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ABRAHAM, state of religion in his days, i. | APOSTLES' CREED, ii. 99.

142; sacraments of the covenant made
with him, ii. 357.

ABSOLUTE, decrees of God are, i. 356.
ACTIONS, Concern of providence in good and
bad, i. 429. See Providence.
ADAM, viewed as the federal head of the
human race, i. 459; effects of his fall
on his posterity, 478.
ADOPTION, ii. 224. Meaning of the phrase
'Sons of God,' 224; practice and nature
of it among men, 225; scriptural sense
of the term, 225; the mediation of Christ,
the meritorious cause, 227; means by
which this privilege is obtained, 228;
difference between spiritual and human,
228; blessings enjoyed by, 229; signi-
fied by baptism, 388.

ADORATION, a part of prayer, ii. 424.
ADULTERY, ii. 545; whether it entitles the
injured party to divorce, 545.
ALMS, duty of giving, ii. 549.
ANGELS, signification of the term, i. 387;
time of creation, 387; their nature, 388.

HOLY, are intelligent, 389; their
activity and strength, 390; their happi-
ness, 391; are there ranks and degrees
among them? 391; their offices in the
affairs of Providence, 392; their minis-
try to the saints, 394; are there guardian
angels? 395.

FALLEN, were originally created
pure, 396; how long they continued so,
397; their sin, 397; not placed under a
federal head, 398; their number, 398;
effects of their fall, 399; objections to
their existence, 400; their subordination
to Satan, 401; their employment, 402;
their power over the bodies of men, 402;
over the minds of men, 403; to work
miracles, 70; to foretell the future, 78.
ANIMAL creation, marks of design in, i.
165; of unity of design, 178.
ANOINTING, practice of, ii. 26.
ANTINOMIANISM, ii. 261.
ANTIPEDOBAPTISTS, doctrine of, considered,
ii. 378.

APOCRYPHAL books, notice of, i. 41. 51.
APOLLINARIS, his opinions respecting the
human nature of Christ, ii. 16.
APOSTLES, their apparent want of qualifica-
tion for publishing the gospel, i. 84; they
were extraordinary rulers in the church,

ii. 493.

APPLICATION of redemption. See Redemp-
tion.

ARIAN heresy, i. 303.

ARMINIAN doctrine of divine decrees, i.
361; as to Adam being the federal head
of his posterity, 460; as to the penalty
in the covenant of works, 466, 469; of
application of redemption, ii. 150; of the
perseverance of the saints, 283.
ASCENSION of Christ, ii. 111. See Christ.
ASSURANCE, whether it is of the essence of
faith, ii. 181. 207; attainable in the pre-
sent life, 183.

ATHEISM, forbidden by the first command-
ment, ii. 524.

ATONEMENT, a doctrine of revelation, i. 93;
idea of sacrificial, prevalent among the
heathen, ii. 63; sacrifices for, part of the
Jewish worship, 65; atonement of Christ.
See Christ, death of.

ATTRIBUTES of God, division into commu-
nicable and incommunicable, i. 208. See
God.

AUTHENTIC, when a book is said to be,
i. 34.

AUTHENTICITY of the Scriptures. See Scrip-

tures.

AUTOGRAPHS of the sacred writings lost,
i. 122.

BALAAM'S ASS, objections to the story of,
i. 104.
BAPTISM, sacrament of, the rite of admis-
sion into the church, ii. 373; difference
between baptism of John and of Christ,
373; application of water necessary, 374;
popish additions, 374; mode of applying
the symbol, 374; who may be baptized,
378; infant baptism vindicated, 379;
benefits resulting from it, 392; adminis-
tered in the name of the Trinity, 382;
meaning and import of the words used,
383; who may administer, 384; baptism
by laymen, 385; by heretics, 386; does
not confer regeneration, 385; place for
administering, 386; sponsors, 387; bles-
sings signified, 387; duties of the bap-
tized, 390; only administered once, 391;
an indispensable qualification for church
membership, 458.

BARNABAS, quotations from the gospels in
the epistles of, i. 54; notices of the other
books, 56.

