CHAPTER II.

The doctrine of the apostolic church.

Same system of doctrine in Old and New Testaments, 188
The New Testament the complement of the Old, ib. 
The views of the Apostles at first obscure, 189
New light received after the resurrection, 190
In the New Testament a full statement of apostolic doctrine, ib. 
Sufficiency and plenary inspiration of Scripture, 191
State of man by nature, 192
Faith and the Word, ib. 
All the doctrines of the Bible form one system, 193
The Deity of Christ 194
The Incarnation and Atonement, 195
Predestination, 197
The Trinity, ib. 
Creeds, 198
Practical tendency of apostolic doctrine, ib.

CHAPTER III.

The heresies of the apostolic age.

Original meaning of the word Heresy, 200
How the word came to signify something wrong, 201
The Judaizers the earliest errorists, ib. 
Views of the Gnostics respecting the present world, the body of
    Christ, and the resurrection of the body, 202
Simon Magus and other heretics mentioned in the New Testament, 205
Carpocrates, Cerinthus, and Ebion, 206
The Nicolaitanes, ib. 
Peculiarities of Jewish, sectarianism, 207
Unity of apostolic Church not much affected by the heretics, 208
Heresy convicted by its practical results, ib.

SECTION III.

     The worship and constitution of the apostolic church.

CHAPTER I.

The lord’s day; the worship of the apostolic church; its
symbolic ordinances, and its discipline.