Christianity, its triumph over paganism, the wonder of history,
191-193
its influence on civilization, 193, 194
its influence on individuals, 194, 195
submits to judgment by only test of a religion, not ideals, but
performances, 195
and pantheism, 282
circumstances favorable to its propagation, 666
Japanese objection to its doctrine of brotherhood, 898
Christological method in theology, 50
Chronology, schemes of, 224, 225
Church, its safety and aggressiveness dependent on sound
doctrine, 18
its relation to truth, 33
polity and ordinances of, their purpose, 546
a prophetic institution, 712
doctrine of the, 887-980
constitution of the, or its Polity, 887-929
in its largest signification, 887
and kingdom, difference between, 887, 889
definition of, in Westminster Confession, 887
the universal, includes all believers, 888
universal, the body of Christ, 888
a transcendent element in, 888
union with Christ, the presupposition of, 888
the indwelling Christ, its elevating privilege, 888
the universal or invisible distinguished from the local or
visible, 889
individual, defined, 890
the laws of Christ on which church gathered, 890
not a humanitarian organization, 890
the term employed in a loose sense, 891
significance of the term etymologically, 891
the secular use of its Greek form, 891
used as a generic or collective term, 891
the Greek term translated, its derivation, 891
applied by a figure of rhetoric to many churches, 891
the local, a divine appointment, 892
the Hebrew terms for, its larger and narrower use, 892
Christ took his idea of, from Hebrew not heathen sources, 892
exists for sake of the kingdom, 892
will be displaced by a Christian state, 893
the decline of, not to be deplored, 893
a voluntary society, 893
membership in, not hereditary or compulsory, 893
union with, logically follows union with Christ, 893
its doctrine, a necessary outgrowth of the doctrine of
regeneration, 893
highest organism of human life, 894
is an organism such as the religion of spirit necessarily
creates, 891
its organization may be informal, 894
its organization may be formal, 894
its organization in N. T. formal, 894
its developed organization indicated by change of names from
Gospels to Epistles, 895
not an exclusively spiritual organization, 895
doctrine of Plymouth Brethren concerning, 895, 896
organization of the, not definitely prescribed in N. T. and
left to expediency; an erroneous theory, 896
government of, five alleged forms in N. T., 897
regenerate persons only members of, 897
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Christ law giver of, 897
members on equality, 898
one member of, has no jurisdiction over another, 898
independent of civil power, 899
local, its sole object, 899
local, united worship a duty of, 899
its law, the will of Christ, 900
membership in, qualifications prescribed for, 900
membership in, duties attached to, 900
its genesis, 900
in germ before Pentecost, 900
three periods in life of, 901
officers elected as occasion demanded, 901
Paul's teaching concerning, progressive, 902
how far synagogue was model of, 902
a new, how constituted, 902
in formation of, a council not absolutely requisite, 902, 903
at Antioch, its independent career, 903
its government, 903-926
its government, as to source of authority, an absolute
monarchy, 903
its government, as to interpretation and execution of Christ's
law, an absolute democracy, 903
should be united in action, 904
union of, in action should be, not passive submission, but
intelligent co-operation, 904
peaceful unity in, result of Spirit's work, 904
Baptist, law of majority rule in, 904
as a whole responsible for doctrinal and practical purity, 905
ordinances committed to custody of whole, 905
as a whole, elects its officers and delegates, 906
as a whole, exercises discipline, 907
the self government of, an educational influence, 908
pastor's duty to, 908
the world church or Romanist theory of, considered, 908-911
Peter as foundation of, what meant by the statement, 909-911
the hierarchical government of, corrupting and dishonoring to
Christ, 911
the theory of a national, considered, 912-914
Presbyterian system of the, authors upon, 912
independence of, when given up, 912
a spiritual, incapable of delimitation, 913
officers of the, 914-924
offices in, two, 914-916
a plurality of eldership in the primitive, occasional, 915, 916
