life, 362; death of, more active than passive, 232; how He laid down His flesh to take it again, 263 sq.; the Flesh laid down the life by the power of the Word, 265.
EFFICACY OF HIS DEATH, paid the death we owed, 343; the water and the blood flowing from His side are signs of the two sacraments, 434; the spirit- ual Eve, the Church, formed from out of the side of the Sec- ond Adam, 101, 434; the bag was rent, that the price of our re- demption might run out, 179; by death slew death, 84; by dy- ing has raised us above the fear of death, 243; bought all the earth not a part (as Africa), 92; the redeemed are Christ's disci- ples, servants, brethren, mem- bers, yea Christ Himself, 192; the saints are now redeemed through the Mediator, and have received the earnest of the Holy Ghost, 449; Christ prayed not for the non-elect, 402; prayed for all the redeemed, whether alive or to be born, 408; "ye are not of My sheep," those pre- destined to destruction, not saved by His Blood, 267; each for whom He suffered, He hath made His sheep, 447; the re- deemed delivered from the devil by faith, through Jesus, 289. BURIED, DESCENDED INTO HADES, Christ kept sabbath in the tomb, 116; as Man, His soul was that day in hades, His flesh was in the grave: as God, He was also in paradise, 413. ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD, the
Father glorified in Himself, the Son in His resurrection, when the Humanity was gifted with eternal immortality, 315; after the resurrection appeared only to His own, 335; His manifesta- tions of Himself after His resur- rection, 444 sq.; why He forbade Mary Magdalene to touch Him, 169, 437 sq.; His risen Body could enter in by closed doors, 438; ate and drank with the dis- ciples after His resurrection to evidence the reality of His flesh, 316; breathed on the disciples 195; why He gave not the Spirit unt:1 after His resurrection, 196; His resurrection the guarantee of ours, 336; the mystical mean- ing of the forty days after His resurrection, 114. ASCENDED, "that great fish from
the sea first ascended, 115; the servant - form which He re- ceived of the Virgin was lifted up, and placed at the right hand of the Father, 413; "He is away and He is here: but His majesty He has never withdrawn from
the world," 280; " Me ye will not have always," was said to Judas, and in him to all the bad in the Church, or, in respect of His bodily presence, however, not of His majesty and providence, 282 sq.; ascended into heaven, and also is here, 282; His Body occupies only one place, His truth is everywhere, 186; goes away by being unseen, comes by becoming visible, abides by rul- ing,324,391; as Man went away, as God abided with us, 340; His going to the Father was this-to transform and exalt our human- ity, 342; in bodily presence He was and will be with the saints: in spiritual presence He is with them, 399; no more in the world by bodily Presence after His as- cension, 403; the Way, the Truth, and the Life, 324; He is the Way, for Himself and for us, to the Truth and Life which is Himself, 325; by the flesh He returned to His own truth and life, 325; His departure necessary, that there may be in His followers room for the Spirit, 368; and that the just might live by faith, 370; went hence to prepare a place for us, i.e., to prepare us: for we are prepared by faith in an unseen Christ, 323; His ascension, our exaltation, wherein "human na- ture is worthy of congratulation, in being so assumed by the Only- begotten Word as to be consti- tuted immortal in heaven, and, earthy, to be so sublimated, "that, as incorruptible dust, it might take its seat at the right hand of the Father," 342; as- cends to the Father' before those who touch Him spiritu- ally, as Coequal with Father, 169, 438; ascended on high, He sees His followers toiling: and comes to them, walking on the waves: and is glorified by the humble, 162; members of, shall doubtless follow their Head who was "passing" before, 299. HIS INTERCESSION, 137, 130; must be conceived of in the Unity of the Godhead: not Father and Son each occupying a distinct space in magnitude, and words passing between, 391; our Ad- vocate by whom we petition, 51. THE GLORIFYING OF THE MAN JESUS BEGAN AT HIS RESURREC- TION, 395; kingdom of, here and hereafter, 161; Christ's kingdom not of the world, yet in it, 423 sq.; King of eternity, by conde- scension king of Israel, 284; to Israel He both sent and came: to the Gentiles He did not proceed Himself, 262; King of the Jews, viz., of the true Israel, 429; how
