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INDEX.

Health, to be sought, but as a means to a religious end, 1224. see 'Bodily Health.'

Heart, the, to be questioned under the eye of God, 1165. Heathen, how they fell from God, 217. a heathen festival at Hippo, 122. Heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ, 28. do not make Christ's inheritance less, ibid. The Saints are His inheritance, as He is Lord: He theirs as salvation, as light, ibid. Hen gathering her chickens, aptness of the similitude, 233. Heresies, obliged spiritual men to search, define, and contend, 506. concerning the Person of Christ: some deny the Godhead, others the Manhood, 501.506.

Heretics, see 'Doctrine.' all confess in words that Jesus is the Christ; but in deeds deny this, 1131, f. some say that Christ is not true man: bodies of men and animals not created by the true God: Old Testament not given by the true God, 911. handle the Word of God with partiality, 129.

High-priest. The office not held according to the original institution in the Roman times, 667. Annas and Caiaphas, 1010.

Hilary, St. his doctrine relative to the Glorification of Christ, tacitly disallowed by St. Augustine, note 955-958. The sum of his doctrine relative to the glory of Christ and of men: shewn to be orthodox, ibid. Homousion, 1236. see' CHRIST.' Hosanna, an interjection, denoting an affection, not a notional word, 680. Hour, Christ's, 455, f. see 'CHRIST.'

the last, 1127. the last from Christ's first coming to end of world, 347.

House of the Father: the many mansions in certainty of predestination exist already; but in fact Christ is preparing them, i. e. preparing the Saints for eternal bliss, 775, f. To dwell in the House of God, is to be in the people of God, 778. House of God not to be profaned, 155. Humility, the way to the New Birth,

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Husbandry, spiritual, 32.

Hyperbole,' nature of; instances in the Scriptures, 1090. Hyssop, emblem of humility, 1043.

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Ideas, Plato's doctrine, 16, note.

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Image of God, in the mind, in the intellect, 35. in the mind, a hint of the Trinity, 365. Imposition of hands on the newlybaptized, 1172.

Incarnation: see' CHRIST.' that men might be born of God, God was born of men, 29. our assurance of God's merciful intentions, 30.

'Indicativus modus,' a singular use of the term, 880, note. Infant-baptism, 526. Infants presented for baptism not so much by the bringers as by the whole Church, 828.

Infants dying unbaptized; some acknowledging that they cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven assign them one of the mansions of bliss in the Father's House: this notion reproved, 770-773. (This notion held by Pelagians, afterwards maintained by Vincentius Victor, refuted by St. Augustine, ibid. note.)

Infants, i. e. neophytes: the newlybaptized, 1172.

Infidels: more stupid than the devils, for these believe, 1220. Inner Man, more proved than the outer, 464. Insufflation, 177, note. Intercession.

Apostles and Bishops need and crave the people's prayers for them, 1102.

Intermediate state: see Death, Dead. Isaac bearing the wood, a type of Christ, 147.

Ishmael, how his playing with Isaac was a persecution, 175, ff. 184. Israel: type of the Church, 171. a perpetual type of good things to come, 433. passing through Red Sea and wilderness a type, 169. in the wilderness a type of the faithful on the way to their heavenly country, 1179. Israelite without guile, not without sin, but without the duplicity which cloaks sin, 117.

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the Prophecies relating to Christ, 453. through pride, despising the humility of God, they crucified their Saviour, and made of Him their condemning Judge, 49. thought Christ would be merely man,638. hated Christ because they hated that which condemned them, 868. not knowing Him to be the Truth they hated Whom they knew not, ibid. thought they loved God, but loved only their own erroneous notion of God, ibid. Christ's true crucifiers: vainly seek to exonerate themselves, 1028.1034. pretend that they did not put Christ to death, 1014. more guilty of His death than the Gentiles to whom they delivered Him, 1015, f. in giving Christ vinegar to drink are an acted parable of the wickedness of their nation, 1043. by the very act of putting Christ to death, made Him a stone of stumbling for their overthrow, 696 f. rejecting their eternal good lost their temporal good, 667. how they sought Christ after His resur rection, 458. cut off, Gentiles graffed in, 256. 567. Often in bondage, 553. Require a sign, yet are slow to believe when it is given: Gentiles require no sign, 253, ff. boasted of descent from Abraham, 565, ff. Children of the devil, by imitation, 569, f. Ignorant and self-righteous zeal made them persecute Christ's followers, 879. To know that the Jews would "even kill them," &c. was a comfort to the disciples, as a proof of the wonderful success of their mission, 880-882. Their dispersion a testimony to the truth of the prophecies concerning Jesus Christ, 709. Are looking for Antichrist that they may go backward and fall to the ground, because, forsaking heavenly things, they desire earthly, 1003. Impious blindnessof Christ's persecutors, 1013. Job, 559. his victory over the devil compared with Adam's defeat, 1141. John the Baptist, how more honoured than all the Prophets, 49. Friend of the Bridegroom, 205. A Lamp prepared for Christ, 74. His greatness betokens Christ's surpassing Majesty, 197. His greatness, 23. a light, to witness of the Light, 24. His testimony to Christ, 492, f. The Elias of the First Advent, 52. Not Elias himself, but in the spirit of, 53. He is ipsa Prophetia, 54. His humility, 55. 203. Wrought no miracles, 645. Knew Christ before the heavenly sign, 59. An apparent discrepancy

