Chapter XXXIX: Part III

• Close Communion considered, 352–389.
• of Presbyterians, 356–365.
• required by Christ, 365–382.
• Claims of Christian courtesy, 382–386.
• Claims of Church discipline, 385–388.

INDEX TO THE ARGUMENTS IN THE SECOND VOLUME OF THEODOSIA ERNEST.

• The use of fictitious narratives to illustrate or enforce religious
truth, pp. 1–10.
• The characteristics of a true Church may be known by the Scriptures,
16–24.
• The Church has no branches, 17–21.
• The Church of Christ is not the same as the Kingdom of Christ,
32–50, 68–70.
• What is the Kingdom? 33.
• The kingdom did not exist before Christ came, 34–36.
• The nature of the kingdom, 36–38.
• Terms of citizenship in the kingdom, 39–44.
• A visible and an invisible kingdom, 44–46.
• The Church is the executive of the visible kingdom, 47–49.
• Common meaning of the word Church, 70.
• Scriptural meaning of the word Church, 70–76.
• Proof that the Church was an independent, local assembly, 76–90.
• There is no universal Church, 90–130.
• “On this rock,” (Matt. xvi. 18,) 97–104.
• “Tell it to the Church,” (Matt. xviii. 15, 20,) 104–117.
• Other texts commonly thought to refer to a Church universal,
117–130.
• How shall we find the true Church? 133.
• It does not consist of believers and their children, 134–154.
• No society of unbaptized Christians can be a Church, 154.
• The Church is a local organization, 156.
• It is independent, and subject to no conference, presbytery, or the
like, 158.
• It is a voluntary society, 161.
• It holds to the faith of the gospel, 162.[491]
• It is an official body, 163.
• It is executive, not legislative, 165.
• Does history or the Bible decide what is the Church? 168–172.
• True value of historical tests, 173–176.
• The tablet, or ten short Scripture rules by which to try a Church,
183, 184.
• The ministers or officers of a Church, 186.
• The Church Of Rome tried, 187–256.
• Rome has changed Christ’s baptism, and substituted sprinkling and
pouring for immersion, 187–194.
• Did the Roman Catholic Church begin with Christ? 199.
• Episcopacy, the origin of, 208–241.
• Rome apostate, 245.
• The Protestant Churches consequently without baptism or ordination,
246–256.
• diagram of the Roman Catholic Church, 257.
• Infant baptism, when introduced, 258–271.
• The Church of England tried, 273–304.
• Diagram of the Church of England, 305.
• Methodist Episcopal Church tried, 306–401.
• Are infants members? 307–326.
• Are seekers members? 326–329.
• The independence of Methodist Churches, 330–341.
• Have they Christ alone for king? 342–374.
• Teaches baptismal regeneration, 378.
• History of Methodist Church, 394–399.
• Diagram of Methodist Church, 417.
• Presbyterian Church tried, 403–415.
• Diagram of Presbyterian Church, 415.
• Lutheran Church tried, 416.
• Diagram of Lutheran Church, 417.
• Luther a persecutor, 418–422.
• The Madmen of Munster not Baptists, 421.
• Congregational Churches tried, 422.
• Diagram of Congregational Churches, 424.
• Avoidable ignorance no excuse for sin, 426.
• No nonessentials in religion, 439.
• The Church in session, 441.
• The Baptist Churches tried, 445.
• Diagram of Church History, 476.
• Diagram of the Baptist Churches, 460.

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