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Earthquakes, the cause of them, 147, 148.

Elect, how far free, 328, 329. 344, 335. the reason of the dif-
tinction between them and the rest of mankind, 336. 369,
370.

Election makes things agreeable, 195–198. 311, 312.

Epifcopius on the Divine Omniprefence, 63.

Effence what, 5. Effences of things in what fenfe arbitrary,

239, 240.

Eternal, fomething must be fo, 36, 37. every thing could not be
fo, 58. this fyftem could not, ib. and 19, 20, whether the
matter of it was fo, an ufelefs controversy, ib.

Eternal torments, vide Hell-torments.

Eternal truths, the meaning of these words, 65. 252. in what
fenfe the relations of things are fo, 24.0.

Eternity not made up of fucceffive duration, 51, 52. nor instan-
taneous, 53, 54. the meaning of that attribute, 53. 56.
Evil, natural and moral, the diftinction between them, 262, 263.
one a confequence of the other, 38. how far either is predo-
minant in the world, 262, 263.

Evil principle, the manichean notion of it, 73. The abfurdity of
fuch a fuppofition, 73, 74. does not answer the end propofed
by it, 78, 79. The creation cannot be owing to it, 73. The
argument for it proposed at length, 73, 74.

Evils of life, whether they ever exceed the benefits of it, 166,
167. whether they generally do fo, 374-378. whether the
moral ones do, 388-392. Natural ones infeparable from
matter, 106, 107. 132-139.

Existence, our own felf-evident, 39. the abfurdity of attempting
to prove it, ib.

Expanfion, cannot be applied to the Deity, 26. either carries the
fame idea with extenfion or none at all, ib.

Experience, whether we have any of liberty, 268-270. 298.
Extenfion, not applicable to the Deity, 24, 25. nor to any im.
material being, ib. incapable of fimplicity or abfolute infi-
nity, ib,

F.

Faculties fitted to the natures of things, 124, 125. 245, 246,
Fall of angels, 394, &c.
Fall of man, confequences of it, 383 387. Authors that treat
of it, 178. Neceffity for it in the fcheme of Providence, 383
-386, &c. the advantages arifing to mankind from it, ib.

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and to the whole creation, ib. 335. 369. 400. Objections an-
fwered, ib. and 383. 386, 387.

Fear of death neceffary, 135-139. 154. of great benefit to the
world, ib. a proof that life is very defirable, 374-378.
Fermentation the cause of earthquakes, storms, thunder, &c. 147,
148.

Fiddes (Dr.) against the pre-established order, 360.

Figure of the earth, the advantages of the prefent, 145, 146,
147.

Fit in itself, an improper expreffion, 17, 18. what it should
mean, 64, 65.

Fitness of things, what this ought to mean, 38. 251. a relative
term, 65. in what fenfe eternal and immutable, ib. and 249—
257. in no fenfe antecedent to the will of God, ib. and 241,
&c. vide Relations.

Fitness of things to faculties, 124, 125.

Fore-knowledge, an improper term when applied to the Deity,
55.362, 363.

Freedom of God, proofs of it, 37. of man, 320, &c. vide
Liberty.

Free-Will, the meaning of those words, 199, 200, &c. vide
Will.

G.

General ideas what they are, 5. of fubftances, modes, and rela-
tions, 6. how formed, ib. not made by analogy, 7. have no
archetypes, nor any existence but in the mind, ib. are pofitive,
adequate and universal, ib.

General laws, the neceffity of them, 110.

Generations, infinite, impoffible, 49, 50. the reafon for fuccef-
five ones in the world, 371, 372.

Glory of God, what these words mean, 46, 47. Defire of glory
applied to God by way of accommodation, ib. how God may
be faid to do all things for his own glory, 45. this coincident
with the happiness of mankind, ib.

God, a relative term, 61. a proof of his exiftence and attributes,
35-41.
Good is that which produces happiness, 64. nothing good or
evil in itself, ib. and 195. does not abfolutely determine the
choice, 194, &c. 324. natural good the foundation of moral,
64, 65, 65. 261, &c. nothing made fo good but that it might
be fuppofed better, 243-247. Good prevalent in the pre-
fent world, 388-392.

Goodness

Goodness, divine, the meaning of it, 249. proofs of it, 40, 41.
includes all the moral attributes, ib. the reafon of the crea
tion, 47, 48. 392, &c. this no bar to the divine liberty, 249,
&c. this attribute not capable of a proof a priori, 254, 255,
&'c.

Government of the natural and moral world, the manner of it,
357-362. neither by pre-established barmony, nor particular
wills, ib. and 363.

H.

Habits, the ftrength of them, 417. grounded on the great law
of affociation, ib. and Prelim. Diff. xli. the foundation of
our happiness or mifery in the next life, 367. 421. Ufe and
application of this doctrine, ib.
Happiness, fenfitive and intellectual, capaple of perpetual en-
creafe, 83-89. requires an alternative, 89. arifes from past
defects, 88. Objections answered, ib. whether there might
have been more in the prefent fyftem, 95, 98, &c. why not
communicated immediately and all at once, 394, &c. whe-
ther the sum of it exceeds that of mifery in the world, 374,
375. 392-396, &c. whether it will be fo in the next, 393.
founded chiefly in virtue, 328. 395, 396. and election, 319,
320.

Heaven, a great part of our happiness in it may confift in the re-
flection on our former trials, 335.

