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his descendants, ii. 248. Christ is short, and has many comforts, ib.
called the fruit of David's body, not of his loins, because born of a wo- vi. 102.
now is the seed time of toil, the harvest will gladden us hereafter, ii. 62. men toil not for themselves, but their children, vi. 4.
Thorn, all earthly pleasures have
thorns in them, v. 57. thorns, in Tomb, the, falsely called an home,
that they prick, not with their root, but the upgrowth, a pattern of sins, pleasant at first, but deadly at last,
vi. 222. sin like a bramble, which has no thorns when young, but puts them out afterward, iii. 122.
Threats, God's, called His bow, iii. 117. His overhangings, ii. J95. His threats deter from evil, invite to good, ii. 341. man's, should neither
deter from good, nor compel to evil, ib. he who is not moved by God's threats, is an unbeliever, ib.
Timbrel, mystical explanation of, vi. 439. is a figure of incorruption, vi. 455. players on timbrels, those who have conquered the flesh, iii. 345. David playing the timbrel a type of Christ on the Cross, i. 350, 353.
v. 229. the time of mercy and the time of judgment, iv. 479. (see Mercy, Judgment ) the time of
ii. 318. tombs called memorials, ib.
(see Memorial. ) the body the tomb of the dead soul, iv. 235. the throat of the wicked how an open sepulchre, i. 30.
Tongue, the, used for what is uttered
by 392; ii. 383. God's Tongue
how the pen of a ready writer,' ii. 233. the Christian's tongue, the song of Jerusalem, vi. 172. the tongue that praiseth not God, a bar barous one, v. 279. Christ's Tongue, His preachers, 156. we should have in heart, what all have on their tongue, 311.
The dispersion of tongues came through pride, the reunion of them by humility, iii. 39. the meaning of the gift of tongues, 136; vi. 76. Christ and His Church speak as one Man in many tongues, 136. every
Time, is, and yet is not, ii. 100. our
time on earth short, though it seem
long, ii. 12. the present moment
all that we can hold of time, iv. 32.
how a thousand years are as yester
day to God, iv. 272. the time of to avoid slipping with, ii. 97 vi. promising and of fulfilling distinct,
God's good pleasure, the time of Torrent, a, water flowing violently,
mercy, iii. 372. the acceptable time, the time of grace, i. 295. the fulness of time, Christ's coming to teach men to despise the things of time, iii. 479. Christ has two times, the time of His humiliation, and the
time of His glory, v. 253. three times of the world, before the Law, under the Law, under Grace, v. 104. six times or periods of history, iv.
330.
Tobias guided his father Tobit to
walk ; his father guided him to live,
iv. 433.
Toil, is the seed of iniquity, sin the
417. the torrent of God's mercy overflows those who trust in Him, ib. are streams sometimes full, some times dry, iii. 507. and so ri present those who are vigorous the faith for a while, and then fall away, ib. the torrent in the way. the flow
conception of toil, i. 5S. more toil
in sin than in good woiks, iv. 329;
vi. 230. ungodliness full of toil, i.
87, 108. the only way to end toil,
to love what cannot be taken from Traditores, those who gave up their us, i. 58. for this we must toil, vi. copies of the Scriptures for fear of
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one who in the llody of Christ, speaks with tongues, vi. 404.
Difficulty of taming, vi. 254. hard
66. folly of sinning with, ii. 397. the tor gue the evidence of the heart, iv. 344. deceitful tongue, what, v. 463.
of human mortality, v. 255. heretics are torrents, they flow violently for a while, and then pan away, iii. 116.
Torture, they only can conquer, who trust in Christ, not themselves, iv. 293. (see Martyrs. )
Trading, not unlawful in itself, but dishonest trading, iii. 424. its tempt ations, iii. 423, <ke. danger of its making men forget heaven, vi. 160. means allegorically, trusting in one's own doings, iii. 425.
