Christ's blood, 39, 40 and [x]; character of his expo
fition of the Bible, 217.

Cainites, an account of their tenets, i. -33.

Calliftus, Nicephorus, his character and works, iii. 304, 360.
Calixtenes, in Bohemia, their rife in xv. cent. iii. 448;
four demands, 449.

Calixtus, George, his zeal for reconciling the Proteftants
and Catholics in xvii cent. v. 130; as also the Lu-
therans and Reformed, 279; his peculiar method and
form of theology, 298; system of moral theology, 300;
author of Syncretifm, and character, 30; opposed
by whom, 303; his death, 305 and [d]; doctrine con-
demned, and creed drawn up against it by the Lutheran
doctors, 306; opinions 307 and [f]; his real defign,
308 fub. fin. not. [f]; two great principles, with de-
bates carried on with the doctors of Rintelen, Coninf-
berg, 310; and Jena, 311; the candid examination of
Glaflius on this occafion, 312 and [4].

Frederic Ulric, opposes the creed of the Lutheran
doctors against Syncretifm, v. 306.

Calixtus II. Pope, his great character, iii. 47; disputes
concerning inveftitures fubfide by his prudence, 48.

III. inftitutes in xv cent. the feftival of the
Transfiguration, iii. 460.

Calovius, a Lutheran writer in xvii cent. v. 296; attacks
Calixtus, 304; his malignity against the difciples of
Calixtus, even after his death, 305•

Calvin, John, a fhort character of him, iv. 89 and
[a, b]; facilitated a reconciliation of the Reformed and
Lutherans, iv. 366, 367 and [g]; error here, 367: fet
on foot the controverfy about predeftination, 369; his
opinion, and that of the ancient Helvetic doctors,
ibid. the former, propagated with difcord, carried to
the greatest height, 370; founder of the Reformed
church 374, 375 and [o]; his grand views how in part
executed, ibid. 376, 377 and []; doctrine, and difci-
pline altered from that of Zuingle in three points, ibid.
first the power of the magiftrate, ibid. fecond, the eu-
charift, little different from the Lutherans, though
much from Zuingle, 378, 379 and [9], 380 and
[] different from the Romanifts, ibid. third, in
God's abfolute decree, ibid. his changes not approved

or

or received by all the Reformed, 381; gains ground in
Germany, 382; and in France, 383; in Scotland by
Knox, and in England, 386; his fyftem made the public.
rule of faith in the latter place under Edward VI.
387; his fyftem adopted in the Netherlands, 404; his
rigid difcipline,, and refolution in establishing it and
the dangers he is thereupon expofed to, 421, 423 and
[d]; his interpretation of the precepts of Ariftotle,
424; Commentary, and why fharply cenfured, 425;
Inftitutes of the Christian religion, 426; Practical di-
vinity, or life and manners of a true Christian, 428;
contest with the spiritual libertines, 430; with thofc
of Geneva, 431; difputes with Caftalio, 433; with
Bolfec, 434; with Ochinus, 435; puts Servetus to
death, 490; his method of interpreting fcripture fcru-
puloufly followed by the members of the Reformed
church, v. 559.

Calvinifts, fecret, favourers of, in Saxony, iv. 340;
whence called, Crypto-Calvinifts, 344; attempts to
spread their doctrine, 351; and confequences, with the
death of Crellius, their chief patron, 353.

Camaldolites, a monaftic order, their rife in xi cent. ii.
529; founder Romuald, whofe followers are divided
into two claffes, the Cenobites and the Eremites, 530
and [x].

Gamaterus, Andronicus, his character, iii. 77.

Cambalu (now Pekin in China), erected by Clement V.
into an archbishopric in xiv cent. iii. 297.

Gamerarius, Joachim, a promoter of univerfal learning,
and his character, iv. 297; his Commentary on the
New Teftament, 305.

Cameron, John, his reconciling doctrine and endeavours, v.
374.

Campanella, a philofopher in xvi cent. iv. 164; his cha-
racter, ibid. [p].

Campanus, his heretical notions, iv. 488 and [a].
canon of fcripture, fuppofed to be fixed about i cent. i.
108; and reafons for this fuppofition, 109.

canons, a religious order, their origin in viii cent. ii.
241; their founder Chrodagangus, 242 and [b]; en-
couraged by Lewis the Meek, 310; who orders a

new

251

new rule to be drawn up for their obfervance, which is
condemned, and institutes the first Canoneffes, 311 and
[b]; the author of this rule, ibid. partiality of their
hiftorians, ibid. [i]; degenerate from their primitive
purity, 312; corruption among them in xi cent. 537 ;
reformation attempted, and new laws made, 538; dif-
tinction into regular and secular, ibid. why called Re-
gular canons of St Augustin, 539 and [p]; introduc-
tion into England, 540.

Canons, regular, their useful lives and manners in xii cent.
iii. 68; conteft with the monks about pre-eminence,
69.

—, Roman, their luxurious lives, iv. 197.
Cantachuzenus, John, his history of his own times, and
confutation of the Mahometan law, iii. 360.
cantipretenfis, Thomas, his character. iii. 240.

capiftran, John, his character, iii. 442; eminent for
his defence of papal authority, ibid.

