Chapter XXVI (1)

_The fifth direction, of prayer, and of the seriousness required of those that expect the advantage of prayer.—Of God’s hearing prayer while the temptation is continued.—Of some that are troubled more, while they pray more._

_Direct._ 5. _That in all our endeavours of resistance, frequent and earnest prayers are not to be neglected._

This is so frequently recommended, and so fully handled by most authors, that I shall refer you to such authors as particularly treat of it; noting only that the apostle, in Eph. vi. 18, when he recommends it to us in these words, ‘Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance, and supplication for all saints,’ he doth mind us that he that expects the advantage of that duty must be peculiarly fitted, and seriously diligent in that work. For,

(1.) First, _He must have a praying frame of heart_; he must ‘pray always,’ or, as the apostle elsewhere, he must ‘pray continually.’ Not as if this duty must swallow up all the rest, and that a Christian had no other services to attend than prayer, but that he must be on a design to wrestle with God by prayer; and this must be constantly carried on, though the acts of prayer be intermitted; and besides that, in such cases, he may keep his usual stated times for that duty, he must have his heart so much upon his design, that every occasion or offer of temptation will presently put him upon the duty; nay, he must, in respect of the frequent intercourse of his heart with God in frequent ejaculations and breathings of soul, be as a man wholly resolved into that duty, as Paul was at his first conversion, who, as that expression ‘behold he prays’ [Acts ix. 11] doth intimate, seems to have been all prayer, and wholly taken up with that duty.

(2.) Secondly, _He must pray in the spirit_, his soul must be truly in the duty. A more than ordinary earnestness is necessary at solemn times, he must put out all his strength, he must cry mightily, and with his whole heart.

(3.) Thirdly, When his spirit grows dull, _he must reinforce it_, watch his heart he must; and if it be needful to quicken it up, he must add fasting or meditation, or whatever other means may be helpful.

(4.) Fourthly, In this course _he must continue without giving off the duty_. Though God behave himself as if he minded not his cry, or took no notice of his hazard, yet without weariness must our supplications follow him. It must be continued with ‘all perseverance.’

(5.) Fifthly, _The heart that undertakes this must not be so narrow as to be centred upon his own concern only_. When he is melted into a spirit of meekness and compassion for others, and is not so solicitous for peace or ease, that he could hug himself in his private enjoyment without concerning himself to tender and help those that are in the same dangers, when his supplications are for ‘all saints’ as well as for himself, then may he expect to receive an olive branch of peace from heaven in the return of his prayer.

_Obj._ It is often objected by such, that they pray but are not heard; and that temptations continue, notwithstanding many cries and wrestlings.

_Ans._ [1.] First, _It is a great mistake to think that prayers are not heard or do not prevail, because the temptation is not quite removed_. Prayers may be acceptable to God, and recorded among his remembrances, where the temptation, for exercise and other holy ends, may be continued.

[2.] Secondly, _What God hath promised to such prayer, he fails not to make good_. He hath not promised to exempt us from temptation, but from the power and prevalency of it. If ‘his grace be sufficient for us,’ 2 Cor. xii. 9, in the meantime, it is an answer as good as Paul got when he was importunate; ‘If together with the temptation he gives an issue, that we may be able to bear it,’ 1 Cor. x. 13, there is his faithfulness in keeping promise. He nowhere promised that Satan should not tempt, but that he should not prevail. While we can hold up our hands in the mount to God, and our praying frame will ascertain us of this; ‘for a man is never overcome by a temptation so long as he can pray against it;’ for so long he delights not in it so long he consents not, and till he do consent Satan cannot prevail. Prayer will either make the temptation give way, or the temptation will make prayer give way; but so long as we hold out with earnestness, the temptation cannot prevail.

_Obj._ Some further object, that the more they pray they are the worse, and more infested by Satan than they were before they undertook that course.

_Ans._ 1. _It may be they may have more trouble from Satan._ David ‘thought on God, and his trouble was increased,’ [Ps. xxxix. 3,] and no wonder. Satan’s spite and fury puts him upon giving greatest molestations to those of whom he despairs to subdue.

_Ans._ 2. Secondly, But though they may be more troubled, _yet they may be furthest from conquest_.[492] These disquiets are like the trouble of the working of physic, which at first taking may make a man more sick, and yet bring him nearer to a state of health and strength; fear not then, faint not, resist faithfully, and to the utmost, and ‘God shall bruise Satan under thy feet shortly,’ [Rom. xvi. 20.]

FINIS.

INDEXES, &c.

I.—TEXTS ILLUSTRATED.

CHAP. VER. PAGE
Genesis 2. 23 21
” 3. 1 22
” 4. 11-16 288
” 4. 26 431, 432
” 10. 4 102
” 49. 17 14
Exodus 22. 18 27
Deut. 6. 16 382
” 8. 3 356
” 18. 10 27, 28
” 23. 18 137
Judges 21. 18, 20 78
1 Kings 20. 33 377
Job 11. 12 3
Psalms 37. 34 364
” 91. 11, 12 402, seq.
Proverbs 3. 23 402
Isaiah 41. 23 25
Jerem. 18. 9 23
Ezekiel 33. 11 298
Daniel 10. 13 20
Malachi 3. 1 381
Matthew 4. 1-11 313, seq.
” 4. 1 313-328
” 4. 2 328-336
” 4. 3 337-341
” 4. 4 341, seq.
” 4. 5 376-382
” 4. 6 382, seq.
” 4. 7 402, seq.
” 4. 8 415, seq.
” 4. 9 430, seq.
” 6. 24 441
Luke 11. 24 91, seq., 97
John 2. 24, 25 24
” 8. 54 14
” 12. 24 17
” 16. 17
Romans 1. 28 143
” 3. 7, 8 116
” 14. 23 296
” 15. 19 142
” 16. 18 162
1 Cor. 4. 13 40
” 11. 29 297
2 Cor. 2. 11 55
” 4. 4 62
” 11. 3 112
” 12. 7 238
” 13. 5 256
Gal. 1. 16 111
” 5. 1, 2 200
” 5. 20, 21 28
” 6. 1 320
Ephes. 3. 10 23
” 4. 17 144
” 4. 27 12
” 6. 12 20
Philip. 4. 7 210
Col. 1. 16 15, 16
” 2. 8 203
1 Thes. 4. 16 20
2 Thes. 2. 9-11 142
1 Tim. 1. 20 17
” 6. 20 162
2 Tim. 2. 16 17
” 2. 26 56
Heb. 3. 13 53
” 6. 4 301
” 10. 2 255
” 10. 26 301
” 11. 37 440
James 1. 14 54
” 1. 22, 29 55
” 4. 4 441
1 Peter 5. 8 8, seq.
2 Peter 3. 16 411, 412
1 John 3. 8 13
” 3. 12 12
” 5. 16 299
Jude 9 19, 55
Rev. 2. 24 162
” 11. 15 17
” 12. 12 11

II.—GENERAL MATTERS.

Abhorrency, 457, 458.

Absconded, 163.

Accusations by Satan, 231, 232;
direful, 428.

Acontius, 169, 193, 207.

Acosta, 198.

Acquirements, 152.

Actions, of wonder and astonishment, by Satan, 30;
unreasonableness of some, 68;
mistake of, 188, 189;
Satan uses Scripture to promote sinful, 408.

Activity in duty, 212.

Adam, Melchior, 135, 147.

Additions, 124.

Admiration, 43.

Adonis, 180.

Adoption, Satan seeks to weaken, 374;
are all to maintain their? 375.

Adrianus, 178.

Advantage pursued by Satan, 45, 46, 251, 258, 259, 345, 346.

Adventurousness, rash, 320.

Adversary, Satan an—malice, enmity, power, cruelty, diligence, 10.

