Alliance between church and the world,
331, 332, 342, 343.

Alliance, Evangelical, Creed, 237.
Alliance, Presbyterian, 74; abandons
constitutive principle, 74, 75; number
of churches in, 76.

American churches and the State, 327-
337.

Anabaptists and the ministry, 134.

Andrews, Prof. E. B., 31, 40.

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"Angels," the, of "the seven churches,"
146, 147.

Anglican Church and the Bible, 66; and
fellowship, 66; its standard of faith,
66, 99; origin, 66; Prayer Book of, 66;
visible church, 4.

Apostates from the kingdom, 110.
Apostle, election of an, 114, 115.
Apostles, the, 138-142; administration of
sacraments by, 226; authority of, 140;
authority of, over churches, 124; com.
pleted church order, 142; equal in rank,
140; founded churches every where, 37;
inspired, 139, 140; meaning of their
name, 124; miraculous gifts of, 140;
number of, 138; qualifications of, 18-
142; selected by Christ, 138; successors
of, 141, 142; taught by Christ, 139.
Apostolate, the, temporary, 140-142; va-
cancies in, 124, 141, 142.
Apostolic, churches, composed of saints,
107, 108; Fathers, on independence of
churches, 118, 119; succession, 62, 63, 85,
86, 141, 142.

Apostolical constitutions, 60, 135, 173, 200,
201, 212, 221.

Appeals, associations and, 160-163;
churches and, 112, 113; Presbyterian,

71-74
Association, church, a law of the king-
dom, 38-40; ecumenical, needed, 38, 82,
311.
Associations of churches. 295-306; author-
ity of, 300, 301; avoid centralization,
284, 295, 296, 363-368; conditions of mem-
bership in, 302, 347; councils and, 282;
covenant of, 296, 298, 302; deposition

by, 288, 289; discipline by, 301-304; dis-
trict, 81, 82; early, in America, 297, 298;
English, 298; expulsion from, 163, 164,
282, 283, 301-304; fellowship in, 295; im-
portance of, 295, 296; Massachusetts
Colony on, 297; membership in, 298,
299,305; mistakes and, 160, 288; national,
82; normal, 269; origin, 296–298; partici-
pate in councils, 282-284; pastoral dele-
gates in, 302, 303; representation in,
298, 299; state, 82; warrant of, 296;
Year Book and, 283, 284, 286, 305.
Associations of ministers, 292–295.
Attempted return to Patriarchal Church,
17, 18.

Augustine and the Donatists, 49; on bish-
ops and elders, 145.

Authoritative representation, constitu-
tive principle of Presbyterianism, 72.
Authority of synods under Constantine,
325, 337.

Bacon, Dr. Leonard, 21.

Bancroft, George, on the Puritans, 89.
Baptism, 207-216; administered by whom,
225-228; adult, 211; Christian, required,
32, 33, 207; confession of Christ and,
215, 216; confirmation and, 214; essen-
tial elements in, 207; in distress, 226,
227; infant, 211-213; infant, and church
membership, 213-216; infant, more than
consecration, 216; initiatory rite, 208,
219; intent essential, 209; John's, not
Christian, 33, 208, 209; mode of, 210, 211;
nature of, 207, 208; only once to be ad-
ministered, 210; prerequisite to the Eu-
charist, 219; purity of the churches
and, 107-109, 211-216; Roman Catholic,
209, 210; salvation and, 29, 54, 212, 227;
subjects of, 211-213; superseded circum-
cision, 108, 207-209, 212; symbol of a
changed life, 105, 106, 207, 208; Unitari-
an, 209.

Baptismal regeneration, 50, 213.

Baptist view of the covenant and chil-
dren, 211, 216.

Baptists, efficiency of, 359, 362; standard
of faith, 99.

Baptized children, discipline of, 235; re-
lation to the church, 213–216.
Barnabas, called an apostle, 138, 141.
Basis, doctrinal and ecclesiastical, of the
National Council, 346, 347.

