Gospel, the book of the, oaths taken on, 443; preaching of promoted by conflicts, 448; like a sunbeam, not bound, 450; portions of worn by women and children, 470. Government, two sorts of, natural and elective, 391. Grave, robbing, 393, n. Greek Church, usage in fasting, 370, n.; Fathers of, opinions of on Purgatory, 387, n. Gregory, St. Naz, on invocation of the Saints, 390, n.; on Beatitudes, 392, n. Grief, a medicine only profitable when felt for sin, 375, 390; this the end of it, 375, 390; temporal ills, not cured by, 375; produced by sin, 419. Grief, a wound, how to be treated, 381; for infants as reasonable as for the dead, 385; makes men inattentive to instruction, 413; spreads darkness over every thing, 426; for the ills of others pleasing to God, 458; a refreshment, 461; fruits of, sweet, 463. Guilt shared by those who give power to the sinner, 331.   Habits, good to be formed, 363; difficult to be overcome, 388; easy, the subject being hard, 388; mastered in a given time, 370; almost mastered require less pains, 405; in man acquired by free-will, 420; easily conquered by fear, 437; under severe training, 449; easier to be overcome than nature, 469. Hades, where, according to the heathen, 403, n. Hair of eyebrows and head, 415. Hands of God, His power, 403. Happiness in God alone, 460. Harlot, bad influences of, 435. Harm, none to God's people, 378; limited to the sutures of the bones, 415. Hares, timidity of, 445. Hatred, to be forsaken, 363; mark of, to avoid naming the person, 393; disquiets, 473; is unbecoming brothers: increases with time, 476; to cease from is not all enough, 478; cherished corrupts fast or feast, 479; pollutes the mind, 479. Health, won by labour, 352; bad to be borne with patiently, 332; St. Timothy's, no hindrance to his labours, 334; not happiness, 460; by sobriety, 466; ill, an excuse for not fasting, 472, 475. Hearing without doing of no avail, 379. Heart, the chief member, well defended, 415. Heat, properties of, 403, n. Heathenism, designation of, in Scripture, 367, n. Heathen, the alleged reason for deifying the universe, 408; by their own folly make idols, 409; philosophers were actors, 465; instructed by the example of Theodosius, 488; the laws of, from the conscience, 423; not responsible without a natural law, 423; not fit instructors for Christians, 445. 748 Homilies on the Statues