Æsop, 181.

Ætius Spartianus, 178.

Ætna, 173.

Affections, Satan uses, 67.

Afflicted, reasons for Satan’s tempting the, 335, 336.

Afflictions, 222, 223, 273, 274, 335, 336, 427.

Affright, Satan seeks not to, 86, 87.

Affrightments, 238, 240;
grievous, 249, 427.

Afraid, be not of, Goliath, 311.

Agathocles, 40.

Aggravations, of sin, 83, 278, 279;
unjust, of sins of God’s children, 299, 300.

Aims, Satan, various, in a single temptation, 353.

Alacrity, in duty, 212.

Alexander, 26, 68.

Alexander, (heretic,) 204.

Allegorical reflections, 163.

Allurement, 399.

Alterations, be jealous of, in worship, 433.

Alvarez, 174.

Alypius, 65.

Amazement, 303.

Ambrose, 446.

Americans, 17, 44.

Ames, or Amesius, 10, 57, 255, 288, 293, 384, 449, 456.

Androgeus, 39.

Anger of Satan, 12, 206;
angry disposition, 220.

Angel, Satan an, power of, 14, 15;
angels, strength of, _ib._;
Sadducees, opinions on, 49, 50.

Anguish and horror of Satan, 13.

Annoyance, temptation an, 456.

Answers, of Christ to Satan, 445, _seq._;
fit and pertinent, 445;
best from Scripture, 462, _seq._

Antichrist, 38.

Antiochus, 109.

Antony, M., 70.

Antony of Padua, 180.

Apion, 109, 110.

Apish imitation of divine things, 198.

Apochryphal adjections, 179.

Apollonius, 173.

Apollonius Tyanæus, 419.

Apostasy of Satan, 12.

Apostolici, 170.

Apparitions, 33.

Appearances, remarkable, of God, 279.

Applause, popular, 401.

Apprehensions, against God, 303.

Aptitude in the world to tempt, 441.

Aquinas, 31.

Arguings, fallacious, 113, 114;
partial, 452.

Arguments, deny sin with strongest, 463;
of Satan, 295, 296.

Arianism, 131.

Aristotle, 27, 179.

Arius, 204.

Armour, management of spiritual, 445.

Arrowsmith, 19, 102, 240, 327, 425, 467.

Arrogancy, 375;
of Satan against God, how shewn, 418, _seq._

Art, of Satan in setting forth temptations, lies in four
things, 421, 422.

Arthington, 146.

Askew, Ann, 455.

Assaults, of saints, by Satan, 18.

Assays, 247.

Assertions, bold, 167.

Aspersions, slanderous, 188.

Atheists, 48;
principles of, put out light, 82;
thoughts, 242;
persons troubled with atheistical thoughts, 243.

Authority of Satan, 17;
nature of, explained, 17, 18;
over persons and things, _ib._;
efficacy of, 18, 19.

Augustine, 15, 19, 22, 32, 38, 48, 52, 65, 117, 129, 147, 177,
179, 180, 201, 202, 324, 328, 393, 394, 395, 403, 418, 461, 468.

Averrhoes, 48.

Avicenna, 30.

Awe of sin, 93, 94.

Baal-zebub, 36.

Bad end, evident, 357.

Barlow, 53.

‘Barricades’ of Satan, 98.

Baxter, 29, 146, 178, 181.

Bayne, 20, 220, 425.

Belief, facile, 154.

Bellona, 39.

Benedict, St, 174.

Bernard, 328, 403.

‘Beside,’ 195.

Best, of God’s children hardly escape under temptation of
distrust, 368.

Beza, 22, 56, 373.

Bias, 151;
to error rather than truth, 151, 152;
by bodily temper, 152.

Bisnagar, 39.

Blasphemous thoughts congenial to Satan;
(1.) from his nature, 244;
(2.) practice, 245;
(3.) professed design, _ib._;
(4.) sad experience, _ib._;
injections, 304, 424, 425;
how Satan works to get man to, 425;
violent injections of, 426;
sudden glances of, imagination, 427;
reasons of this temptation, 427, _seq._;
advice to those tempted by, 429, 430.

Blessings, universal, 366.

Blinds, Satan, 62, 63;
by stirring up lust, proved, 68, _seq._;
how lust, 70, 71.

Bochart, 21.

Bodies, 66;
afflicted by mind, 218;
in co-partnership of sorrow, 309, 310;
Satan permitted to have power over, 378.

Bodin, 43.

Bœhmen, 166, 167.

Boldness, heroic, a snare to self-murder, 392.

Bolsecus, 187.

Boniface, Pope, 57, 58, 175.

Boyle, 394.

Bretterge, Mrs, 305, 309.

Bribes of Satan, 205.

Bridget, St, 173.

Broughton, 59.

Bucholcer, 199.

Burden of injections by Satan, 241.

Burton, 66.

Business, Satan’s, to tempt, ours to resist, 339;
and how, 339, 340.

Cain, 288, 289.

Cajetan, 33, 462.

Calisthenes, 68.

Calovius, 132.

Calumnies, 186.

Calvin, 16, 20, 32, 50, 58, 65, 142, 167, 187, 210, 337.

Campian, 164.

Camus, 181.

Capel, 57, 58, 82, 326, 390, 392, 396, 428, 429, 449.

Cappellus, 165.

Cardan, 48.

Care, distressed, cease all, 310.

Carthaginians, 39.

Caryl, 57, 59, 425.

‘Catching away’ the word, 87, 88;
Satan lies at ‘catch,’ 243.

Cathari, 170.

Cato, 393.

‘Catoche,’ 212.

Causes, Satan knows, of things, 25;
second, 365.

Caution, great against Satan, 417.

Cedremus, 178.

Celestine, v., 175.

Chambers, 294.

Chamier, 19, 20, 181.

Change, Satan blinds by, a temptation, 77, 95, 96;
of nature of temptation, 369.

Cheats, 29.

Chemnitius, 203, 373.

Children, 151.

Chokes, Satan, the word, 88.

Cicero, 393.

Clarke, 35, 121.

Cleombrotus, 393.

Climacus, 426.

Coccius, 189.

Collinges, 215.

Comforts, inward, extinguished, 228, 229;
disturbances, scatter thoughts of, 229;
stock of, wastes, 229;
outward, little, 443.

Company, evil, 67.

‘Composition,’ Satan gives a, in religious duty, 95.

Complainings, 373.

Complies, Satan, 78;
compliance with parties, 199, 200;
though not yet, opens way to sins, 428.

Confederacies and contrivances, 179.

Consent, ‘threaped,’ 80.

‘Concealing,’ 70;
concealment of wounds, 307;
Satan tempts by, 421, 422.

Conclusions, direful, 334.

Condition, Satan takes advantage of our, in temptation, 346, 347.

Confident, warning from temptations, to the over, 325.

Confronting of Almighty by Satan, 418.

Conscience, wounded, 61;
in man, 62;
scared, 94;
molested, 231, 232;
scrupulosity of, 253;
doubting, 255;
evil, 255, 256;
denying, 257;
how distinguish between terrors of, and melancholy, 292;
total distress of, 292, 293;
terrors of, 391.

Consent, by silence, 460.

Consolation, for those troubled by blasphemy, 428.

Contrary commands of Scripture to temptations, 468.

Contrasts, between Christ and Satan, 209.

Coveting, 221.

Contempt, 221;
of religion, 334;
Satan seeks to bring Scripture under, 410.

‘Contemplative’ heads, 243.

Contentions and disputes, 149.

Continuance, troubles of long, 295;
temptations of long, 426.

Contrivances, 87;
curious, 183.

‘Conversation,’ careful, 437.

