Select English works of John Wyclif. Vol. 3. Miscellaneous works / edited from original mss. by Thomas Arnold.

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INDEX

TO WYCLIF'S SERMONS AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.

A.
  • A Petition to the King and Parliament, iii. 507.
  • A Short Rule of Life, iii. 204.
  • Absolution, effect of, conditional, i. 18, 35; ii. 100; bought and sold, ib.; its various kinds, 48; priestly, ii. 77, 100; plenary, 148; papal, iii. 355, 444.
  • Adder, deafness of the, i. 201.
  • Advent, the, of Christ; may be taken in four senses, i. 65.
  • Advocates, i. 383 n.
  • Ages, the six, of the world, i. 99; in the eighth the world ends, 101.
  • Anger, the sin of, iii. 134.
  • Antipope, the, ii. 43, 314, 316; par∣tisans of, 192.
  • Apocalypse, visions of the, ii. 308.
  • Apostles, their threefold office, i. 170.
  • Appeals to Rome; evils of the system, iii. 397.
  • Apprentitii or barristers, i. 383 n.
  • Aquila, reference to, iii. 96 and n.
  • Aristotle, ii. 5; iii. 432.
  • Articles, put upon Lollards, iii. 455.
  • Athanasian Creed, the; translation and commentary, iii. 71 and n.
  • Atonement, definition of the, ii. 236, 275.
  • Attrition, iii. 254 n.
  • Augustinians, origin of the, iii. 353 n.
  • Avignon, the pope at, iii. 295.
B.
  • Baptism, infant, ii. 328.
  • Bartholomew, St., i. 385 n.; legend of, iii. 394 n.
  • Bede, the Venerable; his interpreta∣tion of a miracle, i. 35; his letter to Egbert, iii. 477.
  • Begging; forbidden in Scripture, iii. 370; exhausts the kingdom, 384; blasphemously defended by the friars, 410-417.
  • Belief, varieties of, ii. 325.
  • Benedicite, the; translation and com∣mentary, iii. 62.
  • Benedict, St., iii. 371; his rule, 511.
  • Benedictus, the; translation and com∣mentary, iii. 56.
  • Benets, or exorcists, iii. 285 n.
  • Bequests, pious, diverted to bad uses, ii. 213.
  • Bernard, St.; rebukes Eugenius III, iii. 250.
  • Bible, the, in English, i. 209; the rule of Christians, iii. 495.
  • Bishops, duties of, i. 288; meaning of the mitre, 289; warlike disposition of, ii. 120; excomunications by, 159; worldliness of, 281; ambition of, iii. 335.
  • Body, properties of the heavenly, ii. 234.
  • Bradwardine, Archbishop, i. 324 n.
  • Bretagne, ii. 243.
  • Brocardus, i. 347 n.
  • Bulls, papal, iii. 308.
C.
  • Cain's castles, iii. 348, 368.
  • Canon law, ii. 61, 419; on incontinent priests, iii. 224; on church music, 480.
  • Canonization, as practised at Rome, condemned, i. 329.
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  • Canons, order of; injurious to the Church, i. 216; brought in after monks, iii. 345.
  • Canons, made by the pope; not bind∣ing, iii. 460.
  • Capped friars, iii. 376.
  • Carmelites, origin of the, iii. 353.
  • Celibacy of the clergy, i. 59; not authorized by Christ, 364; dis∣cussed, iii. 163, 190.
  • Ceremonies, superabundance of, in the Church, ii. 279.
  • Chanting; see Music.
  • Charity, obligation of, ii. 227; con∣ditions of true, 266; disregarded by the friars, ib.
  • Christ; his baptism, i. 80; his rule, 84; iii. 510; his temptation, i. 109; sinless, 124; his divinity, 126; his glorified body, 142; union with, 166; his precept of love, 155, 172; his Conception, 311; his Nativity, 316-320; his preaching, ii. 16; his 'brothers,' 20; the bread of life, 82, 165; his Passion, 119; seven last words of, 128; his Resurrection, 132, 142, 145; his Godhead, 157; his redemption, 281; his Incarna∣tion, 284; the light of the world, 149; sole head of the Church, iii. 342.
