Eighty Sermons

against bribery, or receiving of Rewards 389. E

• God first proposes to himself persons to be Rewarded or condemned, before he thinks of their condemnation or their Reward 674. B. 675. B. C

Riches; the cause of less sin than poverty 658. D

• Especially, considered in the highest degree, and in the lowest; that is, abundant Riches, and extreme beggarly poverty 659. D
• Against the perverse desire of Riches. 728. C
• Riches, S. Chrysostom calls the parents of absurdities; and why 729. A

The Remane Church, a true Church; as the Pest house, is a house 606. A. 621. C

Rome; the Church of Rome, the better for reformamation 621. B

• They do charge us that we have but a negative Religion 636. A
• Why they so much under-value the Scripture; and yet endeavor to bring books of other Authors into that rank, as the Maccabees and such like 738. E
• Rome it self, how it hath been handled ever by Catholics in their bloody wars 779. A
• Almost all the Controversies between Rome and the Christian world, are matters of profit 791. A

Rule and Example; the two only ways of Teaching 571. E. 668. B

• The only Rule of doctrine, the Scripture and Word of God 738. E

S

• THe Sabbath; a Ceremonial Law 92. C
  • Sacrament; how effectually Christ is present in it 19. C
  • Of preparing ourselves to the worthy receiving of it 32. A.&c. 33. A.&c.
  • Against Superstition and Prophanesse too, in the coming to it 34. A
  • Of Christ's real presence in it 36. D. 37. B. C
  • That which we receive in the Sacrament, to be Adored 693. B
  • Against unworthy receiving of it 693. D. E
  • Of both extremes about Chrsts presence in the Sacrament 821. E
• Saints; against praying to them 90. D. 378. D. 595. A. 744. A. 757. B
  • The Saints in heaven pray for us 106. B
  • Why they must not pray to Saints in the Church of Rome, upon good Friday, Easter, and Whitsunday 485. D
  • Whether they enjoy degrees of Glory in heaven 742. E
• Salvation; of the general possibility of Salvation for all men 66. B. 330. A. B. 742. B. C. D.
  • Not to be ascribed to our Works 107. D
  • Nor to our Faith ibid. E
  • More that are Saved, than that are damned 241. A. 259. C
  • The impossibility of Salvation to any man before he was a man, a discomfortable doctrine 278. B
  • Of that certainty of Salvation, which is taught of some in the Roman Church; and how far we are from it 339. D. E. 340. A. 608. C
  • Salvation offered to all men, and in earnest 742. A. B
• Savior; the name of Savior attributed to others beside Christ 528. D
• Scriptures; the most eloquent Books that are 47. E 556. E. 557. C
  • four Elements of the right exposition and sense of Scripture 305. B
  • Moderation in reading of them 323. C
  • Scripures the only rule of Doctrine 738. E
• Secrecy in Confession, commended; but in case of disloyalty 92. E. 575. E
  • Seeing of God in our Actions, how necessary 169. E
• Against Self-Subsistence, or standing of ourselves 240. A. B
• Against Self-Love 156. A
• Sermons; how loath the Fathers were to lack company at them 48. C
  • Of preaching the same Sermons twice 114. C 250. C
  • The danger of hearing Sermons without practicing 455. C. D
• Sighing for sin; the benefit of it 537. D
• Sight; the noblest of the senses; and all the senses 225. B
• Sign of the Cross; wherefore used in the Primative times 538. A
  • And why by us, in baptism ibid.
  • Signs, how they may be sought after, and how not 15. B. C. D
• Shame for sin; a good sign 557. D
  • To be voice-proof, not afraid nor Ashamed of what the World says of a Man, an ill sign of a Spiritual obduration in sin 589. A
• Silence; the several sorts of it; Silence of Reverence 575. C
  • Silence of subjection ibid. D
  • Silence which is good 576. B. C
  • Silence which is bad 577. D
  • Good to be Silent sometimes, even in good things; and when 576. E
• Simple-men of this world; why chosen for Christ's Apostles 719. C
• Singular; God's speaks of things of grace in the Singular: but of heavy things in the plural number, ever 711. A
• Single instances; no safe concluding from them 460. E
  • Neither in the case of the Thief on the Cross, nor S. Paul 461. B
• Singularity; not ground enough to condemn every opinion 234. C
  • Against Singularity 51. D. 177. C. 573. D. 722. B
  • Of a Single testimony 234. B
• Sin; the cause of all sicknesses 109. C
  • Little light and customary Sins, how dangerous 117. B. 164. C. D. 585. E
  • All Sin is from ourselves: not from anything in God 118. A. 330. D
  • The Sin of the Heart, the greatest of all Sin, and why 140. D
  • How well some Men husband their Sin 147. A
  • That it is good for men to fall into some Sins 171. B. C
  • Sin is a fall, and how 186. D. 187. C
  • Whether it have rationem demeriti, and may properly offend God 342. C
  • Sin, not merely nothing 342. E
  • Not so much of anything as of Sin 343. C
  • How soon Sin is followed of Repentance 540. C
  • How Sin rises by little and little, in us 585. C
• Against sitting in the time of Divine Service 72. D
• Socinians; their monstrous opinions 317. C
  • And nicknaming of Athanasius Sathanasius 654. D
  • Against the growth of that pestilent Heresy of Socinianism 821. B
• Sorrow for the dead; how lawful 157. C. D. E. 822. D
  • Of the end less Sorrow of the wicked 632. B
  • No communication of their Sorrow 634. D
• The Soul; of the miseries of it in the body 190. A
  • Of the laziness of the Soul in the disquisition of any Divine Truths 190. B C
  • Of her excellency of knowledge in the next world ibid. C. D
  • Of bending the Soul up to her proper height, and putting of her home 483. D
  • Soul and Spirit; what the Fathers understand by them in Scripture 517. C
• Subjects, how to look upon the faults and errors of their Governors 13. C
  • How reverent to be towards their Princes 92. D
• Supererogation; against Works of Supererogation: and of the fondness of them 390. C 494. E. 495. A. 547. C. 732. E
• Superstition better than Prophanesse, and why 69. A
  • The danger of it to be prevented, but how 485. E
• Supplications; how they differ from Petitions or Prayers 553. E
• Synedrion; the Original and power of the Synedrion, or Sanhedrim, amongst the Jews 491. E
  • Herod called before it; but not when he was King 492. A

