The works of Richard Hurd, volume 8 (of 8)

INDEX
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VOLUMES V. VI. VII. AND VIII.

• A.
• Adultery, absolution of the woman taken in, vi. 319, 327.
• gives no encouragement to think slightly of the sin, 330.
• Æneid, the sixth book of, finely criticized in the D. L. viii. 277.
• the same subject discussed by Dr. Jortin, 283, 285, 287.
• Alembert, M. D’, his opinion on Antichrist, v. 202.
• Alphonsus the Wise, blasphemed the system of nature, vi. 31. n.
• Amusements, lawful, may not be expedient, vii. 300.
• Anticato, a name once assumed by Cæsar, v. 181.
• Antichrist, prophecies concerning, v. 172.
• characters which distinguish that power, ib.
• meaning of the term, 179, 180.
• how construed and applied by the early Christian writers, 181.
• how by the Church of Rome, 187.
• application of the term to that Church at various periods, 190 to 201.
• deduction from those facts, 202.
• prejudices against the doctrine, 205, 214.
• how to be removed, 207.
• term not applied against the person of the Pope, 216.
• prophecies respecting the downfal of, 218.
• disagreeing opinions of learned men concerning, 220.
• time and other circumstances relating to, not to be ascertained, 224.
• main prejudice against it, whence arising, 232.
• prophetic characters of, 286.
• testimony of St. Paul, 299.
• another symbol from St. John, 302.
• tyrannical, intolerant, and idolatrous, 304.
• time of appearance in the world, 326.
• declared expressly by the prophets, 328.
• the several marks of, enumerated, 331.
• uses of this inquiry, 334.
• Antichristian superstition, prevailed not against the Church of Christ, vii. 364.
• Antinomians, of the last century, their profligacy, vi. 16.
• Apologies for Christianity, wherein generally faulty, vi. 26.
• Appeals. See Cambridge.
• Aphorisms, why a favourite mode of instruction with the inspired writers, vi. 175.
• Apostolic Age, Christianity how propagated in, vii. 116, 117.
• Apostles, conveyed instruction by general precepts, vi. 175.
• preached not themselves but Christ Jesus the Lord, vii. 176.
• used no arts to set off their moral character, 178.
• or their intellectual, 186.
• preached therefore by the direction of the Holy Spirit, 191.
• the Spirit promised them by our Saviour, 222.
• to guide them into all truth, 224.
• to shew them things to come, 225.
• their character, 229.
• and situation considered, 231.
• the promise not abused by them, 232.
• admonition of the angels to them on our Lord’s ascension, 240.
• under what circumstances the Greek language was inspired into them, viii. 325.
• had time to improve themselves in it, ere they turned to the Gentiles, 326.
• their style such as might be expected, 327.
• needed no aid from eloquence, 357, 363.
• By what considerations generally restrained from the use of it, 364.
• Apostrophe, of Solomon to youth, vi. 405.
• Apocalypse. See Revelations.
• Aristeas, an impostor, esteemed as a worker of miracles, viii. 157. n.
• Aristotle, at one time gave law to the Christian world, vii. 266.
• Arnulphus, bishop of Orleans, styled the Pope Antichrist, v. 191.
• Articles, the Thirty-nine, are the formulary of faith with us, viii. 63.
• Arts, Fine, administer to luxury, vii. 299, 302.
• Asiatic Christians, their condition different from that of the Jews, v. 149.
• Ascension of Jesus into Heaven, vii. 237.
• his coming to be in like manner, 238.
• Assentatio, a species of flattery, viii. 289.
• Atheism, adopted as a release from the restraints of morality, vi. 19.
• Aventinus, Joannes, points out the beginning of the reign of Antichrist, v. 193.
• Augury, of the duration of the Roman Empire, v. 84.
• Authority, an air of, its effect in orators, viii. 124. n.
• ——, of our Saviour’s teaching, in what consisting, vii. 130.
• B.
• Babylon, a Pagan idolatrous city, of what an emblem, v. 196, 309.
• Bacon, Lord, his observation on the double sense of prophecy, v. 55.
• Baptism, its reference to the typical washings of the law, vi. 155.
• Baptist, The, his food and raiment emblematical, vii. 402.
• Barrow, Dr. an eminent expositor of the Catechism, viii. 138.
• Beast, in the Revelations, its seven heads a double type, v. 296.
• Benevolence, how perverted, vi. 120.
• in the Gospel takes the name of Charity, 135.
• Berengarius, styles Rome the seat of Satan, v. 192.
• Bernard, St. denounces the church of Rome as Antichristian, v. 194.
• Bible, only, the religion of Protestants, v. 349.
• Blood of Christ, its efficacy and value how signified by him, vi. 151, 154.
• danger of refusing to be washed by it, 157.
• its benefits how to be secured, 158.
• Boniface III. begged the title of Œcumenical Bishop, v. 190.
• Bossuet, M. his remark on the conduct of the primitive Christians, v. 168. n.
• on Mr. Mede’s work on the Revelations, 272.
• on the terms fornication and adultery, as applied to Rome, 307. n.
• justifies persecution, 315. n.
• his unreasonable jocularity on the Reformation, 318. n.
• British people, zeal for religion abated among them, viii. 9.
• private morals relaxed, 11.
• civil or political virtues disappearing, 13.
• Brutus, erred from excess of virtue, vi. 309.
• C.
• Cæsar, his baldness a mark of infamy, vi. 403.
• his admirable way of recording his own achievements, vii. 179.
• Cambridge University, dispute concerning appeals at, viii. 189.
• historical account of its jurisdiction, 208.
• addition of civil power to the spiritual, 211.
• power of making local statutes, 213.
• body of new statutes given, 214.
• appeals not forbidden, 216.
• the right of appealing not affected by disuse, 219.
• grace proposed by the assertors of the right of appeal, 226.
• delegates by whom nominated, 228. n.
• subordination in the jurisdiction, 230. n.
• objections against the grace answered, 235.
• right of under-graduates exercised by the interposition of their tutors, 238.
• insinuations against the advocates for the right of appeal exposed, 241, 242, 245.
• the claim as ancient as the English Constitution, 250.
• Casuists, have perverted the precepts of the Gospel, vi. 237.
• Catechizing, the duty of, viii. 133.
• its uses to the catechumens, 134.
• to the congregation present, 136.
• to the clergy themselves, 137.
• Catiline, described by Cicero, vi. 314.
• Cato, his virtue contrasted with that of Cæsar, vi. 308.
• Celsus, how he represents the Jews, v. 6. n.
• his objections against their oracles, 14. n.
• Chance, by some considered, as supplying the place of inspiration, v. 81.
• could not have accomplished the spiritual prophecies, 90.
• Character, moral, artifices which men use to display it, vii. 178, 181, 184.
• intellectual, two ways of displaying, 186.
• Charity, Christian, its genealogy, vi. 116, 121, 123.
• genuine how to be distinguished from false, 126.
• the proper cure for learned pride, 278, 287.
• Charles I. the religious troubles in his reign whence originating, viii. 41.
• struggles for civil liberty, 44.
