AARON, his ordination, 91, 92. ABSOLUTION, 141-154; its nature, 142; requisites for, and power of, 142. 144; effect of, 144; 147-149; no differ- ence on the subject between the Eng- lish and American Churches, 149; difference of practice, 149; how re- ceived in the American Church, 151. ABUSE, takes not away the lawful use,
ADVENT, the second, 43. ADVOWSONS, 384.
AERIUS, his heresy, 108, 109. AIDAN, of Lindisfern, 174. 191. ALBAN, St., 171.
ALEXANDRIA, Patriarch of, 129. 133. ANGELS of Churches, 106. 140. ANICETUS, Pope, 185, 186. ANTIOCH, Patriarch of, 129. 133. APOCRYPHAL Books, 69, 70; how read in the English Church, 69, 70; how in the American, 70. APOSTACY, what it is, 23. APOSTLES, meaning of the term, 92, 93; their offices, ordinary and extraordi- nary, 110, 111; (see Bishops, Episco- pacy, Apostolic Succession;) equality of, 287, 288. 294.
APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION, (see Succession,)
in the Church of England, 216-234; in the American Church, 335. APPEALS to Rome, 179-181, restrained, 197, 198.
ARMENIAN testimonies to Episcopacy,
ARTICLES, Thirty-nine, their character, 207-212.
ARTICULI CLERI, 198.
ASBURY, pretended Bishop, 354. AUGUSTINE, St., of Canterbury, 170-190. AUTHORITY, its proper place and founda- tion, 393.
BAPTISM, Sacrament of admission into the Church, 8, 9. 20. 86, 87; its ef- fects, 8; Baptismal regeneration, 21, 22; Sacrament of regeneration and remission of original sin, 145, 146; of infants, 146; against iteration of, 240, 241; conditional form of admi- nistering, 240; schismatical, 240. BENEDICTION, Episcopal and Sacerdotal, 154-166; what it is, 158; of things, 162.
BERTHA, Queen, 181. BISHOPS, (see Episcopacy,) meaning of the term, 96; necessary and repre- sentatives of the Apostles, 314. 98 -110. 252-254; functions of, 29. 110-124. 247; interpreters of the Scriptures, 29; the highest order of ministers, 95; derivation and mean- ing of the word, 96; successors and representatives of the Apostles, 98- 110. 252-254; why not called Apos- tles, 99; how far presbyter and episco- pus are commutable, 100, 101, 102, 103; existed at the close of the Aposto- lic age, 104; had Apostolic power, 105; their succession authorized by our Blessed Lord, 106; universal for 1500 years, 107, 108, 109; only succeed to the ordinary functions of the Apos- tles, 110; what functions are ordi- nary and what extraordinary, 110, 111; are the only ministers of ordi- nation, 111-113. 250-252; neces- sity not anciently held to authorize an exception to that rule, 113; neces- sity cannot exist where there are Bishops, 114; chief pastors, 128; as Diocesans, Metropolitans, and Patri- archs, 125-134; not more than one in a city, 128; benediction by, 161; centres of unity in their respective dioceses, 165; their functions, 247;
their pastoral character, 248, 249; the only ministers of ordination, 250 -252; ministers of confirmation and of the consecration of Churches, 252; their equality, 254; not to intrude into each other's dioceses, 261-263; their relation to their dioceses and to their presbyters, 263-266; their mission within their dioceses, 267- 271; election of, 273; confirmation of, 274; whence they derive their special mission, 274; in what cases they may act beyond the limits of their dioceses, 276-281; the ground of that authority, 276-281; power of ordination inherent in their office, 281; how the first Bishops of new dioceses are consecrated, 282; their authority divided into three parts, 285; their equality, 287, 288. 297, 298; necessary to the perfection of a Church, 314; and to its being, 314; indispensable to the government of a Church, 321; and to the revi- sion of a Liturgy, 332; consecration of, by three Bishops, 338-340; con- secration by one Bishop, 338-340; the grace of the Episcopate may be received by one who is not a priest, 348.
BISHOPS OF ENGLAND, (see Church of England,) number of, at the Saxon invasion, greater than at this day, 173; see also 188; (see jurisdiction;) division of their authority, 311; their correspondence on the subject of the American Episcopate, 331; their or- ders in the reign of Henry VIII., un- disputed, 336; mode of selecting them, 384. 387; abuses, 387; com- pelled by the State to consecrate others, 387.
BISHOPS OF IRELAND, their history, 340 -342.
