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Knowledge, the divine, comprehends all things without exception, i. 193, 194, note. 334. Cannot confift with the Arminian idea of human free agency, 193, 194. note. Diftinguifhable into fimple and approbatory, 195. Not founded on things known, 195-197. Is almighty and infallible, 204, 205. Is fended on predeftination, 200. 333. Utterly incapable of fucceon and improvement, 195-197, 198. What it includes, i. 75.

Knowledge, human, how imbecile even in natural things, iii. 66.
Knox, Mr. John, life of, iv. 7, &c.
Καυχαομαι, vi. 34.

Κεκαυτηριασμένοι, vi. 41. note.

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LAMBERT, Mr. the martyr, i. 229-231. cerned in his profecution, 249. note.

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Lambeth articles, the occafion of them, ii. 170. Why fo called, 173. Solemnly approved by the Archbishops of both provinces, 174, 175. Why James the Firft omitted to incorporate them with the 39 Articles already established, ii. 235, 236. Inferted into the articles of Ireland, 296. See alfo vi. 109. Latimer, Bishop, his character of Edward the Sixth, i. 55, 56. His magnanimous behaviour at the stake, 259. Some account of his character and talents, 269, 270. His great refpect for Auftin, Luther, and Peter Martyr, ibid. 271. Affifted Cranmer in compofing the homilies, ibid. His doctrine of election, 271-275. Of Providence, 275-279. Diftinguishes the will of God into fecret and revealed, 276. Avers that God's decreeing will cannot be defeated nor difappointed, 276. 279. 201. Affirms the term of human life to be unalterably predetlinated, 275. 277, 278. In what fenfe he uses the word chance, 278, 279. Maintains that the death of Chrift was irrefitlibly predeftinated, 279. Afferts original fin in its utmoft extent, 280, 281. Batters down free-will, 281-294. Declares the neceflity and the efficacy of Divine Grace, 282284. Denies juftification by works, 285-290. And afferts juftification by Chrift's righteoufnefs, 290-292. His nervous reafonings againft finlefs perfection, ibid. 294. His doctrine concerning the extent of redemption, 295-300. His idea of faving faith, 293. His doctrine concerning perfeverance, 300 -306.

Laut, Archbishop, why he difcouraged the Calvinifts, i. ix. Expunges from a book of Chriftopher Potter fome paffages which bore hard on the church of Rome, 68. note. Outwitted by the faid Chriftopher Potter, 71. And by the elder Voffius, ibid. Was never high in the favour of James the First, ii. 271. 345, 346. Made Bishop of St. David's much against that king's mind, 273, 274. The zeal with which he promoted Arminianifm,

Arminianifm, ibid. 275. Flagrant impudence of his measures, 283-286. Is faid to have projected his fcheme for remodelling the church of England, at a very early period of life, 284. Openly renounces Calvinifm in the first year of Charles's reign, 285. Was the firft Arminian Primate fince the reformation, 286. Would not venture to truft the management of his fcheme to a Convocation, 289. Wishes to fet afide the Irish articles, and pretends to have compaffed his point, but without effect, 296-299. His injunction to his fuffragans, 300. Would have re-modeled the thirty-nine Articles, but for the Civil War, 302. His views in obtruding the Romish ceremonies on the church of England, 302, 303. Was fo hardy a to difclaim Arminianifm on his trial, ibid. His troubles while a member of the university of Oxford, on a religious account, 284. 314, 315. The difficulty with which he gained his firft preferment, 315, 316. 345, 346. At beit but a mongrel Proteftant, v. 22.

Law, the moral, how it differs from the gofpel, i. 239. Our own conformity to it cannot justify us before God, 240. Will not admit or accept of any righteoufnefs which is not abfolutely perfect, 292, 293. ii. 56. 113. Chrift's righteoufnefs our only poffible refuge from its malediction, i. 290-293. ii. 121. The miniftration of death to those who trust in it, iii. 12. God's inviolable holiness requiring perfect obedience to it, ibid. Chrift the fulfiller of the law, 13, 14. The use of the law pointed out, ibid.

Law, Rev. William, a fpeech of his when dying, iv. 179. Leaf, Mr. John, the martyr, ii. 65, 66. note. Uncommon initances of his religious zeal and intrepidity, ibid.

Learning, and learned men, extremely hated by fanatics, i. 51. Le Clerc, Monfieur, remarkable quotation from, vi. 65. note. Leo the Tenth, his bull against Luther, i. 76-70.

Letter to Mr. John Wesley,on his abridgement of Zanchius, v. 326. Letters, a collection of, vi. 144, &c. See the contents alfo of vol. vi.

