MOST MATERIAL THINGS CONTAINED IN THIS BOOK,
PLACED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
ABSOLUTION OF шe church, heresy to deny it, 551.
Adam, how many generations we are probably removed from him, 95, 96. Adoption, what it is, 41. Etius, 472.
Alcoran, it teacheth that God hath no Son, 207.
Almighty, the notion of it, 63. Three degrees of God's Almighty power, 64. How some extend the word Almighty, 68. A distinction between the first and second Almighty in the Creed, 69. 429.
Anabaptists of Flanders, their heresy,
Anointing, the use and design of it, 123. Anointings under the law typified that of Christ, 141. The Jews' anointing oil was hid in the days of Josiah, 149. Christ was anointed with the Holy Ghost, 150. This proved to be a proper and sufficient unction, 152, 153. Where see the gene- ral reasons for anointing.
Anomeans, 472. Antidicomarianitæ, 264. Apelles, 409.
Apollinarians, 244. 263.285. 358-360. Arians, 47. 203. 244. 285. 358. 472. Aristotle, his maxim, That out of no- thing nothing can be produced, refuted,
Ascension, that Christ ascended not into heaven till after his resurrection, proved, 164. The effects of his ascension, 410, 411.
Assent, what it is, 2. Augustine, St. his wish, 16.
Authority, of testimony, wherein it con- sisteth, 4, 5.
Baptism, available for the remission of all sins before it, 549.
Belief, general notion of it, 2. 5, 6.— of the heart, 17.
What it is to believe, 17.
To believe in, whence this phrase had its original, and what it implies, 22, 23.
Bonosus, 264. Buddas, 97, 98.
Burial, not allowed by the Roman laws to persons crucified, 330. Reasons of our Saviour's burial, with the manner of it, 329, 330. Grounds for decent burial of all Christians, 338.
Calvin, his explication of Christ's de- scent into hell, 348.
Catechising before Easter very ancient, and the reason of it, 17, &c.
Catholic. The general meaning of the word, and the particular sense of it when applied to the church, 516-518.
Wherein its catholicism consisteth, 520,
Cerdon, 98. 243. 280.
Chaldeans, their forged accounts of time, 89.
Chaldee paraphrase. See Word of God.
Charity, motive to it, 536.
Christ, the signification of that name, 121. The Jews expected Christ, and upon what grounds, 123. The time of his coming ascertained, 125, 126. To what end Christ was anointed, for what offices, in what manner, 141–154. That Christ had a real existence in heaven before he was born of the Virgin, proved, 163-173. Christ the true God, 197, &c. How Christ is born in us, 255.
Church, what it is in the language of the New Testament, 504-509. The au- thor's definition of it, 511. Why called holy, 513. In what persons this holiness is really inherent, 514, 515. Necessity of believing in the holy catholic church, 522,
Clergy, constantly repeated the Creed to the people, 20.
To Communicate with sinners in that which is no sin, is lawful, 532.
Communication of the Divine essence from the Father to the Son, 203-210. From the Father and the Son to the Holy Ghost, 483.
Communion of saints with God and an.
gels, 530-532. With one another on earth, 532, 533. Of saints on earth with saints departed, 533. How saints com- municate with hypocrites, 532.
Confession of the mouth, 18. Neces- sity of it, 19. Practice of it useful, 20. Every one obliged to it, ib. Conscience, twofold, 441. ness to the being of God, 32. Contradiction, how an action may im- ply it, 432.
Creation, the oldest poets and philoso- phers taught it, 77. Some in after ages denied it upon weak arguments, 78. which are there set down. Creation defined, 80. Why attributed to the Father, 99. What uses may be raised from the doctrine of the creation, ib. Two ways whereby heretics elude the force of those scriptures which ascribe the creation to Christ, 173.
Creature, God cannot receive any real benefit from it, 67. How then hath he made all things for himself? See 67, 68. Every creature is good, 96. A new crea- ture and new creation, what, 175.
Credible, credibility, what it is, 4. Creed, whence so called, 1. A three- fold signification of it, 1, 2. Recited at baptism, 19. We believe what it con- tains no otherwise than as we find it in the Scriptures, 344.
Cross, the form of it, 308. The ascer- bity and ignominy of it, 312.
Crucified, that the Messias was to be, 301, &c. Multitudes of Jews crucified by the Romans, 317.
