Political declamation or difcuffion unfit for the pulpit, iii. 298,
Polyander, his remark on the fynod of Dort, on the fupercilious
demeanor of the Arminians, ii. 254.
Polycarp, i. 134. Extracts from his Epiftles to the Philippians,
ibid. 135.
Ponet, Dr. John, Bishop of Winchester, fome account of him,
i. 249, 250. note. See Catechifm.
Poole, Mr. Edmund, the martyr, ii. 50.
Pontius Pilate, an afferter of free-will, vi. 72. For which Chrift
reprimanded him, 73.
Pope, Mr. quoted, iii. 281. note, 292. vi. 34. 52.92. 134. 67.
76. note.
Popery, grofs advances toward it in the reign of Charles the
First, i. xxxv. Arminianifm the turnpike-road to it, xxxiii.
94. ii. 270. (See Arminianifm.) Mr. Welley's lax idea of
Popery, i. 97. note. Loft much ground during the Marian
perfecution of Proteftants, ii. 148.
Poplinerius, Launcelot, his teftimony concerning the Waldenfes,
ii. 140.
Potter, Chriftopher, two letters of his to Laud, i. 66. 68. note.
His pains to ingratiate himfelf with that prelate, 67. Halts
between Calvinifm and Arminianifm, 69-71. note. A dex-
terous trimmer, ibid. note. A remarkable circumftance of
him, iv. 144.
Prayer, irreconcilable with the Arminian doctrine of free-will,
i. 209. Warranted by predeftination, ii. 126. An appointed
mean to appointed ends, vi. 84. By no means incompatible
with predestination, 98, 99.
Prayers for private ufe, bound up with the Liturgy, ii. 128, 129.
A courfe of, for a family, v. 482, &c.
Preaching to finners perfectly compatible with the doctrine of
predestination, exemplified, v. 278.
Predeftination, a doctrine peculiarly offenfive to the church of
Rome, i. 74. 82. 93. ii. 186. The Pelagian idea of it,
i. xxxii. 50. 171. ii. 53. The denial of predeftination fe
verely punished by our English reformers, i. xxv. note. 49, 50.
ii. 146. 210. Apoftatized from, at modern Geneva, 64. St.
Auftin's doctrine of, i. 101, IC2. Judiciously ftated by Re-
migius of Lyons, 153, 154. Held by the church of England,
i. 110. ii. 258. 210. 291. 293. and by the primitive church,
i. 110-114. Definitions of it, 206. 316. 332, 333. ii. 192.
205. Extends to all things, i. 316. 332. ii. 204.
Has no
foundation but the fovereign will of God, i. 235. ii. 205, 206.
238. Is infallibly effectual, i. 228. Archbishop Bancroft's
method of reafoning upon it, 273, 274. and Mr. Bradford's,
ii. 74. How it differs from election, 205. Nothing unjust or
arbitrary in the belief of it, iii. 290. Ufes and abufes of,
vi. 111, 112. The doctrine of, ftated and afferted, 195, 312.
Does not fet afide the means, v. 214. Explained as it relates
to all men, 238. Ought to be openly preached and infifted.
upon, 280. Exemplified, 278. A clear mirror to see the
attributes of God in, 294. Does not annihilate fin, 419.
426. Nor reduce men to machines, 378. 411. Nor clash with
the future judgment, 431. Harmonifes with neceffity,
vi. 46. note.
Prefervation, divine, the cause of perfeverance, i. 302. 306.
311, 312. 321. ii. 25. 58, 59. 100.
Prevaricating from the grammatical fenfe of the articles, the
tendency thereof, v. 28, 29.
Pride, the parent of discontent, iii. 280.
Prideaux, Dr. John, Bishop of Worcester, his memorable speech
to James the First, ii. 280. Profecutes Mr. Brydges for
Arminianifm, 317.
Prieft, a fat-headed one, ii. 92. Very ftrenuous against pre-
deftination, and in behalf of free-will, 93.
Priestley, Dr. quoted, vi. 37. note. 133. His complete victory over
the Doctors Reid, Beattie, and Ofwald, 44. note. An un-
guarded expreffion of his, 249. His philofophic writings
regarded by many Calvinifts, 250. Though heteredox, yet
a man of probity, 299. i. 86. (Memoirs.)
Prior, Matthew, a reply of his, iv. 155.
Prophecy, affords an irrefragable argument and proof of pre-
deftination or neceffity, i. 177-179. iii. 571. vi. 59-62.
Summary of fcripture prophecies, iii. 571.
Providence of God, i. 198. 202, 203. 205. 266. 275. 277. 278.
