Circumcision, brings us under the Law,
74. observed by St.Paul, not preached,
77.

Clamour, forbidden, 267. is the vehicle
of anger, a special fault of women,
ibid.
Commandments, the Ten, the order of
them, 337, and note.
Communicants, unworthy, 166. careless
and formal, 233. must refrain from
reviling, and why, 260.
Communion, Church, not to be expanded
to take in bad men, 230.
Concession, and command, difference be-
tween, 30. condescension of the Apo-
stles to the Judaists, 2―30.
Corner-stone, v. Christ.
Corruption, various meanings of the
word, 379, 380.

Covenants, old and new proceeded both
from the Father and the Son, 12.
Covetousness is idolatry in Christians,
291-4. leads to the death of the
soul, 293.

Cross, destroys the need of the Law,

6. removes the curse, 56. the boast
of Christians, 94. raises them above
the old Dispensation as well as above
the world, 95.

Curiosity, generally misdirected and
misplaced, 309.

D.

David, a guileless character, 266.
Deacon, his office in dismissing the
congregation, 132, and note.
Death, corporal and spiritual, 134. of
the soul, what it is, 293. the second
death, 380.

Devil, why called the prince of this
world, 137. why of the power of the
air, ibid. takes advantage of men's
quarrels, 257. and of their covetous-
ness, 359. his wiles, 352. his forces,
352-4. may be overcome, 355. but
is not to be wrestled with so much as

trampled on, 359. his fiery darts are
doubts, 373. and evil desires and
sharp sorrows, 374. to be slain by
keeping the commandments, 375.
Dispensation of grace, 160.
Drunkenness, excludes from Heaven,
145. its temporal ill effects, 301.

E.

Earnest, the meaning of the word ex-
plained, 115. v. Spirit.
Economy, of the Apostles about the
Law, 30. to be beneficial to the ob-
jects of it, must be concealed from

393

them, 32. of St. Paul in circumcising
Timothy, ibid.

Education, in Scripture remedies that
in the Classics, 339. consists in
nurture. v. Children.
Eli, 339.
Elisha, 204.

Ephesus, the metropolis of [Procon-
sular] Asia, 99. the abode of St.
John and of Timothy, and a great re-
sort of philosophers, ibid. its inhabit-
ants advanced in knowledge, 99, 100.
Epiphany, the great Festival of the
Greek Church in remembrance of our
Lord's Baptism and Birth, 131, note.
a season for Communicating, ibid.
Equality of ranks, inconsistent with
peace, 321. Christian equality, 220.
civil slavery not inconsistent with it,
310. mutual service, 349.
Eucharist, called the Flesh of Christ,

83.

Christ's Body and Blood
partaken in it, 130. the preparation
for it, 131. profanation of it, 132.
neglect of it, ibid. formalism of Com-
municating only at the seasons,
danger of unworthy Communicating,
131. inconsistency of coming to Ser-
vice and not Communicating, 133.
unfitness not the fault of nature but
of indolence, 134. Christ specially
present in the Eucharist, 134. allu-
sions to the Eucharistic Service,
260, 261, 319. v. Sacrifice.
Evidences, of the Gospel, 18.
Evil, not necessarily connected with
this life, 9. not in our bodily sub-
stance but our will, 86.

F.

Faith, vitiated by a slight adulteration,
14. to be defended in slight matters,
15. slight perversion of invalidates
the ministerial authority, 16. anterior
to the Law, 53-6. justifies without
the Law, 54. but not without love,
76. ever sees Christ, 47. gains mira-
culous and spiritual powers, 50. as
no force if the Law be added, 51.
makes us sons of God, 60.

always joined with love by St.
Paul, 123. will not save without
works, 141. a shield to protect ready
believers, 373.
Faithful, the, bear about the form of

Christ, 61. the body of Christ, 83.
Falsehood, an instance of wilful sin,

119.

Fasting, a means of intercession, 218.
Father and Son, one in will, 8. one in
act, 12. reveal each other, 21, 320.

Fathers, their duties in the nurture of
their children, 338, 339.
Faults, to be mildly corrected, 88.
Fetters and bonds, gloried in by St.
Paul, 178, &c.

Flesh, means not the body, but the
depraved will, 83.

Forgiveness, motives for it, 280-2.
Foundation, narußoλn a beautiful al-
lusion contained in the word, 103.
Christ the foundation, 159.
"Fulness of the times" was Christ's
coming, 110.

"Fulness of Christ," is the Church,

128.

"Fulness of God" explained, 173.

G.

Galatians, nature of their error, 2. feared
to forsake the Law, 11. justly called
"foolish," 48. sons of Abraham as
Isaac was, 69. misled by party spirit,
81.

'Gather together into one,' the mean-
ing of the expression, 110.
Gentile customs, 15.

Gentiles, raised above the privileges of
the Jews, 149, 152. their calling a
mystery, 170. the vanity of their
worship as directed to the creatures,
237, 238. it flattered men's evil pas-
sions, 239.

God, loves us for His own Name's sake,
116. a just apprehension of Him
forbids us to doubt or rationalize,
124. the knowledge of Him derived
from His Spirit, ibid. His goodness
not to be presumed upon, 143. kind
to the unthankful, 304. no respecter
of
persons, 351.
Good-pleasure, the meaning of the word,

105.

