Benefits of God at the creation twofold, 395; doing, for others a duty, 451; never to be desisted
from, 452; from reminding one another of duty, 399.
Birds, 408; finding nests robbed, 427; flying high escape snares, 441; caught, cannot use
wings, 441.
Bishop, how regarded, 354, 356, 383; duty of, 355; a Priest, 355; a High Priest, 482; a Ruler
and above emperors, 356; armour of, 357.
Blasphemy, evil of, 342, 361, 437; adds to trouble, 343; to be sharply corrected in others,
343, 347; a public wrong, 343; Job's wife tempts him to, 366.
Blessed bread given to those who do not communicate, 384, n.; the righteous alone to be
held, 385; who called, in Scripture, 462.
Blessedness, real, what, 340.
Blessings, the chief, common, 351.
Blind, fallen into a pit, 451.
Body, human, frailer than matter, 404; elementary parts of, 407; becomes an earthen vessel,
409; by whom framed, 413; feebleness of, why, 413; as it was framed at first, 413, 417;
might have been created better, 414; fineness of, 415; excellent as joined with the soul,
416; sustains injury in spite of prudence, 437; effects upon, of externals, 462.
Boldness of monks, 453, 454.
Bones of the skull, a defence, 415; around the heart, 415.
Brain, construction of, 415.
Bread, consecrated, reservation of for sick, 384, n.
Brutes, fasted with the Ninevites, 358.
Burdens, duty of bearing another's, 452.
Burial, pomp of, 358.
Business, worldly, the clergy engaged in, 465.
Butler, Bishop, on "Law of Nature," 428, n.
Cain, misery of, 345; consciousness of his sin and denial, 423.
Camp, place so called, 382, n.
Careless, Christian ready to fast, 431.
Carnival, 358, n.
Catechism, Church of England on Real Presence, 354, n.; on remission of sin in the
Eucharist, 444, n.
Chains, how got rid of, 403; of St. Paul, 447; a security, 447; efficacy of St. Paul's, 450.
Charms, texts of Scripture as, 470; those used by Christians condemned, 470, n.
Chastity, learnt from Sodom, 466.
Children, unreasonable in their fears, 374; little ones by whom frightened and quieted, 381;
to be taught public deliverances, 419, 489; under instruction from fathers and teachers,
740
Homilies on the Statues