 196;
knowledge of, eagerly desired, 240;
light, air, and water, emblems of,
248; light from, 249; likeness to,
251; love of, all embracing, 258;
love of, in our afflictions, 258;
love of, to his people, 258; love of
increased by service for us, 259;
love to, implanted by God, 260;
love to, not disinterested, 260;
loveliness of, 261, 262; majesty
and meekness in, 263; omnipo-
tence of, 295; perfection of the
priesthood of, 337; praise of, 314;

prayer accepted through, 317;
real to love, 257; recompense of
finding, 162; rejection of, 353;
rejection of, fatal, 354; religion
of, a fire, 357; resurrection of,
360, 361; rest in, our portion,
363; safety in, 374; salvation the
trade of, 382; salvation through,
382; scripture pointing to, 390;
seen at the communion table, 83;
separation from, impossible, 396;
service of, 398, 399, 400; shame
to be borne for, 402; sight of the
glory of, desired, 173; sin con-
quered by, 410; sin meeting on,
412; sin put away by, 414; sin-
ner called to, 420; sinner driven
to and drawn by, 422; sinner
must be driven to, 424; sinner
welcomed to, 425; soldiers of,
called to conflict, 432; soul en-
grossed with, 436; soul's flight to,
439; spiritual life, the gift of,
443; substitution of, 451; suffer-
ing for, 452; sun an emblem of,
454; sympathy needful to, 455;
talking for, 456; temporal mer-
cies sanctified by, 270; tender-
ness of, our example, 457; the
infant, a sign to men, 224; the
Saviour of the lost, 255; the sum
of a living ministry, 280; trusting
in, 474; veil rent by, 481; va-
riety of the revelations of, 365;
weariness cured by looking to,
488; without, 490; work for,
solemnity of, 497; work for, the
relief in trouble, 497; workers
for, unsanctified, 498
Christ's dealings, memories of, 269
Christ's heart, affliction revealing, 5
Christ's humanity, manhood hon-
oured in, 264

Christian, a light, 249; Christ real
to a, 44, 53; courage necessary
for the, 98; laziness unworthy of
the, 242; sphere of work for
every, 494; sin to be hated by the,
416; victory of the, 481, 482
Christian activity, 2, 3
Christian arch, resurrection the key-
stone of the, 360

Christian enterprise, 137
Christian fruitfulness, 169
Christian influence, 226
Christian life, a battle field, 17
Christian soldier, 431

Christian work to be done speedily,
496

Christianity, imitation of, 219
Christianity and philosophy, 305
Christianity, primitive, 337
Christians, critical, 99; dwarfish,
122; peace to be sought between,
299; unemployed, 477
Church, angels guardians of the, 8;
children in the, 26; Christ the
only legislator of the, 48; Christ's
care for the, 158; conversion
times, the joy of, 96; exhorted to
prayer, 318; Holy Spirit, the
treasury of, 206; hypocrites in
the, 215; lifelessness of the, 247;
persecution sifting the, 303; pu-
rity of, Christ's desire for, 349;
spirit of God needed in the, 442;
state alliance, the weakness of
the, 446; summer and winter of
the, 453; workers in, unsaved,
499; young men the hope of the,
508

Church, national, exposure of its
weakness, 288

Church, primitive, power of the, 338
Church purity, zeal for, 511
Churches and nations, cause of their
fall, 289

Comfort about the departed, 115
Coming to Christ as a sinner, 31
Communion, coldness of heart a bar-
rier to, 79

Company of Jesus in the tomb, 462
Companies, Bubble, 22
Condemnation in rejected ministries,
278

Conflicts, church strengthened by
her, 7

Consecration, personal, 304
Consecration of Christ, perfect, 39
Contagion of false doctrine, 119
Conversion, church recruited by,
73; grace of God in, 188; Lord's
Supper, a means of, 254; the one
object of the apostles' ministry, 280

Cries of sinner heard by God, 421
Cross, contentment through the, 94;
curse put away by the, 102; the
soul's haven, 441; union at the,
478

Crown of the church, 67

Cry of a child heard by God, 27
Cure for restlessness, 364

D.

