ON THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN.
ABRAHAM, his sacrifice a type of| Christ, 67; how he saw Christ's day, 244; his seed, Christ and His mystical Body, 405. Absolution, binding and loosing im-
parted with the Holy Ghost, when Christ breathed on the apostles, 438; Ministerial, Christ's command, "Loose him, and let him go," 277. Acknowledgment of sin, the way to
forgiveness, 85 sq. Acts of the Apostles, read between
Easter and Pentecost, 45. Adam, the first and the Second Adam, 22, 73, 381; a type of Christ, 67, 101; mystery of his name, 67, 73; would be God by usurpation, 343.
Ages, six, of the world, 65, 101. All, different senses of the word, 290. Alms-deeds, an anointing of the
Lord's feet, 280; because the regenerate are not without sin, which overtakes them unawares, God hath given them, as salu- tary remedies for the aiding of their prayers, 449 sq. Altar of God, the Christian, to us
that is Christ placed thereon, as to Israel in the wilderness, the rock was Christ, 252. Ambrose, St. allusion to his exposi- tion concerning Peter, 320. Amen, Amen, left untranslated, 230 Amulets and incantations, devices
of the devil, 50, 52. Angel of the Lord, a created angel foreshadowing Christ, 23. Angels, ascending and descending upon the Son of Man, good preachers of Christ, 56; not to be worshipped, 87; their food, Christ, Eternal Light, 88, 120; life of, contrasted, 120; part of the universal Church, 402; the Church shall be made equal to the, 411 sq.; no grace provided for reparation of an-
Apocalypse of Paul, crammed with
fables, and rejected by the Church, 380. Apollinarians, denied the existence of the rational soul in Christ, 153; as distinguished from the mind which is common to man with the brutes, 263. Apostles, i.e. sent, 405; not as Christ,
that we should believe on them, 296; they are the means of our faith, 297; the unlearned chosen to confound the world, 54; are the twelve hours of the Day, 273; were babes, and were taught as such, 392; their weakness before, and fortitude after, His resurrection, 393; did not ex- pect the Lord's resurrection, 436; why they resumed their fishing after the resurrection, 439; it was not wrong to sup- port themselves by their craft, 440; empowered to ob- tain maintenance for their serv- ices, but not constrained, 440. Arians, 243, 341; affirm that the Word
was made, 10; affirm the Father invisible, the Son visible, 295; their argument against the Equal Godhead, 118; the text "receiveth Me" rescued from the Arian cavil, 308; affirm the Son less than the Father, the Holy Ghost less than the Son, 386; this heresy morbidly ac- tive in Augustin's time: brought into Africa by foreigners, 227; and Sabellians, 250; each wit- ness to the Truth against the other, 211 sq., 215 sqq., 263, 328; and Eunomians, 341; Pho- tinians, and Manichæans, 386;
blinder than were the unbeliev- ing Jews, 116, 268; their dog- matic gradations, 308. Ark of Noah, type of the Catholic Church, 67; baptized in the flood, 46; door in the side of, a type, 434. Astrologers, doctrine of sidereal ne-
cessity: their books burned, 60 sqq.; consulters of, reproved, 70. Augustin, refers to his treatise on the Harmony of the Gospels, 416.
BAD men, put all the works of God
to bad use: God puts their bad works to good use, 177. Baptism, the water and the word es-
sential to, 344; the water is consecrated by "the word of faith," 345; those believing in the Vine are loosed in the laver of regeneration from guilt, 450; the cleansing ascribed not to fluid unstable element, by the word must be added, 345; this "word of faith" cleansest the merest babe, 345; the baptized
"clean every whit," yet need a daily confession of sins: Christ daily washes the feet of these, 302; necessity of, 245; danger lest catechumens of high gifts should disdain baptism, 29, 89; high gifts and grace may precede, but cannot super- sede, 30; Christ alone baptizes with the Holy Ghost, 32 sqq. ; not of Peter or of Paul, 33; whoever ministers, it is Christ's, 34; valid when administered by the worst of men, 38; not weak- ened if administered by a mur- derer, 38; the authority of, resides with Christ, 39, 41; its virtue not dependent on the minister, 42, 43; this illustrated by a type from the history of the patri- archs, 77; Catholics admit Don- atist, these annul that of Catho-
lics, 43 sq.; out of unity valid, but unto condemnation, 44 sq.; typified in the Ark and trees both baptized in the Flood, 46; evil men in, come to God with a double heart, 77; the virtue of, 89; cannot be iterated, 77; unbaptized are yet in their sins, 89; infant baptism, 219; of John, why temporary, ceasing as soon as our Lord was bap- tized, 29 sq.; why John bap. tized others, 30, 32 sq.; his baptism received from Christ, 32; recipients of, yet needed Christ's baptism, 39; baptism of Christ not as John's, 88. Be, Being. See God, "Esse;
being is only in God, 220; all well-being of angel, man and beast is of the Lord, 201; God's "Esse" has no tenses, 383; instanced in "the Rock was Christ," "the good seed are the children of the kingdom," 315.
