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the advantage of per secution, iii.
58, 65, 67; iv.
249, 380, 445.
persecution no advantage
unless for a good cause, 400 ii. 210.
Cannot overthrow those who cling to Christ their Head, iv. 300. He can control persecution Who rules the raging of the sea, iv. 249. some God delivers in body, as well as spirit, some in spirit only, iv. 311; vi. 188, 428. God gives strength to endure, v. 415. those destroyed by persecution in whom the Lord not,
v. 526. love the only means of re sisting persecution, 83; iii. 32. persecutors extinguished by the Church's prayers for them, iv. 449.
vi. 405. God Peace, Christ Peace, v. 546. Christ our Peace, our true Peace"maker, vi. 18. peace the
good we seek, vi. 48. the heritage and home of the righteous, v. 546. the delight of the blessed, ii. 15.
Is not to be found in this life,
368; ii. 327; iv. 175. except in hope, vi. 404. not to be attained without confession of sins, iv. 5. without warring with our sins, 78. true peace for the flesh to be sub
ject to the spirit, the contrary perverted peace, vi. 301.
Exhortations to peace within the Church, v. 470, 505, 546 vi. 433. when the Donatists say, Peace be with you,' they lie, v. 506, 546.
Pelagins, refuted name, iii. 145. Pelican, in the wilderness, how a
type of our Lord and of His Min isters, v. 8. &c. its characteristics how typical, v. 10.
Penitence, (see Repentance. )
Penitents, Lazarus raised from the
dead, type of penitents restored to spiritual life, v. 20. (see Re pentance. )
People, God's, now, are all who par take of the Sacraments, yet not all of these partake of His mercy, ii. 295.
Perfect, the, figured by shorn sheep, iv. 394. are those who know how to dwell in unity, vi. 118. he is, who repayeth not evil, 46. vain-glory especially to be guarded against by,
48. none truly perfect in this life, ii. 116; iii. 150; vi. 87. what seems perfect to man, still imperfect to God's perfection, iv. 457. our per fection here to know our imper fection, ii. 117. the perfect, pat tern to other Christians, ii. 135. live for others, not themselves,
perfect righteousness,
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flesh, v. 271. received strength to
endure persecutions, ii. 22. when
shipwrecked, had riches which he Perfection, Christ our, iii. 26, 79. could not lose, v. 531. his thorn in
the flesh, what, iv. 460. his prayer
heard, though not heard, vi. 358.
found mercy at first, looked for a Perpetua, became martyr against reward at the end, iv. 481. how he
is to judge the tribes of Israel at the
last day, iv. 217.
Paymaster, {Provincialis) the rich Persecution, set forth by the winepress,
254. are to judge hereafter with Christ, iv. 292.
man's true perfection, humility, vi. 87. especially hindered by pride, iii. 152.
her parents' wish, ii. 299. an evi dence that love strong as death, ib.
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INDEX.
Perseverance, a gift of God, vi. 228.
to be sought by prayer, ib. the diffi
culty of attaining to it, ib. the short
ness of the time a motive to, ii. 12,
20. they only will persevere to the
end, who, being in the Body of taught the immortality of the soul,
Christ, learn perseverance of their
Head, iii. 84.
Person, we may not accept the person
of the poor, against justice, i. 320. Christ accepted not the persons of the rulers of the Jews, iv. 352.
none attained to the doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh, iv. 261.
Fhotinus, his heresy helped to bring out the meaning of Holy Scripture, iii. 349.
Persons, in the Godhead distinct, their Physician, Christ the true Physician,
substance, one, iii. 360.
Peter, St. as chief among the Apostles,
represented the whole Church in the commissions he received from our Lord, v. 208. renounced the whole world for Christ, and received the whole world from Christ, v. 118. why our Lord called him Satan, i. 382; vi. 22. called a stone by Christ for his faith, Satan for his weakness, vi. 212. knew not himself when he said, ' 1 will go with Thee even unto death,' ii. 194, 222 ; vi. 210, 259. wanted to go before, in stead of following his Lord, i. 382; vi. 261. had not strength till after Christ's Death, ib. presumed before
who came to heal man's madness, i. 419; iv. 352. our desperate state, the proof of His healing Power, iv. 386. shewn in His healing Paul, vi. 79. our Physician is Himself our health, v. 310. the sick man's slaying his Physician the means of his healing, v. 231. He drank the bitter cup first, that man might not fear to drink
iv. 446. God, as our Physician, both infallible, and heals without price, v. 39, 40. we must bear the pain He inflicts, as needful for our healing, ib. the cruel physician, the one who spares his patient needful pain, 369. God, in love, spares not what He sees needed for our health, ib.
