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INDEX.
Absolution, form of, 99, 100.
Additions, no heterogeneous ones to be made to the divinely constituted church, 18.
Alterations in Augsburg Confession by Melancthon, 54.
American, Lutheran, has no reference to place of birth, 9.
American Recension, Digest of, 61.
-- ------- -- ------- originated from respect to Augsburg Confession, 44.
Anecdote of the Leyden cobbler, 16.
-- ------- of Melancthon's mother, 14.
Apology to Augsburg Confession, 25.
Apostles' Creed, when and by whom formed, 20.
Arnold on the diet at Augsburg, 55.
Athanasian Creed adopted, 21.
Augsburg Diet, Papists predominant at, 55.
-- ------- -- ------- Melancthon's alarm at, 55.
-- ------- -- ------- subscription to, not required in Luther's time, 22.
-- ------- -- ------- itself a disclaimer of error, 30.
-- ------- -- ------- practice of requiring assent to, rejected, by the fathers of Pennsylvania Synod fifty years ago, 39.
Augsburg Confession, disadvantages under which it was prepared, 47.
-- ------- -- ------- dissented from by Dr.Lochman, 39.
-- ------- -- ------- parts of, omitted by him in his edition, 40.
-- ------- -- ------- dissented from by many of our principal divines, 41, 42.
Aurifaber's narrative of Augsburg Diet, 78.
Bachman, Dr., dissents from Symbolical books, 42.
Baptism, its influence on adults, 143-144.
-- ------- -- ------- infants, 144, 145, 146.
Baptismal Regeneration, see Regeneration baptismal.
Basel, Synod of, it conceded both kinds, 76.
Bible, Luther's deep sense of obligation to, 46.
-- ------- true and infallible symbol, 41.
Bishops, Reformers willing again to submit to them, 58.
Bohemians claim eucharist entire, 76.
Campegius, Letter of Melancthon to, 51.
Canon of the mass, 73, 77.
Ceremonies of the mass, 64.
Church of Christ, importance of the, 17.
-- ------- no essential additions to be made to her, 18.
Confession, Dr.Plank on, 102.
-- ------- private, unscriptural, 103.
-- ------- how performed, 98-100.
Concessions, Melancthon's, 54, 49.
-- ------- of the Reformers to Papists, 49.
Concluding remarks, 161-68.
Controversy, religious, sometimes necessary and useful, 13.
-- ------- how it should be conducted, 16.
-- ------- the present commenced by Old Lutherans, 8.
Creed of the Council of Nice, 20.
Creeds not commanded by the Bible, 19.
-- ------- only inferential, 19.
-- ------- human, all uninspired, 23.
-- ------- not all changes in, to be deprecated, 45.
-- ------- must be conformed to Bible truth in every age, 23, 29.
Definite Platform, its origin, 26.
-- ------- -- ------- its authors not agitators, 26.
-- ------- -- ------- not a new rejection of errors, 43.
-- ------- -- ------- retains more of the Augsburg Confession than the General Synod's Pledge, 15.
-- ------- -- ------- adopted by several Synods, 15.
-- ------- -- ------- misunderstood, 28.
-- ------- -- ------- an unofficial proposal till adopted by Synods,--right to make it, 32.
-- ------- -- ------- claimed no authority till adopted, 32.
Denomination, a Christian bound not to defend, but to reject the errors of its symbols, 38.
Depravity natural, a scriptural doctrine, 6, 7.
Design of this work, 3, 4.
Disadvantages attending the preparation of Augsburg Confession, 48.
Disclaimer, Synodical, 63.
Doctrine, fundamental, list of, 5.
Duty of a church to test her creed by Scripture, 23.
-- ------- -- ------- to alter her creed if found erroneous, 29, 162-68.
-- ------- -- ------- cannot be to deny the truth, 162.
Elevation of the host, long retained by Luther, 65.
Endress, Dr., disavows parts of the Augsburg Confession, 41.
Episcopal Church in America changed her standards, 30.
Eucharist, the symbols on, 148, 149, 150.
-- ------- real presence of Christ's body in, refuted, 151-52.
