Homily XC. · Matt. XXVIII. 11-14. · 5

Pharez, a type of the Jewish Church, 15-17.

Pharisees, design of the, against John, 68; righteousness of, real, but defective, 107; ignorant of the scriptures, 201; how "wise and prudent," 251; enraged with the disciples, 255, with Christ's healing, 259, on account of envy, 265; false sons of Abraham, 269; why they asked, and were refused a sign, 273, 328-29; unbelief of, foreseen, 274; self-convicted of adding to the law, 350; of breaking it, by Christ, 350, by Isaiah, 351; why put questions often, 381; never abashed, 388; gave a third of their goods in charity; never repented, 412, 426; vainglory of, 433, 437, 441, 446; when in real authority, supported by Christ, 436; yet rebuked for hardness, 437; corrupters of youth, 440; whence ruined, 442; how worse than their fathers, 444. (See Jews.)

Pharisee, the proud, lost for want of humility and charity, 17, 92, 396, in spite of almsgiving, 396.

Philistines, the, taught the truth by the heifers, 39.

Philosophers, the Grecian, doctrines of, unnatural and devilish, 5; despised by Christians, 54; despised externals, 59, 100; contrasted with John the Baptist, 65; a shame to evil Christians, 100; contrasted with the apostles, 222.

Pilate, character of, compared to that of Lysias, 512.

Plato, the Republic of, censured, 5; and contrasted with Christ's, 6.

Pleasure, when innocent, 250; of labor, 331.

Plotinous, his doctrine of souls refuted, 191.

Poor, the, ill-treatment of, censured, 236; represented by the apostles, 391; only a tenth part of the population, 407; how Christ's brethren, and ours, 475.

Poverty, a furnace, 29; outward and inward care of, 30; of the rich man in torment, 60; praise of voluntary, 92; Christ's gradual training for, 150; real lightness of, 254; glory and reward of, 295-6; real dignity of, 500, 532.

Praise, danger of, 96; love of, a snare, 263.

Prayer, for others, not always effectual, 34, 374; requires perseverance, 67, 155; never unreasonaable, 156; Christ's rule of, 132; forgiveness, the special moral of the Lord's, 137; enjoined after hard commands, 160; two conditions of, 161; a remedy for sin, 268; requires purity of tongue, and of heart, 319; Hezekiah's, 331; blessedness of concord in, 374.

Preaching, a school, 73; why necessary, 523.

Predestination, no excuse for Judas, 486; objections from, how answered, 487.

Profaneness, censure of, 74; sin of listening to, 248.

Promises, the, of Christ always conditional, 392.

Prophets, the, why appealed to personal revelations, 20; disregarded by the Jews, 38; of the Philistines, seconded by God, 39; maintained the doctrine of Providence, 57; the works of some lost, 58 (note); anticipated the history of John, 64; rebuked pride, 68; double sense of, 72; persecution of, 95; how fulfilled by Christ, 104; confirmed by miracle, 180; accuracy of, 260, 406; all had wives, 344.

Providence, doctrine of, maintained by the prophets, 57; urged by Christ to console the apostles, 228.

Psalms, study of, profitable, but neglected, 13; chanted in the church, 73.

Publican, the, saved by penitence, 198; a lesson not to despair, 449.

Publicans, the, virtue of, a shame to Christians, 128; trade of, mean, 199; why Christ sat with, 200; wickedness of, proved, 373; comparative obedience of, 422.

Punishment, scale of, under the gospel, 111; under the law, 455; two kinds of, 373.

Purification, the, waited for by Mary, 58; law of, enlarged by the Pharisees, 314-5; must be inward, 319.

Purity, blessing of, 94; required for prayer, 319; Christ's law of, 441.

Rabbi, title of, why forbidden, 438.

Rahab, why mentioned in the genealogy, 17.

Reconciliation, religious duty of, 112, 478.

Regeneration, by the Spirit in baptism, asserted, 10, 41, 62, 78.

Relapse after baptism, dangerous, 276; how to be recovered, 467.

Repentance, blessed in Hannah, 41; good works, a great part of, 66; more needful than bodily cure, 89; why ought to be painful, 89; not be had after death, 90, 241; proved not in vain, by the example of David, 182; its power to avert wrath, shown in the Ninevites, 392; striking example of, at Antioch, 412; of Manasseh, Paul, and others, 413; its labor small, its gain great, 414; accepted in believing Jews, 513.