Conversion, time of, temptation, 47;
easy, 260;
conscience wounded, before and after, by God, 261, 262;
false notions concerning, 270, 271;
not always with terror, 270;
nor able to tell exact time, _ib._;
nor always accompanied with gifts of prayer, _ib._

Coppinger, 139.

Corinthian, church, 128.

Corrupted, duties worst of all, 103;
doctrines lead to corrupt practices, 137;
ingenuous, society of those who are, 190;
Satan seeks to corrupt God’s worship, 431, 432;
reasons, 432, _seq._

Corruption stirred, 453.

Cortez, 41.

Courage, commanded, 448;
what spiritual, is, 449.

‘Courses’ of sinners, 437.

‘_Crack_,’ 169.

Craft, (see _Subtlety_.)

Cramer, 467.

Credulous, 286.

Cross, Satan tempts by things, to our temper, why, 60.

Croy, de, 202.

Cruelty of Satan, 36-44.

Curiosity, adventurous, 156, 157, 451, 452.

Curse, of Satan, 12.

Curtius, Q., 68.

Custom, power of, 193, 194;
force of, 393.

Cyprian, 373.

Dædalus, 179.

‘Damnation’ misapplied, 296.

Damocles, 444.

Darkness, Satan ruler of, 17.

Daunting, power of Scripture, 467.

David, temptations of, 56, 84.

Debauchery, atheistical, 157.

Deceits, 58;
in use of Scripture, 410.

Deceptions, 31;
all the devil’s qualifications for ‘deceit,’ 52, 53.

Degrees, of misery, 310.

Delay, 459.

‘Deliberate’ determinations, 81, 82.

Deliberating, 452.

Deluded, 144.

Demons, 201.

Demoniacs, diseases, 50;
Mede on, 51.

Demonstrated, things, 153.

Demurs and delays, 89.

Denials, not disputing, in temptation, 451, _seq._;
best, and why, 459, _seq._

Departure, feigning, 91.

Dervises, 171.

Descartes, 64.

Designs, large, of Satan, 382;
unfaithful, of Satan in use of Scripture, 409;
Christ’s temptations permitted by design, 445.

Desires, 54;
enlarge not, 443.

Despagne, 42, 148, 151, 405, 422.

Despair, 217;
is presumptuous, 386.

Devices, 23.

Devil, though a ‘spirit,’ a proper subject of sin, 10, 11;
wickedness of, capable of increase, 11;
has great occasions for malice, _ib._;
fall of, 11, 12;
power of, as a, 16, 17;
meaning of, as a word, 22;
denial of existence of, 48.

Devils, large number of, 19;
order among, 19, 20;
reality of existence of, argued, 51, 52;
believed in by the heathen, 52.

‘Devotional,’ 168.

Diana, 39.

Diascorides, 28.

Dickson, 141, 219, 242, 255, 390, 428.

Differences, in God’s children, 114.

Dignity of God’s children, a snare by Satan, 114.

Diligence, of Satan, 45;
instances of, 45, _seq._

Diodati, 50.

Dionysius, 19.

Directly and indirectly, Satan blinds, 73, _seq._

Disadvantage, fall of saints special, 315.

Disappointment of Satan certain, 14.

Discomposures of soul, 219;
effects of, 229;
devil works on, 230;
much sin in, _ib._;
obstruct duties, 230, 231;
devil accuses by, 231.

Discontents, 391.

Discouragements, 106;
Satan not easily discouraged, 376, 377;
Scripture, afflicting discouragement to Satan, 467, 468.

Discovery, Satan’s contrivances to hinder, 87;
full of notions, and ways of, 165.

Disguises, the world’s, 442.

Dispensation, divine, of spiritual sadness, 259, 260.

Disputes, 206, 207.

Disputings, kinds of, 451, _seq._;
actual, 452;
when we may, a temptation, 453;
when not, 454, _seq._;
a better way than, 457;
reasons why not, with Satan, 457, _seq._

Disquiet, Satan sometimes seeks only to, 61;
disquiets, 184;
advantages to Satan by, 211.

Distance between God and man by sin, Satan uses, 98.

Distempers, bodily, 427.

Distinctions, 78;
of the learned, show ignorance, 150.

Dismission of thought, 78.

Distractions in holy seasons, 46, 47, 79, 120;
before religious services, 123;
Satan raises, 211;
unfits for duty, 212.

Distresses, spiritual, 287;
complicated, _ib._;
have a further end, _ib._;
consent of the party, 287, 288;
higher degree, 288;
not all from melancholy, shewn, 290, 291;
God’s deserting, _ib._;
weight of, 307.

Distrust, 335, 361;
of providence, passes to, of Sonship, 367.

Disturbances, outward, 121, 122, 224;
in Satan’s power, 233.

Diverting of reason, 77.

Divisions, 134, 135.

Doctrine, false, in gorgeous attire, 195;
erroneous, 408.

Dominicus, 179.

Domineer, Satan doth tyrannically, 249.

Dominis de, 158.

Dreams, 404.

Dury, John, 164.

Duty, burden of, 106, 107;
want of success in, 107, 108;
dislike of, 109;
unnecessariness of, 115;
suspending, 116, 117;
vitiated, 123, 124;
hindered, 212;
difficult, 214;
unfruitful, _ib._;
sinful, _ib._

Dyke, 75.

Earnestness, take off, 117.

Ease, wrongly sought, 217.

Ecstasies, 404.

Effects, ascribed to wrong causes, 180.

Effeminacy, 221.

Egyptians, 162, 163.

Election, terrors about, 246, 247;
suspicions of non-election, 250.

Ellis, 164.

Empedocles, 173.

End, and means, 116.

Endeavours, constant course of Satan’s, 129.

Endeavours, 303.

Endor, witch of, 34.

Ends, of things, used to blind, 74;
base, 119.

Enemies and rebels, Satan pursues men as, 100.

Enemy, ‘sword of an,’ 305.

Engines by which Satan works: sophistry, 266;
Scripture abused, 267, 268;
false marks a sign of unregeneracy, 269-271;
misrepresentation of God, 271, _seq._;
comparisons with holy lives of others, 280;
lessens graces of saints, _ib._;
fear, 285, _seq._

England, New, appearances of Satan in, 44;
errors in, 160.

Enigmatical speaking of Satan, 26.

Enmity to God, 441, 442.

Enmity of Satan, 12, 13.

Ensnaring, ways of Satan, 425.

Entanglements, 71, 72.

Entice, 62.

Enticing to temptation, 454.

Entrance on special service, a time of temptation, 313, 314.

Envious disposition, 220.

Epiphanius, 129, 135.

Equality and inequality of privilege and duty, 115.

Error, 127;
Satan, great contriver of, _ib._;
reasons of Satan in, 130;
is sinful, 130, 131;
of an increasing nature, 131;
a plague, _ib._;
errorists, 131, 132;
leads to schisms, &c., 132, 133;
hinders reformation, 133, 134;
fixes atheism, 135, 136;
obstructs graces, 139;
punishment it brings, 140;
vileness of some, 144, 145;
unusual actions for, 145, 146;
blind even the wise, 146;
suddenness of prevalency, _ib._;
fury in spreading, _ib._;
from learned men, 149;
approbation given to, 154;
arguments for, 158;
countenance of Scripture for, 158, 159;
foundation of, laid near truth, 160;
promoted by excellence of those holding, 168;
captain and ringleader in, 169;
the ease and peace it brings, 183;
proffers of peace from, 184;
insensible procedure of, 190;
gradual fixing, 191;
garb of, 195;
avoidance of one for another, 204;
puts on truth’s clothes, 207;
Satan uses Scripture to promote, 408.

Escape, possibility of, from penalty, 76.

Eusebius, 129, 145, 198, 202, 203.

Eve, temptation of, 56, 57, 82.

Evil company, 67.

