то THE SECOND A VOLUM E. A 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. 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. 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. 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. Anaximenes, how he stooped to obtain attention, 129. 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. 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. Appliation, the ufual clofing part of a fermon, 30. Sometimes compofed of concomitants, 30. Perfectly confiftent with the doctrine of decrees, 335. The best, 392. Approbation, effential to mental fin, 280, &c. 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. Arifto, Titus, his character a model, 92. Ariftobulus murdered by Herod, and then lamented, 304. Ariftophanes, his buffoonery fatal to Socrates, 112, 160. 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. 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- Athens, the fcandalous idolatry and vice of, 111. Attention, thould not be acquired by fanciful methods, 129. 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. Authority, Authority, church, cannot produce faith, 135. 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. 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 Barker, the part he took in Salter's-hall fermons, 231. death, 225. Bafil, what he thought of merit, z18. Battwick, his prayer, 42. Bates, Dr. ufed anecdotes fometimes in fermons, 272, &c. Baxter, Rev. Richard, a better divine than Bp. Laud, 131. 3 R Baxter, |