Crucifixion forbidden by the Christian emperors, 307. The death of slaves only,
David, Christ himself so called, and wby, 233. 421. Throne of David, how continued for evermore, 421.
Days of Christ's death, how made out to be three, 394, 395.
Dead. Jews never burnt the bodies of their dead, 329. Romans and Grecians did, 338. Why they left this custom off, ibid.
Death, what it is, 321. Death of Christ necessary for more ends than one, 329. How Christ destroys the power of death, 424, 425.
Descent into hell, understood by some of Christ's burial only, 343. Three scrip- tures of greatest validity to prove Christ's real descent into hell, 344-347. Va- rious opinions about it, 347. The most received and reasonable notion of it, 355, &c. The end and design of it, 362. 378. Devotion, a proper motive to it, 437. Divinity of Christ proved, 182, &c. The identity of it with that of the Father, 187. 192. 202. He has it, not of himself, but by communication from the Father,
Faith, the object of it, 2, 7. The act of faith must be applied to the object, ac- cording to the nature of it, 511.
Human faith, what it is, 5. Divine faith, what it is, 7, 8.
How to come at the right notion of faith, 9.
Definition of the apostolic faith, 13. Another definition of Christian faith, 17. Faith, i. e. affiance in God, the grounds of it, 436.
Father, heathens worshipped God as such, 38. Why God is so called, 38, 39. Necessity of believing in God as our Fa- ther, 42. It is a reason for our imitation of God, 44. Why Christ says your, but never our Father, 46. God is called Fa- ther in the Creed, with respect chiefly to Christ, 45. How many ways he is the Father of Christ, 48. Father denotes priority, and how, 50. 53. 482. Proper notion of the Father, 59.
His operations, 480. How he is distin- guished from the Father and the Son, 480. Proved to proceed from the Father and the Son, 483. The Greek and Latin churches reconciled about this procession, 484. The occasion of their difference here-about, which ended in a schism, 486. Holy Ghost, why called holy, 488. His offices, 489, &c.
God, his knowledge, wisdom, justice, holiness, 7, 8. How God's omnipotence consists with his holiness and truth, 8. Notion and name of God, 25. His ex- istence, 27. How known to us, ibid. God proved to have no beginning, 28, 29. No nation without its God, 30. All creatures depend on God, 31. A two-fold necessity to believe a God, 33. Unity of God proved, 34. A twofold necessity to believe this unity, 35, 36.
God, taken absolutely, how to be un- derstood, 60. Often of Christ, 194-197.
Goodness of God infinite, how it con- sists with it to defer the creation so long as he did, 86, 87.
Guilt, what it is, 539.
Hades. See Hell, $62.
Happiness of God, not to be augmented or diminished by the creatures, 86. Happiness, eternal, wherein consists, 586, 587.
Heathen, begun every action in the name of God, 22. Their opinions of the duration of the world, 75, 76. 85, &c.
Heaven and earth, in what latitude taken, 71, 72.
Three heavens, and how different in glory, 75.
Christ ascended into the highest hea- ven, 409.
Hebrew, no single word in it which signifies the world, 73.
Hell, how Christ descended into it, 347, &c. Why he could not suffer the pains of it, 348, 349. Hell sometimes put for the grave, 350, $51. What the ancients understood by it, 362. Our church's opi- nion concerning what Christ did in hell, 374. How Christ destroys the powers of hell, 424.
Helvidius, 264. 267. Heracleon, 98. 243.
Heretics, who taught there were two gods, one the author of good, the other of evil, 96, 97.
Hermiani, 410. 574. Hermogenes, 241, 242.
Holiness, what it denotes when ap- plied to persons or things, 534. Motives to holiness, 529.
Holy. See Ghost, church, saints.
Holy of holies, was to the Jews an em- blem of the highest heavens, 405.
Light, Christ so called from the per- spicuity of his doctrine, 130.
Limbus Patrum, whether Christ deli- vered souls out of that place, 373.
Lord, determinately used for Christ in the New Testament, 220. But some- times used for men both in the Old and New Testament, 221. How the Greek and Hebrew words for Lord correspond, 221-223. Christ is Lord, as that word is the interpretation of the name Jehovah, proved, 225-228. How and in what respect Christ is Lord, 250, 251. How many ways he hath a right to be our Lord, 233.
Macedonians, their heresy, 472. 486. Mahometans keep their sabbath on Fri- day the sixth day of the week, and why,
Manes, 97, 98. Marcion, 97. 243. Marcosians, 243.
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