• Chillingworth, and others, established the old principle of the Protestant religion, v. 349.
• Christ, the spirit of prophecy, his testimony, v. 21.
• his appeal to that spirit, 30.
• all the prophets bear witness to him, 35.
• great purpose of his coming, 37.
• fortunes of his dispensation not yet perfectly disclosed, 69.
• his prophecy concerning the treachery of Judas, 74.
• its use, 100.
• prophecies concerning his first coming, 102.
• how enforced among the Jews, 107, 110.
• concerning his second coming, 132.
• his prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem, 136.
• fulfilled, 141.
• his sublime command to his followers, to teach all nations, 163.
• foretold the appearance of false Christs, 177.
• his mediatorial office not to be interfered with by the worship of saints, 324.
• time of his appearing how foretold, 326.
• vast scheme of prophecy relating to his first and second coming, 336.
• benefits of his death extend to all men, vi. 63.
• faith in him the condition of salvation, 71.
• declared to the believing Jews, how they were to be judged, 79.
• to his disciples, that they had seen the Father, 84.
• why he spake in parables, 94.
• his promise to manifest himself, to whom given, 100.
• why he condescended to wash the feet of his disciples, 145.
• his answer to Peter on that occasion, 149.
• his death a propitiation for sin, 154.
• his admonition respecting the hearing of the word, 209.
• his sentence on those who receive it not, 212.
• his reply to the Pharisees concerning blindness and sin, 260.
• denounces a woe against those of whom all men speak well, 305.
• his question of the Jews who stoned him, 311.
• his admonition to the woman taken in adultery, 319.
• his address to those who accused her, 325.
• why he did not condemn her, 328.
• HE first acknowledged humility as a virtue, 334.
• particulars of his humility, 339.
• why derided by the Pharisees, who were covetous, 351, 352.
• the author of eternal life, vii. 18, 24.
• duties which we owe him, 29.
• made manifest in the flesh, 64.
• justified in the spirit, 66.
• seen of angels, 68.
• preached to the Gentiles, 70.
• believed on in the world, 72.
• received up into glory, 74.
• never man spake like him, 124.
• as to the matter of his discourses, 125.
• the authority with which they were delivered, 130.
• their wisdom, 133.
• their divine energy, 137.
• why he spake to the unbelieving Jews in parables, 145, 151.
• why he wrought few miracles among them, 159.
• why he preached the Gospel to the poor, 194.
• the goodness of his character thus displayed, 203.
• his wisdom equally, 206.
• his Father’s house, of many mansions, 210.
• his sincerity conspicuous in this declaration, 213, 214.
• what was truly his character, 218.
• what our expectations from him, 220.
• promised the spirit of truth to his disciples, 222.
• fulfilment of the promise, 234.
• his ascension graced by the ministry of angels, 237.
• prejudices of his countrymen against him, 253.
• his triumphs over the kingdom of Satan, 271.
• forbade strict retaliation, 310.
• his declaration to those who shall be ashamed of him, 328.
• and of his words, 341.
• his memorable promise to Peter a two-fold prophecy, 357, 367.
• his driving the buyers and sellers out of the temple, 386.
• in what light understood, 390.
• acted thus not as a zealot but a prophet only, 400.
• prophecy to which he appealed, 405, 408.
• in what light regarded by the Jews, 416.
• why he used this mysterious method of information, 423.
• the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, viii. 19.
• dignity of his person here expressed, 21.
• immense scheme of redemption through him, 22.
• unchangeable nature of his religion, 25.
• Christian, bound by principle to be modest and humble, vi. 180.
• character of a wise one, 227.
• his body the temple of God, 382.
• he is bought with a price, 386.
• encouraged to reason on the subject of religion, vii. 115.
• not bound to inquire curiously into the doctrinal and moral part of the gospel, 119.
• Christianity, attested by prophecy, v. 69.
• in a secondary as well as a primary sense, 98.
• weight of the general evidence, 100.
• argument from prophecy of no less weight to us because the Jews were not convinced by it, 128.
• proof of its divine institution, 338.
• why propagated by mean instruments, vi. 90.
• its evidences many and various, 99.
• philosophy how far serviceable to it, 196, 199.
• objections on its mysterious nature answered, 272.
• questions to those who sincerely reject it, 298.
• danger and crime of disbelief, 300.
• its evidences a subject of inquiry in different ages, vii. 111, 118.
• the faith early adulterated by vain speculations, 245, 246.
• purified in part after the Reformation, 247, 248.
• use of reason in its support, 250.
• force of prejudice against, 254, 258, 262.
• in modern times, against its evidences and doctrines, 264.
• what the only exorcism it permits, 274.
• doctrine of not resisting evil, 310.
• does not supersede the use of resentment, 314.
• except in case of persecution, 316.
• liberties taken with it to render it not mysterious, 347.
• zeal for it abated among us, viii. 9.
• its unchangeable nature, as a rule of life, 25.
• Christians, Primitive, idea formed of Antichrist by them, v. 184.
• their advantages of acquiring religious knowledge, vi. 191.
• precept addressed to them of giving a reason for their hope, 111, 116.
• Cicero, palliated the desertion of his principles, vii. 181.
• abounded in fulsome encomiums, viii. 261.
• Clemens Alexandrinus, his opinion on the persecution of Christianity, vii. 360.
• Church, its union with Christ, how prefigured, v. 23.
• on what rock founded, vii. 355.
• Jewish and Gentile persecutions raised against it, 358.
• internal commotions when settled under Constantine, 361.
• endangered by the Mahometan imposture, 362.
• by the Antichristian superstition, 363.
• its trial by the enlightened reason of mankind, 365.
• by the learned Jews, 368.
• by the Gentiles, 369.
• after the revival of letters, 374.
• by modern infidel writers, 377.
• the gates of Hell prevail not against it, 381.
• Clarke, Dr. Samuel, his remark on the book of Revelations, v. 267.
• Clergy, why chosen and ordained, viii. 59.
• first object of their ministry to teach a right faith, 59.
• the second, to produce the fruits of piety, 65.
• and of charity, 68.
• benefits of personal residence, 76.
• directions respecting curates, 80.
• none but fit ones to be recommended, 84.
• what the office of reason on the subject of revealed religion, 90, 94.
• requisites of a Christian preacher, fidelity, 120.
• an air of authority, 123.
• zeal, 125.
• duty of catechizing, 133.
• benefit of sermons to accompany the examinations, 138.
• Cobham, Lord, why committed to the flames, v. 200.
• Conceit, admonition against, vi. 178, 181.
• proper remedy for, 185.
• Conjectures, in the way of prophecy, frequently verified, v. 82.
• Conscience, defined, vi. 44, 121.
• Constantinople, not the residence of Antichrist, v. 291.
• Controversy, in public discourses, to be avoided, viii. 124.
• Corinthians, how addressed by the Apostle on their impurity, vi. 380.
• their city a market of prostitution, 387.
• Covenant, New, the christian dispensation so called, v. 163.
• Courage, the affectation of, a snare to those who seek the honour of men, vi. 252.
• Creeds, origin and justification of, viii. 61.
