Luther, his vehemence, 328; efforts
for education, 347; view of the permanence of Christianity, 379. Lyranus Nicolaus, his Postille per- petuæ, 329.
MAHOMETANISM, 26, 27; its present progress, 363, 372, 375. Man, how superior to the animals, 109.
Mansel, Dean, his view of Divine interposition, 133.
Marathon, religious importance of this victory, 135.
Marriage, Christian view of, 271. Martyrs in Science as in Religion, 197.
Materialism, its connection with Positivism, 68; incompatible with ignorance of physical causes, 91; its gloomy character, 222; its present aspect, 244.
Matter, not eternal, 90; warrants in-
ference of the existence of God, 95. Medieval Christianity, its corrup-
tions, 313, 355; inevitable, 314; its military character, 315; cor- ruptions of doctrine, 317; false supports, 320; extravagance, 349; suppression of criticism, 351; its liberality, 360.
Melancthon, 323, 327, 347. Method of Residues applicable to History, 128.
Middle Ages, their religious charac- ter, 173.
Miracles, classification of, 138. Missions, whether incompatible with Private Judgment, 361; prospects of, 362, 370; early recognition of, 363; continuous, 364; their pro- gress since the Reformation, 365, 366, 368.
Monasticism, Christian, its origin, 297; a remedy to excessive indus- trialism, 299; involved labour, 300; merits of, 301; its defects, 302; self-regenerative power, 303. Monotheism, its relation to Christi- anity, 85.
Morality truly progressive, 163, 164; advanced by Christianity, 165; Christian morality the corollary of its doctrines, 178; distinguished from Religion, 258.
Mysteries, essential to Religion as re- vealed, 141; economy of Christi- anity in respect of, 141. Mysticism, the correlative of Ration- alism, 142; its relation to Mate- rialism, 142.
NATURAL SCIENCE, its prepossessions as to Theology, 63; these histori- cally justified, 66; present Mate- rialistic tendencies of, 67, 76; easily passes into dogmatism, 69. Nature, uniformity of, tends to a First Cause, 88; exhibits also variety and irregularity, 130. Neo-Platonism, its failure, 237. Nescience, Philosophy of, often tends, though not necessarily, to Mate- rialism, 97, 117.
Newton, Sir Isaac, on the Nature of God, 137.
Numbers no test of truth in Reli- gion, 27.
ORIGEN, his view of planetary spirits, 136. Orphanages, when first founded, 271.
PAGANISM, inefficient as a religion, 27; its reaction upon Christianity, 171. Pantheism, essence of, 96; its anti- dote, ib. Papacy, spiritual function of, as a tribunal of appeal, 291; decline of, 316; its moral dignity, 316. Pascal, his view of Prophecy, 139. Patriotism recognized by Jesus
Christ, 81; a Christian virtue, 360. Patteson, Bishop, his death, 370. Penitentials, their influence as part of Christian Law, 291. Permanence, a test of reality, 13.
Perpetuity, a test of religious truth, 6. Persecution for belief, its origin, 184, 356.
Physical Studies not irreligious where not exclusive, 116; ancient cultivation of, 350; indebted to Protestantism, 356. Platonism, its share in the Reforma- tion, 323.
Pliny, his view of Prayer, 267. Positive, history of the term, 67. Positivism assumes all religious be- lief to be imaginary, 16; a belief in Laws, 59; negative in its ten- dencies, 66; defective as an ex- planation of phenomena, 97; its relation to Free-Will, 108; its failure as a religion, 237; its his- torical criticism of Christianity, 320; confounds Christianity with Catholicism, 342; its view of the Reformation, 340.
Prayer, its relation to human re- sponsibility, 74. Prescription, limits of argument from, 2.
Priscillian, his execution, 184. Progress not limited to advance in knowledge, 168; standard of, 373. Property Tax, when first imposed in England, 306.
Prophecy, historical character of, as evidence, 139; fulfilled in the progress of Christianity, 140. Protestant, origin of name, 334. Protestantism, its defect, 200; its true function, 200; asserted to have made no converts, 201; its duty of toleration, 202; a gua- rantee of permanence, 354. Providence, theory of, essential to Christianity, 113; general and special, 123; sphere of, 125; mis- interpretations of, 132.
RATIONALISM views Religion as a phase of morality, 256; this error examined, 257; not a consequence of the Reformation, 352; defined, 353.
