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Clerc, Le. See Le Clerc.

Clergy, no countenance as a distinct order from fcripture,

292.

Not fairly taxed with avarice as a body, 82.
When, and why they affumed titles, 37.
Romish, not all bad, 82. 54. 53.

Their fervile ftate, 63.
Slaves to interest, 224.

French, what they do, when hard driven, 221.
English epifcopal, not by divine right, 293.
How they flattered James I. 200.

How they preached in the time of Charles I. 42.
How variable from the restoration to the death of Queen
Ann, 81.

What Bunyan thought of them, 106.

Some garnish themselves with ftate feathers, 211.
And yet complain of contempt, 17.

Cocceius, his fenfe of Zeph. ii. 1.

329.

Coercion, none in religion among the diffenters, 62.

Collect, the laft prayer should be a recapitulatory, 337.
Command, divine, effential to a pofitive inftitute, 131.
Commiffion, christian minister's, 186.

Common places, what, 24.

Muft not be ufed promifcuously, 117.

Common place preaching, mere, ridiculous, 14. Company, trading, proper fubjects for fermons to a, 375Comparison, a beautiful topick, 174. 265.

Caution in the ufe of, neceffary, 177.

Compenfation, what, 288.

Complaining, too much cherished by fome preaching, 300.
Complaint, a curious one prefented by the French prelates
to their patron, 221.
Complaifance, when a crime, 37. 55.

A publick nuifance in matters of confcience, 357-
Compliments, produce ill effects in religion, 179.
Offenfive in a place of worship, 122.

Detestable in preaching, 173. 462. Compofition, in theology, what, z9o. Of a fermon requires tafte, 21.

The chief art lies in a conformity to circumftances, 485. Compofers of fermons, fome would go mad to hear them de

livered, 334

Compound words, 90.

Comprehenfion, in English church history, what, 400.

Concealmen

Concealment, rhetorical artifice, 327.

Conceits, a favourite topick with fome preachers, 322, &c.

Conclufion, what, 489.

Löves contrast, 197.

Violent, tender, elevated, &c. 491, &c. &c. Concomitants, what, and of various ufes of, 30, &c. Condition, a vague word, 266.

Of falvation, an innocent phrafe with fome, 437. Coneybeare, his propofitional points, 399.

His proper reply to Hobbes's noftrums, 403. Conference-meetings, may be very useful, 246. Confucius, Chrift made to conform to him, 306. Confutations, how properly introduced, 155.

Connection, natural to us, and pleafing in all addresses to us, 476.

Connections, worldly, neceffary must be diftinguished from arbitrary, 345.

Confcience, publick, an abfurdity, 68.

Doubtful, cant, as applied to diffenters, 69.
Of a good man unpliable, 55.

Complaifance plays the cheat with, 37.

Dominion over, a violation of the gospel, 38.

Subject to no authority but that of God, 317.

Liberty of, England always allowed it to refugees, even while it was denied to natives, 209.

Addreffing, a fingular talent in some preachers, 126. Confent, univerfal, what, 405.

Confequences, a topick, 146.

Conftantine, his reign fatal to true religion, 37. 82. 237
Confubftantiation, 7.

Contemplation, highest degree of moral excellence with fome,

280.

Contradictions, feeming, of scripture, how reconciled, 129,

162. 182.

Contraft, a fine topick, 193. 196. 369.

Controverfy, what, and how best managed, 215. 244.

Church, how fadly interest affects it, 68.

How it might be rendered a privilege, 152.

Popish, what neceffary to be studied in it, 125. Converfion, ordinary should be distinguished from extraordi¬

nary, 357.

Treated very injudiciously by fome, 375.
Converts, new, to what prone, 344.
Corinth, why the Romans facked it, 126.

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Cornelius,

Cornelius, Bp of Rome, a plain brother, 36.

Corruption of chriftianity, when fundamental, 252.
Various, whence, 297.

Cotelerius, the proper ufe he makes of an apothegm, 146.
Coughing, a great disturbance in publick worship, 459.
Country, a topick, 103.

Court-divinity, what in James I. time, 159.

What in the reign of Charles I. 41.

Sermons, church-gazettes, 159.

Chaplains, Saurin thought the French publick pefts, 1153 Coverdale, far fuperior to Cox, 131.

Cranmer, tolerant to foreigners, 209.

Bloody at home, 210.

Flattered by foreign penfioners, 211.

His piety no argument for the truth of his doctrine, 314. Crantz, his hiftory of Greenland referred to, 406. Crashaw, ridicules papal holiness, 75.

Creduloufnefs a great blemish in a minister, 119.
Creeds, do not preserve doctrines, 131.

Wrong rules of interpretation, 138.

Chriftians need none, 132.

Crellius, reafons a great point from a Greek article, 172.
Cretians, their national character, 57.

Crifp, Dr. not a practical Antinomian, 260.

Criticks, verbal, poor expofitors, 295.

Crosby, complains of Neal's partiality, 81.

