forely perfecuted by them, had great heaviness and continual forrow in his heart, upon their account. And let us implore the mercy of God for them, in the words of this excellent prayer of our church; "Take from them, O Lord, all ignorance, hard"nefs of heart, and contempt of thy word, and fo fetch them home, bleffed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be fayed among the remnant of the true Ifraelites, and be made "one one fold under one fhepherd, Jefus Chrift our Lord, Amen." 1 Rom. ix. 2. THE BEL, his faith made his offering acceptable, Abram, why changed to Abraham, 151 164 Abraham, the nature of the covenant with him explained, 163 faying Sarah was his fifter no lie, his fubmitting to offer Ifaac, a type of the love how all the earth is blessed in his feed, of God to men, Abraman, the Perfian and Indian devil, 167 ibid. ibid. 163 120 Agur, words of, 384 351 Agrippa, king, the last who bore that title, Ahafuerus, fuppofed to be Artaxerxes Longimanus, Ahaz, king of Judah, in diftrefs, Ahaziah, his history ought to forwarn us from going to 298 274 302 4 339 358 his interview with the high-prieft, Daniel's prophecy of him, his treatment of the Jews, Page Alexander, his death, 359 divifion of his empire, ibid. creation, Antony overcome by Cæfar, Apocrypha, what and whence named, inftitute the Chriftian fabbath, fcripture, Altar, brazen, its dimenfions and ufe, Americans, notions of their idol, Americans, their customs prove a descent from Adam, Ammonites territory, Amorites territory and defcent, Amos the prophet, the scope of his book, Angels, no mention of them in Mofes' hiftory of the Antiochus Epiphanes oppreffes the Jews, Antiochus the Great, his hiftory, Apis or Ofiris worshipped under the form of a bull, Apoftles worthy of credit, and why, Arabians, their conformity in phrafes with those used in Arbaces, governor of Media, rebels against Sardanapalus, Archelaus depofed and banished, 375 Ariftobulus, the firft king of the Jews after the captivity, 366 Ark of Noah, reflections on it, Ark, where placed in the temple, Arm, Hebrew ufe of this word, Afhtaroth, i. e. queen of heaven, the moon, Afia, how peopled, Afmoneans, the origin of that family, how long the fu- 155 208 88 119 159 365 ibid. 171 2 ibid. 3 ibid. 274 203 6 121 271 Babylon Barcocab, who he was, 4.00 Bath Col, the only kind of revelation under the second Belus or Nimrod, 2 Benjamin the Jew, his account of the ten tribes, 269, 277 20 270 Bethany, where fituated, Bethel, golden calf there carried away by Shalmanefer, Bethfaida in Galilee, Bethphage, its fituation, Bible, why so called, Bleffings, fupernatural effects followed on the Patriarchs, The cuftom of parents and priefts recommended there- from, Boaz, his hiftory explained, Breathing, how understood of God's breathing in man at Canaan, land of, how divided, Cakes, by whom offered, Calvary, or Golgotha, its fituation, Calf, molten, why in that form, Cambyfes, father of Cyrus, properly fo called, Canon of the fcripture, Canticles, their defign explained, 206 20 190 4 8 its defcription, nations, ibid. 9 251 69 355 Captivity, Captivity, to the return from thence, the fixth period in Page 102 from that return to Chrift the feventh period, ibid. 288 the number of those who returned from thence, 294 Ceremonies of the Jews not derived from the Egyptians, 227 Children, why fo much defired by the Jewish women, CHRIST, Jofephus' account of him, 150 86 39 his coming endeth the feventh period of the Jewish hiftory, 102 prophecy of Jerufalem exactly fulfilled, 383 what is meant by his coming, and the coming of difference in idolatry forbidden, by the 1st & 2d, 193 Commandments |