1.171. Believes the fabulous story of the verfion of the Septuagint, i. 172. And the deftruction of the fcriptures in the Babylonish captivity, and their reftoration by Es dras, ibid. His manner of expounding the fcriptures fanciful, i. 174. In which he followed Barnabas and the apoftolic fathers, and was followed by the later writers, i. 176. Affirms, that the difciples of Simon Magus and the heretic Carpocrates, and his followers were necromancers, i. 192. Affirms, that the raising of the dead was frequently performed, i. 198. That fact incredible on many accounts, i. 199. Affirms, that the Jews in his time drove away devils by the invoca- tion of the name of God. i. 210. Declares, that the gift of tongues was granted to many in his days, i. 246. In great want of that gift himfelf, ibid. The queftion, whether he claims an extraordinary power of expounding the fcriptures, examined, ii. 180. His ftory of St. John's running out of the bath at Ephefus, upon feeing Cerinthus the heretic in it, ii. 417. That story refts on his fingle teftimony, and that given to us at fecond-hand only, or from hear-fay, ii. 418. Tho' the most diligent collector of apoftolic traditions, yet, in every instance recorded by him, was either deluded himself, or has wilfully deluded others, ii. 419. Ex- ample how far he is to be depended upon, where he affirms, that our Saviour lived to an old age, and was at least fifty years old at the time of his death, ii. 420, 421. Carried by an impetus of confuting heretics into a contrary extreme, ibid. Declares, that the funda- mental doctrine, or the firmness of the Chriftian faith, was to believe in the father and in the fon, ii. 430. Af- firms, that God gave circumcifion for a mark to distin- guish Abraham's pofterity, iii. 93.
ISIDORE, of Sevil, cited by Dr. Berriman, i. Intr. 70. ITALY, a voyage thither compared to the common ftages and journies of life, v. 84.
JUDAS, variations in the evangelifts in their accounts of our Lord's foretelling his treachery, ii. 316.
JUDGMENT: the want of it has, in many cafes, all the fame effect, as the want of veracity, towards invalidat- ing the teftimony of a witnefs, i. 148.
JULIAN, the emperor, his death faid to be foretold by vifions and divine revelations, i, 286. Out of spite to the Chriftians, used to order the victuals in the mar- kets to be fprinkled with holy water, v. 96, 97. Re-
ftored Paganism, v. 169. Rallies the Mofaic hiftory of the creation and fall, ii. 443. Anfwered by Cyril, ii.
444. JUSTIN MARTYR is fuppofed to have written his first
apology within fifty years after the days of the apo- ftles, i. 131. Afferts, that prophetical gifts and extra. ordinary powers fubfifted in the church in his time, ibid. His character, i. 149. Affirms, that the gift of expounding the fcripture was granted to him by the fpecial grace of God, ibid. His difcourfe on the my- ftery of the cross, ibid. His method of interpreting fcripture, ibid. Applies all the sticks and pieces of wood in the old teftament to the cross of Chrift, i. 151. His works little elfe than a collection of fanciful and abfurd interpretations of scripture, i. 152. Acknow- ledged, by Dr. Cave, to have been wholly ignorant of the Hebrew tongue, ibid. Believes the doctrine of the milennium, i. 153. Afferts, that God committed the world to angels, who falling in love with women begot Dæmons, i. 154. Believes the fpurious books published under the name of the Sibyl and Hyftafpis to be genuine, i. 155. Suppofed by fome to have forged the Sibylline cracles, i. 159. Believes the divinity of the Septuagint verfion, i. 160. Commits a grofs mi- ftake in chronology, ibid. Frequently cites fabulous and apocryphal books, i. 161. Quotes the fcriptures falfly and negligently, ibid. His miftake in confound- ing Semo Sancus, a Sabine deity, with Simon Magus, i. 163. Falfly charges the Jews with having expunged many paffages out of the Greek bibles, in which the character and fufferings of Jefus were defcribed, i. 164. Charged by John Croius, with having forged a paffage in Efdras, i. 165. Accufed by Mr. Thirlby of the ut- moft negligence and rashness, i. 166. Alledges necro- mancy as a proof of the immortality of the foul, i. 191. Probably the inventor of the opinion, that Dæ- mons after their debaucheries with boys and women, wanted the fumes of facrifices to recruit their vigour,
193. Declares, that Dæmons exorcised in the name of the God of Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob, would fubmit, i. 210. Says, that the Spirit of God made ufe of the prophets of the old teftament as of an in- ftrument, i. 238. Stiles the apoftles wholly illiterate, without any kill or knowledge of languages, ii. 399. Says, that Abraham received circumcifion as a mark or
fign, iii. 93. Says, that holy water was invented by Dæmons, in imitation of the true baptifm, v. 97.
KEENE, Dr. Edmund, made mafter of Peterhouse in Cam bridge, i. 420. His character, ibid.
KIRCHER OWNS fuch an affinity between the Jewish and Egyptian rites, that the Egyptians must have Hebraifed, or the Hebrews Egyptifed, iii. 124. Shews, that the Egyp- tian hieroglyphics were invented and used before Mojes's time, iii. 151.
KING, Col. his character, iv. 18.
KISSING THE FOor: first demanded by Caligula, v. 159. Now the ftanding ceremonial of Rome, ibid.
KNOT, the Jefuit, his argument from miracles in favour of the church of Rome, i. Intr. 58. Urges against Chillingworth, that the church of England was returning back to that of Rome, i. 91.
KUSTER, found out twelve manuscripts, which had efcaped Dr. Mill's Inquiry, iii. 349.