  • Church, the, must be reformed by the laity, i. 245; meaning of the word, ii. 209; law of the, 61, 240; overgovernment of, 279; invisible on earth, iii. 339, 395; early history of, 340; friars' doctrine of, 395; is not the clergy only, 447.
  • Church, the visible, definition of, iii. 395.
  • Church lands, increase of, iii. 302, 346.
  • Church property, confiscation of, jus∣tified, iii. 313.
  • Church Temporalities, iii. 213.
  • Clement VII, antipope, i. 11, 97; ii. 192; prayer indulgenced by him, 302.
  • Clementines, the, i. 205 n.
  • Clergy, the, are sellers of grace, i. 10; ought to preach in the language of the people, 79; their duties, 269; their salaries, 291 n.; errors of, ii. 29, 30, 49, 60, 89, 144, 154, 185, 229, 231, 370; oppressive ordinances of, 240; uselessness of several orders of, 421; possessions of, may be lawfully taxed, 200.
  • Cloistered orders, unprofitable to the Christian people, i. 273.
  • Comestor, Petrus, i. 328 n.
  • Commonalty, duties of the, iii. 147; prone to covetousness, 155; to gluttony, 159; to incontinence, 166.
  • Commune Sanctorum, offices of, i. 164.
  • Concerning the Eucharist, No. 1, iii. 499; No. 2, iii. 501.
  • Confession, as taught by Christ, i. 196, 351; private, ii. 87; iii. 255; of women, ii. 175; its evils, iii. 358; unnecessary, 461.
  • Conquest, title by, examined, iii. 139.
  • Consecration, superstitiously multi∣plied, iii. 481.
  • Consubstantiation, i. 125 n., 248; ii. 421; affirmed as the true doctrine, iii. 409, 502.
  • Contemplative life, the, i. 383.
  • Contrition, iii. 254.
  • Council of London; see London.
  • Counsels of Christ, iii. 392; Chris∣tian, 451.
  • Court, the, appealed to by the friars, i. 247.
  • Courts, ecclesiastical, iii. 167, 299; of law and equity, iii. 215 n.
  • Covetousness, the sin of, iii. 150.
  • Crusade, the, to Flanders, i. 115, 116, 136; those that die in it no true martyrs, 257; ii. 166; against the antipope, iii. 246 n., 329.
  • Crusading, not taught by Christ to Peter, i. 367; of Christians against each other, denounced, iii. 140, 308, 362, 458.
  • Cursing, proneness of the clergy to, iii. 336, 450; does not bind, 465.
D.
  • De Apostasia cleri, iii. 430.
  • De Blasphemia, &c., iii. 402.
  • De Pontificum Rom. Schismate, iii. 242.
  • De Precationibus Sacris, iii. 219.
  • De Stipendiis Ministrorum, iii. 202.
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  • ... De Veritate Scripturae, reference to, i. 79 n.
  • Degeneracy, of the land and the population, iii. 400.
  • Despair, reflections against, i. 279.
  • Devil, loosing of the, i. 133 n.; iii. 503.
  • Dirige or dirge, iii. 374.
  • Disendowment, necessary and pro∣fitable to the Church, i. 26; should begin at Rome, 246.
  • Dispensation, papal, ii. 422; iii. 451; has its limits, 511.
  • Dominicans, or friars preachers, i. 76.
  • Double feasts, iii. 490 n.
  • Dreams, use of, by the friars, ii. 166; iii. 247.
  • Drunkenness, evils of, iii. 160.
E.
  • Empire, Holy Roman, enfeebled con∣dition of, i. 316 n.
  • Encaenia, the, at Jerusalem, ii. 105.
  • Endowment of the Church, evils of, i. 308, 313; promoted by ladies, 389; protest against, ii. 411; bad results of, iii. 171, 433, 474; con∣demned in Scripture, 234 seq.; ought to cease, 358.
  • English language, plea for the use of, iii. 98, 100, 184.
  • English version of the Bible, i. 129; iii. 393; vilified by friars, 405.
