Punishment, temporal, of sin, 324; tions of rationalists not to be those that thirst after them like
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Rhetorical skill, its worthlessness, 79.
Rich, the, their contempt of the poor, efficacy consists, 299; shown in humbleness, 299, 300; to be perpetual, 300; future, vain, 325; here always possible, 381; danger and sin of delaying, 382; able to right transgressions, 410; hinders an Apostle even from punishing, 417; how the way to joy,
418.
Reproach, harder to bear than afflicProfuseness, on lusts, common, 369, 370Promise, the, used of Canaan, 333, 157; their misery, 173, 174; ignorant of the perishable nature of their riches, 174; need the poor as much as the poor need them, 205, 206; enjoy the sun and air less than the poor, 340; spend for the poor, 340; their diet (note. ) Promises of God, sure, 289.
Prophets, knew not all thfngs, 288, 292; wrought life in bodies, could not in souls, 307.
Prophecy, fulfilled, a kind of miracle, 31; double sense of, 36.
See Gifts of Prophecy.
Propagation of the Gospel, a kind of causes disease, 340; their bellies furnaces, lit with corpses, 341; sewers, 26., few of, saved, 346; stand near to love of money, vain glory, pride, 2d., have no hope if they use not much wisdom, 2. ; fill but one belly, 341,
361; gain not by their abundance, 361; dependent in proportion to their wealth, 362; to be warned by the sight of death, 390.
See Poor.
Riches, abused make men poor, 76; tion, 338; many fall by it, 339.
Reproof, of a brother, how to be practised, 266; an example of, sign, 32; why now at a stand, 32; why attended with miracles, 30, 31; why effected by the unlearned, 23, 24; against the tyranny of ancient custom, 40; a proof of the divine nature of the Gospel, 20, 21, 25, 40, 43; of the power of the cross, 19.
See Evidence.
Punishments, human, their analogy 266.
Reserve, necessary in teaching, 34; how consistent with full preaching, 35; St. Paul's practice of in declaring pardon to the incestuous person, 87; necessary in speaking of the sacraments, 244, 245.
; ERAS ety a work ascribed both to not evil in themselves, 76; the evils which accompany them befall men living and dead, 214; those that thirst after them like dreamers, 221; the unseemliness of this passion, 224; in what sense from God, in what not, 173, 206, 207 ; grow by distribution, 247; manna a warning against hoarding, 248.
See Covetousness, Wealth.
Righteousness, cannot dwell with covetousness, 371; a queen, 20. ; of slaves makes freemen, 2d.
"Rock that followed them," 133.
Romans, ix. 5, applied to Christ, 114.
Rule, ecclesiastical, its superiority to the Father and the Son, 97; its credibility proved by analogies from nature and art, 98; objections of rationalists not to be listened to, 98; an evil conscience, the ground of man's unbelief of, 98; creation a type of,
99; its importance as a doctrine of Christianity, 226; two opposite errors concerning it, 226; design of Satan in attacking it, 226; course of St. Paul's argument for it, 227; Manichaean notion of, confuted, 228, (note,) with the threats of Scripture, 49, 50; Apostolic and miraculous, 79.
See Eternal, Hell fire.
Punishment, temporal, of sin, 324; not universal, 324; we should even wish for and inflict on ourselves, 334; as men do who have injured friends, 335.
Punishment, eternal, compared with temporal punishments, 325; fear of, avails more, 328; irremissible, 329; thought of, applied to different sins, 330; may be made impossible by each man for himself, 330.
Pythian Priestess, her madness, 170.
Pulse, the exclusive use of, recommended, 370.
Race course terms, used by scoffers at 235, (note;) reality of Christ's resurrection proved by his death, 228; and burial, 228; and by eyewitnesses, 229 ; five-fold proof of it, 234; mutual relation between Christ's and our own, 234; implied in the hope of salvation, 235; and in Christ's final triumph, 240; in our baptism, 245; and in the Apostle's sufferings, 246; and in our death, 250; how far the same body raised, 250; heretical objection as to the identity of body refuted, civil, 353; concerned with souls, 353; deals with secret sins, 354, and with less offences, 354; weldeth our life together, 354; lendeth aid, 354; discourseth of high things, 354; its mildness, 3553 cures, not cuts off, the sinner, 355; effects of on the world, 3553 without pride, 366.
Rulers, shown by love to the ruled, heavenly things, 323.
Rationalizing, a source of early heresy, 2; foolishness of it in things human and divine, 16; compared to a smith using the tongs with his hand, 23; exemplified in Adam, 24; excludes stability in doctrine, 24, 25 ; compared to a pilot without a ship, 33.