glorified by the Holy Spirit, 385; His true glory is only in the Catholic church, 385; the Father has given all things into His hands: the evil for present use, the good for the final issue, 300; the Father has given Him power over every soul to deliver and condemn whom He will, 396; is silent now not in giving warning but in taking ven- geance, 26; "Glorify Thou Me with Thine own self, with the glory which I had, i..., the predestination of the glory of Christ's humanity to immortality with the Father, 397 sq. SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, "Propi- tiation for the sins of the whole world," being lifted up "draws all men after Him," expounded, 200; prays not for those who live after the lust of the world, 402, prayed for all whom he re- deemed during or after His com- ing, 408; made all those His sheep, for all of whom He suf- fered, 477; knows His own, 176; faith unites to, 176; to be with Him is the chief good: for to be where He is is common to all, 413 sq.; none are Christ's without His Spirit, 175; only they who keep His commands can shamelessly demand His promises, 202; trusts Himself only to the regenerate, 75, 81; the sure Deliverer, 231; none cast out that come to Him, 165; Way and End, 204; End of the Law unto perfection, 299; our sweet Retreat, 165; hath and is the Life: we have life in Him, 326; Fountain of life and light, 201; what benefit in living well, un- less the eternal Life is given, 250; abounding grace in raising the spiritually dead, 277; Bread of life, 165, 172; to believe, is to eat the bread of Life, 164. 168; the Day, 246; Light of the understanding, 104; the Truth, 59, 229 sq., 404; a Prophet, 248; our Master, Defender, In- tercessor, 137; Teacher of hu- mility, 167; Lowly, to cure man's pride, 166; our Teacher: not only in His discourses to His disciples, but in praying for them to the Father, 394; the end of His teaching, peace in Him, 393; Teacher of patience, 420, nature of His Paternity, 335; His peace in His Church now, His own peace in the end, 339; we are to imitate Him, but must not presume to compare ourselves with Him, 351 to fol- low Jesus is to imitate Him, 286; hearing the Gospel is like listening to Jesus, 186; forgiv- ing sin, He does not favor sins, 199; difficult to be seen in a
crowd, solitude essential to faith towards, 115; His answer in meekness and example in forti- tude, 420; all sighings to breathe after Him, 74; to leave Christ is to follow Satan, 176. REPRESENTED BY VARIOUS SIMILI- TUDES, Lamb and Lion, 256 sq., 262,344; the Day-spring, 89; the spiritual day and the apostles its twelve hours, 273; the Vine, as Head of the Church, 343; as God, He is also the Husband- man, 344; as the Vine, Man, but grace is supplied by Him as God, 346; He was the grain of wheat that must die, etc., to be multiplied, 285; the Shepherd sought the lost sheep, 55; the Good Samaritan, 235; i.e., Keeper, 240; the Gardener, sows the grain of mustard seed, 437. ADVENT TO JUDGMENT, judgeth
not any now, for He came to suffer, 209; why He judges not now, 297; first and second Ad- vents contrasted, 26, 209; in the Judgment will appear as Son of Man, 142, 149, 212 sq.; will judge as Son of Man, but not in His original humility, 380 sq.; will return in the visible form of flesh, 129, 143; will be seen as Man by the ungodly: as the Trinity by the sons, 143, 414; never seen or to be seen by the ungodly but in the form of man, 337; in that form is to be seen for the last time in the day of Judgment, 337, 414; Judge and Witness because Omniscient, 212; Himself is the Word, the Gate, the Judge, 297; the form of a servant, and Intercession, will pass away after the win- nowing, 130.
