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8. The world in the Scriptures twofold, redeemed and condemned. 9. All are commanded to deny themselves. 10. The various degrees of those following Christ, and what looking back is among them. 584-588

Serm. XCVII. On the words of the Gospel of Mark, chapter XIII, verse 32, But of that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father. — 1. Preparation for the last day. 2. Mortality ought to profit man for humility. 3. Death alone is certain here. 4. The world conquered for us through Christ. 589-590

Serm. XCVIII. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, chapter VII, verses 11–15; and on the three dead whom the Lord raised. — 1. The Lord's miracles in bodies and in souls. 2. The two kinds of dead. 3. Three dead raised by the Lord. Christ's miracles done for the sake of what they signify. A fitting likeness. 4. The raising of the three dead. 5. Three kinds of sins, figured by those three dead. Bad habit. 6. Four steps forward in sins. 7. We must rise quickly from sin. 591-595

Serm. XCIX. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, chapter VII, verses 36–50, And behold, a woman who was a sinner in the city, etc. On the remission of sins, against the Donatists. — 1. The sinful woman at the feet of the Lord as He reclined. 2. The thought of the proud Pharisee. 3. The Lord rebukes the Pharisee's thought. 4. A hard question arising from the Lord's words. 5. The matter is made clear by examples. 6. The question is solved. He wills the sins we have avoided to be counted among the debts forgiven. 7. Next, on the remission of sins, that they cannot be forgiven by man. 8. The error and arrogance of the Donatists. 9. The argument of the Donatists. The Holy Spirit forgives sins through the Church. 10. Sins are forgiven by God both through man and apart from man. The Holy Spirit given through the mystery of men. 11. The Spirit given without the ministry of men. The example in the eunuch of Queen Candace. 12. Another example in Cornelius the centurion. 13. Cleansing in Baptism not from the merits of the ministers but from the grace of God. 595-602

Serm. C. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, where [it] treats of three men, of whom one said, Lord, I will follow Thee wherever Thou goest, and was rejected; another did not dare, and was roused; the third was putting it off, and was blamed. Chapter IX, verses 57–62. — 1. Why he is rejected who promises that he will follow Christ. 2. The second called by Christ. Wishing to delay out of carnal piety, he is pressed. How parents are to be honoured. The dead burying the dead. To set charity in order. 3. The third, looking back to his own, is blamed. Election according to grace. 4. The elect owe the whole to the grace of God. 602-604

Sermon CI. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, The harvest indeed is great, etc. Chapter X, verses 2–6. — 1. Harvest among the Jews, sowing among the Gentiles. Paul the little one. 2. Two harvests, of the Jews and of the Gentiles. 3. The seed of the Gospel sent across to the Gentiles. 4. What profit there is in explaining the shepherd's duties to the people. 5. The precepts laid down for preachers are not to be taken carnally. 6. The precept on not carrying a purse. 7. On not putting on shoes. 8. On greeting no one on the way. The explanation that first meets the eye. 9. A second, more hidden sense. To preach the Gospel by occasion. 10. How preachers seeking their own are to be heard. 11. Preachers commanded to bring peace. 605-610

Serm. CII. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, He who despises you despises Me. Chapter X, verse 16. — 1. The reverence owed to pastors. 2. What death is truly good or bad. 3. The contrary lot of the rich man and Lazarus after death. 4. From what a death ought to be judged bad. 5. He urges to good works. 611-612

Serm. CIII. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, And a certain woman named Martha received Him into her house, etc. Chapter X, verse 16. — 1. Unity is commended 2. Christ deigns to offer Himself to be fed. 3. The service of Martha and of Mary both good. Yet Mary's better. 4. The one thing necessary. 5. The service of Martha good: the better part Mary's. 6. Martha's service tends towards Mary's rest. 613-615

Serm. CIV. Again on that passage of the Gospel of Luke where [it speaks] of Martha and Mary. Chapter X, verses 38–42. — 1. The services of Martha and Mary are compared. 2. Martha's service not rebuked by Christ. 3. The better part Mary's. 4. Two lives figured in Martha and Mary. 616-617

Serm. CV. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, etc., chapter XI, verses 5–13. — 1. Christ urges us by likenesses to ask of God. 2. The friend coming from a journey is to be received. 3. Another friend, appealed to at midnight

to give three loaves. 4. The three loaves given. 5. Faith, hope, charity, the gifts of God. 6. The same three signified again. The bread, charity; the fish, faith. 7. The egg, hope. 8. How disasters and devastations are useful to Christians. 9. A city and an eternal kingdom in heaven await them. 10. Eternity promised by flattery to an earthly kingdom. 11. Constancy in bearing adversities. The heart lifted up. The Gospel hen. 12. The devastation of Rome falsely ascribed to the Christian religion, or to the extinction of idolatry. 13. That the Roman disaster did not happen on account of the overthrow of the idols. 618-624

Serm. CVI. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, Now you Pharisees wash what is outside the dish, etc., chapter XI, verses 39–42 — 1. The outward cleanness of the Pharisees. 2. Whether almsgiving can cleanse without faith. 3. The alms of the Pharisees insufficient. 4. The true almsgiving which we are commanded to do. 625-626

Serm. CVII. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, I say to you, keep yourselves from all avarice, chapter XII, verses 13–21. — 1. The precept on guarding against all avarice. 2. On what occasion it was given by Christ. 3. What Christ teaches in being unwilling to be the divider of an inheritance. The Donatists are censured. 4. He is condemned for avarice who keeps even his own things greedily. 5. The imprudent rich man, who proposes to store up, not to pay out. 6. We must take thought for the soul, not that it may have goods, but that it may itself be good. 7. Those who bear the sign of Christ within, on the forehead, are safe among the wicked. 8. All avarice is to be cut off, lest one sin. 9. Again on the danger of the avaricious man, or one who keeps his own things greedily. 10. Avarice for life itself is also to be guarded against. 627-631

Serm. CVIII. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, chapter XII, verses 35–36, Let your loins be girded, and lamps burning, and you like, etc., and on the words of Psalm XXXIII, verses 12–15, Who is the man who desires life, etc. — 1. On awaiting the Lord's coming. Why we were made Christians. 2. Three things commended in the Gospel. 3. Good days are sought here in vain. 4–5. Where life and good days are to be sought. 6. What is to be done that good days may be obtained. Life and good days. 7. The tongue is to be restrained. 632-635

Serm. CIX. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, You know how to test the face of the sky and of the earth, etc., and on these, If you are going with your adversary to the ruler, take pains on the way to be freed from him, etc., chapter XII, verses 56–59. — 1. The time of mercy is to be used for penance. We are more fragile than glass. 2. Who that adversary is with whom we are commanded to agree. 3. Our adversary, the word of God. 4. Years are taken from a man rather than added. 636-638

Serm. CX. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, where [it] is told of the fig tree bearing no fruit for three years; and of the woman who had had an infirmity eighteen years, chapter XIII, verses 6–17; and also on the words of Psalm IX, verse 20, Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail; let the nations be judged in Thy sight. — 1. What the fig tree barren for three years signifies. 2. The woman eighteen years in infirmity. Man good not of his own, but of the grace of God. 3. The Prophet's prayer, that man may not prevail. 4. The certainty of the judgement to come, so many other predictions having been fulfilled. God a debtor, not from what He has received, but from what He has promised. 5. The kingdom of God promised. 638-641

Serm. CXI. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, where the kingdom of God is said to be like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal; and on what is written there, Lord, are they few who are saved? Chapter XIII, verses 21–24. — 1. The three measures of meal. Few are saved. Those to be saved are many among themselves, but few in comparison with the others. 2. A reproof, and an exhortation to almsgiving. 641-642

Serm. CXII. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, A certain man made a great supper, etc., chapter XIV, verses 16–24. — 1. The Jews invited to the supper, we led and compelled. 2. The three excuses of those unwilling to come. 3. The five yoke of oxen, the curiosity of the five senses. 4. The hindrance of faith. The supper consecrated by the hands of the Lord. 5. There is no need of the curiosity of the senses for salvation. 6. The wife, the pleasure of the flesh. 7. Under the name of the eyes the other senses are signified. 8. Let no one delay to come to the supper. 643-647

Serm. CXIII. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, Make for yourselves friends of the mammon of iniquity, etc., chapter XVI, verse 9. — 1. Who the friends are who will receive their benefactors into heaven. Who Christ's least ones are. 2. The mammon of iniquity. Alms are to be given not from plunder but from just labours. 3. Zacchaeus is to be imitated. 4. Why riches are called the mammon of iniquity. 5. Which riches are true, and which false. 6. True riches. We cultivate God, and God cultivates us. 648-651

Serm. CXIV. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, If your brother sins against you, rebuke him, etc., chapter XVII,

verses 3, 4. On the remission of sins. — 1. A brother is to be pardoned as often as he sins against us and repents. 2. Pardon is to be given to a brother, that it may be received from God. 3. Debts are to be forgiven after God's example. 4. Let the sinner pardon him who sins. 5. Pardon is asked of God in prayer on the covenant of giving pardon to others. 652-654

Serm. CXV. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, One ought always to pray, and not to faint, etc. And on the two who went up into the temple to pray; and on the little children brought to Christ. — 1. Faith the fountain of prayer. 2. Faith belongs not to the proud, but to the humble. 3. Against the Pelagians. 4. The Baptism of Christ is necessary for little children. 655-657

Serm. CXVI. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, Jesus stood in the midst of them, and said to them, Peace be to you, etc., chapter XXIV, verses 36–47. — 1. The heresy of the Manichees. 2. The disciples' doubting. 3. How faith in Christ's resurrection was brought home. 4. Against the Manichees. 5. Christ breathes faith into them. 6. The Church is promised as to be spread through all nations. 7. Saul changed into a preacher of the Gospel. 657-660

Serm. CXVII. On the words of the Gospel of John, chapter I, verses 1–13, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, etc. Against the Arians. — 1. At what price the Word of God is to be bought, that it may be understood. 2. The price of the Word, man himself. 3. The Word of God a certain form not formed. A form without time and place. 4 Not less in the part than in the whole. 5. In divine things a godly ignorance is better than presumed knowledge. God incomprehensible to the eye of the heart. Man is made blessed by the knowledge of God. God does not grow from our knowledge. 6. The Word is affirmed coeternal with the Father against the Arians. 7. It is hard to convey divine things to the carnal. 8. Likenesses are to be employed for refuting the Arians. 9. Yet our faith concerning the Word does not rest on likenesses. 10. The likenesses of the birth of the Son of God in creatures are imperfect. Coeval and coeternal. 11. In coeval things there is a certain likeness of the Word coeternal with God Fire and light coeval. 12 Other coeval things, an image and the thing from which it arises. 13 In the likenesses adduced there is inequality. 14. The coeternity and equality of the Son of God from two kinds of likenesses compared. 15. The eye of the heart must be cleansed that God may be seen. 16. The Word made as it were milk by the incarnation, that He might be taken in by us. 17. Humility is to be learned from the incarnate Word. 661-671

Serm. CXVIII. On the same words of the Gospel of John, In the beginning was the Word, etc. Chapter I, verses 1–3. — 1. The Word of God eternal, begotten, not made. 2. By a likeness it is shown that the Son is coeternal with God the Father. 671-673

Serm. CXIX. On the same words of John, In the beginning was the Word, etc. Chapter I, verses 1–14. — 1. The eternal Word with God. 2. The Word of God is not made. 3. The Word of God incomprehensible. 4. The Word made flesh. 5. The mystery of the Incarnation is commended. 6. The Incarnation the work of the almighty Word. 7. The Incarnation of the Word is explained by a likeness. 673-675

Serm. CXX. On the same words of John, In the beginning was the Word, etc., chapter I, verses 1–3. — 1. The incomprehensible Word of God revealed in the Gospel. 2. The Word of God whole everywhere. 3. The excellence of the divine Word is to be understood from the property of the human word. The newly baptized in white garments. 676-677

Serm. CXXI. On the words of the Gospel of John, The world was made through Him, etc., chapter I, verses 10–14. — 1. The world twofold. 2. The bad world. 3. Who the sons of Abraham are. 4. The birth twofold. 5. On the same subject. 678-680

Serm. CXXII. On the words of the Gospel of John, When you were under the fig tree, I saw you, etc., chapter I, verses 48–51. — 1. Nathanael under the fig tree, the human race under sin. 2. Jacob's dream was a figure. 3. On the double name and the wrestling of Jacob. 4. Why Abraham does not keep his first name along with the later one, but Jacob does the contrary. 5. The vision of God promised to Israel believing at the end. 6. Christ is both here and above. 680-683

Serm. CXXIII. On the words of the Gospel of John, And Jesus also and His disciples were called to the marriage, etc., chapter II, verses 1–11. — 1. The humility of Christ the medicine for our pride. 2. Why Christ when hungry did not make bread from stone, as at the wedding He made wine from water. 3. The humble Christ the way to the homeland. 4. Christ both above and below. 5. Every man is poor and a beggar of God. 684-686

Serm. CXXIV. On the words of the Gospel of John, Now there is at Jerusalem the Sheep pool, etc., chapter V, verses 2–4. — 1. The healing of the sick man at the pool was figurative. 2. This whole life is tribulation. The torturers of the soul, fear and pain. 3. The meaning of the Sheep pool.

The humility of Christ is not to be spurned through pride. 4 Christ took on mortality that He might give immortality. The brevity of this life. 686-688

Serm. CXXV. Again on John chapter V. On the five porches where a multitude of the sick lay; and on the pool of Siloe, chapter IX. — 1. The same things are not repeated in vain by an expounder of the Scriptures. 2. The five porches figured the Law of Moses. The Law's powerlessness to heal. Why the Law was given. 3. What the one sick man cured when the water was moved signifies. 4. God's rest on the seventh day. The six ages of the world. How God rested, and yet is always working. 5. God's providence in the ordering of evils. 6. The Jews' disturbance on two counts. The sick man cured by going down into the pool. Only one healed. 7. The infirmity of thirty years. The perfection of righteousness signified by the number forty. Love of the world does not admit the love of God. 8. From what the possession of temporal things is recognized as innocent. 9. The number forty in the fast of Moses, Elijah and Christ. Lent before Easter. The fifty days after Easter. 10. The Law is not fulfilled without charity. 11. Temporal things are to be let go in spirit. Temptation for the most part does not make a sinner, but reveals him. 689-697

Serm. CXXVI. On the words of the Gospel of John, The Son cannot do anything of Himself, but what He has seen the Father doing. Chapter V, verse 19. — 1. Faith ought to precede understanding. 2. It is perverse to be unwilling to believe anything but what you see. 3. From the creatures that are seen we must rise to the Creator Who is not seen. 4. Christ did unaccustomed miracles so that in the daily ones, which had grown cheap, the Maker also might be recognized. 6. The miracle of birth from a virgin shown in Christ. 6. By the miracle of Christ's birth we are moved to believe God. 7. It must be explained how the Son does what He has seen the Father doing. 8. The error of the Arians about the Lord's words. 9. He refutes the Arians. He hoots off their carnal sense. What the Father has made, He has made only through the Son. 10. The Father does not do some works and the Son others, but the Trinity does the same works. 11. The trinity of persons and the unity of the godhead. 12. The sense of Christ's words is to be searched out by those first imbued with right faith. 13. The difficulty of understanding these words arises from the fact that the seeing of the Word Himself is not understood. 14. In Christ the form of a servant was shown to mortals, the form of God was kept for the blessed. 15. The seeing of the Word is nothing other than the Word. Charity makes men capable of grasping divine things. The sense of the passage set forth. 698-705

Serm. CXXVII. On the words of the Gospel of John, Amen, amen, I say to you, that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live, etc. Chapter V, verses 24–29; and also on the words of the Apostle, What eye has not seen, etc., I Cor. chapter II, verse 9. — 1. The hope of Christians concerns the things that are not seen. A fitting likeness. 2. How much the eternal life promised us is to be loved. 3. What eternal life is, and at how great a price it is to be bought. The price of eternal life. Eternal life is not told in the words of man. 4. The Son ever begotten of the Father. 5. The everlasting generation of the Son of God cannot be explained. 6. God the food of the blessed mind. 7. The resurrection of the soul through faith. 8. The resurrection of the body, for some to good, for others to evil. 9. The cause and reason of the Incarnation of the Son of God. How He died. 10. Christ the judge in the form of a servant. 11. To see God the highest happiness. 12. The form of a servant will be seen by all, the form of God by the godly alone. 13. After the resurrection, eternal life in the vision of God. 14. The resurrection of the flesh to come. 15. The raising of the dead by God no less credible than creation. 705-713

Serm. CXXVIII. On the words of the Gospel of John, If I bear witness of Myself, etc., chapter V, verses 31–35; and on the words of the Apostle, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfil the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires, etc. Galat. chapter V, verses 14–17. — 1. How true is the testimony of Christ, even concerning Himself. 2. Why the testimony of John was sought. 3. In the martyrs Christ bears witness to Himself. 4. Charity from the Holy Spirit. 5. The struggle of soul and flesh. The soul is to be subjected to God, the flesh to the soul. 6. The Apostle on the fight of flesh and spirit. 7. The Apostle wrongly understood. The office of the shepherd, to explain the difficult passages of Scripture. 8. The inner fight is to be so waged that the spirit is not overcome by the flesh. 9. To fight against the desires of the flesh is the work of the Holy Spirit in us. He acts well who is moved by the Good. 10. How the saints here do not do what they will. 11. Man wills that desires should not exist, and does not do what he wills. 12. We must fight that sin may not reign. 13. The desires

to fulfil, what it is. 13. In the three dead raised by Christ, three degrees of sins. 713-720

Serm. CXXIX. On the words of the Gospel of John, chapter V, verses 39–47, Search the scriptures, in which you think you have eternal life, etc., against the Donatists. — 1. An exposition of the Gospel reading. 2. Christ's words to the disciples concern us equally. 3. The unbelief of the Jews. 4. Christ's words against the Jews fit the Church's against the Donatists. 5. The testimonies of the Old Testament concerning Christ and the Church. 6. The testimony of the New Testament for Christ and the Church. 7. The Donatists imitate the crime of Antichrist. 8. What the doctrine of the Catholics is, what that of the Donatists. 9. The Donatists believe neither Moses nor Christ, even risen. The Donatists injurious towards Christ. 720-724

Serm. CXXX. On the words of the Gospel of John, where the miracle of the five loaves and two fishes is related. Chapter V, verses 5–14. — 1. The meaning of the miracle. 2. Christ made bread by the incarnation. Christ the merchant. How He is our Redeemer. 3. Christ is to be loved. From what God has done, what He has promised becomes credible. 4. What Christ has bestowed is more wonderful than what He has promised. 5. The security of Christians under Christ their patron. 725-728

