ferving tiie beauty of that fine , manner by, the people,
method, of" concluding pub- (8) A preacher may gi^ve
lick worihip', â– n-fed after apof- hi'mfelf vp to the fire of his ge-
tolical example in chriftian nius. The Archbilhop of
churches.- :The preacher IhutS; Canil^ray, that fine^cool rea-
up all by lifting holy hands fon,er in his other wprk^, i^
Jn prayer to God, by fpread-
iftgthem over the people, and
by faying. The grace of .our
Lord Jefui Chrifiy the lonje of
God, and the fello^vfiip of the
Holy Ghtiji bi nviih you all.
iiffien. Some iadd other words
ttf their own-r-xhefai/tng grace.
©J; our Lord Jefus— the fo/^ -
Jaji^ng love of God the fa- \
fhei'~-'Ca.tfyjeet., and comfor'
table commnnioh of the Holy
other
remarkable for this lire, in his
fermons, particularly in the
conckfions- of them./ The
following fpecimen is from a
fcrmon of his on tl^e feall of
St. Bernard. â– , ^ >
" Who are yoo, yoti pro-
fanfe men, hvho laugh when
ypu-iee a renewed finner foU
lowing Jefu^Chrift, and coun-i
tcrafting the torrent of all his
paffions? What/ then, you
Ghoft be, afid reniaim with, cannot endure that we fhould
you,, and fo on. When fliall <^ecif^re ourfelves openly for
we ceafe to be wife above
whafis Writiei> ! When Ih'all
we be content with the iim-
pHcity ^f revelation! This,
though lliori, is. a fine fignifi-
cant part" of ifacred worlhfp,
iinrf"'the people fhould be
taught to avoid that hateful
caltom of hurrj'ing out before
it is completed, ^it fliouJd be
uttered grively, deliberately,
the, God, who created
According to' you, it is a
weaknefs to fear his et^Vhaf
and allrtighty juftice, and hoc
to be.. ungrateful tp his good-:
nefs. According to you, it is
a folly to live by faith, in
hope of eternal life. . Who
then are you, you that make
game of religion, as -well as
of the religious ? Are you of
»lfeftionaTe^,-and kindly by. another religion ? DonOtyou
ihe preaclier, and it Ihould believe any ? Go theo out of
•" ; -^ o'''.-V,-. our
;vrrar.5 zli • â–
K 501 )
Kis gfcnlus, provided he fay nothing' extrava^
• ' ' '^'''ganr.
our churches, be gone from
bur iTiyfteries, go live with-'
out hope, without Chrift,
â– without God in the world.
Go where your impious, and
brutal defpair would hurry
you. But alas ! who would
believe it ? You are chriftians,
and you have promifed to re-
nounce the world, and its
pomps, to carry the crofs af-
ter Jefus Chrift, to defpife
all you fee, and to afpire after
inviCble realities. You have
promifed, you dare not deny
your promife, you dare not re-
nounce your falvation, you
tremble when approaching
death (hews you the abyfs
that opens under your feet.
Miferable wretches ! foolifti
people ! You would have us
think you wife, and you treat
thofe as fools, who, hoping
for benefits which you pretend
not to have renounced, labour
to obtain them. O deftruftion
of common-fenfe ! O mon-
ftrous folly ! O devils, you
poflefs them, it is "not they
that fpeak, it is you who
blafpheme in them. We
want, my brethren, another
Bernard, though I know not
whether the impiety, un-
known in his age, but fafhion-
able in ours, would not refill
all his dodlrine, and all his
miracles. Docs he not fpeak
3
to you every day by his writ-
ings, and by hillbrics of his
times which atteft what he did?
Let us hear him, my brethren;
at leal!:, at leaft in this day
harden not your hearts. O
mychildren, (Thushefpesksj
and thus he has a right to
fpeak to you) O my children!
