Change of sinners, effected by the Holy Spirit, 166, etc.; see repent-

ance.

Christ, divinity of, 55, etc.; His return to judgment, 288, etc.; see Jesus.
Christians as patriots, 271, etc.; see life of.

Christianity, the evidences of, 17, etc.

Christianity, republished by the reformers, 37, etc.; the abuses they
corrected, 258, 337 etc.

Church, the, 184, etc.; various forms of government in the, 186; its
officers, members, and their duties, 188, etc.

Church, its relations to the state, 280 etc.; to be kept distinct from,
according to the N. T. 280, comp. 351.

Church members, the duty of to support the ministry, 193, etc.
Church, the Lutheran, regards natural depravity as a fundamental doc-
trine, 123; on the mode of baptism, 216; none admitted to, but
the professedly pious, 230.

Church, the Evangelical Lutheran in the United States, 41, 186; For-
mula for the discipline and government of, 369, etc.; Constitution
of its Synod, 400.

Church, Methodist, the economy of, 193, etc.

Church, Romish, the corruptions of the, corrected by the reformers,
337, etc.; since the reformation, 354; in America, 356.

Circumcision, 203; never revoked, 211.

Color, no objection to the oneness of man's origin, 121.

Cyprian referred to, 338.

Colonization Society, the American, 277, etc.

Communicant's Companion, 232, Note.

Communion, Sacramental, admission to, 228; in one kind an abuse,

338; see Lord's Supper.

Conferences, special, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church 393.

Confessio Augustana, 357, etc.

Confession, in the Lutheran Church, 258, etc.

Confirmation, 228, etc.; Augsburg Confession on, and Calvin, 238.
Congregations vacant in the Evan. Luth, church, 392.

Council of the Lutheran Church in America, 375, etc.; comp. 234.
Covenant of works, 133; of grace, 135; of God with Abraham, etc.
203; children brought under the covenant of grace by Baptism 225.
Creation and preservation, 109, etc.

Creeds, remarks upon, and injurious ones, 41, etc.; the Augsburg
Creed, 38, comp, 42 and 357.

D.

Deacons, not ministers, 190; their (and elders' duties,) 373.

Dead, Baptism for, 222.

Death, physical etc. 298.

Decrees of God, 82, etc; respecting man's future destiny, 97, etc.;
see election, predestination and government.

Dependence on God extends even to spiritual prosperity, 154.

Depravity, of natural, 123, etc.

Discipline, moral, promoted by physical evil, 94.

Doctrines, above reason, 63, 78, etc.

Dwight, Dr. quoted on the atonement, etc. 108.

E.

Economies, the different, 143.

Elders, see deacons.

Election, the doctrine of, 97, etc.

Elections in the Lutheran American church, 379.

Essenes, practised baptism, 198.

Eucharist, the Saviour's presence in, opinions respecting it, 245, etc.
Evil, origin of, 114, 124. See sin.

Evils, Physical, promote moral discipline, 93.

Exorcism at baptism, 201.

F.

Faith the condition of salvation, 107; its effects, etc. 165, etc. justify-
ing, 168.

Fall of man, the consequences of, 123, etc. 133.

Falling from a state of justification, 146.

Festivals, etc. among the reformers, 268, etc.

Formula for the Evan. Lutheran church in America, 369, etc.

Formula concordantiae, on the mystery of the supper, 251, and Note.
Friends, alone reject the Lord's supper, 242.

G.

God, the discoveries of reason respecting him unsatisfactory, 13, etc.;
the general subject, 44, etc.; not the author of sin, 91; why he
permits it, 93; does not literally harden the heart, 106; the crea-
tor and preserver of all things, 109.

Government, the design of the divine, 83, etc.

Government, church, different systems of, 186.

Government, civil, 271, etc.; as to the church, 280.

Government, our national, 282, etc.; does not meddle with religion, 287.
Governments, our state, not all equally republican, 286, Note.

Grace, covenant of, 135, etc.

Grace, the means of, 148, etc.; demand the Holy Spirit, 152, etc.
Gregory on infant baptism, 216.

H.

Hands, the imposition of in confirmation, 235, 237, etc.

Heart, in what sense God hardens it, 106.

Heresy not to be put down by persecution, 287.

I.

Illumination, etc. of the sinner, 166.

Immersion, 216, etc.

Inability of man, 141, 328.

Infant-baptism, 202, etc.; the subjects of it how admitted to the
Lord's Supper, 228, etc.

Infants saved, 128, 225; belonged to the Jewish church, 203; Not to
be denied baptism because they cannot exercise faith, 213.
Installation in the Am. Luth. Church, 399.

Irenaeus quoted on infant baptism, 214.

J.

Jesus, no impostor, 18; a man, (comp. Christ) 54; in the Eucharist, 245.
Jews, baptism among them, 204.

Judgment, Christ's return to, 288; the final one, 313, etc.

Justification in general, 131, etc.; nature, evidences, etc. 144, etc.

K.

Knowledge, our religious, from reason, 10 etc.; of itself useless, 230.

L.

Labor, free, compared to slave, 278.

Liberty, the seeds of sown by the reformers, 273.

Licensure of candidates in the Evan. Luth. American Church, 396.

Life, the Christian in general, 165, etc.

Lightfoot, quoted on Jewish baptism, 206.

Lord's Supper, a means of grace, 150; the institution, 240, etc.; opin-
ions of the mystical presence in, 245; subjects of, etc. 255.
Love, Christian, 177, etc.; the most ardent, for souls, 180.

