262-288, 292, 293. --has raised the general standard of practice, 264, 265. --sickens in prosperity and flourishes under persecution, 266, 267. --peculiarities of, naturally slide into disuse, 269. _Christians_, true, duties especially incumbent on them in these times, 350-353. --should pray for their country, 351. --their prayers intreated for the success of this work, 353. --ready made, who esteemed such, 318. --real, how different from nominal, 214, 215. --life, illustrated by figure of a traveller, 217-219. _Commons_, House of, proves inordinate love of worldly glory, 159. _Consistency_ between Christianity's leading doctrines and practical precepts, 231-252, 253. --between Christianity's leading doctrines amongst each other, 253. --between Christianity's practical precepts amongst each other, 253-257. _Contact_, necessary to produce any interest in our affections, 73-78, 81. _Corruption_ of human nature, common notions of it, 14-16. --of human nature, Scripture account of it, 16, 26, 27. --of human nature, arguments suggested in proof of it, 16-26. --of Heathen world, and striking instance of it, 18, 19. --of savage life, 19, 20. --proof of it, furnished by the state of the Christian world, 20-24. --by the experience of the true Christian, 24, 25. --human, its general effects, when suffered to operate without restraint, 25, 26. --human, firm grounds on which it rests, 35. --human, practical uses of the doctrine, 36. _Cowper's Task_, recommended, 234-352. --quoted, 251. D. _Defective_, conceptions generally prevailing concerning importance of Christianity, 1-5. --conceptions concerning human corruption, 15, 16. --conceptions concerning the evil spirit, 28. --conceptions concerning the doctrines, which respect our Saviour and the Holy Spirit, 70, 71, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50. --conceptions concerning the means of acceptance with God, 84-91. --conceptions prevailing concerning practical Christianity, 102-104, 117-205. --conceptions of guilt and evil of sin, 206-210. --fear of God, 210. --sense of the difficulty of getting to heaven, 214, 215. --love of God in nominal Christians, 219-221. --love of God, proofs of it in nominal Christians, 221-224. --conceptions general, concerning peculiar doctrines of Christianity, 231. --conceptions of peculiarities of Christianity, practical mischiefs from them, 232. _Depths_, of the things of God; and our proneness to plunge into them, 41-43. _Devotedness_ to God, duty of it, 107-110, 113, 116, 118. _Dissipated_ and indolent, class of, 121, 122. _Dissipation_, seems to have prevailed in the antediluvian world, 213. _Doddridge's_ Sermons on Regeneration, referred to, note, 83. _Duelling_, its guilt, &c. 159-161. E. _Error_, innocence of, considered, 10-12. _Establishment_, religious, in England, how circumstanced, 267.