• Crevier, M., defends persecution, v. 315. n.
• Criticism, as of late improved, of what use in explaining the Scriptures, vi. 199.
• rational, what its established principles, viii. 349.
• Curates, directions respecting, viii. 80.
• Curiosity, anxious, its folly, vi. 408.
• tends to create quick resentments, 412.
• leads to peevish complaints, 413.
• breeds uneasy suspicions, 415.
• its injustice, 416.
• Cyaxares, of Xenophon, supposed to be Darius the Mede, v. 381, 396.
• D.
• Daillé, M., on the use of the Fathers, v. 348.
• Daniel, his vision of the four kingdoms, and of Antichrist, v. 287, 297.
• foretold the rise of that power, 328.
• antiquity of the book questioned, 365.
• objections answered, 387.
• cause of his advancement, 390.
• Darius the Mede, doubts respecting his existence, v. 380.
• Dedication, two good instances of, pointed out, viii. 282.
• Demosthenes, his sublime and energetic oath, viii. 345.
• Devil, if resisted, will flee, vii. 267.
• terms applied to that wicked spirit in Scripture, 269.
• Christ’s triumphs over, 271.
• powers permitted him over the bodies and fortunes of men, 272.
• over the souls of men, 274.
• objections answered, 277.
• religious and moral uses of the doctrine, 280.
• whole scheme of Christianity depends on it, 348.
• Distress, National, never inflicted before it is deserved, viii. 7.
• Divination, idea of pagan philosophers concerning, v. 9.
• from augury, instances of, v. 83.
• D. L. the author of, his character by a warm friend, viii. 270.
• his personal virtues,—reference to Dr. Jortin, 272.
• some of his foibles enumerated, 273.
• his talents for classical criticism, 277.
• Dragon, a symbol of the Roman Government, v. 303.
• Dreams, a mode of prophecy, v. 17, 248.
• Drusilla, her character, vii. 2.
• E.
• Eagles, a figurative expression for the standards of the Roman army, v. 138.
• Eclipse, why an emblem of the ruin of empires, v. 246.
• Elegance, of speech, what, viii. 334, 342.
• Eloquence, among the ancients, studied from vanity, vi. 284.
• Dr. Middleton’s notion of, confuted, viii. 333.
• no archetype of it in nature, 339.
• its rules for the most part, local and arbitrary, 352.
• what its end, 354, 356.
• Egyptians, retained their hieroglyphics after the invention of the alphabet, v. 239.
• Energy, of our Saviour’s discourses, vii. 137.
• Envy, excited by eminent virtue, vi. 306.
• a striking picture of, vii. 253.
• Erasmus, his observation on the use of reason in religion, viii. 101.
• Error, in matters of religion, notion of its innocency considered, vi. 297.
• Evidence, moral, gradation in the scale of, vi. 88.
• Ezekiel, foretold the cessation of prophecy among the Jews, v. 116. n.
• F.
• Faith, the condition of salvation, vi. 71.
• the parent of charity, 123, 125.
• why said to come by hearing, 201.
• some inclined too much to it, at the expence of morality, 218.
• not at variance with knowledge, 262.
• See Christianity.
• Falkland, Lord, his glorious excess of virtue, vi. 309.
• Fame, the love of, to be controuled by the love of truth, vi. 259.
• Fashion, the rule of life with men of the world, vii. 286.
• Fathers of the Church, their application of the term Antichrist, v. 182.
• question respecting their authority in the interpretation of scripture, 347, 348.
• plainness of their discourses, vii. 8.
• Fear of God, the proper guide of life, vii. 284.
• contrasted with fashion, 286.
• with law, 288.
• with philosophy, 291.
• inclines men to depart from evil, 293.
• Felix the Procurator, his character, vii. 2.
• effect of Paul’s preaching on him, 5.
• his subsequent treatment of the apostle, 15.
• Figurative language, a cause of obscurity in prophecy, v. 68.
• Fig-tree, cursed, a sign, vii. 403.
• connected with that of purging the temple, 413.
• Fire, allusion to its effects, frequent in Scripture, vi. 168.
• Flesh, the vices of, to be put away from us, vii. 48.
• Fleury, Abbé, his observation on the authority of the Pope, v. 314.
• Free-thinking, modern, to be resolved into two sophisms, vii. 379.
• Friendship, among the great scholars of every age, indelicacy in the expression of, viii. 259.
• various arguments in exercise for, 261.
• answered, 264.
• specimen of the high complimentary manner, 270.
• delicate ways of conveying encomium, 282.
• See Dr. Jortin.
• G.
• Gadarenes, their sordid prejudice against our Saviour, vii. 260.
• Galatia, Churches of, early infested with false teachers, vi. 177.
• Gallio, his disregard of miracles not proved, viii. 156.
• Genealogies, system of, reprobated by St. Paul, vi. 116.
• Genesis, a famous passage in, how regarded by different critics, viii. 346.
• Gentiles, method of the early Christians to convert, v. 125.
• how convinced by the argument of prophecy, 126.
• their conversion foretold, 155.
• took its rise by small beginnings, 164.
• prevailed by pacific means only, 165.
• are a law unto themselves, vi. 37, 38.
• force of conscience among them, 43.
• diversity of human judgment accounted for, 44.
• their debates concerning right and wrong evinced their sense of natural law, 49.
• benefits of redemption extend to them, 63.
• their notion of a temple, 383.
• their conversion quick and general, vii. 73.
• condition of the poor among them, 198.
• adversaries of the Christian religion among them, vii. 371.
• the calling of, predicted by the expulsion of buyers and sellers from the temple, vii. 409.
• Gibbon, Mr. his anonymous letter to Dr. Hurd, v. 363.
• answered, 386.
• character of his History, 401.
• Glorifying of God, in our body and spirit, vi. 378.
• Gloucester, Bishop of, his idea of the nature and character of an inspired language vindicated, viii. 307.
• obviates an objection made by Dr. Middleton, 309, 311.
• avows his notion of eloquence to be a paradox, and at the same time truth, 312.
• nominal barbarity of the style of the New Testament, a mark of its miraculous original, 317.
• the inspiration comprehended the terms, and their grammatical congruity, 321.
• circumstances, abilities, and qualifications of the Apostles who received it, 324.
• opposes Dr. Middleton’s proposition concerning eloquence, 333.
• proves that no archetype of that quality exists, 339.
• that the sublime of eloquent expression depends on casual associations, 334, 347.
• shews that eloquence was not necessary to the Apostles, 354.
• his idea of the end of eloquence justified, 354, 362.
• considers clearness and precision as the aids common to all language, 365.
• tropes and figures when and in what sense vicious, 367, 373.
• God, what must be done to obtain his favour, vii. 81.
• what that favour is, 89.
• Godliness, the great mystery of, vii. 62.
• Gospel, its connection with prophecy, iv. 42.
• with that concerning its promulgation, v. 156.
• by whom announced, 160.
• contrary to the structure of the Jewish law, 161.
• its use not discredited by the natural moral law, vi. 57.
• its necessity not superseded, 59.
• the eternal purpose of God declared in it, 76.
• why not forced on the minds of men by irresistible evidence, 93.
