coniiftently upon the fubjecl of the pretended miracles of
that age, i. 257. A total change of principles and prac-
tice between the fathers of the fourth and thofe of the
preceding ages, with regard to their behaviour to the
emperors, i. 286. Thofe of the fourth century make no
fcruple to propagate fidlions in favour of their religion,
i. 288. The admirers of them infill upon their huneily,
but allow them to have been very credulous, i. 317.
Their charafter does not afFeft the authority of the books
of the new teftament, i. 321, 322. Allowed the language
of the apoftles to have been intirely their own, ii. 398.
Ancient Saints and Martyrs, though they performed
no miracles, when living, yet their bones and rtliques
are reported, by their fuccelfors, to have had that power,
i. Pref. 25.
• An CI l e : faid to have been fent down from the clouds,
V. 145.
Andrew Conti, of the family of pope Imocent WW.
canonized, while Dr. MiddUton was at Rome, v. 48.
The miracles, afcribed to him, only a few contemptible
ftories delivered down by tradition, v. 49.
Angels : the notion of their mixing with the daughters
of men, maintained through the four firlt Centuries,
i. 173. This notion cenfured by St. Cbryjhficm and Thco-
doret, i. 174.
Anicetus, Bifhop of Rome, urges apollolical tradition in
the difpute about the time of holding Eajlcr, i. 184.
Anstis, John : his hiftory of the Garter, v. 329.
Antoninus Pius : his temple now pofTefled by St.
Laurence, v. 1 1 9.
Antony, St. the monk : his life, written by St. yJthana-
Jius, i. 275, 276.
Apollo: in a place, formerly facred to him, now flands
the church of Jpcllinaris, v. 1 20. His llatue faid to
have wept for three days and nights, v.' 148.
Apologetical Epistle : author of it d". Towns the name
of protertant, i. 321. C3\\i\\\m{c\(VL c.-uholic Ch>!Jiitn, ib.
Apostles, not perpetually directed by divine tmpuJics
and infpirations, but left on many otcafions to the or-
A a 4 jiiuaiy
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dinary direftion of their own natural faculties, 1. Pref.
22. Before our Lord's afcenfion, were in the condition'
of all other men, fubjeft to frailty, error, and fin, ii.
265. During that period, not under the perpetual
guidance of the Holy Ghofl, ibid. After his afcenfion
endowed with a larger portion of divine gifts, ibid. Not
under the continual direftionof an unerring fpirit, ii. 266.
Not conltantly infpired by the Holy Ghoft, even in the
execution of their miniftry, ii. 287. Frequently left,
like common men, to regulate their condudt by their
own natural prudence, ii. 288. Infpired, when God
thought proper to make ufe of their miniftry, with a
knowledge incapable of error, ii. 290. At other times left,
wholly deftitute of any fupernatural affiftance, and liable
to all the effects of their natural paffions, ibid, Difclaim
a perpetual inipiration, ii. 293. The chief fubjeft of
their preaching, that the perfon and charafter oi Jefus
were defcribed and foretold by the law and the prophets,
ii. 353. Being liable to flight miftakes and inadverten-.
cies in the reprefentation of plain and ordinary events,
may more reafonably be prefumed to be fo in the inter-
pretation of dark prophecies, ii. 353. Though in the
aft of working miracles, they were certainly infpired
with an extraordinary power, yet, when that adt was
over, they returned to the condition of fallible men, ii,
367. May probably be fuppofed, from an eagernefs of
explaining and illuftrating the dodtrine 0/ prophecy, to
have ftrained it, in fome cafes, farther than it would
bear, ii. 370. Their fucceffors ftretched this argument
of prophecy ftill farther, ibid. The languages, which
they ufed in their writings and preaching to foreign
nations, not the fruit of the gift of tongues, or of divine
infpiration, ii. 410. By what human means they could
acquire that knowledge of the Greek, of which they
appear to have been pofTefled, ii. 411 & feq. Moft
probably acquir'd their Greek knowledge chiefty in their
latter years, ii. 412. Their conduft towards the pro-
feffed adverfaries of the gofpel, ii. 423.
Apostolic Fathers, were thofe, who had lived and
converfed with the apoftles, and were ordained to fuc-
ceed them in the government of the Church, i, 122.
Were eminent for their zeal and piety, ibid. In all their
writings, there is not the leaft claim or pretenfion to
any extraordinary gifts or miraculous powers, i. 123.
