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
_Christ buried with respect by his friends_ 437
_Was under the power of death till the third day_ 438
_Of his descent into hell_ 440
_How the Papists understand it_ 441
1 Pet. iii. 18. _explained_, in a note 442
QUEST. LI, LII. Of Christ’s Resurrection and Exaltation.
_Resurrection of Christ proved_ 444
_By credible witnesses_ 448
_They were men of integrity_ 449
_By the conduct of his enemies_ 450
_By miracles_ 451
_Properties of his risen body_ 452
_Christ raised the third day_ 453
_Reasons of it_ 454
_Was not three whole days and nights in the grave_ 455
Socinians’ _account of Christ’s resurrection_ 457
_Christ’s own and his peoples’ concern in his resurrection_ 458
QUEST. LIII, LIV. Of Christ’s Ascension.
_It was real and visible_ 464
_Its necessity and design_ 468
_Its distance from the time of his resurrection_ 461
_How this interval was employed_ 463
_Matter of his conversation with his disciples_ 464
_Remarks on what preceded it_ 460
_He ascended from mount_ Olivet 467
_Christ’s sitting at the right hand of God_ 471
QUEST. LV. Of Christ’s Intercession.
_Necessity of it_ 473
_His fitness for it_ 474
_Manner of it_ 477
_How it differs from our prayers_ 476
_What procured by it_ 479
_How to be improved_ _ibid_
QUEST. LVI. Of Christ’s coming to judge the world.
_The time of his appearance_ 481
_The glory that shall attend it_ 482
QUEST. LVII, LVIII, LIX. Of the benefits of redemption, and the
application thereof.
_Benefits procured by Christ_ 486
_These applied by the Holy Ghost_ 487
_To all for whom they were purchased_ (_vide_ 349) 488
QUEST. LX. Of the disadvantages of those who never hear the gospel.
_State of the Heathen considered_ 491
_No salvation without the gospel_—tamen quære 492
_Nor without faith in Christ_—tamen quære _ibid_
_Deists; falseness of their hope set forth_ 494
_False grounds of hope in others_ 496
_Salvation in none but Christ_ 498
_This proved_ 499
_Objections answered_ 502
_Christ the Saviour only of his Body the church_ 508
QUEST. LXI, LXII, LXIII, LXIV. Of the Church, visible and invisible.
Church, _the word how used_, (515 in a note) 510
_Places of worship so termed_ 511
_Their first erection_ 512
_Its distinction into visible and invisible_ 516
_Invisible church described_ 519
_This farther explained and defended_ 520
_Visible church described_ 521
_In what respects it is one_ 522
_In what respects it is not one_ _ibid_
_Its concern for the children of its members_ 526
Jewish _church, its establishment_ ibid
_Its government_ 527
_How they promoted religion in their synagogues_ 529
_Their_ Proseuchæ, _or places appointed for prayer_ 530
_A particular_ gospel-church _described_ 536
_Its matter_ 539
_Its form or bond of union_ 540
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