wholly fabulous by Mr. Collier, ibid.
T.
Tacitus, his account of the Chriftians, i. 325. Affirms
that Vefpafian reftored a blind man to his fight, and a
cripple to his limbs, i. 300.
Tages, an old Tufcan deity, dug out of the ground, v.
37-
Taylor, Dr. Jeremy, relates a ftory o£ Jerojit Sanjonarola^
i. 346. N.
Tay'lor, bifhop, mentions the ftory of St. John and Ce-
rinthus as a good precedent for us,vvhen the cafe is equal,
"• 433-
Temples, heathen ones, converted into Chriftian, v.
115, & feq.
Temptation of Christ puzzles the learned how to in-
terpret it, V. 315. Taken by many antients and mo-
derns to have been reprefented to him in a dream or
vifion, V. 316.
Ter-
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Tertulhan alledges tradition for the ufe of the fign of
the crofs, i. 54. Aficrts the power of the Chriilians
of his time to cxorciie anyperfon pofl'cflcd witli a devil,
i. 133. Mentions a fifter among the Chriflians of that
age indued with the gift of revelations, and who con-
verfed with angels and Chrijl himfclf, i. 134. Declares
that apollolical tradition is the only weapon, that can
knock down an heretic, i. 185. His notion of the
power of Damons, i. 193. Affirms, that Proculus, a
Chrillian, cured the emperor Se-verus by oil, i. 200.
Relates two tragical ftories of Chriftian women, who
went to the theatre, i. 208, 209. Remarks on thofe
ftorics, ibid. Stiles ecftafy a fpiritual virtue, in which
prophecy confifts, i. 222. A writer of an enthufiallic
turn, fevere in his manners, and fliff in his opinions,
i. 225. Makes great ufe of vifions in his v.ritings,
ibid. Writes a treatife to prove the foul of man cor-
poreal and of human fhape, ibid. Eafily drawn by his
temper and prejudices to efpoufe any delufion fuitable
to his fa'/ourite opinions, i. 226, 227. Dccl.ires, that
he, who has the fpirit within him, muft neceiTarily be
deprived of his fenfes, i. 23S. Afi'erts the alfolutefub-
inilfion of the Chriftians to their emperors, i. 286, 2S7.
Expoftulates with the heathen magillratcs for not in-
quiring into the manners and doftrines of the Chriilians,
i. 327. Writes a bock againft flight in perfccution, i.
344. N. His challenge to the heathen niagiftrates to
come and fee the power of the Chriftian exorcills, i.
356. N. Declares, that nothing is fo contemptible as
the Mofaic laws about the dilliniflion and prohibitioa
of animal food, iii. 86. IIjs zeal againft incenfe, v.
^73- , ^ , " .
Thalaleus, a monk, who fufpcnded himfclf in the air
in a cage, i. 304.
Theodoret: upon his fingle amhority Dr. Chopn^nv
maintains the pretended miracles of the fifth centur} ,
i. Intr. 59, His account of the reverence paid to the
temples of the martyrs in his ovvn time, ilid. h 60.
'^i\\^^ great by 'D-:.Chal:>:an, i. 293. His character by
the fame, ibid. His Ijjfe of Shfieci Stj/ifes, 29-, is" fcq.
Declares himfclf an eye-witr.efs of maiiy of tlie mi-
racles of Sitnc'oti Stylites, i. 2;;n. Aflirms yhneci: to linve
been infpirtd by God, and to have performed many
things above the force of human nature, i. 300. De-
clared by Dr. Hod;^ to be full of relations, which wrre
Vql. V. ff th«
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the refult of a fuperftitious piety, i. 303. His life of
Simeo7i Stylites a part only of his Religious Hijiory, filled
with the lives of thirty monks, i. 304. His account of
Baradatus and Thalaleus, two of thofe Monks, whofe
whims and extravagancies he confiders as the fug-
geftions of the Holy Spirit, ibid. His charafter by Du
Pin, i. 308, 309. Mirac es pretended by him to have
accompanied his own birth, Hid. Narfed and trained
up in all the bigotry and fupcrftition with' which his age
abounded, and a zealous admirer of Monks, i. 309.
