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His behaviour in king James's reign.
Prov. xxviii. 1. interpreted
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-

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41

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Meditations thereupon

41. 44

He was continued in his place then, the profits of

which he bestowed to relieve oppressed Protestants. 48

His charity to the poor in those times of distress. ib.

How he supplied the want of the church's public

prayers

51

A meditation on Dublin's deliverance

53

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 . 55

He laments the prevalency of vice

56. 59. 165

His Prayer on his birth-day

62

His marriage

63

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

of marriage.

64

He had high thoughts of the extent and difficulty of

the pastoral duty.

His sickness and death .

67

A brief account of the daughter that survived him,

who has since followed her father :

68

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66, 67

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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

71

His love to God.

72

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

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

mandments.

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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 :

90

Remedies against pride and vanity.

88, 89

Using his voice in private prayer, was sometimes of

great use to keep his thoughts attentive.

90

Why by doing our alms openly we have no reward . 91

God principally regards the inward graces of our

minds

92

Of secrecy in doing religious actions

93

Meditations thereupon.

ib,

His meekness.

95

Pride is the sting of all affliction.

ib.

Why people so much resent injuries .

97

He constantly endeavoured after a meek and morti-

fied spirit

98

His patience

99

His submission to the will of God under every disap-

pointment, difficulty, and trouble .

106

His self-denial

107

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

ib.

The advantage of denying ourselves in small mat-

108, 109

How he discharged the duty of prayer

113

A letter to a friend on the subject of private prayer , 114

He had constant prayers in his family

116

He was constant at the Prayers of the Church 117

The unseasonable salutations, wherein too many

allow themselves in time of Divine Service, were
always a great trouble to him

ib.

A prayer used by him at Church before morning

118

He had a high esteem for the Liturgy of our Church 119

How good men may be said to pray by the Spirit 120

Of the true and false signs of devotion

123

His complaints of being disturbed with wandering

thoughts in prayer, with the remedies he pre-

scribes against them .

126, 128, 130

A private prayer used by Mr. Bonnell, suited either

for morning or evening

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prayer began

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Short

prayers used by him at several times of the

day, &c.

140, 142

His constancy and behaviour at the Sacrament of the

Lord's Supper

ib.

His opinion of kneeling at the Sacrament

145

Medi ations on the Sacrament

147. 150. 154

Of praying to God and our Saviour for pardon, by

his agony and bitter sufferings, the meaning

thereof

147

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

bitter Passion

150

He was a religious observer of the Lord's day, 155

His judgment of the necessity thereof

157

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

The beginning of the religious societies in Dublin ;

of which Mr. Bonnell was

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

How he performed the duties we owe to ourselves. 171

Meditations on the government of the passions 171, 173

Meditations against the sin of covetousness

175, 177

His temperance and purity

181

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

182

His care of orphans

183

His justice to men's characters and reputation 184

His charity.

185

to men's souls, expressed by continual

dispersing good books

ib.

to the afflicted

ib.

in reproving, and his success therein 186

ib.

the king

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195

199
200

His charity to those who differed from him in reli.

gion

His resignation, when under a prospect of losing

his place

He heartily bewailed the divisions which prevail

among

Christians

His principle and practice, with respect to the divi-

sions of the church .

His description of charity

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

lous friend. Of the qualifications of a true

friend

His behaviour to his several relations .

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

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203

ib.

204

ib.

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212

217

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