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persecution. The Church often charged with the guilt of ' traditio' by heretics, ii. 34 ; iv. 408 ; vi. 399.
Trance, (see Ecstasy. )
Transfiguration, our Lord's, a type
of the conversion of Christians, vi. 408.
Treasure, God treasures up mercy for those who seek sinners wrath for themselves by refusing to seek
iv. 358. good will the treasure of the poor, ii. 29. our desert, our treasure, ii. 55.
85. no road to heaven without
ii. 388. the means of obtaining eter nal life, 375. the wrath of a Father chastening His children, iii. 68. means of escaping everlasting fire, iii. 165. meant to harden, not to destroy us, iii. 288 iv. 378. strengthens us, iii. 398. keeps us from hoping in this life, iii. 299. will come to an end, its reward will not, v. 306.
Is the result of sin, though a means of winning glory, ii. 170; iv. 91. punishment and favour at
Treasure-house, God's secret counsels
His treasure-house, whence He once, ii. 119. we must acknowledge
brings forth all we need, 327. heaven the Christian's treasure- house, iv. 313.
Trees, of the plain, the lower orders among the nations, v. 117. of the woods, the pagans, iv. 409. the tree in Paradise good, but man forbidden to take of in order to test his obedience, iii. 440.
why called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, iii. 441.
Trial, four kinds of, to which Chris tians are subject, v. 192 -- 195. (see Temptation, Tribulation, Rod, Scourge. )
Tribes, the twelve, were houses like the Roman Curia? , iv. 2; v. 498. tribes of the Lord and tribes of the devil, v. 498.
Tribulation, called night,' and win ter,' ii. 26, 196; iv. 317. 'iron,' v. 157. fire,' 225 iii. 288. com pared to a refiner's furnace, 153, 275. a wind rough, but favourable, vi. 3.
All our life tribulation, iv. 27. even in prosperity, to one who loves his true home, ib. ii. 356; iv. 196; vi. 186. he no Christian who finds none in this world, iii. 59. Scripture promises nothing in this life save tribulations, ii. 160. dis tinction between its finding us, and our finding ii. 355; iv. 151; vi.
God's truth therein, in that we have deserved what we suffer, v. 445.
We must endure them to the end,
224. must be patient under, ii. 204. must not faint under, ib. we should pray, first for strength to endure, then for those who inflict them, then confess our sins, and praise God, 391. we must practise in tribulation the lesson we have learnt in prosperity, ii. 196. must confess God's justice, our own sin, iii. 247, 419. must betake ourselves to God, ii. 262, 355.
God hears us therein, only as He knows to be good for ns, 152. de livers our souls if not our bodies,
370. (see Prayer, Persecution, Righteous. ) burns and cuts us by tribulation, as a Physician, in order to heal us, ii. 170. Christ delivers us in, not for our desert, but for His Name's sake, ii. 225. grace, our strength in them, v. 464. we should glory in them, vi. 209. Christ en dured them, though without sin, as a pattern to us, ii. 170.
The ungodly often suffer few this world, but hereafter they will suffer them for ever, 372. the
devil overthrows men by means of tribulation, iv. 495. tribulation the probation of some, the damnation of others, iii. 118. the wicked are miserable in tribulation, having no resource, ii. 25. an evil conscience, the greatest tribulation, ii. 262.
Of the Church, arise for the most part from perversions of the Law, iii. 171. (see Scourge, Rod, Perse cution. )
186.
Its profit to us,
153; ii. 355, monitor, ii. 340. medicine, 152. that smarts, iii.
369. meant as
165. scourge to correct us now,
that we be not punished hereafter,
iii. 219. to make our faith and
prayers more fervent, iv. 238. to Trinity, the, One God, 24. error test the motive of our service of
God, ii. 217. to make us seek eternal rest, iv. 148. its bitternesses, to make us long for the sweetness of heaven, ii. 211 vi. 181, &c. to make us long for Christ's coming,
of Sabellius concerning, 25. dif ferent errors concerning, iii. 349; vi. 84. set forth in the words Prin cipal Spirit, Upright Spirit, Holy Spirit, in Ps. 51, ii. 382. of Three Persons, One Substance, iii. 360.