BELIEVERS, privileges of, ii. 184; the law
a rule of life to them, 345; they only
have a right to the sacraments, 359. See
Saints.

BEZA, his edition of the New Testament,
i. 126.

BISHOP, duty of, in episcopal form of go-
vernment, ii. 469; bishop and presbyter
convertible terms, 471; office in primitive
times, 473.

BIRTH of our Saviour, ii. 92.
BLASPHEMY, forbidden, ii. 533.
BODY, heathen philosophers had no idea of
the resurrection of, i. 95; marks of design
in the human body, i. 165; state of it
after death, ii. 311; resurrection of it,
312; identity of it in the resurrection,
315; nature of the glorified body, 319.
BUCER, his opinions respecting the eucha-
rist, ii. 411.

CALVIN, his opinions respecting the eucha-
rist, ii. 412.

CATALOGUES, ancient, of books of New Tes-
tament, i. 57.

CANON of Scripture. See Scriptures.
CAUSE, final, what it is, i. 220.

CEREMONIAL law, objections to it considered,
i. 107; its design, 144.
CEREMONIES, decreed by human authority,
not binding, ii. 269; power of the church
to enact, 508.

CERINTHUS, his heresy, and evidence by
him of the genuineness of the Scriptures,
i. 57.

CHASTITY enjoined by the seventh com-
mandment, ii. 546.

CHILDREN, early depravity of, a proof of
original sin, I. 485; their duties to pa-
rents, ii. 539. See Infants.
CHRIST, appearance of, why delayed for
four thousand years, i. 149; duration of
his ministry, 149; nature of his sonship,
301; considered as a party to the cove-
nant of grace, 493; dispensation of grace
committed to him, 512, 513; his qualifi-
cation for the office of Mediator. See
Mediator. Proof that he is the Messiah,
ii. 10. See Messiah. Meaning and allu-
sion of the term Christ, or the anointed
one, 26; when was he anointed, 26;
office to which he was anointed, 27;
necessity for his being prophet, priest,
and king, 28; their respective provinces,
and mutual relations, 28; his righteous-
ness the ground of the sinners' justifica-
tion, 191-214; his mediation the meri-
torious cause of adoption, 227; did he
purchase temporal blessings for his peo-
ple? 231; in what sense sanctification is
his work, 243; his is the pattern of sanc-
tification, 246; spiritual joy arises from
an interest in him, 277; his mediation
secures the perseverance of the saints,
287.

Ascension of, nature in which he as-
cended, ii. 112; place to which, 113; the

witnesses, 114; other circumstances,
115.

CHRIST, Death of, was a propitiatory sacri-
fice, ii. 57; Socinian view of it, 58; mid-
dle scheme, 61; proof of the catholic
doctrine of, 63; import of the language
of Scripture respecting it, 66; correspond-
ence with the atoning sacrifices of the
Levitical law, 68; it is a part of his hu-
miliation, 98; extent of its benefits, 555.

— Divinity of, i. 306; importance of
the doctrine, and ground of it, 307; lan-
guage of scripture respecting it, 309; his
pre-existence, 311; various proofs and ar-
guments for his divinity, 314-337; ob-
jections to it considered, 337-340.

Exaltation of, his resurrection, ii.
101; his ascension, 111; his sitting down
at the right hand of God, and what this
implies, 15; his judging the world, 121;
the kingdom conferred on him, 131.

Humiliation of, ii. 91; distinction
between it, and his condescension, 91;
steps of it, his birth, 92; the meanness
of his condition, 92; the place of his
birth, 93; his subjection to the law, 93;
events of his life, 94; his sufferings, 96;
the wrath of God which he endured, 96;
his death on the cross, 97; his burial, 98;
opinion respecting his descent into hell,
99.

Intercession of, what it means, ii.
80; place where carried on, 81; objects of
it, 82; mode of it, prayer, 83; subject-
matter of, 85; difference between it and
the intercession of the Holy Spirit, 87;
was typified under the Jewish economy,
88; cause or reason for it, 88; Christ the
only intercessor, 89.

Judging the world, ii. 121. See
General Judgment.

