tempted return to, 17; lacked fellow-
ship, 11.

Family, the, honored in all dispensations,
6, 15, 33.

Fan, Christ's winnowing, 32, 109, 111, 114,
136, 208.

Feet-washing, rite of, among the Men-
nonites, 205, 206.

Fellowship of churches, 38, 39, 264-267;

basis of, 108, 264; channel of blessings,
36, 37, 266, 267; councils inadequate to
express, 81, 274; definition of, 264; de-
void of authority, 266, 267, 364; essen-
tial, 37, 38, 265; exhibited on four prin-
ciples, 40, 265; expressed in Congrega.
tionalism, 81-83, 358, 359; impossible
where, 340, 341; liberty in, 266, 267; lim- |
itation of, 338-341; methods of, 267;
peculiar to no polity, 80, 81, 255, 266;
prime factors in, 39; unites all believ
ers, 88; unity sought in, 40; vehicle of
oppression, 266; visible, required, 265;
withholding, from ministers, 155.
Felt, J. B., Eccl. Hist., quoted, 153, 156,
157, 297.

Fiction, papal, of imprisonment, 58.
Fisher, Prof. Geo. P., D.D., on good done
by the Papacy, 95; on Lord's Supper,
218.

Force, ecclesiastical, divisive, 76, 266,
267, 358, 359, 364.

Foreign missions, coöperation in, 314,
323; when begun, 322.

Form essential to organic life, 2, 30, 371.
Francis I., Calvin wrote his Institutes
for, 18.

Froude, J. A., on the Puritans, 89.

Future, the, belongs to the primitive pol.
ity, 130, 372-375.

General Assembly, 74; powers of, 74;
churches not subjected to a, 125, 126.
General Councils, State gave authority
to, 64, 325, 337; Congregational, 307.
General Court of Massachusetts, au ec-
clesiastical body, 296, 297.

General Courts of New England, ecclesi-
astical, 156; relation to councils, 269-
271.

Gladstone, Hon. Wm. E., the Papacy, 58.
Gospel of the kingdom, 23; an anomaly,
369.

Greek Church, 65, 66; older than the
papal, 47, 59; standard of faith, 99.
Guards of purity complete in Congrega.
tionalism, 344-355.

Hanbury's Memorials, 21, 181, 268, 298, 327.
Harris, Prof. George, D.D., unit of soci
ety, 6.

Harris, Prof. Samuel, D.D., definition of
the Church, 5.

Harvey, Prof. H., D D., ordination by
ministers, 152; relation of polity to her.
esy, 2, 3.

Hatch, Vice-Prin. Edwin, equality within
churches, 172; identity of elders and
bishops, 61; independence of local
churches, 127; ordination, 151, 152; pol.
ity of the future. 96, 273, 372, 375.
Heads of Agreement, 346.
Hearsay evidence, 251, 252.
Heresies, early, began in changes of pol-
ity, 2, 3.

Heresy, disciplinable, 237; liberty hin-
ders, 350, 351; ways of dealing with,
353, 354.

High Priest, Christ the Christian's, 132,

133.

Hitchcock, Prof. R. D., D.D., 183, 184, 185.
Homburg, synod of, 91.

Home Missions, coöperation in, 314.
Hooker, Richard, 185.
Hume, the Puritans, 89.
Hutchinson, early

use of councils in

Massachusetts, 327, 328.
Hutchinson's Hist. Mass. on duties of
ruling elders, 181, 182; ordination, 153;
polity derived from Pilgrim Church,
227, 228; strength of churches in civil
power. 327, 328.

Ignatius, 48, 60, 71, 126, 180.
Imprisonment, papal fiction of, 58.
Inalienable right of churches in any
locality, 158, 160, 163, 164, 285, 286, 299;
expressed in associations, 285, 286; im-
perfectly guarded in councils, 299, 300;
should be respected, 303, 304; when in-
fringed upon, 299, 300.

Inauguration of pastors, 177, 178.
Incorporation of churches, 330, 331.
Indelible character and ordination, 136,
151, 152.

