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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Abraham, his trial in Egypt, 4; his humility, 4, 390; his unselfishness, 146; a pattern husband, 155; his hospitality, 207; overcame vain-glory, 213; his sacrifice of Isaac, 275, 291; joyful in trials, 275; a king, priest and prophet, 293; overcame nature, 276; crowning act of obedience, 292; took Isaac only, to the mount, 309; his sending for a wife for Isaac typical, 385.
Absalom, popular, 4; sober-minded as long as in exile, 401.
Acclamations in churches, 22, 74.
Accommodation, falsely ascribed to the Apostles, 1 (note).
Actors, debarred from the sacraments, 69 (note).
Adam, how he came to sin, 24; inference from his punishment, 49; no man perishes only on his account, 99; why made the head of the race, 204; how he might have overcome Satan, 284; created not to die but for immortality, 327.
Adultery, extirpated, not merely punished, by church discipline, 358.
Affection, toward vicious kindred, ceases hereafter, 331.
Affliction, the gain of, 274; brings men near to Christ, ib.; works salvation, 277; in what sense light, 322; a weapon of righteousness, 338; a means of grace, 299; leads to the kingdom, 300; why laid on Saints, 299.
Affluence, consists in what, 343.
Africa, its church, founded by Apostles, 32.
Αγάπη, to be rendered love, not charity, 188, (note); the way to attain gifts, 188; unites men when gifts divide them, 188; greater than all gifts, 189; more than alms or martyrdom, 189, 190; the way to perfection, 190; if fully practised would remove all evils, 191; superior to other virtues in having no attendant evils, 192; turns all evil to good, 192; contrasted with sensual passion, Joseph an example, 192, 193; Paul to be admired for rather than for his miracles, 193; our Lord the most perfect pattern of, 194; its excellencies depicted with a painter's art, 194; centre in long-suffering, 195; the qualities of love, 195; examples of in our Lord, Jonathan, Rebecca, 196; Rebecca's conduct, 196 (note); leads to same result with true self-love, 197; prevents unkind thoughts, makes men angels, 198; is felt toward heathens and enemies, 198; more perfect under the Gospel, 199; more attractive than miracles, 199; Paul before Agrippa an example of, 199, 200; its power to teach all virtues, 200, 201; Paul's delineation of suited to correct the Corinthians' errors, 201; knowledge and tongues pass away, 202; outlasts faith and hope, 203; many hindrances to its exercise, 204; final cause of consanguinity, society, etc., 204, 205; and also of government, 206; must be followed vehemently, 208.
Agriculture, a necessary art, 354; yet vain without that of ruling, 355; a sort of rule, i.e., over plants, ib.; its dependence on God's providence, 356.
Ahab, his greediness, 208; his repentance, 305; his shame before Elijah, 411.
Alexander the coppersmith, Paul's thorn, 400.
Almsgiving, what it is, 123; scanty, reproved, 124; excuses for not giving answered, ib.; sure to be repaid, 89; appropriate on Sundays, 259; to be in proportion to our gains, 262; recommends to be not less than a tenth, ib.; vain-glory in, cruel, 345; called a grace, 361; makes God our debtor, ib.; given sadly, no alms but covetousness, 371; the proper offering of a spiritual soul, 376; most of all looseth sin, 305; Paul's discourse on, gradually introduced, 359; three main points in, 368; produceth righteousness, 373; how many good things proceed from it, 373-4.
Amen, joined in by all, 285.
Ammonites, were Hebrews, 394.
Amos, no prophet, but God took him, 392.
Amulets, the use of them condemned, 21, 262.
Ananias and Sapphira, by covetousness lost all, 89.
Anatomy, mysterious like theology, 16.
Angels, their anger at the lost, 331; of light, and of darkness, 390.
Anger, less vehement than lust, 389; why implanted in us, ib.
Antinous, the favorite of Hadrian, 402.
Anomoeans, their notions of divine knowledge, 203.
Antioch, these discourses delivered at, 124; the church of, nourished many widows and strangers, 125.
Apollos, older than Timothy, 263; esteemed by Paul, 267.
Apostles, the, humanly speaking, insignificant, 14; the argument from the success of their preaching, 19; from their account of themselves, 20; from their undertaking so great a work, 25; and persisting in it after our Lord's death, 26; their lingering among the Jews, 27; their dealing with the Romans, 28; difficulties they had to contend with, 40, 41; summary of the case, 43; received aid from their disciples, 118; unjustly suspected, 124; contrasted with philosophers, 212; all equal, 233; suffered more than Christ, 274 (note); wrought greater miracles ib.; their weaknesses expedient for us, 288; how a "sweet savor," 302; greater than Moses, 312; ministered God's mercy, 319; overcame by God's power, 321; not by witchcraft, 322; were ministers of reconciliation, 335; as such succeeded Christ, 336; rich even in carnal things, 341; troubles their mark, 396; and patience, 397; glorious by slighting glory, 416.