Muil I then rife up in judg-
ment againft you ? The light
which your fathers faw, and
which from generation to
generation hns been refleft-
ed even on you, does it only
ferve to difcover your iniqui-
ties ? What have I not fuffer-
ed that I might prefent you
all together as a virgin with-
out fpot to the holy bride-
groom ? But what do I fee a-
mongft you ! O my children !
I have offered you a bleffing,
and you have rejeded it. The
curfe will come, it will come,
and you will be overwhelmed
with it. It will diftill on your
heads drop by drop to the
end. No, 1 will no longer
be your father. I will harden
my heart, and my foul fhall
rejeft you for ever. 1 will
forget >ou, I will be afhamed
of you at the coming of Jefus
Chrift, and I will demand of
him vengeance for my words,
or rather for his which you
have fo often defpifed." Fe>i,
Oeuvres philof. tom.ix.p. 270.
0^2 I con-
( 50^ )
gant, or capricious, nothing that favours of en
thufiafm, or declamation.
I conclude thefe notes with
one word of Bp. Burnet's,
and one of Bp. Wilkin's.
The former fays, f * Artificial
eloquence without a flame
within, is like artificial poetry,
all its produftions are forced,
and unnatural, and in a great
meafure ridiculous. Art
helps, and guides nature :
but if one was not born with
this flame, art will only fpoil,
and make him redundant.
A man muft have in himfelf
a deep fenfe of the truth and
power of religion. He muft
have a life and flame in his
thoughts with relation to thefe
fubjefts. He muft have felt
in himfelf thofe things, which
he intends to explain, and
recommend to others. There
is an authority in the fimpleft
things that can be faid when
they carry vifible charadters
of genuinenefs In them." Fajli,
care, chap, ix.
Bp. Wilkin fays, " As the
milder affeftions t« ijS*!, do
beft fuit with the introduc-
tion, which infinuatcs into the
love, and attention of the
hearers ; fo ra iccc^-n, the
more eager, and vehement
affeftions will beft become the
conclufions." " But (adds
he from Luther) bene orafl'e,
eft bene ftuduiflTe." And this
indeed is the foul of all.
Wilk. Ecclejiajies.
Gi've attendance to reading,
exhortation, and doSirine. Neg-
le£i not the gift that is in thee,
meditate upon thefe things, gi've
thyfelf'wholly to them.Take heed
to thyfelf, and to thy do&rine^
continue in them ; for in doing
this, thou Jhalt both fame thy
felf, and them that hear the&»
Paul to Tim*
THE B N n.
INDEX
INDEX
TO THE
SECOND VOLUME,
A
ABRAHAM, his charafter, 57.
His covenant nothin<i; to do with baptlfm, 423.
Abbot, Bp. read Greek to awake fleepers, 384,
Abfolution, its influence in monkery, 46.
Abfurdities, what gives them currency, 36.
Some monllrous ones laid down by feme epifcopalian di*
vines, 69.
Abufe, oftopicks, examples of, 103, 104.
Every fyftem of religion fubjeft to, 41 1.
Accents belong to grammarians: not to expofitors, 205, &C;
Accuracy of compofition, what, 249.
Aftion, proper pulpit, 335.
Violent, nofign of eminent zeal, 472.
Aftivity, a property of divine love, 55,
Aftors, religious, who, 236.
Adam, an aukward hereiick in Tertullian's eye, 312.
Adam, Melchicr, his high encomium on Bucholtzer, 134.
Adams, Dr. example from him, 23.
Adam, how he paraphrafes Rom. iii. 25. 377.
Addifon, hjs remark on the partiality of thofe, who judge of
ftyle, 83.
Reproves raillery in religion, 112.
Additions, human, to divine ordinances, dangerous, 318.
Admiffion of members of churches, various jnethods of, 130,
AfFeftation, univerfally difliked, 464.
Hurts a preacher,^466.
AfFedion, elTential to a good preacher, 340.
Affeftions, religious, whatlhould be done to excite, 148, 149,
Wifely treated of by Edwards, 361.
