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Flavianus, Bishop of Conftantinople, beat to death in the
fecond council of Ephefus, ii. 76 and [b, c].
Flemingians, a fect of Anabaptifts in xvi cent. iv. 463;
maintain Menno's doctrine relative to the incarnation,
452, 473 and [d]; the refined Anabaptifts fo called, v.

494.

Florence, council at, fummoned by Eugenius IV. iii. 424;
attempts to reunite the Greek and Latin churches, and
fraudulent practices at it, 426 and [k]; terminates these
quarrels only for a fhort time, 427.

Florinians, a fect in ii cent. their founder and tenets, i.
233 and [x].

Florus, a poet in ix cent. ii. 292; as also a commentator,
327.

Fludd, Robert, defends the philofophy of Paracelfus, iv.
300 and [], v. 79 and [g]; attacked and refuted by
Gaffendi, 81.

Forbes, William, his pacific counfels and character, v. 129
and [a].

Forer, employed to write against the Proteftants and con-
feffion of Augfburg in xvii cent. v. 105 and [o].
Fortunatus, his character, ii. 123.

Fox, George, his ftrange behaviour and exhortation, when
called before the civil magiftrate, whence his followers
were called Quakers, v. 466; founder of that fect, and
character, 467 and [i]. See Quakers.

France, the flourishing state of learning there in xi cent.
ii. 459, 460; fpiritual libertines get footing there in
xvi cent. iv. 431.

Francfort, a council affembled by Charlemagne in viii cent.
ii. 266; the decrees of the fecond Nicene council rejec-
ted, 267; the worship of images unanimoufly condem-
ned, ibid. the proceedings of this council fufficient to
prove the lawfulness of diffenting from the Pope at that
time, who is charged with error, ibid.

Francis, founder of the Francifcans, his extraordinary
change of life and manners, iii. 197; his notions of the
effence of religion, and character, 198 and [w]; his ftig-
mas what, and the credit given to them by the Popes,
335 and [i]; Book of Conformities with Jefus Christ,
336, 337 and [*].

Francis

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Francis I. King of France, abrogates, in xvi cent. the Prag-
matic sanction, and inftitutes the Concordate, iv. 14, and
[g, b].
Francifcans, an order of Friars, their rife in xiii cent. iii.
198; why called Friars-minors, ibid. and [u, w]; held
in great esteem by the Popes, and their fervices to the
Popes, 199 and [x], 200 and [y]; divifions early
among them, and highly prejudicial to the papal
power, 205; inteftine quarrels, and how occafioned,
206; but mitigated, 207; fpiritual, their increase,
and new troubles excited, 215; the miseries the fpiri-
tual undergo, and their oppofition to the church of
Rome, and accounts of them imperfect, 220, 221, and
[m]; impioufly affert their founder to be a fecond
Chrift in xiv cent. 335; deliberations for re-uniting
the fpirituals to the brethren of the community, or lefs
rigid Francifcans, by Clement V. 338; their quarrel
with John XXII. Pope, 346; their invectives against
papal authority, and patronized by Lewis of Bavaria
against the Pope, 349'; peace concluded between them
and the Pope, 350; contemn the Fratricelli and Ter-
tiares, who reject the authority of the Pope, 351;
divifion of this order into the Conventual and the bre-
thren of the Obfervation, 353, 354; reformations among
them in xvi cent. iv. 199.

Franks, their kingdom founded in Gaul in v cent. ii. 6;
converfion, 7; their empire in Greece in xiii cent. and
continuance, iii. 135.

Europeans fo called by the Indians, v. 12 and

[7].
Fratricelli, their origin in xiii cent. iii. 222 and [n]; are
an order of the Francifcans, feparated from the grand
community of their order, ibid. rigorously obferve
their founder's laws, declaim against the corruption.
of the Romish church, and her pontifs, and foretel a
Reformation, ibid. how they differed from the Spirituals
of the order, ibid. 223 and [o]; their efteem for Ce-
leftine V. and why, ibid. deny the legality of the elec-
tions of Boniface VIII. and other fucceffors who oppofe
them, ibid. accounts of them confufed and imperfect,
224, [p]; enormities among them in xiv cent. 337;

their abolition ordered by Pope John XXII. 340;
many of them burned for oppofing the Pope's orders,
342, 343 and [w]; perfecuted again in xv cent. 435,
436 and [a]; they in return put fome inquifitors to
death, 437.

Freculph, an hiftorian in ix cent. ii. 292. 315.

Fredegarius, an historian in vii cent. ii. 175.
Frederic I. (Barbaroffa), Emperor, his refolution to fub-
port the dignity of the Roman empire, and restrain
the authority of the church, ii. 52; rejects the info-
lent order of Pope Adrian IV. ibid. enacts a law to
prevent transferring fiefs without the confent of their
fuperior lords, 53 and [n]; fupports the election of
Calixtus III. in oppofition to Alexander III. 55; con-
cludes a treaty with Alexander, ibid. the fervile fub-
miffion he is faid to have paid this haughty prelate
doubted, ibid. and [r].