The whole purpofe of their writings is to illuftrate the
excellence and purity ojf the Chiiftian dQftrine, ibid.
They
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They Teem to difclaim all gifts of an extraordinary kind,
i. 128. Have not the leall reference in their writings
to any (landing power of working miracles, as exerted
openly in the church for the convidtion of unbelievers,
i. 142. If they were favoured on fome occafions with
extraordinary illuminations, viiions, or divine impref-
ilons, thefc were merely perfonal, ihid. Their filcnce
on the fubjeft of miraculous gifts difpofes us to conclude,
that in their days thofe gifts were adtually withdrawn, i.
140. Appear to have been men of great piety, integrity,
and fimplicity, i. 149. Their filence, with regard to
any Handing power of working miracles, acknowledged
hy Mr. Jack/on, ii. 145. Denied by Dr. Dod'wtll and Dr.
Church, ibid. That very filence urged againll Dr. Mid-
dleton, by Dr. Dodnvell and Dr. Churth, ii. 164.
Apostolical Tradition, as foon as religious difputes
began, employed to filence an adverfary, 1. 184. Un-
certainty of it, i. 187, 188. N.
Apuleius : his account of a pagan proceffion, v. 137.
Arnobius remarks, that the Gentilei made it their con-
ftant bufinefs to laugh at the faith of the Chriftian^j. i.
Intr. 79. N. Affirms, that Chrilt ufed to appear,
in his time, to holy men, in his pure and fimple form,
i. 139, 140. AITerts, that the mention of Chnft's name
put the evil fpirit to flight, ftruck the heathen prophets
dumb, and fruftrated the arts of magicians, i. 141.
Complains, that the Chriftians of his time were unjuftly
treated by the Gentiles, i. 327.
Archytas : faid to have formed a pigeon of wood, fo
artificially, as to make it fly by the power of mechanifm,
' juft as he direfted it, v. 153.
Ar INCH us, his elaborate account of fubterranems Rome^
v. 3 I . Affirms, that the images of the virgin Mary ftiine
out continually by new and daily miracles, v. 32. Ac-
knowledges the conformity between the pagan and popilh
rites, and defends the admiflion of the ceremonies of
heathenifm into the ferv'ice of the church, v. 162.
Arion : the ftory of his riding triumphant on the back of
a dolphin furpalled by many of the fame ftam.p in the
church of Rotne, v. 154.
Atheists have, in every country, been the fcverefl pcr-
fecutors, and cruelleft opprelfors of all civil as well as re-
ligious hberty, iii. 55.
Athanasius, St. one of the firll, who introduced monks
into Ita/y, i. Intr. 46. His life of St. Jntony, the monk,
full of the pretended miracles of that faint, i. 276.
Affirms,
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Affirms, that he hadinferted nothing in thatlife, but what
he either knew to be true, or what he had leaint from
one, who had long miniftered to that faint, i. 275.
Athenagoras, allows extraordinary works to have been
performed by Dzemons, i. 202. Affirms, that the pro-
phets of the old teftament, while under the divine im-
pulfe, were tranfported out of their fenfes, i, 237.
Athenians, diredled by the oracle, upon rebuilding their
city, to revive the religious rites, which the cuftom and
laws of their country had confecrated, iii. 53. Banilhcd
Protagoras for declaring, that he had nothing to fay,
whether the gods really exifted or not, ibid.
Atkyns, Richard: \v\^ 6\(com{Q. oi tYve. original and gronvtb
of printing, v. 3 1 5 . The record alledged by him, never
feen or produced by any man, v. 331. Seems to have
been a bold and vain man, v. 332.
Attila, king of the Huns, in his march towards Rome^
frightened and driven back by the apparition of an angel,
V. 142. N.
AuGusTiN, St. ftiles monks the fervants of God, i. Intr.
. 47, 48. His account of a miracle performed by the re-
liques of the martyrs Pro/«/&j andG^ra^iT/zw, i. 49. Aiferts
two miraculous cures performed by oil from the lamps of
martyrs, i. 55. Knew many, who were adorers of fepul-
chres and pidlures in churches, ikid. Gives us a Latin
tranflation of an acroftich alcribed to the Erythrean Sibyl,
i. 158. N. His anfwer to the queftion. Why mira-
cles were not performed in his time ? feems to imply a
ceffation of them, i.265. Maintains, that though miracles
were frequently wrought, yet the fame of them was not
fo illuiirious as thofe of the apofiles, i. 266. Stories of
miracles related by him, as from his own knowledge,
as contemptible as any in the popilh legends, i. 270.