His account of the miracles of Peter and "James, two
Monks, i. 310, 311. Remarks of DuPiu upon his Re-
ligious Hijiory, i. 312. His Religious Hijiory tends to
llrengthen the intereil of t^veRomt/h, and to hurt the credit
of the Protellant caufe, ibid. Obferves, that we are com-
manded not to givecredit to miracles, when the performers
of them teach things contrary to true piety, v. 73.
Theodosius I. Emperor : his laws generally fevere upon
the Pagans, v. 170.
Theodosius II. Emperor, his fevere laws againft Pa-
ganifm, v. 171. Prohibits the Chriflians from injuring
the Pagans who behaved themfelves quietly, ibid.
Theophilus, bifhop oi Antioch, affirms, that perfons pof-
felTed by fuch Daemons as ufed to infpire the heathen
poets and prophets, were exorcifed by the Chriftians in
his time, i. 133. Challenged hy Jutolycus, an antient
heathen, to Ihew one perfon who had been raifed
from the dead, i. 198.
Theophylact affirms, that the Bahylonijh captivity mufl
be numbered in the place of a perfon in St. Matthe^\
genealogy of our Saviour, ii. 303. Suppofes that there
were thxte Maries, ii. 313. Obferves, that the evan-
gelifts not agreeing in all points, gave a ftronger proof
of their integrity, ii. 339.
Theseus : his bones tranflated from the ifle of Scyrus to
Athens by the diredion of his apparition, v, 46.
Thief: ftory of the penitent one, who was crucified
with our Saviour, decides the grand queftion about the
immediate ftate of departed fouls, ii. 322. He was
reckoned by St. Cyprian in the number of martyrs, who
were baptized in their own blood, ii. 323. N.
Thomas Becket : a relique of him at the Jefuits college
at St. Omers, V. 50. He had more of the rebel than of
the faint in him, v. 5 1 . His letters preferved in the Va-
tican, and printed at Brujjelsi fhew how turbulent, fe-
3 •■ditious.
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ditious, infolent, and ambitious he was, ihid. Sc feq.
Adored as one of the principal faints and martyrs of
the church of Roms, v. 54. His faintlhip pretended to
be demor.llrated by miracles, v. 65. Still faid to work
miracles in foreign countries, v. 68.
TzBERiANUS : his account of the obllinacy of the Chrir
ftians in Palejiine i|i oft'ering themfelves to death, i.
332» 333-
TiLLEMONT declares, that the opinion of Iren^us and
other fathers with relation to the deftruftion of the fcrip-
tures in the Bahylonijh captivity, is dangerous to reli-
gion, i. 173, His notions and expreffions with relation
to Tbeodoret borrowed by Dr. Chapman, i. 294. Owns,
that it is common with Epiphanius to make blunders in
hiftory, ii. 425, 426.
TiLLOTsoN, archhifhop, fqppofed that the miraculous
powers ceafed in the church when Chriftianity was
eftablifhed, i. Intr. 41. And that the gift of calling
out devils continued the longeft of any, ibid. Remark?
that nothing has been more pernicious to the Chriftian
religion, than the vain pretence of men to greater af-
furance concerning things relating to it, than they can
make good, iii. 192. This relleftion gave rife to Dr. Mid-
Metons letter to Dr. Waterland, ibid. His notion of the
infpiratioa of the fcriptures, iii. 236. The moft rational
preacher that any age has produced, iii. 238.
ToiNARD, Mr. has in a manner executed the fcheme of
Dr. Bevtley, iii. 294.
Toll, Mr. fubftantially confutes Dr. DodvjglPs and Dr.
ChurcFs books, ii. 135. Expofes the arts and fophillry
of thofe who extort miraculous fcnfcs out of the dark
hints and equivocal pafTages of the apoftolic fathers,
ii. 149. Anfwers Dr. Dod-ue/Ps objedions to what Dr,
Middleton had urged with relation to the tiLc-of St. Ig-
Tiatiius epiille to the church oi Smyrna, ii. 150. An-
fwers Dr. Dodijce// with, regard to St. Po/ycarp's vifion,
ii. 161.
