Epistles, reading of in Church, [329]335; order and date of, [330]336.
Eunuch, conversion of the, [331]226.
Eucharist, [332]114, [333]140, [334]394.
Evil, Manichæan conception of, [335]16 sq.; not physical, [336]130.
Evils, natural, a benefit, [337]323.
Evil designs, overruled for good, [338]295, [339]322; and to the furtherance of the Gospel, [340]305.
Evil passions, the worst of bonds, [341]318.
Eyes, to see the things unseen, Christ's gift, [342]313.
Excess makes ugly, moderation beautiful, [343]177.
Excommunication, [344]465.
Exorcism, practised by Jews for gain, [345]252.
Faith, an act of free-will, [346]181; able to grasp what reason cannot, [347]341; unreasoning, [348]347, [349]391; little compared with its reward, [350]349; men saved by it under the O.T., [351]ib.; the mother of all blessing, [352]350; scorned as easy, [353]363; not a new thing because foretold, [354]377; and typified, [355]ib.; takes away boasting, [356]379; establishes the Law, [357]380, [358]389; its seeming opposition thereto a perplexity to the Jews, [359]380; a life of charity necessary after it, [360]ib.; not to be ashamed of, [361]386; its power, [362]ib.; lies in a belief of God's power, [363]ib.; and of the promise, [364]389; its excellence above words, [365]391; Contemplated by the Fathers as fides formata, [366]407; that whereby men come to salvation, [367]470; comes by hearing, [368]479; gives relationship to saints, [369]494; a special sense of the term, [370]531.
False-Christs and false prophets, why permitted, [371]280.
Fasting, religious efficacy of, [372]176.
Fate, belief in, [373]31.
Fear, power for conversion of evil men, [374]252; a safeguard against Satan, [375]358.
Feastings and spectacles, evil of, [376]35.
Forgiveness of injuries, [377]92; how to be shown, [378]60; duty and necessity of, [379]394.
Free-will, relation to grace, [380]245, [381]355; proof of, [382]365, [383]428; its power, [384]492.
Friendship, worldly inducements to; not comparable with the Christian, [385]248 sq.
Gainas, revolt of, [386]204, note.
Gamaliel, [387]87, [388]125.
Gentiles, progress of the Gospel among, [389]201; equally accepted with Jews, [390]364, [391]379, [392]490; have not the law, [393]364; how saved, [394]372; their call, [395]469; their salvation, how related to the Jews, [396]489.
Gentleness, compared with passionate temper, [397]42; more powerful than vehemence, [398]44; distinguished from cowardice, [399]290.
Glory, the true and the false, [400]181.
Gluttony, penalties of, against nature, [401]105, [402]176.
God, source of all good, [403]192; universal presence and universal providence of, [404]321; near to all, [405]235; cannot be imaged by human thought, [406]237; His benefits, [407]238 sq.; danger of abusing this gift, [408]354; gratitude and trust in, [409]239 sq.; Divine perfections, [410]306, [411]362, [412]383; more ready to hear than we to pray, [413]227; is merciful, but is afflicting also, [414]154, [415]361, [416]400; His patience and forbearance, [417]243; does not take instant vengeance, [418]199; His help, [419]294, [420]355; how said to "tempt," [421]144; delivers His people, [422]316 sq.; His word not to be trifled with, [423]302.
Gospel, its success, [424]260, [425]343; its adaptation to all, [426]347.
Grace, power of, [427]84; supernatural, [428]132, [429]230; went before the Apostles, [430]340; destroys earthly distinction, [431]341, [432]7; does not supersede will, [433]245, [434]412; to work miracles, given for holy deeds, [435]355; time of grace, contrasted with earlier times, [436]363; needed before and much more after the Fall, [437]365; given to Jews, [438]372; better than a reward for works, [439]387; implies remission, so fulfilling the promise, [440]389; past, a guarantee for future, [441]396-398; superabundance of, [442]402; ground of higher rules, [443]420; fruits of, [444]ibid., [445]434: needful for the lightest good deeds, [446]446; and from first to last, [447]361; its universality, [448]474; how increased, [449]537.
