Corn, sinfulness of shutting up, [377]362.
Cornelius, [378]28; blessed with knowledge because of love, [379]112.
Counsel, that of inferiors to be taken, [380]368; even in the church, [381]ib.
Counsels of perfection, [382]122, [383]127; their use and reward, [384]128.
Covenant, the Old, its rewards temporal, [385]284; its glory visible, [386]311; its inferiority to the New no disparagement, [387]312; the people shared not in it with the priests, [388]365-6.
Covenant, the New, its glory not perceived by sense, [389]309; supplied not only life but the Spirit, [390]310; its great superiority to the Old, [391]ib.; superior, but not contrary to the Old, [392]313; harmony with the Old, [393]314; one Spirit wrought in both, [394]ib.; privileges of, [395]135.
Covetousness, its brutalizing effect, [396]52; never rests, [397]61; blinds men, [398]62; compared with contentment, [399]81; like dropsy, [400]82; a present hell, [401]ib.; compared to leaven, [402]87; answerable for the impositions on the poor, [403]123; its cruelty, [404]ib.; folly and evils attending it, [405]137; antidote to it in the creation, [406]ib.; found in rich and poor, [407]138; makes men worse than toilers in the mines, [408]137; preys on both living and dead, [409]214; how to be tamed, [410]215; is worse than a dream, [411]221; its insatiableness, [412]224; worse than poverty, [413]241; example of its cruelty in a cornfactor, [414]ib.; and in men in trade, [415]242; makes men poor, [416]248.
Creation, a reformation of life, such, and why, [417]332; analogy between it and redemption, [418]18; works of, why men told to study them, [419]24.
Creed, of the Oriental churches probably referred to, [420]12.
Crimes, some require a life of repentance, [421]87.
Cross, the, its glory above reason, [422]17; seemed contrary to all signs, [423]18; type of it in time of Elisha, [424]ib.; it and not amulets the true protection of children, [425]71, and note.
Cruelty, in ostentatious almsgiving, [426]347; in humoring the sick or sinners, [427]351.
Cup of blessing, why so called, [428]139.
Curiosity, and rash judgment, its inexcusableness, [429]58.
Curses, senseless, [430]309; pollute the soul, [431]310; the poison of asps, [432]ib.; pleasing to the devil, [433]ib.
Custom, its exceeding power, [434]40.
Daniel, prayed for Nebuchadnezzar, [435]310; flourished by trials, [436]402.
David, his love for his people, [437]146; to his rebel son, [438]198; things said of him in the Psalms not said of his person, [439]ib.; full of troubles, [440]173; addresses God by various titles, why, [441]273; in what his repentance consisted, [442]299; his comeliness, [443]317; turned to flight the Philistines, [444]320; had been lost if God destroyed upon sin, [445]326; punished himself for Absalom, [446]336; complained under reproach, [447]340; his sorrow, [448]353; his care for his people, [449]354; bore with Shimei's curses, [450]388; overcome by lust, [451]389; why he boasted his former exploits, [452]393; in conquering Goliah achieved less than Paul, [453]396-7; admirable as long as tried by adversity, [454]401.
Day, revealed by fire, the day of judgment, [455]180.
Deacons the office discharged by Paul, [456]13; commanded silence in the churches, [457]220 (note); bid the prayers, [458]281, [459]285.
Dead Souls, [460]307; they stink, [461]308.
Death, but a removal, [462]275; the word used of temptations, [463]324; called by such names as would make it desired, [464]330; sends quickly to the Lord, [465]ib.; uncertainty of, [466]382; why left thus in uncertainty, [467]ib.; even its approach scatters earthly pomp, [468]388.
Defending the oppressed, looseth sin, [469]300.
Delays in repentance, their sin and folly exposed, [470]383; no end to them, [471]384.
Democracy, its evils, [472]67.
Democritus, wasted his land out of vain-glory, [473]212.
Demons, how supposed to be introduced into men, [474]170; why they confessed Christ and were rebuked, [475]ib.; cast out by bones of the saints, [476]403.
