different reading propofed about this prophecy, 21, 22. his curfe pursued his pofterity to the utmost parts of the earth, 332.
Carolin books, by whom written, III. 149, 254. prove the worship of images to be contrary to fcripture, 254. Century, tenth, wicked and ignorant, Ill. 156, 157. the principles and ftate of the church in that period, 158- 162. the eleventh much of the fame complexion with the tenth, 162. the fixteenth the age of reformation, 195. Charlemain, contributes to the establishment of the power of the pope, I. 482, 483, 484. oppofes the worship of images, III. 149-254.
Chittim, the prophecy of fhips from that coaft, I. 146. what to be understood by the land and fhips of Chittim, 147-151. II. 145.
Chrift, fome of his prophecies and of his apoftles recorded, -II. 221. a fummary of our Saviour's prophecies, 221, 222, 223. none more remarkable than thofe about the deftruction of Jerufalem, which were publifhed feveral years before that event, 223-227. our Saviour's tender- nefs in weeping over Jerufalem, 227, 228. denounceth perfecution to be the lot of his difciples, 260. his name the word of God, III. 327. confirms the authority of the book of Revelation, 365, 366. his fecond coming one principal topic of that book, 348, 349.
Chriftians, greatly perfecuted, II. 253. apoftafy and other evils follow, 254. he who endures to the end fhall be faved, 255, 256.
Church, perfecuted by the great red dragon, III. 204- 209. reprefented as a mother bearing children to Chrift, 205. in time brought fuch as were promoted to the em- pire, 216. her flight afterwards into the wildernets, 216, 217. barbarous nations excited to overwhelm her, but afterwards fubmit to the chriftian church, 218. the state of the true church in oppofition to that of the beaft, 249 -252. Chryfoftome, his interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, ‹I. 432, 433, 434. his defcription of antichrift, II. 417, 418.
Clerk (Dr.) his account of fome extraordinary prophecies, III. 419, &c.
Claude Bishop of Turin fows the feeds of the reformation in his diocefe in the ninth century, III. 155, 156. Clergy, fecond marriage at firft forbidden them, II. 175. afterwards reftrained from marrying at all, ibid.
Collins, his eleven objections against Daniel's prophecies, confidered and refuted, II. 4.-16.
Conftantine the great, the chriftian religion established by him, Ill. 70.
Conftantinople, befieged in vain by the Saracens, III. 101, 102. befieged by Mohammed the fecond, III. 120. the city then taken, and an end put to the Grecian empire, 122, 123.
Conftitutions of Clarendon, III. 166, 167.
Creatures, to be received with thanksgiving, II. 471. the ungrateful in this matter rebuked, 471.
Croifades or expeditions of the western Chriftians to the holy land, II. 328. How many perished in these expe- ditions, 331.
Cyrus, the conqueror of Babylon, foretold by Isaiah, I. 28, the Late of it under him, 293, 294. united the king- Idoms of Media and Perfia, II. 26.
DAniel, the genuinnefs of his prophecies vindicated, I. 400, 401. his credit as a prophet eftablished by pro- phecies fulfilling at this time, 402, his interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, his first prophecy, 402- 406. his vifion of the four firft empires of the world, 441. the form of Nebuchadnezzar's great image how reprefented to Daniel, 441, 442. his vifion of four beafts, 442. what kingdoms they reprefent, 443-452. what represented by the fourth beast with ten horns, 458. the opinions of feveral writers, 459–464. what meant by the little horn, 473, &c, the opinion of fome great men in this matter, 478, 479. all thofe kingdoms to be fuc- ceeded by that of the Meffiah, 490-494. Daniel's vifion and Nebuchadnezzar's compared together, 494, & their vifions extend to the confummation of all things, 496, 497. will caft light upon fubfequent prophecies, and thefe reflect light upon them again, 497. See Nebu- chadnezzar.
Daniel, the languages in which his prophecies were written,
II. 21. his vifions, 22. that of a Ram and a He-goat, 23. much concerned for the afflictions that were to befall the people of God, 78. the revelation made to him- when advanced in years, 84. the prophecy about the Perfian empire and four of their kings, 85, 86. that about a mighty king in Greece, 89. his prophecies about the king of the South and a king of the North, 83, 93, &c. a conclufion from the exactnefs and particularity of the prophecy, 149, 150. other parts of the prophecy, to whom applicable, 152, 155. fome parts agree better with Antichrift than Antiochus, 171, 176. a part of his prophecies yet to be fulfilled, 201. fome expreffions of the laft chapter to be applied to the refurrection of the just and the unjust, 208, 209, 210. remarks on the time of the accomplishment of Daniel's prophecies, 211-215. his prophecy amazing, and extended to many ages, 215. his prophecies reach beyond the times of Antiochus Epipha- nes, III. 393. fome very particularly fulfilled, 391, &c. Daniel, his prophecies vindicated against eleven objections of unbelievers, II. 3. the first relating to his age refuted, 4,5. the fecond relating to the mistake of the king's names and to Nebuchadnezzar's madness, 5, 6. the third relat- ing to Greek words, 7, 8. the fourth about the verfion of the Seventy, 8. the fifth about clearness of his pro- phecies, 9, 10, the fixth from his being omitted in the book of Ecclefiafticus, 10. the feventh relating to Jona- than's making no Targum on Daniel, 11. the eighth from the ftile of his Chaldee, 12. the ninth from the forgeries of the Jews, 13. the tenth from his uncommon punctuality in fixing the times, 14, 15. the eleventh about his fetting forth facts imperfectly, and contrary to other hiftories, 15, 16. the external and internal evidence for the genuinnefs of his book, 18, 19.
