Balaam reluctantly acknowledged the immutability of God, 1.17.12.

Baptism defined, 4.15.1; attests the forgiveness of sins, ib.; refutation of those who say that, after baptism, forgiveness is procured by means of penitence and the keys, 4.15.4; shows our mortification in Christ, and new life in him, 4.15.5; teaches us that we are united to Christ, ib.; was typified to the Israelites by the passage through the Red Sea, and by the pillar of cloud, 4.15.9; serves as our confession before men, 4.15.13; refutation of those who maintain that we are exempted by it from original sin, 4.15.10 ; is appointed to elevate, nourish, and confirm our faith, 4.15.14; does not depend on the worthiness or unworthiness of the minister, 4.15.16; ought to be dispensed by none but ministers, 4.15.20; reply to the objection drawn from the example of Zipporah, 4.15.22; might not improperly be called the sacrament of repentance, 4.19.17; no ground to allege that Paul rebaptised those who had been baptised with the baptism of John, 4.15.18; the baptism of John was the same with that of the apostles, 4.15.7.

Believers, why they are called righteous, 3.17.10; are the sons of God 1.14.18; are taught by God, 3.2.6; endure many temptations and conflicts in the present life, 3.2.17; difference between God's chastisement of them, and the punishment of the reprobate, 3.4.31; never fall away from salvation, 3.24.8; manifold advantages which they derive from the ascension of Christ, 2.16.18.

Binding and loosing, what is meant by, 4.6.3, 4.11.2.

Bishops, the name is synonymous with presbyters, pastors, and ministers, 4.3.8; that special title was given to them in the ancient Church, solely for the sake of preserving order, 4.4.2; what sort of persons should be elected to the office, 4.3.12; mode of the appointment, ib.; were employed in the administration of word and sacrament, 4.4.3; in calling them, the ancient Church followed the inspired rule, 4.4.10; by whom they are to be chosen, 4.3.13; their ordination or consecration, 4.4.14; how the form was gradually changed, 4.4.15; in election, the whole right has been taken from the people, 4.5.2 ; question as to their uninterrupted succession from the apostles, 4.2.3.

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit cannot be forgiven, 1.13.15; inquiry into the nature of that sin, 3.3.22.

Body of Christ, why it is called a temple, 2.14.4; is finite even since his ascension to heaven, 4.17.26; in what respect it is present, and is eaten in the Lord's Supper, 4.17.4, 5.

Boniface, Pope, ambition of, 4.7.17.

Bread sometimes denotes all that is necessary for the support of the body, 3.20.44; whence it derives its power to nourish us, 1.16.7; in what sense it is said to be the body of Christ, 4.17.20; ought leavened or unleavened bread to be used in the Lord's Supper? 4.17.43.

Burial of Christ, blessed effects of, 2.16.7.

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