Apostolate, a perilous office, 120, 126.
Aristippus, sank all his goods in the sea, 212.
Arts, what needful and what superfluous, 354.
Artizans, should judge rightly the claims of Christianity, 28; analogy of their education to that of Christians, 80; ἀρχη ἀγεννητος, not spoken of the Son, 239.
Astrology, among Christians, 21.
Babylon, tower of, 322.
Babylonians, 390.
Babylonish dragon, death compared to, 142, 229.
Babylonish furnace, 103; three children in it, 104, 117.
Balaam, God wrought by him, though a bad man, 44; his evil counsel, 134.
Baptism, its necessity, 12; laver of regeneration, 43, 284; of no avail without good works, 133; practice of coming to it late in life, 283; is a regeneration, 284; a life-giving grace, 307; maketh righteous, 310; God worketh by it to our immortality, 329; previous sins effaced in, 307, 383; in the name of Jesus implies not the exclusion of the Father's name, 419.
Baptized, the, at once receive and reflect the Spirit's glory, 34.
Baptized for the dead, 133, 244-5.
Barnabas, thought to be "the brother," (2 Cor. viii. 20) 365.
Beauty, not the cause of lust, 316; its superficial nature, 317; of soul, unfading and worthy, 318.
Beggars, led to imposture by the inhumanity of others, 123.
Beliar, 344.
Bereavement, how to learn to bear it, 56, 253.
Bezaleel, 376.
Blessing, of priests is God's blessing, 285.
Boasting, not after the Lord, 391; reasons against, 400; a folly even when compelled, 396, 405.
Body, constituted not for evil but good, 129; not evil in itself, 132; not the cause of sin, 242; spiritual in the next world, 252; a figure of the church, 175; its members both one and many, 176; a clothing, 276; a tabernacle, 328; raised incorruptible, 329; hereafter punished or crowned, 330.
Body of Christ, its mighty power, 142; the reverence due to it, 143.
Body and Blood of the Lord, to be understood spiritually, not carnally, 133; we partake of in the Eucharist, 139, 142.
Bowing the head, at the Blessing, 285.
Brethren, should work with their pastor toward persons under censure, 337; the contrary course not humane but cruel, ib.
Brethren of the Lord, freed from their first unbelief, yet not made Apostles, 120.
British Isles, the, even in them John's reproofs of Herod heard, 412.
Burning Bush, variously interpreted by the Fathers without contradiction, 229.
Cain, a slave to envy, 110; destroyed by it, 395; sinned, not realizing God's omnipresence, 303; his life of fear, 316; his sorrow, worldly, 353.
Calf, the golden, 378.
Captivity, conveys two ideas, 377.
Carefulness, worldly, reproved, 342.
Carnal weapons, what they are, 376.
Catechumens, not allowed to attend the communion, 220, 282; the prayer for, 282; its completeness, 285; what their own prayer should be, ib.
Caterpillars, God's mighty force, 320.
Catholic truth, to be learned from universal consent, 223.
Celsus, a witness to Scripture, 32.
Censured persons, should yearn after their teachers, 351; be excluded from the mysteries, 358.
Cerinthian heretics, their perversion of Scripture, 244.
Chanting, used in churches, 220.
Chasteness, may be perfected for vain-glory, 347.
Cheerfulness, how to be cultivated, 233.
Cherubim, our hymns unite us with, 366.
Chest for the poor, recommended, 262.
Children, the three, delivered in, not from, the furnace, 273, 292; an example of praying for enemies, 304.
Children, consolation under loss of, 276.
Christ, the centre of unity, 3; his presence implied in the word Revelation, 7; how made to us wisdom and righteousness, 24; the bond of union, 47; the believer's foundation, 51; "is God's" explained, 55; his indwelling in Paul, 75; present in the sentence of excommunication, 85; head of Christians only, 150; not inferior to the Father, 151; subject to the Father, but as a Son of God, ib.; head of the church, ib.; his condescension to Judas, 160; our perfect pattern of love, 193, 195; has the sum of knowledge, 203; left some things voluntary, 122; accused by the devil, 284; spake, though as a sheep dumb, etc., 293; able to consume his foes, 302; the promised prophet, 312; drew all to himself, 322; how "after the flesh," 332; came to reconcile, 335; was righteousness itself, yet made sin, 334; the subject of our wrestlings, 341; his poverty, 362; represented in the poor, 364; his body the merciful man's altar, 376; divine honors refused him by the Roman Senate, 403; his forbearance not weakness, 414; entereth into us when we communicate, 418.
Christians, to abide in their calling, 108; though slaves are free, 109; have almost all fallen, 135; are prophets, priests, and kings, 290; made so at baptism, 293; they alone really know the law, 313; have greater privileges than Jews had, 335; their high birth, 344, 345; are here in a foreign land, 362; have Christ in them, 418.
