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Gods, use of term in Scripture, [450]178, [451]478, [452]479.

Good, God alone truly so, [453]557; good and bad in the Church militant, [454]166, [455]167, [456]489, [457]590, [458]591; good gifts of God, [459]87; good gifts of Heavenly Jerusalem, [460]270.

Gospel, good news of salvation, [461]531, [462]532; preachers of the, to be supported, [463]513; Gospels four in number, [464]635.

Grace of God, leads to confession, [465]117; in Christ abundantly, [466]147, [467]148; all good comes through, [468]287; virtue of the Sacraments, [469]367.

Groaning, of heart and flesh, [470]106; of God's servant, [471]107.

Hades. See Hell.

Hagarenes, [472]398.

Haggai the prophet, [473]546, [474]547, [475]679.

Hail in Egypt, meaning of, [476]375.

Halleluia, meaning of double, [477]532; song of the future life, [478]673.

Ham, land of Egypt, [479]523.

Hand, right, used for preference, [480]538; safety in God's right hand, [481]635.

Hands, lifted up in prayer, [482]261; of the Lord Jesus stretched out on the cross, [483]427.

Happiness of this world, not promised by the Lord, [484]93; a dream, [485]339, [486]340; a pitfall for the ungodly, [487]463; checkered with trials, [488]465.

Hatred, God's, in what it consists, [489]12; hating wrongfully a dangerous temptation, [490]110; is darkness and death, [491]211.

Head of the Church is Christ, [492]642; head of the ungodly the devil, [493]642.

Heart, the, an abyss, [494]136; wings of, faith, hope, and charity, [495]401; should be in heaven, [496]452; straight heart and wicked heart, [497]493; the two leaves of, [498]649.

Heaven, used for books of both Testaments, [499]29; foundation of what, [500]396; how to be bought, [501]466; heaven of heavens, [502]502; figure of God's mercy, [503]501; all holy souls, [504]596.

Hell (Hades), place of waiting before the judgment, Lazarus in Paradise, [505]17; Rich man in Gehenna, [506]17; upper and lower, [507]415, [508]416; no escape in Hades from God's presence, [509]637.

Heresies, why allowed, [510]26; like torrents, [511]233.

Heretics, false prophets, [512]23; names of, [513]217, [514]297, [515]645; characteristics of, [516]367, [517]615, [518]669.

Hermon, Mount, [519]135, [520]433, [521]623.

Herod, slaughter of the innocents by, [522]165.

Hippolytus, [523]70.

Holocaust, [524]184, [525]197, [526]279, [527]633.

Holy Ghost, finger of God, [528]29, [529]451; came down at Pentecost, [530]157, [531]451; sword of the Lord, [532]457; sevenfold operations of, [533]681.

Hope, in God, [534]35, [535]121, [536]614; of immortality, [537]519; comforted by, in our pilgrimage, [538]604, [539]660, [540]663.

House of God, [541]486, [542]606, [543]618.

Humble, the, praise God, [544]73; God gives grace to, [545]534, [546]535; God exalts, [547]549.

Humility, road to life, [548]49; of the publican, [549]126; commended, [550]77, [551]117, [552]371, [553]518; our strength, [554]457; of the Lord Christ, [555]607.

Hymns, sung in churches, [556]143; songs of praise, [557]333; of God's saints, [558]677.

Hyssop, [559]193, [560]194.

Idithun, [561]112, [562]117, [563]119, [564]251, [565]254; to whom applied, [566]360.

Idols and Idolatry, refutation of, [567]477, [568]478; rage of idolaters against Kingdom of Christ, [569]483; madness of idol worshippers, [570]632.

Idumæans, [571]398. See Edom.

Image of God in soul of man, [572]140, [573]177.

Incarnation of Christ, [574]146; born of a Virgin, [575]193; the Word and flesh, i.e. God and man, [576]540. See Christ.

Inebriation, so called, spiritual, effects of, [577]2, [578]89; refreshing the people of God, [579]272.

Infants. See Babes.

Inheritance, Christians co-heirs with the Lord, [580]178; of Old Testament in contrast with that of the New, [581]292.

Innocence, to be kept with care, [582]102; of heart, [583]380; righteousness included in, [584]492.

