His operations, 480. How he is distin- guished from the Father and the Son, 480. Proved to proceed from the Father and the Son, 483. The Greek and Lat.n churches reconciled about this procession, 484. The occasion of their difference here-about, which ended in a schism, 486. Holy Ghost, why called holy, 488. His offices, 489, &c.
God, his knowledge, wisdom, justice, holiness, 7, 8. How God's omnipotence consists with his holiness and truth, 8. Notion and name of God, 25. His ex- istence, 27. How known to us, ibid. God proved to have no beginning, 28, 29 No nation without its God, 30. All creatures depend on God, 31. A two-fold necessity to believe a God, 33. Unity of God proved, 34. A twofold necessity to believe this unity, 35, 36.
God, taken absolutely, how to be un- derstood, 60. Often of Christ, 194–197.
Goodness of God infinite, how it con- sists with it to defer the creation so long as he did, 86, 87.
Guilt, what it is, 539.
Hades. See Hell, 362.
Happiness of God, not to be augmented or diminished by the creatures, 86.
Happiness, eternal, wherein consists, 586, 587.
Heathen, begun every action in the name of God, 22. Their opinions of the duration of the world, 75, 76. 85, &c.
Heaven and earth, in what latitude taken, 71, 72.
Three heavens, and how different in glory, 75.
Christ ascended into the highest hea- ven, 409.
Hebrew, no single word in it which signifies the world, 73.
Hell, how Christ descended into it, 347, &c Why he could not suffer the pains of it, 348, 349. Hell sometimes put for the grave, 350, $51. What the ancients understood by it, 362. Our church's opi- nion concerning what Christ did in hell, 374. How Christ destroys the powers of hell. 424.
Helvidius, 264. 267. Heracleon, 98. 243.
Heretics, who taught there were two gods, one the author of good, the other of evil, 96, 97.
Hermiani, 410. 574. Hermogenes, 241, 242.
Holiness, what it denotes when ap- plied to persons or things, 534. Motives to holiness, 529.
Holy. See Ghost, church, saints.
Holy of holies, was to the Jews an em- blem of the highest heavens, 405.
Homoousians, 472.
Hope, the ground of it, 18, 403. 458.
Idolatry, what it is, 256.
Jehovah, a name attributed to Christ, 225-228.
Jesus, a name commonly used by the Jews, 105. The derivation and interpre- tation of it. 105, 106, &c. Jesus proved to be the Christ, 198--141.
Impossible, what may be so to God, without derogation of power, 431.
Intercession of Christ for us at God's right hand, 428. Of the Holy Ghost,
Joseph, a type of Christ sitting at the right hand of God, 414.
Joshua, a type of Christ, 115-118. Jovinianus, 264.
Judgment of the world proved from rea- son and Scripture, 441-445. Believed by the heathen, 443. In it Christ shall preside as judge, with the reasons for it, 445, &c. An account of the process in the day of judgment, 447, 448.
Kingdom shall have no end, why in- serted in the Nicene Creed, 426.
Kingdom of Christ, twofold, 427. Kingly power of Christ, the benefits of it to us, 424-429.
Law of God, the reason and extent of it, 540.
Life, what it is, 320.
Life everlasting, taken in the Creed for the endless duration of all men, 580, 581. Endless duration of the wicked, 58, 583. Eternal life, the full importance of it, 585, 586.
Light, Christ so called from the per- spicuity of his doctrine, 130.
Limbus Patrum, whether Christ deli- vered souls out of that place, 373.
Lord, determinately used for Christ in the New Testament, 220. But some- times used for men both in the Old and New Testament, 221. How the Greek and Hebrew words for Lord correspond, 221-223. Christ is Lord, as that word is the interpretation of the name Jehovah, proved, 225-228. How and in what respect Christ is Lord, 230, 251. How many ways he hath a right to be our Lord, 233.
Matter, the eternity of it refuted, 81, 82. Mediatorship of Christ, when and why it shall cease, 425.
Messias, a word of the same significa- tion with Christ, 121, 122. The Jews make a double Messias, 132. 278. Mis- taking the scriptures that speak of his coming twice. 137. All the Jews believed Messias should be the Son of God, though since Christ they denied it, 160. That Messias should suffer, proved from ancient prophecies, 277, &c. Suffer death, 318, 319.
Ministry, what sanctification necessary for the work of it, 495-500.
Miracles, the use of them, 12, 13. 436. They prove the being of God, 31.
Upon what grounds Moses, the pro- phets, and apostles, received and propa- gated the faith, 10-15. How much short Moses came of Christ in his miracles, 130. Montanus, 492.
Nail, struck through a bond cancelled it, 315.
Nature of no creature is originally evil, 98.
Nature Divine indivisible, 205. It suffered not in Christ, 285. 291.
Distinction of natures in Christ as- serted, 243-246.
Necessity of two natures in one person of Christ, 248.
Nestorians, 249. 270, 271. 359. Noëtus, 240, 241. 482.
None good but one, explained, 85. Nothing can be produced out of no- hing, how far true, 82.
Novatian heresy, 551.
Omnipotence, the notion of it explain- ed, 430, 431, &c.
Opinion, what it is, 4.
Origen, his error about hell-torments, 584.
Origenists, their error, 572.
