M.

MACARIUS, i. 360; his character as a moralist, 363 and [7].

of Ireland, his enormous error, ii. 294; refuted by Ratram, ibid.

Maccovius, introduces fubtilties into theology, iv. 427 [n]; followed by others, 428, fub [n].

Macedonius, his herefy in iv cent. i. 426; tenets opposed and crushed by the council of Conftantinople, 427; the decrees that paffed in this council, ibid.

Madury, account of that fuccessful miffion, and its author, V. II [i]; the fingular method ufed, ibid. that kingdom defcribed, 14, fub [m]; this and the like miffions, why fufpended by the Pope, ibid.

Magnus, Albertus, an eminent philofophical divine in xiii cent. iii. 239 and [g]; his didactic writings, 247. Magus, Simon, not properly termed an heretic, and why, i. 140; blafphemously affumes to himself the title of the fupreme power of God, ibid. his history, ibid. his fate, and the doctrines he held, 141 and [x], 142 and [a, b]. Mahomet, appears in vii cent. ii. 157; his character, and report of his total ignorance of learning examined, 158, [m, n]; his public declarations about religion, ibid. delivers the law called Koran, ibid. and [o]; his project of forming an empire, 159; the judgment we are to form of him, ibid. his fuccefs in propagating his doctrine accounted for, 161; dies, 162; teftament in favour of the Chriftians, with arguments for and against its authenticity examined, 187 and []; his fucceffors employ the Neftorians in the most important matters, ibid. dispute in xii cent. concerning his God, iii. 103.

II. takes Conftantinople in xv cent. in. 389 and

[k]. Mahometans, their behaviour towards the Christians in vii cent. ii. 162; their divifion into two fects, and others fubordinate, 163.

Maieul, St. See Regular Clerks.

Maigrot,

Maigrot, Charles, acts as Delegate from the Pope, his de-
cifion against the Jefuifts, concerning the obfervance of
Chinese rites, v. 26.

Major, George, controverfy about the neceffity of good
works with Amfdorf, iv. 328.

Maitre, le, a celebrated lawyer, retires into the convent
of Port Royal, v. 227 fub [e] 228.

Maldonat, John, his commentary on St Paul's epiftles,
iv. 217.

Malebranche, Father, charged with Atheism by Hardouin,
and the justice of the charge examined, v. 90, fub not.
[p]; his philofophy, 91 and [r].

Mandeville, his impious deifin and hypothefis, vi. 7 and
[2], 8.

Manes, Manichæus, account of him, i. 295; his doctrine
of two principles, 297; various reports about his death,
ibid. [e]; fummary concerning Man, Chrift, and the
Holy Ghoft, 298; concerning Chrift's office, and the
Comforter, 299, 300; concerning the state of purified
and unpurified fouls, 301; his opinions of the Old and
New Teftament, 302; his rule of life auftere, ibid.
divides his difciples into two claffes, 303.

Manichæans, their general assembly, and prefident who re
prefented Chrift, i. 303; his affiftants, &c. ibid. and
[f]; conceal themselves under various names, through
fear of perfecution, in iv cent. 402; their state in vi
cent. ii. 141; continue in xv cent. and where, iii. 461.
Mapes, Walter, his character, iii. 155 and [k].

Marca, Petrus de, writes against the papal claims in xvii
cent. v. 151.
Marcellinus, Tribune, fent into Africa by Honorius, to
decide the affair of the Donatifts, and declares in fa-
vour of the Catholics, ii. 59; if this was not more
properly a judicial trial than a conference, ibid. [e];
the confequences to the Donatifts, who were upon the
decline, till relieved by Genferic, on his invading A
frica, 60.

Marcellus, of Ancyra, his erroneous notions of the Tri-
nity, i. 424 and [e].

-, his pacific attempt to reconcile the Proteftants,
v. 126.

Marchias

Marchia, Jacobus a, opposes the worship of Chrift's
blood, and is accused of herefy, in xv cent. iii. 458.
Marcion, founder of an heretical fect in Afia, i. 218; the
principles he maintained, 219.

Marcalf, the monk, his works useful in describing the state
of literature in vii cent. ii. 175.
Mardaites. See Maronites.

Margaret, of Navarre, favourable to the Reformation in
France, iv. 87; her example encouraged many pious
and learned men to promote it, ibid. who are put to
death, with the contradictory behaviour of Francis I.
towards the Proteftants, 8 and [x].

Maria, Ave, added to the prayers of the Romish church in
xiv cent. iii 372.

Marino, Robert of, an hiftorian in xiii cent. iii. 155.
Mark, the hermit, his works and character, ii. 47.
Maronites, whence fo called, ii. 196, 197 and []; retain
the opinions of the Monothelites till xii cent. ib. the
fruitless attempts of their learned to confute this accu-
fation, ib. [t]; their subjection to Rome in xvi cent.
iv. 278 and [x]; and upon what condition, 279; ex-
penfive to the Popes, and wherefore, ibid.

Maronius, Francis, a fcholaftic divine in xiv cent. iii.
361.

