Ancients, who properly fuch, 39, 197. The reverence due to them,
ib. and 161. found to be lefs knowing the more narrowly their
ftate is looked into, 212. The gigantick tafte prevailed both in
their arts and frame of government, ib. excelled in general by
the moderns, 223. Whether they were fuperior in point of genius,
223. How we may be faid to outlive them, 219, 220.
Angel appears to Adam, 49. 55. and to the patriarchs, 73. 79. to
Balaam in a vifion only, according to Maimonides, 76, 77. often
feen in the infancy of the world, 54. 59. Neceffity for it, 158.
Conducts the Ifraelites, 87. probably Chrift himself, ib.
Animal food ufed from the beginning of the world, 54. Animal fa-
crifices, the intention of them, 50. not of human invention, ib.
and 52. vid. Sacrifice. Animal and vegetable world linked toge-
ther, 430.
Anthropomorphites, many fuch in the infancy of the world, 59. that no
difcreditable notion even in the primitive church, ib.
Antichrift, his rife and fall, 178.
Antiquity, most nations and families affect to carry it as high as pof-
fible, 209, 210. What reverence due to it, 39. 161. 165, 166. 197.
What age intitled to that reverence, ib. A too fupine refignation
to it the greateft obftruction to truth, and bar to knowledge, 168.
that arifes not out of modefty, but mere laziness, ib.
Apparitions frequent in the firft ages, 55. 59. Neceffity for it, ib.
The notion of them originally well founded, 78. though for many
late ages very fufpicious, ib. the constant belief of such made fome
real meffage from heaven neceffary, 297.
Appetites natural, why fo called, 10. whence formed, ib.
Arbitrary, nothing fuch in the divine difpenfations, 188.
Archery, why laid afide, 207.
Architecture, whether ancient or modern more perfect, 212.
Argument, Chriftianity not founded on it; Anfwer to that book, 20.
Arguments have a phyfical effect on the mind, 12. That from ana-
logy the beft proof of an hereafter, 253.
ARISTOTLE, a remarkable declaration by him before his death, if
the account be genuine, 114. Tradition of his converfing with a
Ferv, ib.
Ark of Noah, continued feveral ages after Abraham a monument of
the deluge, as well as model for fhipping, 67.
Armies, why thofe of the ancients were fo numerous, 213.
Artificial virtue, what meant by it, 255. How far it will answer our
purpose, ib.
Arts improved, flowly and gradually, 42, 43. 217, 218. fpread from
one center, 211. increafed fafter in proportion as mens lives
fhortened, 227. have connection with each other, 223. no valu-
able ones ever loft again, 206. Whether religion partakes of the
-like improvements, 44. 46. 226. In what refpect thefe differ, 47.
A lift of fuch as have been greatly improved by the moderns, 223.
Whether fuch improvements are injurious to morals, 253.
Affent, how far neceffary, 17.
Aociations, the ground of what is called natural appetites, 12, 13.
and of the human conftitution in general, ib. not altogether me-
chanical, ib. and 18. that between the investigation of truth and
merit one of the strongest, ib. Often the chief principle of mo-
rals, 254.
Aftronomy of the Chinese, 29. 214.
ATHANASIUS, his opinion of our mortality, 346.
Atheist, the confequence of fuppofing a progrefs in religious know-
ledge in refpect to him, 252.
ATHENS, ftate of philofophy there when Chrift came, 120. 129.
Atonement, the intent of fome facrifices from the beginning, 50. made
by Chrift, 284. in what fenfe his death fuch, ib.
Attention, the power of giving or with-holding it seems to imply li-
berty, 12.
Auguftan age, for what remarkable, 137. vid. Age.
AUGUSTIN, cited, 118. 144.
Authority, of the church in afcertaining the fenfe of Scripture, what,
161. 185. 268. of the Fathers, 160. 162. 168. Divine authority
of the holy Scriptures, wherein it confifts, 265.
BABYLON, in its moft flourishing state when the Jews were removed
thither, 151. Effects of that removal on them, 94. Its empire not
fo old as was pretended, 210. Its extent, &c. no proof that arts
were in extraordinary perfection there, 212.
BACON, Ld. Ch. on Innovations, 196.
BALAAM, a true prophet, 75. his character, ib. his revelation per-
haps communicated in vifion or trance, ib. 76. Whether St.Peter's
account of one excludes this fuppofition, 77.
Baptifm of infants, whether properly a divine inftitution, 23.
Baptift, vid. JOHN.
BARCHUSEN, de Lepra Mofaica, 232.
BARRINGTON (Hon. Mr.) on ancient manners, 246.
BAYLE on reformations in religion, 166. on the ancients, 223.
Beafts clean and unclean, on what the diftinction founded, 53, 54.
Their flesh used for food as well as their skins for cloathing, ib.
otherwise much less propriety in offering them for facrifice, ib.
BEATTIE (Mr.) on Truth, 420.