Independence of local churches, 80, 110-
119; arises from unity, 110, 111; con-
ceded, 126-12s; hated, 340; proof of, 110;
by the rule of discipline, 111-114; by
the election of officers, 114-116; by their
relation one to another, 116, 117; by their
relation to the synagogues, 117, 118; by
statements of the Apostolic Fathers,
118, 119.

Independent churches, guards of purity
in, 345-355; modeled after clubs and
synagogues, 34-36, 38, 198, 199; power
of, 300; property of, 335, 336; subject
to no centralized authority, 119-126,
whether Pope, 121-123, or Episcopate,
123-125, or General Assembly, 125, 126;
this point conceded, 126–130.
Independents, Congregationalists in Eng-
land called, 83.

Individuals not factors in common labors,
126, 322, 323.
Indulgences, 54.

Inequality in representation, dangerous,
298, 299.

Infallibility, papal, 26; dogma of, 51, 52;
when decreed, 52, 53; of the Greek
Church, 52; of the kingdom of heaven,
26; of the Popes, 51, 52; ecclesiastical, 26.
Infallible Primacy, active and passive,
53; constitutive principle of the Roman
Church, 52; churches not subject to, 121-
123.

Infant baptism, 108, 211-216; Congrega-
tionalists and, 215; reformed churches
and, 214; when corrupts a church, 214.
Infant damnation, 227.

Injustice in censures, remedied, 260, 262,
276.

Inner Light, standard of faith, 99.
Installation, 290; decadence of, 160, 291;
elements in, 290; inadequate guards,
160, 290-292; unessential to the pasto-
rate, 177, 178; urgency of its advocates,
291.

Intemperance and church discipline, 239,

240.

Invisible Church or visible, Christendom
divided over, 4.

Invitation to the Eucharist, 224, 225.
Ireland, Presbyterian churches in, expur-
gated heresy, 350, 351.

Irenæus confounded church and king.
dom, 48.

Irregularities in procedure, 256, 257, 276.
Isolation of churches, abnormal, 38-40,
264, 265.

Jeroboam, how caused Israel to sin, 13, 14.
Jerusalem, council at, 124, 139.
Jewish Christians and independent syna-
gogues, 118.

Johnson's "Wonder Working Provi-
dence," 358, 359, 373.

Jurisdiction, ecclesiastical courts deter-
mine their own, 278; lawful, in Episco-
pacy, 64.

Jury trial of offences, demanded in
churches, 249, 250, 357.

Justin, Martyr, 107, 108, 221.

Kahal, or "congregation of Israel," 12,
32, 100, 111, 114, 115, 119, 120, 121, 128, 136,
167; became the Christian ecclesia or
Church, 111, 112, 114, 115, 120, 121, 128,
167, 208; oneness of the, 119, 120; relin-
quished authority in becoming Chris-
tian, 128.

Keys of the kingdom, where deposited,
113, 114.

Kingdom of heaven, the, 22-30; appears
chiefly in churches, 36; characteristics
of, 24-28; Christward side of the
Church, 103; conditions of admission
to, 28; confounded with the church, 28,
29; Congregationalists and, 21 n; con-
stantly coming, 30; contrasted with
Ceremonial Law, 33; also with previ-
ous dispensations, 23, 24; defined, 24,
27, 28; distinguished from the Church,
28, 29, 103, 166, emerges in local
churches, 42, 43; equality in, 27; estab-
lished already, 22-24; everlasting, 27;
evolved from preceding dispensations,
30, 31; foundation of the Christian
Church, 21; gives place to "church,"
and "churches," 42, 43; gospel of, 23;
holiness of, 25; indivisible, 25; infalli
ble, 26; invisible, 25, 26; loyalty to
Christ in, 24, 25; manifested in organic
forms, 30, 36, 38; materials of, 31, 32,
102; misunderstood by the Jews, 31;
reign of Christ in, 24; notes of, 24-28;
partly on earth and partly in heaven,
29; peculiar, 27, 28; preached, 23; pre-
dicted, 22, 23; separated from the State,
120, 121, 324, 325, 332; subjects equal, 27;
synagogue worship appropriated by,
35, 36; term, how used by the apostles,
42, 43; unity of, 25, 38; universal, 27;
writers on Congregationalism neglect,
21 n.