ToNcyEs : a pretended miracle performed upon the ortho-r
dox, who fpoke after their tongues were cut out by or-
der of Huntieric the Vandal, i. 313. A girl born with-
out one, fpeaks diftin^lly and eafily, i. 315. A boy,
who loil his tongue by a gangrene, retains the faculty
9f fpeaking, ibid.
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Tonsure forbidden to the Jenvijh priefls, v. i6. Praftifed
by the E^jptian priefls, ibid. Has been long the diftin-
guilhing mark of the Romifa priefthood, ibid.
ToRTULLius, John: his difcourfe on orthography, iv.
TouRNEtoRT reflefls on the Greek church for having re-
tained many of the old rites of heathenifm, v. 137.
Tradition defined hyVix.. Deacon, ii. 5. The teftimony
of it of all others the moit fallacious, v. 276. Ever
found the moft fabulous in proportion as it is antient,
ibid.
Transubstantiation : argument for it by the author
of the Catholic Chrijlian iiijiru£ied, V. 55, 56. Affords a
remarkable inllance of the prolific nature of error, v.
Tribunes begin to afTume a right of fummoning or con-
voking the fenate, iv. 208. Their power, iv. 256,
257-
Trinity : the importance of that doftrine the fubjeft of
a book of Dr. Waterland, ii. 429. Maintained as a fun-
. damental by the Papifls, /ZvV. No where exprefly de-
clared by any of the earlieft fathers, to be a funda-
mental, nor ever afSrmed or taught by the church be-
fore the council of iWre, ibid.
Trot, Dr. calls the fcripture the magna charta granted
by the king of heaven to his fubjeds, iii. 307.
Truth, every difcovery of it a valuable acquifition to {o-
ciety, i. Pref. 8. The light of it expoies the vanity
of all popular fyfiems and prejudices, i. 9. Never
known to be on the perfecuting fide, ibid. Has no other
elFeft than to promote the general good, ihid Brings
us nearer to the perfedion of our bein^, ibid.
Tunstall, Mr. attacks the gehuinenefs of GVfro's let-
ters to Brutt/s, I. Pofl. 105. Elected orator of the uni-
verfity oi Cambridge, i. 413.
TuRRETiN, Mr. remarks the early depravation of Chri-
ilianity by the fafhion of Paganifhi, v. 1 80.
TuRRiANus faid to have made little birds fly out of a
loom, and back again, v. 153.
V.
Vai.ens, the emperor, wholly neutral between Chriftianlty
and Pagauifm, v. 169.
VAtEN-
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"Yalektinjan, the emperor, wholly ncatral bctwcei^
Chrillianity and Paganiiim, ibid.
V-iniATioNs of the evangclilU conccrninfr our Saviour's
genealogy, ii. 301. Concerning the llory of the wo-
man who anointed him, ii. 312. Concerning "Judaic
treachery, ii. 316. ConcerniBg the two Demoniacs
cured by him, ii. 317. Concerning the two blind men
cured by him, ii. 318. Concerning the two thieve*
crucified with him, ii. 319. Concerning the precife
time of his crucifixion, ii. 324. Concerning the occur-
rences which paflcd at his fepulchre immediately after
his refurrection, ii. 328. Concerning tlic infcription
iixed upon the crofs, ii. 333. Concerning the te'.timony
oi JoJm baptift about our Saviour, ii. 334.
Venn, Richard, calls Yix.Middktcn apojiate priejl, i, 421.
Letter to him from the doftor on that occafion, ibid.
VfiNTRiLociyisTs mentioned by the antient fathers, i.
216. Modern Vertriloquifts, i. 217.
Veronica, though the name only of a pidure, advanced
into a perfon by the authority of pope Urban, v. 1 26.
Not any real perfon, but the name given to the piftura
faid to be impreffed by our Saviour upon a handker-
chief, v. 127.
