ERSKINE, T. V. Necessity and means for the subjection of VI. God's purpose of grace in all providential XXII. The love of God, all-satisfying, 59. XXIII. God's moral training of us, and self-cruci- fixion, 60. XXXVII. Affliction intended to make us feel the all- XXXIX. The faith of Jesus, the channel of suffering grace, 103. LVI. A thorough entering into God's plan for our LVIII. Reasons for desiring that all God's will HALL, BISHOP I. II. Meek and reverent submission, 1. Affliction like the night-storm on the sea of XXV. The sleep of death and the absence of KENNAWAY, C. E. XIV. Jesus the source and the object of life XV. Prayers and sighs the Christian's memorial XXI. The Lord's second Advent the panacea for care, 53. XXX. "Ephphatha," the meaning of our Saviour's sigh, 80. XLII. The cleansing of the clouds of life, 108. No. KENNAWAY, C. E. LII. LXVI. LEIGHTON, ARCHBP. XI. MANNING, H. Jesus Christ an High Priest, merciful and The Communion of Saints, 179. How to commit our souls to God. The LI. Suffering not strange. Communion with XXVIII. The brethren of Christ, men of sorrows. NEWMAN, J. H. . NOEL, GERARD T. XXIX. The mistake so often made in the view of LIV. The blessedness of the faithful departed, 163. LV. The unobserved but true participation of IX. The lot of all God's saints found by expe- XIX. Trial, evermore the portion of the true XX. Consolation of the sympathy of Jesus Christ, 51. XXXV. Bodily pain most congruous with the Chris- XXXVI. God's particular providence, 97. XLV. Spring and the final regeneration, 126. XXXIII. A time of need, a time of prayer and of LX. Sorrow an angel to be entertained, 175. PLAIN SERMONS XXVII. The fruitfulness of the branch in Christ, TAYLOR, BP. JEREMY. III. Reasons for submission. Affliction the time XLIV. Admirable directions for a sick person to WILBERFORCE, BP. S. XIII. Jesus Christ, the light to see our sorrows by, and the companion to be with us when they come, 31. No. WILBERFORCE, BP. XXIV. The lessons taught by God's delay in an- LIX. Sorrow the consequence of sin, and an in- strument for purification, 171. WILLIAMS, ISAAC. XXXIV. Effect of the death and burial of Christ WOODWARD, H. XVIII. "My son, give me thy heart," a most com- XXVI. The blessedness of acting as in God's pre- sence, 67. XXXVIII. Bereavements, special occasions for God's Prayers to be said by Sick Persons TAYLOR, BP. JEREMY. LEIGHTON, ARCHBISHOP ΑΝΟΝ. ANON. ANON. Short prayer for submission with joy, 226. PARTLY FROM HOLY SCRIP-Short prayers for the sick and afflicted, CONSOLATIO H I E is not worthy to pass for thy child that receives not thy stripes with reverent meekness tears may be here allowed; but a reluctant frown were no better than a rebellion. Let infidels, then, and ignorants, who think they suffer by chance, repine at their adversities and be dejected with their afflictions: for me, who know that I have a Father in heaven full of mercy and compassion, whose providence hath measured out. to a scruple the due proportions of my sorrows, counting my sighs, and reserving the tears which He wrings from me in His bottle; why do I not patiently lie down and put my mouth in the dust, meekly submitting to His holy pleasure, and blessing the hand from which I smart? BISHOP HALL. II MATTHEW XIV. Jesus is now on the mount; the disciples on the sea: yet, while He was in the mount praying and lifting up His eyes to His Father, He fails not to cast them about upon His disciples tossed on the waves. Those all-seeing eyes admit of no limits. At once He sees the highest heavens and the midst of the sea; the glory of His Father, and the misery of His disciples. Whatever prospects present themselves to His view, the distress of His followers is ever most noted. How much more dost Thou now, O Saviour! from the height of Thy glorious advancement, behold us Thy wretched servants, tossed on the unquiet sea of this world, and beaten with the troublesome and threatening billows of affliction! Thou foresawest their toil and danger, ere Thou dismissedst them; and purposely sendedst them away, that they might be tossed. Thou that couldest prevent our sufferings by Thy power, wilt permit them in Thy wisdom, that Thou mayest glorify Thy mercy in our deliverance, and confirm our faith by the issue of our distresses. How do all things now seem to conspire to the vexing of Thy poor disciples! The night was sullen and dark; their Master was absent; the sea was boisterous; the winds were high and contrary. Had their Master been with them, howsoever the elements had raged, they had been secure; had their Master been away, yet if the sea had been quiet, or the winds fair, the passage might have been endured: now both season, and sea, and wind, and their Master's desertion, had agreed to render them perfectly miserable. Sometimes the providence of |