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INDEX

"His love in time past
Forbids us to think
He'll leave us at last
In trouble to sink." --Unknown

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Armenia --first country to accept Christianity, (Apr. 24); bans Bibles and Christian books, (Apr. 24); Moslem oppression of the Church, (Apr. 24); Turkey attempts the murder of all Armenians within her borders, (Apr. 24)

Arminianism --The Five Points of, (Oct.10), (Nov. 13); James Packer of, (Nov.13); the Remonstrance, and its rejection as unscriptural by the Council of Dort, (Oct.10); resisted in America by Jonathan Edwards (Oct. 10)

Arminius, Jacob –(Oct. 10)
Armitage, Thomas --Birth of, (Aug. 2); assists in founding the American Bible Union, (Jan.20); publishes his History Of The Baptists, (Jan.20); Death of, (Jan.20)

Arnaud, Antoine --Jansenism and his subsequent flight, (Aug. 8); Death of, (Aug. 8)
Arnaud, Henri --Birth of, (Sept. 30); his Waldensian congregation attacked, (Apr.30); counsels resistance to state persecution, (Sept. 30); his flight, (Sept. 30); the "invasion" of France, (Aug.16); Death of, (Sept.8)

Articles of Marburg –(Oct. 1)
Arundel, Thomas --withstood by Sir John Oldcastle on account of his burning the followers of Wycliffe, (Dec.14); the Constitutions of Arundel, (Feb.19); Death of, (Feb. 19)

Asbury, Francis --Birth of, (Aug. 19); lays the foundation for the first Methodist College in America, (Dec. 27); influenced by Richard Baxter, (Aug. 19); preaches his last sermon, (March 24); Death of, (March 31). Excerpts from his Diary: (May 12), (June 18,20), (Aug.23, 30), (Sept.2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 17)

Ashwood, Bartholomew --open air service disrupted by soldiers, (Sept. 13)
Assembly of Baptist Union --its evangelical basis drawn up and voted upon, (Apr.23)
Assembly of God --organized, (Apr.2-12)
Associate Presbytery-- (See: Associate Synod)
Associate Synod --established, (Mar.6); founded by Ralph and Ebenezer Erskine,(Feb.14);founds Associate Presbytery,(Dec.3); excommunicates Ebenezer Erskine with eight others, (Feb.14) Association In Arms For The Defense Of The Protestant Religion -- (Aug.23)

Association Oath –(Apr.27)
Assumption --the doctrine of, defined, (Nov.1)
Atahualpa --his arrest by Pizarro, (Apr. 25)
Athanasian Creed –(May 2); omitted by the Protestant Episcopal Church, (Sept.12)
Athanasius --refuses the re-admission of Arius into the Church, and his subsequent exile, (July 11); his return, (Nov. 23); his second exile, (Mar.19); Julian enforces his fourth banishment, (Oct. 24); effects his escape into Egypt when soldiers surround the Church of St. Thomas, (Feb.8); his fifth exile, (Oct.5); Death of, (May 2); Gregory Nazianzen of, (May 2)

Atrecht, Union of –(Jan.23)
Atwood, Harriet --(Mrs. Samuel Newell) –(Oct.10)
Aubigne, Jean Henri Merle D' --Birth of, (Aug. 27); student of Robert Haldane, (Feb. 28); student of Neander, (Aug. 27); pens his History Of The Reformation In Europe In The Time Of Calvin; and History Of The Reformation In The Sixteenth Century, (Oct.20); Death of, (Oct. 20)

Auburn Affirmation --decries the inerrancy and authority of the Bible, (Dec. 4)
Auburn Declaration –(Aug. 17)
Auca Indians --murder five missionaries, and their subsequent conversion, (Jan. 8)
Augsburg Confession --drawn up by Philip Melancthon, (Feb.14); completed, (May 11)
Augsburg Interim --passed by Charles V, (Feb.28); opposed by Martin Bucer, (Feb. 28); resisted by Johann Brenz, (June 24)

Augustine, Aurelius --Birth of, (Nov. 13); the life and influences of, (Nov. 13); baptized by Ambrose, (Apr. 25)
Augustine and Calvin –(Nov. 5)
St. Augustine --founded, (Sept. 1)
Augustinian Order --cf. (Nov. 13)
Austria --the Archbishop of Salzburg drives our the Lutheran community, (Mar.13), (Oct.17); toleration is given favoring Protestantism (Oct.13); acknowledges Protestantism granting religious freedom, (July 9); confers civil and religious rights upon Protestants, (Apr.8)

Authorized Version --(King James Version) the Hampton Court conference, (Jan. 16); the list of translators completed, (June 30)

Auto da fe –(May 21)
"Awake! My Soul, Stretch Every Nerve" – (June 26)
"Awaked By Sinai's Awful Sound" –(July 14)

 

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