Example, evil, 67.

Excess, 124, 125.

Exchange, a temptation, 95, 96;
secret, 96.

Execrations, against self, 216, 217.

Experience of Satan, 24.

Extenuations of sin, 76.

External things, 152.

Extreme, Satan runs from the, and why, 383.

Extremes, 73.

Fables, lying, 181;
instances, _ib._;
traditionary, 197.

Failure of God’s children under temptation of distrust, 368.

Faith, false notions of nature of, 270;
weakened, 371.

False citation of Scripture, 411.

Familists, 160.

Fancy, fancies, 31, 123;
Satan works on, 422.

Fascination, 140, 141, 442.

Fashion, sins out of, 96.

Fast of Christ, 328, _seq._;
why, 329, _seq._

Favour, special, a time of temptation, 314.

Favourable, too, opinion of self, 285.

Fears, suspicious, 246;
impressions of, 251, 252;
come by fits, 252, 253;
return, 253;
add to the weight of other troubles, _ib._;
not always accompanying conversion, 270;
an engine of temptation, 285;
increase of, 304;
prepare for Satan’s most dismal suggestions, 365;
make all seem the sword of an enemy, _ib._;
no advice eases, 305, 306;
lead to conclusions of misery, 306;
threefold, 447, 448;
what, forbidden, 448, _seq._

Februation, 43.

Feigning departure, 91.

Fenner, 67, 73.

‘Finishing’ of sin, 83, _seq._

First temptation, Christ’s, 346, _seq._

Fixes, Satan, thoughts, 237.

Follows, Satan, with a high hand, 99.

Food of the soul, Satan robs of, 101.

Foretell, Satan can, 26.

‘Formal’ use of defences, Satan allows, and why, 380, _seq._

Forsake, three ways Satan seems to, designs, 91, _seq._

‘Forty days,’ 329, 330.

Foxe, 308, 440.

Frances, St, 174.

Fratricelli, 166.

Friends, Satan tempts by—examples, 330.

Fruition of peace, 184.

Fuel, Satan seeks his own, 13;
of lust, 441.

Fuller, 28, 406.

Funckius, 408.

Furious fits, 225;
Bible examples, 225, 226.

Future, whether Satan knows the, 25.

Galen, 48.

Game, after-, 242.

Garnet, 180.

Gellius, 182.

Gerson, 238, 426, 430.

Gilpin, John, 146, 395.

Glances, transient, 251.

Glanvil, 29, 30.

Glauber, 164.

Gnostics, 166.

God, the source of all happiness, 3, 4;
quarrelled, 217;
misrepresentation of God’s nature, 272;
providence, 272-274;
in the works of his Spirit, 274, 275;
misrepresented as a tyrant, 298;
as designing men’s ruin, 299.

Gods, false, 201.

Godwyn, 28, 40, 198.

‘Goeth out,’ _not_ ‘cast out,’ 97.

Gomesius, 164.

Good, seeming, 351, 352;
hindrance of greater, 352.

Goodwin, (misspelled Godwin,) 24, 57, 61, 62, 261, 456.

‘Gospels,’ counterfeit, 189.

Grace, restraining, 93;
growth of, not always visible, 271;
mistaken signs of, _ib._;
Satan lessens, of saints, 280, _seq._;
tempts in relation to, 281, _seq._;
extraordinaries of, _ib._;
special assistances, _ib._;
eminencies, _ib._;
Satan tempts when, is weakest, 284, 285;
hinders not temptation, and why, 323, _seq._

Gradual, Satan in temptations, 341, 342;
reasons, 342.

‘Great’ temptation, what, 342;
external, complex, perplexing, _ib._;
proceeded on advantages, greater power of Satan, to abominations,
professed benefits, provoking, engagement of all natural powers,
some warranted as duty, 343.

Greenham, 95, 97, 115, 116, 461.

Gregory, 338, 440.

Gregory the Great, 202.

Grief fixed, contentment in, 215, 216.

Grievous sins, 295.

Grotius, 442.

Guessing of Satan, 24.

Haas, 467.

Habits, vicious, 152.

‘Habituated’ sin, 24, 453, 454.

Hacket, 139.

Han, 29.

Hakluyt, 178.

Happiness, impatient desire of, 393.

Harvey, 187.

Haste in sinning, 81.

Hatred against Satan, 122.

Hatred of Satan, 12.

Hazard, 46;
to life by some lusts, 69;
and disadvantage by abuse of services, 103;
of duties, 110, 111;
ways of religion said to be of intolerable, 317;
ways of, 394, 395.

Heart, the stage of all action, 3, 4;
God and Satan meet in, 4;
the ‘deceits’ of, point to Satan, 53;
enticed, 62;
sottish, 78, 79;
prepared for venomous impressions, 215;
hard and impenitent, 302, 303;
Satan seeks to withdraw, from God and to enslave to sin,
shewn, 433, 434;
prevails, 434, 435;
not right with God, 435.

Heathen, 153.

Heightening of duty, 115;
of jealousies and fears against Satan, 123;
of the sins of the tempted, 318, 409.

Heightens, Satan, grace, 280, 283.

Hell, 9.

Helmont, 30.

Hephæstion, 68.

Heresies, 412.

Heylin, 180, 182, 187, 428.

Hiding, necessity of, duty, 113.

Hindrances, external, 104.

Hobbs, 29, 50, 337, 416.

Hobson, Paul, 176.

Honeywood, 375.

Honour, God’s, at stake, 366.

Hooper, 455.

Hope, 46;
give not readily up, 375.

Hopelessness of prevailing, 80.

Horace, 109, 173, 401.

Huffing = hoving, or heaving, or swelling, 77.

Humility, excess of, 108, 109.

Humours, 224.

Hunger of Christ, 347.

Hunting of his prey, by Satan, 45.

Hypocrites are presumptuous, 386;
varnish on, 410, 411.

Ignorance variously shewn, 147, _seq._;
conversion of the ignorant, results, 260.

Ignorant devout, humbled by Satan, 247, 248.

‘Imaginary,’ 143.

Imagination, Satan’s use of, 65, 66, 250.

Imitations of divine services and Bible incidents, 102, 198, 419;
Satan imitates God by pretence of teaching, 403.

Impetuosity, 426.

Impressions, dismal, of Satan, 305.

Importunity, 79;
impudent, 243, 244.

Impotent, mind rendered, 229.

Impulses, 406.

Incas, 198.

Incessant, Satan in temptation, 331;
things relating to such, 331, 332;
encouragement under, 332.

Inclinations, 66, 152, 155.

_Indicia_, 25.

Indignation of Satan, 12.

Indisposition of body, 104, 105;
of soul, 105.

Indirect courses, 335.

Infectious, temptations, 459.

Infirmity, 75, 76, 188.

‘Ingenuousness,’ 48;
submissive, 120;
feigned, 275.

Injects, Satan’s temptations, 61;
impetuousness of, 122;
injections of terror, 238;
impetuous, 239;
incessant, _ib._;
odious, 239, 240;
abhorrency, 240;
difference between atheistical injections and temptations, 242;
of abominable sin, 250, 251.

Injury, 222.

Insight, Satan has deep, 26.

Insolency, 418.

‘Inspiration,’ false, 172, 405.

Insult = triumph, 448.

‘Intercepting’ of light by Satan, 70.

Interest, Scripture contrary to, 409.

‘Interest’ shaken by light, 90.

‘Internal’ work, 114.

Inventions, self-devised, 379, 380;
human, in divine worship, 434.

Invisible, Satan in temptation usually, 330.

Invitation, secret, to Satan by disputing, 458.

Invocation of saints, 201.

Inward temptations and outward distresses, 333;
terrors and trouble, 456;
reasons for not disputing with Satan in, 456, _seq._

Irenæus, 19.

