Rule self-imposed for the cure of faults, 471. Rulers, God arms, 381; fear of, proper, 381; like the supports of a building, 382.   Sabbath, why enjoined in Decalogue, 422; made a type of the Lord's Day, 422, n. Sacrament, more than Elisha had, 353. Sacrifice, a dictate of the natural law, 422, n.; unbloody, 472. Sadness, darkens the sight, 346; of the rich, 459. Saints, especially assailed, 334, 342; eight reasons why afflicted, 336; their power from God, 338; motives of, for serving Him, 338; not to be worshipped, 338, n.; ninth and tenth reason why afflicted, 340; their countenance, 355; a few save their country, 356; effects of their sanctity on nature, 367; daunted by nothing, 368; surmount all natural ills, 375; the more tried, the more glorious, 386; meekness of, when magnified by men, 386; departed, intercession of, 389, n.; unconcern for their own safety, 448; the living, pro- claim the virtues of their teachers, 455; joy of, under trouble wonderful, 461. Salvation, obtained by few without threats, 392; precepts of, not hindered by the body, 472. Sand, the boundary of the sea, 404; house built on, 446. Satan aims most at the advanced, 334, 342; messengers of, 337; would have men reckoned gods, 338; called to account by Jehovah, 338; accuses Job, 339; assails him, 339; foiled by Job's patience, 341; man has nothing in common with, 343; his rage against Antioch, 344; how he resisted, 357; his spite at Job, 366; greatest efforts abortive, 367, 386; most defeated by the righteous in adversity, 371; arts of, to keep alive anger, 398; attempts of, thwarted by God, 419, 439; specially flourishes amidst oaths, 433; agency of, in the case of Saul and the honey, 434, 436; reason of, urging Jonathan to eat, 434; a fowler, 441; service of, often hard, 469; author of swearing, 470; our sole enemy, 476; disap- pointed at the Emperor's clemency, 485. Saul, would not from hatred name David, 393; his prohibition to eat defeated, 433, 436; rashness of, 433, 436; grief over Jonathan's confession, 436; likely consequences of his oath, 437. Scene of remarkable events affects us, 467. School, severity of, 381, 449. Sciences, application to spiritual subjects, 407. Scripture Holy, as a lyre and a trumpet, 331; flowery meadow, 331; a mine of wisdom, 332; to be alleged in teaching, 336, 337; allegorical sense of, 338, n.; course of reading, 347, 348, 358, ns.; food from, 348; consolation from every part of, 391, 394; an instance, 391; not needed in the first ages, 400; entirely agrees, 403; slowness in explaining, 446; sense of, with the clergy, 447; accounts of the faithful verified in living Saints, 455. Seal, set on confiscated houses, 427. Seasons, order and harmony of, 402. 759 Homilies on the Statues