he Ninevites appeased the divine vengeance in three days
by the fervor of their penance.

In his homily On the Calends, or First Day of the Year, (t. 1, p. 697,)
he inveighs with great zeal against rioting and revels usual in that
season, and strongly exhorts all to spend that day in works of piety,
and in consecrating the year to God. As builders raise a wall by a ruler
or plummet, that no unevenness may spoil their work, so must we make the
sincere intention of the divine glory our rule in our prayers, fasts,
eating, drinking, buying, selling, silence, and discourse. This must be
our great staff, our arms, our rampart, our immense treasure: wherever
we are, and whatever we say or do, we must bear this motto always
written on our heart: "To the glory of God;" ever glorifying God, not
barely in words, but by all our actions in the sincere affections of our
hearts, that we may receive glory from him who says: "Those who glorify
me, I will crown with glory," (p. 697.)

In seven discourses, On Lazarus and the Rich Man, he shows that a life
of sensuality and pleasures is condemned by Christ; laments that any
Christian should abandon himself to debauchery, and declares he will
never cease to pursue sinners by his exhortations, as Christ did Judas,
to the last moment: if any remain obstinately incorrigible, he shall
esteem it a great happiness if he reclaim but one soul, or even prevent
but one sin; at least that he can never see God offended and remain
silent. (Hom. 1.) He sets off the advantages of afflictions, which are
occasions of all virtue, and even in the reprobate, at least abate the
number of their sins, and the torments of another life. In the seventh
homily, he severely condemns the diversions of the circus, and expresses
the most tender grief that any Christian should so far forget God as to
frequent them. He paternally exhorts all such to repentance; proves
afflictions and the cross to be the portion of the just in this life,
and says, "That they whom God does not visit with tribulations, ought at
least to afflict themselves by the labors of penance, the only path
which can conduct us with Lazarus to God," (p. 736.)

In the second tome, we have the holy doctor's twenty-one sermons to the
people of Antioch, or, On the Statues; the following discourses, to the
number of sixty, in the old editions not being genuine, but patched up
by modern Greeks, chiefly out of several works of this father. The great
sedition h