Bases, doctrinal, of state bodies, 346, 347.
Believers and visible churches, 171.
Bible, the, inspired, 33, 34; other stand.
ards than, 98, 99; sole standard, 99.
Bigotry, polities not due to, 41, 94.
"Binding" and "loosing," 113, 114.
Bishops, primitive, same as elders, 60,
61, 124, 145; presiding, 61, 62.

Brotherhood, primitive churches a, 96;
Christian, and polity, 127, 130; Christian
society to be buil on, 374, 375.
Browne, Robert, and polity, 91, 268.
Buck, Edward, Esq., Mass. Eccl. Law,
admissibility of evidence, 251; legal
elements in installation, 290.
Bunsen, independence
churches, 126.

of

primitive

Burial Hill Declaration, 346.
Business, church, demands order and
regularity, 229, 231.

Calvin, John, author of Presbyterianism,
71; his Institutes, 18; used temporal
power, 326.

Cambridge Confession, 346.

Cambridge Platform and the General
Court, 345 n.

Candlish, Dr. J. S., 28, 43, 90.

Catechumens, 221, 312, 313; early manual
for, 313.

Censures, church, 254; public announce-
ment of, 255; vote to lift, 254, 255.
Centralization, dangers avoided, 367.
Ceremonial Church, 11-17; covenant of,
11, 12; inadequacy of, 16; developed
into the Christian Church, 32, 33, 128;
unity of, 12, 13.

Ceremonial Dispensation, a Theocracy,
14; covered all codes, 12; development
from the Patriarchal, 11, 12; bound to
the Patriarchal, 31; national form of
the Church of God, 11-17; temporary,
16, 17; unity of, 12, 13, 15, 16.
Ceremonial Law abolished, 120; inade-
quate, 16; minute and fixed, 13.
Challenge, no right of, in trials, 250, 280.
"Chiefs," in New Testament, 146.
Children, church duties towards, 213-216,
235; may not vote, 257, 258.
China, government of, older than the
Papacy, 47.

Christ Jesus a High Priest, 132, 133; as-
sumed regal power, 24; superseded
other priesthoods, 133; taught for
churches, 111-113.

Christian Church, 98; early confusion of
thought respecting, 47-51; priesthood
in, 133, 134.

Christian Dispensation, 21; bound to the
Ceremonial, 31; not a succession but a
continuance, 30, 31.

Christianity, adjustments of, 94-96; not
an evolution, 131, 342, 368, 369.
Church, meaning of, 166; Matt. 18: 17,
111-113.

Church, a, 110, 111, 170, 171; in Episco.
pacy, 64, 65; not a congregation, 107;
not a voluntary society, 171; parity in,
171, 172; tests of admission to, 105.
Church board, 185; duties of, 186; im-
portance of, 186; trial by, 249, 357.
Church of God, conditioned in apostasy,

6; forms of, 3, 4, 21; origin of, 6, 7;
what it is, 5, 98; without cleavage, 32,
33.
Church of Christ, the, 4, 5, 98; a develop-
ment in part, 32, 33, 109; doctrine of,
one, not many, 44, 45; manifests the
kingdom of heaven, 42, 43, 98, 104; the-
ories of, 40, 45, 46, 84, 85; true theory,
41, 97, 98, 118, 119, 126-130; visible and
invisible, 4, 49, 50; importance of this

distinction, 50; manward side of the
kingdom, 103.

Church government, force of faulty ad.
ministration of, 356.

Church-kingdom, the, 103, 104, 121.
Church meetings, importance of regu.
lar, 231.

Church polities, narrow lines separate,
41; origin of, 39, 40.

Church relations, all Israel entered, 12;
no salvation out of papal, 29, 48.
Church taxation, 333.

