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Vacancy, religion fills up every, 14
Vagrancy of the human mind, 153

Vagrant thoughts, compared to waters rushing in, 405
Vale of tears, the world a, 293

Valley of humiliation, advantages of the, 369, 382
of death, 394

Vanity of earthly props, 296, 299

Vanity Fair, the world at large compared to, 458, 586

Variety of corrections for the people of God, 165

Vaughan, Mr. Thomas, his conversion, and death, 346

Vault, family, of George Milward, Esq., Mrs. Hawkes interred in the, 511
Venture of faith, 171, 209, 221

Ventures, daring and imprudent, 546

Victory, Lord Nelson's, 205-Lord Duncan's, 210

over the world, see sermon, 151

Virtue, one set up against another, 555

Vision, dark dispensation, 294, 533

Visiting, time wasted in, 64

Vital religion, evidence of, 525

Voice, "Let me hear thy," a prayer, 210

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Wandering mind, a loss of advantage, 51

War, the art of, to be learnt over and over by the Christian, 139

calamities of, 159

Warfare, religion a, 603

Warranted ground of consolation, 590

Warning, to those who neglect religion, 52

Watch-tower, duty of the, 128, 405, 358

Watchword, "Thy will be done," 337

Water-floods, a comparison, 164

Waves of sorrow, 176, 190, 220

Way-marks, set up by God, 173

Weaned child, called to be as a, 383, 458

"Weary world," lines beginning with, 44
Weatheroak Hill, Mrs. Hawkes at, 200

West Broomwich, patronage of, 140

Mr. Cecil preaches at, 141

Wesley, Rev. John, 2, 99

Wheels of a clock, emblem of providence, 544
Will, of God, the result of his attributes, 289

a soft pillow, 108, 480

Wilberforce, Mr. quotation from, 633

"Will be done," Old lord, 275

Wilderness, the world compared to a, 523

Wilson, the Rev. Daniel, (Bishop of Calcutta) 324, 491, 503, 511
Winter season, figurative sense, 49

Wisdom, of God, 28

religion considered as, 534

duty of applying the heart to, sermon, 90

Witness, of the spirit, 53-for God, 610

of ministers against unprofitable hearers, 58

Witnesses, Christians considered as, 138, 272
Withdrawment, from the world, 39

Women, literary, 48

Works, evidence of faith, 527

World, overcome by faith, 161-linked together by wants and kindnesses, 188

dangerous to launch into, 522

our suspicion of should be deep, 550

Worldly company, a trial to the godly, 95
Worm, used figuratively for melancholy, 166
provided for every gourd, 604

Wound, an accidental, 311

Wounded conscience, how cured, 577

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Yawning vacuum, none to the Christian, 376

Yoke, human nature unwilling to bear any, 125, 539
Young convert, dangers and conflicts of a, 422

Young persons, Mrs. H. useful to,-71, 253

Young's Night Thoughts, quotations from, 5, 53, 154, 187, 231, 390, 523, 544
Mrs. letters to, 366, 386, 398, 400, 419, 427, 430, 479

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