Preachers of the word, physicians, iv. 234. but their power comes from the great Physician, ib. cannot raise up the spiritually dead, ib.
- trial, by trial learnt his weakness,
ii. 2; iii. 56; vi. 210. when he
thrice denied his Lord was already
between the teeth of the lion, but
delivered, v. 126. the depth of his Pilate, sharer in the guilt of the weakness, ii. 194. his denial of Jews, allowing it, iii. 235.
Christ a great sin, v. 259. amended by his tears, v. 368. his threefold confession did away his threefold
denial, ii. 86; iv. 309. his great love for Christ, ib.
explanation of his vision, v. 99. his tomb held in high honour at Rome, ii. 252. how we may walk on the waters, like him, ii. 141. '
Pilgrimage, our life here, a, vi. 186. its being so makes tribulation to all, ii. 356. and captivity, vi. 386.
sin that makes us pilgrims, grace that enables us to return, vi. 159. how mankind are pilgrims here, ii. 124 v. 339, 466, 469 vi. 343. the remembrance of our home both sweet and bitter, vi. 336. hope of return the comfort of the pilgrim, ib. (see Country, Jerusalem, Sin. )
Pharaoh, meaning of his name, dis
persion,' vi. 142. his slaying the
male children, leaving the female Pit, earthly prosperity pitfall to the
alive, represents the devil destroying
virtues, nurturing lusts, vi. 172. Pharisees, the boasting of the Phari
see in the parable, i. 289; ii. 152. their purity only outward, iv. 490; vi. 243. the conduct of the Pharisee with whom our Lord sat at meat commented on, vi. 243, 244.
Philistines, their name interpreted, iv. 142.
Philosophers, their perverse and un. godly notions of the being of a God, i. 302. are enemies and defenders of
wicked, iv. 364. an evil conscience a pit to the wicked, iii. 92. every
one who digs a pit for his brother must needs fall into himself, ib. the pit used for the depth of woe, iv. 228. they that go down into the pit, those who plunge themselves in sen sual lusts, 227. and who despair of pardon, vi. 290. to be brought out of the pit, to be delivered from lusts of the flesh, ii. 131. to open a pit, to
consent to evil suggestion, to dig to go on to act, 59.
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Please, he pleaseth God, whom God pleaseth, i. 308; v. 509. if thou please thyself, thou wilt displease KoA, ii. 192. who pleaseth himself, pleaseth a fool, v. 509. how St. Paul could please all men, yet not ase men, v. 505. the proud wisheth to please in sight of men, the humble in sight of God, 139.
vant to refuse to praise his Lord, vi. 124. God not benefited by man's praise of Him, vi. 125. has praised
imself to teach man how to praise Him, vi. 314. praises Himself in the Psalmist and Prophets, whose praises His Holy Spirit inspired, vi. 315. to praise God, man's chief business, ii. 237; vi. 383. both in
prosperity and adversity,
312; iii. 26, 422; vi. 317. for His own sake, vi. 358. by our lives as well as our tongues, ii. 363; v. 171 vi. 359, 417. we must praise Him at intervals with our voice, always with our lives, ib. 402; v. 35. we praise God good life, ib. vi. 360, 417. and cease to praise Him, when we decline from righteousness, ib. we praise Him submission to Him, 304. love praises God, dis cord blasphemes Him, vi. 434. praise of the tongue unacceptable to God without the praise of the heart, ii. 357, 363. God listens more to the heart than the tongue, vi. 360. to praise with one without the other
to be out of tune, ib. how to praise God with one's whole being, vi. 417. in voice, understanding, and good works, v. 148; vi. 433. they who live amiss, or who trust in their own good works, do not praise God, ii. 297, 363 how God to be praised in truth, v. 38. for love, of free will, iii. 23. we must go to Scripture to learn how to praise God aright, vi. 314. the praise of the wicked an offence to God, vi. 360. of a holy life, the most acceptable to Him, ib. to do His Command ments, true praise of Him, v. 171. the voice of God's praise, our being what we are of good by His grace, iii. 286. to hear the voice of His praise to know and acknowledge this. 182. confession should pre cede praise, iv. 478 vi. 372. prayer should be commenced with praise of God, v. 147; vi. 334. true praise the most acceptable sacrifice to God, ii. 386 iii. 347, 390 iv. 388 vi. 136. praise of God accompanied with joy, vi. 416. we must begin to praise Him now, if we would
praise Him for ever hereafter, vi. 315, 415. praise of God like food to the soul, and strengthens iv. 479. will be the everlasting employ ment of the blessed, iv. 157, 212, 223; v. 256; vi. 278, 343. ever lasting love will be capable of ever- tasting praise, iv. 157; vi. 278. our
Pleasure, of the flesh, one of the three great divisions of sin, 70. com pared to mire, v. 273. lovers of, roots of thorns, and why, vi. 221. (see Lust, Delight. ) of heaven, (see Bliss. )
Portion, in what sense God portion of the righteous, v. 380.