Dependency of man, its final cause, [477]23.
Despair, of improvement never to be indulged in, [478]15, [479]62; Paul's example, [480]129; of forgiveness, [481]48.
Destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved, what, [482]85.
Deuteronomy, once lost in a dunghill, [483]36.
Devil, the, why called an accuser, [484]284; worketh in what manner, [485]ib.; dismayed by Abraham's beating, [486]290; gets advantage, destroying by repentance, [487]298; when he distracts not in prayer, and why, [488]304; the only enemy to be prayed against, [489]ib.; pleased at curses, [490]ib.; spurns dead souls, yet they feel it not, [491]308; made a devil by pride, [492]346; his strongholds overthrown by Paul, [493]377; his bait to the worldly, [494]388; destroyed himself by envy, [495]393; overthrown by Christians' suffering, [496]396-7; raised troubles against Paul, [497]ib.; now argues against the soul's immortality, [498]402; now uses it to defend idolatry, [499]ib.
Dice-playing, not discouraged by the heathen, [500]68.
Diet, plainness in, recommended, [501]341.
Diogenes, why he lived in a cask, [502]212.
Dionysius, his treatment of Plato, [503]20.
Diagoras, the atheist, [504]20.
Discerning the Lord's body, [505]164.
Disciples, commend their teacher, [506]306.
Discipline, a token of love, [507]79.
Discontent, progress of, [508]232.
Disunion, harms of, [509]408.
Dives, [510]324, [511]346; had a dead soul, [512]308; his regrets vain, [513]325.
Drunkards, reproved, [514]373; and their sayings answered, [515]374.
Earth, the, discourseth of a resurrection, [516]354.
Earthen Vessels, term declares our frailty, [517]320; preserved in perils, [518]320.
Earthly Things, shadows, [519]417.
Edification, includes removal of unsound parts, [520]382.
Elijah, [521]185, [522]228, once faint hearted, [523]399; Ahab ashamed before him, [524]409.
Elymas the Sorcerer, [525]79.
Eloquence, Paul vehement against, [526]385.
Emulation, contrasted with envy, [527]185; force of, [528]370.
Enemies, to be prayed for, not against, [529]304-5.
Envious Men, fly, like mad dogs at all men's faces, [530]406.
Envy, its evils, [531]185; examples of, [532]ib.; cometh from worldly sorrow, [533]351; fearfullness of, [534]393; offspring of the devil, [535]ib.; senseless, [536]ib.; worse than a snake in the entrails, [537]406; unappeasable, [538]ib.; infected even the church, [539]407; the root of the evils at Corinth, [540]409.
Epaphras, [541]414.
Ephesus, mistaken for Corinth, in Acts xiii., [542]1.
Esau, rich though unrighteous, [543]173; his carnal and cruel disposition, [544]200.
Eternal Punishment, [545]323; doubted by some, [546]124; shown from history of the Israelites, [547]133-4; its fearful nature, [548]137.
Ethiopian Eunuch, an example of diligent reading of Holy Scripture, [549]221.
Eucharist, in it we partake of Christ's body and blood, [550]139; by partaking become the body of Christ, [551]ib.; reference due to Christ's body, [552]141; unworthy partakers waste Christ's blood, [553]161; Apostles patterns of devotion after receiving it, [554]162; drunkenness a horrible sin in those who have received, [555]ib.; what things inconsistent with a right reception, [556]163, [557]164; not to be received at festivals only, [558]164; not to be performed in an unknown tongue, [559]211. See Lord's Supper.
Euphemism, and the contrary, examples in St. Paul, [560]51, [561]52.
Eve, force of allusion to, [562]384.
Evil Speaking, defeats its aim, [563]407.
Evil, not made by God, [564]76; encouragement of it sometimes more than the doing it, [565]123, [566]124.
Evidences of the Gospel, should be learned by Christians for the good of the heathen, [567]28; made up always of signs from heaven and testimonies from men, [568]30, [569]31; best evidence in one sense is a good life, [570]15. See [571]Propagation of the Gospel.
