Oath. See Vows.

Obedience is highly acceptable to God, 2.8.5; is due to parents, 2.8.35; is due to magistrates, even when their requirements are tyrannical, 4.20.29; of the Mediator must be opposed to the disobedience of Adam, in order to our reconciliation with God, 2.12.1; removed the enmity between God and us, 2.16.5.

Object of faith, God is the; but he must be beheld through Christ, 2.6.4, 3.2.1.

Operating and co-operating grace, Lombard's distinction between, 2.2.6; how far the distinction may be admitted, 2.3.12.

Orders, ecclesiastical, reckoned by the Papists one of the Sacraments, 4.19.22; divided by some into Seven, and by others into Nine Orders, ib.; have no right to be distinguished by the title of Sacrament, 4.19.27; are an insult to Christ, by attempting to make him their colleague, 4.19.23; are in most cases empty names without any office, 4.19.24; absurdity and Judaizing nature of the clerical tonsure, 4.19.25; offer insult to Christ by regarding men as priests, 4.19.28; absurd imitation of our Saviour breathing on the Apostles, 4.19.29; in anointing they are rivals of the Levites, and became apostates from Christ, 4.19.30; the three higher classes are called by them Holy Orders, 4.19.28.

Ordination of ministers, the form and mode of, 4.3.16.

Original sin, described, 2.1.4; the term used by early Christian writers, 2.1.5; is the common lot of the human race, ib.; is not propagated by imitation, 2.1.6: this is plain from the contrast between Adam and Christ, ib.; and is confirmed by other passages of Scripture, ib.; errors of Pelagians and others concerning, 2.1.5; question whether the soul of the child comes by transmission from the soul of the parent, 2.1.7.

.