INDEX. The figures refer to the pages. ABRAHAM, twofold promise to, 151; paid tithe to Melchizedek, 322. Achaia, its boundaries, 147. Acts of our Lord, several omitted by St. Mark, although mentioned by witness of them, 328. Antinomians, their extravagance respecting indefectible grace, 52; their Antioch, several cities so named, built by the Seleucida; the two Antipædobaptists baptise only adults, 56. Apollinarians, their opinion concerning Christ, 396. Apostle, the word laid aside, and bishop substituted, 23; signifies the Areopagus, its etymology, account of, 60; its degeneracy; Paul con- Arguments in proof of the divinity of our Lord, 284; of St. Paul, for Arminianism explained, 163. Arians, their belief; texts used by them, 49. Authority of Scripture, 234. Authors, profane, confirm the facts of Gospel-history, 217. Baptism, infant, plea of the Antipædobaptists, 77; termed the circum- Bariλikós (John iv. 46), its meaning, 109. Being, an all-powerful, ever-present, 299. Belief in the power and dominion of God, necessity for, 380. Bethesda, pools similar to, mentioned by classic authors, 287. Bible, triumphant in spite of all attacks, 106; is an inspired compo- Birthright, and the blessing; amount, intention, and authority of, Body of Christ, in the Lord's supper, how to be understood, 387; Book, no apocryphal, exists in Hebrew, 407. Books of Scripture, apocryphal and canonical, 245; of the New Tes- tament, some regarded for a while as of doubtful authority by the Boundaries of Samaria, Galilee, Judea, 115. Bread, our daily, its signification, 14. Calvin, his doctrines, 163; publishes his Institutes at Basle (A.D. 1535), 293; dies in 1564, 294. Calvinists hold five points, an account of them, 51. Canon of the Old Testament Scriptures, integrity of, 409. Canons and homilies of the church, 229. constitutions ecclesiastical, when drawn up, 296. Cause, efficient, of man's redemption, 249. Celsus writes a book against Christianity, answered by Origen, 218 ; Ceremony of the Jews on the admission of a proselyte, 118. Christ, his genealogy; Joseph held to be his legal father, 30; pedigree of the Virgin Mary traced, 31; Christ without sin, 44; his wis- Christianity, its divine origin proved, 17; proved from various sources, Christians, divisions among, 129; evil effects of, 131; the Judaising, 133. Church, the articles of our, their publication and authority, 9; where Cities, Levitical, 321. Clause, he descended into hell, discussed, 230. Commandments, morality of the ten, 134. Communion of saints, the belief in, explained, 250. Confession of faith, what, 175. Corinthians, a passage from, translated, 308; 1 Cor. vii. 31, sense of Covenant, a national, how to be established, 429; of God with the Councils of the Jews, 88. Creation, its various meanings, 21. Creed, Athanasian, not written by Athanasius, 135; heresies con- Creeds, the three, 214. Criteria of true miracles, applied to the chief ones in the New Testa- Cross, inscription on the, 144; bearing the cross, 375. Crucifixion, why inflicted on Christ, 144; the darkness at, 163; the Dates of the principal epochs in the Testament histories, 33. Days, Jewish, sacred and civil, 43. Deacons and presbyters, when ordained; their powers, 54. Death of our Lord necessary, 146. Decrees irrespective are visionary and delusive, 289. Deist, reply to a, in vindication of the miracles recorded by Moses, Demoniacs did not labour under mental disease, 60. Aià Toùs ȧyyéλovs (1 Cor. xi. 10), explanation of, 20. Dialect of the New Testament, 87. Divinity of our Lord, arguments proving the, 284; of each person of Doctrine, Mohammedan, fallacy of, 184; its cunning, and want of Dominion of God, implicit belief in, necessary, 380. Ears, penetration of, 33. Egypt, the flight into, fulfils a prophecy, 37; an explanation of the Election, visionary and delusive, 289. Elias, called Elijah, 357; his character, actions, and mode of life, Embalming, a Jewish custom, borrowed from the Egyptians, 377. Enoch, book of, found in Abyssinia by Bruce, 408. Episcopacy, its attributes and functions; is of divine authority, 22; its Epistle, the first, of St. John, 308. Errors of Socinianism and Sabellianism, 426. Evangelists, authenticity of their books, 15; their different accounts of Evidence, external, concerning the mission of our Saviour, 171. Evidences for the truth of revelation, 279. Evil, origin of, natural and moral, 16; God's prevention of, not con- Execution, place of, among the Jews, 376. Executioners, Burton wrong in his derivation, 38. Ezekiel named son of man, as well as Christ, 45. Facts, the, of Gospel-history, confirmed by profane authors, 217. Fallacy of the Roman Catholics respecting purgatory, 378; their false Fathers of the Christian church, a sketch of, 369. Figs, exportation of, unlawful in Athens in times of scarcity; informers Flute in common use at funerals, 233. Free-will, human, 290. Galilee, boundaries of, 36; prophecy of Christ's preaching first there, 37. Gamaliel, Paul studies at his feet, 3. Gemara, Talmud, and Mishna, what, 256. Genealogies, a custom of the Jews respecting, 31. Geology, researches in, inimical to faith, 179; and preface. Ghost, Holy, divinity of the, 46. Gifts, miraculous, what they were, 358; to whom restricted, 359. Godhead, one, plurality of persons in, 21; his eternal duration, 170; Goods, community of, not enforced by the apostles, 288; articles of Gospel, St. Matthew's, Hebrew and Greek, an account of, 1; where Gospels, their authenticity, 14; striking difference between them and Grace and holiness, 216; redemption by Christ a part of the doctrine Grotius, his proof of the existence of a God, 270. Happiness, Christianity necessary to temporal, 269. |