Prison, likeness to, 345; emptied at Easter, 383, 486; senate of Antioch confined in, 458, n.
"Prisoner," more glorious than any title to St. Paul, 447.
Prodigal, the, unfit to manage an inheritance, 450.
Promises, of God infinitely excellent, 451.
Prophecy, not false because not accomplished, 376.
Prosperity, no ground for security, 369, 450; present, heightened by contrast, 425; transient,
427.
Proverbial sayings against Providence, 341, n.; of contempt for others, 343.
Providence, denied by some, 341; shewn in apparently accidental cases, 382, 383; in the de-
liverance of His children, 386; in the use of weak means, 404; proved from the human
body, 407; in Flavian's journey, 483.
Publican, accepted without fasting, 358.
Punishment, a medicine, 375; of the prosperous twofold, 384; inflicted by parents, 392;
severest for sins easily avoided, 411; delayed for repentance, 424; inflicted on Antioch
beneficial, 455; of an inexorable enemy, 475.
Purgatory, doctrine of, 387, n.
Pusillanimity, to be always dwelling on miseries, 391; to look to man for comfort, 445.
Questions, raised to win attention, 333; on the permission of suffering, 336, 340; on brute
animals fasting, 358.
Quinquagesima, 358, n.
Racing, ill effects of, 442.
Rank not to be regarded in rebuking vice, 430.
Reason, appropriates the superior powers of brutes, 416; does not constrain, 428, n.; given
to avoid sin, 441.
Reasons, of God s works, a few revealed, 421; of God's laws not to be required, 447.
Recollection of past evils useful, 418.
Reconciliation, the one seeking has the whole merit, 474; endeavours after, always acceptable
to God, 475; imputed to wrong motives, 476; to God by the Crucifixion, 476; every day
makes, more difficult, 476; only to please God, 477; a cause of forgiveness, 477; repulses
must not quell, 478; very easy, 479.
Reflection on words of Scripture, 391; from the sight of grief, 440; on being laughed at for
doing right, 481.
Reformation, spiritual, of the community, rapid when begun, 389; at Antioch, 455.
Relics of Timothy expelled demons, 332; of the Apostles, 333; of Job in great repute, 371;
virtue of, 389, n.; of martyrs expelled demons, 396.
Relief from grieving, 462.
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