the
Possession, God ours, and we God's. 334; vi. 34". God's possessing
and ours different, ii. 352. the bless ing of renouncing private posses sions to give one's self to God, vi. 94. the covetous doth not possess, but
possessed by, his property, ii. 303. Pot, means tribulation, iii. 170. mean
ing of the pot of hope, ib. the pot of iniquity hot, but the flame of love hotter, iii. 171.
Potsherd, soft before the fire, hard after, and so applied to Christ, Whose Name before His Passion was despised, after honoured, 156.
Potter, God, the Potter Who made man of clay, iv. 374.
Power, signified the hand, vi. 443. powers of this world by mountains, ii. 267. honour and obedience due even to unrighteous powers, v. 542.
Powerful, the, now thunder against the righteous, hereafter will feel the thunderbolt themselves, iv. 295. the oppression of the powerful, v. 582. the weak oppressed by the powerful, the less powerful by the more power ful, ib.
Praise, not bound to historical accu racy in mentioning all things, v. 162. every one praises what he likes, ii. 104; vi. 418. and what he thinks good, vi. 128. the will to praise praise, vi. 136.
Of God, grounds for manifold, ii. 385. His goodness sums them all up, vi. 126. God tempers His praise to man's weakness, vi. 130. the Angels and all things in heaven employed in His praise, vi.
unless for a good cause, 400 ii. 210.
Cannot overthrow those who cling to Christ their Head, iv. 300. He can control persecution Who rules the raging of the sea, iv. 249. some God delivers in body, as well as spirit, some in spirit only, iv. 311; vi. 188, 428. God gives strength to endure, v. 415. those destroyed by persecution in whom the Lord not,
v. 526. love the only means of re sisting persecution, 83; iii. 32. persecutors extinguished by the Church's prayers for them, iv. 449.
vi. 405. God Peace, Christ Peace, v. 546. Christ our Peace, our true Peace"maker, vi. 18. peace the
good we seek, vi. 48. the heritage and home of the righteous, v. 546. the delight of the blessed, ii. 15.
Is not to be found in this life,
368; ii. 327; iv. 175. except in hope, vi. 404. not to be attained without confession of sins, iv. 5. without warring with our sins, 78. true peace for the flesh to be sub
ject to the spirit, the contrary perverted peace, vi. 301.
Exhortations to peace within the Church, v. 470, 505, 546 vi. 433. when the Donatists say, Peace be with you,' they lie, v. 506, 546.
Pelagins, refuted name, iii. 145. Pelican, in the wilderness, how a
type of our Lord and of His Min isters, v. 8. &c. its characteristics how typical, v. 10.
Penitence, (see Repentance. )
Penitents, Lazarus raised from the
dead, type of penitents restored to spiritual life, v. 20. (see Re pentance. )
People, God's, now, are all who par take of the Sacraments, yet not all of these partake of His mercy, ii. 295.
Perfect, the, figured by shorn sheep, iv. 394. are those who know how to dwell in unity, vi. 118. he is, who repayeth not evil, 46. vain-glory especially to be guarded against by,
48. none truly perfect in this life, ii. 116; iii. 150; vi. 87. what seems perfect to man, still imperfect to God's perfection, iv. 457. our per fection here to know our imper fection, ii. 117. the perfect, pat tern to other Christians, ii. 135. live for others, not themselves,
perfect righteousness,
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flesh, v. 271. received strength to
endure persecutions, ii. 22. when
shipwrecked, had riches which he Perfection, Christ our, iii. 26, 79. could not lose, v. 531. his thorn in
the flesh, what, iv. 460. his prayer
heard, though not heard, vi. 358.
found mercy at first, looked for a Perpetua, became martyr against reward at the end, iv. 481. how he
is to judge the tribes of Israel at the
last day, iv. 217.
