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The Institutes of the Christian Religion
Caligula
Broke out into unbridled and audacious contempt of the Deity 1.3.2
Calling
Of Believers See Effectual Calling
Of God, the, is twofold, universal, and special 3.24.8
Of pastors See Pastors
Cardinals
How they suddenly rose above the rank of presbyters 4.7.30
Catechizing
Ancient custom of, ought to be restored 4.19.13
Cathari
Errors of, refuted 4.1.13
Cato
Saying of 3.24.8
Causes of salvation are four 3.14.17
Celibacy
Do vows of celibacy bind the conscience? 4.13.20
From the Levitical priests 4.12.27
From the commendation of virginity as superior to marriage 4.12.27
Is useful to those only who possess the gift of continency 2.8.42, 2.8.43
Reply to the argument drawn from the necessity of some distinguishing mark between the clergy and the people 4.12.24
The Papists are inexorable in enforcing it on the clergy 4.12.23
Censures
Ecclesiastical See Discipline
Ceremonies of the law
Are abrogated, not in effect, but in use only 2.7.16
Christ was prefigured by the 2.6.1
Chance
Does anything happen by? 1.16.9
Example taken from our Saviours bones 1.16.9
How far it may be admitted to exist in natural events 1.16.8
How things are said to be fortuitous to us, though done by the determined counsel of God 1.16.8
In the heathen sense, it must be altogether rejected 1.16.8
Pronounced by Basil to be a heathen term 1.16.8
What seems to us contingence, is infallibly secured by the decree of God 1.16.9
Charity
Comprehends the most remote stranger, though the ties of relationship must not be neglected 2.8.55
Illustrated in the parable of the Samaritan 2.8.55
Is in every respect superior to faith 3.18.8
Ought to be attended by patience and kindness 3.7.6
Remedies for the vices opposed to 3.7.7
Though it is produced by faith 3.2.40
Which is the second part of the law, is the love of our neighbour 2.8.11
Chastisement
Distinguished from the punishment of the reprobate 3.4.32
Chastisement of the people of God proceeds more from love than anger 3.2.21
Cherubim
Afford no pretext for setting up symbols of Deity 1.11.3
What purposes were served by 1.11.3
Chiliasts
Errors of, refuted 3.25.5
Christ
By his obedience truly purchased and merited grace for us with the Father 2.17.3
From his miracles 1.13.13
From the prayers addressed to him 1.13.13
His Divinity proved 1.13.7
How his two natures constitute one person 2.14.1
Is called God 1.13.8
Is called Jehovah 1.13.9
Is called the Word 1.13.7
Is called the second Adam 1.15.4, 2.12.7
Is consubstantial with the Father 1.13.5
Is not only the Minister but also the Author and Prince of Salvation 2.17.1
Is our perpetual Intercessor with the Father, to the exclusion of all angels and departed saints 3.20.17
Is the Mediator between God and men 1.6.1
Is the fountain and origin of life 4.17.8
Is the matter, or substance, of all the sacraments 4.14.16
Is the object of worship 1.13.24
Is the only Head of the Church 4.1.5
Is the solace ever promised to the elect 2.6.3
Other names of the eternal God applied to him in the Old Testament 1.13.10
Overcame Satan, and triumphed over all his hosts 1.14.19
Reply to certain passages quoted from Irenaeus 1.13.27
Reply to certain passages quoted from Tertullian 1.13.28
That he is called the Son of God is no good objection, since he is also called God 1.13.23
The great efficacy of the death of 2.16.3
The judge of the world, and the blessed God and God manifest in the flesh, ib.; proof taken from his work as Creator, Redeemer, and Searcher of Hearts 1.13.12
The name refers to the three offices of Prophet, Priest, and King 2.15.2
Various methods by which he teaches the Church 4.8.5
Was clothed with the true substance of human nature 2.13.1
Was known to the holy fathers under the Law, but is more clearly revealed to us under the Gospel 2.9.17
Was made known to the fathers as the uncreated Angel and Word of God, ib.; is acknowledged in the New Testament to be the Lord of Hosts 1.13.11
