ADDER, wicked as a deaf, 93
Affliction, a chastening, 105; a cup,
197; a furnace, 213; a refining,
251; a rod, 61, 246
Almsgiving a watering, 186
Altar, Christ an, 192
Anchor of hope, 94

Angels encamp, 204

Anger, rests in fool's bosom, 7; of
God as smoke, 172; anger produces
strife, 12

Angry fool as a bear, 3
Ant teaches sluggard, I
Appearances deceitful, 2
Appearance, evil, avoid, 2

Apple of eye, Providence guards as,
116; apples of gold, 191
Arms, everlasting, of God, 192
Arrows of punishment, God's, 96;
arrows of slander, 76
Ass, wild, man as, 4

Atonement, an altar, 192; a blotting

out, 199; a bitter cup, 197; a
making white, 247; a propitiation,
243

Axe of punishment, 96

40; house of clay, 16; a house, 48;
a sacrifice, 159; a tent, 80, 218
Bones, rottenness of envy in, 64
Book cram, 7

Book of life at judgment, 99
Born again, 194

Bosom of fools, anger rests in, 7
Brands plucked from the fire, 100
Brass, sounding, lip-love as, 45;
shameless have brow of brass, 9.
Bread cast on waters, 100; Christ
the bread, 194

Brook, deceitful brethren as, 10
Brotherly love a three-fold cord,

coming like lightning, 231; look-
ing to, 233; a physician, 239; a
rose-star of morning, 253; sun,
176; way, 122; well, 266; woman's
seed, 249; epistles of Christ,

115
CHURCH, a great family, 205; a gar-
den, 215; its head Christ, 234; a
kingdom, 228; the moon, 237
City, the heavenly, 196

Clay, man as, God the potter, 56;
body, a house of, 16

Cloud, boaster a rainless, 18; the fickle
a cloud, 19; wicked a cloud with-
out water, 18

Coals of fire and melting love, 19
COMPANY, bad, as darkness, 25
CONSCIENCE asleep, 171; seared, 164;
worm of, 88

Content, 196; gain of, 21

CONVERSION, a, born again, 194; brands
from burning, 100

Cord of love, threefold, 21
Corn, shock of, death of righteous as,
109

COURAGE of righteous as lions, 136
Courteousness, 24

COVETOUSNESS, root of all evil, 62
Crackling of thorns, the world as, 22
Crown of glory for old age, 48
Cruel man troubles his own flesh, 24
Cup, bitter, of Christ, 197

Darkness, bad company as, 25; chains
of outer darkness, 195

Day of eternity, 143; our days a
shadow, 86

Dead bury dead, 111; righteous dead

and corn, 109; dead and tree, 262;
dead and water spilled, 86
DEATH, Congregation of, 113; keys of
death, 226; death of righteous a
sleep, 171: an unsetting sun, 177;
a sting, 73; a valley, 180; death,
wages of sin, 180; warfare of, 84;
a rest, 244

Debt of love, 27

Deceit, bread of, as gravel, 46; a
brook, 199
Decision, 27
Deeds, not words, 28

Dew of the morning, the fickle as, 19;
Providence as dew, 199

Dogs and holy things, 29; living dog
and dead lion, 140; busybody taking
dog by ears, 10

Door of heart, who knocks at, 229

Double-minded, 28
Dove, meek as, 30
Dross, who are, 31
Drunkenness, 113

Eagles' wings, mounting on, 2ɔ2;
riches fly as, 114

Earnest of the Spirit, 203
Ears of wicked hear not, 93
Earthen vessel of body, 178
Education, 115

Encampment of angels, 204
Envy, rottenness of the bones, 64
Epistles not in iuk, 115

Ethiopian's skin, natural sin, 32
Example, 204

Eye of faith, 33; mote in eye, 51;
eye, single, of purity, 107

FAITH, a dead, 119; an eye, 23;
as gold, 217; a shield, 230; a
stronghold, 176

Family, the greatest, 205
Father, God a, 117; father of lies,
Satan, 205

Fear of God, fountain of life, 38
Feet keep in God's house, 206
Fickle as morning cloud, 19
First fruits of sleepers, Christ, 213
Flesh, the cruel troubles his, 24; Sow-

ing to, 70; one, man and wife, 140
Flies in ointment, little sins as, 35
Flood, life as, 36
"Flower, life as, 37

Fool, as a bear, 8; brayed in a mortar,
8; among the dead, 113
Forehead of righteous, God's name
on, 208

