INDEX.

The numerals refer to the pages.

• Aaron, consecration of, 185;
  • priesthood of, 79, 128.
• Abel’s faith, 223.
• Abraham, faith of, 213;
  • God’s oath to, 101;
  • promise made to, 9;
  • seed of, 45.
• Adam, 220;
  • the second, 36.
• Agnostics, 235.
• Acquittal of Christ, 168.
• Alaric, 272.
• Allegory of Melchizedek, 113.
• Altar, 323.
• Angels, assembly of, 301;
  • as emanations, 22;
  • man inferior to, 34;
  • ministry of, 27, 316.
• Anticipation of nature, 241.
• Antinomianism, 148, 201.
• Antiochus Epiphanes, 264.
• Apostasy, 95.
• Architect of all, God the, 54.
• Aristotle’s doctrine of habit, 85.
• Assemblies, Church, 187.
• Assurance, 174.
• Athletes, 194.
• Atonement, day of, 296;
  • Christ’s, 38.
• Augustine cited, 142.
• Authority of our High priest, 77.

• Baptism, 186;
  • infant, 240.
• Baptisms, doctrine of, 87.
• Barak’s faith, 26.
• Benediction, apostolic, 329.
• Bengel, 100.
• Blessing of God, 89.
• Brotherhood, Christ’s, 39, 41.
• Bruce, Dr., Humiliation of Christ, 44.

• Cain, how far he had faith, 223.
• Calvin, 100, 250.
• Canaan, rest of, 61.
• Character in relation to understanding of truth, 90.
• Christ, the coming of, 195;
  • a spotless victim, 156;
  • death of, 37, 93;
  • return of, 188;
  • as creator, 9;
  • the effulgence of God’s glory, 12;
  • as theocratic king, 26, 179;
  • piety of, 77;
  • true man, 167;
  • unchangeable, 164;
  • unites all revelations of God, 8;
  • as first-begotten, 26;
  • as Leader, 38;
  • His trust in God, 40;
  • His humiliations a propitiatory in death, 37;
  • more worthy than Moses, 55;
  • 332 incapable of sin, 72;
  • the great Shepherd, 328.
• Christology of the Epistle, 178.
• Christopher, legend of, 317.
• Church, consciousness of the, 187;
  • customs, 187;
  • idea of the, 185.
• Cloud of witnesses, 259, 279.
• Cocceius, 126.
• Coleridge, S. T., cited, 304.
• Colossian heresy, 22.
• Colossians, Epistle to the, 22.
• Conflict of faith, 273, 277.
• Conscience, enlightened, 158, 227, 248;
  • natural, 152, 155;
  • enfeebled by Judaism, 156;
  • as a revelation of God, 3;
  • not satisfied under the Law, 123.
• Consecration, priestly, 185.
• Conversion, immediate, 242.
• Cross, use of the word, 281.
• Creed, the Nicene, 15.
• Cynicism, 96, 190.
• Cyprian cited, 95.
• Covenant, new. See under New.
• Covenant, old, 307.

• David’s faith, 263.
• Death a spiritual conception, 43.
• Deborah’s faith, 261.
• Delitzsch cited, 114.
• Demons, faith of, 224.
• De Lyra, 258.
• Discipline of conscience, 175;
  • of character, 283.
• Doctrines, strange, 317.
• Dominion bestowed on man through Christ, 36.
• Dreams once a revelation of God, 10.

• Earnestness, 100.
• Ecstasy, 11, 53.
• Effulgence of God’s glory, 12.
• Eleazar’s faith, 264.
• Elijah’s removal, 220;
  • his faith, 263;
  • his sudden appearances, 6;
  • defiled by touching a dead person, 155.
• Elisha defiled by touching a dead person, 155.
• Emanations, doctrine of, 21 sqq.
• Enoch’s faith, 219.
• Ephesians, Epistle to the, 52.
• Equity of our High-priest, 72, 74.
• Esau a representative of the worldly spirit, 287.
• Essenes, 26, 320 sqq.
• Eternal duration of Christ’s priesthood, 116.
• Exhortations of the Epistle compared, 183.
• Exmanition of Christ, 44.

