ABSOLUTION of the Church, heresy to deny it, 369.
Adam, how many generations we are pro- bably removed from him, 62.
Adon or Adonai, meaning of this name of God, 146, 149.
Adoption, what it is, 28, 29; Christ not the Son of God by adoption, 140. Adoration, due to God, 22. Aetius, *316.
Ainsworth's Literal Translation of the Pen- tateuch quoted, 232.
Al Koran, it teaches that God has no Son, 136.
Almighty, the notion of it, 41, 42, *42, 43; three degrees of God's Almighty Power, 42; how some extend the word Almighty, 46; a distinction between the first and second Almighty in the Creed, 46, 285, 286; why God the Father only is called Almighty in the Creed, 290; necessity of believing in God as Almighty, 44, 290. Alpha and Omega, applied to the Son as well as to the Father, 124. Ammonius, *56.
Anabaptists of Flanders, their heresy, 161. Angels, the third heaven their proper habi-
tation, 50; created, ibid. Anointing, the use and design of it, 79, 80; the Anointings under the Law typified that of Christ, 92, 93; the Jews' anoint- ing oil was hid in the days of Josiah, 98; Christ was anointed with the Holy Ghost, ibid.; This proved to be a proper and sufficient unction, 99; where see the general reasons for anointing. Anomeans, *316.
Antidicomarianitæ, *173. Apelles, Apellitæ, *271.
'Aró, peculiar meaning of the preposition, *19.
Apollinarius, Apollinarians, 187, 237, 238, *157, *160, 173, *237.
Apostles, nature of their faith, 9; manner of their teaching, 92.
Arians, *120, 134, 134, 160, 187, 316, *331.
Aristotle, his maxim, That out of nothing, nothing can be produced, refuted, 54. 'Appaßur, this word explained, *330. Article, prefixed or not to the word God, 127.
Articles, how many in the Creed, 1. Ascension, that Christ ascended not into heaven till after his resurrection, proved, 108; his ascension typified by the High Priest's entering into the Holy of Holies, 269; necessity of believing in Christ's as- cension, 273; the effects of it, 274. Assent, what it is, 2; difference of the manner of assent in different kinds of believers, 7.
St Augustine, his wish, 11. Authority of testimony, wherein it con- sists, 4.
Baptism, available for the remission of all sins before it, 368.
Baptism, what faith required at, *13, 32. , the meaning of this word, *52. Basilides, *184, *202.
Belief, general notion of it, 2; of the heart, 12.
What it is to believe, 12, 15; to believe in,
whence this phrase had its original, and what it implies, 16, 307. Blessed, an epithet attributed by the Jews to the Supreme God-applied by St Paul to Christ, 132, 133.
Blessing, how given by the priests, 96. Body, resurrection of the, 371, 380. Bonosus, *173.
Bosom of Abraham, the meaning of this expression, *247.
Brethren of our Lord, 175.
Burial, not allowed by the Roman law to persons crucified, 218; reasons of our Saviour's burial, with the manner of it, 219, 220; necessity of believing in the burial of our Saviour, 222; grounds for decent burial of all Christians, 223. Burning of bodies, 223.
To call, to be called, the meaning of these expressions in the Scriptures, 53.
Calvin, his explication of Christ's descent
Catechising before Easter very ancient, and the reason of it, 13. Catholic-the general meaning of the word, and the particular sense of it when ap- plied to the Church, 345; wherein its Catholicism consists, 348.
Cause, necessity of a first, 19, 23, 56. Cerdon, *64, *160, *184.
Chaldeans, their forged accounts of time, 59.
Chaldee Paraphrase, 81.-See Word of God. Charity, motive to it, 359.
Christ, the signification of that name, 79; the Jews expected Christ, and upon what grounds, 81; the time of his coming as- certained, 82; to what end Christ was anointed, for what offices, and in what manner, 92, 93; that Christ had a real existence in heaven, before he was born of the Virgin, proved, 107; Christ the true God, 131; how Christ is born in us, 168.
Christ, to be a Prophet, 94, 215; the Son
of David, 180; to be a Priest, 95, 215; to be a King, 96, 216; the Son of God, 105; to be worshipped, 143. Christians, the origin and import of that name, 103.
Χριστός, the original meaning of this word among the Greeks, *79.
Church, derivation of this word, 335; what it is in the language of the New Testa- ment, 335; the author's definition of it, 341; why called Holy, 343; in what persons this holiness is really inherent, 344; necessity of believing in the Holy Catholic Church, 349.
Clergy, constantly repeated the Creed to the people, 14.
Clouds, how this word was expounded by
Cœna pura, what it was, *263.