PREACHED IN THE OLD TES- TAMENT, His manifold wit- nesses, 151; witnessed by the prophets, 204 sq., 206; God, a witness to Himself, 206; His coming prepared by a long train of prophecy, 190; seen by Old Testament saints, as Isaiah, not as He is, but symbolically, 295; never seen before Incar- nation, 23 sqq.; manifestations of in Old Testament by created angels, 23 was signified to the Old Testament saints as He is to us, but by different signs, 252; the divinity of His majes- ty predicted as unsearchable, 189 sq.; the true Circumcision, 187; Isaac bearing the wood, type of, 67; the Lamb of God, 29, 49; the Paschal Lamb. 279; the true Passover, 425; His sign on the forehead drives from us the destroyer, if He is an inmate of our hearts, 279; the great High Priest within the veil, 115, 161; the Prophet like unto Moses,
105, 160; greater than Moses, 164, typified by brazen serpent, 84 sq.; the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands, has be- come a Mountain, and filled the whole earth, 26, 68. Christians, in virtue of name, belong to Jesus, 19; in a sense, are Christ, 140 sq.; members of the Body in unity and charity, 93; must be zealous for the house of God, and not supinely tolerate sin in their fellows, 72; must look to be reviled by the chaff, 182 sq.; how and when they must hate their own life, 285; are qualified for teaching Christ, 380.
Church, the Bride of Christ, 90: cleansed by the Word of Christ, 344; Christ suffers in, learns in, is honored or slighted in, His members, 140; fullness of: Head and members, 140 sq.; His body lives by the Holy Spirit, 172; no life out of the, 176; spread of the, 26 sq., 183; her fears of defiling her feet on the way from the laver of regeneration, through this evil world, to Her Master in heaven, 303-305; its universality foretold by prophe- cy: proved by the apostolic com- mission to baptize all nations, 42; and the descent of the Holy Spirit-one dove, many tongues, 44; in travail, and the fruit of her travail is the vision of Christ, 388; self-love the root of all evil in the, 446; the saints Abraham's seed, i. e. Christ : the saints partakers in the suf- ferings of Christ, 405; all true believers, morally one with Christ, not consubstantially one, 408; the saints as His Body are Christ, 415; composed of the elect of Israel, and elect of the Gentiles (the two sons in the parable of the Prodigal Son). 402; of the elect will contain only the great, 443; founded not upon the person of Peter, but on the Rock, our gracious Lord, 450; good and bad in the, how represented in history of the patriarchs, 77; her voyage through the darkness of the world, 162; militant, prefigured in the feast of Tabernacles, 182; in this present life, mixed as upon the threshing-floor: there- fore evil men are present until the end, who blaspheme rather in deed than with the tongue 178; many sinners enter the, 232; should bear with the wicked and refrain from divid- ing, as with Judas, 281; univer- sality of; betokened by the gift of tongues: none given the Holy Ghost out of the, 195; the whole Body has its gifts for
each, and each for the whole, 196; its universality denoted by the four-parted garment of
Christ, its unity by the seamless coat, 431; of the Gentiles, pre- figured by the woman with the bloody flux, 192; the good in the, have Christ here by faith, by the sign, by the sacraments and hereafter the bad only in these outward signs, 282; some in the, given to study and con- templation: some called to en- terprise, 304; troubled in the go- ing out of false brethren, 310; Church funds, the precedent given by
Christ, 282; robbery of the Church the most heinous of rob- beries, 281. Churches profaned by drunken ex- cesses, 70, 72. Circumcision, a seal of salvation, 187; the true, is by the resurrec- tion of Christ: meaning of the knife of stone, 187. 'Clarificare,' and 'glorificare,' both represent the same word doğalew, to glorify, 385, 395, 396, 399.
Coena pura,' so the Latins call the Parasceve, 435.
