Saxony, divines of, contend with those of Weimar in xvi cent. iv. 330; new reformation attempted, 342.

Sceptics, their method, and most eminent among them in xvii cent. v. 89 and notes.

Schaal, John Adam, chief of the Jefuit miffionaries in China, and account of, v. 20; imprisoned, and condemned to death, ib.

schade, John Cafpar, his character, v. 330; imprudent zeal excites commotions in the Lutheran church, ibid.

Schifm, the great western in xiv cent. an account of, iii. 327; its bad confequences, 328; injurious to papal power, ib. proposals for terminating it, 329; fomented and continued in xv cent. 401; two pontifs condemned by the council of Pifa, which elects a third, 402; afflictions received by the church from it in this cent. 424; healed by the prudence of Nicholas V. 426; between the Greeks and Latins, and why not healed, 456.

schmidt, Erafmus, a learned expofitor of Scripture, v. 295.

Sebaftian, an interpreter of Scripture, and character, v. 296.

Laurent, his translation of the Bible, and whence called the Wertheim interpreter, vi. 25; character, ib. is oppofed, and accufed of being an enemy to the Chriftian religion, and whence, 26; is caft into prifon, but escapes, ib. charge brought against him, ib. * [t].

scholaftic theology, whence it began, 1. 273.

scholaftics, properly fo called, in xii cent. iii. 90; their author, Abelard,-91; oppofed from different quarters, 93; and principally by St Bernard, 94; are chiefly Realifts in xiii cent. 248; their dangerous tenets, and vicious methods of defending them, 252; fall into abfurd and impious notions of the Trinity, and the confequences, in xiv cent. 364 and []; hated and opposed in xv cent. 453; and principally by the restorers of polite literature, 454; a philofophical fect in xvi cent. iv. 16; united with the Ariftotelians, but opposed by the Ramæans, ib.

Schoman,

Schoman, George, author of the Cracow catechifm, iv. 505 fub not. [*]; his Teftamentum, 509 [a]; admirer of Farnovius, 528.

an

Schomer, a Lutheran expofitor in xvii cent. v. 296. Schoolmen, whence fo called, ii. 129; chiefly employed in collecting the ancient interpretations of the Fathers in xiii cent. iii. 246; contentions among them in xiv cent. 364.

Schools established for Chriftian philosophy in cent. i. 118; how diftinguished from the academies of the ancient Christians, 119; very ferviceable to Christianity, 346; cathedral, erected by Charlemagne in viii cent. ii. 218; public, their fad ftate in xvi cent. iv. 22. Schurman, Anna Maria, a follower of the Labbadifts, and great character, v. 612.

Schwenkfeldi, George, his debates with Luther, iv. 317; character, 318; is banifhed, and his death, ib. his doctrine different from Luther's in three points, 319. Schyn, Herman, a Mennonite, iv. 440; character of his writings, ib. fub. not. [e]; 442 fub [ƒ].

Sciences, their fad ftate in vii cent. ii. 168; a new divifion of them, and their number increased in xii cent. iii. 31, 32,

Science, its limits extended in xiii cent. iii. 160; Bacon's reflection on the learning of this cent. 161 [d]. Sciences, many profeffors of, but few very ferviceable to fociety in xiv cent. iii. 307; their improvement in general, in natural philofophy, mathematics, in astronomy, in xvii cent. v. 69; and how by Bacon, 70 and [x]; the moft eminent for them through Europe, 71; their diftinguished promoters, and advantages hence arifing to fociety and religion, 72; their flate among the Lutherans, 281.

Scioppius, employed to write against the Proteftants, with an account of his being caned, v. 104 and [n].

Sclavonians, and Dalmatians, exprefs a defire to embrace Christianity in ix cent. ii. 279; the joy this occafioned, and hereupon miffionaries were fent, ib. and [f].

converted by Waldemar, king of Denmark through Abfalom, Archbishop of Lunden, in xii cent. iii. 2, 3 and [6]; their averfion from Chriftianity

over

over-ruled and their converfion completed, by the zeal of Henry the Lion, through the Ministry of Vicellinus, iii. 0, 7.

Scot, Michael, an Ariftotelic, and a Latin interpreter of his works in xiii cent. iii. 159.

Scotland, whether Chriftian in iii cent. i. 248 and [m]; church of, its founder, iv. 386; how far it adopts the doctrine, &c. established at Geneva, ib. opposes changes of difcipline and worship, ib. a remarkable declaration of king James I. concerning the kirk, v. 384 [d].

Scots (Irish), eminent for their learning in viii cent. ii. 259 and [m]; illuftrated Chriftian doctrines by the rules of philofophy, ib. their sophism about the Trinity,

ib. Scotus, Johannes Erigena, an eminent philosopher in ix cent. ii. 292 and [a]; his great erudition, ib. his works, 293; blends the Myttic Theology with the Sholaftic, and forms them into one fyftem, ib. his notions and great modefty, 294; high character, 316; explains the doctrines of Chriftianity according to reafon and the principles of true philofophy, 329; is oppofed and perfecuted on this account, ib. and [s]; this new and elegant translation of the pretended Dionyfius's works 332; his excellent method of managing the controversy with Pascafius Radbert, concerning the real prefence of Christ's Body and Blood in the Eucharift, 342.

