Mercy, God's, the
greatness
of, i.
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6
131 vi.
148.
oil which kindled the flame of love, 15.
won their persecutors to conversion, vi.
188.
the whole earth crimsoned with their blood, v.
448.
The spirits of, passed to Paradise, like fruit from God's garden, iv. 88. they intercede for us, iv. 211. their memorials held in honour, vi. 188. hold the highest place in the Church, iii. 347. those who revel at their festivals persecute them, iii. 175, 394. the right celebration of them, to imitate them, iii. 398.
Not the punishment, but the cause, makes the Martyr, 390; ii. 209; iii. 365. many of the Prophets Mar tyrs, though they died not for Christ, because they died for the truth, vi. 261. John Baptist thus Martyr, ib.
Grows cold by withdrawing from God, iii. 439; iv. 319; v. 130. must cling to God who made him, iv. 10. no trust to be placed in, i. 260 ; v. 541. (see Nearness, Likeness. )
Manasses, means ' forgetful,' iii. 169 ; iv. 102.
Manichees, their blasphemous fables, vi. 371. their false notions of God, iv. 123; vi. 371. believed in two coeternal opposed principles, vi. 246. said that Christ had no mother, i. 90. vi. 44. denied the reality of our Lord's sufferings, ii. 92. say that He was crucified in the whole uni verse, vi. 249. their notion of the cross of light, vi. 248. worshipped the sun, i. 94, 177; iv. 348. ridi culed Holy Scripture, vi. 371. main tained that the Old Testament was contrary to the New, vi. 350. their
fables with regard to the creation of the world, vi. 246. shift the blaze of their sins on their flesh, i. 297 ; vi. 246. their ' elect,' vi. 246. their in humanity, and false excuse for it, vi. 248. '
voluntary rain,' iii. 319.
Martyrs, why so called, v. 346. Christ Martyrdom, means testimony, v. 372.
Manna, called
the Pattern of, iii. 234. His bloody sweat prefigured the sufferings of the Martyrs throughout His Church, iv. 367; vi. 240. the Martyrs, a heap of testimony, iii. 169, 174. Christ suffered in them, vi. 272. belief in Christ spread by their deaths, ii. 223.
Happy in their unhappiness, vi. 36. how said to be fettered in heart in wisdom, iv. 277 ; v. 19. their fetters turned by God into crowns,
ib. left yet not forsaken by God, ii.
60 ; iii. 174. all their sufferings
could not harm them, vi. 234. their Maximian, a Donatist, iv. 9. deacon enemies sought to destroy the Mar
tyrs, the Martyrs to recover their
enemies, v. 348. the Martyrs, though
slain, yet delivered from their ene
mies, iii. 233. crowned in secret,
though their enemies thought them
conquered, i. 221 ; ii. 198 ; iv. 445.
triumphed over their persecutors,
iii. 92. conquered, because their love
was not conquered, vi. 117. their
patience and faithfulness, ii. 149.
faith, hope, charity, shewn forth in,
iii. 347.
Mary Magdalen, her conversion,
through preventing grace, iii. 308. knew Christ to be the true Phy sician, ib. her boldness in seeking our Lord, vi. 243. a pattern of true penitence, ib. many her equals in sin, not her equals in confession, vi. 244.
Mary the Virgin, the bridal chambers of the Word, 135; ii. 228; vi. 423. died, as under the guilt of original sin, 393.
of Primianus, ii. 35. made schism among the Donatists, ib. a leader of heresy, 411,
Afajrt>Rfani<<rs,thrir proceedings against Primianus, ii. 35, &c. condemned in the Donatist Council of Bagai, ii. 46; iii. 53, 115.
Medicine, Holy Scripture contains medicines for all diseases of the soul, ii. 6. God's medicines, v. 40,41. the medicine prepared by the wise, iii.
i. i.
a
i.
a i.
i.
ii.
;
109. medicine has two objects, to cure sickness, and to maintain health. i. 53. (see Physician. )
Mercies, God's, manifold, amend ing mockers, teaching the ignorant, pardoning penitents, iii. 371.
