worthy of an apostleship, 571; to the God of Ma-
homet, ii. 102; to the immaculate conception of the
Virgin Mary, 105 and [b]; concerning the worship
of Chrift's blood, 457; the prefence of Chrift's body
and blood in the facrament, between the Reformers
in xvi cent. iv. 62, 63; the ufe of reafon in religion
in xvii cent. v. 429; and reducible to two questions,
ibid. by whom this was oppofed, and how mitigated,
430.
Controversy, adiaphorific, or about matters indifferent,
between Melancthon and Flacius in xvi cent. iv. 326
and [s]; the two questions difcuffed gave rise to the
difpute about the neceffity of good works, 327 and

notes.

fynergistical, iv. 326 and [a]; principal cham-
pions in it, 330.

Conventual, brethren, who, iii. 33.

Converfions, in iv cent. the caufes of, confidered, i. 340;
in v cent. to what owing, ii. 10; in ix cent. the nature
of, and views, 280; traces of idolatry among the con-
verted, accounted for, 281.

Converfion of Jews and Moors in Spain, in xv cent. by
force, iii. 286.

Copiate, their office in the church, i. 267, 268, and [t]
in fine.

Copts. in Africa, their averfion to the church of Rome in
xvii cent. v. 258.

Corbinian, a zealous miffionary among the Germans in
viii cent. ii. 207.

Bords, Chriftian Bartholomew de, a patron of Bourig
non's doctrine, and account of, v. 316.

Cornelius, Anthony, one of the founders of the collegiants,
an account of, v. 507.

Corrupticole, who, ii. 147; their opinions concerning
Chrift's body, 148.

Cortefius, Paulus, his Commentary on Proverbs, iii. 454-
eofmas, bishop of Jerufalem, his character, ii. 246.
Council, general, one very much defired in xvi cent. iv,
100; why retarded by Pope Clement VII. 101 and
[i]; who eludes his promife, and dies, ib. and [4]; his
fucceffor Paul III. inclined to call one, proposes to
affemble it at Mantua, and why protefted against by.

the

the Proteftants, who draw up the articles of Smalcald
102 and [m].

Councils, if any in i cent. i. 107; whether that of Jerufa-
lem was one, ibid, and [m]; their origin among the
Greeks, 178; foon become univerfal, ibid. increase
the power of the bishops, ibid.

Councils, cecumenical, when first established, i. 347; what
fo called, 348; their power diminished by Alexander
III. Pope, iii. 67.

Courayer, Dr, remarkable anecdote concerning him, and
good character, vi. 53.

Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, an account of, iv.
438.

Grantwauld, Valentine, affifts Schwenfeldt against Luther,
iv. 318.

Crellius, minifter at the Saxon court, protects the Crypto.
Calvinists in xvi cent. iv. 352; fuffers death, 353 and
[m].
Crellius, Samuel, (profeffor of theology among the Soci-
nians), differs from Socinus, and whence called the Ar-
temonite, v. 505 [u]; dies at Amsterdam, vi. 39.
Crefcens, his virulent efforts against Christianity, and par-
ticularly against Juftin Martyr, i. 164.

Cromwell, ftate of the church under him in xvii cent. v.
408; attached to no particular fect, ibid. favours the
independents in order to balance the Prefbyterians, 409
and ; tolerates all fects but Epifcopalians, ibid. re-
folves at firft to fupprefs the Quakers, but afterwards is
obliged to, defift, v. 469.

Cross, if one of the Trinity can be said to have suffered on
it, debarred, ii. 137; how made a proof of innocence in
ix cent. 361 and [i].

Crown and rofary of the Virgin, an institution in x cent.
ii. 429; and what, ibid.

Crump, Henry, attacks the mendicants in xiv cent. iii. 321.
Crufades, holy wars. See War, boly.

Cuiper, Francis, oppofes Bredenberg's fentiments in fa-
vour of Spinoza's doctrine, and controversy thereupon,
509; his writings, and an account of, ibid. fub not.

V.

Cufo,

Cufa, Nicholas de, his works, iii. 442 and [9]; labours
to reform the schoolmen in xv cent. 454.
Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, opposes the re-admiflion
of the lapfed in the perfecution under Decius, and
gains his point, i. 251; fuffers martyrdom under Va-
lerian, 253; a character of his works, 271: opposes
the imperious measures of Stephen Bishop of Rome,
286.

Cyriac, of Ancona, introduces a taste for coins in xv cent.
iii. 395.
Cyril, Bishop of Jerufalem, his character and works, i.
358; admired for his catechetical difcourfes, 370.

Bishop of Alexandria, his character, ii. 34 and
[g]; Commentaries on the Scriptures, 42 and [d];
anathematizes Neftorius twelve times, 68; prefides at
the council of Ephefus, ibid. condemns Neftorius, ibid.
how blameable in the Neftorian controverfy, 69, 70,
and [p]; anathematized at Ephesus by John of An-
tioch, 71.