• stress laid on Faith, 95.
• binds men together as brethren, 136.
• illuminates and sanctifies men by successive improvements, vi. 208.
• its doctrines and precepts forbid us to seek the honour of men, 247.
• its rapid propagation, vii. 73.
• if hid, is hid to them that are lost, 96.
• appealed to, when written, as the ground of belief, 117.
• preached to the poor, 193.
• ——, Sermon before the society for propagating, viii. 23.
• Grace, the law of, vi. 70, 71.
• some had rather trust to the law of nature, 73.
• obligatory on those who do not receive it, 77, 78.
• Gregory I., his dispute with the Bishop of Constantinople, v. 188.
• disclaimed the title of universal Bishop, 189.
• Grotius, Hugo, undertook to prove that the Pope was not Antichrist, v. 221.
• from what motives, 222.
• a conjecture of his confuted by Bishop Newton, 300.
• his comment on the washing of the disciples’ feet, vi. 152. n.
• H.
• Half-belief, a vice of the spirit, vii. 50.
• Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, his opinion concerning appeals at the University of Cambridge, supported, viii. 189, 221.
• Hearing, the way by which faith cometh, vi. 201.
• admonitions concerning, 203.
• diligence in, why requisite, ib. 205, 207.
• Heathens, their quick conversion to Christianity, viii. 152.
• inquiry into their opinion of miracles, 155, 181.
• Hell, the gates of, their signification in Scripture, vii. 356.
• Heresies, their origin, vii. 102.
• Hesiod, his maxim on contention, viii. 279, 281.
• Hieroglyphics, their origin, v. 239.
• means of learning them, 245.
• Hippias, the Elean, boasted that he knew every thing, vi. 285.
• Holy Ghost, the living in communion with, vi. 382.
• the possessor of the body of Christians, 386.
• See Spirit.
• Honour, the duty of preferring one another in, explained, vi. 130.
• its nature and grounds, 132.
• right application of it in practice, 137.
• that only which cometh of God, to be sought, 245.
• the Gothic principle of, inflames pride, 337.
• Hope, Christian, the precept of giving a reason for, explained, vii. 110.
• to be given with meekness and fear, 122.
• Horace, his indelicate encomium on Virgil, viii. 259.
• Humanity, its duties never overlooked by the inspired writers, vi. 130.
• Humility, Christian, how best expressed, vi. 186.
  
• first acknowledged as a virtue by our Saviour, 334.
• why so rare among men, ib. 336, 337.
• of whom to be learned, 339.
• ensures rest to our souls, 343.
• Hypocrites, those who embrace Christianity from corrupt motives, vi. 302.
• I. and J.
• James I. remark of Hume on his commentary on the Revelations, vi. 266.
• Idolatry, how designated in the language of Scripture, v. 305, 311.
• of two sorts, 316.
• Jerom, states the notion of the ancient Fathers respecting Antichrist, v. 184.
• Speaks of the fall of the Roman empire, 230.
• Jerusalem, destruction of, v. 135.
• by the Romans, 138.
• of the temple, 140.
• its mystical sense, 301.
• its destruction, of what emblematical, vii. 328.
• Jews, their erroneous notion of the use and end of prophecy, v. 10.
• divine communications concerning Christ, why appropriated to them, 64.
• origin of their principal mistake respecting the Messiah, 99.
• prophetic spirit, how employed under their system of polity, 106.
• why many of them not convinced by the argument of prophecy, 119.
• their incredulity foretold by their own prophets, 120.
• their invincible prejudices, 122.
• driven to the necessity of supposing a two-fold Messias, 123.
• destruction of their city and temple, 135.
• their dispersion, 143.
• their number comparatively small in Judæa, 152.
• distinguished by descent, as well as by religion, 153.
• their language why figurative, 241.
• hieroglyphic style common among them, 243.
• their ritual abounding in symbols, 263.
• their idolatry considered as adultery, 306.
• how far enabled to compute the time of the Messiah’s appearing, 327.
• a plain frugal people, vi. 2.
• to what purpose their law was given, 53.
• how to be judged for disbelieving the Gospel, 79.
• questions respecting wars and fightings among them, 101.
• their practice of conveying information by action, 146.
• heterodoxy with them disloyalty, 292.
• their notion of a temple, 383.
• why our Lord spake to them in parables, vii. 143, 151.
• and wrought few miracles among them who believed not, 159.
• condition of the poor among them, 197.
• their prejudices against our Saviour, 256.
• abused the right of retaliation, 311.
• ashamed of Christ, 327.
• the Christian religion prevailed over their prejudices, 369.
• the rejection of them prefigured, 412.
• conduct of their rulers, when our Lord had purged the temple, 414.
• Immanuel, prophecy of Isaiah concerning, v. 108.
• Immortality, a free gift to man, how forfeited, and restored, vi. 70. vii. 19.
• Impenitence, final, the issue of procrastination and vice, vii. 14.
• Incense, a symbol of prayer, v. 263.
• Incumbent, the proper name of a parochial minister, viii. 76.
• Independency, a name comprehending a thousand sects, viii. 43.
• Infidelity, may proceed from the pride of reason, vii. 99.
• Infidels, their main argument against prophecy answered, v. 82.
• Inquiries, religious, how to be conducted, vii. 116, 119, 122.
• Intercession, of Christians for each other, a duty, v. 322.
• distinguished from the worship of saints, 323.
• Integrity, requisite in judging of religion, vi. 34.
• an admiration of, may lead to irreligion, vi. 254.
• Job, his complaint of being made to possess the iniquities of his youth, vi. 393.
• John, St. his vision of the marriage of the Lamb, v. 23, 24.
• his mention of Antichrist, v. 175.
• designates the appearance of Antichrist, v. 329, 330.
• Jortin, Dr. an address to, on the delicacy of friendship, viii. 257.
• happy in avoiding the offensive custom into which the learned have fallen, 268.
• his conduct towards his friend the author of the D. L. 274.
• adopted his subject, 275, 283.
• wrote against him, 277, 285.
• glanced at him, ib. 286.
• spared his arguments, ib.
• furnished him with others, 287.
• quoted him, 288.
• called his conjecture ingenious, 290.
• nay elegant, 293.
• and the writer a learned friend, 297.
• Josephus, his account of the religion of his countrymen, v. 356.
• his praise of Daniel, 370.
• Irreligion, not so general as is imagined, v. 354.
• Isaiah, a remarkable prophecy addressed by him to Ahaz, v. 107.
• how he claimed belief of the Jews, 110.
• his prophecy respecting parables, vii. 148.
• considered two ways, 149, 150.
• his prophecies, to what chiefly relating, 405.
• Judas, his treachery foreseen, vi. 150.
• had no part with Jesus, 158.
• Jus Talionis, why necessary in the Mosaic institute, vii. 311.
• Justice, Civil, perverted by the lusts of men, vi. 109.
• Justin Martyr, urges the argument from prophecy in his apology to the Antonines, v. 125.
• K.
• Key to the Revelations, by Mr. Mede, examined, v. 275.
• Kingdom of Christ, import of the prayer, that it may come, v. 103.
