• Preface
  • Introduction

    • A

  • Abel
  • Abortion
  • Academics
  • Adam
  • Adornments, Outward
  • Adultery
  • Alms Giving: See Offerings
  • Amusements: See Entertainment
  • Angels
  •      I. Nature and Position of Angels
  •      II. Angels of God
  •      III. Fallen Angels
  • Animals, Clean and Unclean: See Law, Mosaic
  • Antichrist
  • Apocryphal Books: See Deuterocanonical Books
  • Apostles
  • Apparel of Women: See Modesty
  • Ark of the Covenant: See Law, Mosaic
  • Assembly, Christian
  • Atonement
  •      I. Christ’s ransom
  •      II. Recapitulation through Christ

    • B

  • Baptism
  •      I. The meaning of baptism
  •      II. Mode and description of baptism
  •      III. Baptism and heretics
  • Beards
  • Beast, Description and Mark of
  • Beauty: See Modesty
  • Bishops and Deacons
  •      I. Bishop’s authority
  •      II. Requirements for ordination
  •      III. Responsibility and relationship to the congregation
  •      IV. Exhortations to Bishops
  • Blood of Christ
  • Business: See Occupations of Christians

    • C

  • Cain: See Abel
  • Canon, New Testament
  • Canon, Old Testament: See Deuterocanonical Books
  • Celibacy
  • Cerinthus: See Heresies
  • Children
  • Christ
  •      I. Christ is God
  •      II. Relationship to the Father
  • Christianity
  •      I. Description of Christians
  •      II. Meaning of the name “Christian”
  •      III. True Accusations of Christians
  •      IV. False Accusations of Christians
  • Christmas: See Holidays, Pagan
  • Chronology
  • Church and State
  • Church, The
  • Church Buildings: See Temples
  • Clothing
  • Commandments
  • Communion: See Eucharist
  • Community, Christian
  • Confession of Sin
  • Continence: See Celibacy
  • Conversations
  • Cosmetics
  • Covenant, Old & New
  • Cross

    • D

  • Daniel: See Prophecies, Old Testament
  • Deacons: See Bishops and Deacons
  • Dead
  •      I. Intermediate State of the Dead
  •      II. Christ’s Descent into Hades
  • Death Christian Attitude Toward
  • Demons
  • Deuterocanonical books
  •      I. The early Christians acceptance and use of the deuterocanonical books
  •      II. Why the Jews rejected the deuterocanonical books
  • Devil: See Satan
  • Disobedience: See The role of obedience in salvation
  • Divisions
  • Divorce and Remarriage
  • Dress: See Clothing

    • E

  • Easter
  • Eating: See Food
  • Elect
  • Employment
  • End Signs/End of World
  • Enoch
  • Entertainment
  • Eternal Rewards and Punishments
  • Eternal Security: See Salvation (V. Is it possible to loose your salvation?)
  • Eucharist
  •      I. Meaning of the Eucharist
  •      II. How the Eucharist was celebrated
  • Evangelism
  • Excommunication
  • Exorcism

    • F

  • Faith
  • Fall, of Man
  • False Prophets: See Prophets (II. How to distinguish between true and false prophets)
  • Fasting
  • Fear of God
  • Food
  • Free-will and Predestination
  •      I. Free-will of men and angels
  •      II. The elect
  •      III. Predestination
  •      IV. Synergism

    • G

  • Gehenna: See Eternal Rewards and Punishments
  • Gifts of the Holy Spirit
  • Gnostics
  • God
  •      I. Attributes of God
  •      II. Love of God
  •      III. Name of God
  • Gods, Pagan
  • Government: See Church and State
  • Grace

    • H

  • Hades: See Dead, Intermediate State
  • Happiness of Man
  • Head Covering
  • Hell: See Eternal Rewards and Punishments
  • Heresies
  •      I. The Gnostics
  •      II. Doctrines and Practices of Leading Gnostic Teachers
  •           1. First Century

    •           1.1 Simon Magus
              1.2 Cerinthus
              1.3 The Nicolaitans
  •           2. Second Century

    •           2.1 Carpocrates
              2.2 Valentinians
              2.3 Marcion
              2.4 Marcus the Heretic
  •           3. Third Century

    •           3.1 Montanists
              3.2 Monarchianism
  •      III. How the Heretics Misinterpreted the Scriptures
  •      IV. The Church's Attitude and Response to Heretics
  • Hermeneutics
  • Holidays, Pagan
  • Holy Kiss
  • Holy Spirit
  • Homosexuality
  • Hospitality
  • Husbands
  • Hymns

