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An essay on the composition of a sermon (Volume 2)

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Afcrlbes pagan idolatry to popular enthufiafm for liber-

^7' 5'-
His account of the abufe of philofophy, 411.

Diftinguilhes letter of law from fpirit, 143.

How he underftood Hfycv, 11.

Defcribes Anthony's vomiting in court, 343.

Examples from him, 24. 28. 117. 120. 460. 470, 4S6.

His oration for Archias cenfured, 469.

Referred to, 270.
Circumcifion, impertinently urged in difputing about bap-

tifm, 423.
Circumltances, determine the nature of aftions, 114 485,

Often afford evidence, 130, 243.

Vary cafes of confcience, 126.

Innocent, may be hurtful, 152. 332.
Clarendon, Lord, his hiltory neceffarily partial, 41.

Mifreprefents the puritans, 78.

What thought the fin againft the Holy Ghofl:, 41.
Clarke, Dr. bamuel, his excellent defcription of moral ob-
ligation, 404.
Clarke, Rev. Mr. Samuel, his li'ves contain many improba-
bilities, 118.
Claude, his advice to a great reader, 381.

His difpute with Dr. Nicolle on tranfubllantiation, 6,

His reafons for liberty of confcience, 317.

His defence of the reformation, a golden book, 178,

His wife method of application, 340.

Exceedingly averfe to Englifn intolerance, 212.
Clearnefs of ideas, how obtained, 15.
Clement of Rome, his 2;eal for holinefs, 278.

Referred to, 89.
Clement of Alexandria, when he fays Gnofticks arofe, 301.

His advice to allegorizers, 89.
Clement XI. Pope, accommodated Chrifl to Confucius,

306.
Cleombrotus, how he abufed the pagan dodlrine of immor-
tality, 411,

Clerc,



5r4 INDEX.

Clerc, Le. See Le Clerc.

Clergy, no countenance as a diftindl order from fcripture,
292.
Not fairly taxed with avarice as a body, 82.
When, and why they aiTumed titles, 37.
RoKiiJh, not all bad, 82. 54. 53.
Their fervile Hate, 63.
Slaves to intereft, 224.
i^r/???;:/^, what they do, when hard driven, 221,
Englijh epi/copal, not by divine right, 293.
How they flattered James I. 200.
How they preached in the time of Charles I. 42.
How variable from the reltoration to the death of Queen

Ann, 81.
What Bunyan thought of them, ic6.
Some garnifli them [elves with ilate feathers, 211.
And yet complain of contempt, 17.
Cocceius, hisfenfeofZeph. ii. 1. 329.
Coercion, none in religion amon^ the diffenters, 62.
Colle£l, the lall prayer Ihould be a recapitulatory, 337.
Command, divine, eiiential to a pofitive inllitute, 131,
Commiffion, chriftian minifter's, 186.
Common places, what, 24.

Muft not be u(ed promifcuoufly, 1 17.
Common place preaching, mere, ridiculous, 14.
Company, trading, proper fubjeds for fermons to a, 375.
Comparifon, a beautiful topick, 174. 265.
Caution in the ufe of, neceffary, 177.
Compenfation, what, 288.
Complaining, too much cherifhed by fome preaching, 300.
Complaint, "a curious one prefented by the French prelates

to their patron, 221.
Complaifance, when a crime, 37. 55.

A publick nuifance in matters of confcience, 357.
Compliments, produce ill effeds in religion, 179.
Ortenfive in a place of worihip, 122.
Deteftable in preaching, 173. 462.
Compofition, in theology, what, 290.
Of a fermon requires tafte, 21.

The chief art lies in a conformity to circumftances, 485.
Compofers of fermons, fome would go mad to hear them de-
livered, 334-
Compound words, 90.
Compreheiilion, in Engliih church hiltory, what, 400.

Concealment,



INDEX. 515

Concealment, rhetorical artifice, 327.

Conceits, a favourite topick with fome preachers, 322, Sec,

Conclufion, what, 489.

Loves contrail, 197.