Excess, produceth drunkenness, and not wine, [572]373; its harms, God's curb on the intemperate, [573]ib.
Excommunication, [574]84, [575]85.
Expression, used of God and ourselves not to be taken in the same sense, nor yet in one wholly different, [576]151.
Extortion, especially angers God, [577]389.
Extortioners, described, [578]76.
Ezekiel, delayed his message, [579]170.
Faith, best grounded on simplicity, [580]17; prevails by what would seem arguments against it, [581]18; its trial excluded by overpowering miracles, [582]31; objective, the same to all, [583]51; insufficient without perseverance to the end, [584]131, [585]132; used of that required for miracles, [586]414.
Faithful, the, do not require reasons but are content with ordinances, [587]150; prayers of, [588]285; received a glory which they soon quench, [589]314; though in the flesh not known after the flesh, [590]332; the only sound judges, [591]339.
False Apostles, the, were not themselves Corinthians, [592]386; were Jews, [593]271; possessed power of language, [594]272, [595]387; lived in luxury, [596]274; prided themselves on fleshly wisdom, [597]286; gloried in themselves, [598]302; diluted their doctrine, [599]302; their boastings, [600]380; ascribed what was the Apostles' work to their own coming, [601]381; overlaid the Apostles' doctrine with rubbish, [602]384; said nothing new, yet were not to be borne, [603]385; were not rude in speech, [604]ib.; but were so in knowledge, [605]386; not what they appeared, [606]317, [607]331, [608]386; were wealthy, [609]386; the point on which they piqued themselves, receiving nothing, [610]ib., [611]387; wore a mask, [612]392; took money secretly, [613]317, [614]392; their spuriousness evident by comparison with Paul's deeds, [615]393; their oppression of the disciples, [616]394; were corrupting the whole church, [617]405.
Fasting, commonly within men's power, [618]50; needed for contention with bad spirits, [619]81; nothing without charity, [620]146; how made profitless, [621]299.
Fatalism, refuted by experience, [622]10, [623]129.
Fear of God, best stays lust, [624]316, [625]345.
Feasts of charity, origin of the custom, [626]157; abuse of, [627]ib.; a banquet after the communion, [628]ib.; five faults in them, [629]159.
Fellowship, of Christ, relates particularly to his sufferings, [630]8; of salt, what, [631]140, (note.)
Festival, what it is, [632]164; our whole life a festival day, [633]85.
Filthy talking, inconsistent with a godly mind, [634]283; how great an evil, [635]308; unfits for the mysteries, [636]ib.; provokes God, [637]309; reason against, [638]418.
Flesh, the use of allowed to the weak, [639]370.
Fleshly advantages, nothing, [640]393.
Following after charity, what, [641]208.
Forgiveness, possible to all, many ways of attaining it, [642]135; of wrongs, looseth sin, [643]300.
Fornication, its miserable effect upon the soul, [644]61; not considered an evil by the heathen, [645]68; in one sense worse than covetousness, [646]101; special dissuasive from, [647]330.
Forty stripes save one, [648]394-5.
Free-will of man, a part of God's plan of Salvation, [649]8; complaint against it on the part of Christians, answered, [650]9; God's purpose in it, [651]80; instance of in St. Paul, [652]129; things that must be consistent with it, [653]158. See [654]Fatalism.
"From the dead," why so often added to the word resurrection, [655]235.
Funerals, empty pomp at, [656]388; the acclamations of mock the dead, [657]ib.
Future things, whether the kingdom or punishment, eternal, [658]323; the only realities, [659]418.
Galatians, why generally addressed, [660]272; Paul's tact shown especially in Epistle to, [661]379.
Games, heathen, an example to us, [662]131, [663]132.
Garden herbs, an indulgence short of flesh, [664]370.
Garments, men and women not to dress in each other's, [665]153.
Gehazi, [666]389, a pitiful person, [667]ib.
Gentile converts, their weakness, [668]115.
