Poverty, not, but caring to be despised for, makes us despicable, [3447]374; the Christian shines out more in, than in riches, [3448]374; it affords, too, more pleasure, [3449]ib.; we may not be impatient of, [3450]375; many blessings of, [3451]452, [3452]459; makes bold, [3453]453; leads by the hand to Heaven, [3454]ib.; great independence of, [3455]ib.; Christ called perfection of virtue, [3456]ib.; an ill-omened thing, [3457]ib.; if voluntary, gives great might, [3458]453, [3459]454; and trust toward God, [3460]454; every one afraid of, [3461]472; not painful with the fear of God, [3462]485; luxurious habits make hated, [3463]497; to be sought, [3464]518.
Praise, to repudiate, one form of pride, [3465]490.
Prayer, intense, one ingredient of repentance, [3466]412; heard through alms, [3467]420; no marvel if not heard when we neglect those who beg of us, [3468]421; night-long (pannuchis), [3469]438; a great weapon, [3470]437; special need of night and morning, [3471]437, [3472]468; a certain, uttered in act of tale-telling, [3473]464; intense, [3474]468, [3475]490, [3476]521; we sin-stained, if not heard at our first, draw back, [3477]485; watching in, what, [3478]490; a mighty weapon, [3479]ib.; made worthy one unworthy, [3480]ib.; some yawn and scratch themselves at, [3481]ib.; laugh during, [3482]442; prevents sins, heals misdeeds, [3483]490; cf. [3484]509; need of, [3485]490; usually asked of them who love us, [3486]520.
Priest, our, not visible, under old Covenant not visible, [3487]455; in offerings of Christians, each his own, [3488]420.
Priests, their aid toward forgiveness, [3489]412; the, offer up the prayer of all, [3490]442; if a man call himself a, enquire as not giving but receiving from him, [3491]422; wicked, grace works through, for sake of their flock, themselves condemned, [3492]476; may not be silent, [3493]ib.; grave responsibility of, [3494]519. See Clergy.
Promises, in what respect they of old received them not, [3495]470, [3496]481, [3497]482; received by trusting thoroughly, [3498]471; Christ's, not that we shall have power to stay the sun and moon, but that He and the Father will dwell in us, [3499]490.
Proof, continued after a person is satisfied, wearies him, [3500]488.
Proverb, a, [3501]480.
Psalm, xxiii., xxxii., cxvi., sung at funerals, [3502]386; vi., said every day, [3503]442.
Punishments, [3504]403; there not here, [3505]391, [3506]458, [3507]473; given with blessing here, that there may be no account, [3508]391; instances, [3509]ib.; evil of being without, alluded to, [3510]374; in store for the wicked, [3511]396; to the soul, too, [3512]398 (see Soul); much spared us, [3513]412; use of, [3514]426; we must exact from ourselves, [3515]508; greater to those who have enjoyed good things here without becoming better, [3516]460; will come, [3517]463; as in dread of, we grieve at leaving this life, [3518]475; if we deny our sins, [3519]508; if clergy are disobeyed and weep, we incur, [3520]519.
Purity, of itself admits to the kingdom, its absence takes to destruction, [3521]476.
Race, foot, St. Paul uses for a simile, as being easiest of the contests, [3522]493.
Reasoning, faith opposed to, [3523]465, [3524]516; our reasonings like spiderwebs, [3525]522; reasoning power given to each is a talent, [3526]504.
Repentance, [3527]412; after Baptism, yet remains to us, [3528]457; a propitiation, [3529]ib.; after Baptism, is of grace, [3530]400; sets free from old age of sin, and makes strong, renews not the former brightness, [3531]410; if used aright, will blot out all sins, [3532]412; in deepest peril can deliver, [3533]ib.; medicine of, contains about nine ingredients, almsgiving the most essential, [3534]ib.; necessity of strict, [3535]426, [3536]490; its might, [3537]426; restores lost beauty, so as even the King may desire it, [3538]436, [3539]437; even from worst deformity, [3540]436; ours a weak, [3541]450; here of use, there of no avail, [3542]463, [3543]464; why unavailing Esau's, [3544]506, [3545]507; Cain's, [3546]506; Judas', [3547]507; sins too great for, [3548]ib.; St. Peter's, [3549]ib.; King David's, [3550]507, [3551]508; does not forget sins,[3552]507, [3553]508. See Sins.
