Of the providence of God, 36.
Objections against it answered, ib.
Whether God does immediately
produce all things, 38.

Thought and liberty not proper

to matter, 39.

Whether beasts think, or are only
machines, 40.

How bodies and spirits are united,

ib.

The doctrine of the Trinity, 42.
Whether revealed in the Old Tes-
tament, or not, 43.

The doctrine stated, ib.

Argument from the form of Bap-

tism, 44.

Other arguments for it, 45.

This was received in the first ages
of Christianity, 47.

Some attempt to the stating true

ideas of God, 48.

ART. IV.

The proof of Christ's resurrec-
tion, 73.

The Jews in that time did not

disprove it, 75.

Several proofs of the incredibility

of a forgery in this matter,
ib.

The nature and proof of a mira-

cle, 77.

What must be ascribed to good or
evil spirits, ib.

The apostles could not be im-

posed on, 78.

Nor could they have imposed on

the world, 79.

Of Christ's ascension, 80.

Curiosity in these matters taxed,
ib.

The authority with which Christ

is now vested, 82.

ART. V.

The senses of the word, Holy

Ghost, 84.

It stands oft for a person, ib.

Curiosities to be avoided about

procession, 85.

The Holy Ghost is truly God, 87.

ART. VI.

The controversy about oral tra-

dition, 92.

That was soon corrupted, 93.

Guarded against by revelation,

94.

Tradition corrupted among the
Jews, ib.

The scripture appealed to by

Christ and the apostles, 95.

What is well proved from scrip-

ture, 97.

Objections from the darkness of

scripture answered, ib.
No sure guard against error, nor

against sin, 99.

The proof of the canon of the

scripture, 100.

Particularly of the New Testa-

ment, 101.

These books were early. received,

105.

The canon of the Old Testamen
proved, ib.

Concerning the Pentateuch, 107.

the Article, 72.

tament answered, 108.

Concerning the various readings,
109.

The nature and degrees of in-

spiration, 110.

Concerning the historical parts of

scripture, 111.

Concerning the reasonings in

scripture, 112.

Of the Apocryphal books, 113.

ART. VII.

No difference between the Old

and New Testament, 116.

St. Austin's doctrine in this point,
146.

This is opposed by many others,

148.

Both sides pretend their doctrines

agree with the Article, 150.

ART. X.

The true notion of liberty, 152.

The feebleness of our present

state, 154.

Inward assistances promised in the

new covenant, 155.

the Messias, 117.

In the prophets; chiefly in Da-
niel, 121.

The proofs all summed up, ib.

Objections of the Jews answered,

122.

men, 156.

Concerning
157.

preventing - grace,

Of its being efficacious or univer-

sal, 158.

ART. XI.

Old Testament, 124.

Our Saviour proved the resurrec-

tion from the words to Moses,

125.

Expiation of sin in the old dis-

pensation, 126.

Sins then expiated by the blood of

Christ, 127.

Of the rites and ceremonies among

the Jews, 128.

Of their judiciary laws, 129.

Of the moral law, 130.

The principles of morality, 131.

Of idolatry, ib.

Concerning the Sabbath, 132.

Of the second table, 133.

Of not coveting what is our neigh-

bour's, 134.

ART. VIII.

Concerning the Creed of Athana-
sius, 135.

And the condemning clauses in it,
136.

Of the Apostles' Creed, 137.

ART. IX.

Different opinions concerning ori-

ginal sin, 140.

All men liable to death by it, ib.

A corruption spread through the

whole race of Adam, 141.

Of the state of innocence, 143.

Of the effects of Adam's fall, 144.

God's justice vindicated, 145.

Of the imputation of Adam's sin,

ib.

Concerning faith, 162

The difference between the church

of England and the church of

Rome in this point, 164.

The conditions upon which men

are justified, 168.

The use to be made of this doc-

trine, 169.

ART. XII.

The necessity of holiness, 170.

Concerning merit, 172.

Of the defects of good works,

ib.

ART. XIII.

Actions in themselves good, yet

may be sins in him who does

them, 174.

Of the seventh chapter to the Ro-

mans, 175.

This is not a total incapacity,
176.

ART. XIV.

Of the great extent of our duty,

177.

No counsels of perfection, 178.

Many duties which do not bind

at all times, 179.

It is not possible for man to su-

pererogate, 180.

Objections against this answered

ib.

The steps by which that doctrine

prevailed, 182.

ART. XV.

Christ's spotless holiness, 184.

Of the imperfections of the best

of men, 185.

ART. XVI.

Concerning mortal and venial sin,

187.

Of the sin against the Holy Ghost,
188.

Of the pardon of sin after baptism,

189.

That as God forgives, the church

ought also to forgive, ib.

Concerning apostacy, and sin unto

death, 191.

ART. XVII.

The state of the question, 193.
The doctrine of the supralapsarians
and sublapsarians, 194.