Kingdom conferred on, ii. 131; dis-
tinguished from his natural kingdom,
132; in what nature he administers it,
133; its universality, 134; view of it in
reference to the church, 135; he reigns
in the kingdom of glory, 140; its dura-
tion, 140; what is meant by Christ's de-
livering up the kingdom to his Father,141.

Person of, ii. 15; his human nature,
16; its integrity and sinlessness, 17;
from whence this sinlessness proceeded,
7; reason for his assuming human na
ture, 17; constitution of his person as
God and man, 19; heresies respecting it,
20; effects of the hypostatical union, 22;
is his human nature the object of wor
ship? 24.

Priestly office of, ii. 46; necessity
of his holding it, 47; his call to, and in-
vestiture with it, 49; duties of the office,
and general observations on his execution
of them, 49; Socinian heresy respecting
his sacrifice, 50; his similitude to Mel-
chisedek explained, 51; his pre-eminence
as a priest, over all others, 53.

Prophetical office of, ii. 26; his ex-

ercise of it from the fall to his birth, 30; |
during his life on earth, 30; from his as-
cension to the end of the world, 32; view
of his instructions as a prophet, 34; his
superiority to all other teachers, 37;
agency of the Holy Spirit in the execu-
tion of his prophetical office, 42.
CHRIST, Resurrection of, preliminary remarks
respecting the possibility and necessity,
ii. 102; he was raised by the power of
God, 103; time of it, 103; evidence in
proof of it, 104; objections considered,
109; connexion with the resurrection of
saints, 318.

Substitution of, in the room of sin-
ners, ii. 68; various passages to prove
it, 69; objection considered that he did
not suffer actually the same punishment
to which men are liable, 73; correct
meaning of a satisfaction for sin, 74; ob-
jections against the doctrine considered,

77.

Union of believers to, ii. 164. See
Union. Effected by justifying faith, 178.
CHRISTIANITY, alone has pretensions to be
a Divine Revelation, i. 34; truth of, proved
by miracles, 68; prophecy, 77; success
of the Gospel, 83, 84; internal evidences,

89.

CHURCH, view of Christ's kingdom in re-
ference to the, ii. 135; how founded, 135;
its form and order prescribed by him,
136; his authority in it is exclusive of
that of man, 136; alliance with the state,
136. 455; upheld by Christ, 137; de-
fended by him, 138; different meanings
of the term, 454; the visible, 456; the
invisible, 457; distinction of militant and
triumphant, 457; design of the church,
458; qualifications for membership, 458;
its unity, 461; its universality and per-
petuity, 461, 462; its infallibility, 462;
nature of schism, 463; when is separation
justifiable, 464; the term in New Testa-
ment includes more than one congrega-
tion, 478; church of Jerusalem, its ex-
tent, 479; constitution of a church, 484;
its independence, 503; its relation to the
state, 504. 510.

Government of the, ii. 465; Popish
form, 466; Episcopal form, 469; Inde-
pendent and Presbyterian forms examin-
ed, 477; power of a church to enact a
form, 507.

Power does not flow from the peo
ple, ii. 483; opinions of Dr. Owen, 485;
subordination of courts, 488; Potestas
Jezμarian, 504; in reference to the Scrip-
tures, 505; to creeds, 506; Potestas or-
dinans or Taxтin, 507; cannot establish
any form of government, 507; or make
laws to regulate moral conduct, 507; nor
enact rites and ceremonies, 508; it ex-
tends to matters of mere external order,
509; Potestas, judicialis, or diangirinn,
510; extent of this power, over whom it
extends, and its objects, 511, 512.
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CHURCH Rulers, their power does not flow
from the people, ií. 483; account of,
492; extraordinary apostles, 493; pro-
phets, 494; evangelists, 494; ordinary
pastors, 496; teachers or doctors, 497;
deacons, 498; ruling elders and warrant
for them, 499; their duties, 499; power
with which rulers are invested, 502. See
Church Power.

CENSURES, church, ii. 511.

