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ABRAHAM, twofold promise to, 151; paid tithe to Melchizedek, 322.
Absolution (Matt. xvi. 19), error of the Romish heresy respecting it,
40. The power to absolve imparted equally to the apostles; in a
modified degree to their successors; power of the latter conditional,
41. Ancient form of, supplicatory; absolute form not introduced
until the 12th century, 42. Three forms of, in the English liturgy;
description of them, ib.

Achaia, its boundaries, 147.

Acts of our Lord, several omitted by St. Mark, although mentioned by
Matthew and Luke; the inference, what, 112.
St. Luke an eye-

witness of them, 328.

Antinomians, their extravagance respecting indefectible grace, 52; their
texts concerning election, ib.

Antioch, several cities so named, built by the Seleucida; the two
principal, Antioch in Syria and in Pisidia, 39.

Antipædobaptists baptise only adults, 56.

Apollinarians, their opinion concerning Christ, 396.

Apostle, the word laid aside, and bishop substituted, 23; signifies the
highest ecclesiastical rank, ib.

Areopagus, its etymology, account of, 60; its degeneracy; Paul con-
verts Dionysius there, ib.

Arguments in proof of the divinity of our Lord, 284; of St. Paul, for
the unity of God, and against idolatry, 215.

Arminianism explained, 163.

Arians, their belief; texts used by them, 49.
Articles of the church, in four general divisions, 158; first published
by Henry VIII. in 1536, 295; of Edward VI., published in 1552,
ib.; of Elizabeth, in 1562, ib.; revised and published in Latin and
English in 1591, ib. ; subscription to, as binding on the clergy, 298.
Atonement, the, its reasonableness, 65; a motive to obedience, 216.
Attributes of God, natural and moral, 183.

Authority of Scripture, 234.

Authors, profane, confirm the facts of Gospel-history, 217.

Baptism, infant, plea of the Antipædobaptists, 77; termed the circum-
cision of Christ, 78; by laymen or females, mode of baptising, 173;
lay, not invalid, according to Fleetwood, 174; but excluded by ar-
ticles of our religion (XXIII., XIX.), 175; how salvation is affected
by it, ib.; by a dissenting minister; rebaptism, 175; giving a
name at baptism; similar heathen custom, 188. For the remission
of sins; remits in infants; original sin, 248. Of proselytes, 249;
in what cases the Jews baptised, 258. Of young children, 386.
Baptists form the third branch of dissenters, the Independents and
Presbyterians being the other two, 55; some are Sabbatarians, 56;
John, the, compared with Elijah, 358.

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-
sition, 286.

Birthright, and the blessing; amount, intention, and authority of,
might be forfeited or sold; instances of their being obtained sur-
reptitiously, 32.

Body of Christ, in the Lord's supper, how to be understood, 387;
spiritually present in the eucharist, 388.

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
church, 278; of homilies, when set forth, 295; of the Old and New
Testament, are transmitted entire and uncorrupted; proofs of, 315.
Care taken in transcribing the Old Testament, ib.

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 ;
quotes the Old and New Testament, 219.

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-
dom, 62; compared with the impostor Mahomet, 63; his advent
and its consequences, why not more distinctly revealed in the
Jewish Scriptures, 141; denied to be the Messiah, on what
grounds, 343; his pre-existence proved, 360.

Christianity, its divine origin proved, 17; proved from various sources,
18; a comprehension of all its doctrines not necessary to a belief
in it, 25; the divine origin of, assumed, to prove the divine original
of the Mosaic dispensation, 108; the same in substance which
the apostles promulgated, 113; obstinacy of the Jews and Gentiles
no objection to the truth of, 125; necessity of, to temporal happi-
ness, 269; silence of learned heathens concerning, 186; reasons
why it was opposed by the pagan world, 383.

Christians, divisions among, 129; evil effects of, 131; the Judaising,

133.