Daubuz, one of the beft interpreters of the Revelation, III. 8. his hard fate in the world, 9.
David, fome of Ballaam's prophecies fulfilled by him, I. 130-140.
Dead, thofe bleffed who die in the Lord, III. 261. what meant by being bleffed from henceforth, 262. Demons, the apoftafy to confift in worshipping of Demons, II. 434, 435, 436. were fuppofed to be middle Beings
in the theology of the Gentiles, 437, 438. two kinds of demons, 438,439, 440.
Diocletian, the tenth perfecution begun by him, III. 67.
more sharp and bloody than any, 67. from thence a me- morable æra to the Chriftians, 68.
Dionyfius of Halicarnaffus, his account of the fuperiority of the Roman empire, I. 455–458.
Dragon, the church perfecuted by the great red dragon, III. 204-209. the heathen Roman empire reprefented by it, 206, 207. his jealoufy of the church from the be- ginning, 207. the dragon depofed perfecutes the church, 214-219. attempts to restore the pagan and ruin the Chriftian religion, 215. takes another method of per- fecuting the church, 218.
EBER, who meant by Eber, I. 152. and shall afflict Eber, the meaning of that prophecy, 151–154.
Edomites, conquered by David, I. 73, 134. defeated by Judas Maccabæus, and obliged to embrace the Jewish religion, 74, 75. the prophecies of their utter destruction fulfilled, 84.
Egypt, prophecies concerning it, I. 352 — 398. famous for its antiquity, 352, 353. no lefs celebrated for its wisdom, 353, 354. the parent of fuperftition as well as the miftrets of learning, 354. had fuch connexions with the Jews that it is the fubject of feveral prophecies, 354, 355. the phrafe of the burden of Egypt explained, 355, 35, 357. its conqueft by Nebuchadnezzar fore- told by Jeremiah and Ezekiel, 357, 358, 359. how fulfilled, 359-363. its conqueft by the Perfians foretold by Ifaiah, and how fulfilled, 363-370. and its con- queft by Alexander, and the spreading of the true re- ligion in the land, 370, 371, 372. how fulfilled, 372 -378. the prophecy of Ezekiel that it fhould be a bafe tributary kingdom, 378, 379. the truth of it fhewn from that time to this, 380-394. its state under the Babylonians, 380, 381. under the Perfians, 381-385. under the Macedonians, 385, 386. under the Romans, 387, 388. under the Saracens with the burning of the Alexandrian library, 388-391. under the Mamulucs, 391, 392, 393. under the Turks, 394, 395. reflections
upon the character of the Egyptians, 395-398. a pro- phecy of its being fubdued by the Othman emperor, II. 198. a particular prophecy about it, fulfilled, II. 421. English kings, not willing to pay homage to the pope, III. 162, 163.
Ephefus, that church admonished to repent, III. 29. her candlestick now removed, and the feven churches ruined, ibid. the first epiftle to the feven churches addressed to them, 30. its former magnificence, but prefent ruinous condition, 31. the denunciation against it strikingly ful- filled, 32.
Ephraim, no more a people, I. 204, &c. III. 417. now comprehended under the name of Judah, ibid.
Epiphanius, zealous against the worship of faints and images, II. 445. an illuftrative paffage of his about the doctrine of demons, 446.
Euphrates, what meant by drying up that river, and by the kings of the east, III. 280. a prophecy of the Euphra- tean horsemen, 111–126.
Eufebius, his comparison of Chrift and Mofes, I. 165, 166, 167. the fame enlarged by a modern author, 167, &c. Ezekiel, his prophecies concerning Tyre, I. 314, &c. concerning Egypt, 358, &c. Gog and Magog, II. 207, 208. III. 345.
LUENTIUS, bishop of Florence, in the twelfth century, preaches that Antichrift was come, III. 167. Fornication, in fcripture often put for idolatry, III. 288. what meant by drinking the wine of her fornication, 288.; Franks or Latin Chriftians, march to the holy land, and take Jerufalem, II. 328, 329.
GALLIENUS, thirty ufurpers in his reign, III. 62.
they come to miferable ends, ibid. fword and famine in his reign, ibid.
Gallus and Volufian, peftilence and difeafes in their reigns, III. 64.
Gathering of the people, the different conftructions of that prophecy, I. 102, 103, the full completion of this pro- . phecy, 104, this an invincible argument that Jefus is the Meffiah, 113. Gauls
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