the necessity of his coming to make God known, 135-To teach men their duty, 138-To instruct in the right forms of di- vine worship, 147, &c.—To give sufficient encouragement to a good life, 148—And to assure men of divine assistance, 151
his deity not understood by the Jews by the phrase "Son of God," 370
the word Christ often used as a proper name, 374 Christians, what is necessary to be believed to make men so, 226, &c. whether all things of
this sort were revealed in our Saviour's time, 345, &c. what was sufficient to make men such in Christ's time, is so still,
are obliged to believe all that they find our Saviour taught,
all things necessary to be
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, 175 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
Fact, common justice makes al- legations of, false until proved, 192 Faith, what kind of, is required as the condition of eternal life, 17 &c.
justifying, consists in believ- ing Jesus to be the Messiah, 101 very acceptable to God, and why, 129 consists in relying on the goodness and faithfulness of God, ibid.
the fundamental articles of it, well explained, though not taught in the epistles, 154
the essentials of it best learned from the Gospels and Acts, ibid.
the author does not make only one article of it necessary, 194
other truths useful, beside the necessary article of it, 227, 228
but one article of it, not pleaded for, that religion may easily be understood, 206, &c. Faith, a practical one plainly taught by the author, 284, &c. an entire one, believes every Scripture truth, 349, 352 how but one article was
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, 232
Scriptures, in essentials, speak to the meanest capacity, 157, &c. we should learn our re- 294 the mischief of making them chime with our previous notions, 294-297 all things therein neces- sary to be believed, when under- stood, 353, 354 Self-conceitedness, worse than folly,
ligion out of them,
Socinianism, The Reasonableness of Christianity unjustly charged with it, 162, &c. Socinians, the author charged with being one, 359, &c. Son of God, a man's understand- ing this phrase, as some Socinians do, no proof of his being one, 361, &c. signifies the same with Mes- siah, 366, &c. the confession of the eu- nuch (Acts viii.) no proof to the contrary, 371, &c. Systems, not hated by the author, who only complains of the abuse of them, 377
Tiberius, the Roman emperor, a very jealous prince, SI Tillotson, (archbishop) how he un- derstood the phrase Son of God, 362 Truths, several, useful, yet not ne- cessary to salvation, 227, &c.
Unitarians, Dr. Edwards's witty remark upon that word, 200
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