Paymaster, {Provincialis) the rich Persecution, set forth by the winepress,
254. are to judge hereafter with Christ, iv. 292.
man's true perfection, humility, vi. 87. especially hindered by pride, iii. 152.
her parents' wish, ii. 299. an evi dence that love strong as death, ib.
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INDEX.
Perseverance, a gift of God, vi. 228.
to be sought by prayer, ib. the diffi
culty of attaining to it, ib. the short
ness of the time a motive to, ii. 12,
20. they only will persevere to the
end, who, being in the Body of taught the immortality of the soul,
Christ, learn perseverance of their
Head, iii. 84.
Person, we may not accept the person
of the poor, against justice, i. 320. Christ accepted not the persons of the rulers of the Jews, iv. 352.
none attained to the doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh, iv. 261.
Fhotinus, his heresy helped to bring out the meaning of Holy Scripture, iii. 349.
Persons, in the Godhead distinct, their Physician, Christ the true Physician,
substance, one, iii. 360.
Peter, St. as chief among the Apostles,
represented the whole Church in the commissions he received from our Lord, v. 208. renounced the whole world for Christ, and received the whole world from Christ, v. 118. why our Lord called him Satan, i. 382; vi. 22. called a stone by Christ for his faith, Satan for his weakness, vi. 212. knew not himself when he said, ' 1 will go with Thee even unto death,' ii. 194, 222 ; vi. 210, 259. wanted to go before, in stead of following his Lord, i. 382; vi. 261. had not strength till after Christ's Death, ib. presumed before
who came to heal man's madness, i. 419; iv. 352. our desperate state, the proof of His healing Power, iv. 386. shewn in His healing Paul, vi. 79. our Physician is Himself our health, v. 310. the sick man's slaying his Physician the means of his healing, v. 231. He drank the bitter cup first, that man might not fear to drink
iv. 446. God, as our Physician, both infallible, and heals without price, v. 39, 40. we must bear the pain He inflicts, as needful for our healing, ib. the cruel physician, the one who spares his patient needful pain, 369. God, in love, spares not what He sees needed for our health, ib.
Preachers of the word, physicians, iv. 234. but their power comes from the great Physician, ib. cannot raise up the spiritually dead, ib.
- trial, by trial learnt his weakness,
ii. 2; iii. 56; vi. 210. when he
thrice denied his Lord was already
between the teeth of the lion, but
delivered, v. 126. the depth of his Pilate, sharer in the guilt of the weakness, ii. 194. his denial of Jews, allowing it, iii. 235.
Christ a great sin, v. 259. amended by his tears, v. 368. his threefold confession did away his threefold
denial, ii. 86; iv. 309. his great love for Christ, ib.
explanation of his vision, v. 99. his tomb held in high honour at Rome, ii. 252. how we may walk on the waters, like him, ii. 141. '
Pilgrimage, our life here, a, vi. 186. its being so makes tribulation to all, ii. 356. and captivity, vi. 386.
sin that makes us pilgrims, grace that enables us to return, vi. 159. how mankind are pilgrims here, ii. 124 v. 339, 466, 469 vi. 343. the remembrance of our home both sweet and bitter, vi. 336. hope of return the comfort of the pilgrim, ib. (see Country, Jerusalem, Sin. )
Pharaoh, meaning of his name, dis
persion,' vi. 142. his slaying the
male children, leaving the female Pit, earthly prosperity pitfall to the
alive, represents the devil destroying
virtues, nurturing lusts, vi. 172. Pharisees, the boasting of the Phari
see in the parable, i. 289; ii. 152. their purity only outward, iv. 490; vi. 243. the conduct of the Pharisee with whom our Lord sat at meat commented on, vi. 243, 244.
Philistines, their name interpreted, iv. 142.