Vertot, Abbe de, his defence of the miracle of the
Sainte Jmpoulie at Rhiims, i. 361. His anfwer to earl
Stanhope' % quei'Hon concerning the manner of filling up
the vacancies of the fenate in old Rome, iv. 179, 188.
His reafons examined, iv. 220, (S: feq.
Vespasian became a better man by his advancement to
the empire, i. 300. Affirmed by Suctom'us and Tacitus to
have reftored a blind man to his fight, and a cripple to
his limbs, ilrd.
Vejta : her temple near the Tiber, now poffeffcd by the
Madonna of the fun, v. 117.
ViAR held in great Tcveience in Spain, as a faint, upon
the authority of the fragment of a Hone, v/ith thefe
letters, 6". f'iar, v. 125.
ViGiLANTius wrote againft monkery, celibacy of the
clergy, &c. i. Intr. 49. Written againll by St. Jerom^
and treated by him as a moft blafphemous heretic, Poll.
i. III. His pretended hcrefies, i. 112. Oppofes monkery
and the honour paid to reliques, ibid. Charges St. Je-
rom with idolatry for worfhipping reliques, ibid. In-
curred the charge of hcrefy by writing againft monkery
a-nd other fupcrftitious praftices, v. 21. Publicly
charged
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: charged the ruling clergy of his time with idolatry and
paganifm, on account of feveral heathenifh rites intro-
duced into the church, v. 176. Anfwered by St.
yerom, v. 177.
Virgin Mary : incenfe burnt to her under the title of
queen of heaven, v. 15. Story of a miracle performed
at Lucca by her image, v. 26. A miraculous pifture of
her in the church of Impruneta near Florence, faid to be
painted ty St. Z«^^, v. 33. The worfhip of her as a
goddefs attempted to be introduced into the Chriftian
church, V. 36. Titles given her in Romifh liturgies,
(fff. V. 40. That may be faid of her, which Juvenal
fays of the goddefs IJis, that the painters get their live-
lihood out of her, v. 107. Miraculous image of her at
Modana among the ^Ips in Sa'voy, v. 1 33. A pidure of
her faid to be brought down from Heaven, v. 145.
Her conception, a miracle of that peculiar nature,
which could not be feen by any, nor known to any
but to the Virgin herfelf, e;?cept by a divine revela-
tion, V. 247.
Visions confefled by St. Cyprian to be contemned by
many in his age, i. 234. Seem all to be contrived or
authorifed by the leading men of the church for the
fake of governing the people, i. 235, Thofe afcribed to
the apoftolic fathers, are coUefted only from an inci-
dental hint or two, ii. 162.
Ulpian fpeaks of Exorcifm as a term of art ufed by im-
poftors, i. 213.
VoEux, Monfieur, des, a proteftant, writes an anfwer to
Jbbe de Parish miracles, denying the miraculous nature
of the fafts, i. 360. Three letters to him maintain-
ing thofe miracles to be the works of the devil,
ibid.
Votive Gifts hanging round the altars in the Romiih
churches, a praftice common with the Heathens, v.
103. So numerous that they leflen the beauty of the
churches, v. 107.
Votive Offerings, hanging round the altars of the
Romilh faints, have no example in antiquity but what
is purely Heathenifh, v. 22.
Vulgate Latin tranflation fpoken of with fome con-
tempt by Dr. Bent ley, iii. 296. Canon of the council
of Trent with relation to it, ibid. A verbal txanflation,
VJ. 329.
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w.
Wake, archbifhop, his account of the fpurious books
in the primitive times, i. Intr. 7$. N. A/ferts, that in
all probability the apollolical fathers were endued with
the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghoft, i. 124. Af-
firms that Ignatius was endued with a large portion of
the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Gholl, i. 129. O-
mits the ftory of, the dove, whicli flew out of St. Po-
Ijcarp^s body at his martyrdom, i. 253. Declares, that
as to the honours due to the genuine reliques of the
martyrs or apoftles, no proteltant would ever refufe
whatever the primitive churches paid to them, ii. iig.
This would plunge us at once into the very depths of
popery, ii. 121. His arbitrary and groundlefs para-
phrafe of a paflage of St. C/emefi/s epiltle to the Corin-
thians , ii. 148.