Churches, activities of, 312-323; author-
ity of democratic, 355, 364; baptism ad-
mitted to primitive, 105, 106; boards of
control in, 185; city, of New Testament,
168-170; cooperation of, 314; discipline
of, 111-113; discipline of primitive, 106,
107; doctrinal soundness of Congrega.
tional, 347, 349, 350; divine factors in
fellowship, 39, 364; holy assemblies,
104-108; independence of primitive, 110-
130; independent of the State, 324,
325, 332; life-centers of evangelization,
312, 339; manifest the kingdom of
heaven, 36, 37, 104; materials of, 100,
104-108; members of, equal, 171, 172;
mission of, never abandoned, 95; inulti-
plied not through bigotry, 41; number of
in New England, in 1648, 345 n; organs
of the Holy Spirit, 126, 152, 153, 323;
planted every-where, 37; primitive in
tercourse of, 116, 117; property of, 324,
335-337; relation of, to kingdom of
heaven, 43-45; relation of, to State, 323-
337; in Connecticut, 337, 338; in New
England, 328; in papal countries, 57,
58; relation of, to the world, 341-343;
subject to no Episcopacy, 123-125;
nor to a General Assembly, 125, 126;
nor to an infallible Primate, 121-123;
terms of admission to, 105; training for
the Scriptural polity, 94-96; troubles of,
should not be advertised, 255; true fac
tors of evangelization, 312, 339; union
of, with the State, introduced force, 325;
unity of, essential, 110, 119; worship
essential to, 194, 195.

Circumcision admitted to the kahal of Is-
rael, 101; of the heart, 12; rite of, 8, 13.
Civil Courts, look into constitution and
proceedings of councils before enforc
ing result, 279 n.

Civil law, churches are subject to, 324,
325, 332-337.

Cleavage produced by force, not liberty,
76, 77, 266, 358.

Clement Romanus, 70, 107, 112, 113, 118,
126, 153, 235.

Clerk, church, 186; duties of, 187, 191;
qualifications, 187.

Clubs, heathen, prepare for the church,
36, 38.

Coercion and reform, 266, 358, 359.
Coleman, on independence of primitive
churches, 126, 127.

Comity, church, 337-341; and creeds,
338, 340; criterion in, 338, 340; respects
polity, 340; rests on private judgment,
337, 338; unevangelical bodies excluded
from, 338, 340.

Commercial aspects of churches, 342, 343.
Committees, appointed by a church, 189,

190.

Communicants in the Eucharist, 218-224;
must be baptized believers, 219; and
church members, 219; these terms con-
firmed, 220.

Communion, the, of churches, 38, 39, 264-
266; of saints, 3, 5, 12, 36, 38, 39, 42, 80,
264.

Complaint, the, in cases of discipline, 242,
246, 247.

Conditions of church membership, 105,106.
Conferences of churches (see Associa-
tions), 295-306; district, state, and
national, 81, 82; express stated fellow-
ship, 81; may be parties to councils,
273, 282-284.

Confirmation, Episcopal, by a bishop, 64,
65; sacrament, so-called, of, 205.
Confession, effect of, on trial, 248; on
joining a church, 215, 216, 222, 347, 348.
Confessions, general, of Congregational-
ists, 345, 346.

Confusion of thought, Papacy arose
from, 47-50.

Congregation, not the church, 107; of Is-
rael, 12, 100, 101 (see also kahal).
Congregational churches, 83; in New
England in 1648, 345 n; their guards to
purity, 345-355; unity of, 357-359.
Congregational Puritans, 90, 326.
Congregational Quarterly, influence of,
307, 308.

Congregational theory of the Christian
Church, 79-84; the oldest, 79; secures
unity, 82, 311, 357-359, 375.
Congregational Union of England and
Wales, 307; creed of, 346.
Congregationalism, abnormal develop.
ment of, in America, 332; an "anom.
aly," 368, 369; constitutive principle of,
80, 372; development of, 81, 82; future
prospects, 130, 372-375; historical, stud-
fed, 22; not infallible, 84; not a narrow
theme, 1; proof of, 83, 110-128; republi-
can, 93; revolutionary, 84; saved in the
West by laymen, 352, 853, 361; shuns
independency and authority, 79; uni-
fying principle in, 39, 40; unity of, 357-
359; wanting in no element, 83, 84.
Congregationalists, distrusted their pol-
ity, 361; national churches rejected by,
90; standard of faith, 99, 345-347; who
are, 83.

