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after-dissensions, the birth and
kingdom of the Messiah, 345-
371; of his life, passion, resurrec-
tion, mission of the apostles, as-
cension, &c. 388-465; of the
mission of the Holy Ghost, gift of
tongues, miracles, &c. 485-504;
of the apostles' successors, (false
teachers, &c.) their ambition,
innovations, &c. the effects of
them, and the Messiah's com-
ing to judgment, 507-551; his
answer to Adam's resolution of
future obedience, &c. commends,
advises him, and warns him to
quit Paradise, 575; leads him and
Eve out, 637. (Vide Similes.)
Mind, the force of it, i. 254; dis-
course, its food, ix. 237.
Moloch, (a fallen angel,) i. 392; his
speech in the council called by
Satan after their fall, ii. 51; defies
Gabriel in the battle between the
celestial and revolted angels, vi.
357; is wounded by him and flies,
vi. 360.
Moon, supposed inhabited by trans-

lated saints and middle spirits,
iii. 459; its office, 726; rising de-
scribed, iv. 606; the spots in it,
vapours not yet consolidated with
its body, v. 418; part of the fourth
day's creation, vii. 356; receives its
light from the sun, 375; motion,
aspects, 379.

Moon and stars, their courses, influ-
ences, &c. iv. 661.
Moon and planets, their noxious
motion, aspects, &c. an effect of
Adam's fall, x. 656.
Morning in heaven described, vi. 12.
Morning, natural, described, v. 1,
20; ix. 192; xi. 133.

Moses and Aaron, their mission to
Egypt, xii. 170.

Mulciber, (a fallen angel,) i. 740.

N.

Night in heaven described, v. 642.

Night and day in heaven described,
vi. 4.

Night natural described, iv. 604,
776; v. 38; ix. 48; at Adam's
fall, x. 846.

Nimrod, (the first monarch,) his
tyranny described and censured,
xii. 24.

Nisroch, (a fallen angel,) vi. 446;
his answer to Satan in council
after their defeat by the celestial
angels, vi. 451.

Noah, his reprehension of the ante-
diluvian world, xi. 719, 808;
building the ark, &c. 728; enter-
ing it with his family, the crea-
tures, &c. 733; the flood described,
738, 824; its abatement, the ark's
resting, &c. 841; his descent from
it, the appearance of the rainbow,
&c. 861.

Noon described, v. 300.

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Paradise (or the garden of Eden)
described, iv. 131, 214; v. 291;
vii. 537; viii. 304; ix. 439; the
eastern gate of it, iv. 542; guarded
by Gabriel, 549; the bower of
Adam and Eve there, iv. 690; the
parade, watches, &c. of the guar-
dian angels in Paradise, iv. 778,
782, 861, 977; the hill there, from
whence Michael discovers to
Adam in vision what should hap-
pen to the time of the flood, xi.
377; Adam and Eve's expulsion
from Paradise described, xii. 625;
the flaming sword, &c. guarding
the east gate of it, 532; the seat
of it described by Noah's flood,
xi. 829. (Vide Similes.)
Passions inordinate, an effect of
Adam's fall, ix. 1120.
Patriarchal government, from the
flood to Nimrod's tyranny, xii. 13.
Patriarchs, (Abraham's, &c.) their
story related, xii. 113.

Peace, the corruptions of it equal to
the wastes of war, xi. 783.
Peor or Chemos, (a fallen angel,)
i. 412.

Persecution in matters spiritual, the
rise of it, xii. 508-533; its
effects, 533.

Phlegethon, (a river of hell,) ii. 580.
Plagues of Egypt described, xii. 173.
Planets and moon, their noxious

motions, aspects, &c. an effect of
Adam's fall, x. 656.

Pleasures sensual censured, xi. 603.
Poles, north and south, perpetual

day under both, but for Adam's
fall, x. 668, 680.

Prayer, the efficacy of its spirit, xi.

