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The Institutes of the Christian Religion
David
Under him, as a type, the sole intercession of Christ is asserted 3.20.25
Was a type of Christ 2.7.2
Deaconesses of the ancient Church
What resemblance do they bear to modern nuns? 4.13.19
Deacons
Devoted a fourth part to the repairs of churches 4.4.7
In the Church are of two classes 4.3.9
In the ancient Church, there were Subdeacons and Archdeacons 4.4.5
In what manner they distributed the ecclesiastical goods 4.4.6
Ought not to excite in Christians trembling at the mention of it 3.9.5
The unreasonableness of such fears demonstrated by nine arguments 3.9.5
Vast difference between Popish deacons and those of the ancient Church 4.19.32
What sort of persons they were under the Papacy 4.5.15
Death
Was met by the martyrs boldly and intrepidly 1.8.13
Death of Christ
And paid a price to ransom us from death 2.17.5
By it Christ obtained grace for us 2.17.4
Presumptuous manner in which this subject is handled by the Schoolmen 2.17.6
Salvation is peculiarly and specially ascribed to 2.16.5
The great efficacy of the 2.16.3
Why it was the death of the cross 2.16.6
Debts
Or the duties which we owe to God 2.8.2, 2.8.16
Why our sins are so called 3.20.45
Devils
Are almost infinite in number 1.14.14
Are employed by God in exercising believers, but can never oppress or vanquish them 1.14.8
Are said to blind all who do not believe the gospel 1.14.18
Can do nothing without the will and consent of God 1.14.18
Inquiry into the mode of the fall of angels is idle and unprofitable 1.14.16
Is everywhere called our adversary, and the adversary of God 1.14.15
Reasons why one Devil, or Satan, is often mentioned in the Singular number 1.14.14
The tendency of what Scripture teaches us concerning them 1.14.13
The wickedness of his nature is not from creation, but from depravation 1.14.16
Diagoras
Wicked scoffing of 1.3.3
Difference
Between religion and superstition 1.12.1
Heresy and schism 4.2.5
Necessity and compulsion 2.3.5
Pastors and Teachers 4.3.5
The Law and the Gospel 2.9.2
The Old and New Testaments 2.11.1
The Sacraments of the Old and New Testaments 4.14.23
The faith of the elect and the temporary faith of the reprobate 3.2.12
Dionysius
Shrewd but idle disquisitions of, concerning the Celestial Hierarchy 1.14.4
Disciples
A term syonymous with believers 3.2.6
Discipline
Admonition before witnesses 4.12.2
Excessive austerity of the ancients in 4.12.8
Excommunication has three ends in view 4.12.5
Is highly necessary in the Church 4.12.1
Mere delinquencies must be distinguished from flagrant acts 4.12.4
Moderation to be used, not only by the whole Church, but by each individual member 4.12.9
Must be kept altogether distinct from the power of the sword 4.11.5
Not even princes are exempted from it 4.12.7
Ought to be exercised both on the clergy and on the people 4.12.1
Private admonition 4.12.2
The excessive rigour of the Donatists portrayed by Augustine 4.12.11
Doctrine of Christ
Is one of the three departments of the the power of the Church 4.8.1
Of Moses, the design of 1.8.6
Of faith and of repentance manifestly corrupted by Popery 3.2.1, 3.4.1
Doctrine of Christ, the
Is the soul of the Church 4.12.1
Donatists
Refuted 4.1.13, 4.12.11, 4.15.16
Dulia and Latria
The foolish distinction between 1.12.2
Eating of the flesh of Christ
What is meant by 4.17.7
Ecclesiasticus
Is a writer of doubtful authority 2.5.18
Edification
Beautifully illustrated and exemplified by Augustine 3.23.14
Is the end to which the whole power of the Church has a reference 4.8.1
Ought to be consulted 3.23.14
Effectual Calling
Is founded on the free mercy of God 3.24.2
Is misunderstood by those who attribute too much to the will of man 3.24.3
Manifests election 3.24.1
What it is 3.24.1
Egyptians
Idle talk of the, about their antiquity 1.8.4, 1.14.1
Elect, the
Alone become partakers of divine grace 2.2.20
And truly believe 2.3.8
Cannot perish or fall away from the faith 3.24.6
Difference between their confidence in God and the temporary faith of the reprobate 3.2.11
Distinction between them and the reprobate in punishment 3.4.32
God works both outwardly and inwardly in 2.5.5
Election
Answer to two classes of men concerning 3.21.1, 3.21.3
Explanation of the passages urged against the certainty of 3.24.10
Faith proceeds from 2.3.8
Holiness of life springs from 3.22.3
Is altogether gratuitous 3.22.1
Is an eternal purpose of God 3.21.1
Is manifested by effectual calling 3.24.1
Is wickedly abused by profane men 3.21.4
Must be carefully distinguished from foreknowledge, which is not the cause of it 3.21.5
Usefulness and necessity of the doctrine 3.21.1
Elijah the Tishbite
Why he fasted forty days 4.12.20
Elohim
With what reservation the term is applied to creatures 1.13.9
Enemies
The duty of loving 2.8.57
Epicureans
Were gross despisers of piety 1.5.12
Epicurus
What kind of being he imagined God to be 1.2.2
Epiphanius
Strongly condemned the use of images in a Christian temple 4.9.9
Upbraids Marcian with giving permission to women to baptize 4.15.21
