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.
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
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.
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. 362, ff. When Scripture uses sensible
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,
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.'
Harvest, the, of the Election of Israel, and the general harvest in the end of the world, 248.
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.
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,
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,
Husbandry, spiritual, 32. 'Hyperbole,' nature of; instances in the Scriptures, 1090. Hyssop, emblem of humility, 1043.
Ideas, Plato's doctrine, 16, note.
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.
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
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-
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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,
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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