INDE X.

A

A.

BRAHAM, the poffibility of a tradition from Adam to
him, 96. The occafion and defign of a revelation to him,

ibid.

Abfolute decrees. See Decrees.

Abfolution, in what fenfe it ought to be pronounced, 367. The bad
effects of the hafty absolutions of the Church of Rome, 380. As
used in the Church of England, is only declaratory, 381. This
agreeable to the practice of the primitive Church, ibid. A prayer
ufed in the Church of Rome after absolution, 382. This does
not mend it, ibid. When this practice was introduced, ibid.
Abftinence. See Fafting.

Action, whether God is the firft and immediate cause of every ac-
tion, 42. What it is that denominates an action good or bad,
181. Diftinction between those that are univerfally binding on
all, and fuch as bind only fome fort of men, 186. The judg-
ments to be made of them from appearances, 187.

Acts of Apoftles, when and by whom wrote, 78.
Acts, no fucceffive acts in God, 34.

Adam, wherein the image of God, in which he was created, con-
fifted, 150, 151. Whether the death he was threatened with was
only natural, 147, 151. Whether by covenant he was conftituted
to represent all his pofterity, 154. Of the propagation of his fin,
155. See Original Sin.

Adoration, God only the proper object of it, 62. What it is, ibid.
Chrift proposed in the New Teftament as the object of it, ibid.
Ought not to be given to any creature, 63. See Hoft.

Adultery, on the part of the wife, diffolves marriage, 389. This
agreeable both to the law of nature and the Gospel, ibid. And
to the practice of the primitive Church, ibid. The contrary doc-
trine of a modern date, 390.

Agobard, Bishop of Lyons, wrote with great vehemence against the
worship of images, 317.

Ahab, his feigned humiliation rewarded, 181.

Air, greatly improved by the industry of man, 40.

Almaric exprefsly denied the corporal prefence, 459. Is condemned.
by the Lateran Council, and his body raised and burnt on that
account, ibid.

Almsgiving, a main part of charity, 380. See Charity.

Altar, but one in a church among the primitive Chriftians, 482.
Ambaffador, his extenfive power, 369.

Ambrofe,

Ambrofe, the variation of that prayer of confecration, which goes
under his name, from that used in the mass, 452.

Ananias, wherein the guilt of his fin lay, 535.

Anathemas, the form of denouncing them against heretics very an-
cient, 498. What was meant by them, ibid. A great number of
them denounced by the Council of Trent, ibid. Those ill-found-
ed cannot hurt, 499. See Cenfures.

Angels, good or bad, are capable of doing many things beyond our
reach, 82. Are perfect moral agents, and yet cannot fin, 160.
Worshipping them exprefsly forbid in the New Teftament, 330.
Invocation of them difclaimed in the first ages of Chriftianity,331.
Animal spirits, their fubtile nature, 45. Their influence on our
managing matter, 82. Receive their quality from that of the
blood, 150. Are the immediate organs of thought and fubtiler
parts of the blood, 162. A conjecture how they may excite.
thought, 164.

Annihilation only in the power of God, 39. A common mistake about
it rectified, ibid. Created beings have not a tendency to it, 40.
Antiquity, not a note of the true Church, 250.

Apocrypha. The Christian Churches were for fome ages ftrangers to
thefe books, 118. Were first mentioned by Athanafius, ibid.
Where, and by whom wrote, ibid. Were left out of the canon by
the Council of Laodicea, 119. Were firft received into it by that
of Trent, ibid. Were always denied to be a part of it by the best
and moft learned writers, ibid. See Maccabees.

Apoftles were not the authors of the Creed, which goes by their
name, 2, 144. How far they complied with Judaism, 9, 274.
The difficulties they met with in propagating Chriftianity, So.
Could not be impoftors, 81. Nor impofed on, 83. Their being
endowed with extraordinary inspiration, no argument for a fuc-
ceffion of infallibility, 287. Of the powers with which our Savi-
our fent them, 341. Were not conftituted Priefts by our Savi-
our's words, Do this, in the Sacrament, 470. Did not derive their
authority from St. Peter, being all equal to him, 519.
Apparitions, there are many hiftories of them well attefted, 46. To
difbelieve all unreasonable, ibid.

Apollinarian herefy, what it was, 446. Was confuted by many
great men of different ages, ibid.

