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vale of tears; 363. Ignatius; Importance of a good example; 365.
Parisian life; 366. Sin is a monster of such frightful mien; Chester-
field on the pleasures of the world; 367. Pleasure's the fatal rock which
most have split on; Religious duties neglected; Where the inexperienced
often suffer; 368. Eyes dazzled long by fiction's gaudy rays; God of-
ten touches our best comforts; Our hearts are fastened to this world;
John Fletcher; 369. A dependence on the immutable rock; Christian
pilgrims helping each other; 370. Beyond the dark and stormy bound;
Prejudice; If once to prejudice the soul's resigned; 371. Ridicule and
raillery; Temporizing; 372. O Professor, keep the King's highway;
Find out the truth; Seize upon truth where'er 'tis found; The Lord will
protect the innocent; Rowland Hill on being libelled; 373. Communion
of saints on earth; Bearing provocation; Hall on real attainments; 376.
Thy triumphs, Faith, we need not take; 377. Experience of the saints;
Shake from my soul, o'erwhelmed, depressed; Countess of Warwick;
378. Alexander Cruden; Hall upon a full-blossomed tree; 379. Leigh-
ton; Self-love; 380. Adam's private thoughts; Count present blessings;
381. The children of God; With the lowly is wisdom; What will hum-
ble us to dust; 382. Holy patience; Cecil; The wild palm tree; 383.
Two young men at Port Royal; 384. Sir Christopher Hatton; 385. God-
liness with contentment; 386. Happy, oh happy he, who not affecting;
John Thorp; 387. How Christians should love one another; 388. The
charity which suffereth long; 389. The Christian's graces should be seen
walking abroad; Sir Matthew Hale; 390. Consider how variously minds
are constituted; 391. Let us not fill the valley of our pilgrimage with
the baneful monuments of our contentions; Many of the persecutors of
Christ's Church have come to an untimely end; 392. What is a church?
Let truth and reason speak; 393. Sincerity is an essential attribute of
personal religion; 394. Who best can suffer, best can do ; God bids the
sun ascend the skies; 395. When God commands, fear not man; It is
the best and longest lesson, to learn how to die; 396. There is a land
of pure delight; Leighton on a journey to Dumblane; 397. The Chris-
tian parent; Hannah More on the value of prayer; The Newcastle col-
lier boy; 398. Take care that thy riches be not as silver bars to cross
thy way to heaven; Give freely what thou giv'st; The comprehensive-
ness of Christian charity; Excesses of luxury, costly diversions; 400.
O Luxury! thou curst by heaven's decree; Danger lest the practice of
invariable economy should lead to the love of money; A rebuke from a
poor Hottentot; 401. The standard of the gospel disregarded to suit our
own purposes; 402. The trimming of the vain world would clothe the
naked; Thomas Hogg; 403. And along that vale of tears; Our ever
present and Almighty friend; 404. Let the young abound in compassion
toward the aged; Serle-On feeling for the aged; Against the reading
of unprofitable books; 405. Oxenstiern, Chancellor of Sweden; Avoid
rcaching the utmost bounds of what is lawful; 406. A natural will

ploughed up; 407. Rowland Hill; A Christian ought to be universally
compassionate; 408. An expedient for conversing by a reference to
texts; 409. Be pitiful, be courteous; The two disciples on their journey
to Emmaus; 410. The true believer is a new creature; 411. A saint!
Oh would that I could claim; 412. The soul of the believer must be
habituated to action; Approaching the heavenly shore; 413. The mer-
chant, who towards spicy regions sails; Thou, as a gallant bark from
Albion's coast; Intimate friendships; 414. The temple of Solomon;
No hammer fell, no ponderous axes rung; We may harmonize in prin-
ciples, though we may differ in punctilios; 415. Party spirit; 416.
In the midst of life we are in death; 417. Love of the stage; Can
laughter feed th' immortal mind? The poet Shakspeare; 416. A Chris-
tian cannot with impunity enter into the spirit of the world; As in the
inn there was no room for our Saviour, so neither is there room for him
in our depraved hearts; 420. Mind not the difficulties of thy march;
Anecdote of Windham, irreverent use of the sacred name: 421. Leigh-
ton-the children of God; 423. Hear what God the Lord hath spoken;
If the world hate you, 424. The Apostle Paul: When pining sickness
wastes the frame; 425. The example of the aged Christian; 426.
Reader! art thou desolate and afflicted; Fear not, Zion's sons and daugh-
ters; 428. "Be still and know that I am God;" Think not, when all
your scanty stores afford; 429. Early dedication; 431. "These six
things does the Lord hate; " 432. Uncertain wages of glory and thanks
amongst men; Peace-makers; 433. Doddridge on the healing of breaches;
434. Ye different sects, who all declare; Scruples of conscience should
be tenderly treated; 435. Godliness the beginning of joyfulness; Be
not conformed to this world; 436. Judson on dress; Leighton on the
better wardrobe; The sons of Eli; 437. To be pleased with what God
pleases; 438. The conversion of a soul; 439. The fanning time, the
day of sifting; 440. The Gospel spread by fishermen ; The children of
Israel; 441. The passage through the wilderness; Ye fearful saints,
fresh courage take; 442. Strife between good and evil; 443. We may
give our hand to the real inquirer after truth; Integrity of heart; 444.
On the improvement of our gifts; 445. A desire for the real happiness
of man; A good foundation for hope; 446. The selfish, the earthly, the
sensual; 447. Who is my neighbour; 448. In thy light shall we see
light; The sufferings of Christ; 449. True simplicity of spirit; Bishop
Hall; 450. Augustine after traversing the ways of the world; 451.
Leighton on finding so few Christians; White on private prayer; 452.
"I will be as the dew unto Israel;" 453. Wicked men are turbulent
and stormy; Engagement of the saints in their last conflict; 454. The
true church; Psalm lxxii. ("From Songs of Zion"), 455.

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