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praise on earth a practising for hea ven, vi. 420.
How God's works praise Him, ii. 200; vi. 54, 327, 418, 429. we must not praise the creature and forget the Creator, vi. 320.
Of man, nut always to he hlamed, v. 362. but not to be our chief mo tive, ib. unmerited praise is flattery, vi. 249. which is always to be re fused, ib. iii. 398. self-praise makes good actions evil, i. 183 we should praise God in ourselves by attri buting all to Him, vi. 321. we should desire to be praised in the Lord, not in ourselves, i. 355. and give all the praise we receive from man to Christ, ii. 158. the rich praise them selves, the poor, the Lord, i. 160 ; iii. 513. what we praise in others we make ourselves pai takers of, ii. 358; vi. 129.
Prayer, is man's speech to God, iv. 192. a sacrifice, ii. 196. rises like incense, vi. 241. two kinds of, out ward and inward, ii. 82 l vi. 264. the former used at intervals, the latter must never cease, ii. 82. dis tinguished from thanksgiving, i. 228 ; v. 66.
Earnestness in, enjoined, iii. 294 ; v. 371. we must pray for grace to do what God commands, v. 326, 435. God desires to be asked, that He may aid us, v. 196. is willing to give, yet gives not unless asked, v. 47. will not suffer those to perish, who cry to Him in their trouble, ii. 141. we must be as beggars to Him, that He mav relieve us, vi. 353.
Rules for prayer, v. 88. should begin with praise of God, v. 147; vi. 334. we should close the door of our heart against the tempter when we pray, vi. 264. we must pray after the pattern which Christ has taught us, v. 88. Christ prayed to teach us to pray, iii. 84. we pray to Christ, through Christ, in Christ, iv. 185. He prays for us, in us, is prayed to by us, iv. 184. prayer not offered
v. 215.
We must pray perseveringly,' iii. 294. God sometimes delays to hear the prayers of His saints, that they may ask the more earnestly, iv. 238. hears not in regard of temporal blessings, that we mav seek eternal, ii. 210.
Of the lips without the heart, vain, v. 441,470; vi. 227. the deep
est longing, the loudest prayer in God's ears, v. 441. we should cry to God with the heart, not the lips, i. 11, 24, 273; v. 441 ; vi. 263. longing is prayer, continual longing, prayer without ceasing, ii. 82.
"Wandering in, hard to conquer, iv. 191; v. 441. God graciously bears with our imperfections in this respect, iv. 191.
To be offered for men, against devils, i. 264. for those who go after vanities, ii. 138. what we should pray for, iii. 224; iv. 192, &c. vi.
181, 182. for God Himself, not for earthly goods, ii. 137; iv. 25; vi. 334. for the Giver Himself rather than for any of His gifts, i. 386; ii. 138. for increase in God's gifts, v. 385. in temporal things, for what God sees good for us, iii. 19. prayers of the flesh distinguished from prayers of the heart, ii. 8. not for vengeance on an enemy, ii. 133. even for earthly blessings we must pray to
God alone, not to devils, iii. 219. God hears the prayers of those who praise Him, v. 147. of the poor
in spirit, iii. 390. of those who con fess their sins, i. 273. of those who pray for spiritual, not temporal bless ings, iii. 166; vi. 181. of those who love what He wills they should love, i. 197. of those who do good works, ii. 208. hears or not as He knows to be best for us, i. 152 ; iii. 167 ; iv. 194 ; vi. 333. hears some, to their ruin, hears not others, to their salvation, i. 197, 152; vi. 335. is a Iather, and gives not evil when
His sons ask vi. 358. those out side the Church heard in temporal things, not for everlasting life, ii. 202 iv. 462 vi. 98.
What to call upon God in truth, 266; iv. 192; vi. 334. to call upon God to call Him into thee, 266. and therefore the heart must be cleansed beforehand, ib. how the wicked do and do not call upon Him, ib. they call not on God, who seek not His Presence, iii. 9. every one calls upon what he loves, iv. 192. none can call upon God, save whom He first calls, v. 294.
The two wings of, alms and fast ing, ii. 208. (see Alms, Fasting. ) the grace to pray given by the Holy Spirit, v. 372.
The prayers of the saints for others prevail mightily with God, v. 180. martyrs pray for the Church, iv. 270.
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deep,' ii. 194. mountains, 410; iii. '264; iv. 9; v. 538. clouds, 410; ii. 269; iii. 96, 163; iv. 39, 245, 409, 421; vi. 140. winds, vi. 141. heavens, iv. 409. dogs, iii. 343. cattle, v. 111. ambassadors of re conciliation, iii. 350. how symbolised by the pelican, the owl, the sparrow, v. 9.
evil preachers to be heard their doctrine sound, ii. 67, 357. should be zealous, to inflame others, v. 90. difficulty of their office, ii. 97. yet not to be shrunk from, ii. 98. caution needed by, v. 318. must attribute their success to God's grace, iii. 320, 322; iv. 237; v. 539; vi. 19. many preach the truth, yet not of sincerity, v. 297. are to live of the Gospel, v. 108. the bless
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Preaching, of God, vain, save in the
Church, iii. 400. the office of the spiritual, bearing the duty of the carnal, vi. 139. he who not moved by preaching, not worthy to be healed, iii. 16c.