Could not, of trust by man, means would not," 294. Communion, Holy, the baptized only know what it means to eat the flesh of Christ, 75, 76; Christ invisibly nourishing the true believer in, 165; to be eaten spiritually, approached inno- cently, 171; Christ eaten in the sacrament with the heart, not the teeth, 172; the sacrament in some places celebrated daily, 173; the sacrament is death to some, the virtue is life, 171, 173; His Body not present in the eucharist, to the wicked, 173; eternal life by eating Christ, 174; His Flesh not to be un- derstood carnally, 174; not necessarily does grace follow the sacrament, 177 sq.; to believers that is Christ which is placed on the altar of God, 252; to discern the Lord's Body is to see its dif- ference from other meats, 312; "laying down our lives for the brethren," a temper preparatory to and congruous with the, 349 sq.; celebrating the memory of the martyrs in the eucharist, 350. Concord, and consort, 340. Concupiscence, being bridled, shall be lessened daily, 234. Condescension to babes, 56. Confession of minute transgressions, necessary, 86. Conflict between flesh and spirit in the saints, 233. Conscience, no man can see another
man's hence mistaken judg- ments even of good men, 360 misery of an evil man's, 231.
Creation, God makes the world, per-
vading it everywhere without interval of space betwixt Him and it, 16 sq.; all existed as idea in the Word before made, 216. Cross, bitterness of the death of the,
209; the providence of God shown in the title of the, 429; of Christ, a tree for crossing the sea of this world, 14; a trophy of our Redeemer, 209; signed on our foreheads; denoting His humiliation, 19; as the seat of shame, that faith may not blush at His cause, 295; affixed on the brows of kings, 429; gloried in by the hearts of the saints, 429; use of in sacraments and sacred ceremonies, 432; used by catechumens before baptism, 75, 282. Cruciatus,' 209. Crucifixion, the hour of, discrepancy
between Mark and John, how reconciled, 427, 428; the Ro- mans no longer use, as a pun- ishment, 209. Cyprian, St., a great orator, 54; erred in the question of baptism, before this was properly treated in the Catholic Church, 37.
DEAD, good and bad, both under
custody until the Judgement, but it fares differently with them, 273; every unbeliever goes into darkness, where no work can be done, 247.
Death, is a sleep to all, but the
dreams and the awaking are dif- ferent to the good and the wicked in mortal flesh, 273; life is not easier than death, 317; is repugnant to all by nature, 446; but this affection ought to suc- cumb to faithful service for Christ, 447; Christ was troubled by approach of, to encourage the weak, 310; all fear the death of the body, but the death of the soul, though more dreadful, few fear, 270 sq.; three degrees of spiritual, denoted in the three persons whom Christ raised to life, 271; of the elect, “ye died, and your life is hid:" hence love is strong as death, 318; of the body, and the second or eternal death, 242.
Decalogue, the same to us as to the Jews, but with better promises, 24 sq. 'Denarius,' 112. Despair and presumption, both peril-
ous, 199, 271. Devil. See Satan."
Devils, expected the coming of
Christ, 49; counterfeit honor to deceive followers of Jesus, 50. 'Diapsalma,' 146.
Dispensation of God in the flesh, 126. Divorce is from Satan, 63; lawful in case of fornication, 63.
Doctrine, the rudiments and the per-
fection, or milk and solid meat, 377 sqq.; Christ the food of mankind: His Godhead to be known to the babes and His manhood to the perfect, 379; learners go on to fuller knowl- edge the superstructure is added, and the foundation not abandoned, 379; it is presump- tuous to define the statement "I have many things to say unto you," 371 sq.; heretics (as Mani- chees) blasphemously assert that their impious and filthy doc- trines are these truths, left un- spoken by Christ, revealed to them by the Holy Spirit, 373, 375; their esoteric doctrines and mysteries, profane novelties, 375 sq.; impute to Christ and the apostles that they accommo- dated themselves to weakness, by speaking falsehoods, 379; the church has no esoteric doctrine, 377; the spiritual in conference with the carnal suppress no part of Catholic truth, but forbear to overload incapable minds, 376 sq.; what Paul means by speak- ing wisdom among the perfect, 378.
