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CONTENTS.

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Faith the condition of Life	3
and of Religion	5
Opposed to Credulity, Superstition, Conviction	6
The idea of Faith	7
Faith a principle of Knowledge	8
a principle of Power	10
a principle of Action	11
Faith the touchstone of Life	13

II.

CREEDS.

No man without a Creed	17
The efficacy of a Creed	18
A Creed the occasion of Confession	19
the mark of the universality of the Faith in place	20
in time	21
guards the fulness of Faith	22
guides to the study of Scripture	id.
The Apostles' Creed personal in its object	23
and historical	25
To this 'we have been delivered'	26

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III.

I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER, ALMIGHTY,
MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.

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The first article of the Creed	31
The significance of belief in God	32
God the Father	34
All-sovereign	36
Maker of heaven and earth	38
The range of our belief in God	39
For us God is One Who rules, Who can be served, Who
loves and can be loved	40
There may be an orthodox atheism	41
The apparent absence of God from the world	id.
His real presence	42

IV.

AND IN JESUS CHRIST HIS ONLY SON OUR
LORD.

The presence of God given back to us in Jesus Christ	45
Our belief in Jesus Christ involves a belief in His Person,
and in His Nature	46
By the belief in Jesus as the Christ we recognise the ful-
filment of the work of Judaism wrought in unexpected
ways	47
The Divine Nature of Christ is presented to us by the con-
fession that He is The Son of God, our Lord	49
Belief in Jesus as the Son of God. Consequences of the
belief	50
Belief in Jesus as our Lord	51
The obligation of the confession of Faith	52
Christianity a belief in Christ	54
Hence flows our trust in the institutions of society	55

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WHO WAS CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY GHOST,
     BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY, SUFFERED
     UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED,
     DEAD, AND BURIED.

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The work of Christ on earth	59
Danger of realism	60
This article of the Creed gradually enlarged	id.
Significance of each element	61
The lesson of Christ's humanity	62
Christ truly man	id.
Christ perfectly man	63
Christ representatively man	64
The importance of this truth, the consecration of all
that is human	65
The lesson of Christ's sufferings	66
The Redemption and the Fall	id.
Conquering love	67
The discipline of sons	68
The victory	69

VI.

HE DESCENDED INTO HELL; THE THIRD
     DAY HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD;
     HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND SIT-
     TETH ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD
     THE FATHER ALMIGHTY.

The revelation of Christ's glory	73
Cautions in dealing with this revelation	74
Words suggestive not expressive of the truth	75
The descent into Hades	76
No clear disclosure of the purpose	77
The Resurrection	78
The lesson of the Resurrection	79

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The Ascension	80
The lessons of the Ascension	81
The Session at the right hand of God	82
Practical bearing of the Revelation of Christ's work in
the world of Spirit	83

VII.

FROM THENCE HE SHALL COME TO JUDGE
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD.

Universal belief in the Return in the apostolic age	87
as instant	88
Vagueness of our own idea	89
Christ came in the Fall of Jerusalem	90
The lesson of that Coming	id.
Other Comings	91
Belief in future Comings	93
A present Coming	id.
recognised by believers	94
A future Judgment	95
universal
personal
self-executing	96
The power of the revelation	97
its present efficacy	98

VIII.

I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY GHOST.

The belief developed in regard to the Society, the indivi-
dual, the final issue	103
characteristic of Christianity	104
Revelation of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament	105
an interpretation of life	106
The Holy Spirit unfolds Christ's name in the manifold-
ness of being	108

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We live in the dispensation of the Spirit	109
There is for us
a divine message	110
a personal call	111
a personal consecration	id.
an illumination of life	112

IX.

THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH : THE
COMMUNION OF SAINTS.

There is a Body of Christ seen and unseen	115
This fact an object of Faith	116
The Unity of the Church in spite of divisions	117
The Holiness of the Church in spite of failures and sins	119
The Catholicity of the Church in spite of outward divi-
sions	121
The Bible and the Church both Catholic	122
The Communion of Saints	123
The influence of this twofold belief	124

THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS : THE RESURRECTION
OF THE BODY.

The action of the Holy Spirit on the believer	129
An object of belief	130
The mystery of forgiveness	id.
No forgiveness in nature	131
The Gospel a message of forgiveness	132
Forgiveness comes through 'the blood' of Christ, whereby
we share in his life	133
Thus belief in the forgiveness of sins becomes pos-
sible	134

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Belief in the Resurrection of the flesh gives the comple-
mentary truth	135
The idea of 'flesh'	136
Our present 'body' the seed of that which shall be	137
The power of this faith	139

XI.

THE LIFE ETERNAL.

Need of caution in speaking of the eternal	143
The 'life eternal' is the 'life of the world to come'	144
This life we can apprehend only in part	145
The Scriptural description of eternal life	id.
The eternal life not essentially future	146
The fulness not the cessation of realised fellowship	147
A consciousness of corporate union	id.
The interdependence of finite things recognised in this
truth which answers to the Divine Nature	148
We have no power to discuss how the end can be
attained	149
Reason leaves us with an antithesis which Scripture does
not resolve	150
'From God unto God' the sum of all history	152

NOTE I.

THE IDEA OF RELIGION.

The elements of Religion	157
Man born Religious	158
Religious ideas slowly shaped	159
often imperfect and partial	160
The view of Religion in the New Testament	161
The end, the power and the failure of man	162
The elements of Religion: Knowledge, Feeling, Will	163
The outward expression of Religion	165
The final harmony of finite being	166
All rests upon the Grace of God	168

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NOTE II.

THE IDEA OF FAITH.

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The universality of Faith	173
Religious Faith	174
The elements of Faith	175
The view of Faith in the New Testament	177
Its sphere and object	id.
Its elements	178
Its seat	179
Its activity	180

NOTE III.

THE CREEDS.

The Baptismal Confession	191
General differences of Eastern and Western Creeds	192
The Apostles' and Constantinopolitan ('Nicene') Creeds	194
The Nicene and Constantinopolitan Creeds	200
Eastern and Western Creeds	208
The Christology of the Creeds	212

NOTE IV.

THE DIVINE FATHERHOOD.

The Doctrine of the Divine Fatherhood in the Old Testa-
ment	215
in the Synoptic Gospels	216
The contrast of the two views	218
The idea of the Divine Fatherhood in St John	220

NOTE V.

ALL-SOVEREIGN AND ALMIGHTY.

Use of the word All-Sovereign (παντοκπάτωρ)	225
Patristic interpretation of the word	226
The importance of the idea	227

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NOTE VI.

THE CHRISTOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.

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Outline for the study	234

NOTE VII.

THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE CHARACTER OF THE LORD.
(Extracts from a Lecture by MR GOLDWIN SMITH.)

The Christian type of character final and universal	240
unaffected by any transitory peculiarity	242

NOTE VIII.

THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.

The idea of Blood in Mosaic Sacrifices	247
The Levitical type fulfilled in Christ	250
The idea of Blood in the New Testament	251
Christ's Blood presents His Life through Death	253

NOTE IX.

THECOMMUNION OF SAINTS.

The fellowship of dependence	257
reaches beyond time	258
The imperfection of our Commemoration of Saints	260
Difficulties in filling up our Kalendar not insuperable	262
The Festival of the Transfiguration	264
Commemoration made effective by Meditation	266
The need of recalling by systematic effort the greatest
ideals	268
Universal fellowship assured by the Revelation of Christ	270