The identity of our mode of consecration in the Eucharist with the

Apostolical

That consecration by Apostolical authority is essential to the participa-

tion of the Eucharist

The separation of the clergy from the people as a distinct order

The threefold order of the priesthood

The government of the Church by Bishops

The Apostolical succession

General remarks on the nature of our appeal to antiquity on the above

points

Of points purely doctrinal.

PAG E

48, 49

49-56

56-60

60-66

66-72

72-132

Baptismal regeneration

The virtue of the Eucharist as a commemorative sacrifice

That there is an intermediate state in which the souls of the faithful

are purified and grow in grace, that they pray for us, and that our

prayers benefit them

The descent of Christ into hell, and the validity of baptism performed

by heretics

Of points concerning matters of fact, &c.

That Melchizedek's feast is a type of the Eucharist

That the Book of Canticles represents the union between Christ and

his Church

190-201

201, 202

202

202

202

..

That Wisdom in the Book of Proverbs refers to the Second Person of

the Trinity

CHAPTER IX.

THE SUFFICIENCY OF HOLY SCRIPTURE TO TEACH MANKIND THE

CHRISTIAN RELIGION

That all the fundamental and essential points of faith and practice

are clearly and plainly delivered in the Scriptures, and conse-

quently that the Scriptures are well adapted and amply sufficient

to teach men all such points

Shown

(1) From the testimony of Scripture

(2) From the professed object of the sacred writers of the New Testa-

ment, which was to teach all the great truths of the Gospel without

concealment or reserve.

(3) From the persons to whom the writings, of the Apostles were ad-

(4) From the evident simplicity of the language of the New Testament 231, 232

(5) From its actual effects

232, 233

(6) From the nature of its subject, compared with the revealed cha-

racter of its Author

That all the doctrines of the Christian faith are as plainly delivered

n the Scriptures as, to our knowledge, they are revealed

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That the best and only infallible expositor of Scripture is Scrip-

ture; or, in other words, that the best mode of judging of the

sense of any passage is by a comparison of it with the testimony of

Scripture in other parts; first, by comparing it with the context,

with passages similarly worded, with such plain places of Scrip-

ture as can illustrate its meaning, and with all that is stated in

Scripture respecting the subject treated of; and, secondly, by

considering it in connexion with the whole scheme of doctrine

clearly revealed in Scripture

General proofs .

252-254

Quotations from Dr. Chaloner and Bishop Horsley on the general
subject of this chapter

CHAPTER X.

THE DOCTRINE OF THE FATHERS ON THE SUBJECT OF THIS WORK

On the Tractators' doctrine of catholic consent being a divine in-

formant, supplementary to, and interpretative of, Scripture.

General remarks •

Testimony of,

Justin Martyr (fl. a. 140.)

Origen (fl. a 230.).

262-274
262-265

265, 266

Whether Scripture is the sole and complete Rule of faith and Judge

266, 267

267, 268

268

269-274

290, 201

291-300

300-310

Eusebius of Cæsarea (fl. a. 315)

The Council of Nice (a. 325).

Athanasius (fl. a 326)

Cyril of Jerusalem (fl. a. 350.)

Hilary of Poictiers (fl. a. 354.,

Epiphanius (fl. a. 368.)

Optatus (fl. a. 368.)

Basil of Cæsarea (fl. a. 370.)

Gregory of Nyssa (fl. a. 370.)

Ephræm Syrus (fl. a. 370.)

Ambrose (fl. a. 374.)

Jerome (fl. a. 378.)

Theophilus of Alexandria (fl. a. 385.

Rufinus (fl. a. 390.)

Augustine (fl. a. 396.)

Cyril of Alexandria (fl. a. 412.)

Isidore of Pelusium (fl. a. 412.

Theodoret (fl. a. 423.)

Vincentius of Lirins (fl. a. 434.)

Salvian (fl. a. 440.)

Prosper (fl. a. 444.).

Cosmas Indicopleustes (fl. a. 535.)

Anastasius of Antioch (fl. a. 561.)

Gregory (fl. a. 590.)

451-456

456-470

470, 471

471

471, 472

472

472-475

SECTION IV.

Whether Scripture is the sole divine Rule of practice

Some of the Fathers distinctly advocate the view that, in all points,

Holy Scripture is the sole Divine Rule of practice, as-

Firmilian of Cæsarea (fl. a. 233.)

Socrates the historian (fl. a. 439)

Of those who appear in some parts of their writings to take the opposite

view, some have elsewhere so modified their testimony as to leave it

upon the whole but little different to all practical purposes to that of

the former, as-

Jerome (fl. a. 378.).

Augustine (fl. a. 396.)

476

476, 477
477, 478

Were the testimony of these Fathers different to what it is, our oppo-

nents, both Romanists and Tractators, could not consistently

maintain that such (supposed) Apostolical traditions are obligatory

on the Church, because they do not themselves adopt them all.

SECTION V.

Whether Scripture is sufficiently clear to teach the faith, and how

Whether patristical tradition is the ground upon which our belief

in the inspiration of Scripture must be founded

THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND HER PRINCIPAL

DIVINES ON THE SUBJECT OF THIS WORK

Preliminary remarks

Principal Contents.

583-802

583-588

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Testimony of

The Church of England (speaking in her authorized documents)

Bishop Jewell

Hooker

Bishop Morton

Bishop Hall

Archbishop Laud

Jackson

Archbishop Usher

Bishop Taylor

Bishop Stillingfleet

Bishop Patrick

Waterland

Bishop Van Mildert

Concluding remarks