main tained that the Old Testament was
contrary
to the New, vi.
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489
Those who have not, will be de
prived of all other gifts they have,
vi. 367. nothing else will profit,
v. 503. God our plenteousness through
love, v. 505. those who have not, Luxury, is a slippery way, i. 383. may know but cannot fulfil the com
mandments, vi. 309. love can fulfil
what fear could not, v. 431. without
love, no peace, vi. 37.
Praises God, vi. 434. have love,
and you are safe, i. 157. love, the Maccabees, the, crowned by God, for
bond which prevents schism, i. 251. builds us in as stones into God's House, vi. 98. makes us citizens of Jerusalem, iii. 252 ; vi. 394.
Casts out fear, how, vi. 37. but not chaste fear, ib. v. 427. fear and love may be motives to good or evil actions, but not chaste fear or love to evil, iv. 110.
Kills our old nature, creates a new one, v. 505. we must be wounded by love, if we would attain to per fect soundness, ii. 73. is the end of the commandment, as consummating it, i. 283. is the end of all that is good, vi. 237. the sum of all Scrip ture, vi. 238. all good works summed up in love, iv. 281.
Must work one way or another, i. 283 ; v. 490. therefore we must see that its object be good, ib.
Perverted love, called desire or lust, i. 83, 283. the love of sinners, false love, vi. 237. is of hell, ib. the troubles of evil love, v. 57. im pure love casts down, holy love ele vates, v. 490. carnal love full of jealousy, true love not, i. 356. love of hurtful things, miserable, God merciful in denying them to us,
i. 195. true happiness not to have w hat we love, but to love what we
enduring torture, vi. 188, 428. their faith failed not, though their flesh was consumed in the fire, ii. 58. their mother how like the Church, iii 377.
Mammon, means riches, iii. 13. why called mammon of unrighteousness, ii. 315.
Man, consists of soul and flesh, ii. 78. his dignity above all other animals, iv. 465; v. 14. his dignity and weakness, ii. 109. some have be lieved that he was made by God, the rest of creation by the Word, i. 131; v. 389. gifted with understand ing, v. 129. how made in the Image of God, i. 218. capable of bliss, therefore of punishment, v. 14. God alone better than man's soul, i. 332.
All men created in Adam, v. 391. and fell in him, v. 387. All men Adam, and all men Christ, iii. 431. &c. subjected to vanity, because he would not be to verity, v. 317. (see Adam, Christ )
Twofold life of, i. 34, 178. the outer, or old, and inner, or new, man, ib to put off the old and put on the new, what, i. 176. man made old by sin, renewed by grace, vi. 433. good and evil men, the strife
fare, Love, Covetousnesa.
the luxury of Christians, the most grievous persecution of the Church, iii. 394.
490 INDEX.
between, ii. 16, 392. men and sods of men, bow different, i. 66, 99, 414. Unable to heal himself, iv. 452; vi. 61. He who made, alone can
remake, ii. 274. made on the sixth day, remade in the sixth age, iv. 330. God's great regard for, vi. 305. made gratis, remade gratis, i. 287.
drank of the cup of the Lord's Passion, v. 38.
Theirstrength derived from Christ's example, iii. 232, 234. from love, ii. 299. from fear of hell, v. 533. from hope of happiness hereafter, vi. 33, 36, 71. from hope of rest, iii. 232. were so filled with God's Grace, that they listened not to friends counselling them to save their lives, i. 416; iii. 532.
Their deaths enriched the soil from whence the Church sprang, vi. 257. their blood the seed, whence hath sprung the harvest of the Church,
127; iii. 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.
Those who have not, will be de
prived of all other gifts they have,
vi. 367. nothing else will profit,
v. 503. God our plenteousness through
love, v. 505. those who have not, Luxury, is a slippery way, i. 383. may know but cannot fulfil the com
mandments, vi. 309. love can fulfil
what fear could not, v. 431. without
love, no peace, vi. 37.
Praises God, vi. 434. have love,
and you are safe, i. 157. love, the Maccabees, the, crowned by God, for
bond which prevents schism, i. 251. builds us in as stones into God's House, vi. 98. makes us citizens of Jerusalem, iii. 252 ; vi. 394.
Casts out fear, how, vi. 37. but not chaste fear, ib. v. 427. fear and love may be motives to good or evil actions, but not chaste fear or love to evil, iv. 110.
Kills our old nature, creates a new one, v. 505. we must be wounded by love, if we would attain to per fect soundness, ii. 73. is the end of the commandment, as consummating it, i. 283. is the end of all that is good, vi. 237. the sum of all Scrip ture, vi. 238. all good works summed up in love, iv. 281.
Must work one way or another, i. 283 ; v. 490. therefore we must see that its object be good, ib.
Perverted love, called desire or lust, i. 83, 283. the love of sinners, false love, vi. 237. is of hell, ib. the troubles of evil love, v. 57. im pure love casts down, holy love ele vates, v. 490. carnal love full of jealousy, true love not, i. 356. love of hurtful things, miserable, God merciful in denying them to us,
i. 195. true happiness not to have w hat we love, but to love what we
enduring torture, vi. 188, 428. their faith failed not, though their flesh was consumed in the fire, ii. 58. their mother how like the Church, iii 377.
Mammon, means riches, iii. 13. why called mammon of unrighteousness, ii. 315.
Man, consists of soul and flesh, ii. 78. his dignity above all other animals, iv. 465; v. 14. his dignity and weakness, ii. 109. some have be lieved that he was made by God, the rest of creation by the Word, i. 131; v. 389. gifted with understand ing, v. 129. how made in the Image of God, i. 218. capable of bliss, therefore of punishment, v. 14. God alone better than man's soul, i. 332.
All men created in Adam, v. 391. and fell in him, v. 387. All men Adam, and all men Christ, iii. 431. &c. subjected to vanity, because he would not be to verity, v. 317. (see Adam, Christ )
Twofold life of, i. 34, 178. the outer, or old, and inner, or new, man, ib to put off the old and put on the new, what, i. 176. man made old by sin, renewed by grace, vi. 433. good and evil men, the strife
fare, Love, Covetousnesa.
the luxury of Christians, the most grievous persecution of the Church, iii. 394.
490 INDEX.
between, ii. 16, 392. men and sods of men, bow different, i. 66, 99, 414. Unable to heal himself, iv. 452; vi. 61. He who made, alone can
remake, ii. 274. made on the sixth day, remade in the sixth age, iv. 330. God's great regard for, vi. 305. made gratis, remade gratis, i. 287.
drank of the cup of the Lord's Passion, v. 38.
Theirstrength derived from Christ's example, iii. 232, 234. from love, ii. 299. from fear of hell, v. 533. from hope of happiness hereafter, vi. 33, 36, 71. from hope of rest, iii. 232. were so filled with God's Grace, that they listened not to friends counselling them to save their lives, i. 416; iii. 532.
Their deaths enriched the soil from whence the Church sprang, vi. 257. their blood the seed, whence hath sprung the harvest of the Church,
127; iii. 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.