  • Envy, the sin of; its forms, iii. 128-134.
  • Epiphany, sermon on the, i. 342.
  • Eucharist, Wyclif's doctrine con∣cerning the, i. 125; the friars' doc∣trine novel, 133, 213; unnecessary to receive it fasting, 360; St. Am∣brose upon, 379 n.; definition of, ii. 6, 82; controversies concerning, 91, 112, 169, 274; false view of friars, 396; discussed, iii. 106, 352, 378; blasphemy of friars respecting, 403-409; heresy on, 443; belief of Wycliffites concerning, 483, 500, 502.
  • Eugenius III, Pope, iii. 250.
  • Europe, distracted state of, ii. 401.
  • Exchange, commercial, benefits of, iii. 159.
  • Excommunication by bishops, ii. 159; should not be dreaded, iii. 218; form of the greater, 267.
  • Exemplar forms, i. 127.
F.
  • Fable of the envious man and the covetous man, iii. 129 and n.
  • Faith, failure in, of two kinds, i. 93.
  • Famine in England, i. 244 n.
  • Famulorum; a prayer so called, iii. 441.
  • Fear, three kinds of, i. 371.
  • Fees, extorted by the clergy, iii. 285.
  • Feet, washings of, ii. 118.
  • Festivals, of doubtful utility, i. 330; how far to be observed, iii. 489.
  • Fifty Heresies, &c., iii. 366.
  • Fighting, justified in the clergy by St. Peter's example, i. 123; this view refuted, ib.
  • Five questions on Love, iii. 183.
  • Flanders, expedition to, ii. 166; iii. 349, 386.
  • Forgiveness, duty of, ii. 199, 251, 255.
  • Founders of orders, estimate of, iii. 419.
  • Francis, St., iii. 375.
  • Franciscans, the, i. 76; iii. 448 n.; their property vested in the pope, 303; superstition about the habit, 382.
  • Freedom, Christian, destroyed, i. 363.
  • Friars, dangerous to the kingdom, i. 19-21; their proneness to hypo∣crisy, 57, 58, 76; desert the way of Christ, 73; herd together in crowds, 147; prevent good priests from preaching, 176; ought to work, 178; greedy of wealth, 202, 283; appeal to the king against the au∣thor's teaching, 247 n.; brought in by the devil, 274; prevent men from leaving them, 296; enclosure of, ii. 15, 299; persecutions by, 25, 205; arrogance of, 62; preaching of, 166, 173, 191; boasted poverty of, 180; errors of, 212, 226, 301, 327, 334, 379, 394, 404; prayers of, 215; uncharitable, 254; vain boast∣ing of, 264; a useless expense to the country, 269; pride and covetous∣ness

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  • of, 288; worldliness of, 290; a scourge to the Church, 298; in∣hospitable, 303; pretensions of the new orders examined, 304; sin against the law of love, 314, 318; begging practices of, 320; final punishment of, 410; unlike John the Baptist, iii. 59, 60; their view of tithes, 175; their preach∣ing disfigures the gospel, 180; modes of getting money, 199; persecute poor priests, 231; a pest to the country, 266; corrupt in the confessional, 299; general charge against, 348; divided be∣tween the two popes, 351; heretical on the Eucharist, 352; ought to be suppressed, 361, 437; fifty of their heresies and errors enumerated, 366-401; treasonable language of, 388; their lordly dwellings, 397; they impoverish the land, 416; dangerous to England, 445; bur∣densome to the Church, 512.
G.
  • Games, English, i. 410 n.
  • Genealogies of Christ, i. 391.
  • Gentlemen; their duties, iii. 145; sin through covetousness, 152; through gluttony, 158; through lust, 164.
  • Gluttony, the sin of, iii. 155.
  • Gregory the Great, i. 254.
  • Grossetete, Robert, i. 171; quotation from, iii. 60, 111; why not canon∣ized, 467; sermon of, 470.
  • Guilds, i. 67 n.; their evil practices, iii. 333.
H.
  • Habakkuk, prayer of; translation and commentary, iii. 25.
  • Habit, friars' superstitious regard for their, iii. 389.