Church, the, both one and many, 175; its unity in the spirit, 176; a manifold person, 254; wounded when its members sin, 83; certain places used as churches in the Apostles' times, 160; irreverent behavior in them common, 220; places in them for the poor, 179; not one while her members stand apart, 272; a spiritual bath, 358; disunion in, 368; a bride, 385; conquers by suffering, 398; pulled down by envy and strife, 408.
Church, some scarce once a year visit, 283; why to be often resorted to, 358; reverence paid at the porch, 418.
Churches, the, their united prayer powerful, 367.
Church-allowance, what and to whom given, 124-5.
Church-discipline, to be preceded by mourning and prayer, 84; toward heathen impossible, 89; penalty in the Old Testament analagous, 90.
Chronology, of LXX. differs from the Hebrew, 50.
Clergy, right to maintenance, 120; sanctioned by Mosaic law, 121, 126; enforced by its mystical precepts, 121; by the value of spiritual things, ib.; what kind of men the clergy ought to be, 119; must be obeyed even though living ill, 124; must try to save all though all will not be saved, 129; must not be discouraged though hearers be disobedient, 162.
Comforts of life, their ill effect, 32; community of God's gifts should teach generosity of spirit, 57.
Commerce, should teach public spirit, 57; selfishness incident to, 241; contrary to God's intention, 242.
Common mercies, thanks for, 281.
Communion, why so called, 139.
Condescension, for a brother's sake no degradation, 129.
Confession, looseth sin, 299; a sacrifice, 309.
Conscience, when it seems clear does not therefore justify, 59; a good, comforts in affliction, 286; testifies to a judgment, 326; joy of a good, 342; an evil, freezes the soul, 314.
Consolations, under loss of relatives, 254.
Constantine the Great, his tomb, 403.
Constantinople, 403.
Contempt of money, introduced by the Gospel, 322, 357; its fruits in the soul, 376.
Conversion, a greater charity than alms, 15; of ordinary persons to the Gospel a presumption of its truth, 22, 23; of the world might be effected without miracles, if Christians led holy lives, 32, 33.
Corinth, why its inhabitants likely to to be proud, 1; some of them still holy, 6, 7; errors of some, 2; their childishness, 78.
Corinthians, the, had senseless pride in things of Judaism, 272; had made advances since first Epistle, 277; now ranked above the Macedonians, 278; apparent discrepance of the two Epistles explained, 288; the second, gentler, 295; loved by Paul more than other churches, 296; estranged from the incestuous person, 297; joined with Paul in the act of forgiving the same, 298; their virtue implied in calling them "an Epistle," 311; were particularly unsound on the resurrection, 326; dehorted from their corrupters by their own nobleness, 345; their penitence an example of godly sorrow, 353; their behavior to Titus, 358; exhorted by praise of the Macedonians, 359, 362, 369; by praise of themselves, 362, 369; by the Lord's example, 363, 369; why exhorted to give after, not beyond, their means, 362; their conduct to Paul contrasted unfavorably with the Macedonians, 387; to provoke them so to liberality, 387; had felt it a burden to maintain Paul, ib.; the devil's bait to them, ib.; slavishly submissive to the false apostles, 393; envy the root of their evils, 410.
Corn, sinfulness of shutting up, 362.
Cornelius, 28; blessed with knowledge because of love, 112.
Counsel, that of inferiors to be taken, 368; even in the church, ib.
Counsels of perfection, 122, 127; their use and reward, 128.
Covenant, the Old, its rewards temporal, 284; its glory visible, 311; its inferiority to the New no disparagement, 312; the people shared not in it with the priests, 365-6.
Covenant, the New, its glory not perceived by sense, 309; supplied not only life but the Spirit, 310; its great superiority to the Old, ib.; superior, but not contrary to the Old, 313; harmony with the Old, 314; one Spirit wrought in both, ib.; privileges of, 135.
Covetousness, its brutalizing effect, 52; never rests, 61; blinds men, 62; compared with contentment, 81; like dropsy, 82; a present hell, ib.; compared to leaven, 87; answerable for the impositions on the poor, 123; its cruelty, ib.; folly and evils attending it, 137; antidote to it in the creation, ib.; found in rich and poor, 138; makes men worse than toilers in the mines, 137; preys on both living and dead, 214; how to be tamed, 215; is worse than a dream, 221; its insatiableness, 224; worse than poverty, 241; example of its cruelty in a cornfactor, ib.; and in men in trade, 242; makes men poor, 248.
Creation, a reformation of life, such, and why, 332; analogy between it and redemption, 18; works of, why men told to study them, 24.
Creed, of the Oriental churches probably referred to, 12.
Crimes, some require a life of repentance, 87.