To communicate with sinners in that which is no sin, is lawful, 356. Communication of the Divine Essence from the Father to the Son, 135; from the Father and the Son to the Holy Ghost, 323; difference of the manner in which the Divine Essence is communicated from
the Father to the Son and to the Holy Ghost, 141.
Communion of saints with God and angels, 354, 355; with one another, 357; of saints on earth with saints departed, ibid.; how saints communicate with hy- pocrites, 356; necessity of believing the communion of saints, 358.
Conception of Jesus by the Virgin, 164, 177.
Confession of the mouth, 12; necessity of it, 13; practice of it useful, 14; every one obliged to it, 15.
Conscience, twofold, 294; bears witness to a future judgement, ibid.; to the being of a God, 22.
Contradiction, how an action may imply it, 288.
Conversion of natures in Christ not to be maintained, 161.
Covenant, nature of a, 370. Creation, the oldest poets and philosophers taught it, 51; some in after-ages denied it upon weak arguments, ibid.; which are there set down, ibid. ; creation de- fined, 52; two different modes of creation, 55; why attributed to the Father, 63, 65; what uses may be drawn from the doctrine of the creation, 65; two ways by which heretics elude the force of those Scriptures which ascribe the crea- tion to Christ, 114.
Creation, one reason why we call God Father, 26.
Creation out of nothing, 52.
Creature, God cannot receive any real bene- fit from it, 44; how then has he made all things for himself? 63; every crea- ture is good, ibid.; a new creature and new creation, what, 115.
Credible, Credibility, what it is, 2-4. Creed, whence so called, 1; a threefold sig- nification of it, 2; recited at baptism, and at the administration of the Lord's Sup- per, 13; we believe what it contains, no otherwise than as we find it in the Scrip- tures, 227.
Cross, the form of it, 203; the acerbity and ignominy of it, 205.
Crucified, that the Messias was to be, 199- 201; necessity of believing that Christ was crucified, 207; multitudes of Jews crucified by the Romans, 208. Crucifixion forbidden by the Christian em- perors, 203; the death of slaves only, 206.
David, a type of Christ in being twice anointed, 98; Christ himself so called, 153, 280; throne of David, how con- tinued for evermore, ibid.
David, Christ to be descended from, 180. Days of Christ's death, how made out to be three, 261.
Dead. The Jews never burned the bodies
of their dead, 217; the Romans and Grecians did, 223; why they left this custom off, ibid.
Death, what it is, 211; opinions of the an- cient philosophers concerning it, *211; death of Christ necessary for more ends than one, 215; how Christ destroys the power of death, 282. Deipara, 177.
Descent into hell, this article not always in the Creed, 225; understood by some of Christ's burial only, 227; three Scriptures of greatest validity to prove Christ's real descent into hell, 227; various opinions respecting it, 228; the most received and reasonable notion of it, 235; the end and design of it, with various opinions con- cerning it, 240, 250, 251. Devotion, a proper motive to it, 291. Divinity of Christ proved, 120; the identity of it with that of the Father, 126; he has it, not of himself, but by communication from the Father, 134; Divinity of Christ suffered not, 187, 192; how then can we say that God suffered? answered, 188. Docetæ, what their heresy was, *160, *184. Donatists, their error, 344. Durandus, his explication of Christ's de- scent into hell, 230.
Earth the foundation, and heaven the roof of the temple of God, 49.
Eclipses, not to be depended on in chrono- logical calculations, 59.
Egyptians, their forged accounts of time, 59; they said the sun had twice risen in the west, 60.
'Ekkλnoia, the meaning of this word, *335. Elipandus, *140.
Elymas, the sorcerer, *286.
Emmanuel, 71; how that prophecy, They shall call his name Emmanuel, was ful- filled in Christ, 71, 130. Enemies of Christ, 281. Epiphanes, *160.
Eternity of God proved, 20, 49; of hell- torments, 391; Origen's error about them, 394.
Eternity of the world considered, 51, 58. Eternity of matter refuted, 54. Eudoxius, *316.
Eunomius, *138, *160, *173, *316.
Euodius, Bishop of Antioch, the author of the name of Christians, *103. Eusebius, *316.
Eutyches, Eutychians, 162, *162, *237. Evident to sense, what is so, 3; to the un- derstanding, what is so, ibid. Expectation of the Messiah, 81.
Faith, the object of it, 2, 6; the act of faith must be applied to the object, according to the nature of it, 341; human faith, what it is, 5; Divine faith, what it is, 6; how to come to the right notion of faith, 3, 7; definition of Apostolic faith, 9; another definition of Christian faith, 12; faith, i.e. affiance in God, the grounds of it, 290.
Faith, difference between faith and science, 3.