  • Hallowing of churches, i. 282.
  • Heathen, the, bishops for, iii. 512.
  • Heaven, the joys of, ii. 234.
  • Heresy, almost universal in the Church, iii. 438.
  • Heretics, burning of, ii. 126.
  • Hildegardis, St.; her prophecies, iii. 413.
  • Historia Scholastica, i. 328 n.
  • Holy Ghost, double procession of, i. 135, 146; a doubtful tenet, 152; descent of, ii. 303.
I.
  • Images, worship of, iii. 462.
  • Indulgences; may be futile, i. 60; given to crusaders, 136, 137; papal, 189; plenary, 210; foolishly granted, 236; one of two thousand years, 137, 354 n.; papal, iii. 113, 243; futility of, 256, 362; theory of, examined, 259-263.
  • Infallibility of the pope, a heresy, iii. 345, 407.
  • Innocent III; established private con∣fession, iii. 255.
  • Inquisitorial proceedings, how to be met, iii. 426.
  • Interpretation of prophecy, ii. 375.
  • Ire, three kinds of it condemned by Christ, i. 16.
  • Isidore, reference to, i. 265 n.
J.
  • Jesselyn, a canonist, iii. 248.
  • Jesus, the name of, i. 336.
  • John the Baptist, an example to the new orders, ii. 3; his work, 4; likened to Elias, 176.
  • Judas, why chosen an apostle, i. 403; worst merchant, iii. 471.
  • Judgment, Day of, ii. 35, 48, 222, 230, 405; near at hand, iii. 172.
K.
  • Kings, their duties to the Church, i. 265; have power over the clergy, ii. 88; the three at Bethlehem, ii. 243.
  • Knights, an appeal to, iii. 231.
L.
  • Labourers, duties of, iii. 207.
  • Laity, the, should put down the friars, i. 212.
  • Lancaster, the duke of, iii. 508.
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  • Languages, number of, i. 175.
  • Law, consistory and chapter, i. 15; evils of the canon and civil, 96; defects in, both secular and eccle∣siastical, ii. 230, 231, 419; evils of appealing to, 250; freedom under the New, 277; Christ's fulfilment of the, 171.
  • Laws, new, enforced by the friars, ii. 80.
  • Lawyers, covetousness of, iii. 153; dishonesty of, 332.
  • Learning, secular, needless if we know God's law, i. 310; iii. 377.
  • Legenda Aurea, i. 326 n.; iii. 344.
  • Letter to Pope Urban, iii. 504.
  • Letters of fraternity, i. 67, 380; blas∣phemously granted by friars, iii. 420; should be abolished, 428.
  • Light, its properties, i. 268.
  • Limitours, iii. 376.
  • Lincolniensis, iii. 230.
  • London, council of, iii. 175, 233, 313, 503.
  • Lord's Prayer, the, commentary on, iii. 93; another commentary, 98; model of all prayer, 221; heresies against, 441.
  • Lords, duties of, ii. 15, 399; iii. 206; should control the clergy, 213, 240; and strip them of their wealth, 478.
  • Lordships, proper and improper, i. 36; disclaimed by Christ for his fol∣lowers, 386.
  • Love, of God to man, ii. 313, 325.
  • Love-days, iii. 322 n.
  • Luke, St., i. 391 n.
  • Lust, the sin of, iii. 161.
  • Luxury, evils of, ii. 245.
  • Lyra, Nicholas de, his Commentary, i. 76 n., 86 n., 255, 335, 398; iii. 108.
M.
  • Magna Carta, iii. 306, 326.
  • Magnificat, the, translation and com∣mentary, iii. 48.
  • Majorities, decisions by, ii. 414.
  • Marcial, St., i. 399 n.
  • Margaret, St., i. 187 n.
  • Marriage, sacredness of, ii. 216; its kinds, iii. 188; that of priests law∣ful, 190; fees extorted for, 284 n.
  • Martyrdom, the spirit of, wanting, i. 233; iii. 185.
