INDEX OF SUBJECTS.   Abraham, his trial in Egypt, 4 ; his humility, 4 , 390 ; his unselfishness, 146 ; a pattern husband, 155 ; his hospitality, 207 ; overcame vain-glory, 213 ; his sacrifice of Isaac, 275 , 291 ; joyful in trials, 275 ; a king, priest and prophet, 293 ; overcame nature, 276 ; crowning act of obedience, 292 ; took Isaac only, to the mount, 309 ; his sending for a wife for Isaac typical, 385 . Absalom, popular, 4 ; sober-minded as long as in exile, 401 . Acclamations in churches, 22 , 74 . Accommodation, falsely ascribed to the Apostles, 1 (note) . Actors, debarred from the sacraments, 69 (note) . Adam, how he came to sin, 24 ; inference from his punishment, 49 ; no man perishes only on his account, 99 ; why made the head of the race, 204 ; how he might have overcome Satan, 284 ; created not to die but for immortality, 327 . Adultery, extirpated, not merely punished, by church discipline, 358 . Affection, toward vicious kindred, ceases hereafter, 331 . Affliction, the gain of, 274 ; brings men near to Christ, ib. ; works salvation, 277 ; in what sense light, 322 ; a weapon of righteousness, 338 ; a means of grace, 299 ; leads to the kingdom, 300 ; why laid on Saints, 299 . Affluence, consists in what, 343 . Africa, its church, founded by Apostles, 32 . Αγάπη, to be rendered love , not charity , 188, (note) ; the way to attain gifts, 188 ; unites men when gifts divide them, 188 ; greater than all gifts, 189 ; more than alms or martyrdom, 189 , 190 ; the way to perfection, 190 ; if fully practised would remove all evils, 191 ; superior to other virtues in having no attendant evils, 192 ; turns all evil to good, 192 ; contrasted with sensual passion, Joseph an example, 192 , 193 ; Paul to be admired for rather than for his miracles, 193 ; our Lord the most perfect pattern of, 194 ; its excellencies depicted with a painter's art, 194 ; centre in long-suffering, 195 ; the qualities of love, 195 ; examples of in our Lord, Jonathan, Rebecca, 196 ; Rebecca's conduct, 196 (note) ; leads to same result with true self-love, 197 ; prevents unkind thoughts, makes men angels, 198 ; is felt toward heathens and enemies, 198 ; more perfect under the Gospel, 199 ; more attractive than miracles, 199 ; Paul before Agrippa an example of, 199 , 200 ; its power to teach all virtues, 200 , 201 ; Paul's delineation of suited to correct the Corinthians' errors, 201 ; knowledge and tongues pass away, 202 ; outlasts faith and hope, 203 ; many hindrances to its exercise, 204 ; final cause of consanguinity, society, etc., 204 , 205 ; and also of government, 206 ; must be followed vehemently, 208 . Agriculture, a necessary art, 354 ; yet vain without that of ruling, 355 ; a sort of rule, i.e., over plants, ib. ; its dependence on God's providence, 356 . Ahab, his greediness, 208 ; his repentance, 305 ; his shame before Elijah, 411 . Alexander the coppersmith, Paul's thorn, 400 . Almsgiving, what it is, 123 ; scanty, reproved, 124 ; excuses for not giving answered, ib. ; sure to be repaid, 89 ; appropriate on Sundays, 259 ; to be in proportion to our gains, 262 ; recommends to be not less than a tenth, ib. ; vain-glory in, cruel, 345 ; called a grace, 361 ; makes God our debtor, ib. ; given sadly, no alms but covetousness, 371 ; the proper offering of a spiritual soul, 376 ; most of all looseth sin, 305 ; Paul's discourse on, gradually introduced, 359 ; three main points in, 368 ; produceth righteousness, 373 ; how many good things proceed from it, 373-4 . Amen, joined in by all, 285 . Ammonites, were Hebrews, 394 . Amos, no prophet, but God took him, 392 . Amulets, the use of them condemned, 21 , 262 . Ananias and Sapphira, by covetousness lost all, 89 . Anatomy, mysterious like theology, 16 . Angels, their anger at the lost, 331 ; of light, and of darkness, 390 . Anger, less vehement than lust, 389 ; why implanted in us, ib. Antinous, the favorite of Hadrian, 402 . Anomoeans, their notions of divine knowledge, 203 . Antioch, these discourses delivered at, 124 ; the church of, nourished many widows and strangers, 125 . Apollos, older than Timothy, 263 ; esteemed by Paul, 267 . Apostles, the, humanly speaking, insignificant, 14 ; the argument from the success of their preaching, 19 ; from their account of themselves, 20 ; from their undertaking so great a work, 25 ; and persisting in it after our Lord's death, 26 ; their lingering among the Jews, 27 ; their dealing with the Romans, 28 ; difficulties they had to contend with, 40 , 41 ; summary of the case, 43 ; received aid from their disciples, 118 ; unjustly suspected, 124 ; contrasted with philosophers, 212 ; all equal, 233 ; suffered more than Christ, 274 (note) ; wrought greater miracles ib. ; their weaknesses expedient for us, 288 ; how a "sweet savor," 302 ; greater than Moses, 312 ; ministered God's mercy, 319 ; overcame by God's power, 321 ; not by witchcraft, 322 ; were ministers of reconciliation, 335 ; as such succeeded Christ, 336 ; rich even in carnal things, 341 ; troubles their mark, 396 ; and patience, 397 ; glorious by slighting glory, 416 . Apostolate, a perilous office, 120 , 126 . Aristippus, sank all his goods in the sea, 212 . Arts, what needful and what superfluous, 354 . Artizans, should judge rightly the claims of Christianity, 28 ; analogy of their education to that of Christians, 80 ; ἀρχη ἀγεννητος, not spoken of the Son, 239 . Astrology, among Christians, 21 . Augustin, 22 , 79 , 170 . Babylon, tower of, 322 . Babylonians, 390 . Babylonish dragon, death compared to, 142 , 229 . Babylonish furnace, 103 ; three children in it, 104 , 117 . Balaam, God wrought by him, though a bad man, 44 ; his evil counsel, 134 . Baptism, its necessity, 12 ; laver of regeneration, 43 , 284 ; of no avail without good works, 133 ; practice of coming to it late in life, 283 ; is a regeneration, 284 ; a life-giving grace, 307 ; maketh righteous, 310 ; God worketh by it to our immortality, 329 ; previous sins effaced in, 307 , 383 ; in the name of Jesus implies not the exclusion of the Father's name, 419 . Baptized, the, at once receive and reflect the Spirit's glory, 34 . Baptized for the dead, 133 , 244-5 . Barnabas, thought to be "the brother," ( 2 Cor. viii. 20 ) 365 . Beauty, not the cause of lust, 316 ; its superficial nature, 317 ; of soul, unfading and worthy, 318 . Beggars, led to imposture by the inhumanity of others, 123 . Beliar, 344 . Bereavement, how to learn to bear it, 56 , 253 . Bezaleel, 376 . Blessing, of priests is God's blessing, 285 . Boasting, not after the Lord, 391 ; reasons against, 400 ; a folly even when compelled, 396 , 405 . Body, constituted not for evil but good, 129 ; not evil in itself, 132 ; not the cause of sin, 242 ; spiritual in the next world, 252 ; a figure of the church, 175 ; its members both one and many, 176 ; a clothing, 276 ; a tabernacle, 328 ; raised incorruptible, 329 ; hereafter punished or crowned, 330 . Body of Christ, its mighty power, 142 ; the reverence due to it, 143 . Body and Blood of the Lord, to be understood spiritually, not carnally, 133 ; we partake of in the Eucharist, 139 , 142 . Bowing the head, at the Blessing, 285 . Brethren, should work with their pastor toward persons under censure, 337 ; the contrary course not humane but cruel, ib. Brethren of the Lord, freed from their first unbelief, yet not made Apostles, 120 . British Isles, the, even in them John's reproofs of Herod heard, 412 . Burning Bush, variously interpreted by the Fathers without contradiction, 229 . Cain, a slave to envy, 110 ; destroyed by it, 395 ; sinned, not realizing God's omnipresence, 303 ; his life of fear, 316 ; his sorrow, worldly, 353 . Calf, the golden, 378 . Captivity, conveys two ideas, 377 . Carefulness, worldly, reproved, 342 . Carnal weapons, what they are, 376 . Catechumens, not allowed to attend the communion, 220 , 282 ; the prayer for, 282 ; its completeness, 285 ; what their own prayer should be, ib. Caterpillars, God's mighty force, 320 . Catholic truth, to be learned from universal consent, 223 . Celsus, a witness to Scripture, 32 . Censured persons, should yearn after their teachers, 351 ; be excluded from the mysteries, 358 . Cerinthian heretics, their perversion of Scripture, 244 . Chanting, used in churches, 220 . Chasteness, may be perfected for vain-glory, 347 . Cheerfulness, how to be cultivated, 233 . Cherubim, our hymns unite us with, 366 . Chest for the poor, recommended, 262 . Children, the three, delivered in, not from, the furnace, 273 , 292 ; an example of praying for enemies, 304 . Children, consolation under loss of, 276 . Christ, the centre of unity, 3 ; his presence implied in the word Revelation, 7 ; how made to us wisdom and righteousness, 24 ; the bond of union, 47 ; the believer's foundation, 51 ; "is God's" explained, 55 ; his indwelling in Paul, 75 ; present in the sentence of excommunication, 85 ; head of Christians only, 150 ; not inferior to the Father, 151 ; subject to the Father, but as a Son of God, ib. ; head of the church, ib. ; his condescension to Judas, 160 ; our perfect pattern of love, 193 , 195 ; has the sum of knowledge, 203 ; left some things voluntary, 122 ; accused by the devil, 284 ; spake, though as a sheep dumb, etc., 293 ; able to consume his foes, 302 ; the promised prophet, 312 ; drew all to himself, 322 ; how "after the flesh," 332 ; came to reconcile, 335 ; was righteousness itself, yet made sin, 334 ; the subject of our wrestlings, 341 ; his poverty, 362 ; represented in the poor, 364 ; his body the merciful man's altar, 376 ; divine honors refused him by the Roman Senate, 403 ; his forbearance not weakness, 414 ; entereth into