What is meant by the hypostatic union 2.14.5
Why he fasted forty days 4.12.20
Why he is called Jesus 2.16.1, 2.16.19
Why he was not baptised before his thirtieth year 4.16.29
Without faith in him, the knowledge of God the Creator would be useless 2.6.2
Without him, as Mediator; God never made himself propitious to his ancient people 2.6.2
Christians
Do not become so by episcopal confirmation 4.19.9
Duty of those who bear this sacred name 3.6.4
Why they are so called 2.15.5
Church
Answer to the ancient and modern Cathari concerning the forgiveness of sins 4.1.20
By examples taken from the Old Testament 4.1.24
Comparison between the false Church and the true 4.2.1
Confirmation from the example of Christ and of the faithful servants of God 4.1.18
Errors of the Novatians and Anabaptists confuted by the Lord’s Prayer 4.1.23
Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed concerning 4.1.3
How useful and necessary the knowledge of her is 4.1.4
In what respect she is invisible, and in what respect she is visible 4.1.7
Is the mother of all believers 4.1.4
May be recognised by the ministry of the word and administration of the sacraments 4.1.9
Objection that the Church is holy, answered from three of our Saviour’s parables 4.1.13
Picture drawn by Augustine 4.1.16
Proof of this taken from the Prophets, and from the case of the Apostles, and even of Christ himself 4.8.4
Question of uninterrupted succession of bishops from the Apostles 4.2.2
The Holy Catholic, or Universal 4.1.2
The efficacy of her ministry depends on the agency of the Holy Spirit 4.1.6
The immoral lives of certain professors are no reason for abandoning the Church 4.1.13
The only lawful method of teaching in the Church is according to the prescription of the written word 4.8.8
The power of, considered under three heads, Doctrine, Legislation, and Jurisdiction 4.8.1
The twofold error of despising the true, and submitting to a false church 4.1.11
Various modes by which Christ teaches the Church 4.8.5
We must, on no account, forsake a Church distinguished by these marks 4.1.10
Whatever authority is conferred on the office-bearers of the Church is wholly given, not to themselves, but to the ministry to which they are appointed 4.8.2
Why the keys have been given to 4.1.22
Circumcision
How far it agrees with baptism 4.16.3
How far it differs from baptism 4.16.4
Is a sign of mortification 4.16.11
Was never repeated 4.16.16
Clement
Pope, Cruelty of 4.7.24
Clergy
Claim of, to immunity from civil jurisdiction 4.11.15
Impropriety of the name 4.4.9
Or Clerks, who they were 4.4.9, 4.12.1
Collation of benefices
How simonical it became among the Papists 4.5.6
Commandments of God, the See Ten Commandments
Division of the Law into Ten Commandments 2.8.12
In expounding them, the end or object must always be considered 2.8.8
Must not he estimated by the ability of man 2.5.6
Communication of properties
Explained 2.14.1
Communion of saints
Ought never to be broken up 4.13.14
What is meant by 4.1.13
Confession
Auricular, is altogether a tyrannical imposition 3.4.4
Effrontery in venturing to maintain that it is of Divine authority 3.4.7
From John’s Baptism, and the words of the Apostle James 3.4.6
Has been a subject of keen contest between the Canonists and the Scholastic Theologians 3.4.4
Must be directed to God alone 3.4.9
Popish errors concerning 3.4.15
Private, of two kinds 3.4.12
Public, both ordinary and extraordinary 3.4.11
Refutation of arguments in support of it drawn from allegory 3.4.5
Secret, blessed effects of 3.4.10
Confirmation
Augustine’s view of 4.19.12
Derives no countenance from the example of the apostles 4.19.6
Is falsely called a Sacrament 4.19.5
Is impiously extolled above baptism 4.19.8
The ancient custom of confimation was praiseworthy, and ought to be restored 4.19.13
The fictitious, taught by the Papists 4.19.5
The oil used in it is blasphemously called the oil of salvation 4.19.7
