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BRAHAM, his character, 57.

His covenant nothing to do with baptism, 423.

Abbot, Bp. read Greek to awake fleepers, 384.

Abfolution, its influence in monkery, 46.
Abfurdities, what gives them currency, 36.

Some monstrous ones laid down by fome epifcopalian di

vines, 69.

Abufe, of topicks, examples of, 103, 104.

Every fyftem of religion subject to, 411.

Accents belong to grammarians: not to expofitors, 205, &c. Accuracy of compofition, what, 249.

Action, proper pulpit, 335.

Violent, no fign of eminent zeal, 472.

Activity, a property of divine love, 55.

Actors, religious, who, 236.

Adam, an aukward here.ick in Tertullian's eye, 312.

Adam, Melchior, his high encomium on Bucholtzer, 134.
Adams, Dr. example from him, 23.

Adam, how he paraphrafes Rom. iii. 25. 377

Addifon, his remark on the partiality of thofe, who judge of ftyle, 83.

Reproves raillery in religion, 112.

Additions, human, to divine ordinances, dangerous, 318. Admiffion of members of churches, various methods of, 139. Affectation, univerfally disliked, 464.

Hurts a preacher, 466.

Affection, effential to a good preacher, 340.

Affections religious, what fhould be done to excite, 148, 149. Wifely treated of by Edwards, 361.

Age, a topick, or a principle of perfuafion, 103.

Agency, free, how fome reconcile it with neceffity, 242. Agonistical games, frequently alluded to in fcripture, 123.

Αγωνιζομαι, what, 346.

Agricola, the reputed parent of Antinomianism, 260.
Alexandria, who founded the church there, 160.

Succeeded to the trade of Tyre, 49.

Allegorits,

Allegorifts, the fathers were great, 174.

Modern do great injury to religion, 87.

Allegories fhould be governed by fcriptural explication, 142,

143.

How thofe in the Old Teftament are quoted in the New, 164.

Alliance between church and state, what it resembles, 202. Allocutions, various, 172.

Alois, Abbot, his extravagant mysticism, 52.

Alvarez, his myfticifm, 52.

Amalarius took the Pelagian fide in the controverfy concerning grace, 153.

Ambition, clerical, how it operates in fome communities, 27. Ames, Dr. how he pleaded the puritan caufe, 166.

Amplification, where neceffary, 175.

Amiterdam fucceeded to the virtues and the trade of Antwerp,

49.

Ananias and Sapphira, their punishment no precedent, 25L.
Anarchy, whence, 352.

Anaximenes, how he stooped to obtain attention, 129.
Andrews, fee Ely, vol. i.

Ann, Queen, how her clergy fettled her ecclefiaftical ac

counts, 72.

Her bounty to refugees, 209.

Anonymous orations bound up with the fathers, what proba

bly, 170.

Anfelm, his blafphemy concerning the Virgin Mary, 267. Anfon, Lord, what fault fome divines find with the history of his voyage, 338.

Antanaclafis, an elegant one in S. John, 27.

Anthems, in publick worship, a fymbolizing with papists, 307. Antinomians, who, 260.

How Saurin reproves them, 358.

Antithefis, beautiful one in Acts, 238.

Antwerp fucceeded Venice in trade, and trade virtues, 49. Apes, Bunyan's, had long tails, 106.

Apollinarians, who, 198.

Apology, what, 276.

Apostles, the xii. had mean thoughts of a Meffiah at first,

237.

How they understood their commiffion, 186.
Whether they would be admired now, 222, &c.
Why they did not make creeds and canons, 132.
Why they did not cenfure infant fprinkling, 132.

A pokies,

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 Cæfarem, 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 spirit 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 use 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, 243. How defended by fome, 314.

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

Affembly of divines, mifreprefented and abufed, 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, deftroyed 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, thould 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 episcopal articles, 315.

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

Fine topicks of application, 370.

Audience, preachers fhould try to obtain at firft, 459.

Auditors, how they difcover a good fermon at their departure,

490, 491.

Audland, his reply to a flanderous perfecutor, 216.
Auguftine, St. advifes 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 christianity, 71.

Its fatal influence on religion, 68.

Ayerft, example from him, 23.

B

Bacchus, the infamous celebration of his feftival at A-

thens, 111.

Backfliders, to what refembled by fcripture, 342.

Contrast, a proper topick of address 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, 203.

B. ptifm, primitive, 422.

Cannot be explained by circumcifion, 163.

Original form of words, effential to the right administra-

tion of, 318.

How Tertullian wrote about it, 102.

How to be restored, if loft, 184.

Practifed by immersion in the year ccclxxxviii, 92.

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

of adults, 423.

Perfecuted by Cranmer, 211.

Abused by Featly, 98.

Mifreprefented by Neal, 8r.

Barbon, his ranting defence of liturgies, 319.

Barclay, his apology contains unanswerable 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, z18.

Battwick, 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,