UNION of Christians; urged by the prevalence of infidelity, i. 18. Its desirable- ness, 131. Importance of it, 289. Its manifestation in the primitive ages, 322, 335. Grounds on which separation is justifiable, 335. Increase of the spirit of union in modern times, iii. 420.
VANITY OF MAN; apart from his immortality considered, iii. 380–387. VILLAGE PREACHING; charged with a political object by Bishop Horsley, ii. 171. The charge repelled, 173-175. Answer to the insinuation that village preachers vilify the established clergy, 179-184. Vindication of their labours from the charge of fanaticism, 184, 185. Abstinence from political reflections recommended, 194. Importance of inculcating the duties of Christianity, in connexion with its doctrines, urged, 194, 195. Direct appeal to the con- sciences of men advised, 195, 196.
VIRGIL; character of his writings, iii. (Mem.) 66.
VIRTUE; incapable of being sustained by infidelity, i. 26, 27. Remarks on President Edwards's definition, 43 (note).
WAGES; their decline should always be proportioned to the actual deficiency in the demand for labour, ii. 139. Injustice of lowering them beyond that pro- portion, ib. Propriety of endeavouring to raise them by voluntary associations and funds, 140, 141.
WALDENSES; their sentiments on baptism, i. 482.
WALPOLE, Sir Robert, ii. 63.
WAR; the most awful scourge of Providence, i. 59. The horrible waste of human life which it occasions, 60, 61. Miseries endured in an invasion, 61. Effects of war on the general prosperity of a country, 62. injustice, 63. Its anti-moral tendencies and effects, 64, 65.
of the war of the French revolution, 66-68.
War founded in Peculiar character
WARFARE, CHRISTIAN; its character, iii. 104-106. Compared with the wars of Israel with the Canaanites, 108-111.
WESLEY, Rev. John, iii. 217, (Mem.) 82.
WHITFIELD, Rev. G., ii. 288, iii. (Mem.) 82.
WICKED, the; the ends answered by their destruction, iii. 58. Their temporary prosperity, 112.
WILBERFORCE, W., Esq.; character of his work on “Practical Christianity,"
WILLIAMS, J. B., Esq.; remarks on his edition of the Life of Philip Henry, iii.
WISDOM; distinguished from knowledge, iii. 121, 122. Importance of spiritual wisdom, 123-125.
WORLD, the; comparison of the state and hopes of its votaries with those of the Christian, i. 194-196. The world compared to a wilderness, iii. 373, 374. Moral disorder of the world, 380. Renunciation of the world an essential part of the Christian profession, 103.
WORSHIP; defined, ii. 156. Not to be controlled by the will of the magistrate, ib. The claims of God upon man in this respect prior to all human laws, 197. The right to worship not resigned on entering into civil society, ib. No danger to be apprehended from the universal acknowledgment of that right, 198. Answer to the objection, that fanaticism will be encouraged thereby, 195-199. Public worship greatly neglected in this country, i. 102. Its im- portance, iii. 53.
'XAVIER; anecdote of him, iii. 420.
YOUNG, the; their danger when exposed to infidel or impure associates, ii 480-483. Urged to separate themselves from such connexions, 485-487.
"ZEAL WITHOUT INNOVATION;" review of, ii. 254-289. Professed object of the publication, 256. Its party spirit and bigotry, 257. Lamenta- VOL. III.M
tions of the author over the success of the dissenters, 257, 258. Tendency of his sentiments to produce pride and intolerance, 259, 260. Increase of the dissenters owing to their superior piety and zeal, 260. Inefficacy of creeds and confessions to perpetuate religious belief, 261, 262. Answer to the charge that dissenting principles tend to democracy, 263, 264. Absurdity of supposing that real religion would be promoted by the destruction of dissent, 264-266. Union among Christians only to be attained through the increasing prevalence of genuine piety, 266, 267. The author's gloomy picture of the state of religion in the established church, 268. The true reasons of that declension assigned, 269. Exposure of the writer's ignorance and inaccuracy, 269, 270. Gradual decline of evangelical preaching in the Church of England, 271, 272. Its revival through the labours of Whitfield and Wesley, 272. Virulent opposition of the clergy in general, 272-274. Sentiments and labours of the evangelical clergy described, 274-278. Answer to the charge of enthu- siasm brought against them, 279. Their attachment to the established church, 280. Unpopularity of the other clergy, 280, 281. Defence of the method of preaching adopted by the evangelical clergy, 282-284. Malignant spirit of the author exposed, 285. Injurious tendency of his censures, 286. His partiality, ib. Unhappy effects of the needless exposure of the supposed failings or errors of good men, 287. True character of Whitfield and his coadjutors, 288, 289. Danger of excluding evangelical ministers from the established church, 289. General character of the work, iii. 233.
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