Creed, taught before Lord's Prayer, 274, 280, 284, 288; our mirror, to be repeated morning and evening: the rule of faith, 288; repeated by those to be baptized on Easter eve, 284 (note), 288. Cross, the: the brightest jewel in the diadem of kings, 246; our deliverance from the tempests of the world, 337; what it is to take up, 409, 410; each as he has attained, takes up, 411; the honour afterwards paid to, 381; interpretation of the parts of, 370 sq.; signed on our foreheads in baptism, 337. Crown of righteousness, God's free gift, out of mercy and pity, 503. Cyprian, St., good shepherd, 523.   Darkness, he who thinks himself in, is enlightened, 313. Day, The Last: unknown to angels, but known to Son in the Father, 411; kept in store for Devil at end, 412; must watch in good lives that we be not unprepared for, 412; to each individual, as the day of his death, 411. Dead, the: wherefore said to sleep, 403; the raising of the dead in heart a greater miracle than of the dead in body, but seen only by those themselves raised in heart, 413; the Three, raised by our Lord, types of Divine Truth, 413, 414; they who are required to bury the dead, unbelievers, 421. Death, certainty of, from our birth, 346; Christ by His death destroyed, 355; our subjection to, teaches humility, 412; all good and evil uncertain except, 412; what death good, and what evil, discerned not by eyes, but by Christ in heart, 426; an evil, avoided by living well, 426 sq.; soul can and cannot undergo, 307; how that of soul and body, each known, 308; everlasting punishment that of body, absence of God that of soul, 308; incipient desire, consent, act, habit, four degrees of spiritual, 415; none of these beyond repent- ance, 415, 416. Debtor, God longs to be our, 414; all are God's, 362 sq., and all have brethren, theirs, 362 sq. Debts. See Forgiveness, Sins. Decalogue, the, reference of "ten thousand talents" to, 364. Deceit, to be avoided, 442; instances of, 442. Delay, only practised by him who thinks he has longer to live, 361; peril of, in good, 362. Denarius, the: the reward of righteousness, 480. Despair, the death of soul, 376; whilst life lasts, to be entertained of no one, 325. Devil, the: subdued by praise of God, 312; accuser of the saints, 398; corrupter of Church's virginity, 402; the wolf of the Church, 531; as invisible, must be subdued by invisible means: our self-praise makes victorious, 312. 1143 Sermons on Selected Lessons of the Gospels