CIRCUMCISION, a sacrament under the Mo-
saic dispensation, ii. 363; its origin, form,
and import, 364; was temporary, and is
now abolished, 365; superseded by the
Christian sacrament of baptism, 868.
CLARK, Dr. consideration of his argument,
a priori, for the existence of God, i. 159.
CLEMENT, quotations of the New Testa-
ment, in his writings, i. 54; proof afford-
ed by them for Episcopacy, ii. 475.
COINCIDENCES in Scripture, a proof of their
genuineness, i. 62.

COMMANDMENTS, the Ten, ii. 513; the sum
of them, 517; reason for the division of
them into two tables, 523; statement of
the sins forbidden, and duties enjoined in
the first, 524; the second, 527; the third,
531; the fourth, 534; the fifth, 539;
the sixth, 542; the seventh, 544; the
eighth, 546; the ninth, 549; tenth, 552.
COMPLUTENSIAN edition of the New Testa-
ment, i. 126.

CONCOMITANCE, Roman Catholic doctrine
of, ii. 407.

CONCUPISCENCE, whether of the nature of a
sin, ii. 552.

CONDITION of a covenant defined, i. 455.
See Covenant. Of the covenant of works,
463; of the covenant of grace, 500.
CONDITIONAL, the decrees of God are, i. 203.

356.

CONFESSION, Popish doctrine of, ii. 369; a
part of prayer, 425..
CONFESSIONS of Faith, use of, ii. 459; power
of the church to enact, 506; authority of,

506.

8;

CONFIRMATION, not a sacrament, ii, 368
remarks on as observed by the church of
England, 369.

CONSCIENCE, bears testimony to the justice
of God, i. 260; import and nature of, ii.
262; office of, 264; its fallibility, 265;
not its own rule, 265; power of supe
riors over, 266; the will of God the rule,
267; how this rule was known to the
heathen, 268; only rule to Christians is
the word of God, 268; authority of an
erring, 270; God alone the Lord of the,
271; different states in which it may
exist, 272; distinctions into an antece-
dent and consequent, 272; enlightened
and erring, 272; firm, and assured, and
doubting, 273; timid and delicate, 273;
awakened and hardened, 274; good and
bad, 274; operations of, prove the immor
tality of the soul, 299.

CONSCIENCE, peace of, distinguished from

mere security, ii. 275; founded on peace
with God, 276; connected with privilege
of sanctification, 276; produces spiritual
joy, 277; obtained by the Gospel, 340.
CONSUBSTANTIATION, some remarks on, ii.
23; Lutheran doctrine of, 408; objections
to, 409.

CONTENTMENT, duty of, ii. 553.
CONTRADICTIONS, objections to Scripture,
founded on alleged, i. 107; remarks for
explaining apparent, 108.

CONVERSION, the effect of divine grace. See
Regeneration.

COUNTENANCE, variety in human, an argu-
ment for providence, i. 424.
COVENANT, definition of a, i. 455.

of Grace, i. 488; fact of its exist-
ence, 490; the parties to it, 491; charac-
ter sustained by the Father in it, 492;
character sustained by the Son in it, 493
-497; distinction between it and the
covenant of redemption, 496; remarks on
the Son's engagement to perform the
conditions, 500; perfect obedience a part
of the conditions, 502; and satisfaction
for the sins of his people, 504; promises
of it as they respect Christ himself, 506;
as they respect the elect, 507. Adminis-
tration of, 512; how we may know if we
are interested in, 519. See Grace, Me-
diator.

of Works, definition of, i. 455.
scriptural evidences for it, 456. Parties,
457; character in which God stood, 457;
character in which Adam stood, 459; he
was the federal head of the human race,
459; may be inferred from the effects of
his sin on his posterity, 461; condition of
it was obedience, 463; its extent, 464;
penalty of temporal death, 465; including
the sufferings of this life, 467; spiritual
death, 469; eternal death, 471; penalty
still in force against all under it, 477;
promise implied in it, 473; seals of it,
474; inquiry how far it still subsists,
477; covenant form abolished, 477; ef-
fects of the breach of it on Adam's pos-
terity, 478; scripture proof for the doc-
trine of original sin, 482; other proofs of
it, 484.

COVETING forbidden by the tenth command-
ment, ii. 553.