Scotus, Marianus, his works, ii. 541.

John Duns, eminent for the acutness and subtilty of his genuis, but not for his candour and ingenuity, iii. 300; his works, ib. [x]; warmly oppofes the feveral doctrines of Aquinas, and hence the fect of the Scotifts, 365; defends the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary, ib. and [g].

Scriptures, canon, of, fuppofed to be fettled before the middle of ii cent. i 108; arguments in confirmation of this supposition, 106; early method of interpreting them, 115; the New Teftament tranflated into several languages, and its use, 151; zeal for them in ii cent. 185; interpretations of them defective, through the double fenfe ufed at this time, 186; the zeal of many

for

for propagating them in iii cent. and advantages hence arifing to Christianity, 244; interpreters of them cenfured, and why, 278; verfions in iv cent. discover a want of found judgment in their authors, 368; the most eminent commentators in v cent. ii. 41; Origen's method adopted by many, 42; logical difcuffions efteemed better tefts of truth than the Scriptures, 44; expofitors in vii cent. few, and very unlearned, 178; the ftudy of them much promoted among the Latins by Charlemagne in viii cent. 317; allegorical interpreters of, in ix cent. and their fundamental principle, 327; explained in xii cent. chiefly according to the rules of Mysticism, iii. 88; which prevailed much in xiii cent. 245; commentators on them among the Lutherans in xvi cent. iv. 304. Scripture-knowledge, its ftate in xvi cent. iv. 213; methods taken to obfcure it, 214 fevere law paffed as to interpretation, ib. and [/].

Scylixes, John, an hiftorian among the Greeks in xi cent. and character, ii. 458.

Scythia, within Imaus, embraces the Gospel in viii cent. ii. 203; its divifion by the ancients, ib. [a].

Sectarian philofophers, who fo called in xvii cent. v. 286 [t].

Sects, formed in the times of the apoftles, i. 131; grow imperceptibly, 132; accounts of them imperfect, and whence, 133; thofe which arofe from the oriental philosophy very detrimental to Christianity, 215; illiterate, which prevailed in ii cent. 236; remains of the ancient in iii cent. 294; and in iv cent. 401; Manichæans most prevalent, who concealed themselves under various names to avoid the severity of the laws, 402; ancient flourish in vii cent ii. 246; and recover ftrength in viii cent. from the divifions in the Grecian empire, 272; and fubfist in xi cent. 577; numerous among the Latins in xii cent. and the abufes which gave rise to them iii. 111; multiplied in xiii cent. and the cause, 267; unanimous in oppofing fuperftition and the papal power, ib. among the Dutch in xvii cent. v. 434; of inferior note in this cent. an account of them, v. 506; various in England in xviii cent.

vi. 35.

Secundians,

Secundians, Valentinian fect in ii cent. i. 232; maintained the doctrine of two eternal principles, ib.

Sedulius, his expofitions, and their defect, ii. 327. Seidel, Martin, his extravagant notions, v. 347; whence his followers called Semi-Judaizers, ib. and [k]. Seidenbecher, George Lawrence, a propagator of the Millennium in xvii cent. v. 346; is cenfured, and depofed from his paftoral charge, ib. and [i].

Semi-Arians, their tenets, i. 421.

Semi-Judaizers, a Socinian fect, iv. 526; why obnoxious to Socinus, ib. [y].

Semi-Palagians, author of this fect in v cent. and their tenets, ii. 92; their five leading principles, ib. [h]; ftrongly opposed by the difciples of St Augustin, yet fupport themselves, and make rapid progrefs, ib. 93; excite divifions in the Western churches in vi cent.

141.

Sendomir, fynod held there, iv. 405; by whom, and concerning what, ib. and [ƒ].

Sens, Bernardine of, a celebrated mystic writer in xv cent. iii. 443; his works must be read with caution, 455.

Serapion, Bishop of Antioch, writes a treatise against the Jews, and his motives for it, i. 281.

his fuccefsful miffion in Armenia, iv. 180; maintains with fuccefs the cause of Rome, ib. Servetus, Michael (Servede), his character and writings, iv. 488 and [c]; circumftances concurring to favour his defigns, 489; is feized, and accufed by Calvin of blafphemy, 490 and [d]; condemned to the flames, ib. his life by whom written, ib. [e]; ftrange doctrine of the Trinity, 491; Calvin's severity against him, how alleviated, ib. fub not. [e]; ftrange tenets of other Anti-trinitarians after him, 492.

Servites, convent of, founded in xiii cent. iii. 190; wear a black habit, with the reason, and observe several rules peculiar to themselves, and unknown to other focieties, ib. and [4].

Sethites, an account of this fect in ii cent. i. 233; confider Seth as the fame perfon with Christ, ib. Severian, character of his moral writings, ii. 47.

Severinus,