Father, the heathens worshipped God as such, 26; why God is called so, ibid.; necessity of believing in God as our Father, 29, 33; it is a reason for our imitation of God, 30; why Christ says your, but never our Father, 31; God is called Father in the Creed, with respect chiefly to Christ, 33; how many ways he is the Father of Christ, ibid.; Father denotes priority, and how, 35, 322; dif- ference which the ancients made between the person of the Father, and that of the Son, 33; proper notion of the Fa- ther, ibid.; why in the Creed the crea- tion of the world is peculiarly attributed to the Father, 65; how the fathers are to be understood when they seem to speak of the Father, as the cause of his own existence, *36.
First-born, law concerning the, 174. Flood, evidence of, 61.
Footstool, how the enemies of Christ, the Jews, and the Romans, were made his footstool, 281.
Forgiveness of sins (see Remission) a mo- tive to the love of God and Christ, 369; necessity of believing the forgiveness of sins, ibid.
Teveά, the meaning of this word, *63. Generation, different meanings of, 26; of the Son, 136, 139.
Gentiles, rapid conversion of, 90.
Ghost, Holy, why not the Son of God, 141; why not the Father of Christ, 166; his operation in the incarnation of Christ, 105, 166, 315; his personality proved, 309; and Socinian objections refuted, 311; his Divinity proved, 314; his operations, 321; how he is distinguished from the Father and the Son, 321; proved to pro- ceed from the Father and the Son, 323; the Greek and Latin Churches reconciled about this procession, 324; the occasion of their difference hereabout, which ended in a schism, 325; Holy Ghost, why called Holy, 326; his offices, 327; necessity of believing in the Holy Ghost, 331. Glaucius, *202. Gnostics, *23, *170.
God, his Knowledge, Wisdom, Justice, Holi- ness, 5; how God's Omnipotence consists with His holiness and truth, 6; name of God understood wheresoever belief is ex- pressed, 16; notion and name of God, 17, 18; His existence, 18; how known to us, ibid.; God proved to have no beginning, 19; no nation without its God, 21; all creatures depend on God, 21; a twofold necessity to believe a God, 22; unity of God proved, 23; its nature, ibid.; a two- fold necessity to believe this unity, ibid.; God considered as the agent in creation, 55, 56; God, taken absolutely, how to be understood, 40; often of Christ, 126; Gods, men sometimes so called in the Scriptures, and why, 17, 126; notion of two Gods, one good, the other evil, confuted, 64. Goodness of God, infinite, how it consists with it to defer the creation so long as he did, 57; two distinct notions of goodness, 57.
Gospel, its miraculous success, 90. Graveclothes, what they were, *220. Guilt, what it is, 361.
Hades, 232, 239. See Hell.
Happiness of God, not to be augmented or diminished by the creatures, 57. Happiness, eternal, wherein it consists,395, 396.
Heathen, began every action in the name
of God, 16; the most ancient of the hea- then believed the world to have been made, 50; their opinions of the duration of the world, 50, 55.
Heaven and earth, in what latitude taken, 47; three heavens, and how different in glory, 49, 272; Christ ascended into the highest heaven, 272.
Hebrew language, no single word in it which signifies the world, 48.
Hell, how Christ descended into it, 230; why he could not suffer the pains of it, 230; Hell, sometimes put for the grave, 232; what the ancients understood by it, 238, 239; our Church's opinion concern- ing what Christ did in hell, 247; how Christ destroys the powers of hell, 282. Helvidius, Helvidiani, *173, *175, *176. Heracleon, *64, *160.
Heretics who taught there were two Gods, one the author of good, the other of evil, 64.
Hermiani, *272, *386.
Hermogenes, *158, *272.
Holiness, what it denotes, when applied to persons or things, 253; motives to holi- ness, 358.
Holy. See Ghost, Church, Saints. Holy of Holies, was to the Jews an emblem of the highest heavens, 272. Homoiousians, *316. Homoousios, *135.
Hope, the grounds of it, 13, 267, 305. Humility, a motive to it, 66.
'Ix0us, a title given to our Saviour, *105. Idolatry, more prevalent in the world than Atheism, 23; what it is, 143. Jehovah, the meaning of the word, *146; a name attributed to Christ, 148. Jeremiah, a spurious passage attributed to him, 242.
Jesus, a name commonly used by the Jews,
69; the derivation and interpretation of it, 69; Jesus proved to be the Christ, 84, 89, 92, 101.
Jesus, of the house of David, 84, 180; born at Bethlehem, 84; born of a Virgin, 85, 172.
Impossible, what may be so to God, without
derogation of power, 287.
Incarnation, doctrine of the, 159, 165, 188. Inferna, 226, 227.
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