ABRIDGMENT of faith, what
it is, Acts of the apostles, book so called, the author did not charge his readers against stir- ring beyond it, 248
how wisely as well as faith- fully written by St. Luke, 328,
329 Actual assent to fundamental ar- ticles, how necessary, 223, 224 Adam, wrong notions concern- ing his fall, 4, 5, &c.
what he fell from, Allegations between contending parties, to be esteemed false until proved,
Apostles, the wisdom of the Lord in choosing such mean per-
Atheism, want of seriousness in
discoursing of divine things may occasion it,
how falsely "The Rea- sonableness of Christianity" is charged with promoting it, 305 Author of "The Reasonableness of Christianity"falsely charged with making one article ne- cessary in formal words, 194 falsely accused of deny- ing some articles of christian- ity, 197 falsely charged with new modelling the apostles creed, 201
the several articles made necessary by him, 202, &c. falsely charged with say- ing "all things in christianity "must be level to every un- "derstanding," 205, 214, &c.
requires proof of his making all but one article use- less to make a man a christian, 205, &c. denies his contending for but one, that men may under- stand their religion,
CHRIST, the meaning of his answer, (John vi. 70) 56 why he did not expressly reveal his Messiahship to his disciples, 35, &c. -his Messiahship more clearly discovered a little before his sufferings, 57-Yet even then he did not expressly declare it to the jewish rulers, 69
how wisely he answered his captious enemies, 74 why he owned himself to be the Son of God before the high-priest, 77
why he would not expressly own himself a king before Pilate, 77, 78
his innocency attested even by Pilate and Judas, 80, 86 why he spoke obscurely of his destroying Jerusalem, (Matt. xxiv.) 88 →→→→ Judas being gone, he spake more explicitly of his king- dom,
to the last he required of his disciples only to believe him to be the Messiah, 96, &c.
Christ expressly applied the pro- mises of the Messiah to himself after his resurrection, 99, &c. much oftener mentioned his kingly office than any other, 113, &c. how he fulfilled the moral law, 122
what we may think to be the state of those who never heard of him, 132
the necessity of his coming to make God known, 135-To teach men their duty, 138-To instruct in the right forms of divine worship, 147, &c.—To give sufficient encouragement to a good life, 148-And to assure men of divine assistance,
are obliged to believe all that they find our Saviour taught,
404 all things necessary to be believed by them, not ne- cessary to their being such, 405, &c. why they must believe whatever they find revealed by Christ, 408 Christianity, the fundamental ar- ticles of it easy to be under- stood, 175 Commission of our Lord, was to convince men of his being the Messiah, 332 Commission of the apostles, and of the seventy, of the same 335, 336
Covenant, changed, when the
passing by any of them, no argument of despising them, 250, &c.
doctrines necessary and not necessary hard to be dis- tinguished in them, 258,259 Evangelists, numerous citations out of them, ill-termed a te- dious collection, 251, 252
though they wrote for believers, yet relate Christ's doctrine to unbelievers, 253 no good reason to sup- pose them defective in relating fundamentals, 316, 317 contain all doctrines necessary to make a man a christian, 318, &c. some things wrote by them not necessary to make a man a christian, 320, &c. when they made the greatest omissions, yet they recorded all things necessary to christianity, 323, &c. wisely observe the ge- nuine rules of history, 324 fundamental articles unjustly supposed to be omit- ted by them, to charge them with such omissions, to accuse them of unfaithfulness, ibid. Comitted no necessary article for brevity's sake, 326 Exclusion of some truths, the
other truths useful, beside the necessary article of it, 227, 228
but one article of it, not pleaded for, that religion may easily be understood, 206, &c. Faith, a practical one, plainly taught by the author, 284, &c.
an entire one, believes every scripture truth, 349,
how but one article was taught by the apostles, to make men christians, 352, 353
- whether all the articles of it necessary to the being chris- tians, were discovered in our Saviour's time, 355
the author falsely charged with bringing no tidings of an evangelical one, 414 Formal words, when charged, ought to be expressly proved, 194 Fundamental articles (of faith) where to be found, 215, &c.
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