HOMILIES ON PHILIPPIANS, COLOSSIANS, THESSALONIANS. 577 God, ib.; Abraham bore wrong from, 369. Love, spiritual, a support in great trials, 186; it was as a dew to the holy children, il>. ; impossible to convey St. Paul s in words, 188; is unbounded, 189; indis criminate, leads to weak friend ships, and to receiving spurious doctrines, and makes to stumble, ib. ; it should have respect to what is profitable, with under standing, ib.; maintained by be lievers standing in one mind, 199; to love one another the best return for spiritual benefits, 203; it is more to St. Paul than to deliver him from dangers, ib. ; greater than like-mindedness, ib. ; how much is meant by one ness of mind, ib. ; shown for others by wrestling in spirit for them, 224; increased by troubles from without, 253; spiritual love alone steadfast, 259; and like a queen over other friendships, ib.; instanced in St. Paul and Moses, ib. ; is as the bond or root, with out which there can be no per fection, 295; is more requisite from the governing to the gov erned than from the governed to the governing, 304; puts down envy, 313; labor of, 324; true, would give the soul, 330; pos sible, since Christ bids, 331; want of, causes heresies, ib. ; love dissembles favors, ib.; perpetu ates heathenism, ib. ; is indescrib able, as a foreign plant, ib. ; needs help of presence, 334; should extend to all, 341, 348, 380; makes unblamable, 342; saints pleased God by, ib. ; fire of, con sumes all sin, ib.; Cain wanted, ib.; overcame St. Paul, ib.; why mentioned in passing, 348; God teaches, ib. ; of God to man, 351; a breastplate, 363; how to strengthen, ib.; overcomes dis tance, 372; weak, shaken by affliction, strong, confirmed, 380- 81; should be equally balanced, 381; danger of division in, ib.; must be for God s sake, ib.; of God, hindered by many things, 393; toward God before our selves, implies before money too, ib. Love of money. See Wealth. Lowliness, corrects vainglory, 203; its powerwhen found in two per sons, 204; shown in a broken heart, ib.; of mind, 217. Lust, to be cut off, 344; and its occa sions, 345; a drunkenness, 362; insatiable, 379; cured by thought of hell-fire, ib. Luxury, gives birth to affliction and pain, 255; not to be envied, 364; talk of, hurtful, 384. Macedonia, country ofthe Philippians, 181; St. Paul s cultured field, 341. Macedonians, once as renowned as the Romans, 328; joined with others in St. Paul s crown, 334; empire of, overthrown by Ro mans, 328, 389. Madness, vice worse than, 364. Magistrates, scourge St. Paul more from impulse than wickedness, 182. Mammon, contradicts Christ s com mands, 211; hell and river of fire because of it, 212; turns from love of God, 393. Man, is superior to brutes onlythrough religion and virtue, 218; and in things that concern the soul, ib. ; may become an angel by practice of virtue, ib. ; not worthy of the grace of God, 266; greatness of his deliverance set forth, ib. ; and of his own will under the power of darkness, 275; could be per suaded to return to God only by Christ, ib. ; can continue in this state only by continuing to have faith and hope in Christ, 276; how he is changed by the Gospel, 276; "the old man" does not mean the substance of flesh, but the bad moral choice, 294; the new man is ever advancing to greater youthfulness, 295; man imperfect when alone, 318. Manes, 206. Manichees, 294 (note 5), 352 (note 2). Mansions, splendid, are a loss, 232. Marcellus, of Galatia, 206 ; in what way heretical, 207 ; how his heresy falls before St. Paul s text, ib. Marcion, of Pontius, 206; in what way heretical, 207. Marcionites, their heresy of our Lord being a phantom overturned, 213, 352 (note 2). Marriage, early recommended, 346; of chaste persons blessed, ib. ; object of, ib.; second, of widows, 349 ; feast at, occasions envy and discontent, 384. Marriages, satanical performances at, 378; how marriage is a mystery, ib. , marriage union really a pure thing, dishonored from man s wickedness, 319; how it is a mystery of the Church, ib. ; a satanic pomp in, without signifi- cancy, 320; pleasure will follow from celebration of a marriage in an orderly way, ib. ; melan choly from such as then were common, ib. : the right way to keep the wedding feast, ib. Martyrdom, is attained by lesser things more than by great, 226; not now usual, 336; may still be imitated, 337. Masters, duty of, to servants, 305. Medicine, bitter, useful, 360; to be sweetened, 337. Memorial, a great house a, of covet- ousness, 369. Memory of good deeds makes men remiss and haughty, 238. Mercy, works of, must never be given up, 182; should be worn as tokens about the necks of Christians, ib.; a means to convince unbe lievers, 183; must be done with caution and true faith, ib. ; can only be done in this world, ib. : can open the gates of heaven, 183; ofttimes called " righteous ness," 189; men soon led to it, no good in our nature so great as it, 2OI; in the nature even of the fiercest, ib. ; peculiar to power, ib. ; the world established by it, ib. ; most pleasing to God, ib.; priests, kings, and prophets anointed by it, ib. ; signified by oil, ib. ; it is over all men alike, il>. ; without it all created things would perish, ib. ; cause of light to men, 202; to be merciful God s true character, and so man s, ib.; it is of it that all things are, ib. ; it delivers from fire of hell, ib. ; comes of love, ib. ; without man s showing it, he shall have no forgiveness, ib.; must be shown to obtain mercy, 365 ; where none the Spirit dwells not, 371. Metals, abuse of precious, through luxury, 292. Ministers of Christ not clothed by miracle, 229; allowed to be in want that others may be profited, ib. ; though unworthy, have God with them, 274. Miracle, standing, of fruits of Sodom, 357- Miracles, danger of men being hon ored for, 339; of Antichrist, 386, 389- Moderation, binding on all, not priests only, 227; reasons why it should be shown to enemies and the bad, 246. Money sent by Philippians to St. Paul at Rome, 226; to be employed in God s service, 233; must be despised for the sake of God, 393- Monks, near Antioch, 394 (note 2). Mortification, as necessary as it is continually to rub the rust off a bright statue, 294; of sin in members of the body necessary, 296-97. Moses, a schoolmaster to the Jews, 277; his intercession, 327; would not have saved Jews at last, ib. ; seat of, 366; conquered Amalek by prayer, 391. Mother, delights in her cares, 392; her pangs before birth, spiritual parents lasting, ib. ; heavenly Jerusalem our, 398. Mothers should take care of their own characters, because their daughters take pattern from them, 308-9. Motives, temporal weigh with most men, 348. Mourning, house of, 384. Mouth, how to use it in God s ser-