purifies the heart to enable it to see
heavenly
things, ii.
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good to those who imitate Christ, i.
148, 160; ii.
304.
en lightens, i.
361.
Christ to be adored in, i. 148; iv. 454. good in itself, given to the wicked to their damnation, v. 141; vi. 293. given to Judas, i. 10, 98. Judas a type of all unworthy re ceivers, vi. 293- caution in receiving, ii. 305.
The Jews shed Christ's Blood in their madness, drank of it when converted, ii. 265 ; iii. 279. (see
mind, ii. 185. light, the food of the eye, iv. 232. the apple of the eye, that by which the sight is directed, i. 114. wantonness of eyes teproved, ii. 368. to set before the eyes is to love any thing, iv. 486.
Of God, on those who look to Him, i. 299. none can avoid, iv. 356. the folly of fearing men's eyes and not God's, i. 404.
Eyes of Christ's Body, His con spicuous members, iv. 232.
Faith the eye of the heart, iv. 312. its strength, vi. 356. those have not, who envy the prosperity of the wicked, ii. 62. what things injure its sight, iv. 435. it is blinded by sin, ii. 153. to be healed by the oiutu. ent of God's commandments, ii. 154. blindness of the inward eye, cured by cleansing the heart v. 391. consists in inability to understand heavenly things, ib. a greater misery to be blind in soul than in body, iii. 384.
Ezckiel, prophesied in the Captivity at Babylon, iii. 250. Ps. lxv, called a Song of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, ib.
F.
Face of God, the power whereby He is made known to those worthy of it, i. 101. His presence in His Church, iii. 314. His Revelation of Himself at the Day of Judgment, iii. 350.
Faith, the eye of the heart, iv. 312. represented by gold, lust by grass, iv. 420. our first-born, vi. 141. a good root turning the rain of grace into fruit, vi. 318. the fathers of old had the same faith as Christians, ii. 382; iv. 43; v. 155. none ever
reconciled to God without faith in Christ, v. 155. faith in Christ the only thing that cleanses, iv. 264. in
their beds, i. e. in their hearts, ib. we must exult in the Lord, if we would trample on the world, iv. 383. wicked exulting and good exulting to be distinguished, ib. the exultation of the just, not in deed, but in hope, iii. 28. the exultation of the wicked, in this world, and therefore fleeting: of the righteous, in the Lord, and therefore lasting, i. 308.
Sacraments, Sacrifice. ) Evangelists, called arrows,
i. 119. heavens, i. 125. the Lord's feet, iv.
308.
Eve, a type of the Church, ii. 174.
(see Church, Christ. ) our flesh, an Eve to us, ii. 309. the clothing of skins signified mortality, v. 73.
Evening, represents the end of all things, v. 105. or worldly trouble, iii. 266. evening began when the light of wisdom was withdrawn from man, i. 224, 228.
Evil. 1. misery, evil which comes to us from God, justly deserved, i. 309. God inflicts evil, not in wrath, but in just judgment, i. 383. bodily evil shared by good and bad alike, iv. 94. ordinary good and evil, shared by all alike, the true good, not for the evil, nor the true evil for the good, iii. 72.
2. Wickedness. (st:e Wickedness,
Sin,Sinner. )evi\ for evil, (see Venge
ance. )
Example, sinners often converted by
the examples of others, v. 464. this implied in the expression ' coals that lay waste,' ib. examples of Saints arouse some, cast down others, vi. 231. strengthen the faith of the weak, v. 165. we follow the example not of the many, but of the good, ii. 136. the falls of Saints not an example for us to sin, iii. 296, 367.
Exalt (see Pride. )
474 INDEX.
Christ made Man leads to know Him as God, v. b'23. a protection against cavils, i. 235. Christ's Re surrection the especial object of, v. 477.
prayer, ii. 208. voluntary hunger, ii. 199. a Christian work, iv. 224. its importance, ib. of no avail without prayer and alms, ii. 208. false fasting what, ii. 218; iv. 224. what is saved by fasting should he given to the poor, ii. 208. the fast of Lent en
joined by Law, Prophets, and the Gospel, v. 257. Christians fasted on the festal days of the heathen, for them, iv. 449. Christ's fasting, his longing for men's conversion, i. 3/3; iii. 371.
