brought for the pious education of them, iii. 222. Of Abraham, who, i. 255. Of the Devil, ibid. Of God, ibid. Chillingworth, (William) his writings, p. 7. of the preface. Chineses. Their accounts of years not hard to be reconciled with the Septuagint, i. 15. Choice. What place it hath in religion, iii. 148. That Chrift was in the beginning with God, iii. 30. J. Martyr's explication thereof, iii. 31. Chriftians. An account of Christians in Africa and Asia, iii. 336. Chrift's incarnation. Of the nature and manner thereof from holy scripture, iii. 70. Objections against Christ's incarnation answered, iii. 77. Christian religion. The excellency of it, i. 128, &c. Chrift's divine and human nature, iii. 75, 108. Proved by holy scripture, by the most ancient fathers, iii. 294. The doctrine plainly cleared in holy scripture, iii. 79. Chrift, the first-born of every creature, Coloff. 1. iii. 32, 33. Socinus, his interpretations of those words rejected, iii. 46. His existence before his incarnation, fhewn from many texts in fcripture, iii. 52. His being born of the blessed virgin, iii. 71. The first-born from the dead, Colo. 1. 18. iii. 39. His unspotted innocence, and perfect obedience, iii. 106. His incarnation, and inferences thence, iii. 95. The advantages, iii. 96. Our only Mediator. Inferences from thence, iii. 100. His humility, iii. 78. Sufferings, i. 310. Sacrifice, and the exceptions cleared, iii. 115. The ineftimable benefits by him to mankind, i. 303. His example. The imitation thereof pressed, i. 131, 314. Christianity. The rare precepts, i. 96. 110, 131, &c. Easy, iii. 67. Chronology, i. 15. Churches. Building, or endowing them, a noble charity, i. 307. Church of Rome. Separation from it defended, iii. 159. The hazard of falvation therein, i. 189. Their uncharitablenefs, i. 371. Churches human authority, by what means fupported, according to the Romanists, iii. 387, &c. Church. The western church, when most erring and ignorant, iii. 355, c. The church of Rome's univerfality, ii. 140. Her least share in charity, ii. 205. Commentators on the holy fcriptures, how to be considered, iii. 293. Communion. A perfuafive to frequent communion, ii. 70. In one kind, i. 197. Confirmation. The great ufe of it, iii. 203. Confcience. Peace of it, how attained, i. 9. The misery of an evil confcience, i. 30. ii. 38. Whence, i. 237. The defpair defpair arifing from it, ii. 303, 306. To be reverenced, ii. 347. The notion of it, ii. 334. Void of offence, ii. 331. An evil confcience, ii. 341, 342, 343. An erroneous confcience, the danger in following it, ii. 336. The comforts of a good confcience, iii. 343. Confideration. The proper act of reasonable creatures, i. 234. The nature and benefit of it, i. 223, &c. Neceffary in religion, i. 48. Some arguments to it, i. 235. The fuc cefs of it, i. 236, &c. See ii. 272, 274. Contentment, i. 88, 106. And how acquired, i. 118, 213. Ivenly converfation. The happiness thereof, i. 144, &c. Converfion, how wrought, i. 233, 236. Covenant of the gofpel, what, i. 135. Counfels. The divine counfels and actions most fafely to be fpoken of out of the holy fcripture, iii. 84. Councils. What fort of interpreters of fcripture, iii. 303. (General) the Papists absurd citations for themselves thence, iii. 298. & feq. Council of Trent. Their errors, iî. 122. Covetousness, i. 147. Creation, i. 10. From God, i. 13, Of the world, how it proves the exiftency of God, and his power and goodness, iii. 233. (Old and new) contr. Socin. iii. 48. Of heaven and earth, iii. 49. Creator, The duty of remembring him, iii. 230, &c. Crellius, his wrefting of fcripture, iii. 60.. Custom, i. 123. (Good and bad) ii. 168. The power to vir tue, ii. 172. iii. 219, 220, Ín fin, ii. 171. The diffi culty of being reclaimed from it, i. 242. In fin, ii. 154. i. 281. The great power, and difmal confequence of it, i. 170, c. Not to follow it in divers cafes, iii. 156. D D Emons of Old, what, iii. 88. St. David of Wales, ii. 50. Death. Preparation for it, i. 249. ii. 59, 208, 274, 345. Sudden death, . 51. Death and deftruction, their fignification in holy fcripture, and in profane authors, ii. 283. a 3 Death Death-bed repentance, i. 186. Death of Chrift for fin, how evidently declared, iii. 110. Decrees. God's decrees, with relation to mens ftate, i. 266. Deliberation. Rules for it, i. 227. Delights. The vanity of all worldly delights, i. 148. Demonftration of doctrines. The Romish abfurdities therein, ii. 118, 120. Their demonstrations are false suppositions, iii. 397. Despair. Remedies against it, i. 298. ii. 173, 258, 272. Devil. His delight in fin and finners, i. 285. Christ's overcoming the Devil, and how, iii. 80. Devil, and his angels. Their nature and character whereby feen, iii. 9. His power over bad men, ii. 173. Devils. Cafting them out, and by whom, i. 292. Devotion, i. 312. The infufficiency of external devotion, i. 264. Publick and private, ii. 263. Difficulty of reclaiming the wicked, whence, ii. 165. In religion how recommended, i. 281. Diligence, iii. 