Church, the articles of our, their publication and authority, 9; where
before Luther, 85; whether a parliament church, ib.; articles of
the, in four general divisions, 158; Church of England and that of
Rome compared, 159; belief in the holy Catholic Church, 221;
what necessary to its members, 222; its comprehensiveness, ib. ;
the Roman Catholic Church, no claim to the title holy, 226;
derivation of the word church, 300; its unity proved, 317; its go-
vernment, the leading forms of, 351.

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
the word karaxpóμevoi, 424; 2 Cor. i. 20, translated, 435.

Covenant, a national, how to be established, 429; of God with the
Jews, ib.; spiritual blessings of, 430.

Councils of the Jews, 88.

Creation, its various meanings, 21.

Creed, Athanasian, not written by Athanasius, 135; heresies con-
demned by it, 136; difficult expressions in, 139.

Creeds, the three, 214.

Criteria of true miracles, applied to the chief ones in the New Testa-
ment, 347; and to those of Moses and Joshua, 349.

Cross, inscription on the, 144; bearing the cross, 375.

Crucifixion, why inflicted on Christ, 144; the darkness at, 163; the
crucified not interred by the Romans, 377.

Dates of the principal epochs in the Testament histories, 33.
Day begun after the evening by the Hebrews, 335.

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,
257.

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
the Trinity shewn, 428.

Doctrine, Mohammedan, fallacy of, 184; its cunning, and want of
miracles, 185; the Socinian, unscriptural, 424; some doctrines of
the Gospel in parables only, 264.

Dominion of God, implicit belief in, necessary, 380.

Ears, penetration of, 33.

Egypt, the flight into, fulfils a prophecy, 37; an explanation of the
prophecy of Hosea, 38.

Election, visionary and delusive, 289.

Elias, called Elijah, 357; his character, actions, and mode of life,
compared with those of John the Baptist, 358.

Embalming, a Jewish custom, borrowed from the Egyptians, 377.
Ember-weeks, stated seasons for fasting, 167.

Enoch, book of, found in Abyssinia by Bruce, 408.

Episcopacy, its attributes and functions; is of divine authority, 22; its
principle, 23.

Epistle, the first, of St. John, 308.

Errors of Socinianism and Sabellianism, 426.

Evangelists, authenticity of their books, 15; their different accounts of
the crucifixion reconcileable, 90.

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-
sistent with man's free-agency, 17; origin of, a difficulty in natural
religion, 70; moral remedy for, in Christ, 282.

Execution, place of, among the Jews, 376.

Executioners, Burton wrong in his derivation, 38.
Existence of a God, Grotius' proof of, 270.

Ezekiel named son of man, as well as Christ, 45.

Facts, the, of Gospel-history, confirmed by profane authors, 217.
Faith, justification by, its precise meaning, 301; faith and science, dis-
tinction between, 300; faith and belief, divine and human, defi-
nition, 13; confession of, 175.

Fallacy of the Roman Catholics respecting purgatory, 378; their false
reasoning on a passage in Corinthians, ib.; their twofold error,
379; a refutation of, 380.

Fathers of the Christian church, a sketch of, 369.

Figs, exportation of, unlawful in Athens in times of scarcity; informers
against exporters, 343.

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.
God, natural and moral attributes of, 183; St. Paul's arguments for
the unity of, 215; proofs that there can only be one, 329; proved
to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, 418.

Godhead, one, plurality of persons in, 21; his eternal duration, 170;
benevolence of, 172; his bounties to mankind, 173.

Goods, community of, not enforced by the apostles, 288; articles of
the church on this point, ib.

Gospel, St. Matthew's, Hebrew and Greek, an account of, 1; where
first preached in Europe, ib.; of St. Matthew has more references
to Jewish customs than the others, 11; of St. John, in what it
differs from the others, 391; Gospel-history, considerations proving
the truth of the, 240; some doctrines of, in parables only, 264; its
rapid progress proved from the book of Acts, 309.

Gospels, their authenticity, 14; striking difference between them and
the Koran, 64.

Grace and holiness, 216; redemption by Christ a part of the doctrine
of grace, 217; irresistible, what is understood by it, 289; habitual,
the meaning of, 389.

Grotius, his proof of the existence of a God, 270.

Happiness, Christianity necessary to temporal, 269.

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