Creation, not to be disparaged, 335; dishonors fawners, 386; a proof of God's love for us,
391; when written of, in Scripture, 394; testifies to God, 401, 407; mode of above the
power of Nature, 403; consists of contraries harmonized, 404; decay of, without
Providence, 408; deified, 408; why subject to decay, 409, 411; like the Apostles under
persecution, 409; mutual dependence of parts, 411; neither all at rest nor all in motion,
419; the parts not understood ought to amaze, 421.
Creature, use of word, 411, n.
Criminals, wretched appearance of at the bar, 396.
Cross, the, a symbol of salvation, 448; sign of, not a charm, 470, n.
Crown, given for overcoming sin, 438; inferior to chains, 447; humanity gained by
Theodosius, 485.
Custom, no match for fear, 437; easier overcome than concupiscence, 469.
Cyprian, St., on intercession of Saints, 389, n.
Dancing, feats in, 470, n.
Danger of arguing about nature, 403, n.; unconcern of Saints for, 448; of relapsing under
prosperity, 452.
Daphne, a suburb of Antioch, 457, n.
David, though small, a victor, 458.
Davison vindicates the idea of sacrifice, 422, n.
Day, unvarying and equal with night, 402.
Death, proves vanity of riches, 351; no subject of alarm, 372; eagerness of St. Paul for, 372;
base if in sin, but not so from violence, 373; evil to sinners only, 373; an unjust brings
into special communion with the Saints, 374; unjust permitted by God, 374; what is,
374, 390; having it before our eyes, 376; soldier fearing, ignoble, 376; dreaded for want
of self-mortification, 384; full of joy to the godly, 461; courted by the monks of Antioch,
463.
Debtors, treatment of, 362.
Debts, God's remission of to men, and a creditor's compared, 478.
Deer, escaped from a snare, 441.
Degradation, attaching to athletics, 470.
Demosthenes, bad habit of: how cured, 394.
Desertion of the Philosophers in distress, 454.
Dice-playing to be shunned, 442.
Differences, seeming, reconciled, 403, 469.
Difficulties for God's sake, 477; none can stand against the fear of God, 480.
Dignity of a city is its virtue, 456; of no avail at the Judgment, 457.
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