Marpurg, a conference held by the Reformers to termi-

nate their disputes about the Eucharist, iv, 75; a tolera-
tion of opinions the iffue of this conference, 76.
Marriages, fourth, prohibited by a council at Conftantino-
ple in x cent. ii. 426.

Martial, firft Bishop of Limoges, controverfy concerning
him in xi cent. ii. 571; Pope John XXI. declares him
worthy of an apostleship, upon which he is fainted,

572.

Martin, Bishop of Tours, converts the Gauls in iv cent.
i. 339; erects the first monafteries in Gaul, 378; hence
the great progrefs of Monkery, ibid. the difference be-
tween an Eastern and Western monk in austerity, as de-
fcribed by Sulpitius Severus, 379 []; his arrogant af-
fertion of the minifterial dignity, ii. 30.

Martin, Bishop of Braga, his fummary of a virtuous life,

ii. 129.

Aarting

Martin, Pope, condemns the Ecthefis of Heraclius, and the
Type of Conftans, in vii cent. ii. 193; anathematizes
the Monothelites and their patrons, ibid. is banished for
one year by Conftans, and the confequence of this rigo-
rous proceeding, ibid.

of Poland, an hiftorian in xiii cent. iii. 155.

Raymond, character of his Pugio Fidei Chrifti-
anæ, iii. 156. 241. 256; well acquainted with the He-.
brew and Arabic languages, ibid.

IV. Pope, his character and infolence, iii. 183.

V. Pope, chofen at the council of Conftance in
the room of Benedict XIII. depofed, iii. 405; affem-
bles a council at Bafil, which attempts the Reformation
of the church, but in vain, 419.

Martyr, Peter, zealous in propag ting Calvinifm in Eng-
land, iv. 387; a writer of common-place divinity, 426.
Martyrs, who entitled to this name, i. 77; vene ation paid
to them perverted, ibid. their number lives and actions why
recorded, 79; and how loft and retrieved, ibid. and [t].
Mary, Queen, reftores Popery, iv. 123; puts Cranmer to
death, ibid. her cruel defigns against the Proteftants in
Ireland, how prevented, 128 [m].

Virgin, when firft worshipped, i. 432; her image
introduced into churches in v cent. ii. 56; the innocence
of her title as mother of God examined, 71 [r]; vene-
ration for her increased in x cent. 429; institution of the
Rofary and Crown in honour of her, what, ibid. con-
troverfy concerning her immaculate conception in xii
cent. iii. 104; and festival inftituted in honour of it,
107; this controverfy renewed in xvii cent. between
the Francifcans and Dominicans, v. 229; the Pope's
declaration to both parties, and a festival appointed, 230
and [g].

Mafenius, a German Jefuit, his reconciling attempt, v.
126 and [p].

Maffalians (Euchites), their antiquity, i. 431; when form-
ed into a religious body, ibid. their tenets, ibid. borrowed
many of their notions from the Eaftern philofophy
432; a general name for Eastern Heretics and
Enthufiafts in xii cent. ii. 108, 109 and [m.]

Maffes,

Maffes, folitary, what, and when fuppofed to be introduced, ii. 270 and [d].

Mathematical feet, their rife in xvii cent. v. 87; follow the principles of Gaffendi, an account of, ibid. its progrefs, 91.

Mathematics, their improvement in xvii cent. v. 71. Mathilda, Duchess of Tuscany, her donation to the See of Rome in xi cent. ii. 448, 449 and [n, o].

Matthiæ, John, Bishop of Strengnes in Sweden, his pacific attempts in xvii cent. and works entitled Olive Branches, v. 278 [m], 279 []; his writings fuppreffed, and he himself obliged to refign his bishopric, and retire, ibid.

Matthias, chofen to be an apoftle, and how, i. 62. Matthifon, John, ringleader of the fanatics of Munster, iv. 453.

Maty, Paul, his notions of the Trinity, and controversy hereupon in xviii cent. vi. 37; unfatisfactory hypothefis, which amounts to two propofitions, and is only a repetition of Dr Thomas Burnet's fentiments on the fame fubject, ibid. and [ƒ].

Maur, St. congregation of, v. 168 and [w]; felect number of learned members, and their adverfaries, ibid. 168 and [x]; many and admirable productions, 169 and [y]; their reformation fall fhort of the perfection of aufterity, which had been idly imagined by fome, 170 this fevere plan adopted by the Janfenifts, ibid. and [x] by Bouthillier de Rance, and the occafion, 171 and [6]; his order de la Trappe gradually degenerates, 172. Maurice, Elector of Saxony, obtains the electorate by perfidious measures, and what hese are, iv. 112; confents to a council being called at Trent on certain conditions, 117 and [c]; how the caufe of the famous treaty at Paffau, 120 and [d].

Landgrave of Heffe, deferts the Lutheran church and embraces Calvinism in xvii cent. v. 265 and [b]; the change thereon in his dominions, ibid. his conduct towards the Lutherans, and defence of it by the doctors of the Reformed Church, 266 and [c].

Stadtholder, feemingly inclined to favour the Arminians in xvii cent. v. 443; declares against them,