Confession, a way to pardon, 29; not Cup of the Lord's Supper, the, shown their reverence for Christ, 117;
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forgiveness of injuries, 174, 186; intended to be the teachers, leaven, salt, light of the world, of reward, 333; convicted Ahab | Demon, of the Gnostics, 30. to his good, 2d.
Consubstantiality of the Father and Dancers, preferred to Christ, 61; power of, to inflame the mind, 66; encouragement of, sinful, 154.
Daniel, 40, 61.
Darkness, used for death and error, 181; sin of, worse than of heathens, 250.
Chrysostom, St., why varied his preachthe Son, 254.
Consubstantiality and Condignity of the Father and the Son, 272.
Contention to be avoided by Chrising, 79; preached two days in the week, 87; his despair of his hearers, 105; an admirer of holy virginity, 206.
Church, the, wedded to God by a 24; for sin, 2d. ; caused by worldliness, 31; preferred to light, 97; by those who willfully continue in sin, 98; signifies error and sin, tians, after the example of Christ, 50.
Continence, a higher path than mar188; put for sin, 277.
Day of Christ, what, 198.
Dead, prayers for the, 43 (note); to ried life, 318.
Conversation on religious matters recVoice, and teaching,.102; signified by "the true worshipers," ommended, Io.
Conversion, may be sudden, 6; of 116; consists by the Water and the Blood, 319.
Churches, no worldly thoughts to inbe honored not by mourning, but by good imitation, 231; to be clothed in almsgiving, not rich robes, 321; memory of, a benefit to the living, 322.
Death, overcome by Christ, 24; the sinners by Christ, 42; efficacy of, 50; of the penitent thief, a kind of shaking the rocks, 317.
Corinthian, the, adulterer recovered trude there, 8; spiritual surgeries, 9; behavior in, 10; attended for form's sake: preparation for, commended, 38; weariness of the congregation, 110; good effect of attending, 192; neglect of, 210; presiding over, a great matter, 216; frequented from curiosity, 306; attendance at useless, without good works, 2d.
Circumcision, was before the Law, by timely rebuke, 130, 131.
Covetousness, a hindrance to hearing cause of victory, 293; and immortality, 2d. ; its awfulness to the unprepared, 306; to be neither feared nor sought, 318; the fear of, intended for a safeguard to life, 332.
Deceit, folly of, 150.
"Declared," hath, implies Christ's clearness in teaching, 53.
Dedication, great national Feast of the Word, 8; its power, 31; separates the brethren, 54; a betraying of Christ, 172; a subject for mourning, 240; examples of its evil effects in Judas and others, 24.3; the worst idolatry, 24., begins in envy, 2d. , ruins the merit of almsgiving, 270; without excuse, 273; its general spread and mischiefs, 280; spoils our charity and other virtues, 333.
Created things, have had a beginning, and of equal obligation, 179; performed on the sabbath, 2d.
City of God, compared with earthly the, 222.
Despair, condemned, 295.
Despondency, useful if leading to recities, 203.
Clamor, Paul against, 92.
Clay made by Christ, proves Him pentance, 286; increased by dwelling on the cause, 291; compared to childbirth, 2d.
Devil, the, tempts to curiosity in Divine mysteries, 28; fell by pride, 57; his versatility in attack, 79; afraid of the Bible, 114; does not make war on his own kind as malicious men, 130; flies from the mysteries, 167; called a wolf, a lion, a serpent, a dragon, 215; the works of Christ attributed to, because more than human, 219; ruler of the wicked only in the world, 277.
Devils, the authors of suicide, 332.
Disciples of John, some jealous of II; implied in "Earth" and "Man," 12; the Word proved not one of them, 12, 13; not to be worshiped, 19; not '' the Life" nor "the Light," 24; acknowledged Christ their Master,
41; described as willing, because independent of our will, 91; work on the sabbath, by continuance, 133.
Creation, an attribute of God, 18; lessens nothing in God, 23; was an act of grace, 49; works of, require faith as much as things spiritual, 87; superiority of the new, 88 Cross, the, a Baptism, 89; how conCreator, 201.
Clothing! costliness in, condemned, 95.
Coat, the, without seam, a type of Christ's nature, 317.
Comforter, the, proved a distinct Person from the Son, but of the same Substance, 274; came not, because not, needed, before Christ's
Sacrifice, 25.; indwelling of, promised, 24., so called by reason of our afflictions, 276; credible, because the Spirit of Truth,
284.
Coming of Christ, means the Incarnation, 36; why said to be after the Baptist, 45; expected by St.
Chrysostom, 121; itssuddenness, 26.
Commandments, keeping them the nected with Baptism, 94; opened the door to the Gentiles, 246; God's glory in, 249; foretold by Jacob, 251; being accursed, was to prevent any future remembrance of Jesus, 315; borne by Christ as a symbol of victory, 317; buried, and discovered in after times, 2d.
Crucifixion, the, glory of, 42; why Christ, 64; two zealous in seeking him, 65; why questioned by our Lord, 24., their question with a certain Jew, 100 (note); their jealousy of Christ's disciples, 101; vainglory of, 102; slow to believe in Jesus Christ, , test of Christian love, 275, 276.
Communion, of Christians, depends on holiness, 89; joins men to the Body of Christ, 166; absolute necessity of, 168; to be understood spiritually, 169.
Company of wicked men dangerous 104.
Disciples of Christ, began to believe at Cana, 80; slow to believe the doctrines of the Resurrection and Incarnation, 82; because not at first informed by the Spirit, 2d. ; the more perfect, attracted by Christ's teaching, the grosser sort by His miracles, 83; object of their baptism the same as of John's, 100; moderation of, 109; their reverence for Christ, 117; their manner of discoursing with Christ, 151; their faith in sitting down without question at the miracle of the loaves, 152; their love for Christ, 155; witnessed more miracles than the people, . foretold obscurely, 94; virtue of, exceeded that of its type, the brazen serpent, 2d.; the fountain of life, 95; the beginning of Grace, 184: and of Glory, 2d., the time of, ordered by Christ Himself, not the Jews, 190; the beginning of Christ's Glory, 265.
Cup of the Lord's Supper, the, shown and offensive, 206.
Conception of the Blessed Virgin, accredited in the Old Testament, 92.
Concubinage, sanctioned by heathen philosophers, 50.
Condescension, lessens not greatness, 38.
Confession, a way to pardon, 29; not needful to Christ, 59; best made by good works, 72; Nathanael's and Peter's contrasted, 72, 73.
Conscience, cleansing of, signified by in the Blood from His Side, 319.
Curiosity, in divine mysteries a device of Satan, 27; leads away from the faith without satisfying, 85; may be too much and too little, 327; condemned in St. Thomas, 2d.
Christ washing the disciples' feet, 259; a foretaste of judgment or