Beauty, outward and inward, 25. 'Believe," and "believe on," differ- ent, 296 sq.
Belief, object of, is that which we do not understand, 211 Benevolence, the living water which flows from the heart, 194 Bethesda, pool of, signified the peo-
ple of the Jews, III. Birth, New. See Regeneration. Blindness, mental: cure of, slow
and painful, 121; judicial, 292 sq. some suffer, for a time for their good, 294.
Blood of Christ, the Saviour's mur-
derers despaired until they drank His, 191; is drunk by the believing, 219, 225; was so shed for redemption of all sins, that it had power to blot out the very sin by which it was shed, 363. Bodily actions, when honest, pro- mote the growth of the inward affections, 306; bodily health, gift of Christ to man and beast, 186 sq., 196; is from the Lord, through whomsoever given,
186. Body of Christ. See Church. Bread of Life, 165, 172; to believe is to eat, 164, 168. Bread, angels', Christ, Eternal
Light, 88; fullness in the Holy Spirit, 120. Brethren, Christ's, 69; not sons of Mary, 179.
CARNAL conceptions of God, when
they occur to spiritual men, are repelled like troublesome in- sects, 391. Catechumens, 73, 74, 75, 82, 245 n.;
some highly gifted, not to de- spise baptism, 89; received a chrism before baptism, 245; use the sign of Christ, 282; the sac-
raments reverently concealed from, that they may be more ardently desired. 372; form of doctrine delivered to, in the Creed and the Lord's Prayer, 378. Catholics, broader than Donatists regarding baptism, 43 sq. Charity. See Love. Cherubim, the four living Creatures denote the four Evangelists, 210. Chrism, the unction we receive for
our wrestling with the devil, 197; applied to beginners in faith,
CHRIST, anointed, 52; signifies King, Jesus Saviour, 332. THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD, with the Father, Con-sub- stantial and Coequal, 184, 296, 338; to know, is to know the Fa- ther, 214, 327; is the Way, but also He and the Father are in- separably One, 327; Father and Son have one Will as one Spirit, 413; mutual indwelling of Fa- ther and Son as Coequal, 269; has Life in Himself, 148; gift of Eternal Generation, 267, 298; in the relation of Fa- ther to Son no notion of time appears, 402; whatever the Father gave to the Son, He gave by begetting, 402; never says "Our Father." 138; what dis- tinction in "My Father and your Father, My God and your God," 438; because Son, there- fore Equal; not by robbery or usurpation, 116; how the Father "showeth," and the Son "seeth," 138, 153; sonship, seeing, power, substance, insep- arate, 135; the Father's com- mandment to, is His begetting the Son Coequal, 297 sq.; the Father's teaching-begat Him Omniscient, 226; the Father begat Him to be Holy, 269. BEGOTTEN, NOT MADE: VERY God OF VERY GOD: OF ONE SUB- STANCE WITH THE FATHER, the Father has given to the Son all that Himself is. Paternity alone excepted, 384; hence, equally with the Father, is the Beginning, 221, 222; asGod, by absolute fore- knowledge and predestination, 322 sq.; speaks of things future as already come: always and everywhere present, 206, 227; let it not be asked where He is, 413; Hiswhere' is the Father: and the where' of the Father is the Son, 414; God of God, 296, 297; hath life not of Him- self, but of the Father, 126; Very Life by gift of the Father, 127; as Word, is of God: as Son, of the Father, 338; One with the Father, Equal in all things, 185; Light of Light, 328; His coeternity illustrated
