Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament

Contents (98 chapters)

1. 1. Advertisement.
2. 2. Of the agreement of the evangelists Matthew and Luke in the generations of the Lord.
3. 3. Of the words of St. Matthew’s Gospel, Chap. iii. 13, 'Then Jesus cometh from Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.' Concerning the Trinity.
4. 4. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. Chap. v. 3 and 8, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit:' etc., but especially on that, 'Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.'
5. 5. On that which is written in the Gospel, Matt. v. 16, 'Even so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Who is in Heaven:' and contrariwise, Chap. vi., 'Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them.'
6. 6. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. v. 22, ‘Whosoever shall say to his brother, thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.’
7. 7. On the Lord’s Prayer in St. Matthew’s Gospel, Chap. vi. 9, etc. to the Competentes.
8. 8. Again, on Matt. vi. on the Lord’s Prayer. To the Competentes.
9. 9. Again on the Lord’s Prayer, Matt. vi. To the Competentes.
10. 10. Again, on the Lord’s Prayer, Matt. vi. To the Competentes.
11. 11. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. vi. 19, ‘Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,’ etc. An exhortation to alms-deeds.
12. 12. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. vii. 7, ‘Ask, and it shall be given you;’ etc. An exhortation to alms-deeds.
13. 13. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. viii. 8, ‘I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof,’ etc., and of the words of the apostle, 1 Cor. viii. 10, ‘For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol’s temple,’ etc.
14. 14. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. viii. 23, ‘And when he was entered into a boat,’ etc.
15. 15. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. x. 16, ‘Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves,’ etc. Delivered on a Festival of Martyrs.
16. 16. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. x. 28, ‘Be not afraid of them that kill the body.’ Delivered on a Festival of Martyrs.
17. 17. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xi. 2, ‘Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Christ, he sent by his disciples, and said unto him, art thou He that cometh, or look we for another?’ etc.
18. 18. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xi. 25, ‘I thank thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding,’ etc.
19. 19. Again on the words of the Gospel, Matt. xi. 25, ‘I thank thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth,’ etc.
20. 20. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xix. 28, ‘Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden,’ etc.
21. 21. Again on the words of the Gospel, Matt. xi. 28, ‘Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,’ etc.
22. 22. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xii. 32, ‘Whosoever shall speak a word against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come.’ Or, ‘on the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.’
23. 23. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xii. 33, ‘Either make the tree good, and its fruit good,’ etc.
24. 24. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xiii. 19, etc., where the Lord Jesus explaineth the parables of the sower.
25. 25. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xiii. 52, ‘Therefore every scribe who hath been made a disciple to the kingdom of Heaven,’ etc.
26. 26. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xiv. 24, ‘But the boat was now in the midst of the sea, distressed by the waves.’
27. 27. Again on Matt. xiv. 25: Of the Lord walking on the waves of the sea, and of Peter tottering.
28. 28. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xv. 21,’Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanitish woman,’ etc.
29. 29. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xvii. 1, ‘After six days Jesus taketh with Him Peter, and James, and John his brother,’ etc.
30. 30. Again on the words of the Gospel, Matt. xvii., where Jesus showed Himself on the mount to His three disciples.
31. 31. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xvii. 19, ‘Why could not we cast it out’? etc., and on prayer.
32. 32. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xviii. 7, where we are admonished to beware of the offences of the world.
33. 33. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xviii. 15, ‘If thy brother sin against thee, go, shew him his fault between thee and him alone;’ and of the words of Solomon, he that winketh with the eyes deceitfully, heapeth sorrow upon men; but he that reproveth openly, maketh peace.
34. 34. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xvii. 21, ‘How oft shall my brother sin against me,’ etc.
35. 35. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xix. 17, ‘If thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments.’
36. 36. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xix. 17, ‘If thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments.’
37. 37. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xix. 21,’Go, sell that thou hast, and give to the poor,’ etc.
38. 38. Delivered on the Lord’s Day, on that which is written in the Gospel, Matt. xx. 1, ‘The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.’
39. 39. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xx. 30, about the two blind men sitting by the way side, and crying out, ‘Lord, have mercy on us, Thou Son of David.’
40. 40. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xxi. 19, where Jesus dried up the fig-tree; and on the words, Luke xxiv. 28, where He made a pretence as though He would go further.
41. 41. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xxii. 2, etc., about the marriage of the king’s son; against the Donatists, on charity. Delivered at Carthage in the Restituta.
42. 42. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xxii. 42, where the Lord asks the Jews whose son they said David was.
43. 43. On the same words of the Gospel, Matt. xxii. 42.
44. 44. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xxv. 1, ‘then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins.’
45. 45. On the words of the Gospel, Matt. xxv. 24, etc., where the slothful servant who would not put out the talent he had received, is condemned.
46. 46. On the words of the Gospel, Mark viii. 5, etc., where the miracle of the seven loaves is related.
47. 47. On the words of the Gospel, Mark viii. 34, ‘If any man would come after me, let him deny himself,’ etc. And on the words 1 John ii. 15, ‘if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.’
48. 48. On the words of the Gospel, Mark xiii. 32, ‘But of that day or that hour knoweth no one, not even the angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.’
49. 49. On the words of the Gospel, Luke vii. 2, etc.; on the three dead persons whom the Lord raised.
50. 50. On the words of the Gospel, Luke vii. 37, ‘And behold, a woman who was in the city, a sinner,’ etc. On the remission of sins, against the Donatists.
51. 51. On the words of the Gospel, Luke ix. 57, etc., where the case of the three persons is treated of, of whom one said, ‘I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest,’ and was disallowed: another did not dare to offer himself, and was aroused; the third wished to delay, and was blamed.