Age, a topick, or a principle of perfuafion, 103.
Agency, free, how fome reconcile it with necefllty, 242.
AgonilHcal games, frequently alluded to in fcripture, 123,
Aywvi^o/jta*, what, 346.
Agricola, the reputed parent of Antinomianifm, 260.
Alexandria, who founded the church there, 160.
Succeeded Jo the trade of Tyre, 49.
Allcgorifts,
504 : I : ^N• IT E 5c; J
Allegorifts, the fathers were great, 174.
Modern do great injury to religion, S7.
Allegories fliould be governed by_ fcriptural explication, 142,
- 145. ^ , ,• ■.,' - - rs^ •. .;.
How thdfe lA tKd^ Old Teftament are quoted % the New,
164.
Alliance between church and ftate, what it refembles, 202;
Allocutions, various, 172.
Alois, Abbot, his extravagant myflicifm, 52.
AlvareiZjhismyfticifm, 52.
Amalarius took the Pelagian fxde in the controverfy concern-
_ ing grace, 153' ,
Ambition, clerical, how it operates in fome communities, 27".
Ames, Dr. how he pleaded the puritan caufe, 166.
Amplification, where necefTary, 175.
Amllerdam fucceeded to the virtues and the trade of Antwerp,
49- . . .
Ananias and Sapphira, their punifhment no precedent, 251.
Anarchy, whence, 352.
Anaximenes, how he ftooped to obtain attention, 129.
Andrews, fee Ely, vol. i.
Ann, Queen, how her clergy fettled her eccleliaftical ac-
counts, 72.
Her bounty to refugees, 209.
Anonymous orations bound up with the fathers, what proba-
bly, 170,.
•Anfelm, his blafphemy concerning the Virgin Mary, 267.
Anfon, Lord, what fault fome divines find with the hillory of
his voyage, 338.
Antanaclafis, an elegant one in S.John, 27.
Anthems, in publicknvorpipf afymbolizing withpapifts, 307,
t^ 'Antinomians, who, 260.
How Saurin reproves them', 358.
Antithefis, beautiful one in Afts, 238.
Antwerp fucceeded Venice in trade, and trade virtues, 49,
'Apes, Bunyan's, had long tails, 106.
Apollinarians,who, 198.
Apology, what, 276. .
Appftles, the xii. had mean thoughts of a MefTiah at firfl,
-37- , , .
How they underftood their commiffion, 186.
"Whether they would be admired now, 222, &c.
Why they did hot make creeds and canons, 1 32.
Why they did not certfure infant fprinkling, 132.
Apoftks,
I N D EX. 505
Apofi:les, the xiL- how far their conduflis to be imitated, -25,0
Apollles, faire,debared chrilHanicy, 253.
Howche tv/elve treated them, 303.
Apothegms, fhould not be iifed often in preaching, 482.
Appello Ca/arim; the fpirit of that vile book, 332.
/Vpplic.ado.n, perfonal, fome hearers make it and unjuftlylajr
it on the preacher, 474.
Appliation, the ufual clcfing part of a fermon, 30.
Abufed by fome, and rejeded by others, 327, &c.
One common fault of, 8- ^
Sometimes compofed of concomitants, 30.
Application, continual, what, 325.
Perfeftly confillent with the dodrine of decrees, 335.
, Properties of, 333, 364.
The bell, 392.
Approbatio.n, elTential to mental fin, 280, &c.
^qyinaj, his definition of faith, 263.
Defcription of fear, 40.
Of avarice, '70.
Of venial fin, 310.
, Taught Popilh. preachers the Ciceronian method ofad-
drelhng the Virgin Mary, 172,
Archbifhops, when their titles were fettled, 37.
Archives, papal, precarious groundspf a£lion, 300.
A.riliippus, to what he likened great readers, 381.
Arillo, Titus, his charafter a model, 92.
Ariftobulus murdered by Herod, and then lamented, 304.
