vival, 197

204

267

of opposing it, 200

of not joining in it, 200

of despising the instruments,

of ridiculing the work, 206
of continued unbelief, 208
of error, when near to God,

of misimproving the season of
revivals, 379
Days of fasting and prayer, 398
Defects of the revival, 107

in experiences, 329
cause of error, 332
Degenerating of experiences 334
caused by spiritual pride, 335
not readily perceived, 336
caused by their mixture, 336
by their defectiveness, 337
by extravagance, 338

Despair, before deliverance, 52
Devil promotes defective experiences,

335

263

should be freely pointed out,

on, 264

have been too much insisted
give advantage to the enemies,

265

266

292

furnish weapons for opposers,

2 causes of, 270

produced by spiritual pride, 270
the effect of wrong principles,

caused by defects in experi-
ences, 332

Example, happy effect of, 250
Excitement necessary to the power of
the work, 249

not a ground of objection

or alarm, 249
Exhorting and preaching distinguish-
ed, 354
Experience of Mr. Flavel, 137

past, not a rule for judg-
ing, 130
of Mrs. Edwards, 162
Experiences, varieties of, 79

remarkable cases, 134

ritual pride, 273

Faith in prayer, 301

reasonableness of, 302

to be shown by works, 403
Falsehood may excite gracious feel-
ings to action, 318
Family worship should not be cus-
tomarily neglected, 321
Fasting and prayer, for a revival, 394
private, recommended, 401
Faults occasioned by the novelty of
the work, 144

Fear of God, how exhibited, 286
Fears of self-deception, 68

Fitness to come to Christ, 55
Flavel, his experience, 137

Fleming's Fulfilling of the Scripture,
quoted, 135

Forbearance, a means of revival, 374
calls for, in a revival, 375

Forgiveness of sins, sense of, 64

Grace manifested in submission, 61
Great men ought to promote the revi-
val, 391

Guilt of passing a revival, 380

Hardness of heart, sense of it under
awakenings, 51

Harshness and severity the fruit of
pride, 275

a device of the devil, 276
its odiousness, 277

tends to harden sinners, 281
Harvest, revival compared to, 380
Haste, danger of, 314

Health may be impaired by religious
exercises, 127

Heaven, order in, 320

Hindrances to be removed, 371
History not a rule for revivals, 133
of revivals useful, 410
good effects of, 410

Holy Spirit, how he enlightens, 296
his leading, 298

his promptings, 305

his teachings needed, 384
Human nature easily overcome by the
things of God, 128
Humility after conversion, 76

produces the highest joys, 77
to be learned from errors in

revivals, 153

leads to self-distrust, 274
becoming in Christians, 277
beauty of it, 280
needful in revivals, 280
gives force to divine truth,

Frequency of communion proper in
revivals, 401

281