GALATIANS AND EPHESIANS : INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Christians, in all conditions called
saints and faithful, 49; their
blessings spiritual, 50; how
chosen in Christ, 51; in order to
be unblamable, 51; ought to
be like Angels, 55, 62, 100; how
sealed by the Spirit, 56, 120;
their privilege in having Christ
for their head, 62; are members
of His body, 62; partakers of
His body in the Eucharist, 63;
are made to sit in heavenly
places, 67; are created unto
good works, 68; may not live in
the flesh, but in heaven, 74; are
given what elder saints toiled
after, 75; are collectively and
severally the temple of God, 75;
are bound as one body by mu
tual ties, 102; all equal in Christ,
102; alike in grace, differ in
gifts, 103; how light in the
Lord, 133; cannot serve God
and mammon, 135; must walk
circumspectly and not give of
fense, 137; must put on the
whole armor of God, 160; their
conflict with the devil, 161;
must stand well and be braced
up for the fight, 163; how they
are to keep the Passover, 165;
their warfare ceases in the land
of promise, 166; are here in a
pilgrimage or campaign, 166.
Chrysostom, St., did not preach to
please, 79 ; calls to public hu
miliation, 102; offers to resign
his dignity for the sake of unity,
108; his times, manifold vices
of, 78, 79 (and note) ; neglect
of Communion, 64; degeneracy
of teachers, 78 ; Church offi
ces salable, ib. ; the Church in
conflagration through pride,
IOO; treatment of slaves, 123.
Church, name of, implies unity, 4;
divided into a thousand parties,
8; represented by Sarah, 34;
its exaltation as the body of
Christ, 62; is Christ s fullness,
62 ; shall continue till He comes,
76, 82; is one body in Him, 99;
binds all together by mutual
good offices, ib. ; is like a house
built of men s souls, 100, 101;
set on fire by pride, ib. ; ought
not to seek the support of bad
men, 107; is the spouse of
Christ, 144; her condition when
He took her, ib.
Circumcision, brings us under the
Law, 37; observed by St. Paul,
nut preached, 38.
Clamor, forbidden, 123; is the vehi
cle of anger, a special fault of
women, ib.
Commandments, the Ten, the order
of them, 153.
Communicants, unworthy, 79; care
less and formal, 108;, must re
frain from reviling, and why, 120.
Communion, Church, not to be ex
panded to take in bad men, 107.
Concession, and command, difference
between, 15; condescension of
the Apostles to the Judaists, i-
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Corner-stone. See Christ.
Corruption, various meanings of the
word, 171.
Courtezans, 151.
Covenants, old and new proceeded
both from the Father and the
Son, 6.
Covetousness is idolatry in Christians,
133-34; leads to the death of
the soul, 134.
Cross, destroys the need of the Law,
3; removes the curse, 27; the
boast of Christians, 46; raises
them above the old Dispensation
as well as above the world, 46.
Curiosity, generally misdirected and
misplaced, 141.
Damsels, devoted to monastic life,
115-16.
David, a guileless character, 123.
Deacon, his office in dismissing the
congregation, 64 (and note).
Death, of the soul, what it is, 134;
the second death, 172.
Devil, why called the prince of this
world, 66; why of the power of
the air, ib. ; takes advantage of
men s quarrels, 119; and of their
covetousness, 162; his wiles, 159;
his forces, 160; maybe overcome,
160; but is not to be wrestled
with so much as trampled on,
162; his fiery darts are doubts,
169; and evil desires and sharp
sorrows, 169; to be slain bykeep
ing the commandments, 169.
Dispensation of grace, 76.
Drunkenness, excludes from Heaven,
69; its temporal ill effects, 138.
Earnest, the meaning of the word ex
plained, 56; see Spirit.
Economy, of the Apostles about the
Law, 15; to be beneficial to the
objects of it, must be concealed
from them, 16; of St. Paul in
circumcising Timothy, 16.
Education in Scripture remedies that
in the Classics, 154; consists in
nurture, see Children.
Eli, 154.
Elisha, 95.
Ephesus, the metropolis of [Procon
sular] Asia, 49; the abode of St.
John and of Timothy, and a
great resort of philosophers,
ib. ; its inhabitants advanced in
knowledge, 49.
Epiphany, the great festival of the
Greek Church in remembrance
of our Lord s Baptism and Birth,
63 (note) ; a season for Com
municating, ib.
Equality of ranks, inconsistent with
peace, 147; Christian equality,
102; civil slavery not inconsist
ent with it, 142; mutual service,
158-
Eucharist, called the flesh of Christ,
41 ; Christ s body and blood
partaken in it, 63; the prepara
tion for it, 63; profanation of it,
64; neglect of it, ib. ; formal
ism of Communicating only at
the seasons, danger of unworthy
Communicating, 63; inconsist
ency of coming to Service and
not Communicating, 64; unfit-
ness not the fault of nature but
of indolence, 65 ; Christ specially
present in the Eucharist, 65; al
lusions to the Eucharistic Ser
vice, 120-2 1 ; see Sacrifice.
Evidences, of the Gospel, 9.
Evil, not necessarily connected with
this life, 5; not in our bodily
substance but our will, 42.
Faith, vitiated by a slight adultera
tion, 7; to be defended in slight
matters, 8; slight perversion of,
invalidates the ministerial author
ity, 8; anterior to the Law, 26-
27; justifies without the Law, 26;
but not without love, 37; ever
sees Christ, 24; gains miraculous
and spiritual powers, 25; as no
force if the Law be added, 25;
makes us sons of God, 30; al
ways joined with love by St.
Paul, 60 ; will not save without
works, 67; a shield to protect
ready believers, 169.
Faithful, the, bear about the form of
Christ, 30; the body of Christ, 41.
Falsehood, an instance of willful sin,
58.
Fasting, a means of intercession, 101.
Father and Son, one in will, 4; one
in act, 6; reveal each other, n,
146.
Fathers, their duties in the nurture of
their children, 154.
Faults, to be mildly corrected, 43.
Fetters and bonds, gloried in by St.
Paul, 84, &c.
Fireworshipers, no.
Flesh, means not the body, but the
depraved will, 41.
Forgiveness, motives for it, 128-29.
Foundation, /carajSoA.}/, a beautiful al
lusion contained in the word, 51 :
Christ the foundation, 75.
"
Fullness of the times
"
was Christ s
coming, 54.
"
Fullness of Christ
"
is the
Church, 62.
"
Fullness of God
"
explained,
82.
Galatians, nature of their error, 2;
feared to forsake the Law, 6;
justly called "foolish," 23; sons
of Abraham as Isaac was, 34;
misled by party spirit, 40.
"Gather together into one," the
meaning of the expression, 54.
Gentile customs, 8.
Gentiles, raised above the privileges
of the Jews, 71; their calling a
mystery, 80; the vanity of their
worship as directed to the crea
tures, no; it flattered men s evil
passions, III.