Abridgment of Faith, what it is,
Acts of the Apostles, book so called, the author did not charge his readers against stirring beyond it, 248 how wisely as well as faith- fully written by St. Luke, 328, 329 Actual assent to fundamental arti- cles, how necessary, 223, 224 Adam, wrong notions concerning bis fall, 4, 5, &c. what he fell from, ibid. Allegations between contending parties, to be esteemed false un- til proved, 192 Apostles, the wisdom of the Lord in choosing such mean persons,83 their minds illuminated by the Holy Spirit, 92, &c. Article of faith, how the author pleaded for one only, 174, 196 Articles of Christianity, and such as are necessary to make a man a Christian, different, 352
of religion, have been several hundreds of years explaining, and not yet understood, 177 Atheism, want of seriousness in
discoursing of divine things may occasion it, 304.
how falsely The Rea- sonableness of Christianity is charged with promoting it, 305 Author of The Reasonableness of Christianity falsely charged with making one article neces- sary in formal words, 194
falsely accused of denying some articles of Christianity,
Author falsely charged with new modelling the Apostles' Creed,
the several articles made necessary by him, 202, &c. falsely charged with saying "all things in Christianity must be level to every understand- ing." 205, 214, &c. requires proof of his mak- ing all but one article useless to make a man a Christian, 205, &c. denies his contending for but one, that men may under- stand their religion, 205, 214
not guilty of folly in re- quiring from his opponent a complete list of fundamentals, 215-222
his opponent compared to a judge unwilling to hear both sides,
believed by them, not necessary to their being such, 405, &c. Christians, why they must believe whatever they find revealed by Christ, 408 Christianity, the fundamental ar-
ticles of it easy to be under- stood, Commission of our Lord, was to
convince men of his being the Messiah, 332 Commission of the apostles, and of the seventy, of the same tenour, 335, 336 Covenant, changed, when the con- ditions of it are changed, 344 Creed, of the apostles, not new- modelled by the author, 201
contains all things necessary to be believed to make a man a Christian, 277
the compilers of it may be charged with Socinianism by the same rule the author is, 272, 273
391 charged with insisting on what concerns not the subject, 409
blamed for readiness to find unknown faults in his opposers,
418 Epistles, of the apostles, why writ- ten, and how to be understood, 152
not designed to teach funda- mental articles of faith, ibid. wisely explain the essentials of Christianity, 154
the author's notion of them
vindicated, 170, &c. no contempt cast on them by 249
taught by the apostles, to make men Christians, 352, 353 whether all the articles of it, necessary to the being Christians, were discovered in our Saviour's time, 355
the author falsely charged with bringing no tidings of an evangelical one,
414 Formal words, when charged, ought
to be expressly proved, 194 Fundamental articles (of faith) where to be found, 215, &c. whence unreasonable contentions arise about them, 230, 231 how the same things
may be so to one and not to an- other,
I am, (John xiii. 19) its meaning "I am the Messiah" 89 Jerusalem, why Christ preached but. little there,
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