Jackson, 424.

James, 189.

Jenison, 22, 24, 180.

Job and Satan, 13.

Josephus, 27, 40, 49, 110, 179, 198, 406, 409.

Jostle, 105.

Joy not received, 229.

Jugglers’ words, 166.

Julian, 164, 194, 208.

Junius, 242.

Karsten, 173.

Kent, maid of, 180.

Kimchi, 381.

Kingdom of Satan, 433, 434.

Kneperdollin, 146.

Knowledge of Satan, 21, _seq._;
measured by that of Adam in innocency, 21;
by names given to him, 22;
nature of, 22, 23;
natural, experimental, accessory, _ib._;
imperfection of, 147;
nature of, 148;
unsuitableness of our capacities, 148, 149.

Lacedæmonians, 39.

Lamech, 289.

Language, strange, 166.

Lapide, a-, 373.

Lathbury, 180.

Law, enmity and opposition of the, 85.

Lawful, seeming, 351, 352;
to be seriously weighed, 353.

Leaving, of, sins, 119.

Legion of temptations, 79.

Leigh’s _Critica Sacra_, 10, 27, 141, 425.

Leyden, John of, 139.

Libanius, 195.

Light of nature, of Scripture, &c., 55;
Satan opposes, and how, 90, 91;
prevailing power of, 94.

Lightfoot, 40, 227, 289, 313, 329, 333, 351, 356, 381, 415, 417.

List, 294.

Livy, 178.

Loretto, 172.

Lorinus, 300.

Lucas Brugensis, 416.

Lucian, 48, 179.

Lust, Satan acts on, 63;
how, 64.

Luther, 21, 340, 456, 466.

‘Lying’ spirits, 87;
downright, 189;
Satan carries on his designs by, 421.

Lyra, 22.

Lysimachus, 110.

Maccovius, 127.

Machiavel, 110.

Maimonides, 28.

Malice, of the devil explained and evidenced, 10, 11;
very great, 12, 13;
instances of, 13, 14;
of wicked men, 14;
against God, 101;
against believers, 258.

Manton, 54, 62.

Marks, false, of regenerate and unregenerate, 269-271.

Martin, St, 340.

Martyr, Peter, 106, 132, 143.

‘May-be,’ 253.

Meanness of religious service, outwardly, 111.

Means, abandoned, 310, 311;
to an end, plausible, 357;
failure of ordinary, a strong engine of temptation, 360;
examples, 360, 361;
why Satan uses this, 362.

Mede, 51, 52, 172, 201.

Melancholy, 245, 248, 250, 265, 289, 290, 291, 427.

Mercerus, 370.

Mercies, particularly promised, 366.

Messalians, 170.

Minos, 39.

Miracles, whether Satan can work, 31;
counterfeit, 177;
testimony to truth, 182;
Satan’s advantage to feign, _ib._;
God reveals by, 405.

Misapprehensions, of state, 88, 369.

Miscarriages, 125, 188, 275, 301;
used by Satan, and difficult to answer, 275, 276.

Miseries, Satan delights in men’s, 218;
of others, 223, 224.

Misrepresentation of God by Satan, 298;
how, 298, 299.

Mitigation of barbarous rites, 42.

Mohammed, 179.

Mondus, 179.

Montanus, 139, 166.

Montezuma, 39, 41.

More, 29, 30, 50, 430.

Munster, 166.

Murder, self-, 390;
Satan aims at two ways, and by various means, 391, _seq._;
indirectly sought by Satan, and how, 394, 395;
be aware of this temptation, 395;
defences against, 395, 396;
one of Satan’s great plots, 395;
a high iniquity, _ib._;
danger of, 395, 396;
give no occasion for, by discontent, 396.

Murmuring, 79.

Musculus, 170, 325, 328, 424, 431, 446.

Names given to Satan, 338.

Narsinga, 39.

Nature, (see _Secrets_,) Satan knows operations of, 32, 33.

Nayler, 419.

Necessity, of sinning, 75;
plea of, 347;
reasons, 347, 348;
cheats on this plea, 349;
must not be deceived by, _ib._

Needful, service presently, 117.

Negligence, 117.

Nicholas, H., 160, 162, 166, 167.

Notions, hidden, 162;
and ways, 165.

Novatus, 166.

Nudipedales, 170.

Obedience, temptation to withdrawment from, 455.

Observation and study of Satan, 24.

Obsessions, 35.

Occasions, fit, 45, 65, 81;
extraordinary, 92;
much in Satan’s hands, 235;
prepares, 235, 236;
awakens old, 236;
aggravates, 236, 237;
offered, 251;
fit, 295.

Opinions, ‘corrupt,’ 74.

Opportunity, suitable, 92, 93;
hindrances of, 116;
best, for answering, 460, 461.

Origen, 163, 201.

Outbreakings against God, 334.

Outcries, doleful, 309.

Outward distress and inward temptations, 333, 334, 365;
comforts those whose are little, 443.

Outward not inward, 123, 124.

Ovid, 27, 197.

Owen, 203.

Particular trust in God, 365.

Passionateness, 67.

Passions, 62;
nature of, 67, 68;
discompose, 105, 106;
stirred up, 206;
Satan sets on work, 236, 237.

Paterculus, 393.

Peace, inward, 183;
fruition of, 184;
Satan’s efforts against, 209;
fruit of holiness, 210;
gives inward strength, _ib._;
to get, a duty, 210, 211;
a badge of kindness, 211;
disturbed by Satan, 224.

Performance, manner of, of duty, 113.

Peripatetics, 48.

Perkins, 202, 241, 288, 293, 294, 415, 424, 431.

Persecutions, 37, 88.

Petrus, 300.

Philastratus, 178.

Phrases, Scripture, 161.

‘Pickeer,’ 137.

Pinnacle of temple, 381.

Piscator, 141, 142, 210, 340.

Place, sanctity of, does not hinder Satan, 379.

Places, holy, most dishonoured by Satan, 102.

Plainness, 196.

Platerus, 265, 291, 369.

Plato, 21, 27, 202, 203, 393.

Plausible, 356, 357;
how Satan makes an end, 357.

Pleasures, worldly, a great engine of Satan, 438, _seq._;
best overcome by, 386, 387;
reason why Satan uses so much, 387, 388;
deceitful contrivances for this sin, 388, 389;
special watchfulness against, 389, 390;
how, 390;
how brought about, 398, _seq._

Plenty, worldly, a temptation, 427;
snares of, 444.

Plessis du, 201.

Pliny, 32.

Plutarch, 26, 39, 44, 48, 201.

Poisonings _v._ witchcrafts, 27, 28.

Polanus, 31.

Polybius, 181.

Pomponatius, 48.

Pool, (Matthew,) 13, 28, 34, 42, 61, 356, 361, 424.

Popery and paganism, 200, 202.

Porphyrins, 44, 48.

Porphyry, 164.

Porta, 31.

Possession, how Satan maintains, 83.

Possessions, 34, 35.

Power of Satan very great, 14;
though fallen, still great, proved, 16;
instances, _ib._;
explained, 142, 143;
and promise of God, 364.

Prayer, a spear, 101;
included in fasting, 469;
in all resistance, is to be added, 470;
seeming not heard, 471.

Precipitancy, 80.

Precipitated, 65.

Prejudice, 90, 106.

Pre-occupate, 422.

‘Perverse’ misrepresentations, 85.

Presumption, 383;
what it is, 383, _seq._;
instances of, 384, _seq._;
Satan’s engine, 385;
proved by his common practice, 385, 386.

Pretences, specious, 162;
of friendship, 350;
wonder such not seen through, 358.

Prevalency, Satan’s expectation of, 372.