by light coeval with the flame generating it. 135; Eternal Light, angel's food, 88; the Light, and the Light from Light, One Light, 184; Light of the world, and in it from beginning: not locally but as Creator, 16; is not of Himself, 297, 328, 329; His Pre-existence, 175; and Eternity, 21; the I Am, 219 sqq., 225, 244; Maker and Dis- poser of times, 190; in Him "to have (attribute) and "to be" (essence) is identical, 139, 268, 383; to be" and "to know" identical, 121, 227; because Almighty, also All-possessing, 133, 401; His coequal owner- ship of all holy creatures, 402; cognizant of all thoughts, 392; to believe on is necessarily to believe Him Coequal. 296; not by usurpation but by birth, 341, 343; to believe the Son is to be- lieve the Father, and to dispar- age the Son is to disparage the Father, 124; the Son, the Fa- ther's self, 98; God and King of all the earth, 87; against the Arian heretics the Fathers estab- lished that new term Homousios, what we call "I and My Fa- ther are One," 376. ETERNAL WORD OF GOD, does not sound and pass away like our words, 9; Word or Speech of God not a succession of indivi- dual sounds, which are conveyed into the mind, 184, 381; God speaks, is the Word: a human father speaks to his son, but the word he speaks is neither him- self nor his son, 96, 153 sqq., 214, 226; the Word, the design of God: how great is the Fabri- cator, 10; the Word of God > made all things: the universe created by Him, 11; life of all created things in the Word, 12; is the Light of rational man, 13; not transient syllables, but an abiding Power, 184; Coeternal with no interval of time, 184; from eternity with the Father, 267; God's speaking is the Son, 96; God speaks as light ema- nates, 138; meaning of My doctrine is not Mine," etc., 183 sq., 296; the Word, implanting the image of God in man, 20; how the Light was in the world from the beginning, 20; how being Son, He hears of God, 96; Man visible: God hidden. 213, 226; the Word, always with God, came to us, 237; if men are called gods because of the Word of God, the Word surely is God, 269; the spoken and written word the medium of His being made known in time, 71, 186, 210, 406 sq.
BY WHOM ALL THINGS WERE
MADE, Hand of the Father, 268; "Arm of the Lord," 291; Creator of all things, 57; and Ruler, 116; Author of all well- being, 186 sq.; Acts of the Son and Father inseparable, 132, 329, 410; the Son does the same works as the Father, 120; all things made by the Son as seeing, the Father as showing, 123, 153; all His works pre-existed in Him by His might, 10, 216. WAS MADE MAN, Christ unutter-
able, 23, from above, how, 218; Christ came: how, being Omni- scient, 15; coming of the Word is without diminution, 237; the Father's sending is the Incarna- tion, 211, 227; the Son not, be- cause sent, unequal to the Sen- der, 144: Equal to the Father as God, inferior as Man, 117, 173, 341; how emptied Himself by taking the form of a servant, 84; Nativity, on both sides, marvellous, 197; Incarnation the greatest miracle, 111; two- fold Substance of, 341; the Two is One Christ, else we make God quaternity, 175, 341; sometimes He speaks as "I and the Fa- ther are one: or sometimes, "because the Father is greater than I," 381, 267 note; Strong Man of twofold Substance, 308; our Maker and our Brother, 140; as God was still in heaven, while as Man on earth, 175, 191 sq.; at once God is Man, and Man is God: therefore" the Son of Man which is in heaven," 413; came from the Father, and yet never left Him: went from the world, yet has not left it, 391; Incarnate, is Bread of heaven to man, 163; faith in Jesus must not terminate in His Manhood, but must rest in His Godhead, 437 sq.; to disown Christ as Man, is to lose the Mediator, 320; Person of, the Catholic Rule of faith, 208; word, soul, and flesh, one Christ: Son of God and Son of Man, Immanuel, 175, 276; word, rational mind, and flesh, 153; as the rational soul and body form but one man, so God and Man is one Christ, 341; as man is rational soul hav- ing a body, so Jesus is the Word having Man, 129; Word, Soul, and Flesh: one Person and each of these severally is called Christ, 264 sq., 276; and Son of God, 341; complete human- ity in, 263; as Man, empowered by the whole Trinity, 403; He surpasses all angelic excellence, 411; Godhead and Manhood in- teracting, 62; conceived without sin, 343; alone without the heri- tage of sin, 22, 73, 232; took
flesh from Adam only, 28; He alone has no sins, 350; free among the dead, 232; human nature in Christ has nothing that it did not receive, 396.
