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Anglican Church; essential soundness of her constitution, 327-332; all
that is required, is a faithful carrying out of her system, 333, 334; 373
-375; the union of her dioceses beneficial to her general condition, 348,
note r; consequences of her position as a national church, 339–344;
her ministers unjustly reviled for refusing to be associated with the Ro-
manists in public education, 448, 449; her duty to her sister branches
of the church catholic, 344-349; necessity of examining her present
condition, 14, 15; causes which impair her efficacy, 333-375; want
of spirituality in many of her members, 29, 30; the glory of God as
the purpose of the church's existence too often lost sight of, 44-48.
Authority of the Church; chap. ix. ; why not of a temporal nature, 203—
206; inseparable from a corresponding responsibility, 241-245; its
exercise in matters of faith, 251-259; in the regulation of matters
necessarily changeable, 259-270; how affected by its descent through
successive generations of the church, 270-272, carried to a blasphe-
mous extent in the Roman church, 441; 444, 445.

Baptism; associated by divine appointment with the gift of the Holy
Ghost, 62; the rite of incorporation in the church, 81-83; low es-
timation in which it is often held, 363-368; of infants, 85, note m;
366, note j.

Casuistical divinity, specimen of, from the modern tradition school, 411, 412.
Catholic tradition; has no real existence, 11; not to supplant the life of
the spirit in the church, 258, 259; danger of attempts to make it a
foundation of church unity, 196–201.

Celibacy; its necessity to Christian perfection, an early heresy, 385.
Christ; denial in the primitive church of his Godhead, 390; his humanity,
391; his Messiahship, 390; his second advent, 391; blasphemies
touching his person in the Roman church, 434, 436–441.

Christianity; inseparable from the life of the spirit, chap. ii.; from the
body of the church, chap. iii.; a trust committed to the church, 107;
administered by her ministers, 237, 238.

Church; her necessity to the existence of Christianity, 31-34; purpose
of her existence the glory of God, 34-44; necessarily a visible body,
70; importance of distinguishing between her militant and her trium-
phant state 74-76; a corporation entrusted with God's purpose on
earth, 18, 19; 105-107; a keeper and a witness of Holy Writ, 246
-249; her early corruption, 89; her failings and disorders foretold
in scripture, 77-79; 89—93; may occasionally be outshone by spu-
rious imitations, 80; may be dead or dying, and yet a church, 76;
means of identifying the true church, 77-81; continued trial of her
faith and obedience, 79, 262.

Church accommodation, its present insufficiency, 342, note r.

Church; branches of the churc hcatholic, not necessarily in outward union, 287
-300; not united together by the apostles, 288-295; 348, note x;
separately addressed by Christ himself, 297; their individual responsi-
bility and authority asserted, 297-300; their independence of each
other a provision made for the preservation of Christianity, 300-307;
their duty to one another, 344-349.

Church constitution; essentials of, 82, 83, 210.

Church government; episcopal, its nature and divine institution, 226–237 ;
presbyterian, its fundamental errors, 227-231; 227, note m; its dan-
gerous tendency, 250, 251; 250 note x.

Church; state, its relation with the church; in what light to be viewed,
206, note i; duty of the church when unjustly treated by the state, 340

note o.

Common Prayer; its public character taken away by certain ministers,
312, note v; coldness of our congregations in regard to it, 374.
Common Prayer, book of; its beauty and excellency, 373, 374; construction
put upon its calendar by the tradition school, in regard to days of fast-
ing and abstinence, 414-416; in regard to Saints' days, 446, 447.
Confirmation; its frequent neglect, and the consequences of it, 359, 360.
Councils, universal, in what sense binding, 280, 281; so-called œcumenical
councils, their character and authority, 285, note e; supposed council
of Jerusalem, real character of that proceeding, 289, note h; council of
Nicæa, refuted the heretics out of Scripture, 111-113; of Constanti-
nople and of Chalcedon, their testimony respecting the precedency of
the Roman see, 278, note a.

Creed; early use of a summary of faith in the church, 147; no reason to
suppose that it formed a compendium of apostolic preaching, 147, 148;
or that the Apostles were the authors of the summaries actually in use,
474, note z; passages of Irenæus and Tertullian mistaken for creeds,
Appendix, No. v.

Cross; the sign of, its early and superstitious use, 455, note b.
Dissent; a religious anarchy, 13, 14; its origin accounted for, 71; unjus-
tifiable concessions made to it, 71-73; usurps the name and character
of the church, 76; and the power of appointing ministers, 216-221;
fallacy of the principle of " liberty of conscience," when asserted not
as a civil right, but as a principle of religion, 197, note e; 219, note y.
Education, of her baptized members, the church's duty, 368-370; the
state not qualified for the work of education, 370; the modern educa-
tion scheme, on the basis of religious neutrality, impracticable, 371,
note r; involves the countenance of idolatry and blasphemy, 448, 449.
Extreme hypothetical cases, an unsound foundation to reason upon, 320, 321.
Fanaticism, or pretended inspiration, 28, 29.

Fasting; Christian view of this duty, 396; appointments of our church
concerning it useful, 396; but not compulsory, 396, 398–401; 400,
note m; meaning of our Saviour's promise of a reward for fasting, 407,
noted; not generally necessary to salvation, 411; frequently associated
with hypocrisy, 403, note t, 406, note a; views of the tradition school
concerning it, App. No. ii.; put on a par with public prayer, 402; and
with the Lord's Supper, 410; made a means of indirect excommunica-
tion, 402-406; 404, note u; rules concerning it attempted to be in-
sinuated into our church, 415, 416.