Innocents, murdered by Herod, crowned by Christ, [585]165.

Intercession of Moses, power of, [586]529.

Ishmaelites, [587]398; type of worldly seeking Christians, [588]590.

Israel, "seeing God," [589]356; Christians called by this name, [590]550.

Jabin, [591]398.

Jacob, meaning of his two names, [592]369; Jacob and Esau, two nations, [593]437, [594]631. See Esau.

Jannes and Jambres, [595]96.

Jebus and Jebusites, [596]268.

Jeremiah, song of, [597]267, [598]315.

Jerusalem, [599]36, [600]268; Jerusalem and Babylon, the world and the Church, contrasted, [601]252; same as Sion, [602]268; the Heavenly Jerusalem, [603]414, [604]593.

Jews, caused the Lord's crucifixion, [605]264; judicially blinded, [606]308; named from Judah, [607]355; how superior to other nations, [608]408, [609]468; many converted, [610]461; convicted by the resurrection of the Lord, [611]618.

Joab, [612]244.

Job, a pattern to Christians, [613]224; answer of, to his wife, [614]224; holy Job, [615]281; tempted by the devil by God's permission, [616]446.

John the Baptist, a burning light, [617]622; boldness of, [618]648; killed by Herod, [619]648.

Jonadab, [620]315.

Jordan, land of, [621]135; figure of baptism, [622]135.

Joseph, husband of Virgin Mary, [623]381.

Joseph, the patriarch, [624]386; a type of Christ, [625]392, [626]522.

Joy, of the saints in the Church, [627]293; joy in God, [628]406; coupled with fear, [629]415; impure joy, [630]604; in tribulation, [631]639.

Judas Iscariot, case of, [632]538, [633]539; bag entrusted to, [634]668; in Hades, [635]538.

Judge, God judges His people, [636]63; our Lord as Son of man, Judge at the last day, [637]179, [638]351, [639]474.

Judgment, day of last, [640]15, [641]91, [642]148, [643]442, [644]474; God's judgments a great deep, [645]136; Christ's assessors at the judgment, [646]181; temporal judgments a warning, [647]246.

Julian the apostate, [648]602.

Justice, twofold, [649]562; God's, combined with mercy, [650]491, [651]507.

Justification, of the ungodly, [652]22, [653]545; God's free gift, [654]240; precedes good works, [655]545. See Confession, Faith, Grace.

Kedar, [656]590.

Kingdom of heaven, in this world, [657]197; how to be bought, [658]547. See Babylon and Jerusalem.

King, Christ our anointed. See Christ.

Kishon, [659]399.

Knowledge, distinguished from wisdom, [660]629; accompanied by charity and humility. See God.

Korah. See Core.

Lamb, Christ the immaculate, [661]265.

Land of the living, kingdom of the saints, [662]101; land of the dying, [663]101; land of where all is forgotten, [664]428.

Law, written and unwritten, [665]1; of Moses promises temporal rewards mostly, [666]445; Gospels, law of faith and love, [667]564, [668]577; threefold, given in Paradise, implanted by nature, written in letters, [669]580.

Lazarus and Rich Man in the parable, [670]17, [671]78, [672]94, [673]173, [674]416.

Lazarus, brother of Martha and Mary, raised from the dead, [675]500.

Lent, type of misery of life, [676]545, [677]673.

Lies and liars, hateful to God, [678]12, [679]31; some rather lax views of Augustin's as to, [680]12; toil of lying, [681]643.

Life, considered as twofold, of the flesh and of the spirit, [682]16, [683]323; our true life is love, [684]211; old and new, [685]445; sickness and death, [686]505, [687]662; in hope of eternal life, [688]519. See Death and Eternity.

Light, Christ the light of God, [689]139; two kinds, i.e. of the sun and of God, [690]479; rising before light, meaning of, [691]607.

Lion, type of what, [692]188, [693]189, [694]227, [695]516.

Locust, [696]375.

Lot, daughters of, [697]247; children of, [698]398.

Love, foot of the soul, [699]37; our root, [700]174; Holy Spirit's love shed abroad in our hearts, [701]291; wings of the two commandments of the new law, [702]291; all good works summed up in, [703]445; God loves us always, [704]452; law of the City of God, [705]484; exceeding broad commandment, [706]576; strong as death, [707]595.