311. 334, 335. ii. 75. 84. 131. Particular and unlimited, an
eminent branch in the Chriftian fyftem, iii. 155. Its uni-
verfal agency fo as to extend to every thing, v. 395. 420. vi.
35. 51. 54, 55. 76, 77. note. 87. 91, 110. Its myfteriousness,
no juft reafon for either denying or blafpheming it, v. 392.
426. 447. Neceffity another name for it, vi. 46. note.
ticularly concerned in the birth and death of men, 80-87.
And of inferior animals, ibid.
Providential deliverances, iii. 117. Difpenfations, 119.
Prynne, William, excluded the Houfe of Commons for his
loyalty to Charles I. ii. 300, 301. His zeal for the restoration
of monarchy, ibid. Accepted of a place under Charles II.
ibid. Other particulars of him, 300, 301.
Pulpits, at variance with the desk, i. viii. ii. 355.
Puritanism falfely charged on the Calvinistic doctrine, ii. 323.
345-849. Judgment of Archbishop Ufher and Bishop
Saunderfon on this matter, 347. 350.
Puritans, ancient, fome of them actuated by a very perverse
fpirit, ii. 167. 361. note. Did not diffent from the doctrines,
but from the ceremonies, of the church, 349, 350. v. 85.
QUALITIES, fenfible, of matter, what they are, vi. 116.
From whence they refult, ibid. 122, 123. 132. 139. Would
be totally reverfed, if our organs of perception were oppofitely
conftituted to what they are, 124, 125. 134, 135. 142.
Quarto Bible, published in the reign of Edward the Sixth, ii.
Other editions during the reign of Elizabeth, ii. 115-
113.
123.
Query, concerning a paffage in the marriage ceremony, iii. 445.
Quefnel Pafquier, fample of the, 101. Propofition for which
he was anathematifed by the Pope, i. 92. His exile, impri-
fonment and death, 94.
Queftions and anfwers, concerning predeftination, formerly bound
up with our English Bibles, ii. 123-127. Their authority
vindicated, 124.
RAMSAY, Chevalier, collects the conjectures of the ancients
concerning the rife of moral evil, vi. 102. note.
Randal Anthony, deprived for Ranterism, i. 106. A view of
his tenets, ibid.
Ranters, a continuatiou of the Familifts, i. 104.
predestination was not abfolute, but conditional, 105. Vio-
lent advocates for free will and perfection, ibid. note. Bore a
vehement enmity to the Puritans, 108. Their fhameless pre-
tences to veneration for the church of England, ibid. Main-
tained univerfal grace and redemption, ibid. 109. Dr. Fuller's
character of them, ibid. (See more, under the article of Fifth-
monarchy-men.)
Redemption, not unlimited, i. 120. 123. 129. 141. 143. 144. 148.
266. 295-299. 322. ii. 72. 193. What redemption really is,
i. 295. Limited, not difcouraging, ii. 72. Conditional, a
modith tenet, iii 29. The confequence of fuch a fyftem, 30.
Not left at uncertainty, 399. A finished work, vi. 104. The
extent of, 128. Some very pertinent reflections thereon,
129, &c.
Refinement, focial, not natural to man, vi. 49, 50. note.
Reflection on the beginning of the year, iii. 454. Not a fource
of any new ideas, vi. 24.
Reformation, at what time it took its rife, v. 19. At prefent a
fad awful departure from the principles, vi. 150. The fruit
fuch declension produces, ibid. 151.
Reformers, English, were profeffed Calvinifts in coctrine, i.24.
Large proof of this, i. 243-348.
Regeneration, the work of efficacious grace, i. 119. 284. 285. 310.
An evidence of election, 273, 274. Man unable to contribute
any thing towards it, ii. 98, 99. Its priority, v. 94. Not the
effect of human power, vi. 69. 108. See Grace.
Reinerius, a Popish inquifitor in the twelfth century, his account
of the Waldenfes, i. 140.
Religion of Chrift, peculiarly diftinguished from every other in
one particular, iii. 241. 203
Religious ignorance in a perfon of quality, iv. 162. 175. 190.
Remarks on peculiar paffages of fcripture, Eccles. vii. 16. iii.
425. i. Cor. xv. 28-428. Rom. viii. 4-430. Rom. ix. 3-
432. i. Cor. xv. 29-434. i. Cor. xv. 5-435. Cant. viii.
Remigius, Archbishop of Lyons, i. 152-154.
Repentance, the gift of God, i. 130. A mafterly confideration
thereof, iii. 249, &c.