Warburton, Mr. letters to him from Dr. Middkton, \.
371, &: feq- Yiis Dii'ine Legation of Mofes, i. 392. His
vindication of Mr. Pope againft Monlieur Croufaz, i.
401. Attacks the argument of Dr. Middkton s Letter
from Rome, v. 165, 166. His objedions anfwered, v.
167, & feq. Affirms, that the papifts have borrowed
nothing from their Pagan anceftors, v. 166. His friend-
fhip valued, and his uncommon abilities eileemed by
T)t. Middkton, v. 183.
Waterland, Dr. extends the fuccelhon of the miracu-
lous powers in the church to the latter end of the fourth
century, i. Intr. 44. Suppofed to fpeak the fenfe of
our prefent rulers, i. 85. Seldom appeals to the fcrip-
tures without joining antiquity to them, ibid. Affirms,
that to depreciate the value of ecclefiaftical antiquity,
and to throw contempt on the primitive fathers, is to
wound Chrillianity through their fides, ibid. His cha-
racter of the antient fathers, i. 142, 143. Declares,
that Celfus, Porphyry, and Julian had feme regard to
truth, and to public report, and to their own charac-
ters, i. 145. Magnifies apoftolical tradition in fome
cafes above the fcripturcs themfelves, i. 184. Lays
great ftrefs on the authority of Jujiin Martyr, Athenago-
ras, Irenaus, nx\A Clemens Jlexandrinus, i. 188. Aijerts
the genuinenefs of the Creed faid to be communicated
to St. Gregory, the wonder- worker, by the Virgin Mary
and
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and St. John^ i. 277. Allows, that the l!ate of
the church towards the end of the fourth century"
was become very corrupt, i. 290. Applies the
ftory of St. "Jchn and Cerinthus to recommend to
B.11 Chriflians the rejefting from their fociety and
communion all impugners of fundamentals, ii. 417.
Draws an inference from St. Jokn\ fuppofed flying
from an heretic, and running after a robber, how
ijiuch more he detefted herefies, tlian coir.mon im-
jnoralities, ii. 425. Declares, that ceitain fades related
of the .indent prophets and other pious men in the Old
Teftament, which were the immediate efFcfts of a di-
vine impulfe, are not recorded as exaniples of common
practice, ii. 432. Says, that if heretics fuffer, they
may take the blarae to themfelves, ii. 435. His Scrip-
ture Vindicated feems rather calculated to raife new fcru-
ples than to quiet old ones, iii. 3. His cenfure on the
au::hor of Chrijlianity as old as the creation, iii. 4. His
Introduilion examined, ibid, 8c feq. Affirms, that natu-
ral religion is fo bound up in revealed, that they can-
not fubfifl: feparately, ibid. That affertion animadverted
upon, ibid. Ules railing inftead of reafoning, iii. 7.
Takes an unlikely way to convince thofe, who doubt
or difbelicve revelation, ibid. Charges the author of
Chrif.ianity as old as the creation with faying in his pre-
face what is net to be found there, iii, 8, 9. His con-
tempt of the author of Chrifiianity as old as tie creation,
iii. 1 1 . His Scripture Vindicated examined, iii. 1 3 , &
feq. His vindication of the icriptural hiftory of man's
fall remarked upon, iii. 14, 15. Concludes, that the
Egyptians had not any circumcifion at all, iii. 26. His
opinion, that cuxumcifipn was carried into Egypt by J-
hrahamz poflerity, the Arabian Jjhmaelites, the rnofi: im-
probable of all others, iii. 32. His anfwers to the ob-
jeftions of the aiithor of Chrifiianity as old as the crea-
tion, iii. 35. His explication of God's being fo often
faid in fcripture to repent, iii. 38. His account of the
confufion at j&«^^/ examined, iii. 39. Diftates arbitra-
rily and dogmatically in points of the utm.oll difficulty
and up.ccrtaintv, iii. 48. Refult of what he has done
in his Scripture Vindicated, ibid, & 49. Stiled a learned
and rational advocate for Chrifiianity by the author of
the rc^ly to the letter to him, iii. 71. His way of de-
fending fcripture fure or doing mifcliic*' to Chriiaanlty,
iii. 72. Cwus, that Qiccro\ difputants in his books of
the
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the nature of the gods and of divination rcprefent th«
fenfcofthe contending parties, iii. 179. Attirms, that
there was no period of time, in which the nations of
the world wanted light and opportunity of knowing-
the revealed will and Handing law of God, iii. 194.