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Truth, opposed to vanity, v. 360. is one, yet manifold, i. 102. Christ is the Supreme Truth, i. 357. is com mon to all, iv. 21. is every where present, i. 243. the voice of truth crieth in the heart without the aid of the lips, iii. 99. cannot be brought down by its enemies, v. 299. nor conquered, iii. 200. pleasant to the good, bitter to sinners, i. 32. its mention sweet, iv. 398; v. 364. the love of it commended, i. 357. it alone makes men blessed, i 18. compared to a shield, iv. 287. mercy and truth combined, iv. 235; v. 282, 395. truth, in heaven, meroy, on earth, iii. 95. (see Mercy. ) the Truth of God the food of angels and men,
iv. 130. Christ the Truth, and the Way to the Truth, v. 523. man created like the Truth, by sin made like unto vanity, vi. 306. he who begins to wish for the Truth, then first perceives his darkness, vi. 409. confession the road to the under standing of the Truth, vi. 372. no truth in evil works, vi. 231. the duty of striving for the truth, v. 405.
When a man speaks the truth, the words are his, the truth is God's, iv. 240. no use to preach it, except from the heart, iii. 312. we must believe the truth we preach, and speak the truth we believe, v. 298. those who preach, not for truth's but for custom's sake, dogs, i. 147. all who preach the truth assailed by mockers, vi. 168. the truth as sailed by mockers, vi. 168. the truth not to be preached to those unfit to receive it, vi. 166, &c. lying toilsome, truth easy, vi. 230. we should speak the truth to all men, i. 176. (see Neighbour. ) the truth may sometimes be kept back, i. 27. (see Lying. )
Turtle-dove, the Church compared to a, v. 11.
Tyrants, brought presents to Christ unknowingly, in sacrificing the mar tyrs, iii. 460. the violence of their persecution, iv. 299. were themselves sometimes converted by the con stancy of their victims, v. 451.
Tyre, meaning of its name, iv. 142.
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513
413. the soul should strive after rest, not increase useless toil, v. 295. the best object of toil, to see God, iv. 312. the thought of the reward sustains us in our toil, ii. 31. toil is the price of our rest, iv. 375. it
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his descendants, ii. 248. Christ is short, and has many comforts, ib.
called the fruit of David's body, not of his loins, because born of a wo- vi. 102.
now is the seed time of toil, the harvest will gladden us hereafter, ii. 62. men toil not for themselves, but their children, vi. 4.
Thorn, all earthly pleasures have
thorns in them, v. 57. thorns, in Tomb, the, falsely called an home,
that they prick, not with their root, but the upgrowth, a pattern of sins, pleasant at first, but deadly at last,
vi. 222. sin like a bramble, which has no thorns when young, but puts them out afterward, iii. 122.
Threats, God's, called His bow, iii. 117. His overhangings, ii. J95. His threats deter from evil, invite to good, ii. 341. man's, should neither
deter from good, nor compel to evil, ib. he who is not moved by God's threats, is an unbeliever, ib.
Timbrel, mystical explanation of, vi. 439. is a figure of incorruption, vi. 455. players on timbrels, those who have conquered the flesh, iii. 345. David playing the timbrel a type of Christ on the Cross, i. 350, 353.
v. 229. the time of mercy and the time of judgment, iv. 479. (see Mercy, Judgment ) the time of
ii. 318. tombs called memorials, ib.
(see Memorial. ) the body the tomb of the dead soul, iv. 235. the throat of the wicked how an open sepulchre, i. 30.