Aquarii, thofe who used water inftead of wine in the Sacrament,
473. Their reason for fo doing, ibid. Are feverely condemned
by St. Cyprian, ibid.

Aquinas, Thomas, his notion of providence and free-will, 207.
His diftinction to avoid making God the author of fin, 208.
His doctrine concerning image-worship, 319.

Arians, their opinion that Chrift is a creature of a spiritual nature,
65. Councils decree differently concerning this, 282.
Arminians, their opinions of free-will and predeftination, 203.
Were condemned by the Synod of Dort, 211. The occafion of
their becoming the diftinction of a party instead of doctrinal
points, ibid. See Remonftrants.

Artemon

Artemon held the fame opinion of Chrift as the Socinians, 65.
Articles of the Church of England, objections against them, 1. Rea-
fons for their defcending to fo many particulars, 5. The funda-
mental Article of the Reformation, 6. How, or by whom the Ar
ticles were prepared, ibid. What the fanction of public authority
to them implies, 7. Whether they are Articles of Peace only, or
of Doctrine, ibid. To the Laity, only Articles of Church-commu-
nion, 9. Diftinction between Articles of Faith and Articles of
Doctrine, 8. What the Clergy are bound to by their subscrip-
tions, 9. A royal declaration to end disputes about this matter,
10. May have different fenfes, 11. This illuftrated by the third
Article, ibid. Care taken to fettle the true reading of them, 12.
Collations of them with MSS. ibid-19. Difficulty arising from
the various readings cleared, 20. Exprefs words of Scripture for
each Article not neceffary, 101. Several differences of the prefent
from those publifhed in King Edward's reign, 73, 120, 121, 350,
485. The latitude of the Articles, 9, 236, 347. Fundamental
Articles ought not to be too ftrictly determined, 252. The mo-
deration of the Articles, 10, 158, 160, 237, 411, 528.
Affistance, the doctrine of inward affiftances proved from Scripture,
163. How they are conveyed to us, 164. The effect of them,
ibid.
Athanafius, his account of the books of the Old Teftament, 118.

And thofe of the Apocrypha, ibid. Was not author of the Creed,
which goes by his name, 142. The condemnatory claufes of it
explained, 143.

Atheists, their objections to the argument, from the confent of man-
kind, for the being of God, anfwered, 23. Their arguments for
the eternity of the world confidered, 25. That for its being made
by chance answered, 27. Their objections to miracles answered,
28. The notion that the world is a body to God, the foundation
of Atheism, 33.

Attrition, an imperfect contrition, 377. The doctrine of the Church
of Rome concerning it, ibid. See Contrition.

Augsburgh confeffion of faith, on what occafion it was prepared, 5.
Auguftin, or Austin, his doctrine of original fin, 154. And of re-
probation, ibid. Hated Pelagianifm, 206. Wherein he differed
from the Sublapfarians, 207. Speaks very doubtfully concerning
the state of the foul after death, 300. A famous paffage about
his mother Monica referred to, 301. His extraordinary relations
of miracles not to be credited, 325. His declaration against in-
vocation of Saints, 332. Thought that all who were baptized
were regenerated, 409. His rule concerning figurative expref-
fions, 437.

Auricular Confeffion. See Confeffion.

Authority of the books of the Old Teftament, 99, 109. That of
the New, 105, 106. That of the Apocrypha difproved, 118.
That of the Church in religious matters not abfolute, 245. In
relation to ceremonies, 270. Diftinction between that which is
founded on infallibility and an authority of order, 274. Law-

ful authority in the Church, what it is, 345. Is fubject to the
law of the land, 501. The highest act of their authority, 502.
That of the Pope, 518, 519. Of the King in ecclefiaftical mat-
ters, 523, 527. See Pope, King, Church.

B

B.

AITULIA, the least enfnaring of all idols, 309.