LACTANTIUS afferts, that the Christians of his age could exorcife poffeffed perfons, and drive Dæmons away, i. 139. The best Christian writer of his age, i. 143. His reflection upon a paffage of Cicero, concerning the law of reason, ibid. Remarks that among those, who feek power and gain from their religion, there will ne- ver be wanting an inclination to forge and to lye for it, v. 68.
LAMPS: the burning of them and candles before the altars of the Romish faints, denied by the author of the Catholic Chriftian inftructed, to be borrowed from the hea- thenish worship, v. 21. Their origin deduced by Dr. Middleton from Egypt, v. 101. Used in all the pagan temples from the earliest times, ibid. & 102. The ufe of them in Chriftian churches condemned by many of the primitive bishops and prefbyters, as fuperftitious and heathenish, ibid. Conftantly burning before the shrines and images of the Romish faints, v. 102.
LANGUAGE of the apoftles rude and barbarous, and abounding with every fault which can deform a lan- guage, ii. 395. Allowed by all the antients to have been their own, ii. 398.
LANGUAGES: caufes of their variety, iii. 40. Confufion of them at Babel examined, iii. 158, & feq. Hint concerning the origin of them, iii. 159, 160.
LATIN TONGUE: its pronunciation, iv. 23, & feq. Writers upon that fubject, iv. 25.
LAUD, archbishop, his conduct with regard to the church, i. 91, 92.
LAUNOY, Dr. John De, famous for clearing the ca- lendar of feveral faints, who had long been worshipped in France, v. 44.
LAYMEN, among the antient Chriftians, affirmed by Origen to be generally the perfons who caft out devils, i. 143. This gift wholly appropriated to them by our Saviour, according to Mr. Whifton, ibid.
LEIDEKKER, an author of more zeal than judgment, iii. 92. Never allows any thing, that an orthodox man can poffibly deny, iii. 154. Owns that the golden calf in the wilderness was made in imitation of the Egyptian Apis, ibid.
LE MOYNE, Abraham, affirms, that our Saviour, Mark xvii 17. promises miraculous powers not only to the apoftles, but to private Chriftians, and that this promife is without any limitation of time, i. Pref. 13, 14. Suppofes, that thofe powers lafted as long as the church had an imme diate occafion for them, fuch as the farther converfion of the world, i. 13. Declares it neceffary, that the fucceffors of the apoftles fhould be endowed with mi- raculous powers, especially with the gift of tongues,
ibid. LE MOYNE, Stephen, offers an emendation with respect to the ftory of the dove, faid to fly out of Polycarp's wound, ii. 171.
LESLIE, Charles, remarks, that the pretended miracles of the church of Rome are the foreft difgraces of Chrifti- anity, i. 38. His fort method with the Deifts never read by Dr. Middleton at the time of writing his letter from Rome, v. 59. Owns that the pretended miracles of the papists are the foreft difgraces of Christianity, ibid. His rules not to be trufted with the iffue of the Chriftian cause, v. 62. He does not advise that, but fuggefts other arguments for the divinity of our religion, ibid.
LETTOU, John, one of the firft printers at London, V. 342. LIBANIUS: his account of the removal of the reliques of St. Babylas, i. 284.
LIGHTFOOT, Dr. thinks that St. Matthew, in his divifion of the genealogy of our Saviour, conformed himself to the Jewish rule and practice, ii. 305. Attempts to prove the divine infpiration of St. Luke, from the word avev in the preface to his gofpel, ii. 349. Afferts, that the fpiritual gifts were not bestowed promifcuously on all who were baptized, but on a certain number only, whom the apoftles were directed by the Holy Ghoft to lay their hands upon, ii. 391. Informs us, that circumcifion was frequently mortal, iii. 36. His reafon why males alone. amongst the Jews were circumcifed, and why always on the eighth day, iii. 37, 38. Examination of a paffage of his, concerning the frequent mortality occafioned by circumcifion. iii. 125, 126. Says, that Bath-Kol was a voice from heaven, v. 220. The foundness of his faith and erudition allowed by all, v. 223. Says, that the voice, called Bath-Kol, was formed by the devil in the air, or by magicians, ibid. Lays open the mystery of the fentence upon the ferpent, and of the inftitution of facrifice, v. 284, 285. Says, that the faith of Abel appeared in the very materials of his facrifice, v. 287. Says the devil was always a moft impudent spirit, v. 316.
LIPSIUS his dialogue upon the pronunciation of the Latin tongue, iv. 25.
LITTLETON, judge: dies in 1481, v. 343. First edition of his Tenures, ibid.
LIVY gives the fames account of the temples of the heathen Gods, as Theodoret does of the temples of the faints, i. Intr. 61. Obferves, that the holy impoftures of old Rome were always multiplied in proportion to the credulity aud difpofition of the poor people to fwallow them, v. 140. His hafte and negligence, iv. 192. LOCKE, John, of the fame opinion with Dr, Middleton, concerning the miracles of the primitive church, i. 5, 6. LONDON proofs of printing there much earlier than our writers had imagined, v. 242.
LONDON, bishop of: his fcheme of the rife and progress of divine prophecy, v. 255, 256. That fcheme ex- amined, v. 257, & feq. Cenfures the disbelief of the heathen oracle, v. 261, & feq. His account of the use and intent of facrifice, v. 283. A person of great parts and learning, v. 295. His appendix, concerning the fall of man, a perplexed, hypothetical, inconfiftent piece of fophiftry, ibid. His appendix examined, ibid. & feq. His difcourfes concerning the use and intent of pro-
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