• Knowledge, requisite to judge of Christianity, vi. 32.
• why productive of pride and vanity, vi. 277.
• its remedy, not ignorance, but charity, ib.
• error in considering it the supreme good, 278.
• —— religious, of the present age, compared with that in the times of the Reformation, vi. 189.
• Knowledge of Life, a name for fraud and disingenuity, vi. 233.
• L.
• Lactantius, his confidence in the spread of the Gospel, v. 355.
• Language, original, of all nations imperfect, v. 237.
• —— inspired, needs not be perfectly eloquent, viii. 311.
• must necessarily abound in the native idioms of the persons inspired, 314.
• correspondency of terms, to give clear intelligence, 319.
• impression of phrases and idioms not to be expected, 328.
• no archetype in nature, to which eloquence refers, 333.
• clearness and precision the aids common to all language, 365.
• Law of the magistrate, by whom deemed an adequate rule of action, vii. 288.
• —— Jewish, to what end instituted, v. 48, 52.
• —— Natural, written in the heart, vi. 39, 40.
• appealed to by heathens as well as Christians, 48.
• necessary to the support of revelation, 54.
• does not discredit the use of the Gospel, 57.
• its existence presupposed by the Christian law, 64.
• its penalties, 69.
• Lebanon, a symbol of a city, v. 263.
• Leland, Dr. letter to, viii. 307.
• Real subject of his dissertation on the principles of eloquence, ib.
• his remark on the imperfect correspondency of words in languages, 318.
• his objections to the Bishop of Gloucester’s notion of inspired language refuted, 328, 330.
• his opinion respecting eloquence controverted, 337.
• his appeal to the rules of rational criticism answered, 349.
• his misrepresentation of the Bishop’s remark on tropes and figures, exposed, 366, 370, 378.
• Leo X. issued an edict against the use of the term Antichrist, v. 201.
• Letter, anonymous, to Dr. Hurd, concerning the Apocalypse, v. 364.
• answer to it, 386.
• Mr. Gibbon the writer of the letter, 400.
• Levity of mind, a spiritual vice, vii. 53.
• Liberty, misused, its fatal effects, vi. 103.
• civil and religious, favoured by religion, viii. 38.
• questions respecting the abuse of the latter, 48.
• of the former, 49.
• Life Eternal, doctrine of, first delivered to us through Jesus Christ, vii. 18.
• scheme of God’s providence respecting, 22.
• different degrees of happiness or misery in, 27.
• may be taken in two senses, 34.
• Light, the emblem of knowledge, vii. 78.
• that of revelation the most certain, 79.
• Lightfoot, Dr. his idea of the apocalyptic style, v. 266.
• Litigation, ancient, a picture of, vi. 112, 113.
• Liturgy of the church of England, generally commended, viii. 65.
• Longinus, his opinion of a famous passage in Genesis, viii. 346.
• Lowth, Dr. distinguished for a species of literary address, viii. 286.
• Lusts, the origin of wars and fighting among men, vi. 102.
• perverted religion, 104.
• and civil justice, 109.
• Luther, his resolution to break through the papal servitude, v. 209.
• dreaded the charge of schism, 211.
• M.
• Mahometan imposture, its success, to what owing, vii. 362.
• Malachi, foretold the precursor of the Messiah, v. 115.
• Malmesbury, the philosopher of, how misled into infidelity, vi. 253.
• Mammon of unrighteousness, the precept of making friends of, vi. 351, 377.
• Manichæan doctrine, early prevalent in the East, vii. 245, 268.
• spirit of Christianity abhorrent from it, 271.
• Mansions, many in the house of our heavenly Father, vii. 210.
• Mantuan, his character of a pope, v. 303, 304.
• Marcellinus, his mention of the fiery eruptions of Jerusalem, viii. 160.
• Meaux, Bishop of. See Bossuet.
• Mede, his observation on the prophetic chronology of Daniel, v. 66. n.
• on the use and intent of prophecy, 106. n.
• on the doctrine of Antichrist, 195. n.
• his opinion on the Apocalypse, 261.
• sketch of his character, 271.
• his disinterestedness and impartiality, 273.
• his Key to the Revelations considered, 275.
• Medes and Persians, their law unalterable, v. 376, 392.
• Meekness, the virtue of, nearly dismissed from the world, vi. 338.
• not absolutely incompatible with resentment, 347.
• Messias, a particular prophecy concerning, v. 75.
• various specific characters in the prophecies respecting him, 82.
• contrast of the Christian and the Jewish interpretations, 123.
• Metaphors, in the Oriental style, frequent, vi. 171.
• the offspring of nature and necessity, viii. 338.
• Middleton, Dr. his objection to the notion of an inspired language, viii. 309.
• Milton, his allusion to an eclipse as ominous, v. 246. n.
• Minister of the Gospel, for what use his stores of knowledge are destined, vi. 5.
• his office, 7.
• decorum of his character, 8.
• the word to be dispensed to those who most need it, 11.
• Miracles, a great foundation of our faith, 266.
• few wrought by our Saviour among the unbelieving Jews, vii. 159.
• because many were not necessary to their conviction, 163.
• or to give a just proof of his mission, 165.
• would have hindered the success of his ministry, 167.
• and have violated a general rule of his conduct, 170.
• opinion of the heathens concerning, viii. 155.
• many seeming ones imputed to the power of magic, 176.
• difference of those wrought by Christ and his apostles, 177.
• Missionary, Christian, his arduous duties, vii. 30.
• Moralist, Pagan, his reproof of a young reveller, vi. 210.
• Moralities, the lesser, what, vi. 131.
• Morality, some incline too much to it, at the expence of faith, vi. 218.
• how relaxed by casuistry, 237.
• Moses, weight of his prophecy with the Jews, v. 109, 110.
• foretold their dispersion, 143.
• Mysteries of God’s kingdom, declared in parables, vii. 155.
• Mystical meanings, in the prophetic style, v. 301.
• N.
• Nahum, his prediction of the overthrow of Nineveh, v. 254.
• Names of eminent persons, custom of changing in the ancient world, iii. 354.
• Nature, human, not a sufficient guide in religion, vi. 269.
• a generous pride why implanted in it, 334.
• Nazareth, why our Saviour wrought few miracles there, vii. 160.
  
• evil disposition of the people towards him, 168, 253.
• Nero, by some considered as the Antichrist of a future age, v. 183.
• Newton, Sir Isaac, his remark on the prophecy of Revelations, v. 226. n.
• on the prophetic characters of Antichrist, 289.
• his illustration of prophecy how considered by the infidels, vi. 265. n.
• Nicodemus, ashamed of Christ, vii. 337.
• O.
• Obedience, perfect, to be attained by degrees, vi. 208.
• the promise annexed to it, vii. 20.
• Oecumenical (or universal) Bishop, a title assumed by the Bishop of Constantinople, v. 188.
• accepted by Boniface VI. 190.
• Offences, or scandals, mentioned by our Lord, what, vi. 161.
• Oneirocritics, v. 246.
• their rules of use in explaining prophecy, 248.
• Oracles, Pagan, their design, v. 8.