us when we communicate, 418 . Christians, to abide in their calling, 108 ; though slaves are free, 109 ; have almost all fallen, 135 ; are prophets, priests, and kings, 290 ; made so at baptism, 293 ; they alone really know the law, 313 ; have greater privileges than Jews had, 335 ; their high birth, 344 , 345 ; are here in a foreign land, 362 ; have Christ in them, 418 . Church, the, both one and many, 175 ; its unity in the spirit, 176 ; a manifold person, 254 ; wounded when its members sin, 83 ; certain places used as churches in the Apostles' times, 160 ; irreverent behavior in them common, 220 ; places in them for the poor, 179 ; not one while her members stand apart, 272 ; a spiritual bath, 358 ; disunion in, 368 ; a bride, 385 ; conquers by suffering, 398 ; pulled down by envy and strife, 408 . Church, some scarce once a year visit, 283 ; why to be often resorted to, 358 ; reverence paid at the porch, 418 . Churches, the, their united prayer powerful, 367 . Church-allowance, what and to whom given, 124-5 . Church-discipline, to be preceded by mourning and prayer, 84 ; toward heathen impossible, 89 ; penalty in the Old Testament analagous, 90 . Chronology, of LXX. differs from the Hebrew, 50 . Clergy, right to maintenance, 120 ; sanctioned by Mosaic law, 121 , 126 ; enforced by its mystical precepts, 121 ; by the value of spiritual things, ib. ; what kind of men the clergy ought to be, 119 ; must be obeyed even though living ill, 124 ; must try to save all though all will not be saved, 129 ; must not be discouraged though hearers be disobedient, 162 . Comforts of life, their ill effect, 32 ; community of God's gifts should teach generosity of spirit, 57 . Commerce, should teach public spirit, 57 ; selfishness incident to, 241 ; contrary to God's intention, 242 . Common mercies, thanks for, 281 . Communion, why so called, 139 . Condescension, for a brother's sake no degradation, 129 . Confession, looseth sin, 299 ; a sacrifice, 309 . Conscience, when it seems clear does not therefore justify, 59 ; a good, comforts in affliction, 286 ; testifies to a judgment, 326 ; joy of a good, 342 ; an evil, freezes the soul, 314 . Consolations, under loss of relatives, 254 . Constantine the Great, his tomb, 403 . Constantinople, 403 . Contempt of money, introduced by the Gospel, 322 , 357 ; its fruits in the soul, 376 . Conversion, a greater charity than alms, 15 ; of ordinary persons to the Gospel a presumption of its truth, 22 , 23 ; of the world might be effected without miracles, if Christians led holy lives, 32 , 33 . Corinth, why its inhabitants likely to to be proud, 1 ; some of them still holy, 6 , 7 ; errors of some, 2 ; their childishness, 78 . Corinthians, the, had senseless pride in things of Judaism, 272 ; had made advances since first Epistle, 277 ; now ranked above the Macedonians, 278 ; apparent discrepance of the two Epistles explained, 288 ; the second, gentler, 295 ; loved by Paul more than other churches, 296 ; estranged from the incestuous person, 297 ; joined with Paul in the act of forgiving the same, 298 ; their virtue implied in calling them "an Epistle," 311 ; were particularly unsound on the resurrection, 326 ; dehorted from their corrupters by their own nobleness, 345 ; their penitence an example of godly sorrow, 353 ; their behavior to Titus, 358 ; exhorted by praise of the Macedonians, 359 , 362 , 369 ; by praise of themselves, 362 , 369 ; by the Lord's example, 363 , 369 ; why exhorted to give after, not beyond, their means, 362 ; their conduct to Paul contrasted unfavorably with the Macedonians, 387 ; to provoke them so to liberality, 387 ; had felt it a burden to maintain Paul, ib. ; the devil's bait to them, ib. ; slavishly submissive to the false apostles, 393 ; envy the root of their evils, 410 . Corn, sinfulness of shutting up, 362 . Cornelius, 28 ; blessed with knowledge because of love, 112 . Counsel, that of inferiors to be taken, 368 ; even in the church, ib. Counsels of perfection, 122 , 127 ; their use and reward, 128 . Covenant, the Old, its rewards temporal, 284 ; its glory visible, 311 ; its inferiority to the New no disparagement, 312 ; the people shared not in it with the priests, 365-6 . Covenant, the New, its glory not perceived by sense, 309 ; supplied not only life but the Spirit, 310 ; its great superiority to the Old, ib. ; superior, but not contrary to the Old, 313 ; harmony with the Old, 314 ; one Spirit wrought in both, ib. ; privileges of, 135 . Covetousness, its brutalizing effect, 52 ; never rests, 61 ; blinds men, 62 ; compared with contentment, 81 ; like dropsy, 82 ; a present hell, ib. ; compared to leaven, 87 ; answerable for the impositions on the poor, 123 ; its cruelty, ib. ; folly and evils attending it, 137 ; antidote to it in the creation, ib. ; found in rich and poor, 138 ; makes men worse than toilers in the mines, 137 ; preys on both living and dead, 214 ; how to be tamed, 215 ; is worse than a dream, 221 ; its insatiableness, 224 ; worse than poverty, 241 ; example of its cruelty in a cornfactor, ib. ; and in men in trade, 242 ; makes men poor, 248 . Creation, a reformation of life, such, and why, 332 ; analogy between it and redemption, 18 ; works of, why men told to study them, 24 . Creed, of the Oriental churches probably referred to, 12 . Crimes, some require a life of repentance, 87 . Cross, the, its glory above reason, 17 ; seemed contrary to all signs, 18 ; type of it in time of Elisha, ib. ; it and not amulets the true protection of children, 71, and note . Cruelty, in ostentatious almsgiving, 347 ; in humoring the sick or sinners, 351 . Cup of blessing, why so called, 139 . Curiosity, and rash judgment, its inexcusableness, 58 . Curses, senseless, 309 ; pollute the soul, 310 ; the poison of asps, ib. ; pleasing to the devil, ib. Custom, its exceeding power, 40 . Daniel, prayed for Nebuchadnezzar, 310 ; flourished by trials, 402 . David, his love for his people, 146 ; to his rebel son, 198 ; things said of him in the Psalms not said of his person, ib. ; full of troubles, 173 ; addresses God by various titles, why, 273 ; in what his repentance consisted, 299 ; his comeliness, 317 ; turned to flight the Philistines, 320 ; had been lost if God destroyed upon sin, 326 ; punished himself for Absalom, 336 ; complained under reproach, 340 ; his sorrow, 353 ; his care for his people, 354 ; bore with Shimei's curses, 388 ; overcome by lust, 389 ; why he boasted his former exploits, 393 ; in conquering Goliah achieved less than Paul, 396-7 ; admirable as long as tried by adversity, 401 . Day, revealed by fire, the day of judgment, 180 . Deacons the office discharged by Paul, 13 ; commanded silence in the churches, 220 (note) ; bid the prayers, 281 , 285 . Dead Souls, 307 ; they stink, 308 . Death, but a removal, 275 ; the word used of temptations, 324 ; called by such names as would make it desired, 330 ; sends quickly to the Lord, ib. ; uncertainty of, 382 ; why left thus in uncertainty, ib. ; even its approach scatters earthly pomp, 388 . Defending the oppressed, looseth sin, 300 . Delays in repentance, their sin and folly exposed, 383 ; no end to them, 384 . Democracy, its evils, 67 . Democritus, wasted his land out of vain-glory, 212 . Demons, how supposed to be introduced into men, 170 ; why they confessed Christ and were rebuked, ib. ; cast out by bones of the saints, 403 . Dependency of man, its final cause, 23 . Despair, of improvement never to be indulged in, 15 , 62 ; Paul's example, 129 ; of forgiveness, 48 . Destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved, what, 85 . Deuteronomy, once lost in a dunghill, 36 . Devil, the, why called an accuser, 284 ; worketh in what manner, ib. ; dismayed by Abraham's beating, 290 ; gets advantage, destroying by repentance, 298 ; when he distracts not in prayer, and why, 304 ; the only enemy to be prayed against, ib. ; pleased at curses, ib. ; spurns dead souls, yet they feel it not, 308 ; made a devil by pride, 346 ; his strongholds overthrown by Paul, 377 ; his bait to the worldly, 388 ; destroyed himself by envy, 393 ; overthrown by Christians' suffering, 396-7 ; raised troubles against Paul, ib. ; now argues against the soul's immortality, 402 ; now uses it to defend idolatry, ib. Dice-playing, not discouraged by the heathen, 68 . Diet, plainness in, recommended, 341 . Diogenes, why he lived in a cask, 212 . Dionysius, his treatment of Plato, 20 . Diagoras, the atheist, 20 . Discerning the Lord's body, 164 . Disciples, commend their teacher, 306 . Discipline, a token of love, 79 . Discontent, progress of, 232 . Disunion, harms of, 408 . Dives, 324 , 346 ; had a dead soul, 308 ; his regrets vain, 325 . Drunkards, reproved, 373 ; and their sayings answered, 374 . Earth, the, discourseth of a resurrection, 354 . Earthen Vessels, term declares our frailty, 320 ; preserved in perils, 320 . Earthly Things, shadows, 417 . Edification, includes removal of unsound parts, 382 . Elijah, 185 , 228 , once faint hearted, 399 ; Ahab ashamed before him, 409 . Elymas the Sorcerer, 79 . Eloquence, Paul vehement against, 385 . Emulation, contrasted with envy, 185 ; force of, 370 . Enemies, to be prayed for, not against, 304-5 . Envious Men, fly, like mad dogs at all men's faces, 406 . Envy, its evils, 185 ; examples of, ib. ; cometh from worldly sorrow, 351 ; fearfullness of, 393 ; offspring of the devil, ib. ; senseless, ib. ; worse than a snake in the entrails, 406 ; unappeasable, ib. ; infected even the church, 407 ; the root of the evils at Corinth, 409 . Epaphras, 414 . Ephesus, mistaken for Corinth, in Acts xiii ., 1 . Esau, rich though unrighteous, 173 ; his