Cross, the, its glory above reason, 17; seemed contrary to all signs, 18; type of it in time of Elisha, ib.; it and not amulets the true protection of children, 71, and note.
Cruelty, in ostentatious almsgiving, 347; in humoring the sick or sinners, 351.
Cup of blessing, why so called, 139.
Curiosity, and rash judgment, its inexcusableness, 58.
Curses, senseless, 309; pollute the soul, 310; the poison of asps, ib.; pleasing to the devil, ib.
Custom, its exceeding power, 40.
Daniel, prayed for Nebuchadnezzar, 310; flourished by trials, 402.
David, his love for his people, 146; to his rebel son, 198; things said of him in the Psalms not said of his person, ib.; full of troubles, 173; addresses God by various titles, why, 273; in what his repentance consisted, 299; his comeliness, 317; turned to flight the Philistines, 320; had been lost if God destroyed upon sin, 326; punished himself for Absalom, 336; complained under reproach, 340; his sorrow, 353; his care for his people, 354; bore with Shimei's curses, 388; overcome by lust, 389; why he boasted his former exploits, 393; in conquering Goliah achieved less than Paul, 396-7; admirable as long as tried by adversity, 401.
Day, revealed by fire, the day of judgment, 180.
Deacons the office discharged by Paul, 13; commanded silence in the churches, 220 (note); bid the prayers, 281, 285.
Dead Souls, 307; they stink, 308.
Death, but a removal, 275; the word used of temptations, 324; called by such names as would make it desired, 330; sends quickly to the Lord, ib.; uncertainty of, 382; why left thus in uncertainty, ib.; even its approach scatters earthly pomp, 388.
Defending the oppressed, looseth sin, 300.
Delays in repentance, their sin and folly exposed, 383; no end to them, 384.
Democracy, its evils, 67.
Democritus, wasted his land out of vain-glory, 212.
Demons, how supposed to be introduced into men, 170; why they confessed Christ and were rebuked, ib.; cast out by bones of the saints, 403.
Dependency of man, its final cause, 23.
Despair, of improvement never to be indulged in, 15, 62; Paul's example, 129; of forgiveness, 48.
Destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved, what, 85.
Deuteronomy, once lost in a dunghill, 36.
Devil, the, why called an accuser, 284; worketh in what manner, ib.; dismayed by Abraham's beating, 290; gets advantage, destroying by repentance, 298; when he distracts not in prayer, and why, 304; the only enemy to be prayed against, ib.; pleased at curses, ib.; spurns dead souls, yet they feel it not, 308; made a devil by pride, 346; his strongholds overthrown by Paul, 377; his bait to the worldly, 388; destroyed himself by envy, 393; overthrown by Christians' suffering, 396-7; raised troubles against Paul, ib.; now argues against the soul's immortality, 402; now uses it to defend idolatry, ib.
Dice-playing, not discouraged by the heathen, 68.
Diet, plainness in, recommended, 341.
Diogenes, why he lived in a cask, 212.
Dionysius, his treatment of Plato, 20.
Diagoras, the atheist, 20.
Discerning the Lord's body, 164.
Disciples, commend their teacher, 306.
Discipline, a token of love, 79.
Discontent, progress of, 232.
Disunion, harms of, 408.
Dives, 324, 346; had a dead soul, 308; his regrets vain, 325.
Drunkards, reproved, 373; and their sayings answered, 374.
Earth, the, discourseth of a resurrection, 354.
Earthen Vessels, term declares our frailty, 320; preserved in perils, 320.
Earthly Things, shadows, 417.
Edification, includes removal of unsound parts, 382.
Elijah, 185, 228, once faint hearted, 399; Ahab ashamed before him, 409.
Elymas the Sorcerer, 79.
Eloquence, Paul vehement against, 385.
Emulation, contrasted with envy, 185; force of, 370.
Enemies, to be prayed for, not against, 304-5.
Envious Men, fly, like mad dogs at all men's faces, 406.
Envy, its evils, 185; examples of, ib.; cometh from worldly sorrow, 351; fearfullness of, 393; offspring of the devil, ib.; senseless, ib.; worse than a snake in the entrails, 406; unappeasable, ib.; infected even the church, 407; the root of the evils at Corinth, 409.
Epaphras, 414.
Ephesus, mistaken for Corinth, in Acts xiii., 1.
Esau, rich though unrighteous, 173; his carnal and cruel disposition, 200.
Eternal Punishment, 323; doubted by some, 124; shown from history of the Israelites, 133-4; its fearful nature, 137.
Ethiopian Eunuch, an example of diligent reading of Holy Scripture, 221.
Eucharist, in it we partake of Christ's body and blood, 139; by partaking become the body of Christ, ib.; reference due to Christ's body, 141; unworthy partakers waste Christ's blood, 161; Apostles patterns of devotion after receiving it, 162; drunkenness a horrible sin in those who have received, ib.; what things inconsistent with a right reception, 163, 164; not to be received at festivals only, 164; not to be performed in an unknown tongue, 211. See Lord's Supper.
