The Sermon on the Mount: A Practical ExpositionGore, Charles
Religion
The Sermon on the Mount: A Practical Exposition
Gore, Charles
Sermon on the mount
Peace, 44‒5, 157
Peacemakers, 44‒6
Perfection, to be striven after, 108
Pharisaic religion, 59‒60
Pharisaism of the Publican, 66
Pharisees, character of, 59, 165
Pity, 38‒42
Aristotle’s, 39
Buddha’s, 38‒9
“dramatic,” 39
Poverty,
of spirit, 25‒8
voluntary, 28
Prayer,
definition of, 147
answer to, 178
effective, 178
“in Name of Christ,” 140, 142
in the region of uncertainty, 149
= intercourse with God, 126‒7
its reward, 118
lawful, 149‒50
Lord’s, 128‒49
and scientific method, 147
and selfishness, 144
spirit of, depends on idea of God, 129
test of, 141, 142
uncanonical saying of Christ about, 143
wheels and flags (Buddhist), 125
Presence of God, degrees of, 82
Prevision, is not anxiety, 160
Pride, 42
Principle,
of safe life, applied to art, 70
of social conduct, 181
Principles,
of Commandments, 64
Christ’s method to give, 63, 65, 109
new, in Seventh Commandment, 69
Proverbs, Christ’s use of, 92‒3
Psalms, imprecatory, 103‒4
Public justice and private feeling, 89‒90
Purity of heart, 42
Rates and taxes, 96
Reception of religious truth, condition of, 172‒3, 175
Reciprocity in life, 171
Relief cases, how to deal with, 99‒100
Religion,
outward, visible, 112, 121‒2
Pharisaic, 59‒60
Religious life,
true motive of, 151
orders, and voluntary poverty, 28
Remarriage
of “innocent party,” 78
Lambeth Conference of 1888 upon, 76
“Reserve”
in Christian teaching, 171‒4
in early Church, 174‒6
Resistance to legal injustice, 96
Revenge,
law of, 84
and public justice, 89‒90
Rewards, 112‒3, 118‒9
Righteousness, definition of, 36
Salvation, dependent on three great principles, 187
Sanhedrin, nature of, 62
Saved, and lost, number of, 186‒7
“Seeing God,” 43‒4
Self-discipline, 69
Self-love, true, 113
Sin,
nature of, 133
forgiveness of, 133
Single-mindedness, 43, 154
Sins
of act, 63
in intention, 68
of thought, 64
Social conduct, principle of, 181
Social law, for Christians, 109
Socialism and the Sermon on the Mount, 183
Sonship, of Christians, 142
Spirit, relation to body, 69‒70, 124
Spiritual
fabrics, test of, 193‒6
privileges, offer of, 174
Standard,
of Christianity, compared with Mohammedanism, 51‒2
of judgement, to be maintained, 167‒8
danger of lowering, 51‒2
Story of the Confessor and the scullion thief, 98‒9
Story of the Bishop and Jean Valjean, 99
Success and anxiety, 161
Sympathy, 30
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