Violent, tender, elevated, &c. 491, &c. &c.
Concomitants, what, and of various ufes of, 30, &c.
Condition, a vague word, 266.

Offalvation, an innocent phrafe with fome, 437.
Coney beare, his propofitional points, 399.

His proper reply to Hobbes's noftrums, 403.
Conference-meetings, may be very ufeful, 346.
Confucius, Chrift made to conform to him, 306.
Confutations, how properly introduced, 155.
Connexion, natural to us, and pleafing in all addrefles to

us, 476.
Connexions, worldly, neceflary muft be diftinguifhed from

arbitrary, 345.
Confcience, publick, an abfurdity, 63.

Doubtful, cant, as applied to diffenters, 6g,

Of a good man unpliable, 55.

Complaifance plays the cheat with, 37.

Dominion over, a violation of the gofpel, 38.

Subjed: to no authority but that of God, 317.

Liberty of, England always allowed it to refugees, even
while it was denied to natives, 209.

Addrefling, a fingular talent in fome preachers, 126.
Confent, univerfal, what, 405.
Confequences, a topick, 146.

Conftantine, his reign fatal to true religion, 37. 82. 237,'
Confubftantiation, 7.
Contemplation, highefl degree of moral excellence with fome,

280.
Contradidlions, feeming, of fcripture, how reconciled, 129^,

162. 182.
Contrail, a fine topick, 193. 196. 369.
Controverfy, what, and how bell managed, 215. 244.

Church, how fadly interefl afFefts it, 68.

How it might be rendered a privilege, 152.

Popifh, what necefTary to be ftudiedin it, 125.
Converfion, ordinary Ihould be diftinguifhed from extraordi-
nary, 357.^

Treated very injudicioufly by fome, 375.
Converts, new, to what prone, 344.
Corinth, why the Romans facked it, 126.

Vol. II. ' 3 S Cornellusj



51^ I N D EX.

Cornelius, Bp cfRome, a plain brother, 36.
Corruption of chriftianity, when fundamental, 252.

Various, whence, 297.
Coteierius, the proper ufe he makes of an apothegm, 146,
Coughing, a great difturbance in publick worfhip, 459.
Country, a topick, 103.
Qonrt-dI'vinity, what in James I. time, 159.

What in the reign of Charles I. 41.

Sermons, church-gazettes, 159.

Chaplains, Saurin thought the French publick pefls, 115 J
Coverdale, far fuperior to Cox, 131.
Cranmer, tolerant to foreigners, 209.

Bloody at home, 210.

Flattered by foreign penfioners, 211.

His piety no argument for the truth of his doftrine, 314.
Crantz, his hiftory of Greenland referred to, 406.
Crafhaw, ridicules papal holinefs, 75.
Creduloufnefs a great blemifh in a minifler, 1 19,
Creeds, do not preferve doftrines, 131.

Wrong rules of interpretation, 138.

Chriftians need none, 132.
Crellius, reafons a great point from a Greek article, 172.
Cretians, their national charafler, 57.
Crifp, Dr. not a practical Antinomian, 260.
Crilicks, verbal, poor expoficors, 295.
Crofby,' complains of Neal's partiality, 81.

Relates what the old baptifts thought of reviving a loft or-
dinance, 184.
Crofs, where the fathers found it, 173.

Sign of, inchriftening, where the ihiefevil lies, 285.
Crowley, uled trade-images in religion, 190.
Curioficy, dangerous on fome fubjcfts, 156.
Cyprian, his fraternal epiftolary ftyle, 36.

How he expounds Deut. xxxiii. 1 7. 173,
D
Damafus, Pope, extravagantly complimented byjerom, 37.
Daniel, Prophet, adifTenter in Babylon, 178.

Weeks of, not a popular fubjedt, 1 3.
Data, {"hould be fettled previoufiy by difputants, 247.
Phiiofophical, proper grounds of reafoning, 92, &c.
And of fermons, 12.
Deacons, primitive, their character, 57.
Death, a iine appiicatory topick, 348.

