Apoftles, the xii. how far their conduct is to be imitated, 250

Apoftles, falfe, debafed christianity, 253.

How the twelve treated them, 303.

Apothegms, fhould not be ufed often in preaching, 482.
Appello Cafarem, the fpirit of that vile book, 322.
Application, perfonal, fome hearers make it and unjustly lay
it on the preacher, 474.

Appliation, the ufual clofing part of a fermon, 30.
Abufed by fome, and rejected by others, 327, &c.
One common fault of, 8.

Sometimes compofed of concomitants, 30.
Application, continual, what, 325.

Perfectly confiftent with the doctrine of decrees, 335.
Properties of, 333, 364.

The best, 392.

Approbation, effential to mental fin, 280, &c.
Aquinas, his definition of faith, 263.

Defcription of fear, 40.

Of avarice, 70.

Of venial fin, 310.

Taught Popish preachers the Ciceronian method of addreffing the Virgin Mary, 172.

Archbishops, when their titles were fettled, 37.
Archives, papal, precarious grounds of action, 300.
Ariftippus, to what he likened great readers, 381.

Arifto, Titus, his character a model, 92.

Ariftobulus murdered by Herod, and then lamented, 304.
Ariftocracy, to what it tends, 352.

Ariftophanes, his buffoonery fatal to Socrates, 112, 160.
Ariftotle, how he defines matter, 263.

Diftinguishes letter from fpirit of law, 143.

Thought appearance of integrity effential to perfuafion,

475.

One of his laws of imagery cenfured, 342.

Referred to, 270, 460, 461.

Arithmetick, political, converted to a religious topick, 360. Arminians, how they expound S. Paul's epiftle to the Ro

mans, 295.

Arminius, his account of the ufe of the moral law, 199.
Cenfured after his death by James I. 199.

Arnobius, a reprover of pomp in religion, 237.

Articles of faith, human, contain the ideas of the compilers

of them, not neceffarily thofe of infpired writers, 138.

Subfcription to any, a fatire on fcripture, 78.

Articles

Articles of the established church, fome unintelligible, 2435 How defended by fome, 314.

The title of them fpurious, 314, &c. Afkewe, Ann, burnt by Cranmer, 210.

Affembly of divines, mifreprefented and abused, 99. Affemblies, publick chriftian, fhould be accommodated, 384. Affociations, fanciful ones make mirth, 78.

Of irrelative ideas produce ridicule, 85. Affumptions in reafoning, what, 149. Examples of dangerous ones, 147. Affurance, falfe notion of, 375.

Scripture doctrine of, fadly abused, 169. Afteifmus, what, 113.

Afterius, or Afturius, Bp of Amafia, his juft notion of merit,

318.

Aftrology, judicial, destroyed by christianity, 247.

Athanafian creed, antifcriptural, unintelligible and cruel, 283,428.

Atheism, modern times faid to be inclined to, 337-
Atheists, 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, 111.
Atonement, proved by Chrift's agony, 195.

Attention, should not be acquired by fanciful methods, 129.
How beft acquired, 464, &c.

Atterbury, not preferred for his piety, 131.

How he proves the genuineness of the title to the epifcopal articles, 315.

Attributes of God, Saurin's wife caution to thofe, who difcufs them, 313.

Fine topicks of application, 370.

Audience, preachers fhould try to obtain at first, 459. Auditors, how they discover a good fermon at their departure,

490, 491.

Audland, his reply to a flanderous perfecutor, 216.
Auguftine, St. advises preachers to begin early, 176.
Recommends an imitation of the apostles, 282.
One of the first difputants about grace, 153.
Not a perfecutor till foured by controversy, 108.
What makes his gloffes go for arguments, 203.
His fenfe of 1 Cor.ii. 14. 353.

Auguftus, a faying of his applied to Peter, 482.
Aufterities in religion, whence, 45.

Authority,

Authority, church, 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 chriftianity, 71.

Its fatal influence on religion, 68.

Ayerft, example from him, 23.

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Bacchus, the infamous celebration of his feftival at A

thens, 111.

Backfliders, to what refembled by fcripture, 342.
Contraft, a proper topick of addrefs to, 193,

Bacon, Lord, on topicks, 270.