All have not, vi. 218. the gift of
God, iv. 235, 237. fostered by obe
dience, iv. 55. the road to God,
vi. 143. the first step in a new life,
vi. 141 ; v. 259, b26. enables men
to become sons of God, v. 484.
makes men temples of God, v. 510.
keips God with us, iv. 311. the
means of winning an eternal in Father, the, called so in reference
heritance, v. 152. must be in what is unseen, v. 238, &c. leads to sight, ii. 254. deadness of faith typified by Christ's sleeping in the storm, i. 177, 377; iv. 311; v. 479; vi. 383.
The path to knowledge, i. 64. must implicitly accept what it can not understand, vi. 382. some things we cannot understand unless we first believe them, v. 391.
purifies the heart to enable it to see heavenly things, ii. 153; v. 391,523.
Obtains grace to fulfil God's com mands, v. 381, 387, 414. is righteous ness, i. 311. faith without works perilous, i. 278. works without faith, and faith without works alike profit less, i. 279, &c. St. Paul's state ments harmonized, i. 284. faith fore sees the end of the wicked, and so stumbles not at their prosperity, vi. 356. ought not to depend even on the best men, v. 452. God quickeneth that faith fail not, v. 415. true faith in lips as well as heart, ii. 148. f ailure of faith the beginning of cor ruption, leads to evil living, iii. 4.
Good faith to be observed, iii. 10, 99. better than gold, ii. 18.
Faithful, the, God's Tabernacle on earth, ii. 187. together with the Angels make up the tne temple of God, vi. 19. Christ never fails them, v. 308. inhabitants of Sion and Jeru salem, how, ii. 386. signified by locusts, v. 225.
Fall, the falls of God's saints related, not to warrant us in falling, but to encourage us to rise again when fallen, ii. 367, 368. man would not hear God's commandment, so as not to fall : he must hear them now that he is fallen, to rise again, ii. 171 ; iii. 525. we fall by loving the world, rise again by loving God, vi. 17. man able of himself to fall, not to rise again, vi. 61.
Fasting, one of the two wings of
to the Son, in reference to Himself, God, iii. 360. of one substance with the Son and Holy Spirit, explanation of the meaning of this, ib. God the Father rightly called King, iii. 325.
Abba means Father, (see Abla. ) God both Father and Mother to us, Father in ruling, Mother in cherish ing, i. 204.
Fathers will have to account for their children's sin, if they have not checked ii. 387. (see Parents. )
Fear, the flight of the mind, iii. 314. fear and desire, the two leaves of the door of the heart, vi. 264. no good to fear what cannot be avoided: we should fear damnation, that we may escape ii. 309. this world the time of fear not of laughing, ii. 39P; iv. 431 v 394. two grounds for not fearing, hope in God, and hardness of heart, iii. 60. be who has sure hope in God, fears no one,
193. the Christian has no need to fear his enemies, iv. 431.
God only to be lean 193, 328. the records oi vengeance should cause fear, vi. 138. God displays His power in nature that man may fear Him, vi. 427. fear of God great safeguard, i. 29. leads men to amend, that they may be spared at the Judgment, iv. 451. should be accompanied by hope, vi. 379 why we must work out our salvation with fear, vi. 289. bear the first step to wisdom, v. 462. none truly fear God, but those en grafted into Christ, vi. 34.
Two kinds of fear, servile and chaste, 127, 135; iv. 58; v. 363; vi. 37. the fear of the Jews, servile fear, rv. 177. whereby God not wor shipped, iv. 63. nor the law fulfilled,
314; iv. 308; v. 431. fear the motive for obtaining, the will to sin remains, 314; v. 427. fear like the wolf, afraid of the dogs would plunder, hut dares not, iv. 343. _he
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who acts through fear, acts un Fleece, Gideon's, mystical lesson of it.
willingly, v. 355. does not lore
righteousness, vi. 3", 447. fear of Flesh, used for man, i. 217 J vi. 157.
hell profitable, but not a chaste fear, vi. 39 fear the road to love, vi. 447; Christ's death changed fear to love, iv. 308. the test whether fear be servili, or chaste, vi. 3 39. chaste fear would not sin, though it could with impunity, v. 427. thinks it a great punishment to lose God's Pre sence, v. 58 ; vi. 40.
