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The Institutes of the Christian Religion
Magistrates
Are sometimes called gods 4.20.4
Effect which this ought to produce on 4.20.6
Is not inconsistent with the liberty which Christ hath conferred on his people 4.20.29
May be lawfully restrained by those who are appointed to curb their power; the power of, extends toboth tables of the Law 4.20.8
Must not interfere with what we owe to God 4.20.32
Ought to be honoured as the ministers of God 4.20.9, 4.20.22
Ought to be obeyed, even when their requirements are tyrannical 4.20.27
The Divine appointment of 4.20.4
The piety of, does not prevent the punishment of the guilty, or the shedding of blood 4.20.10
Magnanimity, Christian
Does not imply a total insensibility to pain 3.8.9
Mahometans
While they denounce idolatry, substitute an idol in the place of God 2.6.4
Man
Objection as to the fall of man, when free, refuted 1.15.8
Possessed free-will before the fall, but lost it by the fall 1.15.8
The creation of 1.15.1
The soul of, is proved by various arguments to be immortal 1.15.2
What we are taught by his body having been formed of the dust of the ground 1.15.1
Manichees
Erroneous notions of, respecting two principles 1.13.1
Manna
Was not merely intended to relieve the bodily hunger of the Israelites, but chiefly to strengthen their faith 2.10.6
Which rained from heaven, confirmed the doctrine of Moses 1.8.5
Marriage
Is necessary for those who have not the gift of continence 2.8.42
Is not a sacrament 4.19.34
Is of divine institution 2.8.41
Is the remedy provided against fornication 2.8.43
Ought not to be forbidden to any, even to the ministers of the word 4.12.23
Martyrs
The blood of the, confirms our faith in the authority of Scripture 1.8.13
Mary
The mother of Jesus, was of the same lineage as Joseph 2.13.3
Mass
Abolishes the Lord’s Supper, 4.18.7; was unknown to the purer Church 4.18.9
Obliterates the true and only death of Christ 4.18.5
Offers intolerable blasphemy and insult to Christ by substituting human priests in his room 4.18.2
Origin of the name uncertain 4.18.8
Robs us of the benefit which redounded to us from the death of Christ 4.18.6
Sanctions and buries the cross and passion of Christ by setting up an altar 4.18.3
The Popish, what it is 4.18.1
Mediator
Errors of the Nestorians and Eutychians concerning 2.14.4
From the communication of properties 2.14.2
From the elevation of the family of David to the regal dignity 2.6.2
From the nature of the work to be performed 2.12.2
From those passages which comprehend both natures in one 2.14.3
How his two natures constitute the one person of 2.14.1
Illustrated by the similarity of the union of body and soul 2.14.1
Is not only the Mediator of redemption, but likewise the Mediator of intercession 3.20.21
It was necessary that he should be very God and very man, because no mere man or angel could be the medium of restoring peace 2.12.1
Proof from passages of Scripture which distinguish between the two natures 2.14.2
Proof of this drawn from sacrifices, and from the covenant made with Abraham 2.6.2
That in our flesh he might satisfy the justice of God 2.12.3
What is meant by the hypostatic union 2.14.5
Without a, God never showed himself propitious to his ancient people 2.6.2
Without a, no knowledge of God is effectual to salvation 2.6.1
Meditation
On the works of God 1.5.6, 1.14.20, 1.17
Mercy of God, the
Effectual calling is founded on 3.24.1
Is spread over all his works 1.5.7
Is uniformly conjoined with his truth 1.16.5
Merit
Human, explanation of the passages which have been abused for supporting the doctrine of 3.15.4
Is properly ascribed to Christ and his sufferings 2.17.1, 2.17.5
Is used, in a sound sense, by Chrysostom and Bernard 3.15.2
The term is improperly applied to human works 3.15.2
To inquire whether he merited anything for himself is foolish curiosity 2.17.6
Michael
Is described by Jude, as an archangel 1.14.8
Ministers
Bishops, presbyters, and pastors, are words indiscriminately used 4.3.8
How they are to be called and ordained, 4.3.10; who are to be appointed 4.3.12
Mode of appointment of, 4.3.14; and by whom the appointment is to be made 4.3.13
