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Knowledge defin'd, 285.

K.

L.

Labour, a Command and Punishment, 33. A Remedy
against Luft, 109.

Ladies, Inftructions for their Reading and Studies, 12.
Lady, a great one drew her Husband's Writings, 12.
Language often in fault when we think Ideas are, 309.
Languages a neceffary Accomplishment for Ladies, 15.
Languishing Air finful, 126.

Laughing, heed to be taken in it, 266. An Attendant
to Vanity, 340.

Law, how far Ladies fhould acquaint themselves with
it, 12.

Levelling Principles, how far every one is fubject to
them, 225.

Libellers, how they fin against Charity, 173.

Liberality, a neceffary Qualification of Charity, 190.
Liberty, the Love of it rewarded with Fame, 228.
Library, Ladies, the Defign of it, 1, 4.
Lightness of Carriage criminal, 124.

Liftners condemn'd, 136.

Litigioufnefs, how blameable in Ministers, 197.'
Looking-Glafs the Womens Guide, 340.

Love, lawful, muft not be us'd immoderately, 100.
Lucifer's Envy loft him Heaven, 225.

Ludicrous Terms, the only way of Reproof, 114.

Luft, the Filthiness of it, 101.

Lycurgus his Saying about Levelling, 255.

Lyes, our modern Libellers great Dealers in them, 231.

Lying Spirit gone out among us, 273.

M.

Mgnificence in Acts of Charity condemn'd, 187, 200.

Man,

Man, how wonderfully he is made, 137, 138. An
Enemy to God by his Works, 175. What a De-
pendent he is on God, 218.

Man-haters, 240.

Manflaughter too foft a Name and Punishment for Mur-

der, 177.

Marriage hallow'd by Chrift into a Myftery, 103. The
Abuse of it, 113.

Mafon the Preacher, Women feduc'd by him, 155.
Meditation burdenfom to Nature, 298.

Meeknefs a Woman's best Ornament, 75, 153, & feq.
Men as well as Women faulty in revealing Secrets, 119.
Mercy without Alms a Duty, 199. What are the Works
of it, ibid.

Merry Humours will be gratify'd at any Expence, 236.
Microscopes, what wonderful things to be view'd with
them, 145.

Mien, Gravity injoin'd in it by Scripture, 151,
Milton, Verfes of his against Women, 2.

Mind to be adorn'd before the Body, 74. Its Great-
nefs confifts in wishing the Happiness of others, 223.
Miferable not to be infulted, 337.

Mistress of a Family fhould be frugal, 96.

Mode in Dress not to be avoided but moderated, 59,
& seq.

Moderation, the great Virtue of it, 181.

Modefty, the great Grace and Virtue of it, 115. It wins
more than Beauty, 127. A Branch of Sobriety, 135.
Monkish Foundations no Acts of Charity, 200.
Moon, its Extent and Distance from the Earth, 139,
& Seq.

Moral Philofophy, Ladies fhould be taught it, 15.
Mortifications corporal, too much infifted on by the
Papists and others, 110.

Murder, the great Sin of it, 177. Not punish'd fe-
verely enough, ibid.

Mufick, the Danger and Ufe of it, 16, & feq.

Naked-

N.

Nakedness not to be expos'd or pry'd into, 152.
Nature, human, delights in Charity, 208. Unwilling
to own its Ignorance, 327.

Naylor the Quaker, his Blafphemies, 155.
Nebuchadnezzar punish'd for his Pride, 333.

Neighbour, the Extensiveness of our Love to him, 17r.
The Duty of our Concern for his Soul, 182. and for
his Body, 184, and Estate, 185. and Reputation, 193,
St. James's Royal Law, 195.

Nicenefs unneceffary, a Fault, 30.

Noify Nonfenfe of Men not to be fuffer'd by Women,
277.

Novelty expected even in Leffons of Religion, 78..

O.