Felix, a martyr, vi. 36. see note there.
Fetters, mean our mortality, vi. 354. the fear of God, v. 19. the fetters of the martyrs loosed, and turned into crowns by their persecutors, v. 20.
Field, God's field the world, vi. 435. the Church, v. 221. two men in one field represent the Clergy who go vern the Church, iv. 476 ; vi. 113.
Fig-tree, the, with leaves, yet with out fruit, the Jews and Pharisees, who made profession, yet practised not, i. 285. Nathaniel under the fig-tree, mystical interpretation of, i. 287.
the Word made flesh, i. e. became Man, i 217. for the carnal affections, i. 193. the flesh the handmaid of the soul, vi. 338, 340. is to be loved, yet chastised, as a wife, vi. 252. should be kept in subjection, vi. 301. the flesh fighting against the spirit is like the wife fighting against the husband, ib. is to us, as Eve to Adam, ii. 309. conquer the flesh and you will conquer the devil, vi. 298. the infirmity of the flesh, a bed of pain, ii. 169. we can con quer the flesh, if we will, by the aid given us, ib. they who conquer it called kings, iv. 23. not to fall in the flesh, a great thing : not to slip, beyo: d oer power, v. 296. how we are in, and yet not in, the flesh, ib. frailty of the flesh inherited from Adam, iv. 171. what good works done by the flesh, iv. 153. lust of the flesh one of the three great divisions of sin, i. 70.
All flesh how to come to God, iii. 256. our flesh, how it thirsteth for God, iii. 217. after resurrection, incorruptible, iii. 254. theresurrection of, iii. 218.
Finger, of God, the Holy Ghost, i. 65.
fingers of God, God's ministers filled
by the Holy Ghost, ib. fingers
wherewith Christ's members fight, Flight, we cannot fly from conscience,
what, vi. 297.
Fire, used for affliction, iii. 288. why
nor from God, i. 244. we cannot flee from God, save to God, vi. 201, 202. from His wrath to His ruth, iii. 528 ; iv. 383 ; vi. 379.
Christ to be adored in, i. 148; iv. 454. good in itself, given to the wicked to their damnation, v. 141; vi. 293. given to Judas, i. 10, 98. Judas a type of all unworthy re ceivers, vi. 293- caution in receiving, ii. 305.
The Jews shed Christ's Blood in their madness, drank of it when converted, ii. 265 ; iii. 279. (see
mind, ii. 185. light, the food of the eye, iv. 232. the apple of the eye, that by which the sight is directed, i. 114. wantonness of eyes teproved, ii. 368. to set before the eyes is to love any thing, iv. 486.
Of God, on those who look to Him, i. 299. none can avoid, iv. 356. the folly of fearing men's eyes and not God's, i. 404.
Eyes of Christ's Body, His con spicuous members, iv. 232.
Faith the eye of the heart, iv. 312. its strength, vi. 356. those have not, who envy the prosperity of the wicked, ii. 62. what things injure its sight, iv. 435. it is blinded by sin, ii. 153. to be healed by the oiutu. ent of God's commandments, ii. 154. blindness of the inward eye, cured by cleansing the heart v. 391. consists in inability to understand heavenly things, ib. a greater misery to be blind in soul than in body, iii. 384.
Ezckiel, prophesied in the Captivity at Babylon, iii. 250. Ps. lxv, called a Song of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, ib.
F.
Face of God, the power whereby He is made known to those worthy of it, i. 101. His presence in His Church, iii. 314. His Revelation of Himself at the Day of Judgment, iii. 350.
Faith, the eye of the heart, iv. 312. represented by gold, lust by grass, iv. 420. our first-born, vi. 141. a good root turning the rain of grace into fruit, vi. 318. the fathers of old had the same faith as Christians, ii. 382; iv. 43; v. 155. none ever
reconciled to God without faith in Christ, v. 155. faith in Christ the only thing that cleanses, iv. 264. in
their beds, i. e. in their hearts, ib. we must exult in the Lord, if we would trample on the world, iv. 383. wicked exulting and good exulting to be distinguished, ib. the exultation of the just, not in deed, but in hope, iii. 28. the exultation of the wicked, in this world, and therefore fleeting: of the righteous, in the Lord, and therefore lasting, i. 308.
