often pleaded
the sins of Christians as an excuse
for not becoming Christians, i.
the sins of Christians as an excuse
for not becoming Christians, i.
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in likeness, iv. 383, 467. we draw near to Him not by motion, but affection, iv. 3S3; vi. 317. penitence a means of drawing nigh, i. 362. the Gentiles draw nigh by faith, hope, charity, i. 361.
Moral, in character, and will, iv. 384 ; vi. 57.
INDEX. 493
necessities, ignorance, lu<<ts, death, &c. i. 248, &c. humility frees us from them, because it brings us Christ's aid, i. 249. God schools us by necessities, that we may love Him the more, iii. 221. better to bear any necessity, than commit iniquity, iii. 476.
Neighbour, our, every man, i. 110, 176; v. 341. he who shews mercy a true neighbour, ii. 316. love of, (see Love. ) '
Nephthalim, means my enlargement,' iii. 346.
Neptune, the heathen God of the sea, i. 205; v. 287.
Night, a type of this life, ii. 323; iv. 27, 494 ; v. 377; vi. 203. of adver sity, i. 2; iii. 422; iv. 317; vi. 123, 205, 291. of ignorance, iv. 299. of carnal men, i. 133. of wickedness, i. 26. to do good for earthly advan tage sake is to make day serve night, iii. 422. meaning of the phrase un seasonable night, (nocte inlempestd,) v. 443.
Nineveh, the repentance of, ii. 376.
Noah, a type of the rulers of the Og, means 'shutting up,' vi. 143. or
iii. 171. sides of the north, the Gen tiles, ib. the pot heated by the north wind, persecution, iii. 171.
Novations, their heresy drew out the doctrine of the Church on repent ance, iii. 49.
sometimes specifically for those blown with bellows, iii. 94 ; vi. 455. how mystically used for saints, ib. the organs of the citizens of Jerusalem, the Scriptures, God's commands, His promises, meditation, vi. 162.
Numbers, specific, have a mystical
meaning, ii. 343. the mystical mean
ing of three, and of four, i. 35. of five,
ii. 343. in the case of the five vir
gins in the parable, vi. 390. of seven, Organ, sometimes used generally, to iv. 99; vi. 14o0. of eight, i. 34. of include all instruments of music,
O.
Oath, (see Swear. )
Obedience, God shewed how much He
valued it, by forbidding to eat of the tree in order to test it, iii. 440. is the beginning and perfection of all righteousness, iii. 452. is the road to attain the secrets of wisdom, v. 412. to be observed in order to at tain them, to be maintained when we have, ib. is most expedient, iii. 431. man's refusal to obey his mas ter the cause of discord in himself, ib. man fell by disobedience, must obey in order to rise again, iii. 432. we must obey God, that our flesh may obey us, vi. 301. obedience proved by temptation, iv. 54. the obedience of the Itechabites a pattern, iii. 407. parents to be always obeyed, save when they command what is con trary to God's law, ib. even wicked masters to be obeyed, for Christ's sake, v. 543. the folly of obeying lusts, disobeying God, vi. 53.
Church, vi. 114. Noah's Ark a type
of the Church, v. 99.
Nobles, many gave up their nobility
in this world to follow Christ in poverty, vi. 446. fear none but God, vi. 447. Christ's grace extends to them too, though first to the poor, v. 117.
' heaping together,' vi. 157.
Oil, used for the Holy Spirit, v. 226.
for spiritual joy, i. 167. for glory, vi. 250, 391. for the testimony of a good conscience, ib. outward and inward oil, ii. 247. (see Anointing) ' the oil of a sinner,' flattery, vi. 249. ' those who sell oil,' flatterers, vi. 391.
North, the, represents the devil and
His angels, ii. 289. is his abode, Ointment, mystical meaning of the
Offering, (see Holocaust. )
ten, vi. 451. of twelve, ii. 345; v.
100,215. of fifteen, iv. 275; vi. 449.
of seventeen, ii. 344. of forty, vi.
450; v. 257, 396. of fifty, vi. 450;
v. 257. of one hundred and fifty,
iv. 275; vi. 449. of the one hundred
and fifty-three fishes, taken after Original sin, (see Sin, Baptism. )
the resurrection, ii. 314; vi. 451. Orplians, many made so by the sword
of one thousand, v. 152.
God can number what to man is
innumerable, vi. 369. 1
Plural for singular, v. 223. sin
gular for plural, v. 225.
of the Word, severing them from earthly relations, iii. 316. Christians orphans, not because their Father is dead, but because He is absent, vi. 355. orphans, those to whom the
ointment wherewith the woman
anointed Christ's Feet, i. 150.
Old age, the two terms nota&vrits and 7f'^eti>>'distinguished,iii. 435. men pray
for old age, complain of it when it comes, ii. 57. old age and childhood how to be combined, v. 269. the old age of the Church white with good works, iv. 325.
Oreb, means dryness, iv. 143.
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world is crucified, and they to the world, i. 90. who have put off the old man, i. 91. God the Protector of such, i. 90; vi. 355.
Owl, how a figure of Christ, and of His Ministers, v. 8, 9.
P.