5, 14, 146; unavailable against
God's absolute decrees, 311.
Predestination defined, iii. 111.
Priests occasion the first dissension
in the Jewish church and state,
xii. 353.

Prosopopoeia, on Eve's eating the
forbidden fruit, ix. 782; on
Adam's, 1000.


Rainbow, its first appearance after
Noah's flood, xi. 865; sign of
God's covenant to destroy the
world no more by water, 895.
Ramiel, Ariel, and Arioc, (fallen
angels,) vanquished, vi. 369.
Raphael, (the Archangel,) his descent
to Paradise to warn Adam against
his fall, v. 247; his person de-
scribed, 276; answer to Adam's
invitation to his bower, and enter-
tainment there, 371, 404; saluta-
tion of Eve, 388; discourse with
Adam on various subjects, v. 468
to viii. 651; on the perfection,
variety, and gradual economy of
the creation, v. 468-543; on
obedience, as a duty of choice,
not necessity, 520-543; on the
revolt and defeat of the fallen
angels, 577-897; thence warns
him against Satan's temptations,
vi. 893; vanquishes Asmadai, and
puts him to flight, 363; on the
creation, &c. vii. 111-640; on
the motion, appearances, and in-
fluences of the celestial and ter-
restrial bodies, viii. 15-178; reply
to Adam's account of himself on
his creation, &c. 560; reply to
his question concerning love, and
the expression of it in spirits
celestial, 620; advice to Adam at
parting, and re-ascent to heaven,
630. (Vide Similes.)
Reason, and free-will, the same, iv.

95, 108; ix. 350; the chief faculty
of the soul, v. 100; the being of
the soul, discursive of men, intui-
tive of angels, 486; in animal
creatures, viii. 369; the law of
nature, ix. 653; correlative with
liberty, xii. 83; with virtue, 97.
Redemption of man, proposed by
God the Father, iii. 203; under-
taken by God the Son, 227.
Repentance, the grace of God, iii.

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Sabbath, its institution, the seventh
after the six days' creation, vii.
581; the solemnity of it de-
scribed, 594.

Salvation, not only to the sons of
Abraham's loins, but his faith,
xii. 449.

Satan, (the prince of the fallen

angels,) his fall from heaven, i.
34; why so called, i. 81; v. 657;
speech to Beelzebub, after their
fall, i. 84; reply to Beelzebub's
answer, 157; ascent from hell,
192; his stature, looks, &c. de-
scribed, 193; iv. 985; v. 706;
speech to Beelzebub thereon, i.
242; his shield described, 284;
his spear, 292; speech to the
other fallen angels, 315; his
standard described, 531; speech
to the fallen angels reimbattled,
622; calls a council, 752; speech
to them in council, ii. 11; under-
takes an attempt on the world,
(the result of it,) 430, 465; ascent
to the gates of hell, 629; speech
to Death there, 681; the father
of Sin, and Death, 727; answer
to Sin's speech, 737; to her reply,
817; flight into Chaos, 917; ar-
rival at the court of Chaos, 951;
speech there, 968; brought Sin
and Death first into the world,
1024; ascent to light, &c. 1034;
alights on the convex of the
world's outermost orb, iii. 418;