Reformation restored the individual influence of Christianity, 11; and of the Bible, 41; not a mere moral protest, 168,326, 327; its theology inductive, 210; in itself a test of the truth of Christianity, 321; spontaneous, 322; not a result of improved knowledge, 323; its defects, 323; its practical changes rested on renewed doctrines, 324; date of its commencement, 325; not indefinite, 331; or negative, 332; restored the balance of doc- trines, 333; its permanent effects, 334; how a protest, 334; Roman and Positivist views of, 340; Ra- tionalistic view of, 341; still in progress, 343; introduced new elements of progress, 345. Reformed Churches, their missionary
efforts, 369; and prospects, 372. Religion, an element in civilization, 149; its changes not due to in- tellectual progress, 150; its true function, 156; not a mode of pro- claiming morality, 161; influences the advance of morals, 168; its tacit force, 174; deals with spi- ritual truth, 195; not reaction- ary as to secular knowledge, 196; how related to Natural Science, 225; independent of advances in knowledge, 236; the Science of the Soul, 223; a necessity of human nature, 241; its vital forces, 253; necessary elements, 255; a vehicle of Revelation, 256; assumes Mysteries, 256; test of its success, 258; how far a moral one, 259; its periodicity of re- vival, 344; foremost in political reforms, 352.
Religion of Nature, its ambiguities, 161.
Religions perishable, 2; historical sequence of, 144.
Religious Disabilities, removal of, 357.
Religious Wars, true character of, 183.
Revelation, how far a natural pro- ccss, 47.
Ritual, its influence in conversion, 289.
Roman Empire, its condition at the coming of Christ, 264; why not saved by Christianity, 278; effect of its extinction on Christianity, 283.
Roman Catholicism, its present danger, 202, 354; its missionary zeal, 367; and prospects, 372. Royal Society founded partly by Churchmen, 355.
SAINTS, Intercession of, general in Middle Ages, 319.
Salmasius, his defence of usury, 187. Salvian, his estimate of Christian declension, 279.
Sanctuary, Right of, its spiritual character, 290.
Scepticism admissible as to religious evidence, 209; not formidable to Religion, 239; whether a re- sult of the Reformation, 353; its peril to the Church of Rome, 354. Scholasticism, its effects, 301. Schools, how far due to Christianity,
271; and to the Reformation, 347. Science, how far predictive, 130; in what respects ineffectual to human happiness, 154; theories as to its relations to Religion, 191, 192; their assumed incompatibility, 193; their meeting-points, 243. Scripture, its authority, 38; its power of prolonging personal influence, 39; this an element in the per- petuity of the religion, 40; erro- neous interpretations of, 186; its relation to the Reformation, 41, 329.
Secularization not necessarily un- favourable to Christianity, 357, 360.
Sensation, fallacies of, 102. Serfdom, how far extinguished by Christianity, 310.
Slavery, emancipation of, by Chris- tianity, 72, 271.
Soul, proof of its existence induc- tive, 226; its immortality, whe- ther recognized at the coming of Christ, 227.
Spinoza, his view of Providence, 117.
Spirit, denial of its existence sub- versive of all Religion, 225. State, The, duty of, in propagating truth, 358.
Statistics, defective as a means of showing the operation of the Will, 103, 104.
Stoicism, its incapacity as a system
of religion, 237; its sources, 264. Suicide advocated by heathen philo- sophy, 377; its true remedy in Christianity, ib.
TEMPORAL POWER clearly distin- guished in medieval Christianity,
Teutonic character, 309, 312; Chris- tianity, 372.
Theism, its relation to Christianity, 70. Theology a science of historical criti- cism, 211; its method how far deductive, 215, 216; whether stationary, 218; or progressive, 219; rashly assumed to be op- posed to induction and verifica- tion, 207; and to science, 208; includes both primary and in- ferred truths, 210; commence- ment of, as a science, 318. Time, a test of truth, 17; in what sense an agent, 18. Toleration, its fundamental prin- ciple, 203; neglected by the Re- formers, 351, 355; not a cause of Rationalism, 352, 354; advocated by the Fathers before Constan- tine, 356.
Tradition, Christian primitive, its relation to Scripture, 38. Truce of God distinguished from "Peace of God," 190.
Truth progresses slowly but inevi- tably, 9; how far an attribute of institutions, 13.
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