His afcenfion not capable of fo full a proof, 80. This depends
chiefly on the teftimony of the Apoftles and effufion of the Holy
Ghoft, ibid. His refurrection was brought about by a miracle, 81.
Curiosity about the manner of it taxed, ibid. How it may be faid
he was three days in the grave, ibid. The intention of his staying
forty days after on earth, 82. Of the manner of his afcenfion,
ibid. The great authority with which he is vested, ibid. Of his
glorious appearance at the last day, 83. Whether he was the
mediator of the old, as well as the new difpenfation, 121. His
death applied to thofe who are incapable of exprefsly laying hold
of it, 124. His death the only cause of our justification, 163.
Christ alone was without fin, 179. Of the efficacy and extent
of his death, 164, 202. Is our only mediator in point of inter-
ceffion as well as redemption, 308. Why he chofe to fuffer at the
time of the Paffover, 390. He is the only priest, and his death
the only facrifice under the Gospel, 447.

Christianity gives much purer ideas of God than the Mofaic difpen
fation, 59. The foundation of, 162. Does not leffen the tempo-
ral authority, 488. Raifes the laws of love and charity to a high
degree, 499. Does not condemn all oaths, 504.

Chriftians are not exempt from capital punishment for great crimes,
494. In what cafe may engage in war, 496. Or go to law,
ibid. Are not obliged to have their goods in common, 498. May
fwear on important occafions, 503.

Chronology, the diverfity of it no fufficient objection to the autho-
rity of the Scriptures, 106.

Chryfoftom, St. mentions nothing of relicks, 305. Denies that any
miracles were wrought in his time, ibid. Condemns auricular
confeffion, 349.

Church ought to proportion her rules of communion and cenfure
to those of the Gofpel, 185. Of its authority to establish doc-
trines, 230. What a true Church is, 237, 241. May be visible,
though not infallible, 242. Of her power in appointing ceremo-
nies, 254, 255. And in matters of faith, 252. Can make no
new terms of falvation, 259. The meaning of Chrift's words,
Tell the Church, &c. 268. How the Church is the pillar and
ground of truth, ibid. There was to be an authority in the
Church, 320. What it is, 323. The order fettled by the Apof-
tles was for fucceeding ages, 321. Every Church an indepen-
dent body, 475. The refpect due from one Church to another,
ibid. Wherein her authority in opposition to the civil magistrate
confifts, 492.

Church of Rome owns the pofitive doctrines of the Church of Eng-
land, 5. Its tyranny in impofing its doctrines, 8. Their opi-
nion concerning the Scriptures and traditions confuted, 89. Leave
the second Commandment out of their Catechifm, 130. Main-
tain that original fin is quite taken away by Baptifm, 142. The
confequence of this, ibid. Their doctrine concerning the remif-
fion of fins, 160. The ufe of the Sacraments, 161. And the

fufficiency of inherent holinefs for juftification, ibid. What they
call a good work, 166. What they teach concerning the love
of God, 172. Their doctrine of fupererogation confuted, 175.
Their diftinction of mortal and venial fin, 182. Juft preju-
dices against its infallibility, 231-252.
Their notes of a true
Church, 234. These do not agree to their Church, 235. Have
erred not only in their living and ceremonies, but in matters of
faith alfo, 242. The influence of the Popes on the canons, cere-
monies, and government of the Church, 243. Is guilty of a cir-
cle, 234, 260. The abfurdity of this, ibid. Their doctrine con-
cerning purgatory, 272. See Purgatory. Concerning pardons,
285. Of indulgences, 287. Of image-worship, 288. Of wor-
Thipping of relicks, 301. Of the invocation of faints and angels,
307. Of worship in an unknown tongue, 331. Of their five
additional Sacraments, 339. Of the intention of the Prieft be-
ing neceffary to the effence of a Sacrament, 374. Of Tranfub-
ftantiation, 401. Of withholding the cup from the Laity,
438. Of the facrifice of the Mass, 446. Of the celibacy of the
Clergy, 452.

Church of England and Rome, wherein they agree, and wherein of
different opinions, 136. Answer to the queftion, Where was
your Church before Henry VIII. 242. See Articles, Authority.
Circumcifion, why not neceffary to be continued, 120. Of infants
under the Old Testament an argument for infant Baptism under
the New, 387.

