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Peter's fault did not lie in his compliance with the Jewish rites, but in impofing the fame alfo upon the Gentiles, ii. 280. This opinion neither agreeable to the particu lar fenfe of the epiftle to the Galatians, nor to the gene. ral doctrine of the apostles, ibid. Thinks, that our Saviour was anointed twice by the fame woman, ii. 313. Affirms, in a certain treatise, that baptifm was ablolutely neceffary to falvation, ii, 323. N. His answer to the objection to this opinion drawn from the cafe of the penitent thief, ibid. His folution of the difference between St. Mark and St. John, concerning the time of the day of our Saviour's crucifixion, ii. 324. His folution of the difference between St. Matthew and the other evangelifts, in reciting the teftimony of John Baptift, concerning our Saviour, ii. 334, 335. His general rule for the folution of all inconfiftencies in the gofpel, ii. 336. Seems, of all the primitive fathers, the most bigotted to the notion, that the evangelifts could not err, ii. 358. His two abfurd folutions of St. Matthew's citing, xxvii. 9, 10, a prophecy of Jeremiah not to be found in that prophet, ii. 359. Obferves, that the most eminent and neceflary fign of Chrift's actual defcent upon the difciples was, that every one of them fhould fpeak in the tongues of all nations, ii. 389. Stiles the apoftles ignorant and illiterate, ii. 398. His treatife on the literal interpretation of the three firft chapters of Genefis, ii. 448. Frequently driven back to allegory, ii, 449. Embraces an allegorical interpretation of the fall, iii. 23, 24. Says, that miracles are to be received, becaufe they are wrought in a church that is catholic, v. 73. His expofition of St Peter's more fure word of prophecy, v. 208, 209. AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH: dreadful confequences of a flavish obedience to it, v. 56.

AUTOLYCUS, an eminent Heathen, challenged Theophilus, bishop of Antioch, to fhew him one perfon who had been raised from the dead, i. 198.

B.

BABEL: the ftory of the confusion there a ftrange one, iii. 39. Introduced for no other purpose but to account for the origin of the different languages, iii. 43. BABYLAS, St. his acts and miracles celebrated by St. Chryfoftom, i. 281.

BAPTISM Compared, by St. Cyprian, to the Red-fea in the

time

time of Pharaoh, i. 138. Ordained by Chrift as the effential rite of our initiation into his church, v. 17.

BARADATUS, a monk, who lived in a cage, i. 304. BARNABAS, St. allegorises the Mofaic law about unclean animals, iii. 85. His interpretation followed by Clemens Alexandrinus, Eufebius, Lactantius, &c. 86.

BARNES, Julian: her book of hunting, v. 345. Account of her, ibid. and 346.

BASIL, St. ftiles monkery an angelical inftitution, i. Intr. 46. His encomium upon the reliques of martyrs, i. 48. His pretended revelation of Julian the emperor's death, i. 285. BATH-KOL, a voice from Heaven, v. 220. Confidered by the Jewish doctors as an inferior kind of prophecy, ibid. Said, by Grotius, to be the fole oracle remaining among the Jews, during the time of the fecond temple, 1 V. 222. The reality of it attefted by all the Jewish writers, ibid. The whole story of it declared by our ablest divines a mere fiction, ibid.

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BAYLE his remarks on the story of St. John and Cerin thus, ii. 426. N.

BEDE his works filled with miracles, i. Intr. 71.

BELLARMIN, Cardinal: his account of the vulgate Latin,

iii. 297.

BELLONA: her priests used to cut and flash themselves, v. 138, 139. Ordered, by the emperor Commodus, to da it in good earneft, v. 139.

BENEDICT XIII. canonized eight faints in one summer, V. 48. Pope paid a yearly acknowledgement to St. Philip Neri, on account of having escaped from the ruins of his houfe, overturned by an earthquake, v. 105. BENEDICTION OF HORSES, denied by the author of the catholic chriftian inftructed, v. 18. Affirmed by Dr. Middleton, ibid. Origin of it, ibid.

BENTLEY, Dr. gave a very proper correction to Mr. Anthony Collins, iii. 178. His great learning acknowledged by Dr. Middleton, ibid. Credibly reported to have expreffed, in very ftrong terms, his approbation of Dr. Middleton's letter to Dr. Waterland, before any name had been mentioned of the fuppofed author, ibid. His authority contradicted by the author of a reply to the defence of the letter to Dr. Waterland, iii. 181. Had neither talents nor materials for an edition of the new teftament, iii. 281. Occafion of his undertaking that edition, iii. 288. Speaks, in his fermon upon popery, with some contempt of the Latin vulgate, iii. 296. Charges upon

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the papifts a great deal more than is true of them, with refpect to the authority of that verfion, ibid. Believes, that he has retrieved (except in very few places) the true exemplar of Origen, iii. 297. Rallies and expofes Dr: Whitby and others, who had taken offence at the great number of various readings in Dr. Mills's new teftament, iii. 300. His fpecimen of his intended edition of the new teftament examined, iii. 319 & feq. Had long treated Dr. Middleton with contempt, iii. 326. Specimen of his controverfial language, iii. 332, 333. Deprived, by the univerfity of Cambridge, of his degree of doctor of divinity, iii. 338. His ignorance of the eastern languages, iii. 429. Spent ten years in giving an edition of Horace, iii. 432. Pretends to have discovered, in Robert Stephens's edition of the new teftament, above fixty faults, within the compafs of one and twenty verses, iii. 446. BERRIMAN, Dr. his defence of a miracle wrought in the middle of the fifth century, in confutation of the Arian herefy, i. Intr. 69. Makes use of several miracles related by pope Gregory the Great, ibid. Avows the miraculous powers of the church to the end of the fixth century, ibid. Cites the authority of Gregory the Great and Ifidore of Sevil, as men of too much learning and judgment to be deceived, ibid. Defends a miracle near the end of the fifth century, ii. 61. Defends a miracle near the end of the fifth century, and infifts, that it cannot be difcredited without shaking the whole faith of hiftory, ibid. Afferts the geunineness of the creed, faid to be communicated to St. Gregory, the wonder-worker, by the virgin Mary and St. John, i. 277, 278. Affirms Pope Gregory to have been highly diftinguished by the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghoft, ibid. No protef tant, but he and Dr. Chapman, ever attempted to defend either the miracles, or the principles, of the fifth century, i. 302. Defends a miracle of the fifth century, i.313. His defence of it examined, ibid. Applies the ftory of St. John and Cerinthus to inforce the duty of fhunning infidels and heretics, ii. 417. Owns, that St. John's fupposed behaviour towards Cerinthus was copied from the Jewish inftitutes, ii. 428.