between Matthew and John, how reconciled, 59, ff, note. and Preface vii. note the knowledge imparted to John by the heavenly sign, not,

This is the Christ,' but, This is He which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost,' 62, ff.

John the Evangelist: the Eagle, 230. 500. 505. sublimity of his Gospel, 321. 500. 641. lay in the Lord's bosom to drink in deeper truths, 7. 273. 309. a token of the divine excellency of his teaching, 1041. His modesty in mentioning himself, 746. His bumility, 1102. How he received the Blessed Virgin "unto his own," 1042. It is said that he never married, and from his earliest childhood lived in perfect chastity, 1089. Hence called, 'The Virgin, 1091. Some have erroneously supposed that he did not die, 1079, ff, and note. His grave at Ephesus: a report that the earth heaves over his body, caused by his breathing, 1080, ff. Did not suffer martyrdom, 1082, and note. He is the type of the life which is by vision of Christ, as St. Peter of the life by faith, 1086.

Journey, this life a, 1225. Judas Iscariot, son of perdition, predestinated to perdition, 972. followed the Lord only in body, not with the heart: did not fall suddenly, 675. chosen an Apostle, to teach us to tolerate the ministry of evil men, ibid. was "chosen" unto something for which he was necessary, but not unto the fellowship of the blessedness of the Saints, 737. the representative of evil men in the Church as Peter of good, 676. mistook Christ and thought himself undiscovered; Christ knowingly used him as the unconscious instrument of His purposes, 720. partook of the Holy Communion with the Eleven, 675. unto death, 676. "they ate the Bread" (which is) the Lord, he the bread of the Lord, against the Lord: they Life, he punishment, 737. was made over to the devil by the bread of Christ, 749. The sop given to him was meant to shew what grace he had treated with ingratitude, ibid. After the sop, Satan entered into him by a fuller possession, ibid. Had partaken of the Sacrament before he received the sop, 750. What was meant by the dipping of the sop, 750. An example of the sin unto death, 1234. His remorse coupled with pride and des

INDEX.

peration, a part of his damnation already begun, ibid. baptism administered by, would be valid, and Christ's baptism, 77. Judgment, Two senses of the word "judge:" viz. to doom to punishment, and to discriminate good and bad, 345. 580. 692. how true believers come not into judgment, 345. how the Father judgeth not any, 291. 333, ff. in the, good and bad will see Christ as Man; the good, as God, 304, ff.

Judgment, day of: some fear not because they do not believe: some believe and fear, because charity is not perfect in them: 1206. but the saints, the more they grow in charity, long for that day, 1207. Judgment of this world, expulsion of Satan from Christ's redeemed, 692. Judging our proneness to judge men according to their persons, 450, how to be avoided, 451. Judgments, erroneous, of persons:

under what circumstances venial: 867. one sad consequence of, ib. Justification: to create righteous beings and to justify the ungodly are works equal in power, but the latter is greater in mercy, 794. Accuse thyself, and thou art joined unto God, 193. The beginning of our righteousness is the confession of sins, 1141.

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Men attempting to fulfil the Law by their own strength became guilty under the Law, ib. why given, 33. 40, f. "under the Law," and, "with the Law," ibid. a perpetual type of Gospel truths, 434. The doom of those who shall perish without Law, not necessarily more severe than theirs who shall be judged by the Law, 863. The former expression denotes the doom of the heathen, the latter that of Jewish sinners, ib. and note. Without Christ all perish, whether Jews or heathen, ib. But there are degrees of perdition, as degrees of sin, 864.

Law in the members, 559. Lazarus of Bethany: bis resurrection a type, 347.

Lazarus in the parable: type of believing Gentiles, 256. Learning: in this life we are to be ever learning, because we have never obtained, 753.