the pastor, bishop or elder of the, his three fold duty, 916,
917
the deacon, his duties, 917, 918
did women in the early church discharge diaconal functions?,
918
ordination of officers in, 918-924
local, highest ecclesiastical authority in N. T., 920
discipline of, 924-926
relation of, to sister churches, 926-929
each, the equal of any other, 926
each, directly responsible to Christ, and with spiritual
possibilities equal to any other, 926
each, to maintain fraternity and co-operation with other
churches, 926
each, should seek and take advice from other churches, 927
the fellowship of a, with another church may be broken by
departures from Scriptural faith and practice, 928
independence of, qualified by interdependence, 928
what it ought to do if distressed by serious internal
disagreements, 928
its independence requires largest co-operation with other
churches, 929
list of authorities on general subject of the, 929
ordinances of the, 930-980
Circumcision, of Christ, its import, 761
its law and that of baptism not the same, 954, 955
Civilization, can its arts be lost?, 529
Coffin, called by Egyptians 'chest of the living,', 995
Cogito ergo sum = cogito scilicet
sum, 55
Cogito = cogitans sum, 55
Cognition of finiteness, dependence, etc., the occasion of the
direct cognition of the Infinite, Absolute, etc., 52
Coming, second, of Christ, 1003-1015
the doctrine of, stated, 1003
Scriptures describing, 1003, 1004
statements concerning, not all spiritual, 1004
outward and visible, 1004
the objects to be secured at, 1004
said to be “in
like manner” to his ascension, 1004, 1005
analogous to his first, 1005
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can all men at one time see Christ at the?, 1005
the time of, not definitely taught, 1005
predictions of, parallel those of his first, 1007
patient waiting for, disciplinary, 1007
precursors of, 1008-1010
a general prevalence of Christianity, a precursor of, 1008
a deep and wide spread development of evil, a precursor of,
1008
a personal antichrist, a precursor of, 1008
four signs of, according to some, 1010
millennium, prior to, 1010, 1011
and millennium as pointed out in Rev. 20:4-10, 1011
immediately connected with a general resurrection and judgment,
1011
of two kinds, 1014
a reconciliation of pre-millenarian and post-millenarian
theories suggested, 1014
is the preaching which is to precede, to nations as wholes, or
to each individual in a nation?, 1014
the destiny of those living at, 1015
Comings of Christ, partial and typical, 1003
Commenting, its progress, 35
Commission, Christ's final, not confined to eleven, 906
Commercial theory of Atonement, 747
Common law of church, what?, 970
Communion, prerequisites to, 969-980
limitation of, commanded by Christ and apostles, 969
limitation of, implied in its analogy to Baptism, 969
prerequisites to, laid down not by church, but by Christ and
his apostles expressly or implicitly, 970
prerequisites to, are four, 970
Regeneration, a prerequisite to, 971
Baptism, a prerequisite to, 971
the apostles were baptized before, 971
the command of Christ places baptism before, 971
in all cases recorded in N. T. baptism precedes, 971
the symbolism of the ordinances requires baptism to precede,
971, 972
standards of principal denominations place baptism before, 972
where baptism customarily does not precede, the results are
unsatisfactory, 972
church membership, a prerequisite to, 973
a church rite, 973
a symbol of Christian fellowship, 973
an orderly walk, a prerequisite to, 973
immoral conduct, a bar to, 973, 974
disobedience to the commands of Christ, a bar to, 974
heresy, a bar to, 974
schism, a bar to, 975
restricted, the present attitude of Baptist churches to, 976
local church under responsibility to see its, preserved from
disorder, 975, 976
open, advocated because baptism cannot be a term of communion,
not being a term of salvation, 977
open, contrary to the practice of organised Christianity, 977
no more binding than baptism, 978
open, tends to do away with baptism, 978
open, destroys discipline, 978
open, tends to do away with the visible church, 979
strict, objections to, answered briefly, 979, 980
open, its justification briefly considered, 980
a list of authors upon, 980
Complex act, part may designate whole, 946
Concept, not a mental image, 7
