Civil Magiftrate has feldom any Intereft to cor-
rupt Religion,
106
Clergy, ill ones have made a Babel of the Gospel,
11. Belye Chrift and his Apoftles, ib. Once the
Almsmen of the People, ib. Since the Mafters of
Mankind, ibid. Their ftrange Apoftafy from
Christianity, ibid. They were first intended for a
Militia against Satan, 12. But enflaved those
that employed them, ib. Their impious Pofitions
and Politics, ibid. Their bloody Practices, and
Uncharitableness, 13. Their eternal Squabbles,
and mutual Curfing, ib. They pervert Religion
to fupport Tyranny, 14. Are Enemies to good
Princes, preach up Sedition and Blood, are the
Incendiaries of Rebellion and Affaffination, and
by thefe Means acquire Power and Wealth, ibid.
The Good fecured by punishing the Bad, 22. In-
ftructions to them, 28, 29. They are, for the
moft part, the leaft qualified of any Society of
Men, to interpret the Scripture for others, 30,
&feq. Always cramped in their Education in
Schools, and in the Univerfities, 32. Educated
generally upon Charity, ib. Swear to Notions
before they understand them, ib. Their Business
is not to find out Truth, but to defend the re-
ceived Syftem, ib. Their Gain tacked to Opi-
nions eftablished by Popes in ignorant Ages, 33.
Their temporal Grandeur, how dangerous it is
to call it in Queftion, 35. They should be ma-
numitted from a State of Darkness and Servitude,
37. And ought not to be debarred from a free
Search after Truth, ibid. Their Manner of Ar-
guing with the Church of Rome, contradicts
their Manner of Arguing with Protestant Diffent-
ers, 38. Their ftrange Manner of treating the
Bible, and the Diffenters, 39. How they learn
to be Succeffors of the Apoftles, 61. They coft
the People more than the whole Civil and Mi-
litary Lift, 87. At the Reformation they throw
themselves at the King's Mercy, difgorge their
ill-gotten Wealth, and renounce their ill-ufed
Power by a public. Petition, 101. That Peti-
tion changed into an A&t of Parliament, 102.
They fwear to all the Acts of Parliament which
affert all Ecclefiaftical Jurifdiction to the Crown
only; and are fubjected to a Præmunire, if they
contradict the fame, 106. They are bound by
the 37th Canon to obferve the old Jurifdiction of
the Crown over the Ecclefiaftics, can do no
public Act without the King's Authority, pro-
fefs to receive all Jurifdiction from the Crown,
and are never fuffered to controvert the Preroga-
tive, 110. Their Infolence reprehended in the
Queen's Reign, 111. The chief End of their Ap-
pointment and Hire, 179. The great Revenue
paid them, whether well or ill bestowed, 180.
It is the Duty of the Laity to make them ufeful,
181
Clergymen, the Way to that Calling very easy, 76.
The Labour of a Clergyman bought and fold, ib.
What Advantages might be expected from their
Education, Profeffion, and Studies, 132. Yet they
are often worse than other Men, 133. In too
many Countries they begin the World with a
notorious Breach upon natural Honefty and In-
nocence, 136. Going into Orders, they pretend-
to be moved by the Holy Ghoft, but often really
by other Motives, ib. How ftrangely th y dif-
fer about the Sense of the Articles, 137. In-
ftances of this, 138. In former Reigns they
devoted the Laity to Chains, 142. Their In-
confiftency,
Collier (Mr.) corrects St. Paul, 170. His Defcri-
ption of the Office of a Chaplain, 171. The
ftrange Power that he gives to Chaplains, ibid.
He puts the Clergy in joint Commiffion with the
Angels, ibid. Quarrels with an Act of Parlia-
ment for an odd Reafon, 172. Will allow a
Chaplain no Superior
Common Prayer-Book enacted by Parliament, 104
Conformity, when a Sin, 228. How wickedly con-
tended for,
Confecration (Popish) how it began, 217. Its ridi-
culous Ufe, 218. Its foolish Confequences, 219,
&c. Its Abfurdity, ib. No Warrant for it from
Reafon or Scripture, 220. Its Pagan Original,
229. It is forbid by the Law,
Convocation differs with the Apostles, 75. The ridi-
culous Ufe made of them by High Church Statef-
men, 129. An Inftance of this,
Covenant, the firft, its Clearnefs,
Councils (General) a Character of them, 44. Can-
not meet, and would only scold and fight if they
did,
119
Creeds, when to be affented to, and how to be
try'd, 41. The Impofition of them contrary to
Reafon and Charity, 42. They are dangerous
to Religion, 43. The wicked Ends, and fecular
Motives, for making them, ibid. They begin
in Pride, and end in Cruelty, ibid. Procured by
ambitious Popes and Emperors,
ECALOGUE, its Clearnefs, 62. No Bo-
dy of Men fet apart to explain it.
Difputes, what Sorts make us neither wifer nor
better,
Diftinction between Matters Civil and Ecclefiaftic,
a chimerical one,
Doctrines, how to know certainly whether they
come from God,
Dodwell, (Mr.) his Character,
Dominion, (Ecclefiaftical) the Parent of Popery, 114
Duty, the Importance of it implies its Certainty, 23,
Neceffary Duties eafy and plain,
CCLESIASTICAL Jurifdiction vested in
the King only,
103, &c.
Ecclefiaftics, (High ones) the Infamy of one adopt-
ed by all, 17. Their Want of Temper, Folly,
and Ill-breeding, 18. They have uncommon
Advantages above other Societies, and yet not
content, ibid. The Difference betwixt other
Societies and them; their temporal and ghoftly
Privileges enumerated, ibid. They are befriended
by natural Superftition, 19. If not respected,
their own Fault, ibid. The Causes why they
are contemned, ibid. Their Folly in demanding
Refpect, while they earn Infamy, 20. The Ad-
vantages accruing to the good Clergy, by expose-
ing the bad, 21. A Million of them kept in
Pay for the best Part of 1700 Years to teach and
reform the World, and it is not yet more re-
formed, or better taught, than when they began ;
but, on the contrary, grows worse, 27. Their
Office, every Man left at Liberty by the Word
of God to perform it, 28. (Popish) by what
impious Means they acquired their Riches, 100.
Ecclefiaftics of all Ranks often degraded by the
King's Authority, and by that of the Law, 108.
Inftances of this, ibid. Ecclefiaftic Princes, how
readily created, 120. An Irish Bishop creates
them for a Pot of Ale a-piece,
Education, the Ufe and Abuse of it by Philofo
phers and Priefts, 251. The ill Effects of an
Univerfity Education, 253. A bad one worse
258, 259
Englishmen, their peculiar Felicity,
Epifcopacy and Geography, their Importance, 201
Eraftus proves the Clergy Creatures of the State,
100. His Principles prevailed at the Reforma-
tion,
Errors, how to be fecured against them, 151, &c.
This is not to be done by the Help of Priefts,-
Excommunication, what it is,
ACULTIES, (our) given by God to be used,
31
Faith, (implicit) dangerous in Government as well
as in Religion, 8. Not to be exercised by
Proxy, 29. How diftinguifhed from Credulity,
41. How tried, 224. How little it fignifies
without Morality, ib. and 225, &c. What is
meant by it,
238, &c.
Falfe Learning, the great Mischief of it, 256,
&feq.
Fafting, how little it fignifies to Religion, 232, 233,
234, 235. How little practifed by the Clergy, 236.
And yet how gainful to them formerly, 237.
Their Policy in appointing it,
Fathers want Orthodoxy, 243. Instances of this,
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