Pride, 114, 125, 206, 220, 397;
what it is, 397 _seq._;
warning against, and why, 399, 400;
how to guard against, 400, 401;
Satan’s means to excite, 401.

Prideaux, 131, 135, 173, 181, 189, 192.

Privileges, perverse confidence in, 401.

Profane dispositions, 112.

Professions, hollow, 435, 436.

‘Professors,’ sins of, 112.

Proffers, Satan liberal in, 423.

Promise, Satan seeks to separate us from the, 374;
he does not deny, but questions and inquires, _ib._;
next more plainly suggests, _ib._;
urgeth the miscarriage, 374, 375;
puts on proof, 375.

Proposal of temptation, 61.

Prosperity, outward, 184, 185;
of wicked, 222.

Providence, distrust of, the nature of distrust of sonship, 370;
leads to distrust of spiritual favours, 370, 371;
provoking to God to distrust him, 371, 372;
Jealousy against God’s, 372, 373;
a great deep, 373;
eternal displeasure not to be measured by, 373.

Providences, worst interpretation of, 216.

Provocations, given by Satan, 235.

Provokings, 37, 90.

Proxy, 61.

‘Publican,’ 109.

Purchas, 39, 40, 41, 42, 171, 172, 197, 198, 199, 393.

Purgatory, 208.

Pursuit, Satan sometimes abates, and how, 95.

Pythagoras, 173.

Quakers, 167.

Questions to be determined for peace of the soul, 259.

‘Quick,’ 44.

Quickness of Satan, 19, 25.

Quiet, Satan keeps all, and how, 85, _seq._

Reason, overcome by lust, 69, 70;
corrupted and perverted by Satan, 72;
how this is done, 73, _seq._

Rebuke, a first, does not drive Satan away, 376, 377.

Recidivation, 277.

Recommended, use of Scripture in resisting temptations, by God, 465.

Refreshment, soul, 260.

Refuge, lies a, 185, 186.

Refusal, Satan seizes any advantage in our way of, 377.

Refusals, groundless, 462, 463.

Regenerate and reprobate, 257.

Reiteration of sins, 83, 426.

Rejection, must contain four things, 461, 462.

Religion, what offers for study, 3;
inward and outward of, 5.

‘Relucts,’ conscience, 78.

Remedy, excellence of Scripture as a, shewn, 466, _seq._;
includes all others, _ib._

Remembrance, things brought to, 406, 407.

Representation, wrong, of duties, 113.

Reproaches, 109.

Reprobates, 288.

Reserves, 354;
reasons of Satan’s policy in this, 354.

Resist not, fly temptations, 447;
why, 448.

Resistance, 79, 80;
stout, 333;
objections answered, _ib._

Restraint on Satan, 60.

Retreat, Satan hinders, 98.

Revelation, to Satan, 25, 26;
credulity, concerning, 174;
God gives, 174, 175.

Revenge, spiteful, of Satan, 428.

Reynolds, 66, 143, 370, 383.

Rivetus, 33.

Rossa, Domina, 43.

Ruffinus, 180.

Rules, of Satan, in tempting, 59, 60.

Rutherford, 106.

Ruthwell, 122.

Sacrifices, set on by Satan, 41.

Sadducees, opinions of, 48, 49, _seq._

Sadness, spiritual: several degrees thereof, 254, 255;
instances of, 258;
provision for in Scripture, _ib._;
reasons of, 258, _seq._;
three classes troubled with, 260;
times of, from Satan: conversion, 263;
repentance for some great sin, 264;
discomposure of spirit under affliction, _ib._;
prepared by atheistical thoughts, _ib._;
melancholy, 264, 265;
sickness or death-bed, 265, 266.

Saints assaulted by Satan, 18;
examples, _ib._;
intercession of, 201, 202.

Sakes, Christ tempted for our, shewn, 445, _seq._

Satan and God meet in the heart, 4;
discovery of intrigues of, _ib._;
devices and deceits of, 4, 5;
likely to oppose the acceptance of ‘_Dæmonologia Sacra_,’ 4, 5;
subtlety and craft of, 52, _seq._;
business to tempt, 338;
proofs, _ib._, _seq._

Satisfaction in duty hindered, 213.

Savonarola, 161.

Scaliger, 198.

Scarecrows, theological, 83.

Schoolmen’s classification of knowledge, 22.

Sclater, 20, 31, 142, 143, 183, 338.

Scoff not at the judgments of Satan’s temptations, 311.

Scot, 27, 28, 34.

Screw, temptations like a, 355.

Scripture, Satan has great understanding of, 26;
never faithfully, and why, 40;
warrant for error, 159;
hidden notions in, 162, 163;
abused or perverted, 267-269;
uses always, and why, 407, 408;
base ends he turns it to, 408, 409;
unfaithful in, how, 409, 410;
all to be tried by, 414;
compare Scripture with, _ib._;
force of, not in mere characters, 463, 464;
argumentative use of, 464;
shewn to be intended by God, 465, _seq._;
how, thus recommended, 469.

Scultetus, 337.

Second temptation, Christ’s, 382, _seq._

Secrecy of Satan’s movings, 33;
of Satan, 70, 71;
assurances of, 88, 89.

Secrets of nature, searches into, 3;
small discoveries of, _ib._;
not to be made our sole business, _ib._;
more weighty matters than, _ib._;
made use of, 32;
servants of Satan, 434, 435.

Security, men hushed in, 97, 125, 314.

Seducers, women, 191.

Selden, 425.

Senarclæus, 340.

Senault, 67.

Seneca, 393.

Sennertus, 27, 29.

Senses, 64;
Satan tempts through, 422, 423.

Sensual pleasures, 394.

Serenus, 202.

Sermons, _Dæmonologia Sacra_ delivered as, 5.

Servants, men of Satan, 434, 435.

Services, religious, opposed by Satan, 100.

Severities, 170, 171, 232, 233.

Sextus, 24.

Shame, gloried in, 69.

Sickness, 223.

Side of Christ, 449.

Signs, 405, 406.

Silence, 459.

Simon Magus, 419.

Sin, deceitfulness of, charged on Satan, 53, 54;
all acts of, through Satan, 54;
by deception, _ib._;
pleasures of, set forth, 74, 75;
finished, 83;
leads to more, 84;
change of heinous, for as heinous, 69;
long continued in, tempted by Satan, 248;
Satan heightens, of the regenerate, 276, 277;
delight in, heightened by Satan, 421;
made small, 436;
reasons of this, 437.

Sincerity, determination of, difficult, 456.

Sinful, where it is not Satan’s interest to tempt to things sinful,
he will to good, 351, 352.

Skill of Satan, 26.

Slaves, 36.

Sluggishness, spiritual, 105.

Small things, Satan pursues, 13, 14, 75;
temptations, 343, 344.

Socrates, 205.

Soldiers, Christ’s, counsels to, 450.

Solicitation, 62, 79, 84.

Solitude, 321, 322.

Sophisms of Satan, 75.

Sophistry, 266, 267.

Soul ‘precious,’ 8;
vigilance in care of, _ib._;
body, 371.

Sovereignty, acts of, by Satan, and why, 419, 420.

Sozomen, 194, 208, 381.

Spanheim, 49, 321, 329, 330, 337, 351, 377, 381.

Speaking, distresses force to, 307.

Speeches, fair, 165.

Spira, 308.

‘Spirit,’ Satan regarded as a, 15;
takes part in temptation, 317.

Spirits, nature of, 152.

Sprenger, 380.

‘Standard,’ 461.

Statues, 177.

Stephens, 401.

Stillingfleet, 136, 166, 173.

Sting of Christ’s first temptation, 351.

Stock, Richard, 164.

Straits, 366.

‘Strange’ things, 122;
language, 166;
encouragements to those who think their temptations, 325, _seq._

Stratagems of Satan, 158.