• Failure, impossibility of, 99.
• Faith, as an initial grace, 86;
  • as confidence, 200;
  • as trust, 201;
  • and works, 201;
  • as an inner life, 201;
  • and morality, 202;
  • as a realisation of the unseen, 204;
  • as proof, 204;
  • as obedience, 215;
  • groping for the light, 238;
  • as endurance, 273;
  • the better, 267.
• Family, the, 241.
• Father of our spirit, God as, 284.
• Fatherhood, of God, 32;
  • Old Testament conception of God’s, 145;
  • Christ’s conception of God’s, 145.
• 333 Federalist theology, 126.
• Finality of Christ’s work, 167.
• First-begotten, Christ the, 26.
• Flesh, use of the word, 152.
• Forensic conception of the atonement, 171, 224.
• Forgiveness, 145 sq.;
  • under the Old Testament, 146.
• Forty years since Christ’s ascension, 57.

• Galatians, Epistle to the, 175.
• Gideon’s faith, 261.
• Glory, of sonship, 37;
  • of leadership, 38;
  • in power to consecrate, 39;
  • in destroying Satan, 42.
• God, not a mechanician, 209;
  • the Son is, 27;
  • a consuming fire, 309.
• Gnostics, 22.
• Greek gods human, 21.

• Habakkuk, prophecy of, 195.
• Habit, Aristotle’s doctrine of, 85.
• Habits, evil, 91.
• Hades, Christ in, 170.
• Haggai, prophesy of, 306.
• Heathenism, 64, 202.
• Heaven, a sanctuary, 70;
  • purification of, 163;
  • a city, 218.
• Hebrew conception of God, 21.
• Heir, Christ the, 8.
• Herod, deification of, 96.
• Heroes of religion, 234.
• High-priest, the great, 69.
• High-priest, the, an embodiment of the old covenant, 69.
• Hofmann on Christ’s humiliation, 44.
• Holiest place, the, 150 sq.
• Holy Ghost, partaking of the, 91;
  • sin against the, 95.
• Hope of faith, 276.
• House, God’s, 56.
• Humiliation of Christ, 44;
  • dominion rests on, 37.

• Ideas of God, 208.
• Ignatius, St., 76.
• Illumination, gift of, 93.
• Illusiveness of life, 221.
• Image, use of the word, 176;
  • of God’s substance, 13.
• Imagination, nature’s highest gift, 4.
• Implicit faith, 241.
• Immutable things, 103.
• Incarnation, the, 45 sq.
• Incense, altar of, 151.
• Individualism, 141.
• Inheritance, the eternal, 161.
• Initial grace, 91.
• Intercession of Christ, 128, 134.
• Interpretation of nature, 241.
• Introspection, 105.
• Isaac, 102;
  • resurrection of, 228;
  • blessing of, 259.
• Isaiah, cited, 40;
  • faith of, 261.

• Jacob’s blessing, 249, 259.
• James, St., on faith, 200.
• Jephthah’s faith, 261.
• Jeremiah predicts a new covenant, 138.
• Jerusalem, the church of, 9, 85;
  • the heavenly, 153.
• Jesus, as God’s servant, 55;
  • looking unto, 279;
  • faith of, 280;
  • as leader and perfecter 334 of faith, 280;
  • unchangeable, 318.
• John, St., First Epistle of, 135.
• Joseph, faith of, 260.
• Josephus on Essenes, 26.
• Joshua son of Hanan, 188.
• Judah, Jesus sprang from, 122.
• Judaism, earlier and later, 234;
  • Christ not the flowering of, 249.
• Judgment, the coming of Christ a, 188;
  • doctrine of eternal, 87.
• Justice, God’s, 99.

• Kindness, brotherly, 99.
• King, Christ the theocratic, 26.
• Kingship of Christ, 179, 308.
• Knowledge of God, 144.
• Kurtz, History of the Old Covenant, 253.