INDEX. 491
Meditation, the Law of God the best Merits, none of ours caused the Son of
subject of, v. 396. holy meditation,
v. 419.
Members, of the body suffer one with
another, i. 238; v. 5. their close inter-connexion, vi. 77. unity and diversity of, i. 336. (for the union between Christ and His members, see Christ, Church. )
God to die, iv. 186. Christ found nothing in us to merit reward, but punishment, i. 242 ; ii. 365; iii. 431; vi. 284, 294. whatever merits we have are God's gifts, vi. 325. not our merits but Christ's gifts will be rewarded in us, iv. 453. our calling and election not for our merits, but of God's free mercy, i. 32 ; iii. 274. grace not given to merits, v. 108. (see Grace, Works. )
Memorials, (Memories, i. e. monuments ,)
those who once persecuted the M ar-
tyrs, now seek their memorials, to
worship there, vi. 188. Peter's monu Mesopotamia, meaning of its name, ment held in great honour at Rome, iii. 162.
ii. 252. marble monuments little con Midian, meaning of the name, iv. 143. solation for the death of a sinner, i. Milk, mystically represents grace, iii.
373. not an everlasting abode, ii. 318.
Mercy, God's, the greatness of, i. 243 ; iv. 65; v. 56. of two kinds, i. 408, &c. to His saints heavenly and
334; vi. 296. the teaching of Christ's Manhood and Crucifixion, milk for babes, v. 485. the Bread of angels made milk to man by the Incar nation, i. 245; vi. 83.
eternal, i. 409; v. 191. His anger
more easily restrained than, iv. 34.
how magnified unto the heavens, iii.
96. not needed in heaven, i. 323.
God willing to be entreated for mercy,
i. 322, 339. asking mercy, a con
fession of misery, ii. 370. great
mercy needed for wilful sins, ib. the
sin of murmuring at God's mercy to
others, iv. 351. every man needs
God's mercy, ii. 207; iii. 408; iv.
480 ; v. 337. shewn even in what He Miracles, God works miracles daily,
takes away, vi. 317. in not hearing what is asked amiss, iv. 193. in scourging, iii. 375; iv. 256,275.
Combined with justice in God's dealings with man, i. 318; ii. 246; iv. 479, 481. else none could stand, vi. 63. the time of mercy now, of judgment hereafter, i. 318; iv. 480, 493, 495. mercy in God's justice, and justice in His mercy, i. 318 ; ii.
151 ; vi. 303. none may presume on God's mercy, ii. 246 ; iv. 258, 479. mercy and truth joined together in Scripture, iv. 254 ; v. 282, 395, 446. how we are to repay mercy and truth, iv. 254 ; vi. 180. (see Justice. )
Works of, recommended, iv. 41 1 ;
v. 52, 265; vi. 302. no mercy for
him who doeth not mercy, v. 48, 265.
to be shewn to wicked men, v. 51.
are seeds for an eternal harvest, vi. Monasteries, vi. 118. sometimes con 12. forgiveness, a work of mercy tain bad inmates, iv. 473.
which costeth nothing, vi. 393. a Money, its possession uncertain, iv.
great means of victory over our spiritual enemies, vi. 302. the stream of mercy quenches the fire of sin, vi. 303. works of mercy, if without jus tice, really cruel, i. 320.
148. rightly made round because rolls away, ib. the folly of commit ting sin to gain money, v. 530. only the wicked think money the true riches, iii. 13. love of, how called the
Mill, a type of the world, ii. 4 ; vi. 112.
Mind, the, what it is, ii. 205. is the head of the soul, i. 10 ; vi. 340.
Ministers of the Gospel ought to be supported without their asking
vi. 375. the wickedness of, hinders not the effect of the means of grace, to those who receive them with faith,
98.
but because of their constant opera tion men disregard them, iv. 304 v. 259. the unwonted ones wrought to make the greater impression, ib. those who wish for power to work miracles blamed, vi. 77. the Apostlss wrought greater miracles than Christ Himself, vi. 78. but they wrought them by His Power, ib. and claimed not the merit of them, iv. 355.