His account of miracles wrought by the reliques of St.
Stephen, ibid. Remarks on thofe miracles, i. 273, 274.
His remark on the cafe of Dinocrates, an infant, urged
as a proof, that baptifm was not abfoiutely neceffary to an
admiffion into Paradife, i. 336. N. Relates, that St. John
was not believed to be dead, but only fleeping in his
grave at Ephefus, i. 366. N. Attefts, from his own
knowledge, miracles wrought by the reliques of St.
Stephen in Jfrica, ii. 121. Cenfures St. jferoni's opinion,
that the difputa betv/een St. Peter and St. Paul was a
iiftion contrived between them, ii. 278. Comes nearer
to the truth than St. Jerom or St. Cbryfnjlom, in allowing
St. Peter to have been in a fault, ii. 280. Thinks, that St.
Peters,
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Peter % fault did not lie in his compliance with the JetuiJJIf
rites, but in impoling tlic fame alio upon the Gcntiici^
ii. 280. This opinion neither agreeable to the particu-
lar fcnfe of the epiftle to the Galatians, nor to the gene-
ral doctrine of the apollles, ibid. Thinks, that our Sa-
viour was anointed twice by the fame woman, ii. 313.
Affirms, in a certain treatife, that baptil'm was abio-
lutely neceflary to falvation, ii. 323. I^J'. His anfwer
to the objection to this opinion drawn from the cafe of
the penitent thief, ibid. His folulion of the difference
between St. Mark and St. "Jchn, concerning the time of
the day of our Saviour's crucifixion, ii. 324. His folu-
tion of the difference between St. Matthew and the other
evangeliils, in reciting the tellimony of John Baptiji,
concerning our Saviour, ii. 334, 335. His general rule
for the folution of all inconfiftencies in the gofpel, ii. 336.
Seems, of all the primitive fathers, the nioft bigotted to
the notion, that the evangeliils could not err, ii. 358.
His two abfurd foluticns of St. Matthenj:\ citing, xxvii.
9, 10, a prophecy oi Jere7niah not to be found in that
prophet, ii. 359. Obferves, that the moll eminent and
neceffary fipn of Cbriji\ adlual dcfcent upon the difci-
ples v/:is, that every one of them fliould fpeak in the
tongues of all nations, ii. 389. Stiles the apoflles igno-
rant and illiterate, ii. 398. His treatife on the literal
interpretation of the three firft chapters of Gaiefis, ii. 448.
Frequently driven back to allegory, ii. 449. Embraces an
allegorical interpretation of the fall, iii. 23, 24. Says, that
miracles are to be received, becaufe they are wrought
in a church that is catholic, v. 73. His expofition of
St Peter % mors fure ^:ord of prophecy, v. 208, 209.
Authority of the Church : dreadful confequences
of a flavilh obedience to it, v. 56.
AuTOLYCus, an eminent Heathen, challenged Thecphilust
bifhop of Jntioch, to Ihew him one perfon who had been
raifed from the dead, i. 198.
B.
Babel : the (lory of the confu/icn there a flrange one, iii.
39. Introduced for no other purpofe but to account for
the origin of the different languages, iii. 43.
Babylas, St. his afis and miracles celebrated by St. C/jry-
Jiijhjm, i. 281.
Baftism compared, by St. Oiprian, to the Red-fea in the
tJinc
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time 0^ Pharaoh, i. 138. Ordained hy ChriJI as the effen-
tial rite of our initiation into his church, v. 17.
Baradatus, a monk, who lived in a cage, i. 304.
Barnabas, St. ailegorifes the Mofaic law about unclean
animals, iii. 85. His interpretation followed by Clemtns
Alexandrinus y Eufebius, LaSantius, Sec, 86.
Barnes, Julian: her l;ooi 0/ hunting, v. 345. Account
of her, il^id. and 346.
Basil, St. ftiles monkery an angelical inftitution, i. Intr.
46. His encomium upon the reliques of martyrs, i. 48.
His pretended revelation of Julian the emperor's death,
i. 285.
Bath-Kol, a voice from Heaven, v. 220. Confidered
by the Jeixijh do£lors as an inferior kind of prophecy,
ibid. Said, by Grotius, to be the fole oracle remaining
among the Jeivs, during the time of the fecond temple,
V. 222. The reality of it attefted by all the Je'voijh wri-
ters, ihid. The whole llory of it declared by our ableft
divines a mere fiftion, ibid.