BETHEL, Hugh, his character, iv. 17.

BEZA: his manufcripts at Cambridge, of the gofpels and acts, allowed to be fome of the most ancient now known in the world, iii. 378.

BINGHAM,

Bevonam, Mr. gives the form of the ordination of exorcifts, i. 211. N.

BOLDONIUS cenfures the author of an infeription, for put ting the faints before God himself, v. 128.

BONA DEA: her temple dedicated to the virgin Mary, v.

120.

Book printed at Oxford, with the date M CCCCLXVIII, v. 324. Its date falfified originally by the printer, v. 333. Books: difficulty of publishing them, or making them known to the world, before the invention of printing, i. 329. BOURCHIER, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, used all poffible means to procure the art of printing to be brought to England, v. 325. Archbishop Parker, in his life of him, filent about that fact, v. 331.

BRANDANUS, a British abbot, fails round the world in fearch of Paradife, ii. 446.

BRAZEN SERPENT: an object, which the Jews had been ufed to reverence in Egypt, iii. 33.

BRINCH, Peter, his cenfure on Jofephus, iii. 201, 202. BROOKE, Zachary, feems to prefer the opinion of Mr. Jackfon, by reftraining the period of undoubted miracles to the days of Origen, ii. 247.

BRUTUS, a Stoic, iii. 76. Cicero's dialogue of divination dedicated to him, ibid.

BURMAN, Peter, his oration, faid by Dr. Bentley to be a fine one in its way, iii. 437. Stiled by Dr. Middleton a dull jeer upon the church, the clergy, and every thing ferious and facred in the practice and principles of both, ibid.

BURNET, Bishop, declares the gift of tongues the most neceffary of all miracles for the convertion of strange nations, ii. 219, 220.

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CECILIUS, in Minutius Felix, files the Chriftians of his times, who pretended to work miracles, a lurking nation, fhunning the light, i. 144.

CALFHILL, James, nominated to the bishoprick of Warcefier, finds imperfections in all the fathers, i. 419. 'CALIGULA, the first of all the fovereign pontifs of pagan Rome, who offered his foot to be kiffed, v. 159. CALMET the most diligent of the modern commentators, iii. 190. Declares it to be extremely difficult to ex pound the first chapters of Genefis literally, iii. 232.

CAPPELLUS

CAPPELLUS, L. intimates, that the miftake in As vii. 16, of Abraham for Jacob, might poffibly be a flip of memory in St. Stephen himself, ii. 345.

CASTALIO SEBASTIAN: his expofition of St. Peter's more fure word of prophecy, v. 209.

CASAUBON, Ifaac, thinks, that the family of Mary, the real mother of Jefus, is included and represented in that of Jofeph, her husband, ii. 308.

CASTOR and POLLUX, reported by Dionyfius of Halicarnaffus to have appeared, and fought for the Romans, i. 351. Said to have appeared on white horfes in the Roman army, v. 140. A temple vowed and built to them by the general Pofthumius, on that account, ibid. This fuppofed miracle has as authentic an atteftation, as any which the papifts can produce, ibid. and v. 141. CATACOMBS, in Rome, in the times of heathenism, the burial-place of the flaves and poor citizens, v. 44, 45. CATHOLICK CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTED: the popish author of that book maintains the pretended miracles of the church of Rome, as a proof of her being the fpouse of Chrift, i. Intr. 37. Promises an hiftory of the Chri. ftian miracles, 38. Attempts a confutation of Dr. Middleton's letter from Rome, v. 9. His avowed defign and fole employment among us to make converts to the Romifh church, ibid. Charges Dr. Middleton with foul play, difingenuity, and a refolution to fupprefs the truth, ibid. Affirms it to be a mistake to imagine every ceremony, ufed by the Heathens, to be heathenifh, fince the greateft part were borrowed from the worship of the true God, v. 10. Denies the fact of the benediction of horfes at Rome, v. 17. Allows a great confusion among the martyrs and their reliques, v. 45. Has not denied fo much as one of the numerous facts, on which Dr. Middleton grounds his charge of paganifm on the church of Rome, v. 74. Attempts to demonftrate the conformity between the English and Romish church, v. 75. This confuted, ibid. and v. 76. The printer of that book falfely faid to be put into prison by means of Dr. Middleton, v. 78.

CAVE, Dr. his character of Evagrius, i. Intr. 69, 70. Óf Damafcene, i. 71. owns, that the Sibylline oracles were forged for the advancement of the Christian faith, i. 158, 159. His remarks on Irenæus's affertion, that Chrift our Saviour lived to at least fifty years of age, i. 169. Cenfures St. Gregory of Nya, as apt to be too credulous, 277. Difallows of the genuineness of the creed, faid to be communicated.

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