Strength, of Satan, 10, 11, _seq._;
services in our own, 118.

Strictness, 170;
pretences of religious, 171;
holy, think not less of, from Satan’s temptations, 311.

Studies, Satan man, 59;
why, _ib._

Stumbling-block, 214, 215.

Submission to God’s will, 365, 366.

Subtlety, of Satan, 47, 52, _seq._, 55, 56;
instances of, 56, 57;
why Satan uses, 57, 58;
and violence, 243.

Success, less or more, of Satan, 103;
in use of Scripture, 465, 466.

Sufficiency, self-, 398.

Suggestings, secret, 412.

Suggestions, Satan drops, 70, 71, 237;
tendency of, 414.

Suitable temptations, 59.

Superstitions, 39.

Support, secret in temptation, 318, 319;
in absence of ordinary means, 329.

Surprisal, sudden, 71, 194;
strange, 251.

Suspect kindness of Satan, 350.

Suspicious fears, 246, 248, 249;
wisely, 413.

Swinkfieldians, 166.

Sylvius, Æneas, 440.

Sympathy, excess of, 221.

Taautus, 197.

Tacitus, 41, 178.

‘Taking,’ 122.

Takingness of certain expressions accounted for, 167.

Tauler, 166.

Temper, passionate, 233;
cool and calm, tempted by Satan, 234, 235.

Temple, Christ set on, 377;
how taken to, 377, 378;
pinnacle, 381.

Temptation, time of Christ’s, 313;
why permitted at special seasons, 315;
use of the knowledge of this, 316;
how Christ was carried to, _ib._;
place of Christ’s, 321, 322;
the end of, 322;
why Christ submitted to, 322, _seq._;
what expectation of success could Satan have in, 323, _seq._;
manner of, 340;
Christ’s first, 346;
rise of, _ib._;
preparation for second temptation, 376;
time, _ib._;
place, 378, 379;
third, of Christ, 415;
place, _ib._;
object, 415, 416.

Temptations, management of, by Satan, 26;
in general, 58;
above, 77, 78;
violence of, made worse than they are, 318;
end of God in permitting, _ib._;
harmlessness of, 278;
when the sting is taken out, 319;
not to run into, _ib._;
why, _ib._;
nothing will hinder Satan from any, 323, 324;
may be without guilt or impurity, 325, _seq._;
how to know when, are of Satan or of ourselves, _ib._, _seq._;
specially, in extraordinary, 327, _seq._;
the affliction of, 328;
Christ’s, compared with ours, 344;
the first, _ib._;
Satan in, usually follows a beaten path, 345;
vile, infectious, not to be disputed with, 454, 455.

Tempted, spiritual state of the, 318.

Tergiversation, 314, 315.

Terror, flashes of, 293, 294.

Terrors of cursed reprobates, 288.

Tertullian, 39, 146, 189, 203.

Texts misapplied by Satan, 402.

Theocritus, 27.

Theodoret, 69, 115, 187, 207.

Theodosius, 68.

Third temptation, 415.

Thoughts, whether Satan knows men’s, 23;
what in, out of his reach, 23, 24;
how far he can pry, 24, 25;
distraction of, 120, _seq._;
atheistical, 243;
blasphemous, 244;
keep up high and honourable, of God, 373.

‘Threaping,’ 80, 168, 243, 297.

Thrusting into perilous places, 396.

Title-page, original, of _Dæmonologia Sacra_, 2;
of Part I., 7;
of Part II., 126;
of Part III., 312.

Tophet, 40.

Torlachs, 171.

Trances, 404.

Troubles, advantage taken of, 79;
cause distraction, 80;
further, 226, 227;
examples of, 227, 228;
doubtful inquiries as to grounds of, 241;
God limits, to do good by, 262;
according to truth, 262, 263.

Trust, take not things on, 413.

Truth, Satan acknowledges, for evil ends, 102;
God’s interest in, 127;
modified, 155;
error near, 160, 161;
Satan seeks to corrupt the professors of, 188;
corrupting established, 192, 193;
despiting of, 199;
deprive, of convincing power, _ib._;
bribes in relation to, 205;
error clothed in, 207.

Tyrannus, 179.

Tyrus, Maximus, 116.

Unacceptable, services rendered, 118.

Uncalled-for temptations, 319;
when, 319, 320.

Unfaithful, Satan in dealing with Scripture three ways, 409, 410.

Universal, Scripture, a, remedy in temptation, 466.

Unpardonable sin, 300.

Unsanctified texts describing, used by Satan, 275.

Unseasonable services, 119.

Unsettle, from foundation, 183.

Unsuitableness of our hearts to services, 108.

Unthankfulness, 216.

Unwarranted, relief, 363;
men put to, shewn, 364.

Unworthiness, 108, 109.

Valerius Maximus, 178.

Valesians, 170.

Variety in worship, shews Satan’s corruption, 431.

Varnish on a bad end, 357.

Varro, 418.

Vergerius, 308.

Vespasian, 178.

Vexations of spirit, 233, 234.

Vilest thoughts of God, 426.

Virgil, 27, 39, 141, 254.

Virtue, name of, given to what is bad, 73.

Visible, Satan sometimes, 340;
reasons, 341.

Vision, Christ’s temptation not a, why, 337, _seq._;
God reveals by, 404.

Vitzilliputzli, 198.

Vives, 32, 42, 44, 202, 395.

Voice, God revealed by, to Satan, 403, 404.

Wariness, 413.

Watchfulness, imitate Satan’s, 359.

Ways, various, of Satan, 46.

Weapons, Satan deprives us of, 100.

Whitaker, 164, 175.

Wickedness, of Satan capable of increase, 11.

Wieldy = yielding, 79.

Wierus, 44.

Wight, Mrs, 375.

Wilderness, scene of Christ’s temptation, 321;
why, 321, 322.

Will, 55.

Willis, 237, 265.

Wills and shalls, 82.

Witchcraft, 27, 29.

Wonders, 31.

Working of thought, 451.

Worldly pleasure, great engine of Satan, 438, _seq._;
how so, 441, 442.

Worship, Satan sets himself up for, 101, 102.

‘Wounded’ spirits, 36;
in regenerate and reprobate, 257, 258;
conscience by God and Satan, question on, 261.

Wrath, Divine, sense of, 308.

Wresting, import of Scripture, by Satan, 296, 411, 412;
seen in results, 412, 413;
Scripture, a weapon not easily, out of our hands, 468.

Xavier, 179.

Young persons, troubled by Satan, 247.

Zanchius, 17.

Zeal, pretences of, 394.

Zeilan, 39.

Zembla, Nova, 177, 178.

BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Works of Sibbes, vol. i. pp. 25, 142.

[2] New America. By W. H. Dixon. With Illustrations from Original Photographs. 2 vols. 8vo. 1867. (Hurst and Blackett.) Vol. i., pp. 134-137.

[3] See Appendix A., lii-lv.

[4] From above, and other parallels, it will be seen that Burns only put more tersely and memorably an old sentiment in his—

‘The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man’s the gowd for a’ that.’

[5] Nicolson and Burns’s Cumberland and Westmoreland, vol. i., p. 26.

[6] I owe hearty thanks to the Rev. Thomas Lees, M.A., Wreay, Carlisle, formerly Curate of Greystoke, for much help in tracing out birth-place, &c., and throughout; also to Archdeacon Cooper, Kendal, for his prompt and full answers to my queries.