carnal and cruel disposition, 200 . Eternal Punishment, 323 ; doubted by some, 124 ; shown from history of the Israelites, 133-4 ; its fearful nature, 137 . Ethiopian Eunuch, an example of diligent reading of Holy Scripture, 221 . Eucharist, in it we partake of Christ's body and blood, 139 ; by partaking become the body of Christ, ib. ; reference due to Christ's body, 141 ; unworthy partakers waste Christ's blood, 161 ; Apostles patterns of devotion after receiving it, 162 ; drunkenness a horrible sin in those who have received, ib. ; what things inconsistent with a right reception, 163 , 164 ; not to be received at festivals only, 164 ; not to be performed in an unknown tongue, 211 . See Lord's Supper. Euphemism, and the contrary, examples in St. Paul, 51 , 52 . Eve, force of allusion to, 384 . Evil Speaking, defeats its aim, 407 . Evil, not made by God, 76 ; encouragement of it sometimes more than the doing it, 123 , 124 . Evidences of the Gospel, should be learned by Christians for the good of the heathen, 28 ; made up always of signs from heaven and testimonies from men, 30 , 31 ; best evidence in one sense is a good life, 15 . See Propagation of the Gospel . Excess, produceth drunkenness, and not wine, 373 ; its harms, God's curb on the intemperate, ib. Excommunication, 84 , 85 . Expression, used of God and ourselves not to be taken in the same sense, nor yet in one wholly different, 151 . Extortion, especially angers God, 389 . Extortioners, described, 76 . Ezekiel, delayed his message, 170 . Faith, best grounded on simplicity, 17 ; prevails by what would seem arguments against it, 18 ; its trial excluded by overpowering miracles, 31 ; objective , the same to all, 51 ; insufficient without perseverance to the end, 131 , 132 ; used of that required for miracles, 414 . Faithful, the, do not require reasons but are content with ordinances, 150 ; prayers of, 285 ; received a glory which they soon quench, 314 ; though in the flesh not known after the flesh, 332 ; the only sound judges, 339 . False Apostles, the, were not themselves Corinthians, 386 ; were Jews, 271 ; possessed power of language, 272 , 387 ; lived in luxury, 274 ; prided themselves on fleshly wisdom, 286 ; gloried in themselves, 302 ; diluted their doctrine, 302 ; their boastings, 380 ; ascribed what was the Apostles' work to their own coming, 381 ; overlaid the Apostles' doctrine with rubbish, 384 ; said nothing new, yet were not to be borne, 385 ; were not rude in speech, ib. ; but were so in knowledge, 386 ; not what they appeared, 317 , 331 , 386 ; were wealthy, 386 ; the point on which they piqued themselves, receiving nothing, ib. , 387 ; wore a mask, 392 ; took money secretly, 317 , 392 ; their spuriousness evident by comparison with Paul's deeds, 393 ; their oppression of the disciples, 394 ; were corrupting the whole church, 405 . Fasting, commonly within men's power, 50 ; needed for contention with bad spirits, 81 ; nothing without charity, 146 ; how made profitless, 299 . Fatalism, refuted by experience, 10 , 129 . Fear of God, best stays lust, 316 , 345 . Feasts of charity, origin of the custom, 157 ; abuse of, ib. ; a banquet after the communion, ib. ; five faults in them, 159 . Fellowship, of Christ, relates particularly to his sufferings, 8 ; of salt , what, 140, (note.) Festival, what it is, 164 ; our whole life a festival day, 85 . Filthy talking, inconsistent with a godly mind, 283 ; how great an evil, 308 ; unfits for the mysteries, ib. ; provokes God, 309 ; reason against, 418 . Flesh, the use of allowed to the weak, 370 . Fleshly advantages, nothing, 393 . Following after charity, what, 208 . Forgiveness, possible to all, many ways of attaining it, 135 ; of wrongs, looseth sin, 300 . Fornication, its miserable effect upon the soul, 61 ; not considered an evil by the heathen, 68 ; in one sense worse than covetousness, 101 ; special dissuasive from, 330 . Forty stripes save one, 394-5 . Free-will of man, a part of God's plan of Salvation, 8 ; complaint against it on the part of Christians, answered, 9 ; God's purpose in it, 80 ; instance of in St. Paul, 129 ; things that must be consistent with it, 158 . See Fatalism . "From the dead," why so often added to the word resurrection, 235 . Funerals, empty pomp at, 388 ; the acclamations of mock the dead, ib. Future things, whether the kingdom or punishment, eternal, 323 ; the only realities, 418 . Galatians, why generally addressed, 272 ; Paul's tact shown especially in Epistle to, 379 . Games, heathen, an example to us, 131 , 132 . Garden herbs, an indulgence short of flesh, 370 . Garments, men and women not to dress in each other's, 153 . Gehazi, 389 , a pitiful person, ib. Gentile converts, their weakness, 115 . Ghost, the Holy, of one essence and power with the Father, 307 , 419 . Gifts, spiritual, of the Corinthians, reconciled with their being carnal, 6 , 7 ; when first granted, 168 ; a cause of schism, ib. (comp. Rom. xii. 4 .); all from one source, 171 ; gifts, operations, administrations, all the same thing, ib. ; from the equality of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, ib. ; those that had the lesser gifts comforted, ib. ; gifts of healing and working miracles, their difference, 172 ; application of the rule about gifts to rich and poor, 173 ; examples from the Old Testament, ib. ; why bestowed in various degrees, 187 ; charity the greatest of all, 210 ; St. Paul, a pattern for the right use of, 211 ; directions for using, and checks against the abuse of, 219 . Gifts of prophecy, difference between it and soothsaying, 169 , 170 ; its use voluntary, 169 , 170 ; how not for a sign, 216 ; compared with gift of tongues, ib. ; its superiority, ib. , 217 ; directions for the use of, 219 . Gift of tongues, its greatness, 172 ; why set last, 186 ; why granted first, 209 , 216 ; compared with prophecy, but not disparaged, 209 , 216 ; requires an interpreter, 210 ; both to be prayed for, 211 ; gift of interpretation greatest, 171 , 172 . Glass, workers in, 98 . Glory, future, punishment of losing, 329 ; antidote to love of glory, 393-4 . Glory, human, the subject of envy, 393 ; a load of grass, ib. ; those who enjoy it slaves, ib. ; is not glory, 416 ; the thought of future glory its antidote, 393-4 ; comes to those who slight, not seek, her, 416 ; a shadow, 417 . Gluttony, a slavish passion, 96 ; inconsistent with our being members of Christ, ib. , and condemned by the doctrine of the Resurrection, 97 ; danger of, 132 ; its effects described, especially on the female sex, 242 , 243 . God and Lord, applied to both the Father and the Son, 114 ; God "all in all," what, 239 , 240 . God, mercy His chief attribute, 273 ; delivers in, not from, trials, 273 , 292 ; pitieth all, 282 ; accused by Satan, 284 ; His word and promises sure, 289 ; consults His own glory, ib. , and our salvation, ib. ; giveth an earnest, His Spirit, 290 ; how said, only after Abraham's trial to know he feared Him, 291 ; defends Himself, 296 ; hath set down His own prescription for the cure of sin, 299 ; His sentence, not men's, to be feared, 303 ; how said to blind men, 318 ; hides from unbelieving minds mysteries as hurtful to them, ib. ; His power works by vile things, 320 ; so, converted the world, ib. ; His justice requires a judgment, 323 ; why not always punishes on the commission of sin, 324 ; yet sometimes does, ib. ; His long suffering may be exhausted, ib. ; after his Son slain, still sends messengers, 333 ; greatness of his love ib. ; a suppliant to men to be reconciled, 334 ; to have offended Him grievous, 335 ; His love not to make us supine, 335 ; beseeches, only here, ib. ; by things opposite furthers the Gospel, 338 ; dwells in Christians, 344 ; how said not to care for oxen, 352 ; giveth to seed sown, both earthly and spiritual, 372 ; reserveth to His sole disposal corporeal crops, not so mental, ib. ; His Gift unspeakable, 373 ; much more his essence, ib. ; gives food for nourishment, not excess, ib. ; His strength how especially shown 376 ; 402 ; His wisdom in the creation not impugned by the perversion of his works, 378 ; His mercy not to be presumptuously trusted in, 382 ; His jealousy, 383 ; especially angered by extortion, 389 ; permitteth, not armeth, evil men, 400 ; threatens often without punishing, 412 ; His foolishness and weakness, the cross, why so called, 413 ; desireth, but needeth not, our love, 419 ; His commandments given for our good, 419 ; and concessions for our ease, 420 . God of this world, who, 318 . God, used in a lower sense, 318 . Godly mind; what, 283 ; how produced, ib. Going to law, a reproach to Christians, 91 ; such disputes to be settled within the Church, 92 ; Christian privileges a reason for not taking legal proceedings, 93 ; men led to do this by covetousness, ib. ; the conqueror in such matters is he who yields, 94 ; reason from our Lord's example, 95 . Goliath, 393 , 396 . Goods, loss of, hard to bear, 275 ; kept, are lost; dispersed, abide, 370 . Good works, where they find not sins to atone for, make the beauty of goodness greater, 300 . Gospel, the, two-fold veil over, 283 ; worketh not only remission of sins, but righteousness, ib. ; a savor of ointment, 302 , 319 ; like light, blinds some, 302 ; enlighteneth sinners and delivereth them by thousands, 307 ; evidence from its propagation, 320 ; its precepts and doctrines unattractive, 41 . Grace, profits not if the life be impure, 336 . Grace and peace, how united, 4 ; grace, to whom given, ib. ; source of all blessings, 6 . Grecian pride, the strongholds pulled down by the Gospel, 376 . Greek nation, its childishness, 21 . Gymnosophists, the Indian, 