HOMILIES ON PHILIPPIANS, COLOSSIANS, THESSALONIANS. 581 hard dealing more cruel than, 369- Roman, laws. See Laws. Empire, what withheld Antichrist, 388; fall of, predicted, ib. ; but cov ertly, ib. Rudiments, same as elements, the sun and moon, 284. Rule, a, is destroyed by addition or subtraction, 240. Ruler, incurs enmities, 366; obedi encedue to, ib. ; should be gentle, 367; interest of, is the people s, 391 ; should excel in virtue rather than in honor, 397. Rulers, fall of, frequent, 379; men seek favor of, 380; none Chris tian at first, 381 ; why now to be prayed for, 391; most assailed by Satan, ib. Runners, in a race an example for Christians in their course to heaven, 239. Sabbath, was broken for the sake of circumcision, 230; breaking of, punished, 359. Sabellius, the Libyan, 206; what his heresy was, ib.; how his heresy falls before St. Paul s text, 207. Sacraments, keys of heaven, 367. Sacrifice, the, 273. Saints, they that wait on them sharers of their crown, 185; to wait on them makes up for inability to fast, ib.; how they live not this present life, 195; to be received with honor, 225; service to them no favor, but a debt, 226; it is a free service, and brings a reward on the giver, 227; united by af flictions, 253; pray with thanks giving for every person and thing, 305 ; those that attend on them share their troubles, 312; and sharers of their sufferings share their crowns, ib. ; the \yay to share with them, ib. ; prayers of, useful, 326, 393; not to the care less, ib.; to be sought, 327; spread a perfume of virtue, ib.; all things not revealed to, 339; remembrance of, warms us, 343; God glorified in, 385 ; shall come with Christ, 386. Salvation, hope of, a helmet, 363 ; ground for such hope, 363, 372; by sanctification and belief, 390; of man, Christ s glory, ib. Salutation, a proof of good-will, 253; in St. Paul s own writing, 377-78, 395; prayer called a, 395. Samson, lost in marriage, not from marriage, but his own free will, 241. Samuel, prayed in vain for Saul, 326; with effect for Israel, 326, 391; prophecy restored in, 327; knew not whom to anoint of himself, 339- Sanctification, fornication opposed to, 344; through the Spirit, 390; faith needed after, ib. Sapphira, sin and punishment of, 359. Satan, allowed to ravage upon unfruit ful souls, 210; likened to differ ent wild creatures according to his disposition, ib. ; great or small inpower asmenchoose, ib. ; cannot enter man s soul except God permit him, ib. ; fell by pride, 216; received his death- stroke from a dead body, 286; did what he could to make Christ s death private, ib. ; the deviser of charms, 298-99; hin ders human purposes, 334; an enemy ever urgent, 336; his rob bing Job, 337; his means of div ination, ib. ; robbers his servants, ib. ; his crafty assaults, ib. ; at tacks men through others trials, 339-40; suggester of question ing God s justice, 358; ever ly ing in wait, 364; foretold things future, 371; but falsely, ib. ; would cut off hope of Resurrec tion, 377; suborned false teach ers, 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 topersuade 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 ; heark ening to, keeps upgood 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 cul ture, 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; im planted in our nature by God, more powerful than fear to bring us to virtue, 201 ; sensi: of, mo tive to improvement, 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. Sin, more object of dread, if we la ment for it in others, 196; many things lead to our avoiding it, 2OI; why called " upon earth," 294; those who walk in, are not in God, 324; frustrates prayer for us, 326; all, defiles, 342; to shun, no praise, 344; punished temporally to teach men, 358; instances of, punished, 358-59; different characters of, 359; leads to certain death, 367; pride the beginning of, 378; to be cut off by talking of hell, 384. Sinners, dying in sin without hi;pe, 196; must be pained here that they may escape the river of tire, 212; know they sin by their con science, 269; think one that re bukes them austere only, 320. Sinai, angels at Mount, 355. Slave, female, about to be sold with her husband, 372; may teach a master virtue, 397. Slaves, scourged, 372; adjure their masters, ib. Sleep, comes over the virtuous with out fear, 248; spiritual, danger of, 326, 363, 393; in Jesus not death, 352; our helplessness in, humbling, 379. Sloth, to avoid it we must do the la bors within our measure, 191. Sodom, sin of, surpassed, 357; fruits of, full of ashes, ib. Soil, spiritual, not inanimate, 386. Soldier, rewarded for wounds, 3.55; always keeps to exercise and arms, ib. ; an example to Chris tians, 336; in heaven a child may be made, 351. Son, why it is said of man. but never of Angel, 270; The, the image of God, 270; not a crea ture because called Firstborn, ib. ; " before all things," ib. / first in the Church, ib. ; types of His eternal generation, 283; same words applied to as to the Father, 324; given for us, 363; generation of, above reasoning, 354; of God, he who knows, is