Patriarch of Conftantinople, his character, v. 249;
favourable to Rome in xvii cent. ibid. and [f]; is
put to death, 250.

D.

DAMASCENUS, John, his concife and comprehenfive view
of Ariftotle's doctrines, ii. 217; is followed by many
in the ftudy of this philofophy, ibid; his character,
246; Commentary on St Paul's Epiftles, 250; fyfte-
matic works, 257; polemic writings, 259.

Domianifts, a feat in vi cent. ii. 150; their founder Da-
mian, Bishop of Alexandria, ibid; doctrine of the Tri-
nity, ibid..

Damien, Peter, his character, ii. 541; moral, 551; and
controverfial works, 552.

Damila, Nilus, a zealous advocate for the Greeks against
the Latins in xiv cent. iii. 360.

Dancers, a fect in xiv cent. iii. 382 and [k].

Danhaver, John Conrad, opposes Rheinboth in his opi-
nions in xvii cent. v. 336.

Daniel, Gabriel, defends the Jefuits, iv. 229 [*].

Dante,

Dante, his character, zeal, and fuccefs in. refloring the
purity of the genuine eloquence of the Latins in xiv
cent. iii. 367.

Dantzic, fmall Socinian fect founded at, in xvi cent. iv.

515.

Dantzigers, (or Pruffians), a fect of the reformed Ana-
baptiits, and why fo called, v. 492 and [b].

Darenfis, Johannes, his explications of the pretended
Dionyfius, ii. 258.

Davides, Francis, propagates Socinianifm in Tranfylva-
nia, iv. 513; adopts the doctrines of Budnæus about
Chrift, 525; his imprifonment and death, 526 and
[u].
Davidifis, (David Georgians), a ridiculous fect in xvi
cent. iv. 481; impiety of the founder, why exagge-
rated, 482; fome remains of them in Holftein, Frief-
land, and other countries, 483.

Deaconneffes, in the primitive church, their office described,

i. 104.

Deacons, of the church at Jerufalem, their office describ-
ed, i. 103; if the young men who carried out Ananias
and Sapphira belonged to this order, ibid. [b].

Decius, the dreadful perfecution under him, and confe-
quences, i. 249.
Decretals, forged, procured by the Pontifs to establish
their fupremacy in ix cent. ii 305 and [2]; 306 and
[a]; a collection of them made in xiii cent. by Ray-
mond of Pennafort, iii. 163 and [i].

Deifts, promote their principles with impunity under
Cromwell in xvii cent. and their chiefs, v. 410; ac-
count of them in xviii cent. their notions, and principal
writers, vi. 8; effential religion, its author and refuta-
tion, 9 and [7].

Deities Heathen, who admitted to this honour, i. 25, 26
and [m].

Delft, affembly of the Dutch clergy held at, by which
every candidate for orders is obliged to declare his ab-
horrence of Carfefianifm, v. 424.

Demiurge, of the Eastern philofophers, who, and his cha-

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racter, i, 90.

Denmark,

Denmark, converted to Christianity in ix cent. ii. 276;
and confirmed in it in x cent. 378; the rife and pro-
grefs of the Reformation in xvi cent. iv. 81. 84.

Derufi, or Drufi, an account of, in xiii cent. iii. 144 [%].
Des Cartes. See Cartes.

Defiderius, Bishop of Cahors, his epiftles, ii. 175.

D'Efpence, an eminent expofitor in xv cent. iv. 217.
Devay Matthias, with others, introduces the doctrine
of the Swifs churches into Hungary and Tranfylvania,
iv. 408.

Deurboff, William, accused of a propensity to Spinozism,
his notions and works, vi. 36.

Dexius, his abfurd attempt to prove no difference between
the council of Trent and the confeffion of Augfburg,
V. 127 and [w].

Diadochus, a moral writer in v cent. his works, ii. 47.
Didymus attacks the whole body of Heretics in iv. cent. i.
373.

Dinant, David of, a great admirer and disciple of Amal-
ric, his fundamental principle, iii. 288.

Diocefes, their origin, i. 106.

Diocletian, perfecution under, how procured, i. 314; the
caufes and horrid feverity, 316 and [f]; brings the
affairs of the Chriftians to a dangerous crifis, 317.
Diodorus, Bishop of Tarfus, an account of, i. 360; his
interpretation of the Scripture, 368.

Dion Caffius, an eminent rhetorician in iii cent. i. 259;
combats barbarifm, ibid.

Dionyfius, Bishop of Alexandria, the Great, fo called
from his great erudition and moderation, i. 271 and
[a]; his moral writings, 280.

the Areopagite, a Greek fanatic under that name
in iv. cent i. 376; the fuccefs of his gloomy notions,
ibid. and [n].

pretended Areopagite, his works, ii. 130; pa-
negyrics on him, 330; his writings tranflated by the
order of Lewis the Meek, ibid. and [u, w; ] life by
Hilduin, 331.

the Little, his works, ii. 122. 130.

the Geographer, when he lived, ii. 492.

chief of the Mystics, an account of, iii. 455.

Dionyfius,