people's hands, 389. See Holy Scrip- ture and Word of God. Bishops and pastors, their office, 69; all notable, once called popes, 198; primitive, their character and em- ployment, 255; thirty successive, reported to have had temples at Rome, 267; judgment of Gregory against all who will be termed uni- versal, 498. See Rome.
Bodies of believers, state of, at the
Boundaries, discourse on the occasion of perambulating parish or town, 527. Brawling. See Contention. Bridegroom, being taken from us, meaning of the expression, 306.
Candles, on lighting, before images, 242. Celibacy, power to live continently in,
a cause of gratitude to God, 140; means of maintaining this power, ib. Censure of others, arguments against, 150.
Ceremonies, right use of, 566.
came to make a Sacrifice for our sins, 20; efficacy of his Sacrifice, 21, 442; the most precious body and blood of, provided by God's infinite mercy as our ransom, 23; is the righteousness of all who truly believe, ib.; by the merits of Christ alone, we are justified by God's mercy, 28; is God, eternal and equal with the Father, 31; was incarnated that he might suffer death for our offences, ib.; our perpetual advocate and priest, 36; the eternal and infallible! verity, 41; was ever obedient to princes and their laws, 54, 114; sought not his own glory, but the glory of the Father, 65; the love and meekness of, 66; if we have, then have we all good, 98; union with, great cause of joy, 98; bodily death cannot harm them who truly believe in, 100; sin shall not condemn them who are truly grafted in, 98; very God and man, 132; cannot be joined to, unless united in charity with each other, 142; example of, ought to make us forgive others, 148; we are not members of, if we follow not his steps, ib. ; where soonest to be found, 170; no true image of, can be made, 228; effects of his mediation, 291; diligence of, in prayer, 340; our only mediator with God, 344; ever prayeth for the penitent, 346; obtains, by virtue of his wounds, perfect remission of sins, 346; our God, with the Father, and the Holy Ghost, 384; may be seen in the Scriptures by the eye of faith, 392; what is given to, is never wasted, 419; prophecies concerning, 428; opinions of the Jews concern ing the expected Messias, 429; botà God and man, 432: why requisite that he should be both, 433; what he makes those who truly receive him, 434; the purposes of his com- ing, 435; we love him, as we hate sin, 440; with the merits of his death no works of ours to be coupled, 442 ; his passion, not only a ransom, but an example, 442; crucified, to be set before us, 453; in what sense he delivers us from sin, 454; given to the whole world, 455:
Chalice, being blessed with the, made a false ground of confidence, 369. Chanting, &c., 370. Chantries, abused, 289. Charity, Sermon on, 63; what it is, ib.; explained by Christ, 65; Christ an example of, 66; how shewn to dwell in us, ib.; two offices of, 68, 69; we are not to seek victory by the breach of, 143; whatever diminishes our, condemned of God, 326; all our doings unacceptable to God with- out, 372; the work of God, 318; right may be maintained without a breach of, 527; the only livery of a Christian, 528. See Love. Charms, delusions of the devil, 514. Chastisement, by sickness, gracious use of, 102.
Chastity, false profession of among the monks, 58.
Check, turning the, to the smiter, meaning of, 398.
Children, bearing of, on another's
knees, what is meant by, 396. Chosen people of God, true Christians so
called, 164, 306; elect and, 434, 459. Christ, salvation only by him, 17; all good things whatever are in and by him, 18; titles and offices of, ib.;
death of, will avail us not, unless applied as God hath appointed, 457; effects of his death and resurrection, 464, 466; is received by true faith and repentance of heart, 465; we are made living members of his body by faith, 478; his righteousness God. took to weigh against our sins, 519; the mean between God and us, whereby we receive all blessing, ib. ; found in the Scriptures, 522; is our only priest for deliverance from sin, 576; our Sovereign Bishop, ib. Christendom, how the world was won to, 267.