• wherein unlike scriptural prophecies, 60.
• Origen, his reply to a remark of Celsus on miracles, viii. 161. n.
• P.
• Pagans, their superstitions whence derived, v. 246.
• two religious topics on which their wise men were chiefly intent, vii. 241.
• ashamed of Christ, vii. 332.
• Parables, all the prophecies written in, v. 260.
• why addressed by our Saviour to the Jews, vii. 143, 145.
• what their subject, 154.
• Paris, Matthew, his testimony respecting the charge of Antichristianism on the see of Rome, v. 197.
• Pascal, his remark on the dispensation of prophecy, v. 62.
• on the danger of disbelief, 301.
• Patience, requisite in judging of Christianity, vi. 32.
• Paul, St. his characteristic of Antichrist, v. 299.
• his remark on his appearance, 329.
• his awful warning against unbelief, 359.
• his zeal of persecution while a Jew, vi. 290.
• why he called himself the chief of sinners, 295.
• his error not innocent, 303.
• his address in reproving the Corinthians, 379.
• substance of his remonstrance, 387.
• his preaching before Felix, vii. 2.
• his divine encomium on our Lord’s ministry, 205.
• his labours at Ephesus how overturned, 259.
• effects of his preaching at Athens, 261.
• Pearson, Dr. an excellent commentator on the Catechism, viii. 138.
• Persecution, almost sanctioned by the Jewish law, vi. 293.
• —— of the Apostles, resistance to it forbidden, vii. 316.
• of the first Christians by the Jews and Gentiles, 358.
• Peter, St. denied his Lord through shame, vii. 334.
• and fear, 335.
• his name why conferred on him, 355.
• two prophecies thus given, 357.
• Petrarch, applies the name of Babylon to Rome, v. 198.
• Pharisees, how reproved by our Saviour for infidelity, vi. 261.
• with what view they heard the word of the Lord, vi. 212.
• why they derided our Saviour’s precepts, 350, 352.
• Philip, one of the Apostles, asks of Christ that he would shew them the Father, vi. 84.
• Philologist, Italian, his objection to reading the Bible, vii. 343.
• Philosophers of the Gentiles, ill treated the poor, vii. 198.
• Philosophy, an inadequate rule of life, vii. 291.
• progress in, since the reformation, how far serviceable to religion, vi. 196, 199.
• Phinehas, his act of zeal, vii. 393.
• had relation to religion and not morals, 396.
• Plato, at one time gave law to the Christian world, vii. 246.
• Play, the favourite amusement, because the most violent, vii. 299.
• Pleasure, the lover of, cannot be rich, vi. 403.
• Pleasures, the pursuit of, to be restrained, vii. 298.
• when lawful, may not be expedient, 300.
• the mind should be independent of, 305.
• Pliny, abounded in fulsome encomiums, viii. 261.
• Poets, Greek and Latin, their works of use in the exposition of the ancient Prophets, v. 249.
• Politeness, true, distinguished from false, vi. 139.
• Pompey, his generosity in burning the papers of an enemy, vi. 414.
• Poor, the Gospel preached to the, vii. 193.
• their condition when Saviour appeared among them, 197, 198.
• their hearts less perverse than those of the rich and great and wise, 200.
• Pope, the, styled Antichrist at the synod of Rheims in the tenth century, v. 191.
• his authority defined by the Abbé Fleury, v. 314.
• Popery, how brought into disrepute among us, vi. 19.
• Porphyry, illustrated the book of Daniel, v. 365.
• Possessions, demonic, explained, vii. 273.
• Praise, general, a woe denounced against those who obtain it, vi. 304.
• implies a mediocrity of virtue, 306.
• frequently positive ill desert, 310.
• and sometimes depravity and prostitution of character, 313.
• Prayer, its efficacy considered, vii. 82.
• —— The Lord’s, an instance of Oriental construction in, vi. 165.
• Preacher, Christian, character of one, viii. 120, 122, 125.
• Prejudice, the strange power of, exemplified, vii. 255.
• among the Jews, 254.
• among the Gentiles, 258, 261.
• among the Heathens in the fourth century, 262.
• in later times, 263.
• Pretences, continued, become realities, vi. 257.
• Pride, how generated, vi. 132, 133.
• to be corrected by philanthropy, 134.
• why a vice, 277.
• how counteracted by charity, 278, 287.
• mistaken for a natural principle, 336.
• made sacred by fashion, 337.
• danger of indulging it, 343.
• intellectual and moral, productive of infidelity, vii. 99, 106.
• Procrastination, the usual support of vice, vii. 5, 6.
• is itself supported by sophistry, 9.
• leads to final impenitence, 14.
• Prophecy, scriptural meaning of the term, v. 3.
• origin of false ideas respecting its subjects, 4.
• its ultimate purpose, 8.
• and dispensation, 12.
• questions to be answered by enquirers into its divine character, 15.
• true idea of it, 21, 26, 27. n.
• our reasonings on the subject how to be regulated, 32.
• what its ultimate accomplishment, 34.
• its extent, 37.
• considered as a system, 39.
• conclusions from the true idea of it, 44.
• why obscurely delivered, 45, 46.
• what its double sense, 51.
• how distinguished from Pagan oracles, 60.
• why confined to one nation, 62.
• its obscurity affords no objection to it, 67.
• general argument from it, 74, 76.
• instances of casual conjecture fulfilled by events, 83, 85.
• answer to objection on this ground, 88.
• examples illustrating the general scheme of prophetic writings, 96.
• prophecies concerning the Messiah’s first coming, 103.
• unity of design with all the prophets, 113.
• amount of evidence on comparing predictions with facts, 118.
• the Jews why not convinced, 119.
• its weight with the Gentiles, 125.
• how connected with the evidence from miracles, 130.
• prophecies concerning Christ’s second coming, 132.
• and the Christian Church, 133.
• destruction of Jerusalem, 135.
• dispersion of the Jews, 143.
• call and conversion of the Gentiles, 156.
• concerning Antichrist, 171.
• what its declared end, 226.
• style of prophetic writing considered, 233.
• why more figurative than ours, 236.
• tinctured with the Hieroglyphic spirit, 240.
• means of rendering it intelligible to us, 244.
• some important prophecies delivered in the way of dreams, 248.
• causes of the obscurity of prophecy, 251.
• suspicions taken up against it, unfounded, 256.
• the symbolic style expedient in such writings, 258.
• its chronology not defined with historical exactness, 326.
• uses of the inquiry into, 351.
• chief evidences of religion drawn from, 263.
• nature of the prophetic power, vii. 226.
• how liable to be abused by pretenders to it, 227.
• Prophets, Jewish, used similitudes, vii. 402.
• Propitiation, doctrine of, how inculcated by our Lord, vi. 151, 155.
• Protestants, their tenets respecting Antichrist, v. 173.
• how far their aversion to the Church of Rome properly extends, 217.
• their divines censured for temerity in fixing the fall of Antichrist, 229.
• justified by the Apocalyptic prophecies, 342.
• how secured against the charges of schism and heresy, 350.
• Punishments, future, how proved to be eternal, vi. 164.