Donatists, have not the wedding
garment, 67; their blindness such that they cannot see the Mountain which has filled the earth, 26 sq.; deny the univer- sality of Christ's presence, 87; of His purchase, 92; their pre- tentiousness, 28 sq.; allow the baptism of wicked men of their own sect, 43; reproved by hu- mility of John the Baptist, 28; annul the baptism of Catholics: but their baptism is admitted by the Catholic Church, 43 sq.; ob- stinately cling to the error of St. Cyprian, 37; guilty of voluptu- ousness, 37 sq., 43; sell the Holy Ghost, 71; many parties' bitterly contending together, 71; would seduce Christ's Bride to adultery, 90; complained of per- secution, 35, 79; their worst persecution against the soul: they robbed Christians of their Christianity, 35 sq.; they per- secute, as Ishmael, by deluding, 79; like Hagar, are afflicted that they may return to their mistress, 79 sq.; their boasted martyrs, 80; suffer for Donat- ists, not for Christ, 46; vain- gloriously affect martyrdom, and invite persecution, 47; suicides, 47, 80, 285; many, restored to the unity of the Church, 40, 47. Dove, the, abiding in Christ, denotes
charity in unity, 44; type of the church's unity, 41; what John learnt by the, 31 sqq.; its char- acter and habits described, 40, 43; its plaintive note aptly sig-
nifies the spiritual mourning of the saints, 39.
Drawing to Christ, not compulsion, 168; the Father draws, by re- vealing the Son, 169, 170. Dualism, Manichæan, doctrine of two principles in man, Good and Evil, 237, 239.
EASTER, season for baptism, 73, 74- Elect, the, given to the Son as man,
400 sq.; "I have chosen you,' expounded, 401, 404; were all once under the rulers of this darkness, 343; lying in sins, typified by Nathanael under the fig-tree, 55 sq.; objects of God's love before they were reconciled, 411; Christ's joy over our salva- tion began in us when He called us, 348; given to Christ that He may give them eternal life, 412 sq.; Christ prayed for the elect among His murderers, 191. Election, the ineffable grace of, 353:
the elect were chosen not because God foreknew that they should be good, 353; is unto faith and love, not because of, 354; a 'world' chosen out of the world that is hostile, condemned, de- filed, to be reconciled to God by Christ and freely forgiven all its sins, 355; the saints chosen out of the world, not by nature, which through free-will was to- tally corrupted at the root, but by gratuitous, actual grace, 355- Elias, the Jews expected his coming,
26; is yet to come before Christ's second advent, 27. Enconia," 266.
End, the consummating, not the consuming, 299; the all-suffic- ing, the future vision of our Lord: all action subservient to this, 388.
Envy, malignant, 38. Enlightenment, gradual, 95. Esse' and habere,' 'posse,' in God, identical, 121, 133, 227, 383. Eternal generation, the Father's gift to Christ, 267, 298. Eternity, an everlasting 'to-day,' 190.
Evangelists, the Four, denoted by
the four living creatures of Eze- kiel and Apocalyse, 210. Eve, type of the Church, formed from
the opened side of the second Adam, 67, 101. Evil, not as a substance to be locally
separated from us, but to be healed within us, 379; by heretics represented as a substance un- created by God, 378. Evil ministers, to be tolerated, as
Christ tolerated Judas, 282.
