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
122

law,
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,

408

the

self,

charged with assuming
power of the pope to him-
290

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
tenour,
335, 336

Covenant, changed, when the

his harangue for the
atheistical rabble,

300

of his arguing from one

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.
· omitted no necessary
article for brevity's sake,
326

325

Exclusion of some truths, the

the fundamental articles of
it, well explained, though not
taught in the epistles, 154

the essentials of it, best
learned from the gospels and
acts,
ibid.
the author does not make
only one article of it necessary,
194

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,
352

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

414

the author falsely charged
with bringing no tidings of an
evangelical one,
Formal words, when charged,
ought to be expressly proved,
194
Fundamental articles (of faith)
where to be found, 215, &c.

SATISFACTION of Christ,
why not directly insisted on in
"the Reasonableness of Chris-
tianity,"
163, 164

the omission of it, no
proof of the author's being a
socinian,
270, &c.
it is hard for one who
reads the scripture with atten-
tion to deny it,
418
Scriptures, not absolutely neces-
sary to know and believe all
things contained therein, 156
necessary to believe
all which we know to be taught
in them,
ibid.
in essentials, speaks to
the meanest capacity, 157, &c.
we should learn our
religion out of them, 294
the mischief of making
them chime with our previous
notions,
294-297
all things therein ne-
cessary to be believed, when
understood,
353, 354
Self-conceitedness, worse than
folly,

384