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The Institutes of the Christian Religion
Abraham
Justified by faith alone 3.11.13
The father of the faithful 2.10.11
Who are the children of 4.16.12
Acatius, Bishop of Amida
Integrity of 4.4.8
Acolytes
Who they were in the ancient Church 4.4.1, 4.4.9
Adam
Fall of 2.1.4
Peculiar nature of the sin which produced it; Provoked God to inflict vengeance on the whole human race; Proceeded not from sensual intermperance, but from infidelity; Other sins springing from it enumerated; Extends to all the creatures, and to all his offspring 2.1.5
Admonitions
Private, are of great use in the Church 4.12.1
Rule laid down by our Saviour concerning 4.12.2
Adoption
Into the family of God is not from nature, but from Heavenly Father, being sealed in the elect by the Spirit of regeneration 2.2.20
Adoration
Due to God by the first commandment 2.8.16
Is inconsistent with the nature and design of the sacrament 4.17.37
Not due to images 1.11.10
Of sacramental symbols condemned by the Council of Nice 4.17.36
To Him alone 1.12.1
Adultery
What is included in, forbidden by the seventh commandment 2.8.41
Afflictions befalling the people of God
Are attended by singular consolations, when they are persecuted for righteousness’ sake 3.8.8
Are intended to train us to despise the present life, and to lead us to aim at heavenly immortality 3.9.1
Are necessary on many accounts 3.8.2
What thoughts they ought to suggest 1.17.8
Wherein lies the difference between philosophical and Christian patience 3.8.11
Ahab
In what respect he obtained pardon from God by his feigned repentance 3.3.25, 3.20.15
Allegories
Ought to be carried no farther than Scripture expressly sanctions 2.5.19
Ambrose~~~Applauded for excommunicating Theodosius 4.12.7
Anabaptists
Concerning paedobaptism 4.16.1
Concerning the office of the civil magistrate 4.20.2
Improperly condemned all swearing 2.8.26
Refutation of their errors concerning the spirituality of the ancient dispensation; concerning the imperfect regeneration of believers 3.3.14
Substituted pretended revelations for Scripture 1.9.1
Anathema
How it differs from excommunication 4.12.10
Is rarely, if ever, to be used 4.12.10
Angels
Are appointed as a kind of presidents over kingdoms, but are especially the guardians of the elect 1.14.7
Are ministering spirits 1.14.8
Are the dispensers of the Divine bounty toward us 1.14.6
Its tendency is to put us on our guard against their wiles, and to lead us to invoke the help of God 1.14.13
Reasons why the doctrine concerning them ought to be expounded 1.14.3
The danger of rendering to them divine honours 1.14.10
The doctrine concerning bad angels 1.14.13
The notion that they are only motions or inspirations, and not actually existing beings, refuted 1.14.19
The purpose for which we ought to employ what is said as to the ministry of an0gels 1.14.12
The ranks and numbers of them ought to be classed among mysterious subjects 1.14.8
Their nature, and offices, and names 1.14.5
Were created by God 1.14.4
Why God employs them as his ministers 1.14.11
Why one Satan or Devil is often mentioned in the singular number 1.14.13
Anthropomorphites
Dreamed of a corporeal God 1.13.1
Antichrist
Is the Roman Pontiff 4.2.12, 4.7.24, 4.7.25
Apostles’ Creed
And ascension into heaven 2.16.14
And burial 2.16.7
And descent to hell 2.16.8
And his return to judge the world, with the consolations derived from that source 2.16.18
And resurrection from the dead 2.16.13
And sitting at the right hand of God the Father 2.16.15
Concerning the Holy Catholic Church 4.1.2
Concerning the communion of saints 4.1.3
Concerning the forgiveness of sins 4.1.20
Explained as to the article concerning Christ’s death 2.16.5
Why so called 2.16.17
Archbishops and Patriarchs
Who they were 4.4.4
Archelaus
Saying of 2.8.44
Ascension
By it his reign truly commenced 2.16.14
Manifold advantages which faith derives from this doctrine 2.16.16
Of Christ into heaven 2.16.14
Astronomy
Usefulness of 1.5.5
Atheism
Auricular Confession See Confession
Balaam
Reluctantly acknowledged the immutability of God 1.17.12
Baptism
Attests the forgiveness of sins 4.15.1
Defined 4.15.1
Does not depend on the worthiness or unworthiness of the minister 4.15.16
Is appointed to elevate, nourish, and confirm our faith 4.15.14
Might not improperly be called the sacrament of repentance 4.19.17
No ground to allege that Paul rebaptised those who had been baptised with the baptism of John 4.15.18
Ought to be dispensed by none but ministers 4.15.20
Refutation of those who maintain that we are exempted by it from original sin 4.15.10
Refutation of those who say that, after baptism, forgiveness is procured by means of penitence and the keys 4.15.4
Reply to the objection drawn from the example of Zipporah 4.15.22
Serves as our confession before men 4.15.13
Shows our mortification in Christ, and new life in him 4.15.5
Teaches us that we are united to Christ 4.15.5
The baptism of John was the same with that of the apostles 4.15.7
Was typified to the Israelites by the passage through the Red Sea, and by the pillar of cloud 4.15.9
Believers
Are taught by God 3.2.6
Are the sons of God 1.14.18
Difference between God’s chastisement of them, and the punishment of the reprobate 3.4.31
Endure many temptations and conflicts in the present life 3.2.17
Manifold advantages which they derive from the ascension of Christ 2.16.18
Never fall away from salvation 3.24.8
Why they are called righteous 3.17.10
Binding and loosing
What is meant by 4.6.3, 4.11.2
Bishops
By whom they are to be chosen 4.3.13
How the form was gradually changed 4.4.15
In calling them, the ancient Church followed the inspired rule 4.4.10
In election, the whole right has been taken from the people 4.5.2
Mode of the appointment 4.3.8
Question as to their uninterrupted succession from the apostles 4.2.3
That special title was given to them in the ancient Church, solely for the sake of preserving order 4.4.2
The name is synonymous with presbyters, pastors, and ministers 4.3.8
Their ordination or consecration 4.4.14
Were employed in the administration of word and sacrament 4.4.3
What sort of persons should be elected to the office 4.3.12
Blasphemy
Against the Holy Spirit cannot be forgiven 1.13.15
Inquiry into the nature of that sin 3.3.22
Body of Christ
In what respect it is present, and is eaten in the Lord’s Supper 4.17.4, 4.17.5
Is finite even since his ascension to heaven 4.17.26
Why it is called a temple 2.14.4
Boniface, Pope
Ambition of 4.7.17
Bread
In what sense it is said to be the body of Christ 4.17.20
Ought leavened or unleavened bread to be used in the Lord’s Supper? 4.17.43
Sometimes denotes all that is necessary for the support of the body 3.20.44
Whence it derives its power to nourish us 1.16.7
Burial of Christ
Blessed effects of 2.16.7
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