A Body of Divinity, Vol. 2 (of 4): Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger CatechismRidgley, Thomas
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A Body of Divinity, Vol. 2 (of 4): Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism
_Texts urged for it explained_ 343
_How the word_ All, &c. _is to be explained_ 341
_Special Redemption,_
_consistent with the covenant of grace_ 329
_and with preaching the gospel_ 331
_It advances grace more than general does_ 337
_It leads not to despair_ 331
_Whether it be contrary to scripture_ 338
_Christ intercedes not for all_ 324
_Divine expostulations explained_ 333
_How all should repent and believe, though Christ died not for all_ 335
_Sacrifice of Christ sufficient for all_, in a note 349
QUEST. XLV. Of Christ’s Kingly office.
_As respecting his subjects_
_What they were, before subdued_ 353
_How brought into subjection_ 354
_How their subjection expressed at first_ 357
_Their behaviour and conflicts_ 358
_How Christ deals with them_ 361
_As respecting his enemies_ 362
_He governed the church before and since his incarnation_ 364
_This office executed by him in glory_ 365
Of the MILLENNIUM.
_Various opinions about it_ 366
_Some have gross_ Ideas _of it_ 370
_What shall precede or attend it_ 368
_Gospel shall then be more spread_ 373
_How this doctrine to be treated_ 367
_In what respects it is to be allowed_ 368
_Some prophecies of the call of the_ Jews _not yet fulfilled_ 376
_Why Christ shall not reign visibly in his human nature_ 379
_Temple-service not to be revived_ 381
_Gospel-ordinances shall be continued_ 382
_First resurrection; how understood by some_ 383
_Its literal sense debated_ 384
_General conflagration_ 387
_New heavens and new earth_ 388
_Resurrection of the church sometimes taken mystically_ 389
_1000 years how understood by some_ 391
_These not yet begun_ _ibid_
_Mediatorial kingdom of Christ eternal_ 392
1 Cor. xv. ver. 24, 25, 28. _explained_ 393
QUEST. XLVI, XLVII, XLVIII. Of Christ’s Humiliation.
_This shewn in his birth and infancy_ 398
_In his parentage_ 399
_In the place of his birth and abode_ 400
_In the sinless infirmities of his life_ 422
_In his being made under the law_ 401
_In his being exposed to indignities_ 402
_Temptations endured by him_ 404
_General remarks on them_ 406
_The time and place thereof_ 405
_His first temptation_ 410
_His second temptation_ 412
_Its matter explained_ 416
_His third temptation_ 417
_What to be observed therein_ 419
_Temptations were mental_, in a note 420
Quest. XLIX, L. Of Christ’s humiliation before and after his death.
_Christ betrayed by_ Judas 424
_Forsaken by his disciples_ 425
_Denied by_ Peter 426
_Scorned by the world_ _ibid_
_Reviled by many_ 428
_Inferences_ _ibid_
_Prosecuted by the_ Jews 429
_Condemned by_ Pilate _ibid_
_Tormented by his persecutors_ 431
_Bore the wrath of God_ _ibid_
_Death of the cross cruel and painful_ 433
_Shameful, servile, and cursed_ 434
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