OF THE OFFICE AND DIGNITIES OF THE REDEEMER.
His office defined, 78. His birth, 78-80. His infancy, youth, and early manhood, 80. His public life, 80-83. His passion, death, and burial, 83-85. The descent of His soul into Limbo, 85-92. His resurrection, 92-96. His ascension, 96-98. His dignities of name, 98; as King, ib.; as Head of the Church, 99, 100-111; as Judge, 100, 111-125
OF THE BENEFITS OF OUR REDEMPTION.
Their nature and effect through the merits of Christ, 126. The value and reward of His merits, 126-129. The benefits individually — viz.. His satisfaction and propitiation, 129- 131; redemption, 131-136; impetration, 136-141. His merits in relation to the salvation of mankind, 141-143
OF FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.
Definition of faith in general, 144. Faith Divine and human, 145. Their relative certainty, ib. Divine faith, how described in Scripture, 145, 146. Faith in Christ defined, 146. His office as our heavenly teacher, 146, 147. The character of His doctrine, 147. The necessity of belief therein, and in Himself to salvation, and how those before His coming saved, 147-151. The means of our knowledge of the nature of His revealed truths, 151.
OF THE RULE OF FAITH.
By whom a rule of faith left, 152. Its essential properties, whence shown, 152, 153. Its necessity, 153. The Protestant as distinguished from the Catholic rule, 153, 154. How the true rule to be determined, 154. The character of the written Word alone, as a rule of faith, and the consequence, 154-158. That of the Catholic rule or written Word as interpreted by the Church, 158-163. The Church, therefore, the rule, 163, 164. Farther direct proofs of this, and how these more fully appear, 164. Tradition treated, 165-174. Importance of knowledge of the Church, 174. What the Apostles' Creed proves concerning her, 174. 175