Christian religion, the most pure during the first three centuries, 268. Christians, the true, described, 95; their blessedness, 95, 96; true, may be without fear of bodily death, 102; divisions among, deplored, 142; are -the chief temples of God, 164, 193; not Catholic, who worship the dead, or images (Augustine), 201; name of, at first a cause of death, 267; no unknown tongue used in the congre- gation of, until the power of Rome began to spread, 381; true, shew the fruit of faith in their obedience to God, 416; not professing their faith openly, give occasion to doubt whe- ther they have the Holy Ghost, 487. Church of Christ, how divided, 142; is a congregation or unity together, ib.; primitive most pure, 177, 180, 195, 199, 222, 268; especially to be followed, 231; hath gold, for what purpose (Ambrose), 271; hath power to alter a form in religion made by man, 306; what the true, 494; hath always three notes or marks, ib. ; the church of Rome far wide from the nature of, 495.
Church, the material, or Temple, right use of, 163; for what purpose true Christians resort thither, 165, 370; how we ought to behave therein, 165, 173; is the due and appointed place for public prayer, and the hearing of God's word, 166; and for the use of the Sacraments, ib.; no images or idols may be suffered therein, 173; why so called, 363.
Churches, schism between the East and West, 220; material, called by the
Emperor Galerius Maximinus, Ora- tories, and Dominica, 268; small and poor till the time of Constantine, ib. ; not dedicated to saints till the time of Justinian, ib. ; quotation from Jerome against excessive adorning of, 269; primitive examples against sump- tuous vessels or ornaments in, 270; on repairing, &c., 284; why called holy, 286; place where the sacra- ments are to be administered, 287; in our churches, such things as are su- perstitious abolished, 289, 370. Coals, to heap burning, on a man's head, what, 398.
Coat, Christ's, which was without seam, how rent, 142; to him who takes our, the giving of our cloak, what, 398. Commandments of God, we all broke in Adam, 17; men ever ready to fall from the, 51; the moral but not the ceremonial, still bind us, 232. Common Prayer, Sermon on, 373; most available before God, 375; why in ours, the minister often says, "Let us pray," 386. See Prayer. Commonwealth, why evil offenders may be cut off from, 70; not injured by reading God's word, 389. Concubine, what meant by, hol Scripture, 395.
Condemnation, of all mankind by sin, 12; none to them who are grafted surely into Christ, 98.
Confession, must be made unto God, 574; none other needful and neces- sary, ib.; we should confess our faults to one another, 575; auricular, s el a' not warranted by Scripture, 575, 576; put down by Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, 577; not used in the time of Augustine, ib.; may be made to a curate, or pastor, but not of necessity, ib.
Confirmation, not a sacrament, 377. Congregation, the true Church an uni- versal one of God's faithful and elect people, 494.
Conscience, peace of, after remission of sins, wrought in us by God through Christ, 519.
Constitutions, made by man, force of, 301; one by Justinian referred to, on the use of an unknown tongue in public rites, 384.
Contention, Sermon against, 141; in matters of religion most hurtful, ib.; stiffness in maintaining an opinion breedeth, 144; comprehends two detestable vices, ib.; motives against, 150; cometh of pride, 154. Conventicles, what, and by whom so called, 268. Corban, what, 172.
Council of Western bishops against the Monothelites, 210; of Italian bishops on images, 211; of Asia and Greece on images, 212; at Nice, 214; at Eliberi, 216; at Toledo and Frank- fort, 217; at Chalcedon, 296. Covenant, the new, made at first to Adam, 427.
Cowls, &c. of monks, called holy, 57. Creatures, new, in Christ, good works beseem them, 291.
Crypte, what, and why used, 268. Curses, pronounced in the Psalms against the enemies of God, how to be understood, 404.
Damnation, we daily, by our wicked- ness, purchase to ourselves eternal, 560. See Condemnation. Darkness, said to have been for seven-
tivity by Christ, that the members of Christ be not hurt, 519. Devils, lack true Christian faith, 30. Diriges, 289.
Discipline, ecclesiastical, the right use of, a mark of the true Church, 495. Distrust, a means of falling from God, 81. Doctrine, sound, few inclined to credit,
251; a mark of the true Church, 495. Dominica, churches so called by Ga- lerius Maximinus, 268. Drunkenness, Sermon on, 311; examples against,314; effect of, on magistrates, 320.
Dulia and Latria, supposed distinction between, confuted, 240.
England, admonished to know the time of her visitation, 525. Englishmen, the frequent changes of apparel in, how expressed by a cer- tain painter, 329.
