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

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,

i.

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,

fign, iii. 93. Says, that holy water was invented by
Dæmons, in imitation of the true baptifm, v. 97.

K.

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.

L.

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.

LAN-

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.

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LIGHT

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-

phecy,