'
Pagans, called trees of the wood,'
iv. 409. worshipped the sun, i. 177.
attributed all misfortunes to the
Christians, iv. 113.
often pleaded
the sins of Christians as an excuse
for not becoming Christians, i. 187.
the good pagan like one with eyes open
in the dark, the evil Christian like
one blind in the light, ib. good
Christians prefer to eat with pagans
rather than with wicked Christians,
iv. 491. their prayers heard in tem
poral matters, iv. 462. their coward
ice compared with the constancy of Path, narrow way, vi. 267. there
own Person, partly in His Body, the Church, iii. 186. caused the fall ofmany, v. 157. (see Christ. )
Its anniversary yearly kept, 149. 22d Psalm always used thereat, ib.
Past, the past put for the future
the Prophets, and why, 12 v. 92, 278; vi. 11.
Patience, can only be amid evils, 299 iv. 314. figured by the bones, 371 vi. 209. (see Bone,) patience
in tribulation set forth by playing on the harp, ii. 204. (see Harp. ) the necessity and reward of patience, iii. 197: vi. 291. a gift of God,
339; iii. 197; v. 429. we must patiently endure those whom we cannot amend, iii. 34 iv. 471 v. 54. to fix the heart in heaven, the best means of attaining patience on earth, iv. 350.
the martyrs, vi. 256. (see Gentiles. ) Palm-tree, its height sets forth the growth of Christians, upwards, iv.
326.
Patty, inward, how to be healed, ii.
51.
Parable, used for any sort of com
parison, iii. 371. the histories of the Old Testament called parables, as setting foith the deeper truths of the New, iv. 42.
Paradise, man in paradise had no cause for weeping and crying; now that he is put forth from thence, he has, i. 229.
Pardon, (see Forgiveness. )
Parents, how they treat their children,
iv. 365. are to be obeyed, but God to be preferred to them, vi. 44. not to be obeyed when their commands are against God's, iii. 407. sins of parents visited only on the wicked, v. 216. father and mother used for the world, i. 190.
Pascha, a Hebrew word, not connected with ' Passion,' but meaning ' pass- over,' v. 477 ; vi. 198.
fore applied to the way of the righteous, ib. to God's commandment, vi. 226. the paths of God's will many, yet one, ib. paths used for counsels and thoughts, vi. 217.
Patriarchs, why called Christs,' v. 155. were under God's protection, v. 154. they are our examples, v. 165.
Paul, St. typified by Benjamin, iii. 346. by Mount Sinai, iii. 322. was guilty, by consent, of Stephen's death, vi. 411. cold at first, then warmed by grace, vi. 231. the greatest of sinners and so pattern of free grace, iii. 406. his conversion, God's doing, ii. 242. not for any merits of his own, iii. 140. first prostrated by Christ's reproach, then raised His pity, iv. 303. resisted the truth, then preached to others, vi. 411. first a persecutor, then a preacher, vi. 79. his change of name sets forth the change from pride to humility, iii. 470. when converted endured what before he inflicted, v. 222. why called a beaten trumpet,' iv. 440. a psaltery touched by Christ, vi. 440. proof of the danger of spiritual pride, vi. 79. and of Christ's
Passion, our Lord's, described in Psalm
69, iii. 362. was of His own free
will, i. 389; iv. 218. the great bene
fits of iii. 209. pattern to
those who suffer affliction, ii. 20, 33.
teaches us to look not for temporal,
but eternal goods, iv. 277. imi
tating the poor are to be satisfied,
ii. 305. teaches us to look with ill savour to the wicked, iv. 331.
patience for deliverance, ii. 314. we must not fear to suffer with Christ, if we would reign with Him, iv. 431. Christ's sufferirgs partly in His
reproves those who thank not God for their good, v. 237. his jealousy for Christ, 411. how be walked
the flesh, yet warred not in the
power to heal sinners, ib. preached throughout the world, supported by love, vi. 354. what he means by his Gospel, v. 233. like bis Lord, was
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without love, vi. 44. peace and plenteousness the fruit of love, v. 505. where perfect peace there
iii. 58. by the sea raging, iv. 249, 340, 442. by the devil that in the noon-day, iv. 290, 299. the Church has ever been assailed by from the beginning, vi. 51. there perse cution for true Christians even when all seems still, 223, 246; ii. 127; iii. 35, 393 iv. 283, 368. the Church has three kinds of persecution to endure, from the heathen, from here tics, from antichrist, 88. perse cution twofold, from violence and from malice, iii. 396. from revilers and flatterers, iii. 398. the devil and Judas both persecuted Christ: now the devil still persecutes the Church, and there ever one Judas succeeding another, vi. 286. the spiritual ever persecuted by the car nal, v. 468. the good by the evil, vi.
53.
Why God permits the good to suf
fer, ii. 209. permitted by Him to punish some, try others, reward others, 221. persecutors compared to the rod wherewith an angry father chastises his child, iii. 500. the per secution of the Church turned out to its honour, 201. persecutors can only take away earthly things, ii. 395. are as fire to the gold, vi. 56. could not harm the martyrs, vi. 234. the persecution of the un godly clears his victim, makes him guilty, ii. 18. 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.