FAITH, a going into Christ, 171, 296; is by grace, not of merit, 21; ob- tains more grace, 22; is the gift
of God, 176, 185; precedes knowledge, 60, 177; to believe truly, is to believe firmly and boldly, and this is to know tru- ly, 401; before understanding, 184 sq., 211, 251; to be followed by understanding, 145; first be- lieve the Gospel, then seek to understand, 60; is the way to insight, 266, 293; necessarily implies an object unseen: but is helped by things seen, 342; un- believers cry, how can we be- lieve what we do not see, 370; the very praise of, is that its ob- ject is not seen, 370; walk here by, hereafter by sight, 202; in Christ, His gracious bestowal, 425; an act of the will, not by force, 168; touches Christ spirit- ually, not by bodily contact, 169; a passing from death to life, 145, 147; is the life of the natural soul, 275; the means whereby we eat the heavenly Bread, 164; humility of, 228; and works, 164; without loving, is the faith of devils, 46; a par- tial and imperfect, 74 sq.; all, in Christ is through the word of the apostles, i.e., by whomso- ever preached, called their word because primarily and princi- pally proclaimed by them, 406, 407; a knowledge by, and a knowledge by sight, 410; those cannot believe, who so exalt free-will as to dispense with the necessity of Divine aid, 294; the eye-salve for spiritual blind- ness, 203; overcomes love of human glory, 295; sight, the wages of, 414; necessity of con- tending for the, against heretics, 210, 215.
Fasting, in general, is abstaining
from iniquities and worldly pleasures, 112. Fate, fando,' 216. FATHER, THE, See God; Trinity,
Father and Son names correlate, 222 sqq.; thinking of Him as God, we think of the Creator, Al- mighty, a Spirit supreme, eter- nal, unchangeable, invisible: as Father, we must at the same time think of a Son, 124; not incarnate, 212; greater than the Son in the form of a servant, 267 note, 341; Eternal, beget- ting Son eternal, how, 134; how he speaks to the Son, 154, 226; bond of infinite love uniting the Father and the Son, 97; Fa- thers and masters of families ex- ercise an episcopal office in their households, 286 sq. Fear, two kinds of. 352; of punish- ment and of losing righteous-
Fig tree, its leaves typify sins, 55; Nathanael under the, the elect lying in sins, 55 sq.
Filial piety, the Saviour on the cross, an example of, 432 sq. Flesh, the law of sin in the members, 202 sq.; "All flesh means every man," 396; put for woman, as sometimes "spirit" for "husband," 18. Flesh of Christ, a means of healing sinful flesh, 21; eating of, only Christians know what it means, 75, 76; not to be carnally un- derstood, 174; profiteth only by the Spirit, 175. Foreknowledge, Divine, of elect and unbelievers, 97; if the sins fore- known are not the sinner's, His foreknowledge is fallible, 292; Forgiveness, for them who accuse themselves and confess, 86; none to despair of, considering Christ pardoned His murderers, 191; mutual, a washing of one an- other's feet, 307. Fornication, spiritual, 236. Freedom from sin, none enjoy per- fect in this life, 233; freedom from sinful conduct the begin- ning of, 233.
Free-will, and grace, 293; freedom
of the will not to be maintained as sufficient, nor to be denied so as to excuse sin, 294, 345. Friend of the Bridegroom, jealous for Christ, 91. Friendship, in, we love the soul,
not the body, 193.
GENTILES, Church of the, how Christ went to, 192; united in Christ the Corner-stone, 68; elect of, denoted by the ass' colt, 284; their faith prophetically com- mended, 438; more blessed than the Jews who saw Jesus, 109. Gloria, 385, 396; three kinds of
false, 385; to be righteous un- der God is true glory, 386. GOD, what He is not, 154: no
form or bodily parts in, 291; His incorporeal Nature incon- ceivable by the natural man, 390, every thought of material images must be removed from the notion of, 413; effort of the spiritual mind to attain to the true conception of, 414 sq.; is concealed, to be sou ht after: and being found, He is infinite, which demands more search, 314; understood carnally-idols of the heart, 122; whole every- where, 202; incorporeal, un limited, not outspread, every- where perfect and infinite, color- less, formless, unarticulated, 373; God, not to be imagined. with bodily form, but the Son as incarnate may and ought to be so conceived, 226; some similitude to the image of God in the mind, 155: Divine revelations how to be con- ceived, 136, 154; not to be
