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The Institutes of the Christian Religion
Temporary faith
How true faith differs from 3.2.10
Tempt God
Inquiry whether vows of celibacy be said to 2.8.43, 4.13.3
Temptation
The various forms of 3.20.46
What it is to be led into 3.20.46
Ten Commandments
A promise of mercy annexed to 2.8.21
And by a commemoration of his kindness 2.8.15
And by scurrilous wit 2.8.48
Christ abolished the ceremonial part of this commandment 2.8.31
Distinction between this commandment and the Ninth 2.8.22
Division of the moral law into 2.8.12
Forbids superstition, polytheism, and atheism 2.8.16
Has been improperly split into two commandments 2.8.50
How far obedience to parents is enjoined by 2.8.38
Is violated by evil speaking 2.8.48
Meaning of the words, before me, in 2.8.16
Reasons why Christ and his apostles sometimes omit the first table in their summary of 2.8.52
The Eighth forbids four kinds of theft 2.8.45
The Fifth, to whom the term Father applies in 2.8.35
The First enjoins adoration, trust, invocation, and thanksgiving 2.8.16
The Fourth had three objects, the first of which was, to furnish the people of Israel with a type of the spiritual rest 2.8.28
The Ninth enjoins us to cultivate unfeigned truth towards each other 2.8.47
The Second forbids, 1. the representation of God, under any visible shape; and, 2. the worship of images on any religious ground 2.8.17
The Seventh forbids everything repugnant to chastity 2.8.41
The Sixth is founded on a twofold equity 2.8.40
The Tenth forbids covetousness which must be distinguished from design 2.8.49
The Third explained as to its purport 2.8.22
The observance of, is unjustly complained of as Judaism 2.8.33
The preface to, vindicates the authority of the law by asserting God’s right to command and to be obeyed 2.8.13
The promise annexed to 2.8.37
The second and third objects explained 2.8.32
To the first table belong four, and to the second, six 2.8.12
Why God demands such purity 2.8.50
Why Israel is reminded of the deliverance from Egypt in 2.8.15
Why a threatening was added to 2.8.18
Why the number, Seven, was selected for 2.8.30
Testaments
Sacraments of, impious doctrine of the Schoolmen as to the difference between 4.14.23
The Old and New, agree as to the substance of the covenant, but differ as to the mode of administration 2.10.2
The points of agreement are Three
1. Both extend their promises beyond the present life, and hold out a sure hope of immortality 2.10.3
2. Both were established by the free mercy of God 2.10.4
3. Both were confirmed by the meditation of Christ 2.10.4
Yet the Old and New differ in Five points, all of which relate to the mode of adminstration, rather than to the substance 2.10.2
1. In the Old Testament, the heavenly inheritance is exhibited under temporal blessings, but in the New, aids of this description are not employed 2.10.2
1. In the Old Testament, the heavenly inheritance is exhibited under temporal blessings, but in the New, aids of this description are not employed - proof of which is drawn from the similitude of an heir in pupillarity 2.10.2
2. The Old exhibited only the image of the truth, but the New exhibits both the full truth and the entire body 2.10.4
3. The Old is literal, but the New is spiritual 2.10.7
4. In Scripture the term bondage is applied to the Old Testament, and the term freedom to the New 2.10.9
5. The Old extended to one nation only, but the New extends to all nations 2.10.11
Thanksgiving to God
Is enjoined by the First Cornmandment 2.8.16
Ought to be rendered at all times 3.20.28
Theft
Forbidden 2.8.45
Four kinds of, enumerated 2.8.45
Other peculiar kinds of 2.8.46
Theology
Of the Pope, and Cardinals, and the whole court of Rome, what is 4.7.29
What are the chief parts of 1.1.1
Tonsure
Clerical, absurdity of the 4.19.25
Judaizing nature of 4.19.26
Origin of, given by Augustine 4.19.27
Why Paul shaved his head 4.19.26
Torments of the wicked in hell, the
Are inconceiveably dreadful and everlasting 3.25.12
Traditions
Are believed by the people to be derived from the Apostles 4.10.17
Are impiously substituted for the worship of God 4.10.9
Are partly Jewish or Gentile observances 4.10.18
By rejecting, we do not hold the Church in derision 4.10.18
Derive no countenance from the cases of Samuel and Manoah 4.10.25
Human, include all decrees concerning the worship of God which man has issued without the authority of his word 4.10.1
Make void the word of God 4.10.10
Many of, are not only difficult but impossible to be observed 4.10.2
Mislead the superstitious 4.10.15
Must be weighed in the balance of the word of God 4.10.7
Oppress and torment miserable consciences 4.10.14
Or from the saying of Christ, that intolerable burdens ought to be borne 4.10.26
Question as to the obligation of 4.10.5
The intolerable number of, is condemned by Augustine 4.10.13
Transubstantiation
Derives no countenance from the change of the rod of Moses into a serpent 4.17.15
Is a fiction of the Schoolmen 4.17.13
Is contrary to Scripture, and to the consent of antiquity 4.17.14
Led to the introduction of many superstitious observances 4.17.13
Was favoured by the consecration 4.17.15
Tribute
Ought to be paid to princes and rulers 4.20.13
Ought to be regarded by them as mere subsidies of the public necessity 4.20.13
Trinity, the Holy
Arian, Sabellian, and other heresies contrary to 1.13.22
Brief statement of the doctrine of Scripture concerning 1.13.20
Distinction between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in 1.13.17
Error of Sabellius concerning 1.13.4
Is recognised in the form of Christian baptism 1.13.16
Or the subsistence of Three Persons in one God 1.13.2
The distinction of Three Persons in, does not interfere with the most perfect unity of God 1.13.19
The doctrine of, taught by Justin, Hilary, and other ancient writers 1.13.29
Tyranny
Must not be exercised by the Church over the conciences of men 3.4.23
Shamefully manifested by the Pope, and his bishops and clergy 4.7.18, 4.8.10, 4.11.8
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