view of the world from the first
step to heaven gate, 540; descent
to it described, 561; stops at the
sun, 588; discovers Uriel, the
angel of it, there, 621; transforms
himself to a cherub, 634; speech
to Uriel, 654; deceives him, 681;
is directed by him to the world,
724; and Paradise, 733; alights
on Mount Niphates, 739; soli-
loquy, contemplating the sun,
iv. 32; the first hypocrite, 121;
arrives at Paradise, 131; sits on
the tree of life, 194; soliloquy on
view of Adam and Eve in Para-
dise, 358; descends from the
tree of life, and assumes several
animal shapes, 395; listens to
Adam's discourse with Eve, on
God's prohibition of the tree of
knowledge, 408; soliloquy on the
subject of it, 505; resolves thence
to tempt them to disobedience,
512; first attempt, in the as-
sumed shape of a toad, on Eve
asleep, 799; answer to Ithuriel
and Zephon, reprehending him
thereon, 827; reply to their
answer, 854; answer to Gabriel,
886; reply to his answer, 925; to
another, 968; inauguration of God
the Son, the occasion of his revolt,
v. 657; speech to the next subor-
dinate angel of his party there-
on, 673; the seat of his hierarchy
before his fall, described, 756;
speech to the angels of his hier-
archy thereon, 772; reply to Ab-
diel's answer, on his speech to the
hierarchs of his party, 853; his
army described, vi. 79; his port,
and post there, 99; answer to
Abdiel's reply, 150; battle be-
tween his and the celestial army,
described, 205-385; his prowess
in the battle, 246; encounters
Michael, 253; answer to Michael's
speech thereon, 281; the combat
described, 296; wounded by him,
320; carried off, 335; his army

defeated, 386; retreats, and calls
a council, 414; speech in council,
418; reply to Nisroch there, 469;
gives the word for renewing the
battle, 458; renewed by his army,
and the second battle described,
569, 670; speech on the celestial
army's retreat, 608; his army's
entire defeat and expulsion from
heaven described, 831-877; re-
turns from compassing the earth
to Paradise by night, in a mist,
in order to his temptation, ix. 53;
his circuit, &c. described, 62; so-
liloquy thereon, 99; enters the
serpent, 182; view (in that shape)
of Eve, 424; soliloquy thereon,
473; behaviour to her, 523; speech
to her, 532; reply to her answer,
567; the discourse (his tempta-
tion of Eve to eat the forbidden
fruit) continued, 732; leaves her
after eating it, 784; his sentence
thereon (virtually) pronounced by
God the Son, x. 171; returns to
hell to avoid his presence in Para-
dise, 337; meets Sin and Death
upon their journey to the world
on Adam's, &c. fall, 345; answer
to Sin's speech, 383; parts with
them, 410; ascends his throne at
Pandemonium, 443; speech to the
fallen angels assembled there,
459; applauded with a hiss, 504;
he and they transformed to ser-
pents, 510; farther punished with
an illusion of the forbidden fruit,
549; both annually continued,
575; himself (the serpent) dragged
in chains at the ascension of the
Messiah, xii. 453; dissolution (with
the world) at his coming to judg-
ment, 545. (Vide Similes.)
Saturn, (a fallen angel,) i. 512.
Scriptures, how to be understood,
xii. 511.

Seasons, their changes, respecting

each clime, an effect of Adam's
fall, x. 677.

Serpent described, ix. 182; after

entered by Satan, 495; his sen-
tence (formally) pronounced by
God the Son, as the assumed
tempter of Eve, x. 163, 175.
(Vide Similes.)

Sidereal blasts, &c. an effect of
Adam's fall, x. 692.

Similes.

Adam and Eve, after their fall-to
the Americans, at first seen by
Columbus, ix. 1115; their repent-
ance-to Deucalion and Pyrrha's
address to restore human race
after their flood, xi. 8.

Adam caressing Eve-to Jupiter
with Juno, (May-showers,) iv.
499; his address to her sleeping

-to Zephyrus breathing on Flora,
v. 15; bower, to Pomona's arbour,
377; desires to know the story of
the creation, prior to his own-
to thirst unallayed, increasing,
vii. 66; awaked after carnal frui-
tion, the first effect of his fall-
to Samson shorn by Dalilah, ix.
1059; sorrow on the vision of
Noah's flood-to a father's mourn-
ing his children all destroyed in
his view at once, xi. 760.
Angels celestial, the spears (of the
guardians of Paradise)-to ears of
corn ripe for reaping, iv. 980;
their march against Satan's army
-to that of the birds in Paradise
to receive their names from Adam,
vi. 72; their hallelujahs-to the
sound of seas, x. 642; appointed
to expel Adam, &c. (from Para-
dise) their faces to a double
Janus (four), xi. 128; their eyes
-to those of Argus, 129; their
appearance there-to the angels
appearing to Jacob in Mahanaim,
213; to those in Dothan against
the king of Assyria, 216; their
motion-to an evening mist, xii.
628.

