564 GALATIANS AND EPHESIANS : INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
but did not preach, circumcision,
38; usual arrangement of his
Epistles, 39; why he wrote that
to the Galatians with his own
hand, 46; a proof of God s love
and power, 52; had a foretaste of
heavenly blessings, 56; his sym
pathy and affectionateness, 59;
his gentleness, 65 ; bound for the
Gentiles sake, 76; saved by
grace, 76; had special revelation
of the calling of the Gentiles,
77; his zeal, endurance, and wis
dom, 77; attributed all to grace,
ib. ; an example to teachers, ib. ;
his great humility, 79; his earnest
supplication, 81 ; example of love
to enemies, 84; glories in bonds,
85 ; but not before Agrippa, and
why, 95 ; his skill as a spiritual
physician, 118; his simplicity
and condescension in admon
ishing children, 153; overcame
Satan, 161; the intensity of his
love to Christ, 161; asks his
brethren s prayers, 168.
Paul of Samosata, heretic, 104 (note),
164.
Peter, St., boldness of his character,
18; did not really dissemble at
Antioch, ib. ; reasons why he
appeared to do so, 19; instructed
not to spurn the Gentiles, 77;
his deliverance from prison by
the Angel, 86, 89-90.
Poverty the lot of the Christian, 46.
Prayer, the Lord s Prayer, how it
should affect us, 120-21 ; prayer
unceasing required in Christians,
and watchfulness, 169; exempli
fied in the Canaanitish woman,
the importunate widow, ib. ; and
in Hannah, 170.
Presence, real, of Christ in the Eucha
rist, 63-64.
Priests, may be understood under the
term
"
Angels," 8, 28.
Prison, the blessedness of it for
Christ s sake, 85 et seqq.; in
stanced in St. Paul, St. Peter,
Three Holy Children, 93; Jere
miah, Joseph, St. John the Bap
tist, 94.
Privileges, Jewish and Christian com
pared, 51; present privileges but
an earnest, 56; how enhanced
in beingbestowed through Christ,
52; the consideration of them
very awful, 62.
Providence, instanced in mercies upon
some, andjudgments upon others,
90; implied in the circumstances
of men, 139; in the order of
nature, 140; proved by analogy,
140; yet wholly mysterious, 140-
41.
Psalms, the expression of Christian
cheerfulness, 138.
Punishment, degrees of it in hell, 69.
Rationalizing, its absurdity and shal-
lowness, 139-40.
"
Redeeming the time
"
explained,
137-
Redemption, absolute redemption will
be in the next world, 56.
Regeneration, another needed by Gal
atians, 32; effected by the Divine
Words in baptism, 35.
Repentance, possible after lapsing,
25-
Reproof, is charitable, and to be given
at any hazard, 136.
Resurrection of Christ, effected by
His own power, 3.
Resurrection, more miraculous to per
suade souls than raise the dead,
61, 65.
Reviling, shameful in Christians, 163.
Riches. See Covetousness.
Righteousness, Jewish and Christian
compared, 114; is in respect of
God, or man, 114; is a garment,
US-
Rites of the law, connected with each
other, 37.
Sabbath, strictness of under the Law,
7; Judaic observance of excludes
from grace, 21.
Sacrifice, the Christian, 63-64; prep
aration for it, 63; zee Eucharist.
Saints, a common name for Christians
in all conditions, 50; what a
saint ought to be, 131.
Salvation, is entirely of free grace,
yet not exclusive of our virtue,
52.
Samuel, the child of a good mother,
IS*
Sarah, 148.
Satan, seduces gradually and secretly,
7-
Schism, cuts off from the Spirit, 105;
implies want of love and of holi
ness, 106; especially provokes
God s anger like the sin of
thosewhomangled Christ s Body,
ib. ; inexpiable by martyrdom,
106 (and note), 108.
Schismatics, to be avoided, 106.
Scripture, supreme authority of, 8;
sense of, not the words must be
considered, 1 1 ; profane use of,
131; understatements of, 132.
Seal, of the Spirit. See Spirit.
Self-indulgence, in Christian teachers
impairs their power of convert
ing and keeping in the fold,
77-
Servants, to be taken care of, 148,
159; as brethren, 157; their du
ties to serve with good will, 157-
58; taken to the theater, but not
to church, 159.
Sin, is evil, not the world, 5; not to
be excused by nature or neces
sity, 57; its voluntariness in
stanced by various cases, with
reference to the Commandments,
murder, adultery, theft, perjury,
assault, rapine, 57 et seqq.;
would not be punished if of ne
cessity, ib.; the ground of dis
cord, 97; blinds the understand
ing, 112-13; is self-destructive,
113; is in omission as well as
commission, 126; is the only
real evil, 140; the source of cor
ruption both of body and soul,
171; should be put away by acts
of mercy, 172.
Slaves, how to be treated, 123-24.
Slavery, how mitigated by the Gospel,
142; is but a name, 157; loses
its meaning when it is made vol-
luntary, 158; its origin, it is the
punishment of the sin of rebel
lion against parents, 159.
Solitaries, Christians induced to be so
by evil times, 78.
Son and Spirit, oneness of Their
power, 2; sons of God we be
come through baptism, 4; by
the Word, 35; in putting on
Christ, 29-30; in receiving the
Spirit, 30; out of the course of
nature, as Isaac, 33.
Soul, its relation to the Flesh and
Spirit, 42; should govern the
body, yet requires the guidance
of the Spirit, 73 ; the death of,
134-
Spirit, Holy, imparts righteousness,
37 ; gift of not by Law, but faith,
not by circumcision, but grace,
47; Christians sealed by Him,
56, I2O; the earnest of our in
heritance, 56, 166; alone reveals
mysteries, 60; and the true
knowledge of God, ib. ; the call
ing of the Gentiles, 80 ; alone
can strengthen against trial, 81 ;
His indwelling necessary to teach
the love of God, 82; binds the
faithful in one body, 96; His
gifts manifold, 104 ; yet have all
one office to build up each and
all in one faith, 105 ; communi
cates life from the Head to the
whole Church, as natural life is
conveyed through the body, 105-
06; how grieved, especially by
sins of the tongue, 120; by bit
terness, 121; His grace typified
by the pillar of fire, 165; the
sword of the Spirit, 169.
Submission, mutual, is mutual ser
vice, 142.
Suicide worse, and punished worse by
God than murder, 5.
Sunworship, HO.
Superstitions, 8, 79, III.
Synagogue, the, represented by Agar,
34-
Teachers, degeneracy of, their power-
lessness to convert and guide,
77-78.
Teachers of error, to be cut off, their
followers to be spared, 38.
Thanksgiving, universally a duty in
Christians, 138-39.
Theft, an instance of voluntary sin,
58-
Times, how called evil, 137.
Tithes, the clanger of omitting them,
69.
Tongue, its proper use, 119, 131; and
discipline, 121.
Trisagion, the Hymn so called. See
Hymn.