His poor, that we may be clothed of Him, 408; His "least," they who have left all for
Him, 450; by bridling our desires, we cry to Him, 384; only true love of ourselves cometh
through love of Him, 394; above in His Person, here in His members, 472, 517, and in
the needy, 473; this double presence figured by angels ascending and descending, 399,
472, 473, 474; Passion of, typified by troubling of water of Bethesda, 475, 477; fulfilled
law by giving charity, 481; will of, very righteousness, 482; manifests Himself to them
that love Him, 485; His witness of Himself not true only to the hard of belief, 491; John
Baptist and Martyrs witnesses of, 492; yea, Christ witness of Himself in them, 492;
testified of in Old Testament, 497; His gifts not voided by man's unholiness, 498, 519;
capable of mystical interpretation, 498 sq.; His Blood our price, 499; binds us by bonds
of His Passion, 499; more to be loved than feared, 499; security in, as our great Patron,
500, 501; cannot deceive or be deceived, 507, 508; as the Fountain of all truth: and the
Truth itself, 365, 508; went not up to Feast at first, to hide His Divinity, 509; ransomed
us, by nature slaves and dead, 510; as under sin, 511; "free among the dead," i.e., sinless
amongst sinners, 511; made sin for us, i.e., sacrifice for sin, 511; humiliation of, how
typified by Elisha, 517; knoweth us better than we ourselves, 518; the Shepherd and
the Door (entered by following Christ in pain), 518; Shepherd and Lamb, Pastor and
Pasturage, Lion and Lamb, 523; He the only Son "by nature," 527, 530; the two Nativities
of, each wondrous, 529; as man the Way, as God the Truth and Life, 532; they who
possess, possess all things, 534, even the Father Himself, 534; came down in mercy,
went up in righteousness, 536; very satisfaction of soul, 540. See Word, The.
Christians, must be taught first what to believe, then what to ask, 280; must turn all
hindrances into their cross, 409, 410; dignity of, compared with unregenerate man,
500; are sons of God, 355; by grace, 527, 530; not mere men, 355; joined on to right-
eousness of Christ, 539; are vessels of Christ, cleansed by Him from bitterness and
made sweet, 499 sq.; not to be despised, 500; must love what is higher, not look back
to what is lower, 411; are renewed by cleaving to Christ, 356; the true, hindered by the
lukewarm from crying to Christ in deed, 383, 384, 385, 409; their duty to cry and not
faint, 384 sq.; if they persevere, will be blessed by those who now hinder them, 385; as
infants they look for the promises to come, 486; keep not Jewish festivals, as figured
by our Lord's not going up to feast, 509.
Church, the: the throne of God, 285; Christ's Body, 299, 302, 497, 517; seen by us who believe
the Head, 457; testified of in Old Testament, 497; the Bride of Christ, 394, 400, 402 sq.,
525, and one flesh with Him, and therefore speaketh to her children in His words, 496;
our Mother, 281; the corner, as calling Jews from one side, and Gentiles from the other,
391; in intimate union with the Head, 399 sq., 539; the raiment of Christ, illumined by
Himself, The Sun, 347; the ship tossed on the sea, 304, 337; founded on faith, 247; how
faith is grafted in, 383 sq.; is Christ as shown by Christ's words to St. Paul at his conver-
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