A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. K. L. M. N. 0. P. Q. R. S. T. U. W. X. Y. Alphabetical Precepts. Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace, and thereby good shall come unto thee. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thy heart. Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not into the way of the evil man. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name. Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Keep thy foot when thou goest into the house of the Lord, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools. Let not thy heart envy sinners, but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go. Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. Offer unto the Lord thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the Most High. Pray continually. Quench not the spirit. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, wherein thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near. Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Unto man he said, Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding. Whether, therefore, ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 'Xamine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith. Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am the Lord.* Mrs. Savage's MS. D. E. F. G. Declarations of the good will of God to poor sinners. Effects of the merit and mediation of Jesus Christ. 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 Means of grace and sanctification, H. I. K. L. M. N. Number, numberless. • "Give salves to every sore, but counsell to the minde." 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. Breath of the new creature. Caterer. Desires that should be offered up to God by us. 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 |