Epicures, or Epicureans, false doctrines of, 512.
Essentials of religion, three, according to the Romanists, 58. Eucharist, why the Lord's Supper so called, 480.
Evil men, as merchants with God, seek
to win heaven by the merit of their works, 348. Evil speaking. See Censure. Excommunication, in the primitive Church, accounted a horrible thing, 177.
Death, wrought by sin, 12; time of, uncertain, why, 91; three reasons why worldly men fear, 95; what to the true Christian, ib.; being slain by Christ, cannot keep any in bon- dage who trust in Christ, 96; of Eye, plucking out the, what meant by
Christians called sleep, ib.; an en- tering into life, ib.; the death of Christ will not avail us unless applied according to the will of God, 457. Debate. See Contention.
Deceit, self-deceit easy with regard to faith, 43.
Decree of Theodosius and Valens against images, 206.
Decrees of Rome, unduly valued, 60. Deeds. See Works.
Desert, none on our part wherefore God
should give his Son to die for us, 456. Despair of God's mercy, arguments
Devil, in whom he beareth rule, 89; what makes us the children of, 446 ; who serve him and have their goods as his gift, 514; brought into cap-
the expression, 399.
Faith, receives justification, 20; neces-
sary to justification, 22; justifying, not our working, but God's, 22; justifieth without works, how, 23; doth not shut out the righteousness of our own works to be done of duty to God, but from the office of justi- fying, ib. ; a true and lively, produces good works, 24, 28, 45; only, justi fieth, the doctrine of the Fathers, 24; justifying, not alone, but united with repentance and love, 25, 35 profit of the doctrine that we are jus tified by faith, 26; who impugn it, ib.; does not itself justify, but only as it remits us unto Christ, 27; what faith in Christ means, 27, 28; how faith that without works doth justify, 29;
commands of our own not to be obeyed, if contrary to God's, 117; decree of the ancient, at Chalcedon, about fasting, 296; the godly, before and after Christ, were endued with the Holy Ghost, 408.
Fear of God, shut out from the office
of justifying, 23; is yet present with them that are justified, ib.; we have it not if we live in sin, 44; a remedy against uncleanness, 139.
Fear of Death, causes of, in worldly men, 93; true Christians may be de- livered from, 95; reasons against in thegodly, 103; howtobe free from, 108. Foot, cutting off the, that offends, what meant by, 398.
Forgiveness of injuries, urged on the ground of our many offences against God, 68; and of the many benefits we have received from God, ib.; by it we move God to be merciful to us, 445; and are more prepared to receive Christ in the sacrament, ib. Fortune, to attribute our good things to, a denial of God, 512. Foundations of religion, three, among Free will. See Will. the monks, 58. Friar's coat, worn as a remedy for the ague, 58. Froward exhortation
which produces no good works dead and feigned, 30; such faith the devils have, ib.; what is true and justifying, ib.; not in them who live ungodly, ib.; what are the fruits of true faith, 32; used in the Scripture in two dif- ferent senses, 33; three things to be noted concerning it, 35; what the kind of, that Scripture doth com- mend, 36; that true faith is shewed by good works, the Fathers teach, 37; wrought in good men of old, though not called Christian, 39; trial of, is a Christian life, 43; who they are that have a lively faith, ib.; a lively Christian faith declared to be such by good works, 44; no good work can be accepted without it, 47, 48; this doctrine supported by Am- brose, Augustine, and Chrysostom, 49, 50; the works of, are the works of the moral commandments of God, 51; the mean, whereby we apply the fruits of Christ's death to ourselves, 457; how it applieth Christ's merits to us, 477; is the root and wellspring of newness of life, 484; God some- times takes away our comforts to exercise our faith, 515; is the gift of God, 518; by faith we take hold upon God, 564; by faith David was justi- fied and grafted into Jesus Christ, 569; by faith we feed on Christ in the Lord's Supper, 478. See Justification. Faithful, the,haveunionwith Christ, 478. Fall, dreadful effects of the, 426, 448. See Man, Nature, Sin. Falling from God, pride the first be- ginning of, 81; divers ways of, ib. ; our falling by sin, is daily and hourly, 560; illustrated in the cases of David and Peter, 566, 570. Fasting, sermon on, 291; of two kinds, 292; duty of, proved, 295; used in the primitive church, 296; is in itself a thing indifferent, 297; three ends of, by which it is profitable to us and accepted of God, 300; differences in the manner of, used by the Fathers, 305; proper time for, 307; efficacy of, when used with prayer, 308; what is the true, 565. Fathers, the old, had the same faith as we have, 39; those of the old law did by death depart unto rest, 103;
