Prejudices, of education, apt to mislead, 339. Theological, what, 351. Prepofitions, 374, 375, 376. Πρεπον, το, what, 22. Prideaux, Dean, his account, of the Auguftan enrollment, 330. Of the fuperior glory of the fecond temple, 50. Of the Roman empire at Chrift's birth, 317. Priesthood, Jewish, in what ftate when Chrift was born, 324. Prieft-ridden, a conjecture on the rise of the expreffion, 234. Principles, why not cognizable by the civil magiftrate, 247. Propofitions, categorical, 57. 64. Profopopeias, what damage Voffius thought they had done, 9. Proteftants, perfecuting, the only fecurity against them. 249, 250. Proverbs, popular, beft excluded from fermons, 21. Providence, doctrine of, 367, 368, 369. God is to be glorified in the most minute articles of, 363, 364. A very remarkable ftory of, 278, 279. Wonderfully difplayed in favour of Cyrus, and Nebu chadnezzar, 280. Provinciai dialect, S. Paul juftified in the ufe of his, 338. Prudence, how neceffary to a preacher, 416. Pfalms, how to difcufs many of them, 50. Yux, meaning of, 67. Puente, Father, his partial felf-examination, 125. Puffendorf, harmonizes christianity and civil polity, 274. Quoted, 212. Punctuation, ancient, too trifling to be difcuffed in a fer mon, 33. Punishment, future, ridiculed by Cicero, 120. Vicarious, 128. Purity, of heart, effential to a preacher, 95. Purity of diction, the fuperior views of a preacher will excufe his inattention to it in some cases, 12. Puys, his treatment by the Jefuits, 109. Q Qualifications, what required in a minifter, 90. Quefnel, Father, his plain reflections on John i. 14. 159. Questions, of fome divines indecent and endless, 18. 325, 326. Four, addreffed to fome divines, 195. Quintilian, his notion of decorum, 24. Of pleafantry, 16. Recommends perfpicuity, 12. 59. 388. Divifion, 44. Imitation, 116. Modefty, 19. Extempore fpeaking, 84. 91. Teaching boys purity of diction by contrast, 29. Complains of fhort-hand writers, 322. Rabbies, poor expofitors, 52. Their writings ufeful, 320. R Radcliffe, Dr. his library, 39. Rammizini, Dr. his reflections on clerical corpulency, 433. Ramfay, complains of the intolerance of papifts, and fome proteftants, 250. Ramus, his account of Virgil's fourth Eclogue, 166. Its ufe in revelation, 151, &c. Right reafon and regenerate reafon diftinguished by divines, 151. Reasoning, its force, 191. Popular, the best for common ufe, 30, 31. 70, &c. May be overstrained, 30, &c. Reeve, his fermon at court at Queen Ann's death, 389, 390. Reformers, Reformers, ftudied divinity as a fcience, 365. How they thought the law was to be preached, 122. Their doctrine better than their practice in regard to toleration, 227. Reizius, his opinion of Annas and Caiaphas, 324. Reland referred to, 302. Religion, debased by a mixture with extraneous articles, 215. Retz, Cardinal de, what makes him appear obfcure, 292. Revenues, church, fiduciary, 348. Reynolds, Bishop, examples from him, 370. 392. Rhenferd, what mifguided him in expounding fcripture, 276. Rhymes, Luther employed homely ones to popular edification, 22. Rib, of Adam, curious account of, 435. Ribadeneira, his prayer at unchoking a perfon, 266. Rivinus, his account of the ferpent, that feduced Eve, 309, 310. Robinfon, John, his liberal notions of government, 247, 248. His Just remarks on a difputatious fpirit, 228, 229. Rome, church of, its cruelty and immorality, 249. Idolatry, 183. Reafoning, 265, &c. On what principles founded, 233. 341. Rollin, his remarks on pagan ignorance, 121, 122. On obfcurity, 11. On ftudying the fathers, 102. Rouffeau, his notions of civil fociety, 242, 243. Rowe, Mrs. her letters, a conjecture concerning them, 357. Rudd, Sayer, his arguments for pre-existence, 311, 312. Rules, mere, their inefficacy, 292. Dangerous without tafte, 379. Ruft, Bishop, endeavoured to revive Origenifm, 311. Sabellians, S Sabellians, who, 311. Sacheverell, a feditious preacher, 407, 408. Sagan, who, 324. Saints, invocation of, 9. 266. Saldenus, wrote well on the ufe and abuse of books, 104. 295. Samuel, Prophet, various opinions of his apparition, 301. Sandius, his rash affertion concerning the pentateuch, 143. Saumaife, Claude de, his notion of meffengers, 174. His account of the variations in enumerations of scripture verses, 414. Saurin, James, examples from him, 20. 31. 47. 49. 53. 79. 86. 193. 371. 411. Scaliger, Jofeph, whom he thought the best criticks, 101. Of Calvin, 232. Laments the want of literature of his contemporaries, 262: Why he wished himself illiterate, 156. His emendation of Mark ix. 49. 261. Referred to, 319. Schifm, whether proteftant diffenters are guilty of it, 258. Schifmaticks, how Chrift treated them, 77.. Schlichting, his expofition of Rom. iv. 1. 73. Scholaftick divinity too curious for the pulpit, 16, 17. Sclater, Dr. his inaccuracy, 414. Scripture, holy, its evidence, 142. Perfection, 143. 146. Sufficiency, 316. Variety, 392. 413. Peculiar phraseology, 335. Beft expounded by itself, 269. Scrupulofity, what, 256, 257. Scultetus, his fenfe of apayyas, 212. Secundianus converted by reading Virgil, 166. Sedulius, his notion of S. Paul's cloak, 437. Selden, corrected, 161., Unites truth and love, 229. Selle, Selle, Father, his fermon on Mary Magdalen, 237. Hurt the latin language, 26. His opinion of great libraries, 104. Thought adverfity effential to moral greatnefs, 364, 365. Senfe, good common, a good expofitor of scripture, 39. Sepher, what, 144. Septuagint, fometimes mified the fathers, 434 Sermons, the beft, what, 167. 205. 192. 113. 359- Serpent, various opinions of, 309, 310. Shaftfbury, Earl of, cenfures loofe writers, 208, 209. Shakespear's fool, his murky manner of moralizing, 117, 118. Sherlock, Dean, his doctrine of providence, 367. Short hand writing recommended to youth, 322. Simon, Father, his hypothefis on the archives of religion, 329. His opinion of the maforetical lectio n 143. Simony, what, 325. Simple terms, 205, &c. Simplicity of revelation, 313. Of a fermon, 21. TO SIMPLIFY a fubject, the highest pulpit-excellence, 359. Sin, the only formidable in nature, 364. Sine-cures, encourage idleness, 325. Single eye, what, 364. Sinigaglia, Bishop, his convenient method of creed-making, 380. Exλpas, what it means, 106, 107. Smallbrooke, Bishop, wrote well against deifm, 318. Smalridge, Bishop, example from him, 387. Smedtymnuus, fcout the cant No bishop-No king, 432. Snape, Dr. example from him, 409. Sobriety of preaching, what, 15. Social religion, on what founded, 243. Their notion of the use of reason in religion, 152, 153. Socinians, |