Claud of Turin wrote with vehemence against image-worship, 296.
Clergy, the import of their fubfcription to the Articles, 9. Their
marriage made an argument against the Reformation, 452. This
not contrary to the purity of divine performances, 453. Thofe in
England were married in the Saxon times, 457. Are subject to
their Princes in ecclefiaftical matters, 488. See Celibacy, Coun-
cils.
Commandments, or moral law, the nature of it, 127. The two
first against idolatry, 128. The morality of them, ibid. The third
against not only vain and idle, but falfe fwearing, 129. The mo-
rality of this, ibid. The fourth, in what fenfe moral and reafon-
able, ibid. The rigour of it abated by our Saviour, 130. These
four diftinct Commandments, ibid. Why this divifion is preferred
to that of the Church of Rome, ibid. The order of the second
table, 131. The fifth and tenth, how they are the fences of the
intermediate four, ibid. In what sense the laft is moral, ibid. Of
the obligation of this law upon Chriftians, 132.

Communion of the body and blood of Chrift, the meaning of it ex-
plained, 399.

Concomitance, no fufficient argument for communion only in one
kind, 440.

Confeffion of fins, the Scripture account of it, 344. Auricular
confeffion not neceffary, 346. No authority for it in Scripture,
347. Nor from the practice of the primitive Chriftians, ibid.
The firft occafion and progrefs of it, 348. Gave great scandal at
Conftantinople,

Conftantinople, 349.

in this matter, 350.

How far the power of the Church extends
The good and bad effects of it, 351. Ought
to be no law of the Church, because not a law of God, 352.
The bad effects of it in the Church of Rome, 351, 468.
Confeffion of adversaries, not a note of the true Church, 235-
Confirmation, a very ancient practice, and juftifiable as used in the
Church of England, 339. Reasons why it is no Sacrament, 340.
The form of it in the Church of Rome, ibid. Whether the Bi-
shop only should confirm, 341. Great difputes about this, 342.
Confecration, the effect of it in the Eucharift, according to the doc-
trine of the Church of Rome, 402. The virtue of it depends on
the intention of the Priest, 403. By whom a bell was ordered to
be rung at the confecration, 425. It was an opinion that the
Lord's prayer was at first the prayer of confecration, 443.
Confequences of opinions ought not to be charged as tenets, 218.
Conftance, Council of, its decree for withholding the cup from the
Laity, 443. The abfurdity of it, and cruelty ufed to establish it,

444.

Conftantia, the legend concerning her great refpect for Hilarion's
body, 304.
Conftantinople, Council, made no new additions to the Creed, 3.
Said that the Holy Ghoft proceeded from the Father only, 86.
Condemned image worship, 296.

Consubstantiation, what the Lutherans mean by it, 430. Their doc-
trine confuted, ibid. Ought not to diffolve the union of Churches
where adoration is not joined with it, 431.
Contrition, the definition of it, 352.
make it differ from attrition, ibid.
liable to great abuse, 353.

Wherein the Church of Rome
Their doctrine concerning it

Corporal Prefence, how the doctrine concerning it came into the
Church, 423. The progrefs of it. ibid.-430. See Tranfub.
ftantiation.

Covenant, whether God made one with Adam for his posterity, 143.
The tenor of the New Covenant, 186.

Covetousness, the precept against it not moral in the ftricteft fense,
130. Not a crime more peculiar to the married than the un-
married Clergy, 455.

Councils, cannot be called without the confent of Princes, 261.
Popes were not always confulted, 262. Have affumed the power
of cenfuring, depriving, and making Popes, ibid. What makes a
Council to be general, 263. The numbers necessary, and how
cited, ibid. Not of divine inftitution, because no rules in Scrip-
ture concerning them, 264. Several arguments against their in-
fallibility, ibid.-269. They have been contrary to one another,
264. Disorders and intrigues in Councils, 265. No General
Councils pretended in the first three centuries, 267. No profpect
of another General Council, ibid. Of the decree of the Council
of Jerufalem, 269. Some General Councils have erred, 270.
Doctrines are not to be believed on their authority, 271.

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Creation,

Creation imports infinite power, 37, 54. The nearest approach to
a true idea of it, ibid. Is afcribed to Chrift in the New Tefta-
ment, 58.

Creeds were at first conceived in general terms, 2. That which
goes by the name of the Apostles not made by them, ibid.—135.
What probably was the first, 2. The occafion of their being en-
larged, 4. Thofe of Nice and Conftantinople, 3. None of the
three Creeds named with exactnefs, 133. That of Nice is the
Conftantinopolitan, ibid. That of Athanafius not made by him,
ibid. That faid to be the Apoftles, of no great antiquity, 135.
Crofs, a prayer used in the confecration of a cross, 299.
Crucifixion of Christ, and his death, owned by all Christians, 65.
Denied by the Docetæ and Mahomet, ibid.

