Omnipotence, the notion of it explain- ed, 430, 431, &c.
Opinion, what it is, 4.
Origen, his error about hell-torments, 584.
Origenists, their error, 572.
Paraclete explained, 491, 492. Passion of Christ, why the Jews give a wrong account of the time of it, 299. Patience, the proper foundation of it in a Christian, 43.
Patripassians, 240, 241.
Pelagians, their heresy, 490. Renewed by Socinians, 491.
Phantasiasta, the same with Docetæ, 243. 280.
Power, the object, nature, and extent, of God's power, 64, 65. 87. 127, 128. On what accounts the belief of it is neces-
sary, 67, 68. Christ had not all power
till after his resurrection, 231.
Praxeas, 240, 241. 481.
Priests, why under the law they blessed the people at the morning, but not at the evening sacrifice, 146.
Priority of the Father before the Son, 49-56. Terms of priority given him by the ancients, 58, 59. Priscillianus, 241.
Probable, what is so, 4.
Prophecy, a proof of a Divine Being, 31.
Quick, what is meant by that word in the Creed, 451. The quick, i. e. those that are alive in the day of judgment, shall not be dissolved by death, 453.
Reconciliation between God and man,
Redemption, how purchased, 291. 546. Redemption, one reason why we call God Father, regeneration another, 40, 41. Resurrection a third, 41.
Regeneration, the work of the Holy Ghost, 491. 494.
Remission of sins explained, 543.547. How propounded and conferred in the church, 548, 549.
Repentance, a motive to it, 457. The necessity of it, 549, 550.
Resurrection, the definition of it, 384, 385. Nothing less than Omnipotence can effect it, 387. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, raised Christ from the dead, ib.
Distance between the death and resur- rection of Christ, how necessary, 392. The possibility of our resurrection, 556. The probability of it upon natural and moral grounds, 558, 559. The certainty of it upon Christian principles, 563, &c. demonstrated. Identity of the body ne- cessarily supposed, 568-572. Latitude of the resurrection, 573.
Revelation of two kinds, mediate and immediate, 9.
Roman governor had the power of life and death in Judea sixty years before the destruction of Jerusalem, 297.
Ruffinus, his explanation of Christ's descent into hell, 352.
Sabbath, reasons for changing it from the seventh to the first day, 398–402. Sabellian heresy, 240. 481. Saints, who they are, and how a man may become one, 527, 528. Sanctification, the work of the Holy Ghost, 489.
Saturninus, 243. 280.
Saviour, an appellation given to the heathen gods and men, 109-111. Rea-
INDEX OF THE MOST MATERIAL THINGS.
Testimony, two sorts of it, what makes it valid, 5.
Trinity, order of it may not be inverted, 55. 482. Difference between the persons in it, 57, 58. 480.
Trust in God, the grounds of it, 436, 437.
Union of Christ's two natures not dis- solved by death, 323, 324.
Union of Christ with the church by the Holy Ghost, 493. 553.
Unity in the Godhead, the ground of it, 61.
Unity of the church, wherein it consists, 507-512.
Universe, the notion and extent of it, 72. Divided by the Jews into three worlds, 73. Philosophers thought it in- finite, eternal, God himself, 76.
Valentinus, 224. 243. 280.
Virgin, two prophecies that Christ should be born of a virgin cleared, 262. Proofs that Mary was a virgin, when she conceived, when she brought forth, and ever after. Objections answered, 263- 269. The Virgin styled Deipara, and the mother of God, 270. What honour is due to the Virgin, 275.
· Will of God absolutely free, 84. God created by willing the creation, 86, 87. Seats of the two wills in Christ, 243.
Word of God, the Chaldee paraphrase constantly teaches, that the Word of God is the same with God, and that by that Word all things were made, 177, 178.
Word was with God, how, 177–181. World. See Universe. The manner how the world was made, 79. See Crea- tion. No instant assignable before which God could not have made the world, 88. Arguments to make it appear, that the world is no older than the Scripture makes it to be, 91-95.
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