Ariilocracy^ .to what it tends, 35a.
Arillophanes, his buffoonery fatal to Socrates, 1 12^ i6c.
Afiilotle^ how he defines matter, 263. \
Diilinguilhes letter from fpirit of law, 143.
Thought appearance of integrity effential to perfuafion^
, One of his laws of imagery cenfured, 342.
Referred to, 270, 460, 461.
Arithmetick, political, converted to a religious topick, ^Gdi
Arminians, how they expound S. Paul's epiftle to the Ro*
mans, 295.
Arminius, hia account of the ufe of the moral law, 199. '
Cenfured after his death by James L 199.
Arnobius, a reprover of pomp in religion, 237.
Articles of faith, human, contain the ideas of the compilers
of them, not neceflarily thofe of in fpired writers, J38.
Subfcripcion to'any, a f^tire pa icripture, 78.
.v-livil â– \ Articles
5o6 I N D E X.
Articles of the eftabli(hed church, fome unintelligible, 243.
How defended by fome, 314.
The title of them fpurious, 3 14, &c.
Aflcewe, Ann, burnt by Cranmer, 210.
Affembly of divines, mifreprefented and abufed, 99.
Aflemblies, publick chriftian, fhould be accommodated, 384«
AfTociations, fixnciful ones make mirth, 78.
Of irrelative ideas produce ridicule, 85.
Affumptions in reafoning, what, 149.
Examples of dangerous ones, 147.
Afl'urance, falfe notion of, 375.
Scripture dodlrineof, fadly abufed, 169.
Afteifmus, what, 113.
Afterius, or Afturius, Bp of Amafia, his juft notion of merit*
Aftrology, judicial, deftroyed by chriftianity, 247.
Athanafian creed, antifcriptural, unintelligible and cruel,
283,428.
^.^ Atheifm, modern times faid to be inclined to, 337.
Atheifts, who, in the account of fome divines, 42.
Athenagoras, ufes the argument taken from univerfal con-
fent, 407.
Athens, the fcandalous idolatry and vice of, 1 1 1 ;
Atonement, proved by Chrift's agony, 195.
Attention, lliould not be acquired by fanciful methods, 129.
How beft acquired, 464, &c.
Atterbury, not preferred for his piety, 131.
How he proves the genuinenefs of the title tothe epifcopal
articles, 315.
Attributes of God, Saurin's wife caution to thofe, who dif-
cufs them, 313.
Fine topicks of application, 370.
Audience, preachers fhould try to obtain at firft, 459,
Auditors, how they difcover a good fermon at their departure,
490,491.
Audland, his reply to a flanderous perfecutor, 216.
Auguftine, St. advifes preachers to begin early, I76«.
Recommends an imitation of the apollles, 282.
One of the firft difputants about grace, 153.
Noc a perfecutor till foured by controverfy, 108.
What makes his glofiesgo for arguments, 203.
His fenfeof I Cor.ii. 14. 353.
Augnftus, a faying of his applied to Peter, 482.
Auiterities in religion, whence, 45,
Authority,
INDEX. 507
Authority, fy^arf/^, cannot produce faith, 135.
Submiffion to it is no part of religion, 320.
The ultima ratio of church-tyrants, 322.
Authority, on what topicks divines may allow it, 360.
Avarice, what, 67.
Injurious to fociety, 70.
Incompatible with chrilHanity, 71.
Its fatal influence on religion, 68.
Ayerft, example from him, 23.
B
Bacchus, the infamous celebration of his feflival at A-
thens, m.
Backfliders, to what refembled by fcripture, 342.
Contrail, a proper topick of addrefs to, 193.
Bacon, Lprd, on topicks, 270.
Baius, Dr. or Michael De Bay, revived the controverfy about
grace, 153.
Baker, the nonjuror, fome account of him, 20S.
B ptifm, primitive, 422.
Cannot be explained by circumcifion, 163.
Original form of words, effential to the right adminiftra-
tion of, 318.
