Baptism, its necessity, 12; laver of ness, 285 ; what their own prayer manifold person, 254; wounded
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Astrology, among Christians, 21.
Augustin, 22, 79, 170.
Babylon, tower of, 322.
Babylonians, 390.
Babylonish dragon, death compared 108 ; though slaves are free, 109; have almost all fallen, 135; are prophets, priests, and kings, 290; made so at baptism, 293; they alone really know the law, 373; have greater privileges than Jews had, 335; their high birth, 344, 345; are here in a foreign land, 362; have Christ in them, 418, Church, the, both one and many, 175; by it, 395; sinned, not realizing God's omnipresence, 303; his life of fear, 316; his sorrow, worldly, 353.
Calf, the golden, 378.
Captivity, conveys two ideas, 377.
Carefulness, worldly, reproved, 342.
Carnal weapons, what they are, 376.
Catechumens, not allowed to attend to, 142, 229.
Babylonish furnace, 103; three children in it, 104, 117.
Balaam, God wrought by him, though a bad man, 44; his evil counsel, the communion, 220, 282; the prayer for, 282; its completeness, 285 ; what their own prayer should be, 24 ; Caterpillars, God's mighty force, 320.
Catholic truth, to be learned from universal consent, 223.
Celsus, a witness to Scripture, 32.
Censured persons, should yearn after 134.
Baptism, its necessity, 12; laver of regeneration, 43, 284; of no avail without good works, 133; practice of coming to it late in life, 283; is a regeneration, 284; a life-giving grace, 307; maketh righteous, 310; God worketh by it to our immortality, 329; previous sins effaced in, 307, 383; in the name of Jesus implies not the exclusion of the Father's name, 419.
Baptized, the, at once receive and reflect the Spirit's glory, 314.
Baptized for the dead, 133, 244-5.
Barnabas, thought to be " the brother," its unity in the spirit, 176; a manifold person, 254; wounded when its members sin, 83; certain places used as churches in the Apostles' times, 160; irreverent behavior in them common,
220; places in them for the poor 179; not one while her members stand apart, 272; a spiritual bath, their teachers, 351; be excluded from the mysteries, 358.
Cerinthian heretics, their perversion y 3585 disunion in, 368; a bride, / 385; conquers by suffering, 398; pulled down by envy and strife, 408.
Church, some scarce once a year visit, 283; why to be often resorted to, 358; reverence paid at the porch, 418.
Churches, the, their united prayer powerful, 367.
Church-allowance, what and to whom of Scripture, 244.
Chanting, used in churches, 220.
Chasteness, may be perfected for vain-glory, 347.
Cheerfulness, how to be cultivated, 23% Cherubim, our hymns unite us with, (2 Cora vill; 20) 305.
Beauty, not the cause of lust, 316;
Chest for the poor, recommended, its superficial nature, 317; of soul, unfading and worthy, 318.
Beggars, led to imposture by the ingiven, 124-5.
Church-discipline, to be preceded by 262.
Children, the three, delivered in, not humanity of others, 123.
Beliar, 344.
Bereavement, how to learn to bear it, from, the furnace, 273, 292; an example of praying for enemies, mourning and prayer, 84; toward heathen impossible, 89; penalty in the Old Testament analagous, go.
Chronology, of LXX. differs from the o) 304.
Children, consolation under loss of, 56, 253.
Bezaleel, 376.
276.
Blessing, of priests is God's blessing, | Christ, the centre of unity, 3; his 285.
He not after the Lord, 391; Hebrew, 50.
Clergy, right to maintenance, 120; presence implied in the word Revelation, 7; how made to us wisdom and righteousness, 24; the bond of union, 47; the believer's foundation, 51; 'is God's" explained, 55; his indwelling in Paul, 75; present in the sentence of excommunication, 85; head of Christians only, sanctioned by Mosaic law, 121, 126; enforced by its mystical precepts, 121; by the value of spiritual things, 2d. what kind of men the clergy ought to be, 119; must be obeyed even though living ill, 124; must try to save all though all will not be saved, reasons against, 400; a folly even when compelled, 396, 405.
Body, constituted not for evil but good, 129 ; not evil in itself, 132; not the cause of sin, 242; spiritual in the next world, 252; a figure of the church, 175; its members both one and many, 176; a clothing, 276; a tabernacle, 328; raised incorruptible,
129; must not be discouraged though hearers be disobedient, 150; not inferior to the Father, 151; subject to the Father, but as a Son of God, 26.,; head of the church, 26. , his condescension to Judas, 160; our perfect pattern of love, 193, 195; has the sum of knowledge, 203; left some things voluntary, 122; accused by the devil, 284; spake, though as a sheep dumb, etc., 293; able to consume his foes, 302; the promised prophet, 312; drew all to himself, 322; how "after the flesh," 332; came to reconcile, 335; was righteousness itself, yet made sin, 3343 the subject of our wrestlings, 341; his poverty, 362; represented in the poor, 364; his body the merciful man's altar, 376; divine honors refused him by the Roman Senate, 403; his forbearance not weakness, 414; entereth into us when we communicate, 418.
Cain, a slave to envy, 110; destroyed Christians, to abide in their calling, 162.
Comforts of life, their ill effect, 32; 329; hereafter punished or crowned, 330.
Body of Christ, its mighty power, community of God's gifts should teach generosity of spirit, 57.
Commerce, should teach public spirit, 142; the reverence due to it, 143.
Body and Blood of the Lord, to be 57; selfishness incident to, 241 ; contrary to God's intention, 242.
Common mercies, thanks for, 281.
Communion, why so called, 139.
Condescension, for a brother's sake understood spiritually, not carnally, 133; we partake of in the Eucharist, 139, 142.
Bowing the head, at the Blessing, 285.
Brethren, should work with their pasno degradation, 129.
Confession, looseth sin, 299; a sacritor toward persons under censure, 337; the contrary course not humane but cruel, 2d.
Brethren of the Lord, freed from their first unbelief, yet not made Apostles, 120.
British Isles, the, even in them John's fice, 309.
Conscience, when it seems clear does not therefore justify, 59; a good, comforts in affliction, 286; testifies to a judgment, 326; joy of a good, 342: an evil, freezes the soul, 314.
Consolations, under loss of relatives, reproofs of Herod heard, 412.
Burning Bush, variously interpreted
Constantine the Great, his tomb, 403.
Constantinople, 403.
Contempt of money, introduced by by the Fathers without contradiction, 229.