A favourite one with fome preachers, 347,

Deception,



INDEX. S'^^

Deception, e/Tential to the dominion of vice, 343.
I>feclaimers, mere, poor tools in the pulpit, 20.
Declamation, ftyle of, no fafe ground of faft, 170,
Decrees, two ways of Itudying, 156.
How Saurin preached, 133.
Calviniilical dodtrine of, rational, 155.
And confillent with moral fuafion, 335.
Dedication of the temple at Tyre, Eufebius's fermon at the,

237.
Dedication of books, the falhion of, in Q^ Eli2abeth's days,
211.
A fingular one by James I. 2C0,
Of the Englifli bible, a courtly effay, lOl.
Defeftive phrafes, examples of, 378.
Defence of chriltianity, the beft, 23:.
Definition, a topick, 260, &c.

Of terms e/Tential to aminifter, 151.
Degree, a topick, 249.

Degrees, academical, why cenfured by the reformers, 37, 38.
Deicide, what, 282.
Deills, enthufiafts, 118.
Delaune, his fine plea, unanfwer^ble, 63.
Delicacy, finical, to be avoided in the pulpit, 341.
Delivery, of a fermon, fhould be adapted to the fubjeS, 334.
Dell, why he cenfured titles and degrees, 38.
Del, Rio, his ingenious turn on Eccl. vi. 3. 81.
Demetrius, intereft made him a bully for Diana, 75.
Democracy, to what it tends, 352.
Democrates fometimes ufed coarfe imagery, 343.
Demonax, what he faid to a young declaimer, 176.
Demoflhenes, an expreffion of S. Paul's contral^ed with an
admired one of his, 83.
Sometimes ufed coarfe colouring, 343,
Depravity, human, very great, 419.
Defcriptions, good ones aiFeft, 364.
Defign, of a writer, muft be ftudied, 132, &c.
Defign of Chrifiianity, fome account of that book, 104,
Defpair, how precluded, 364. 389,
Defpauterius on epithets, 100.
Defpotifm, the corruption of monarchy, 352,
Detradters, how they ought to be treated, 151.
Diana, Chrill's church is not fupported as her cor] oration

was, 75.
Diafyrmus, what, 113.
Didionaries, precarious helps, 149,
,^ 3 S 2 Differences,



5i8 INDEX.

DiiFerences, of fubjeds, muft be remarked, 175.

Of opinion, may be innocent, and fhould be tolerated, 1 85.
Dignity, human, phyfical, 419.
Diogenes, what he did to obtain audience, 128,
Diotrephes, a church-tyrant, 197.

Modern, execrable, 160, &c.
Dionyfius, Monk, how he defines myfticifm, 264.
Difcipline, church, occafion regulates it, 183.

Should be very cautious and tender, 308.
Difcontent, an argument for immortality, 351,
Difcretional power, how far allowable, 183.
Difintereftednefs, effential to religion, 73.

The beft qualification in aftudent of divinity, 255,
Difpofition of fubjeft, various methods of, 5.
Difpute, what, 245.

Why fome hate it, 245, &c.
Difputants, why fome never fucceed, 259.

Often do damage, 227.
Diffent, from ellablifhments, when neceffary, 136.
DifTenters, ancient, 178.

Englifh proteftant, two forts, 230.

Their prefent ftatein regard to religious liberty, 62.

Need not have a lord brother, unlefs they will, 161.
Dijfenters Sayings, of what fuch books are compofed, 84,
Diilindion, a topick, 258.
Divine right, an obfolete plea, 42. 101. 293.
Divinity, hurt by pretendedly learned definitions, 263.
Divines, Greek and Roman not all reprobates, 218.

Foreign, fome are penfioned by England, and not un-
grateful to their benefadlors, 209. 211.

Epifcopal, what forry arguments fome of them ufe to fup-
port their hierarchy, 314.

Old, many of their words andphrafes now obfolete, 32,

Ofwhat fome complain, 154,

What fort of preaching they loved, 271, &c.

Not very clear in the dodlrine of law, 162.

Some do too much honour to pagan writers, 140.

Mercenary, what monftrous pofitions they lay down, ^%.

