INDEX

OF THE

PRINCIPAL MATTERS.

The first number indicates the Book; the second the Chapter.

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A.

ADAM'S fall, the cause of the curse inflicted on all mankind, and
of their degeneracy from their primitive condition, ii. 1.

Angels, their creation, nature, names, and offices, i. 14.
Articles of faith, power of the Church relating to them, iv. 8, 9.
Ascension of Christ, i. 15.

B.

Baptism, a sacrament; its institution, nature, administration, and
uses, iv. 15.

of infants perfectly consistent with the institution of Christ
and the nature of the sign, iv. 16.

Celibacy of priests, iv. 12.

C.

-- of monks and nuns, iv. 13.

Christ proved to be God, i. 13.

necessity of his becoming man in order to fulfil the office of a
Mediator, ii. 12.

his assumption of real humanity, ii. 13.

the union of the two natures constituting his one person, ii. 14.
the only Redeemer of lost man, ii. 6.

the consideration of his three offices, prophetical, regal, and
sacerdotal, necessary to our knowing the end of his mission from
the Father, and the benefits he confers on us, ii. 15.

his death, resurrection, and ascension to heaven to accom-
plish our salvation, ii. 16.

truly and properly said to have merited the grace of God and
salvation for us, ii. 17.

Christ imperfectly revealed to the Jews under the law, ii. 7, 9,
clearly revealed only in the gospel, ii. 9.

Christian liberty, its nature and advantages, iii. 19.

Christian life, scriptural arguments and exhortations to it, iii. 6.
summary of it, iii. 7.

Church, the necessity of our union with the true Church, iv. 1.
true and false compared and distinguished, iv. 2.

teachers and ministers of the Church, their election and
office, iv. 3.

iv. 12.

power of the Church, relating to articles of faith, iv. 8, 9.
in making laws, iv. 10.
in jurisdiction, iv. 11.

discipline of the church; censures and excommunication,

state of the ancient Church, and the mode of government
practised before the papacy, iv. 4.

ancient form of its government entirely subverted by the
papal tyranny, iv. 5.

Confession, auricular, iii. 4.

true, iii. 4.

Confirmation, papal, iv. 19.

Conscience, its nature and obligations, iii. 19.

Councils, their authority, iv. 9.

Creation of the world-of angels-this clearly distinguishes the

true God from all fictitious deities, i. 14.
Cross, bearing of, a branch of self-denial, iii. 8.

Death of Christ, ii. 15.

Depravity, human, total, ii. 3.

D.

Descent of Christ into hell, ii. 16.

Devils, their existence, power, subtlety, malignity, i. 14.

Discipline of the Church, iv. 12.

E.

Election, eternal, or God's predestination of some to salvation and of
others to destruction, iii. 21.

trine, iii. 22.

testimonies of Scripture in confirmation of this doc-

- a refutation of the calumnies generally, but un-
justly, urged against this doctrine, iii. 23.

confirmed by the divine call, iii. 24.

Excommunication, iv. 12.
Extreme unction, iv. 19.

F.

Faith defined, and its properties described, iii. 2.
justification by faith, iii. 11.

prayer its principal exercise, iii. 20.

Fanaticism of discarding the Scripture, under the pretence of resort-
ing to immediate revelations, subversive of every principle of
piety, i. 9.

Fasting, its use and abuse, iv. 12.

Free will lost by the fall; man in his present state miserably en-
slaved, ii. 2.

a refutation of the objections commonly urged in support
of free-will, ii. 5.

G.

God truly known only from the Scriptures, i. 6.

—what kind of a being God is; exclusively opposed in the Scrip-
ture to all the heathen deities, i. 10.

contradistinguished from idols as the supreme and sole object
of worship, i. 12.

ascription of a visible form to God unlawful, and all idolatry a
defection from the true God, i. 11.

the creator of the universe, i. 14.

his preservation and support of the world by his power, and his
government of every part of it by his providence, i. 16.

the proper use and advantages of this doctrine, i. 17.

God's operation in the hearts of men, ii. 4.

his use of the agency of the wicked, without the least stain of
his perfect purity, i. 18.

one divine essence containing three persons, i. 13.
Gospel and law compared and distinguished, ii. 9, 10, 11.
Government of the Church, iv. 3, 4, 5.

civil; its nature, dignity, and advantages, iv. 20.

H.

Holy Spirit proved to be God, i. 13.

his testimony requisite to the confirmation of the Scrip-

ture and the establishment of its authority, i. 7.

his secret and special operation necessary to our enjoy-
ment of Christ and all his benefits; this operation the foundation
of faith, newness of life, and all holy exercises, iii. 1.

Holy Spirit, the sin against, iii. 3.
Humility of the faithful, iii. 12.

I.

Idolatry, a defection from the true God; all worship of images ido-

Jurisdiction of the Church, iv. 11.

Justification by faith; the name and thing defined, iii. 11.

a consideration of the divine tribunal necessary to a
serious conviction of gratuitous justification, iii. 12.

tion, iii. 13.

iii. 14.

things necessary to be observed in gratuitous justifica-

commencement and continual progress of justification,

boasting of the merit of works equally subversive of
God's glory in gratuitous justification and of the certainty of sal-
vation, iii. 15.

a refutation of the injurious calumnies of the Papists
against the doctrine here maintained, iii. 16.

the promise of a reward no argument for justification
by works, iii. 17.

Kingdom of Christ, ii. 15.

K.

Knowledge of Christ, imperfect under the law, ii. 7, 9.

clearly unfolded under the gospel, ii. 9.

of God connected with the knowledge of ourselves, i. 1.
nature and tendency of it, i. 2.

naturally implanted in the human mind, i. 3.
extinguished or corrupted, partly by ignorance,

partly by wickedness, i. 4.

the world, i. 5.

conspicuous in the formation and government of

effectually attained only from the Scripture, i. 6.

L.

Law of Moses; its office, use, and end, ii. 7.

Laws given to the Jews; moral, ceremonial, and judicial, iv. 20.
Law, moral; an exposition of, ii. 8.

Law and gospel, compared and distinguished, ii. 9, 10, 11.

Life, Christian, iii. 6, 7, 8.

present, and its supports, right use of, iii. 10.

future, meditation on, iii. 9.

Lord's Prayer, exposition of, iii. 20.

Lord's Supper, its institution, nature, and advantages, iii. 17.

not only profaned, but annihilated by the papal mass,

iii. 18.

M.

Man, his state at his creation, the faculties of his soul, the divine
image, free-will, and the original purity of his nature, i. 15.

in his present state, despoiled of freedom of will, and subjected
to a miserable slavery, ii. 2..

every thing that proceeds from his corrupt nature worthy of
condemnation, ii. 3.

his mind naturally furnished with the knowledge of God,
i. 3.

the knowledge of God in the human mind extinguished or cor-
rupted by ignorance and wickedness, i. 4.

Magistracy, iv. 20.

Marriage, ii. 8.

Matrimony, falsely called a sacrament, iv. 19.

Mass, the papal, not only a sacrilegious profanation of the Lord's

Supper, but a total annihilation of it, iv. 18.

Mediator. See Christ, ii. 14.

Merit of Christ, ii. 17.

of works disproved, iii. 15, 18.

Offences given and taken; what to be avoided, iii. 19.

Orders, ecclesiastical, no sacrament, iv. 19.

Original sin, the doctrine of, ii. 1.