Esau
Of what kind was the repentance of 3.3.25
Was a cruel man 2.10.12
Eutyches the heretic
Evangelists
What was the office of 4.3.5
Excommunication
Its three objects are, 1. That God may not be insulted, ib.; 2.That the good may not be corrupted, ib.; 3. That the sinner may be ashamed, ib.; how it differs from Anathema 4.12.10
What it is 4.12.5
Exemption of the clergy See Immunity
Exorcists
Among Papists are mere pretenders to the name, and are themselves frequently possessed by a wicked spirit 4.19.24
Faith
Absurd distinction of the Schoolmen, as to formed and unformed faith 3.2.8
Contemplates the promises as comprehended in Christ 3.2.32
Doctrine of, manifestly corrupted by Popery 3.2.2
God is the object of (though this saying of Lactantius requires to be received with some modification) 2.6.4
Has no less need of the word than the fruit of a tree has of a living root 3.2.31
Has respect to the divine favour 3.2.28
In some it is implicit as a preparation for faith, but this is widely different from the implicit faith of the Schoolmen 3.2.5
In what sense it is called a work 3.18.10
Is always accompanied by prayer 3.20.2
Is attended by hope as its inseparable companion 3.2.42
Is impaired, and almost annihilated, by the fiction of implicit faith 3.2.2
Is not destroyed or weakened by the fear of the Lord 3.2.27
Is often mingled with error, as in the cases of Sarah, Isaac, and Rebekah 3.2.31
Is revealed to our minds, and sealed on our hearts, by the Holy Spirit 3.2.33
Necessity of the doctrine of 3.2.1
Proceeds from election 3.2.8
Properly has respect to the promises of grace offered in Christ 3.2.7
Rests chiefly on the free promise, though not to the exclusion of the other parts of the word of God 3.2.29
Temporary, how it differs from true faith 3.2.10
The knowledge of consists more of certainty than discernment 3.2.14
This firm persuasion of, the pestilential philosophy of some semi-Papists concerning, refuted 3.2.24
What is the meaning of the term among profane authors 4.14.13
Why it is attributed to the reprobate 3.2.11
Yet is not contented with a dubious or fickle opinion 3.2.15
Fall of the first man
By it his natural gifts were corrupted, and his supernatural gifts were withdrawn 2.2.12
Happened by the providence of God 3.23.7
The causes and steps of the 2.1.4
Fasting
Consists in three things, the time, the quality of food, and the sparing use of it 4.12.18
Has three ends in view 4.12.15
Is a part of ecclesiastical discipline 4.12.14
Occasions on which it ought to be especially used 4.12.17
Reasons why Christ, Elijah, and Moses, fasted 4.12.20
Superstition must be avoided in the use of 4.12.19
Superstitious observances of Lent 4.12.20
Was borrowed from the examples of the Old Testament 4.12.14
Father
And to lay aside all distrust 3.20.36
Christ is consubstantial with the 1.13.4
Instructs us to present our prayers in the name of Christ 3.20.37
Is a designation applied to God 3.20.38
Our, why He is called 3.20.38
Fathers of the Old Testament, the
Had the promises of a better life 2.7.10
How far their view of the gospel was clear, and how far it was obscure 2.9.1
Their sacraments had the same efficacy with ours 4.14.23
Were made partakers of divine grace by the ceremonies 2.7.16
Fear
According to the saying of Statius, first brought gods into the world 1.4.4
Does not destroy or weaken faith 3.2.27
Is often mingled with distrust, through the infirmity of the flesh 3.2.17
Of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, is uniformly attributed to all the saints 3.2.26
Servile, which exists in the reprobate 3.2.27
Superstitious, what it is 1.16.3
Fire
Is put for the examination of the Holy Spirit 3.5.9
Flesh
Applies not only to the sensual, but also to the higher parts of the soul 2.3.1
Communicates spiritual life 4.17.9
Conflict of, with the Spirit 2.2.27, 2.7.5, 3.2.18, 3.3.14
Necessity of guarding against the lusts of the 3.10.3
Of Christ, what is meant by eating of the 4.17.6
Works of the 2.1.8
Foreknowledge of God, the
Must not be confounded with predestination, and is not the cause of it 3.21.5
Forgiveness of sins
Alone brings peace of conscience 3.13.3
Explanation of the article of the Apostles’ Creed concerning the 4.1.20
Fanatical perfection is set aside by the injunction to pray for the 3.20.45
In what sense Christ asserts that this sin cannot be forgiven, either in this world, or in that which is to come 3.5.7
Is a gift of mere liberality 3.4.25
Is bestowed not merely at baptism, but throughout the whole life 3.4.26
Is not extended to the sin against the Holy Spirit 3.3.22
Is not the least important part of justification 3.11.2
Is obtained by none but the citizens or household of the Church 4.1.20
Fornication
Is forbidden by the Seventh Commandment 2.8.43
Marriage is the remedy provided for 2.8.43
Forty days fast See Lent
Four
Causes of salvation 3.14.17
Classes of men, whose claims to righteousness are examined 3.14.1
Duties which we owe to God 3.19.16
Rules of right prayer 3.20.4
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