Fraudulent, how they ftate objedions, 229.

Why various forts atfeft candour and execrate controverfy,
244.

Why fome moderate ones ftateobfcure points, 227>

Some run mad with a fpirit of panegyrizing, 210.

Why they ufe imagery, 190.

Mere doftrinal, not very confiilent, 328.

Doflrineji



INDEX. 519

Doftrines, what taught in the Jeivijh church, 162.

OiChriJ}, fublime becaufeall fads, all true, all praftical,

and all admit of popular proof, 233. 279. 228.
O^ grace may be mifunderllood, 410.
Of popery, encourage pride, and other vices, 29S;
Doddridge, Dr. how a zealot mifunderllood him, 150.
Dodwell, a learned man: but a wretched divine, 321.
DomelHck principles neceffary to a minifter, 141.
Dominicans, took S. AugulUne's fide in the controverfy

concerning grace, 153.
Dornavius, the proper ufc of his Sapientiajoco feria,99, 100.

Z07.
Dort, fynod of, did no good in their attempts to fettle contro-

verfies, 153.
Doubts, fhould not be cherifhed by preachers, 300.
Concerning the hierarchy, difTenters have none, 69.
Very dangerous to it in the account of Harry VIII. loi.
Downame, Bp. referred to, 268.
Draco, why he attributed his laws to a deity, 63,
Drawling, intolerable in a preacher, 335.
Dreams, time important to, 118.
Drefs, of a preacher, ihould incline to negligence, efpecially

in feme periods, 334.
Drunkennefs, applauded, 99.
At Athens univerfal, iii.
Druids, imperious tyrants, and the model of modern prieHs,

251.
Dryden, his ufe of the word mercy, 151.
His line charadler of Bp Butler, 271.

E

Eafe, in the pulpit, what, 16.

How acquired, 175.
Eafter, a human invention, 284, ».

No fuch word in S. Luke, 10.
Eber, Paul, improved fynergifm, 154.
Ecclefialles, not compofed by modern rules, 137.
Ecclefiaftical words, K. James's care of them, loi,
Edgar, King, a curious form of confellion in his time, 373.
Edification, pleaded with an ill grace for the liturgy, 18.
Edward VI. England tolerated refugees in his time, 209.

His name and authority proftituted by priefts, 3 1 4.
Edwards, Rev. Jonath. his ufual method of preaching, 364.

What he thought of great talkers of religion, 361.

Edwards,



520 I N IJ E X.

Edwards, wrote well on religious afFcdions, 361,

Example of juft inference from him, 149.
Egan, his renunciation of popery, 46.
E^Eyxoj, what, 220.

Elements of Cr///V///K, judicious remarks of the author of, on
various fubjeds, 19. 35. 463. 464. 469. 470. 476.

487-
Eleufis, the abominable myftenes of, n i.
Elimelech, neceiTarily adiffenterin Moab, 178.
Elifha, the cafe of his killing forty-two children ftated, 120.
Elizabeth, Q^ Whitgifc argued from her godlinefs to her
fubjecls fervility, 203.

1'olerated refugees, 209.

And was flattered by them, and by her epifcopalian na-
tives, 21 1.
Elliot, his ufual method of preaching to the Indians, 364.
Elocution, a few hints concerning, 479.
Eloquence, ?tatural, belongs to the pulpit, 250.

Affedion effential to it, 340.

Various in various places, 175.

What does full as well in fome places.

Artificial, excluded the chriftian pulpit, 250.
Elymas, charadlerized, 57.

His punilhment no precedent for perfecution, 108. 251.
Emotions, what, 30.

How excited, 33. 340. 491, &c.

Cannot beaded, ^66.
Emphafis, Le Cierc's necefiary caution concerning, 43,

Fondefs for, greatly, mifleads, 173, 174.
Emulation, fometimes mifleads, 2.
End, a topick, 158.

England, wifely joins trade and toleration, 2io»
Enthufiafm, what, 472.
Enthufialls in all parties, 118.

Cannot excel in exordiums, 471,
Epiphanius referred to, 198.
Epifcopacy, the divine right of, an old fable, 101.