352 . Habit, its tyranny, 316 . Hades, the gates of, 279 . Hadrian, 402 . Hagar, why taken by Abraham, 155 ; her insulting treatment of her mistress, 155 . Hamaxobii, 352 . Hearers, apt to think of other men's duties not their own, 154 ; no excuse for their sins, ib. Heathen, compassion for, 16 ; how to be dealt with, 21 . Heathen philosophy, its ill effect on the Corinthians, 2 ; why the Apostles had it not, 13 ; an obstacle to faith, 36 ; not afterwards disallowed, 37 ; its proper work, 17 ; superseded by faith, 18 ; this a predicted work of the Gospel, 22 , 29 ; in a certain sense a part of God's education of the race, 24 . Heaven, fear of losing, less avails, 328 ; faint conception of joy, much more the reality, ib. Hebrews, why addressed collectively by St. Paul, 272 ; included Ammonites, 394 . Hebrew Christians, in a better state than the Corinthians, 44 . Hell-fire, eternal, 28 , 49 , 50 ; this hinted in 1 Cor. iii. 15 ; doctrine of, how to be made use of, 63 . See Eternal Punishment . Hell, the prisons of, 329 . Hercules, referred to, 30 . Heresies, what meant by the term, 158 ; must needs be, ib. ; do not destroy free will, 159 ; worse than mere schism , ib. Heretical teachers, profess to teach more than the church, 1 and note . Herod, ashamed at the light, 409 , which trying to put out he kindled more, 410 ; his feast a banquet of demons, 411 ; in his murder of John set up a trophy against himself, ib. Herodias, chief author of John's murder, 409 ; the procuress, yea the murderess, of her daughter, 410 ; her guilt and Herod's known to all time and place, 410 . Herodias's, daughter, her tongue full of poison, 411 . High birth, of Christians, 24 , 54 . Holiness, of the first Christians a kind of sign, 32 ; the best argument against infidels, 39 ; glorifies God more than His visible works, 102 , 103 . Honors, require a strong soul to bear, 338 , a weapon of righteousness, 339 . Horoscope, in use among the heathen, 21 . Human learning and talent, a check to belief, not a disqualification for it, 33 . Human wisdom, its weakness, 37 ; curbed by the law, ib. Humanity, how best shown to the sick and the sinner, 349 . Humbleness, looseth sin, 300 . Humiliation, must prepare a man for penitence, 60 . Humility, its tokens and blessing, 4 ; its origin, 5 ; exalts to heaven, 249 . Husbands, not to beat their wives, 154 ; how to treat them, 155 ; Abraham a pattern of, 155 . Husbands and wives, hinder not the Church from being a virgin, 383 . Hymenaeus, 400 . Idol sacrifices, show contempt of God and carelessness of others' good, 141 ; St. Paul's caution, respecting them, 144 ; idol feasts a way to idolatry, 111 . Idolatry, began from pride, 25 ; principle of argument against it, 113 ; held by the wiser heathen in a different sense from the vulgar, ib. Ignatius, why called Theophorus, 101 . Ignorance, the cause of many sins, 35 , 36 . Image, which Nebuchadnezzar set up, supposed to correspond to what he saw in his dream, 103, (note) ; of the heavenly , what, 255 . Immortality of the soul, vainly taught by Plato, 19 . Incarnation, the, (lit. economy), 413 . Incest, its foulness, 83 . Incestuous person, the, had been applauded by the Corinthians, 2 ; not named in either epistle, for different reasons, 296 ; Paul's mode of dealing with him and its reasons, 297 ; Paul's conduct to him the greatest love, 349 . Indians, early date of their Church, 32 . Indolent, the, open to be transfixed by any wickedness, 316 . Infidels, borrow the slang of the race course, 323 ; their doubts of things unseen, ib. ; answered, 324 . Injurers, lose themselves, 304 , 388-9 ; worthy of pity not curses, 305 . Injuries, borne meekly most avenge themselves, 335 ; benefit those who suffer them, 389 . Insensibility on religious subjects, 381 . Insufficiency of man, to supply his desires, 23 , 24 . Invocation of the Spirit, in the Eucharist, 374 . Isaac, his behavior before the sacrifice, 292 ; a type of Christ in his meekness, 293 . Isaiah, exhorts concerning reproach, 338 . "I think I have the spirit of God," an express claim to inspiration, 106 . Jacob, sought not his own, 147 ; poor and in bondage, 173 ; naturally timid, 174 ; his charity overcame shame and mockery, 197 ; his contentment, 309 , 353 ; so showed a living soul, 309 . James, ordained by the Lord and made bishop of Jerusalem, 229 . Jeremiah, excused himself for not delivering his message, 170 ; sank under reproach, 338 . Jericho, fall of, 396 . Jerusalem, 312 . Jewish, types of Christian sacraments, 133 ; custom of searching for leaven, 86 . Jews, pride, the cause of their fall, 4 ; their conduct to the prophets, a warning to the apostles, 27 ; their punishments an earnest of ours, yet ours greater, 134 , 135 ; their sins types of ours, 134 , 135 ; causes of their fall, 135 ; some things in their covenant not typical but apply to Christ alone, 86 ; their passover compared to ours, 203 ; their arrogance corrected, 310 ; of a grovelling spirit, 310 ; believed not even the law, 311 ; saw not its glory, ib. ; their carnal mind, 312 ; shall acknowledge Christ in vain hereafter, 325 ; their captivity in a manner atoned for their sins, 388 ; made war against St. Paul especially, why, 396 ; benefitted by afflictions, 403 ; crouched to vain-glory, 416 ; thence exiles, 418 . Job, his charity to the poor, 207 ; his great patience, 94 , 166 ; Satan's tempting of him, 166 ; his wife's cruelty, 167 ; his example to mourners, 168 ; a martyr, 275 ; wrestled with all kinds of suffering, 275 ; that he lived before the law increased his merit, ib. ; accused by the devil, 284 ; his resignation showed a living soul, 309 ; moved most by his friends' reproaches, 339 ; showed brighter after affliction, 401 . Job's wife, her advice inspired by the devil, 292 . John, one of the "chiefest" apostles, 385 . John the Baptist, his mildness in reproving, 409 ; reproved Herod rather than Herodias, why, 410 ; was grievous even unseen to Herodias, 410 ; why his head asked for, 410 ; it cries louder now, 410 ; after death a victor, 411 . Jonah, sought his own profit, 147 ; fled from his duty, 170 . Jonathan, a pattern of charity. Joseph, a disinterested person, 147 ; a slave yet free, 109 ; his mistress rather a slave, 109 ; a pattern of charity, 192 ; spake not bitterly of injuries, 305 ; his words those of a living soul, 309 ; well favored, 315 ; shone by suffering, 401 . Joseph's brethren, sinned, not having the fear of God before their eyes, 303 . Joy in God a defence against pain, 275 . Judaical observances, old things, 332 . Judas, his commission no plea for the sacriligious and covetous, 297 , 389 . Judgment, rash, of the Corinthians, 58 ; of others' conduct allowable in respect of definite, but not indefinite duties, 59 ; in respect of their general characters impossible, and why, 60 ; false judgment of men in regard to things of the world, 68 . Judgment, Future, infidel doubts concerning, answered, 323 ; follows from God's justice, 323 ; conscience testifies to a, 324 ; believed in universally whatever difference in details, 324 ; its doom irreversible, 325 ; to be imagined present, 328 ; outlines and symbols of, exhibited at the martyries of the saints, 403 . Judgment, the day of, all things revealed in it, 287 ; none can deliver in it, 325 . Justification, by giving the Spirit, 24 ; means liberation from sin, 60 ; by grace, not works, 334 , 335 . Kingdom of Christ, how delivered up to the Father, 238 ; twofold, 239 . Kiss of peace, used at the Holy Eucharist, 265. (note.) Knowledge, is common property, 111 ; nothing without charity, 112 ; imperfect to the present state, 113 ; in what sense to be done away, 202 ; of God in the future state, 202 ; before and after the Gospel compared, 203 ; impiety of our claiming perfect, 203 ; such knowledge possessed by the Spirit and the Son, 203 ; an ointment, 301 ; present, a savor, 302 . Laity, their prayers and assent required at ordinations, 365 ; partake of both bread and cup, 366 ; pray with and for the priest, 366 ; share in thanksgivings and elections, 366 ; should not throw the whole care for the Church on the priests, 367 . Law, used by St. Paul for the Old Testament, 216 ; old law contrasted with the more perfect dispensation of the Gospel, 126 , 155 . Law of Moses, mystical meaning of, 121 . Law of Nature, harmonizes with God's law, 154 " under the law, without law ," what, 129 . Law, the, how the strength of sin, 257 ; spiritual, but bestowed not a spirit, 307 ; compared with grace, ib. ; how it killeth, ib. ; showed and punished, not caused, sin, 310 ; only letters, no help by it, 310 ; fixed to one place, 310 ; hid from the Jews, 311 ; confessed to its own abolition, 312 ; those who forsake it see its meaning, 313 . Lazarus, stood on the summit of heavenly wisdom, 308 ; his lot and the rich man's compared, 324 , 346 . Liberty, what it is, 145 . Life, a good, preparation for faith, 44 ; of primitive Christians compared with those of later times, 32 , 33 . Life in the soul, what, 307 ; to be preserved in it by our own efforts, 307 ; how tested, 308 ; how shown in words, 309 . Loneliness, increases trials, 300 . Lord's Prayer, not permitted to Catechumens, 282 . Lot, his want of generosity and disinterestedness, 146 , 155 . Love, of Christ to us, 140 ; of the primitive Church, greater than ours, 140 ; to Christ casts out all sin, 264 ; signs of in open mouth and large heart, 342 ; in rejoicing at the good as well as grieving at the ills of friends, 347 ; consumeth sins like a fire, 369 ; he that is without it a useless man, 405 ; especially to those who love him, 405 ; to be shown in defending friends when ill-spoken of, 