CREATION, heathen had no proper idea of, i.18.
91. 378; not opposed to the immutability
of God, 205; proof that it affords of the
excellence of God, 385; of the wisdom
of God, 220; of his power, 234; of his
goodness, 241; ascribed to Christ, 325;
and to the Spirit, 346; what it properly
is, 376; arguments to prove the creation
of the world, 377; illustration and de-
fence of the Mosaic account, 380; date of
it, 382; time occupied in it, 384; design
of God in it, 386.

of Angels, when it took place,

387. See Angels.
CREATION of Man, 406; Mosaic account,

407; pattern after which he was made,
409; in what the image of God consisted,
409; spiritually of his soul, 410; author-
ity with which he was invested, 410;
qualities of his soul, 410; his knowledge,
410; his original righteousness, 412; his
happiness, 414.

CREED, the apostles', ii. 99.

CREEDS, use of, ii. 459; church's power to
enact, 506; authority of, 506.

DEACONS, duty of, in the Episcopal form of
government, ii. 469; they are ordinary
rulers in the church, 498.

DEATH, temporal, the penalty of sin, i. 465;
spiritual, in what it consists, 46'; was
included in the penalty denounced against
Adam, 469; eternal also included, 471;
in what it consists, 471; reason why
death befalls saints, ii. 292; whether it
is necessary for the sanctification of the
soul, 294; its effects on saints, 295; de-
scribed as a sleep, 296; survival of the
soul after it, 297; doctrine of an interme-
diate state after it, 305; of the sleep of
the soul after it, 306; of purgatory, 308;
state of the body after it, 311.

- of Christ, an atonement for sin, ii.
56; extent of its benefits, 555.
DECALOGUE, the, ii. 513. See Commend-
ments.

DECREES of God are immutable, i. 202;
difficulty of reconciling them with the
free agency and accountableness of man,
203; definition of, 350; connexion with
the knowledge of God, 351; nature of
them, 352; objects of them, 353; proper-
ties of them, 354; are eternal, 354; wise,
354; free, 355; absolute and uncondition-
al, 356; this is not inconsistent with hu-
man responsibility, 357. See Predesti-
nation, Election, Reprobation.
DEFENCE, self, right of, ii. 543.
DELUGE, objections to the history of, i. 105.
DEMONIACS, i. 402.

DEPRAVITY of mankind a proof of original
sin, i. 484.

DESIGN, marks of, in the universe, a proof of
the existence of God, i. 164; in the hu
man body, 165; in the bodies of animals,
166; in the vegetable creation, 167; in
the planetary system, 168; in the surface
of the earth, 168; unity of exhibited in
the works of creation, 178.
DEVILS. See Fallen Angels.
DIDACTIC theology, what it is, i. 10.
DIFFICULTIES may be expected in a divine
revelation, i. 32.

DISCIPLINE, power of the church concern
ing, ii. 510; in primitive churches, 511;
over whom power extends, 511.
DISCREPANCIES of the Gospels, a proof of
their genuineness, i. 62.
DISHONESTY, ii. 547.
DISPENSATION of grace. See Grace. Of re-
ligion under the Old Testament, i. 138;
under the New Testament, i. 148; old,

abrogated, 152; characteristics of the
Christian, 150; universality of the Chris-
tian, 155.

DIVINITY of Christ, i. 306; of the Holy
Ghost, 341. See Holy Ghost.
DIVORCE, grounds of, ii. 545.
DOCETE, their heresy respecting Christ's
human nature, ii. 16.

DOCTOR, or teacher, office of, in the primi-
tive church, ii. 497.

DUALISM, or the doctrine of two principles,
i. 184.

EBIONITES, proof they afford of the books of
New Testament, i. 57.
EDITIONS, different of the New Testament,
i. 126.

EFFECTUAL, calling the work of the Holy
Spirit, ii. 154. See Regeneration.
ELDERS, ruling, ordinary office bearers in
the church, ii. 498; their duties, 499.
ELECT, the object of Christ's intercession,
ii. 82.

