Expositions on the Psalms · Part 82

Pelagius, heretic, 241.

Penitential Psalms, seven, 15.

Perfect, the, repay not evil, 21; none really perfect, 116; an example to other Christians, 121; to be judges with the Lord at last day, 449.

Perpetua, martyr, 168.

Persecution, three kinds endured by the Church, 39; great persecutions inflicted on the Church, 448; why God permits persecution, 449; persecutors almost extinct through the Church's prayers, 484.

Persons in the Godhead, 301.

Peter the Apostle, threefold denial of the Lord, and threefold confession, 128; monument of, in Rome, 152; chief among the Apostles, 536; remembered in Rome, 647.

Pharaoh, king of Egypt, 625.

Pharisees, pride and outward purity of, 493.

Philistines, 398.

Philosophers, pagan, some hold the soul to be immortal, but all rejected the resurrection, 437.

Photinus, heretic, 297.

Physician, Christ the true, 90.

Pilate, Pontius, 264.

Plato the philosopher, 646.

Pleasure of the flesh, 31; compared to mire, 549. See Lust.

Possession, God ours, and we God's, 663.

Powers of this world signified by mountains, 157; obedience due to the powers that be, 602.

Praise of God man's chief work, 148; manifest grounds for, 196; everlasting employment of the blessed, 402; prayer and praise, 520, 545; God's works praise Him, 659, 674.

Prayer, two kinds, outward and inward, 107; two wings of, 140, 423; perseverance in, 280; the Lord Jesus prays for us and in us, and is prayed to by us, 410; the Lord's Prayer pattern of all prayer, 652.

Precepts. See Law.

Predestination, secret with God, 671, 680.

Pride, deadly sin, 32, 56; pride of the devil, 242; pride of Adam and his race, 324; mother of envy, 493.

Priest, Christ our Priest and Sacrifice, 623. See Christ and Sacrifice.

Primacy of Peter, 536.

Promises of Old and New Testaments not the same, 342; fulfilled, an earnest of those not fulfilled, 660.

Prophets, foretell the future, 80, 142; Christ speaks in the, 635, 651; heretics false prophets, 23.

Propitiation. See Sacrifice.

Proselytes, 664.

Prosperity, perils of, 190; not the lot of Christians in this world, 207; does not make men happy, 638; Christians must not be lifted up by, nor depressed by adversity, 638. See Job.

Providence of God, over all, 663; sin of not believing in, 653.

Psalms, though one book, divided into five books, 681.

Psaltery, 229; mystical meaning of, 678.

Punishment of the wicked, 234; how angels are employed in punishing, 376, 377.

Pythagoras, philosopher, 513, 646.

Redemption by and through Christ, 505. See Christ and Sacrifice.

Refuge, God is our, 156, 317.

Repent, in what sense God is said to repent, 531, 619.

Resurrection, the Christian's faith in, 501; rejected by heathen philosophers, 437; our hope of, 614; the resurrection-body, 654.

Righteous, delivered by God out of trouble, 77; blessing on, 98; sure of rest at the last, rejoice in hope, 609. See Grace, Prosperity, Tribulation.