52. 52. On the words of the Gospel, Luke x. 2, ‘The harvest truly is plenteous,’ etc.
53. 53. On the words of the Gospel, Luke x. 16, ‘He that rejecteth you rejecteth me.’
54. 54. On the words of the Gospel, Luke x. 38, ‘And a certain woman named Martha received him into her house,’ etc.
55. 55. Again, on the words of the Gospel, Luke x. 38, etc., about Martha and Mary.
56. 56. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xi. 5, ‘Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight,’ etc.
57. 57. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xi. 39, ‘Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter,’ etc.
58. 58. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xii. 15, ‘And he said unto them, take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness.’
59. 59. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xii. 35, ‘Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning; and be ye yourselves like,’ etc. And on the words of the 34th Psalm, v. 12, ‘what man is he that desireth life,’ etc.
60. 60. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xii. 56, 58, ‘Ye know how to interpret the face of the Earth and the Heaven,’ etc.; and of the words, ‘for as thou art going with thine adversary before the magistrate, on the way give diligence to be quit of him,’ etc.
61. 61. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xiii. 6, where we are told of the fig-tree, which bare no fruit for three years; and of the woman which was in an infirmity eighteen years; and on the words of the ninth Psalm, v. 19, ‘Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in thy sight.’
62. 62. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xiii. 21 and 23, where the kingdom of God is said to be ‘like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal;’ and of that which is written in the same chapter, ‘Lord, are they few that are saved?’
63. 63. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xiv. 16, ‘A certain man made a great supper,’ etc.
64. 64. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xvi. 9, ‘Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness,’ etc.
65. 65. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xvii. 3, ‘If thy brother sin, rebuke him,’ etc., touching the remission of sins.
66. 66. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xviii. 1,’They ought always to pray, and not to faint,’ etc. And on the two who went up into the temple to pray: and of the little children who were presented unto Christ.
67. 67. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xxiv. 36, ‘He himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, peace be unto you,’ etc.
68. 68. On the words of the Gospel, John i. 1, ‘In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God,’ etc. Against the Arians.
69. 69. On the same words of the Gospel, John i., ‘In the beginning was the word,’ etc.
70. 70. On the same words, John i. ‘In the beginning was the word,’ etc.
71. 71. On the same words of John i., ‘In the beginning was the word,’ etc.
72. 72. On the words of the Gospel, John i. 10, ‘The world was made through him,’ etc.
73. 73. On the words of the Gospel, John i. 48,’When thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee,’ etc.
74. 74. On the words of the Gospel, John ii. 2, ‘and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage.’
75. 75. On the words of the Gospel, John v. 2, ‘Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool,’ etc.
76. 76. Again in John v. 2, etc., on the five porches, where lay a great multitude of impotent folk, and of the pool of Siloa.
77. 77. On the words of the Gospel, John v. 19, ‘The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father doing.’
78. 78. On the words of the Gospel, John v. 25,’Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God; and they that hear shall live,’ etc.; and on the words of the apostle, ‘things which eye saw not,’ etc., 1 Cor. ii. 9.
79. 79. On the words of the Gospel, John v. 31, ‘If I bear witness of myself,’ etc.; and on the words of the apostle, Galatians v. 16, ‘Walk by the spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth,’ etc.
80. 80. On the words of the Gospel, John v. 39, ‘Ye search the Scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life,’ etc. Against the Donatists.
81. 81. On the words of the Gospel, John vi. 9, where the miracle of the five loaves and the two fishes is related.
82. 82. On the words of the Gospel, John vi. 53, ‘Except ye eat the flesh,’ etc., and on the words of the apostles. And the Psalms. Against the Pelagians.
83. 83. On the words of the Gospel, John vi. 55,’For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh,’ etc.
84. 84. On the words of the Gospel of John vii. 6, etc., where Jesus said that He was not going up unto the feast, and notwithstanding went up.
85. 85. On the words of the Gospel, John viii. 31, ‘If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples,’ etc.
86. 86. On the words of the Gospel, John ix. 4 and 31, ‘We must work the works of him that sent me,’ etc. Against the Arians. And of that which the man who was born blind and received his sight said, ‘We know that God heareth not sinners.’
87. 87. On the same lesson of the Gospel, John ix., on the giving sight to the man that was born blind.
88. 88. The tenth chapter of the Gospel of John. Of the shepherd, and the hireling, and the thief.
89. 89. On the words of the Gospel, John x. 14, ‘I am the good shepherd,’ etc. Against the Donatists.
90. 90. On the words of the Gospel, John x. 30, ‘I and the Father are one.’
91. 91. On the words of the Gospel, John xii. 44, ‘He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.’ Against a certain expression of Maximinus, a bishop of the Arians, who spread his blasphemy in Africa where he was with the Count Segisvult.
92. 92. On the words of the Gospel, John xiv. 6, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life.’
93. 93. On the same words of the Gospel, John xiv. 6, ‘I am the way,’ etc.
94. 94. On the words of the Gospel, John xvi. 7, ‘I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away,’ etc.
95. 95. On the same words of the Gospel, John xvi. 8, ‘He will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement.’
96. 96. On the words of the Gospel, John xvi. 24, ‘Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name;’ and on the words of Luke x. 17, ‘Lord, even the demons are subject unto us in thy name.’
97. 97. On the words of the Gospel, John. xxi. 16, ‘Simon, son of John, lovest thou me?’ etc.
98. 98. On the same words of the Gospel of John. xxi. 15, ‘Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these?’ etc.