Misery, the earth full of misery, more full of mercy, 323. our present misery the consequence of sin, ii. 72. false happiness real misery, iv. 210. to confess that we are in misery, the
way to attain to happiness, ib. our misery for our healing, not our punishment, vi. 204.
Moab, meaning of, iv. 142. Moabites signify evil works, iii. 171-
it
it,
is
i.
;
i.
492 INDEX.
root of all evils, v. 358. he truly has money, who knows how to use it aright, v. 531. God meant man to be master not slave of money, ib. (see Riches. )
the stone was cut, the Jewish king dom, iv. 461. the stone which grew to a great mountain, the Church, ib. ii. 202. the holy mountain wherein the good are to rest, the love of Christ, i. 109.
In a bad sense, the proud, vi. 308. leaders of heresies, i. 411. the powers of the world, ii. 267; iv. 443.
Monks, why so called, vi. 116. he
retics ridiculed the title, vi. 115.
represented by the ' two men in one
bed,' ii. 5 ; iv. 476. evil lives of some
no cause for impatience, iv. 475. Mouth, the heart, the mouth of the
Psalm 133, applied to them, vi. 110, &c. Daniel a type of them, vi. 114. danger of turning back from a mo nastic life, iv. 150, 475.
soul, vi. 9, 178. a door to be set thereon, opened for confession, shut to sin, vi. 241. God's Mouth, His Revelation, v. 334. the mouth of the Church, its spiritual members, ii. 224.
Moon, the, represents the Church, i.
93; iii. 458; v. 121. the syna
gogue, i. 101. Christ's Flesh, iii. Mule, the, used for the proud, i. 300. 509. carnal men, ib. knowledge, vi. Murmuring, murmurers compared to
156. mortality, iii. 182, 457; iv. 260; vi. 281. the Resurrection, v. 46. two opinions about the source of the moon's light, i. 93, 94. foolish notions about eclipses of, iv. 348.
a cart wheel, vi. 120. the good are not to murmur at the prosperity of the wicked in this world, ii. 301 ; iii. 473, 474, 480, 492, 526. or at God's long-suffering, iv.
The spirits of, passed to Paradise, like fruit from God's garden, iv. 88. they intercede for us, iv. 211. their memorials held in honour, vi. 188. hold the highest place in the Church, iii. 347. those who revel at their festivals persecute them, iii. 175, 394. the right celebration of them, to imitate them, iii. 398.
Not the punishment, but the cause, makes the Martyr, 390; ii. 209; iii. 365. many of the Prophets Mar tyrs, though they died not for Christ, because they died for the truth, vi. 261. John Baptist thus Martyr, ib.
Grows cold by withdrawing from God, iii. 439; iv. 319; v. 130. must cling to God who made him, iv. 10. no trust to be placed in, i. 260 ; v. 541. (see Nearness, Likeness. )
Manasses, means ' forgetful,' iii. 169 ; iv. 102.
Manichees, their blasphemous fables, vi. 371. their false notions of God, iv. 123; vi. 371. believed in two coeternal opposed principles, vi. 246. said that Christ had no mother, i. 90. vi. 44. denied the reality of our Lord's sufferings, ii. 92. say that He was crucified in the whole uni verse, vi. 249. their notion of the cross of light, vi. 248. worshipped the sun, i. 94, 177; iv. 348. ridi culed Holy Scripture, vi. 371. main tained that the Old Testament was contrary to the New, vi. 350. their
fables with regard to the creation of the world, vi. 246. shift the blaze of their sins on their flesh, i. 297 ; vi. 246. their ' elect,' vi. 246. their in humanity, and false excuse for it, vi. 248. '
voluntary rain,' iii. 319.
Martyrs, why so called, v. 346. Christ Martyrdom, means testimony, v. 372.
Manna, called
the Pattern of, iii. 234. His bloody sweat prefigured the sufferings of the Martyrs throughout His Church, iv. 367; vi. 240. the Martyrs, a heap of testimony, iii. 169, 174. Christ suffered in them, vi. 272. belief in Christ spread by their deaths, ii. 223.