Reading the Scriptures, in public, a 352; why likened to vine dressers, 353; spiritual, higher than temporal, 354; a paternity in spiritual, 354; the mode of electing these better, 354, 355.
Ruling, an art of the highest, 352; 250; the doctrine does not hinder degrees of glory, 251; how far the body changed, 256; our deliverance from sin and the law proves the doctrine, 257; seen in daily deliverances, 279; Christ's shown in the Apostles, 321, 342; took place for our sakes, 322; doctrine of established by the way, 326; common to all, but its glory not, 327; of body, objections of heretics to, 329; shown in plants, 354.
Restitution, required by the heathen, motive to reverence, 220, (note).
Reasoning from analogy, proper for infidels, 249.
Rebecca, her charity to Jacob, 196, note; her conduct, why vindicated by the Fathers generally, over states, 353; over a man's self, 353; over the church, 354; agriculture a kind of, 355.
"Rulers of this world," whom St.
196.
' Rebuke, pain of, brief; good of, per- %, Re Paul calls such, 34.
Sabellianism, Chrysostom's petual, 350; danger of withholding, 351.
Regeneration, at baptism, 176, 284; caution against, 24.
Sacrifice, the Lord's Supper, 305; a greater thing than the resurrection, 307.
Relations, cannot succor in hell, 329; a kind of in prayer, confession, repentance, 303; different kinds of in the law, 304.
Saints, how they will judge the world, 87; if neglected visited upon posterity, 87; Zacchaeus, a notable example of, 87; certain in the last day, 88.
Reverence, more paid to men than nor will wish to, 330.
Repentance, tokens of, 47 ; produced g1; their intercession of no avail for unholy persons, 258; addressed by St.
Paul, 272; cannot possibly be punished, 381 ; weak as well as glorious, 401, 403; why they were so, 403; by severe censure, 60; never too late in this world, nor to be obtained in the next, 136; how made use of by Satan, 298; ashes and fastings are not of themselves, 299; in what its to God, 67, 220.
Reward, not to be impatiently expected, 261; increased by our sufferings, 262.
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tism, effaced in it, 381; yet still remembered by St. Paul, 381; danger of dying in, 382; its uncleanness, 411; even sinners being witnesses, 411.
Slavery, not degrading to a good man, 108; what kind is degrading, 108; not possible for a good man to be a slave, 109.
Slander, a common evil, 267; hurts their tombs glorious, 404; pilgrimages to, 404; their days, festivals, 404; their prayers asked, 404; their bones expel demons, 404; have power when dead, 404.
Salt, partaking of, held a sacred bond cus, the persons who brought the account of the Corinthian church to St. Paul, 265.
Stewardship, the thought of, a lesson of humility and resignation, 56; and that nothing is exclusively our own, 57.
Sufferings, for Christ a present reward, of, 246; give goodlier hopes, 322; even by robbers, 407.
Salvation, wrought by suffering, 277.
Samuel, his care for the people, 352; | not to be regarded apart from their reward, 339; to be not only borne, but rejoiced in, 340; attract God's forgiveness, 391; God's power shown in, 402; the road to victory, 412.
Subintroductae, what, 266, (note).
Superfluities, to be cut off so as to why he seemed to boast, 394.
Sanctification, baptismal, I.
Sanctuaries, of heaven, ayides, what, the slanderer more than the slandered, 268; its threefold evil, 268; when we forgive it, a proof of our innocence, 269.
Smatterers, harder to reach than the 142. (note.) Sapphire, 89.
Sarah, a pattern for wives, 155; her simply ignorant, 23. advice to Abraham to take Hagar, then allowable, not now, | Socrates, whether his death was voluntary, 19; compared with the martyrs, 19; considered an innovation, 40; and Xantippe, 156.
Sodom, a witness to future punishishment, 50.
Sojourners, our estate as such, 359; give bountifully, 372; measure of, 20.
Superstition, men's tendency to, 71.
Suspicion, to be avoided, 331, 336.
Sybarite, table of a, 370.
Teachers, those reprehended to bear 155:
Coir al simply an adversary, 401.
Saul, his reproaches to Jonathan meekly borne, 196; an example of envy, 395. the rebukes of, 349; others to work with, 349; their disciples' growth their consolation, 352; not to be hasty in punishing, 376; mark of, to mourn over disciples' wounds, 410.
Temple, the, its destruction involved we should choose to be such, 359:
Soldiers, irreligious, reproved by case '' Saved by fire," what, 51.