estimated by human relations, 144, 153 sq.; when Scripture uses sensible images to express Divine Relations, these must be estimated carnally, 118 sqq.; alone truly IS, 14: no tenses in His "To Be," 383; alone has true being, unchangeable, 220, 224; Was and Will Be non- existent with, 221; in the divine Nature intelligence acts simply though described by terms derived from bodily senses: uniformly, identically, with the knowing, and eternally, 382; what It has, It is, 382; Essence and Attribute identical, 227; perception and being in, are one, 121; with Him 'cannot' is will not,' 294; Omnipresent, 191; Essential Goodness, 224; the Trinity, how They come to us, 338; dwells in the saints as in a temple, 338; the sender, and the sent, 97; My Father manifested by Jesus, 400; the race acknowledge as Author of the world, except a few in whom nature is outrageously depraved, 400; image of, in man, 121; the Father glorified by the preach- ing of the Lord, for so He was made known for endless praise to His children, 396; how He made the things that are future, 322; the Trinity in us as God in His Temple; we in Them as the creature in its Creator, 408; Saviour of angel and man and beast, 200 sq.; needs not us but we need Him, 76; God, the or- nament of the mind, 194; an in- ward manifestation of, unknown to the ungodly, 337; is said to see, when He pities, 277; why He was pleased to be called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 77, 81; if thou fall not off from Him, He will never fall away from thee, 202; possi- ble to hate Him unknown, 358; tempts, in order to know, i.e., to make to know, 241; in no wise the Author of sin, 239: "hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart," explained: hardens the reprobate by not helping, 293; makes wicked men, as Judas, His instruments for good, 177; His anger not as man's, a disturbance, but the calm fixing of righteous punish- ment, 449.
Good, all that is severally and par-
tially good in the creature, is whole and entire in God, 88; none good but they who have chosen Him, and they were not chosen because of their good- ness, 353; to the evil good be- comes evil, as the sop to Judas, and to the good, good comes out of evil, 312 sq.
Goodness, none out of Christ, 250. Good works, none without the grace
of Christ, 345; their source, faith which worketh by love, 347. Gospels, the perfect harmony of, shown by Augustin, 416, and note; the first three, chiefly con- versant with Christ's Manhood: the fourth, with His Divinity,
Grace, God Incarnate, the very foun- tain of, 415, 442; free, to be answered by loving freely, 225; for grace, 21; crowned with life eternal, 22.
HAGAR, afflicted by Sarah, as heret- ics punished by the Church, that she may return to her mistress, 79 sq.
Harvest, the gathering in from Israel and the nations at the end of this world, 107.
Health, See Bodily Health, 107. Heathen, how they fell from God, 94 sq.; a heathen festival at Hip- po, 57. Heirs of God, joint-heirs with Je- sus; do not impair His inheri- tance; He theirs as salvation, as light, 17.
Hen gathering her chickens, aptness
of the similitude, 101. Heresies, obliged spiritual men to be
manly and upright, 210; con- cerning the Person of Christ, some deny the Divinity, others the Manhood, 208, 210 sq. Heretics, handle the Word of God
with partiality, 59 sq.; some say, Christ is not truly man, bodies of animals and men not created by God, Old Testament not given by God, 379. High-priest, office of, not held ac-
cording to the original institu- tion in the Roman times, 278; Annas and Caiaphas, 420. Homousios, 376. 'Hosanna,' an interjection, denoting an affection, 283 and note. Hour, Christ's, 190; the last-from Christ's coming to end of world, 147.
House of the Father, the many man-
sions, being foreordained, exist already; but in fact the Lord is elaborating them, 323; to dwell in, is to be in the people of God, 324.
House of God, not to be profaned, 70 Humility, itself makes us to be
born of the Spirit," 83. Husbandry, spiritual, 19. Hyperbole, instances of, 452. Hyssop, emblem of humility, 433.
IGNORANCE, voluntary and involun- tary, 251.
Image of God, in the mind, in the intellect, 20; in the mind, a hint of the Trinity, 155.
Incarnation, the, that men might be
born of God, God was born of men: our assurance of His mer- cifulness, 18.