Happy in their unhappiness, vi. 36. how said to be fettered in heart in wisdom, iv. 277 ; v. 19. their fetters turned by God into crowns,
ib. left yet not forsaken by God, ii.
60 ; iii. 174. all their sufferings
could not harm them, vi. 234. their Maximian, a Donatist, iv. 9. deacon enemies sought to destroy the Mar
tyrs, the Martyrs to recover their
enemies, v. 348. the Martyrs, though
slain, yet delivered from their ene
mies, iii. 233. crowned in secret,
though their enemies thought them
conquered, i. 221 ; ii. 198 ; iv. 445.
triumphed over their persecutors,
iii. 92. conquered, because their love
was not conquered, vi. 117. their
patience and faithfulness, ii. 149.
faith, hope, charity, shewn forth in,
iii. 347.
Mary Magdalen, her conversion,
through preventing grace, iii. 308. knew Christ to be the true Phy sician, ib. her boldness in seeking our Lord, vi. 243. a pattern of true penitence, ib. many her equals in sin, not her equals in confession, vi. 244.
Mary the Virgin, the bridal chambers of the Word, 135; ii. 228; vi. 423. died, as under the guilt of original sin, 393.
of Primianus, ii. 35. made schism among the Donatists, ib. a leader of heresy, 411,
Afajrt>Rfani<<rs,thrir proceedings against Primianus, ii. 35, &c. condemned in the Donatist Council of Bagai, ii. 46; iii. 53, 115.
Medicine, Holy Scripture contains medicines for all diseases of the soul, ii. 6. God's medicines, v. 40,41. the medicine prepared by the wise, iii.
i. i.
a
i.
a i.
i.
ii.
;
109. medicine has two objects, to cure sickness, and to maintain health. i. 53. (see Physician. )
Mercies, God's, manifold, amend ing mockers, teaching the ignorant, pardoning penitents, iii. 371.
INDEX. 491
Meditation, the Law of God the best Merits, none of ours caused the Son of
subject of, v. 396. holy meditation,
v. 419.
Members, of the body suffer one with
another, i. 238; v. 5. their close inter-connexion, vi. 77. unity and diversity of, i. 336. (for the union between Christ and His members, see Christ, Church. )
God to die, iv. 186. Christ found nothing in us to merit reward, but punishment, i. 242 ; ii. 365; iii. 431; vi. 284, 294. whatever merits we have are God's gifts, vi. 325. not our merits but Christ's gifts will be rewarded in us, iv. 453. our calling and election not for our merits, but of God's free mercy, i. 32 ; iii. 274. grace not given to merits, v. 108. (see Grace, Works. )
Memorials, (Memories, i. e. monuments ,)
those who once persecuted the M ar-
tyrs, now seek their memorials, to
worship there, vi. 188. Peter's monu Mesopotamia, meaning of its name, ment held in great honour at Rome, iii. 162.
ii. 252. marble monuments little con Midian, meaning of the name, iv. 143. solation for the death of a sinner, i. Milk, mystically represents grace, iii.
373. not an everlasting abode, ii. 318.
Mercy, God's, the greatness of, i. 243 ; iv. 65; v. 56. of two kinds, i. 408, &c. to His saints heavenly and
334; vi. 296. the teaching of Christ's Manhood and Crucifixion, milk for babes, v. 485. the Bread of angels made milk to man by the Incar nation, i. 245; vi. 83.
eternal, i. 409; v. 191. His anger
more easily restrained than, iv. 34.
how magnified unto the heavens, iii.
96. not needed in heaven, i. 323.
God willing to be entreated for mercy,
i. 322, 339. asking mercy, a con
fession of misery, ii. 370. great
mercy needed for wilful sins, ib. the
sin of murmuring at God's mercy to
others, iv. 351. every man needs
God's mercy, ii. 207; iii. 408; iv.
480 ; v. 337. shewn even in what He Miracles, God works miracles daily,
takes away, vi. 317. in not hearing what is asked amiss, iv. 193. in scourging, iii. 375; iv. 256,275.