in theology, may be distinguished by definition from all
others, 15
Concupiscence, what?, 522
Romish doctrine of, 604
Concurrence in all operations at basis of preservation, 411
divine efficiency in, does not destroy or absorb the efficiency
assisted, 418
God's, in evil acts only as they are natural acts, 418, 419
Confession, Romanist view of, 834
Conflagration, final, 1012
Conscience, what?, 82, 83
proves existence of a holy Lawgiver and Judge, 82
its supremacy, 82
warns of existence of law, 82
speaks in imperative, 82
represents to itself some other as judge, 82
the will it expresses superior to ours, 83
witness against pantheism, 103
thirst of, assuaged by Christ's sacrifice, 297
its nature, 498
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not a faculty, but a mode, 498
intellectual element in, 498
emotional element in, 498
solely judicial, 498
discriminative, 498
impulsive, 498
other mental processes from which it is to be distinguished,
499
the moral judiciary of the soul, 500
must be enlightened and cultivated, 500
an echo of God's voice, 501
in its relation to God as holy, 502
the organ by which the human spirit finds God in itself, and
itself in God, 503
rendered less sensitive, but cannot be annulled, by sin, 647
needs Christ's propitiation, 736
absolute liberty of, a distinguishing tenet of Baptists, 898,
899
Consciousness, Christian, not norma
normans, but norma
normata, 28
defined, 63
not source of other knowledge, 63
self, primarily a distinguishing of itself from itself, 104
comes logically before consciousness of the world, 104
self consciousness, what?, 252
Contrary choice, in Adam, 519
not essential to will, 600, 605
its present limits, 605
Contrition, Romish doctrine of, 834
Conversion, God's act in the will in, 793
sudden, 827
defined, 829
relation to regeneration, 829
voluntary, 829
man's relation to God in, 830
conversions other than the first, 831
relations of the divine and human in, 831
Cosmological argument, see
God.
Cranial capacity of man and apes, 473
Creatianism, its advocates, 491
its tenets, 491
its untenability, 491-493
Creation, attributed to Christ, 310
attributed to Spirit, 316
doctrine of, 371-410
definition of, 371, 372
by man of ideas and volitions and indirectly of brain
modifications, 371
is change of energy into force, 371
Lotzean, author's view of, 372
is not “production out of nothing,”, 372
is not “fashioning,”, 372, 373
not an emanation from divine substance, 372
the divine in, the origination of substance, 373
free act of a rational will, 373
externalization of God's thought, 373
creation and “generation” and “procession,”, 373
is God's voluntary limitation of himself, 373
how an act of the triune God, 373
not necessary to a trinitarian God, 373
the doctrine of, proved only from Scripture, 374
direct Scripture statements concerning, discussed, 374-377
idea of, originates, when we think of things as originating in
God immediately, 375
Paul's idea of, 376
absolute, heathen had glimpses of, 376
best expressed in Hebrew, 376
found among early Babylonians, 376
found in pre-Zoroastrian, Vedic, and early Egyptian religions,
376
in heathen systems, 377
literature on, 377
“out of
nothing,” its origin, 377
indirect evidence of, from Scripture, 377, 378
theories which oppose, 378-391
Creation from eternity, theory stated, 386
not necessitated by God's omnipotence, 387
contradictory in terms and irrational, 387
another form of the see-saw philosophy, 387
not necessitated by God's timelessness, 387
inconceivable, 387
not consistent with the conception of universe as an organism,
388
not necessitated by God's immutability, 388
not necessitated by God's love, 388, 389
inconsistent with God's independence and personality, 389
outgrowth of Unitarian tendencies, 389
Mosaic account of, 391-397
asserts originating act of God in, 391
makes God antedate and create matter, 391
recognizes development, 392
lays the foundation for cosmogony, 392
can be interpreted in harmony with mediate creation or
evolution, 392
not an allegory or myth, 394
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Mosaic account of, not the blending of inconsistent
stories,-394
not to be interpreted in a hyperliteral way, 394
does not use “day” for a period of twenty-four
hours, 394
is not a precise geological record, 395
its scheme in detail, 395-397
literature upon, 396, 397