Heathen, religion of, [450]211, [451]352; objection from mean condition of first [... (unreadable in hardcopy)...] [452]226; why not all amiable and virtuous heathen are converted, [453]150, [454]151; heathen gods demons, [455]31, [456]221.
Hell, does not militate against God's goodness, [457]35; why threatened, [458]366, [459]420; made known by the Gospel, [460]348; proofs of its reality, and why men deny it, [461]526; specially for wicked Christians, [462]538.
Heresies, to be expected, [463]210; take their names from men, Marcion, Arius, etc., [464]212; why permitted, [465]280 sq.; often prevail by the personal virtues of their authors, [466]286.
Heretics, their aim always to draw disciples after them, [467]270; reason when they should believe, [468]349.
Hope, a gift of the Spirit, [469]539; implies love and faith, [470]446.
Hospitality, shown to poor and strangers is shown to Christ, [471]275 sq.; Abraham a pattern of, [472]276; a Christian duty, [473]277 (see [474]Xenon.)
House of mourning better than house of feasting, [475]261.
Household, religious care for, [476]146 sq.
Humility, the greater the gifts, the greater the, [477]192; the mother of good deeds, [478]499.
Human Nature, capability of, [479]204.
Hurt, the worst suffered, is from that we do, [480]306.
Idols, worship of, [481]352, [482]353, [483]374.
Ignorance, of the heathen, [484]359; no excuse for sin, [485]427, [486]428.
Inaction, and activity in evil ways, alike baneful, [487]223.
Injuries, patience under, [488]198.
Injustice, an evil to doer, rather than to the sufferer, [489]307.
Insults, how to be borne, [490]300.
Intermediate State, nature of, [491]396.
Iouga, juga, [492]74, [493]276.
Isaac, sacrifice of, [494]339; why Abraham's true seed, [495]464.
Jacob, lessons from his history, [496]295 sq.
James, St., Bishop of Jerusalem, [497]20, [498]205.
Jealousy, as a motive, [499]481.
Jews, their precedence in receiving the Gospel, [500]348; their advantages and responsibility, [501]363, [502]374; bondage under the law, [503]363; in practice no better than Gentiles, [504]364; their pride, [505]369; judgment upon, [506]487; final salvation of, [507]490; offended by the doctrine of Christ's equality with the Father, [508]2; necessity of forbearance in dealing with them, [509]ib.; their dreadful punishment, [510]34 sq.; the famine (Claudius) a warning to them, [511]164; how they sent the Gospel to the Gentiles, [512]188; enraged by the faith of the Gentiles, [513]ib.; their unbelief foretold, [514]325; no cause to be proud of their sacrifices, [515]108; or of their Temple, [516]109.
Job, his example of patience, [517]348, [518]363; his sufferings, [519]454.
Joseph, the patriarch, a pattern of simplicity, [520]48; type of Christ, [521]100; lessons from his history, [522]295 sq.
Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary, probably died before Christ's Resurrection, [523]20; does not look upon Christ as man merely, [524]ib.
Josephus, [525]32, [526]35.
Joy in the Lord, and in the world, compared, [527]104.
Judaizers, assert necessity of Law to salvation, disparage the power of God, [528]202; why they abstained from flesh, [529]521; their weakness, [530]ib.; gained nothing from the law, [531]524.
Judas, election of an Apostle in place of, [532]18; his history a topic of cavilling, [533]ib.; his end a prophecy of the punishment of the Jews, [534]21; Satan entered into him, but he was himself the cause, [535]322.
Judgment, the final, [536]351, [537]366, [538]367; the power of the anticipation of, [539]525; its reality attested by heathen and devils, [540]528.
Judgments, temporal, use of, [541]351; fires had on the final, [542]358, [543]526; furnish analogies to it, [544]527.
