528. may be sins of the soul, 391. dition of penttence, 258; alone
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373 ; may be incurred by a va-| Famine, provided against, 471. lid marriage, 441. Excuses, shunned by continence, 384 ; useless before God, 384. Exhortation, needful to spur us to
Flood, the, a sacramental sign, 303. Flora, a pious widow, 539. Food, strong, not for the diseased,
Fasting, continuous for several days, 364; compared to continence, 403; adds tothe merit of widowhood, 448; time of, how to be used, 452; before receiving the Eucharist, 514. Fatalism, its excuses blasphemous,
357, 361 ; preserves man, 407; uncooked, needs exercise to digest, 518 ; stores of, necessary, 518. Fools, all who are not wise, and note, 360; do best to follow the wise, 361, 363; cannot know wisdom surely, 361; incapable of reason concerning God, 363 ; easiest led by means of sense, 363, 364. Foreknowledge, of God, 271, 302, Forgery of wills, 488. Forgiveness, of debtors, 261; of sins, realized in baptism, 374 sq.; asked by all, shows all sinful, 443. Fortitude, spirit of, 535. Fowlers, why the, cover up waters, action, 442, 449; use of, implies acting on others' will, 450. Exorcism of children shows original sin, 369. Experience, of friendship room for faith, 338. Exsufflation of Children, 369. Eye, inward and outward, 337. Eyes, weak from darkness cannot
384. Fate, inconsistency of those who speak of it, 384. Father, The, how greater than the leaves son, 249; Himself God, 327; the Beginning of The Son, 328; hath not His Being from The Son, 329; nor from any other, 329; The Son anointed by, 339; One God with The Son, 370; coeternal with Son imaged by coeval, 371; doth what he will, never without The Son, 371. Father, human, supposed death of, bear light, 361; fools use more readily than the mind, 363; their honorable place in the body, 444; want of, supplied by hearing, etc., 452.
FABLES, are no lies, 494. Fairness of Christ, the love of virgins, 436, 437. Faith, is the gift of God, 247 ; with-
348. Foxes, who? 436. Free, why man is left, 385. Free-born, love is of, 535. Free-will, lost by sin, 247. Freedom of the will, See Will, is the inciting to lying, 464; power of, over children, 490 ; why greater than sons, 370. Fathers, Catholic, remarkson their writings, 291; the Old, how they married, 403, 406, 407, 466 ; typical in their marriage of many wives, 408. Faustus, the Manichee, attacked Patriarchs' marriages: his pretensions and failure, 448. Fear, to displease God entertained out works, is dead, 259; of things unseen derided, 337; defended by analogy, 338; even after trial, 338; if due to human things, more so to divine, 339; prophesied of, a ground of faith, 343; on authority, blamed by the Manichees, 348, 356; distinguished from credulity, 357; question if still a fault, 357, 358; necessary for friendship, 357, 358, 338; teacher ee towards learner, 357; no arm in, though reason might be used, 358; distinguished from knowledge and opinion, 359; faulty only when rash or wrong, gift of God, 248 ; man created with, 271. Friendship, founded on faith, 337; exists before fully proved, 338; none without faith, 358; attainable without marriage, 403. Fronto, informant of Consentius, 483. Fruitfulness, not to be compared to by love, 431; spoken of by St. Paul, 432; likely to mislead, 489; of God, His gift, 534; patience founded on, 535. Feast, conversation at a, 357. Feigning, in our Lord no falsehood, virginity, 419. Fruits, thirty, sixty, and hundred fold, 434. Future life, continence profitable
359; of historical facts, needful, 360; parents known by, 359, 360; most needfui of all in religion, and why, 360, 361; before reason, no rashness, 362; they are not Christians who forbid faith in Christ before reason, 362; miracles lead to, 363; prepares way to wisdom, 365; before understanding, 370; is in order to eternal life, 374; and works, 392; without putfor, 420, 421, 423, 424.
494. Felix, St., burial in his Basilica,539;
GAMES, illustrate the Christian conappeared at Nola, 548. Fellowship, attainable without marflict, 372; what men will suffer for 528. Gaul, martyrs of, 542. Generation, preserves mankind, as riage, 403. Female, contrasted with male, 408. Fides, from fevi, 476. Figure, of speech, °3925%:393'3 speech, no lie, 491, 494. Filth of soul, love of any thing but food man, 407; of mortal creatures is by corruption, 370. Generation, of The Son from eter-
NEV 372% Genius, finds not truth without God's
God and the soul, 364. Final goods, 403.