Combined with justice in God's dealings with man, i. 318; ii. 246; iv. 479, 481. else none could stand, vi. 63. the time of mercy now, of judgment hereafter, i. 318; iv. 480, 493, 495. mercy in God's justice, and justice in His mercy, i. 318 ; ii.
151 ; vi. 303. none may presume on God's mercy, ii. 246 ; iv. 258, 479. mercy and truth joined together in Scripture, iv. 254 ; v. 282, 395, 446. how we are to repay mercy and truth, iv. 254 ; vi. 180. (see Justice. )
Works of, recommended, iv. 41 1 ;
v. 52, 265; vi. 302. no mercy for
him who doeth not mercy, v. 48, 265.
to be shewn to wicked men, v. 51.
are seeds for an eternal harvest, vi. Monasteries, vi. 118. sometimes con 12. forgiveness, a work of mercy tain bad inmates, iv. 473.
which costeth nothing, vi. 393. a Money, its possession uncertain, iv.
great means of victory over our spiritual enemies, vi. 302. the stream of mercy quenches the fire of sin, vi. 303. works of mercy, if without jus tice, really cruel, i. 320.
148. rightly made round because rolls away, ib. the folly of commit ting sin to gain money, v. 530. only the wicked think money the true riches, iii. 13. love of, how called the
Mill, a type of the world, ii. 4 ; vi. 112.
Mind, the, what it is, ii. 205. is the head of the soul, i. 10 ; vi. 340.
Ministers of the Gospel ought to be supported without their asking
vi. 375. the wickedness of, hinders not the effect of the means of grace, to those who receive them with faith,
98.
but because of their constant opera tion men disregard them, iv. 304 v. 259. the unwonted ones wrought to make the greater impression, ib. those who wish for power to work miracles blamed, vi. 77. the Apostlss wrought greater miracles than Christ Himself, vi. 78. but they wrought them by His Power, ib. and claimed not the merit of them, iv. 355.
Misery, the earth full of misery, more full of mercy, 323. our present misery the consequence of sin, ii. 72. false happiness real misery, iv. 210. to confess that we are in misery, the
way to attain to happiness, ib. our misery for our healing, not our punishment, vi. 204.
Moab, meaning of, iv. 142. Moabites signify evil works, iii. 171-
it
it,
is
i.
;
i.
492 INDEX.
root of all evils, v. 358. he truly has money, who knows how to use it aright, v. 531. God meant man to be master not slave of money, ib. (see Riches. )
the stone was cut, the Jewish king dom, iv. 461. the stone which grew to a great mountain, the Church, ib. ii. 202. the holy mountain wherein the good are to rest, the love of Christ, i. 109.
In a bad sense, the proud, vi. 308. leaders of heresies, i. 411. the powers of the world, ii. 267; iv. 443.
Monks, why so called, vi. 116. he
retics ridiculed the title, vi. 115.
represented by the ' two men in one
bed,' ii. 5 ; iv. 476. evil lives of some
no cause for impatience, iv. 475. Mouth, the heart, the mouth of the
Psalm 133, applied to them, vi. 110, &c. Daniel a type of them, vi. 114. danger of turning back from a mo nastic life, iv. 150, 475.
soul, vi. 9, 178. a door to be set thereon, opened for confession, shut to sin, vi. 241. God's Mouth, His Revelation, v. 334. the mouth of the Church, its spiritual members, ii. 224.
Moon, the, represents the Church, i.
93; iii. 458; v. 121. the syna
gogue, i. 101. Christ's Flesh, iii. Mule, the, used for the proud, i. 300. 509. carnal men, ib. knowledge, vi. Murmuring, murmurers compared to
156. mortality, iii. 182, 457; iv. 260; vi. 281. the Resurrection, v. 46. two opinions about the source of the moon's light, i. 93, 94. foolish notions about eclipses of, iv. 348.
a cart wheel, vi. 120. the good are not to murmur at the prosperity of the wicked in this world, ii. 301 ; iii. 473, 474, 480, 492, 526. or at God's long-suffering, iv.