Forgiving like coals of fire, 19; God
by forgiving blots out, 199
Fountain, God a, 210; God's fear a
fountain, 38; heart fountain of
action, 38

Fowler, Satan a, 211
Foxes, wicked as, 38

Friend, Christ a, 212; friendship, 39
Fruits of righteous, 119
Furnace of affliction, 213

Garden, spiritual, 215

Garment, the earth an old, 121
Gate of holiness, narrow one, 122
Girdle of truth, 122

Glass, the world a dark, 124; looking-
glass, heaven like a, 125
Glutton, the belly his god, 6
Goads, words of wise are, 190

Goats, wicked as, 40; wild goats,
righteous protected as, 127
God a builder, 101; a father, 117; &
fountain, 210; a judge, 131; &
potter, 56

Gold, less value than faith, 217
Gospel net, 143

GRACE a river, 157

Grass, man as, 40

Gratitude, 41

Grave a rest to righteous, 244
Gravel in the mouth, deceit, 46

Graving on hand by Providence, 135
Groans of body, 218
Guide, God a sure, 47

Hand, the right, of God, 218
Hart, thirst, so prayer, 220
Hastening with feet stumbles, 75

Head, hoary, of righteous a crown,
48

Hearers not doers a looking-glass,

125; a house on sand, 49
Heart of sinner stony, 74
HEAVEN a city, 196; a home, 221;

a treasure house, 180; wedding
garment for, 187

Hell, blackness of darkness, 198
Helm, the tongue a, 128

Hen, Providence shelters as a, 128
Hidden man of the heart is woman's

Lamb of God, 229

Lamp of wicked put out, 44
Leaf, man fades as a, 44
Legacy, the spiritual, 230
Leprosy, the spiritual, 133
Liberality as bread on the waters,
100; a watering, 186

Life, a flood, 36; a flower, 37; a
leaf, 44; a night, 143; a post,
26; a shadow, 168; a vapour, 82;
a warfare, 182; a worm, 89
Lightning, Christ's coming as, 231
Lily among thorns, 179

Lion, righteous as, 136; a dead lion
and dog, 140; oppressor a crouch-
ing lion, 139

Looking to Jesus, 233

Love to enemies coals of fire, 19; lip
love, 45

Meekness, as a dove, 30, 234
Members of Christ, who, 234
Merchant, the spiritual, 236
Masters, two, no serving, 27
Means, use the, 45
Miser, 141
Moderation, 50

Moon and Church, 237
Morning star, who, 25

Mortar, braying a fool in, 8; un-
tempered mortar, so false peace,

14I

Mote in brother's eye, 51
Moth, body as, 16
Mountains, 142

Resurrection a reaping, 252
Rich, and needle's eye, 102; money on
eagle's wings, 114; stewards, 175
Righteous God's husbandry, 222;
jewels, 129; palm trees, 148;
salt, 67; sheep, 169; stars, 174;
soldiers, 173; trees by river side,
174

River of God's grace, 157
Rod of chastisement, 61, 246
Root of all evil, covetousness, 62
Rottenness of bones is envy, 64
Rush in the mire, worldly hope as, 66

Sacrifice of the body and of praise,
159

Salt of the earth, 67

Sand, house on, 49

Satan father of lies, 205; in chains,
195

Scarlet, sins red as, 247

Sea of passion, 160

Sealing of the Spirit, 248
Seared conscience, 164

Seed, woman's, bruises serpent's
head, 249; seed of God's word, 165
Self-conceit, 168

Self-respect, 249

Selfishness, 168

Sepulchres, whited, 66

Serpent, 249

Servants, God's, 249
Shadow, life a, 68

Sheep, righteous are, 169
Shepherd, the good, 68
Shield of faith, 250
Ship, time as a swift, 138
Shipwrecked soul, 170

Silver refined, the righteous are, 251
SIN a burthen, 102; a debt, 199; as
Ethiopian's skin, 32; leprosy, 33;
little sin, as dead flies, 35; poison,
55; wages of, 83.

Slander a sharp arrow, 76

Sleep of death, 171; sleep of con-
science, 171

Sluggard taught by ant, I
Smoke of God's anger, 172
Soldier, the spiritual, 173

Sowing to the flesh, 70; sowing of the
dead, 252

Spider's web, a hypocrite, 71
Star of the morning, Christ the, 253;
righteous as a star, 74

Stay, Providence a, 72
Stewards, rich are only, 175
Stiff-necked, 51