BISHOPS, AMERICAN, consécration of Bishop Seabury, 324; of Bishops White and Provost, 332; of Bishop Madison, 336; of Bishop Claggett, 336; organized as a House, 324; their Orders, Mission, and Jurisdic- tion, 335-366; trace their Ecclesi- astical descent from the Apostles, through both the English and Scot- tish lines, 336; orders thus traced, indisputable, 336; orders of the Eng-
lish Bishops in Henry VIII., the time undisputed, 336; Archbishop Parker's consecration, 336; his Ec- elesiastical descent, 337; their Eccle- siastical pedigree, 336-344; its vali- dity not affected by the Romish objec- tions to the Ordinal, 345-351; their mission, 351-353; in the new terri- tories of the United States, 361- 366; how elected, 368.
BISHOPS of the Church of Rome, their oath to the Pope; (see Oath ;) are feudal vassals of the papacy, and peers of the Pope's creation, 300; in America, 353; consecration of, by one Bishop, 338-340; in America, 353. BONIFACE, III., Pope, 191. 232; VIII., 232.
BRITISH CHURCH, 170-181. BULLS PAPAL, Unam Sanctam, 230; and in Coena Domini, 235, 236. BULLS of Excommunication, 233. 236.
CAERLEON, Bishop of, 172, 173. 184. CALVINISTIC testimonies in favour of Episcopacy, 123, 124.
CANON LAW, (see Councils, Decretals,) statement of, with respect to the pa- pal power, 229-332.
CANON of 1571, concerning preachers, 214.
CANONS of 1603, their regard for anti- quity, 208; their rules for preachers, 213, 214.
CANON of Scripture, 62, 63, 64. CANONICAL Books, 62, 63, 64. CANTERBURY, the Patriarchal See of England, 190.
CARROLL, Romish Bishop, 353. CATALOGUES of Church governors, 108. CATECHISING, 74.
CATHEDRAL CHURCH, the Parish Church of the whole Diocese, 165. CATHOLIC, 5, 6.
CATHOLIC COMMUNION, what, 241-243. CATHOLICS, who, 6. CEREMONIES, (see Rites,) English Prayer Book upon, 392.
CHARITY, Truth the greatest, 122. CHRIST, (see JESUS CHRIST.) CHURCH, etymology and meaning of the word, 1. 174; names for, 1, 2; more than an assembly, 2, 3. 315; a visible society, 3; of whom com- posed, 3; designations of the Church,
3; unity of the Church, 3, 4. 36; holiness, 4, 5. 9; Catholicity, 5, 6; Apostolicity, 7, 8; mode of admission into, 8; its mixed condition, 11; types of, 9, 10, 11; parables concern- ing, 9, 10, 11; visible and militant, 9. 12. 20-26; why so called, 13; in- visible, 15; visible and invisible, not two Churches, 15; what promises be- long to the invisible Church, 17; what to the visible, 17; duties belong to the visible Church, 17; duty of Christians to belong to the visible Church, 20. 33; mode of admission, 20, 21, 22; separation from visible Church, 22, 23; separation from visi- ble Church not final, 24; separation from the invisible Church, 26; visible Church has no visible head, 26. 28. 83; government of the Church, 27, 28; Church founded by Jesus Christ, 29; her dignity and glory, 29, et seq.; her glorious titles, 30; represented by marriage; true religion the charac- teristic of the Church, 31; salvation only in the Church, 33, 34. 38, 39; only one Church, 36, 37; prefigured by Eve, 37; Church before the Incar- nation, 40; Catholic Church cannot fail, 42; but a particular Church, even a patriarchal Church, may, 48; invisible Church cannot err, 43; visi- ble Church waxes and wanes, 43, 44; particular Churches may err, 44; so may councils, 44; Church at large, what it is, 48; how it ratifies the acts of Councils, 48; keeper and witness of Holy Writ, 62; interpreter of Holy Scripture, 72. 85; errors in the Church, 43, 44. 85; definition of the Church, 31-33; her constitution, 2. 4. 8. 27, 28; one or united, 3; how her unity is maintained, 3; (see Unity;) notes of the Church, 13, 14; invisible, 15; not two Churches, 15; Church the Body and Spouse of Christ, 30. 35, 36; on errors in the Church, 42-60. 85; Catholic Church cannot fail, 42; discipline, (see Keys,) a note of the Church, 135; the depository of grace and the house of discipline, 147; has a right to regulate ceremonies, 153; likened to a sea, 169. 316; commu- nion and unity, 162. 239-243. 303- 306; rational what, 314; imperfec-
tion of, 314; how it can exist in an imperfect state, 315; cannot consist of laymen only, 316; difference be- tween a Church and an assembly, 315, 316; relations of Church and State, 369-379; same in England, 379-388; its object, 372; not the same society with the State, 370; why, 370-373; cannot enter into alliance with the State, 373; why, 373-376; concurrent jurisdiction with the State, 377.