Liberty, English, what it is, iii. 303. Religious liberty, of what it confifts, 304.

Life, human, its duration invariably fixed and determined by God's decree, i. 169. 225. 266. 275. 277, 278. ii. 58, 59. vi. 82-87. A journey, iii. 328.

Limborch, a fhameless affertion of his, i. 117.

Lindsey, Mr. his reformed liturgy, what, vi. 226. His manner of preaching, &c. ibid. 227.

Lithall, Mr. examined by Bishop Bonner's chancellor, on the article of juflification, ii. 104, 105.

Liturgy of the church of England, not borrowed from the Romish form, but from the ancient British and Gallican liturgy, i. 247, 248. note. Corrected by Bucer and Martyr, 314, 315. 347. Reformed at Calvin's request, 349, 350. ii. 10. Suppreffed by Mary the First, 103. Reitored by Elizabeth, 160.

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Locke, Mr. his idea of compulfion, i. 156, 157. note. Affirms that voluntarinefs and neceility are perfectly compatible, ibid. Utterly denies that freedom is predicable of the human will, ibid. His defcription of precipitate reafoners, vi. 18. His just theory of fenfible qualities, 122-125. His juft remarks on the human fenfes, 141.

Lollards, or Wickliffites, paffage from a letter written by one of them, i. 213, 214. And from one of their books, ii. 222, 223. A number of them furprifed by Henry the Fifth at a religious meeting, i. 211, 212.

Love of God to his people, eternal and unchangeable, i. xxvii. 163. 263. 303, 304. ii. 57. 69. Love and hatred, how afcribed to God, v. 382, 398. Love to Chrift a strong declaration of, iv. 176. Theory of the paffion of love, vi. 137, 138.

Love, Mr. Chriftopher, a prophecy of his, iv. 191.

Louis XII. of France, a noble answer of his, i. 146. Loyalty, beft fecured on Calvinific principles, ii. 350, 351. Luther, his fpirited remark on the Pope's bull, i. 78. Denies free will and finlefs perfection, 76. Affirms, in his heat, that the maintenance of thofe two tenets, is incompatible with falvation, 78. His unceremonious language to Pope Leo, 79A canon of the Council of Trent exprefsly levelled at him, 8o. note. Bishop Latimer's high opinion of him, 270. Compares man's will to an horfe, 337, 338. A fmart faying of his concerning Henry the Eighth, ii. 310. His noble integrity, 334, 335. A paffage in his will, iv. 177. A defign to poifon him, 179. An abfolute Predeftinarian, v. 19. More violent than Calvin, v. 422. note. A reply of his to Erafmus refpecting the enforcing the doctrine of predeftination, 288. His two-fold diftinétion of neceffity, vi. zo. Nothing unphilofophical in what he relates concerning apparitions, 27. idea concerning the neceffity of grace, 65. note.

Lutherans, foon deviated from the purity of Luther's fyftem, i. 300, 301.

Lyaius, nis juft remark concerning the crafty perverfeness of the Pelagians, ii. 259. note.

Lyttleton, Lord, his remark concerning the Albigenfes and Waldenfes, i. 138. note. His character of Cromwell, vi. 208.

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MACCAIL, Mr. his triumphant dying words, iv. 161. Machines, men are not, in the work of converfion, iii. 320. Madre, metaphyfical theory of, according to Mr. Baxter, vi. 26, 27. note. Mahometanifm, a compound of judaifm, chriftianity and heathenism, i. 215. Specimen of fome Chriftian doctrines and precepts adopted by Mahomet, 216, 217. Thofe of the Mahometans

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who are fatalifts, are very remote from the Chriftian doctrines of predestination, 218. A vast body of them are rank Arminians, in points of predeftination, grace, free-will, and perfeverance, ibid. Several particulars enumerated, wherein the Arminian Mahometans and the Arminian Methodists agree, 219-221. Mahometanifm unjustly charged on the church of England, by Papifts and Arminians, 215. note. 254. Queen Elizabeth falfely taxed with it, by Mr. John Wesley, ii. 211. Man degenerated and unrenewed, quite dead to God, and without fpiritual fenfe, iii. 364. An animal made up of matter and spirit, vi. 23. Seems to be naturally wild and uncivilifed, 49. note. A non-entity on Dr. Priestley's and Bishop Berkley's view of him, vi. 300.

Manichæifm, history and out-lines of that fyftem, vi. 97. 98.
Enters into the bafis of Methodifm, 103, 104.

Manton, Dr. a reproof, much bleffed to him, iv. 189.
Marsh, Mr. George, the martyr, ii. 33-36.