Serm. CXXXI. On the words of the Gospel of John, chapter VI, verses 54–66, Unless you eat the flesh, etc., and on words of the Apostle and of the Psalms, against the Pelagians. — 1. The sacrament of the body and blood of Christ. 2. Faith the gift of God. The sweet violence of grace. 3. Neither faith nor a good life is to be claimed for one's own powers. 4. Grace is necessary to the justified man that he may walk in the right way. 5. He who walks in the right way, if he ascribes it to himself, perishes from the right way. 6. Against the Pelagians. The remission of sins in Baptism. Sickness after Baptism. 7. The four benefits of grace: remission of sins, healing of sickness, redemption from all corruption and concupiscence. 8. The last benefit of grace, the crown of righteousness. 9. The righteousness of God, which is unknown to the Jews and the Pelagians. Grace hidden in the Old Testament, revealed in the New. 10. The councils against the Pelagians. 729-734

Serm. CXXXII. On the words of the Gospel of John, My flesh is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh, etc. Chapter VI, verses 56, 57. — 1. The catechumens are invited to the grace of regeneration. 2. The married faithful, already eating the body of Christ, are admonished to keep chastity. 3. Those bound by a vow of continence. 4. Each must keep his own degree. 734-736

Serm. CXXXIII. On the words of the Gospel of John, where Jesus had said that He would not go up to the feast day, and yet went up, chapter VII, verses 2–10. — 1. An exposition of the Gospel reading. 2. That Christ did not lie in that place. 3. To lie is worse than to be deceived. 4. How being deceived and lying differ. 5. Christ can neither be deceived nor lie. 6. Christ cleared of lying by the very truth of the Gospel. 7. The solution of the question. 8. Another solution. 737-742

Serm. CXXXIV. On the words of the Gospel of John, If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples, etc., chapter VIII, verses 31–34. — 1. Christ the teacher of all. 2. The reward of him who continues in Christ's word. Being freed is spoken of in two ways. 3. The slavery of sin. 4. None but Christ frees from the slavery and death of sin. The likeness of sinful flesh in Christ. 5. Sins, sacrifices for sins. 6. Conclusion. 742-745

Serm. CXXXV. On the words of the Gospel of John, I came to do the works of Him Who sent Me. Against the Arians. And on what that man who was born blind said when enlightened, We know that God does not hear sinners. Chapter IX. — 1. The blindness of all men from birth. 2. A passage slanderously appropriated by the Arians. 3. The works of the Father and of the Son the same. 4. The Son of God consubstantial and coeternal with the Father. 5. As the Son does the works of the Father, so the Father does the works of the Son. 6. That the prayers even of sinners are heard. 7. No one here is without sin. 8. The Apostles liable to sin even after Christ's resurrection. 746-749

Serm. CXXXVI. On the same reading of the Gospel of John, on the enlightening of the man born blind. Chapter IX. — 1. The enlightening of the man born blind. 2. The error of the blind man in thinking that sinners are not heard. 3. The blindness of the Jews, who slanderously charged that the sabbath was broken by Christ. 4. How the blindness of the Jews was increased by the coming of Christ. 5. Paul's testimony on the powerlessness of the law and on the blindness of the Jews. 6. What Elisha, sending his staff ahead and then coming himself to raise the dead boy, foreshadows. 750-753

Serm. CXXXVII. On the Gospel of John chapter X, verses 1–16, on the shepherd, and the hireling, and the thief. — 1. Health

of the members in unity and charity. 2. The unity of Christ and the members. 3. Christ the door. Peter in his weakness unknown to himself. 4. What is required of Peter. 5. Three persons coming to the sheepfold: the shepherd, the thief, the hireling. The shepherd is to be loved, the hireling tolerated, the robber guarded against. 6. Christ's saying against the Pharisees applies also to the bad shepherds of the Church. The Church is one, from Jews and Gentiles. 7. Bad clergy striving to pervert the Gospel, while by their example they draw lay people into sin. 8. A perverse interpretation of the Gospel. 9. That bad shepherds in the Church are like the Pharisees. Which shepherd is a hireling, which is chaste. The chaste wife. 10. God is to be sought chastely. 11. How hirelings are useful. Shepherds few, hirelings many. 12. The hireling fleeing. The Donatists, wolves and robbers. 13. How a grape is gathered from thorns. 14. Hirelings fleeing, while they favour the wicked. Augustine no hireling. 15. What account is to be rendered by the shepherd concerning the sheep. 750-762

SERMON CXXXVIII. On the words of the Gospel of John, I am the good shepherd, etc., chapter X, verses 11-16 (John 10:11–16). — 1. Why the good shepherd is commended in the singular. 2. Martyrdom without charity profits nothing. 3. How great a good charity is. 4. That Peter and others are good shepherds. 5. Yet the one good shepherd is Christ. 6. The bride's affection towards Christ. 7. How the bride's words are to be understood. Companions [sodales], as it were those who eat together [simul edales]. 8. The bridegroom's answer. 9. The bride's words wrongly appropriated by the Donatists. 10. The Donatists are refuted. 763-768

SERMON CXXXIX. On the words of the Gospel of John, I and the Father are one. Chapter X, verse 30 (John 10:30). — 1. How Christ is the Only One of God the Father. 2. The Son of God and the Father are of one substance. 3. The objection of the Arians. 4. How great a blasphemy it is to say that the Son of God is of another substance. 5. The Arians, by the wrong done to the Son, falsely honour the Father. 769-772

SERMON CXL. On the words of the Gospel of John, chapter XII, verses 44-50 (John 12:44–50), He who believes in Me, believes not in Me, but in Him Who sent Me. Against a certain saying of Maximinus, bishop of the Arians, who, stationed in Africa with Count Segisvultus, was uttering blasphemies. — 1. Faith in Christ. 2. The two births of Christ. 3. Why Christ is called the true Son of God. 4. No one but Christ dared to say that he was one with the Father. 5. The equality of the Son with the Father. 6. The Word of God is the commandment of the Father. 773-775

SERMON CXLI. On the words of the Gospel of John, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. Chapter XIV, verse 6 (John 14:6). — 1. The truth was found by the philosophers of this world, not the way. 2. Whence the truth was found by them. 3. The folly of those who worship idols. 4. Christ made the way. 776-777

SERMON CXLII. On the same words of the Gospel of John, I am the way, etc., chapter XIV, verse 6 (John 14:6). — 1. Christ the safe way. 2. Christ the humble way. To go whoring away from the Lord. 3. The rebuke of the sinner, that he may be put to shame to his health. 4. Hatred of the sinner together with love of him. 5. The swelling [of pride] is to be healed by the medicine of humility. Christ both the way and the door. 6. Christ the physician drinks the cup first for the sick man. 7. Christ wills that we learn from Him, not to do wonders, but to be humble. 8. Charity without puffing up. 9. Without charity the other gifts of God do not profit. 10. Perfection and charity are reached by the imitation of Christ. 778-784

SERMON CXLIII. On the words of the Gospel of John, I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go, etc., chapter XVI, verses 7-11 (John 16:7–11). — 1. Faith in Christ necessary for justification. 2. Why the sin of unbelief in Christ alone is reproved. 3. The great gift of the Holy Spirit after Christ's ascension. 4. The justice of faith from the Holy Spirit after Christ's departure. 5. The inexcusable unbelief of the world. 784-787

SERMON CXLIV. On the same words of the Gospel of John, He will reprove the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgement. Chapter XVI, verses 8-11 (John 16:8–11). — 1. Why the sin of unbelief alone is reproved. The Holy Spirit is called the grace of God. 2. To believe Christ and to believe in Christ differ. 3. The justice of which the world is reproved. 4. Why it is justice that Christ goes to the Father. 5. Christ alone ascended into heaven. 6. How the justice of Christ is ours. 787-790

SERMON CXLV. On the words of the Gospel of John, chapter XVI, verse 24 (John 16:24), Until now you have asked nothing in My name. And on the words of Luke, chapter X, verses 17-20 (Luke 10:17–20), Lord, behold, in Thy name even the demons are subject to us. — 1. How the passage of John is to be reconciled with the words of Luke. 2. The sweetness of God is hidden from those who fear, revealed to those who hope. 3. Fear under the law, hope under grace. 4. Charity is not from ourselves, but from God. 5. Of man

presumption through the Law, captivity is taken away through grace. 6. The disciples, under the Law, not yet free from desires. Those who ask temporal things of God ask nothing. 790-794

SERMON CXLVI. On the words of the Gospel of John, Simon, son of John, do you love Me? etc., chapter XXI, verses 15-17 (John 21:15–17). — 1. The duty of the shepherd and of the sheep. Our inheritance is God Himself. 2. He bids the newly baptized beware of bad Christians and of schismatics. 796

SERMON CXLVII. On the same words of the Gospel of John, Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these? etc., chapter XXI, verses 15-19 (John 21:15–19). — 1. Peter's presumption and denial. 2. Peter's true love for Christ. The unity of all shepherds figured in Peter. 3. Peter forsaken by Christ, and afterwards strengthened. 797-798

SERMON CXLVIII. On the words of the Acts of the Apostles, chapter V, verse 4 (Acts 5:4), While it remained, did it not remain yours, etc. Preached on the Sunday of the octave of Easter at the [shrine of the] holy Twenty Martyrs. — 1. The correction of Ananias and Sapphira no severer than temporal death. 2. Vows are to be paid to God. 798

SERMON CXLIX. In which questions raised from the Acts of the Apostles, chapter X, and from the Gospel are solved; or, on four questions: the first, on Peter's vision. The second, on the words of the Gospel, Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds, etc. And a little after, Beware of doing your justice before men, to be seen by them, etc. The third, on the words of the Gospel, Let your left hand not know what your right hand does. The fourth, on the love of an enemy. Matthew chapter VI, verses 1-4, and chapter V, verses 43-48 (Matt. 6:1–4; 5:43–48). — 1. The questions to be solved: the first question, on Peter's vision. 2. Gluttony not commanded to Peter. 3. The Jews' abstinence from unclean animals was figurative. 4. The animals forbidden to the Jews are signs. The cloven hoof. Chewing the cud. 5. Why the precepts of Jewish observances are read to Christians. 6. Peter's vision figurative. The vessel. The four corners. 7. Peter bears the person of the Church. 8. The reception of the Gentiles within the Church. 9. The linen sheet. 10. The threefold letting down. 11. The second question, from the Gospel. 12. The discord of passages through wrong interpretation. The virgins not carrying oil. 13. Passages contrary in appearance are reconciled. 14. The legitimate sense of each passage is drawn out from Christ's own words. 15. The third question, on the Gospel, that the left hand should not know the work of the right. 16. The fourth question, on love and hatred of an enemy. 17 We must pray for persecutors. 18. Under the name of neighbour even an enemy is commanded to be loved. 19. The Apostle's passage on heaping coals on the enemy's head is explained. 800-804

SERMON CL. On the words of the Acts of the Apostles, But certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers disputed with him, etc., chapter XVII, verses 18-34 (Acts 17:18–34). — 1. Paul preaching among the Athenians. 2. The faith of Christians. 3. The Epicureans and Stoics conferring with the Apostle. 4. The happy life is sought by all. 5. The opinion of the Epicureans and Stoics on the happy life. 6. The opinion of the Epicureans disapproved by the Apostle. What the Epicureans think about the soul. Certain Christians Epicureans in their morals 7. Fasting with prayer and almsgiving. 8. The opinion of the Stoics not approved by the Apostle. 9. The views of the Epicureans and Stoics on happiness are to be rejected. 10. Christ is beatitude and the way to beatitude. 807-814

SERMON CLI. On the words of the Apostle, For I do not the good that I will, but the evil that I do not will, that I do, etc. Romans chapter VII, verses 15-25 (Rom. 7:15–25). — 1. The Apostle's passage dangerous to those who understand it badly. 2. The life of the just man here is a war, not yet a triumph. 3. The destruction of concupiscence ought to be in our prayers. The madness of the Manichaeans. 4. How concupiscence and bad habit are to be resisted. 5. Concupiscence innate in us and arising from the first sin. Original sin from concupiscence. Christ conceived without sin, that He might undo sin. 6. The Apostle's fight against concupiscence is set before us lest we despair. 7. What it is to do and not to accomplish either good or evil. 8. Concupiscence is at some time to be destroyed by the grace of Christ. What the faithful must do now. 814-819

SERMON CLII. On the following words of the Apostle, Romans VII, and VIII, 1-4 (Rom. 7; 8:1–4), up to, God sent His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, etc. — 1. There is no difficulty in obscure meanings when the Spirit helps. 2. On the same subject. 3. The evil of concupiscence in the baptized without guilt. 4. The error of the Manichaeans to be guarded against. 5. A threefold law: the law of sin, the law of faith, the law of deeds. 6. The Law of Moses is defended against the Manichaeans. 7. Three laws. 8. The flesh of Christ alone not flesh of sin. 9. How sin was condemned by sin in Christ. 10. The opinion of certain persons on

the Apostle's passage. 11. A truer interpretation of the Apostle. How Christ was made sin. 819-825

SERMON CLIII. On the words of the Apostle, Romans VII, 5-13 (Rom. 7:5–13), When we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit unto death, etc. Openly against the Manichaeans, and tacitly against the Pelagians. — 1. How difficult the Apostle's passage is to expound. 2. The Manichaeans abuse this passage. 3. The Manichaeans' calumny to be refuted from what follows. 4. The Apostle himself in the same place condemns those who censure the Law. 5. The law forbidding to covet evil is not evil. 6. The evil of concupiscence unknown before the law. 7. Concupiscence increased by the law, not overcome. 8. He who presumes on himself is overcome. 9. We must trust not in ourselves, but in God. 10. Delight in the law of God, and the delight of concupiscence. 11. The proud man slain by his own sword. 12. The Apostle again and again the plainest praiser of the Law. 13. On the same subject. 14. Sin drawn from the first man. 825-832

SERMON CLIV. On the words of the Apostle, Romans VII (Rom. 7:14), We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, etc. Against the Pelagians, who say that man can be without sin in this life. — 1. For what purpose the law was given. 2. Whether the Apostle speaks here of himself. 3. The Apostle himself not without concupiscence. 4. That the Apostle speaks of his own imperfection. 5. The Apostle confesses the infirmity of his mind. 6. A poultice for swelling given to the Apostle. 7. Every holy man in this life is carnal and spiritual. 8. Who is wholly carnal, who partly or wholly spiritual. 9. The same man carnal and spiritual at once. 10. Consenting to the law. 11. To not know sin. 12. To fulfil the law in this life is not granted to the saints. 13. On the same subject. 14-15. Again on the same subject. 16. In the resurrection the just alone will be delivered from the body of death. 17. The body of the saints immortal after the resurrection. 832-840

SERMON CLV. On the words of the Apostle, Romans VIII, 1-11 (Rom. 8:1–11), There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, etc. Against the Pelagians. — 1. Why concupiscence is called sin. How sin loses its reign. 2 How there is no condemnation here in the saints. 3. No one is free from the law of sin except through grace. 4. What the law of sin and death is. Why the Law of Moses was given. 5. The concord of the old and new law. 6. The difference of the same laws. 7. The weakness of the law from the flesh. Christ in the likeness of sinful flesh. 8. Christ made sin. 9. To walk according to the flesh and according to the spirit. How the justice of the law is now fulfilled in us. 10. The prudence of the flesh and of the spirit. 11. The error of the Manichaeans. 12. Not to be in the flesh. 13. To be not in the flesh, but in the spirit. 14. What is to be hoped concerning the flesh. 15. The restoration of the flesh and immortality promised to the godly. 840-848

SERMON CLVI. On the words of the Apostle, Romans VIII, 12-17 (Rom. 8:12–17), Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh, etc. Against the Pelagians. — 1. In the Scriptures some things closed, some open. 2. Why the law was given. The necessity of healing grace. 3. To use the law lawfully. The law a tutor. 4. The usefulness of the law. 5. The necessity of the Mediator. What praiseworthy faith is. 6. To live according to the flesh is evil. Let the soul live according to God, the flesh according to the soul. 7. The Epicureans living according to the flesh, and the Stoics according to the soul. 8. The soul living according to itself is carnal. 9. Our work in this life, the mortification of the flesh. 10. Presumption on oneself to be avoided in the mortification of the flesh. 11. We are both moved to good and act. 12. Nothing good without the help of God. What freedom without grace is like. 13. Grace necessary not only that you may do it more easily, but that you may be able to do it at all. 14. The old law and the new. The spirit of servitude and of freedom. 15. Abba and Father, because there are two peoples in Christ. 16. The Spirit an earnest rather than a pledge. 17. The inheritance of the sons of God. 849-858

SERMON CLVII. On the words of the Apostle, We are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope, Romans chapter VIII, verses 24, 25 (Rom. 8:24–25). — 1. The hope of Christians concerning eternal things. The deceitful world is believed, not God. 2. Patience and meekness necessary. 3. We see in our Head what we hope for. 4. Nor are we even now without joy. The fleeting delights of sinners. 5. The vanity of temporal things. 6. The certainty of our hope. 659-661

SERMON CLVIII. On the words of the Apostle, Romans VIII, 30, 31 (Rom. 8:30–31), And whom He predestined, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified, etc. If God is for us, who is against us? Against the Pelagians. — 1. No one can harm the predestined. 2. God a debtor to us

made by His promises. 3. We have been called and predestined freely. 4. Whether we are already justified. 5. Some justification truly through faith. 6. Justifying faith is distinguished from the faith of demons by hope and charity. Hope. Charity. 7. The disinterested worship of God, Who alone satisfies the soul. 8. Hope, the solace in this pilgrimage. 9. God will be all in all to the blessed. Charity alone remains for ever. 862-867

SERMON CLIX. On the same words of the Apostle, Romans VIII, 30, 31 (Rom. 8:30–31), or, on justification; and also on the words of James I, 2-4 (Jas. 1:2–4), Count it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into various temptations, etc. — 1. Justification imperfect in us here. 2. The love of justice admits several degrees. The first degree. Pleasures of the senses, lawful and unlawful. 3. The mind's delight in justice and faith. 4. Justice to be loved above all lawful pleasures. 5. Delight in justice to be put before all other delights. 6. Justice to be pursued with delight, out of love. 7. For justice not only is pleasure to be despised, but pain also to be borne. 8. The martyrs perfect lovers of justice. 9. Whatever justice we have is from God. 867-872