Government, in its origin paternal,

174. must be centered in one, 321.
exemplified in a household, 352.
Gospels, one in substance, though four

fold in form, 13. easily perverted, 14.
Gospel, no after thought, 103, 113.

may be in itself an offence, in the
manner of preaching it should not be,
299.

Grace, sets us free, makes us new,
heirs and sons, 63.

the great change it produces in
Christians, 106. arrays the soul in
spiritual beauty, 107.
Guilelessness, 266.

H.

Habit, one sinful one may ruin us, 143.

evil ones must be cured by cultivating
their opposites, 273-5.
Hagar, 326.

Hannah, an example to mothers, 339.
of watchfulness and prayer, 376. her
reverence and contrition, 377.
Heretics, denied the Co-equality of the
Father and the Son, 4, 7. considered
this life essentially evil, 9.
Herod, judgment upon, 192, 193.
Holiness, in teachers more influential
than miracles, 164.

Hospitality, to be shewn to the poor,
332.

Household, the mistress's duty in the
conduct of, 270. when well ordered
sheds a fragrance around, 314. is a
little city and its head a prince, 352.
Husbands, to love their wives as Christ
loved the Church, 315, 319. the hus-
band the head of the family, 321. the
importance of him to the household,
325. character of a good one, 326.
must shew all forbearance, 328. and
wean his wife from the world, ibid.
Hymn, the Angelic Hymn, "Holy,
Holy, Holy," sung in the Eucharis
tic service, 133, and note, 261, 366.

James the Less, not the Lord's brother,
though so called, 26.

Idolatry of Christians is covetousness,
292, 293. Its origin, 294.
Jericho, 367.

Jerusalem, earthly and heavenly, 367.
Jesting, forbidden to Christians, 283,
284. the character of one given to it,
285. enormous when extended to
Scripture, 286, 287.

Jesus, the Son of Nave, the type of
Jesus the Son of God, 367.
Jews, the hindrance to their conver-
sion, 7, 8.

their blessings earthly, 102. how
of old chosen by God, 104. their
privileges how stated by St. Paul,
148. How Jews and Gentiles are
made one, 150.

Ignorance, to profess it more wise than
to profess knowledge, 308.
Incarnation, effects of, 62.
Inheritance, by lot, according to a
purpose, 113.

Job, an example of protracted suffering,

380.

Israelites, how they kept the Passover,
364. how they fell, 366. their history
is a mystery or type, ibid.

25. his humility shewn in his visit to
St. Peter, 25. his doctrine approved
by the Apostles, 35. his tenderness
and skill, 64-7. observed, but did
not preach, circumcision, 77. usual
arrangement of his Epistles, 80. why
he wrote that to the Galatians with
his own hand, 94.

Paul, S. a proof of God's love and
power, 105. had a foretaste of heavenly
blessings, 114. his sympathy and af-
fectionateness, 122. his gentleness,
136. bound for the Gentiles' sake,
160. saved by grace, 161. had special
revelation of the calling of the Gen-
tiles, 162. his zeal, endurance, and
wisdom, 163. attributed all to grace,
ibid. an example to teachers, ibid.
his great humility, 168. his earnest
supplication, 171. example of love to
enemies, 178. glories in bonds, 180.
but not before Agrippa, and why,
203. his skill as a spiritual physician,
254. his simplicity and condescension
in admonishing children, 336. over-
came Satan, 356. the intensity of his
love to Christ, 357. asks his bre-
thren's prayers, 371.
Paul of Samosata, heretic, 223, note,

363.

Peter, S. boldness of his character, 37.
did not really dissemble at Antioch,
ibid. reasons why he appeared to do
so, 38.

instructed not to spurn the
Gentiles, 162. his deliverance from
prison by the Angel, 192.
Poverty the lot of the Christian, 94.
Prayer, the Lord's Prayer, how it
should affect us, 260, 261. prayer
unceasing required in Christians,
and watchfulness, 375. exemplified
in the Canaanitish woman, the im-
portunate widow, ibid. and in Han-
nah, 376.

Presence, real of Christ in the Eucha-
rist, 131-4.

Priests, may be understood under the
term Angels,' 16, 58.
Prison, the blessedness of it for Christ's
sake, 181 et seqq. instanced in St.
Paul, St. Peter, Three Holy Chil-
dren, 199. Jeremiah, Joseph, St.
John the Baptist, 201.
Privileges, Jewish and Christian com-
pared, 103. present privileges but an
earnest, 115. how enhanced in being
bestowed through Christ, 105. the
consideration of them very awful, 129.
Providence, instanced in mercies upon
some, and judgments upon others,
193. implied in the circumstances of
men, 305. in the order of nature,

305, 306. proved by analogy, 306. yet
wholly mysterious, 306, 307.
Psalms, the expression of Christian
cheerfulness, 302.

Punishment, degrees of it in Hell,
144, 5.

R.

Rationalizing, its absurdity and shal-
lowness, 304-7.
'Redeeming the time' explained, 300.
Redemption, absolute redemption will
be in the next world, 116.
Regeneration, another needed by Gala-
tians, 67. effected by the Divine
Words in Baptism, 71.
Repentance, possible after lapsing, 51.
Reproof, is charitable, and to be given
at any hazard, 296, 297.

Resurrection of Christ, effected by His
Resurrection, more miraculous to per-
own power, 6.
suade souls than raise the dead,
125, 136.

Reviling, shameful in Christians, 360,

361.