406 . Love of Christ, will make sinners even punish themselves, 335 . Love of God, to be shown in deeds, 421; best secures our salvation, 422. Luke, by some thought "the brother whose praise, etc.," 363 . Lust, how admitted; how fed, 315 ; fiercer than avarice, 315 ; from ourselves and not the devil only, 315 ; gendered by idleness, 316 ; by habit, 316 ; its cure, 316 ; the fear of God best quenches it, 316 , 345 ; to be quenched by thought of hell-fires, 316 , 330 ; more imperious than love of money, 389 ; or anger, 389 ; hath overcome great persons, 389 ; not therefore excusable but to be watched against, 389 ; permitted in a sort in marriage, 389 ; implanted and why, 389 . Luxury, examples of, 124 , 247 ; how it unfits for heaven, 257 , 258 . Lying, a sin of the poor, 346 . Macedonian Controversy, alluded to, 172 . Macedonians, the, compared with the Corinthians, 277 , 386 ; their praises, 356 ; had suffered loss of goods for the Gospel, 356 ; their bountifulness had many degrees of excess, 357 ; was accompanied by other graces, 357 ; the assistance they gave to St. Paul, 387 . Madness of the Mind, in grasping shadows, 416 ; inexcusable, 417 . Magic, the suspicion of it in miracles obviated, 30 ; magical verses quoted, 169 . Magus, 415 . Magnanimity, true and false, 5 . Man, first and second, why those expressions used, 255 ; men made to depend upon each other, 147 , 57 ; how superior to women, 153 . Mankind, out of contentiousness take part with persons evil spoken of, 407 . Manliness, the test of, 371 . Manes, his system, 38 . Manichees, 255 ; dismember St. Paul's writings, 378 ; refuted by them, 378 . Manna, the, 361 . Marcion, his notions, 318 ; dismembered St. Paul's writings, 378 ; yet refuted by them, 378 . Marcionite way of perverting the phrase "baptized for the dead," 244 ; their Dualism, 318 (note.) Marriage, heathen ceremonies at, condemned, 69 ; mixed, rules for, 106 ; reasons for continuance in, 107 ; second marriages, when unlawful, 111 ; with kindred forbidden, 110 ; in order to lead us to charity, 204 ; declined by some on worldly grounds, 323 ; not accused by Chrysostom, 324 ; concessions in respect to, 420 . See Husbands and Wives . Martyrdom, always a time for, 274 ; attained without dying, 275 ; patience under loss of goods a kind of, 275 ; or under loss of children, 275 ; a name appropriate to our Lord's death, 29 ; nothing without love, 148 . Martyries, 403 . Maran atha, meaning of, 265 (note) why used in this place, 266 . Mary, the first who saw Christ, 229 . Marcellus, of Ancyra, his heresy, 237 . Manifestation, of the Spirit, what, 171 . Martyrs, compared with Socrates, 19 ; their astonishing tortures, 19 . Matthew, his immediate cure, 62 . Matthias, 366 . Materialists, 25 . Men, praise or blame of not to be regarded, 303 ; when but beasts in human form, 308 ; here but sojourners, 359 ; all dependent on each other, 361 ; so by God's decree, 362 ; how legislators to themselves, 363 ; but women if easily deceived, 384 . Merchant, portraiture of a generous one, 58 ; for the contrary, see Commerce . Mercy, of God no plea for our negligence, 136 ; a cause why men should fear, 49 , 50 ; God's chief attribute, 273 ; seeketh out the worthy, 280 ; assimilates to God, 358 ; a greater thing than raising the dead, 358 . Merciful, the, in the highest sense a man, 358 ; a priest, 374 ; like to God, 374 ; his altar, Christ's body, 374 ; and greater than the Christian altar, 374 . Merit, of human works altogether disclaimed, 3 , 6 ; this disclaimer involved in the doctrine of Baptismal regeneration, 6 . Messengers of the Churches, the, who, 364 ; persons chosen such, above suspicion, 364 ; why several, 265 ; except Titus unknown to the Corinthians, 365 . Mind, not the body, cause of sin, 99 , 181 . See Body . Miners, their misery, 137 . Ministers, for the sake of the people, 55 ; not to grow weary of repeating plain truths, 33 ; their unworthiness does not hinder the effect of the Sacraments, 44 ; only stewards, and not to be puffed up by their stewardship, 56 . Miracles, visible, why they ceased, 31 ; may be wrought by bad men, 44 ; why inferior to prophecy and teaching, 186 ; not in operation in Chrysostom's time, 320 ; the first Christians wrought them, 414 . Misquotation of Scripture, danger of, 206 . Mistaken way of defending the Gospel, 14 . Moabites, the, 394 . Modesty, ill-timed does harm, 381 ; taught by St. Paul's example, 399 . Monarchs, their festal days a time of gifts, 337 . Money, the love of, a severe mistress, 315 ; its captives more than lust's, 315 , 391 ; incompatible with righteousness, 371 ; makes freemen slaves, 371 ; none but pitiful persons possessed with, 389 ; compared with sexual desire, 389 ; no indulgence given to it by the Gospel, 389 ; is not implanted in us, 389 ; how overcomes more persons than lust, 389 ; the five foolish virgins fell by it, 390 . Monks, an order of (perhaps) married, 178 . Moors, the, 412 . Moses, with Jethro an example of humility, 4 ; also in joining his oppressed people, 5 ; was stoned by the Jews, 27 ; more famous for love to others than for miracles, 146 ; his privileges less not only than the Apostles' but than Christians generally, 311 ; the glory of his countenance, 311 ; his glory, not the tables, 310 ; it is seen, partaken and surpassed by those who turn to God, 313 ; his love for his people, 352 ; listened to Jethro's counsel, 366 ; left the story written, why, 366 ; once fled from fear, 399 ; shone by suffering, 401 . Motives, approve acts, 393 . Mourners, hired at funerals, 72 ; others, 276 ; derive comfort from punishing themselves, 335 . Mourning, not to be excessive, 165 and note ; for others' sins, 84 ; for the dead, if excessive, against. analogy, Providence, and Scripture examples, 253 . See Consolations , Bereavements . Mouth, the, God's table, when filled with thanksgiving, 309 ; the porch of Christ's temple, 418 ; announceth God's oracles, 418 ; to be kept undefiled, 418 . Munificence, determined not by amount of gift, but mind of the giver, 357 , 371 ; its reward in spiritual abundance, 360 , 371 , 372 ; yet hath both a temporal and a spiritual recompense, 371 ; maketh men approved, 374 . Mutilation of the body, punished even by the heathen, 182 . Mysteries, why the Gospel so called, 34 ; and the Sacraments, 34 ; exclude human explanations, 34 , 35 ; how the preaching of them consists with reserve, 35 ; how believers and unbelievers look upon them, 35 ; the danger of making them too cheap, 35 ; unmeet for unbelievers, 318 . Naaman, 389 . Names of men, a token of unsound doctrine, 1 ; of Apostles, sectarian use of, 11 ; of Paul, Apollos and Cephas used by way of supposition for teachers not named, 11 ; of Christ, supersedes all human names, 12 ; why continually repeated, 7 ; used schismatically, 12 ; names given to children should be those of the Saints, 71 . Narthex, what part of the Church, 179, (note.) Nature, its corruption no excuse for sin, 10 ; another name for God, 151 ; tyranny of, 291 . Necessity, God allows men to make a virtue of, 56 . Nicodemus, 284 . Ninevites, the, why pardoned, 280 ; their repentance how shown, 299 ; benefitted by threat of ruin, 401 . Noah, left in the deluge as a spark to kindle a new race, 205 ; the days of, 281 . Nocturnal processions at marriages condemned, 69 . Nomad Scythians, 352 . "Not I but the Lord" refers to an express word of Christ, 106 . Numbers, where they avail with God, where not, 281 . Nurses, their superstitions foolery, 71 . "O foolish one, that which thou sowest," meaning of, 249 . "O God, my God," force of the expression in the prophets, 6 . Obedience, the test of, in disciples, 297 . Offending God, the only ill, 274 ; to be feared more than hell, 334 . Ointment, said to suffocate swine, 302 . Omission, in rhetoric, how made effective, 367 . One God, applied to the Father does not prevent the application of the phrase to the Son, 114 . Obscurity of Scripture, no reason for inattention, 221 . Œconomy, practiced by Paul, 7 , 8 ; of the divine persons, a doctrine necessary to explain many parts of Scripture, 237 , 238 . Offence, see Scandal . Old leaven; what, 87 . Olympius, the Sophist, 113 . Opposition to the truth, sometimes an encouragement, 261 . Orders, distinction of the ministry, typified in the old law, 126 . Outward Man, the, complete decay of, the greater gain, 326 . Party Spirit, springs from the people, 45 . Paul, beaten at Corinth, 1 ; his modesty, 1 ; praises the Corinthians for what end, 7 ; his use of the name of Christ, 7 ; his prudence in not committing his informants, 11 ; prefers St. Peter to himself, 11 ; why he did not commonly baptize, 12 ; bolder on coming to quotations from Scripture, 17 ; his later grace, a crown on his improvement of the former, 28 ; military cast of his character, 29 ; not eloquent, 29 ; had a strong sense of fear, 30 ; prepares skilfully for topics to come, 51 ; puts case in his own and Peter's name, 55 ; why he declines the judgment of men, 59 ; his skilful mode of dealing with the Corinthians, 72 ; his tenderness toward them, 73 , 74 ; portraiture of the Apostle in his imitation of Christ, 74 , 75 ; his policy in sending Timothy, 78 ; like a lion to the Corinthians, 78 ; tempered meekness with severity, 79, (note;) cites the heathen as a reproach to Christians, 83 ; his good sense, 84 ; his energy, 84 ; exercising the power of the keys, 85 ; his reserve in declaring pardon to the fornicator, an imitation of Christ, 87 ; his voluntary poverty, 88 ; how he possessed all, 88 ; method of speaking incidentally on other subjects, 91 , 163 , 228 ; extraordinary and unexpected turns in his