II. his delay in an expedition against Palestine
in xiii cent. iii. 136; is excommunicated, and the rea-
fon, ibid. and [k]; concludes a truce with the Sultan
of Egypt, and takes poffeffion of Jerufalem, 137; is
crowned king, ibid. charged with impiety, but the
evidence not fufficient, 146; zealous in promoting
literature, 151; founder of the academy at Naples,
ibid. encourages the study of Ariftotle, and how, 158,
and [x].

the wife, elector of Saxony, espouses the cause
of Luther, in oppofition to the order of Leo X. Pope
iv. 36.

III. elector Palatine, patronizes the Calvinifts
in Germany, iv. 382; obliges his fubjects to embrace
their tenets, ibid. and [y]; his fon restores Lutheran-
ifm, ibid.

Duke of Holftein, his clemency to the exiled
Arminians in xvii cent. who build the town called
Frederickstadt, and form a colony there, v. 455.
Frieflanders, a fect of Anabaptifts, account of, v. 50.
Fronto's wretched attempts against Christianity in ii cent.
i. 164.

Frumentius, the fucccfs of his ministry among the Abaf-

fines

fines in iv cent. i. 337; is confecrated their first Bi-
fhop, 338.

Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres, his character, ii. 541.
Fulgentius, attacks the Pelagians and Arians with great
warmth in vi cent. ii. 121; his treatise on fasting,
130.

G.

GAL, St propagates the gospel in vii cent. among the
Suevi and Helvetii, ii. 154.

Galanus, attempts to unite the Greek and Romish churches
in xvii cent. v. 247; his work for that purpose, ibid.
[d].

Galenists, a sect of the Waterlandians, their rise and his-
tory in xvii cent. v. 496.

Galerius, Maximan, depofes Dioclefian, and affumes the
empire of the east, i. 317; the fufferings of the Chri-
ftians under him, 318; having perfecuted the Chri-
ftians, in the most horrid manner, orders the perfecu-
tion to be stopped, 319.

Galilei, the aftronomer, his fame, v. 71; imprisoned for
adopting the fentiments of Copernicus, 180.

Gallic Pontifs, diminution of Papal power under them,
iii. 316; their schemes to acquire wealth, 317.
Gallienus, ftate of the Chriftians under him, i. 253.
Gallus, perfecution under him, i. 253.

Gamaliel, Patriarch of the Jews, his cruelty to the Chri-
ftians in v cent. ii. 15.

Gaffendi, an eminent philofopher in xvii cent. v. 72;
his philofophy and character, 81; attacks Ariftotle
and his followers, ibid. and []; alfo Fludd and the
Rofecrucians, ibid. his wife method of philofophical
investigation, 82; why the chief adverfary of Des
Cartes, 85; accurate abridgment of his philofophy by
Bernier, 86 [m]; has not many followers, yet the few
he had very eminent, and particularly in England, ib.
mathematical fect, its progrefs, 91; favourably re-
ceived in Britain by Boyle, Sir Ifaac Newton, and
others, 92, 93, and [s].

Gaul,

Gaul, by whom converted, and churches when established
there, i. 150 and [b].

Narbonne, rife of the inquifition there in xiii cent.
iii. 267 and [x].

Gauls, learning among them, i. 94; the Gospel preached
among them with great fuccefs, by Martin Bishop of
Tours, in iv cent. i. 339.

Gebbard, Archbishop of Cologn, discovers a propensity to
Lutheranifm, iv. 292; marries, is obliged to refign
his dignity, and to fly his country, ibid. and [].
Geier, a Lutheran expofitor of Scripture in xvii cent. v.
296.

Geneva, academy founded at, by Calvin, in xvi cent. iv.
375; mother of the Reformed churches, 376; confilt-
ory established at, 378; French Proteftants enter into
its communion, 383; acknowledged as a fifter-church
to England under Edward VI. 387; form of ecclefia-
ftical government, 419 and [x]; which is rejected by
the English under Queen Elizabeth, 420; luftre and
decline of its academy, v. 366 and [4].

Gennadius, writes against the Latins in xv cent. and his
good character, iii. 440 and [n].

Gentilis, Valentine, his herefy, iv. 493; fuffers death at
Bern, ibid.

Gentilli, council at, in viii cent. about the derivation of
Holy Ghoft, ii. 268.

George the Cyprian, a polemic writer in xiii cent. iii. 238.
David, founder of the Davidifts in xvi cent. iv.
481; his character and impious tenets, 482; his body.
burned at the inftigation of his fon-in-law, by the coun-
cil of Bafil, ibid. and [r].

Georgians, in Afia, converted to Christianity by a captive,
i. 338; miferable state after the invafion of the Turks,
iv. 256; small remains of religion amongst them, 257.
Gerhard's Introduction to Joachim's Everlasting Goipel
condemned, iii. 210; accounts of it erroneous, 211,
[w]; impious doctrine, 213; throws an odium on the
Mendicants, and is publicly burnt, 214 and [y].
Gerhard, a ringleader of the Fanatics of Munter, iv.

452.

Gerhard,

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