A TABLE OF CONTENTS. PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTION: On the meaning of the word Catechism: On the necessity of Faith and Good Works, and in the first place of Faith, p. 31. On Divine Revelation, p. 33. On Holy Tradition and Holy Scripture, p. 34. On Holy Scripture in particular, p. 37. The Composition of the Catechism, p. 43. THE FIRST PART OF THE CATECHISM, ON FAITH. On the Creed, generally, and its origin, p. 44. On the Articles of the Creed, p. 46. On the First Article, p. 47. On the Second, p. 55. On the Third, p. 58. On the Fourth, p. 65. On the Fifth, p. 68. On the Sixth, p. 70. On the Seventh, p. 71. On the Eighth, p. 73. On the Ninth, p. 75. On the Tenth, p. 84. On Baptism, ib. On Unction with Chrism, or Confirmation, p. 87. On the Communion, p. 89. On Penitence, p. 94. On Orders, p. 95. On Matrimony, p. 96. THE SECOND PART OF THE CATECHISM, ON HOPE. THE THIRD PART OF THE CATECHISM, ON LOVE, OR CHARITY. On the Union between Faith and Charity, p. 117. On the Law of God, and What the Priesthood is, p. 149. i. By whom instituted, ib. ii. To what End, CHAPTER II. OF THE FIRST PART OF THE PRIEST'S DUTY, OR THE INSTRUCTION OF HIS PEOPLE. PART I. OF TEACHING BY WORD. Where, and The First Duty of the Priest is to Teach, p. 154. i. What the Priest ought to Pattern of the CHAP. II. ᏢᎪᎡᎢ II. OF TEACHING BY DEED: (WHICH INCLUDES THE SECOND PART OF It is the Priest's Duty to Teach his people Holy Living by his own example, CHAPTER III. OF THE THIRD PART OF THE PRIEST'S DUTY, THAT IS, OF MINISTERING Propositions Propositions relating to all the Sacraments generally, p. 204. ii. OF THE CHAPTER IV. FOURTH PART OF THE PRIEST'S DUTY, THAT IS, PRAYER. What Prayer is, p. 241. i. &c. Prayer and Service of God inward and out- OF PRAYER AS THE SPECIAL DUTY OF PRIESTS. Those Commandments of the Lord are pointed out, which mention Prayer as the special duty of Priests: p. 272. i, &c. For what, and for whom it is the Priest's special duty to pray; that is, for the communication of the good things of God's Kingdom, in other words, of the Gospel to mankind; and, particularly, for all Believers: p. 273. iv, &c. For all men; and first, for the Sovereign, and all that are in authority; p. 275. vi. For all the sins of the people: p. 276. viii. For grace for all, that the power of sin may be overcome: ib. ix. The Priestly duty both of leading in Prayer, and of interceding in time of any calamity, plague, or visitation, public or private: p. 277. x. Of praying for all, that they may in- crease in the knowledge and faith of Jesus Christ: p. 279. xiii. Of giving thanks for all men; ib. xiv. and in all things: p. 280. xv. Of praying for the departed, in the hope and faith of the resurrection : 281. xvi. The above duties are incumbent on Priests in private, as well as in public in the Church; at all times as well as on Sundays and Holy-Days: p. 282. xvii. The ministering of the Mysteries re- quires fervent Prayer, that the Priest may be blameless in it: p. 282. xviii. More especially the Service of the Divine Liturgy: p. 283. xix. The Priest is bound not only to be earnest in Prayer himself, but also to teach all his people, especially the more ignorant, how to pray aright: p. 285. xxii. Of the duty and necessity of praying together in the public assemblies of the Church: p. 286. xxiv. And, when met together, of praying not outwardly only, but also with the spirit; nor, again, with the spirit only, but also with the understanding: p. 287. xxv. INTRODUCTORY NOTICES OF CERTAIN MODERN GREEK DOCUMENTS, VIZ. THE ANSWERS OF THE PATRIARCH JEREMIAH TO THE LUTHERANS. THE BOOK ENTITLED THE ORTHODOX CONFESSION, AND THE XVIII ARTICLES OF THE SYNOD OF BETHLEHEM. I. OF THE ANSWERS OF THE PATRIARCH JEREMIAH TO THE LUTHERANS. THE Answers of the Patriarch Jeremiah to the Lutherans are the earliest of those modern doctrinal writings which are held to be of authority in the Eastern Church. They stand in the same place with regard to the Lutheran Controversy, as the Acts and XVIII Articles of the Synod of Bethlehem do to the Calvinistic. They are free, even in the minutest details, from all suspicion of Latin influence, which is more than can be said of every word and sentence in the above-mentioned Acts and Articles, or even in the Orthodox Confession. They breathe throughout the genuine and natural spirit of the Eastern Church; and, besides the weight of public opinion in their favour, they have the express testimony of those very Synods of Jassy and Bethlehem, by which the later documents of the Orthodox Confession and the Eighteen Articles were approved. These Answers may indeed, perhaps, have been sent from Constantinople into Russia; and they are at any rate known to the Russian Clergy from the Acts of the Correspondence published at Wittemberg in Germany, A.D. 1584, and from the later publication of Gideon of Cyprus; but still, con |