CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.-Description of the country; employmer. CHAP. II.-Sensitive and Sincere awakened; go to their ministers CHAP. III.-Ardent overtakes him. Mr. Blindguide; way into the CHAP. IV.-Interpreter; how to understand the Bible; natural and moral inability; dark rooms lighted; thief and light; music praised, CHAP. V.-Means and decrees; just judge; Gospel rejected by all, 11 24 CHAP. VI.-A satisfied law excludes pardon. Stile of Hypocrite's Hope; Feel-well, Love-self, and No-law come over; all at the cross, 42 CHAP. VII-Self-conceit denies Christ's divinity; some Antinomian CHAP. VIII.-New house Beautiful; feeling to be promoted; doc- CHAP. IX.-True house Beautiful; Piety teaches that even deceivers CHAP. X.-Religion fashionable; revivals less pure; increase of error predicted; the wicked to be destroyed; keeping back the truth; CHAP. XI.-Benevolent institutions need to be increased, and sup- ported from principle; charity rejoiceth in the truth; objections to CHAP. XII.-Flatterwell and the tower of Spiritual Pride, CHAP. XIII.-Feel-well and his companions come in by the left hand path; religious feeling; animal feeling; sclfish and disinter- CHAP. XIV.-House of Stephanas; he tells more about Flatterwell; CHAP. XV.-Stephanas tells the effect of different preaching upon CHAP. XVII. Cave; Free-thinking; Providence proved by reason; Feel-well overtaken; knows he is right because he is happy; re- CHAP. XIX.-Holiness is conformity to the law; sin cannot be ac- CHAP. XX.-Feel-well's proofs, and their answers; Christian war- CHAP. XXIII-Advice to counterfeit revivals; to use orthodox CHAP. XXVI.-Town of Vanity; house of Mr. Experience; state of the town; benevolent institutions; worldly prosperity unfavora- CHAP. XXVII.-Multiplying houses of worship may be occasioned by the want of piety; pride wrong; union of denominations by CHAP. XXVIII.-Mr. Steadfast; Mr. Meek preaches; revival; os- CHIAP. XXX.-Divine sovereignty, and creature duty; danger of false hopes; converts wear well; selfish love condemned; stillness CHAP. XXXI.-Convictions deep and short; no machinery but the CHAP. XXXII.-Mr. Bold; his abruptness; irreverence in prayer; Page. CHAP. XXXIII.-Christians should not believe that the zealous are imprudent; things complained of; pronounced misrepresentations; some indiscretions; the timid cowards; letter from North street, 239 CHAP. XXXIV.-New measures in Centre street; Mr. Meek sent for; desired to sanction Mr. Bold; labors to reform him; letters on the new measures; Mr. Bold's sermon; remarks of Mr. Meek, 246 CHAP. XXXV.-Pastoral letter of the Association; Mr. Bold pro- fesses to agree with it; Mr. Scribus denounces it as giving a false CHAP. XXXVI.-Prayer of faith claimed to be dictated by the Spirit; wrong means to frighten people; neglect of the Bible; con- tempt of orthodoxy; hasty acknowledgment of converts; promising to submit; abusive treatment; anticipated consequences of new CHAP. XXXVII.-Mr. Strangeways; protracted meetings; chan- ges, but no confessions; letter to Mr. Bold; no answer; treaty of silence; Feel-well exults at the downfall of Calvinism; Presbyte- rian assembly on the divine sanction; argument; late revivals not so good as some have thought; Davenport's estimate of his own CHAP. XXXVIII-Many unwilling to make distinctions; disinter- ested and selfish; genuine and spurious work, marks; success CHAP. XXXIX.-Want of success not proof of wrong; Noah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Christ; Peter to feed the sheep; approved CHAP. XLI.—Praying for people by name offensively; avoiding offence; Davenport's confession; familiarity with God; loud pray- ing in secret; several praying and talking at once; some struck CHAP. XLII.—Bodily agitations; a quiet state desirable; nervous Page. affections; Mesmer, tractors, royal touch, women in Scotland, Ken- CHAP. XLIII.-Prayer of faith; dictation of the Spirit; miracles; faith in God's wisdom; "taking God at his word;" spiritual and temporal blessings; duty to pray in faith for all; then why do you not? 314 CHAP. XLIV.-Converts multiplied by this prayer; likely to be spu- CHAP. XLV.-Converts in answer to this prayer must not be doubt- CHAP. XLVII.-Church confessions better be written; those that mean nothing, worth nothing; renewing covenant, to be done de- liberately; a minister denounced in his own pulpit; members of a church denounced; sinners expecting to be converted will think CHAP. XLVIII.-Promises of sinners; is regenerating grace offered to sinners? efforts to get sinners to promise; anxious seats; is God pleased with unregenerate doings? CHAP. XLIX.-Sinners allowed to put off repentance; "get them committed;" ought preaching to produce its results at the time? re- ligion of selfish affection and animal feeling, bad; measures adapt- CHAP. L.-Animal feeling condemned by Mr. Bold; how his sermon CHAP. LI.-Motives of interest urged; "submit to be saved;" ex- tract on submission; selfish religion a fundamental and fatal CHAP. CII.—Attraction and disinterested love compared; selfishness proved wrong; how to make true converts; sinners unwilling that justice should be done; preaching, not prayer, the means of true Page. CHAP. LIV.—Holy beings rejoice in the justice of God; praying for the destruction of the wicked; virtue not utility, but moral beauty; CHAP. LV.-Vulgar language; imitators of Mr. Bold; telling stories CHAP. LVI.—Protracted revivals; conversion easy; resolve, and it is done; man's will sovereign; moral suasion all; Dr. Eloquent charged with teaching a physical change; light produces conviction; has not changed Satan's heart; divine power necessary; na- ture of ability to love God. Tendency of things to change; protracted meetings given up; schools of Dr. New-way and others; perfec- CHAP. LVII.—Various changes; efforts of the Pontiff; house of CHAP. LVIII.-Jerome, Cranmer, and others, admit that bishops CHAP. LX-Plain of Ease; conversation on divine Providence, di- CHAP. LXII.-Keeps from depression; better thoughts of God; |