Bayle : his remarks on the ftory of St, John and Cm«-
thus, ii. 426. N.
Bede : his works filled with miracles, i, Intr. 71.
Bellarmin, Cardinal: his account of the vulgate Latin,
iii. 297.
Bellona : her priefts ufed to cut and flafh themfelves, v.
138, 139. Ordered, by the emperor Commodus, to do
it in good earnelt, v. 139.
Benedict XIII. canonized eight faints in one fummer,
V. 48. Pope paid a yearly acknowledgement to St.
Philip Ncri, on account of having efcaped from the ruins
of his houfe, overturned by an earthquake, v. 105.
Benediction of Horses, denied by the author of the
catholic chrifian ir.JiruBcd, V. 18. Affirmed by Dr. M/^-
dleton, ibid. Origin of it, ibid.
Bentley, Dr. gave a very proper correftion to Mr. Jn^
thovy Colli fiSy iii. 178. His great learning acknowledged
by Dr. Middletovy ibid. Credibly reported to have ex-
pre/Ted, in very ftrong terms, his approbation of Dr.
Middletons letter to Dr. Waterland, before any name had
been mentioned of the fuppofed author, ibiid. His au-
thority contrad idled by the author of a reply to the de-
fence of the letter to Dr. Waterland, iii. 181. Had neither
talents nor materials for an edition of the new tella-
ment, iii. 281 . Occafion of his undertaking that edition,
iii. 288. Speaks, in his fermon upon popery, with fome
contempt of the Latin vulgate, iii. 296. Charges upon
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the papifls a great deal more than is true of them, with
rcfpctft to the authority of that verfion, ibid. Believes,
that he has retrieved (except in very few places) the true
exemplar of Origen, iii. 297. Rallies and expofes Dr;
Whitby and others, who had taken offence at the great
number of various readings in Dr. Mills's new tellament,
iii. 300. His fpecimen of his intended edition of the new
teftament examined, iii. 319 &feq. Had long treated Dr.
MiddUton with contempt, iii. 326. Specimen of his con-
troverfial language, iii. 332, 333. Deprived, by the
univerfity of Cambridge, of his degree of doftor of divi-
nity, iii. 338. His ignorance of the eaftern languages, iii.
429. Spent ten years in giving an edition of Horace, iii.
432. Pretends to have difcovered, in Robert Stephens' ^
edition of the new teftament, above fixty faults, with-
in the compafs of one and twenty verfes, iii. 446.
Be RR I MAN, Dr. his defence of a miracle wrought in the
middle of the fifth century, in confutation of the Arian
herefy, i. Intr. 69. Makes ufe of feveral miracles re-
lated by pope Gregory the Great, ibid. Avows the mira-
culous powers of the church to the end of the fixth
century, ibid. Cites the authority of Gregory the Great
and JJidore of Sevil, as men of too much learning and
judgment to be deceived, ibid. Defends a miracle near
the end of the fifth century, ii. 61. Defends a mira-
cle near the end of the fifth century, and infifts, that it
cannot be difcredited without fhaking the whole faith of
hiftory, ibid. Afferts the geuninenefs of the creed, faid
to be communicated to St. Gregory, the wonder-worker,
by the virgin Mary and St. John, i. 277, 278. Affirms
Pope Gregory to have been highly diftinguifhed by the ex-
traordinary gifts of the Holy Ghoft, ibid. No protef-
tant, but he and Dr. Chapman, ever attempted to defend
either the miracles, or the principles, of the fifth cen-
tury, i. 302. Defends a miracle of the fifth century, i.3 13.
His defence of it examined, ibid. Applies the llory of
St. John and Cerinthus toinforce the duty of fhunning in-
fidels and heretics, ii. 417, Owns, that St. John\ fup-
pofed behaviour towards Cerinthus was copied from the
Je^ijh inftitutcs, ii. 428.
Bethel, Hugh, his charaftcr, iv. 17.
Beza : his manufcripts at Cambridge, of the gofpels and
ads, allowed to be fomc of the moft ancient now known
in the world, iii. 378,
BlN-CHAM,
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ciJfcHAM, Mr. gives the form of the ordination of ejfor^
Gifts, i. 211. N.