SERMON CLX. On the words of the Apostle, I Corinthians I, 31 (1 Cor. 1:31), He who glories, let him glory in the Lord. And on the verse of Psalm LXX, 2 (Ps. 70:2), In Thy justice rescue me, and deliver me. — 1. Let man glory in the Lord, not in his own justice. 2. The Jews blinded by the opinion of their own justice. 3. To know Christ crucified is great wisdom. Pride keeps a man from faith in Christ. 4. The humility of the cross the way to the height. 5. The sons of Zebedee, seeking the height, are called to the way. 6. The circumcision of the Old Testament, the cross the sign of the New. 7. Let our glorying be in the cross of Christ, not in our own justice. 872-877

SERMON CLXI. On the words of the Apostle, Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor those who serve idols, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor those who lie with males.... will possess the kingdom of God. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? etc. I Corinthians chapter VI, verses 9, 10, 15, 19 (1 Cor. 6:9–10, 15, 19). — 1. Fornication to be fled. 2. The fornicator does injury to the Holy Spirit. 3. Fornication excludes from the kingdom of God. 4. Two dwellings, in the fire or in the kingdom. How much is feared for the body. 5. The death of the soul more to be feared than that of the body. 6. Whence the life of the soul and the life of the body. God the life of the soul. 7. Vain fear and useful fear. 8. Fear of punishment that does no evil is not yet praiseworthy. For what the fear of Gehenna is useful. 9. Charity drives out one fear and brings in another. 10. The force of impure love. 11. Love makes sacred virgins. The adornments of women. 12. The love of sacred virgins. 877-884

SERMON CLXII. On the words of the Apostle, Every sin whatever that a man commits is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body. I Corinthians chapter VI, verses 9-20 (1 Cor. 6:9–20). — 1. A difficult question from the words of the Apostle. 2. The solution of the difficulty. Why fornication alone is called a sin against one's own body. 3. Fornication in general, by which one does not cleave to God. A twofold interpretation of the Apostle. 885-888

SERMON CLXIII. On the words of the Apostle, Walk in the Spirit, and do not fulfil the desires of the flesh. Galatians chapter V, verses 16-21 (Gal. 5:16–21). — 1. The dedication of a temple formerly profane. 2. In us, as in a profane temple, some things are to be thrown down, others consecrated. 3. Building through faith, dedication through resurrection. 4. The new song. Christ, the salvation of God, desired by the ancients. 5 The preaching of Christ. 6. The struggle of the flesh and the spirit. 7. Victory after the resurrection. Why victory is deferred. 8. The remedy for elation in Paul. 9. Victory to be won by humility. 10. Law without grace. 11. The necessity of divine help. 12. God's help is to be invoked. 889-895

SERMON CLXIV. On the words of the Apostle, Galatians VI, 2-5 (Gal. 6:2–5), Bear one another's burdens: and on these words, Each one will bear his own burden. Against the Donatists. — 1. The law of Christ is fulfilled by those who bear one another's burdens. 2. Burdens to be distinguished. 3. Two kinds of burdens. 4. Each man's own burdens, his sins. Christ the preacher to the world. 5. The burden of avarice. The burden of sloth. 6. For the loads of desire, the loads of charity are to be taken up. 7. What Christ the master wills to be learned from Him. The load of Christ light. 8. Each carries the burden of his own desire or of his own charity 9. Which burdens are to be shared. Poverty a burden. Riches a burden. 10. The Donatists obstinate in schism after the Conference. 11. He who tolerates the wicked does not by that very fact share in their sins. 12. Caecilianus condemned in his absence and innocent. The laws of the Emperors against the Donatists. Caecilianus thrice acquitted. Primianus. 13. The Donatists condemned by their own sentence. 14. What [keeps] the Donatists in error

holds [them]. 15. Patience to be shown towards them. 895-902

SERMON CLXV. On the words of the Apostle, Ephesians III, 13-18 (Eph. 3:13–18), I ask that you not lose heart in my tribulations for you, which are your glory, etc., and on grace and free will, against the Pelagians. — 1. Hope to be placed in God, not in the powers of free choice. The concurrence of grace and free choice. 2. The very thing that is required of man is asked of God. 3. The mystery of the cross in four dimensions. 4. The breadth, length and height of the cross. 5. The depth of the cross. 6. Whence the error about the sin of souls before the body. 7. Death only from sin. The death of little children from the sin of the first man. 8. Little children who died in the womb. 9. Grace coming to the help of little children and of adults. The mystery of grace unsearchable. 902-907

SERMON CLXVI. A sermon on the words of the Apostle, Ephesians IV, 25 (Eph. 4:25), Putting away lying, speak the truth; and of Psalm CXV (Ps. 115:11), Every man is a liar. — 1. Lying forbidden to man. 2. Men are rebuked for being men. In the old man lying, in the new truth. 3. How the things that are God's become ours. 4. You have been called so that you may not be a man, but a son of God. 907-909

SERMON CLXVII. On the words of the Apostle, See how you walk circumspectly; not as the unwise, but as the wise; redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Ephesians chapter V, verses 15, 16 (Eph. 5:15–16). — 1. Whence the days are evil. 2. The just are never without persecution here. 3. To redeem the time. 4. A Punic proverb agreeing with Christ's precept. 909-910

SERMON CLXVIII. On the words of the Apostle, Ephesians VI, 23 (Eph. 6:23), Peace to the brethren, and charity with faith. Or, on the grace of God according to the confession and teaching of the Vessel of election, since faith is a gift of God's mercy. — 1. He Who promised makes the sons of Abraham's faith. 2. The faith of Christians other than the faith of demons. The faith of the sons of God, with charity. Faith the beginning of salvation. True peace. 3. All good things, and faith itself too, are from God. Full faith. 4. Grace given to an unbeliever and a cruel persecutor. 5. Both faith and prayer from the grace of God. The Pelagian objection. 6. The prayer made for Saul the unbeliever proves that faith is the gift of God. 7. Paul, that is, little, the herald of the grace conferred on him. 8. Prayer is made for unbelievers, that they may believe. 910-915

SERMON CLXIX. On the words of the Apostle, Philippians III, 3-16 (Phil. 3:3–16), For we are the circumcision, who serve the Spirit of God, etc. Against the Pelagians. — 1. What it is to serve God in the Spirit. 2. How we are the circumcision and justice. Our justice from God's gift. 3. The spiritual circumcision of those who glory in Christ. Why circumcision was done on the eighth day. The Lord's day. 4. To trust in the flesh. 5. What cause Paul had for glorying in the flesh. 6. To walk in the law without blame. 7. Why justice in the law removes from Christ. 8. He undertakes the solution of the question. 9. Saul a persecutor of the Church because he was establishing his own justice. 10. Paul shudders at his own justice, that he may have justice from God. 11. Justice is not true for us unless from grace. 12. It is a great thing to know the power of Christ's resurrection. Our resurrection more wonderful. 13. Our justification from grace, not without our will. 14. The sharing of Christ's sufferings from charity. 15. Charity and the enlarging of the heart from the Holy Spirit. 16. The Apostle professes himself imperfect. 17. The offices of Martha and Mary. 18. We must always make progress on the way to God. 915-926

SERMON CLXX. On the same words of the Apostle, Philippians III, 6-16 (Phil. 3:6–16), As to the justice which is of the law, having been without blame, etc.; and on the words of Psalm CXLII, 1, 2 (Ps. 142:1–2), Hear me in Thy justice, etc., and lastly on the reading of the Gospel of John, chapter VI, verse 39 (John 6:39); This is the will of My Father, that of all that He has given Me none should perish, etc. — 1. Justice from the Law seems a loss to the Apostle. 2. The Apostle's saying is to be so taken that the error of the Manichaeans about the old Law is avoided. For what the Law was given. Original sin. 3. No sin in Christ. 4. The world, sinners and lovers of the world. Christ alone innocent. Original sin. 5. Blameless conduct according to the law. 6. Man's justice, unless from God, is nothing. 7. The justice of this life, compared with the justice to come, how worthless it is to be reckoned. 8. Present justice to be despised from desire of perfect justice. 9. Perfect justice and happiness when God will be seen. 10. Christ our day. We must strive towards heaven with all our desire. 11. Christ our way. 926-932

SERMON CLXXI. On the words of the Apostle, Rejoice in the Lord always, etc. Philippians chapter IV, verses 4-6 (Phil. 4:4–6). — 1. Let joy be in the Lord, not in the world. The Lord our neighbour. 2. The Samaritan coming to the help of the wounded man, Christ. 3. By the Incarnation God became neighbour to man. 4. Joy in the world. 5. Impunity, God's greatest vengeance. 933-935

SERMON CLXXII. On the words of the Apostle, I Thessalonians IV, 12 (1 Thess. 4:12), We would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who sleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as the others who have no hope. And on the works of mercy by which the dead are helped. — 1. What kind of sorrow for the dead is forbidden. 2. Prayers and the sacrifice and alms for the departed. 3. Mourning and the duties to be shown to the departed. 935-937

SERMON CLXXIII. On the same words of the Apostle, I Thessalonians IV,

12-17 (1 Thess. 4:12–17). — 1. What is to be reflected on at the funeral rites of the departed. 2. Faith in the resurrection, the solace at the death of dear ones. 3. Consolation in mourning for the dead. 937-939

SERMON CLXXIV. On the words of the Apostle, I Timothy I, 15 (1 Tim. 1:15), A human saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, etc.; and on the reading of the Gospel of Luke, chapter XIX, verses 1-10 (Luke 19:1–10), where it treats of Zacchaeus. Against the Pelagians. — 1. Christ's coming into the world is to be understood in respect of the flesh. The necessity of the Incarnation. 2. Sin the cause of the Incarnation. The weakness of free choice is seen in Adam. The gift of grace is perceived in Christ. 3. What Zacchaeus did, allegorically; the sycamore, the cross of Christ. The cross on the forehead. 4. The necessity of prevenient grace. 5. To receive Jesus into the heart. 6. Those who think themselves sound rage against the physician. The physician's blood a medicine for His slayer. 7. Original sin is proved. Christ is Jesus to infants also. The baptism and communion of little children. 8. The reason why Christ came. The reason for the name of Jesus. Little children need a Saviour. Let the faith of those who answer for them in Baptism be right. 9. All little children are to be regarded as wards. Regeneration necessary for little children. An objection against original sin. The ancient rule of faith, to baptize little children. 939-944

SERMON CLXXV. On the same words of the Apostle, A faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, etc., I Timothy chapter I, verses 15, 16 (1 Tim. 1:15–16). — 1. The cause of Christ's Incarnation. 2. The more dangerous sickness of the Jews. The Jews raging against the physician. 3. Christ prepares a medicine for His slayers from His own blood. 4. The conversion of Christ's slayers. 5. Christ loves sinners, so that they may not always be sinners. 6. How Paul is the first of sinners. 7. First of sinners, because worse than all. 8. Paul's conversion. 9. The skill of Christ the physician commended in the healing of Paul. 945-949

SERMON CLXXVI. On three readings: of the Apostle, I Timothy I, 15, 16 (1 Tim. 1:15–16), A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptance, etc.; of Psalm XCIV, 6, 2 (Ps. 94:6, 2), Come, let us adore, and fall down before Him, etc.; and of the Gospel of Luke, chapter XVII, verses 12-19 (Luke 17:12–19), where it treats of the ten lepers cleansed by the Lord. Against the Pelagians. — 1. Readings and singing in the Church. 2. Thanksgiving owed by all to the physician. Original sin in little children. Bishops the guardians of wards. 3. How Paul is the first of sinners. 4. In Paul's healing, hope of salvation brought to the despairing. 5. Our salvation from God, not from ourselves. The benefits of grace. A twofold confession. 6. Varied and inconstant doctrine, the leprosy of the mind. 949-953

SERMON CLXXVII. On the words of the Apostle, We brought nothing into this world, nor can we carry anything away, etc. I Timothy chapter VI, verses 7-19 (1 Tim. 6:7–19). — 1. Avarice is condemned by all in words, not in deeds. 2. What teaching for shunning avarice is given to Christians. 3. Let the necessities for the journey of this life be had without covetousness. 4. Inner riches to be pursued. 5. The foolish excuse of those who wish to lay up treasure here. The heart on high. 6. The insatiable desire of riches. 7. Riches, if they are had without covetousness, are not to be blamed. The poor man must beware of the desire of riches. The rich man must beware of pride. 8. Hope not to be placed in riches. To enjoy and to use. 9. God alone suffices for man. The crime and the punishment of avarice. 10. Riches to be spent on works of piety. True life to be bought with riches. 11. The moth of evil thought calling back from giving alms. 953-959

SERMON CLXXVIII. On the words of the Apostle, Titus I, 9 (Titus 1:9), That he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine, and to refute those who contradict. Against those who seize the goods of others. — 1. The burden of bishops. 2. The miser who hoards his own goods is condemned. 3. The rich man is punished because he was unmerciful. 4. The alms of a robber not acceptable to God. 5. It is not lawful to seize the goods of pagans. 6. He refutes robbers. 7. A thing found is to be restored. 8. A remarkable example of restoring an alms. 9. On the same subject. 10. Servile fear does not hinder the wickedness of the heart. 11. Whence the chaste love of justice is proved. 960-965

SERMON CLXXIX. On the words of the apostle James, But let every one of you be swift to hear, but slow to speak. And on those in the same place, But be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Chapter I; verses 19, 22 (Jas. 1:19, 22). — 1. Something must be said of the duty of both, of the hearers and of the preachers of the word of God. 2. To hear the word of God is safer than to preach it. 3. The offices of Mary and Martha. Martha's part good. The good of hospitality. 4. Mary's part better, because it is not taken away. Martha's work is taken away, not her reward. 5. How Mary's part does not pass. 6. To be fed with truth, Mary's part, which does not pass. Delight in the light of truth. 7. We ought to be doers of the word both within and without. 8. Hearers of the word building, some on rock, some on sand. 9. Not to hear, as not to build, is evil. 10. Let the negligent hearer not make excuses of the preacher's faults. 966-971

SERMON CLXXX. On the words of the apostle James, Above all things do not swear, etc., chapter V, verse 12 (Jas. 5:12). — 1. A warning on avoiding swearing. 2. Swearing, though employed by God, is yet to be shunned by man. In how many ways perjury occurs. 3. The danger of perjury in swearing. 4. To swear truly is lawful; not to swear is safer. 5. Swearing used by the Apostle. 6. Various modes of swearing.

7. What it is to swear. 8. Perjury deadly to the soul. 9. Why it is said that one must abstain from swearing above all things. 10. Augustine at one time subject to the habit of swearing. On what condition swearing is to be used. 11. How one who demands an oath from another sins. 12. The habit of swearing to be resisted with great effort. 13. To swear falsely by idols is perjury. 14. How the habit of swearing is torn up. 972-979

SERMON CLXXXI. On the words of the First Epistle of John, chapter I, verses 8, 9 (1 John 1:8–9), If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Against the Pelagians. — 1. No one lives here without sin. 2. The error of the Pelagians, that the just are found here without sin. 3. They are refuted by their own profession about themselves. Heretics are outside the Church. 4. The lying humility of the Pelagians. 5. A lie under the appearance of humility is a sin. 6. That the Church here is not without sin is clear from the Lord's Prayer. 7. The whole Church here asks that its sins be forgiven it. Here the work is done that the Church in heaven may be without spot or wrinkle. 8. The remedies for the sins without which one cannot live. A Christian of good faith and good hope does not commit deadly sins. The condition on which our daily sins are remitted. 979-985

SERMON CLXXXII. On the words of the First Epistle of John, chapter IV, verses 1-3 (1 John 4:1–3), Dearly beloved, do not believe every spirit; but test the spirits, whether they are of God, etc., against the Manichaeans. — 1. Not every spirit is to be believed. 2. He is not of God who denies that Christ has come in the flesh. 3. The snares of the Manichaeans in this very passage of John. The error about two natures. 4. The error of the Manichaeans, that the soul is part of God, is refuted. 5. Man cannot be a light to himself. Evils are not from nature, but from the vice of nature. 6. The two evils of man, error and infirmity. 7. Another question on the same passage of John is put off to the following sermon. 984-987

SERMON CLXXXIII. Again on the words of the First Epistle of John, chapter IV, verse 2 (1 John 4:2), Every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God. — 1. The question to be treated. 2. Heretics agree in this, that they deny that Christ has come in the flesh. 3. How the Arian denies that Christ has come in the flesh. 4-5. On the same subject. 6. The Eunomian. 7. The Sabellian. 8. The Photinian. 9. The Donatist. 10-11. On the same subject. 12. The Pelagianist. 13. It is common to heretics and to bad Catholics to deny the Incarnation of Christ. 14. Both right faith and a good life are from God. 15. Both by believing and by living well we ought to confess that Christ has come in the flesh 988-994

SECOND CLASS. — SERMONS ON THE SEASONS. 995-996

SERMON CLXXXIV. On the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, I. — 1. The mystery of the Incarnation hidden from the wise of the world. 2. Christ's birthday a cause of joy to all. 3. The twofold birth of Christ. Things to be wondered at in God as an infant. 995-997

SERMON CLXXXV. On the Nativity of the Lord, II. — 1. By the Incarnation of the Word, Truth has sprung from the earth. 2. Justice brought to us by the Incarnation of Christ. 3. The glory of God in the free signification [of grace] to men. 997-998

SERMON CLXXXVI. On the Nativity of the Lord, III. — 1. Christ brought forth by a virgin's childbearing. By the Incarnation He did not cease to be God. 2. Without change in the Word, the same became Son of God and of man. The rule of faith, the creed. 3. That the Son of God is the same as the Son of man by the Incarnation. 999-1000

SERMON CLXXXVII. On the Nativity of the Lord, IV. — 1. The wonderful agreement of conflicting attributes in Christ as an infant. 2. That the Word did not depart from the Father by coming into the flesh is shown by a likeness. 3. The Word not changed by the Incarnation. 4. The Word incarnate, God and man. 1001-1002

SERMON CLXXXVIII. On the Nativity of the Lord, V. — 1. The Word of God cannot be unfolded by man. 2. The eternal Word born in time for our sake. 3. The Word an infant, the teacher of humility. 4. Mary bore Christ without loss of her virginity. 1003-1004

SERMON CLXXXIX. On the Nativity of the Lord, VI. — 1. Christ, day from day. 2. The wonderful rising of Christ from a virgin. 3. The benefit of regeneration from the human generation of Christ. 4. The twofold generation of Christ. 1005-1006

SERMON CXC. On the Nativity of the Lord, VII. — 1. Christ chose the day on which He would be born for the sake of a mystery. 2. The two births of Christ. Why He willed to be born of a woman. 3. Christ an infant in the manger for our sake. 4. Christ's nativity to be celebrated. 1007-1008