Fathers, our agreement with them in sound doctrine a matter of rejoicing,
256-258; many questionable matters contained in their writings,
192, note b; utter inconsistency of their views in regard to tradition,
App. No. iv.

Good works made a foundation of future hope by the tradition school, 406—
408; 433, note o; the Romish doctrine of, illustrated, 433; 435.
Heretics, of all kinds in the primitive church, App. No. i; their resistance
to apostolic authority, 392, 393; their appeals to tradition, 473-476.
Holy Ghost, communion of, indispensable to a Christian state, 20—28;
the sacraments his appointed joint-witnesses, 56-58; not tied down
to ordinances, 66-67; not promised except in connexion with ordi-
nances, 67, 68.

Infallibility of the universal Church, different grounds on which this doc-

trine is held, 274, 275; offers no guarantee for God's truth, 279—
281; involves an appeal to the voice of the majority, 287, note g; does
not meet the difficulty arising from the alleged right of private judg-
ment, 281, 282; 282, note c; if that doctrine be true, the gates of hell
have prevailed against the church, 283—285; 302, 303; denial of it

does not involve the assertion that God's truth has ever failed in the
church, 285-287; is repudiated by the Anglican church, 286, note f;
how held by the Roman church, 276-279.

Jerusalem, Church of, her authority in the days of the Apostles, examined,
288-293; 289, note h; her extinction as a Jewish church, 295-297.
Judaizers, in the primitive church, 382-385; in the modern tradition
school, 408, 409; 408, note f.

Justification by faith, doctrine of, denied in the primitive church, 388.
Liberality, spurious, of the present day, 3-5; its destructive consequences
apparent, 342-344; 344, note t. Its wilful blindness, 421; appeal
against it, 448, 449.

Lord's Supper, associated with the communion of the Holy Spirit, 62, 63;
its neglect by the majority of our congregations, 361, 362; abuses con-
nected with it in the primitive church, 386; substitution of water for
wine in the early churches, 459.

Ministers of the church, their necessity, 207-209; nature of their autho-
rity, 209-215; necessarily derived from God, 215-221; and to be
held in continual subjection to God, 221-225; different orders of minis-
ters, 225-238; classification of their functions, 245, 246; their efficacy
impaired by resting their authority on low grounds, 350-359; their
infirmity and sin does not invalidate their ministrations to the faith-
ful, 357, note d; power conceded to them in any matter by the people,
to be carefully distinguished from their inherent divine authority, 238

-240.

Miracles, why ceased to exist, 57, 58; gift of, abused in the primitive
church, 387; false miracles of the Roman church, 54, App. No. iii.
Missionary exertions, the duty of every church as such, 334-339; their
success a test of the state of the church which makes them, 337,

note m.

Mortification, views of the tradition school on this subject, 410-412; 428,
note n; practice of it in the Roman church, 427, 428; 431; 432—
433; 436.

Non-conformists, their error pointed out, 312, note v.

Original sin, doctrine of, denied in the primitive church, 387.

Paul, maintained the independence of the churches founded by him,

291-294.

Peter, his pre-eminence among the Apostles, 18-20; does not support
the usurped authority of the Roman bishop, 276, 277.

Philosophy, heathen; its admixture with Christian truth in the primitive
churches, 386.

Power of the keys, in what it consists, 210-215.

Private judgment inadmissible in matters of faith, 84, 85; necessity of its
exercise for individual conviction of the truth, 254, 255; 282, note b;
its proper exercise and limits defined, 315-321.
Purgatory, doctrine of, in the Roman church, 442–444.

Rationalism, its sin and absurdity, 28.

Reformation, legitimate course of, 268-270; 312, note v; how distin-
guished from schism, 307–314; checks provided against the natural
love of change, 265-267; principles of the English Reformation
must be proved de novo in our day, 8—10.

Relics, use made of them in the Roman church, 429; 430, 431.
Responsibility of the church for her trust 241–244; distributed through
different generations and among different branches of the church, 244,
245; individual of members and ministers, how consistent with the
authority of the church, 318-321; rests upon her lay members as
well as her ministers, 344, note t.

Resurrection doctrine of, denied in the primitive church, 389.

Rites and ceremonies necessarily changeable, and subject to the regulation
of the church, 259-264; early discrepancies in regard to them, 306,
note p.

Roman church; her claim to supremacy untenable, 276—279; 392, note r;
when her precedency ought to have ceased, 309, note s; supersedes the
authority of Christ, 419; her bishop assumes the title, Vicarius Domini,
given in the early church to the third person of the Godhead, 457,
note f; her anti-Christian character, 221-223; remains unchanged,
419-421; her tyranny over men's consciences, 12, 13; 212, 213;
441, 442; 444, 445; horrible states of mind engendered by her su-
perstitions, 444-446; intrusion of her ministers into other dioceses,
348; her designs on the Anglican church, 447, 448.

Sacraments; associated by divine appointment with the gift of the Holy
Ghost, 56-58; appropriateness of their types, 58-60; indispensable
to spiritual communion, 61-64; not invalidated by ministerial sin and
infirmity, 557, note d; singular analogy between errors of practice in
regard to them, and errors of faith, 262, note q.

Saints, Romish; canonized on Trinity Sunday, 1839, Appendix, No. iii.;
method of canonization, 422-426; assume the mediatorial office in
their life-time, 432; 438; 441; 443.

Sanctification; its necessity denied in the primitive church, 388.

Schism; how distinguished from legitimate reformation, 310-312; charge-

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