Finger of God," means the Holy Spirit, 305. Fire, saved by, expounded, 259; coeval father of light, 371. Firmus, Bishop, courage of, 468, 469. Flames of the world, 438. Fleeing iniquity, the greatest of all help, 358. Gentiles, not to use Jewish customs, 461, 462, 493; typified by the woman with issue of blood, 494 ; idolatrous, called Pagans, 509, 511; debtors to Jews, 516. Gift, The Holy Ghost called, 339. Gifts, are all from God, 432; prayed ting down lust, is dead, 393; in wedlock, 401; conjugal, less worthy than virginity, 442; of profession to be kept, 445 ; whence named, 476; of Christ, none justified without, 533; Faith, Hope and Love, God to be worshipped through, 238; their mutual dependence, 239; distinction betweén faith and hope, 239; love is the greatest of the-toree: 274. Fall of man, through pride, 371.
for, are not of ourselves, 433; of different kinds, 434; spiritual, one person may have many, 549. Girding the loins, what ? 386. Glory, different degrees of, 426, 435. God, to be worshipped through faith, hope and love, 238; in what sense said to be angry, 248; Grace of, displayed in Christ, 249: in election, 268, 533; Peace of, 257; pardons sin, but on condition of penttence, 258; alone alms, 262. Flesh and blood, shall not inherit the kingdom of God,expounded, 317; living after what? 383; meaning of, in Scripture, 383, 384; how saved, 387; Manichean error concerning, 388, 389 ; as created, spoken well of by St. Paul, 388; Christ's was true, 389 ; not evil: likened to the Church, 389, 390; its works, may be sins of the soul, 391.
Falling, danger of, 432. Falsehood, not all, is a lie, 458; leads to error, 45% Faltonia, Proba, mother of Juliana,
448. Fame, endurance from desire of, 528.
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impassible: passions attributed to: patience His Gift, 527, 536; Himself long-suffering, though not suffering, 527, 528; His wrath, jealousy: His '' repentance"' implies no error, 527; cares for our body, 529; not lost by will, 530; riches of, 531, 536; patience likens to, 532; assists the just, and justifies the ungodly, 533; free mercy of, to old Saints, 533; how first loves sinners, works in us good will, 534,
Head dress of women, 429. Health and immortality, two goods, decides what sins are trivial and what not, 262; does well even in the permission of evil, 267; Will of, never defeated, though much is done contrary to His will, 269: always good, but sometimes fulfilled through the evil will of man, 269; Grace necessary to salvation before the fall, 271; foreknew the sin of the first man, and ordered His own purpose accordingly, 271; is Love, 275 sq.; severity of, 287; finger of, signifies the Holy Spirit, 305; exclusive eternity and omnipotence of, 322; blessed Abraham, 339; most fitly born of a Virgin, 339; is not in any special place, 341; the True, now invoked by all, 342; if Almighty created matter, 322; just in binding men by law, 351; frees from the Law, but condemns it not, 351; dwells in pure souls, 353; reasons concerning, understood by few, 358; helps those who go humbly and charitably, 358; knowledge of, true wisdom, 360; search for true religicn presupposes faith in, 361; cannot be displeased with our believing, 361; demands faith, 362; the wise most near .to, 363; mercy of, shown in Christ, 363; now known by nations not to be of earth or fire, 364; Old Testament charged with false doctrine about, 365; providence of, points out the Church, 364; no substance but is of Him, 365; Father of those to whom the Church is Mother, 369; The Almighty Father, cannot lie or will wrong, 369; Author of Incorruptibility; One Will of Father and Son, 370; not lost by misfortunes, 372, 373; a Temple is for Him: He creates, Who clothes, 374; permits evil, why? 385; brings good out of evil, 385; Manichean heresy concerning, 385, 386; His nature, 386; a Physician, 386; not wanting under the law, 449; destroys not free will, 449, 450; favor of, gives continence, 449; gifts of, no blessings unless owned, 449; all good comes from, 452; labors to win, pleasant, 453; '' hates" sinners, '' destroys" liars, 462, 481; who 'unclean in sight of, 465; hears our inward speech, 471; wronged, though not hurt, by sins of luxury, 474; to be honored outwardly as well as inwardly, 482; Priscillianists erred concerning, 484; sin against, worse than against man, 485; sometimes heals secretly, 486; we must depend on, after all means, 497; will provide where we cannot rightly, 500;
403. Hearers, order of, among the Manichees, 348 ; what said of, when they left them, 348. Hearing, studiousness of, 357. Heart, its mouth, 379-381; continence must be seated there, 379; its consent, 380, 381; its lan-
' guage, 379; picture of purity, 392. Heaven, the Churchin, 256, 257; degrees of glory in 426, 435. Heresies, fight in vain against the
536; never lies, 565.
