CONTENTS
CHAPTER |
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PAGE |
I.The Unity of the Church |
1–10 |
The church an article of faith—Meaning of church in Greek—In the New Testament—The church a mother—The dove of the Canticles—The strong woman of Proverbs—Not to be believed in as God.
II.The One Universal Church Divided into Three Parts |
11–15 |
The church triumphant, militant and dormant—The Apostles' Creed—Wherein the unity consists.
III.All Christians Are Not Members of the Church |
16–26 |
Parables of the net, etc.—The human body and the spiritual body—Essential parts of the body—Four kinds of persons related to the church—Predestinated according to present righteousness—Christ's other sheep.
IV.Christ the Only Head of the Church |
27–38 |
Head by reason of his divinity and humanity—Head from the beginning—No reprobate a member of the church—Present goodness no proof of predestination—Tychonius—The word Christian.
V.Good and Bad in the Church |
39–51 |
Belief and faith—Parables of the marriage-supper. etc.—The least in the kingdom of heaven—Prelates may be reprobate—Clergy and church used interchangeably—Paying tithes to the clergy for their works'sake—The nominal and the real church.
VI.Christ and the Head of the Elect |
52–55 |
Devil the head of the reprobate—Sin continues in the reprobate but disjoins them—Christ head of the world as well as of the predestinate.
VII.The Roman Pontiff and the Cardinals Not the Universal Church |
56–66 |
Matt. 16:18—The church a mixed body—Particular churches—Reasons for calling the Roman church the church.
VIII.The Faith Which Is the Foundation of the Church |
67–72 |
Three meanings of faith—Faith formed in love—Faith and vision—Heb. 11:1—Faith and hope—Fallibility of the pope—Infallibility of the Scriptures.
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