HOMILIES ON TIMOTHY, TITUS, AND PHILEMON. 5*7 tivity, 41 1 ; takes earthly gifts away, to lead men to heaven, 412; gifts of, so great as to be incredible, 419; how to he glo rified, 421; to he honored hy works, 422; longsuffering of, an example to ourselves, 428 ; good ness of, to His enemies, ib. ; not to he approached in costly orna ments, 433; willeth salvation of all, therefore men must .pray for all, 430; threatens in mercy, 461 ; to be loved not from fear of hell, but from desire of His kingdom, 462; union of man with, in Christ, 463; the best Master, but ill served, 465 ; acts through evil men, 482; threatens in mercy, 485 ; why He defers punishment, 486; His work not impaired by the instrument, 483; appeal to, full of awe, 492; charging be fore, 493; His doings too deep for the curious, 507; His power shown in man s weakness, 515; teaches men through that which they know, 528; our Creditor, 549; goodness of, in punishing, 556,.557- Godliness, mystery of, 442; exercise of, 445 ; a means of gain, but not worldly, 468; beautiful in its own nature, 470; requires daily nour ishment of good works, 486; the truth, according to, 520. Gold, good for almsgiving, 432; to be used in loosing captives, not in enslaving the soul, ib. ; bonds of, tend to the chains of hell, ib. ; not to be worn by penitents, 433. Good, best done in person, 455; real, may be seized by all, 517. Goods, named from use, 443; in herited, not preserved without trouble, 447; worldly, destroyed in a moment, ib. ; spiritual, not gained without labor and pain, 446. Good works, perseverance in, 485. Gospel, why called glorious, 414; gifts of, not of mercy only, but of love and affection, 418; justice and mercy meet only in the, 420; that committed to us, 481 ; vic torious through sufferings, 489. Government, an appointment of God, 426. Grace, indwelling and aiding, 516; how gained, ib. Grace and free will, 520. Graces, Christian, true ornaments, /|/|/| Gratitude, God glorified in, 554. Habit, force of, 499. Hands, employed in almsgiving, holy, 432- Health, to be prized above beauty, 422. Heathen, the, to be prayed for, 430; there would be no, if Christians were as they ought to be, 440; errors of the wiser, 539. Heathenism, testimony of heathens against, 528. Heaven, to be won by pain and labor, 5I7- Hell, misery of, not the less for num bers, 440; prepared by God be cause of His goodness, 557. Herald, duty of a, 521. Heresies, want of brotherly love, the cause, 412; arise from love of power, ib. ; foretold, 444; propa gated by Jews, 475. Heretics, to be prayed for, 430; on the Church s disapproval of put ting to death, ib. (note) ; measure heavenly things by human rea sonings, 479; no cause of of fense, 504; existed from the beginning, ib. ; arguing with, use less, 540. Hermogenes, 484. Holiness, the best converter from heathenism, 440. Honesty of living, in what consists, 429. Honor, dangerous, 526; to be evad ed when offered, 527; to be re jected, 526. Hope, no real, but in repentance, 441. Hospitality, must be cheerful, 454; kind of, intended by St. Paul, 525- Hours, canonical, of prayer, 456. Household,duty ofregulating our, 453. Humiliation, our utmost due to Christ, 554- Humility, true, rarely to be met with, 416; puffs up when not genuine, 552; Scripture examples of, 553. Husband, how to win a heathen, 532. Idleness, teacher of every sin, 459. Immortality, admits not of degrees, 421. Incarnation, The, called The dispen sation,442; immense mystery of, ib. ; mystery of, made known by the Church, ib. ; doctrine of, to be taught with discretion, ib. Industry, practiced in monasteries, 456. Injustice, bitterness of, to those who practice it, 494. Insincerity, pernicious to the Church, 441. Intemperance, horrors of, 452. Intercession, priestly, 426; advan tages of, ib.; for those without never to be relaxed, ib. Isaac, why kept in ignorance when about to be slain, 458. Jacob, had wealth, but it was earned, 447- Jannes and Jambres, magicians in the time of Moses, 505. Jews, crimes of the, 414; had no prayers for heathens, 431; their great stumbling block, the love of power, 417; allowed to pray only in one place, 432; tenets of, how fables, 529. Job, his afflictions, occasion of great good, 504; his alms rewarded, ib. ; his patience, 512. Joseph, won the confidence of a heathen master, 534; honored in prison, ib. ; a ruler, ib. Judas, delivered to Satan, 425 ; agold en vessel became earthen, 496. Judgment, day of, awfulness of, 485 ; to come, a cause of fear to all, 494- Judging, faculty of, implanted in us, 495- Jugglers, condemned, 509. Justice, courts of, symbolical, 486; universal on earth, though in complete, ib. Labarum, the, 416 (note). Labor, worldly, vain, 447. Law, the, lawful use of, 413; if used aright sends men to Christ, ib. ; least needed by those who keep it best, ib. ; necessary for the confirmation of the Gospel, 414. Life, a corrupt, produces similar doc trine, 424; heathens admire a good, 440; known from death by its acts, 451 ; true, that of the soul, 452; a dream, 462; eternal, to be won only by great labor, 469; eternal, secured by good works, 572; a time of trial, 506. Linus, when Bishop of Rome, 516 (note). Longsuffering of God, to lead men to repentance, 486. Lord s Prayer, for all, 428; every thing contained in, ib. Love, to enemies, possible, 419; to man, brings love to God, 502. Luke, St., always adhered to St. Paul, 5I3- Lust, all inordinate desire is, 496. Lusts, worldly, 536. Luxury, danger of, 446; unworthy of man, 45 1 ; weakens the soul, 453. Magic, condemned, 440. Man, union of, with God in Christ, 464; Scriptural definition of a, 452. Manes, 479. Manichees, *\\\ (note). Mansions, heavenly and earthly com pared, 463. Marcion, 479. Marcionites, /|/]/] (note). Marriage, not forbidden, 446; he that is chaste before, will be so after, and vice versa, 437; those who contracted a second, ineligible for the episcopate, 524; second objectionable, ib. ; second, better to avoid, 503. Martyrdom, original idea of, 479 (note). Martyrs, The sacrifice offered on the days of, 425. Masks, worn on the stage, 527. Masters, to forbear threatening, 465. Matrona, cave of, 529. Meat, abstinence from, the doctrine of devils, 445. Meats, typical, 446 ; prohibited, to re strain luxury, ib. Mediator, nature and office of a, 430 ;