INDEX.

A.

Ability of the sinner, 163. Principal seat of, 163.

Abode, future, of the righteous, its materiality, 383.

Abolition of slavery, 332-336. In West India described, 333, &c.
Aborigines of America, whence derived, 141.

Absolution, private, 308, &c.

Adults, their admission to the church, 282, &c.

Afflictions, moral character of, 149.

African Repository referred to, p. 333.

Agents, moral, in God's government, 100, &c., respect had to in God's de

crees, 108.

Alexander, Dr. referred to, p. 218.

America, the original peopling of, 139–141.

Anabaptists referred to, 311, 345, 346.

Angels, good and bad, 129, 130.

Angelic influence on man, its mode, 133.

Animal propensities, their nature, ibid.
Anxious seat, 277.

Apocryphal books, the so-called, 41.

Apostles, character of the, 24; their number, name, 220.

Articles of the Augsburg Confession, passim.

Authority, source of all spiritual, not in the king, &c. 338.

Atonement, universality of, 158, 159; its nature and Hopkins's View of, 161
Luther's View of, 162. Baxter's View of, 164.

Attributes of God, 56, &c.

Augsburg Confession, 46; how extensively received, 48; how received by Lu
therans in America, 50.

Backsliders, the restoration of, 310.

B.

Baptism, a means of grace, 174; the subject in general, 237, &c.; mode of, 262;
for the dead, 268; a mockery administered to the unawakened, 274; see in-
fant baptism, 246, 261; advantages of baptism, 270, 278.

Baptism an initiatory rite, 242, 244. Lay baptism, 240.

Baptism to be performed publicly, 245; custom of the earlier Lutherans, ibid.
Baptisms, or Jewish washings, 239; family, 255.

Baptize, meaning of, 264, &c.

Baxter, his View of the Atonement, 164.

Benevolence of God, 60; comp. 368, 393, 394. Christian, see Love.

Bishops claimed the right of confirming baptism, 286; their former power, epis-
copal, testimony of, against primitive episcopacy, 225.-

Body, the glorified, its nature, 376.

Business, order of, in the Lutheran Synod, 438.

C.

Call to the ministry, 226; see ministers.

Calvin on confirmation, 287; on the mystery of the supper, 302.

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Canon, the sacred, 40, 50.

Capital punishment, 458-488.

Catechumens, of them in general, 277, &c.; required to publicly profess religion,
283; historical view, 286; comp., 308.

Cause, moral agents the efficient of their own actions, 100; the term defined,
Note, 100.

Celibacy of the priests, 403, &c.; rejected by the reformers, see under monastic
Vows, 402, &c.

Ceremonies, religious, 321.

Change of sinners, effected by the Holy Spirit, 192, &c.; see repentance.
Christ, divinity of, 63, 69, &c.; his return to judgment, 345, &c.: see Jesus,
Christian Sabbath, 125.

Christians as patriots, 326, &c.; see life of.

Christianity, the evidences of, 23, 40.

Christianity, republished by the reformers, 45, &c.; the abuses they corrected,
308, 401, &c.

Church, the, 213, &c. ; various forms of government in the, 215; its officers,
members, and their duties, 218, &c.

Church, its relations to the state, 337, &c.; to be kept distinct from, according to
the N. T. ibid.

Church members, the duty of to support the ministry, 229, &c.

Church, the Lutheran, regards human depravity as a fundamental doctrine, 142;
on the mode of baptisms, 262.

Church, the Evangelical Lutheran in the United States, 49, 217; its govern-
ment, 177; Formula for the discipline and government of, 420, &c.; consti-
tution of its Synod, 432.

Church government, different forms of, 215, &c.

Church history, 503.

Church, Methodist, the economy of, 231, &c.

Church, Romish, the corruptions of the, corrected by the reformers, 401, &c.;
since the reformation, 418.

Cicero quoted in reference to transubstantiation, 296; to human depravity, 21.
Circumcision, 247; never revoked, 257.

Civil government, different kinds of, 327, &c.