Ministry of the word, the
Honourable titles bestowed on 4.3.3
How the word should be preached 4.3.6
Necessity and usefulness of; 4.1.5; efficacy of, depends on the agency of the Holy Spirit 4.1.6
What offices were temporary, and what were permanent 4.3.4
Why God employs men, and not angels, in 4.3.1
Miracles, of Christ, the
Of Moses, are so many sanctions of the law delivered by him 1.8.5
Were performed by his own inherent might 1.13.13
Monks
Ancient, contrast between and the modern 4.13.8
Arguments for monastic perfection, refuted 4.13.11
Corrupt manners of 4.13.15
General refutation of monastic vows 4.13.17
Modern, degeneracy and indolence of 4.13.10
Portrayed by Augustine 4.13.9
Were unknown to the primitive Church 4.5.8
Monothelites
Refuted 2.16.12
Montanus
Heresy of 4.12.23
Mortal sin
As absurdly distinguished from venial, by the Schoolmen 3.4.28
Mortification
Is a part of repentance 3.3.8
Of the flesh is procured for us by the death of Christ 2.16.7
Moses
Antiquity of the writings of 1.8.3
Contrasted with the dreams of the Egyptians 1.8.4
Did not introduce a new Deity 1.8.3
Miracles of, vindicated against babblers 1.8.5
Sincerity of, proved by stigmatizing the crimes of his relatives 1.8.4
The design of the doctrine of 1.8.7
Wrote his history in familiar and popular language 1.14.3
Murder
Duties contrary to, enjoined 2.8.40
Forbidden by the Sixth Commandment 2.8.39
Hatred of a brother is 2.8.39
Mystery
Spiritual, cannot be comprehended by the natural man 2.2.20
The interpretation put upon the word by the ancient interpreter 4.14.2
Naaman the Syrian
The piety of, must have been the result of faith 3.2.32
Name of God, the
How it ought to be hallowed, 3.20.41; of Christ, is sometimes given to the Church 4.17.22
Ought to be employed with the deepest reverence 2.8.22
Nebuchadnezzar
Why he is called the servant of God 1.18.1
Necessity
Absolute, distinguished from necessity secundum quid 1.16.9
Belongs to sin, but does not make it cease to be sin 2.5.1
Differs from compulsion 2.3.5
Fatal of the Stoics differs widely from Divine Providence 1.16.8
Nehemiah
The holy but not superstitious fast of 4.12.16
Nestorius, the heretic
Refuted 2.14.4
Nicene Council, the second
Decreed that images should be used in churches in worship 1.11.14
Was the first that assigned the primacy to the Bishop of Rome 4.7.1
Novatians
Refuted 3.3.21
Resembled by the delirious dreams of the Anabaptists 4.1.23
Nuns
Modern, what resemblance the Deaconesses of the ancient Church bear to 4.13.19
Obedience
Is due to magistrates, even when their requirements are tyrannical 4.20.29
Is due to parents 2.8.35
Is highly acceptable to God 2.8.5
Of the Mediator must be opposed to the disobedience of Adam, in order to our reconciliation with God 2.12.1
Removed the enmity between God and us 2.16.5
Object of faith
God is the; but he must be beheld through Christ 2.6.4, 3.2.1
Operating and co-operating grace
How far the distinction may be admitted 2.3.12
Lombard’s distinction between 2.2.6
Orders, ecclesiastical
Absurd imitation of our Saviour breathing on the Apostles 4.19.29
Absurdity and Judaizing nature of the clerical tonsure 4.19.25
Are an insult to Christ, by attempting to make him their colleague 4.19.23
Are in most cases empty names without any office 4.19.24
Divided by some into Seven, and by others into Nine Orders 4.19.22
Have no right to be distinguished by the title of Sacrament 4.19.27
In anointing they are rivals of the Levites, and became apostates from Christ 4.19.30
Offer insult to Christ by regarding men as priests 4.19.28
Reckoned by the Papists one of the Sacraments 4.19.22
The three higher classes are called by them Holy Orders 4.19.28
Ordination of ministers
The form and mode of 4.3.16
Original sin
And is confirmed by other passages of Scripture 2.1.6
Described 2.1.4
Errors of Pelagians and others concerning 2.1.5
Is not propagated by imitation 2.1.6
Is the common lot of the human race 2.1.5
Question whether the soul of the child comes by transmission from the soul of the parent 2.1.7
The term used by early Christian writers 2.1.5
This is plain from the contrast between Adam and Christ 2.1.6
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