Sacraments, Sacrifice. ) Evangelists, called arrows,
i. 119. heavens, i. 125. the Lord's feet, iv.
308.
Eve, a type of the Church, ii. 174.
(see Church, Christ. ) our flesh, an Eve to us, ii. 309. the clothing of skins signified mortality, v. 73.
Evening, represents the end of all things, v. 105. or worldly trouble, iii. 266. evening began when the light of wisdom was withdrawn from man, i. 224, 228.
Evil. 1. misery, evil which comes to us from God, justly deserved, i. 309. God inflicts evil, not in wrath, but in just judgment, i. 383. bodily evil shared by good and bad alike, iv. 94. ordinary good and evil, shared by all alike, the true good, not for the evil, nor the true evil for the good, iii. 72.
2. Wickedness. (st:e Wickedness,
Sin,Sinner. )evi\ for evil, (see Venge
ance. )
Example, sinners often converted by
the examples of others, v. 464. this implied in the expression ' coals that lay waste,' ib. examples of Saints arouse some, cast down others, vi. 231. strengthen the faith of the weak, v. 165. we follow the example not of the many, but of the good, ii. 136. the falls of Saints not an example for us to sin, iii. 296, 367.
Exalt (see Pride. )
474 INDEX.
Christ made Man leads to know Him as God, v. b'23. a protection against cavils, i. 235. Christ's Re surrection the especial object of, v. 477.
prayer, ii. 208. voluntary hunger, ii. 199. a Christian work, iv. 224. its importance, ib. of no avail without prayer and alms, ii. 208. false fasting what, ii. 218; iv. 224. what is saved by fasting should he given to the poor, ii. 208. the fast of Lent en
joined by Law, Prophets, and the Gospel, v. 257. Christians fasted on the festal days of the heathen, for them, iv. 449. Christ's fasting, his longing for men's conversion, i. 3/3; iii. 371.
All have not, vi. 218. the gift of
God, iv. 235, 237. fostered by obe
dience, iv. 55. the road to God,
vi. 143. the first step in a new life,
vi. 141 ; v. 259, b26. enables men
to become sons of God, v. 484.
makes men temples of God, v. 510.
keips God with us, iv. 311. the
means of winning an eternal in Father, the, called so in reference
heritance, v. 152. must be in what is unseen, v. 238, &c. leads to sight, ii. 254. deadness of faith typified by Christ's sleeping in the storm, i. 177, 377; iv. 311; v. 479; vi. 383.
The path to knowledge, i. 64. must implicitly accept what it can not understand, vi. 382. some things we cannot understand unless we first believe them, v. 391.
purifies the heart to enable it to see heavenly things, ii. 153; v. 391,523.
Obtains grace to fulfil God's com mands, v. 381, 387, 414. is righteous ness, i. 311. faith without works perilous, i. 278. works without faith, and faith without works alike profit less, i. 279, &c. St. Paul's state ments harmonized, i. 284. faith fore sees the end of the wicked, and so stumbles not at their prosperity, vi. 356. ought not to depend even on the best men, v. 452. God quickeneth that faith fail not, v. 415. true faith in lips as well as heart, ii. 148. f ailure of faith the beginning of cor ruption, leads to evil living, iii. 4.
Good faith to be observed, iii. 10, 99. better than gold, ii. 18.
Faithful, the, God's Tabernacle on earth, ii. 187. together with the Angels make up the tne temple of God, vi. 19. Christ never fails them, v. 308. inhabitants of Sion and Jeru salem, how, ii. 386. signified by locusts, v. 225.
Fall, the falls of God's saints related, not to warrant us in falling, but to encourage us to rise again when fallen, ii. 367, 368. man would not hear God's commandment, so as not to fall : he must hear them now that he is fallen, to rise again, ii. 171 ; iii. 525. we fall by loving the world, rise again by loving God, vi. 17. man able of himself to fall, not to rise again, vi. 61.
Fasting, one of the two wings of
to the Son, in reference to Himself, God, iii. 360. of one substance with the Son and Holy Spirit, explanation of the meaning of this, ib. God the Father rightly called King, iii. 325.