What it was in the ancient Church 4.19.4
Conformity to Christ
In the afflictions of believers 3.8.1
In their resurrection 3.25.3
Conscience
Bears reference to God alone 3.19.16, 4.10.4
Distinction between the earthly forum and the forum of 4.10.5
Duty of obeying princes for the sake of 2.8.46
This does not imply that the laws of princes have dominion over the 2.8.46
What is meant by 3.19.15, 4.10.3
Consecration
Or ordination, of ministers, the form and order of 4.4.14
Constantine
Inquiry into the foolish story of his donation 4.11.12
The Emperor, greatly enlarged the dignity of the Roman See 4.7.10
Consubstantial with the Father
Christ is said to be 1.13.4
This expression, used by the Council of Nice, does not exist in Scripture, but declares the genuine meaning of scripture 4.8.16
Consubstantiation
Confounds the two natures of Christ 4.17.17
Involves many absurdities 4.17.18
Led to the foolish idea of the ubiquity of the body of Christ 4.17.16
Continence
Defined 4.13.17
Is a special gift from God 2.8.42
Contrition
When it is true or false 3.4.2
Conversion
Is not only begun but completed by divine grace 2.3.6
Is the remedy which divine grace provides for the cure of natural corruption 2.3.5
Is the work of God alone 2.3.6
Reply to the objection, that grace can do nothing without the will 2.3.7
Reply to the objection, that the will does its part in the work of conversion 2.3.7
Cornelius the Centurion
Faith of 3.2.32
Was not accepted by God on the ground of his own merit 1.12.3
Why he was baptised 4.15.18
Corruption of man, the
Answer, that these are not common endowments, but special gifts of God 2.3.4
Does not arise flom vicious custom, but from depravity of nature 2.1.10
Exists in the heart 2.3.2
Extends both to the intellect, and to the will 2.1.9
Objection that there have been some who, under the guidance of nature, were all their lives devoted to virtue 2.3.3
Proceeds from a natural viciousness, but not from nature 2.3.1
The remedy which divine grace provides for the corruption of man is conversion 2.3.6
Councils of the Church
Are believed by Papists to be under the immediate guidance of the Holy Spirit, and therefore to be incapable of erring 4.8.10
By whom they are to be assembled 4.7.8
Everything determined by them is pronounced by the Romanists to be an authoritative interpretation of Scripture 4.9.14
Have authority only so far as they accord with Scripture 4.9.8
In what manner they have often erred 4.9.10
Of Chalcedon 4.7.2
Of Laodicea 4.4.12
Of Milevita 4.7.9
Of Nice 1.11.14
The Elibertine 1.11.6
The most celebrated among them are the Council of Aquileia 4.5.19
The true nature of 4.9.1
Whence their authority is derived 4.9.2
Cratetes
The Theban; excessive austerity of 3.10.1
Creation of the world
Advantages derived from the history of the 1.14.1
And to lead us to trust in God, and pray to him 1.14.22
Answer to the impious question, why it was not created sooner 1.14.1
In the order of it, the goodness of God to the human race was displayed 1.14.2
Is fitted to prevent us from overlooking the glorious perfections of God 1.14.21
Was completed in six days 1.14.2
Cross
Accords with the uniform experience of the saints 3.8.10
But this cheerfulness does not imply a total insensibility to pain 3.8.9
By whom, and on whom, and for what cause, it is imposed 3.8.1
Is a correction for past faults 3.8.6
Is attended by singular consolations when they are persecuted for righteousness’ sake 3.8.7
Is necessary on many accounts 3.8.2
Ought to be willingly and cheerfully received at the hand of God 3.8.8
Produces patience, hope, and firm confidence in God 3.8.3
The duty of Christians to bear the 3.8.1
The wide difference between philosophical and Christian patience 3.8.11
Cross of Christ, the
And yet, though a symbol of ignominy, it was converted into a triumphant chariot 2.16.6
Was accursed 2.16.6
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