Belief, of what kind required in Chriftianity, 22. A right one how
far requifite, ib. A rational one neceffary, ib. Objections answer-
ed, ib. and 24.
Beneficence, in what manner to be exercised according to the com-
mand of Christ, Luke xiv. 12. 312. Chubb's drollery on that head
cenfured, ib. The rule the fame with that of fome eminent hea-
then writers, ib.
Benefits of the Chriftian inftitution, 35, 36. 112. of Christ's death,
281, &c.
Benefits require acknowledgment, 55. Hence the intent and ufe of
feveral facrifices, ib. Vice in general not productive of any, 251.
Benevolence, perhaps in greater perfection now than ever fince the
times of primitive Chriftianity, 246.
BENSON (Dr.) cited 192. referred to, 157. 189. 315-324-337-
BETHESDA pool, defign of the miracles there, 134.
Bible, the only evidence of fuch antiquity as is to be our guide, 163.
vid. Scripture.
BLAIR on Chrift's Sermon on the Mount, 289.
Bleffing, each prefent one a pledge of others future, 81.
Blood, the decree about abftaining from it related only to things in-
different in themselves, 158. only temporary, ib. The life of foul
of man placed in it, 379.
Blood-guiltinefs, that confeffed in Pfal. li. 14. relates to the murder of
the Meffiah, 175.
Body, the better known, the better able we are to preferve it, 231.
Disorders of it not increased in general, ib. vid. Difeafes.
BOEHMER, his differtations on the primitive church and ecclefiaftical
authority recommended, 162. cited 156, 157. 169. 243. 313.
BOLINGBROKE, his letters on the ftudy of hiftory, 247. Effays, 7.
65.90. 101. 155. 206, 207, 208. 212.
BOSSUET, on the ufe of continuing the Jews and Samaritans, 175.
BOYLE's lecture, the inftitution vindicated, 24.
Brazen ferpent, the probable import of it, and ceremony attending
it, 176.
Breath, the life of man placed in it, 380.
BUDDEUS, de bonarum literarum decremento non metuendo, 230.
BURNET (B. L.) cited, 104.
CAIN, his offering in fome visible manner rejected by the Deity, 51.
on what account, 52.
CALMET, on the perfon caught in adultery, 322.
CANA, marriage there. vid. Marriage.
CANAAN, a prieft of the true God there, 73.
Canaanites fpared till ripe for destruction, 88. had the greatest means
of information, 92. incorrigibly wicked when ordered to be extir-
pated by the Jews, ib. How far their punishment reached, ib.
and on what condition inflicted, ib. why by the Jews, 93. Rea
fon and neceffity of inflicting it. ib. Ufe and propriety of doing
that by the fword, ib. of the Jews, ib. This not out of fpecial
favour, but for a warning to them, ib. Objection from the Ca-
naanites not having proper notice, anfwered, 87, 88.95.
Canon of interpreting the Scripture, the moft ufeful one, 326.
Captivity of the Jews in Babylon, its effect on them, 94. difperfes
them all over the eaft, 151. vid. Jews.
Carthaginians no better than their ancestors the Canaanites, 106.
CASAUBON, (If.) 211.
CASTALIO, his threefold divifion of the matter of fcripture, 267.
CELSUS of the rife and progrefs of medicine, 217.
Center, mankind all spread from one, 211.
Ceremonies, why fo many in the Jewish religion, 90.
Characteristicks, obfervation on the principle of morals advanced in
them, 251. The author of them and of the Fable of the Bees in two
oppofite and equally abfurd extremes, ib.
Charity unites all Chriftian virtues, 186. at a great height now,
246.
Charity-fchools have greatly contributed to promote the knowledge
and practice of religion amongst us, 247.
Childhood of the world, 63. 82. 146, &c. of Chriftianity, 156, 157.
Some nations in it yet, 186.
Children reprefent true Chriftians in their humility and innocence,
310. become men earlier in these latter ages, 219.
CHINESE, far from deferving the extravagant character that has
been given of them, 29. Their architecture, 213. Their small
skill in aftronomy, ib. and 214. The caufes of their ignorance,
31. Of the flow progrefs of religion amongst them, ib. Their
kill in chronology, geography, mechanicks, metaphyficks, 213,
214. have not yet got an alphabet, ib. Their civil policy, their
government, morals, and religious notions, ib. great hypocrites,
ib. perhaps originally a colony from Egypt, ib.
CHRIST, his original ftate, 275. Manner of his humiliation, 276.
private life, 280. Ill confequence of disputes concerning the mo-
dus of the union of his different natures, 229. Use and excellence
of his undertaking for us, 293, &c. beft accommodated to our
capacity, ib. fitteft to move our paffions, 294. Whence his cha-
racter apt to affect us more than even that of God the Father, ib.