Capito, Robert, an account of, iii. 155, 240 and [i];
his commentaries on Dionyfius, 240.

cappel, Lewis, charged with making imprudent and
bafe conceffions, through a defire of diminishing the
prejudices or refentment of the Papifts against the
Proteftants in xvii cent. 5, 377; the voluminous and
elaborate work undertaken by him, what, ibid. [q, r,
and s]; zealously oppofed, ibid. 378; the churches of
Switzerland alarmed at his opinions, and the event,
436.

capreolus, John, his character, iii. 227.

Capuchins, their origin in xvi cent. and founder, iv. 198,
199 and [,]; envy against them, and why fo called,
ibid. and [m, n]; banished Venice in xvii cent. v. 198,
but recalled, 147 and [a].

caputiati, a fect of fanatics in xii cent. iii. 128.
Caracalla, Emperor, his lenity to the Chriftians, i. 242.
Cardan, a philofopher in xvi cent. iv. 163; his character,
ibid. [n].

cardinals, the right of electing to the fee of Rome vested
in them by Nicholas II. in xi cent. ii. 479 and [];
their origin, and rights, 481 and [b, i]; divided into
two claffes, of Cardinal Bishops, and Cardinal Clerks,

483; and the meaning of these terms, 484, 485 and
[n]; their college augmented by Alexander III, 486,
487.
Cardinals, in Rome, their number, iv. 169; what in-
capable of being elected to the fee of Rome, 170 and

[b].
Cario, an eminent hiftorian among the Lutherans, iv.
296.

carloftadt, his intemperate zeal, and warm debates with
Luther, iv. 314; excites a tumult at Wittemberg,
315 and [g]; leaves Wittemberg, and opposes the
fentiments of Luther concerning the Eucharift, ibid.
316 and [b]; propagates his doctrine in Switzerland,
ibid. favourable difpofition towards the Anabaptifts,
and enthusiastical teachers, ibid. charged with fanati-
cifm, ibid. and [i].
Carmelites, a monaftic order, their rife in xii cent. iii.
73; founded by Albert Patriarch of Jerufalem, ibid.
their rule of difcipline, ibid. and [t]; unwarrantable
pretence to a very remote antiquity, and that Elias was
their founder, ibid. and [t]; the abfurd arguments
brought in fupport of this pretence, 74; their arrival
in England, 75, fub. fin. not. [y]; transplanted into
Europe, and favoured by Honorius III, Pope, 193;
reformation introduced amongst them in xvi cent. iv.
200; divifions amongst them, 201.

Caro (Cher) Hugo de St, his Concordance to the Bible,
the first that appeared, iii. 240 and []; collects the
various readings of the Hebrew, Latin, and Greek
Bibles, ibid.

Carpathius, John, his moral writings, ii. 258.
Carpathius, Philo, his character, ii. 41.

Carpocrates, an Egyptian Gnoftick, i. 227; his impious
tenets, which deftroy all virtue, ibid.

cartes, M. des, an aftronomer, v. 72; his character,
81; philosophy, 82; method adopted by him, and
the clergy alarmed, 83; charged with atheism, op-
pofed by other fects, and the confequence to science,
84; his method applauded, yet feveral faults found
in it, 85; Gaffendi his chief adversary, ibid. has a
great number of followers, 86; metaphysical, im-
proved and propagated with fuccefs, 90; by Male-

branche

branche and Leibnitz, with the character of each, 91 and [r].

Cartefian controverfy in Holland, an account of, v. 423 ; philofophy, why confidered as a system of impiety, 424; edicts against it, but inffectual, 425.

Carthufians, amonaftic order, its rife in xi cent. i, 534. founder and fevere laws, ibid. and [b]; why fo few nuns of that order, 536 and [2].

Caffian, his character, ii. 35 and [9].

Caffiodorus, his character, ii. 123; expofitions of fcripture, 126.

Caftalio, Sebaftian, opposes Calvin, and his character, iv. 433 and [y]; is banished Geneva, and received into Bafil, 434 and [%].

Cafiilians, the extraordinary method ufed by them to determine the fuperior excellence of the Roman and Gothic fervice in xi cent. ii. 574

Caftilione, Gilbert de, refutes the Jews in xii cent. iii.

99.

cafuifts, ancient, not fo good as the Lutheran, iv. 399 and [c]. Catechumens, an order of Chriftians in the early ages of the church, i. 100; how diftinguished from believers, 117; not admitted to the facrament, 400.

Catharifs, Paulicians, fo called in xi cent. ii. 579; their unhappy ftate in xii cent. iii, 112 and [p]; refemble the Manichæans in their doctrine, and hence called by that name, ibid. their tenets, 113 and [9]; two principal fects, ibid. their doctrine and fubdivifions, 114; fentiments concerning the birth of Chrift, ibid. church conftitution and difcipline, 115 and [u].

Cedrenus, an hiftorian in xi cent. ii. 459.

Celestine I. Pope, fends Palladius and Patrick to convert the Irish in v cent. ii. 8.

III. Pope, excommunicates the Emperor, the Duke of Auftria, the King of Galicia and Leon, iii. 63. V. Pope, obnoxious to the clergy, and why, iii. 185; his good character, ibid. refigns the papal chair, and is founder of the Celeftines, 186; is fainted, ibid.

Cellites,