Some hirelings fay, it is more necefiary than moraiisy.

With how ill a grace it ridicules puritanical gloominefs.,

77-
Should not be flattered by non-conformifts, 179, &c.
Epiltles of Paul, what expofitors ofihemfhould attend to,
J 24. 165, 294.

Epithets,



INDEX. 521

Epithets, ufe and abufe of, loo.

Wnat nece.Tary to the difcuffion of, 170.
Erafmus, his jocular preference of folly, 207.

His account of topicks, 102, &c.

His direftions concerning place, 122.

How heexpoundsyJ^^^-^/w^/o the heart, iz6.
His fenfe of Luke xiii. 24. 346.
How fcurriloufly he treated Lee, 166.
Efyo?, what, II.

Erotefis, a beautiful example of In Matthew, 83.
Errors, old, Ihould not be refuted in preaching, 118. 155.

Cannot be fuppreffed by penalties, 251.
Efcobar, his ioofe morality, 279,
EfTenes, who, 93.

Eunomians baptized by fuigle immerfion, 92.
Esifebius, how he ranted at the dedication of a chrlftian teiiv»

pie, 237.
Eutychius, his old noftrumsno arguments, 160.
Evidence, a topick, 243.

Various degrees of, 247.

Probable and demonftrative, 147.
Examination, a powerful topick of application, 329.
Excommunication, abrief hiftory of it, 251.

Why the Pope inflicled it on Q^ Elizabeth, 209.
Exercife, frequent, necefiary to a young preacher, 176.
Exordium, what, 452, ^c.
Experience, improves tafte, 487.

Religious, eflbntial to a preacher, 125.

Minillcr fhould ufe caution in preaching his a\f^n, 'n6c

The fame in all ages, 163.

Whence the cuftom of fpeaking one at admiffion to church-
fellowfhip, 139.
Explication, abfolutely necelTary to fome obfervations, 3, 8cc.

And obfervation mixed, 4, &:c.
Expofitors, fome are great triliers, 171, &c. 165, &c„
Extacy, religion does not confift in, 44.

None in a good exordium, ^to. Exordium
Ezekiel, happy at defcription, 48. 342.

F.
Facility of fpeech, how to obt=tin, 393,
Eaftory, proper fubjedls for fermons to a, 375.
Jbads, the only fafe grounds of inference, 148.
The fureft grounds of preaching;, 424, &c..

Fads



522 INDEX.

Fads, the flating of, a fine mode of preaching, 364.

Mull not be Jiated rhetorically, may be illuftrated io,
2Z8, &c.

Should be differently difcufled, 199.
Fairs, proper fermons at, 375.
Faith, cannot be produced by power, 135.

Dominion over it inadmiffible, 29K

Falfe, what, 375.
Familiarity, what, 16.

Familiarized, fubjetts may be, till they have no force, 347,
Family, a topick, 103.
Family -reading, how beft conduced, 381.
Far-fetched articles, abfurd, 17. 97.

Falls, regular church, wrongly deduced from Judaifm, 163.
Fafl-day-fermons, view a proper rule of compoiing, 158.
Fathers, the firll, bent all their attention to propagate holi-
nefs, 278.
Did notperfecute, 108.
Confidered martyrdom as a reward, 124,

Some were great allegorizers, 87.
All loved the marvellous, 173.

Ufed falutation in the pulpit, 465.

How fome fpurious caies came to be afcribed to them, 170.
Fear, what, 40.

A concomitant of love, 39.

Servile generates fuperflition, 49.
How guarded againll, 388.

A vague term, 390.
Featly, Dr. a persecuting calumniator, 98,
Feelings, religious, what, 385.
Felicity, eternal, a grand objeft, 65.
Fenelon, in what he places the eilence of religion, 54,

His fine foliloquy on the brutality of impiety, 436.

Y{^\% maxims of faints, 265.

Cenfures vague noify preachers, 392.

Reproves too haflily an image of Horace, 342.

