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