Left hand, how not to know what the

right hand doeth, 686. 1165, and note. Lessons, Scripture not fixed in the Churches of Africa in St. Augustine's time, except for the more solemn seasons. Introd. 2. St. Matthew's narrative of the Passion, for Good Friday: the four narratives of the Resurrection, Easter Week, ib. and 1092, note. Acts of Apostles, from Easter to Pentecost: also in Church of Antioch in St. Chrysostom's time, 2. Lessons for certain holy-days, to be also preached upon, 1205. 'Liberare,' 549.

Lie, or Falsehood, the devil's progeny, 572.

Life, animal, human and angelic, 280. Life, this. The promise of its needs to be supplied to all that seek first the kingdom of God, &c. 1062. full of strife without and within, 489. a life of suffering, even in the Saints, 1083. a pilgrimage, 549. all the good things of, if sought, are to be sought only as means to an end, 1224. the winter season of the Saints, the spiritual trees, 1159.

Life, how and when Christians must hate their own life, 684." He that loveth his life shall lose it, &c." two ways of understanding this text, ib. and note. Gives no encouragement to Donatist suicides, ibid. Life, Christian, a perpetual Lent, 262.

Two lives, preached unto her of God, the Church knoweth; one in faith, the other in vision, &c. 1086, f. repre sented by St. Peter and St. John, ib.

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Life Eternal, the promised reward for them that endure to the end, 1134, f. Christ's promise, and to be the supreme object of desire, 471. the only true life is Eternal, 343. the future, perfection of knowledge in, 754. Life Everlasting: the vision of Christ

as God, 337. Life Eternal common to all the saved, ("every man a penny,") but in it are different degrees of glory and bliss ("many mansions"), 770. Ligaturæ,' 106.

Light, universal, unconsumed by eyes

which take it in: so Christ, 200. 'Litator,' one that sacrifices, 1186. Livor, 469, note.

Lord. God alone true Lord, for He

has no need of service: man not true

lordship, for he needs the help of his servants, 1203. Aoyos, expressed in some copies by 'Sermo,' in others by Verbum,' in John i. 1. and elsewhere, 975, f. Love, the Essence of God, 1216. see 'Charity.' God loved the elect, yet unreconciled, 989. even when (as workers of iniquity) He hated them: loved His own work which our iniquity had not utterly consumed, and hated our work, ib. And indeed in all His creatures He loves His own work, 990. The Father loves the Son as Equal God begotten: as Man, for the Word's sake the flesh of the Word is dear to Him: loves us, as members of the Incarnate Son, 989. Of God, our, comes from God's first loving us, 939. Love of God and love of the world cannot exist together, 1118. gift of God, 810. Christ's peculiar gift to the Saints, 763. and distinguishing badge of the Church, 763, f. distinguishes Saints from the world, 810. Love of God, not for selfish ends, 47. Love precedes obedience as its cause, 834. is proved by obedience as its effect, ib. Christ's love of us, the source of both, 835. Love of Christ: the return to be made for Christ's love of us, is to love others as He loved us, 1154, f. To love God is necessarily to love the brotherhood, 1216. The two precepts of, are inseparable, 763. In loving our neighbour we love God, for the desire of love on their behalf is that God may be all in all in them, ibid. The new commandment, 838. is Christ's commandment, as if no other were 80: for it includes all, 839. Distinguished from all other love by its pattern,

"As I have loved you:" it is for God's sake, that He may be all in all in those whom we love, 839. 840. perfect, in the resurrection: therefore Christ gave the Spirit, the Author of Love, after His Resurrection, 470. All love (both dilectio' and' amor') wishes well to its object: true love wishes to do good to its object, but would rather there were no suffering or sin to need the good work: this the difference between the good works of Charity, and the same works done by Pride, 1194, ff. Love of enemies, that they may become brethren, 1103. Such is each as his love, 1124. To love is to dwell in heart, 27. makes the soul lovely, 1214.

Lucifer, the fallen angel, 37. Luke, St. Evang., his emblem the ox, 505.

'Lumina,' eyes, 215. 493. 'Luna tertia,' 1108, note.

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Magical arts, 1122.

Malchus, 66 one that shall reign:' mystery of the wounding and healing of, 1004.

