03.00. Solitude Sweetened

SOLITUDE SWEETENED by James Meikle, 1730-1799 "My meditation of Him shall be sweet." Psalms 104:34 1. On meditation 2. Christ the Rock in a weary land 3. If God gives Christ, what can he withhold

4. Submission 5. Comfortable conclusions

6. Resignation 7. Feeble nature 8, Worldly losses and misfortunes universal

9. Providence 10. True greatness 11. Disappointments

12. Experience

13. Contentment

14. Death 15. Communion with God, what it is 16. The disposal of Providence always best 17. Love in its fourfold extension

18. Slander 19. Fear and other passions 20. Universal improvement 21. The soul’s enlargement on high 22. Affliction the lot of saints below 23. Private experience 24. All plenitude in Christ, to answer all the needs of his people 25. Prayer and praise 26. On a blind beggar 27. Love in saints

28. Love in God

29. Death 30. The death of the wicked 31. The Traveler 32. Grace in the blush, sin not ashamed 33. Going to a fair 34. After sickness 35. Frames of soul variable 36. The unconcerned spectators 37. Death a blessing to godly men 38. Mercy going before God, makes meeting him a mercy 39. The necessity of afflictions 40. Saints unknown, stars unseen 41. The excellent happiness of the blessed 42. Only a rumor heard of the triumphant state

43. Science 44. A wicked thing to depart from God in the least 45. Who the great man is 46. We should sleep no longer than to refresh the body 47. Our only joy in the world to come 48. On the scriptures

49. True joy 50. One fruit of affliction 51. From the depth of afflictions we see stupendous things

52. Prayer 53. Little known of the bliss above 54. The divine lover

55. Eternity 56. On loving God

57. Wrath 58. Sensible communion with God sometimes enjoyed 59. Brevity of life 60. On the last day of the year 61. Saints have the greatest reason to rejoice 62. Indwelling sin 63. Events of providence 64. More of God seen in Christ than in all the creation 65. Christ, the study above 66. The world asleep 67. Still ignorant of God below 68. Nothing can purchase Christ from the soul

69. Torment 70. The soul’s growth 71. This life a valley of tears 72. The madness of the world in their choice 73. The approaching happiness of the saints 74. What we should expect and wait for 75. The spiritual miser 76. Contradictions 77. The confusion of the wicked at the general judgment 78. Mercies abused 79. The forgiveness of injuries 80. The excellency of religion 81. Christ, and none but he, satisfies desires 82. The aggrandizing visit 83. Causes of humility 84. Harmony in God’s procedure with the church 85. A pleasant consideration

86. Crucifixion 87. All God’s ways equal 88. Self-flatterers 89. The heavenly vision assimilating 90. Still descriptions fall short of glory 91. Saints honorable 92. Mercies, though apparently delayed, come at the appointed time 93. The world deeply rooted in the affections

94. True riches 95. The casting of the scales or balances 96. Affliction the common lot of the saints 97. The glorious fruits of sanctified affliction 98. God his people’s inheritance 99. Distance diminishes views

100. Jubilee 101. God’s knowledge 103. Elijah and Elisha, a dialogue 104. The company of the wicked corrupts 105. To escape wrath should silence under all afflictions

106. Adoption 107. Connections 108. Degrees of nearness to God

109. Unbelief 110. Our short life should not give much concern

111. Faith 112. The three-fold state

113. Corruption

114. Grace 115. Love and immortality 116. Extremities 117. The astonishing portions 118. Noah’s ark 119. Acquaintances 120. An argument 121. On being ill-used 122. The Bible a store-house of instruction

123. Assurance 124. Our meditations cramped, unless stretched beyond death 125. How to be rich in heaven 126. Revenge rejected 127. The coming judgment 128. Against murmuring at misfortunes 129. A caution against excess of joy in any earthly good 130. The joy of salvation

131. On visits 132. The anguish of damnation 133. Sovereignty 134. The victory of faith 135. The necessity of afflictions while we live 136. Gibeon making peace with Israel 137. On the author’s first using glasses 138. On casting our care on God 139. The affection of a parent 140. On being made a noble 141. The singular advantages of poverty 142. A journey along the sea-shore 143. The British state lottery 144. On the works of creation 145. A prospect of death 146. A state after death 147. A glance into heavenly bliss