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David was a type of Christ, 2.7.2; under him, as a type, the sole intercession of Christ is asserted, 3.20.25.

Deacons in the Church are of two classes, 4.3.9; what sort of persons they were under the Papacy, 4.5.15; in the ancient Church, there were Subdeacons and Archdeacons, 4.4.5; in what manner they distributed the ecclesiastical goods, 4.4.6; devoted a fourth part to the repairs of churches, 4.4.7; vast difference between Popish deacons and those of the ancient Church, 4.19.32.

Deaconesses of the ancient Church, what resemblance do they bear to modern nuns? 4.13.19.

Death was met by the martyrs boldly and intrepidly, 1.8.13; ought not to excite in Christians trembling at the mention of it, 3.9.5; the unreasonableness of such fears demdnstrated by nine arguments, ib.

Death of Christ the great efficacy of the, 2.16.3; salvation is peculiarly and specially ascribed to, 2.16.5; by it Christ obtained grace for us, 2.17.4; and paid a price to ransom us from death, 2.17.5; presumptuous manner in which this subject is handled by the Schoolmen, 2.17.6; why it was the death of the cross, 2.16.6.

Debts, or the duties which we owe to God, 2.8.2, 2.8.16; why our sins are so called, 3.20.45.

Devils are almost infinite in number, 1.14.14; the tendency of what Scripture teaches us concerning them, 1.14.13; are employed by God in exercising believers, but can never oppress or vanquish them, 1.14.8; can do nothing without the will and consent of God, 1.14.18; are said to blind all who do not believe the gospel, ib.; reasons why one Devil, or Satan, is often mentioned in the Singular number, 1.14.14; the wickedness of his nature is not from creation, but from depravation, 1.14.16; is everywhere called our adversary, and the adversary of God, 1.14.15 ; inquiry into the mode of the fall of angels is idle and unprofitable, 1.14.16.

Diagoras, wicked scoffing of, 1.3.3

Difference, between religion and superstition, 1.12.1; the Old and New Testaments, 2.11.1; the faith of the elect and the temporary faith of the reprobate, 3.2.12; necessity and compulsion, 2.3.5; Pastors and Teachers, 4.3.5; the Law and the Gospel, 2.9.2; the Sacraments of the Old and New Testaments, 4.14.23; heresy and schism, 4.2.5.

Dionysius, shrewd but idle disquisitions of, concerning the Celestial Hierarchy, 1.14.4.

Disciples, a term syonymous with believers, 3.2.6.

Discipline is highly necessary in the Church, 4.12.1; private admonition, 4.12.2; admonition before witnesses, ib.; excessive austerity of the ancients in, 4.12.8 ; mere delinquencies must be distinguised from flagrant acts, 4.12.4; moderation to be used, not only by the whole Church, but by each individual member, 4.12.9; excommunication has three ends in view, 4.12.5; not even princes are exempted from it, 4.12.7; the excessive rigour of the Donatists portrayed by Augustine, 4.12.11; must be kept altogether distinct from the power of the sword, 4.11.5; ought to be exercised both on the clergy and on the people, 4.12.1.

Doctrine of Christ, the, is the soul of the Church, 4.12.1; of Moses, the design of, 1.8.6; of faith and of repentance manifestly corrupted by Popery, 3.2.1, 3.4.1; is one of the three departments of the the power of the Church, 4.8.1.

Donatists refuted, 4.1.13, 4.12.11, 4.15.16.

Dulia and Latria, the foolish distinction between 1.12.2.

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