Euphemism, and the contrary, examples in St. Paul, 51, 52.
Eve, force of allusion to, 384.
Evil Speaking, defeats its aim, 407.
Evil, not made by God, 76; encouragement of it sometimes more than the doing it, 123, 124.
Evidences of the Gospel, should be learned by Christians for the good of the heathen, 28; made up always of signs from heaven and testimonies from men, 30, 31; best evidence in one sense is a good life, 15. See Propagation of the Gospel.
Excess, produceth drunkenness, and not wine, 373; its harms, God's curb on the intemperate, ib.
Expression, used of God and ourselves not to be taken in the same sense, nor yet in one wholly different, 151.
Extortion, especially angers God, 389.
Extortioners, described, 76.
Ezekiel, delayed his message, 170.
Faith, best grounded on simplicity, 17; prevails by what would seem arguments against it, 18; its trial excluded by overpowering miracles, 31; objective, the same to all, 51; insufficient without perseverance to the end, 131, 132; used of that required for miracles, 414.
Faithful, the, do not require reasons but are content with ordinances, 150; prayers of, 285; received a glory which they soon quench, 314; though in the flesh not known after the flesh, 332; the only sound judges, 339.
False Apostles, the, were not themselves Corinthians, 386; were Jews, 271; possessed power of language, 272, 387; lived in luxury, 274; prided themselves on fleshly wisdom, 286; gloried in themselves, 302; diluted their doctrine, 302; their boastings, 380; ascribed what was the Apostles' work to their own coming, 381; overlaid the Apostles' doctrine with rubbish, 384; said nothing new, yet were not to be borne, 385; were not rude in speech, ib.; but were so in knowledge, 386; not what they appeared, 317, 331, 386; were wealthy, 386; the point on which they piqued themselves, receiving nothing, ib., 387; wore a mask, 392; took money secretly, 317, 392; their spuriousness evident by comparison with Paul's deeds, 393; their oppression of the disciples, 394; were corrupting the whole church, 405.
Fasting, commonly within men's power, 50; needed for contention with bad spirits, 81; nothing without charity, 146; how made profitless, 299.
Fatalism, refuted by experience, 10, 129.
Fear of God, best stays lust, 316, 345.
Feasts of charity, origin of the custom, 157; abuse of, ib.; a banquet after the communion, ib.; five faults in them, 159.
Fellowship, of Christ, relates particularly to his sufferings, 8; of salt, what, 140, (note.)
Festival, what it is, 164; our whole life a festival day, 85.
Filthy talking, inconsistent with a godly mind, 283; how great an evil, 308; unfits for the mysteries, ib.; provokes God, 309; reason against, 418.
Flesh, the use of allowed to the weak, 370.
Fleshly advantages, nothing, 393.
Following after charity, what, 208.
Forgiveness, possible to all, many ways of attaining it, 135; of wrongs, looseth sin, 300.
Fornication, its miserable effect upon the soul, 61; not considered an evil by the heathen, 68; in one sense worse than covetousness, 101; special dissuasive from, 330.
Forty stripes save one, 394-5.
Free-will of man, a part of God's plan of Salvation, 8; complaint against it on the part of Christians, answered, 9; God's purpose in it, 80; instance of in St. Paul, 129; things that must be consistent with it, 158. See Fatalism.
"From the dead," why so often added to the word resurrection, 235.
Funerals, empty pomp at, 388; the acclamations of mock the dead, ib.
Future things, whether the kingdom or punishment, eternal, 323; the only realities, 418.
Galatians, why generally addressed, 272; Paul's tact shown especially in Epistle to, 379.
Games, heathen, an example to us, 131, 132.
Garden herbs, an indulgence short of flesh, 370.
Garments, men and women not to dress in each other's, 153.
Gehazi, 389, a pitiful person, ib.
Gentile converts, their weakness, 115.
Ghost, the Holy, of one essence and power with the Father, 307, 419.
Gifts, spiritual, of the Corinthians, reconciled with their being carnal, 6, 7; when first granted, 168; a cause of schism, ib. (comp. Rom. xii. 4.); all from one source, 171; gifts, operations, administrations, all the same thing, ib.; from the equality of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, ib.; those that had the lesser gifts comforted, ib.; gifts of healing and working miracles, their difference, 172; application of the rule about gifts to rich and poor, 173; examples from the Old Testament, ib.; why bestowed in various degrees, 187; charity the greatest of all, 210; St. Paul, a pattern for the right use of, 211; directions for using, and checks against the abuse of, 219.
Gifts of prophecy, difference between it and soothsaying, 169, 170; its use voluntary, 169, 170; how not for a sign, 216; compared with gift of tongues, ib.; its superiority, ib., 217; directions for the use of, 219.