BoLDONius cenfuresthe author of an infcription, for put-
ting the faints before God himfelf, v. 128.
Bo MA Dea : her temple dedicated to the virgin Mary, \.
IZO;
Book printed at Oxford, with the date M CCCC LXVIII,
V. 324. Its date falfified originally by the printer, v. 333.
Books: difficulty of publifliing them, or making them
tnovvn to the world, before the invention of printing, i,
3-9-
EouRCHiER, Thomas, archbifliop oi Canterhury, ufed all
poifible means to procure the art of printing to be
hroM^t to England, v. 325. Archbifhop Parker, in his
life of him, filent about that fadl, v. 331.
Erandanus, a Britifij abbot, fails round the world in
fcarch of P/??W//£', ii. 446.
Brazen Serpent; an objeft, which the yf-iivj had been
uftd to reverence in Egypt, iii. 33.
Brinch, Peter, his cenfure on Jojephus, iii. 201, 2C2.
Brooke, Zachary, feems to prefer the opinion of Mr.
Jack/on, by reftraining the period of undoubted miracles
to the days of Origen, ii. 247.
Brutus, a Stoic, iii. 76. Cicero's dialogue of divination
dedicated to him, ibpd.
Bur MAN, Peter, his oration, faid by Dr. Bentley to be a
iirie one in its-way, iii. 437. Stiied by Dr. Middkton a
ferious and facred in the praflice and principles of
both, ihid.
Burnet, Biihop, declares the gift of tongues the moft
nece'lary of all miracles for the converhon of llrange
nations, ii. 219, 220.
G.
C^ciLius, in Minuitus Felix, ftiles the Chriftians of his
• times, who pretended to work miracles, a lurking na-
tion, fhunning the light, i. 144.
Calfhill, James, nominated to the bifhoprick of Wcr-
cejier, finds imperfedions in all the fathers, i.419.
Caligula, the frft of all the fovereign pontifs of pagan
l\c7iic, who offered his foot to be kiffed, v. 159.
Calmet : the moll diligent of the modern commentators,
iii. 190. Declares it to be extrcm.ely difficult to ex-
pound the firil chapters of Gtv/^/Tj literally, iii. 232.
Cappellus
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Cappellus, L. intimates, that the miftake in ASlsvW.
16, of Abraham for Jacob, might poffibly be a flip of
memory in St. Stephen himfclf, ii. 345.
Castalio Sebastian : his expofition of St. Peter's more
fur e luord of prophecy, v. 209.
Casaubon, Ifaac, thinks, that the family of A/ary, the
real mother of Jefus, is included and reprefented in that
of Jofeph, her hu/band, ii. 308.
Castor and Pollux, reported by Dionyjtus of Halicar-
najfus to have appeared, and fought for the Romans, \.
351. Said to have appeared on white horfcs in the
Roman army, v. 140. A temple vowed and built to them
by the general Pojihumius, on that account, ibid. This
fuppofed miracle has as authentic an atteftation, as any
which the papilts can produce, ibid, and v. 141.
Catacombs, in Rome, in the times of heathenifm, • the
burial-place of the flaves and poor citizens, v. 44, 45.
Catholick Christian instructed : the popifh au-
thor of that book maintains the pretended miracles of
the church of Rome, as a proof of her being the fpoufe
of Chriji, i. Intr. 37. Promifes an hiftory of the Chri-
ftian miracles, 38. Attempts a confutation of Dr. Mid-
d/etonh letter from Rome, v. 9. His avowed defign and
fole employment among us to make converts to the Ro-
?w(/6 church, ibid. Charges Dr. il//V.//(r/w/ with yo«7 play,
difingenuity, and a refolution to fupprcfs the truth, ibid.
Affirms it to be a miftake to imagine every ceremony,
ufed by the Heathens, to be heatheniih, fmce the great-
eft part were borrowed from the worihip of the true
God, V. 10. Denies the fa£t of the bcnedidion of
horfcs ztRome, v. 17. Allows a great confufion among
the martyrs and their reliques, v. 45. Has not denied
fo much as one of the numerous fafls, on which Dr.
Middkton grounds his charge of paganifm on the church
of Rome, v. 74. Attempts to demonftratc the confor-
mity between the E7igliJ}} and Romijh church, v. 75.
This confuted, ibid, and v. 76. The printer of that
book falfely faid to be put into prifon by means of Dr.
Middkton, v. 78.