Abba means Father, (see Abla. ) God both Father and Mother to us, Father in ruling, Mother in cherish ing, i. 204.
Fathers will have to account for their children's sin, if they have not checked ii. 387. (see Parents. )
Fear, the flight of the mind, iii. 314. fear and desire, the two leaves of the door of the heart, vi. 264. no good to fear what cannot be avoided: we should fear damnation, that we may escape ii. 309. this world the time of fear not of laughing, ii. 39P; iv. 431 v 394. two grounds for not fearing, hope in God, and hardness of heart, iii. 60. be who has sure hope in God, fears no one,
193. the Christian has no need to fear his enemies, iv. 431.
God only to be lean 193, 328. the records oi vengeance should cause fear, vi. 138. God displays His power in nature that man may fear Him, vi. 427. fear of God great safeguard, i. 29. leads men to amend, that they may be spared at the Judgment, iv. 451. should be accompanied by hope, vi. 379 why we must work out our salvation with fear, vi. 289. bear the first step to wisdom, v. 462. none truly fear God, but those en grafted into Christ, vi. 34.
Two kinds of fear, servile and chaste, 127, 135; iv. 58; v. 363; vi. 37. the fear of the Jews, servile fear, rv. 177. whereby God not wor shipped, iv. 63. nor the law fulfilled,
314; iv. 308; v. 431. fear the motive for obtaining, the will to sin remains, 314; v. 427. fear like the wolf, afraid of the dogs would plunder, hut dares not, iv. 343. _he
: if it is
is
J, i.
i.
i.
i. i. a
is
it,
Hi is
;
it,
INDEX. 475
who acts through fear, acts un Fleece, Gideon's, mystical lesson of it.
willingly, v. 355. does not lore
righteousness, vi. 3", 447. fear of Flesh, used for man, i. 217 J vi. 157.
hell profitable, but not a chaste fear, vi. 39 fear the road to love, vi. 447; Christ's death changed fear to love, iv. 308. the test whether fear be servili, or chaste, vi. 3 39. chaste fear would not sin, though it could with impunity, v. 427. thinks it a great punishment to lose God's Pre sence, v. 58 ; vi. 40.
Felix, a martyr, vi. 36. see note there.
Fetters, mean our mortality, vi. 354. the fear of God, v. 19. the fetters of the martyrs loosed, and turned into crowns by their persecutors, v. 20.
Field, God's field the world, vi. 435. the Church, v. 221. two men in one field represent the Clergy who go vern the Church, iv. 476 ; vi. 113.
Fig-tree, the, with leaves, yet with out fruit, the Jews and Pharisees, who made profession, yet practised not, i. 285. Nathaniel under the fig-tree, mystical interpretation of, i. 287.
the Word made flesh, i. e. became Man, i 217. for the carnal affections, i. 193. the flesh the handmaid of the soul, vi. 338, 340. is to be loved, yet chastised, as a wife, vi. 252. should be kept in subjection, vi. 301. the flesh fighting against the spirit is like the wife fighting against the husband, ib. is to us, as Eve to Adam, ii. 309. conquer the flesh and you will conquer the devil, vi. 298. the infirmity of the flesh, a bed of pain, ii. 169. we can con quer the flesh, if we will, by the aid given us, ib. they who conquer it called kings, iv. 23. not to fall in the flesh, a great thing : not to slip, beyo: d oer power, v. 296. how we are in, and yet not in, the flesh, ib. frailty of the flesh inherited from Adam, iv. 171. what good works done by the flesh, iv. 153. lust of the flesh one of the three great divisions of sin, i. 70.
All flesh how to come to God, iii. 256. our flesh, how it thirsteth for God, iii. 217. after resurrection, incorruptible, iii. 254. theresurrection of, iii. 218.
Finger, of God, the Holy Ghost, i. 65.
fingers of God, God's ministers filled
by the Holy Ghost, ib. fingers
wherewith Christ's members fight, Flight, we cannot fly from conscience,
what, vi. 297.
Fire, used for affliction, iii. 288. why
nor from God, i. 244. we cannot flee from God, save to God, vi. 201, 202. from His wrath to His ruth, iii. 528 ; iv. 383 ; vi. 379.