Tongue, the, used for what is uttered
by 392; ii. 383. God's Tongue
how the pen of a ready writer,' ii. 233. the Christian's tongue, the song of Jerusalem, vi. 172. the tongue that praiseth not God, a bar barous one, v. 279. Christ's Tongue, His preachers, 156. we should have in heart, what all have on their tongue, 311.
The dispersion of tongues came through pride, the reunion of them by humility, iii. 39. the meaning of the gift of tongues, 136; vi. 76. Christ and His Church speak as one Man in many tongues, 136. every
Time, is, and yet is not, ii. 100. our
time on earth short, though it seem
long, ii. 12. the present moment
all that we can hold of time, iv. 32.
how a thousand years are as yester
day to God, iv. 272. the time of to avoid slipping with, ii. 97 vi. promising and of fulfilling distinct,
God's good pleasure, the time of Torrent, a, water flowing violently,
mercy, iii. 372. the acceptable time, the time of grace, i. 295. the fulness of time, Christ's coming to teach men to despise the things of time, iii. 479. Christ has two times, the time of His humiliation, and the
time of His glory, v. 253. three times of the world, before the Law, under the Law, under Grace, v. 104. six times or periods of history, iv.
330.
Tobias guided his father Tobit to
walk ; his father guided him to live,
iv. 433.
Toil, is the seed of iniquity, sin the
417. the torrent of God's mercy overflows those who trust in Him, ib. are streams sometimes full, some times dry, iii. 507. and so ri present those who are vigorous the faith for a while, and then fall away, ib. the torrent in the way. the flow
conception of toil, i. 5S. more toil
in sin than in good woiks, iv. 329;
vi. 230. ungodliness full of toil, i.
87, 108. the only way to end toil,
to love what cannot be taken from Traditores, those who gave up their us, i. 58. for this we must toil, vi. copies of the Scriptures for fear of
VOL. VI. I.
one who in the llody of Christ, speaks with tongues, vi. 404.
Difficulty of taming, vi. 254. hard
66. folly of sinning with, ii. 397. the tor gue the evidence of the heart, iv. 344. deceitful tongue, what, v. 463.
of human mortality, v. 255. heretics are torrents, they flow violently for a while, and then pan away, iii. 116.
Torture, they only can conquer, who trust in Christ, not themselves, iv. 293. (see Martyrs. )
Trading, not unlawful in itself, but dishonest trading, iii. 424. its tempt ations, iii. 423, <ke. danger of its making men forget heaven, vi. 160. means allegorically, trusting in one's own doings, iii. 425.
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persecution. The Church often charged with the guilt of ' traditio' by heretics, ii. 34 ; iv. 408 ; vi. 399.
Trance, (see Ecstasy. )
Transfiguration, our Lord's, a type
of the conversion of Christians, vi. 408.
Treasure, God treasures up mercy for those who seek sinners wrath for themselves by refusing to seek
iv. 358. good will the treasure of the poor, ii. 29. our desert, our treasure, ii. 55.
85. no road to heaven without
ii. 388. the means of obtaining eter nal life, 375. the wrath of a Father chastening His children, iii. 68. means of escaping everlasting fire, iii. 165. meant to harden, not to destroy us, iii. 288 iv. 378. strengthens us, iii. 398. keeps us from hoping in this life, iii. 299. will come to an end, its reward will not, v. 306.
Is the result of sin, though a means of winning glory, ii. 170; iv. 91. punishment and favour at
Treasure-house, God's secret counsels
His treasure-house, whence He once, ii. 119. we must acknowledge
brings forth all we need, 327. heaven the Christian's treasure- house, iv. 313.
Trees, of the plain, the lower orders among the nations, v. 117. of the woods, the pagans, iv. 409. the tree in Paradise good, but man forbidden to take of in order to test his obedience, iii. 440.
why called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, iii. 441.
Trial, four kinds of, to which Chris tians are subject, v. 192 -- 195. (see Temptation, Tribulation, Rod, Scourge. )
Tribes, the twelve, were houses like the Roman Curia? , iv. 2; v. 498. tribes of the Lord and tribes of the devil, v. 498.