Cave, Dr. his charafter of rtvj'^rw, i. Intr. 69, 70. Of
Damafiefie, i. 7 1 . owns, that the Sibylline oracles were forg-
ed for the advancement of the Chriftian faith, i. 158, 159.
His remarks on Iremtvi'^ afliertion, that C^-//; our Saviour
lived to at leaft fifty years of age, i. 1 69. CenfnresSt. Gre-
gory of iSyJj'a, as apt to be too credulous, 277. Di.^allows of
the genuinenefs of the creed, faid to be communicated
"to
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to St. Gregory the wonder-worker by the virgin Mai'y
and St. John the evangelift, ibid. Afferts the truth of the
miracles wrought by St. Babylas'5rtYiC[\xes,i. 284. Inti-
mates his fufpicion of what Theodoret has attefted cori-
cerning Simeon Sty lites, i. 301. Cenfured, as guilty of a
miftake, by Dr. Dod^well and Dr. Church, ii. 226, 227.
Caxton, William, firft fet up a printing prefs m England,
V. 323, 346 & feq. His continuation of the Polychroni-
con, V. 327. Account of him, v. 346 & feq. His
charader, v, 354, 355. Catalogue of books printed by
him, V. 354, 359-
Celsus fays, that the primitiv-e Chriftians cared neither
to receive nor to give any reafon of their faith, i.
Intr. 79. N. Reprefents all the Chriftian wonder-
workers as mere vagabonds and common cheats, i. 144.
Charges the Chriftians with inferting many blafphemous
paffages in the verfes of the Sibyl, i. 157. N. Laughs
at thi; iVlofaic hiltory of the creation and fall, ii. 442.
Cephas, fuppofed to be another perfon different from St.
Peter, and one of the feventy difciples, with whom St.
Paul had the diiputes, ii. 272. In many copies of the
epiftle to the Galatians, in the firft ages of Chriftianity,
wheie St. Peter s name is in the prefent copies, ibid.
The Aippofition of another, diftinct from St. Peter, dif-
claimed by lome of the primitii-e fathers, ii. 274.
Censors, dit R'jme, their power, iv. 185, 215, When
firll inlUtuted, 216, 217.
Cerda I.a, the Jefuit, owns the cuftom of holy water
to iiave been derived from paganiim, v. 96.
Cer.hmoKi£s abrogated by the fpiritual worftiip of the
golpel, V. 1 8.
Ceres, oi E/»ia : her religion celebrated through all 5'/f//y,
v. 143. Her linage faid to have dropped down from
Hea\-en, ibid.
Ch^remon, the Egyptian, quoted hy Porphyry, to fliew,
that the priefts of Egypt abftained from fifh, and all other
four-footed beafts, whofe hoofs were not cloven, ^c.
iii. 122.
Chapman, Dr. extends the fucceflion of miracles to the
iifth century, i. \nv:. ^4, ^9, 00, Sriles the third, fourth,
and fifth centuries the JiuuriJI.->ing times of miraculous po-rv-
«v, i.44. Defends the miracles of tlic fifth century, and
declares, that fome of thcfe latter inftances were as
well attefted, as any in the earlier ages, i. 77. Defends
the fuperftitiuus aiTis of Simeon Stylites, i. 81, N. His.
tirchidiaconal charge,!. Ppft, 9S. Hia account of a plot of
z tlis
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the jeAilts, ibid, & fcq. His charafter of father Har^
douin, i. 99. Affirms, that the real neceflaries of learned
authors are extremely great, i. 105. Declares, that the
church of England is far inferior to the Romijh, in the
provifion for the emoluments. of the clergy, i. 107. A
defender of the primitive monks, and their miracles,
i. 108. The bufmcfs of his life and ladies has been to
inculcate a fuperftitious veneration of the primitive fa-
thers, and an implicit faith in ecclefiaftical hiilory, ibid.
Maintains, that the ancient fathers and primitive councila
are the bulwarks of protellantil'm, ibid. Diftinguilhea
between St. Jerorns dogmatical and his agonijHcal ftile,
i. 114: Would perfuade us, that St. Jerom is the parti-
cular objeft of the fpleen of the free-thinkers, i. 117. His
defenceof Simeon Sfylites, i. 292, 293. His charafter of
*rheodoret, i. 293. Borrows his notions and expreffions,
with relation to fbeodorct, from Tilkmont, ibid. Con-
tends, that there is no better evidence for the exiftenco