The doctrine of the remonstrants

and the Socinians, 195.

This is a controversy that arises

out of natural religion, ib.

The history of this controversy

both in ancient and modern

times, 196.

The arguments of the supralap-
sarians, 204.

The arguments of the sublapsa-

rians, 212.

The arguments of the remon-

strants, 213.

They affirm a certain prescience,
217.

The Socinians' plea, 221.

General reflections on the whole

matter, ib.

The advantages and disadvantages

of both sides, and the faults of

both, 223.

In what both do agree, 224.

The sense of the Article, 225.

The cautions added to it, 226.

Passages in the Liturgy explained,

227.

ART. XVIII.

Philosophers thought men might

be saved in all religions, 228.

So do the Mahometans, ib.

None are saved but by Christ,

229.

Whether some may not be saved
by him, who never heard of
him, 230.

None are in covenant with God,

but through the knowledge of

Christ, 231.

But for others, we cannot judge

of the extent of the mercies of

God, 231.

Curiosity is to be restrained, ib.

ART. XIX.

We ought not to believe that any
are infallible, without good au-

thority, 234.

Just prejudices against some who

pretend to it, 235.

No miracles brought to prove this,

236.

Proofs brought from scripture,

238.

Things to be supposed previous
to these, ib.

A circle is not to be admitted,

239.

The notes given of the true church,

ib.

These are examined, 240.

And whether they do agree to the

church of Rome, 241.

The truth of doctrine must be first
settled, ib.

A society that has a true baptism,

is a true church, 242.

Sacraments are not annulled by

every corruption, 244.

We own the baptism and orders

given in the church of Rome,
ib.

And yet justify our separating

from them, 245.

Objections against private judging,

ib.

Our reasons are given us for that

end, 246.

Our minds are free as our wills

are, 247.

The church is still visible, but not

infallible, 248.

Of the pope's infallibility, 250.

That was not pretended to in the

first ages, 251.

The dignity of sees rose from the

cities, ib.

Popes have fallen into heresy, ib.

Their ambition and forgeries, 252.

Their cruelty, ib.

The power of deposing princes
claimed by them as given them

by God, 254.

This was not a corruption only of

discipline, but of doctrine, 255

Whether these ought to be sacred,

or not, 297.

The doctrine of pardons and in-

dulgences, 298.

It is only the excusing from pe-

nance, 300.

No foundation for it in scripture,
ib.

General rules concerning idolatry,

301.

Of the idolatry of heathens, 302.

Laws given to the Jews against
it, ib.

The expostulations of the pro-

phets, 303.

Concerning the golden calf, 304.

And the calves at Dan and Bethel,

ib.

The apostles opposed all idolatry,
305.

St. Paul at Athens, and to the

Romans, 306.

The sense of the primitive fathers

upon it, 307.

The first use of images among

Christians, ib.

Pictures in churches for instruc-
tion, 309.

Were afterwards worshipped, ib.

Contests about that, ib.

Images of the Deity and Trinity,
310.

On what the worship of images
terminates, 311.

The due worship settled by the

council at Trent, 312.

Images consecrated, and how,

313.

Arguments for worshipping them

answered, 314.
Arguments against the use or
worship of images, ib.

The worship of relics, 315.

The progress of superstition, 316.

A due regard to the bodies of
martyrs, ib.

No warrant for this in scripture,

317.

Hezekiah broke the brazen ser-
pent, ib.

The memorable passage concern-

ing the body of St. Polycarp,

ib.

Fables and forgeries prevailed,

318.

The souls of the martyrs believed
to hover about their tombs,

319.

Nothing of this kind objected to

the first Christians, 320.

Disputes between Vigilantius and

St. Jerome, ib.

No invocation of saints in the

Old Testament, 322.

The invocating angels condemned

in the New Testament, 323.

No saints invocated, Christ only,
ib.

No mention of this in the three

first ages, 324.

In the fourth, martyrs were invo-

cated, 325.

The progress that this made, 326.

Scandalous offices in the church
of Rome, ib.

Arguments against this invoca-

tion, 327.

An apology for those who began
it, ib.

The scandal given by it, 329.

Arguments for it answered, 330.

Whether the saints see all things

in God, ib.

This no part of the communion

of saints, 331.

Prayers ought to be directed only-
to God, ib.

Revealed religion designed to de-
liver the world from idolatry,

332.

ART. XXIII.

A succession of pastors ought to

be in the church, 333.

This was settled by the Apostles,
334.

And must continue to the end of
the world, ib.

It was settled in the first age of

the church, 335.

The danger of men's taking to
themselves this authority with-

out a due vocation, 336.

The difference between means of

salvation, and precepts for or-
der's sake, ib.

What is lawful authority, 337.

What may be done upon extra-

ordinary occasions, 338.

Necessity is above rules of order,

ib.