Ladd, Prof. G. T., D.D., doctrine and
polity, 3; democracy to the front, 374;
examination for ordination, 353; mis.
taken policy, 352; provincialism sul-
cidal, 361.

Laity, custodians of faith and polity,

350-353; distinguished from the minis.
try, 134-136; saved Congregationalism
in the West, 352, 353, 361.

of

Laud, Archbishop, the Puritans, 90.
Lawrence, Judge Wm., alienation
church property, 335, 336.
Lawyers in ecclesiastical trials, 252-254;
rules respecting, 253.

Lay Eldership, Presbyterian, 181-185;
duties of, 181, 182; unscriptural, 182,
183; being rejected by Presbyterians,
183, 184; Presbyterianism then reduced
to a clerical despotism, 184.
Leadership, personal, escaped, 365.
Legal, counsel in trials, 252-254; elements
in installation, 290; obstacles to church
cooperation, 319, 320; relations of
churches, 323-337; rules of evidence and
ecclesiastical trials, 251, 252.

Legislation, all ecclesiastical, vests in
Christ, 24, 25.

Letters, of dismission and discipline, 245,
246; missive, 272.

Liberty, associations and, 82, 266, 267;
called "the insanity," 54, 88; Consocia-
tionism and, 366, 367; endangered by
personal leaders, 365; polity and, 18,
19, 82, 88-93; progress of, 88-93, 373;
Puritans and, 88-90; relation of, to
unity, 266, 267, 367; union of Church
and State destroys, 296, 330–332; unity
and, balanced, 295, 296, 367, 368.
Licentiates, 226.

Life manifests itself in organisms, 2, 30,
371.

Lines, narrow, separate polities, 41; also
visible from invisible Church, 4.
Liturgies, early, 201; independent of pol-
ity, 204; New Testament and, 197-203;
sermon versus, 202; value of, 202-204.
Local churches, powers of, 80, 81, 111-119,
312, 322, 323.

Lord's Supper, the, 216-228; administered
by whom, 225-228; both kinds in, 218;
communicants, 218-224; conditions of
partaking, 218, 219; must be Scriptural,
222-224; enforced by local churches, 224,
225; Boston Platform and, 222; disci-
pline and, 221, 222; elements used in,
217, 218; invitation to, 224; not con-
trolled by the pastor, 225; Judas Is-
cariot and, 220; meaning of, 217; mode
of, 218; names of, 217; primitive
churches and, 220, 221; repeated often,
217; supersedes the passover, 14, 217,
220; unrestricted admission to, fatal,
222, 224.

Lord's Table, like the Church, 224.
Lutherans, Congregational in polity, 83;
standard of faith, 99.

Luther's, Martin, idea of the Church,
326.

270, 271; ordination and preaching and,
156; regulated the churches, 156, 327,
328.
Materials, of a church, what, 100; of the
Ceremonial Church, 100, 101; of the
Christian Church, 103, 104; of churches,
104-108; of the kingdom of heaven, 102,
103; of the Patriarchal Church, 100; of
synagogues, 101, 102; unity of, in all
dispensations, 109.

Matthew 16: 18, 19, interpretations of,
122, 123.

Matthias, how chosen an apostle, 114,
115, 139, 141.

Mediators, priests are, 132.

Members of churches, on dropping, 259,
260; equality of, 171, 172; tested by
what, 104-108, 222, 347, 348.

Messengers of the primitive churches,
115, 116.

Methodist Episcopal Church, the, polity
of, changing, 76, 77; Presbyterian, es-
sentially, 76 property and pulpit of,
336; rejected by Episcopacy, 65.
Methodists, standard of faith, 99.
Metropolitan bishops, 61.
Michigan, general association of, defines
ministerial standing, 156; constitution
of, and ministerial standing, 305.
Milman, Dean, on primitive churches,
126.

Ministerial accountability, 154, 155, 284-
287.

Ministerial associations, 292-295, 365; lib.
erty and, 295, 365, 366; objects of, 293;
origin of, 292, 293; standing in, 293, 294;
temporary in nature, 294, 295.
Ministerial membership and pastoral
representation, 302, 303; where held,
174, 175.

