Lewdness, worse than theft, 488, 489. Lot, entertained Angels, 463; his saying, 410; their heretical opin-
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ing in the fields, 517; supposed wish to combine, with the Gospel, 351; Ceremonial, mysteries of, 351; in the letter, killeth; wants an expounder, 353. Laws, of man, in some sort Christo save a soul, 499; rather trust God, 500; put for sin in general, 500; not less than lewdness, 500. Life, eternal, through the reward of
God in, 369; begins in imperfection, 372; living after, what, 383. Manhood, assumed by The Son, 329; perfect in Christ, 249. Manichees, object to believing on good works, is itself the gift of God, 272; eternal, not to be given for temporal, 462, 474; good here, eternal hereafter, worth patience, 528. Light, real and pretended, 348; strong, not born at once, 361; beauty of, a standing miracle, 364; coeval offspring of fire, 371. Lips, have spoken if the heart has authority, 348; their pretence of reasons and learned discussions, 348; refute rather than prove, 348; their contemptuous phrases: attack the Old Testament, 349; think Scripture interpolated, and how, 350; of what error they accuse the Church, 353; worship the sun, 353; boasted of Faustus, 356; inquire origin of evil, 365; charges of, against Scripture: of bloodless bodies, but coarse minds, 365, 366; their heresy 385, 386, 388, 389; refuted: dismissed, 388, 390; their saying, 410; their heretical opinion, 413; said the law was not of God, 509. Manichzans, placeclaimed for among tian, 356. Laying out more, St. Paul, 515. Lazarus, buried, what signified in,
494; borne by Angels, 541; told Abraham the state of the Jews,
548. Lectures of Rhetoricians, 545. Leeches, 5209. Left-hand, what means, 374. Legal purification shows not marriage consented, 338. Literal sense, the usual one of the sinful, 409; was for the type of sin, 409. Leisure, what, had St. Paul, 466. Leonas, messenger of Consentius,
Epistles, 504. Liturgy, quoted, 449. Living after man, is living after the flesh, 383. Lot, entertained Angels, 463; his example discussed, 463, 4809, 490; excused by perturbation, 490; knew not his guests to be Angels, 497. Love, greater than faith and hope,
481. Lewdness, worse than theft, 488, 489. Liar, not every is a, who lies, 466. Liberty, Christian, 461, 462, 493. Lie, never allowable, but differs much the Apostles, 350. Mankind, how they might have mulin guilt, 243; not allowable to save another from injury, 245; question if ever lawful, 457 sq.; a joke is not a, 458; nor a mistake, 458; definition of, 458, 459, 494; how to be safe from, 460; question if ever useful, 460, 491; examples quoted in favor of, 460, 495, 500; cases of danger requiring, 460, 462, 490; condemned as false witness, 460; condemned more generally, and note, 460, 468, 476; allegory is not, 460, 491; sometimes allowed in imperfect state, 461; New Testament never favors, 461, 493; God hates, even to destroying, 462, 482; corrupts the soul, 463; any sin as easily justified, 463, 495; good men lose authority by telling, 464; about Christ, 466; several cases of, 466; none lawful in doctrine, 466, 490; not to be told to give pleasure, 467; useful, question of, 467, 472, 474, 495; if not to defend crime, 467; how to escape, when questioned, 468; how to escape, when silence betrays, 469; five kinds of, condemned: three still questioned, 469; wish to use, forbidden, 472; what, threatened with destruction, 473; Deceit is, even if not '' false witness," 473; a harmless one, to save pudicity of body, allowed, 475; eight sorts of, all shown to be evil, 476; which sorts less culpable: none is good, 481, 482; examples of, quoted from Scripture, 482, 491; every, contrary to truth, 482; pretending heresy worse kind of, 483; metaphor or antiphrasis, is not, 491; none is tiplied had Adam not sinned, 399, 400. Mansions, many in heaven, 426. Marriage, fools should consult the
274; is the end of all the commandments, 275; action of, 286 sq; '' perfect, casteth out fear," 330; act of, invisible, 338; only way to attain the highest good, 363; submits without hope of temporal rewards, 373; of husband for wife, Apostolical argument for, 388; fears to displease God, 431; owed to God by virgins, 433; of Christ, on the part of virgins, 437; the remedy for pride, 437; of neighbor as seH, 462; misdirected, makes false estimates, 474; rectitude of, the soul's chastity, 475, 476; of God, is His gift, 532; the ground of patience, 532, 534; kindled by The Holy Spirit, 532; of creature: already in creature loving, 534; of God, not in creature unless given, 534. Lucan, quoted, 239, 541. Lucretius, error of, about the soul,