SERMON CXCI. On the Nativity of the Lord, VIII. — 1. The Word was made flesh that He might bear unworthy things for the unworthy. 2. Christ born with His mother's virginity unharmed. 3. The Church in mind both virgin and mother. 4. Mary's virginity to be imitated. 1009-1011

SERMON CXCII. On the Nativity of the Lord, IX. — 1. How wonderful is the Incarnation of the Son of God for men's sake. 2. For virgins, widows and the married, a cause of joy from Christ's nativity. The Church is mother and virgin. 3. Truth from the earth, justice from heaven. Why Christ was born on the shortest day of the year. 1009-1013

SERMON CXCIII. On the Nativity of the Lord, X. 1013-1015

SERMON CXCIV. On the Nativity of the Lord, XI. — 1. The twofold nativity of Christ. The days of the nativity of Christ and of John. 2. The Word, the food of Angels in heaven, and of men in the manger. 3. Of the Word

vision after this life we shall be satisfied. 4. Conclusion 1015-1017

SERMON CXCV. On the Nativity of the Lord, XII. — 1. The twofold nativity of Christ, both ineffable. 2. Christ the son of a virgin, the bridegroom of a virgin. 3. Why Christ came in the flesh. 1017-1018

SERMON CXCVI. On the Nativity of the Lord, XIII. — 1. There are two nativities of Christ. The Son without beginning always begotten by the Father. 2. Three lives, the married, the widowed and the virginal, bear witness to Christ. 3. God an infant for our sake. 14. The festival of the Kalends of January superstitious. 1019-1020

SERMON CXCVII. On the Kalends of January, I, against the Pagans. 1021

SERMON CXCVIII. On the Kalends of January, II. — 1. The festival of the Kalends of January. 2. Our separation from the Gentiles by Christian faith, hope and charity. 3. Christians are set apart from Pagans by works of piety. False gods delight in the bad morals of their worshippers. 1024-1025

SERMON CXCIX. On the Epiphany of the Lord, I. — 1. Christ at once joins Jews and Gentiles in Himself. 2. The faith of the Magi and, opposite it, the unbelief of the Jews. 3. The error about fates ruled by the stars. 1026-1027

SERMON CC. On the Epiphany of the Lord, II. — 1. The festival of the manifestation of Christ. 2. Herod's terror. 3. The blindness of the Jews at the very enlightenment of the Magi. The Scriptures left with the Jews for the sake of the faith of the Gentiles. 4. The Gentiles cleave to Christ by charity together with the Jews. 1028-1030

SERMON CCI. On the Epiphany of the Lord III. — 1. The manifestation of Christ made to the Gentiles. The star, the tongue of heaven. 2. In Pilate and in the Magi are signified the Gentiles to be gathered from East and West. 3. The Jews, for the salvation of the Gentiles, the custodians of the Scriptures. 1031-1032

SERMON CCII. On the Epiphany of the Lord, IV. — 1. Epiphany, the manifestation of Christ. 2. The firstfruits of the nations offered in the Magi 3. The Jews show forth Christ by their rites and scriptures. 4. The former life not to be resumed after penance. 1033-1035

SERMON CCIII. On the Epiphany of the Lord, V. — 1. The feast of the Epiphany rightly instituted. 2. In the Jews grace came first, in the Gentiles humility was greater. 3. The salvation of all the Gentiles prefigured. 1035-1036

SERMON CCIV. On the Epiphany of the Lord, VI. — 1. Epiphany, the manifestation of Christ. 2. Christ the corner-stone for uniting Jews and Gentiles. 3. Of the Jews some rejected, some chosen. Jacob both blessed and lame. 1037-1038

SERMON CCV. In Lent, I. — 1. In the time of Lent the cross of chastising the body is to be taken up. The Christian ought to hang on the cross perpetually. The cross of our whole life. 2. Works of piety to be practised more fervently through the time of Lent. 3. We must fast above all from quarrels. 1039-1041

SERMON CCVI. In Lent, II. — 1. The time of Lent ought to glow with works of piety and humility. 2. Prayer to be propped up by fasting and almsgiving. Two kinds of alms. In the poor man God is fed. No one is poor in the other kind of alms. 3. Fasts acceptable to God. 1041-1042

SERMON CCVII. In Lent, III. — 1. Alms to be given out at this time above all. 2. What kind of fasting and abstinence is required. Pleasures to be reduced, not exchanged. 3. Let the prayer of one who fasts be free from covetousness and hatred. How prayer makes alms. 1042-1044

SERMON CCVIII. In Lent, IV. — 1. What Lenten abstinence ought to be. Delicacies to be restrained, not exchanged. 2. Works of almsgiving to be enlarged. A kind of almsgiving, to spare one's enemies. 1044-1045

SERMON CCIX. In Lent, V. — 1. Enmities to be ended by the Lenten observance. Three vices by which enmities live. 2. Prayers to be supported by alms. 3. What kind of abstinence is to be undertaken. 1046-1047

SERMON CCX. In Lent, VI. — 1. In Lent the season of the year and the number of the days are to be considered. 2. The question: Why one fasts at that time before the celebration of Baptism. The answer. 3. The Baptism of John to be distinguished from the Baptism of Christ. Why Christ took up the sacraments of the old Law. When temptation comes upon us, we must fast. 4. Why the Lenten fast is before Easter. When the bridegroom is taken away, the sons must mourn. 5. Why we must groan and fast in this life. 6. Fasting most fitting before the solemnity of Christ's passion. 7. The days now of labour and sadness. 8. Why the fast was instituted with the number forty. 9. The time of Lent ought to glow more with abstinence and works of piety. 10. Self-indulgent observers of Lent. 11. Abstinence from delicate wine 12. Works of mercy towards the poor. The other kind of mercy, in forgiving. 1047-1053

SERMON CCXI. In Lent, VII. — 1. Quarrels to be ended in Lent. The pact of forgiving so that it may be forgiven us. Anger is one thing, and hatred another. 2. He who hates is in darkness and in prison. We must forgive, that you may be able to say the Lord's Prayer. 4. He is safe before God who, when he asks, is refused pardon by his brother. On those who are ashamed to ask pardon of a man. Pardon to be asked of some only silently and by coaxing. 5. How one is to forgive from the heart one who will not ask pardon.

6. Offences to be forgiven after the example of Christ. 1054-1057

SERMON CCXII. On the handing over of the Creed, I. — 1. Whence the Creed [symbolum] is so called. 2. Why the Creed is to be held in memory. 1058-1060

SERMON CCXIII. On the handing over of the Creed, II. — 1. What the Creed is. How God is almighty. 2. Christ the only Son of God. How He was made flesh. Christ our only Saviour. 3. How Christ the Son of God died and was buried. 4. The right hand of God, eternal happiness. 5. Our Saviour, our judge and advocate. 6. On the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit must be so understood that He is not believed to be less than the Son, nor less than the Father. 7. The holy Catholic Church, which was found a harlot, and made a virgin. Like Mary, she both bears and is a virgin. 8. The remission of sins in Baptism and in the Lord's Prayer. A daily Baptism. 9. What kind of resurrection of the flesh is promised. 1060-1065

SERMON CCXIV. On the handing over of the Creed, III. — 1. Why the Creed of faith was instituted. 2. We must believe in God almighty, the creator of all things. 3. The Almighty is not overcome by the wicked who do many things against His will. 4. The Almighty cannot do only that which He does not will. 5. Christ the only Son of God. 6. The birth of Christ of the Holy Spirit from the Virgin. 7. Christ the Son of God crucified, dead and buried. 8. Christ's resurrection and ascension. The sitting at the right hand of the Father. 9. Christ will come as judge in visible form. 10. The Holy Spirit, proceeding from the Father, God. The mystery of the Trinity. 11. The holy Catholic Church, the pillar and ground of truth. The remission of sins. 12. The resurrection of the flesh. Conclusion. 1065-1072

SERMON CCXV. On the giving back of the Creed. — 1. The Creed of faith to be always turned over in the mind. 2. What is to be believed about God. 3. About Christ. His birth eternal and temporal, both ineffable. He was born in the flesh with His mother's virginity unharmed. Mary conceived by believing, without a man. Christ was born in the flesh for our sake. 5. He died for us. The cross not to be ashamed of. 6. Faith in Christ's resurrection. This faith marks out Christians. 7. Christ's sitting at the right hand of the Father. 8. On the Holy Spirit, the remission of sins, etc. 9. We must live in the Catholic Church. 1072-1076

SERMON CCXVI. To the Competentes. — 1. Who the Competentes are. 2. He exhorts them to renounce the world. 3. Let them think of buying the kingdom of heaven. 4. Turned to God, let them strive towards eternal life. 5. Let them mourn here with desire of eternal life, and mortify their members. 6. What contest is declared against them. Exorcism by the adjuration of Christ's name. Curses against the devil. The expulsion of the devil. 7. Let them co-operate with Christ and the Church towards the spiritual [birth] of those being reborn. 8. The grace of the new regeneration. 9. Spiritual ages. 10. Pride to be avoided and vigilance to be used. 11. How great the mercy of God: how one must take refuge in it. 1076-1082

SERMON CCXVII. On the prayer of Christ, Father, I will that those whom Thou hast given Me be with Me where I am. John chapter XVII, verse 24 (John 17:24). — 1. Christ prays, and gives what He prays for. 2. The good place to which we must move from this bad place. 3. By acting well in the bad place, one reaches the good place. The days of Lent, the days of the Fifty Days after Easter. 1083-1084

SERMON CCXVIII. On the Passion of the Lord, on Good Friday. — 1. The mysteries of the Lord's Passion to be explained. 2. What it signifies that Christ carried His own cross. 3. The place of Calvary. 4. The thieves on the right and on the left. 5. The title above the cross. 6. Why written in three languages. 7. The Jews pleading with Pilate about changing the title. 8. The garments divided into four parts 9. The seamless tunic committed to the lot. 10. The mother commended by the dying [Son]. 11. Vinegar given on a sponge. 12. The last cry and the bowing of the head. 13. The legs of the thieves, not of Christ, broken. 14. Blood and water from the wound in the side. 15. Joseph and Nicodemus burying [Him]. 1084-1087

SERMON CCXIX. On the Easter Vigil, I. — The sacred vigils. How they are to be celebrated. 1087

SERMON CCXX. On the Easter Vigil, II, — Who died for us. The solemnity of Easter. 1089

SERMON CCXXI. On the Easter Vigil, III. — That in Genesis the days are reckoned from the light, now from the night. ibid.

SERMON CCXXII. On the Easter Vigil, IV. — We must keep watch against the devil. The devil and his angels the rulers of the world. In which heavenly places they dwell. The devil cast out from the hearts of the godly. 1090

SERMON CCXXIII. On the Easter Vigil, V. — 1. The day, the baptized faithful. He exhorts them to imitate the good, to tolerate the bad. 2. The mixture of good and bad in the Church. 1092

SERMON CCXXIV. On Easter Day, I, to the people and to the Infants, that is, those baptized on that day. — 1. The grace conferred on the baptized. 2. The devil makes the sins of the flesh light, though they are grave and deadly. 3. The incontinent are rebuked and excommunicated. Every concubine besides a wife is a harlot. 4. The correction of morals not to be put off. 1093-1095

SERMON CCXXV. On Easter Day, II, to the Infants. — 1. What Christ was before the Incarnation. 2. The Incarnation of Christ is the work of the whole Trinity. The purpose of virginity in Mary. 3. How by the Incarnation the Word did not depart from the Father

4. Drunkenness must be guarded against. Holy drunkenness. 1095-1098

SERMON CCXXVI. On Easter Day, III, to the people and to the Infants. 1098

SERMON CCXXVII. On Easter Day IV, to the Infants, on the Sacraments. 1100

SERMON CCXXVIII. On Easter Day V, to the people and to the Infants. — 1. Days assigned to the Sacraments of the Infants. Let the other faithful give the Infants examples of uprightness. 2 He exhorts the Infants to imitate the good. 3. The sermon owed to the Infants, on the Sacrament of the altar. 1101-1102

SERMON CCXXIX. On the Sacraments of the faithful, on Easter Monday. 1103

SERMON CCXXX. In the Easter days, I. — On the verse of Psalm CXVII 24 (Ps. 117:24), This is the day which the Lord has made. ibid.

SERMON CCXXXI. In the Easter days, II, on the resurrection of Christ according to Mark. — 1. The disciples, not believing, deservedly rebuked. 2. What the sacrament of the passion and resurrection of Christ is Sin the parent of death. 3. A good life comprises death and resurrection. 4. What it is to live well. To seek the happy life on earth is a lie. 5. Where the happy life is to be sought. 1104-1106

SERMON CCXXXII. In the Easter days, III, on the resurrection of Christ according to Luke. — 1. The resurrection customarily read according to the four Evangelists. The Passion only according to Matthew. 2. The unbelief of the disciples when the resurrection of Christ was heard. 3. The disciples go off into the opinions of outsiders about Christ. Peter's confession of Christ. 4. Peter's merely human thought about Christ soon after. 5. Neither was death owed to Christ, nor life to us. 6. How great the thief's faith, while the disciples waver. 7. The Lord is recognized in the breaking of bread. 8. To penitents. 1107-1111

SERMON CCXXXIII. In the Easter days, IV, on the resurrection of Christ according to Mark. — 1. Faith in the resurrection proper to Christians. 2. The salvation promised to believers to be distinguished from temporal safety. Christ is the fountain of life. 4. True salvation not found here by Christ. Christ born mortal, that He might take away death. 5. Death died in Christ. 1112-1114

SERMON CCXXXIV. In the Easter days, V, on the resurrection of Christ according to Luke. — 1. The four Gospels ought to be read. The four Evangelists necessary. 2. The disciples, doubting about Christ, surpassed by the thief. 3. Faith distinguishing Christians from Pagans and Jews. 1115-1116

SERMON CCXXXV. In the Easter days, VI, on the same reading of the Gospel of Luke, chapter XXIV, verses 13-31 (Luke 24:13–31). — 1. The Evangelists vary without harm to the truth of the narrative. 2. Christ with the disciples on the way. 3. Why Christ willed to be recognized in the breaking of bread. The reward of hospitality. 4. Christ withdrew Himself in body, that faith might be built up. 1117-1119

SERMON CCXXXVI. In the Easter days, VII, on the same reading of the Gospel of Luke, chapter XXIV, verses 13-31 (Luke 24:13–31). — 1. The death of Christ for one purpose, and the resurrection for another. 2. Hope taken from the disciples by the death of Christ. 3. The merit of hospitality. 1120-1121

SERMON CCXXXVII. In the Easter days, VIII, on the last reading of the Gospel of Luke, chapter XXIV, verses 37-39 (Luke 24:37–39), with a refutation of the Manichaeans. — 1. The Manichaeans like the disciples who thought they saw a spirit, not the flesh of Christ. Those who deny the flesh of Christ empty out the whole mystery of our redemption. 2. Those who say that He was a spirit without flesh do not think better of Christ. 3. The error of the Manichaeans condemned in the rebuke of the disciples. The disciples, thinking that they saw a spirit, are rebuked. 4. What is to be believed about Christ. The Word of God. By the Incarnation He took up the whole man. 1122-1124

SERMON CCXXXVIII. In the Easter days, IX, on the same reading of the Gospel of Luke, chapter XXIV, verses 38-47 (Luke 24:38–47). — 1. The true Christ and the true Church are recognized from the passage of Luke. 2. Against the Manichaeans and Priscillianists. 3. Against the Donatists, that the Church is spread through the whole world. 1125-1126

SERMON CCXXXIX. In the Easter days, X, on the resurrection of Christ according to Mark and Luke. — 1. The resurrection customarily read according to the four Evangelists. 2. Christ is recognized in the breaking of bread. Why Christ willed to be a guest. 3. Elijah is sent to the widow to be fed, that a benefit might be bestowed on the one who feeds him. 4. Let him who helps the poor man not lift himself above him. 5. We must lend at interest to God. 6. Why Christ became needy. 7. Christ is in need in the poor man. 112⟨ ⟩-1129

SERMON CCXL. In the Easter days, XI, on the resurrection of bodies, against the Gentiles. — 1. The variety among the Evangelists in the history of the resurrection without discord. A defence of the faith necessary for the wavering. 2. The resurrection is proved against unbelievers from the omnipotence of God. 3. The flesh will rise without defect. Sin the cause of all calamities. 4. The opinions of the philosophers on the condition of the soul after death. 5. The wisdom of the world foolishness to God. The resurrection promised to the godly who believe in the Mediator. 1130-1132

SERMON CCXLI. In the Easter days, XII, on the resurrection of bodies, against the Gentiles. — 1. The resurrection, the faith of Christians

God known by the philosophers from the works of the world. 2. The beauty of creatures is a confession of the Creator. How the philosophers came from the knowledge of man to the knowledge of God. 3. The philosophers, after knowing God, idolaters. 4. What the philosophers thought about the state of souls after death. 5. Virgil is not pleased with the doctrine of the souls' return into bodies. That souls cannot be blessed under that opinion. 6. Hope here is happier than that happiness. 7. Porphyry's opinion on fleeing every body. It is refuted. 8. It is confuted again from Plato's words. 1133-1138

SERMON CCXLII. In the Paschal days, XIII, on the resurrection of bodies, against the Gentiles. — 1. Faith in the resurrection, though manifestly proved, is imprudently attacked by men. 2. Against the resurrection of the flesh they object: if there will be no corruption, why will one eat? 3. If the blemishes of the flesh will not rise again, why scars in Christ? 4. What the resurrection of little children is like. 5. How will an earthly body be in heaven? 6. Christ's body in heaven. 7. What otherwise cannot happen happens when God wills. 8. The order of bodies from the diversity of weights. An earthly body upon the water against the order of weights. 9. Lead upon the water. 10. The swifter motion of certain heavier bodies. 11. Bodies spiritual after the resurrection: why so called. 12. The promise of the resurrection is confirmed by so many other promises of God already fulfilled. 1138-1143

SERMON CCXLIII. In the Paschal days, XIV, on the resurrection of the Lord according to John, on that text of chapter XX, verse 17, "Do not touch Me; for I have not yet ascended to My Father." And on the use of the members after the resurrection. — 1. A difficulty in the words of the Lord, Who was unwilling to be touched by Mary before the ascension. 2. What it is to touch Christ. 3. A difficulty about the use of the members after the resurrection. 4. The members of the body will be either for use or for beauty. The harmony of the members. 5. Neither the inner members nor the hearts themselves will be hidden after the resurrection. 6. Some members are for use, others for comeliness. 7. In the bodies of the blessed, beauty will be perfect in every respect. 8. What the activity of the blessed will be. The forty days before Easter and the fifty days after Easter. Alleluia. In the life to come, the praise of God without ceasing, without weariness. 1143-1147