How Tertuilian wrote about it, loz.
How to be rellored, if loll, i 84.
Pradifed by immerfion in the year ccclxxxviii, 92.
Of infants, why not cenfured by the apoftles, 132.
Baptifis, the grcund of all their arguing for the immerfion
of adults, 423.
Perfecuted by Cranmer, 21 r.
Abufed by Featly, 98.
Mifreprefented by Neal, 8r.
Barbon, his ranting defence of liturgies, 319.
Barclay, his apology contains unanfwerable arguments for
religious liberty, 55.
Barker, the part he took in Salter's-hall fermons, 231.
Barradius, how he mifapplies a faying of Augullus, 482.
Barrow, Bp. direded prayer to be faid for his loul after
death, 225.
Bafil, what he thought of merit, 218.
Ballwick, his prayer, 42.
Bates, Dr. ufed anecdotes fometimes in fermons, 272, &c.
Far fuperior as a divine to fuch a man as Bp. Coiinf,
i3»-
Jaxtcr, Rev. Richard, a better divine than Bp. Laud, 131.
Vol. II. 3 R Baxter,
5o8 INDEX.
Baxter., how he defines venial fin, 310.
\^\i Jalnt^ s reft , an excellent book, 6()'
Referred to, 134.
Bayle, his excellent remarks on reafon, and volition, 403,
His apology for Shafcefbury, 113.
What he faid of Claude's defence of the reformation, 1 78.
Beads, in religion, offspring of hypocriry, 52.
Bears, how thofe in the hidory of El ifha may be examined, 12Q.
Beaufobre, how he pleads for toleration, 108.
His account of Saul's converfion, 109, &c.
Exonerates miniiters from the charge of avarice, 82.
Example of mixed obfervations from>him, 127.
Bebelius, complains of abufe of the Latin tongue, 80.
Becon, applies medical and mufical images to theology, 190.
Bede, his account of Eafter-homilies, 135.
Bel and the dragon, a filly fable, 455.
Bellai, Bifhop of, what puzzled him in the ftate of preach-
ing. 337:
Bellarmine, his marks of the true church, 75.
Belfhazzar, fcripture does not fay he was damned, 71.
Benediftion, a fine part of publick divine worfhip, 500.
Benefices, how father Paul wrote concerning, 224.
Bennet, Dr. ill fitted to confute popery, 293.
Bentley, Dr. what he faid of free-thinking, 15.
Bernard, St. thought pomp injurious to religion, 237.
What he thought of good works, 437.
Eernardine, of Sienna, his blafphemous addrcfTes to the vir-
gin Mary, 266.
Bertheau, example from him, 258.
Beveridge, Bp. his wild reafoning for the liturgy, 18.
Example of difcufling a fermon from him, 24.
Eeyerlinck, his defcription of hope, 64.
Of fear, 40.
Beza difliked kneeling at the facrament, 'j-j.
On Rom. viii. 31.
Bible, prefent Englifh, ill divided, 378.
Court influence ufed in tranflating it, loi.
BielfeM, Baron, what he fays are the properties of a good
fyftem of religion, 396.
Bigots, mercenary, contemptible animals, 72.
Bigotry, the national fin of the Jews, 187.
Birkenhead, Sir John, a hiftorical fharper, <)<).
Bilhops, Englifh, the incongruity of the form of their ordi-
nation, with tiieir practice^ 141,
Bifhops,
INDEX. 509
Bifliops, the pliablenefs of Q^ Ann's, 210.
BJfle, how he pleads for epifcopacy, 17.
Blackwall, his encomiums on the Ityle of the apoftles com-
miffion, 186.
Cenfurcs the prefent divifion cf the bible, 379.
Blair, Rev. Robert, his method of preaching, 364.
Blandford, Bp. prayed for the dead, 225.
Bpa^Ev?, in the Grecian games, who, 39.
Bradbury, had an excellent talent for irony, 1 13.