FOR US MEN AND FOR OUR SAL- VATION, the taking of humanity into God, the greatest of all grace, 348; Mediator as Man, by grace, 347; as Man, Media- tor and Head of the Church, sanctified by Himself as God, 405; Fountain of Grace, God by Nature, Man of the Holy Ghost and the Virgin by ineffable grace, 415; His bride the Church, 58; born into the world to bear witness of the Truth, 424; took our smallness to en- courage our aspiring, 144; through the Manhood we come to know the Godhead, 99; the Only Son would not be alone a Son: came to make many sons by adoption, 18; being equal with the Father, He called us into existence: as He is like unto us, He redeemed us, 284; born of God to create: born of woman to re-create, 18; made mortal to slay death, 85; reason of His coming, our resurrection of soul and body, 153; God hid- den to make men gods, 137; came to loose the sins which hindered us from being adopted, 17; abiding with the Father He is Truth and Life: putting on flesh, the Way, 203; Physician, 20; Flesh of, the eye-salve for beholding His majesty, 18; His humility the remedy for the ill which flesh had caused, 18, 21. IN THE DAYS OF HIS FLESH, Son of Man, how: sealed above his fellows, 164; as Man how differ- enced from us, 242; seeking not His own will, 131; suffered weariness, 100; His weakness in our flesh, 'creating thee anew, 100 sq.; His gentleness, combined with Truth and Jus- tice, 197 sq.; example of patient and gentle Omnipotence, 245; perfect sympathy of, 287; the Artificer knew his own work- man, 75; of David through the Virgin Mary, 266; exercised miraculous powers, 288; His Mother, mystically the syna- gogue, 66; His own country, the Jews: His new country the Gentiles, 110; why called a Gal- ilean, 197; His loftiness, our lowliness: "He must increase, but I must decrease," 95; sub- mitted to be tempted as an ex- ample for us, 288; received bap- tism to establish His sacrament, 89; the disciples supplied the ministry, He afforded His majesty, in baptism, 100; alone baptizes with the Holy Ghost,
32; His deeds are also signs of spiritual truth, 270; His mira- cles, subjects of rejoicing more than of wonder, 270; raised three corpses to life: these de- note three degrees of spiritual death, 271; asleep in the ship, forgetfulness of faith in Je- sus, 276; transfiguration: why between Moses and Elias, 112; wept, to teach us to weep: groaned, that our penitence might displace our sinning, 276; all creatures acknowledged Him as God, 20; why He chose and tolerated Judas Iscariot, 281, sq. HIS SUFFERINGS AND DEATH, was troubled, because He willed, 276; His soul was troubled that we might endure the will of God divinely, 288; loved His disci- ples unto the end: He is our end, 299; laying aside His gar- ments, etc., an acted parable, expounded 300 sq.; Humility of, in washing the feet of His disciples: daily washes our feet, 302; troubled in spirit when Ju- das was about to go out, 311; "troubled in spirit," because of the atrocious villainy of Judas, 309; with our nature took its liability to perturbations, 310; His perfect sympathy, 309; His perturbation tranquilizes, His infirmity confirms us, 310; took upon Him with our nature our natural repugnance against death, 447; Judas is gone out, Jesus is glorified: a type of His glory with the elect in the end, 315 in His Passion, set an ex- ample to His martyrs, 396; sometimes held His peace be- fore His judges, sometimes made answer, 426; bearing His cross, a grand bulwark of faith, 429; His garments, the dividing of: agreement of the gospels concerning, 430 sq.; spiritual meaning of the four parts: and of the coat without seam, 431; the seamless coat; charity and unity, 92; acknowledged His mother when His hour was come, 432; from His cross, as the chair, the Teacher taught the lesson of filial piety, 433; His very cross a judgment-seat, 193; His hour, 61, 62; not under fate: of His own will, 216; not of fate or sidereal necessity, but fixed by Himself in the Divine counsels, 394; bitterness of the death of the Cross, 209; hour of the crucifixion, Mark and John reconciled, 427, 428; His prayer on the Cross for the elect among His murderers, 191, 219, 225: and was effectual, 294; died when He would, 191, 434; died uncompelled, 75; had power to lay down and take again His
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