Man. Human life intermediate between the animal and the angelic, 280. is ' of God' by creation: by fallen nature, 'not of God;' by regeneration, 'of God,' 575. made in the image of God, affords a hint by which Divine relations may be apprehended, 781. inferior in other things to irrational creatures: superior in the Image of God, 35. worn coin of God's mint, 548. God seeks His image on, 553. made in the image of God, in the reason and conscience and capacity of knowing God, 1195. has natural dominion over the brute creatures, ibid. His pride punished by means even of the meanest creatures, as the Egyptians by frogs and flies, ibid. while the most powerful, as lions and fire, acknowledge this lordship in man the servant of God, 1196, which lordship is suspended only for the sake of fatherly chastisement, as in the sufferings of the Maccabees and martyrs, ibid. will be fully manifest in the future life, ibid. distinguished from irrational creature as object of a peculiar mercy, 483.

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Proud man had been for ever lost had not a lowly God found him, 721. good only by participation of God Who is Essential Goodness, 539. Human nature hath nothing that it did not receive even in the Only Begotten Son, 953. has nothing of his own but sin, 655. and falsehood, 62. All men by nature children of wrath, 589. In mortal flesh, it is at no time easier to live than to die, 759. born with death, for he contracts sin from Adam, 658. the natural or animal man,' i. e. carnal, 907. The natural, i. e. animal or carnal, cannot conceive of God but as of a body, 938. Men and Sons of men: how they differ, 447, n. The inner man more proved than the outer, 464. Manicheans. see Devil,' Doctrine,' 'Evil,'' Nature.' Their doctrine of two Principles, 573. give evil a substantive essence, 569. affirm a life and soul in things inanimate, 15. an ensnaring argument from noxious creatures, 13. deny (with Marcionites) the God of the Old Testament, 584. say that the devil has a father, 572. affirm Christ to be only God without man (antithesis to Photinians), 630. deny His birth of the Virgin Mary, 127. say that the Sun is Christ, 481, f. comp. note. Manna, type of, 169.

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Marcionites and Manicheans agree in denying the God of the Old Testament, 584.

Marculus Donat. 179, note. Mark, St. Evangelist; his emblem, the Man, 505.

Marriage, mystery of, 126. Christ's institution, 145. Honoured by Christ's presence and first miracle, 138. Martyrs, 424. witnesses, 1095. innumerable, of all ages, ranks, conditions, 687. 895. 1007. they lay down their lives for the brethren as Christ His, but not for remission of sins, 842. commemoration of, 46. At the Table of the Lord we commemorate them, not, like others who rest in peace, by praying for them, but so that they pray for us, 842, and note. Feasts of the, desecrated by drunkenness, 1095, note. 1142. Heretics and schismatics boast to have their martyrs, 1163. Martyrdom, to lay down one's life for

the brethren is to lay it down for Christ, 686. without Charity unprofitable, 98.

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1052. why forbidden to touch Christ, 401, note. 1054, ff. 1126. Mary, Ever-Virgin, 153. why Blessed, 154. conceived and bore Christ by faith, 56. reproved at Cana, acknowledged on the Cross, 132. Matthew, St. Evangelist: his emblem, the Lion, 505. Maximian, 157, note.

Memoria,' 1052, note.

Mercy, works of, the beginning of Charity, 1161.

Merits, none before the gift of Christ, 1021.

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Messias, in Punic 'Messe,' Anoint, 246. Mind. see Image of God.' Energy of the, 320. 359. the eye of the soul, 493. all that relates to, is more valued than body, 464.

Ministers. What it is to minister unto Christ, 685, f. All Christians are, and not Bishops and Clerks only, 687, have a right to be maintained by the Church, but (as St. Paul) may forego that right, 1061. Evil ministers, convey grace by Christ's authority, themselves not benefitted, 75. the voice of Christ speaks by such, 617. preaching Christ of envy and strife, 78. ministering and preaching with selfish ends, 1074. they may nevertheless do good, 78. shew themselves hirelings when afraid to rebuke and punish sin, 621. see 'Baptism,'' "Donatists.'

Ministry of the Word: effectual to teach by the Unction which is the Holy Ghost, 1136.

Ministry fear of undertaking the, because of the greater temptations attending, 727. some are called to study and contemplation, some to active service, 728, f. this is more beset with danger of defilement, but Christ is ready to cleanse, 730.

Miracles. Not more wonderful than the order of nature, 123. Intended to rouse men from their forgetfulness of God, 123. 138. The miracle of Incarnation takes away all wonder from the works of Christ: the wonder is, that God was made man, not that a Man being God did the works of God, 259. the design of Christ's miracles, ib. they do not terminate in the temporal benefit, 260. are signs of redemption, ib. of creative power, 373. acts of teaching, 374. acted parables, as the miracle of the five loaves, 375, ff. their prophetical import, 253. should raise delight rather than wonder, 648. The mi

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