CHURCH, AMERICAN, her doctrine of absolution, 149; her practice, 149 -153; has a right to regulate her own practice, 154; her origin and early history, 307-318; her origin, 307; why not the most numerous denomination in the United States, 307-309; how introduced into New England, 309; formerly established in Maryland and Virginia, 310; how supplied with Clergy before the Ame- rican Revolution, 310; how governed, 311; former authority of the Bishops of London, 311; the basis of that authority, 313; its termination, 313; effects of the American Revolution on the Ecclesiastical position of the Church, 313; condition of the little national Churches, to which that event gave rise, 314; their want of organization, 316; bound by the Ecclesiastical Law of the English Church, 316-318; history of her or- ganization, 318-335; two principles in her government, Divine and hu- man, 320; effect of the Divine prin- ciple on her organization, 321; her condition before the formation of the present government; 321; her inter- nal bonds of union at that time, 322; mode in which the diocesan organi- zation was developed, 322; her go- vernment depeloped from what re- mained of the old government, 323; organization of diocesan Conventions, 322. 325; principles of that organi- zation, 325; necessity for a General Convention, 326; its development, 327-335; fully organized in 1789; 334;
but not upon proper princi- ples, until 1808, 334; her internal constitution, 367-369; founded on two great principles, 367; inde
pendent of the State, 379; her re- lations with the State, 369, 370; her relations with the State particularly, 377-379.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND, her Catholicity, 169, 170; her origin, 170-173; had Bishops before Augustine, 171, 172, 173; independent of Rome before Augustine, 173-181; older than that of Rome, 173; did not receive Chris- tianity from Rome, 174; mission of Augustine, 181-190; her Bishops in unbroken succession from the time of the Apostles, 170, et seq. ; indepen- dent of Rome, 170-199; a true branch of the Catholic Church, 169, et seq.; 237-243; her Reformation restora- tive, 199-215; not a new Church, 200; under popery was a Church, though an erring one, 203; her pri- mitive character, 200-203; her con- tinuity, 204; her regard for anti- quity, 200-215; her scriptural cha- racter, 208. 211. 213. 225; her respect for authority, 213; not bound to reject every thing which she has in com- mon with Rome, 214; how far she admits private judgment, 213; her visibility from the Apostolic ages, 201-204. 225-237; the Apostolic succession of her Bishops, 216-224; why she recognises Roman Catholic orders, 222. 238; her conduct towards the reformed communions, 222; her priesthood and sacrifice, 223, 224; her ordination, 216-224. 335; did not separate herself from the Church of Rome, 225-237. 355; her Catholicity acknowledged by Romanists them- selves, 227; did not separate from the Catholic Church, 237; admits the Baptism and the Holy Orders of the Church of Rome, 338; communicates in faith and prayers with the whole world, 241; communicates with the Catholic Church from the beginning, 242: not heretical nor schismatical, 354, 355; her relations with the State, 379-388; history of her subjection to the State, 381; royal supremacy, 381-387; her doctrine, respect to it, 382, 383; how her Clergy are support- ed, 383, 384; church rates, 384; has been deprived of much of her proper- ty, 385; royal supremacy has passed
into the hands of Parliament, 386; how it is exercised, 386, 387; what the Church gets by the royal supre- macy, 387; why she does not throw it off, 388.
CHURCH OF ROME, (see Rome.) CHURCHES, who is their real owner, 220; their consecration, 221. CHURCHES, suberbicarian, (see Suburbi- carian.)
CHURCH RATES, 384. CLAGGETT, Bishop, his consecration, 336.
CLERGY, their authority in matters of doctrine, 75-78; origin of the name, 88; necessity of, 89-93. 314-316; in what sense all Christians are priests, 89, 90; no man may invade their office, 91; lawful call, 91; the necessity of ordination and mission, 91-93; who may send them, 93; must have authority from Christ, 93, 94; by way of ordination, 94; grace received by them at ordination, 94. 216; three orders, 95-98. 216. 246; these have existed from the time of the Apostles, 97; how far Presbyter and Episcopus are convertible terms, 100, 101; Bishops, the only ministers of ordination, 111-113; in England, 172; number of nonconforming, in 1559, 222; (see Priest, Ministry, Or- ders;) how they are to be transferred from one diocese to another, 267; ne- cessary to the being of a Church, 314-316; how maintained in Eng- land, 383-384.