ELECTION, divine decree of, i. 362; was
made from eternity, 362; did not proceed
on the ground of foreseen qualifications in
its subjects, 363; they are immutable,
365; connexion with the mediation of
Christ, 366; not the rule of human con-
duct, 366; impossibility of the total fall
of saints from grace, inferred from,ii. 284.
ELEVATION, degree of inspiration called, i.
115; objections to the term, 117.
ELZEVIR, his edition of the New Testament,
i. 127.

ENGLAND, church of, practice of confirma-
tion, ii. 369; liturgy seems to counte-
nance the doctrine of regeneration in bap-
tism, 385; use of sponsors in baptism,
387; practice of kneeling at the Lord's
supper, 418; liturgy, 440; form of go-
vernment, 469; ceremonies, 508.
ENOCH, State of religion in his days, i. 141.
ENOS, state of religion in his days, i. 140.
EPISCOPAL form of government, ii. 469; du-
ties of the several orders, 469; difference
from Presbytery, 469; arguments for it,
469; Christian antiquity of this form con-
sidered, 473; explanation of the renuncia-
tion of, in the solemn league and cove-
nant, 477.

ERASMUS, his edition of the New Testa-
ment, i. 126.

ERASTIANISM, in what it consists, ii. 503.
510.

ETERNAL death, a penalty of the covenant
of works, i. 471.

Life, comprehends all the bless-
ings promised to believers, i. 508.
ETERNITY, Scholastic divisions of, i. 172;
of the divine decrees, 354; of election,
362.

of God, 172; definition, 173; as-
cribed to Christ, 320; to the Holy Spirit,

315.

EUCHARIST, the. See the Lord's Supper.
EUSEBIUS, his testimony to the genuineness

of Scripture, i. 54; his catalogue of the
books, 57.

EUTYCHES, his heresy respecting the consti-
tution of Christ's person, ii. 21.
EVANGELISTS were extraordinary rulers in
the primitive church, ii. 494.
EVIDENCES of Christianity, i. 33-110. See
Christianity.

EVIL. Revelation gives the only satisfactory
account of the origin of moral and physi-
cal evil, i. 91; origin of moral evil,
452.

EXALTATION, Christ's state of, ii. 100. See
Christ.

EXISTENCE of God, a primary article of na-
tural religion, i. 16. 158; belief of natural
to man, and almost universal, 158; à pri-
ori argument for it considered, 159; Bi-
shop Stillingfleet's argument, derived from
the idea of God, 160; several arguments
for his existence, 160-172; reflections
of this subject, 171.

FAITH, demanded by revelation, i. 32; an-
alogy of, an aid in interpreting Scripture,
132; considered as the condition of the
covenant of grace, 497; it is the bond of
union with Christ, ii. 167; it is a fruit
of regeneration, 173; different kinds of
faith; historical, 173; temporary, 173;
of miracles, 174; saving, 174; objects,
175; nature and qualities of saving faith
illustrated, 178.

Justifying,defined and explained, ii.
178; is assurance of the essence of faith?
181; does it consist in a persuasion that
Christ died for us in particular, and that
we are pardoned? 182. 207; office of, in
justification, 205; whether it precedes or
follows justification, 205; it is not our
justifying righteousness, 207; or the con-
dition of justification, 208; but the means
or instrument, 208; this doctrine well
adapted to promote the glory of divine
grace, 209; is the gift of God, 210; justi-
fication by faith not unfavourable to mo-
rality, 215; it is a means of sanctification,
250; to secure spiritual joy,believers must
live by faith, 281; profession of it by
adults necessary before baptism, 378;
and a necessary qualification for church
membership, 460.

FAITHFULNESS of God. See Truth.
FALL of man, objections to the story of, i.
101; Mosaic account of, 450; agent con-
cerned, 450; owing to man's own fault,
452; consequences to our first_parents,
453; to their posterity, 461. See Cove-
nant of Works.

FALSEHOOD, crime of, ii. 551.
FATHER. See God.

FATHERS, their testimony to the genuine-
ness of Scripture, i. 54.
FORMS of prayer, ii. 439.
FORNICATION, crime of, ii. 545.
FRAUDS, pious, ii. 551.

FREEDOM of human will consistent with

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