SERMON CCXLIV. In the Paschal days, XV, on the same reading of the Gospel of John, chapter XX, verses 1-18. — 1. Neither the Magdalene nor the apostles believed in the resurrection of Christ. Peter's faith swallowed up when the Lord had suffered. 2. Christ is recognized by the Magdalene. A difficulty in the Lord's words to the Magdalene. 3. What the disciples' faith about Christ was like before the resurrection. What is to be believed about Christ. To touch Christ is to believe in Him. What kind of touch of faith Christ requires. 4. The Arians and Photinians do not touch Christ with right faith. 1147-1150

SERMON CCXLV. In the Paschal days, XVI, on the same reading of the Gospel of John, chapter XX, verses 1-18. — 1. The apostles did not believe that Christ had risen. 2. A difficulty in Christ's words to the Magdalene. 3. "Do not touch," that is, do not believe Me to be a man only. 4. The sense of the Lord's words. 1151-1153

SERMON CCXLVI. In the Paschal days, XVII, on the same reading of the Gospel of John, chapter XX, verses 1-18. — 1. The variety of the evangelists without falsehood. 2. The disciples believe the Lord's body has been taken away. 3. Christ's appearing to the Magdalene. 4. How Christ's words to the Magdalene are to be understood. To touch by faith. 5. Why Christ says distinctly, "My Father and your Father," etc. 6. Conclusion. 1153-1156

SERMON CCXLVII. In the Paschal days, XVIII, on another reading of the Gospel of John, chapter XX, verses 19-31. — 1. The resurrection recited from the four Gospels. 2. The miracle of Christ entering to the disciples through closed doors is made credible from other miracles. 3. It is confirmed from the Lord's saying about the camel, which, when God does it, can enter through the eye of a needle. 1156-1158

SERMON CCXLVIII. In the Paschal days, XIX, on the reading of the Gospel of John, chapter XXI, verses 1-14; and on the two catches of fish, one before the passion, the other after the resurrection. — 1. The fishing at the sea of Tiberias not without a mystery. In the two catches, a figure of the Church present and to come. 2. The first catch. 3. The second catch. 4. What mystery the number of the fish holds. No one fulfils the commandments unless helped by grace. 1158-1160

SERMON CCXLIX. In the Paschal days, XX, on the same reading and on the two catches of fish. — 1. The fishing done at the Lord's command was twofold. 2. The two catches foreshadow the state of the Church present and to come. 3. That God's commandments are fulfilled only through grace is understood in the number of the fish caught. 1161-1162

SERMON CCL. In the Paschal days, XXI, on the same subject. — 1. Why men of low birth were chosen first by Christ. 2. The difference and mystery of the two catches. In the first catch, the good and the bad who are to be gathered are signified. The danger from the prosperity of the wicked. Schisms. 3. The other catch. The number of the fish told in this one alone. The law without grace avails nothing. The division of the ten commandments. God's help necessary for fulfilling the law. 1163-1167

SERMON CCLI. In the Paschal days, XXII, likewise on the same subject. — 1. Two catches of fish made at the Lord's command. 2. By the other catch the number of the elect is signified. The net cast to the right, because only the good are to be gathered. The number refers to the elect; beyond the number, to the reprobate. 3. The shore, the end of the world. The net not torn, because there are no heresies. Who is great and who is least in the kingdom of heaven. 4. Great in the kingdom of heaven. 5. What the number of a hundred and fifty-three fish signifies. The Holy Spirit commended by the number seven. Our full sanctification. 6. The law is not fulfilled without God's help. The law is fulfilled not by fear of punishment but by love of justice. 7. The word of God our adversary. 1167-1171

SERMON CCLII. In the Paschal days, XXIII, again on the same reading. — 1. The fishing done at the Lord's command not without a mystery. The other catch before the passion. 2. The difference between the two catches. The nets, the word of God; the sea, the world. 3. Two boats, two peoples. The danger of sinking from the multitude. The ship of the Jews is imperilled. 4. The ship of the Gentiles. The torn nets, heresies and schisms. 5. On the Lord's threshing floor there is always some chaff with the wheat. The winds blow the chaff back onto the floor. 6. Those who seek carnal things, whether they are within or without, are chaff. Chaff can become wheat. 7. The Church after the resurrection is signified as going to have none but the good. 8. What the hundred and fifty-three fish signify. 9. The fifty days and the Alleluia after Easter are of ancient tradition. 10. The mystery of the numbers fifty and forty. The number forty signifies this time. 11. To the forty well spent a ten is added. The number fifty signifies the Church to come. 12. Forty days before Easter, and fifty after. A carnal celebration of feasts. Perfect beatitude. 1171-1178

SERMON CCLIII. In the Paschal days, XXIV, on the last reading of the Gospel of John, chapter XXI, verses 15-25. — 1. Peter, because of his threefold denial, asked three times about his love. 2. Christ asks that the love owed to Him be spent on His sheep. 3. Peter, weak of himself before, now ripe for the passion by the grace of Christ. 4. A question on the Lord's words: in what way He wills John to remain until He comes. 5. Those words of the Lord can be understood in two ways: first, of a passion not to be undergone by John; second, of John's Gospel, which is not well understood except in the happiness to come. 1179-1181

SERMON CCLIV. In the Paschal days, XXV. — 1. The time of sorrow comes before the time of joy. 2. Whence sorrow ought to come. A penitence not to be repented of. 3. The dung applied to the fruitless tree a figure of penitence. 4. Sorrow over the things of the world is ruinous. What is to be mourned here. 5. What the two seasons, of Quadragesima and Quinquagesima, signify. What Alleluia is. 6. God a debtor because He promised, not because He received. We are unable to repay anything to God. 7. Man has nothing of his own but falsehood. 8. God is to be praised now and always. 1182-1185

SERMON CCLV. In the Paschal days, XXVI, on the Alleluia. — 1. The Alleluia, the solace of the devout here, will be the only activity of the blessed. 2. The different duties of Mary and Martha. 3. God's benefits towards all, both good and bad. Health from God. 4. That God keeps something for the good. Wherein men and the sons of men differ. 5. The delight of God's praise promised to the devout, which is not given to the impious. 6. Two lives foreshadowed in Martha and Mary. The one thing necessary, the enjoyment of God, will be to the blessed in place of all goods. 7. Carnal thinking about the happiness to come. Carnal joy comes from sickness of mind. Our true health, immortality. Earthly riches proofs not of resources but of weakness. 1186-1189

SERMON CCLVI. In the Paschal days, XXVII, again on the Alleluia. — 1. God must be praised with life and tongue. 2. The error of some, that the flesh does not belong to man. 3. How the Alleluia is to be sung here amid the dangers of temptations. 1190-1192

SERMON CCLVII. In the Paschal days, XXVIII, on the verse of Psalm CXV, 11 (Ps. 115:11), "Every man is a liar." — 1. God is to be praised with the heart. 2. Man, a liar of his own, should flee to God, that he may be truthful. 3. Peter, a liar of himself, truthful by God's gift. 1193-1194

SERMON CCLVIII. In the Paschal days, XXIX, on the verse of Psalm CXVII 24 (Ps. 117:24), "This is the day which the Lord has made." — 1. The day made by the Lord, the Church of Christ from Jews and Gentiles. 2. The baptized made day out of darkness. 3. Thomas made day. 1194-1196

SERMON CCLIX. On the Sunday of the octave of Easter. — 1. The aim of Christians ought to be towards the life to come. 2. The mystery of the eighth and seventh day. The kingdom of Christ and of the saints on earth after the separation of the wicked. The sabbath rest of the saints on earth. 3. He commends works of mercy. 4. Works of mercy ought to outweigh our offences. Mercy twofold. 5. Alms to be given with humility and cheerfulness. 6. Holidays. 1196-1201

SERMON CCLX. On the same day. — 1. The octave of the newly baptized. False believers. Continence to be kept by each according to his rank. One who does not fulfil a vow of continence is condemned. 1201

SERMON CCLXI. On the fortieth day, of the Ascension of the Lord, I

— 1. The Lord's Ascension is to be celebrated in such a way that we ascend with Him. The heart lifted up: when it is of piety, when of pride. 2. Christ always God. Vanity seeks the knowledge of God by disputing, piety by believing. 3. Paul's modesty in the knowledge of God. 4. The heart must be cleansed, so that God may be seen. 5. God wills to dwell in a clean heart. Man serves avarice, not God 6. Darkness: lusts and evil works. 7. God made man remains always God. One person, God and man, in Christ. 8. Both commandments of love are fulfilled towards Christ. 9. Good works to be practised often. Besides grave crimes there are other, lesser sins. 10. Daily remedies. Lesser sins overwhelm by their number. 11. Conclusion. 1202-1207

SERMON CCLXII. On the day of the Ascension of the Lord, II. — 1. The solemnity of Saint Leontius. 2. On the same subject. 3. Faith in the Ascension and its celebration through the whole world. 4. The prophecy of Christ's Ascension. 5. The Church the glory of Christ. 1207-1208

SERMON CCLXIII. On the Ascension of the Lord, III. — 1. The glorification and victory of Christ is completed by the resurrection and ascension. Christ, lion and lamb. The devil, a lion. The devil's mousetrap. 2. Christ's Ascension the pledge of our ascension. 3. That Christ ascended with His body. 4. Why Christ fasted forty days, and spent as many days with the disciples after the resurrection. 1209-1211

SERMON CCLXIV. On the Ascension of the Lord, IV. — 1. Something must be said of the mystery of Christ's ascension. 2. Christ after the resurrection keeps company with the disciples, so that they may be strengthened in faith. He ascends into heaven, so that they may not remain in the flesh. 3. The Son of God, equal to the Father by nature, made weak by mercy even unto death. 4. Christ wills to go away, so that with the flesh absent His divinity may be thought of. The Son of God not less in Himself through the incarnation. 5. Christ after the resurrection spends forty days with the disciples, to signify that faith in the incarnation is always necessary here. 6. The resurrection of the flesh to come. 7. The mystery of the Trinity. 1212-1218

SERMON CCLXV. On the Ascension of the Lord V. — 1. The truth of the resurrection confirmed by Christ spending forty days with the disciples. 2. Christ's coming to judgement foretold. 3. The disciples' inquiry about the time of Christ's future coming. 4. Christ's answer. 5 Christ a good master, teaching what it profits to know. 6. One Church spread everywhere is preached against the schismatics. 7. Christ's last words despised by the schismatics. Christ's seamless tunic. 8. Christ's two glorifications. The Holy Spirit given twice. 9. The Holy Spirit given twice for this reason, that the two commandments of charity might be commended. 10. Charity the gift of the Holy Spirit. 11. Charity is not had outside the Church. 12. How often the unity of the Church was commended by Christ once glorified. 1218-1224

SERMON CCLXVI. On the vigil of Pentecost, on the verse of Psalm CXL, 5 (Ps. 140:5), "The just man shall correct me," etc. Against the Donatists. 2. The coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. The unity of the Catholic Church signified by the gift of tongues. 3. The gift of the Holy Spirit is not of the human minister but of God. The error of the Donatists, that the Holy Spirit is not given except through holy ministers. 4. The Holy Spirit sometimes given without the ministry of men. 5. Philip the deacon other than the apostle. The Holy Spirit given to Cornelius without the laying on of hands and before Baptism. 7. From these he refutes the Donatists. 8. The one who rebukes is to be loved, the flatterer to be shunned. 1225-1229

SERMON CCLXVII. On the day of Pentecost, I. — 1. The solemnity of the coming of the Holy Spirit. 2. The gift of tongues. 3. Why the gift of tongues is not granted now. 4. The Holy Spirit, as the soul of the body of the Church, is not had outside it. 1229-1231

SERMON CCLXVIII. On the day of Pentecost, II. — 1. The Holy Spirit commends the unity of the Catholic Church by the gift of tongues. 2. The Holy Spirit is not had outside the Church. 3. Unity commended in the creation of things and in Christ's birth. 4. Christ commends the unity of the Catholic Church to the apostles. 1231-1233

SERMON CCLXIX. On the day of Pentecost III. — 1. The coming of the Holy Spirit with the gift of tongues foretells the unity of the Church through all nations. Against the Donatists. 2. That schismatics, even if they have Baptism, yet do not have the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit given through the Sacraments and without the Sacraments. 3. That schismatics are carnal and do not have the Holy Spirit. That the Donatists lack charity. 4. That by their deeds they cannot say, "Lord Jesus." 1234-1236

SERMON CCLXX. On the day of Pentecost IV. — 1. Something must be said of the Holy Spirit: why He was sent on the fiftieth day after Easter. 2. Why the Holy Spirit could not come unless Christ went away. The humanity of Christ, to which they clung with human affection, had to be taken away from the disciples' eyes. The rock on which the Church is built is Christ Himself. 3. Why the Holy Spirit came on the tenth day after the fortieth day, that of the Ascension. The sacrament of the number forty. The mystery of the number ten. The Holy Spirit came on the tenth day, to signify that the law is fulfilled through grace. How the law without grace is the letter that kills. The Holy Spirit sent that the law might be fulfilled. 4. The law by charity

is fulfilled, not by fear of punishment. One fear is chaste, another servile. Charity from the Holy Spirit. 5. The Holy Spirit commended in the number seven. The sanctification and rest of the seventh day. 6. The law commended through the number ten, and the Holy Spirit through the number seven, in the number fifty. 7. On the two catches of fish, and on the hundred and fifty-three fish caught after the resurrection. 1237-1243

SERMON CCLXXI. On the day of Pentecost, V. 1243

SERMON CCLXXII. On the day of Pentecost, the last, to the newly baptized, on the Sacrament. 1246

THIRD CLASS. — SERMONS ON THE SAINTS. 1247-1248

SERMON CCLXXIII. On the birthday of the martyrs Fructuosus the bishop, Augurius and Eulogius the deacons. — 1. Death of the soul is to be feared, not of the body. God the life of the soul. 2. The solemnities of the martyrs for the exhortation of the faithful. Saint Fructuosus's answer. 3. The answer of Eulogius the deacon. The martyrs to be honoured, God to be worshipped. Worship paid by the Pagans to dead men. 4. Temple and sacrifice owed to the one true God. 5. The spices, the saints and martyrs. 6. Blessed Agnes. The gods of the Pagans not to be compared with the martyrs, 7. Temples and sacrifices are offered not to the martyrs but to God alone. The martyrs are named at the altar in a better place. 8. The saints shudder at having the worship owed to God paid to themselves 9. On the days of the martyrs we must think about following in their footsteps. The martyrs to be praised and loved, the God of the martyrs to be worshipped. 1247-1252

SERMON CCLXXIV. On the birthday of the martyr Vincent, I. — Vincent conquered everywhere. One redeemed by Christ's blood does not perish. Patience a gift of God. A perfect victory over all the enemy's engines. 1252

SERMON CCLXXV. On the birthday of the martyr Vincent, II. — 1. Vincent's fortitude in his torments from Christ's help. The cause, not the punishment, marks out martyrs. 2. The devil more tortured in Vincent's tortures than Vincent. 3. The martyr's lifeless body not deprived of divine protection. Honour won for the relics of the saints by God. 1254-1255

SERMON CCXXVI. On the feast of the martyr Vincent, III. — 1. The martyr's fortitude is from Christ. 2. The world's twofold battle line against Christ's soldiers, allurements and terrors. 3. Vincent was not so much laid waste by his torments as Dacian. 4. Vincent's glory after his passion, even in this world. 1255-1257

SERMON CCLXXVII. On the feast of the martyr Vincent, IV, in which it is discussed concerning the spiritual body after the resurrection, and whether God can be seen by the eyes of such a body. — 1. Vincent's unconquered corpse. The relics of the saints for the consolation of the faithful. The bodies of the saints given to the Churches as memorials for prayer, not for the glory of the martyrs. 2. The martyr, by not sparing the body, takes care for it. Judgement, meaning eternal punishment. 3. The martyrs did not despise the body, but took good care for it. 4. The body's glory after the resurrection. The health of the body, the concord of the parts of which it consists. 5. Health is to feel nothing, that is, nothing troublesome and burdensome. 6. Dacian raging against a dead body. To live in the body and feel nothing of its burden is to be healthy. The burden of the body always remains in this life. 7. Something to be sought in this body from which the swiftness of the future spiritual body may be understood. 8. Something to be said of the spiritual body as occasion offers. 9. The swiftness of the heavenly bodies. 10. The swiftness of the eye's ray. 11. The resurrection compared to the swiftness of the ray sent out from the eye. 12. From the ease of the resurrection to come the ease of the spiritual body is to be understood. This more wonderful than the swiftness of the eye's ray. 13. Whether God will be seen through the spiritual body. God cannot be seen in a place after the manner of a body. 14. Whether a substance which is not seen in a place can be seen through a spiritual body is still undiscovered. 15. What is already certain about the spiritual body and about the invisible nature of God. 16. Whether the vision of God is promised to the flesh. The salvation of God. Christ will be seen through the flesh by all flesh. 17. Simeon saw here with his eyes the salvation of God. Christ visible at the judgement to come. 18. What is to be held concerning the difficulty proposed, and concerning God and the future spiritual body. 1257-1267

SERMON CCLXXVIII. For the solemnity of the conversion of Saint Paul. I, on the calling of the apostle Paul, and on the commendation of the Lord's Prayer. — 1. Paul from a persecutor made a preacher of Christ. An example of God's grace given in Paul, so that no sinner may despair. 2. To fall sick and to recover are not equally in man's power. From man's free will the seed of death. Who is properly a physician. 3. The sick man becomes healthy only little by little by keeping the physician's precepts. 4. With the physician's precepts even the pain of the incision is to be borne. 5. How Christ the physician heals us little by little. 6. An antidote against all sins. Two commandments are opposed to two kinds of sins. 7. He sins against God who corrupts His temple in himself. 8. Corrupters of themselves, not innocent. Who is innocent. 9. Moderation in the use of things permitted is held with difficulty. The use of a wife immoderate unless it is done for the sake of begetting children. 10. God Himself is offended by the immoderate use of things permitted. A remedy against sins of such immoderation. 11. If that remedy is despised, no hope of salvation remains. 12. Grave sins, which require the labour of penance

more vehement. Light sins crush by their number, unless they are forgiven by God. 13. To bail out the bilge, by forgiving debts to our debtors. 14. Hatred must be laid aside quickly, lest it corrupt the heart. 1268-1274