Repetition, use of, [3554]409, [3555]509.
Reproach, apt to pervert the soul and darken the judgment, [3556]461; sore trial of, when in presence of many, [3557]ib.; Christ endured, [3558]484; we must accept, thus we put away, [3559]490; makes our sins lighter for us, [3560]ib.; St. Paul does not allow the clergy, if despised, to use, but to weep, [3561]519.
Reproof, profitable to endure, [3562]387; bitterer than fire and knife; we must learn from surgeon in using, [3563]505; patience in giving, [3564]ib.; looking to the reward in store, [3565]ib.; not always immediate, [3566]507.
Rest, God gives not full here, [3567]470; not here, [3568]512.
Resurrection, preaching to heathen of no avail while Christians by unseemly grief at funerals contradict, [3569]385, [3570]387; they believe it not who give way to mad grief at loss of friends, [3571]386; some believe that some rise and others do not, [3572]455; aids to those who believe not, [3573]391; deceit not to believe, [3574]396; disbelief of, [3575]407; that there is, a part of our Confession, [3576]400; though not yet here, hope realizes it in our soul, [3577]463; at the doors, [3578]ib.; Abel and those of his time knew not of a, [3579]467; yet of old the hope of it given, [3580]478; of all together, [3581]509; Christ's, [3582]365, [3583]373, [3584]383, [3585]411, [3586]520.
Rewards, there, [3587]391, [3588]459, [3589]463, [3590]489; cf. [3591]484; to receive here an insult, [3592]489; if we are virtuous only for, shall never be so, [3593]431; differences of, [3594]432; given to thankfulness, [3595]459, [3596]460; who believe not in, please not God, [3597]467; we may not despond of, [3598]503.
Sabbath-day, meet occupations for, what, [3599]396.
Sabbath-rests, three, [3600]393; the first God's, the second Palestine, [3601]ib.; the third Heaven, [3602]394, [3603]396, [3604]400; the proof of this, [3605]395, [3606]396.
Sabellius, [3607]370, [3608]371; taught that Father, Son, Spirit, are but one, [3609]407.
Sacrifice, the Cross the One, [3610]439, [3611]449; cf. [3612]430, [3613]434, [3614]444, [3615]452, [3616]457, [3617]487, [3618]507; ours the memorial of that One, [3619]449; our, [3620]517; Deacon's cry, Holy things for the holy, uttered after completion of, [3621]450. See Eucharist.
Sacrifices, showed weakness by needing repetition, [3622]448, [3623]451; the weakness of, shown, and they abolished ere Christ came, [3624]451; of Christians, [3625]420; all their rites heavenly, [3626]434; their own souls, [3627]420; shadowed out in Old Testament too, [3628]ib.; the martyr's body and soul, [3629]ib.; voluntary poverty is also a whole burnt-offering, [3630]ib.; those of Cornelius, [3631]ib.
Saint, every Christian a, in faith, [3632]416.
Saints, if weighed against whole world, avail more, [3633]475, [3634]489; some say we cannot be as the, [3635]487; friends of God, [3636]475, [3637]476, [3638]489; how great their virtue, [3639]490; gladly wait for us, [3640]491, [3641]492; made to shine by affliction, [3642]500, [3643]501.
Salvation, each can aid others in the way of, [3644]504, [3645]505; can aid even more than teacher can, [3646]504.
Saul, declined the Kingdom, yet scaped not peril for managing it ill, [3647]520.