    • I

  • Ignatius
  • Images: See Gods, Pagan
  • Incarnation: See Atonement
  • Infanticide: See Abortion
  • Interest, charging: See Usury

    • J

  • James
  • James, the Lord's brother
  • Jesus
  •      I. Early Christians view of Jesus
  •      II. Titles of Jesus
  •      III. Physical Appearance of Jesus
  • Jewelry: See Adornments, Outward
  • Judaism
  •      I. Christian attitude toward Judaism
  •      II. How the Jews persecuted the Christians
  •      III. How the Jews rejected God
  • John, the Apostle
  • Judgment of God
  • Judging Others
  • Justification: See Salvation

    • K

  • Kingdoms, Two
  • Kiss, of Charity
  • Knowledge: See Academics

    • L

  • Lasts Days
  • Law, Mosaic
  •      I. Christians are not Under the Law
  •      II. Spiritual Meaning of the Law
  •      III. Purpose of the Law
  • Law Suits
  • Lord's day
  • Love, of Enemies
  • Lucifer: See Satan
  • Luxury See Materialism
  • LXX (Septuagint)

    • M

  • Man, Fall of
  • Marcion: See Heresies
  • Marcus: See Heresies
  • Mark of the Beast
  • Marriage
  • Martyrs, Martyrdom
  •      I. Descriptions of martyrs
  •      II. Exhortations to martyrs
  •      III. Rewards of martyrdom
  • Materialism
  • Medicine
  • Military service: See War
  • Millennium
  • Miracles
  • Modesty
  • Monarchianism See heresies
  • Monogamy: See Polygamy
  • Montanism: See Heresies
  • Mosaic Law
  • Music

    • N

  • New Birth
  • Noah
  • Non-resistance: See Loving Your Enemies

    • O

  • Oaths
  • Obedience
  • Occupations of Christians
  • Offerings
  •      I. Exhortations to help the poor
  •      II. Making friend with unrighteous mammon
  •      III. How offerings were made in the early church
  • Offices, public: See Politics
  • Old testament: See Law, Mosaic
  • Ordination: See bishops (II. Requirements for ordination)

    • P

  • Paradise
  • Patriotism
  • Pastors: See Bishops
  • Perfection, Christian
  • Persecution
  • Peter and Paul
  • Pharisees
  • Philanthropy: See Offerings
  • Philosophy
  • Politics
  • Polycarp
  • Polygamy
  • Poverty and Prosperity
  • Prayer
  • Predestination
  • Prophets and Prophecy
  •      I. Prophecy in the early church
  •      II. How to discern a true prophet form a false prophet
  •      III. Prophets in the old testament
  •      IV. Interpretations of old testament prophecies
  • Propitiation: See Atonement
  • Pseudepigrapha, New Testament
  • Pseudepigrapha, Old Testament
  • Purity

    • R

  • Recapitulation
  • Redemption: See Atonement
  • Regeneration: See New Birth
  • Repentance
  • Resurrection of the Dead
  • Rewards and Punishments, Eternal
  • Riches: See Poverty and Prosperity

    • S

  • Sabbath
  • Sacrifices, Old Testament: See Law, Mosaic
  • Salvation
  •      I. Salvation only in the name of Christ
  •      II. The role of grace and faith in salvation
  •      III. The role of faith in salvation
  •      IV. The role of obedience in salvation
  •      V. The righteousness of god vs. The righteousness of the law
  •      VI. Is it possible to loose your salvation?
  •      VII. Calling on and confessing the name of the lord
  •      VIII. How the early church preached salvation
  •      IX. How the heretics preached salvation
  •      X. The violent who take the kingdom of heaven by force
  • Satan
  • Septuagint
  •      I. History and use of the Septuagint
  •      II. Quotes of the Septuagint from the early church writers
  • Shows: See Entertainment
  • Sibyl
  • Simon Magus: See Heresies
  • Sodomites: See Homosexuality
  • Soul
  • Sports
  • Sunday: See Lord's Day
  • Swearing Oaths

    • T

  • Taxes
  • Temples
  • Ten Commandments: See Law, Mosaic
  • Testaments: See Covenants, Old & New
  • Theatres: See Shows
  • Tithes
  • Tree of Life & Tree of Knowledge

    • U

  • Usury

    • V

  • Valentinians: See Heresies
  • Veil
  • Virgins: See Celibacy

    • W

  • War
  • Widows and Orphans
  • Will: See Free-will and Predestination
  • Wine
  • Woman's Place
  •      I. Counsel to women
  •      II. Examples of godly women
  •      III. The woman’s role in the church
  •      IV. The woman’s role in heretic and pagan religions
  • Works, Good
  • World, Separation from
  • Worship, Christian: See Assembly Christian