Repetitions, when forbidden in prayer, 133; why used in Holy Scripture, 498.

Reproach, the greatest trial, 96; effect of, on Job and others, 96; when undeserved and for Christ's sake, alone glorious, 99; overcome by virtue, 99; endured by Christ, 380.

Reserve, examples of, in Christ's life and teaching: in the Nativity, 10; in the Incarnation, 14, 15, 44; in the Epiphany, 52; in His early life, 63; in John's report of Him, 71; in the temptation, 82; commanded in the Sermon, 159; in retiring from the Gergesenes, 193; from the Scribes, 198; in teaching the resurrection and other mysteries, 202; in doing miracles, 207; in delaying to heal, 210; after sending out the Twelve, 238; how long continued, 260, 345; before Pilate, 511.

Restitution, duty of, 326.

Resurrection, the, truth of, argued from reason, 85-6; shown in the raising of Jairus's daughter, and Lazarus, 206; proved real by the history of Jonah, 273; shown in the parable of the marriage feast, 421; why denied by the Sadducees, 428; how contained in the Old Testament, 429; foretasted by the monks, 429; should be rejoiced at by Christians, 460; natural emblems of, 462, 472; to be at night, 470; our best support in trouble, 479; how most commonly proved, 492.

Resurrection of Christ, proved by men's faith, 34; reserve in teaching the, 202; foretold by John, 240; signs of the, 521; how proved by the Jews' behavior, 525, and by that of the apostles, 526; why so early in the day, 526; witnessed by the guard, 530.

Revenge, sinfulness of, 271; reasons against, 478.

Reviling, the author of, suffers most, 320; may be borne, by the example of Christ, 380; brings to hell, 395.

Reward, of Christians certain, 85; is both spiritual, 95, and temporal, 96; partly given here, 169; accumulation of, in Isaiah, 337; will be given impartially, 402; of God's grace, not our merit, 476.

Riches, contempt of, the true wealth, 30, 35; taught gradually by Christ, 142; dependence on, unsafe, 60; disquiet of keeping, 142; peril of pursuing, 144; love of, unnatural, 144, 320; how overcome, 145; cast out of God's service, 146; compared with charity, 166; love of, condemned in the rich young man, 388; engrossing power of, 388; may be renounced by grace, 389; duties of, considered, 407; why given to the wicked, 454-5; vanity of, 461; a trust, 467; inflame desire, 484.

Righteous, the, so called ironically, 201.

Righteousness, is the fulfilling of the commandments, 62, 76; includes all virtue, 94, 106; of the Jews, real but insufficient, 107; how much, required of Christians, 122.

Romans, object of the Epistle to, 59.

Sabbath, the, law of, why strict at first, 257; why straitened by Christ, 257; kept, at home, 525.

Sacraments, the Jewish, ended by Christ, 78; represent Christ, 313; are spiritual, 495; now to be received, 405; from whom to be withheld, and why, 496.

Sadducees, the case proposed by, probably fictitious, 428.

Saints, the, intercession of, how received, 35; why kept waiting by God, 67; sufferings of, to be rewarded, 85; mourned for others, 93; the final glory of, 349; some actually, and all figuratively, removed mountains, 355; can not be envious, 394; our best patterns, 396; why admired, 402; how conquered, 505.

Samaritan, the good, a shame to Christians, 101.

Samuel, could not prevail for Saul, 34; sons of, rejected for sin, 59.

Saul, injured himself most, in his treatment of David, 270; ruined by pride, 361; malice of, contrasted with David's goodness, 385; ensnared by Satan, from small sins to greater, 513.

Scripture, Holy, given for our frailty, 1; gift of, aggravates sin, 1; harmonious connection of, 4; how to be used at preaching, 6; its necessity for all, shown by examples, 13; helps repentance, 14; a mirror of the soul, 27; a cure of sin, 28; late translations of, 32; teaches by examples from the animal creation, 49; both New and Old Testaments to be studied by ministers, 294; neglect of, impoverishes the soul, 294; speaks according to men's own notions, 355; the Monks' food, 419; why uses repetitions, 498.

Self-denial, persuasive force of, 278; of the apostles, our pattern, 278; what it is, 339; the best victory, 504.

Self-examination, duty of, urged, 271.