Precentor, the leader of ehoir, *iv. 221i.
279. we should presume on God's grace, not our own strength, ii. 168, 286. they who presume on them selves, fight against God, ii. 273. and will fall, 3-^9. those who failed
under torture were those who pre sumed on their own strength, iv. 290. Peter warning against pre sumption, ii. 154. the folly of pre suming on earthly resources, ii. 310. or on riches and honours, iii. 485. or on man, v. 475.
Pride, called the seat of pestilence,' di. lness,' vi. 412. 'the head
of the going about of the wicked,' vi. 230. the serpent's head,' 420.
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the deadliest sin, 128, 138 iii. 153. will not submit to have even God for its superior, v. 268. one of the three great divisions of sins,
70. was the first sin, 128; iii. 19. and the last that clings to us when we return to God, 128. was the cause of the fall, 138, 418; v. 475. the origin of all sins, ib. by pride we withdraw from God, 345, 420; iv. 365. the devil fell
226. of the Old and New Testa ments for the most part the same, iii. 492. no use to keep them in the memory, unless they be kept in the life also, v. 329. some only compre hended by the spiritual, not the car nal, ii. 224. God would not enjoin on ns what He judged to be im possible, iii. 78. (see Law. )
Predestination, in the secrets of God's foreknowledge, vi. 453. Jacob predestinated to the birthright, ob tained not through merit, vi. 133. God blotted nut none whose names are written in the book of life, iii. 387. God knows those whom He has predestinated, iii. 252. Christ's merits profit only those predestined to salvation, iv. 233. those whom God hath predestined He calls to repentance, vi. 408.
Presumption, tvro kinds of to be guarded against, presuming on God's mercy, and on one's own strength, 278,
envy, its companion, iii. 153. nothing so hinders attaining to perfection as pride, ib. therefore sins that humble us help to perfection, iii. 154. pride in well-doing more to be feared thau actual evil-doing, iii. 153.
The pride of the devil, iii. 153; v. 497. of Adam, iii. 438. wherein he represents mankind, ib. of the Pharisees, 290; ii. 152. the Jews rightly blinded for their pride, vi. 199. pride specially caused by riches, vi. 169. (see Proud, Humble, Humility. )
Priest, Christ, the Priest who needed none to pray for Him, ii. 39. the Levitical priesthood foreshadowed Him, ib. the only Priest, Who was also a Sacrifice, 192; vi. 116. (see Sacrifice, Christ. )
Primianus, a Donatist bishop, against whom the Maximianists made a schism, ii. 35, &c.
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by pride, conquers man by pride, iv. 249. Christ humbled Himself, to cure the ills caused by pride,
138, 345; iii. 249. man fell by pride, became yet more proud when fallen, v. 347. even the humiliation of being made mortal has not tamed man's pride, v. 376. the cross the remedy of pride, v. 347. pride keeps man from entering by the strait gate and walking in the narrow way, v.
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the corruptible body, vi. 276. the same abode or home to the free, a prison to the slave, ib.
Is not the lot of Christians in this world, iii. 12, 13. is no bliss to an evil conscience, iv. 327- of the wicked, is a stumbling-Mock to the
Profession, three kinds of profession
within the Church, Monks, Clergy, godly, ii. 327; iv. 320,325,327,341 ;
Laymen, ii. 4; iv. 476; vi. 113. bad and good mixed together in them all, ib.
Promises, of the Old aod Ne<<' Testa ments not the same, ii 236 ; iii. 492. the temporal promises of the Old, types of the spiritual ones of the New, iii. 468, 471, 498. all God's pro mises fulfilled in Christ, iii. 463. Holy Scripture the bond of God's promises, v. 229. His fulfilled pro mises an earnest that lie will fulfil
v. 535. for sinners to be in prosperity unpunished, a sign of God's greater wrath against them, i. 85, 88; iv. 276. even in prosperity we should sorrow for our absence from our true home, vi. 161. prosperity more peril ous than adversity, ii. 369. unless coupled with fear, iv. 201. fearing prosperity strange in the eyes of the
vi. 308. giants, iv. 234. ' the body of the devil,' vi. 224. false righteous, ib. three classes of proud men, those who refuse to confess their sins, those who attribute their good works to themselves, those who set them selves above others, iv. 362. to say, ' I am holy,' not necessarily a mark of pride, if it be attributed to God, iv. :88. he is proud who takes praise to himself, i. 355. whose spirit lives
in him, vi. 289. who follows his own spirit, vi. 266. the proud praise themselves, not God, v. 268. to praise one's self makes even good actions evil, i. 183.