T

• TEares; against their inordinateness 155. A
  • Never ascribed to God 156. D
• Well employed for the dead, though they be at rest 157. A
  • Of those whose constitution will afford no Tears 160. D
  • Four considerations that will enforce Tears 160. E. 161. A
  • Of Tears shed for worldly losses ib. C. D. 162. A
  • For sin 539. B
  • Of the effect of Tears 162. B
  • How God is said in Scripture to hear Tears that make no sound 552. E
  • Tears the humidum-radicale of the Soul 577. E
• Temporal blessings; how seldom prayed for in Antiquity 750. D. E
  • They are blessings; but blessings of the left hand 751. D
  • Nothing permanent in them 823. D
• Tentations; all men not alike enabled against them 310. E
  • Whether it be lawful to pray against all kind of Tentations 527. C
  • One of the Devils greatest Tentations it is to make us think ourselves above Tentations, or Tentation-proof, that they cannot hurt us 603. E
  • The use and necessity of them 789. C
• Thanksgiving; the duty of thanksgiving, better than that of Prayer 549. D
  • How small it is, if proportioned to the love of God unto us 550. B
• Thoughts; of the greatness of sins of thought 140. D. 543. D
• Titles and bare empty Names; how men are puffed up with them 734. D
• Torturing; whether or no to be admitted, in case of Religion 194. D
• Tongue; how many it hath damned 344. B
• Tradition; against the making of Traditions articles of Faith 779. D
• Transubstantiation; the riddles, and contradictions of it. 36. E
  • What true Transubstantiation in the Sacrament may be admitted. 693. C
• Tribulations; the benefit of them 563. B 604. A. B
  • Spiritual Tribulations and afflictions, heavier than Temporal 665. B. D. E
  • Tribulation and affliction, part of our daily bread which we ought to pray for, and how 787. B
• Tribute; God never wrought miracle in the matter of money, but only for Tribute to Caesar 91. E
• Trinity; the knowledge of it not by natural reason attained 301. B
  • Not one of a thousand knows what himself means, when he speaks of the Trinity. 307. E
  • Some obumbrations of the Trinity, even in nature 379
  • What, are illustrations of it, to us Christians are no Arguments unto the Jews 417. B
  • Four several trinities 417. E. 418. A
  • It is the only rule of our Faith, the Trinity 426. E
  • To be believed first of all, but not last of all to be understood 428. C. D
  • The opinions of several Heretics, concerning it 429. D
  • The several ways of expressing it by figures and letters 429. E
• Troubles; five several sorts of Troubles 518. D
  • The universality and inevitablenesse of them 664. B
• Truth; not always to be spoken 576. E
• Turning; of God's Turning to us, and of our Turning to God 524. B. C. D. 525. A. B. 526. A. B