-- ------- supposed sin-forgiving power of, not scriptural, 153-54.
Exorcism, altered interpretation of, 155.
-- ------- long retained in some parts of the church, 155, &c.
-- ------- Koellner, Guericke, other authorities, 156.
-- ------- ascertained facts in the case, 160.
Faber, his attempted refutation of Augsburg Confession, 76.
Faith, a living, always required for pardon, 130.
Forgiveness of sin belongs to God alone, 104, &c.
Form of Concord rejected by a large part of the Lutheran Church, 24.
-- ------- -- ------- acknowledges the right of altering confessions, 38.
Fuhrman on the mass, 68.
Fundamental doctrine, what?
4.
Funk on Private Confession, 98.
General Synod, liberality of her basis, 9.
Golden age of the Christian church, 20.
Gospel, life of the, the true life of a church, 37.
Hagenbach, Dr., on bodily presence in the supper, 60.
Hazelius, Dr., on the Diet of Augsburg, 55.
-- ------- Dr., dissents from the Augsburg Confession, 42.
History of American Lutheran Church, 93.
Host, elevation of, long retained, 65.
Improvement of erroneous creeds creditable to a church, 45.
Investigation the safeguard of religious truth, 14.
Jacobsen, Professor, on Confession, 102.
Jonas, Justus, Luther's Letter to, 54.
Justification, faith and not the sacraments the immediate condition of, 130.
Keys, power of, 100, 101.
Knapp, Dr., not symbolic, 59.
-- ------- on the eucharist, 60.
-- ------- influence of the sacraments defined, 133.
Koecher, Dr., views of the duty of a church to correct her confession, 45.
Larger Catechism of Luther rejected, 25.
Latin hymns in the mass, 82.
Life, the true, of the church, what?
37.
Lintner, Dr., dissents from the Augsburg Confession, 42.
Lochman, Dr., omits large portions of the Augsburg Confession in his recension, 40.
Lord's Supper, see Eucharist.
Luther, the Protestant princes abstain from consulting him during the Diet at Augsburg, 50.
-- ------- progressive reformer, 65.
-- ------- his use of the word mass, 71, &c.
-- ------- engaged in constant controversy, 14.
-- ------- was originally pledged to the whole Romish system, 21.
-- ------- enlightened by the study of Scripture, 21.
-- ------- never signed any confession of faith, 22.
-- ------- his defiance of papists, 54.
-- ------- his letter to Lazarus Spengler, 71, to Hausmann, 71, to Jonas, 72.
-- ------- acknowledges the imperfection of the reformation, 35.
-- ------- his oath of obedience to Papacy, 21.
-- ------- his sense of obligation to the Bible, 46.
Lutheran Church, American, founded on Independent or Congregational, or Republican principles, 32, 33.
Mass, closet, early rejected, 65.
-- ------- public, rejected after Augsburg diet, 66.
-- ------- ceremonies of, retained by Augsburg Confession, 66, 68.
-- ------- its nature, 69, 71.
-- ------- reformers trained to its Papal use, 70.
-- ------- the usus loquendi of the word, 71, 72, 81-90.
-- ------- distinct from sacrament or Lord's Supper, 71, &c., 74.
-- ------- Canon of, what, 73.
-- ------- Luther's definition of, 74.
-- ------- meaning, in the symbols, 81, &c., 90.
Mann, Rev., misapplies the word heretic, 26.
-- ------- misapprehends the profession of the New School Lutherans, 33.
Melancthon, his concessions to Popery, 53, 54.
-- ------- Luther's rebuke for his concessions, 53, 54.
-- ------- on the mass, 74-78.
-- ------- Letters to Luther, 75, 76, 77, 48.

[sic] -- ------- advice to his mother, 14.
-- ------- did not regard the Augsburg Confession as perfect, 23.
-- ------- ready to submit to Romish bishops again, 35.
-- ------- describes his danger and depression at the Diet, 49.
-- ------- complains about the indifference of the princes to consult Luther, 50.
-- ------- his remarkable letter to Campegius, 51.
Methodists, Episcopal, made extensive changes in the Thirty-nine Articles, 31.