answering, against, 146. Gentiles, idolatry of the, compared with that of the church of Rome, 235. Girdles, holy, 57-
Gluttony, Sermon against, 311; makes men forgetful of their duty towards God, 313; arguments against, 318. God saveth us by his mercy, 18; is set at one with man through Christ, ib.; of his own mercy, through the merits of his Son, doth justify us, 19; we are to swear only in the name of, 73: his name used in vain, when, 75; who are turned away from, 82; ex- presseth his displeasure in two things, 84; his ceasing to afflict the ungodly, a token of what, 88; his correcting rod, common to all who are truly his children, 101; the glory of, more declared in reasonable crea- tures than in dead images (Athana- sius), 196; how he will be honoured
and worshipped, 282; the only foun- tain of all goodness, 342; invocation proper to, 348; that all good things come from, (a sermon,) 502; what effects his goodness ought to pro- duce, 503; instances of the goodness of, 506; is every where and in every creature, 196, 508; all things are his instruments, 516; in what sense he is said to be all in all, 526; as our Father, he seeks nothing so much as our return and amendment, 562. Gods, earthly princes sometimes so called, and why, 592.
God's word. See Holy Scripture and Word of God.
Goodness, man of his own nature, utterly without, 489.
Gospellers, some so called, 141. Grace of God, doth not shut out the justice of God in our justification, but only the justice of man, 22; the source of our redemption, 291; what it works for us, ib. ; whosoever hath received, hath good works (Augus- tine,) b. See Faith, God, Heaven, Justification, Mercy, Merit, Works.
Hand, cutting off that which offends, what, 398.
Heart, the, must be prepared before
Holy Scripture contains all things necessary to salvation, affirmed by St. Chrysostom, ib. ; ought to be read and cherished in the heart (Fulgen- tius), 3; an instrument of salvation, ib.; what profit the knowledge of, bringeth, ib.; effect and virtue of, 4: who most profit by, ib.; evil effects which accompany ignorance of, 53 knowledge of, excelleth all sciences, ib.; two excuses commonly alleged for neglect of, 6; how it may be read without danger of error, 7; contains some things easy and others hard to be understood, ib.; assistance of the Holy Spirit necessary for a right understanding of (Chrysostom), 8; rule for understanding, ib; the duty of every man to learn what is plain therein, ib.; who are enemies to the reading of, 9; one of God's chief benefits, ib.; the Holy Spirit, the author of, II; beareth witness that a true lively faith bringeth forth good works, 40; reading of, a remedy against uncleanness, 139; so to be read that we may live better lives, 143; to be read and taught in God's house, 174; passages of, against idolatry, 182-194; that which is affirmed by, needs not the confirma- tion of man's doctrine, 194; is the test of doctrine, 201; ignorance of, led to the use of images, 206; the profit of hearing and reading, none can sufficiently conceive, 389; the right way to bring people to the knowledge of God, ib.; pretence of evil men stirred up by Satan, that the reading of Holy Scripture is a cause of heresy and carnal liberty. ib.; without a knowledge of, ali other knowledge insufficient, 390; all ought to desire, 392; is God's treasure house, ib.; ignorance of, the cause of all error, ib.; objec tions of some against the reading of it, by all sorts of people, ib.; in reading it, reason must give place to God's Holy Spirit, 399; how to hear and read profitably, 403; the hidden meaning of, must be searched out, ib.; no part of, that may not serve to spiritual profit, 403; that there are some necessary points not
by the death of Christ, 178; we are made heirs of, by the free grace of God, through Jesus Christ, 291; cannot be purchased by our works, 292.
Heresy, reading of God's word sup posed to be a cause of, by the ene- mies of God, 389.
Holy cowls, girdles, pardons, &c. 57. Holy men of old, though not called Christian, yet had a Christian faith,
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