AARON, his ordination, 91, 92.
ABSOLUTION, 141-154; its nature, 142;
requisites for, and power of, 142. 144;
effect of, 144; 147-149; no differ-
ence on the subject between the Eng-
lish and American Churches, 149;
difference of practice, 149; how re-
ceived in the American Church, 151.
ABUSE, takes not away the lawful use,
215.

ADVENT, the second, 43.
ADVOWSONS, 384.

AERIUS, his heresy, 108, 109.
AIDAN, of Lindisfern, 174. 191.
ALBAN, St., 171.

ALEXANDRIA, Patriarch of, 129. 133.
ANGELS of Churches, 106. 140.
ANICETUS, Pope, 185, 186.
ANTIOCH, Patriarch of, 129. 133.
APOCRYPHAL Books, 69, 70; how read
in the English Church, 69, 70; how
in the American, 70.
APOSTACY, what it is, 23.

APOSTLES, meaning of the term, 92, 93;
their offices, ordinary and extraordi-
nary, 110, 111; (see Bishops, Episco-
pacy, Apostolic Succession;) equality
of, 287, 288. 294.

APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION, (see Succession,)
in the Church of England, 216-234;
in the American Church, 335.
APPEALS to Rome, 179-181, restrained,
197, 198.
ARK, the, 9. 34.

ARMENIAN testimonies to Episcopacy,
124.

ARTICLES, Thirty-nine, their character,
207-212.

ARTICULI CLERI, 198.

ASBURY, pretended Bishop, 354.
AUGUSTINE, St., of Canterbury, 170-190.
AUTHORITY, its proper place and founda-
tion, 393.

BAPTISM, Sacrament of admission into
the Church, 8, 9. 20. 86, 87; its ef-
fects, 8; Baptismal regeneration, 21,
22; Sacrament of regeneration and
remission of original sin, 145, 146;
of infants, 146; against iteration of,
240, 241; conditional form of admi-
nistering, 240; schismatical, 240.
BENEDICTION, Episcopal and Sacerdotal,
154-166; what it is, 158; of things,
162.

BERTHA, Queen, 181.

BISHOPS, (see Episcopacy,) meaning of
the term, 96; necessary and repre-
sentatives of the Apostles, 314. 98
-110. 252-254; functions of, 29.
110-124. 247; interpreters of the
Scriptures, 29; the highest order of
ministers, 95; derivation and mean-
ing of the word, 96; successors and
representatives of the Apostles, 98-
110. 252-254; why not called Apos-
tles, 99; how far presbyter and episco-
pus are commutable, 100, 101, 102,
103; existed at the close of the Aposto-
lic age, 104; had Apostolic power, 105;
their succession authorized by our
Blessed Lord, 106; universal for 1500
years, 107, 108, 109; only succeed to
the ordinary functions of the Apos-
tles, 110; what functions are ordi-
nary and what extraordinary, 110,
111; are the only ministers of ordi-
nation, 111-113. 250-252; neces-
sity not anciently held to authorize
an exception to that rule, 113; neces-
sity cannot exist where there are
Bishops, 114; chief pastors, 128; as
Diocesans, Metropolitans, and Patri-
archs, 125-134; not more than one
in a city, 128; benediction by, 161;
centres of unity in their respective
dioceses, 165; their functions, 247;
(401)

their pastoral character, 248, 249;
the only ministers of ordination, 250
-252; ministers of confirmation and
of the consecration of Churches, 252;
their equality, 254; not to intrude
into each other's dioceses, 261-263;
their relation to their dioceses and
to their presbyters, 263-266; their
mission within their dioceses, 267-
271; election of, 273; confirmation
of, 274; whence they derive their
special mission, 274; in what cases
they may act beyond the limits of
their dioceses, 276-281; the ground
of that authority, 276-281; power
of ordination inherent in their office,
281; how the first Bishops of new
dioceses are consecrated, 282; their
authority divided into three parts,
285; their equality, 287, 288. 297,
298; necessary to the perfection of a
Church, 314; and to its being, 314;
indispensable to the government
of a Church, 321; and to the revi-
sion of a Liturgy, 332; consecration
of, by three Bishops, 338-340; con-
secration by one Bishop, 338-340;
the grace of the Episcopate may be
received by one who is not a priest,
348.

BISHOPS OF ENGLAND, (see Church of
England,) number of, at the Saxon
invasion, greater than at this day,
173; see also 188; (see jurisdiction;)
division of their authority, 311; their
correspondence on the subject of the
American Episcopate, 331; their or-
ders in the reign of Henry VIII., un-
disputed, 336; mode of selecting
them, 384. 387; abuses, 387; com-
pelled by the State to consecrate
others. 387.

BISHOPS OF IRELAND, their history, 340
-342.

BISHOPS, AMERICAN, consecration of
Bishop Seabury, 324; of Bishops
White and Provost, 332; of Bishop
Madison, 336; of Bishop Claggett,
336; organized as a House, 324;
their Orders, Mission, and Jurisdic-
tion, 335-366; trace their Ecclesi-
astical descent from the Apostles,
through both the English and Scot-
tish lines, 336; orders thus traced,
indisputable, 336; orders of the Eng-

lish Bishops in Henry VIII., the
time undisputed, 336; Archbishop
Parker's consecration, 336; his Ec-
elesiastical descent, 337; their Eccle-
siastical pedigree, 336-344; its vali-
dity not affected by the Romish objec-
tions to the Ordinal, 345-351; their
mission, 351-353; in the new terri-
tories of the United States, 361-
366; how elected, 368.