Miller, Dr.G.B., dissents from the Augsburg Confession, 42.
Mosheim, Dr., 68, 132.
Murdock, Dr., on the mass, 68.
Natural Depravity, a Scriptural doctrine, 6, 7.
-- ------- -- ------- reality of it taught by the author, 6, 7.
New creed, advocated by some, 44.
Our church, right or wrong, an unchristian motto, 38.
Obedience, offered to the Romish church by Melancthon, to obtain peace, 52.
Pardon or justification, faith the condition of, 130.
Peculiarities of our church when scriptural, to be retained, 38.
Plank, Dr., on confession, 102.
Platform, Definite, see Definite Platform.
Political institutions less important than the church, 17.
Popular Theology, reference to, 93.
Presbyterians changed their confession, 31.
Private confession, how performed, 98.
-- ------- -- ------- rejected, 25.
Public confession substituted for private, 25.
Puseyism, 131.
-- ------- flatters the vanity of ministers, 131.
Question, the true state of, 17.
Rationalism, unjustly charged on some American writers by Germans, 7, 8.
Recension, American, digest of, 61.
Reformation, time of, at the diet, not favorable to the formation of a full, impartial creed, 22, 47.
Reformers, progressive, 57, 58, 65.
-- ------- fallible men, 35.
Refutation, papal, of Augsburg Confession, 79.
-- ------- distinguishes between mass and eucharist, 79.
Reinhard, Dr., not symbolic, 59, 132.
Reply to Rev.Mann's general observations, 22-24.
Responsibility, fearful, of disseminating error in creeds, 34.
Right of ministers to dissent from the Augsburg Confession conceded, 43.
Reformer's, the, if living would themselves reject these errors, 35.
-- ------- were educated till adult age in all the superstitions of Rome, 37.
Regeneration, baptismal, 135, &c.
-- ------- -- ------- taught by the symbolical books, 135, 136, 137.
-- ------- -- ------- taught by the Reformers, 138-140.
-- ------- -- ------- taught by the early theologians, 140, &c.
Regeneration, baptismal, influence of this doctrine on the pulpit, 141, &c.
Rufinus' report on the origin of the Apostles' creed, 19.
Romanists and Puseyites in error, 18.
Sabbath, views of the Reformers on, 107, 111, 112, &c.
-- ------- Ruecker, Hengstenberg, Waler, on, 108, 109.
Sacraments, their relation to pardon or justification, 9.
Schaeffer, Dr.F.C., dissents from the Augsburg Confession, 41.
Schaff, Dr., an inadvertence corrected, 5, 6.
Schultz, Dr., on German theology, 60.
Scriptures, why better understood more than three centuries ago, 36.
Siegel, on history of the mass, 69; confession, 102.
Sin, pardon of, belongs to God, 104, &c.
Smalcald Articles, more decided, 55.
-- ------- -- ------- rejected by Sweden and Denmark, 25.
Smaller Catechism of Luther, rejected in Sweden, 25.
Spalatin, his abstract of Augsburg Confession, 79.
-- ------- distinguishes between mass and Lord's Supper, 79.
Standpoint of the American Lutheran Church, 35.
Storr, Dr., 59.
Symbolism, Post-Lutheran and Ultra-Lutheran, 164.
Symbolic, what makes a book such, 160, 161.
Symbols, departure of German theologians from, 59.
Symbolic System, when introduced, 22.
-- ------- -- ------- no part of original Lutheranism, 163.
Symbol, the mother, of Protestantism retained, 44.
Synods, General, doctrinal basis defended, 4.
Theologians, German, unsymbolic, 59.
Theological Seminary, liberality of her doctrinal basis, 9.
Topics discussed in this work, 4.
Truth fears not investigation, 44.
Ultra-Lutherans must unchurch the Lutherans of Luther's lifetime, 25.
War on the Platform by Old Lutherans, offensive and not defensive war, 25.
Western Synods, the Platform primarily designed for them 27.
Word of God, the inspired, complete, 18.
-- ------- -- ------- the only creed used in the apostolic age, 18.
Zwingle's Confession, 75.
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