arguments, 96 ; mode of awakening sinners, 100 , 111 ; varies his discourse as the matter required, 105 ; his rule on mixed marriages, 106 ; his doctrine of liberty and slavery, 108 ; rules concerning virginity, 110 ; care of avoiding scandal, 116 , 118 ; suffered poverty to avoid it, 122 ; his modest assertion of his right to maintenance, 119 ; the Apostle of the world, ib. ; his wisdom, 121 , 126 , 128 ; his moderation, and condescension to all, 128 ; why he circumcised others, 128 ; avoided display, 127 ; his conversion and argument against fatalism, 129 ; mode of dealing with sins, 133 , 149 ; his fear for himself, a warning against presumption, 132 ; his method of convincing, 138 , 139 , 158 ; his care for the common good, 161 , 146 ; excelled all the old Saints in love, 146 ; method of using common examples, 175 , 176 ; mode of praise and censure, 150 ; appeals to high principles on ordinary topics, 150 ; his very presence a visitation, 159 ; more to be admired for his love than his miracles, 193 ; paid rent for his house in Rome, 212 ; how he overcame vainglory, 213 ; his humility, 230 ; an example to us, 231 ; his delicacy in speaking of others, 264 ; his reasons for writing the second Epistle, 271 ; his humility, 272 , 273 , 278 , etc., etc.; after comfort lay not softly down, 273 ; had a spring of continual joy in God, 275 ; advertises the disciples of his estate, why, 278 ; had anticipated death, 279 ; his rejoicing in a good conscience, 286 ; disclaimed fleshly wisdom, 286 ; shares the glory of his good works with his disciples, 287 ; refers his teaching to the test of the great day, 287 ; kept not his promise, why, 288 ; the servant of the Spirit, 288 , 294 ; did not know all things beforehand, 289 ; nor always what was expedient, 289 ; came not, to give time for repentance, 294 ; gentler in this Epistle, 294 ; desired not to be made sorry, for the disciples' sake, not his own, 295 ; his tender affection, 296 ; his wisdom, 296 , 347 , etc., etc.; mingled praise with blame, 296 , 347 , 356 , 393 ; used the cautery with pain, 296 ; not ashamed to defend himself, 296 ; moderates the Corinthians' anger against the incestuous person, 297 ; leaves, yet does not leave, the Corinthians' power to forgive him or not, 298 ; his trouble at not finding Titus, 300 ; refers all to God, 301 , etc., etc.; anticipates and meets an objection against himself, 305 ; hewed men's hearts to write on, 306 ; wore the King's image, and so his garments wrought, 314 ; a servant, 319 ; interprets himself when obscure, 322 ; had been lost if God punished always on sin, 324 ; makes an objection serve his own cause, 328 , 288 , 294 , 351 ; glories for others' sakes, 331 ; to stop the false Apostles, 331 ; how, mad to God, ib. ; his blamelessness, 337 ; shown also in his use of spiritual gifts, 338 ; attracted grace by good works, 338 ; made what he was by love, 338 ; endured all with pleasure even, 339 ; possessed all things, 339 ; especially all spiritual things, 340 ; his care for the poor, 340 ; for unbelievers, 340 ; for the churches, ib. ; displays love before rebuking, 342 ; his love embraced the world, 342 ; shown in all his Epistles, 343 ; testifies also in all to the disciples' love for him, 343 ; tempers his rebukes, 294 , 343 , etc.; his oratorical use of interrogations in quick succession, 344 ; his joy in his disciples, it overcame his tribulations, 348 ; cites Titus for witness, 348 ; endears Titus to the Corinthians, 348 , 358 ; encourages some, 349 ; treats tenderly when he can do so without harm, 297 , 350 , 352 ; fears for the whole church, 352 ; compels not but draws the disciples on, 359 , 360 ; chose to suffer hunger among the Corinthians, 360 ; received from others often, yet not ashamed, 362 ; mentions Titus only of the collectors by name, why, 364 ; condescends to avoid the appearance of evil, 364 ; a devil could not have suspected him of unfaithfulness as to the alms collected, 365 ; his mouth opened by the church's prayer, 365 ; feigns to side with the Corinthians, 367 ; urges from human motives also, 368 , 372 ; prays the Corinthians may have enough, not abundance, 369 ; and that for good works, 369 ; this Epistle his eulogium, 375 ; corrects his own boasting, 375 , 383 ; slow to vindicate the Gospel, much more himself, 376 ; his freedom from ambition, 376 , 410 ; reasons why he delays to punish the disciples, 377 ; compared to a general, 377 ; the achievements of his tongue, 378 , 398 ; dismembered, routs the heretics, 378 ; not parti-colored in his teaching, 378 ; perversion of his doctrine no proof against him, 378 ; the use of his writings recommended, 378 ; instantaneousness of his conversion proved him free from vainglory, 381 ; remembered sins before baptism, 381 , 383 ; in boasting studied the disciples' benefit, 383 , 386 ; espoused for Christ, 383 ; in him all open, 386 ; speaks not of having supported himself, why, 386 ; receiving or not receiving, both in him from love, 387 ; shrinks back often when beginning to boast, 392 ; sets his trials before his miracles, 396 , 397 ; number, intensity and variety of his trials, 397 ; his cares for each, the chief thing in them, 397 ; did not rush on danger, 397 ; victorious over trials, 397 ; simply took the world captive, 397 ; his achievements more than David's, 397 ; bore in one body what others did in many, 397 ; ran briefly over all, 398 ; himself the person caught up, 398 ; confessed to ignorance, 398 ; why Christ caught him up, 399 ; what his thorn, 400, (note;) wounds and heals at once, 406 ; many steps in his love, 407 ; suffered not his partners to receive, 408 ; counted it humbling to have to punish, 409 ; the characteristic of his wisdom, what, 410 ; makes the way to repentance easy, 410 ; threatens often without punishing, in this like God, 413 ; sometimes adds to the written sense of Scripture, 414 ; does not purpose punishing to show his power, 414 ; his words spiritual, 414 ; his long suffering not weakness, 415 ; able to punish the bodies of the disciples, 417 ; yet not able if they repented, 417 ; prefers the disciples' salvation to his own glory, 417 ; more vehement toward the end of this epistle, 419 . Peace, given by the bishop, 219 . Penance, how to be determined, 297 ; the mother of safety, 349 ; a bandage to be kept on till the wound be cured, 349 . Perils, use of, 280 . Persecution, not needed for our trial, 76 ; for Christ's sake, a token of God's favor, 72 ; causes triumph, 301 . Persians, incest among, 316 ; John's murder known among, 410 . Persons, the, of the Trinity, not confounded by Chrysostom, 419 . Peter, confounded with Paul, 29 , 56 ; the Coryphaeus, 120 ; why allowed to see Christ first after the resurrection, 230 ; his very shadow mighty, 314 ; had been lost if God punished in sin, 324 ; his sorrow, 351 ; loosed by the church's prayer, 365 ; ordained Matthias, 366 . Pharisee, the, suffered shipwreck in harbor, 394 . Philetus, 400 . Philip's daughters, prophetesses, 152 , 186 ; a fulfilment of Joel's prophecy, 152 . Philosophers, let their hair and beard grow as a token of study, 149 (note.) Pilate, 324 ; his report to Tiberius, 402 (note.) Plants, variety of disposition in, 354 ; like men, have their death, life, etc., 354 ; God's providence shown in respect to them, 354 . Plato, wrongly compared with Paul, 14 ; persecuted by Dionysius, 20, (note;) comparative uselessness of his speculations, 19 ; unable to prevail against custom, 40 ; his testimony respecting soothsayers, 169 . Plenary effusion of the spirit in baptism, 34 . Pleasure, of virtue and vice compared, 130 ; of this world short-lived, 174 ; of beholding God in his works, 136 ; of covetousness a poor one, 137 ; of love, 192 ; of a right use of riches, 207 ; present pleasure of chastity more than uncleanness, 224 ; of gluttony only momentary, 242 . See Luxury , Virtue , Vice . Poor, not to be despised, 116 ; to be entertained, 117 ; where placed in the church to receive alms, 179, (note;) intercessors for the rich, 179 ; tokens of this world's frailty, 179 ; indignities to them done against the church, 159 ; have most enjoyment of the sun, the air, etc., 340 ; reap the advantage of rich men's outlays, 340 ; have the advantage in spiritual things, 340 ; useful to the salvation of the rich, 361 , 362 ; more independent than the rich, 362 ; how to be received when they come to beg, 362 ; liable to envy, 373 ; are Christ's body and altar, 374 ; to be reverenced not repelled, 374 . Post mortem probation, denied by Chrysostom, 330 (note) . Potiphar's wife, her words those of a dead soul, 309 . Porphyry, a witness to the Scripture, 32 ; his remarks upon magical verses, 169, (note) . Portraiture of Paul, in his imitation of Christ, 74 , 75 . Praise, a smoke that reached God's throne, 374 . Praise of others, to be added to, not envied, 408 . Prayer, in an unknown tongue inexpedient, 211 ; for others efficacious, 280 ; of a multitude efficacious, 281 ; for the Catechumens, 281, (note;) comment on do., 281 , 285 ; inattention at, 285 ; persevered in worketh forgiveness, 300 ; worldly thoughts to be shut out in, 303 ; viz. by bearing in mind with whom we are conversing, etc., 303 ; answers to sacrifice, 304 ; distractions in, 304 ; against enemies to be rejected, 304 ; for enemies obtains forgiveness, 304 , 305 . Prayers of the Catechumens, 284 , 285 ; of the faithful, 285 . Prayer for the dead, why used, 253 ; inconsistent with Purgatory, 253 (note;) in all the ancient liturgies, 253 ; offered up at the time of the eucharist, 253 . Preaching, the, no uncertainty in, 289 ; nor in its promises, 289 ; its power, 301 ; not of man, nor