Scandal, how given, 123, 124; sin of giving it, 26., St. Paul's care of Cornelius, 28.
Solomon, overcome by lust, 391; his days, 401; ruined by his prosperity, 403; enjoyed peace and plenty, 173.
Sorcerers, converted by St. Paul, to avoid it, 118.
Schism, its formal nature, 10; may originate in mind or judgment, 11; Corinthians guilty of it, 158.
Schismatical teachers, their rapacious the abolition of the law, 312.
That 've, not always indicative of the cause, but simply of the event, 159.
Temptations, not to be endured withand mercenary spirit, 121.
Scriptures, their rule of life, 346.
Scylla, a heathen image of sin, 52.
Seal of the cross, in baptism, 71, | 377:
Sorrow, excessive, sinfulness of, 231.
See Mourning. worldly, harmeth, 351; for sins profiteth, 350; out God's help, 138; why permitted, 321; their gain, 26., 337.
Thanksgiving, disclaims merit, 6; always due, 6; under affliction, (and note.) Self-indulgent, have no fellowship with Christ, 274.
Self-love, if true, leads to same conCain's, Esau's, David's, Peter's, 351; for the dead benefitteth not, 351.
Son, the, how said to be subject to 275; in behalf of others a duty, 280, 281; for common blessings, 281; under afflictions looseth sin, 300.
Theatrical entertainments, their infamous character, 68.
Theodoret, (on 1 Cor. xv: 49), 255.
Theodorus, the atheist, 20.
Theology, a matter of testimony throughout, 31.
Thessalonians, the, 360.
Thomas, St., forced to go into Judea, duct as love, 197.
Self-praise, sometimes useful, 381, and to be commended, 395, yet to be cut short, 406.
Senate, the Roman, deified Alexander the Father, 238; his authority equal to the Father's, 239.
Sosthenes, inferior to Apollos, 3.
Souls dead, when their movements unhealthy, 308.
Spirit, the Holy, how he dwells withthe Great, 402; refused this to Christ, 402.
Separation, without mutual consent in us, 101; of Christ dwelling within us, 102; illustrated by example of a King's son, 102; why sometimes not named, 114, unlawful, 106.
Servants, our care of their souls, 71.
Sexes, their relation a bond of char26, 27.
Thoughts, an army having various 240; equal to the Father and the Son, 172; his personality and divinity, 173; given to all baptized persons, 176; possesses all knowledge, 203; a seal, 293; of one essence with the Father, ity, 204.
Shame, at being dependent, lowminded, 361.
Shimei, his cursing David, 299, 388.
Shoes, not worn by many, as servants ranks, 290; he who governs. them a king, 290.
Three children in the fire, 104.
Time, shortness of, 336; the acceptaand laborers, 353.
Sign of the cross, 118.
Simon Magus, an instance of vain313; giveth life, 26., 310; Lord and God, 313; the author of a creation within us, 314; an earnest of immortality, 327
Spiritual gifts, abused, 338.
Spiritual things compared with spirble, what, 337.
Timidity, no reproach to any one, 200.
Timothy, 413; Paul's commission to glory, 212.
Sin, makes men in some respects worse than devils, 53; its effect in blinding the soul, 61; original destroyed in baptism, 240; some punished in this world, some in the next, 164; best checked in its beginning, 62; danger of little sins, 52; medicines for, 300, 351; even after baptism, 300; its end here and hereafter to be considered, 330; sin, not him, 78; a courageous and faithful man, 263; associated with Paul in the address as with him, 274; and out of humility, 2d.
Titus, his absence felt by Paul, 300, | | itual, 37; spiritual wan judges | others, yet is not judged of them, 39; spiritual dody, spirit always present in, 252, (note).
Spirit, soul and body, how distinguish348; his witness to the Corinthians, 343, 348; his love for them,
348, 358; how received by them, 271, 358; Paul's praise of, 358; why the only one named amongst the bearers of the collection, 365; received not, 408. ed, 252, (note).
Statues of Theodosius, overthrown at Antioch, 104, (note). punishment to be lamented, 300 ; | Stephanas, his household, their praise, and dreaded, 334; before bap265; with Fortunatus and Achai-
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on account of gifts, compared to oils, encountered willingly to rest after, 325; in worldly things great, yet the first often little, 325; in heavenly little, and the fruit boundless, 325.
Tongues, gift of, received by some "Wheresoever the carcase is" ex. plained, 142.
Widows, assemblies of, 178.
