§ 3. OF CHRISTIAN SELF-LOVE.
Inordinate self-love: Lot 55; Jacob 76; Achab 274; the Pharisees 545.
Christian self-love cares more for the soul and for what is eternal than for the body and for what is temporal: folly of sinners 87 (Esau); 301 (“Enemies of their own souls”); the Machabee brothers 363; Jesus heals first the soul of the paralytic man 465; 477 (“Lay not up to yourselves treasures upon earth &c. . . . Seek you first the kingdom of God &c.“); 548 (the value of a soul); 560 (the one thing needful); 571 (why the rich man was eternally punished); 586 (“He that loveth his life shall lose it”); 586 (“What doth it profit a man &c.“).
§ 4. OF THE WORSHIP OF GOD.
Models of the worship of God: Abraham 52; Joseph 94; David 222; Tobias 295 301; Judith 319; our Lord’s words: “Render to God the things that are God’s” 612.
Gratitude to God: Noe after leaving the Ark 44; the three young men in the furnace 339; Zachary 395; Simeon 408; the man born lame 741.
Resignation to God's will: Abraham 52; Job 126; Heli 214; Samuel 221; Tobias 297; Mary and Joseph at the flight into Egypt 417; John the Baptist 428; Lazarus 571; Jesus in the Garden 654.
Unbelief: the men before the Rood 35; Pharao 140; the Nazarites 425; the proud Pharisees 498; many disciples when the Blessed Sacrament was promised 532; the rich man and his brethren 572; the chief priests 695 785.
Causes of unbelief: 40 160 309 456 504 579 584 600 785 794.
The weapons of unbelief: 505 714 754 (lies); 578 749 754 757 758 763 777 782 796 801 (violence); 693 734 794 (scorn); 639 714 (bribery).
Heresy : the Samaritans 451.
Doubt: Moses and Aaron 183; Zachary 384.
Religious indifference: Solomon 260; its blameworthiness 776.
Denial of faith: Solomon 260 339; Peter 667.
Sins against hope: the murmuring Israelites 153 176 182; Moses and Aaron 183; presumption of the Pharisees 425; despair of Cain 30; of Judas 669.
Sins against charity: Job’s wife 127; the Israelites in the desert 151 176 182.
External worship of God: Moses 133; the sacrifices of the Old Law 170; David 234; dedication of the Temple 256; Tobias 293; Jesus, Mary and Joseph go up to the Temple 420; worship of God in spirit and in truth 453; Jesus in the synagogue of Nazareth 454; the publican in the Temple 583; religious worship of the early Christians 747; religious music 235.
Sins against religion: Heli’s sons 214; Jesus cleanses the Temple 442.