Relates what the old baptifts thought of reviving a loft ordinance, 184.

Crofs, where the fathers found it, 173.

Sign of, in christening, where the chief evil lies, 285. Crowley, ufed trade-images in religion, 190.

Curiofity, dangerous on fome fubjects, 156.

Cyprian, his fraternal epiftolary style, 36.

How he expounds Deut. xxxiii. 17. 173.

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Damafus, Pope, extravagantly complimented by Jerom, 37.
Daniel, Prophet, a diffenter in Babylon, 178.
Weeks of, not a popular fubject, 13.

Data, should be fettled previously by difputants, 247.
- Philofophical, proper grounds of reafoning, 92, &c.
And of fermons, 12.

Deacons, primitive, their character, 57.

Death, a fine applicatory topick, 348.

A favourite one with fome preachers, 347.

Deception,

Deception, effential to the dominion of vice, 343.
Declaimers, mere, poor tools in the pulpit, 20.
Declamation, ftyle of, no fafe ground of fact, 170.
Decrees, two ways of studying, 1.56.

How Saurin preached, 133.

Calvinistical doctrine of, rational, 155.

And confiftent with moral fuafion 335.

Dedication of the temple at Tyre, Eufebius's fermon at the,

237.

Dedication of books, the fashion of, in Q. Elizabeth's days,

211.

A fingular one by James I. 200.

Of the English bible, a courtly essay, 101. Defective phrafes, examples of, 378. Defence of christianity, the best, 231.

Definition, a topick, 260, &c.

Of terms effential to a minifter, 151.

Degree, a topick, 249.

Degrees, academical, why cenfured by the reformers, 37, 38. Deicide, what, 282.

Deists, enthusiasts, 118.

Delaune, his fine plea, unanswerable, 63.

Delicacy, finical, to be avoided in the pulpit, 341.

Delivery, of a fermon, should be adapted to the fubject, 334.

Dell, why he cenfured titles and degrees, 38.

Del, Rio, his ingenious turn on Eccl. vi. 3. 81.

Demetrius, interest made him a bully for Diana, 75.

Democracy, to what it tends, 352.

Democrates fometimes used coarse imagery, 343.

Demonax, what he said to a young declaimer, 176. Demofthenes, an expreffion of S. Paul's contrafted with an

admired one of his, 83.

Sometimes ufed coarfe colouring, 343.

Depravity, human, very great, 419.

Defcriptions, good ones affect, 364.

Defign, of a writer, must be ftudied, 132, &c.

Defign of Chriftianity, fome account of that book, 104:

Despair, how precluded, 364. 389.

Defpauterius on epithets, 100.

Defpotifm, the corruption of monarchy, 352.

Detracters, how they ought to be treated, 151.

Diana, Chrift's church is not fupported as her corporation

was, 75.

Diafyrmus, what, 113.

Dictionaries, precarious helps, 149.

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Differences,

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Differences, of fubjects, must be remarked, 175.

Of opinion, may be innocent, and should be tolerated, 185.
Dignity, human, phyfical, 419.

Diogenes, what he did to obtain audience, 128.
Diotrephes, a church-tyrant, 197.

Modern, execrable, 160, &c.

Dionyfius, Monk, how he defines myfticifm, 264.
Difcipline, church, occafion regulates it, 183.
Should be very cautious and tender, 308.
Difcontent, an argument for immortality, 351.
Difcretional power, how far allowable, 183.
Difinterestednefs, effential to religion, 73,

The best qualification in a ftudent of divinity, 255.
Difpofition of fubject, various methods of, 5.
Difpute, what, 245.

Why fome hate it, 245, &c.

Difputants, why some never fucceed, 259.
Often do damage, 227.

Diffent, from eftablishments, when neceffary, 136.
Diffenters, ancient, 178.

English proteftant, two forts, 230.

Their prefent ftate in regard to religious liberty, 62. Need not have a lord brother, unless they will, 161. Diffenters Sayings, of what fuch books are compofed, 84. Distinction, a topick, 258.

Divine right, an obfolete plea, 42. 101. 293.

Divinity, hurt by pretendedly learned definitions, 263.
Divines, Greek and Roman not all reprobates, 218.

Foreign, fome are penfioned by England, and not un-
grateful to their benefactors, 209.211.

Epifcopal, what forry arguments fome of them ufe to fup-
port their hierarchy, 314.

Old, many of their words and phrafes now obsolete, 32.
Of what fome complain, 154.

What fort of preaching they loved, 271, &c.

Not very

clear in the doctrine of law, 162.

Some do too much honour to pagan writers, 140.
Mercenary, what monftrous pofitions they lay down, 68.
Fraudulent, how they ftate objections, 229.

Why various forts affect candour and execrate controversy,

244.

Why fome moderate ones state obfcure points, 227.

Some run mad with a fpirit of panegyrizing, 210.
Why they ufe imagery, 190.

Mere doctrinal, not very confiftent, 328.

Doctrines,

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