Not always cool in his exordiums, 471.
His fine irregularity of conclufion, 500,

Example from him, 330.
Fellivalj, church, why they cannot be reafoned from Judaifm,
163.

Papal, whence, 52.

AH, human inventions, 285.
Feuardentius on i Pet. ii. 9. 287.

Figures,



INDEX. 523

Figures rhetorical, compofitlon by, 189, 124.
Filiiitius, his loofe morality, 279.

Filher, Bp. the tide of his funeral fermon for Lady Mar-
garet, 208.
Flattery odious in a pulpit, 462.
Flavel, what he thought of great talkers, 361.
Flechier, on the religion of the heart, 54.

Begins fome'.imes warm, 471.

Examples from him, 98. 181. 338.
Fleming, his natural images, 190.

Florus took S. Auguftine's fide in the difpute of grace, 153.
Foote, his Minor, a fenfelefs piece of buffoonery, 154.
Forbes, Bp. held purgatory, 225.
Forcing texts, what, 16, &c.
Foreign protellants, what value we ought to fet on their

praife, 209. 212, &c.
Forefight mull not be confounded with a fpirit of prophecy,

352-
Foulks, her intolerant zeal for toleration, 159.
Fowler, his ill treatment of Bunyan, 104, &c.
Fox', John, his merit greater than that of Cranmer, iji.
How he expofcd the pride of popery, 298.
Relates fome miraculous events, 118.
Francifcans, a llupid blafphemous church faction, 45.
Franck, Profeffor, his ufual method of preaching, 364,
Fraternities, papal, examples of avarice, 82.
Free-thinking, neceflary to a preacher, 15.

And to his hearers, 188.
Freedom of fpeech neceflary to a preacher, 16.
Friars, raife iyflems on iubtilties and fophifms, 45.
Funeral fermons, how properly compofed fometimes, 158.-

Very apt to degenerate, 463.
Funigcri, why the Francifcans call themfelves, 45.
Furetiere, his tale of a bad preache-r, 334.

G.
Galatians, the defign cf the epiflle to the, 164.
Gale, Dr. John, on what grounds he argues for baptlfm,

and church fellowfhip, 186. '

Gauden, Dr. his Steliteucick, 95,
Gauzza, his jocular praife of flattery, 207.
Gender, is grammar in Greek, and rhetorick In Engliih,

386.
Generoflty, the genuine fpirit of chriftianity, 71, &c.
Genus, a topitk"/ 22.
Vol. II. 3 T Gerfon,



524 INDEX.

Gerfon, how he defines mylHcifm, 264.

Makes fifty properties of love, 58.
Gefture, pulpit, 16.

What leads co unnatural, 383.
Gibbon, what fome think of his decline of the Roman empire ^

148.
Gibbons, Dr. examples from him, 149.
Gifts, extraordinary occafional benefits, 183. 118.
Gilbert, Abbot, how he illuftrates Rev. iii. 15. 194.
Gill, Dr. his wife advice concerning univerfal knowledge,
360.

His fenfe of Mat. v. 20. 275.

Referred to, 259.

Abufed by a zealot, 150.
Gillies, his exceWGYit/ucce/s of the go/pel, referred to, 364.
Gilpin, his ufual method of preaching, 364.
Glanvil, his rules of preaching, 335. 393, &c.
Glaffius, Solomon, cenfures thofe, who warp fcripture,

296,
Gloria patri, &c. not very confidently ufed by dilTenters,

3.07 •
Gnofticks, who, 301. 198.
Godefchalcus, what fide he took in the difpute concerning

grace, 153.
Gomar, his violence againft Arminius, 153.
Good, and bad, a topick, 205.

The produdlionof the greateft fecial, a noble rule of ac-
tion, 188.
Goodnefs, divine, fhould not be preached alone, 364.
Goodwin, Dr. diftinguifhes mercy from love, 150.
How he confiders mental immorality, 280.
Innocently occafions a falfe inference, 152.
Complains of mifreprefentation, 154.
Goflavius pleaded a doftrine on a Greek article, 172,
Gofpel, not made for a regal tool, 42.
Forbids dominion over confcience, 38.
Degraded by perfecutors, 108.
To be preached to unconverted finners, 186;
Go%'ernment, civil, the beft, 352.

