Job, 337; his means of divination, ib.; robbers his servants, ib.; his crafty assaults, ib.;
attacks men through others' trials, 339-40; suggester of questioning God's justice, 358;
ever lying in wait, 364; foretold things future, 371; but falsely, ib.; would cut off hope
of Resurrection, 377; suborned false teachers, ib.; fills children with false notions, 378;
Antichrist like him in pride, ib.; by which he fell, ib.; specially attacks rulers, 391.
Saul, not saved by Samuel's prayer, 326; sinned in sparing against commandment, 359.
Schools, of learning, scholars teach in, 397.
Scorners, miserable and unreasonable, 365.
Scribes and Pharisees in Moses' seat, 366; not to be imitated, ib.
Scripture, without reason not enough to persuade the contentious, 212; shows admiration
for jewels out of regard for man's weakness, 234; should be read not lightly, but with
earnestness, 301; makes suffering less burdensome, ib.; better than men-teachers, 300;
not to know it the cause of all defects in practice, 301; hearkening to, keeps up good
thoughts, 382; chief things plain in, 388; read in known language to the people, ib.;
people challenged to give account of, ib.
Seed, analogy of, 352-53; sown on a rock, 367; spiritual, needs culture, 386; devil carries
away, if neglected, ib.
Self-command, makes man superior to irrational creatures, 218.
Self-denial, now a means of escaping future punishment, 245.
Self-indulgent, deny the cross, and are worthy of tears, 242; their belly their god, ib.
Seller of purple converted at Philippi, 181.
Senses, all originate in the head, 397.
Sentences, what indisputable, 382.
Servant, of Jesus Christ, a high rank, 184.
Servants, duty of, to their masters, 304-05; should serve heathen masters with the same care
they would Christian, 305; to be spoken to concerning hell, 384.
Service, lessons in, 387; silence called for in, ib.
Severity, not needed where there is no guilt, 220.
Shame, is not in being bound for, but in betraying Christ, 195; implanted in our nature by
God, more powerful than fear to bring us to virtue, 201; sense of, motive to improve-
ment, 224.
Shem, loved his father, 342.
Shimei, examples of audacity, 205.
Ship, lightened in dangers, 338; Scriptures, a, 355; wind to, as discourse to soul, 383.
Sickness, recovery from, a mercy, and how, 225.
Silas, scourged at Philippi, 181.
Silvanus, St., named before Timothy, 323; implied in plural, 341.
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