'* God will have all men to be saved,"
Church, 374. Heresy, pretence of, may cause real, expounded, 267, 270. Gold, may be known and not had, 361. Goliath and Zaccheus compared, 411. Good, all things made, 240; but not
483, 484: how to be exposed: sometimes healed secretly, 486. Heretic, not every one a, who beet ' perfectly good, hence liable to corruption, 240; there can be no evil where there is no good, 241; highest, not attained without loving it, 363; brought out of evil, 385; all nature is, 386; in what degree attainable, 387; man so created, 388; the substance of the flesh is, 390; superior, makes not lesser good an evil: some, implied in '' better;" 443, 446; more honored by having a good below it than an evil, 444, 446; fall from a higher, is an evil, 445, 446; all, comes from God, 452; sin aims at some, in this life, 474; temporal, may be given up without sin, 474, 475; three things to be kept, for sanctity's sake, 475; luminous, of truth, 498; impassible, 532. Goods, final and instrumental, 403; lieves heretics, 347 ; what makes. a, 348 ; silence to be kept to a: each claims name of Catholic, 355, 356; spoils that claim by pretending to reason, 357, 363; cannot claim authority, or do without it, 362; that on which we believe Christ is against them, 363. Heretics, or schismatics compared to twigs lopped off the vine, 310 sq.; all, would have us believe in Christ, 362; many ways condemned, 365; yet in their sins, 375 ; continence of, should not persuade us, 448; widows and
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'ae virgins of, inferior to Catholic wives, 448; not to be tracked out by lying, 482; sin less in speaking heresy than Catholics would, 483, 485; little harm in believing, when they pretend Catholicism, 483; converted, may take comfort in their former ignorance, 485; converted, will correct others, 486. Hidden life with Christ, 392. History, explanation by, 349; of the when abused, become sin, 403; of marriage are offspring, faith, sacrament, 412. Good works, men not saved by, 247; follow faith, 247; rewarded by eternal life, the gift of God, 272. Gospel, not to seem sold, 508-510. Gospels, said by Manichees to be in-
Exodus allegorical, though true, 350. Holy Spirit, the birth of Christ is of terpolated, 350. Government, of mankind, 385. Grammarians, expected to find good
The, 250; is not the Father of Christ, 250; Holy Spirit and the Church, 255 ; is not a creature, 256; sin against The, 264; signified by the expression, finger of God, 305; mission of, on Pentecost, 308; The third Person of the Trinity, 327; His individuality and offices, 329; body of any Christian, a temple of, 444; speaking in St. Paul, sense in Virgil, 353; several named, 355. Gratitude, due from virgins to God,
433Greek, words borrowed from, 349. Greeks,' philosophers, shoemakers, 511. Guests, duty of protecting, 489, 490. Guilt, transmitted from progenitors,
252, 253.
. Homicide, lying to screen from punishment, 468; justifiable, 469. Honoratus, several of the name, 347; one a companion of St. Augustin, a lover of truth, 347; prayed for, 348, 349; how led astray, 348; not then a Christian, 348; his friendship with St. Augustin, 351; will wonder
HasitTs, hard to change, 364. Hair, bosses of, 429; worn long by some monks: long,thought a sign of sanctity, 522; St. Paul's rule against long, 523; every, in God's keeping, 529. Happiness, knowledge of the causes of good and evil necessary to man's, 242; of perfect knowledge not yet ours, 359.