Understanding, distinguished from 427; need humility, 428; their Greek word ambiguous, 506.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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Tongue, the, 487; not to be yielded
Vice, can use the instruments of vir-
WARFARE, of the Christian life, 382, to sin, 488. Torture, to obtain testimony, 468, tue, 528 Vine, the Church in its likeness to Christ compared to, 309. Violence, not consented to, corrupts
387. Washing, once for all in Baptism:
528; question of lying, to escape, 468; to be borne with love, 470. Trades, honest, practised by St. Paul, 511; manual, suitable to preachers, 512. Travel, in search of instruction: to daily, in 'prayer 375. Watchings, use of, 452. Water, changed into wine, 363. Whirling, about false doctrine, 523. Wicked, the death of, eternal in the not, 463, 490; lying to escape, wrong, 463; not to be evaded by sin, 464. Virgil, quoted, 239, 242, 352, 355,
Same sense as the life of the Saints, 273. Widowed, chastity, above marriage,
Holy Land, 355. Tribulation, attends marriage, 422,
540. Virgin, (see Mary,) God most fitly born of a, 339; the Blessed, 403; the blessed, a type and pattern, 417; what was her highest blessedness, 418, 419; had vowed virginity, 418; was born of Christ: how both a Mother and a Virgin, 418. Virginal chastity above marriage, 422. Virginity, preferred to marriage, 397,
424. Trinity, Holy, the, doctrine of, 327
423. Widowed, continence, its rank, 434. Widowhood, forsaking, after profes-
Sq-, 374. Truth, St. Augustin's early love of, sion is a sin, 445; this is not adultery, but worse, 446; long and early, greater test of continence, 447; prayer and fasting make better, 448; hard questions about, 448. Widows, their continence, 434; Fourth Council forbade (professed widows) to marry again, 441; may be called unmarried: better among the members of Christ than married women,442; may marry again, as Ruth, 443; more blessed if not, as Anna, 443, 447; not therefore better than Ruth herself, 444; do better in not marrying now that Christ is come,444; having family, have no good reason to marry, 445; what they should do according to their ability, 445; merits of, in different cases compared, 447; luxurious living of, condemned, 452; humility an ornament to, 448; alms help their prayers, 452; to draw others to like profession, 453. Wife (see Husband), why created
347; belief prepares for beholding, 348, 349; search after, 354 sq.; lovers of, believe authority: why, made hard to discover, 361; God is, 363; state of mind needful for seeking, 365; of every statement in Scripture, 422; may be spoken in order to deceive, 459; comprises every eternal good, 463; eternal, distinguished from orcinary, 467, 474, 475; notion of keeping ''in the heart," 471, 486; love of, allows not false witness, 473; may be preferred to everything external, 475, 498; not to be wronged in defending it, 481; every lie contrary to, 483; to be kept with those without: some to be concealed from aliens, 487; nothing against it ''just," 495; defended by examples of chastity, 499,500. Type, woman, of what, 425; application of the Three Holy Children, 438. Typical, meaning of many wives, 408; view of impurity, 409.
411, 422; is angelic, 403, 420; the greater of two goods, 411; to be guarded by humility, 413; that of the blessed Virgin, 418; a good, for the sake of the future life, 420, 421, 423, 424; its joys in heaven, 426; the gift of God, 432; its fruits hundredfold, 434; inferior to martyrdom, 435; preferred by St. Paul tc conjugal faith, 442; goodness of, makes not marriage evil, 442; of children, a compensation to parents, 445, 448; forsaking, after profession is sinful, 445; of the Church, 446. Virgins, brought to Christ everywhere, 340; all holy ones are Mcthers of Christ, 418; rich, how they may give birth to members of Christ, 419; distinguished from sacred Virgins, 420; no ''command" concerning, 421; have peculiar joys in heaven, 426; follow the Lamb, 427; need humility, 428; their grounds for loving God, 432; may be less fit than married women for martyrdom, 434, 435; encouragement to, 437; should love the fairness of Christ, 437; distinguished from the ''unmarried," 442; before widows in the kingdom, 451; special song of, 451. Virtue, what patience is a, 527; instruments of, not to be yielded to, 528. Virtues of the soul may exist unout of husband, 399; many allowed once, why, 407, 408; only one belongs to a steward of the Church, 408; and woman, Greek word ambiguous, 506. Will (see Freedom of), of God, in-
UNCIRCUMCISION, not to be feigned,
509. Understanding, distinguished from belief and opinion: is by reason, 359; now known by multitudes to be the way of knowing God, 364; quick, God's gift, 370; faith goes before, 370. Unions, three spoken of by the Apostle, 388. Unity, in Godhead illustrated by that of souls united: but imperfectly, 370. Unmarried, may mean widows, 442; variable, 369; true submission of, to God, 373; of man, admonished and healed by grace, 449; free, made too much of, by some, 450; if man works on, much more God helps, 450; God not lost but by, 530; free, of man, gets not patience by itself, 531; why it produces hardness, yet not true patience, 531,
532; evil, made frantic by devilish incitements: the devil became devil by his own, 534; has not love of God, but by His persons, ''think of things of the Lord,'' 443; should give Christ what they reserve from a consort, 451; exhorted to forbear matriage, 453. Unwilling continence estimated, 429.
seen in habit, 409, 410. Visible and invisible creation, 369. Visions, of the unseen world, 546. Vows, freely made, makes what was gift, 534. Wills, forgery of, 488. Wisdom, man's true, is the fear of lawful unlawful, 443; wrong to desire to revoke, 445; marriage after, is not adultery, 446; but yet is worse, 446; of continence recommended, 450; a_ protection, 452; marriage to Christ by, 446; more laudable because not required, 446. Vows of continence, 427.
God, 237; to be found in true religion, 354; implies knowledge concerning God and man, 360; he who has not, knows not, 361; prayer to God for, 363; is God's gift, 433, 450; patience handmaid of, 528; true and false, true from God, 531.
VEIL, of Scripture, done away in Christ, 351; of Moses, of the Nazarite, 523. Veils, men not to wear: why, 524. Vengeance, less kingly than forbearance, 529. Ventilare, 351.