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21. The Augsburg Confession expressly guards against a possible misconception of the reformed doctrine, “fide justificamur”?

22. The expression "mortal sin" occurs in our Articles?

23. Who first broached the error on this head confuted in the sixteenth Article?

24. How does Jeremy Taylor explain the Patristic statements which seem to favour the Novatian heresy?

25. What is the statement of our Article respecting the indefectibility of grace?

26. The Liturgy speaks the same language on this head as the Article?

27. The Arminian theory of prevision was distinctly stated by two at least of the early Fathers?

28. The doctrine of Ecclesiastical Election was in effect affirmed by an early Council?

29. Bossuet and other Romish writers have endeavoured to discover the Augustinian doctrine of predestination in an earlier Father?

30. All the Tridentine divines were agreed on one point regarding predestination?

31. One of the latter clauses of the seventeenth Article seems to decide that the Calvinistic views were not intended to be propounded by its framers?

32. On three out of the five Points the English Reformers were decidedly at variance with Calvin ?

33. The doctrine of particular redemption is absolutely refuted both in the Articles and Liturgy?

34. The Scriptural investigation of the doctrine of Election is rendered unnecessarily difficult in our Authorized Version?

35. What error is expressly anathematized in our Articles?

36. How is it designated in the Reformatio Legum ?

37. The Church of England interprets the maxim, "nulla salus extra Ecclesiam," quite differently from the Church of Rome ?

38. When do we first meet with formal definitions of The Church ?— and what gave occasion to them?

39. What is the definition of it given in our nineteenth Article?—and whence was it derived?

40. The essential relation of the Sacraments to the Church is strongly stated by Augustine?

41. Show that the proposed alteration of "the Visible Church" into "a Visible Church" in the nineteenth Article is inadmissible.

42. What are the Notes of The Church laid down in the Homilies? 43. One of these is omitted in the nineteenth Article? How is the omission to be accounted for?

44. The definition of The Church by Bellarmine differs from that given by the Reformers in only one material particular?

45. Where in the Liturgy is The Church regarded as coextensive with all professing Christians?

46. Where in the Liturgy is it specially designated the "mystical body" of Christ?

47. In the fifty-fifth Canon there is an important distinction between The Church and the Churches?

48. In the nineteenth Article two of the asserted prerogatives of the Church of Rome are denied?

49. According to Dr. Hey, what error of the Eastern Churches is referred to in this Article ?

50. The word "schism" occurs twice in the Liturgy?

51. What is the definition given of it in the occasional Service?

52. The importance of establishing the disputed clause of the twentieth Article has been needlessly exaggerated?

53. The statement in question was not a novel one among the Reformers?

54. Why were the Queen and her Council so desirous of an explicit assertion of the authority of the Church?

55. The first Ecumenical Council furnishes a historical commentary on this clause of Article xx. ?

56. The ancient Councils generally followed the maxim of the Council of Nice in the decision of points respecting which Scripture is silent?

57. The authority of the Church is limited by our Articles both as regards the deciding of controversies of faith and the ordaining of rites and ceremonies?

58. In the matter of Church authority the Church of England has been charged with inconsistency?

59. Bishop Marsh rejects some replies to this charge, as being evasions rather than confutations of it?

60. It is of no avail to deny the genuineness of the first clause of the twentieth Article?

61. The authority claimed by the Church of England in this clause is not (as Burnet says) one of deference and respect, but of positive obligation?

62. How does Bishop Marsh vindicate the Church of England from the charge in question (58)?

63. The solution of the difficulty as to the compatibility of the authority of the Church with the exercise of the right of private judgment is very simple ?

64. To the existence of a Church as a society three things are essential?

65. The permission of withdrawal from the Church was not always accorded by the reformed Church of England?

66. The twenty-first Article lays down three principles respecting General Councils?

67. The supreme authority of Scripture in the decision of controversies of faith was very significantly expressed by the ancient Councils?

68. The general belief of the Western Church in Purgatory dates from what epoch?

69. The Scripture proofs alleged by Romanists in favour of Purgatory are of two kinds?

70. The modern doctrine of Indulgences differs widely from the form in which it was originally held?

71. When and by what Pope was the modern doctrine first distinctly enunciated?

72. The strongest plea urged by Romanists in defence of Image worship has been refuted by anticipation by Augustine ?

73. How far is the Church of Rome justly chargeable with dealing unfairly with the second Commandment?

74. What were the Libri Carolini, and what was their object?

75. The respect paid to the relics of the saints in ancient times was the result of a twofold motive?

76. Mariolatry showed itself early, and was at once protested against ? 77. The doctrine of the immediate glorification of the saints is essentially involved in the proof of two Romish dogmas?

78. There is a very ancient and high authority for extending the word Kλñpos to others besides bishops, priests, and deacons ?