Scripture, Holy, Old and New Testaments of one and the same, [3648]366; uses human expressions of God, [3649]391; food, [3650]406; experience of, makes of full age, [3651]406, [3652]407; no one attends to, [3653]407; some do not know existence of, [3654]ib.; Holy Ghost provided for preservation of, [3655]ib.; Scripture testimonies to, [3656]ib.; may not be known without learning, [3657]407, [3658]408; people's ignorance of, [3659]408; what the reader in Church gives out when at the desk to read, [3660]ib.; when dispersed, God inspired Ezra to collect them, [3661]407; to be heard with fear, [3662]413; Old Testament prefigures Christian sacrifices, [3663]420; say no more than needed, [3664]467; texts commented on or explained:--
Ps. vi. 7 [3665]450 xxv. 7 [3666]401 xxxii. 4 [3667]414 xl. 1 [3668]420 xlv. 10 (forget) [3669]437 11 (thy beauty) [3670]436, [3671]498 13 [3672]496 lii. 8 [3673]513 lxviii. 13 [3674]513 lxxvii. 2 [3675]468 ciii. 5 [3676]410 Prov. xiv. 29 [3677]456, [3678]468 xxiv. 11 [3679]417 Isa. i. 16-18 [3680]426 Mal. i. 14 [3681]514 St. Matt. v. 42 [3682]421 vii. 7 [3683]468 14 [3684]501 22 [3685]476 x. 38 [3686]494 xviii. 18 [3687]387 xxiii. 2, 3 [3688]519 xxv. 2 [3689]509 8 [3690]498 15 [3691]504 St. Mark xii. 44 [3692]495 St. Luke vi. 36 [3693]422 x. 30 sqq. [3694]417 xvi. 9 [3695]369 25 [3696]391 St. John viii. 35 [3697]481 xvi. 33 [3698]400 Rom. xii. 1 [3699]420 xiii. 14 [3700]502 1 Cor. v. 11 [3701]480, [3702]481 vi. 9, 10 [3703]504 vii. 23 [3704]481 ix. 26 [3705]400 x. 13 [3706]499 2 Cor. iv. 17 (light affliction) [3707]494 xi. 2 [3708]498 xii. 9 [3709]517 Gal. vi. 2 [3710]505 Eph. vi. 14, 17 [3711]393 Phil. ii. 6, 7 (of slave and of God) [3712]372 Col. i. 20 [3713]447 1 Tim. ii. 9 [3714]496, [3715]497
Sepulchres, see Tombs.
Sermons, applause at, [3716]409.
Servants, two are enough, [3717]495; lady walking out should not be attended by many, [3718]ib.; angels do not have, [3719]ib.
Service in church, every day, [3720]450; increases love, [3721]455, [3722]456; benefit of being together in, [3723]504, [3724]516.
Seventy, the, translated (ordered of the Holy Ghost) Scriptures into Greek, [3725]407.
Shame, in the wicked their own witness against themselves, [3726]474; before men, not before God, [3727]508.
Sheep, treatment of the sickly, [3728]450.
Silence, peril of, to ministers of the Word, [3729]476.
Silk, a superfluity, [3730]496.
Sin, a very plague, [3731]441; in Heb. xi. 25, holding back from affliction, [3732]483; to, belongs ease, [3733]484; its bitterness causes some to pine away, [3734]506; easily overcome if we will, [3735]493; the sole disgrace, though none think so, [3736]496; the sole evil, [3737]518; it is a duty to keep others from sin even if by force, after in other ways and by begging his help for one's self, [3738]505; King David long bewailed his, [3739]507; may be hindered even from a lower motive, by degrees leading to a higher, [3740]505; abstaining from, a due observance, [3741]516.
