Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion, Table of contents
The Summes of the Chapters.
That there is a God, and that all men agree in the Godhead.
That there is but onelyonly one God.
That the wisedome of the world acknowdelged one onelyonly God.
What it is that man is able to comprehend concerning God.
That in the one substance of God there are three persons, which we call the Trinitie.
That the Philosophie of olde time agreed to the doctrine of the Trinitie.
That the world had a beginning.
When the world had his beginning.
That the wisdome of the world acknowledged the creation of the world.
That God created the world of nothing, that is to say, without any matter, substance, or stuffe whereof to make it.
That God by his prouidence gouerneth the world, and all things therein.
That all the euill which is or which seemeth to bee in the worlde is subiect to Gods prouidence.
That mans wisedome hath acknowledged Gods prouidence, and howe the same wadeth betweene destinie and fortune.
That mans soule is immortall.
That the immortalitie of the soule hath bene taught by the auncient Philosophers and beleeued by all nations.
That mans nature is corrupted, and hee himselfe fallen from his first originall, & by what meanes.
That the men of olde time are of accorde with vsus concerning mans corruption and the cause thereof.
That God is the souereigne welfare of man, & therefore that the chiefe shootanker of mā ought to be to return vntounto god
That the wisest of all ages are of accorde, that God is the chiefe shootanker, and souereigne welfare of man.
The true Religion is the way to atteine to that shootanker & souereigne welfare, and what are the markes thereof.
That the true God was worshipped in Israel, which is the 1. mark of true religion…
That the Gods which were wo…shipped by the heathen, were men consecrated or canonized to posteritie.
That the Spirites which made men to woorship them vnderunder the names of those men, were wicked spirites that is to saye, fiendes or diuels.
That in Israel Gods worde was the Rule of his Seruice: which is the second marke of the true Religion.
That throughout the whole processe of the Bible or olde Testament, there are things which cānot proceed but frō God.
That the things which seeme most wonderful in our scriptures, are confirmed by the heathen themselues. Also the solutions of their obiections.
That the meane which God hath ordeyned for mans saluatiō, hath bene reuealed from time to time to the people of Israel, which is the 3. mark of the true religion.
That the mediator or Messias is promised in the Scriptures to be both God & man, that is to wit, the eternall Sonne of God taking mans flesh vntounto him.
That the time whereat the mediator was promised to come, is ouerpast: & therfore that he must needes bee come already, as wel according to the Scriptures, as according to the traditions of the Iewwes.
That resus the Son of Mary came at the time promised by the scriptures, & that he is the mediator and Messias.
A solution of the Obiections which the lews alledge against Iesus, that he might not bee receiued for the true Christ or Messias.
That Iesus Christ was & is god, the son of god, cōtrary to the opiniō of the Gentiles.
A solution of the obiections of the Gentiles against the Sonne of God.
That the Gospell doth in very deede conteine the historie and doctrine of Iesus Christ the Sonne of God.
¶The Conclusion of the whole booke.