Connecticut, ministerial standing in, 155,
293; restraint of liberty in, 337, 338;
Unitarianism in, 367.

Consociationism, 86, 297, 360, 366, 567.
Constantine and the church, 325, 337.
Constitutive principle, defined, 40, 45, 46;
of Congregationalism, 80; of Episco-
pacy, 62; of the Papacy, 52; of Presby-
terianism, 72.

Cooperation among churches, 314-323;
matters included in, 314; methods of,
315-317; through church associations,
317, 318; through close corporations,
316; through voluntary contributors,
315; through combining these, 316, 317;
normal method, 317-319; advantages of
the normal method, 321, 322; obstacles
to a return, 319-321; required, 314-317;
primitive method, 315, 317, 318; English
method, 318, 319.

Corinthian Church, discipline in the, 112,
113.

Corporation, church, 330, 331.
Council, authority of the, of Jerusalem,
124.
Council of churches, a, 272; an associa
tion a party to, 273, 282-284; called by
whom, 272; letters missive, 272; mem-
bership in, 272; quorum of, 273; rights
of members in, 272, 273.

Councils of churches, 267-292, 327; abnor.
mal system, 268, 269; accounted for in
New England, 269-271; associations
parties to, 273, 282-284; associations may
supplant, 288, 289; called sometimes by
the State, 270, 271; confounded one with
another, 277, 278; courts and, 278, 279;
earliest, 124; duo parte, 275; ex parte,
276; fellowship in, limited, 81, 274; fi-
nal resort, 287; functions of, limited, 81,
273, 274; general, 124, 268; inadequate
as safeguards, 160, 161, 178, 281, 290-
292; installing and ordaining, 273, 290;
kinds of, 274; limited use of, 160, 161,
291; ministerial discipline by, 284-287;
mistakes by, not easily corrected, 160;
mutual, 275, 276; no right of challenge,
280; objects, 273; origin of, politico.
ecclesiastical, 268-271; packing, 281,
282; procedure in, 278; quorum in, 273;
recognition, 290; result of, 278, 279, 280;
scope of, 273, 274; size of, 274; tempo-
rary, 279; uni parte, 275; warrant for,
267.

Covenant, Abrahamic, 7, 11, 12; church,
170, 171.

Coxe, Bishop, abolition of episcopate in
Roman Church, 58, 59, 86; priority of
the Greek Church, 47.

Creed, assent to, 347, 348; importance of
a, 106, 344; of Ceremonial Church, 14;
of Evangelical Alliance, 237; of Patri-
archal Church, 9; property affected by
change of, 335, 336; required, 106.
Creeds, of associations of churches, 346,
347; of churches, 347, 348; of ethnic
religions, 9n; preserved best by laity,
350-352; primitive norm of, 106; tests of
membership, 347, 348, 354, 355.

Credentials, 302; contents of, 304, 305; de-
fined, 304.

Cromwell, Oliver, on State, Church, and
liberty, 90.

Cross-examination, 252.

Cyprian, church and the kingdom, 48;
election of church officers, 172, 173;
primacy of Peter, 122.

Deacons, 178-181; authority of, what, 180;
duties of, 178, 179; election of, 115, 178;
laymen, 179, 226; ordination of, 180;
origin of the office of, 178; qualifica
tions of, 179, 180; removal of, 180; rota-
tion in office of, 180, 181.
Deaconesses, 179, 180.

Dead-lock between church and society,
330-332, 360.

Decrees, church, a standard of faith, 99.
Dedham decision, 331, 332.
Delegates of primitive churches, 115, 116;
of Congregational churches, 303.
Deposition from the ministry, 176, 287,
288; by associations, 283, 284, 288, 289;
by councils, 284, 287, 288; papal and
prelatical, 287, 288; under the pastoral
theory, 287; revokes ordination, 288.