Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter I. The church; Nature of the church; Notes of the church; Promises to the church; Different theories of the history of the church -- Chapter II. The Council of Jerusalem; Scripture narrative; The rule of church power; Authority of church officers; The place of church members; Subordination of church courts; Obligation of apostolic practice; Divine right of a form of church government -- Chapter III. The Apostles' Creed; Chapter IV. The apostolical fathers; Barnabas; Hermas; Clemens Romanus; Polycarp; Epistle to Diognetus; Ignatius -- Chapter V. The heresies of the apostolic age -- Chapter VI. The fathers of the second and third centuries; Justin Martyr; Iren�us; Clemens Alexandrinus; Origen; Tertullian; Cyprian -- Chapter VII. The church of the first two centuries; The doctrines of grace; The sufficiency of scripture; Rights of the Christian people; Idolatry; The sacraments; The papal supremacy -- Chapter VIII. The constitution of the church; prelacy : state of the question; prelacy : argument from antiquity -- Chapter IX. The doctrine of the trinity; Testimony of the early church on the trinity; Nicene Creed : consubstantiality; Nicene Creed : the eternal sonship; Nicene Creed : procession of the spirit -- Chapter X: The person of Christ; The eutychian controversy; The nestorian controversy -- Chapter XI: The pelagian controversy; Historical statement; Depravity : original sin; Conversion : sovereign and efficacious grace; Perseverance of the saints -- Chapter XII. The worship or saints and images; Historical statement; Doctrinal exposition; Chapter XIII. The civil and ecclesiastical authorities; Voluntaryism; Co-ordinate authorities; Erastianism; Popish theory -- Chapter XIV. Scholastic theology -- Chapter XV. The canon law -- Chapter XVI. Witnesses for the truth during the middle ages; Perpetuity and visibility of the church; Waldenses and Albigenses -- Chapter XVII. The church at the era of the reformation -- Chapter XVIII. The Council of Trent -- Chapter XIX. The doctrine of the fall; Popish and protestant views; Guilt of Adam's first sin; The want of original righteousness; Corruption of nature; Concupiscence; Sinfulness of works before regeneration; Sinfulness of works after regeneration -- Chapter XX. The doctrine of the will; The will before and after the fall; The bondage of the will; Bondage of the will : objections; The will in regeneration; God's providence, and man's sin.

Chapter XXI. Justification; Popish and protestant views; Nature of justification; Imputation of Christ's righteousness; Justification by faith alone; Office of faith in justifying; Objections to the scriptural doctrine; The forgiveness of post-baptismal sins; The merit of good works; Practical tendency of the popish doctrine -- Chapter XXII. The sacramental principle; Sacramental grace; Baptismal regeneration; Popish view of the Lord's supper; Infant baptism -- Chapter XXIII. The socinian controversy; Origin of socinianism; Socinian views as to scripture; Socinian system of theology; Original and recent socinianism; Distinction of persons in the godhead; Trinity and unity; Evidence for the divinity of Christ -- Chapter XXIV. Doctrine of the atonement; Connection between the person and work of Christ; Necessity of the atonement; The necessity and nature of the atonement; objections to the doctrine of atonement; scriptural evidence for the atonement; Socinian view of the atonement; Arminian view of the atonement; Extent of the atonement; Evidence as to the extent of the atonement; Extent of atonement and gospel offer; Extent of atonement, and its object; Extent of the atonement, and calvinitic principles -- Chapter XXV. The Arminian controversy; Arminius and the Arminians; Synod of Dort; The five points; Original sin; Universal and effectual calling; Efficacious and irresistible grace; The decrees of God; Predestination, state of the question; Predestination, and the doctrine of the fall; Predestination, and the omniscience of God; Predestination, and the sovereignty of God; Scripture evidence for predestination; Objections against predestination; Perseverance of saints; Socinianism, Arminianism, Calvinism -- Chapter XXVI. Church government; Presbyterianism; Testimony of the reformers as to presbyterianism; Popular election of office-bearers; Congregationalism, or independency -- Chapter XXVII. The erastian controversy; The civil magistrate and religion; Erastus and the Erastians; Erastianism during the seventeenth century; The free church of Scotland.