Paraclete explained, 491, 492. Passion of Christ, why the Jews give a wrong account of the time of it, 299. Patience, the proper foundation of it in a Christian, 43.
Patripassians, 240, 241.
Pelagians, their heresy, 490. Renewed by Socinians, 491.
Phantasiasta, the same with Docetæ, 243. 280.
Philosophers, what they taught about the existence of the world, 76, 77. 88. Photinus, 181-183.
P. Pilate, a man of a rough untractable spirit, 298.
Power, the object, nature, and extent, of God's power, 64, 65. 87. 127, 128. On what accounts the belief of it is neces- sary, 67, 68. Christ had not all power till after his resurrection, 231.
Praxeas, 240, 241. 481.
Priests, why under the law they blessed the people at the morning, but not at the evening sacrifice, 146.
Priority of the Father before the Son, 49-56. Terms of priority given him by the ancients, 58, 59. Priscillianus, 241.
Probable, what is so, 4.
Prophecy, a proof of a Divine Being, 31.
Quick, what is meant by that word in the Creed, 451. The quick, i. e. those that are alive in the day of judgment, shall not be dissolved by death, 453.
Reconciliation between God and man,
Redemption, how purchased, 291. 546. Redemption, one reason why we call God Father, regeneration another, 40, 41. Resurrection a third, 41.
Regeneration, the work of the Holy Ghost, 491. 494.
Remission of sins explained, 543.547. How propounded and conferred in the church, 548, 549.
Repentance, a motive to it, 457. The necessity of it, 549, 550.
Resurrection, the definition of it, 384, 385. Nothing less than Omnipotence can effect it, 387. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, raised Christ from the dead, ib.
Distance between the death and resur- rection of Christ, how necessary, 392. The possibility of our resurrection, 556. The probability of it upon natural and moral grounds, 558, 559. The certainty of it upon Christian principles, 563, &c. demonstrated. Identity of the body ne- cessarily supposed, 568-572. Latitude of the resurrection, 573.
Revelation of two kinds, mediate and immediate, 9.
Roman governor had the power of life and death in Judea sixty years before the destruction of Jerusalem, 297.
Ruffinus, his explanation of Christ's descent into hell, 352.
Sabbath, reasons for changing it from the seventh to the first day, 398–402. Sabellian heresy, 240. 481.
Saints, who they are, and how a man may become one, 527, 528. Sanctification, the work of the Holy Ghost, 489.
Saturninus, 243. 280.
Saviour, an appellation given to the heathen gods and men, 109-111. Rea-
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sons at large why Christ is peculiarly called so, 111, &c.
Science, scientifical, what it is, 4.
Scriptures, why written, 14, 15. Scythians, 98.
Seleuciani, 410. 574.
Semiariani, 472.
Shaddai, the notion and importance of
Waved sheaf, a type of Christ's rising from the dead, 391.
Simon Magus, 243. 280. Sin, what it is, 539.
Sin and Satan, how Christ destroys their power, 424.
Sitting at the right hand of God ex- plained, 414.
The notion of sitting in the Creed, 414, 415.
Socinus, 27, 28. 226. 583.
Socinians, 28. 211. 226. 229. 246. 253. 465-472. 545. 563 569. 572.
Congruity of the Son's mission argued from the pre-eminence of the Father, 53.
Only-begotten Son, interpreted by an- cient heretics, begotten of the Father only; by Socinians, most beloved of the Father, 209, 210.
Sonship, the several degrees of it, 46. The peculiarity of Christ's Sonship, 160,
Soul, sometimes used to signify the dead body, 350.
Human soul of Christ, with the affec- tions and passions, 245.
Soul of Christ descended to the man- sions of departed souls, 357.
Sufferings of Christ, how ancient pro- phecies were fulfilled in them, 134. Why Christ could not suffer the pains of hell,
Tabernacle, Jews believed that it sig- nified this world, 405. Teberinthus, 98. Tessaresdecatitæ, 300.
Testimony, two sorts of it, what makes it valid, 5.
Trinity, order of it may not be inverted, 55. 482. Difference between the persons in it, 57, 58. 480.
Trust in God, the grounds of it, 436, 437.
Union of Christ's two natures not dis- solved by death, 323, 324.
Union of Christ with the church by the Holy Ghost, 493. 553.
Unity in the Godhead, the ground of it, 61.
Unity of the church, wherein it consists, 507-512.
Universe, the notion and extent of it, 72. Divided by the Jews into three worlds, 73. Philosophers thought it in- finite, eternal, God himself, 76.
Valentinus, 224. 243. 280.
Virgin, two prophecies that Christ should be born of a virgin cleared, 262. Proofs that Mary was a virgin, when she conceived, when she brought forth, and ever after. Objections answered, 263— 269. The Virgin styled Deipara, and the mother of God, 270. What honour is due to the Virgin, 275.
Will of God absolutely free, 84. God created by willing the creation, 86, 87. Seats of the two wills in Christ, 243.
Word of God, the Chaldee paraphrase constantly teaches, that the Word of God is the same with God, and that by that Word all things were made, 177, 178.
Word was with God, how, 177–181. World. See Universe. The manner See Crea- how the world was made, 79. tion. No instant assignable before which God could not have made the world, 88. Arguments to make it appear, that the world is no older than the Scripture makes it to be, 91-95.
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