Civil rulers, their duties, 331; obedience to them how limited, 331.

Colour, no objection to the oneness of man's origin, 139

Convictions, religious, different in different persons, 196.

Cyprian referred to, 402.

Colonization Society, the American, 334, &c.

Communicant's Companion, 281, Note.

Communion, Sacramental, admission to, 277; in one kind an abuse, 402; see

Lord's supper.

Complexion, causes of its varieties, 140.

Conferences, special, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 443.

Confession in the Lutheran Church, 308, &c.

Confirmation, 277, &c.; Augsburg Confession on, and Calvin, 287; corrupted

by the Romanists, 287; definition of, 288.

Congregations vacant in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 442.

Conversion, 202.

Constitution of United States, different theories for its explanation, 340, 342.
Conversion of the world, 358.

Convictions for sin, its different degrees and duration, 195

Council of the Lutheran Church in America, 426.

Covenant of works, 154; of grace, 155; of God with Abraham, &c. 248;
children brought under the covenant of grace by baptism, 271.

Covenant of Redemption, 157.

Creation and preservation, 123.

Creeds, remarks upon, and injurious ones, 51, 52, &c. ; the Augsburg Creed, 46.

D.

Deacons not ministers, 221; their (and elders') duties, 424.

Dead, baptism for, 268.

Death, physical, &c., 361.

Decrees of God, 93, &c.; respecting man's future destiny, 108, &c.; see election,
predestination and government.

Democratic or republican form of government, 328; structure of ours, 339.

Dependence on God extends even to spiritual prosperity, 179.

Depravity, Cicero on, 21; of natural, its origin, 142; nature, 143; conse-
quence, 145.

Design, unity of, proved from nature, 21.

Discipline, moral, promoted by physical evil, 105.

Dispositions, amiable, of the unconverted, 145.

Distinguished theologians, Lutheran and Reformed, 489–495.

Doctrines, above reason, 74, &c.

Dogmatics, or Doctrinal Theology, 498.

Duality, of mental principle in man, rejected, 137.

Dwight, Dr., quoted on the atonement, &c., 121; on imputation, 146.

Earth, conflagration of our, 381.

Economies, the different, 168.

Elders, see deacons.

E.

Election, the doctrine of, 108; of Jacob over Esau, 117.

Election, attempted explanation of, by Mr. Finney, 121.

Election, views of the Congregationalists and German Reformed, in the United
States, 109.

Elections in the Lutheran American Church, 430.

Elections, females rarely vote at, 216.

Emancipation of slaves, 333.

Enthusiasm not chargeable on the apostles, 26.

Essenes, practised baptism, 239.

Ethical system of Christianity.

Eucharist, the Saviour's presence in, opinions respecting it, 296, 305.

Eucharist, permanent obligation of, 294; mode and frequency of its observance,

293.

Evidences of Christianity, 23-40.

Evil, origin of, 102. See sin.

Evils, physical, promote moral discipline, 105.

Exorcism at baptism, 245.

F.

Faith, the condition of salvation, 121; its effects, &c., 198, &c.; justifying, 197.
Faith, different kinds of, 197; objective, historical, the faith of miracles, saving
faith, 198, &c.

Fall of man, the consequences of, 143, &c., 155.
Falling from a state of justification, 171, 172.
Feetwashing, 324, 325.

Festivals, &c. among the reformers, 321, &c.

Formula for the Evan. Lutheran Church in America, 421.

Formula concordiæ, on the mystery of the supper, 301, and Note.

Friends alone reject the Lord's supper, 291.

G.

German Reformed Church originally not Calvinistic, 109.

Germany, its civil constitution, 327.

Glorified body, its nature, 376.

God, the discoveries of reason respecting him unsatisfactory, 21, &c.; the gene-
ral subject, 52, &c.; not the author of sin, 102; why he permits it, 104; does
not literally harden the heart, 119; the creator and preserver of all things, 123.
Government, the design of the divine, 94, &c.