needing aid from beneath, 376 ; external wisdom contributed nothing to, 385 ; rivalry in, 408 ; compared with baptism, 12 . Prepositions, implying agency, (ἐν, δια, etc., ) why used in speaking of God the Father, 8 . Pride, of knowledge, its danger, 135 ; of life, to be trodden under foot, 143 ; pride the mother of evils, 346 ; made the devil a devil, 346 ; a sin of the rich, 346 . Priests, to give thanks for others, their part, 281 ; where no difference between, and the people, 365 , 366 . Profit, our own how to be sought, 147 , 197 ; our neighbors the canon of Christianity, 146 ; no high virtue without this, 146 ; how men made by Providence to seek it, 147 , 197 , 205 ; examples of those who sought their own, but found it not, 146 ; and of those who sought others' and found their own, 147 ; excuses for selfishness answered, 147 , 148 ; even martyrdom nothing without it, 148 . Profuseness, on lusts, common, 369 , 370 . Promise, the, used of Canaan, 333. (note.) Promises of God, sure, 289 . Prophets, knew not all things, 288 , 292 ; wrought life in bodies, could not in souls, 307 . Prophecy, fulfilled, a kind of miracle, 31 ; double sense of, 36 . See Gifts of Prophecy . Propagation of the Gospel, a kind of sign, 32 ; why now at a stand, 32 ; why attended with miracles, 30 , 31 ; why effected by the unlearned, 23 , 24 ; against the tyranny of ancient custom, 40 ; a proof of the divine nature of the Gospel, 20 , 21 , 25 , 40 , 43 ; of the power of the cross, 19 . See Evidence . Punishments, human, their analogy with the threats of Scripture, 49 , 50 ; Apostolic and miraculous, 79 . See Eternal , Hell fire . Punishment, temporal, of sin, 324 ; not universal, 324 ; we should even wish for and inflict on ourselves, 334 ; as men do who have injured friends, 335 . Punishment, eternal, compared with temporal punishments, 325 ; fear of, avails more, 328 ; irremissible, 329 ; thought of, applied to different sins, 330 ; may be made impossible by each man for himself, 330 . Pythian Priestess, her madness, 170 . Pulse, the exclusive use of, recommended, 370 . Race course terms, used by scoffers at heavenly things, 323 . Rationalizing, a source of early heresy, 2 ; foolishness of it in things human and divine, 16 ; compared to a smith using the tongs with his hand, 23 ; exemplified in Adam, 24 ; excludes stability in doctrine, 24 , 25 ; compared to a pilot without a ship, 33 . Reading the Scriptures, in public, a motive to reverence, 220, (note) . Reasoning from analogy, proper for infidels, 249 . Rebecca, her charity to Jacob, 196, note ; her conduct, why vindicated by the Fathers generally, 196 . Rebuke, pain of, brief; good of, perpetual, 350 ; danger of withholding, 351 . Regeneration, at baptism, 176 , 284 ; a greater thing than the resurrection, 307 . Relations, cannot succor in hell, 329 ; nor will wish to, 330 . Repentance, tokens of, 47 ; produced by severe censure, 60 ; never too late in this world, nor to be obtained in the next, 136 ; how made use of by Satan, 298 ; ashes and fastings are not of themselves, 299 ; in what its efficacy consists, 299 ; shown in humbleness, 299 , 300 ; to be perpetual, 300 ; future, vain, 325 ; here always possible, 381 ; danger and sin of delaying, 382 ; able to right transgressions, 410 ; hinders an Apostle even from punishing, 417 ; how the way to joy, 418 . Reproach, harder to bear than affliction, 338 ; many fall by it, 339 . Reproof, of a brother, how to be practised, 266 ; an example of, 266 . Reserve, necessary in teaching, 34 ; how consistent with full preaching, 35 ; St. Paul's practice of in declaring pardon to the incestuous person, 87 ; necessary in speaking of the sacraments, 244 , 245 . Resurrection, a work ascribed both to the Father and the Son, 97 ; its credibility proved by analogies from nature and art, 98 ; objections of rationalists not to be listened to, 98 ; an evil conscience, the ground of man's unbelief of, 98 ; creation a type of, 99 ; its importance as a doctrine of Christianity, 226 ; two opposite errors concerning it, 226 ; design of Satan in attacking it, 226 ; course of St. Paul's argument for it, 227 ; Manichaean notion of, confuted, 228, (note,) 235, (note;) reality of Christ's resurrection proved by his death, 228 ; and burial, 228 ; and by eyewitnesses, 229 ; five-fold proof of it, 234 ; mutual relation between Christ's and our own, 234 ; implied in the hope of salvation, 235 ; and in Christ's final triumph, 240 ; in our baptism, 245 ; and in the Apostle's sufferings, 246 ; and in our death, 250 ; how far the same body raised, 250 ; heretical objection as to the identity of body refuted, 250 ; the doctrine does not hinder degrees of glory, 251 ; how far the body changed, 256 ; our deliverance from sin and the law proves the doctrine, 257 ; seen in daily deliverances, 279 ; Christ's shown in the Apostles, 321 , 342 ; took place for our sakes, 322 ; doctrine of established by the way, 326 ; common to all, but its glory not, 327 ; of body, objections of heretics to, 329 ; shown in plants, 354 . Restitution, required by the heathen, 87 ; if neglected visited upon posterity, 87 ; Zacchaeus, a notable example of, 87 ; certain in the last day, 88 . Reverence, more paid to men than to God, 67 , 220 . Reward, not to be impatiently expected, 261 ; increased by our sufferings, 262 . Rhetorical skill, its worthlessness, 79 . Rich, the, their contempt of the poor, 157 ; their misery, 173 , 174 ; ignorant of the perishable nature of their riches, 174 ; need the poor as much as the poor need them, 205 , 206 ; enjoy the sun and air less than the poor, 340 ; spend for the poor, 340 ; their diet causes disease, 340 ; their bellies furnaces, lit with corpses, 341 ; sewers, ib. ; few of, saved, 346 ; stand near to love of money, vain glory, pride, ib. ; have no hope if they use not much wisdom, ib. ; fill but one belly, 341 , 361 ; gain not by their abundance, 361 ; dependent in proportion to their wealth, 362 , to be warned by the sight of death, 390 . See Poor . Riches, abused make men poor, 76 ; not evil in themselves, 76 ; the evils which accompany them befall men living and dead, 214 ; those that thirst after them like dreamers, 221 ; the unseemliness of this passion, 224 ; in what sense from God, in what not, 173 , 206 , 207 ; grow by distribution, 247 ; manna a warning against hoarding, 248 . See Covetousness , Wealth . Righteousness, cannot dwell with covetousness, 371 ; a queen, ib. ; of slaves makes freemen, ib. "Rock that followed them," 133 . Romans ix. 5 , applied to Christ, 114 . Rule, ecclesiastical, its superiority to civil, 353 ; concerned with souls, 353 ; deals with secret sins, 354 , and with less offences, 354 ; weldeth our life together, 354 ; lendeth aid, 354 ; discourseth of high things, 354 ; its mildness, 355 ; cures, not cuts off, the sinner, 355 ; effects of on the world, 355 ; without pride, 366 . Rulers, shown by love to the ruled, 352 ; why likened to vine dressers, 353 ; spiritual, higher than temporal, 354 ; a paternity in spiritual, 354 ; the mode of electing these better, 354 , 355 . Ruling, an art of the highest, 352 ; over states, 353 ; over a man's self, 353 ; over the church, 354 ; agriculture a kind of, 355 . "Rulers of this world," whom St. Paul calls such, 34 . Sabellianism, Chrysostom's caution against, 24 . Sacrifice, the Lord's Supper, 305 ; a kind of in prayer, confession, repentance, 303 ; different kinds of in the law, 304 . Saints, how they will judge the world, 91 ; their intercession of no avail for unholy persons, 258 ; addressed by St. Paul, 272 ; cannot possibly be punished, 381 ; weak as well as glorious, 401 , 403 ; why they were so, 403 ; their tombs glorious, 404 ; pilgrimages to, 404 ; their days, festivals, 404 ; their prayers asked, 404 ; their bones expel demons, 404 ; have power when dead, 404 . Salt, partaking of, held a sacred bond even by robbers, 407 . Salvation, wrought by suffering, 277 . Samuel, his care for the people, 352 ; why he seemed to boast, 394 . Sanctification, baptismal, 1 . Sanctuaries, of heaven, ἀψίδες, what, 142. (note.) Sapphire, 89 . Sarah, a pattern for wives, 155 ; her advice to Abraham to take Hagar, then allowable, not now, 155 . Satan, means simply an adversary, 401 . Saul, his reproaches to Jonathan meekly borne, 196 ; an example of envy, 395 . "Saved by fire," what, 51 . Scandal, how given, 123 , 124 ; sin of giving it, 123 , 124 ; St. Paul's care to avoid it, 118 . Schism, its formal nature, 10 ; may originate in mind or judgment, 11 ; Corinthians guilty of it, 158 . Schismatical teachers, their rapacious and mercenary spirit, 121 . Scriptures, their rule of life, 346 . Scylla, a heathen image of sin, 52 . Seal of the cross, in baptism, 71, (and note.) Self-indulgent, have no fellowship with Christ, 274 . Self-love, if true, leads to same conduct as love, 197 . Self-praise, sometimes useful, 381 , and to be commended, 395 , yet to be cut short, 406 . Senate, the Roman, deified Alexander the Great, 402 ; refused this to Christ, 402 . Separation, without mutual consent unlawful, 106 . Servants, our care of their souls, 71 . Sexes, their relation a bond of charity, 204 . Shame, at being dependent, low-minded, 361 . Shimei, his cursing David, 299 , 388 . Shoes, not worn by many, as servants and laborers, 353 . Sign of the cross, 118 . Simon Magus, an instance of vainglory, 212 . Sin, makes men in some respects worse than devils, 53 ; its effect in blinding the soul, 61 ; original destroyed in baptism, 240 ; some punished in this world, some in the next, 164 ; best checked in its beginning, 62 ; danger of little sins, 52 ; medicines for, 