[7] See Memoirs of Alderman Barnes, edited for Surtees Society by W. H. D. Longstaffe, Esq., of Gateshead, p. 143. As I write this, these Memoirs are passing through the press; and I am indebted to Mr Longstaffe for early proof-sheets of the notices of Gilpin contained in the Manuscript. No common service is being rendered by Mr L. and the Surtees Society, to Ecclesiastical History, in so lovingly and competently preparing these important memoirs, which shed light on innumerable events and names, from sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. An abstract of the more interesting passages was published in 1828 by Sir Charles Sharpe, 8vo, pp. vii. and 35. I have to thank J. Hodgson Hinde, Esq., of Stelling Hall, Stocksfield, for this scarce pamphlet.

[8] See Longstaffe’s Barnes, as before. The Manuscript now belongs to the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

[9] So called after Ketel, son of Eldred, son of Ivo de Tailbois, first Baron of Kendal, who came over with William the Conqueror.

[10] Canto vi., stanza 33, ‘Robin the Devil’ and Col. Briggs. See also ‘Annals of Kendal,’ (1861,) pp. 55, 56.

[11] The Commentator on Philippians; cf. my Memoir of him, prefixed to the reprint of his masterly book, p. vii. Since this Memoir was published, I have discovered that Dr Airay was son of Bernard Gilpin’s sister Helen. See the Apostle’s ‘Will,’ in the Surtees’ volume of ‘Wills and Inventories, from the Registry at Durham,’ (1860,) Part II., pp. 83-94. So that the Gilpins and Airays were related. I have to thank William Jackson, Esq., Fleatham House, St Bees, for calling my attention to this. It explains obscurities in the life of Airay, and gives a key to Bernard Gilpin’s special interest in him.

[12] The Life of Bernard Gilpin. By William Gilpin, M.A., Prebendary of Salisbury. With an Introductory Essay by Edward Irving. 1824. Page 123.

[13] That is, Richard Sibbes; Memoir, as before; Works, Vol. I. p. xxxi.

[14] Shakespeare, _As you Like it_, ii. 7.

[15] In a large quarto manuscript volume of ‘Memoirs’ of the Gilpins, drawn up by the Prebendary of Salisbury, (_supra_,) now before me by the kindness of its possessor, Charles Bernard Gilpin, Esq., Juniper Green, Edinburgh, I find the following concerning the above points: ‘He was the son of a younger brother, and being born to no estate, applied the first years of his life to the study of physic. But feeling a stronger inclination to divinity, he laid aside all thoughts of practising as a physician, and changing entirely the course of his studies, _he took his degrees in divinity_; but at what university, I _find no account_,’ (page 1.)

[16] See Appendix B. I have here gratefully to acknowledge the painstaking of Mr T. A. Eaglesim, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, by himself and the Bursar of Queen’s, in examining every likely source of information.

[17] See Appendix C, for some of these.

[18] Barnes’ Memoirs, page 141, as before. The Maitland Club ‘Munimenta’ of the University of Glasgow, (4 vols. 4to,) gives a ‘Richardus Gilpin, Anglus, entered 11th January,’ 1717,—none other.

[19] As before, pp. 141, 142.

[20] Account, vol. ii. 157.

[21] The ‘Life’ of this singularly original and inventive Prelate is so scanty and unworthy of his fame, that we do not wonder at no notice of his Savoy ministry, or of Gilpin as his assistant. Calamy is rarely wrong in his facts.

[22] 2 Vols. folio, 1708.

[23] Walker, ‘Sufferings,’ page 306.

[24] _Ibid._

[25] _Ibid._ In various authorities the ground of Moreland’s ejection is given as ‘ignorance and insufficiency’—whatever the latter may mean; but as Walker, who is usually referred to for it, makes no such statement, I have not adduced it. It is sufficient that the Commissioners were picked men for intellect and character; and that wherever _data_ remain, their decisions are almost invariably warranted by the premises.

[26] ‘A Sermon preached at the Funeral of Mr John Noble of Penruddock, near Penrith, in Cumberland, March 14, 1707-8. By Samuel Audland. To which is added a Postscript concerning the Deceased, by another hand.’ London (reprinted) 1818, pp. 37, 38. The little ‘Chapel’ wherein this Sermon was preached still remains, and has now as its minister the Rev. David Y. Storrar, who occupies it as a mission-charge of the United Presbyterian Church (of Scotland). This congregation originated, it is believed, from those who could not remain in the Parish Church of Greystoke after Gilpin left and Moreland returned; and thus is of the oldest of the Presbyterian congregations in England. See above tractate, whence we learn that on Dr Gilpin’s ‘motion,’ the Nonconformists of Greystoke ‘called’ another to fill his place for them. Then the Narrative continues: ‘Mr Anthony Sleigh, a native of the same parish, and bred in the College of Durham, was obtained to become their minister, and so continued about forty years, though he had only slender [pecuniary] encouragements there. Their meeting was held mostly in the house of John Noble, and sometimes under covert of the night, as Christ’s disciples sometimes did,’ (page 44.)

[27] As before, pp. 3, 4.

[28] Ecclesiastical History of England, from the Opening of the Long Parliament to the Death of Oliver Cromwell. 2 vols. 8vo. 1867. (Jackson, Walford, and Co.) See vol. II., c. viii., _et alibi_.

[29] Mr Stoughton justly speaks of the strange neglect of these important MSS.

[30] Stoughton, as before, _sub nominibus_.

[31] Burton’s ‘Cromwellian Diary,’ ii. 531, where the ‘Ordinance’ is given _in extenso_, with notes by the editor, [Rutt.]

[32] I suspect few know this rare and very valuable tractate. Its title-page runs, ‘A Model for the maintaining of Students of choice abilities at the University, and principally in order to the Ministry. Together with a Preface before it, and after it a Recommendation from the University, [this bears the signatures of Worthington, Arrowsmith, Tuckney, Whichcot, Ralph Cudworth, and William Dillingham;] and two serious Exhortations, recommended unto all the unfeigned lovers of Piety and Learning, and more particularly to those rich men who desire to honour the Lord with their substance.’ [1658-60.] There is a characteristic letter in it from Baxter.

[33] Herbert: The Temple; Church-Porch.

[34] Here again I owe thanks to Mr Lees of Wreay, as before; also to Rev. David Y. Storrar, Penruddock, and the present curate of Greystoke, (Mr Raby), for result of searching through the ‘Registers,’ which have some curious entries.

[35] ‘A Critical and Chronological History of the Rise, Progress, Declension and Revival of Knowledge, chiefly Religious. In two Periods. 1. The Period of Tradition, from Adam to Moses. 2. The Period of Letters, from Moses to Christ. Second edition. By Henry Winder, D.D. To which are prefixed Memoirs of Dr Winder’s Life. By George Benson, D.D.’ London: 1756. 2 vols. 4to.

[36] I have left unquoted the process by which Winder was (1.) seduced to, and (2.) recovered from Quakerism, though the reader will do well to consult it.

[37] The ‘Noble’ Postscript says, ‘Somewhat remarkable happened at his resuming the pulpit, which some living (1708) can tell, but I omit it.’ Moreover, Morland’s return was against the wishes of the parishioners: for the narrative continues, ‘After this some offered to put up one Mr Jackson in the pulpit: which the contrary party did so violently oppose with threats to crush them into the earth, that Mr Jackson went with them to the parsonage-house, and preached there,’ (p. 43.) M. died in about a year.

[38] As before, p. 6.

[39] ‘A good old aunt of mine—mother of the present Mr Fawcett of Scaleby Castle—took particular pride in shewing a certain very large room in her Castle. Her theory was that this was one of the great attractions of the place in Dr Gilpin’s view: for here he would have room enough to preach to as many people as were likely to attend, and liberty also: Scaleby, as she observed, being at just such a distance from Carlisle as to place him beyond the operation of the Conventicle Act.’—_Charles Bernard Gilpin, Esq., Juniper Green, Edinburgh._

[40] _Ibid._, p. 9.