Infant-baptism, 219; efficacy of, through faith in the Church,
345. Infants, dying unbaptized, “blessed innocents who cannot enter the kingdom of heaven," 321. Inner man, better than the outer, 193.
Isaac bearing the wood, a type of Christ, 67.
Ishmael, how his playing with Isaac was a persecution, 79, 82. Israel, a type of the Church, 77; the perpetual type of good things to come, 184 sqq.; passing through the Red Sea and wilderness a type, 76.
Israelite single-hearted, yet needing cure, 54.
JACOB'S vision of the ladder, 56. January, calends of, heathenish ob- servance of, 38. Jealousy, godly, for Christ, 91. Jerusalem, a shadow of the heavenly,
Jews, pre-eminently Christ's “own,"
17; understood the promises carnally, 188; keepers of the prophecies against themselves, 206 sq.; blindness to the pro- phecies relating to Christ, 189 sq.; through pride, despis- ing the humility of God, they crucified their Saviour, and made Him their Condemner, 25; thought Christ would be merely man, 266; hated Christ because they hated that which condemn- ed them, 360; they hated the Truth, as much as they hated their punishment, 360; Christ's true crucifiers: vainly seek to exonerate themselves, 427, 430; the participation in His dying, 421 sq. in giving Christ vine- gar to drink are an acted parable of wickedness, 433; their unbe- lief made Him a stone of stum- bling yet His death was the multiplying seed, 291; they wasted their eternal good afraid of losing their temporal good, 278; how they sought Christ af- ter His resurrection, 191; cut off, Gentiles graffed in, 109 sq., 236; often in bondage, 237; re- quire a sign, yet are slow to be- lieve when it is given: Gentiles require none, 109; boasted of descent from Abraham, 235: children of Satan, by imitation, 237; ignorant and self-righteous zeal made them persecute Christ's followers, 364 sq.; to know that the Jews would " even kill them," etc., was a comfort to the disciples, as a proof of their success, 365, 366; their
dispersion a testimony to the truth of the prophecies concern- ing Jesus, 296; are looking for Antichrist that they may go backward and fall to the ground, as forsaking heavenly things, and desire earthly, 417; impious blindness of Christ's persecutors,
Job, 232. John, the Baptist, how more honored than all the prophets, 21; friend of the Bridegroom, 90; a lamp prepared for Christ, 37; his greatness betokens Christ's sur- passing majesty, 87; the great loftiness of, 15; a light, to wit- ness of the Light, 15; his testi- mony to Christ, 204 sq.; the Elias of the First Advent: not Elias himself, but figuratively, 27; he is "I am the prophecy itself," 28; his humility, 28, 80; wrought no miracles, 269; knew Christ before the heavenly sign, 30; the knowledge imparted to John by the heavenly sign, not this is the Christ," but "this is He which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost," 31 sq. John, the Evangelist, the eagle, 99,
208, 210; sublimity of his Gos- pel, 137, 208, 268; lay in the Lord's bosom to drink in deeper truths, 9, 117, 131; a token of the divine excellency of his teaching, 433; his modesty in mentioning himself, 311; how he received the blessed Virgin "unto his own," i.e., dutiful services, 433; is said never to have married, and from early boyhood had lived in perfect chastity, 452; some errone- ously supposed he did not die: his grave at Ephesus, 448; lacks the commendation of martyrdom, 448; he is the type of the life which is by vision of Christ, as Peter of the life by faith, 450. Judas Iscariot, son of perdition, fore-
ordained to perdition, 404; fol- lowed the Lord with the body, not with the heart: could not contaminate his fellow apostles, 281; was chosen " unto some- thing for which he was neces- sary, but not unto the blessed- ness of sons, 307 sq.; the repre- sentative of evil men in the Church as Peter of the good, 282; was deceived about Him whom He wished to deceive: and already scanned was know- ingly used, 300; a lesson that we should bear with the wicked and not divide the Church: par- took of the holy communion unto death, 281; the bread they ate was the Lord, he ate the Lord's bread in enmity: they ate life, he punishment, 308; was
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