Government, church, different systems of, 215; Lutheran system in U. S., 216.
Government, civil, 327, &c.; as to the church, 337.

Government, our national, 339, &c.; does not meddle with religion, 344.

Governments, our state, not all equally republican, 343, Note.

Grace, covenant of, 155, &c.

Grace, the means of, 172, &c.; demand the Holy Spirit, 176, &c.

Gregory on infant baptism, 262.

H.

Hands, the imposition of, in confirmation, 285, 286, &c.

Heart, in what sense God hardens it, 119.

Heaven, where? opinions of Michaelis, Pfaffius, &c. Its nature, 383, &c.; its

happiness graduated, 386; eternal and progressive, 387.

Imputation of Adam's sin to his posterity, 147.

Inability of man, 162, 395; moral, its principal seat, 167.

Infant-baptism, 247, 261; the subjects of it how admitted to the Lord's supper,
277, &c.

Infants saved, 148, 273; belonged to the Jewish church, 248; not to be denied
baptism because they cannot exercise faith, 258.

Inquiring sinners, treatment of, 278.

Installation in the American Lutheran Church, 449.

Irenæus, quoted on infant baptism, 260.

J.

Jesus no impostor, 25; a man, his liability to temptation, of what kind? (comp
Christ) 63; in the Eucharist, 295.

Jews, baptism among them, 248; Dispersion of, 36; coloured colony of, 140.

Judgment, Christ's return to, 345; the final one, 378-380.

Justification in general, 169, &c.; nature, evidences, 169-171, &c.: not
eternal, 171.

K.

Knowledge, our religious, from reason, 36, &c.; of itself useless, 279.

Kurtz, Dr., on baptism, 243.

L.

Labour, free, compared to slave, 333, Note.

Lay baptism, 240.

Liberality, Christian, 211.

Liberty, the seeds of, sown by reformers, 327.

Licensure of candidates in the Evang. Lutheran American Church, 50.

Life, the Christian in general, 191, &c.

Lightfoot quoted on Jewish baptism, 251.

Lord's Day, its divine institution, 125.

Lord's supper, a means of grace, 174; the institution, 289; perpetuity, 294; the
elements, 292; opinions of the mystical presence in, 295; subjects of, &c.,
306; mode and frequency of its celebration, 293.

Lord's supper, believed essential to salvation of children by Augustine and
others, 305; often administered to children in the early ages, 305.

Love, Christian, 206, &c.; the most ardent for souls, 210; disinterested, 209.
Luther referred to, 108, 162, 297, 344.

Luther rejected absolute predestination in the latter part of his life, 312.
Lutheran universities in Germany, 489.

Lutheranism, symbol of 46; statistics of, 48.

M.

Magnetism, animal, does it elucidate prayer? 181.

Maimonides on Jewish baptism, 249.

Man may be a voluntary unbeliever, 19; as a moral agent, 19; his destiny fixed
by his conduct, 21; origin and first state, 136, &c.

Martyr, Justin, on infant baptism, 260.

Mass, an abomination, 407.

Matrimony of the priests lawful, 405; comp. 412.

Matter, in no state, self-existent, 127.

Mayer, Rev. Dr., on absolute predestination in the German Reformed Church, 109.

Means of grace, their nature, 173; efficacy, 175.

Meats, diversity of useless, 409; greatly burden the conscience, 410.

Mediatorial work of Jesus, 151, &c.

Melanchthon, his views of the mystery of the supper, 302; on predestination, 314.
Members of the Lutheran American Church, 48.

Messiah, prophecies concerning, 32, 33.

Methodists, economy of their church, 229, &c.; and Note, 231.

Millennium, the, 345; its nature, 346; time of, 350; signs, 357.

Ministers in general, 218; parity of, 219; the support of, 229, &c.; political

duties, 338; comp. 404, 416.

Miracles of the Saviour, 30; definition of, 30.

Missions in general, 350, 358.

Monasticism, 412, &c.; vows of, annul not the right to marry, 413.
Moral government, 154.