Philosophers, their perverse and un. godly notions of the being of a God, i. 302. are enemies and defenders of
wicked, iv. 364. an evil conscience a pit to the wicked, iii. 92. every
one who digs a pit for his brother must needs fall into himself, ib. the pit used for the depth of woe, iv. 228. they that go down into the pit, those who plunge themselves in sen sual lusts, 227. and who despair of pardon, vi. 290. to be brought out of the pit, to be delivered from lusts of the flesh, ii. 131. to open a pit, to
consent to evil suggestion, to dig to go on to act, 59.
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Please, he pleaseth God, whom God pleaseth, i. 308; v. 509. if thou please thyself, thou wilt displease KoA, ii. 192. who pleaseth himself, pleaseth a fool, v. 509. how St. Paul could please all men, yet not ase men, v. 505. the proud wisheth to please in sight of men, the humble in sight of God, 139.
vant to refuse to praise his Lord, vi. 124. God not benefited by man's praise of Him, vi. 125. has praised
imself to teach man how to praise Him, vi. 314. praises Himself in the Psalmist and Prophets, whose praises His Holy Spirit inspired, vi. 315. to praise God, man's chief business, ii. 237; vi. 383. both in
prosperity and adversity,
312; iii. 26, 422; vi. 317. for His own sake, vi. 358. by our lives as well as our tongues, ii. 363; v. 171 vi. 359, 417. we must praise Him at intervals with our voice, always with our lives, ib. 402; v. 35. we praise God good life, ib. vi. 360, 417. and cease to praise Him, when we decline from righteousness, ib. we praise Him submission to Him, 304. love praises God, dis cord blasphemes Him, vi. 434. praise of the tongue unacceptable to God without the praise of the heart, ii. 357, 363. God listens more to the heart than the tongue, vi. 360. to praise with one without the other
to be out of tune, ib. how to praise God with one's whole being, vi. 417. in voice, understanding, and good works, v. 148; vi. 433. they who live amiss, or who trust in their own good works, do not praise God, ii. 297, 363 how God to be praised in truth, v. 38. for love, of free will, iii. 23. we must go to Scripture to learn how to praise God aright, vi. 314. the praise of the wicked an offence to God, vi. 360. of a holy life, the most acceptable to Him, ib. to do His Command ments, true praise of Him, v. 171. the voice of God's praise, our being what we are of good by His grace, iii. 286. to hear the voice of His praise to know and acknowledge this. 182. confession should pre cede praise, iv. 478 vi. 372. prayer should be commenced with praise of God, v. 147; vi. 334. true praise the most acceptable sacrifice to God, ii. 386 iii. 347, 390 iv. 388 vi. 136. praise of God accompanied with joy, vi. 416. we must begin to praise Him now, if we would
praise Him for ever hereafter, vi. 315, 415. praise of God like food to the soul, and strengthens iv. 479. will be the everlasting employ ment of the blessed, iv. 157, 212, 223; v. 256; vi. 278, 343. ever lasting love will be capable of ever- tasting praise, iv. 157; vi. 278. our
Pleasure, of the flesh, one of the three great divisions of sin, 70. com pared to mire, v. 273. lovers of, roots of thorns, and why, vi. 221. (see Lust, Delight. ) of heaven, (see Bliss. )
Portion, in what sense God portion of the righteous, v. 380.
the
Possession, God ours, and we God's. 334; vi. 34". God's possessing
and ours different, ii. 352. the bless ing of renouncing private posses sions to give one's self to God, vi. 94. the covetous doth not possess, but
possessed by, his property, ii. 303. Pot, means tribulation, iii. 170. mean
ing of the pot of hope, ib. the pot of iniquity hot, but the flame of love hotter, iii. 171.
Potsherd, soft before the fire, hard after, and so applied to Christ, Whose Name before His Passion was despised, after honoured, 156.
Potter, God, the Potter Who made man of clay, iv. 374.
Power, signified the hand, vi. 443. powers of this world by mountains, ii. 267. honour and obedience due even to unrighteous powers, v. 542.
Powerful, the, now thunder against the righteous, hereafter will feel the thunderbolt themselves, iv. 295. the oppression of the powerful, v. 582. the weak oppressed by the powerful, the less powerful by the more power ful, ib.
Praise, not bound to historical accu racy in mentioning all things, v. 162. every one praises what he likes, ii. 104; vi. 418. and what he thinks good, vi. 128. the will to praise praise, vi. 136.
Of God, grounds for manifold, ii. 385. His goodness sums them all up, vi. 126. God tempers His praise to man's weakness, vi. 130. the Angels and all things in heaven employed in His praise, vi.
