Games, alluded to, 339, 405; presidents of, 427, n.; participants of, excluded from the Com-
munion, 439, n.
Garment, oiled of wrestlers, 339, n.; miraculous virtue of, 396; a rich, how used, 405.
Gazing at the beauty of a woman a snare, 442.
Gentiles, see Heathen, signifying a worshipper of God, 423.
Gifts, Divine, on the temple, 456.
Glory of suffering for Christ, 447; not happiness, 460; in shewing mercy, 485.
Gluttony, 357; inexcusable before prayer: incapacitates, 400; cured by considering St. Paul,
450.
God, His work good, 335; power of shewn in weakness, 337, 409; love of Him, its own reward,
338; challenged Satan to try Job, 339; cares more than we for the poor, 341; not to be
called in question, 341, 362; afflicts those He loves, 342; His honour to be vindicated,
343, 347; cares for us more than ourselves, 347; never weary of our prayers, 356; blas-
phemed for our sins, 359; His mighty longsuffering, 361, 362; tempers prosperity and
adversity for our good, 366; overrules Satan's worst efforts to his loss, 367; if our friend,
nothing matters, 369; cares less for His repute than our salvation, 378; does not punish
when the threats affect, 382; overrules the designs of men, 383, 447; judges sinners by
the standard of the good, 388; His love shewn in our punishment, 392, 413, 431; other-
wise only half good, 392; deals with fallen man as a father, 392, 449; tenderness of in
addressing Adam, 393; His walking was in Adam's perception, 396; His providence
shewn in making the cure of the soul easy, 397; instructs by the creation, 401; His or-
dering of the seasons and the day, 402; uses weak instruments to shew His power, 404;
glorified man in the works of creation, 405; needs nothing, 410; the source of all things,
410; skill of in human frame, 414; known by His works, 421; mercy and wisdom of
bringing Adam to confession, 422; why He delays punishment, 424; His goodness
shewn in man's natural love of virtue, 429; the leader of the Jews in war, 435; silence
toward Saul from gentleness, 436; turns causes of evil to good, 448; to believers is the
whole fountain of cheerfulness, 460; ordains suffering first, 450; unceasingly gracious,
452; reproaches for insensibility to the ills of others, 462; fear of, the foundation of
peace, 463; insulted worse than man ever is, 473; our Avenger, and despised when we
avenge, 475; like a friend in requiring forgiveness of others, 478; never ceases to entreat
us, 478; assists earnest endeavours, 480; exceeds hopes, 482; takes occasion of offences
to shew love, 485; overrules all for good, 489.
Gods, heathen, who, 339; the vilest animals made, 409; the Apostles held to be, 409; ambition
of some men to be held, 413.
Good, what is, at one time is not always, 401; temporal, yields pleasure to the reverent, 463;
temporal, is mutable and insufficient, 460.
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