of faith, that spouse of Christ, and Church of the living God, which is so diligently to be sought after; whose communion we must embrace, whose directions we must follow, and in whose judgment we must rest. But, contrariwise, we are well assured all these do witness against her, that she is an erring, heretical, and apostatical Church; that she hath forsaken her first faith, departed from her primitive sincerity, plunged those that adhere unto her into many gross and damnable errors, and defiled herself with intolerable superstition and idolatry, so that as well in respect of her errors in faith, superstition, and idolatry in divine worship, as of her slanderous, treacherous, bloody, and most horrible and hellish practices, to overthrow and destroy all that do but open their mouths against her abominations, we may justly account her to be the synagogue of Satan, the faction of antichrist, and that Babylon out of which we must fly, unless we will be partakers of her plagues.
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Aaron, separation of his family to the
high-priesthood, iii. 6.
Abraham's bosom, what to be under-
stood by, iv. 294.
Absolution, different kinds of, iv. 558;
that of the primitive Church con-
trasted with the Romish, i. 277; ii.
380.
Abstinence in the Greek Church differ-
ent from the Roman, i. 124.
Abyssinia, Church of, orthodox in the
doctrine of the Trinity, i. 144; prac-
tise circumcision both of males and
females, 146; baptize their infants, ib.;
communicate in both kinds, 148; ab-
stain from things strangled, 149; deny
the supremacy of the pope, ib.; have
prayers, and read the Scriptures in
their own language, ii. 152.
Acoluthes, instituted not by the apo-
stles, but by the Church, iii. 189.
Adam before the fall needed grace, ii.
186; had threefold knowledge, 190;
his righteousness inferior to that of
the angels, yet not sinful, 303; Church
of the redeemed began in him, when
he returned to God after his fall, i. 16.
Adam Angelicus, held the Virgin Mary
to be born in sin, ii. 209.
Adoration, of two kinds, of God, and
of certain human objects, i. 229; not
properly addressed to the saints, 234.
Adrian IV., his dispute with the Em-
peror Frederic Barbarossa about the
rights and privileges of the papacy,
iii. 561.
Aerius, condemned the custom of nam-
ing the dead at the altar, and offer-
ing the Eucharist for them, disliked
set fasts, and denied the difference
between bishops and presbyters, i. 292.
Africa, Church of, denied the claim of
appeals to Rome, iii. 374, 386; iv.
566; was in schism from Rome 300
years on the article of the pope's
supremacy, iii. 387.
Agnoetæ, held that the divinity of
Christ was ignorant of some things,
iii. 71.
Alexandria, one of the three original
patriarchates, 100; iii. 257; Mark
the first bishop of, iii. 211; appointed
by St Peter, 257.
Alliaco (Peter ab), archbishop of Cam-
bray, desired a reformation in the
Church, i. 186.
Ambrose, elected bishop of Milan by
the people when unbaptized, iv. 117;
excommunicated the Emperor Theo-
dosius, iii. 524; his views on the
future state, &c., iv. 332; Liturgy of,
used in France, Spain, and parts of
Italy, ii. 15; trial of it and that of
Gregory by miracle, 16; subsequently
confined to the Church of Milan, ib.
Anabaptists, believe in special assurance,
i. 353.
Anastasius II., pope, suspected of heresy,
iii. 464.
Angels, the only creatures besides men
capable of felicity and bliss, i. 7;
men and angels constitute the Church
of the living God, ib. ; called to the
participation of happiness by divine
grace, in the day of their creation, 10;
fall of, deprived them of blessedness,
11; their fall irrecoverable, ib.; are
not made by propagation from each
other, 13; fall to them is the same as
death to man, 14; those angels who
are confirmed in grace, and righteous
men constitute the proper Church of
the redeemed, 15.
Anselm, did not hold the immaculate
conception of the Virgin Mary, ii.
214.
