How we are to govern our affections with respect to

worldly things, both in prosperity and adversity

His behaviour upon the breaking out of the late

troubles in Ireland

Ireland universally alarmed at the report of a massa-

Meditations thereupon

34

36

38

41

ib.

41. 44

He was continued in his place then, the profits of

which he bestowed to relieve oppressed Protestants.

His charity to the poor in those times of distress.

How he supplied the want of the church's public

prayers

A meditation on Dublin's deliverance

It was Mr. Bonnell's usual practice to draw such re-
flections from the daily occurrences of life, as might
best serve to keep his mind in a devout frame.
He laments the prevalency of vice

His Prayer on his birth-day
His marriage

A meditation, which he entitles, the Wish, or an idea

of marriage.

48

ib.

51

53

55

56.59.165

62

63

64

He had high thoughts of the extent and difficulty of

the pastoral duty.

66,67

His sickness and death

67

A brief account of the daughter that survived him,

who has since followed her father

68

PART II.

Giving a more particular view of his life

70

His person, temper, and accomplishments described ib.

He read all books of devotion with a very sensible

pleasure; but the holy Scriptures were his constant

and daily study

Meditations to excité our love to God 73. 75. 77, 78

A meditation on the love of God's laws and com-

His humility, 83. Meditations thereupon, 84, 85.

A Prayer for it, 86. Mr. Bonnell's happy pro-

gress in it, 88. A description of it.

Remedies against pride and vanity.

PAGE

90

88, 89

Using his voice in private prayer, was sometimes of

great use to keep his thoughts attentive.

Why by doing our alms openly we have no reward .

God principally regards the inward graces of our

minds

Of secrecy in doing religious actions

His meekness.

Meditations thereupon

Pride is the sting of all affliction.

90

91

92

93

ib.

95

ib.

97

98

99

106

107

ib.

Why people so much resent injuries

He constantly endeavoured after a meek and morti-

His submission to the will of God under every disap-

pointment, difficulty, and trouble.

His self-denial

He constantly laboured after an unconcerned indiffer-
ence to the world

The advantage of denying ourselves in small mat-

ters

How he discharged the duty of prayer

A letter to a friend on the subject of private prayer

He had constant prayers in his family

He was constant at the Prayers of the Church

The unseasonable salutations, wherein too many
allow themselves in time of Divine Service, were
always a great trouble to him

A prayer used by him at Church before morning

prayer began

He had a high esteem for the Liturgy of our Church

How good men may be said to pray by the Spirit

Of the true and false signs of devotion

His complaints of being disturbed with wandering

thoughts in prayer, with the remedies he pre-

scribes against them.

ib.

118

119

120

123

126, 128, 130

A private prayer used by Mr. Bonnell, suited either

for morning or evening

Short prayers

day, &c.

used by him at several times of the

PAGE

140, 142

His constancy and behaviour at the Sacrament of the

Lord's Supper

His opinion of kneeling at the Sacrament
Meditations on the Sacrament

ib.

145

147. 150. 154

Of praying to God and our Saviour for pardon, by
his agony and bitter sufferings, the meaning
thereof

A prayer with respect to every part of our Saviour's

He was a religious observer of the Lord's day,

His judgment of the necessity thereof

147

He observed the feasts and fasts of the Church, 160, 163

The beginning of the religious societies in Dublin;

of which Mr. Bonnell was a very great encoura-

ger, as he was of those for reformation of manners 166

He was a great promoter of religious conversation,

167. 220. A Letter to a friend concerning the

manner thereof

168

171

How he performed the duties we owe to ourselves.

Meditations on the government of the passions 171, 173

Meditations against the sin of covetousness

His temperance and purity

175, 177

How he performed the duties we owe to our neigh-

bours

His justice and integrity, 182. He confined the pro-

fits of his place entirely to the salary allowed by

the king

His care of orphans

His justice to men's characters and reputation

His charity

ib.

ib.

186

to men's souls, expressed by continual

dispersing good books

to the afflicted

in reproving, and his success therein
to the poor; he gave away an eighth

part of his yearly income, and sometimes saved

nothing at all

He heartily bewailed the divisions which prevail
among Christians

His charity to those who differed from him in reli-

gion

His resignation, when under a prospect of losing

his place.

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193

189

195

His principle and practice, with respect to the divi-

sions of the church

199

His description of charity

200

Mr. Bonnell was a most sincere, faithful, and zea-

lous friend. Of the qualifications of a true

to his parents

to his governors

to his wife

to his servants

His character in short

Inferences from the whole

The character of a Church of England man

A Sermon preached at his funeral