  • Mary, the Virgin, ii. 9; her five joys, i. 353; is pleased by meekness, 356; her high privileges, 380; exempt from sin, 257; her Assumption, 345; her aid invoked, 246; her prerogatives, iii. 111-113.
  • Mary Magdalene, St., ii. 205.
  • Masses, private, iii. 473.
  • Matthias, St., his election, i. 351, 395.
  • Mendicancy, forbidden in the gospel, i. 200.
  • Merchants, iii. 334.
  • Miracles, sermons on the:—the loaves and fishes, i. 17, 62, 120; healing of the deaf and dumb man, 29; of the lepers, 34; raising of the widow's son, 38; healing of him that had the dropsy, 41; of the paralytic, 46; ii. 167; of the nobleman's son, i. 51; raising of Jairus' daughter, 59; con∣version of water into wine, 86; healing of the leper, 89; of the centurion's servant, 90; of the blind man, 107; of the daughter of the Canaanitish woman, 113; cast∣ing out of the dumb devil, 116; cure of the deaf and dumb man, 251; of the blind man, ii. 14, 92; of the withered hand, 21; raising of Lazarus, 97; cure of Peter's mother-in-law, 65; stilling the tempest, 178; cure of the demo∣niac, 203.
  • Monasticism condemned, iii. 431.
  • Monks, injure the Church, i. 216; hypocrisy of, 299; idle and un∣charitable, ii. 257; prone to glut∣tony, iii. 156; brought in late, 345; ought to be suppressed, 359, 437; adopt the rules of friars, 511.
  • Moon, changes of the, ii. 177.
  • Mortal sin, disqualifying effects of, iii. 485.
  • Mortuaries, iii. 285 n.
  • Moses, song of, translation and com∣mentary, iii. 32.
  • Music, Church, modern system con∣demned, iii. 203, 228, 479.
  • Mystical interpretations of Scripture, i. 13, 18, 34, 39, 46, 69, 90, 100, 107, 114, 121, 254, 374; ii. 139.

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    N.
    • Non-residence, inexcusable, iii. 493.
    • Numbers, properties of, i. 290 n., 320 n.
    • Nunc Dimittis, the, translation and commentary, iii. 61.
    O.
    • Oaths, profane, iii. 332, 483.
    • Obedience, monastic, exaggerated, i. 82, 85.
    • Octo in quibus seducuntur, &c., iii. 447.
    • Odo, Cardinal, iii. 327.
    • Of Mynystris in the Chirche, ii. 393.
    • Of Weddid Men and Wifis, iii. 188.
    • On the Apostles' Creed, iii. 114.
    • On the Five Inner Wits, iii. 117.
    • On the Five Outer Wits, iii. 117.
    • On the Seven Deadly Sins, iii. 119.
    • On the Sufficiency of Holy Scripture, iii. 186.
    • On the Twenty-five Articles, iii. 454.
    • Order, that founded by Christ, i. 82, 84.
    • Orders, considered as a sacrament, i. 265.
    • Ordination, fees extorted at, iii. 283 n.
    • Oxford, the school of, i. 93.
    P.
    • Papacy, wealth of the, ii. 395.
    • Parables, sermons on the:—Dives and Lazarus, i. 1; the bidden guests, 3; the lost sheep, 8; the unjust steward, 22; the Pharisee and Pub∣lican, 27; the good Samaritan, 31; the marriage of the king's son, 48; the indebted servant, 54; the tares, 95; ii. 196; the labourers in the vineyard, i. 98; the sower, 102; ii. 34; the good shepherd, i. 138; ii. 62; the true vine, i. 165; the un∣finished tower, 190; the two kings, 192; the talents, 252; the ten pounds, 257; the hidden treasure, 285; the pearl of great price, 286; the net, 287; the ten virgins, 289; the two sons, ii. 27; the wicked husbandmen, 66; the prodigal son, 69; the importunate widow, 186; the rich man and his barns, 191; the grain of mustard seed, 194; the king's supper, 196; the barren fig∣tree, 207.
    • Paradise Lost, i. 68 n.
    • Parochial system, injured by the friars, iii. 380.
    • Passion of Christ, the painfulness of, i. 130.