Daily employment, praise a, 309
Daily grace, reception of, 184; to
bear trials, 467
Daily life, faith in, 149
Danger, of Christless souls, 64; of
covetousness, 98; of enchanted
ground, 134; of fame, 156; of
heretical books, 21; of triflers,
471; sinner asleep in, 419
Death, faith preserving from, 151;
freedom from in heaven, 198;
preparation for, 333; purpose of
God in, 350; sight of Christ
worth, 45; vanity of earthly
things in view of, 129

Death, of a Christian, 58, 59; of a
sinner, 421; of babes, 15
Definition of faith, 146
Definition of preaching, 331
Deliverance by policy only tempo-
rary, 307

Depravity, natural, 289

Desire for fellowship, constant, 158
Destroying nature of avarice, 14
Devotion, architecture no help to,
10

Difficulties, resolution to obtain vic-
tory over, 483

Dilution of the truth, 475
Discipline, church, object of, 78
Divine benefits, 18

Divine oracle, simplicity of, 295
Divine renewal, 357

Divine threatenings to be attended
to, 461

Divine work, progress of the, 340
Divisions in the church, 67
Doctrine, of annihilation, warning
against, 9; of election misused,
130

Doctrines of grace, 184

Face of Christ, the glorified saint's
vision, 32

Faith, God and man united by, 178;
meditation the telescope of, 269;
promises countersigned by, 341
Faith and sight, 404
Fall, man before the, 263
Fasting and prayer, power of, 327
Fatal mistakes, 282
Feast of Scripture, 389
Fellowship with Christ in trouble,
472

Fire, tongues of, 463

Flight of time, swiftness of the, 462
Folly, of feverish excitement, 142;
of fretfulness, 167; of greed, 189;
of the sinner, 423, 427; of wait-
ing for wonders, 490; of worry,
506

Food of love, 257
Forces, spiritual, 443
Forgetfulness of death, 104
Fountain of Christianity, 62
Frailty of life, 245
Freedom of truth, 475

Freeness of the gospel, 181, 182
Freshness of the gospel, 182
Friendship, trouble a test of, 471
Fulness of Christ, 33, 232
Fulness of mercy, 272, 273

G.

Garden of Christ, Church the, 76
Garden of the King, Church the, 76
Garment of praise, 310
Gathering of the jewels, 232
Gentleness of Christ, 33
Glory, future, of the earth, 128
Glory of the church, 69
God, accessibility of, 1; burdens to
be cast on, 23; cares to be cast
on, 23; church sustained by, 75;
comfort, undying, in, 80; confi-
dence in, 86; cross revealing the
glory of, 101; debtors to, 113;
enemies of, recruiting his army,
136; faith answered by, 144;
fatherhood of, 156, 157; forbear-
ance of, sparing life, 163; folly of
forsaking, 166; folly of resisting,
165; friendship with, in death,
168; friendship with, necessity of,
168; fulness of the goodness of,
180; gentleness of, 171; gifts,
small, valued by, 173; in the
storm, 448; jealousy of, 231;
kindness of, 237; littles showing
forth, 253; longsuffering of,
253; love of, fountain of bless-
ing, 259; love to, the return
of his love, 261; memories of the
promises of, 343; ministers' com-
mission from, 277: nearness to,
291; prayer pleasing to, 322;
preparation for meeting, 334;
presence of, inspiration of the,
335; promises sealed by, 342;
providence of, in everything, 345;
rebellion against, futility of, 350;
relationship to, 354; rest in the
bosom of, 363; sinner hiding from,
impossibility of, 423; strength of,
a believer's defence, 449; voice of
in removing prosperity, 343; work
of, humbling, 498; work of, meet-
ing man's work, 498; workers'
strength in, 499