79. Of the early Fathers only one is cited whose words seem to imply that the distinction between clergy and laity was not of apostolic origin? 80. What two Fathers are most confidently appealed to by Presbyterians in support of their system?

81. In one essential point these Fathers are against them?

82. Jerome's famous statement respecting the Church of Alexandria does not sustain the Presbyterian inference?

83. On what condition was Calvin willing to accept the episcopal form of Church government?

84. Cranmer for a time held a strange opinion regarding the power of ordination?

85. Lord Macaulay has asserted, on insufficient grounds, that the Church of England has contradicted in one of her synodic documents the principles laid down in the preface to the Ordinal ?

86. The argument that, because all Christians are called priests in the New Testament, there should be no distinct order of ministers, can be easily refuted?

87. The twenty-fifth Article in its original form (1552) had an introductory sentence adopted from Augustine, and which was subsequently dropped ?

88. In quoting Augustine's words in the original Article, a remarkable omission was made? How may it be accounted for?

89. On what grounds did the original Article refute the scholastic phrase "ex opere operato"?

90. The paragraph of the twenty-fifth Article relating to the five Romish sacraments underwent a curious change at the final revision in 1571 ?

91. Earliest extant application of the word "Sacramentum" to Christian usages?

92. How many Sacraments are acknowledged in the first Book of Homilies?

93. From what public document does it appear that even in Elizabeth's reign the number of the Sacraments was not definitively limited to two?

94. How far have the foreign Reformed Churches abolished auricular confession?

95. In what Church-of-England liturgical document was it allowed, but not commanded?

96. What is the teaching of our Prayer-book regarding private confession?

97. The only early Patristic authority alleged by Romanists in support of Extreme Unction is fatal to its recognition as a Sacrament?

98. The original Prayer-book of Edward VI. contained a trace of this Sacrament?

99. Augustine contrasts the Sacraments of the Old and New Dispensation in remarkable words?

100. Who were the first impugners of the necessity of the Sacraments, and of the grace imparted by them?

101. In regard to the efficacy of the Sacraments, Calvin held the mean between Luther and Zuingle

102. In what form did the question decided by Article xxvI. present itself to the early Church?

103. This Article meets an objection urged against the Orders of the Church of England by Romish divines?

104. What effects does the twenty-seventh Article attribute to Baptism in the case of those who rightly receive it?

105. Twofold effect of Baptism, according to Hooker?

106. What is the distinction, according to Waterland, between Regeneration and Renovation?

107. What was meant by "baptismus fluminis, flaminis, sanguinis," respectively?

108. In the doctrine of Baptismal regeneration there is confessedly one insoluble difficulty?

109. In two of the Articles Baptism and Regeneration are identified? 110. The sources from which our Office for Infant Baptism was drawn are important elements in deciding the controversy respecting Baptismal Regeneration?

111. The omission of any explicit direction on the part of our Lord respecting the Baptism of Infants is rather an argument in its favour than against it?

112. What theory of Infant Baptism was the twenty-ninth Canon framed, partly at least, to refute ?

113. The original draft of Article XXVIII. contained an important paragraph not found in our present Article?

114. The importance attached to it appears from another contempora neous document ?

115. Give an account of the subsequent omission of this paragraph. 116. What distinction is intended in the words, “atque adeo ritè, dignè, et cum fide sumentibus," &c. ?

117. Of the four reasons given for the rejection of Transubstantiation, which was added at the revision in 1562, and why then?

118. The adoration of the Eucharistic symbols is directly opposed to the teaching of the Church of England?

119. Did the Reformed English Church ever permit reservation of the elements? When was it prohibited?

120. In the Romish Church there exists an esoteric as well as an exoteric doctrine regarding the Eucharist ?

121. Hooker observes that, after Luther's death, the Lutherans and Zuinglians seemed to have come to a general agreement concerning that which alone is essential in the Eucharist?

122. Cranmer's views respecting the nature of the presence in the Eucharist passed through several phases?

123. In the second Prayer-book of Edward three important changes were made in the Communion Service, which have been thought to savour of Zuinglian tendencies?

124. The words of the Elizabethan Book of Homilies are very express against Zuinglian tendencies?

125. The history of the twenty-ninth Article is remarkable?

126. How has its omission from the printed copies of 1 562 been accounted for?

127. This twenty-ninth Article is a necessary corollary from the twenty-eighth?

128. The ancient Liturgies have been appealed to against the doctrine of the twenty-ninth Article?

129. Such an inference from the prayer of Invocation cannot be sustained?

130. In the earliest extant Patristic account of the administration of the Eucharist, both species are mentioned ?

131. The practice of communion under one kind was a natural consequence of another Romish dogma ?

132. Scripture seems decidedly opposed to the doctrine of concomitance?

133. The decision of Pope Gelasius on the subject of half-communion is very striking?

134. The condemnation of the Romish dogma of the Sacrifice of the

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