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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