Sins, the lesser not a spot or wrinkle, but far worse, [3742]368; not small, [3743]490; recoil on the doer, [3744]368; parent of unbelief, [3745]394; notwithstanding, hope remains, while to-day lasts, [3746]396; we may not despair after, [3747]396, [3748]426; he who seeks pardon for sins of youth must not sin when old, [3749]401; they who are old in, repentance frees, [3750]410; all can be blotted out by right repentance, [3751]412; must be confessed one by one, [3752]412, [3753]508; affliction wipes out, [3754]494; confession lessens, [3755]508; we must remember our, [3756]412, [3757]437, [3758]507 sqq.; if we remember, God forgets, [3759]508; remembering, helps cure, [3760]ib.; great help of remembering, [3761]473, [3762]508, [3763]509; punishment if we deny, [3764]508; pity if we confess, [3765]ib.; called thorns, [3766]414, [3767]415; not enough to remove, treatment also needed, [3768]414; if we cut out, may enjoy the good things innumerable, [3769]415; difficulty of cleansing away, [3770]426; almsgiving and defending the wronged do it, [3771]ib.; cf. [3772]412; if we begin, God cleanses, [3773]426; of ignorance none is free from, [3774]439; we should mourn over others', [3775]442; and keep silence as to them, [3776]464; to tell our own to God and our friends, [3777]ib.; prevented or healed by prayer, [3778]490; one enough to cast us out of the kingdom, and they are many, [3779]ib.; to confess, not humility but candor, [3780]ib.; some too great for repentance, [3781]507; remembering always our own, we forget wrongs from others, [3782]508; we must offer to God, [3783]447, [3784]508; penitence, prayer, deeds of mercy, wash away, [3785]509; by mourning our, we draw God to us, [3786]519; putting away, what, [3787]448.
Sinners, if others call us, we must not be angry, [3788]491; cf. [3789]507.
Slave-dealers, [3790]495.
Slaves, esteemed, the Master sometimes called after, [3791]475, [3792]476; two suffice for a family willing to part with superfluities, [3793]495.
Sleep, some indulge in by day, we spiritually, [3794]474.
Son, force of the word, [3795]367, [3796]368, [3797]373, [3798]375, [3799]385, [3800]390, [3801]430; the Son and sons contrasted, [3802]384, [3803]385.
Soul, punished, [3804]398, [3805]459; suffers, [3806]396; in its vigor when a person is aged, [3807]401; when one is young it is subject to fevers, [3808]ib.; purified by Blood of Christ, [3809]440; its eye, how to make quick and beautiful, [3810]450; mingled with soul increases love, [3811]455; might of a great, [3812]456; in calamity apt to be impatient, [3813]459; reproach a sore trial of the, [3814]461; and scorning and jests, [3815]493; covetousness degrades, [3816]480; eating at banquets of the overreaching destroys, [3817]ib.; and defiles, [3818]481; striving in prayer to God, [3819]490; wrestles in theater of Heaven, [3820]496; the well-adorned, has God for its Lover, and place with the choirs of angels, [3821]498; virgin if pure, even though married, [3822]496, [3823]498; it the Lord seeks after, [3824]498; exhausted, how refreshed, [3825]499; made collected through affliction, [3826]500; enervated through luxury, [3827]501; shares it if body be effeminate, [3828]ib.; must be forced to remember its sins, [3829]508; in tribulation liable to despond, [3830]516; must be braced to receive the impulses of the Spirit, [3831]521, [3832]522.
Spirit, Holy, see God the Holy Ghost.
Starvation, no one dies of, except by his own will, [3833]422.
Strangers, Patriarchs, to this world, [3834]471, [3835]473 sqq.; King David [3836]475; we to our own country, [3837]473, [3838]475; to the world if we, God to be called our God, [3839]475, [3840]476.
Substance, no word will express, even of angel, far less of God, [3841]372.
Suffering, perfects, [3842]384, [3843]392, [3844]404; is a cause of salvation, [3845]384; cf. [3846]404; we are to rejoice in our own, as paying the penalty of sins, [3847]391; helps to wipe them out, [3848]494; use of, [3849]426, [3850]494; it is only our own which moves us, [3851]426; amid, we may be calm within, as the sky when overclouded, [3852]445; of Abel preaches beyond all speech, [3853]466; of them of old during their whole lives we have no idea of, [3854]491, [3855]494; all can be borne if we be approved of Heaven, [3856]494, [3857]495.