Bradford, Bp. example from him, 29.
Bribes, prevalent arguments with bad men, 81.
Benefices are often church, 224.
Britain, proteftant fucceflion to the crown of, favourable to
primitive religion in Whiilon's account, 66.
Brochmand, his account of Chrift's kingly office, 4.
Brown, how he anfwered Shaftefbury, 112.
Bona, Cardinal, a profound myllick, 44. 52. 264.
Makes divine love the principle of all fciences, 58.
Bonner, Bp. what he faid of the reformers retaining popifh
ceremonies, 125.
Borromeo, Cardinal, his excellent rules of preaching, i6S.
A line contraft of his, 197.
Example of figurative difcuffion from him, 189.
BofTuet, Bp. his extravagant flattery, 462, Sec.
Referred to, 126.
Bofton, how he confiders the moral Hate of man, 114.
Bougy, Marquis de, did not think fo highly of the Englifli
epifcopal church as fome did, 212.
Bourdaloue, his refleftions on venial fin, 311.
Boxhornius, his arguments for indefeifible right, 97.
Bozius makes out 100 marks of the true church, 75 .
Buddeus, whence he thought myiticifm came, 265.
Bucholtzer hated difputes in religion, 134.
His method of introducing application, 326.
Thought a good preacher might be known by his con-
clufion, 489.
^"g§> f'ot carefled for his abilities or piety, 131.
Bunyan, his ufual method of preaching, 364.
Not flighted for his want of abilities or piety, 131.
His indidment, 228.
Eurgh, Efq. his juft cenfure of hiftorical afTumption, 148.
Burnet, Bp. fets very light by artifical eloquence in the pul-
pit, 502.
3 R 2 Burr.et,
5IO INDEX.
Burnet, Bp. his direftions for applying dodlrine, 333.
For conclufions of fermons, 490.
When his pajioral care was firft pubiifhed, 457.
His account of H.irry VIII. injunction to his bifliops con-
cerning preaching, lOI.
Proves the title of the articles a forgery, 315.
Says the cafe of loft ordinances was debated by the re-
formers, 184.
His contempt of James T. 200.
Example of difcuffion from him, 26.
Eufinefs and piety rot at variance, 344.
Bufy-bodies, pelts of chriftian focieties, 363.
Butler, Bp. his charafter by Dryden, 271.
An incomparable writer on the nature of evidence, 147.
Butler, Sam. proved nothing by Hudibrafs, 113.
Buxtorf on Pfal. xviii. 2. 31.
Zeph. ii. I. 328.
c
Caefar, referred to, 251.
Cjefarius, guards from prefumption and defpair, 359;
Calamy, Dr. wrote well on the trinity, 13.
Ufed no exordiums in fome of his fermons, 458.
Too complaifant, 180.
Calendar, Shepherd's, cenfures dominion over confcience,
. 38- . . >.
Caligula, his intentional vvickednefs, 281.
Calovius, on Pfal. li. 4, 366.
Calvin abufed, when fet up for a mafter, 106.
Quoted, 47, 48. 237. 377. 4.33.
Calvinifm, preferable to other ly Items in regard to the un-
pardonable fin, 391.
Calvinift divines, how they confider fpcculative wicked-
nefs, 280.
Cameron, example from him, 261, &c.
Canada, fav?..ges of, believed a future ftate, 406.
Candidates for orders in the epifcopal church, obliged to
profefs themfelves moved by the Holy Ghoft, 141.
Canons, church, a fatire on a perfed code of religious law,
Canonifts, explain away their own definitions, 202.
Cant words, 90.
Canterbury, lome account of the French church there, 212.
Caracalla,
INDEX. 511
Caracalla, like the old Pharifees in venerating the dead,
3^4*
Carolina, French refugees had fome defign of fleeing
thither, 212.
Carthage, a Tyrian colony, 49.
Cartwright, a greater divine than Whitglft, 131.
How he was forced to plead the caufe of religious liberty,
203.
