Mankin, out of contentiousness take Messengers of the Churches, the, who, analogy, Providence, and Scrip-
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
421; best secures our salvation, 422.
Luke, by some thought « the brother attained without dying, 275; | Modesty, ill-timed does harm, 381; patience under loss of goods a kind of, 275; or under loss of children, 275; a name appropriate to our Lord's death, 29; nothing without love, 148.
Martyries, 403.
Maran atha, meaning of, 265 (note) taught by St. Paul's example, 399:
Monarchs, their festal days a time of whose praise, etc.," 363.
Lust, how admitted, how fed, 315; gifts, 337.
Money, the love of, a severe mistress, 315; its captives more than lust's, 315, 391; incompatible with righteousness, 371; makes freemen slaves, 371; none but pitiful persons possessed with, 389; compared with sexual desire, 389; no indulgence given to it by the Gospel, fiercer than avarice, 315; from ourselves and not the devil only, 315 ; gendered by idleness, 316; bywhabit, 316; its.cure;:
316; the fear of God best quenches it, 316, 345; to be quenched by thought of hell-fires, 316, 330; more imperious than love of money, 389; or anger, 389; hath overcome great persons, 389; not therefore excusable but to be watched against, 389; permitted in a sort in marriage, 389; implanted and why, 389.
Luxury, examples of, 124, 247; how why used in this place, 266.
Mary, the first who saw Christ, 229.
Marcellus, of Ancyra, his heresy, 237.
Manifestation, of the Spirit, what, 171, Martyrs, compared with Socrates, 19; their astonishing tortures, 19.
Matthew, his immediate cure, 62.
Matthias, 366.
Materialists, 25.
Men, praise or blame of not to be 389; is not implanted in us, 389 ; how overcomes more persons than lust, 389; the five foolish virgins fell by it, 390.
Monks, an order of (perhaps) marregarded, 303; when but beasts in human form, 308; here but sojourners, 359; all dependent on each other, 361; so by God's decree, 362; how legislators to themselves, 363; but women if easily deceived, 384.
Merchant, portraiture of a generous ried, 178.
Moors, the, 412.
Moses, with Jethro an example of huit unfits for heaven, 257, 258.
Lying, a sin of the poor, 346.
Macedonian Controversy, alluded to, mility, 4; also in joining his oppressed people, 5; was stoned by the Jews,27; more famous for love to others than for miracles, 146; his privileges less not only than the Apostles' but than Christians generally, 311; the glory of his countenance, 311; his glory, not the tables, 310; it isseen, partaken and surpassed by those who turn to God, 313; his love for his people, 352; listened to Jethro's counsel, 366; left the story written, why, 366; once fled from fear, 399; shone by suffering, 401.
Motives, approve acts, 393.
Mourners, hired at funerals, 72; others, 276; derive comfort from punishing themselves, 335.
Mourning, not to be excessive, 165 172.
Macedonians, the, compared with the Corinthians, 277, 386; their praises, 356; had suffered loss of goods for the Gospel, 356; their bountifulness had many degrees of excess, 357; was accompanied by other graces, 357; the assistance they gave to St.
Paul, 387.
Madness of the Mind, in grasping one, 58; for the contrary, see Commerce.
Mercy, of God no plea for our negligence, 136; a cause why men should fear, 49, 50; God's chief attribute, 273; seeketh out the worthy, 280; assimilates to God, 358; a greater thing than raising the dead, 358.
Merciful, the, in the highest sense a shadows, 416; inexcusable, 417.
Magic, the suspicion of it in miracles obviated, 30; magical verses quoted, 169.
Magus, 415.
Magnanimity, true and false, 5.
Man, first and second, why those exman, 358; a priest, 374; like to God, 374; his altar, Christ's body, 374; and greater than the Christian altar, 374.
Merit, of human works altogether pressions used, 255; men made to depend upon each other, 147, 57; how superior to women, 153.
Mankin, out of contentiousness take disclaimed, 3, 6; this disclaimer involved in the doctrine of Baptismal regeneration, 6.
Messengers of the Churches, the, who, and note; for others' sins, 84; for the dead, if excessive, against analogy, Providence, and Scripture examples, 253.
See Consolations, Bereavements.
Mouth, the, God's table, when filled 364; persons chosen such, above suspicion, 364; why several, 265; except Titus unknown to the Corinthians, 365.
Mind, not the body, cause of sin, 99, part with persons evil spoken of, 407.
Manliness, the test of, 371.
Manes, his system, 38.
Manichees, 255; dismember St.
Paul's writings, 378; refuted by them, 378.
Manna, the, 361.
Marcion, his notions, 318; dismemwith thanksgiving, 309; the porch of Christ's temple, 418; announceth God's oracles, 418; to be kept undefiled, 418.
Munificence, determined not by amount of gift, but mind of the giver, 357, 371; its reward in spiritual abundance, 360, 371, 372; yet hath both a temporal and a spiritual recompense, 371; maketh men approved, 374.
Mutilation of the body, punished even 181.
See Body.
Miners, their misery, 137.
Ministers, for the sake of the people, 55; not to grow weary of repeating plain truths, 33; their unworthiness does not hinder the effect of the Sacraments, 44; only stewards, and not to be puffed up by their stewardship, bered St. Paul's writings, 378 ; yet refuted by them, 378.
Marcionite way of perverting the phrase "baptized for the dead,"
244; their Dualism, 318 (note.) Marriage, heathen ceremonies at, condemned, 69; mixed, rules for, 106; reasons for continuance in, 107; second marriages, when unlawful, 111; with kindred forbidden, 110; in order to lead us to charity, 204; declined by some on worldly grounds, 323; not accused by Chrysostom, 324}; concessions in respect to, 420.
See Husbands and Wives.
Miracles, visible, why they ceased, by the heathen, 182.
Mysteries, why the Gospel so called, 31; may be wrought by bad men, 44; why inferior to prophecy and teaching, 186; not in operation in Chrysostom's time, 320; the first Christians wrought them, 414.
Misquotation of Scripture, danger of, 34; and the Sacraments, 34; exclude human explanations, 34,
35; how the preaching of them consists with reserve, 35 ; how believers and unbelievers look upon them, 35; the danger of making them too cheap, 35; unmeet for unbelievers, 318.
Naaman, 389.
Names of men, a token of unsound 206.
Mistaken way of defending the Gos- / pel, 14.
'\) Martyrdom, always a time for, 274; | Moabites, the, 394.