Takes cognizance of only overt afts, 139.
What high church-men fay of its origin, 42.
Church, drawn from wrong principles, 160.

Cannot be argued from the Old Teftament, 164.
Oaght to be analogous to civil government, 138, &c.

Gowns,



INDEX. 525

Gowns, clerical, the wearing of them by diflenters is a need-

lefs fymbolizing with impofing conformilts, 307.
Grace, the bell notion of any one chrillian, 300. 390.
Do(5trine of, a brief fketch of the difpute concerning,

152, &c.
Should not be mixed with that of works, 267.
Not inconfillent with moral fuafion, 327, Sec. 335, &c.
Graces, whence the fexes of the, 386.
Graduates, have no right to monopolize divinity and the

pulpit, 38.
TpcciAfxcc, what, 14.3.

Grammarians fometimes force fcripture, 138.
Gratian, by whom perfuaded to perfecute, 302.
Greenlanders believed a future ttate, 406.
Gregory of Nazianzum, how he argued againft the domi-
neering party, 178.
On the converted thief, 259.
Gregory, Pope, his extravagant flattery of the French

kings, ^463.
Grey, Dr. Zachary, a bitter enemy to the Puritans, 225.
Grindall, Archbiiliop, hard driven to defend ceremonies, 77,"
Grotius, William, his fine character of Arifto, 93.
Grotius, Hugh, a promoter of re-union between papifts and
protellants, 225.
His opinion of Elijah's vifion, 386.
Thought the gofpel a new law, 258.
How he underilood 2 Theff. iii. 5. 30.
Mat, xvi 22. 213.
Zeph. ii. I. 329.
Ecclef. iv. 8. 67.
Mark i. 24. ^^,
Ground, a topick, 198.
Grove, Dr. his plagiarifm, 79.
Gualter, a penfioned panegyriit, 209. 21 r.

H.
Habbakuk, carried by the hair of his head into Babylon,

>55- . , . .

Habit of thinking, Chrift meant to form in his followers a,

142.
Habits, church, vainly argued from Jewifh polity, 163.

Erafmus ridicules that of S. Francis, 46.
Hagemeier, his injudicious arrangement of truths, 225.
Hakfpan, his lenatoiial Hyle, 171.
His rule of reafoning, 1 72.

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526 INDEX.

Hakfpan, an enthufiaft to points, and grammaticifms, 205.
Hale, his ufe of apothegms, 483.
Hall, Geo. example of apothegm from him, 483.
Hammond, Dr. on Rom. viii. 19. 61.
Pial. cxxiii. 3. 24.
Hampton-court conference fpread into foreign countries by

the prelates, 166, &c.
Hand of God, what, 25.
Harmony of ftyle, 477, 478.

Harris, Dr. his part in Salter's-hall fermons, 231.
I Example from him, 232.

His juil notion of John vi. 7.
Harry VIII. by what rule he made his bifhops preach, loi.
And they made his godlitjefs an argument for his tyranny,
203.
Health, to drink the king's no crime, 85.
Heart, to /peak to the , what, 126.

An admirable pulpit talent, 490.
Hebrew, grievoufly tortured by fome expofitors, 417.
Hebrews, defign of the epiftle to the, 164.
Hedor, on what principles he foretold the death of Achilles,

352.
Hedericus quoted, 8.

Hegendorph, his jocular execration of drunkennefs, 99.
Hegehas, what iad effeds followed his good inllructions,

411.
Helding, had a hand in drawing up the Interim, 260.
Hell, the doftrine of, how to be preached, 407, &c.
Hemmingius, what principles he thought neceffary to a
preacher, 141.
Thought di/jntereftednefs the teft of a good paftor, ']i.
Henry, Matthew, his liberal fentiments, 185.
An ingenious expofitor, 3.
On Pfal. li. 4. 366.
Mat. V. 20. 275.
Herbert, Lord, an enthufiafl-, 118.


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