BISHOPS of the Church of Rome, their
oath to the Pope; (see Oath ;) are
feudal vassals of the papacy, and
peers of the Pope's creation, 300; in
America, 353; consecration of, by one
Bishop, 338-340; in America, 353.
BONIFACE, III., Pope, 191. 232; VIII.,
232.

BRITISH CHURCH, 170-181.
BULLS PAPAL, Unam Sanctam, 230;
and in Coena Domini, 235, 236.
BULLS of Excommunication, 233. 236.

CAERLEON, Bishop of, 172, 173. 184.
CALVINISTIC testimonies in favour of
Episcopacy, 123, 124.

CANON LAW, (see Councils, Decretals,)
statement of, with respect to the pa-
pal power, 229-332.

CANON of 1571, concerning preachers,

214.

CANONS of 1603, their regard for anti-
quity, 208; their rules for preachers,
213, 214.

CANON of Scripture, 62, 63, 64.
CANONICAL BOOKS, 62, 63, 64.
CANTERBURY, the Patriarchal See of
England, 190.

CARROLL, Romish Bishop, 353.
CATALOGUES of Church governors, 108.
CATECHISING, 74.

CATHEDRAL CHURCH, the Parish Church
of the whole Diocese, 165.
CATHOLIC, 5, 6.
CATHOLIC COMMUNION, what, 241–243.
CATHOLICS, who, 6.
CEREMONIES, (see Rites,) English Prayer
Book upon, 392.

CHARITY, Truth the greatest, 122.
CHRIST, (see JESUS CHRIST.)
CHURCH, etymology and meaning of
the word, 1. 174; names for, 1, 2;
more than an assembly, 2, 3. 315; a
visible society, 3; of whom com-
posed, 3; designations of the Church,

3; unity of the Church, 3, 4. 36;
holiness, 4, 5. 9; Catholicity, 5, 6;
Apostolicity, 7, 8; mode of admission
into, 8; its mixed condition, 11;
types of, 9, 10, 11; parables concern-
ing, 9, 10, 11; visible and militant,
9. 12. 20-26; why so called, 13; in-
visible, 15; visible and invisible, not
two Churches, 15; what promises be-
long to the invisible Church, 17;
what to the visible, 17; duties belong
to the visible Church, 17; duty of
Christians to belong to the visible
Church, 20. 33; mode of admission,
20, 21, 22; separation from visible
Church, 22, 23; separation from visi-
ble Church not final, 24; separation
from the invisible Church, 26; visible
Church has no visible head, 26. 28. 83;
government of the Church, 27, 28;
Church founded by Jesus Christ, 29;
her dignity and glory, 29, et seq.; her
glorious titles, 30; represented by
marriage; true religion the charac-
teristic of the Church, 31; salvation
only in the Church, 33, 34. 38, 39;
only one Church, 36, 37; prefigured
by Eve, 37; Church before the Incar-
nation, 40; Catholic Church cannot
fail, 42; but a particular Church,
even a patriarchal Church, may, 48;
invisible Church cannot err, 43; visi-
ble Church waxes and wanes, 43, 44;
particular Churches may err, 44; so
may councils, 44; Church at large,
what it is, 48; how it ratifies the acts
of Councils, 48; keeper and witness
of Holy Writ, 62; interpreter of Holy
Scripture, 72. 85; errors in the Church,
43, 44. 85; definition of the Church,
31-33; her constitution, 2. 4. 8. 27,
28; one or united, 3; how her unity is
maintained, 3; (see Unity;) notes of
the Church, 13, 14; invisible, 15;
not two Churches, 15; Church the
Body and Spouse of Christ, 30. 35,
36; on errors in the Church, 42-60.
85; Catholic Church cannot fail, 42;
discipline, (see Keys,) a note of the
Church, 135; the depository of grace
and the house of discipline, 147; has
a right to regulate ceremonies, 153;
likened to a sea, 169. 316; commu-
nion and unity, 162. 239-243. 303-
306; rational what, 314; imperfec-

tion of, 314; how it can exist in an
imperfect state, 315; cannot consist
of laymen only, 316; difference be-
tween a Church and an assembly,
315, 316; relations of Church and
State, 369-379; same in England,
379-388; its object, 372; not the
same society with the State, 370;
why, 370-373; cannot enter into
alliance with the State, 373; why,
373-376; concurrent jurisdiction
with the State, 377.

CHURCH, AMERICAN, her doctrine of
absolution, 149; her practice, 149
-153; has a right to regulate her
own practice, 154; her origin and
early history, 307-318; her origin,
307; why not the most numerous
denomination in the United States,
307-309; how introduced into New
England, 309; formerly established
in Maryland and Virginia, 310; how
supplied with Clergy before the Ame-
rican Revolution, 310; how governed,
311; former authority of the Bishops
of London, 311; the basis of that
authority, 313; its termination, 313;
effects of the American Revolution
on the Ecclesiastical position of the
Church, 313; condition of the little
national Churches, to which that
event gave rise, 314; their want of
organization, 316; bound by the
Ecclesiastical Law of the English
Church, 316-318; history of her or-
ganization, 318-335; two principles
in her government, Divine and hu-
man, 320; effect of the Divine prin-
ciple on her organization, 321; her
condition before the formation of the
present government; 321; her inter-
nal bonds of union at that time, 322;
mode in which the diocesan organi-
zation was developed, 322; her go-
vernment depeloped from what re-
mained of the old government, 323;
organization of diocesan Conventions,
322. 325; principles of that organi-
zation, 325; necessity for a General
Convention, 326; its development,
327-335; fully organized in 1789;
334; but not upon proper princi-
ples, until 1808, 334; her internal
constitution, 367-369; founded on
two great principles, 367; inde-