Reprobate, their number fixed and determined, v. 246.
Reprobation, denied by the Pelagians, i. 50. ii. 259. note. Cal-
vin falfely charged with terming it a horrible decree, 352.
Peter Martyr's definition of it, i. 336. Does not make God
the author of fin, ibid. ii. 132. A doctrine we are not obliged to
wade in, 101. Exprefsly revealed in fcripture, i. 320. ii. 116.
118. 120, 121. vi. 109. Plainly deducible and implied in the
39 Articles, ii. 108. note. 200. 210. 322. vi. 109, 110. and in
the homilies, 127, 128. The Arminians at the fynod of Dort
would fain have put reprobation before election, ii. 257, 258.
A doctrine extremely offenfive to Pelagians, 259. note. Bishop
Saunderfon's view of it, 308, 309. As it refpects angels, v.
393. And the ungodly, 258. &c. Reprobation of fome men
moft expressly affirmed in fcripture, 402, 403. 407. No ways
cruel on the part of God, and why, 273. Not inconfiftent
with divine juftice, 388. Nor with mercy, 397. Nor with
the nature of fin, 419. Nor with future judgment, 276. Its
equity, proved from the inequality of God's providential
difpenfations, 392. 394. Is rather a negative thing, than
pofitive, 399. Irreversible, 405. See also, vi. 56. 89. note.
Reproof to a minifter on his remiffness, vi. 147, 148.
Retraction, a model recommended to an Arminian, i. xxiii—
Rheims, English Papifts at, publish a falfe tranflation of the New
Teftament, with fophiftical notes, ii. 196. Confuted by Dr.
Fulke, 197
Richard 1. his reign and crufade to the holy land, ii. 398.
His death and interment, 400. His defpicable character,
Anecdote of him, iv. 150.
II. his reign, fome traits in his character, ii. 411.
His confinement, death, indecent burial, and re-interment,
413.
III. his reign, ii. 424. Slain in battle, 426. And
interment, ibid.
Ridicule, no teft of truth, vi. 27, 28. note.
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Ridley, Bishop, confeffed before his Popish judges, that he
aflifted in drawing up Ponet's catechifm, i. 250. And that he
fubfcribed it when finished, ibid. Some account of him and
his manner of living, 159, 266-268. His intense study of
the Scriptures, ibid. His atteftation to the Calvinistic doctrine,
262-266. His profound veneration for Ponet's catechifm,
and for the articles and homilies, 260, 261. His remarkable
kindness to Bonner's mother, 267. The most learned of all
our (native) English reformers, 268. Writes a defence of
predeftination, in oppofition to the Free-will men, ii. 78.
Righteous, over much, in what respect, iii. 424.
Righteoufnefs of Chrift, the only obedience by which we can be
juftified before God, i. 141. 290-292. Must be carefully
diftinguished from inherent righteousness, ii. 22.
Rogers, Mr. John, the first martyr who fuffered in the reign of
Mary the Bloody, ii. 23, 24. His tranquillity just before his
execution, iv. 158.
Rogers, Mr. Thomas, publishes an expofition of the 39 Articles,
Rollin, Monfieur, a fine observation from, v. 169.
Romaine, Mr. a reply of his, to one under spiritual trouble, iv.
174. Mrs. an appofite answer of her's to a clergymen, iv.
172.
Rome, church of, favoured by Archbishop Laud, i. 68. note.
72. Exults at the deluge of Arminianifm which overflows
the church of England, ibid. Thunders against Calvinism,
74-78.80-83.87-90. 93. Struck with alarm at Calvin's
defign of uniting the Proteftants into one body, ii. 151. note.
Very angry with the doctrine of abfolute predeftination, 186.
198. Afferts two juftifications, 194. 200. Teaches election
upon works forefeen, 195. 199. 207. Peculiarly enraged
against the fynod of Dort, 253. 271.
Roth, Mr. Richard, the martyr, ii. 62.
Rough, Mr. John, the martyr, ii. 62.
Rowe, Mr. Thomas, fome account of, iii. 121. 123.
Rowe, Mrs. Elizabeth, her life and death, iv. 118.
Rule of human actions, what, v. 47.
SAINTS, in glory, know each other, reafons affigned for the
affertion, vi. 287, 286.
Salvation, our own perfonal knowledge of, by no means pre-
fumptuous, iii. 209.
Samuel, Mr. Robert, the martyr, ii. 44-46.
Sapma, the Arminian, his outrageous infolence to the fynod of
Dort, ii. 260. note.
Saunders, Mr. Laurence, the martyr, ii. 24—26.
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