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

resurrection, 96.

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.

we

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.;

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-

teer ays, 215.

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

against, 90, 91.

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