D.

E.

F.

G.

H.

I.

K.

L.

M.

Declarations of the good will of God to poor sinners.

Effects of the merit and mediation of Jesus Christ.
Foundation and food of our faith and hope.

Gifts of divine power.

Heritage for ever.

Joy and rejoicing of our hearts.

Knit with the precepts, and the precepts with them.

Legacies left us by the last will and testament of our Lord

Jesus.

Means of grace and sanctification.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. canto vi. st. v. Works, ut supra, v. 6, p. 464.

"Christ Jesus is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady."

Beames of Divine Light, by Dr. Sibbs, p. 6, 4to. 1639. "St. Austin doth witness that the Holy Scriptures be the 'salves for every man's sore. ."" See Strype's Life of Archbishop Parker, App. b. iv. Numb. lxxxiii. p. 135, fol. 1711.

+ Mrs. Tylston's MS.

D.

E.

Breath of the new creature.

Caterer.

Desires that should be offered up to God by us.

Enemy to every evil work and way.

F.

Friend to faith and godliness.

G.

H.

I.

K.

L.

Guard against all temptations.
Heart's ease.

Incense in the ears of God.

Key, to unlock all our treasure.*

Letter to heaven.

Y.

Z.

Exercise.

Yielding of ourselves to God in holy obedience.

Zion's artillery against all the Zamzummims+ of the world. ‡

"Though prayer be the key to open God's treasures, yet faith is the hand that turnes the key, without which it will doe no good." The Saint's Daily Exercise, by John Preston, D. D. p. 105, 4to. 1630.

+ See Deuteronomy, ii. 20.

P. Henry. From the MS. of his daughter, Mrs. Tylston.

APPENDIX, No. XX.

His subjects, besides those mentioned before, of the good and bad spirits, in 1688 and 1689, were, what Christ is made to believers. He was about a year (the whole year 1690) preaching over the history of Christ in twenty heads. His forerunner; his conception and birth; his circumcision and name; his being presented in the temple; his flight into Egypt; his dispute with the doctors; his being baptized of John; his being tempted of the devil; his disciples and followers; his preaching; his miracles; the obedience of his life; his sufferings at his death; his death itself; his burial; his resurrection; his ascension into heaven; his sitting at the right hand of God; his intercession; his second coming to judge the world; which he closed up, and made a short rehearsal of, in one sabbath-day's work, from 2 Corinthians, iv. 5;-We preach not ourselves, but Christ. Then, what Christ is made of to believers, in 1691 and 1692. Afterwards, in the years 1692 and 1693, what the church is to Christ, in twenty-four particulars, alphabetical, from so many texts, each of them a sabbath-day's work. His army, Canticles, vi. 10; his building, 1 Corinthians, ii. 9, &c. After that, he preached in 1693 and 1694, upon the most remarkable passages in Christ's sermon upon the mount. And then, in like manner, went over, in the years 1694, and 1695, Christ's last sermon, in John, xiv. and xv. and xvi.; and his prayer, John, xvii. Then he preached over the beginning of 1 Peter, i.; and, the winter before he died, having had occasion in a lecture-sermon, to warn people against four common and scandalous sins;-dishonesty, drunkenness, uncleanness, and unquietness; and, finding them all together in one scripture, in the same order, he preached it

over, Romans, xiii. 13, 14; subjoining to it Galatians, v. 16. Then he began 2 Peter i.; and, when his Lord came, he found him thus doing.

A little before he died, he said, he scarce knew now what subject to choose that he had not preached upon already.*

* Life. Orig. MS. ut supra.

APPENDIX, No. XXI.

TRUTH, he would remark, is a jewel of inestimable value; and we should prize it accordingly. We must buy it, and not sell it, Proverbs, xxiii. 23. Hold it fast, and not let it go, 2 Timothy, i. 13. Abide in it, and not fall from it, 2 John, 9; 2 Peter, iii. 17. And, as a mean of all the rest, we must love it, Zechariah, viii. 19; 2 Thessalonians, ii. 10. We must love it more than thousands of gold and silver, Psalm, cxix. 127.

Errors, on the other hand, are sins; sins, because transgressions of the divine law. Do not err, because errors are works of the flesh, Galatians, v. 20; and because they are invasions upon God's rule and government. He has authority over our understanding; we owe the same subjection to his truths as to his commands. Errors in judgment are the causes of sins in practice, Matthew, vi. 23; Epistle of Jude. It is said that fishes first putrify in the head; -so do many.

Error is very bewitching, Galatians, iii. 1. It works like poison, silently and insensibly; it drinks up the good spirits, the sap and savour of a man. It is infecting, like the leprosy. A leper in the head was utterly unclean, Leviticus, xiii. 44. It is destroying; a shot, or cut in the head, will as surely kill as in the heart. See Psalm, xcv. 10, 11.

Lay a good foundation in being well acquainted with the principles of the doctrine of Christ. Take heed of pride and conceitedness. The low shrubs in the valley escape the storm when the tall cedars on the hill-tops are up-rooted; weather-cocks, set high, turn. Seek grace, and special growth in it, Hebrews, xiii. 9; 2 Peter, iii. 17, 18. Take heed of living in any known sin, or indulging any secret lust against light. Avoid needless familiarity with false prophets, 2 John, 10, 11; Romans, xvi. 17, 18; 1 Timothy, vi. 5. Give yourselves to the word and prayer, Acts, vi. 4.*

* P. Henry. Orig. MS.