Men, all have much in common, 343, a spiritual flock, 355; soon tire of other's affairs, 356;
images of God, 362; the race after the fall deserved destruction, 392; command over
the creation, 411; gentler than brutes, 416; to be measured by virtue, not natural gifts,
457; self-taught in good and evil, 422, 428; in the Arts and Sciences, 423; naturally at
enmity with vice, 429; disinterested in love and hatred, 429; of well regulated minds
not distracted by events, 459; pleasure the aim of all, 459.
Merchandise, spiritual, in doing God's bidding, 477.
Merchants, labour in hope, 450; cargo not distance their care, 451; labour for enjoyment
afterwards, 459.
Mercy, shewn to others, procures mercy for ourselves, 355; of judges at Antioch, 454; makes
kings glorious, 485.
Merit, not proved by titles of honour, 477.
Metropolis, avails naught for salvation, 457.
Milk, for children a simile, 401.
Minister, his people's conduct his glory, 347.
Miracles, by relics, 332, 333, 367; power of, limited, 333; does not dispense with fasting, 334;
tempt the ignorant to worship men, 338; an extraordinary, 367; of the Apostles, not
by their own power, 409.
Miriam's punishment not remitted, 475.
Misfortunes of others open men's hearts, 429, n.; subdue our vanity, 429; light, felt by the
rich, 460; without excuse before God, 472.
Monasteries, 455, n.
Monks, services of, 453; effects of their intercession, 454; account of one, 455; undismayed,
463.
Moral and Positive to Laws, difference between, 421; moral teaching, 447.
Mortality, human, for overthrowing pride, 413.
Mortification, spiritual acts of, 379; incumbent on all, 384.
Moses, suffered for doing good, 342; disregarded by the people in extreme distress, 346;
wherein he brought honey from the rock, 352; his intercession, 355; rod of, 396; com-
mand over created things, 411; his righteousness availed not the Jews, 430.
Mothers miss their children at table, 400; case of a mother at Antioch, 453; grief often relieves,
461.
Mourning, sight of, sobers: reminds of Judgment, 440; calls forth sympathy from enemies,
440.
Mourner, to others like a cloud parted by the sun's rays, 346.
Multitude, the, influenced by fear and threats, 392; of inhabitants avails nothing, 457.
Murder, why not reasoned about, where forbidden, 421; by exacting oaths, 443.
Mutability of earthly good, 460.
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