Physician, spiritual, 360, 394; cures by contraries, 378. Piety, the chief good, 369; abides, 451. Pilgrimages, 340; to the dunghill of Job, 371; use of, 467. Pilot, 408; his chief concern, 399; in storms, 446, 483. Place, importance of, for the delivery of the law, 394. Plato, 402, n.; on the human body, 413, n.; on the motions of heavenly bodies, 419, n. Players, deprived of the holy Communion, 439, n. Pleasure depends on relish, 352; present diminished, pain in view, 450. Plural number, use of, 481, n. Pole, balancing, 470. Poor, God's care for, 341; represent Christ for us, 349; trust in God, 351; relish food and sleep, 352. Porch, of church for penitents, 472, n. Porphyrio, a bird greatly esteemed, 408, n. Porters, cajoled for favours, 474. Pot, the golden, of the temple, 467. Poverty, a benefit and protection, 342, 353, 372; of Elijah, 353; of Job, 442; alleged to excuse almsgiving, 475. Power, of injuring the just, why granted, 386; taken away easily, 451; of judges, 454. Practice, laxity of, causes death to be feared, 375; a matter of choice and endeavours, 428; right, impossible without fear of God, 439; the season of, is the test of religion, 446; without questioning, 447; of Saints proves Scripture, 455. Praise, of one another beside the purpose, 380; to be suspected, 441; of men from reconcili- ation, 479. Prayer, the only resource in trouble, 346; power of, 351; recommended, 354, 356; united powerful, 356; of women, 356; to be persevered in, 362; inattention at, 394, 472; natural as a way of assisting the distressed, 426; penitential, a special kind, 427, n.; fruit of, never lost, 451; most needful after deliverance, 452; for fellows in affliction, 458; the Lord's, taught in Baptism, 355, n.; how entitled, 478, n.; not to be used by halves, 478. Preaching, suits not extreme distress, 346; may solace the suffering, 346; to be heard for improvement, 347; of the Gospel not bound as the preacher, 450. Precepts, three proposed to be learnt, 363; moral without the reason, 421; of the Gospel better carried in heart than on paper, 470. Preservation of the world by God, 403. Pride, 348; how to check, in the rich, 349; evil of, 350; spiritual, on account of good works, 337; remedied by considering the weakness of the body, 413, 417; preceded by ignorance, 421. Priest, our wound to be shewn to, 360, n.; consoles the afflicted in adversity, 483. 756 Homilies on the Statues