300 , 351 ; even after baptism, 300 ; its end here and hereafter to be considered, 330 ; sin, not punishment to be lamented, 300 ; and dreaded, 334 ; before baptism, effaced in it, 381 ; yet still remembered by St. Paul, 381 ; danger of dying in, 382 ; its uncleanness, 411 ; even sinners being witnesses, 411 . Slavery, not degrading to a good man, 108 ; what kind is degrading, 108 ; not possible for a good man to be a slave, 109 . Slander, a common evil, 267 ; hurts the slanderer more than the slandered, 268 ; its threefold evil, 268 ; when we forgive it, a proof of our innocence, 269 . Smatterers, harder to reach than the simply ignorant, 23 . Socrates, whether his death was voluntary, 19 ; compared with the martyrs, 19 ; considered an innovation, 40 ; and Xantippe, 156 . Sodom, a witness to future punishishment, 50 . Sojourners, our estate as such, 359 ; we should choose to be such, 359 . Soldiers, irreligious, reproved by case of Cornelius, 28 . Solomon, overcome by lust, 391 ; his days, 401 ; ruined by his prosperity, 403 ; enjoyed peace and plenty, 173 . Sorcerers, converted by St. Paul, 377 . Sorrow, excessive, sinfulness of, 231 . See Mourning . worldly, harmeth, 351 ; for sins profiteth, 350 ; Cain's, Esau's, David's, Peter's, 351 ; for the dead benefitteth not, 351 . Son, the, how said to be subject to the Father, 238 ; his authority equal to the Father's, 239 . Sosthenes, inferior to Apollos, 3 . Souls dead, when their movements unhealthy, 308 . Spirit, the Holy, how he dwells within us, 101 ; of Christ dwelling within us, 102 ; illustrated by example of a King's son, 102 ; why sometimes not named, 114 , 240 ; equal to the Father and the Son, 172 ; his personality and divinity, 173 ; given to all baptized persons, 176 ; possesses all knowledge, 203 ; a seal, 293 ; of one essence with the Father, 313 ; giveth life, ib. , 310 ; Lord and God, 313 ; the author of a creation within us, 314 ; an earnest of immortality, 327 . Spiritual gifts, abused, 338 . Spiritual things compared with spiritual, 37 ; spiritual man judges others, yet is not judged of them, 39 ; spiritual body , spirit always present in, 252, (note) . Spirit, soul and body, how distinguished, 252, (note) . Statues of Theodosius, overthrown at Antioch, 104, (note) . Stephanas, his household, their praise, 265 ; with Fortunatus and Achaicus, the persons who brought the account of the Corinthian church to St. Paul, 265 . Stewardship, the thought of, a lesson of humility and resignation, 56 ; and that nothing is exclusively our own, 57 . Sufferings, for Christ a present reward, 246 ; give goodlier hopes, 322 ; not to be regarded apart from their reward, 339 ; to be not only borne, but rejoiced in, 340 ; attract God's forgiveness, 391 ; God's power shown in, 402 ; the road to victory, 412 . Subintroductae , what, 266, (note) . Superfluities, to be cut off so as to give bountifully, 372 ; measure of, ib. Superstition, men's tendency to, 71 . Suspicion, to be avoided, 331 , 336 . Sybarite, table of a, 370 . Teachers, those reprehended to bear the rebukes of, 349 ; others to work with, 349 ; their disciples' growth their consolation, 352 ; not to be hasty in punishing, 376 ; mark of, to mourn over disciples' wounds, 410 . Temple, the, its destruction involved the abolition of the law, 312 . That ϊνα, not always indicative of the cause, but simply of the event, 159 . Temptations, not to be endured without God's help, 138 ; why permitted, 321 ; their gain, ib. , 337 . Thanksgiving, disclaims merit, 6 ; always due, 6 ; under affliction, 275 ; in behalf of others a duty, 280 , 281 ; for common blessings, 281 ; under afflictions looseth sin, 300 . Theatrical entertainments, their infamous character, 68 . Theodoret, (on 1 Cor. xv. 49 ), 255 . Theodorus, the atheist, 20 . Theology, a matter of testimony throughout, 31 . Thessalonians, the, 360 . Thomas, St., forced to go into Judea, 26 , 27 . Thoughts, an army having various ranks, 290 ;. he who governs them a king, 290 . Three children in the fire, 104 . Time, shortness of, 336 ; the acceptable, what, 337 . Timidity, no reproach to any one, 200 . Timothy, 413 ; Paul's commission to him, 78 ; a courageous and faithful man, 263 ; associated with Paul in the address as with him, 274 ; and out of humility, ib. Titus, his absence felt by Paul, 300 , 348 ; his witness to the Corinthians, 343 , 348 ; his love for them, 348 , 358 ; how received by them, 271 , 358 ; Paul's praise of, 358 ; why the only one named amongst the bearers of the collection, 365 ; received not, 408 . Toils, encountered willingly to rest after, 325 ; in worldly things great, yet the first often little, 325 ; in heavenly little, and the fruit boundless, 325 . Tongues, gift of, received by some who were elated by it, 338 . Torches, at funerals, 388 . Tradition of the church, excludes human inventions, 31 ; supplies information not to be obtained from the letter of Scripture, 36, and note . Treasury of the church, what, 259 . Trinity, the, three persons in, co-equal, 171 ; the same things said of each person, 319 , 418 ; interchange of gifts, 419 . Trumpets, overthrew cities, 320 . Tychicus, 278 . Unbelief, caused by the bad lives of Christians, 15 ; compared with insanity in its treatment of those who would remedy it, 16 . Uncleanness, eminently a profane vice, 52 ; its misery, 224 ; compared with chastity, 225 ; may be said of all sin, 410 . Uncertainties, not to be trusted to in our soul's concerns, 382 . Uninitiated, the, may not know all things, 365 . Unity of the church, implied in its name, 3 , 5 , 176 ; depending on communion with Christ, 3 , 47 ; of the Spirit, what, 176 ; of the members forbids envy, 177 ; reason for contentment, 177 ; taught by the beauty of proportion, 178 ; applied to various classes in the church, 178 ; of the members of the body, 181 , 182 ; an example to the greater to care for the less, 183 ; summary of the argument derived from the body, 187 . Unleavened bread, its typical meaning, 86 . Until, spoken of God does not imply that His kingdom shall come to an end, 238 . Unworthiness of ministers, no bar to the grace of the sacraments, 44 . "Use it rather," spoken of continuance in slavery, 108 . Utterance, a special grace, 6 . Vainglory, on behalf of others, 64 ; on account of gifts, compared to proud flesh, 65 ; reproved on ground that all is of grace, 65 ; and by an argument ad vere cundiam , 65 ; its manifold evils, 212 ; a remedy for it, 213 ; examples of victory over it, 213 ; in almsgiving, cruelty, 345 ; hinders others from giving, 345 ; shames the giver, the receiver and Christ, 345 ; the slave of, must be grovelling, 417 ; a savage mistress, 417 ; engendered by littleness of mind, 418 . Veil, a two-fold, over the Gospel, 283 ; over the Jews, on the letters and their hearts, 312 . Vice, its weakness, 411 . Vice and Virtue, the difference between them not subjective, 81 ; in what sense virtue easier than vice, 80 , 81 ; (see Pleasure ); vice, its misery, illustrated by an anecdote of a corn dealer at Antioch, 241 . Virgins, choirs of, 178 . Virgins, the foolish, regrets of vain, 325 ; they fell by love of money, 392 . Virginity, commonly within man's power, 50 ; higher state than marriage in all, 105 , 106 , 110 ; yet not compulsory on any, 106 ; if once chosen solemnly, should not be given up, 110 ; why a higher state, 110 ; Chrysostom's treatise on, referred to, 111 ; differs from continence, the latter absolutely necessary to Salvation, 110 ; introduced by the Gospel, 320 ; not commanded, 391 ; where it profiteth not, 392 . Virtue, maketh prayer respected, 281 ; more than money maketh men of a cheerful countenance, 340 ; is natural, 363 ; by words even striketh down its adversaries, 410 ; its strength even when bound, 411 . "Weakness" means persecution, 34 ; three different senses of, 414 ; how said of God, of Christ, 415 . Wealth, its tendency in respect to Faith, 24 ; with what palliations the love of it may be abated, 62 , 63 . See Riches . "Wheresoever the carcase is" explained, 142 . Widows, assemblies of, 178 . Widow's mite, an encouragement to those who can do but a little good in the way of conversion, 15 . Widow of Sarepta, the, her faith, 320 ; disregarded her children even, 371 ; manly though a woman, 371 ; gave more to hospitality than Abraham, 371 . Will of God, reason for contentment, 177 . Witchcraft, charge of, against the Apostles, 320 ; how refuted, 320 . Wisdom, without goodness, its utter degradation, 52 ; how to be gained by becoming a fool, 54 . Women, in danger of mistaking the signs of repentance for repentance, 299 ; easily deceived, 384 ; bands of, at funerals, 276 , 390 ; favor of, courted by preachers, 408 . Woman, why subject to man, 150 ; before the fall not subject, ib. ; why she ought to be covered, 151 ; women prophesied in Paul's time, 151 ; dishonored by taking the man's honor, 151 ; those who wear short hair all one as if uncovered, 152 ; custom of wearing short hair abolished, 153 ; why they should not teach in public, 222 . Word of wisdom and of knowledge, what, 172 . Works, good or bad, the Christian's building, 51 . "With thy spirit," a liturgical response, 219 . World, the, worthy of God, 378 ; and yet defective, 378 ; why both, 378 ; (see also 401 ;) opposite notions of, 378 ; refute one another, 378 . Worldly things, a lowering winter, 316 ; make men cowards, ib. ; delights of, have bitterness, 325 ; present satisfy not, ib. ; men toil in, to rest after, 326 . Wrong doers, the real sufferers, 95 ; they who suffer wrong are under God's discipline, 96 . Zacchaeus, had an appointed time for restitution, 208 . See Restitution .