V

• VAgabonds and incorrigible rogues; against receiving or harbouring of them 415. B. C
• Vain things in themselves, may be brought to a religious use 226. E
• Ubiquetaries; 67. E
  • Confuted by the Angels Argument 248. C
  • Of that Vicissitude which is in all temporal things; 823. D
• Vigils; why discontinued in the Primitive Church 813. A
• Virginitie; The dignity and praise of it 17. C. D
  • Three Heresies impeaching the Virginity of the blessed Lady 17. D
  • Against vowed Virginitie 30. D
• Virgin Mary; The error of Tertullian about her 18. A
  • Of the Manichees and Anabaptists 23. D
  • Against appeals to her in heaven 46. A
  • Borne in Original sin 314. A
  • Called of the Fathers Deipara, but not Christipara; and why 400. D
  • Threatned at a siege of Constantinople to be drowned, if she did not drown the enemy 418. E
  • The Church only in the Virgin Mary, according to the School 603. C
• Against Vncharitable objecting of repented sins 499. D
• Unity; the Devils way to break it 138. D
• The Vnsatiablenesse of sin 709 C
• Uprightness; what Uprightness is required of man in this world 677 B. C
  • What it is to be Vpright in heart ibid. 678. A. B. C
• Against Usury 753. E. 754. A.
• Vulgate Edition; of the Antiquity and Authority of it 542. E
  • Not to be preferred before the original ibid.

W

• WArre; the miseries and incommodities of it 146. C. D
• Waters; those of Baptism, sin, tribulation, and death 309. C.&c.
  • What is meant by Waters in Scripture 598. D
• Waiting upon God's time; how it consists with fervent Prayer 34. D
• Wings; the several acceptations of the Word in Scripture 671. B
• Winning upon God by prayer, how well God likes it 513. E
• Wisdom; of sins against it, especially ignorance, and curiosity 411. B
• Witness; the credit of the Testimony, dependeth much upon his credit that is the Witness 238. B
• Women; our Savior came from such as were dangerously suspected and noted in Scripture, for their incontinence. 24. A
  • Never any good Angel appeared in the likeness of a Woman 242. D
  • Whether Women were created after God's Image; a question in S. Ambrose his Commentaries upon the Epistles; that hath called those Commentaries in doubt 242. E
  • Of Womens able in State affairs and matters of Government ibid.
  • Powerful in matters of Religion, both on the right hand, and on the left 243. A
• Wonder; the difference between the Philosophers and the Fathers about wondering 194. A
• Word of God; the very Angels of heaven refer themselves unto it 249. E
  • Stronger than any reason to a Christian 394. B 815. A
  • The only rule of Doctrine 738. E
• The World is a sea, and in how many respects, 735. C
• Works; we no enemies to good works, as the Adversarie doth traduce us 82. A.&c.
  • No Faith without them 136. A
  • We are to continue in them 554. B
  • Works, good, when to a good end 82. E
  • To be done, of what 83. A
  • How they may be seen of men 141. B
  • Sometimes there is good use in concealing our Works of mortification 538. E
  • Of those imperfections which are in the best of our Good Works 820 D. E
• Wounds of love; how God doth so wound us, that we kiss that hand that strikes us 463. A

Z

• ZEale to be reconciled to discretion 10. A
  • How the devil makes it his Instrument 42. B
  • Of the Zeal we ought to have to God's service 72. D
  • Zeal distempered, what it will do 237. A
  • Zeal and uncharitableness, are two incompatible things 480. E
  • Of Daniel's Zeal in praying against the express
  • Proclamation of the King 814. A. B. C
• Zoroastes, he only laughed when he was born 21. A

Errata.

Pag.	line	read
22	39	waives
22	40	waives
22	50	waives
110	52	when he
116	40	may come
142	31	the Cato's
164	39	Manours
196	15	in indignifying
420	32	man
426	45	blown
534	35	Topics
710	46	exorcised
751	43	or any people
782	63	Interimists.

In the life.

Pag. 15 line 12 for merit, read mercy

Pag. 16. line 40. for friends, read friend.