'Re 4) wise about, 361; many have learned to despise, 364; its end, 391; not regarded as unholy by the Fathers, 398; a lower state than virginity: first bond of society: that of our first parents, holy, 399; Christ went to one, 400; how a good, 400, 402, 412; intended as well for fellowship, 400; of aged persons, 400; continence in, praise-worthy, 400; brings good out of evil: its uses, 400, 40I, 402; its grave joy, 400; how far certain compacts deserve the name of, 401; its abuse, not the sin of marriage, 401; Sacramental, 402, 406, 408; the lesser of two goods, 403, A4II, 422, 423; of the just, better than the virginity of the impious, 403; not evil, but good, 402, 403, 409; in what sense it is '' better'' not to marry, 403, 407; wasonce aduty: St. Paul's view of, 404; not sinful, 404, 408; to be not sinful must be without excess, 404, holy, though the partner is unholy, 405; that looks only to pleasing God, rare, 405; how piously contracted by the old Fathers, 406, 407, 408, 413; cannot be dissolved, except by death, 402, 411, 412; of many wives, allowable once 406; compared to the taking of food, 407; was once contracted with spiritual desire, 407; hard, to use it like Abraham, 413; compared to ordination, 411; goods of, three, 413; of the old Fathers, holier than virginity now, 413; summary of St. Au-
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381; our enemy, to be resisted, 381; its resistance the business of man, 382; proved to be of the soul as much as of the body, 391; how put down, 393; sexual, its sinfulness, 401; definition of, 463.
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540. Madmen, strength of, not healthy,
448. Magic arts, 391; in bringing up Samuel, 548. Male and female, contrasted, 407. Male fict, 500. Man, knowledge concerning, a part
""just," 495, 484; no holy person glories in, 496; one, leads to another, 498; about religion worst, 498, 500; not to be told of wisdom, 306; nature of, assumed by God, 363; image of
INDEX OF SUBJECTS, 569 ES gustin's book on, 417; how that of the old Fathers must be regarded, 422, 423; not even indirectly condemned by St. Paul, 422, 423, 424; its fruits thirtyfold only, 434; of (professed) widows wrong but valid, 441; ends with the life of either party, 442; good of, shown, in that the bodies of married Christians are members.of Christ, 442; due of, not to be withheld for fear of temptation, 442; the chastity in, God's gift, 442, 450; evil of excess in, not of marriage, but venial through it, 442; ends of: that of Sacrament: second, allowable, 443; second attacked by Montanists, etc., 443; body as well as spirit, holy in, 443, 444; more desirable in Old Covenant, 444; of Patriarchs, was for offspring, 444; provides against temptation, 445; not needed when we may have spiritual children, 445, 453; better than unstable purpose of widowhood, 441; still good under the Gospel, 446; desire of, wrong after vows, 446; argument from '' marriage to Christ" refuted, 446; third or fourth, lawful, though less worthy, 446; seventh, allowed by our Lord to be marriage, 447; hard questions about, 448, 449; ranks below continence: holiness of, inferior by reason of cares, 451; less needful since the world is perishing, 452. Married, faithful women are mothers gin of the Jewish race, 339; Virgin after Christ's birth, 339, 511; Christ born of, 371; suspected: conceived Christ in chastity, 486; holy virgins become like, 449. Mary and Martha, 403, 413, 423. Master, opposed to '' schoolmaster," to which one's property has been given, 519; time divided for labor and devotion and study, 521. Monastery, some may labor, others instruct, 5I4; owes a maintenance to those who have surrendered their property to it, 519; division of works in, 519. Monica, St., failed not to visit St. Augustin every night, 547. Monks, not laboring for their own
351; of grammar, 353; one, to many slaves, 408; power of, over slaves, 490. Mechanics, became Monks, 516. Mediator, a, needed by fallen men, support, 503; the work of, occasion of writing, 504; honest trades for men; a holy society,
248, 253, 257; must be God in order to redeem us, 272. Medicine, taking, implies hope of