Luther referred to, 97, 140, 248, 287, 342.

Lutheranism, symbol of, 40. See Church Lutheran.

M.

Maimonides on Jewish baptism, 205.

Man, may be a voluntary unbeliever, 12; as a moral agent, 13; his
destiny fixed by his conduct, 97; origin and first state, 118, etc.
Martyr, Justin, on infant baptism, 214.

Mass, an abomination, 342.

Matrimony of the priests lawful, 339; comp. 347.

Matter, in no state, self-existent, 111.

Meats, diversity of useless, 344; greatly burden the conscience, 345.

Mediatorial work of Jesus, 130, etc.

Melancthon, his views of the mystery of the Supper, 251.

Members of the Lutheran Am. Church, 378.

Methodists, economy of their church, 193, etc. and Note, 195.

Millennium the, 288, etc.

Ministers in general, 188, etc.; the support of, 193; as to politics, 280;
comp. 339, 351; process against in the Evan. Luth. Church, 389.
Missions in the Evan. Luth. Church, 392.

Monasticism, 347, etc.; vows of, annul not the right to marry, 348.
Moravians, retain the Augsburg Confession, 40.

Mosheim on the mystery of the supper, 249.

0.

Obedience, new, the result of faith and repentance, 165, etc.-comp. 260.
Officers in the Lutheran Church of America, 372.

Orders, church, 267; comp. under Ministers, 188, etc.

Ordinance to a divine, what necessary, 217.

Ordination in the Evan. Luth. Am. Church, 397.

Origen, quoted on infant baptism, 214; on catechumens, 236.

P.

Pastors in the American Lutheran Church, 372.

Pedobaptism, see infant baptism.

Patriot, the Christian, 271, etc.

Perfection, sinless, rejected, 261; unattainable on earth, 264; comp.
271, and 330.

Persecution, see heresy.

Political affairs, what the Lutheran Church teaches as to, 271, etc.
Pope, his temporal power, 354; his efforts in United States, 356.

Prayer, of the unregen. 142; a means of grace, 150; in general, 153, etc.
Prayer meetings in the Lutheran American Church, 380, etc.
Predestination, 97.

Priests, celibacy of, 339.

Probation, life the only state of, 304.

Profession of religion, see Confirmation.

Providence of God, see Government, Decrees, etc.

Purposes of God, how extensive, and of two kinds, 95.

R.

Reason cannot do much for us in Religion, 10, etc.; see Trinity.
Reformation, the effects of the, on governments, 273.

Reformers, 38, 247, 273.

Relations our, to a superior power hardly determined by reason, 14.
Religion, the Jewish extensively known, 11; children brought under
the influence of by baptism, 225; profession of among the Lu-
therans, 228, etc.; under our national constitution, 286.
Religion, of natural, or the religion of reason, 9, etc.

Repentance defined, 168; an obligatory duty, 174; of sins committed
after baptism, 260; see Faith.

Resurrection, 288, 310, etc.

Revelation, one needed, etc. 15; its relation to reason, 63, etc.

Revelution in government, when right, 275.

Righteous, the happiness of, after death, 317, etc.

Sabbath, when instituted, 111.

S.

Sacraments, how many, 197; definition of the term, 198; use of, 266.
Saints, perseverance of, 260; Luther's belief, 262; invoc. of, 116, 335.
Salvation, gratuitous through faith, 107; plan of through Christ, 132,
etc.; attained through the use of means, 141.

Sanctification, nature and definition of, 170.
Satan tempted our first parents, 114, 124.

Session ministerial of Evan. Luth. Am. Church, 394.

Sin, who its author, 91; comp. 329; why permitted, 93; for the sub-
ject in general see under natural depravity, 123, etc.; original, 125,
etc.; remission of through baptism, 227; comp. 237.

Sinner, man known to be a, by reason, 14; how saved, 132, etc.;
his ability, 141; his justification, 144; his change, 166, etc.

Slavery, 276; guilt of on whom, 278.

Slaves, not to be forced back to Africa, 278.

Socrates felt the want of a revelation, 15.

Son of God, his mediatorial work, 130.

Soul, immortality of, not determined by reason, 15; the intermediate
state of, see State; not material, 303.

Spirit, Holy, personality of, 60; divinity of, 62; in regeneration, 152;
gifts of conferred by laying on the hands, 237.
Spirits, wicked, will be judged, 316. See Angels.
Sprinkling, 217, 218; superior to immersion, 223.
State, the intermediate of departed spirits, 298, etc.

Synod, officers of the in the Luth. Am. Church, 381, etc.

Synods of the Lutheran Am. Church, 381.

T.

Transubstantiation, 246; Cicero quoted in reference to, Note, 247.

Trinity, 52, etc.; relation of to reason, 63.

Truths made known by revelation, 63, etc.

U.

Unbelief may be voluntary, 12, etc.

Union of church and state, 280, etc.; of Christians, 296.

Unregenerate, able to repent, 141.

V.

Volney, his absurd supposition in regard to the apostles, 18.
Vows, monastic; see Monasticism.

Wicked, the punishment of, 323.

W.

Wine, a substitute for in the communion, 243.

Will, Free, 12; comp. 131, 148, 328.

Works, good, their bearing upon our salvation, 107, etc.; covenant of,
133; comp. 260; in regard to faith, 330; see justification.

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