Cup, or Chalice, in the Sacrament, ought to be given to the Laity,
438. This particularly enjoined in the words of inftitution,
ibid. Not to the Clergy only, as Priefts, 439. This the practice
for above a thousand years, 441. The infufficiency of concomi-
tance and other arguments advanced against it, ibid.—443.
Cyprian owned not the infallibility of Pope Stephen, 247. Made
the effect of a Sacrament to depend on the good state of the ad-
miniftrator, 372.

D.

AMNATION, to eat and drink their own damnation ex-

Dplained, 397. Damnation fometimes means temporary pu-

nishments, ibid.

Daniel, his prophecy of the LXX. Weeks explained, 117.
Death might have been the natural confequence of Adam's fall, 140.
This not to be reftrained to a natural death, 141. How this
might be tranfmitted to his pofterity, ibid. Prayers for the dead,
an early practice in the Church, 281. What gave rise to it, ibid.
Tertullian's opinion about it, 282. The abfurdity of maffes for
the dead, 283. The method of commemorating eminent faints
in the primitive times, ibid.
Death-bed repentance, the trufting to it a fatal error, 185, 354.
Decrees of God have been the fubject of many difputes, 9, 136.

The foundation of the doctrine of abfolute decrees, 144. This
feems contrary to the nature of God, 145, and exposes the Chrif-
tian religion, 146. Upon what views God formed his decrees con-
cerning mankind, 189. Four opinions concerning them, 190.
Decretal Epifiles of the firft Popes, with what view publifhed, 245-
Are univerfally held fpurious, ibid. Was a forgery of the eighth
century, contrived with little art, 424.

Delivery unto Satan, an effect of the extraordinary power of the
Apoftles, 402, 463.

Dipping in Baptifin, the danger of it in cold climates, a good reafon
for fprinkling, 440. The cuftom of dipping the bread in the
wine in the Lord's Supper, when introduced, 442. Was con-
demned by the Council of Bracara, ibid.

Difcipline

Difcipline in the Church, the nature and neceffity of it, 375, 461.
That of the primitive Church lay heavieft on the Clergy, 375.
Moderation ought to be observed in it, 461.

Divorce lawful in cafe of adultery, 363. Our Saviour's rule in this
cafe, ibid. This agreeable to the opinion of the Fathers, 364.
The contrary was not established till the Council of Trent, ibid.
Docetæ, a fect that denied the death of Chrift, 65.

Doctrine, the difference between Articles of Faith, and thofe of
Doctrine, 8. The tyranny of impofing doctrines, ibid. Con-
formity of doctrines with former times not a note of a true
Church, 254.

Donatifts, their notions concerning the Sacraments, 372.

Dulia and Hyperdulia, degrees of worship paid to images in the
Church of Rome, 299.

Durandus was cenfured by the Church of Rome for his opinion of
image-worship, 298.

E

E.

ARTH is greatly improved by man's induftry, 38. The in-
fluence of the wind upon it, ibid. See World.

Eating and drinking their own damnation, the meaning of the
phrafe, 397. Opinions of several Fathers concerning eating and
drinking Chrift's body and blood, 436.

Ebion denied the divinity of Chrift very early, 56.

Edward VI. differences of the Articles in his reign from the prefent,
112, 113, 272, 328, 333, 388, 452, 479, 482.
Egyptians, their alledged antiquity without foundation, 25.
Elders, who they were at the Council of Jerufalem, 269.

Election, of Election and Predeftination, 188. See Predestination.
Elevation of the Hoft not known in the first ages, 414, 434. What
gave rife to it, ibid. Was not done at firit, in order to adora-
tion, 434. Who first mentions it with that view, ibid.
Eliberis, Council of, condemned pictures on the walls of Churches,
295. Forbid the lighting candles about the tombs of martyrs in
day-light, 305, 314.
Elizabeth, Queen, gives authority to require fubfcriptions to the Ar-
ticles, 9. A royal declaration for taking them in the literal
fenfe, 10. Her injunctions concerning fupremacy, 483.
Elohim, the meaning of it in the Old Testament, 45.
Emperors, their authority in ecclefiaftical affairs, 489.
Endowments were procured by impoftors in the Church of Rome,
284. By what means the profufeness of them was reftrained, ibid.
When they are to be held facred, ibid. The violation of them,
when founded on falfe opinions, no facrilege, 285.
Enthusiasts, an extravagant fort of them at the Reformation, 120.
Ephefus, Council, their decree concerning the Holy Ghost, 86.
Epicureans fet all things at liberty, and denied Providence, 191.
Epiphanius, his zeal against pictures in Churches, 295. Is fevere
upon the Collyridians for worthipping the bleffed Virgin, 314.

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