true peace for the flesh to be sub
ject to the spirit, the contrary perverted peace, vi.
ject to the spirit, the contrary perverted peace, vi.
Augustine - Exposition on the Psalms - v6
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
sweet savour to the good, an
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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. 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.
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
sweet savour to the good, an
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man, Christ's, iv. 293 ; v. 109. Peace, is the absence of all warfare and opposition, iv. 175. cannot be
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. 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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495
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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Righteous persecution, of sin, not of man, iv. 489.
the truth, which they assail, while they profess to defend, i. 64. their doctrine, when compared with that of Christ, demolished, vi. 255. some times happen to teach what Christ did, yet we take it not on their authority, vi. 256. some of them
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.