188. Difeafes. How bodily diseases overpower fome with too melancholy thoughts, i. 301. Difputes about religion, how to be managed, ii. 340. The vanity of fuch difputes, i. 313. Difputes commonly arise in religion from diversity of the expressions, iii. 118. Who not to engage in polemical disputes, i. 361. The Divinity of Chrift. See Chrift, our bleffed Saviour, iii. 24, &c. Divifions among Chriftians, i. 348. iii. 143. The destruction they brought particularly on the Jewish nation, ii. 324, 326. Donatifts. Their schifm, ii. 205. Doubting. Mens doubting of their future good ftate. The nature and redrefs thereof, i. 266. Duty of man. Wherein it doth confist, i. 9. E Early piety: The Advantages, iii. 230. Eafter. The time of it, i. 336. Ebion and Cerinthus, their herefies, iii. 28. Education. The happiness of a pious education, iii. 163, 164, 177, &c. Egyptian and Chaldean chronology reconcileable, i. 15. Encou Encouragement to virtue, i. 120. Endeavours (our own) to be used to a religious life, i, 125. Enemies. Who they are, ii. 243. Love of them commanded by Christianity, ii. 239. England. A character of the church of England, i. 205. Envy. The fin, i. 314. Epicureans account of the existence of the world, i. 22. Epicurus, his opinion wherein true pleasure is found, ii. 158. Epiphanius, his note of the corrupt practice of the adoration of the bleffed virgin, i. 199. Erafmus and Thuanus. The character of them and their writings, i. 332. Efau. What meant by his finding no place for repentance, i. 288. Effenes among the Jews. How ftri&ly that se&t forbad swearing, ii. 11. Eternity. The ancient Jews defcription of it, iii. 31. Eftates, beft promoted by religion, i. 87. Eucharift. The Roman adoration of it, i. 197. Events do not constantly answer the probability of second causes, ii. 297. For Ever and Everlasting. The frequent importance of those words in holy fcripture, ii. 278. Evil. What to depart from it, i. 4. Evil-speaking. A fermon against it. The nature, extent and practice of that fin. Arguments against it. Directions to prevent it, iii. 1. Evil fpirits, ii. 348. Eufebius, his character of unwarranted tradition in the church, iii. 376. Evidence. How affent grounded thereupon, i. 357. The properties of good evidence, iii. 292. Which fufficient in divine matters, iii. 306. Of the holy fcriptures, iii. 263. Eutychian herefy concerning Chrift's human nature, iii. 73. Examination. Self-examination, i. 225. In matters of religion, and who can make it, i. 369. The benefit, ii. 347, Before the holy facrament, ii. 87. Example. The power thereof, ii. 15. (Good) the power, i. 307. iii. 169. (Good and bad) the power, iii. 196. Of parents. The great influence of it on children, iii. 197. Chrift's example, i. 131. Arguments to follow it, i. 314. vid. iii. 100. The example of God and Chrift in doing good, i. 410. vid. ii. 246. Of Christ. The imitation thereof, iii. 101. Excommunication. The old Jews notion of the highest a&t of excommunication, i. 294. Expiation for fin, iii. 101, & feq. F F Aith and good works infeparable, i. 111. iii. 21. The vain notion of faith without works, i. 137, 138, c. The proper notion of Chriftian faith, i. 313. The neceffity of fuch a faith, ii. 262. See ii. 182, &c. p. 7. of the preface. The rule of faith, iii. 249, 250. Mistakes.concerning it, iii. 251. How the true properties of the rule of faith agree to the fcripture, not to oral tradition, iii. 258. 276. The fundamental differences amongst the Romanifts themselves about it, iii. 389. Family religion, iii. 163, &c. Faft. The nature of a religious fast, ii. 350, &c. Fafting and abftinence, i. 219. ii. 3113. Fafts of the fifth and feventh months moft obfervable with the ancient Jews, and why, ii. 351, &c. Fate. The doctrine of fate, i. 107. Fathers. The most ancient fathers appeal to holy feripture for the doctrine they taught, iii. 264. What regard to have to the ancient fathers in their interpretations of holy fcripture, iii. 264, 265. A character of the primitive fathers manner of writing, iii. 47. Falkland (Lord) his writings, p. 7. of the preface. Fear. The atheists abuse of that principle against religion, i. 25. The Fear of the Lord, i. 1. How to fear the Lord, and to de→ part from evil, are fynonimous terms, and what they figni→ fy in fcripture, i. I. The aptnefs thereof to describe religion by, ibid. Fear of the Lord, iii. 221, 234. Flattery, ii. 348. Fleb. What it often fignifies in scripture language, iii. 25, 69. Floods, i. 17. Folly falfly charged on religion, i. 46. Forgiveness of injuries, ii. 239, &c. Of fins, iii. 87, 103. Friendship, i. 304. ii. 308. Friends. How comforted under the death of friends, ii. 59. Fundamentals of religion, where fet down, iii. 304. Future rewards and punishments, i. 355. See Happiness. Future ftate. How men come to know the condition of it with reference to themselves, i. 260. G Ames, and recreations of children, iii. 213. G. Gematry, a Jewish Cabbala, iii. 374 Genealogy of heathen deities, iii. 28, 124, 141, &c. |