Justification, (vid. [545]Faith, [546]Righteousness).
Kings, worshipped by heathen, [547]348; why called ministers, [548]512.
Landlords, their responsibilities, [549]116 sq.; especially to build and endow Churches, [550]118, [551]120.
Laws, a blessing, [552]36; their object, [553]423; an aid to God's law, [554]512.
Law of Moses, declared to be a burden, [555]207; abrogated even for the Jews, [556]209.
Lessons in Church, [557]127; profane inattention to, [558]ib.; complaint of sameness reproved, [559]128.
Levity in Church, [560]160, [561]161.
Life, a voyage: our ship the Church, [562]318; an evil life a bane to the best creed; and wrong life leads to wrong doctrines, [563]286.
Love, heavenly, compared with earthly, [564]312; love of God overcomes all other feelings, [565]400; love a natural tie in all creatures, [566]358; want of it, the cause of sin, [567]ib.; should be ungrudging, [568]366; and passionate, [569]367; duties and effects of, [570]503; ever paying, ever due, [571]514; love to man sanctified by its union with love to God, [572]ib.; see [573]Charity.
Luke, St., wrote the Acts, [574]2; commended by St. Paul, [575]ib., [576]3; was partaker of the Spirit, [577]3; why he does not relate St. Paul's history after the first imprisonment at Rome, [578]326.
Lusts, blind and enfeeble the soul, [579]180; unnatural, [580]355, sq.; source and consequences of, [581]520.
Luxury ruins body and mind, [582]222; defeats its own object, enjoyment, [583]223; the true, [584]177, [585]314.
Magic: true miracles contrasted with, [586]116; magical practices, [587]238.
Manichæans, deny Resurrection and Creation, [588]15; assail the law, [589]419, [590]421; condemned by the Church, [591]430; reject the O.T. and parts of the N.T. [... (unreadable in hardcopy)...] make matter the essence of evil, [592]ib., [593]410, [594]423, [595]429, [596]433; and coeternal with God, [597]16; their impious absurdities exposed, [598]ib.; therefore denied incarnation, [599]ib.; see [600]Evil.
Marcionites, attitude toward the Old Testament, [601]35.
Marriage, a rich wife not to be sought, but a godly, [602]140; a rich wife not to be desired, [603]296; no bar to holiness, [604]550; no excuse for worldliness, [605]384; second marriage, excuses of rich widows for, [606]ib.
Martyrs, [607]285, [608]434.
Matthew, his genealogy of Christ, [609]421; his call, [610]466.
Ministers, in the Primitive Church, [611]90.
Miracles, not always desirable, [612]229; argument from Scriptures more powerful, [613]ib.; success of the Apostles, itself a miracle, [614]230; uses of, [615]136; not to compel belief, but teach, [616]125; not all wrought with same ease, [617]138; the true, in contrast with magic, [618]116; not the cause of the Apostles' holiness, [619]83; nor of the noble devotion of the converts, [620]73; too much ascribed to them, [621]ib.; holy words and deeds are more potent, [622]84, [623]85; to suffer for Christ, better than miracles, [624]196; to cast out sin, greater than to expel a demon, [625]254; in excess, overpower, not convince, [626]169, [627]170; of St. Paul, [628]544, [629]562.
Moderation, essential to enjoyment, [630]105; and to beauty, [631]177.
Monastic life, [632]49, [633]85.
Money, love of, at the root of all idolatry, [634]258.
Morality of heathen, [635]93.
Moses, a type of Christ, [636]101, [637]107; a servant of the Lord, [638]338, [639]9; his love, [640]538.
Nature, its gifts, [641]348.
Nazareth, a mean place, [642]297.
Night, not for sleep only, but for devout meditation and prayer, [643]227.
Oaths, see [644]Swearing.
Offence, our care must be to give no just, [645]281; if taken unjustly, when are we to forbear or to persist? [646]281, [647]282.
Old Testament: grace was given by means of sensible signs, [648]26.