• Lapsed, the, 95.
• Law, given through angels, 23;
  • given by the Son, 31;
  • contrasted with salvation, 31;
  • how far immutable, 63.
• Laying on of hands, 87.
• Legalism, 148, 202.

• Maccabæan Princes, 115.
• Macknight, 248.
• Malebranche cited, 205.
• Man, how inferior to the angels, 34.
• Martyrdom, 194.
• Mass, sacrifice of the, 134.
• Mediator, Christ a, 137;
  • of the new covenant, 302.
• Melchizedek, 75, 79, 88, 106, 113, 135, 156.
• Mercy-seat, the, 154.
• Merivale, Dean, Romans under the Empire, 96, 196.
• Messiah, David’s Lord, 114.
• Messianic, the eighth Psalm, 35.
• Midian, purpose of Moses’ sojourn in, 253.
• Minister of the Sanctuary, Christ the, 133, 169.
• Ministering to the saints, 192, 313.
• Miracles, 30 sq., 306.
• Missionary brethren, 315.
• Monotheist, Melchizedek a, 118.
• Moral instincts, 205.
• Mosaic dispensation created by Christ, 51.
• Moses, 32;
  • a steward of Christ, 54;
  • inferior to Christ, 55;
  • faith of, 233;
  • mission of, 236;
  • inner life of, 237;
  • comeliness of, 239;
  • Stephen’s account of, 245;
  • fear of, 300.
• Mythology, 148.

• Nation, a spiritual, 236.
• Nationalism of the old covenant, 140, 243.
• Natural religion, 3.
• Nature, the vesture of the Son, 27;
  • interrogated, 8;
  • as a revelation of God, 3;
  • dissolution of, 307.
• Nestorian doctrine, 169.
• New covenant, superiority of the, 142;
  • in relation to the law, 143;
  • in relation to knowing God, 144.
• Newman, Cardinal, The Arians, 13.
• 335 New Testament, produced in one age, 7;
  • only accounted for by the Incarnation, 7.
• Nicene Creed, 15.
• Noah’s faith, 215.
• Nomadic life, 218.
• Novatianists, 95.

• Oath, of God to Abraham, 101;
  • of men and God contrasted, 104.
• Obedience of the Son, 77.
• Old Testament defective in unity, 6.
• Oneness of the Dispensations, 51.
• Ontological argument, the, 209.
• Oosterzee, Person and Work of the Redeemer, 317.

• Parable, use of the word, 228.
• Passover, 320.
• Paul, St., on the atonement, 224;
  • manner of, 29;
  • his account of faith, 201.
• Peace of conscience, 174.
• Permission and command, 227.
• Personality, greatness of Christ’s, 120;
  • of God, 208.
• Phantoms, 203, 241.
• Pharisaism, 235.
• Philo, on child in knowledge, 85;
  • on the earnest soul, 102;
  • on Abraham’s faith, 216;
  • on Melchizedek, 115;
  • on the use of allegory, 116;
  • on the Word as an effulgence, 15.
• Piety of Christ, 77.
• Pity of our High-priest, 73.
• Plato on reminiscence, 222.
• Pre-existence of Christ, 126 sq., 248.
• Priesthood, the foundation of Christ’s power, 43;
  • of Christ on earth, 169.
• Priest-King, the Son as, 17.
• Probation after death, 167.
• Progress, moral, 86.
• Promise, implies a threatening, 58;
  • and oath of God, 104.
• Prophecy, in what respects defective, 5.
• Prophets, as preachers, 147;
  • received their message through the Son, 54;
  • visions of the, 10.
• Purification, of the tabernacle, 163;
  • of heaven, 163.

• Qualifications of the High-Priest, 74.