Circumstances of the heathen world when he came, ib. Neceffity
for his coming to remove their prejudices and delufions, ib. to
establish the belief of one mediator, ib. Born perhaps in the fame
place where his Father David kept sheep, 72. and fuffered where
Abraham offered up his Son, ib. probably conducted the Ifraelites
through the wilderness, 87. and had them placed more immedi
ately under his government, ib. though he adminiftered the great
affairs of the world in every difpenfation, ib. Why he appeared
in a state of infancy, 276, 277. and grew up gradually, ib. Why
not in a state of maturity, ib. Why he deferred his miniftry till
he was thirty years old, 278. Why he chofe fo low a condition,
280. and lived fo much in private, 141..280. and removed from
place to place, 141. His temptation in the wilderness a vifion,
76. Why he hindered his being proclaimed the Meffiah, 141. yet
did not difclaim that character, ib. Why he did not open his
commiffion before either the Jewish or Roman governors, ib. His
familiar way of converfing with his difciples, 287, &c. devotion,
ib. fermon on the mount, 89. Mixture of greatness and humility,
mildness and severity in his character, 298. 300. reason of it, ib.
Nature and tendency of his miracles, 279, 301. His general
converfation, ib. carriage, ib. especially towards governors in
church and state, 308. chiefly converfant in focial duties, 307.
Excellence and ufe of the pattern he fet, ib. and 308. compre
henfiveness thereof, ib. Teitimony of a late infidel in its favour,
ib. his guarding against envy and offence, 280. 308. 324. against
all fufpicion of acting in concert with his relations, 302. Nature
of his miracles, 301,-4. Defence of the first publick one, ib.
His actions not recorded with all their circumftances, 274. 320.
nor his reafonings fet down at large, ib. nor any deductions made
from either, 274. The reafon of this, ib. The doctrines he
taught, 111. his manner of teaching-occafionally, 309, &c. many
inftances of it, 310. Ufe thereof, 320,-24, &c. by parables,
324. reafons for it, 325. Decorum and propriety of them, ib.
Antiquity and excellence of that way, ib. in figurative ex-
preffions, 323. and the words of fome old prophet, ib. His knowledge
of men's thoughts, 330. inftances of it, ib. Hence often faid to
anfwer, when no queftion is asked, ib. speaks and acts in exact
conformity to Jewish customs, 326, 327. adapts himself both to
the language and opinions of the vulgar, ib. and 409. treats of
things in the most popular way, 326. his words to be taken in
the ordinary vulgar fenfe, ib. his doctrine plain, practical and per-
tinent, 328. confifts of moft fubftantial duties, general rules and
univerfal principles, ib. inftances of fuch, ib. & feq. his death the
confequence of owning himself to be the Meffiah, 281. whether
to be confidered as a propitiatory facrifice, ib. The nature and
defign of it, ib. properly voluntary, 284. why fo great stress laid
on that last act, 282. Wrong notions concerning it, ib. feems to
include fomething vicarious, 286. yet may perhaps be accounted
for by an accommodation to the facrifical mode of worship, ib.
compared to several parts of the Jewish dispensation, ib. but not
exactly conformable to any, ib. exceeded them all in its effects,
ib. reprefented by Chrift under the fimilitude of a Shepherd laying
down his life for the sheep, ib. The benefits difpenfed on occafion
of it resemble other parts of the divine œconomy. ib.
Christianity, the import of that inftitution, 290. End and use of it,
16. an improvement on natural religion as well as former infti-
tutions, 226. 293, &c. Method of propagating it, 15, &c. com-
pletely delivered at firft, but not fo understood, 47, 48. Qualifi-
cations requifite to its reception, 28. and continuance in any
Country, 29. prepofterous methods of advancing it, ib. Caufes
of its flow progrefs in China, 29. and 214. and both the Indies, 31.
why not more univerfal, 15, &c. Objections to the method of
conveying it, ib. Want of univerfality laid the greatest stress on
by modern unbelievers, 42. given up at laft by Chubb, 17. equally
univerfal with the law of nature, 6, 7. Objection answered, 7.
Why that cannot be fo, 8, 9, &c. Beauty and convenience of the
prefent fyftem, 10. 14. Inconveniences of communicating a re-
velation by immediate inspiration to each perfon, 15.-26.
Anfwer to Chriftianity not founded on argument, ib. or by a repe-
tition of miracles in every age, 27. to be propagated gradually,
ib. and by the common methods of inftruction, 16. different to
different perfons, in different times, and places, 33. partakes of
the temper of each, 30. 48. Cafe of thofe who have it not com-
municated to them, 34. 191. Effects which it will certainly pro-
duce, 112. Whether in this life or not, ib. general benefits
thereof, 35. extend to thofe under former difpenfations, 189, 190.
the doctrines of it, 111. Why not communicated to the world
much fooner, 48. 109. not wanted for fome time, 63. previous
difpenfations proper with regard to both Jew and Gentile, 113,
114. delivered probably about the middle age of the world, 115.
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