• Puritans, their struggles for Church dominion, viii. 42, 43.
• Purity of speech, what, viii. 334, 342.
• Q.
• Queries, respecting the right or appeal in the University of Cambridge, viii. 195.
• answers to, 197.
• the proper ones formerly put, and differently answered, 207, 221.
• Quintilian, his admiration of Plato’s eloquence, vii. 125.
• his idea of the nature of eloquence, viii. 358, 360.
• his observation on verbal figures, 366.
• R.
• Reason, its use, on the argument of prophecy, v. 19.
• how to be employed on the evidences of religion, vi. 97, 98.
• compared with revelation as a guide in matters of religion, vii. 80, 92.
• why given to man, 99.
• what its pride, 102.
• its true use in support of Christianity, vii. 250, viii. 90.
• how abused, 99.
• how unpropitious to revelation, 109, 112.
• Rebellion, American, Sermon preached on account of, viii. 3.
• Redemption, the great scheme of Providence, v. 57.
• through Christ extends to all men, vi. 63.
• brief account of, 70.
• vastness of the scheme, viii. 22.
• Reformation, in Germany, not effected wholly in the spirit of the Gospel, v. 167.
• begun and prosecuted on the principle that the Pope was Antichrist, 200.
• that doctrine not an innovation, 207.
• two great principles on which it was conducted, 346.
• question respecting the interpretation of Scripture, ib.
• various considerations decisive of the controversy with the Papists, 350.
• an evil originating in, vii. 42.
• Reformers, their advancement in religious knowledge, vi. 190.
• formed their idea of Religion from the scriptures, ib.
• how enabled to understand them, 192.
• especially the most important points of doctrine, 194, 196.
• Religion of Nature, and of the Gospel, defined, vi. 67.
• —— Christian, designed for the instruction of all degrees of men, vi. 24.
• its truths how to be explained to wise men, 25.
• high demands of evidence impertinent, 88.
• improper to be complied with, 90.
• presumptuous and unwarrantable, 96.
• mischiefs arising from misapplication of, 104.
• early attacked by superstition, 108.
• by worldly policy, 106.
• its whole system in what founded, 124.
• its doctrines objects of faith, and not of knowledge, 197.
• its chief evidences drawn from prophecies, 263.
• and miracles, 266.
• its doctrines consistent with reason, 268.
• does not oblige us to profess poverty, 375.
• hath descended to us through two, the most enlightened ages of the world, vii. 367.
• its power shewn in the zeal of Missionaries, viii. 30.
• most friendly to civil and religious liberty, 37.
• use and abuse of reason in, 89.
• its evidence the proper subject of enquiry, 98.
• Repentance, what its merits and claims, vii. 85, 94.
• the great duty of, viii. 6.
• in the hour of national distress, 15.
• Residence, personal, of the clergy, its benefits, viii. 76.
• Retaliation, strict, forbidden by our Saviour, vii. 310.
• natural resentment not therefore superseded, 314.
• true patriotism not injured, 318.
• nor military spirit weakened, 319.
• the injunction consistent with the true interest of individuals, 321.
• Revelation, the only sure guide in matters of religion, vii. 79.
• how opposed by the pride of reason, 104.
• why not accompanied with the strongest possible evidence, 91.
• Revelations, book of, its prophecies in part fulfilled, v. 127.
• its character and authority, 261.
• its style, 262, 265.
• its method, 268.
• examined by means of Mr. Mede’s discovery, 275.
• what the chronological order of the visions, 276.
• the prophecy made up of two great parts, 279.
• the book, of three, 280.
• of the residence of Antichrist, 290.
• proved to be Rome Christian, 297.
• its predictions respecting the time of his appearing, 326.
• foretels all the events of the Christian dispensation, 341.
• utility of studying this prophecy, 351.
• Revolution, the æra of our liberty, viii. 47.
• Richard I. heard a lecture against Antichrist at Messina, v. 195.
• Ridicule, the resource of sinners, vi. 353, 357, 359.
• especially when reproof comes home to them, 363.
• Roman Empire, its reverse of fortune ascribed by the Heathens to Christianity, vii. 262.
• Romans, their nice sense of right and wrong, vi. 50.
• abuses in the administration of justice, 111.
• Rome, ancient, a supposition concerning, v. 57.
• Virgil’s allusion to its seven hills, 293.
• modern, the throne of Antichrist, v. 291.
• ecclesiastical and not civil, 297.
• its idolatry how described, 309.
• why a harlot and not an adulteress, 312.
• her pride and intolerance, 313.
• professes and enjoins the worship of Saints, 317.
• its tenets respecting Antichrist, v. 173.
• the Antipopes branded each other with that name, 186.
• denounced as Antichristian at various periods, 191 to 201.
• Romulus, famous omen of his twelve vultures, v. 83.
• Rousseau, disclaims the authority of prophecy, v. 77. n.
• his reasons examined, 78.
• his strange boast of probity, vi. 257.
• S.
• Sacraments, Christian, on what principle founded, vii. 402.
• Saints, the worship of, in the Romish Church, v. 317.
• apology for, controverted, 319.
• Sallust, in his writings, appears a model of frugality, vii. 185.
• Salt, allusion of our Saviour to, its two interpretations, vi. 163, 164.
• applied to discipline as well as faith, 170.
• Salvation through the blood of Christ, the eternal purpose of God, viii. 25.
• danger of neglecting it, vi. 67, 81.
• faith and morality its appointed means, 218.
• Sanhedrin, could not punish with death but by leave of the Roman governor, vi. 323.
• Schism, import and application of the term by the Church of Rome, v. 208.
• how introduced into the Church, viii. 61.
• Science, human, very limited, vi. 184.
• Scipio, his continence, and frivolous curiosity, vii. 306.
• Scribe, Christian, compared with a Jewish householder, vi. 3.
• Scorn, irreligious, the sources of, vi. 353.
  
• admonition against, 364.
• Sects, fanatical, of the last century, confusion caused by, vi. 16.
• Selden, his notion on the expulsion of the buyers and sellers from the temple, vii. 393.
• where apparently taken up, 398.
• Self-denial, its uses, vii. 306.
• Self-love, too frequently the parent of pride, vi. 132, 133.
• its ends how answered by philanthropy, 137.
• an instinctive sentiment, 335.
• Seneca, an oracle of his, predicting the discoveries of Columbus, v. 85.
• Sermons, advice respecting, viii. 68, 120, 124.
• models proposed, 128. n.
• Shakespear, various editions and criticisms of, how occasioned, viii. 283.
• Shame of Christ, what, vii. 329.
• cases which imply its existence among unbelievers, 330.
• among professors of Christianity, 334, 338.
• shame of his words, 342.
• of the doctrines contained in them, 346.
• of the precepts, 349.
• Sherlock, Bishop, his remark on the figurative language of prophecy, v. 68. n.
• Sibylline oracles, general opinion concerning, v. 369.
• Sign, what is meant by the Jews requiring one, viii. 168. n.
• Silver, the lover of, shall not be satisfied, vi. 366.
• Simplicity concerning evil, the virtue of, in what consisting, vi. 231.