Ministerial discipline, 177, 235, 284-288.
Ministerial standing, 154-165; associations
of churches and, 158, 160, 161, 282, 286;
defined, 155, 156; in England, 305; minis-
terial associations and, 159, 294; Nation-
al Council on, 161, 162; New England
and, 157; redress when, is impaired, 163,
164, 282, 283; required to be held some-
where, 155, 163-165; single and unasso.
ciated churches can not hold, 157, 158,
159.

Ministerial training, 314.

Ministers, guides, 191, 192; membership
of, dual, 174, 175; responsibility of,
dual, 175-177; removal of, 190.
Ministry of the Word, the, 131-149; called
of God, 131, 132, 135; as custodians of
doctrine and polity, 350-353; distin-
guished from the laity, 136; function of,
132, 133, 134-136, 190; independent of
the churches, 136, 137; not exclusive,
135; not an official relation, 131, 137;
not a priesthood, 132-134; ordina-
tion of, 149-154; parity of, 137; pastoral
theory of, 131; permanent, 138, 143-147;
perpetual, 149, 156; precedes churches,
131, 136; prelatical, unscriptural, 137;
preparation for, 148; qualifications of,
147-149; restrictions of, in New Eng.
land colonies, 156; temporary, 138–143.
Minors not voters, 257, 258.

Mistakes, discipline and, 233; when vital,
257.

Mitchell, Rev. John, membership of min.

isters, 174; standing in ministerial asso-
ciations, 294.

Moderatism in Scotland, 349, 351, 354.
Moffat, Prof. J. C., D.D., primitive re-
ligions, 9, 10.

Moravian Church, 67.

Morris Prof. E. D., D.D. Apostolic suc-
cession, 142; proof of Presbyterianism,
75; lay eldership, 183; primitive type,
368, 369, 370.

Mosheim, primitive churches, 126; wor-
ship after conversion of Constantine,
201.

Müller, Prof. Max, relation of religion
to history, 2.

Mutual councils, 275, 276, 283, 304.

Nation, The (New York), political creeds,
344.

National Church, intolerable, 15, 16; re-
turn to, perversive, 18.

National Council, doctrinal basis, 346,
347; origin of, 306–311; recognizes min-
isterial standing, 161, 162, 305; stated
body, 309, 310.

Neander, parity of church members, 172;
visible and invisible Church, 49; Nova-
tian, 238.

New England, Church and State united
in, 327, 328; effect on Congregational.
ism, 332; peculiar, 328.

Noah renews a godly seed, 7.
"No bishop, no king," 88, 89, 374.
Notice in cases of discipline, 247.

Oath for witnesses, 248 n.

Objections, force of, 355-357; tests, 356,
357.

Offences, disciplinable, 235-238; scandal.
ous, 237, 238, 244, 249.

Officers, church, authority of, 190-193;
no veto power, 190, 191; removal of, 190.
Offices, distribution of, among members,
192, 193.

Ohio General Association and National
Council, 309.

Orders, the so-called sacrament of, 205.
Ordination, 149-154; Ceremonial, 132;
Christian, 137, 150; authority conferred
by, 153, 154; deposition and, 176, 289;
ecclesiastical recognition in, 152, 153;
Episcopal, 64; modes of, 151; per-
formed by associations of churches,
288, 289, 306; by churches, 152; by coun.
cils, 273; relations caused by, 154, 155;
Scriptural, 150, 151.

Original, the, polity, the final polity, 96,
372-375.

"Out of the church there is no salvation,"
48, 49, 171.

Palfrey, churches as towns, 91.

Pan Anglican Conferences abnormal, 68.
Papacy, the, 46-59; an absolute mon.
archy, 54; absorbed the Episcopate, 59;
Augustine might have strangled, 49;
clerical government wholly, 54, 55; con-
stitutive principle of, 52; good fruits
of, 95; irreformable, 56; liberty denied
by, 53, 54, 57; temporal power must be
recovered, 57, 58; visible and invisible
Church confused in, 49, 50.

Papal infallibility, 51, 52; when located,

53.