SERMON CCLXXIX. For the solemnity of the conversion of the apostle Paul, II. — 1. In Paul's change Jacob's prophecy about Benjamin is fulfilled. 2. Paul is led to Ananias, the wolf captive to the sheep. 3. Christ meek and humble, when He neither is silent nor grows gentle. 4. Towards Paul He shows both: He is not silent and He does not grow gentle. 5. Whence Saul was named. Paul, small and humble. 6. God exalts the humble. 7. One must not be ashamed of Christ crucified. 8. Why one must not be ashamed of Christ's death. Christ took up our two evils, to give His two goods. 9. Not temporal death is to be feared, but eternal. 1275-1280

SERMON CCLXXX. On the birthday of the martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, I. — 1. Perpetua and Felicity obtained the reward of perpetual felicity by a glorious martyrdom. 2. The glory of the martyrs. 3. Why the martyrs' rewards are the greatest. The love of this toilsome life. 4. The martyrs despised both death and pains for Christ. 5. The felicity of the martyrs, one before the resurrection, another after. 6. The solemnities of the martyrs: in what spirit to be celebrated. The martyrs pity us and pray for us. 1280-1283

SERMON CCLXXXI. On the birthday of the martyrs Perpetua and Felicity II. — 1. In Perpetua and Felicity Christ unconquered. 2. Perpetua's victory over the devil. 3. Felicity's childbirth and martyrdom. 1284

SERMON CCLXXXII. On the birthday of the martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, III. — 1. On the names of the martyrs Perpetua and Felicity. 2. Women victorious over the enemy. 3. Why the names of their companion martyrs are not celebrated equally. 1285

SERMON CCLXXXIII. On the birthday of the martyrs of Massilia. — 1. The grace of God to be preached on the feasts of the martyrs. Pleasure and pain, two incitements to sin. 2. Patience and continence are gifts of God. 3. We have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit which is from God. 4. True and false patience. Against the Donatists. 1286-1287

SERMON CCLXXXIV. On the birthday of the martyrs Marian and James. — 1. The patience of the martyrs, a gift of God. 2. The martyrs tempted by the blandishments of carnal parents. Mary, Marian's mother, exults in her son's passion. 3. The fortitude of the martyrs not from themselves, but from God. 4. From multiplicity the heart is turned to the one by God's grace. The martyrs, by the love of the one delight, God, victors amid the world's blandishments and harshness. 5. The Church commends herself to the prayers of the martyrs. The full victory of the martyrs. The Lord's threefold temptation relating to allurements. Another kind of temptation in torments. 6. An example of patience given in the Lord and in the martyrs our fellow servants. 1288-1292

SERMON CCLXXXV. On the birthday of the martyrs Castus and Aemilius. — 1. The solemnities of the martyrs are to be celebrated in such a way that it delights us to imitate them. 2. Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr. The faith of the thief on the cross changed the cause of his suffering. Three crosses. Christ's cross, a judge's tribunal. 3. The gifts of grace are given from the depth of God's judgement. Presumptuous Peter is forsaken for a little while, so that he may be shown to himself. God hates the presumptuous. 4. Whence Castus and Aemilius were at first conquered in their torments, whence afterwards victors. 5. The martyrs our advocates, and yet our one advocate is Christ. 6. Outside the Church not Christ's sheep but goats are pastured by the schismatics. The cry of the Donatists. 7. The martyrs to be honoured in the unity of the Church. 1293-1297

SERMON CCLXXXVI. On the birthday of the martyrs Protasius and Gervasius. 1. Martyrs in Greek are witnesses in Latin. Not everyone who believes in Christ is His witness even unto death. Three degrees of believers. 2. Peter before the Lord's death weaker than the martyrs and than certain girls. Peter dies by denying in order to live. 3. The martyrs assert Christ more when dead than when alive. Their death precious. 4. The discovery of Protasius and Gervasius made illustrious by miracles. 5. Through the martyrs health is not given to all, but immortality is given to their imitators. The sick man is not heard according to his will, but for his healing. 6. More was granted to the martyrs and the Maccabees than to the three youths freed from the fire. 7. Booklets on the miracles of the martyrs read in church. Martyrdom in bed. 1297-1300

SERMON CCLXXXVII. On the birthday of Saint John the Baptist, I. — 1. The birthday of Christ and of John alone celebrated by the Church. 2. Christ has a birthday here as man, not as God. 3. Both births wonderful, Christ's and John's, though so great is the distance between them. 4. What the difference between Christ and John on the day of birth and in the passion signified. 1301-1302

SERMON CCLXXXVIII. On the birthday of John the Baptist, II, on the voice and the word. — 1. The celebration of the nativity of Saint John. 2. John, more than a prophet, commends Christ by casting himself down. 3. What difference there is between voice and word. 4. There is need of the ministry of the voice for the word to be conveyed into the mind of the hearer. 5. The ministry of the voice is lessened as the mind's progress towards the Word grows. 1302-1306

SERMON CCLXXXIX. On the birthday of John the Baptist, III. — 1. John not without cause born so wonderfully and so great.

2. John a man only, Christ God and man. 3. John so excellent a man that he was thought to be the Christ. John's testimony about himself and about Christ. 4. John guards against a proud usurpation of the name of Christ. 5. John the forerunner the greatest man, so that Christ may be recognized as more than man. 6. Not John alone, but the apostles also are lamps. The lampstand of the lamp, the cross of Christ. 1308-1311

SERMON CCXC. On the birthday of John the Baptist, IV. — 1. John's testimony about Christ, and Christ's about John. 2. Why the birthday of Christ and of John is celebrated, and not that of others. 3. John so great a man for this reason: that by humbling himself before Christ he might show Him to be more than man. 4. Zechariah and Mary use almost the same words, not the same unbelief. 5. Zechariah asks by despairing, Mary by inquiring. The grace of God at its greatest in the incarnation of the Word. 6. The rich, that is the proud, are to be emptied; and the hungry, that is the humble, to be filled. The Pharisee, rich; the Publican, poor. 7. The Lord's judgement on the Pharisee and the Publican. He refutes the Pelagians, prouder than the Pharisee himself. 1312-1315

SERMON CCXCI. On the birthday of John the Baptist, V. — 1. John's nativity wonderful because of Christ. 2. From John's greatness the majesty of Christ is to be understood. 3. The angel sent to Zechariah and to Mary. How Zechariah's prayer was heard. 4. Mary blessed among women. 5. The like question of Zechariah and Mary, the unlike spirit. The resolve of virginity, 6. Mary by grace the mother of the Son of God. 1316-1319

SERMON CCXCII. On the birthday of John the Baptist, VI, in which there is a disputation against the Donatists. — 1. Why John's nativity is celebrated, and not that of others. 2. Why so great a man as John was not among the Lord's disciples, but had disciples alongside the Lord. The proud cries of the Donatists. 3. Christ was baptized and incarnate to teach the way of humility. 4. Why He willed to be baptized by John. 5. The Donatists wrongly transfer the Gospel passage on the tree and its fruit to the minister of Baptism. 6. The Donatists are convicted of boasting themselves in place of Christ. 7. How the Gospel passage on the tree and the fruit is to be understood. 8. From the words of John and of the Apostle he refutes the Donatists. 1319-1326

SERMON CCXCIII. On the nativity of John, VII. — 1. A comparison of John and Christ in their nativity. 2. John a kind of boundary between the Old and New Testament. Therefore he is born of old people, and leaps in the womb. Zechariah's mouth first closed and afterwards opened. 3. John the voice, Christ the Word. The voice thought to be the Word. 4. Why a man of such grace was sent to bear witness to Christ. 5. Christ God hidden in the flesh. 6. For God hidden in the flesh the testimony of a man was necessary, than whom there was none greater. John, having disciples as Christ did, becomes a more credible witness of Christ. 7. At Christ's wedding John the groomsman. Christ Mediator inasmuch as He is man. 8 The grace of the Mediator necessary for all, that they may be reconciled to God. 9. All in Adam, and all in Christ. 10. Infants too themselves need a deliverer. 11. Christ is Jesus, that is saviour, even to little children. 12. John, born with sin, needed a saviour. 1327-1333

SERMON CCXCIV. On the birthday of the martyr Guddens, on the Baptism of little children, against the Pelagians. — 1. The occasion of the sermon. 2. The Pelagians grant that little children are to be baptized, not for the sake of eternal life, but for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. 3. That eternal life is not apart from the kingdom of heaven. Between the right hand of those who belong to the kingdom of God and the left hand of the damned there is no middle place. 4. That the punishment of eternal fire is joined to exclusion from the kingdom of God. 5. The Pelagian distinction between eternal life and the kingdom of God is plainly arbitrary. 6. Once original sin is denied, the Pelagians cannot overcome one who does not want little children excluded from the kingdom of God. 7. In the question of unbaptized little children one must take refuge in divine authority. 8. The Lord's sentence excluding the unbaptized from the kingdom of God, as the Pelagians admit. 9. The Pelagians to be overcome from the same Gospel reading. 10. Christ alone ascended into heaven. Christ's members with the head, one Christ. 11. How we are made members of Christ. Faith in Christ necessary for salvation. 12. Little children wounded by another's deed are helped by another's faith. 13. The bronze serpent lifted up a figure of Christ crucified in the likeness of sinful flesh. 14. Whoever does not believe in Christ is condemned. Judgement meaning condemnation. Infants called believers. The sin of origin. 15. The Pelagians' escape when they are pressed by the words of the Apostle on original sin. Not the first example of sinning, but the sin of origin is signified there. 16. The Pelagians' objection against original sin. Why one born of a baptized man is not born just. 17. Another quibble of theirs is exploded. Christ profits nothing to those who do not believe. Christ profits baptized infants. Baptized infants truly believers by the faith of others. Infants believe by the faith of their parents. 18. The Apostle wrongly cited against original sin 19. Cyprian's authority for original sin. 20. How far the enemies of the truth are to be borne patiently. 1333-1348

SERMON CCXCV. On the birthday of the apostles Peter and Paul, I. — 1. The rock on which the Church is built is Christ Himself.

2. To Peter, bearing the person of the Church, the keys of the kingdom of heaven were given. They were given to one, because to the unity of the Church. Christ first raises to life, then the Church looses. 3. The Church's strength and weakness figured in Peter. 4. To Peter, signifying the unity of the Church, the sheep were commended by Christ. Why Peter was asked three times about his love. 5. Against the Donatists, dividers of the Lord's flock. 6. Paul from a persecutor made a preacher of Christ. 7. Paul and Peter suffered for Christ. 8. The days of the martyrs are celebrated for this reason, that it may delight us to imitate them. 1348-1352

SERMON CCXCVI. On the birthday of the apostles Peter and Paul, II. — 1. Weak Peter promises more than he can do. 2. The weakness of Peter, who feared that the Lord would die. 3. To Peter, now loving, Christ commends the sheep. 4. That shepherd is fit who is able to pay back his life for the sheep. 5. To the other shepherds of the Church the same was commanded as to Peter. The spirit of martyrdom makes the martyr. 6. Temporal tribulations to be borne for the glory to come. The laying waste of Rome in Christian times. 7. What is to be answered to the Pagan who scoffs at Rome burned in Christian times. The Christian called not to earthly but to heavenly things. 8. It belongs to Christians to suffer temporal evils, and to hope for everlasting goods. Tribulations foretold by Christ. 9. Whether tribulations are greater in Christian times, and why. We are commanded to lay up treasure in heaven, not on earth. 10. One must not murmur against God in adversity. The prosperity of the impious is God's great anger. 11. Love for God is shown then, if God's gains are loved. 12. Those returning from heresy, even after a relapse, are to be received kindly. 1352-1358

SERMON CCXCVII. On the birthday of the apostles Peter and Paul, III. — 1. Peter's presumption. Fear from human weakness, love from divine grace. 2 Peter is foretold that he will suffer what he will not want. 3. The bitterness of death endured by the martyrs. The martyrs' crown the more illustrious from it. Thorns trodden by Peter's feet. 4. Whose love of life is praised. 5. The crown is rendered to Paul as owed, because grace not owed went before. 6. Our merits are God's gifts. We conquer through Him Who loved us. 7. It belongs to God to guard His gifts in us. 8. Let life be loved, but a good one. Men want all things good except their own soul. 9. The happy life is not to be sought here. We do not make the days evil. Evil comes to man only from man. Man, freed from his evil self, cannot be harmed by anyone. 10. Paul freed from his evil self. 11. The wicked do not harm a man freed from his evil self. How the feasts of the saints are to be celebrated. 1359-1364

SERMON CCXCVIII. On the birthday of the apostles Peter and Paul, IV. — 1. The birthday of Peter and Paul to be celebrated with greater attendance. 2. Peter and Paul to be loved above all. 3. Paul's joy as his passion drew near. Through narrow places one passes to a place of breadth. 4. The crown would not be rendered as owed, unless grace not owed had first been given. 5. Victory is given to the one who strives through Christ. Man's merits are God's gifts. 1365-1367

SERMON CCXCIX. On the birthday of the apostles Peter and Paul, V, in which there is a disputation against the heresy of the Pelagians. — 1. Peter the first of the apostles, Paul the last. 2. On the same subject. 3. The Apostle's words on his imminent passion. By God's grace we are made both debtors and repayers. The martyrs' strength from God. Paul assured by revelation of his future passion and victory. 4. The crown of justice promised not to the martyrs only, but to all who keep the faith The desire for the coming of Christ the judge who is to come. 5. The crown owed to those who keep the faith. 6. Christ Jesus the Saviour; Paul the foremost sinner, because he surpassed the other persecutors in cruelty. In place of the punishment owed, salvation was rendered to him. Christ the physician commended the power of His art in curing Paul. 7. To Peter, now healthy, his passion is foretold, to whom when weak his denial had been foretold. 8. How Peter was to suffer unwilling. Death the punishment of sin. 9. It is shown that Paul too did not want to die. 10. It is proved against the Pelagians that death comes from sin. 11. The example of Enoch and Elijah gives no support to the Pelagians' error that death belongs to nature, not to sin. 12. He bids them beware of the Pelagians, who are growing more numerous. 1367-1376

SERMON CCC. On the solemnity of the Maccabee martyrs, I. — 1. Some were Christians before Christ. 2. The Maccabee martyrs Christians not in name but in reality. 3. The Maccabees' passion is rightly celebrated in the Church. The mystery of Christ veiled in the Old Testament. The key of the Old Testament, the cross. 4. By Christ's passion the prophecies were fulfilled and everything in the mystery of the cross revealed. 5. The other martyrs confessed Christ revealed in the Gospel, the Maccabees Christ veiled in the law. 6 A solemnity rightly instituted for the Maccabees. A basilica raised at Antioch in their memory. Let mothers learn to love their sons from the mother of the Maccabees. 7. She exhorts the son who was left to martyrdom. 1376-1380

SERMON CCCI. On the solemnity of the holy Maccabees, II. — 1. How brave the mother of the Maccabees was in her sons' passion. 2. God stood by not only the three youths, but also the Maccabees. Why the three youths are freed from the fires, while the Maccabees are consumed. 3. Against those who think that happiness is in this life, and doubt about the other life. 4. The wicked set here in their place for good uses. 5 The handing over of Christ both by Judas and by God. 6. For the impious man a place here

among the just, not in the other life. 7. Let the devout not be disturbed about the worldly prosperity of the impious. 8. What kind of heavenly happiness is prepared for the devout. The happiness of the world is for the devout not an honour but a burden. 9. The brief time of life. 1380-1385

SERMON CCCII. On the solemnity of the martyr Lawrence, I. — 1. Why God bestows temporal benefits through the prayers of the martyrs. A fitting comparison. 2. Two lives: how full of hardship the present life is, and yet how vehemently loved. Let eternal life be loved as this temporal one is. 3. We are Christians not for the sake of temporal things, but for the sake of eternal life. What the cross of Christ on the forehead admonishes us. 4. Temporal life is much loved; eternal life not so. 5. A man gives necessaries so as to live longer here, even in misery; he does not give superfluities so as to reign with Christ for ever. 6. That this life is undeservedly loved so much. 7. Eternal life is God; the present life, a vapour. 8. What sort of riches of the Church Lawrence brings forth for the persecutor who asks for them. 9. The martyrs to be imitated. 10 It is not lawful to rage against the wicked. 11. Each man ought to restrain those subject to him, lest they harm the wicked. 12. How one who does good earns praise from the authority. 13. It is not lawful for anyone at all to kill the wicked. 14. The Lord's sentence on merciful men. 15. Not soldiering, but wickedness keeps soldiers from being good. What was commanded to tax-collectors, what to all. 16. A trader liable to fraud and perjury; none but the wicked rage against the wicked. 17. A pious bishop is compelled to have dealings with the secular authorities. 18. A wicked man dead, to be grieved over by these. 19. Each man ought to prevent civil riots to the best of his power. 20. The anger of God from the people's sins. 21. Let the people not take to themselves what belongs to the authorities, nor rage in a disorderly way against the wicked. 1385-1393

SERMON CCCIII. On the birthday of the martyr Lawrence, III. — 1. Lawrence the archdeacon ordered to bring out the riches of the Church. 2. The martyrs' reward prepared for those who follow Christ. 1393-1394

SERMON CCCIV. On the solemnity of the martyr Lawrence, III — 1. The office of a deacon, to minister the blood of Christ. The mystery of the Lord's Supper: that for Him Whose blood we take we should take up our life. 2. We all ought to follow Christ. 3. In what things it is possible to follow Christ, besides martyrdom. His humility to be pursued. Vengeance not to be sought, after Christ's example. Present things to be despised. 4. Charity the true and unconquered virtue. 1395-1397

SERMON CCCV. On the solemnity of the martyr Lawrence, IV. — 1. The grain multiplied by death. 2. The soul not to be loved here. Christ is troubled as death draws near, because He transforms us into Himself. 3. Christ died by His power, by His power He rose again. 4. He is troubled when death is imminent, so that we may not despair. 1397-1399

SERMON CCCVI. On the birthday of the martyrs of the White Mass. — 1. The glory of the martyrs hidden from the foolish. Wickedness taken for punishment. 2. Punishment does no harm if the cause is good. The White Mass. 3. All alike want the happy life, though in different kinds of life. 4. What the happy life is. All want to live and to be healthy. 5. Life in pains is not properly life. Nothing is to be reckoned life but what is happy. 6. The same is shown from another passage of Scripture. Life is not happy unless it is eternal. 7. That life is true which is eternal and happy. Certainty of eternity necessary for the happy life. 8. Far from the happiness of the kingdom of God are false suspicions, which here are the origin of evils. 9. For life to be happy, there must be truth and knowledge of friends without fear of deception. 10. Christ the way to life and truth. The martyrs held to the hard way after Christ, and smoothed it for us. 1400-1405