Says, that a man muft be an idiot, who underftands li-
terally the paflage in the Mofaic hiftory of God's walk-
ing in the garden, iii. 232. The whole purpofeof his
fecond charge, to exhort the clergy to call names ftout-
ly, and to fcold manfully, iii. 254, 255. Hischarader
by the author of the ohfer^ations upon the letter to him,
ibid. His death, i. 405. Story of him and an apothe-
cary at Hod/den, i. 406.
Webster, Dr. offended with Dr. MiddIeton% letter {rom.
Rome, i. 425.
Whiston, Mr. afferts, that the miraculous powers were
totally withdrawn upon the ellablifhment of the Atha-
nafian herefy, i. Intr. 43. Declares, that the gift of
curing Da^moniacs was wholly appropriated by our Sa-
viour to the meaner fort of Chriftians, with an cxclu-
fion even of the clergy, i. 143, 144. Obferves, that
after the exorcifmg of Dasmoniacs was appropriated to
the clergy, few or none of them were cured, i. 221.
Has owned, that the apoftles might polfibly be fup-
pofed to have miftaken fomctimes in their applications of
prophecies, ii. 352. Affirms, that the text cited by St.
Matthe^v, ii. 23. is wanting in all our copies, Hebrew
and Greek, ii. 355. N. Has produced forty five prp-
phecies from the Old Teflament, which are all cited in
the New in proof of the .\i.:Mahlhip of Jefus, ii. 371.
Seems to have inquired int > tlie fubjeft of prophecy
with great diligence and accur.icy, v. 252, 253. Thinks,
that the apoftles might pofTibly be fuppofed to be mif-
taken in the application of prophecies, ibid.
Whitby, Dr. his remark on the falfity of tradition con-
cerning our Saviour's living to at the leaft fifty years of
age, i. 168, 169. Charges Papiai and /rr»<*«/ with the
forging of fables and falfe ftories, i. 182. His expo-
fition of St. Peter s more fure njcord of prophecy y v. 208.
Windsor, Dixy, his charafter, iv. 16.
Witchcraft, no miraculous fad fo authentically at-
tefted in hiftory, i. 354, 355. The imaginary increafe
of it alarms the court in the beginning of queen Eliza-
heth's reign, 1. 355. N. Bifhop JeivePs credulity with
fegard to it, ibia. Made felony, Hid.
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Witches ; all Chriftian nations believed, and made ca-
pital laws againft them, i. 355. The belief of them
now utterly extintSt, i. 357.
Witnesses : their credibility depends on a variety of
' principles wholly concealed from us, i. Pref. 10.
WoLLASTON, Mr. obferves, that there is no greater caufc
of modern infidelity, than that fome opinions and rites
are carried to fuch an immoderate height, as ex-
pofes tlie abfurdity of them to all men of common
fenfe, iii. 46.
WoLSEY, Cardinal, forefees and forewarns the popifh
clergy of the elFeCl of printing, v. 4.
Woodward, Dr. his charafler, iv. 5, & feq.
Worship 0/ images idolatrous, v. 24. Of faints idola-
trous, i^/
thens, V. 112. Thought abominable by fome pagan
princes, and forbidden on pain of death by fome Cliri-
Itian emperors, iliu/.
Worship : the fame that was paid by the antients to
their heroes or inferior deities, now paid by the Ro-
manifts to their faints and martyrs, v, 127, 128.
X. ,
Xavier, Francis, called the o.prpis of the ha'ies, laments
his ignorance of the language of thcfe nations, among
whom he was a miilionary, i. Pref. 19.
Xenophon muchaddiaedto fupeiftition, v. 149.
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