Cafaubon, Meric, his injudicious way of accrediting fcrip-
ture, 140.
Cafe, various ways of Hating a, 121.
Caflander, propofed a re union of papifts and proteftants on
wrong grounds, 225.
Caffian, the father of Semipelagians, 153.
Cafuills, what Saurin thought of complaifant, 357.
Cafuiltry, what necellary to it, 126. 143.
Catechifm, epifcopal, abftrufe on the facrament, 7.
Catechumen, Hate, the revival of it defirable, 139.
Cenfures alone only alarm, they do not convert, 364.
Ceremonies, human, in religion, whence, 52.
No church has power to decree, 262.
It is impolitick to retain papal, 125.
Chaldeans, their national charadter, 57,
Chandler, Dr. his fevere cenfure of popery, 185.
His part in Salter's-hall fermons, 231.
Chapels, royal, and collegiate, what fort of preaching pro-
per in, 175.
Private, what allocutions proper in, 172.
Chaplets, the fruits of hypocrify, 52.
Chapter and verfe, when to quote, 379.
Charadliers, topicks of illuitration, 29. 57. 232.
How beft deicribed, 82.
A great aflbriment in fcripture, 177.
Diiference between real and fiftitious, 235, 236,
Charnock, why he calls fin deicide, 282.
Chaiientifmus, what, 113,
Charles V. Emperor, ordered the interim to contain the reli-
ligion of his empire as long as it fuiced him to have it
fo, 260.
Charles I. court-divinity in the time of, 42.
A patron of church-tyrants, 522.
His illogical declarations, 84.
Mifiepreients the puritants, 78.
Charlevoix, Father, his account of the Canadians, 406.
Charondas,
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Charcndas, why he attributed his laws to a deity.
Challifem«nt quickens religious love, 47.
Chinefe, their ignorance ot chriftianity, no argument againd
pofitive proof of the truth of it, 4.12.
liow the catholicks accommodated chriltianity to the old
religion of the, 306.
Christ, a real, and inimitable charafter, 235.
Chriftianity, how formed by Jefus Chrift, 230.
Incomparable in point of holinefs, 276. 279.
Its fuperiority over philofophy, 247.
Reprobates paffive obedience and non-refiilance in matters
of religion, 136.
The apolUes commiflion elucidates, 186.
When ejj'entially corrupted, 252.
What Whifion thought revivals of, 66.
Chriftians, primitive, neceffarily non-conformills, 178.
Taken for a feft of Jews, 187.
Why they built no temples, 237.
Many judged for themfelves in ccclxxxiii, 92.
Chrilliancraft, what, 236.
Chronology, a necelTary branch of pulpit knowledge, but
not popular, 13.
Chryfoilom, angry with one, who did not own facerdotal au-
thority, 37.
Whom he thought the Herodians, 256.
Defcribes the debafing of the gofpel, 253.
On John v. 14. 203.
On Afts i. 145.
On Romans viii. 169."
On 2 Cor. 1. 24. 291,
Referred to, 465.
Church, primitive chriftian, how it admitted members,
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Greek, when it adopted tranfubftantiation, 6.
Roman, ordains ceremonies on a falfe principle, 163.
True, not known by profperity, 178.
Epifcopal, afts on papal principles, 307.
On what Stillingfleet placed its rites, 130.
How Trapp pleaded for it, 229.
Gained by the revolution, 72.
Whether it be a tolerant conftitution, 202. 21 1. 2iz.
Has chang;ed its dodrine and temper : but not its creeds,
canons, and tells, 131.
Whether it be a wealthy corporation, 62.
Church,
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Church, epifcopal, what it requires of candidates, 141.
Its jealoufy to preferve its name, 101.
On what difTent from it is grounded, 291.
Church-government, how defended by fome, 160.
Hillory, mufc be cautioufly examined, 210.
Power, an unmeaning phraie, 262.
Cicero condemns obfcurity, 470.