SERMON CCCVII. On the beheading of John the Baptist, I. — 1. On what occasion the slaying of John the Baptist was done. 2. All swearing forbidden because of the danger of false swearing. 3. Swearing used by God. 4. Yet rightly forbidden to us. 5. The habit of swearing overcome by Augustine. 1405-1407

SERMON CCCVIII. On the same solemnity, II. — 1. Herod in the straits of committing either perjury or a bloody crime. 2. A rash oath is not to be fulfilled by committing murder. David's perjury a great sin, though less than murder. 3. One who swears when provoked by another does not sin in the same way as that other. 4. One who compels a man to swear whom he believes will swear falsely is worse than a murderer. 5. Tutuslymenus scourged by divine correction for this sin. 1408-1410

SERMON CCCIX. On the birthday of the martyr Cyprian, I. — 1. Cyprian's passion recalled. 2. His exile. The return from exile. 3. The arrest by two officers 4. Cyprian's pastoral solicitude. 5. How he must take thought for himself. 6. Cyprian's words The sentence on Cyprian. 1410-1412

SERMON CCCX. On the birthday of the martyr Cyprian, II. — 1. The birthday of the martyr Cyprian celebrated throughout all Africa. 2. The Church of Carthage ennobled by Cyprian's episcopate and martyrdom. Cyprian's Table at Carthage. 3. Cyprian's precious death. 4. Cyprian famous through the world both by his passion and by his writings. 1412-1413

SERMON CCCXI. On the birthday of the martyr Cyprian, III. — 1. The solemnities of the martyrs to be celebrated by imitating their virtues. The errors of the world when it flatters, and its terrors when it rages, by wisdom and patience

overcome. 2. The apostles died confessing what they themselves had seen of the Lord. 3. The martyrs teach contempt of the world by example. 4. The love of earthly things, birdlime of the soul. 5. Profane songs and dances driven out of the Church where Cyprian was buried. 6. Our song, with which we must be in accord by our conduct as by a dance. 7. Dancers in accord with the spiritual song by change of life. 8. Nothing makes the times evil but evil men. 9. From gold the good man supplies many goods, the wicked man many evils. 10. The good are not lacking among the wicked in the Church. The White Mass. Cyprian a chosen grain. 11. Things of which there is a good and a bad use Some goods proper to the good, others common to the good and the wicked. 12. Why temporal goods are given by God to the wicked too. 13. They are given to the wicked too for this reason: that they may be despised by the good, and better things sought. What kind of good riches are. 14. The world made bitter does not cease to be loved; what if it were sweet? 15. Treasure to be laid up in heaven. The heart lifted up. 1418-1419

SERMON CCCXII. On the birthday of the martyr Cyprian, IV. — 1. The martyr to be praised not in himself, but in the Lord. 2. What Cyprian was like before his conversion to the faith. 3. Converted by God's grace, he was made the true Cyprian. 4. From a forensic orator made a preacher of Christ. 5. How evident now the martyrs' victory over the demons. 6. Cyprian pre-eminent among the martyrs in teaching and example. The place of his tomb. The benefits of grace towards Cyprian. How much Cyprian loved the unity of the Church. 1420-1422

SERMON CCCXIII. On the birthday of the martyr Cyprian, V. — 1. No tongue is equal to Cyprian's praises. 2. That the praises of the martyrs fall back on God. 3. The martyrs are both armed by God and helped by the same God armed. 4. How God armed is to be understood. 5. Cyprian's soul, a great sword of God. An altar raised over Cyprian's body. 1423-1424

SERMON CCCXIV. On the birthday of the martyr Stephen, I. — 1-2. Stephen to be imitated, especially in the love of enemies. 1425

SERMON CCCXV. On the solemnity of the martyr Stephen, II. — 1. Stephen's deeds contained in a canonical book. The book of the Acts of the Apostles customarily read from Easter Sunday. 2. Stephen's passion like the passion of Christ. The great power of truth. 3. Why Stephen, brought before the council, is not silent after the example of Christ. To preach upon the housetop. 4. The nation of the Jews set free through Christ in some. 5. Stephen fierce against the Jews in tongue, gentle in heart. 6. Stephen stands when praying for himself, because he demands what is owed. Man evil of himself, but good by the gift of God. 7. Saul the fiercer persecutor in the slaying of Stephen. Saul, named after Saul; Paul, small, little. Stephen prays for his enemies on bended knee, because he asks for what is not owed. 8. Christ, from the chair of the cross, teaching the rule of devotion. He has Stephen as a disciple and imitator. 9. Gentleness towards enemies. Anger is a scorpion. Anger an enemy, in comparison with which the other enemies do very little harm. 10. How much anger, our enemy, harms. Anger cannot be killed, but it can be restrained. 1426-1431

SERMON CCCXVI. On the solemnity of the martyr Stephen, III. — 1. Stephen the first among the deacons. Wonders done by Stephen, but through the name of Christ. 2. The Jews hard against Stephen. 3. Stephen in dying imitates the Lord, by commending his spirit and praying for his killers. 4. Saul the wolf, changed into a sheep because of Stephen's prayer. 5. A picture showing Stephen's stoning and Saul's conversion. 1431-1434

SERMON CCCXVII. On Stephen the martyr, IV. — 1. Stephen's relics brought over into Africa, and made famous everywhere because of God's benefits. The commandment to love enemies has a great reward. An example given from the heavenly Father. 2. Another example in Christ. 3. An example in Stephen too. The Gospel is both an instrument and a testament. 4. A lamp lit for weak eyes in the examples of the saints. Love of enemies a gift of God. 5. The rebuke of one who loves sometimes harsh. Stephen's love for his killers. 1435-1437

SERMON CCCXVIII. On the martyr Stephen, V. — 1. The relics of the martyr Stephen laid in a sacred place. The discovery of the bodies of Gervasius and Protasius. An altar raised to God over Stephen's relics. 2. The martyrs overcame not only the delights of the world but, what is more difficult, torments. The contest even unto blood. 3. A kind of wrestling of martyrdom in daily temptations. 1437-1439

SERMON CCCXIX. On Stephen the martyr, VI. — 1. How prudent Stephen's speech to the Jews was. Stephen as a servant does miracles in Christ's name. 2. He commends his spirit to Christ. 3. Where his spirit was received by Christ. 4. Why he prays for those who stone him on bended knee. 5. Stephen in his passion an imitator of Christ suffering. 6. The discovery of his body. His prayers obtain much, not everything. 7. Stephen our fellow servant, not to be worshipped as God. 1440-1442

SERMON CCCXX. On a man healed through the prayers of Saint Stephen; where Augustine the bishop excuses himself that he could not preach a sermon. 1442

SERMON CCCXXI. Where he promised the account of the man healed. 1443

SERMON CCCXXII. Where he presented the promised account of the man healed. ibid.

SERMON CCCXXIII. Delivered after the account of Saint Stephen. — 1. How much the imprecations of parents against their children are to be dreaded. 2. Healing not obtained for two siblings at Ancona, so that it might be granted to them at Hippo. On what occasion a memorial of Stephen was built at Ancona before the discovery of his body. 3. On the miracles done at Uzalis. 4. The outcry of the people arising from the cure of a girl. 1444-1446

SERMON CCCXXIV. In which Augustine completes the part of the immediately preceding sermon that was interrupted by a miracle. — A miracle done at Uzalis. Life restored to a little child who died before baptism, so that he might receive the sacraments. 1446

SERMON CCCXXV. On the birthday of the twenty martyrs. In martyrs one looks not to the punishment, but to the cause. He censures the false martyrs of the Donatists. 1447-1448

SERMON CCCXXVI. On the birthday of the Martyrs. — 1. The martyrs ran unencumbered to happiness. 2. The persecutor's questions and the martyrs' answers. 1449-1450

SERMON CCCXXVII. On the birthday of the Martyrs. — 1. Not the punishment but the cause distinguishes martyrs from criminals. 2. Those crucified with the Lord had one punishment, but an unequal cause. 1450-1451

SERMON CCCXXVIII. On the birthday of the Martyrs. — 1. Christ, having suffered first, gave the martyrs the strength to suffer. 2. How the martyrs are truthful, if every man is a liar. Martyr in Greek, Witness in Latin. 3. The martyrs truthful, because the Spirit of God spoke in them. 4. To suffer for the truth belongs to martyrs; for falsehood, to the impious as well. Let a good cause of suffering be chosen. 5. The certainty of the judgement to come. Each one's resurrection with his cause. The sharper punishments of the damned after the resurrection. 6. The martyrs' beatitude and glory greater after the resurrection. 1451-1454

SERMON CCCXXIX. On the birthday of the Martyrs. — 1. The precious death of the martyrs bought at the price of Christ's death. 2. The martyrs victors not of themselves, but by the grace of God. 1454-1455

SERMON CCCXXX. On the birthday of the Martyrs. — 1. The opening of the sermon. 2. How the disciple of Christ ought to deny himself. 3. This love is perverse; the true one is contempt of self. The love of money even to contempt of the soul. 4. Peter's fear on hearing of Christ's future passion. What it is to deny oneself. 1456-1458

SERMON CCCXXXI. On the birthday of the Martyrs. — 1. To love and to lose one's soul is understood in two ways. 2. Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr. Those dying for Christ took thought not for Christ but for themselves. 3. God's gifts common to the good and the wicked. What is proper is kept for the good. 4. God Himself will be the reward of the good. 5. The avaricious, martyrs of gold. 1459-1461

SERMON CCCXXXII. On the birthday of the Martyrs. — 1. Whence the martyrs are friends of Christ. We are commanded to love one another for the sake of the kingdom of God. 2. How much we are commanded to love one another. 3. Charity the gift of God. 4. That fornicators will not enter the heavenly city. 1461-1462

SERMON CCCXXXIII. On the birthday of the Martyrs. — 1. Security given to the martyrs. 2. To Paul a reward owed. To him earlier, in place of the punishment owed, grace was given. 3. Paul's change. Jacob's prophecy fulfilled in Paul. 4. Paul after God's grace repays with good works. 5. Good works gifts of God. Paul's own were nothing but evil. 6. Against those who presume on free will, it is proved that there is nothing good in us except from God. The spirit of this world makes men proud. 7. Thanks must be given to God. 1463-1467

SERMON CCCXXXIV. On the birthday of the Martyrs. — 1. The martyrs' security under God's protection. 2. Whence we are secure and certain of God's protection. Christ's death, the pledge of His life given to us. 3. Christ Himself will be our possession. 1467-1469

SERMON CCCXXXV. On the birthday of the Martyrs. — 1. The voices of the holy martyrs. The martyrs overcame pleasures and pains. 2. Not punishment but charity distinguishes the martyrs. The avaricious man as it were a martyr of gold. 1470

SERMON CCCXXXVI. On the Dedication of a Church I. — 1. The building and dedication of the house of God in us. 2. God to be loved for His own sake, and the neighbour for God's sake. 3. Christ's passion foretold in the Psalm of the dedication. 4. Our price, the blood of Christ. 5. The prophecy about Christ the head applied to us His members. 6. The dedication of a new church. 1471-1475

SERMON CCCXXXVII. On the Dedication of a Church, II. — 1. The building of a church to be valued as a good work by the faith and charity of the one who works. The structure of the heavenly Church. 2. Building in toil, dedication in joy. 3. The desire to dwell in the house of God. The house of God is its inhabitants themselves. 4. Our foundation above, not below. 5. An eternal dwelling to be prepared through good works. 1475-1477

SERMON CCCXXXVIII. On the dedication of a Church, III. — 1. Good works done openly have a twofold usefulness. 2. The lamp on the lampstand. 3. Two precepts of the Lord, contrary in appearance, are reconciled. 4. We are forbidden to seek our own praise in a good work. 1477-1479

SERMON CCCXXXIX. On the day of his Ordination. I. — 1. The weight of the episcopal burden. How Augustine is affected towards the praises of men. 2. How great a care for the salvation of others is laid on a bishop. 3. He exhorts his people to relieve him by living well. 4. He is frightened by the Gospel lest, the episcopal burden laid down, a more secure

should choose life. It is the servant's part to pay out; the Lord's to demand an account. 5. He exhorts them to change their life for the better. Men do not care to have only their life good. 6. Conclusion. 1480-1482

SERMON CCCXL. On the day of his Ordination, II. — 1. The episcopal burden. It needs Christ's help to be borne. The freely given love of God does not take away the hope of reward. 2. The bishop ought to pray for the faithful, and the faithful for the bishop. 1482-1484

FOURTH CLASS. — SERMONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. 1493-1494

SERMON CCCXLI. 1. On the fact that Christ is understood in three ways in the Scriptures. 2. The first way, in which Christ is preached as God. The likeness of a word. 3. Another way, in which Christ is set forth as God and man. 4. Christ set forth in both ways by the Apostle. 5. He bids them beware of the heresy of the Arians. Virginity of mind is integrity of faith. The serpent seducing by the promise of knowledge. 6. He does now in the Church what he once did in paradise. Against the Arians, how the Father is greater than the Son. That the Son is equal to the Father in the form of God, less in the form of a servant. 7. The Son of God before the incarnation in no way less than the Father. 8. That the Son cannot be called equal in one respect and less in another. In God power is not one thing, and prudence and the other virtues another. 9. Justice and the like are said of God not properly, but because nothing better can be said. 10. That the Son of God cannot be called equal on one side, unequal on another. 11. In the third way Christ is understood as head and body. 12. Christ declared in the Scriptures in three ways. Christ and the Church one Christ. 13. Let the Bride of Christ act so as to be without spot or wrinkle. 1493-1500

SERMON CCCXLII. On the evening sacrifice, in which the beginning of the Gospel of John is explained. — 1. The sign of the cross. The sacrifice of the cross. 2. John sent before Christ, as the lamp before the light. 3. The world is understood in two ways. 4. How Christ was not received by His own. The Jews cut off for their pride, the Gentiles grafted into the olive for their humility. The humility and faith of the centurion. 5. Power given that we may be made sons of God. 1501-1504

SERMON CCCXLIII. On Susanna and Joseph, with an exhortation to chastity. — 1. Susanna an example of conjugal modesty. Chastity a gift of God. Susanna delivered by God from false witnesses. 2. Susanna's happiness no greater thereafter because she was delivered. 3. Mary delivered from Joseph's false suspicion. 4. The chastity of virgins and of the married: the reward is unequal, but each has an eternal one. Christ's yoke is gentle, and His burden light to those who love. 5. Susanna an example to women. We must act not only so that our life is good, but also our reputation unharmed. 6. Joseph an example of modesty to men. 7. Even the unchaste themselves love chastity in others. 8. For love of modesty temptation is to be resisted, after the example of Susanna and Joseph. 9. For modesty's sake pleasures and troubles are to be spurned. 10. Job on the dunghill, as against [Job] rich. 1505-1511

SERMON CCCXLIV. On the love of God and the love of the world. — 1. The struggle between the love of God and the love of the world. 2. God is to be loved above parents. 3. Human affection to be overcome after Christ's example. The human will in Christ shrinking from death. 4. Death twofold, the first and the second. The first death must of necessity be undergone by all, the other is prepared for the wicked alone. From temporal death a man ransoms himself with money; from eternal death, with justice. The blood of Christ shed for our redemption. 5. How much eternal life is to be loved, when temporal life is loved so much. Against those who through love of temporal life lose eternal life. 6. To lose one's soul, that the soul may be found. 7. For whose sake we are bidden to lose our soul. 1512-1516

SERMON CCCXLV. On contempt of the world. — 1. The present life to be despised in the hope of the life to come. To the rich this life is a dream. 2. A life that will perish is bought back with all one's goods: at what price eternal life is to be bought. 3. Riches, lest they perish here, are to be sent ahead into heaven. 4. Christ receives what is paid out to the poor. A man's heart is with his treasure. 5-6. The true riches of the kingdom of heaven. Earthly riches bring nothing but anxiety. It is not enough to pay out what is yours, unless you also follow Christ. 1517-1521

SERMON CCCXLVI. On our pilgrimage in this life, through faith. — 1. This life is more truly death than life. True life is none but eternal life. 2. Pilgrimage through faith in this life. 1522-1523

SERMON CCCXLVII. On the fear of God, I. — 1. How often the fear of God is commended in the Scriptures. 2. The steps from fear to wisdom. 3. The seven steps from Isaiah are compared with the eight beatitudes of the Gospel. 1524-1525

SERMON CCCXLVIII. On the fear of God, II. — 1. True fortitude is acquired by the fear of God. Fear is to be driven out by charity, not by vanity. 2. By what love it comes about that one is without fear: to be examined. 3. The Epicureans and Stoics love to be without fear, but perversely. 4. Fear in a Christian: one kind to be cast out little by little, another to remain. 1526-1529

SERMON CCCXLIX. On charity, and on the blind man given light, I. — 1. Charity is either divine or human. Human charity is either lawful or unlawful. 2. On lawful human charity. 3. On unlawful love. The members of Christ. 4. Divine charity does not tolerate the unlawful love of a harlot. 5. For love of the inner light we must cry out, after the blind man's example, by living well. The world's opposition. 6. Christ's passing by. 7. Let parents be loved, but Christ more.

