even the
humiliation
of being made mortal has not tamed man's pride, v.
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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.
through Christ, sinful,
; i.
is
is ;
it,
i.
it
The Lord's Prayer, a pattern for Christians, given them by their Ad vocate, vi. 285. our prayers must be in harmony with one would have them heard, v. 88. and we must act according to what says,
ib. belongs only to the faithful, vi.
285.
Preachers, called deep calling to
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
ing of supporting them, v.
375.
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.
INDEX.
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.
Prison, used eithtr of this world, or of
Ill vi.
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.
Precepts, of God, are our paths, vi. 268. the mother of envy, iv. 491.
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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. the proud soul seeks to please men, the humble, God, i. 139. those who are not proud, God's poor, iv. 186. none would be proud if he were not empty, iv. 407. every proud man false, v. 499; vi. 230.
Vanish like smoke, however high they are, iv. 333. fall by their think ing themselves exalted, iv. 364. the proud climbs to the top, therefore the water of grace flows down from him, vi. 266. that the proud shall be humbled is the rule of God's justice, i. 290. how God resists the proud, v. 200. gives to the humble, takes from the proud, i. 183; vi.
208. abandons the proud, draws nigh to the humble, i. 229, 290. is ex alted Himself, but dwells not in the exalted, iv. 336. is all the higher above us, the higher we make our selves, vi. 1*6. the proud lifteth himself ^up, God huleth him down, iv. 364. Christ trampleth on the heads of the proud, iv. 372. in what sense we are bid not to eat with the
the rest, vi. 330, 422. only delays does not take away His promises, ii. 197.
Prophets, called ' the foundations of the world,' i. 119. ' foundations of Sion,' iv. 215. gates thereof, iv. 217. clouds, i. 100. mountains, iv. 107l; v. 538. ' stones of Sion,' v. 16.
world, iii. 415.
Proud, the, called mountains, iv. 421 ;
Foretel the future as if past, i. 12; ii. 214. under the form of a wish, i. 383. Christ speaks in them in His own Person or that of His Body, vi. 191, 279. even wicked men have the gift of, v. 76.
False, lead none astray but sin ners, i. lit 1. by false prophets in the Gospel are meant heretics, i. 50.
Propitiation, God not said to be pro pitiated, save to sin, iii. 257; iv. 457. is effected by sacrifice, iii. 257. God shews Himself propitious some times in punishing as well as in for
giving sins, iv. 457.
Proselyte, who meant by, iv. 359;
vi. 355.
Prosperity, set forth by day, and sum
mer, ii. 196. by water, iii. 288. by a staff of reed, iv 151. by day, adversity by night, ii. 183; vi. 205. prosperity and adversity equally re quire caution, iii. 517. we must be indifferent to them, neither overjoyed at prosperity norcrushed by adversity, vi. 205. earthly prosperity does not make us happy, nor adversity wretched, vi. 208. we must bless God both
in prosperity and adversity, ii. 354 ;
vi. 205. the example of Job, ii. 355.
(see Job, Bless, Adversity. ) earthly
prosperity too given by God, though
to the wicked also, i. 312. what
prosperity we have in this life is
only a comfort to our misery, not Providence, God's, over all things, even the joy of our bliss, vi. 306. we
should not be puffed up by prosperity, iii. 15.
the most minute, v. 230; vi. 349,
proud, iv. 490.
&c. 425. every thing happens ac cording to, vi. 428. beyond man's
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comprehension, iv. 321, 343. the Purgatory, (see Fire. )
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sin of not believing in, vi. 291. Psalm, to, is to play on a psaltery, iii.
Pythagoras, his teaching inferior to Christ's, vi. 255.
273. how to Psalm with understand-
tag, ii. 282. we are to sing praises
with the mouth; to play, by deeds in
harmony with our words, iv.
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.
through Christ, sinful,
; i.
is
is ;
it,
i.
it
The Lord's Prayer, a pattern for Christians, given them by their Ad vocate, vi. 285. our prayers must be in harmony with one would have them heard, v. 88. and we must act according to what says,
ib. belongs only to the faithful, vi.
285.
Preachers, called deep calling to
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
ing of supporting them, v.
375.
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.
INDEX.
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.
Prison, used eithtr of this world, or of
Ill vi.
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.
Precepts, of God, are our paths, vi. 268. the mother of envy, iv. 491.
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i. i. 1i. is i.
i.
i. it
i.
it
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i.
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a
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;
1. is '
is '
i.
i. i. i.
is
i. ;
if
i.
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it, if
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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. the proud soul seeks to please men, the humble, God, i. 139. those who are not proud, God's poor, iv. 186. none would be proud if he were not empty, iv. 407. every proud man false, v. 499; vi. 230.
Vanish like smoke, however high they are, iv. 333. fall by their think ing themselves exalted, iv. 364. the proud climbs to the top, therefore the water of grace flows down from him, vi. 266. that the proud shall be humbled is the rule of God's justice, i. 290. how God resists the proud, v. 200. gives to the humble, takes from the proud, i. 183; vi.
208. abandons the proud, draws nigh to the humble, i. 229, 290. is ex alted Himself, but dwells not in the exalted, iv. 336. is all the higher above us, the higher we make our selves, vi. 1*6. the proud lifteth himself ^up, God huleth him down, iv. 364. Christ trampleth on the heads of the proud, iv. 372. in what sense we are bid not to eat with the
the rest, vi. 330, 422. only delays does not take away His promises, ii. 197.
Prophets, called ' the foundations of the world,' i. 119. ' foundations of Sion,' iv. 215. gates thereof, iv. 217. clouds, i. 100. mountains, iv. 107l; v. 538. ' stones of Sion,' v. 16.
world, iii. 415.
Proud, the, called mountains, iv. 421 ;
Foretel the future as if past, i. 12; ii. 214. under the form of a wish, i. 383. Christ speaks in them in His own Person or that of His Body, vi. 191, 279. even wicked men have the gift of, v. 76.
False, lead none astray but sin ners, i. lit 1. by false prophets in the Gospel are meant heretics, i. 50.
Propitiation, God not said to be pro pitiated, save to sin, iii. 257; iv. 457. is effected by sacrifice, iii. 257. God shews Himself propitious some times in punishing as well as in for
giving sins, iv. 457.
Proselyte, who meant by, iv. 359;
vi. 355.
Prosperity, set forth by day, and sum
mer, ii. 196. by water, iii. 288. by a staff of reed, iv 151. by day, adversity by night, ii. 183; vi. 205. prosperity and adversity equally re quire caution, iii. 517. we must be indifferent to them, neither overjoyed at prosperity norcrushed by adversity, vi. 205. earthly prosperity does not make us happy, nor adversity wretched, vi. 208. we must bless God both
in prosperity and adversity, ii. 354 ;
vi. 205. the example of Job, ii. 355.
(see Job, Bless, Adversity. ) earthly
prosperity too given by God, though
to the wicked also, i. 312. what
prosperity we have in this life is
only a comfort to our misery, not Providence, God's, over all things, even the joy of our bliss, vi. 306. we
should not be puffed up by prosperity, iii. 15.
the most minute, v. 230; vi. 349,
proud, iv. 490.
&c. 425. every thing happens ac cording to, vi. 428. beyond man's
INDKX.
comprehension, iv. 321, 343. the Purgatory, (see Fire. )
501
sin of not believing in, vi. 291. Psalm, to, is to play on a psaltery, iii.
Pythagoras, his teaching inferior to Christ's, vi. 255.
273. how to Psalm with understand-
tag, ii. 282. we are to sing praises
with the mouth; to play, by deeds in
harmony with our words, iv.
