Book IV
OF THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH
ArgumentRead →I. OF THE TRUE CHURCH. DUTY OF CULTIVATING UNITY WITH HER, AS THE MOTHER OF ALL THE GODLY.Read →II. COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FALSE CHURCH AND THE TRUE.Read →III. OF THE TEACHERS AND MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH. THEIR ELECTION AND OFFICE.Read →IV. OF THE STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH, AND THE MODE OF GOVERNMENT IN USE BEFORE THE PAPACY.Read →V. THE ANCIENT FORM OF GOVERNMENT UTTERLY CORRUPTED BY THE TYRANNY OF THE PAPACY.Read →VI. OF THE PRIMACY OF THE ROMISH SEE.Read →VII. OF THE BEGINNING AND RISE OF THE ROMISH PAPACY, TILL IT ATTAINED A HEIGHT BY WHICH THE LIBERTY OF THE CHURCH WAS DESTROYED, AND ALL TRUE RULE OVERTHROWN.Read →VIII. OF THE POWER OF THE CHURCH IN ARTICLES OF FAITH. THE UNBRIDLED LICENCE OF THE PAPAL CHURCH IN DESTROYING PURITY OF DOCTRINE.Read →IX. OF COUNCILS AND THEIR AUTHORITY.Read →X. OF THE POWER OF MAKING LAWS. THE CRUELTY OF THE POPE AND HIS ADHERENTS, IN THIS RESPECT, IN TYRANNICALLY OPPRESSING AND DESTROYING SOULS.Read →XI. OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE CHURCH, AND THE ABUSES OF IT, AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE PAPACY.Read →XII. OF THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH, AND ITS PRINCIPAL USE IN CENSURES AND EXCOMMUNICATION.Read →XIII. OF VOWS. THE MISERABLE ENTANGLEMENTS CAUSED BY VOWING RASHLY.Read →XIV. OF THE SACRAMENTS.Read →XV. OF BAPTISM.Read →XVI. PÆDOBAPTISM. ITS ACCORDANCE WITH THE INSTITUTION OF CHRIST, AND THE NATURE OF THE SIGN.Read →XVII. OF THE LORD'S SUPPER, AND THE BENEFITS CONFERRED BY IT.Read →XIX. OF THE FIVE SACRAMENTS, FALSELY SO CALLED. THEIR SPURIOUSNESS PROVED, AND THEIR TRUE CHARACTER EXPLAINED.Read →XX. OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT.Read →