Ghost, the Holy, of one essence and power with the Father, [669]307, [670]419.
Gifts, spiritual, of the Corinthians, reconciled with their being carnal, [671]6, [672]7; when first granted, [673]168; a cause of schism, [674]ib. (comp. Rom. xii. 4.); all from one source, [675]171; gifts, operations, administrations, all the same thing, [676]ib.; from the equality of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, [677]ib.; those that had the lesser gifts comforted, [678]ib.; gifts of healing and working miracles, their difference, [679]172; application of the rule about gifts to rich and poor, [680]173; examples from the Old Testament, [681]ib.; why bestowed in various degrees, [682]187; charity the greatest of all, [683]210; St. Paul, a pattern for the right use of, [684]211; directions for using, and checks against the abuse of, [685]219.
Gifts of prophecy, difference between it and soothsaying, [686]169, [687]170; its use voluntary, [688]169, [689]170; how not for a sign, [690]216; compared with gift of tongues, [691]ib.; its superiority, [692]ib., [693]217; directions for the use of, [694]219.
Gift of tongues, its greatness, [695]172; why set last, [696]186; why granted first, [697]209, [698]216; compared with prophecy, but not disparaged, [699]209, [700]216; requires an interpreter, [701]210; both to be prayed for, [702]211; gift of interpretation greatest, [703]171, [704]172.
Glass, workers in, [705]98.
Glory, future, punishment of losing, [706]329; antidote to love of glory, [707]393-4.
Glory, human, the subject of envy, [708]393; a load of grass, [709]ib.; those who enjoy it slaves, [710]ib.; is not glory, [711]416; the thought of future glory its antidote, [712]393-4; comes to those who slight, not seek, her, [713]416; a shadow, [714]417.
Gluttony, a slavish passion, [715]96; inconsistent with our being members of Christ, [716]ib., and condemned by the doctrine of the Resurrection, [717]97; danger of, [718]132; its effects described, especially on the female sex, [719]242, [720]243.
God and Lord, applied to both the Father and the Son, [721]114; God "all in all," what, [722]239, [723]240.
God, mercy His chief attribute, [724]273; delivers in, not from, trials, [725]273, [726]292; pitieth all, [727]282; accused by Satan, [728]284; His word and promises sure, [729]289; consults His own glory, [730]ib., and our salvation, [731]ib.; giveth an earnest, His Spirit, [732]290; how said, only after Abraham's trial to know he feared Him, [733]291; defends Himself, [734]296; hath set down His own prescription for the cure of sin, [735]299; His sentence, not men's, to be feared, [736]303; how said to blind men, [737]318; hides from unbelieving minds mysteries as hurtful to them, [738]ib.; His power works by vile things, [739]320; so, converted the world, [740]ib.; His justice requires a judgment, [741]323; why not always punishes on the commission of sin, [742]324; yet sometimes does, [743]ib.; His long suffering may be exhausted, [744]ib.; after his Son slain, still sends messengers, [745]333; greatness of his love [746]ib.; a suppliant to men to be reconciled, [747]334; to have offended Him grievous, [748]335; His love not to make us supine, [749]335; beseeches, only here, [750]ib.; by things opposite furthers the Gospel, [751]338; dwells in Christians, [752]344; how said not to care for oxen, [753]352; giveth to seed sown, both earthly and spiritual, [754]372; reserveth to His sole disposal corporeal crops, not so mental, [755]ib.; His Gift unspeakable, [756]373; much more his essence, [757]ib.; gives food for nourishment, not excess, [758]ib.; His strength how especially shown [759]376; [760]402; His wisdom in the creation not impugned by the perversion of his works, [761]378; His mercy not to be presumptuously trusted in, [762]382; His jealousy, [763]383; especially angered by extortion, [764]389; permitteth, not armeth, evil men, [765]400; threatens often without punishing, [766]412; His foolishness and weakness, the cross, why so called, [767]413; desireth, but needeth not, our love, [768]419; His commandments given for our good, [769]419; and concessions for our ease, [770]420.