CLERGY, AMERICAN, whence supplied before the Revolution, 310; how maintained, 310; how appointed, 311; how governed, 311; their li- cences, 311; how transferred from one diocese to another, 267; their orders, mission, and jurisdiction, 336. COLUTHUS, case of, 112. COKE, pretended Bishop, 353, 354. COMMON PRAYER, 162, 163; set forms of, 167, 168; Books of, (see Index II,) Paul IV. and Pius IV. offered to con- firm, 227; adoption of the American, 335; ratification of, 391. COMMUNION of Churches, (see Unity.) COMMUNION, HOLY, remission of sins in the, 148. 151-154.
COMPTON, Bishop, his Ecclesiastical
pedigree, 341; the channel of succes- sion to the English, Scottish, and American Bishops, 342. CONFIRMATION, 161; benediction in, 161. CONSCIENCE, 397, 398.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Patriarch of, 133. CONSTITUTION OF CLARENDON, 198. CONVENTIONS, diocesan, 323; their or- ganization, 322-325; principles on which organized, 325; their constitu- tion, 368.
CONVENTION, GENERAL, reasons of the necessity for one, 326; history of its development, 327-335; principles upon which the first met, 328; its meeting and composition, 329; its business, 329; what it did in the matter of the Episcopate, 329; of the Prayer Book, 330; of a constitution, 330; convention of, 1786, 331; its second meeting at Wilmington, 331; the doings of that meeting, 331; of 1789, 333; forms a constitution, 334; organizes a House of Bishops, 334; becomes the first constitutional Gen- eral Convention, 334, 335; its action in that capacity, 335; its constitution, 367-369; its powers, 369. CONVOCATION, 386, 387. COUNCILS, use of, 28. 44, 45. 85; may err, 44; what they are, 46, 47; Ecu- menical council, what, 47; provin- cial councils, 47; convocation, 47; General Convention, 47; General Councils, how many, 48, 49, 50; what is meant by a council's being gen- erally received, 50; names of the General Councils, 50, 51; pretended General Councils, 52, 53; acts of the Council of Nice, 53; of the Council of Ephesus, 54; of the first Council of Constantinople, 54; of the Council of Chalcedon, 55; authority of Coun- cils, 44, 45. 84, 85; reverence of Gregory the Great for the first four, 182; (see Index II.) COUNCIL of Arles, 172. 178.
cil, its illegality, 208-211; its creed, 208-212; its anathemas, 234. COUNCIL, Pseudo, General, 51-53. of Trullo, 183.
COVENANT, Solemn league, and abjura- tion of, 195.
CYPRUS, case of the Church in, 182- 184.
DAVID's, St., Bishops of, 175, 176. DEACONS, third order of the ministry, 95; their name and office, 95; deriva- tion and meaning of the word, 96; their functions, 246; may not officiate beyond their proper dioceses, 266. DECRETALS of Dionysius Exiguus, Isi- dorus, and Gratian, 228; of others, 229.
DINOTH, Abbot of Bangor, 175. DIOCESE, meaning of the word, 127; how boundaries of, determined, 276; how formed, 282-284. DIOCESAN EPISCOPACY, 125-134. 258. DISCIPLINE of the Church, 13, 22, 23. 135-141; a note of the Church, 135; its institution and aims, and obliga- tion, 135-152. DISSENTERS, 57-61. DISTRIBUTION of Ecclesiastical power, 125.
DONATISTS, 222. 238. 241. 243. 362. 366.
EASTER, time of keeping, 174. 186. ECCLESIA, its meaning, 2; of Athens, 2. permixta (see Church.)
IN EPISCOPO, the maxim illus- trated, 171, (see Succession.) ECCLESIASTICAL BOOKS of Scripture, 69, 70.
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW of England bind- ing on the American Church, 317. ELIZABETH, Queen, excommunicated by the Pope, 227. 235; refused the title of head of the Church, 382; her in- junctions, 382.
EMPIRE, ROMAN, its divisions, how pre- paratory to the polity of the Church, 126-133. EPISCOPACY, (see Bishops,) Divine in- stitution of, 98-110; all heretics and schismatics anciently agreed about it, 108; evidence of its divine ap- pointment and universality, 115- 121; Lutheran, Arminian, and Cal-
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