    • Pastors, their functions, i. 140.
    • Patronage, abuses of, iii. 277, 356, 357.
    • Patteshull, Peter, iii. 366 n.
    • Paul, St., epistles of, ii. 221 seq.; difficulties in interpreting his writ∣ings, 224; his visions and revela∣tions, 263.
    • Pelagius, error of, i. 91.
    • Penance, necessity of, i. 306.
    • Perjury, of bishops and others, iii. 300.
    • Persecution, of Wyclif's followers, i. 100, 111, 153, 338, 398; by pre∣lates and friars, 129; strangling and killing, 201 n; burning, 205; must not be resisted by force, 212.
    • Peter, St., Christ's promises to, i. 349; charge to, 367; original office of, ii. 412; denies Christ, 121; pro∣mises to, iii. 250; his powers, 354.
    • Peter's Pence, collected by the friars, ii. 61.
    • Pilgrimages, evils attending, i. 83.
    • Planets, their motions, &c., iii. 63.
    • Plato, ii. 5.
    • Play-going condemned, i. 250.
    • Points of belief ascribed to Lollards, iii. 457.
    • Poor priests, i. 63; have lawful mis∣sion, 177; may preach freely, 185; ii. 173; persecuted, 182; iii. 272, 375, 393; imprisoned, 231, 321; slandered, 293; by friars, 391.
    • Pope, the, his assumption of power, i. 40; compared to Antichrist, 138; harmful to the Church, 152; en∣croachments of, 225, 241; his authority when to be despised, 232; his appointments to benefices, 363; his boat, 375; arrogance of, ii. 229; his usurped authority, 281, 400; blasphemous claims of, 284; his gifts and indulgences, 297, 417; confirmations by, 323; his infalli∣bility and impeccability denied,

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    • 387, 415; Antichrist, 394; pride and worldliness of, 395; the successor of Peter, 412; mode of electing, ib.; immense patronage of, 416; his oppressive government, 420; his dispensations, 422; Christ's enemy, iii. 278; the great plun∣derer, 318, 319; encourages war, 330; identified with Antichrist, 341; how far to be followed, 505.
    • Pope Joan, i. 241.
    • Porphyry, iii. 407.
    • Poverty, suitable for ecclesiastics, i. 313; iii. 495; chosen by Christ, i. 318; advantages of, ii. 211; beauty of, iii. 275.
    • Prayer, efficacy of, ii. 153, 186; iii. 219; general better than special, 425.
    • Prayers for the dead, ii. 213, 215; iii. 395.
    • Preachers, rules for, i. 282.
    • Preaching, the chief duty of priests, iii. 144, 464.
    • Prelates, compared to the Scribes, i. 7; worldliness of, 220; doom of false, ii. 409; worship false gods, iii. 37; might well be dispensed with, 433.
    • Pride, the sin of, its forms and reme∣dies, iii. 121-128.
    • Priesthood, lawful and unlawful pri∣vileges of the, ii. 247.
    • Priests, dignity of their calling, iii. 143; duties of, 205; misdeeds of worldly, 304.
    • Property, the right to, invalidated by sin, i. 260 n.; community of, iii. 473.
    • Proprium Sanctorum, offices of, i. 295.
    • Purgatory, the sleep of, i. 101; iii. 53, 116, 339; a state of punishment, i. 321; the souls in, ii. 100; iii. 286.
    Q.
    • Quienals, iii. 398 n.
    R.
    • Regale of the English crown, iii. 391.
    • Religion, private, of the friars, i. 6.
    • Religious orders, their members should be allowed to leave them, i. 296.
    • Restitution, duty of, iii, 174.
    • Richard II, King, i. 354; iii. 508; appealed to, 503.
    • Richard, Archbishop of Armagh, iii. 281, 412, 416.
    • Riches, engender cowardice, i. 372.
    S.
    • Sabbath, observance of the, ii. 57, 180.
    • Sacerdotal pretensions, iii. 297.
    • Sacraments, of priestly invention, i. 119.
    • Sacrilege, the curse against, iii. 325.
    • Saints, many of them now in hell, iii. 466 n.; compared, 419; worship of, 463.