Luciferians, heretics, [708]297.

Lust, depraved love, [709]37; burning fire, [710]234; lust and fear, causes of all sins, [711]389.

Luxury a slippery way, [712]80.

Macarius, [713]42, [714]97.

Maccabees, [715]77, [716]306, [717]381.

Macedonians, heretics, [718]297.

Man, old and new, [719]16; consists of soul and flesh, [720]105; made in image of God, [721]498; created in and fallen in Adam, [722]571, [723]572. See Adam and Christ.

Manasses, [724]247, [725]386.

Manes and Manichees, heretics, [726]297, [727]645, [728]667.

Manna, [729]287.

Martyrs, and their persecutors, [730]42; sermon on Feast of the Martyrs, [731]128-132; case of, when exposed, [732]248; spirits of, in Paradise, [733]382; "the bones" of, [734]647.

Mary Magdalene, [735]284, [736]645.

Mary the Virgin, [737]54, [738]55, [739]83, [740]146.

Maximianists, heretics, [741]212, [742]218.

Melchisedek, [743]72, [744]543, [745]619.

Members of the body. See Christ and the Church.

Mercy, greatness of God's, [746]150; joined with truth, [747]434; every man needs mercy of God, [748]491; works of, commended, [749]474, [750]547, [751]654.

Merit, our calling and election not of, [752]15; no merit in man, [753]189, [754]410; grace not given on account of, [755]513. See Grace and Works.

Mesopotamia, [756]244.

Messiah. See Christ.

Midian, Madian, [757]398.

Ministers of the Gospel, unworthiness of, no bar to God's grace, [758]42, [759]43.

Moab, [760]247, [761]398.

Monasteries, [762]439.

Monks, evil lives of some, [763]490; why so called, [764]623; Ps. cxxxiii. in defence of, [765]622-624.

Moon, used in various applications in Scripture, [766]41, [767]329, [768]515; as to origin of light of, [769]41.

Moses, man of God, prayer of, Ps. xc., [770]441-446; a priest, [771]486; God's ways made known to, [772]507; books of, how typified, [773]321, [774]654; punishment of, [775]486, [776]487.

Mouth, of God, His revelations, [777]562; what comes out of, from the heart, [778]604, [779]633; door of restraint needed for, [780]645.

Mysteries, the great, of God, [781]640, [782]641.

Name, of Christ, knowledge of Him, [783]484; of God, "I Am," [784]502. See God.

Necessity mother of all employments, [785]402.

Neighbor, every man our neighbor, [786]48. See Love.

Night, type of wickedness, lying, etc., [787]12; type of life here, [788]361, [789]494, [790]569, [791]638.

Nineveh, [792]193.

Noah, ark of, [793]421.

North, what it represents, [794]165.

Novatians, heretics, [795]217.

Numbers, mystical meanings of, [796]15, [797]16, [798]181.

Obedience, parents to be obeyed, [799]315; road to knowledge, [800]577; even wicked masters have right to, [801]602.

Oil, used for spiritual joy, [802]60; for the Holy Spirit, [803]540; "oil of a sinner" flattery, [804]646.

Onagers, [805]512.

Organ, instrument of music, mystically used for the saints, [806]682.

Orphans, God the protector of, [807]39, [808]664.

Pagans, blamed Christians for all misfortunes which occurred, [809]390; cowards compared with Christian martyrs, [810]647.

Pannonia, [811]271.

Parable, i.e. comparison or similitude, [812]304, [813]366.

Paradise referred to, [814]95, [815]382, [816]580.

Pardon. See Forgiveness.

Parents, to be obeyed, and when not, [817]315; sins of, visited on children, [818]538.

Passion, our Lord's, described in Ps. lxix., [819]300; teaches us to look for eternal, not temporal, good, [820]444; suffering of Christ's Body, the Church, [821]251.

Patience, a gift of God, [822]254; the patience of Christ, [823]417.

Patriarchs, called "Christs," [824]522.

Paul, the Apostle, conversion of, [825]149; greatest of sinners, pattern of the grace of God, [826]315, [827]672; in what sense to occupy a throne of judgment at the last day, [828]421.