Selfishness, excludes from heaven, 469.

Sensuality, an excess of folly, beyond the devil's, 84; the soul's vermin, 90; a demoniacal possession, 193; how best cured, 390; sinfulness of, 467.

Septuagint, the, the writers of, above suspicion, from their time of writing, 32.

Sexes, the, both impartially treated in, Holy Scripture, 117.

Sheep, Christians warned to be productive, by the name of, 475.

Sickness, the consequence of sin, 89, 185.

Signs, imply something beyond nature, 33; use of, to draw the attention of the dull to new dispensations, 77; why refused to Satan, and to the Jews, 81, 328; of Jonas, explained, 273-4, 520; of the Cross, used for self-admonition, 518.

Sin, why not always equally punished here, 86; the cause of sickness, 89; pleasant in act, bitter in effect, 89; a chain, a jailor, 90; used synonymously with its punishment, 129; a burden here, 171; dangerous in believers, 181, yet not hopeless in any, 181, is worse in us than we think, 242; a heavier yoke than Christ's, 253; which, the unpardonable, 266; the least, dangerous, 268; remedies for, 268; ours against God, greater than men's against us, 376; the sense of, should teach mercy, 378; foulness of, before God, 442; guilt of, how measured, 455; different at different ages, 490; how long blinds men, 507; progress of, described, 513.

Sinners, when to be avoided, when not, 200; need never despair, 412; why rich, 454; condemned by the example of the righteous, 476.

Slander, harms itself most, 270.

Sloth, dangerous in church rulers, 288; rebuked in the Parable of the Talents, 472.

Sodomites, lust of, began in surfeit, and luxury, 42, 80, 356; why not named in chap. xxiv., 464.

Soldiers, wickedness of the, at Antioch, 377.

Solomon, parentage of, an argument against pride, 16, 361; prayer of, heard, because right, 161.

Son, the, different from servants, 420; is One with the Father, 421; not really ignorant of the last day, 465. (See Christ.)

Songs, profaneness and lewdness of those heard on the stage, 13, 248, 419; compared with the Monks' music, 419.

Soul, state of the departed, 191-2; will be brought up for judgment, 271; is commonly neglected for the body, 272, 370; loss of, irreparable, 341; the chief part of man, 341; should be first thought of, in education, 371; meant by the inside of the cup and platter, 441; treatment of, 448; the apostles, the best physicians of, 448.

Sower, the, not to blame, but the ground, 281.

Star, the, was not natural, 37; object of, to reprove the Jews, 38; the course of, accounted for, 46; witnessed to Christ's Divinity, 47.

Stephen, an example of forgiveness, 381.

Stewardship, the, of God's gifts, how dispensed to Christians, 466.

Strife, in public, to be repressed, 101; shameful to Christians, 102; monstrous, after prayer, 138; after Holy Communion, 218.

Suffering, needful for our own sakes, 338; but left free to us, 339; is greater than charity, 388; of saints here, proves a judgment, 462; the truest conquest, 505; its many benefits, 518. (See Passion.)

Supper, the, was celebrated in the fifth day of the week, i.e. the day before the feast, 485.

Swine, the, why destroyed by Christ, 192.
Swords, why granted to the apostles in the garden, 502.
Sympathy, want of, among Christians, condemned, 478.
Synagogue, the, denounced as unfaithful by the prophets, 17.

Temple, the, remains of, existing in time of St. Chrysostom, 450.

Temptation, why follows baptism, 80; comes in solitude, 81; Adam's and Christ's, compared, 81; Christ's includes all, 83; may be avoided, if possible, 80, 86; the last generally the worst, 83.

Thamar, Christ's descent from, shows His perfect humanity, 15.

Theatres, at Antioch, the whole day wasted at, 7, 42, 49; corrupting effect of, on men's minds, 13; scenes of lawlessness, 26, 42; gross mockery of the mysteries of marriage at, 42; spectacle of females swimming in, 48, fatal to public morals, 49, and insulting to the sex, 50; attract evil acquaintance, 118; unnatural acting of both sexes at, 249; the cause of frequent adulteries, and necromancy, 249; all encouragement of, blamed, 250; expenses of, enormous, compared with men's alms, 407; devilish company, and music of, compared with the Monks' choir, 418, their contrary effects, upon spectators, 419.

Themistocles, how inferior to the apostles, 222.