• the neglect of it has degraded religion, 234.
• relaxed morality, 237.
• and polluted common life, 239.
• caution against evasive pleas and pretences to part with it, 240.
• Slavery, personal, common among the Heathen, vi. 386.
• Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, its objects, viii. 27, 28.
• Socinianism, what, viii. 114.
• Socrates, his prediction of his own death fulfilled, v. 80. n.
• confessed that he knew nothing, vi. 285.
• uncertain in his hope of immortality, vii. 215.
• Solomon, prescribes the Fear of God as a rule of life, vii. 283.
• peculiar deference due to his judgment from men of the world, 293.
• from politicians and philosophers, 294.
• Souls of Men, influence of evil spirits on, vii. 274.
• Speaking, the rules of, more arbitrary than they are taken to be, vii. 344.
• Spendthrift, more to be reprobated than the miser, vi. 370.
• Spenser, his general purpose in the Faery Queen, v. 97.
• Spirit, Holy, he that soweth in, shall reap life everlasting, vii. 32.
• in what sense the assertion understood, 33.
• in what way the blessing conferred, 37.
• returns of duty thereby required, 40.
• justification of God in, 66.
• —— Human, its vices, vii. 49.
• —a fluctuating faith, 50.
• levity of mind, 53.
• deadness of heart, 56.
• perverse sophistry, 58.
• State, why it countenances the Church, viii. 62.
• Statutes, relating to the jurisdiction of Cambridge university, examined, viii. 200.
• Sublimity of speech, what, viii. 334, 342.
• the definition illustrated, 345.
• not united with simplicity, 347.
• Sully, the great, his situation somewhat similar to that of Daniel, v. 374.
• Superstition, its early inroads into the Christian religion, vi. 105.
• Symbols, an early way of writing, v. 238.
• Synchronisms of the book of Revelations, v. 275, 279, 283.
• T.
• Tabor, Mr. his mumpings against university-appeals, viii. 231.
• Temple, what the notion of one implies, vi. 383.
• of God, an emblem of the Church of Christ, v. 301.
• —— of Jerusalem, utterly destroyed, v. 140.
• buyers and sellers driven from, vii. 386.
• the act a prediction of the call of the Gentiles, 408.
• Temptation, God’s providence respecting, vii. 280.
• Tertullian, his remark on the rapid progress of Christianity, viii. 153.
• Testament, Old, considered by St. Austin, a prophecy to the New, v. 53. n.
• the divinity of both inferred from the completion of prophecy, 127.
• Testimony of Jesus, the spirit of prophecy, v. 21, 24.
• Text, which the most difficult in the four Gospels, vi. 160.
• Theology, dogmatical, essential to Christianity, viii. 60.
• Theophrastus, a name, why given, vii. 125.
• Thomas the Apostle, admonished respecting faith, vi. 95.
• Tiberius, the religion of Jesus first published in his reign, vii. 367.
• Tillotson, Abp. his zeal against Antinomianism, vi. 17.
• Time, scriptural division of, respecting the coming of Christ, v. 17.
• Toleration, not yet perfectly understood, vi. 195.
• Trinity in Unity, where accurately distinguished, vii. 44.
• Tropes and figures, when and in what sense vicious, viii. 366.
• what forms of language so denominated by Quintilian, 371.
• often a deviation from logical definition, 377.
• when they may be allowed, 378.
• Truth, the spirit of, promised by our Lord to his apostles, vii. 222.
• the promise fulfilled by the event, 235.
• U. & V.
• Vanity, why a vice, vi. 127.
• Vettius Valens, augured the duration of the Roman empire, v. 83.
• Vice, naturally breeds a disposition to ridicule, vi. 353.
• what its usual support, vii. 5.
• Virgil, purpose of his predictions in the Æneid, v. 96.
• a passage from, descriptive of Rome, 292.
• allusion to the predictions in his fourth eclogue, 368.
• the sixth book of his Æneid by whom finely criticized, viii. 277.
• Virtue, superior, excites envy, vi. 306.
• runs at times into excesses, 308.
• can never obtain general praise, 309.
• an intermitting state of, most miserable, 399.
• what its reasonable reward, vii. 91.
• the pride of, by which the Gospel may be hid from us, 106.
• Virtues of the Heathen, vi. 42.
• Ulpian, his observation on the right of appeal, viii. 249.
• Unbelief, always owing to some or other of the passions, vi. 245.
• accounted for, from man’s pride, viii. 109.
• and indolence, 113.
• Uncleanness, arguments against the sin of, vi. 382, 385.
• its heinousness, 391.
• inexcusable in Christians, 392.
• Voltaire, his sarcasm on Sir Isaac Newton, vi. 265. n.
• W.
• Waldenses, or Albigenses, in what age they first appeared, v. 195.
• leading principle of their heresy, 196.
• crusades employed against them, ib.
• War, civil, a most dreadful instrument of God’s government, viii. 8.
• Washing of the disciples’ feet, a lesson of humility, vi. 145.
• its other, and more important signification, 149, 150.
• Wealth, pernicious when over-rated, vi. 368.
• or when misapplied, 370.
• always a snare, and too often a curse, 375.
• has a tendency to corrupt manners, vii. 293.
• Weston, Mr. remarks on his inquiry into the rejection of Christian miracles by the heathens, viii. 150.
• his negative testimonies examined, 155.
• his positive testimonies, 161.
• his charge on the fathers of the Church, 163.
• claims the sanction of an apostle, 165.
• his strong hold proves to be magic, 175.
• answer to his argument from the multiplication of Heathen Gods, 179.
• ground-work of his performance, 183.
• Western Empire, the period of its dismemberment that of the rise of Antichrist, v. 330.
• Wiclif exposed the Antichristianism of the Roman pontiff, v. 199.
• great effects of his writings, 200.
• Will-worship, condemned in Scripture, v. 325.
• Wisdom, infinite, in the dispensation of prophecy, v. 6, 70.
• —— Christian, its properties and characters, vi. 215.
• defects in our nature which hinder the attainment of it, 217.
• virtues, how to be rendered most graceful, 220.
• how most reasonable, 222.
• and how most attractive and efficacious, 225.
• character of a wise Christian, 227.
• the duty of being simple concerning evil, 231.
• Wise men, invited to judge of Christianity, vi. 8.
• qualities requisite for this, 32.
• Wit, the ostentation of, leads to infidelity, vi. 248.
• Woe to those of whom all men speak well, vi. 304.
• Word of God, admonitions respecting the hearing of, vi. 203, 205.
• the ministry of it, for what purposes destined, 207.
• men will finally be judged by it, 211.
• X.
• Xenophon, character of his writings, v. 382.
• his admirable way of recording his own acts, vii. 179.
• Y.
• Youth, its peculiar sins, vi. 394.
• just decrees of God against them, 395.
• guilt and remorse, ib.
• tyrannous habits produced by them, 399.
• temporal afflictions which they entail, 401.
• value of innocency and rectitude, 405.
• Z.
• Zedekiah, two ænigmatical prophecies respecting him fulfilled, v. 253.
• Zelotism, its object, vii. 396.