Peace, to be found only in part in this life, [829]77; exhortations to peace in the Church, [830]591, [831]603, [832]677; Christ is peace, [833]603; Christ the true peacemaker, [834]606.

Pelagius, heretic, [835]241.

Penitential Psalms, seven, [836]15.

Perfect, the, repay not evil, [837]21; none really perfect, [838]116; an example to other Christians, [839]121; to be judges with the Lord at last day, [840]449.

Perpetua, martyr, [841]168.

Persecution, three kinds endured by the Church, [842]39; great persecutions inflicted on the Church, [843]448; why God permits persecution, [844]449; persecutors almost extinct through the Church's prayers, [845]484.

Persons in the Godhead, [846]301.

Peter the Apostle, threefold denial of the Lord, and threefold confession, [847]128; monument of, in Rome, [848]152; chief among the Apostles, [849]536; remembered in Rome, [850]647.

Pharaoh, king of Egypt, [851]625.

Pharisees, pride and outward purity of, [852]493.

Philistines, [853]398.

Philosophers, pagan, some hold the soul to be immortal, but all rejected the resurrection, [854]437.

Photinus, heretic, [855]297.

Physician, Christ the true, [856]90.

Pilate, Pontius, [857]264.

Plato the philosopher, [858]646.

Pleasure of the flesh, [859]31; compared to mire, [860]549. See Lust.

Possession, God ours, and we God's, [861]663.

Powers of this world signified by mountains, [862]157; obedience due to the powers that be, [863]602.

Praise of God man's chief work, [864]148; manifest grounds for, [865]196; everlasting employment of the blessed, [866]402; prayer and praise, [867]520, [868]545; God's works praise Him, [869]659, [870]674.

Prayer, two kinds, outward and inward, [871]107; two wings of, [872]140, [873]423; perseverance in, [874]280; the Lord Jesus prays for us and in us, and is prayed to by us, [875]410; the Lord's Prayer pattern of all prayer, [876]652.

Precepts. See Law.

Predestination, secret with God, [877]671, [878]680.

Pride, deadly sin, [879]32, [880]56; pride of the devil, [881]242; pride of Adam and his race, [882]324; mother of envy, [883]493.

Priest, Christ our Priest and Sacrifice, [884]623. See Christ and Sacrifice.

Primacy of Peter, [885]536.

Promises of Old and New Testaments not the same, [886]342; fulfilled, an earnest of those not fulfilled, [887]660.

Prophets, foretell the future, [888]80, [889]142; Christ speaks in the, [890]635, [891]651; heretics false prophets, [892]23.

Propitiation. See Sacrifice.

Proselytes, [893]664.

Prosperity, perils of, [894]190; not the lot of Christians in this world, [895]207; does not make men happy, [896]638; Christians must not be lifted up by, nor depressed by adversity, [897]638. See Job.

Providence of God, over all, [898]663; sin of not believing in, [899]653.

Psalms, though one book, divided into five books, [900]681.

Psaltery, [901]229; mystical meaning of, [902]678.

Punishment of the wicked, [903]234; how angels are employed in punishing, [904]376, [905]377.

Pythagoras, philosopher, [906]513, [907]646.

Redemption by and through Christ, [908]505. See Christ and Sacrifice.

Refuge, God is our, [909]156, [910]317.

Repent, in what sense God is said to repent, [911]531, [912]619.

Resurrection, the Christian's faith in, [913]501; rejected by heathen philosophers, [914]437; our hope of, [915]614; the resurrection-body, [916]654.

Righteous, delivered by God out of trouble, [917]77; blessing on, [918]98; sure of rest at the last, rejoice in hope, [919]609. See Grace, Prosperity, Tribulation.

Righteousness, beauty of, [920]270; God's gift, [921]316; summed up in innocence, [922]492. See Justification.

Rome, curies or tribes in ancient, [923]594; Peter and Paul remembered in, [924]647.

Sabbath, type of everlasting rest, [925]103; Christian sabbath in the heart or good conscience, [926]453.

Sabellius, heresy of, [927]11, [928]297.

Sacraments, difference between Old and New Testament sacraments, [929]342; result when administered by ungodly men, [930]640; chief means of binding up bruises of heart, [931]666.

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