Gift of tongues, its greatness, 172; why set last, 186; why granted first, 209, 216; compared with prophecy, but not disparaged, 209, 216; requires an interpreter, 210; both to be prayed for, 211; gift of interpretation greatest, 171, 172.
Glass, workers in, 98.
Glory, future, punishment of losing, 329; antidote to love of glory, 393-4.
Glory, human, the subject of envy, 393; a load of grass, ib.; those who enjoy it slaves, ib.; is not glory, 416; the thought of future glory its antidote, 393-4; comes to those who slight, not seek, her, 416; a shadow, 417.
Gluttony, a slavish passion, 96; inconsistent with our being members of Christ, ib., and condemned by the doctrine of the Resurrection, 97; danger of, 132; its effects described, especially on the female sex, 242, 243.
God and Lord, applied to both the Father and the Son, 114; God "all in all," what, 239, 240.
God, mercy His chief attribute, 273; delivers in, not from, trials, 273, 292; pitieth all, 282; accused by Satan, 284; His word and promises sure, 289; consults His own glory, ib., and our salvation, ib.; giveth an earnest, His Spirit, 290; how said, only after Abraham's trial to know he feared Him, 291; defends Himself, 296; hath set down His own prescription for the cure of sin, 299; His sentence, not men's, to be feared, 303; how said to blind men, 318; hides from unbelieving minds mysteries as hurtful to them, ib.; His power works by vile things, 320; so, converted the world, ib.; His justice requires a judgment, 323; why not always punishes on the commission of sin, 324; yet sometimes does, ib.; His long suffering may be exhausted, ib.; after his Son slain, still sends messengers, 333; greatness of his love ib.; a suppliant to men to be reconciled, 334; to have offended Him grievous, 335; His love not to make us supine, 335; beseeches, only here, ib.; by things opposite furthers the Gospel, 338; dwells in Christians, 344; how said not to care for oxen, 352; giveth to seed sown, both earthly and spiritual, 372; reserveth to His sole disposal corporeal crops, not so mental, ib.; His Gift unspeakable, 373; much more his essence, ib.; gives food for nourishment, not excess, ib.; His strength how especially shown 376; 402; His wisdom in the creation not impugned by the perversion of his works, 378; His mercy not to be presumptuously trusted in, 382; His jealousy, 383; especially angered by extortion, 389; permitteth, not armeth, evil men, 400; threatens often without punishing, 412; His foolishness and weakness, the cross, why so called, 413; desireth, but needeth not, our love, 419; His commandments given for our good, 419; and concessions for our ease, 420.
God of this world, who, 318.
God, used in a lower sense, 318.
Godly mind; what, 283; how produced, ib.
Going to law, a reproach to Christians, 91; such disputes to be settled within the Church, 92; Christian privileges a reason for not taking legal proceedings, 93; men led to do this by covetousness, ib.; the conqueror in such matters is he who yields, 94; reason from our Lord's example, 95.
Goods, loss of, hard to bear, 275; kept, are lost; dispersed, abide, 370.
Good works, where they find not sins to atone for, make the beauty of goodness greater, 300.
Gospel, the, two-fold veil over, 283; worketh not only remission of sins, but righteousness, ib.; a savor of ointment, 302, 319; like light, blinds some, 302; enlighteneth sinners and delivereth them by thousands, 307; evidence from its propagation, 320; its precepts and doctrines unattractive, 41.
Grace, profits not if the life be impure, 336.
Grace and peace, how united, 4; grace, to whom given, ib.; source of all blessings, 6.
Grecian pride, the strongholds pulled down by the Gospel, 376.
Greek nation, its childishness, 21.
Gymnosophists, the Indian, 352.
Habit, its tyranny, 316.
Hades, the gates of, 279.
Hadrian, 402.
Hagar, why taken by Abraham, 155; her insulting treatment of her mistress, 155.
Hamaxobii, 352.
Hearers, apt to think of other men's duties not their own, 154; no excuse for their sins, ib.
Heathen, compassion for, 16; how to be dealt with, 21.
Heathen philosophy, its ill effect on the Corinthians, 2; why the Apostles had it not, 13; an obstacle to faith, 36; not afterwards disallowed, 37; its proper work, 17; superseded by faith, 18; this a predicted work of the Gospel, 22, 29; in a certain sense a part of God's education of the race, 24.
Heaven, fear of losing, less avails, 328; faint conception of joy, much more the reality, ib.
Hebrews, why addressed collectively by St. Paul, 272; included Ammonites, 394.
Hebrew Christians, in a better state than the Corinthians, 44.
Hell-fire, eternal, 28, 49, 50; this hinted in 1 Cor. iii. 15; doctrine of, how to be made use of, 63. See Eternal Punishment.