Baptifm, what it is, 50. The danger of delaying it till death,
197. What gave rife to this practice, ibid. What necessary to
make it true and valid, 252. That by laics and by women not
null, though irregular, 253. The obligation baptism brings us un-
der, 255. Baptifm no new thing among the Jews in our Sa-
viour's time, 403. Its inftitution as a federal act was by Christ,
404. Wherein the Chriftian differs from that of St. John, 405.
What meant by being born of water, and of the spirit, 406. It is
a precept, but not a mean necessary to falvation, ibid. The ends
and purposes of it, 407. The bad confequences of maintaining
the abfolute neceffity of it, 409. How it becomes effectual to fal-
vation, 410. Wherein it agrees with circumcifion, 412. Baptism
of infants most agreeable to the inftitution of Chrift, 413. And
to the practice of circumcifion under the Old Testament, 414.
Why the office for baptizing infants is the fame with that for
perfons of riper age, ibid. Reasonableness of changing the form
to fprinkling, 471.

Bafil, St. his opinion of the fouls of the martyrs, 326.

Beafts are not mere machines, 45. May have spirits of an inferior
order, ibid.

Begetting, the natural meaning of it, 57. What understood by it
when spoken of the Son of God, is beyond our prefent compre-
henfion, ibid.

Beginning, what meant by it in the firft of St. John's Gospel, 57-
Begotten and born of God, the meaning of thefe expreffions, 196,
198.

Berengarius, his character, 458. Oppofed the doctrine of the corpo-
ral prefence, ibid. Had many followers, ibid.

Binding and loofing, that power granted equally to all the Apoftles,
267. What the Jewish writers meant by it, 268.
Bishops, the declaration of their faith was at firft in very general
terms, 3. Which they fent round them, 4. What obliged them
afterwards to make fuller declarations, ibid. A fucceffion of them
no certain note of a true Church, 251. Why confirmation was
in the earliest ages referved for the Bishop only, 363. No in-
ftructions of celibacy given them in the New Testament, 486.
Many of them in the beft ages were married, 489. Of their
confecration, 514. Are all equal by their office and character,
519. Authority of thofe in great fees only from cuftom, 520.
See Pope.

Blood, a probable conjecture about the natural state of it, 150. Its
influence on the animal spirits, ibid.

Body,

Body, of the state of our Saviour's body from his death to his re-
furrection, 86. Whether it put on a new form in his afcenfion,
87. Glorified bodies are of a different texture from thofe of flesh
and blood, 472. See Resurrection.

Boniface VIII. Pope, claimed a feudatory power in temporals over
princes, 262.

Brain, the influence of its diforder upon the mind, 45. Our
thoughts are governed by impressions made on it, 161.

Bread in the Sacrament in what fenfe the body of Chrift, 418.
When dipping it in the wine became a practice, 473. This
condemned by the Council of Bracara, ibid.

CALE

C.

YALF, golden, what intention the Ifraelites had in making it,
311. The defign of thofe calves fet up by Jeroboam, ibid.
See Idolatry.

Calvinifts, how far they agree with St. Austin about predeftination,
207. The peculiar advantages and disadvantages of their opi-
nions on this fubject, 232. See Supralapfarians.

Canon. See Scriptures.

Canons of the Church, what refpect due to them for antiquity, 510.
The new canon law different from the old, 509. Ancient canons
little regarded by the reformers, ibid. Were brought into defue-
tude by the Church of Rome, 510.

Caffian, his doctrine concerning predeftination, 206. Is oppofed
and defended by feveral, ibid. His collations were in great e-
fteem, 207.

Catholic, not a note of the true Church, 249.

Celibacy of the Clergy, no rule for it in the Gospel, 486. Not in
the power of the Church to order it, 487. The political advan-
tages of it, ibid. When and by whom it was first introduced, 489.
The practice of the Church not uniform in it, ibid. Was not im-
pofed on all the Clergy till the end of the eleventh century, 490.
The good and bad consequences of it, 488, 491. Vows not law-
ful in this matter, 492. And are not binding, though made, 494.
See Oath.

Cenfures of the Church, how to behave under them, 500. What
right the Laity have to be confulted in them, ibid. Are agreea-
ble to the defign of Chriftianity, 502. Defects in them no just
cause of separation, ibid. Popery introduced a great variety of
rules concerning them, 503. A farther reformation in these still
wanted, ibid.

Century, the great ignorance that prevailed in the tenth century,
458.

Ceremonial law, was not defigned to be perpetual, 128. The de-
fign of its inftitution, 134. Is now abolished, as become useless
and impoffible, 135.
Ceremonies, the Church has power to appoint them, 270. The
practice of the Jewish Church in this matter, ibid. Changes in
them fometimes neceflary, 271. The practice of the Apostles,

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272.