511; laziness of, atrap, 515; cause scandals, 516; to avoid giving offense, to labor and be obedient, 514; ecclesiastical occupations and teaching of, 514, 515; life holy and praiseworthy, 514; their many religious offices, 515; who have been delicately brought up, to be borne with, 516; not Evangelists nor Priests: supporters of the Monastery, 519; persons admitted without signs of amendment, 516; a heavy sin not to admit as, slaves, peasants, mechanics: some became exemplars, 516; kept stores of provisions, 517; might have dressed provisions, 517, 518; who have been rich not compelled to bodily labor, 519; none to be idle: disentangled from secular affairs, 520, 521; trusting for support in labor if able, without, if unable: called servants of God, 521; poor of Christ, 519; objects of the Bishop's care, 521, hypocritical and vagrant, pretended ones, 521; a device of Satan to discredit that life by scandal, 521; accused of wishing to be maintained in idleness: of hawking: costuming: lying stories: begging,521; wearing long hair, 522; life preferred to Bishop's, 521; good ones accused and unsettled by the idle, 522; idle ones regarded as more holy, 523. Monstrous births, and the resurrecrecovery, 361. Meditation, in the Law of God, 452; consistent with work, 514. Members of sin, how mortified, 392; all members, though differing in honor, 444. Memorials of Martyrs, 539, 542; prayers offered there, obtain special blessings, 539, 540, 542; buried, 550. Men, fallen, God's judgments on,
246; restored through the mercy of God, 246; the restored part succeeds to the place lost by the rebellious angels, 247; not saved by good works, but by grace through faith, 247; needed a mediator, 248; all born of Adam are under condemnation, 246, 254; Christians truly so, 523; figure the ruling principle of the mind, 524. Mercy of God, free and abounding,
264, 268, 271; how far an excuse for wrong actions, 496. Metaphor, is no lie, 491. Midwives, believed, as to parents, of Christ, 419; fruitfulness may not vie with virgin chastity, 419, 420; persons may follow the Lamb, 427, 436; persons in one respect cannot follow the Lamb, 427; may be fitter than virgins for Martyrdom, 434. Martha and Mary, 403. Martyr, supposed terms put to a,
360; Hebrew, quoted for lying, 460, 495; were not prophesying, 460, 496; temporarily rewarded, 460; excused as beginners, 470,
495. Mind, things in, perceived without sight, 337; of others, not directly perceived, etc., 337 Sq; prepared for truth by believing, 358, 362; of the wise brought in contact with God, 363; sovereign power of, disgraced by body's
464; no place for, if doctrine may be denied, 482; makes real gain, 497. Martyrs, effect of their sufferings on tion, 265. Montanists, attacked second marriages, 443. Moral government of the world, 385. Mortification of the members, what?
mankind, 464; not prayed for at the Altar, 489; patience of, in scorn and pain, 529; true, do not kill themselves, 530; who suffer out of the Church, 535; memorials of, 542, 549, 550; prayers to, 542; care for others, the living, 542, 544 sq; ashes and bodies dispersed, vf Gaul, and elsewhere, 542, 544; oOvercame natural regard for the fate of their bodies, 544; removed from knowledge of earthly things, 549; tormenting demons, sin, 487; parts of the, how figured, 524; patience a virtue of, 529; wounds of, 529; incomprehensible to itself, 569. Miracle, spread of the Gospel a, 340. Miracles, meant to produce faith, 363; what are, 364; better than reasons to impress fools, 363; point out authority, 364; some more gracious, some more wonderful: why less frequent, and note, 364; witness of, against heretics, 365. Mistrust of self, our security, 383. Monachism, a holy purpose, 521. Monasteries, introduction of, into Carthage, 503; good, practise manual labor, 516; indifferent
392. Roce veil of, 523; appeared after death, 548. Mothers, of Christ, who? 418, 419. Mouth of the heart as well as the body, 380, 381; not to be always literally taken in Scripture, 380; of the heart, 471, 472; confession with.the mouth required, 486. Multitude, testimony of followed in common life, 355; must be led by steps to religion, 358: is believed regarding Christ, 362; gathered by Him in the way of faith, 363; led by faith to ap-
550. Martyrdom, often a hidden gift: common among Christians, 364; higher than virginity, 435. Mary (see Virgin), the Blessed Vir-