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.
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 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 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.
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, 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.
« ΠροηγούμενηΣυνέχεια » |