Antididagma Coloniense, teaches the
commemorative sacrifice of Christ's
body in the Eucharist, ii. 75; doc-
trine of justification taught by, iv.
393.
Antioch, one of the three original patri-
archates, i. 100; iii. 257.
Antiquity, a note of the Church accord-
ing to the Romanists, i. 78, 189.
Apocrypha, why so called, ii. 474; not
admitted in the primitive canon of
Scripture, 164; nor held canonical by
protestants, iv. 536; differences among
Romanists concerning, ii. 486.
Apostles, all equal in the power of
binding and loosing, iii. 163; their
gifts and offices partly proper to them-
selves, partly perpetual and general
in their successors, 152; authority of
St Peter among, ib.
Apostles, Council of, could not err on
account of special revelation and
guidance, iv. 50; Apostles' Creed, a
rule of faith, ii. 138.
Apostolic, title of, applied to all sees
founded by apostles, iii. 431.
Appeals, of three sorts, of laymen, of
inferior clergymen, and of bishops, iii.
373; of laymen not known in anti-
quity, but claimed by Rome, ib.; of
clergymen against their bishops to be
heard by the neighbour bishops, 374;
of bishops against the metropolitan,
to be heard by the primate, 378; or
the patriarch, ib.; of patriarchs to be
heard by the higher patriarchs, 389;
assisted by a synod of bishops, 391;
no argument to be drawn therefrom
for the universality of papal power
and jurisdiction, ib.; appeals to Rome
not founded on right, 374, &c.; con-
demned in the synods of the African
Church, 374, 386; iv. 566.
Aquarii, communicated in water instead
of wine, ii. 32.
Aquila, his version of the Old Testa-
ment, ii. 502.
Aquinas, on the image of God, i. 275.
Archbishops, see Metropolitans.
Archdeacons, chosen out of the body of
deacons to lead and instruct them, iii.
200; might not at first sit in the
presence of presbyters without per-
mission, 241; gradually became great-
er than presbyters and archpresby-
ters, 200, 241; performed visitations
in the absence of bishops, 241; at first
only to make reports, but subse-
quently to judge and correct smaller
matters, ib.; by the later canon of
the Church none but presbyters could
possess the office, ib.
Archpresbyters, every company of pres-
byters had one, iii. 201; two sorts of,
Urbani and Vicani, the former at-
tached to the principal churches in
the city as deans, the latter rural
deans, 234; to assist the bishop, and
superintend the clergy, 235; rural,
chosen by the clergy, and confirmed
by the bishop: could not be removed
without the consent of the clergy, ib.;
their offices and privileges, 236; to
visit every church twice a year, and
hold chapters four times, ib.; to pub-
lish the decrees of provincial and
episcopal synods, 237; might suspend
laymen from the sacrament, and cler-
gymen from the execution of their
offices, ib.
Arian, meaning of the saying of St
Jerome, that the whole world was
Arian, iv. 525.
Arius, his heresy, i. 292; his death a
divine judgment, 366.
Armenians, inhabit Asia, i. 139; have
two patriarchs, of greater and lesser
Armenia, ib.; orthodox as regards the
Trinity and Incarnation of Christ,
140; condemn the heresy of Euty-
ches, ib., and iv. 289; the specialities
of their religion, &c. i. 140; had pray-
ers in their own tongue, ii. 152; their
translation of the Scripture attri-
buted to Chrysostom, ii. 141.
Articles of the faith, the Church cannot
make new, ii. 434.
Assemblies of the Jews, either of the
people or the elders and rulers, iii.
20; their kinds and offices, ib.
Assurance, or special faith, always ad-
mitted in the Church, ii. 321; though
disliked by the Romanists, ib.; testi-
mony of fathers and other writers to,
323; not every assurance true faith,
but may be true or false, i. 354.
Athanasian Creed, see Creed.
Augusta, apology of the Confession of,
does not condemn prayers for the
dead, ii. 97.
Augustine, in error upon the doctrine
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