Angels fallen (or infernal)-to au-

tumnal leaves, i. 302; to floating
sea-sedge after a storm, 304;
rousing at Satan's command-to
sentinels waking from sleep on
duty, 331; imbattling against the
angels celestial-to the Egyptian
plague of locusts, 338; to the ir-
ruptions of the northern barba-
rians, 351; their disposition to
engage to that of the heroes of
antiquity, 549; with them-the
greatest armies in all ages since
the creation-pigmies, 573; them-
selves-to oaks or pines blasted,
612; their searching, &c. for the
materials of Pandemonium-to
pioneers intrenching, &c. 675;
their manner of raising it-to
the wind of an organ, 705; as-
sembling thereat-to bees, 768;
to pigmies, 780; to fairies, 781;
their applause of Mammon's
speech in council-to the hollow
wind after a storm, ii. 285; their
rising from council-to thunder
afar off, 476; their pleasure on the
result to the evening sun after
a foul day, 488; their after various
pursuits, passions, &c.-to the
Olympic, or Pythian games, 530;
to the phænomena of armies in
the clouds, 533; to Hercules on
Eta, 543; their numbers compos-
ing Satan's army against the ce-
lestials to the stars, v. 745; to
the dew drops, 746; their ap-
plause of Satan's reply to Abdiel

to the sound of deep waters,
872; thronged together after their
entire defeat by God the Son-
to a herd of goats, vi. 856; their
retreat to Pandemonium from
the frontiers of hell during Satan's
expedition to the world-to the
Tartars' flight before the Russ-
and the Persian from the Turk-
wasting the intermediate country,
x. 431; transformation to serpents
-to those sprung from the gor-
gon's blood, &c. 526; their ap

pearance on the tree illusive of
the forbidden fruit-to the snaky
hair of Megara, (one of the furies,)
558; the fruit-to the apples of
Sodom, 561.

Chaos. Atoms, their motion-to the
Libyan quicksands, ii. 900; con-
fusion there--to storming a town,
920; to heaven and earth (sup-
posed) falling, &c. 924.
Death, and Sin, their making a
bridge over Chaos to the world--
to polar winds, driving the ice
together in the (supposed) north-
east passage, x. 289; the work-
to Neptune's fixing the isle of
Delos, 293; to Xerxes making a
bridge over the Hellespont, 306.
Death's instinct of Adam's fall-to
the flight of birds of prey to a
field of battle, x. 273; his and
Satan's frowns on each other-to
two thunder clouds meeting, ii.
714.

Eve-her hair-to the vine's ten-
drils, iv. 305; her looks-to the
first blush of morning, v. 122;
herself to Pandora, iv. 713; to
a wood-nymph, or Venus, v. 379;
to a Dryad, or Delia (Diana), ix.
387; to Pales or Pomona, 393;
to Ceres, 395; her temptation by
Satan-alluded to by the story of
Ophion and Eurynome, x. 578.
Flaming sword in Paradise, on
Adam's and Eve's expulsion thence
-to a comet, xii. 632; its heat,
&c.-to the Libyan air, 634.
Hell-to mount Etna, (in Sicily,)
i. 230; to the bog or lake Serbo
nis, (in Palestine,) ii. 592.
Knowledge-the desires of it-to a

thirst unallayed, increasing, vii. 66.
Michael-his combat with Satan-
to two planets (the frame of na-
ture, supposed, dissolved) rushing
in opposition to each other, vi.
310; appearance to expel Adam,
&c. from Paradise-to a man in a
military vest, &c. xi. 239.

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