Martin the Fifth, (Pope.) his flaming bull against predeftination,
i. 73-75. Orders Wickliffe's bones to be dug up and burned,
183.
Martyr, Dr. Peter, the reformer, converted by the books of
Bucer and Zuinglius, i. 335. Highly refpected by Bishop
Latimer, 270, 271. Invited into England by Cranmer and
Somerfet, 313. Made Divinity Profeffor at Oxford, and why,
ibid. and i. 327. The Englith liturgy fubmitted to his revifal,
314, 315. Some account of his life, 335, 336. Re-
fufes Queen Elizabeth's invitation, 326, 327. His doctrine
concerning fate, 327, 328. 335. Predeftination, 332, 333.
Prefcience, ibid. Providence, 334, 335. Reprobation, 330.
Free-will, 337 338. Juflification, 339. Was concerned in
framing the book of articles, 349, 341. Perfuades Bishop
Hooper to conform to the epifcopal habit, 342. His excellent
reafoning on that fubject, 342, 343. Cranmer's great opinion
of him, 253. His English preferment, 327. He and Bullin-
ger folve Archbishop Grindall's fcruples about conformity,
ii. 166. Honours rendered to the violated remains of his
wife, 190, 191. note.

Martyrs for the Proteftant religion.

Extract from a confeffion

of faith drawn up by eleven very eminent ones, ii. 22. Their Calvinifm largely proved, ii. 22-105. Miraculous honours which attended fome of them in their laft moments, i. 224. ii. 33. 42. 44. Their number precifely fixed by God's decree, ii. 66. Unanimously disclaim all connection with the Freewill men, 96, Join in publishing a common confeffion of their faith, A. D. 1557. 94. 96. Part of the prayer ufually faid by them at the itake, 104. Their zeal and fortitude,

148, 149.

Mary I. Queen of England, her zeal to rid the two univerfities of Calvinifm, ii. 20, 21. Publishes a proclamation against all books written by the reformers, ibid.

Mary,

Mary, Queen of Scots, certain religious particulars which paffed
at the time of her execution, i. 183, 184. note.

Materialifm, the fyftem of Atheism, vi. 154. A few thoughts on,
155, 156.

Matter, one of the two univerfal effences, vi. 23. 129, 130. note.
Abfolutely incapable of feeling or perceiving, 19. Totally
dependent on God, 29, 30. Has no effective influence on the
divine purp:fes and operations, and is effentially the fame.
in al bodies, 129-133. note.

Matthew, St. reflections on his converfion, iii. 316, &c.
Matthew's Bible, why fo called, ii. 110.

Maurice de Naffau, Prince of Orange, extricates the United
Provinces from the calamities with which the Arminian fect,
aided by the Popish, endeavoured to overwhelm that country,
ii. 242.
Means, not fuperfeded, but included, and made effectual by
God's decree, i. 182. 272. ii. 127. Decreed no less than the
end, v375, 376. 424. Ufe of, not made void by necefity,
vi. 58. 68. 84.

Mechanifm. See Organization.

Melanchon, had no hand in the English Reformation, ii. 330.
Remarkable particulars concerning him, 331-340.

Melmoth, Mr. his remark concerning the fenfible qualities, vi.

139.

Melvin, Rev. Mr. John, imprifoned in Newgate for the faith,
ii. 105. note.

Menardus, Hugh, a French Benedictine monk, his remarkable
note on a paffage in St. Barnabas, i. 119. note. Is very angry
with that faint for not holding univerfal redemption, i. 120,

121.

Mendlesham, Proteftants expelled from, ii. 50.

Mercy, what it is in the Deity, v. 227. Óf God, its exercise
neceffarily limited, 397.

Merit of works, afferted by the church of Rome, i. 83. 99.
1. 197. Janfenius's reafon for uling the word, i. 88. note.
Difclaimed by St. Auftin, 101. and by Clement Romanus,
125, 126. and by Ignatius, 130. 133. and by Polycarp,
and by the Albigenfes and Waldenfes, 135. and by Wickliff,
181. and by Tindal, 143. 145, 146. and Lambert, 231. and
by the English reformers, 255, 255. Latimer's teftimony
against it, 255-290. Utterly inconfitent with the whole
chriftian fyftem, 223, 229. 241. 285. 287. 289. The fenfe in
which fome ancient writers ufe it, 192. Held by the followers
of Mahomet, 219, 220. and by Pelagius, 171.
Merit-mongers, two inftances of, iii. 182. iv. 168.
Meffiah, a portrait of, iii. 307.

Meteors, iv. 215.

Methodism defined, i. iii. Arminianifm is the life and foul of it,
ii. 364, 365. See Arminianifm and Manichæifm.

Millennium, doubtful whether angels will thare in the glory of

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