Hell, the prisons of, 329.
Hercules, referred to, 30.
Heresies, what meant by the term, 158; must needs be, ib.; do not destroy free will, 159; worse than mere schism, ib.
Heretical teachers, profess to teach more than the church, 1 and note.
Herod, ashamed at the light, 409, which trying to put out he kindled more, 410; his feast a banquet of demons, 411; in his murder of John set up a trophy against himself, ib.
Herodias, chief author of John's murder, 409; the procuress, yea the murderess, of her daughter, 410; her guilt and Herod's known to all time and place, 410.
Herodias's, daughter, her tongue full of poison, 411.
High birth, of Christians, 24, 54.
Holiness, of the first Christians a kind of sign, 32; the best argument against infidels, 39; glorifies God more than His visible works, 102, 103.
Honors, require a strong soul to bear, 338, a weapon of righteousness, 339.
Horoscope, in use among the heathen, 21.
Human learning and talent, a check to belief, not a disqualification for it, 33.
Human wisdom, its weakness, 37; curbed by the law, ib.
Humanity, how best shown to the sick and the sinner, 349.
Humbleness, looseth sin, 300.
Humiliation, must prepare a man for penitence, 60.
Humility, its tokens and blessing, 4; its origin, 5; exalts to heaven, 249.
Husbands, not to beat their wives, 154; how to treat them, 155; Abraham a pattern of, 155.
Husbands and wives, hinder not the Church from being a virgin, 383.
Hymenaeus, 400.
Idol sacrifices, show contempt of God and carelessness of others' good, 141; St. Paul's caution, respecting them, 144; idol feasts a way to idolatry, 111.
Idolatry, began from pride, 25; principle of argument against it, 113; held by the wiser heathen in a different sense from the vulgar, ib.
Ignatius, why called Theophorus, 101.
Ignorance, the cause of many sins, 35, 36.
Image, which Nebuchadnezzar set up, supposed to correspond to what he saw in his dream, 103, (note); of the heavenly, what, 255.
Immortality of the soul, vainly taught by Plato, 19.
Incarnation, the, (lit. economy), 413.
Incest, its foulness, 83.
Incestuous person, the, had been applauded by the Corinthians, 2; not named in either epistle, for different reasons, 296; Paul's mode of dealing with him and its reasons, 297; Paul's conduct to him the greatest love, 349.
Indians, early date of their Church, 32.
Indolent, the, open to be transfixed by any wickedness, 316.
Infidels, borrow the slang of the race course, 323; their doubts of things unseen, ib.; answered, 324.
Injurers, lose themselves, 304, 388-9; worthy of pity not curses, 305.
Injuries, borne meekly most avenge themselves, 335; benefit those who suffer them, 389.
Insensibility on religious subjects, 381.
Insufficiency of man, to supply his desires, 23, 24.
Invocation of the Spirit, in the Eucharist, 374.
Isaac, his behavior before the sacrifice, 292; a type of Christ in his meekness, 293.
Isaiah, exhorts concerning reproach, 338. "I think I have the spirit of God," an express claim to inspiration, 106.
Jacob, sought not his own, 147; poor and in bondage, 173; naturally timid, 174; his charity overcame shame and mockery, 197; his contentment, 309, 353; so showed a living soul, 309.
James, ordained by the Lord and made bishop of Jerusalem, 229.
Jeremiah, excused himself for not delivering his message, 170; sank under reproach, 338.
Jericho, fall of, 396.
Jerusalem, 312.
Jewish, types of Christian sacraments, 133; custom of searching for leaven, 86.
Jews, pride, the cause of their fall, 4; their conduct to the prophets, a warning to the apostles, 27; their punishments an earnest of ours, yet ours greater, 134, 135; their sins types of ours, 134, 135; causes of their fall, 135; some things in their covenant not typical but apply to Christ alone, 86; their passover compared to ours, 203; their arrogance corrected, 310; of a grovelling spirit, 310; believed not even the law, 311; saw not its glory, ib.; their carnal mind, 312; shall acknowledge Christ in vain hereafter, 325; their captivity in a manner atoned for their sins, 388; made war against St. Paul especially, why, 396; benefitted by afflictions, 403; crouched to vain-glory, 416; thence exiles, 418.
Job, his charity to the poor, 207; his great patience, 94, 166; Satan's tempting of him, 166; his wife's cruelty, 167; his example to mourners, 168; a martyr, 275; wrestled with all kinds of suffering, 275; that he lived before the law increased his merit, ib.; accused by the devil, 284; his resignation showed a living soul, 309; moved most by his friends' reproaches, 339; showed brighter after affliction, 401.
Job's wife, her advice inspired by the devil, 292.
John, one of the "chiefest" apostles, 385.
John the Baptist, his mildness in reproving, 409; reproved Herod rather than Herodias, why, 410; was grievous even unseen to Herodias, 410; why his head asked for, 410; it cries louder now, 410; after death a victor, 411.