Tribulation, called night,' and win ter,' ii. 26, 196; iv. 317. 'iron,' v. 157. fire,' 225 iii. 288. com pared to a refiner's furnace, 153, 275. a wind rough, but favourable, vi. 3.
All our life tribulation, iv. 27. even in prosperity, to one who loves his true home, ib. ii. 356; iv. 196; vi. 186. he no Christian who finds none in this world, iii. 59. Scripture promises nothing in this life save tribulations, ii. 160. dis tinction between its finding us, and our finding ii. 355; iv. 151; vi.
God's truth therein, in that we have deserved what we suffer, v. 445.
We must endure them to the end,
224. must be patient under, ii. 204. must not faint under, ib. we should pray, first for strength to endure, then for those who inflict them, then confess our sins, and praise God, 391. we must practise in tribulation the lesson we have learnt in prosperity, ii. 196. must confess God's justice, our own sin, iii. 247, 419. must betake ourselves to God, ii. 262, 355.
God hears us therein, only as He knows to be good for ns, 152. de livers our souls if not our bodies,
370. (see Prayer, Persecution, Righteous. ) burns and cuts us by tribulation, as a Physician, in order to heal us, ii. 170. Christ delivers us in, not for our desert, but for His Name's sake, ii. 225. grace, our strength in them, v. 464. we should glory in them, vi. 209. Christ en dured them, though without sin, as a pattern to us, ii. 170.
The ungodly often suffer few this world, but hereafter they will suffer them for ever, 372. the
devil overthrows men by means of tribulation, iv. 495. tribulation the probation of some, the damnation of others, iii. 118. the wicked are miserable in tribulation, having no resource, ii. 25. an evil conscience, the greatest tribulation, ii. 262.
Of the Church, arise for the most part from perversions of the Law, iii. 171. (see Scourge, Rod, Perse cution. )
186.
Its profit to us,
153; ii. 355, monitor, ii. 340. medicine, 152. that smarts, iii.
369. meant as
165. scourge to correct us now,
that we be not punished hereafter,
iii. 219. to make our faith and
prayers more fervent, iv. 238. to Trinity, the, One God, 24. error test the motive of our service of
God, ii. 217. to make us seek eternal rest, iv. 148. its bitternesses, to make us long for the sweetness of heaven, ii. 211 vi. 181, &c. to make us long for Christ's coming,
of Sabellius concerning, 25. dif ferent errors concerning, iii. 349; vi. 84. set forth in the words Prin cipal Spirit, Upright Spirit, Holy Spirit, in Ps. 51, ii. 382. of Three Persons, One Substance, iii. 360.
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iv. 130. Christ the Truth, and the Way to the Truth, v. 523. man created like the Truth, by sin made like unto vanity, vi. 306. he who begins to wish for the Truth, then first perceives his darkness, vi. 409. confession the road to the under standing of the Truth, vi. 372. no truth in evil works, vi. 231. the duty of striving for the truth, v. 405.
When a man speaks the truth, the words are his, the truth is God's, iv. 240. no use to preach it, except from the heart, iii. 312. we must believe the truth we preach, and speak the truth we believe, v. 298. those who preach, not for truth's but for custom's sake, dogs, i. 147. all who preach the truth assailed by mockers, vi. 168. the truth as sailed by mockers, vi. 168. the truth not to be preached to those unfit to receive it, vi. 166, &c. lying toilsome, truth easy, vi. 230. we should speak the truth to all men, i. 176. (see Neighbour. ) the truth may sometimes be kept back, i. 27. (see Lying. )
Turtle-dove, the Church compared to a, v. 11.
Tyrants, brought presents to Christ unknowingly, in sacrificing the mar tyrs, iii. 460. the violence of their persecution, iv. 299. were themselves sometimes converted by the con stancy of their victims, v. 451.
Tyre, meaning of its name, iv. 142.
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