• Race, illustration of the, 276.
• Rahab’s faith, 261.
• Ratification of the new covenant, 162.
• Realisation of Christ, 52.
• Reconciliation of God, 78;
  • the holiest place a symbol of, 152.
• Reign of Christ on earth, 136.
• Reminiscence, Plato’s doctrine of, 222.
• Remorse, 190 sq.
• Rendall, Epistle to the Hebrews, 320, 323.
• Renewal, impossibility of, 83.
• Repentance an initial grace, 86.
• Representation recognized in the New Testament, 241.
• 336 Representative man, Christ the, 34.
• Resentment belongs to God’s fatherhood, 32.
• Rest, offered by Christ, 58;
  • the ideal of the Old Testament, 58;
  • from labour the rudimentary Sabbath, 60;
  • in Canaan, 61;
  • described by the Psalmist, 61.
• Resurrection, doctrine of the, 87;
  • of Christ, 72.
• Retribution, 191;
  • Old Testament conception of, 300.
• Revealer of God—Son of God, 24.
• Revelation of God, 294 sq.
• Righteousness, word of, 88.
• Robertson, History of the Church, 262.
• Ruth, 261.

• Sabbath, the, 60, 62, 166.
• Sabellius, 28.
• Sacrament, 255.
• Saintliness, 214.
• Salvation contrasted with law, 31.
• Samson’s faith, 262.
• Samuel the prophet, on obedience, 177.
• Sanctification, what, 41;
  • use of the word, 178.
• Sanctuary, the outer, has ceased to exist, 150 sq., 158.
• Satan, atonement not given to, 43;
  • destruction of, 42;
  • as tempter, 72.
• Scott, Thomas, 248.
• Sense, a spiritual, 85.
• Separateness of Jesus, 75.
• Septuagint, 35, 139, 306.
• Shadow, the law had only a, 173.
• Shedding of blood, 170.
• Shiloh, promise of the, 249.
• Sibyl, fable of the, 59.
• Sin, the besetting, 277;
  • Christ incapable of, 72.
• Sinai, Mount, 297.
• Sinners, use of the word, 275.
• Sin-offering, 322.
• Socinas, Faustus, 169.
• Son of man, sin against the, 95.
• Sons, discipline of, 284.
• Sonship of Christ, defined, 28;
  • a revelation of God, 12.
• Soul of Christ in Hades, 170.
• Special trials of Christ, 76.
• Spirit, an eternal, 156;
  • of grace, what, 190.
• Spirit, the Holy, 152, 306.
• Spiritualism, 11.
• Staff, Jacob’s, 260.
• Stephen reproaches the Jews, 23.
• Subsisting, the Son’s distinct mode of, 14.
• Supernatural erected on nature, 64.
• Surety for God, 125.
• Sustainer, the Word as, 16.
• Sympathy wanting to the angels, 74.

• Tabernacle, description of the, 150;
  • the greater, 153;
  • purification of the, 163.
• Table, the Lord’s, 322.
• Tantalus, 221.
• 337 Teachings of the Twelve Apostles, 84.
• Teachers in the Church, 84.
• Temptation of Christ real, 72.
• Testament, 161.
• Tertullian cited, 264.
• Thankfulness, 309.
• Theology, 88 sq.
• Timothy, 329.
• Traducianism, 222.
• Trinity, the, 13.
• Typical character of the Law, 163.

• Uhlhorn, Charity in the Ancient Church, 316.
• Union the basis of consecration, 41.
• Universalism of Christ and St. Paul, 141.

• Veil of Christ’s flesh, 170.
• Vineyard, parable of the, 31.

• Wesleys, epitaph of the, 233.
• Whitby, 248.
• Wilderness, discipline of the, 250.
• Will of God our sanctification, 177.
• Wisdom, Book of, 42.
• Witnesses, use of the word, 269.
• Word of God, living, 65, 305;
  • immutable, 63.
• Wordsworth, W., cited, 222.
• Works, dead, 88.
• World, end of the, 166.
• Worship, the result of a revelation, 3.

• Zechariah, Book of, 115, 122;
  • faith of, 264.
• Zion, Mount, 153, 297 sq.