Obedience of Wives made a Jeft of, 93. Thought a
great Hardship, ibid.

Obfcurity affected, and why, 324.

Offenders open, to be reprov'd, 248.

Operas, the Danger of frequenting them, 17.

Opinion governs the World, 250.

Otway, Verfes of his against Women, 2, 3,

P..

Paint in Women, the Folly and Sin of it, 63.
Parley must be avoided by Women, 127.
Partiality, every Man's to himself, 245, 250.
Particles ill-us'd perplex Difcourfe, 325.

Paffion inflam'd by Words, 167. Predominant in all, 319.
Peace-making, the Duty of it, 196..

Peevishness affected by Women, 91.

Pity to the Poor, the Duty of it, 206. To our Neigh-
bours Faults, 259.

Phocion,

Phocion, his Advice against Haftiness, 168.
Play-house Difcipline, what a help to Impudence, 1 20.
Poetry, how far Ladies fhould be indulg'd in theft udy

of, 17.

Poor not to be infulted when reliev'd, 214.

Poverty fins against Chastity as well as Riches, 109.
Praise, Mens Averfion to it, 272.

Prayer for those that labour, 34.

For the Rich, 35°
Against Vanity, 95. For Purity of Mind, 96. A
Remedy against Luft, 112. Against Anger, 169.
Charity one of its Wings, 206.

Preachers, their Railing uncharitable a damnable Sin,
175.

Pride, the Greatnefs of the Sin, 332. Its Punishment,
333. Folly, 334. The Neceffity of flying it,
336. When a Virtue, 344. Hard to carry it even.
between the two kinds of it, ibid.

Principles of Women vitiated by Men, 129.
Prodigality a Companion of Idleness, 23.
Pronunciation, where it takes more than good Senfe,
330.

Proportions of Charity confider'd, 213, 214.
Prostitutes, their Slavery and Wretchedness, 127.
Prudence, a Qualification more neceffary than Wit, 37:
As requifite as Innocence, to preferve the Ladies
Characters for Virtue, 134. The use of it in Cha-
rity, 190. The great Improvement of our Under-
standing, 306.

Puritans, their Law against Adulterers, 105.

Q.

Quakers, their Miftake in Drefs, 53.

Their Error-

about Womens preaching, 117. Expect Reverence
tho' they will not pay it, 150.

Qualities of the Mind got, like Habits of the Body, by
ufe, 76.

Quality, the Crime of making an Idol of it, 341.

Quarrels

Quarrels arifing from Detraction, the terrible Effects of
them, 230, 275.

Queen Mary, her divine Character for Charity to Mens
Souls, 183.

Quiet Spirit, the Praifes of it, 90.

R.

Railing, the Offence of it, 272, & feq. A common
Vice, ibid.

Reafon, Human, very fhallow, 292.

Cannot be en-
grofs'd, 293. Refers to Revelation, 304. What
it requires of us, 313.

Reasoning defin'd, 303, The ufe of it, 304. Rules
for it, 311, & seq.

Recreations, the Ufe and Danger of them, 38, 41.
Reformation of Manners, the Piety of that Defign, 183.
Religion, none without Virtue, 79. Tainted by Scan-
dal, 235

Reports Defamatory, Reflexions on them, 230. How
they fpread, 245.

Reproach, the fear of it the Cause of Sin, 253.
Reproof, when lawful, 271.

Revelation to be preferr'd to Reafon, 284.

Revenge, a moft wicked and mischievous Paffion, 177.
Reverence due to Minifters, 150. When they forfeit
it, ibid.

Revilers, half-witted People, 253.

Rhetorick, taught us by Nature, 323. The Defign

of it, 324.

Riches, no Sin to lay them up, 56.

Robbers may give Alms, 201.

Roman Ladies not allow'd to talk in publick, 116.

Rule, the beft, of Reafon and Religion, 80.

S.

Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, too much expos'd to
Adulterers and Whoremongers, 106.

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