Baius, Dr. or Michael De Bay, revived the controversy about

grace, 153.

Baker, the nonjuror, fome account of him, 208.

B ptifm, primitive, 422.

Cannot be explained by circumcifion, 163.

Original form of words, effential to the right adminiftration of, 318.

How Tertullian wrote about it, 102.

How to be restored, if loft, 184.

Practifed by immerfion in the year ccclxxxviii, 92.

Of infants, why not cenfured by the apostles, 132. Baptifts, the ground of all their arguing for the immerfion

of adults, 423.

Perfecuted by Cranmer, 211.

Abufed by Featly, 98.

Mifreprefented by Neal, 81.

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 Auguftus, 482. Barrow, Bp. directed prayer to be faid for his foul after

death, 225.

Bafil, what he thought of merit, 218.

Batwick, his prayer, 42.

Bates, Dr. ufed anecdotes fometimes in fermons, 272, &c. Far fuperior as a divine to fuch a man as Bp. Cofins, 131.

Baxter, Rev. Richard, a better divine than Bp. Laud, 131.

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Baxter,

Baxter, how he defines venial fin, 310.

His faint's reft, an excellent book, 66.
Referred to, 134.

Bayle, his excellent remarks on reason, and volition, 403.
His apology for Shaftesbury, 113.

What he faid of Claude's defence of the reformation, 178. Beads, in religion, offspring of hypocrify, 52.

Bears, how thofe in the hiftory of Elifha may be examined, 120. Beaufobre, how he pleads for toleration, 108.

His account of Saul's converfion, 109, &c. Exonerates minifters 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, Bishop of, what puzzled him in the state of preaching, 337.

Bellarmine, his marks of the true church, 75.

Belshazzar, fcripture does not fay he was damned, 71.
Benediction, a fine part of publick divine worship, 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-

Bernardine, of Sienna, his blafphemous addreffes to the virgin Mary, 266.

Bertheau, example from him, 258.

Beveridge, Bp. his wild reafoning for the liturgy, 18.
Example of difcuffing a fermon from him, 24.

Beyerlinck, his defcription of hope, 64.

Of fear, 40.

Beza difliked kneeling at the facrament, 77.

On Rom. viii. 31.

Bible, prefent English, ill divided, 378.
Court influence used in tranflating it, 101.

Bielfeld, 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 historical sharper, 99.

Bishops, English, the incongruity of the form of their ordination, with their practice, 141.

Bishops,

Bishops, the pliableness of Q. Ann's, 210.

Biffe, how he pleads for epifcopacy, 17.

Blackwall, his encomiums on the flyle of the apoftles commiffion, 186.

Cenfures the prefent divifion of the bible, 379.
Blair, Rev. Robert, his method of preaching, 364.
Blandford, Bp. prayed for the dead, 225.

Beacsus, in the Grecian games, who, 39.
Bradbury, had an excellent talent for irony, 113.
Bradford, Bp. example from him, 29.

Bribes, prevalent arguments with bad men, 81.
Benefices are often church, 224.

Britain, proteftant fucceffion to the crown of, favourable to
primitive religion in Whifton's account, 66.
Brochmand, his account of Chrift's kingly office, 4.
Brown, how he answered Shaftesbury, 112.

Bona, Cardinal, a profound myftick, 44. 52. 264.
Makes divine love the principle of all sciences, 58.
Bonner, Bp. what he faid of the reformers retaining popish
ceremonies, 125.

Borromeo, Cardinal, his excellent rules of preaching, 168.
A fine contraft of his, 197.

Example of figurative difcuffion from him, 189. Boffuet, Bp. his extravagant Aattery, 462, &c.

Referred to, 126.

Boston, how he confiders the moral ftate of man, 114.
Bougy, Marquis de, did not think fo highly of the English
epifcopal church as fome did, 212.

Bourdaloue, his reflections 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 myfticism 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.

Bugg, not careffed for his abilities or piety, 131.
Bunyan, his ufual method of preaching, 364.

Not flighted for his want of abilities or piety, 131.

His indictment, 228.

Burgh, Efq. his juft cenfure of hiftorical affumption, 148. Burnet, Bp. fets very light by artifical eloquence in the pul

pit, 502.