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thing when we are bidden to think
of God as God, another when as
Father; as God, we think of the
Creator, Almighty, a Spirit supreme,
eternal, immortal, invisible;
Father, we must at the same time
think of a Son, 292. Not incarnate,
(Sabellians,') 508. Greater than the
Son in the form of a servant, 818.
Eternal, begetting Son eternal, how,
316. how He speaks to the Son, 362.
544. bond of infinite love uniting the
Father and the Son, 223.
Fathers and masters of families exer-
cise an episcopal office in their fami-
lies, 687.

Fear two kinds of, 847. of punishment,
and of losing God, 579. Religion
begins with the former, viz. the fear
of punishment: but in proportion as
the inner man grows by good works,
this fear gives way, and the Saint
begins to desire the day of Judg-
ment, 1206, ff. still fearing, not lest
he be punished, but lest God forsake
him. ib. the fear which has torment,
is in order to the healing of the soul,
like the surgeon's knife, 1209: and
makes way for the perfect love which
casts it out, ibid. Two kinds of fear
illustrated by the case of an unchaste
wife and a chaste, 1211, f.
Fig-tree, its leaves typify sins, 119.
Nathanael under the, the Elect lying
in sins, ibid.

Filial piety, Christ on the Cross, an
example of, 1041.

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Flesh, the law of sin in the members,
489. "All flesh,"
"like 66 every soul,"
by synecdoche means " every man,'
952. put for "woman," as some-
times "spirit" for husband," 29.
Flesh of Christ, the healing of sinful
flesh, 36. eating the, of the Son of
Man, only the baptized knew what
it means, 167.169. not to be carnally
understood, 416. profiteth only by
the Spirit, 418.

Foreknowledge, Divine; of elect and

reprobate, 222. not the cause of the
foreknown sins, 701. see Pelagians.'
Forgiveness, for them who accuse and
condemn themselves, 194. See' Ac-
knowledgment.' Where remission of
sins, there the Church, 1231. see
'Church. None to despair of, con-
sidering Christ's effectual prayer for
His murderers, 459. Mutual, a wash-
ing of one another's feet, 735. without
charity we cannot forgive, 1180.
Fornication, spiritual, 568.
'Forsitan,' 514, and note.

Freedom from sin, none enjoy perfect

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in this life, 559. freedom from crime
the beginning of, ibid.
Free-will and grace, 704. freedom of
the will not to be maintained as suf-
ficient, nor to be denied so as to
excuse sin, ibid. is not set aside by
grace, 1146.

Friend of the Bridegroom, jealous for
Christ, 206.

Friendship in, we love the soul, not the
body, 464.

G.

Gentiles, their interest in Prophecy
from the first, 145, ff. Church of the,
how Christ went to, 460. 461. united
in Christ the Corner Stone, 150. see
'Church.' Elect of, denoted by the
ass's colt, 682. their faith propheti-
cally commended, 1057. 1096. more
blessed than the faith of the Jews
who saw Christ, 255.
Gloria, frequens fama de aliquo cum
laude,' 925. 953. Three kinds of false
glory, 925, f. True glory (from men)
does not constitute the blessedness of
the good who are praised, much less
does it benefit Christ, 926.
GOD, unutterable, 1145.
It is no
small attainment to know what God
is not, in order to know what He
is, 363. no form or bodily parts in,
699. His Incorporeal Nature incon-
ceivable by the natural man, 938.
all carnal conceptions must be re-
moved from the notion of, 995.
efforts of the spiritual mind to attain
to the true conception of, 997. is to
be sought evermore, as He is hidden:
but even being found He must still
be sought, as He is immense and un-
searchable, 753. carnal represent-
ations, as of a boundless expanse, or
as a venerable old man, 1186. to be
cast out from the mind as idols, 288.
Whole every where, 485. "Substance
or Nature of God, not corporeal, nor
enclosed in any place, nor extended,
as it were by magnitude, through all
directions of infinite space, but every
where whole and perfect, and in-
finite," 898. not to be imagined with
bodily form, but the Son as Incarnate
may and ought to be so conceived,
542, f. Something may be conceived
of, from the image of God in the
mind, 365. Divine Relations how to be
conceived, 319. 363, ff. not to be
estimated by human relations, 338.
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images to express Divine Relations,
these must not be estimated by the
senses, 278, ff. Alone truly IS, 20.
In his "To Be," are no tenses, 919.
1116. (see 'To Be.') Alone has
True Being, unchangeable, 529.
539. an everlasting Now, without
past or future, 530. In the Divine
Nature knowledge is not by percep-
tions, though described by terms
derived from bodily senses, 917.
but uniform, identical with the Es-
sence, and eternal, i. e. without
time, 918, f. What It has, It is, 918.
Essence and Attribute identical, 545.
Perception and Being in God are
one, 284. With Him, 'Cannot,' is
'Will not,' 704. Omnipresent, 459.
Essential Goodness, 539, Is true,
not as man, by participation of the
Truth, but by begetting the Truth,
ibid. How He creates, see 'Creation.'
The Trinity, Father Son and Holy
Ghost, how They come to us, 811.
Dwells in the Saints as in a Temple,
813. the Sender, and the Sent, 223.
manifested by Christ by the Name of
Father, 964. universally acknow-
ledged as Author of the world, ex-
cept by a few in whom nature is
excessively depraved, 964. Image of
in man, 283. The Father glorified by
the preaching of Christ Risen, for so
He was made known for endless
praise to His Elect, 952, f. Made
man, not man's wickedness, 1133.
All God's works praise Him, ibid.
How He has made the things that
are future, 774. The Trinity in us
as God in His Temple; we in Them
as the creature in its Creator, 984.
Saviour of angel and man and beast,
482, f. but men are the objects of a
peculiar mercy, ibid. needs not us,
but we need Him, 170. 1203. God,
the beauty of the mind, 464. first loved
us, ungodly, unlovely, to make us
godly and lovely, 1214, f. loved us
before we loved Him, but not that
we should continue sinners, 1184.
speaks within, to those who give
place to Him not to the devil, 1139.
An inner manifestation of, which the
ungodly know not, 810. Is said to
see, when He pities, 664. always
fulfils the prayers of the righteous,
even when He refuses the thing they
ask for, 1170. often grants the requests
of the wicked, to their punishment,
ibid. see' Prayer,'' Answers.' Why
He was pleased to be called the God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, 172.
183. delivers some of His servants,