1529-1533

SERMON CCCL. On Charity, II. — 1. The praise of charity. Through it divine teaching is grasped without error and kept without labour. The new commandment making a new man. 2. By charity the whole teaching of the Scriptures is possessed. 3. He continues the praise of charity. 1533-1535

SERMON CCCLI. On the usefulness of doing penance, I. — 1. How necessary is the humility of penance. God on high is approached by humility. For what purpose the Law was given. 2. Three kinds of penance. The first penance, before Baptism. 3. The second penance, which here belongs to all and is continual. We ought to repent of this life, because it is subject to corruption and temptations. 4. The humility of penance necessary even for the justified. However just men may be, there is always cause, not for boasting, but for repenting. Whence the dispensers of the word of God and of the Sacraments have cause for penance. 5. The daily sins of lay people. When the use of marriage is blameless. 6. We all contract daily sins from the weakness of the flesh. The struggle of the Christian soul. 7. The third, severer penance, for deadly sins. Tears the blood of the penitent. 8. Against those who promise themselves salvation apart from the kingdom of heaven. The final sentence sending either into the kingdom or into the fire. 9. Penance to be embraced by those who have relapsed after Baptism. 10. Against those who take from others an example for neglecting penance. None are barred from communion unless they have confessed of their own accord or been lawfully convicted. 11. Against those who, acquiescing in bad examples, despise penance. Bad superiors not to be imitated. An elegant comparison. 12. Let no sinner despair, but let him flee to penance. Change of life and satisfaction for things committed. 1535-1548

SERMON CCCLII. On the usefulness of doing penance, II. — 1. Occasion given for the sermon by the reading. 2. Penance threefold. The first, that of those to be baptized. Penance before Baptism commanded to the Jews. 3. Figures of us in the things that befell the Israelites. The rock, a figure of Christ. The crossing of the Red Sea, Baptism. The manna a figure of Christ the heavenly bread. How the Israelites took the same spiritual food and drink as we. The rock struck with the rod. 4. Moses' hesitation figurative. 5. Moses dying on the mountain: what it foreshadowed. 6. He invites to Baptism. Moses' hands against Amalek now stretched out, now let down. 7. The second penance, which belongs to all, and is daily. The remedy and the compact in the Lord's Prayer about forgiving debts. A brother is to be pardoned. 8. The third kind, of mournful penance, for deadly sins. The soul is stifled by despair of pardon. 9. Against the Pagans who taunt that by the allowance of penance licence to sin is given. 1549-1559

SERMON CCCLIII. On the day of the octave of the Infants; whom he exhorts with the words of the apostle Peter, Laying aside therefore all malice, etc. (1 Pet. 2:1). — 1. He exhorts the baptized. Innocence of conduct to be kept. Humility to be pursued. 2. Innocence to be kept above all towards God. In the Israelites a figure of the Christian life given to the baptized. 1560-1561

SERMON CCCLIV. Delivered to the continent, in which he first strengthens them against detractors and the envious, and then bids them beware of pride. 2. The members of Christ suffer as enemies not only those who are outside, but some also within. 3. The more excellent place of the continent in the body of Christ. Their continence is bitten at by the envious, that it may be proved. The wicked necessary to the good. 4. In the body of Christ not the continent alone, but the married also have a place. The humble married better than the proud continent. 5. Pride the mother of envy. Agnes a virgin and Crispina a married woman, both martyrs. Let the continent consider what he lacks, not what he has. 6. Charity to be pursued, that being puffed up may be avoided. What pride is, and why it gives birth to envy. Whether knowledge is to be fled, lest it puff up. 7. The sting of the flesh given to the Apostle, lest he grow proud. Let us desire to be heard, not according to our will, but for our healing. How eternal things are to be asked for, how temporal ones. 8. Against the proud continent. 9. Pride to be guarded against above all by the continent. How much better a humble married man than a proud continent one. The proud continent has no place in the kingdom of God. 1563-1567

SERMON CCCLV. On the life and conduct of his clergy, I. — 1. Care must be taken that not only conscience be good, but also reputation. 2. The common life, of which there is an example in the first Christians. A monastery founded by Augustine, first in a garden, and afterwards in the bishop's house. In a lowly place safety, in a high one danger. The common life in the monastery. For anyone to have anything of his own forbidden by the rule of that life. 3. The priest Januarius kept property of his own against the rule of the monastery. He made a will. Augustine will not accept his inheritance for the Church. A lawsuit among Januarius's children over his inheritance. 4. Augustine does not accept anyone's inheritance when the children are disinherited. 5. Why he did not accept Boniface's inheritance. 6. He instructs his clergy that if any have property of their own, they give it up quickly. He undertakes not to take away the clerical state from anyone who may choose to leave his community. To feign a resolve of holiness is worse than to fall from the resolve. The clerical state more a burden than an honour. 7. He promises a sermon

following. 1568-1573

SERMON CCCLVI. On the life and conduct of his clergy, II. — 1. The form of life of cenobites described in the Acts of the Apostles. 2. Why Augustine decided to speak about the life of his clergy before the people. 3. All Augustine's clergy found constant in their resolve of poverty. Valens the deacon. Patricius the subdeacon. 4. Faustus the deacon. 5. Severus, the blind deacon. 6. The deacon from Hippo. 7. Eraclius the deacon. 8. The subdeacons. 9. On the priests. 10. Leporius the priest. 11. The lawsuit among Januarius's children, ended of their own accord. 12. The calumnies of detractors to be refuted without quarrelling. 13. He wishes what is offered to his clergy by the faithful to go to common use. Augustine's modesty. 14. He decrees that whoever violates the resolve of poverty is to be struck off the roll of the clergy. 15. Barnabas the priest. 1574-1580

SERMON CCCLVII. On the praise of peace. — 1. The praise of peace. 2. To have peace is the same as to love it. 3. Schismatics to be called back to peace peaceably. 4. Gentleness to be shown to heretics when they dispute and revile. Against heretics one must act not with quarrels, but rather with prayers before God. 5. Pious works for obtaining the peace of the Church; a solemn fast after Pentecost. Hospitality towards those who come to Carthage for the conference. 1582-1585

SERMON CCCLVIII. On peace and charity. — 1. The catholic bishops' concern to bring about peace. One unwilling to be conquered by the truth is conquered by error. 2. Testimonies for the unity of the catholic Church. How the contention of the catholics is one of love, not of strife. 3. A testimony for the catholic Church. 4. Charity the broad commandment, by which peace is restored. 5. In what spirit the catholics come to the conference. 6. He asks that none of the people burst into the place of the meeting. 1586-1589

SERMON CCCLIX. On what is written in Ecclesiasticus, chapter XXV, verse 2, The concord of brothers, and the love of neighbours, etc. (Sir. 25:2). On strife and concord with the Donatists. — 1. Three excellent things. Why concord is rare. 2. Love of earthly possessions the cause of discord. 3. The Lord, when asked to bid a brother divide the inheritance, why He refused to do it. 4. The concord of brothers in the heavenly inheritance. Who is to be judged as litigating. 5. The purpose and will of the catholics for the peace of the Church. 6. Concerning Caecilian, they wanted a judgement held without prejudice to the cause of the Church. 7. Many converted to the Church from the schism of the Donatists. 8. The foolish excuse of certain obstinate men. The madness and fury of others. 9. The concord of brothers in Christ. 1590-1597

SERMON CCCLX. At the Vigils of Maximianus, concerning a certain Donatist who returned to the Church. 1598

SERMON CCCLXI. On the resurrection of the dead, I. — 1. Introduction. 2. Our hope and faith is the resurrection of the dead. Our charity. Two questions about the future resurrection. 3. On the one the unbeliever errs, on the other the carnal Christian. The Christian to be led by the weight of authority. 4. He undertakes to prove the future resurrection. 5. Against those who decide that one should live here as if nothing remained after death. 6. Faith in the resurrection is mocked by unbelievers. The Parentalia. Against those who object that no one has returned from the dead. 7. Our faith in the heart, like Christ asleep in the boat, must be roused, that the storm may be stilled. 8. Faith in the future resurrection sufficiently proved by Christ's rising again. The whole world bears witness to our faith. All things bear testimony to the resurrection. 9. An example of resurrection in the seed. 10. An example of our resurrection in Christ. Every creature speaks of resurrection. The awakening of animals. New moons. The leaves of trees. 11. How certain things are restored from the earth. 12. The objection that the body passes into ashes. The custom of the Egyptians. Gabbarae. 13. Against evil conversations, faith made firm by Christ. 14. Against those who say that only Christ was permitted to rise again. The joining of the members with Christ the head. A fitting comparison. 15. Christ is praised deceitfully by unbelievers, lest we hope for a like resurrection. 16. By Christ's resurrection the hope of resurrection has deservedly been brought to us. Whence the mortality of Christ. How Christ was made mediator. How sins [are] in Christ. Mortality the penalty of sin. 17. Mortality in Christ real, not from desert, but from mercy. The resurrection of Christ according to flesh that had died before. If they confess Him just, He did not deceive in promising resurrection. 18. Whence the future resurrection was proved above. 19. We are admonished by the example of Noah to await the last judgement. 20. Nineveh overthrown according to the prophecy, but through penance. 21. Those who are not converted now while Christ builds the Church more deserving of reproof than those who of old [were not] while Noah built the ark. 1599-1611

SERMON CCCLXII. On the Resurrection of the dead, II. — 1. What the resurrection of the just will be like must be told. 2. On the same subject. 3. By the name of little vessels the secret abodes of the blessed are signified. The hiding-place of God's face. 4. By faith we sigh for the homeland. 5. The Church teaches what she has believed, not what she has known. 6. A Christian may not doubt about the resurrection. 7. The question what the bodies will be like. The rule of faith, the creed. A fitting comparison. 8. The building of the heavenly Jerusalem has its foundation

above. Christ both our foundation and our head. 9. We must act so as to be built up in Christ. Christ is the foundation if He holds the first place in the heart. How much the fire of Gehenna is to be feared. 10. Such a resurrection is to be hoped for as went before in Christ. The angels at Abraham's [house] truly ate. 11. Man eats from necessity, an angel from power. 12. After the resurrection there will be the power to eat, as in Christ, not the necessity. 13. The question how flesh and blood shall not possess the kingdom of God. 14. The question is solved. The first explanation of the Apostle. 15. The truer sense of the Apostle. 16. How Christ is the heavenly man from heaven. 17. That this is to be granted us by the resurrection, which went before in Christ. Flesh and blood for corruption. 18. How our body will be in heaven, if there is no corruption there. The works of the flesh will not be the same after the resurrection. The error of the Jews and Sadducees about the resurrection. Resurrection to the life of the Angels. 19. Resurrection to life without corruption. The change of the flesh for the better proper to the good. 20. The swiftness of the resurrection. What an atom is. An atom in a body. An atom in time. The twinkling of an eye. 21. What the change of the saints in the resurrection will be like. Flesh and blood properly the names of corruption and mortality. 22. The error of certain people concerning the truth of the resurrection. 23. Resurrection twofold, in the spirit and in the body. In what state the bodies of the wicked will rise. 24. Testimonies on the twofold resurrection from the Apostle. 25. Both resurrections in the Gospel. Resurrection according to the spirit, which takes place now through faith. 26. Resurrection according to the flesh, in the future. 27. What kind of body, and what kind of life the saints will have after the resurrection. 28. The life will be like that of the Angels, lacking the works of corruption and need. A perpetual Sabbath. Why there will be no works of mercy there. 29. What the activity of the blessed will be after the resurrection. Amen and Alleluia will be our whole activity, without weariness. 30. The rest and reclining of the blessed in the contemplation and praise of the truth. 31. The life of those who are delightfully and supremely at leisure in the vision of God. Prayer after the sermon. 1611-1633

SERMON CCCLXIII. On the canticle of Exodus, chapter XV, verses 1-21 (Exod. 15:1–21). — 1. In considering the holy Scriptures the authority of those same Scriptures ought to guide us. 2. The crossing of the Red Sea a figure of Baptism. 3. The crossing through the desert a figure of our pilgrimage in this life, in which we overcome our adversaries with Christ's help. 4. What Miriam singing with a timbrel taken up signifies. 1634-1638

FIFTH CLASS. — DOUBTFUL SERMONS. 1639-1640

SERMON CCCLXIV. On Samson, Judges chapters XIII-XVI (Judg. 13-16). — 1. Samson's strength from the Spirit of God. 2. Christ prefigured in Samson. Samson's wife. His riddle. 3. The companion who takes his wife a figure of heretics. Foxes dragging fire in their tails. 4. His going in to the harlot. The gates of the city carried off to the mountain when he had risen from sleep. 5. Strength in the hair. Samson's blinding and death. 1639-1642

SERMON CCCLXV. On verse 7 of Psalm XV, I will bless the Lord, Who has given me understanding, etc. (Ps. 15:7). — 1. God to be praised with the heart and with love. Praise without love neither true nor acceptable to God. 2. Against heretics who boast that they have from nature the good understanding by which God is blessed. 3. They are refuted again by the words of Solomon. 4. Good understanding from the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit a gift bought for us by Christ's passion. 5. Lastly they are convicted by the experience of their own weakness and concupiscence. 1643-1645

SERMON CCCLXVI. On Psalm XXII, The Lord rules me, and nothing will be lacking to me (Ps. 22:1). — 1. A psalm containing the mystery of man's re-formation. 2. A figure of fallen man in him who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. 3. The security of the sheep brought back to the fold by Christ. The pastures of the Christian soul. 4. Conversion from God's grace, not from merits. What the paths of justice are. 5. The shadow of death the way of sin. 6. The rod signifies discipline, the staff help. The table prepared through Christ. 7. Grace preventing and following. 8. What the end of grace and of the Christian profession is. 1646-1650

SERMON CCCLXVII. On the words of the Gospel of Luke, chapter XVI, verses 19-31, where it concerns the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19–31). — 1. Comparison of the rich man with the poor man Lazarus. Insatiable avarice. 2. Why the rich man was damned. 3. He exhorts to almsgiving. 1650-1651

SERMON CCCLXVIII. On the words of the Gospel of John, chapter XII, verse 25, He who loves his soul will lose it (John 12:25): and on the words of the Apostle, to the Ephesians, chapter V, verse 29, No one ever hated his own flesh (Eph. 5:29). — 1. If anyone loves his soul, how he will lose it. 2. A certain perverse love, and a certain right hatred of the soul. 3. The way of loving the soul. Love twofold. 4. The beginnings of love. 5. In what order true and upright love is acquired. 1652-1654

SERMON CCCLXIX. On the Nativity of the Lord, I. — 1. The twofold birth of Christ, one before every day, the other in a day. The Nativity of Christ illustrated by divine testimonies. 2. The eternal Nativity of Christ. 3. The temporal Nativity of Christ. 1655-1656

SERMON CCCLXX. On the Nativity of the Lord, II. — 1. Four kinds of man's birth, or making. 2. Every rank of the faithful bears witness to the Saviour of all, born. 3. How great the longing for Christ who was to be born in the saints of old. 4. Children and old men

and the married bear witness to Christ. 1657-1659

SERMON CCCLXXI. On the nativity of the Lord, III. — 1. The two nativities of Christ. 2. By the Incarnation God is shown visible, for man to follow. 3. How God and man could be mingled. The mingling of soul and body more difficult. 4. Man's dignity from God's condescension towards him. 1659-1661

SERMON CCCLXXII. On the Nativity of the Lord, IV. — 1. The Nativity of Christ twofold. 2. Jews and Gentiles invited to Christ's wedding. We are fed with the flesh and blood of Christ. Christ bridegroom and giant, beautiful and strong. 3. How Christ ran His course. 1661-1662

SERMON CCCLXXIII. On the Epiphany of the Lord, I. — 1. Christ manifested to the Magi. 2. On the same subject. 3. Herod's fear, and his cruelty in the slaughter of the little ones. The Innocents presented with the crown of martyrs. 4. The unhappy Jews very like the builders of Noah's ark and like milestones. 5. A spiritual spectacle on this feast. 1663-1665

SERMON CCCLXXIV. On the Epiphany of the Lord, II. — 1. The Magi led to Christ by the star and by the revelation of Angels. 2. Christ pointed out to the Gentiles by the Jews themselves. 3. Sacrifice due to the one God. 1666-1667

SERMON CCCLXXV. On the Epiphany of the Lord, III. — Christ manifested first to the Jews, and afterwards to the Gentiles. Infants made martyrs. Two walls meeting at the corner. 1668

SERMON CCCLXXVI. On the Sunday in the octave of Easter. — 1. A great miracle, to enter when the doors were shut. 2. The octave of the Infants. The old and the new man. 3. He exhorts the baptized not to imitate bad Christians. In the Church the bad mingled with the good. 4. Bad men who lead into sin to be avoided. The remedies of incantations unlawful. Almsgiving. 1669-1671

SERMON CCCLXXVII. On the Ascension of the Lord. — 1. The Word of God cannot be worthily praised by us. How He exulted to run His course. Why it is said twice in the Psalm, Lift up the gates, etc. (Ps. 23:7, 9). 1671-1672

SERMON CCCLXXVIII. On the day of Pentecost. — Charity the effect of the presence of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit the earnest of eternal life. The difference between an earnest and a pledge. The earnest of eternal life is given that we may desire it. 1673

SERMON CCCLXXIX. On the Nativity of John the Baptist, I. — John so great a man that he preached Christ as God. Why so many prophets were sent ahead before Christ. 1674

SERMON CCCLXXX. On the Nativity of John the Baptist II. — 1. John went before Christ born in time. The two nativities of Christ. Pride a swelling. The reason for the Incarnation, that God might give man an example. 2. On the same subject. 3. From John's words, the calumnies of the Arians: that the Word was indeed in the beginning, but was not made. 4. The quibble of the Arians, that it is said likewise in Genesis, The earth was (Gen. 1:2). 5. The objection: that Christ is called made inasmuch as He is the Word. Christ made before John, that is, set before him and preferred. 6. The words of John that follow agree with the interpretation given. 7. John the Baptist was not the light, in comparison with Christ the true light. Yet John a light by participation in wisdom. 8. The difference between the passion and the nativity. Christ increases, John decreases. 1675-1682

SERMON CCCLXXXI. On the Birthday of the apostles Peter and Paul. 1683

SERMON CCCLXXXII. On Saint Stephen. — 1. The commandment about loving enemies. 2. The example of Christ praying for His slayers. Christ prays for us, prays in us, and is prayed to by us. 3. The example of Stephen praying for his slayers. 4. Grace and salvation obtained for Saul by Stephen's prayer. 5. How wicked it is to call down evils on enemies. 1684-1686

SERMON CCCLXXXIII. On the anniversary day of his episcopal ordination. — 1. He considers that he must inquire within himself how he bears the episcopal burden. 2. He forgives his debtors. 3. He desires to return to favour with those whose displeasure he has perhaps incurred. 1687-1688

SERMON CCCLXXXIV. On the Trinity, or on the Old and New Scriptures, against the Arians. — 1. What God is. 2. The Trinity one God. The error of the Arians. In the sun three inseparable things. In fire also three inseparable things. 3. Testimonies of the Scriptures on the divine Trinity. Praise of the catholic faith. 1689-1690

SERMON CCCLXXXV. On the love of man for man. — 1. Man's love is either right or perverse. 2. The steps of lawful love. 3. Friendship is either of habit or of reason. 4. The love of friendship freely given. 5. God to be loved for nothing. 6. To love the creature, forsaking the Creator, is to commit adultery. 7. How vain the well-being of this life is. 8. True well-being is eternal life. A friend to be loved for eternal well-being. Perfect charity. 9. Conclusion. 1690-1693

SERMON CCCLXXXVI. On the love of enemies. — 1. Charity ought to extend even to enemies. Prayers handed down by Christ the judge Himself. We must forgive, that we may be forgiven. He is secure before God who asks pardon of a brother and is refused it. We must pray for one who does not ask pardon. 2. The example of Christ praying for those who mocked and killed Him. The example of Stephen. 1695-1697