Olympic games, illustrate Christian life, [649]510.
Oppression really hurts the doer; to the sufferer it is a benefit, [650]306.
Ordinations, fasting before, [651]197.
Original sin, transmissions of, [652]464.
Passions, the, each has its age; all to be attacked in turn, [653]87; pathe, perturbationes, [654]98.
Pastor, the faithful, inconsolable for the loss of souls, [655]271, [656]272.
Patience under revilings, [657]92; under wrongs, [658]256.
Paul, St., The Acts relate most to him, [659]2; by birth a Pharisee, [660]292; how a Roman citizen, [661]288 and note; the three days between his conversion and baptism, [662]7; his honest, consistent zeal as a persecutor, [663]123; his conversion compared with the Eunuch's, [664]126; circumstances of his conversion, the accounts reconciled, [665]123; the manifold witnesses to, [666]284; why his conversion was delayed, [667]124; a mighty evidence of the Resurrection, [668]124; the persecutor Saul did not lightly become Paul the Apostle, [669]283; no worldly motive for the change, [670]284; his fitness to be an apostle, [671]131; an unexceptionable witness, [672]287, [673]311; his movements, after his conversion, [674]134 sq.; preaches "not where Christ was named," [675]180; his first recorded discourse, [676]182; compared with St. Stephen's, [677]184; labored with his own hands for his support, [678]274; his care that the ministry be not blamed, [679]265; his forbear and love for Christ, [680]ib.; his readiness to suffer and to die for Christ, [681]267; kept back nothing profitable, [682]267; a pattern of gentleness with magnanimity, [683]300; his charity, [684]41; was willing even to perish for the salvation of others, [685]125; much forgiven, he loved much, [686]132; a pattern of Christian love and zeal, [687]133; contention with Barnabas, an "economy," [688]214; why he circumcised Timothy, [689]ib.; practised "economy" in the "purifying" at Jerusalem, [690]280; his magnanimity, [691]216; his prison-vigil, and St. Peter's, [692]224; among the Philosophers at Athens, [693]233; overthrows heathen philosophy, [694]235; unbelief grieved him more than persecution, [695]242; his night discourse at Troas, [696]265; why he reproves the high-priest, [697]288; wist not that Ananias was the high-priest, [698]289; the Jews' malignity against him, [699]303; because he believed God, therefore he would not tempt Providence, [700]ib.; as the Pilot of the ship, i.e. of the Church, still with us, [701]318; did not prophecy nor work miracles for display, [702]319; affected as man by the sight of the brethren, [703]320; twice prisoner at Rome--his history after the first imprisonment, why not related in the Acts, [704]326; refutes his enemies by the Law and the Prophets, [705]326; his desire to see Rome, [706]327; said to have converted Nero's concubine, [707]281; came to Rome again a prisoner, [708]327; eulogy of, [709]ib.; his purity and depth, [710]ib.; to understand him and his writings, a pure life is necessary, [711]ib.; puts his own name to his Epistles, [712]6; his preaching contrasted with that of the Prophets, [713]338; his mode of leading men from lower to higher things, [714]340; extent of his travels, [715]341, [716]347; always begins with grace and peace, [717]342; and ends with the same, [718]561; glories in the Cross, [719]348; does not vilify the Law, [720]364; his mode of transition, [721]385; his hortatory digressions, [722]405; especially in this Epistle, [723]408; his use of doxologies, [724]462, [725]494; His marvellous love to Christ, [726]459; his judgment in dealing with the Jews, [727]365, [728]368, [729]370; desires to excuse them, [730]472, [731]493; his conformity to the Law no compromise with Judaism, [732]459; takes the attitude of a suppliant, [733]496; difference in his treatment of doctrinal and practical questions, [734]524; his fellow-prisoners, [735]555; tact and discrimination in his encomia, [736]ib.; lodged with the worthy only, [737]561; his glory in life, in the grave, and in the Resurrection, [738]562.