    • Salaries of priests, i. 291 n.; iii. 286.
    • Salt, its properties, i. 267.
    • Sanctuary, abuses of the right of, iii. 294, 316 n., 323.
    • Schism, in the papacy, i. 228; occa∣sions war, 243; wrongly, 246; con∣sidered, ii. 192, 403; iii. 242.
    • Scholastic doubts, i. 181, 195, 323, 333, 376.
    • Scholastic speculations, i. 93; iii. 146.
    • Science without religion, the doom of, ii. 408.
    • Scripture, four modes of understand∣ing, i. 30; its inner sense, 52; scornful language occurring in, 113; its paramount authority, 186; trans∣lated into English, 209; always self∣consistent, 302.
    • Seas, properties of, iii. 67.
    • Sects, of monks, canons, and friars, founded in error, i. 28; their in∣ordinate partizanship, 45.
    • Seed, of God, i. 104.
    • Sergius, the monk, iii. 245.
    • Sermon on the Mount, importance of, i. 406.
    • Seven Heresies against the Pater Noster, iii. 441.
    • Sextus, the (of canon law), i. 205 n.
    • Simonists and Apostates, iii. 211.
    • Simony, universality of, iii. 226, 488; forms of, 278-287.
    • Sin, mortal and venial, i. 61; iii. 452; the unpardonable, ii. 32; reproof of, a duty, 76; forgiveness of, 77; against the Holy Ghost, iii. 120.
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    • Sins, the seven deadly, iii. 119.
    • Slander, the guilt of, ii. 183.
    • Sloth, the sin of, iii. 142.
    • Soul, the, when joined to the body, i. 369 n.
    • Spheres, the, iii. 64.
    • State, the, should be supreme, ii. 295; even over popes, 296.
    • Summoning, ecclesiastical, iii. 166 n, 320.
    • Super Cantica Sacra, iii. 1-81.
    • Supererogatory merits, doctrine of, assailed, iii. 101.
    • Swearing, to what extent lawful, iii. 483.
    • Swords, meaning of the two, iii. 263.
    • Sylvester, Pope, iii. 340.
    T.
    • Te Deum, translation and commen∣tary, iii. 52; origin of the, ib. n.
    • Temptation of Christ, i. 109.
    • The Ave Maria, iii. 111.
    • The Church and her Members, iii. 338.
    • The Great Sentence of Curse, iii. 267.
    • The Pater Noster (1) iii. 93.
    • The Pater Noster (2) iii. 98.
    • The Seven corporal works of Mercy, iii. 168.
    • The Seven spiritual works of Mercy, iii. 177.
    • The Ten Commandments, iii. 82.
    • Thomas, St., the apostle, i. 153 n.
    • Thomas a Becket, St., i. 330.
    • Thunder, nature of, i. 186.
    • Tithes, sufficient for the clergy, i. 147, 199, 282; may be withheld in certain cases, iii. 176, 468; evils caused by appropriating them to convents, 215; cursing for, 309-313; not due under the gospel, 312.
    • Trentals, iii. 299, 374.
    • Trinity, doctrine of the, i. 158-162, 359; representations of the, iii. 491.
    U.
    • Urban VI, pope, ii. 192, 319; iii. 506; the son of Antichrist, 455; letter to, 504.
    • Use of Sarum, or Salisbury, iii. 482.
    • Usury, the sin of, ii. 252; iii. 154.
    V.
    • Vae Octuplex, ii. 379.
    • Vengeance, when lawful, iii. 136.
    • Virtues, inculcated in the gospel, i. 261.
    • Vita Sacerdotum, iii. 233.
    • Voluntary principle, the, advocated, iii. 360.
    • Vows, dispensation from, i. 81.
    W.
    • War, opposed to Christianity, i. 148; its lawfulness discussed, iii. 137.
    • Water, properties of, iii. 67.
    • Wills, making of, ii. 212.
    • Works, salvation by, i. 350.
    • World, the, different meanings of the term, ii. 160.
    • Wyclif, John, disabled from travelling to the pope, iii. 506.

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