Parliamentary rules, binding, 191; coun-
cils and, 278; pastors and, 230.
Parish system, 328-332; churches in
bondage to, 330-332; church property
and, 330; efficiency hindered by, 360;
influence on faith, 349; legal existence
of churches in, 331, 332; origin of, 328-
330; strifes and remedies under, 329,
330; unscriptural, 332; voters in, 329-
331.

Parity in the laity, 171, 172; in the min-
istry, 137.

Passover, Jewish, 14; communicants at,
220.

Pastoral representation, 303.

Pastoral theory of the ministry, 131.
Pastorate, the, essential elements of, 177,
178; National Council and, 161, 162.
Pastors, 145, 146; churches may ordain
their own, 153, 177; councils unneces-
sary to constitute, 177, 178; discipline
of, 159, 261-263; impartiality required
in, 261; more than church officers, 177;
presiding officers, 175, 230, 248, 261;
should not attend certain church meet-
ings, 175, 230; when representatives of
churches, 303.

Patriarchal Dispensation, 6-11; creed of,
8, 9; degeneracy of piety under. 7, 9,
10; divisive, 9 initiatory rite intro-
duced into, 8; purity of, 10; worship
of, 8.

Patriarchal theory of society, 6.
Penance, so-called sacrament of, 205.
Pentecost, Christian Church inaugurated
on, 111; converts at, 169.

People, best guardians of faith and pol-
ity, 350-353.

Permanent ministry, 143-149; lists of,
144; names of, 144.

Peter, St., called to account, 114, 176;
primacy of, 121-123.

Phelps, Prof. Austin, D.D., necessity of
creeds, 344.

"Pilgrim convention" of 1870, and the
National Council, 308.

"Plan of the Apostles, the," 128, 130, 340,
363, 369, 372.

Plan of Union, 352, 360, 361.

Plurality of elders in churches, 70, 71,
169, 170, 173.

Political elements in the Ceremonial
Law, 128.

Polities, ecumenical, 87, 88; exclusive,
85-87; origin honorable, 39-41; simple,
four, 40, 84, 85; union labors and, 93,
94, 339, 362; utility of, 94-96.
Polity, church activities determined by,
93, 94; covers the revelation of redemp-
tion,1; development in, 94, 95; not discre-
tionary, 370-372; essential, 371; involved
in every church act, 94; liberty_and,
18, 19, 88-93; not detailed in New Testa-
ment, 44, 45; obedience to, required,
372; principles of the true, revealed,

Presbyterianism, 70-79; adjusted easily
to new light, 129, 130; constitutive prin-
ciple of, 72; abandoned where, 74, 75;
development of, into sessions, 72; pres-
byteries. 73; synods, 73; general as-
semblies, 74; and the Presbyterian
Alliance, 74; infallibility not claimed
by, 78; lay eldership not essential to,
77, 78; not republican, 91-93; originated
in a wrong interpretation, 71, 183, 184;
principle of unity in, 40, 72; proof
alleged for, 75, 76; reformable, 78;
representatives may be laymen, 72;
yielding to the light, 74, 78, 129, 130.
Presbyterians favored a national church,
90; standard of faith, 74, 99.
Presbyteries, 73; powers of, 73.
Presbytery in particular churches, 60, 70,
71, 76, 125, 173, 185.
Proselytes, 102.

Priesthood, the Aaronic, 13, 132; Christ's,
132, 133; Christian ministry not a, 132-
134; Patriarchal, 8; Roman Catholic,
134, 135; Greek Church, 134.

Priests, what, 132; ministers not, 132-134.
Primacy, infallible, 52.

Primacy of St. Peter, 50, 51, 122, 123.
Primitive churches, discipline of, 232;
worship of, 199-201.

Primitive religions, 10.

Principle, domination of, in polity, 40, 45,
46, 128.

Private judgment, corner-stone of liberty,
18, 337, 338.

Proof, liberty of, in ecclesiastical trials,
251.

Property, church, regulated by civil law,
333; alienation of, 335–337.

Prophets, New Testament, 142, 143; Old
Testament, 13, 14, 142; priests of Israel
not, 13; school of the, 14.
Protestant Episcopal Church, 67.
Proxy, discipline by, when, 246.

Public discipline not necessary, 249, 250,