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2. Give an account of the seven Councils strictly called Apostolic.

3. Has the Church scriptural authority for all of these ?

4. Explain the nature of the Twelvefold Apostolate, and prove that the office was not intended to be continuous. What sect will your remarks confute?

5. How many General Councils have there been in the Church?

6. Is any authority to be given to the Council of Trent?

7. Give a concise history of that Council. An account of the "Lambeth Articles."

8. An account of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster.

1. Give an account of the Council of Constance.

2. A short Life of Hooker.

3. Why has Calvinism so often been called "the Genevese system?"

4. What do you mean by the Geneva Platform?

5. What effect had the exile of the Protestant divines in the reign of the bloody Mary, upon the discipline of the Church?

6. How do you account for the adoption of the theological system, afterwards called "Calvinism," by the early reformers ?

7. Who was Thomas Aquinas? Give some account of the Schoolmen.

8. Prove that the Church of England has been a Protestant Church from the earliest times.

9. Mention the most celebrated theologians of the sixteenth century.

10. Trace the fate of Wycliffe's doctrines on the continent.

11. Explain the nature of "Queen Anne's Bounty."

12. When was the statute of præmunire passed?

13. Why?

14. A short account of the Council of Cloveshoo, or Cliff.

15. Prove that there has been an uninterrupted succession of English Bishops from the earliest times.

16. How would you connect Episcopacy in England with the Apostles?

17. What probability is there that St. Paul visited England?

18. Give some account of the early British Church, anterior to the arrival of Augustine.

19. An account of the Synod of Dort. 20. In what respects does the Greek Church differ from the Roman ?

21. What effect had the Crusades

the Christian Church?

upon

22. Mention the chief Monastic Orders

in the Romish Church.

23. What is meant by the Seculars?
24. What by the Regulars?

25. Distinguish between Monks and Friars.

26. An account of the Templars, and the Order of St. Benedict.

27. Who established the Inquisition ?

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.

Translate the following passage, and state to what modern sect it is applicable.

"Primis temporibus cadebat super credentes Spiritus Sanctus, et loquebantur linguis quas non didicerant, quomodo Spiritus dabat eis pronuntiare. Signa erant tempori opportuna. Oportebat enim ita significari in omnibus linguis Spiritum Sanctum, quia evangelium Dei per omnes linguas cursurum erat toto orbe terrarum. Significatum est illud et transiit." Aug. in Ev. Jo. c. iv.

Theological Essay.

"Omnes hæretici perversa credentes, panem de cœlo descendentem comedere non possunt : sed obstupescunt dentes eorum, non ciborum austeritate, sed vitiis dentium." Hieronym.

Theological Essay.

“In quo non est peccatum, ipse venit auferre peccatum."

Translate the following.

—καὶ εἰς ἕνα Κύριον Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν τὸν Υἱὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ τὸν μονογενῆ, τὸν ἐκ τοῦ Πατρὸς γεννηθέντα πρὸ πάντων τῶν αἰώνων· φῶς ἐκ φωτός, Θεὸν ἀληθινὸν ἐκ Θεοῦ ἀληθινοῦ· γεννηθέντα, οὐ ποιηθέντα, ὁμοούσιον τῷ Πατρὶ, δι ̓ οὗ τὰ πάντα ἐγένετο· τὸν δι ̓ ἡμᾶς τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, καὶ δι ̓ ἡμετέραν σωτηρίαν κατελθόντα ἐκ τῶν οὐρανῶν, καὶ σαρκωθέντα διὰ Πνεύματος ἁγίου ἐκ Μαρίας τῆς Παρθένου, καὶ ἐνανθρωπήσαντα.

Explain the word Χριστός.

How was the word αἰων misapplied by the Gnostics?

What word would the Arians substitude for ὁμοούσιον ?

What word the Socinians?

What Council decided that the word ὁμοούσιον should be used? In what year? What is the antecedent to δι ̓ οὗ τὰ πάντα, &c ?

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