Till, implies nothing for the time to come, 33.

Tongue, the, abuse of, reproved, 7, 13, 26; must be clean for prayer, 319; a talent for what use, 472; how to be made like Christ's, 473; how like Satan's, 473.

Transfiguration, the, a vision of future glory, 345.

Travellers, zeal and exactness, of, a reproach to Christians, 7.

Tribute, Cæsar's, and God's, compatible, 427.

Truth, duty of always witnessing to the, 174.

Types, use of, to prepare for extraordinary events, 10.

Uncharitableness, inexcusable in lovers of pleasure, 407; is every where denounced, 467; a sin against Christ Himself, 475; evils of, to the church, 509. (See Covetousness.)

Unprofitableness, danger of spiritual, 472.

Usury, comparison of heavenly and earthly, cruelty of the latter, 35; forbidden to Christians, 350, and even to Gentiles, 351; evils of, 351.

Vainglory, defeats itself, 18, 386; makes us hateful to God and man, 18, 386; rebuked in the second temptation, 80; spoils our good actions, 100; condemned in the Sermon, 130, in Christ's cure of the leper, 173; the nurse of covetousness, 142; the source of unthankfulness, 175; hinders self-knowledge, 175; observed in the Virgin Mary, 279; folly of, 361; a slavery, 362; real baseness of, 402; is in the devil, and the wicked, 402-3; in good works the worst, 433; betrays the soul to shame, 434; in trifles, condemned, in the Pharisees, 437.

Violence, most hurtful to the doer, 518.

Virginity, called youth, in Holy Scripture, 33; of Mary, declared perpetual, 33; how far recommended by Paul, 93; not necessary to salvation, and so inferior to alms-giving, 295, 314, 468; indirectly recommended by Christ, 383; but must be voluntary, and spiritual, 384; a gift, but attainable, 384; spoiled by selfishness, 470; lies in renouncing riches, 471.

Virtue, home the best school of, 74; the Christian scale of, 126, 128; to be followed for her own sake, 141; has her reward even here, 169; to be shown in the world, for heathen's sake, 277; possible to all classes, 278; the best affinity to Christ, 280; must be perfect, 282; better than miracles, 291; poetical description of, 294; must be added to faith, 395; the best furniture, 500.

Voice, from Heaven, why sent, 77, 348.

Watchfulness, must be perfect, to be useful, 283; the especial duty of church-rulers, 288; taught by Christ's seeming ignorance of the day, 465.

Way, the, easy though strait, 162.

Wild beasts, more tameable than Christians, 27.

Wine, not the use, but the abuse of, evil (against the Manichæans), 356.

Wise men, the, journey of, rash, humanly speaking, 36; their adoration of the Child, absurd, except on faith, 37; were moved by God's grace, 39; their exceeding reverence hindered them from suspicion of Herod, 46; a type of the Gentiles, 47; an example of renouncing the world, for Christ, 47.

Woman, the, who was a sinner, blessed by repentance, 40.

Woman, the, with the issue, praised for uncommon faith, 206; of Canaan, for perseverance under reproach, 323.

Women, vanity of, reproved by Isaiah and Paul, 117; to be reformed with caution, 203; of Antioch, condemned for painting the face, 203; "the Holy," in "old time," praised, 204; intemperance of, monstrous, 356; tyranny of, 386; their fashion of wearing little Gospels, 437; once modest, 443; reproved for love of jewels and dress, 527; how ought to be adorned, 529.

Women, the, zeal of, at the Passion, 522; at the Resurrection, 527.

Works, which the best, 468; necessary for salvation, 499; the best furniture, 500.

World, the, is undergoing a change, 106; compared to children's games, 165; need not be left for cloisters, 278, 344; must be crucified in us, 336; love of, a slavery, 362; dangerous to salvation, 370; vanity of, 461; will be worst, at last, 464.

Youth, the most important period of life, 309; blest, in chastity, 309; unbridled passions of, 370, restrained by marriage, 371.

Zacchæus, an example, of the benefits of Christian communion, 200; of a rich man, saved, 449; adorned his home with charity, 500.

Zeal, of Paul, and the early Christians commended, 40; of Peter, 332, 493, 501; of the women, at the Passion, 522; of Joseph of Arimathæa, 522.

Zebedee's sons, request of, 398.

Zorababel, name of, symbolical, 21, 44.