Hell-torments, the authors who have treated on the eternity of
them, 413. according to fome they dont feem capable of any
other end befide the annihilation of the fubjects of them, 421.
have a natural foundation in the evil habits contracted in this
life, 368, &c. 407, 408. 417, 418. the uses to which they may
ferve, 394, 395, 396.

Hobb's against free-will, 194, 273, 274. answered by Bp. Bram-
ball, ib.

Holiness of God, 40.

Holy Ghoft, in what manner it influences the mind, 348, &c,
this not deftructive of our natural powers, ib. but rather affift-
ing and reftoring them, ib. in what manner we may conceive
his influence to be exercifed, 249, 351. not properly miracu
Jous, ib.

I.

Jackfon, (Mr.) on the unity, 61.

Idea, what the author means by that word, 7.

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Idea

Idea of God, whether it proves his existence, 42.

Jenkin (Dr.) on the mechanical hypothefis, 350. on human li-
berty, 320. on the happiness of heaven arifing from a reflec-
tion on paft trial, 394, 395.

Jewish nation, the manner of God's governing them, 334.
Immutability of God, 37. of the relations of things, 252-254, &c.
Imperfection, whence it arifes, 91. whether properly an evil, 96
101. why permitted, 102, 103.

Impulfe phyfical, cannot be applied to the will, 349. what kind
of impulfe confiftent with its freedom, 350.
Inclination of the earth's axis, 146.

Independence, 36. the fame with felf-existence, 57, 58, does not
ftrictly infer unity, 61, 62.

Indifference, the authors notion of it, 219, 220. 308. cannot be
applied to the whole man, but only the powers of willing
and acting, ib. in what fenfe a blind principle, 235. not ap-
plicable to perception or judgment, 219. must be applied to
the will, 220. the benefit of it, 290-294. 276, &c. 244, &c.
Indifferent, in what fenfe the creation was fo to God, 250—256.
this confiftent with his being determined by his goodness, ib.
Indifferent actions prove that the mind determines itself, 202,
203. Inftances of fuch, ib.

Infinite, what is meant by that word, 13. 15. the fame as Perfec-
tion, ib. the idea of it pofitive, ib. and previous to that of finite,
ib. how it differs from a mathematical infinite, 15. all quan-
tity or that which confifts of parts, incapable of it, 14.
Infinite Degree, what is to be understood by it, 67, 68. the fame
as perfect, ib.

Infinite Series, fuppofed to have no whole, 43. the absurdity of
it, ib. in generations, 49-51. in number, motion, magnitude,
&c. 13. in fucceffive duration, 51. has no whole, 36.
Intellect, fe Knowledge.

Intercourfe of creatures with each other unavoidable, 97—101.
Interpofition of the Deity in governing the world, 343, 344.
Judgment, always paffive, 187. does not determine the will, 186
-188. 200, 201. 276-281.

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Juftice Divine, proof of it, 124. infinite juftice not inconfiftent
with infinite mercy, 69, 70.

Justice punitive, what it means, 69. cannot be said to oblige or
demand any thing, ib.

K.

Knowledge, what kind and degree of it beft fuited to our state,
$24, 125. the pleasure of it whence derived, 88.

Laboun

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Labour, the neceffity and advantage of it both to body and
mind, 150.

Lactantius, his answer to the objection of Epicurus, 400.
Laws Divine, the defign of them, 407, 408. they are declarati-
ons of the natural effects of fin, and directions to avoid them,
ib. they do not bring us into a worse state than we should have
been in without them, ib. the difference between natural and
pofitive laws, 238, 239. which may be difpenfed with, 261, 262.
Laws of Nature, the neceffity for fome eftablifhed ones in the
natural world, 110, 111. the wisdom of fuch an establishment,
160. 331. 348. the fame in the moral world, 331. the ill con-
fequences that would attend the contrary, ib. yet these are not
left entirely to themfelves, 348, 349. the divine interpofition
fometimes neceffary, and the nature of it, 358, &c. 392.
Leibtnitz, his pre-established harmony, 357. his notion of ob-
ftinacy, 284, 285. 308. his objections to our author's system,
ib. and 274, 308, &c.

Liberty fhewn to belong to God, 37. and alfo to man, 290, 291,
&c. vide Will. Dr. Clarke's argument for it inconclufive,
210, 211. whether we experience it in ourselves, 268-270.
290-294. we are confcious of it before we try it, 201. the
different notions of it, 186. applicable to volition as well as
action, 187. 199. 290-294. the value of it, 195-198. 376,
&c. 290-294. 305, 306. 308, 309. Inconveniences that
would attend the want of it, 319, 320. or the frequent over-
ruling it, 331. 333-336. 338-340. even the abuse of it
tends to the good of the whole, 382, &c.

Life, as much in the world as it is capable of, 94, 95, 96. 100,
101. 116, 117. 143. the prefent life better than non-existence,
168, 169. 375. why fo defireable, 376, 377. what defire of
it lawful, 374. whether moft people would not choose to live
their lives over again, 378-390.

Limitation of any attribute in the Deity an effect without a
caufe, 60, 61.

Locke, his notion of liberty, 199-212.

M.

Macula Peccati, the true meaning of thefe words, 421.
Malebranch, his notion of particular wills in the government of
the world, 348.

Man, why not made more perfect, 92, 93, &c. 364, &c. why
placed in this world, ib. Head of the lower part of the

creation,

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