Jonah, sought his own profit, 147; fled from his duty, 170.
Jonathan, a pattern of charity.
Joseph, a disinterested person, 147; a slave yet free, 109; his mistress rather a slave, 109; a pattern of charity, 192; spake not bitterly of injuries, 305; his words those of a living soul, 309; well favored, 315; shone by suffering, 401.
Joseph's brethren, sinned, not having the fear of God before their eyes, 303.
Joy in God a defence against pain, 275.
Judaical observances, old things, 332.
Judas, his commission no plea for the sacriligious and covetous, 297, 389.
Judgment, rash, of the Corinthians, 58; of others' conduct allowable in respect of definite, but not indefinite duties, 59; in respect of their general characters impossible, and why, 60; false judgment of men in regard to things of the world, 68.
Judgment, Future, infidel doubts concerning, answered, 323; follows from God's justice, 323; conscience testifies to a, 324; believed in universally whatever difference in details, 324; its doom irreversible, 325; to be imagined present, 328; outlines and symbols of, exhibited at the martyries of the saints, 403.
Judgment, the day of, all things revealed in it, 287; none can deliver in it, 325.
Justification, by giving the Spirit, 24; means liberation from sin, 60; by grace, not works, 334, 335.
Kingdom of Christ, how delivered up to the Father, 238; twofold, 239.
Kiss of peace, used at the Holy Eucharist, 265. (note.)
Knowledge, is common property, 111; nothing without charity, 112; imperfect to the present state, 113; in what sense to be done away, 202; of God in the future state, 202; before and after the Gospel compared, 203; impiety of our claiming perfect, 203; such knowledge possessed by the Spirit and the Son, 203; an ointment, 301; present, a savor, 302.
Laity, their prayers and assent required at ordinations, 365; partake of both bread and cup, 366; pray with and for the priest, 366; share in thanksgivings and elections, 366; should not throw the whole care for the Church on the priests, 367.
Law, used by St. Paul for the Old Testament, 216; old law contrasted with the more perfect dispensation of the Gospel, 126, 155.
Law of Moses, mystical meaning of, 121.
Law of Nature, harmonizes with God's law, 154 "under the law, without law," what, 129.
Law, the, how the strength of sin, 257; spiritual, but bestowed not a spirit, 307; compared with grace, ib.; how it killeth, ib.; showed and punished, not caused, sin, 310; only letters, no help by it, 310; fixed to one place, 310; hid from the Jews, 311; confessed to its own abolition, 312; those who forsake it see its meaning, 313.
Lazarus, stood on the summit of heavenly wisdom, 308; his lot and the rich man's compared, 324, 346.
Liberty, what it is, 145.
Life, a good, preparation for faith, 44; of primitive Christians compared with those of later times, 32, 33.
Life in the soul, what, 307; to be preserved in it by our own efforts, 307; how tested, 308; how shown in words, 309.
Loneliness, increases trials, 300.
Lord's Prayer, not permitted to Catechumens, 282.
Lot, his want of generosity and disinterestedness, 146, 155.
Love, of Christ to us, 140; of the primitive Church, greater than ours, 140; to Christ casts out all sin, 264; signs of in open mouth and large heart, 342; in rejoicing at the good as well as grieving at the ills of friends, 347; consumeth sins like a fire, 369; he that is without it a useless man, 405; especially to those who love him, 405; to be shown in defending friends when ill-spoken of, 406.
Love of Christ, will make sinners even punish themselves, 335.
Love of God, to be shown in deeds, 421; best secures our salvation, 422.
Luke, by some thought "the brother whose praise, etc.," 363.
Lust, how admitted; how fed, 315; fiercer than avarice, 315; from ourselves and not the devil only, 315; gendered by idleness, 316; by habit, 316; its cure, 316; the fear of God best quenches it, 316, 345; to be quenched by thought of hell-fires, 316, 330; more imperious than love of money, 389; or anger, 389; hath overcome great persons, 389; not therefore excusable but to be watched against, 389; permitted in a sort in marriage, 389; implanted and why, 389.
Luxury, examples of, 124, 247; how it unfits for heaven, 257, 258.
Lying, a sin of the poor, 346.
Macedonian Controversy, alluded to, 172.
Macedonians, the, compared with the Corinthians, 277, 386; their praises, 356; had suffered loss of goods for the Gospel, 356; their bountifulness had many degrees of excess, 357; was accompanied by other graces, 357; the assistance they gave to St. Paul, 387.
Madness of the Mind, in grasping shadows, 416; inexcusable, 417.
Magic, the suspicion of it in miracles obviated, 30; magical verses quoted, 169.
Magus, 415.
Magnanimity, true and false, 5.
Man, first and second, why those expressions used, 255; men made to depend upo