Widow's mite, an encouragement to roud flesh, 65; reproved on ground that all is of grace, 65; and by an argument ad vere cundiam, 65; its manifold evils, 212; a remedy for it, 213; examples of victory over it, 213; in almsgiving, cruelty, 345; hinders others from giving, 3455 shames the giver, the receiver and Christ, 345; the slave of, must be grovelling, 417; a savage mistress, 417; engendered by littleness of mind, 418. ae Fe ean those who can do but a little good in the way of conversion, Is.
Widow of Sarepta, the, her faith, 320; disregarded her children even, 371; manly though a woman, 371; gave more to hospitality than Abraham, 371.
Will of God, reason for contentment, who were elated by it, 338.
Torches, at funerals, 388.
Tradition of the church, excludes human inventions, 31; supplies information not to be obtained from the letter of Scripture, 36, and note.
Treasury of the church, what, 259.
Trinity, the, three persons in, co-equal, 177.
Witchcraft, charge of, against the Apostles, 320; how refuted, 320.
Wisdom, without goodness, its utter a two-fold, over the Gospel, 283; over the Jews, on the letters and their hearts, 312.
Vice, its weakness, 411.
Vice and Virtue, the difference between them not subjective, 81; in what sense virtue easier than vice, 80, 81; (see Pleasure); vice, its misery, illustrated by an anecdote of a corn dealer at Antioch, 241.
Veil, 171; the same things said of each person, 319, 418; interchange of gifts, 419.
Trumpets, overthrew cities, 320.
Tychicus, 278.
Unbelief, caused by the bad lives of degradation, 52; how to be gained by becoming a fool, 54.
Women, in danger of mistaking the signs of repentance for repentance, 299; easily deceived,
384; bands of, at funerals, 276, 390; favor of, courted by preachers, 408.
Woman, why subject to man, I50; Christians, 15; compared with insanity in its treatment of those who would remedy it, 16.
Uncleanness, eminently a profane vice, 52; its misery, 224; com-| Virgins, choirs of, 178. pared with chastity, 225; may | Virgins, the foolish, regrets of vain, be said of all sin, 410.
Uncertainties, not to be trusted to in before the fall not subject, 2d. ; why she ought to be covered, I5I1; women prophesied in Paul's time, 151; dishonored by taking the man's honor, I51; those who wear short hair all one as if uncovered, 152; custom of -wearing short hair abolished, 325; they fell by love of money, 392.
Virginity, commonly within man's power, 50; higher state than marriage in all, 105, 106, 110; our soul's concerns, 382.
Uninitiated, the, may not know all things, 365.
Unity of the church, implied in its yet not compulsory on any, 106; 153; why they should not teach in public, 222.
Word of wisdom and of knowledge, name, 3, 5, 176; depending on communion with Christ, 3, 47 ; of the Spirit, what, 176; of the | members forbids envy, 177; reason for contentment, 177; taught by the beauty of proportion, 178; applied to various classes in the church, 178; of ithe -members of the body, 181, if once chosen solemnly, should not be given up, 110; why a higher state, 110; Chrysostom's treatise on, referred to, III; differs from continence, the latter absolutely necessary to Salvation, 110; introduced by the Gospel, 320; not commanded, 391; where it profiteth not, 392.
Virtue, maketh prayer respected, 281 ; what, 172.
Works, good or bad, the Christian's building, "With thy spirit," a liturgical response, 219.
World, the, worthy of God, 378; 182; an example to the greater to care for the less, 183; symmary of the argument derived from the body, 187.
Unleavened bread, its typical meanand yet defective, 378; why both, 378; (see also 401;) opposite notions of, 378; refute one another, 378.
Worldly things, a lowering winter, more than money maketh men of a cheerful countenance, 340; is natural, 363; by words even striketh down its adversaries, 410; its strength even when bound, 411. that His kingdom shall come to | «« Weakness " means persecution, 34 ; an end, 238.
Unworthiness of ministers, no bar to ing, 86.
Until, spoken of God does not imply 316; make men cowards, 76. ; delights of, have weiss: 3255 present satisfy not, 26.,; men toil in, to rest after, 326.
Wrong doers, the real sufferers, 95 ; three different senses of, 414; how said of God, of Christ, 4! 5:
"Use it rather," spoken of continu- | Wealth, its tendency in respect to ance in slavery, 108.
Utterance, a special grace, 6.
Vainglory, on behalf of others, 64; they who suffer wrong are under God's discipline, 96.
Zacchaeus, had an appointed time the grace of the sacraments, 44.
Faith, 24; with what palliations the love of it may be abated, 62, 63.
See Riches. for restitution, 208.
See Restitution.