as Daniel and the Three Holy
Children, to shew His power: others
He lets suffer, as Maccabees and
Martyrs, for fatherly chastisement,
1196. If thou fall not off from Him,
He never falleth away from thee, 485.
to be loved freely, 1216. Love of,
proved by love of our brother: as
the subject's love of the Sovereign
proved by obeying his laws, 1217.
no toil in loving God, 12.2. To love
the Father is necessarily to love the
Son i. e. the Only Begotten and
His Members, who together make
one Christ, 1220, f. possible to hate
Him unknown, 864. To hate Christ
is to hate the Father, 865, ff. God, no
escape from: if you would flee from,
flee to Him, 1165. tempts, in order to
know, i. e. to make to know, 578.
in no wise the Author of sin, 574, f.
hardens the reprobate by forsaking,
by not helping, 702. by leaving the
evil will to itself, 703. if He hard-
eneth, why doth He yet find fault?
answered, 702. makes wicked men
as Judas His instruments for good,
422. God's anger not as man's, the
perturbation of an excited mind, but
a calm setting of just punishment,

1084.

Good. All that is severally and partially
good in the creature, is whole and
entire in God, 201. None good but
they who have chosen Him that is
Good and they chose Him because
He first chose them, 851. To evil
men good becomes evil, as the sop to
Judas, and to good men, good comes
out of evil, 747-749.
Goodness, none out of Christ, 601.
Good works, none without the grace of
Christ, $30. their source, faith which
worketh by love, 834.

Gospels, the perfect harmony of: shewn
by Aug. in a laborious work (de Con-
sensu Evangelistarum), 1001. The
first three, chiefly conversant with
Christ's Manhood: the fourth, with
His Godhead, 505.

Grace, Christ God Incarnate the very
Fountain of. 998. free, to be answered
by free love, 47. Grace for grace, 37.
Grace crowned with life eternal, 39.
does not set aside free-will, 1146. see
'Salvation,'' Pelagians.'

H.

Harvest, the, of the Election of Israel,
and the general harvest in the end of
the world, 248.

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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 in-
heritance, 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.

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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 ac-
cording to the original institution in
the Roman times, 667. Annas and
Caiaphas, 1010.

Hilary, St. his doctrine relative to the
Glorification of Christ, tacitly dis-
allowed 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 man-
sions 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,

186.

Husbandry, spiritual, 32.
'Hyperbole,' nature of; instances in
the Scriptures, 1090.
Hyssop, emblem of humility, 1043.

I.

Ideas, Plato's doctrine, 16, note.

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Image of God, in the mind, in the in-
tellect, 35. in the mind, a hint of
the Trinity, 365.
Imposition of hands on the newly-
baptized, 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 urbaptized; some ac-
knowledging that they cannot enter
into the kingdom of heaven assign
them one of the mansions of bliss in
the Father's House: this notion re-
proved, 770-773. (This notion held
by Pelagians, afterwards maintained
by Vincentius Victor, refuted by St.
Augustine, ibid. note.)

Infants, i. e. neophytes: the newly-
baptized, 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 wilder-
ness 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. Chil-
dren 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
66 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 testi-
mony 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 pre-
pared for Christ, 74. His greatness
betokens Christ's surpassing Majesty,
197. His greatness, 23. a light, to
witness of the Light, 24. His testi-
mony 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

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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 humility, 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 per
fect chastity, 1089. Hence called,
'The Virgin, 1091. Some have er-
roneously 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, pre-
destinated to perdition, 972. fol-
lowed 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 know.
ingly used him as the unconscious in-
strument of His purposes, 720. par-
took 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 ingra-
titude, ibid. After the sop, Satan
entered into him by a fuller posses-
sion, 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 admin.
istered by, would be valid, and
Christ's baptism, 77.
Judgment, Two senses of the word
"judge:" viz. to doom to punish-
ment, and to discriminate good and
bad, 345. 580. 692. how true be-
lievers 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 be-
cause 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 thy-
self, and thou art joined unto God,
193. The beginning of our righteous-
ness is the confession of sins, 1141.

K.

Keys, power of the. To thee will I give,
&c. was spoken to the Church, 1231.
see' St. Peter.

Kingdom of God, already is, but does
not yet reign, 776.
Kingdom of Christ, here in preparing,
to be manifested hereafter, 381, ff.
Knowledge, grows by love, 324. grow
in holiness to grow in knowledge,
280. see Faith.

L.

'Lætitia' and 'gaudium,' mean the

same thing, 742, and note.
Laurentius S. 415, n. His martyrdom,
424, f. and note.

Law of Moses: prepared the sick for
the Physician, 33. Christ gave the
Law by a servant: grace, by Him-
self, 33. Men came to be "under
the Law," by not fulfilling it: he
who fulfils it, is with the Law, ibid.
Law shews sin, not takes away, ib.

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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 de-
grees of sin, 864.

type of

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