Efteem, the Notion of it includes Liberty, 15. n.e. Evangelifts do not record our Saviour's Difcourfes at large, 258*. nor add all the Circumstances to his actions,ib. and 202.n. nor make Deductions from them, 301. n.. the Wisdom of that Conduct, ib.

Evidence, a moral one fufficient to establish the Truth of facred History, 251.n.

Evil, Adam knew how it entered into the World, 55. Evil One, the Dominion over him afferted by God Almighty in Paradise, 55.

EURIPIDES, his free Treatment of the Poetic Deities, 318. n. often diftinguishes them from the true God, ib.

Examination requifite in all religious Matters, 21. n. that which was made into the Grounds of Chriftianity at first, gives the strongest Confirmation to it in all fucceeding Ages, 125-6. Expectation of the Meffiab, whence it might arife, 134. the Effects of it, ib. no particular Qualification of the Time, fo as to confirm the Truth of his Miffion, ib. Experience muft neceffarily improve the World in all parts of Science, 74, 210.

Experiments, the Rife of Medicine founded thereon according to Celfus, 206.n.l.

Extenfion not inconfiftent with Cogitation, 399. Extinction, the Effect of Adam's Fall, 101,178, 325-6.

F.

Fable of the Bees, the Author's Character, 234. n.d. the ill Effect of fuch Writings, ib. they villainize Mankind,ib. give them vile notions of their Fellow Creatures, and unworthy ones of their Creator,ib. deftroy Benevolence, Truth, Honour, and common Honesty, mutual Confidence, and all the Comfort of converfing with Men, 235. are as groundless and useless as uncomfortable, 236.n. A real Syftem eftablished in Nature upon Virtue, ib. felf-confiftent, and which either will fupport itself, or be fupported by the Deity, ib. has an uniform tendency to promote univerDd3

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fal Happiness, ib. Vice the contrary, 237. this can only produce Good by Accident, and being overruled to that End, ib. is in itself to the Body politic what Poison to the natural, ib. Natural and Moral Qualities equally fixed, and their Effects as clearly discoverable in the main, though fometimes fo mixed as to produce violent Convulfions; wherein that may contribute to relieve an oppreffed Conftitution which would otherwise work its ruin, 237. No fort of Vice in general a real Benefit, 238. Luxury destructive rather than advantageous to Trade, ib. not so useful to fhew Men what they often are, as what they ought to be, ib. This Author's Principles in the oppofite Extreme to thofe of the Characteristicks,238. both wide of the true Mean, which lies in private Happiness purfued by Virtue, or a Moral Senfe, grounded on and regulated by a rational Self-Love, 239. this ever productive of the highest Degree of Happiness on the whole, ib.

Facts barely related in the Gofpels without inferences from them, 258. V. Evangelifts.

Faculties, Man free in the Exercife of fome, 17.. the Harmony amongst them, ib.

Faith, a Dependence upon God, the want of this occafioned Cain's Offering to be rejected, 47.n. a right one how far required in embracing Christianity, 21.n. a rational one neceffary in all things relating to it, ib. how that is confiftent with praying to continue ftedfaft in it, 22. n. Faith in Chrift to come, equally meritorious as that in him already come, 180. Fall, the Confequences of it on Adam, 44.n.101. on the Earth, 194. on all Mankind, ib. and 325. reversed by Chrift, 178, 273.n. 327, &c. what might at firft be inferred from the Tranfaction in Eden, 55. Animal Sacrifice could not be instituted before it, 52. n. Fathers of the Church, many of them being converted from Heathenifm, bring with them their Philofophy, 147. raise allegorical Myfteries on plain Points of

Scripture, ib. n.k. 216. not the best Interpreters of difficult ones, 148. n.l. 156.n.n. have made as grofs Mistakes as others, ib. this providentially ordered, left the Senfe of Scripture fhould depend on Human Authority, ib. did not understand the Theory of Religion fo well as fome of lefs Abilities in a more learned Age, 149. generally lived much better than they reasoned, 152. how far their Proximity to the times of the Apoftles gave them Advantage over others, 148.2.1. This fuppofed Advantage of no confequence in things not exprefsly enjoined as neceffary for the Belief or Practice of all Ages, ib. it would be a Hardship for us to be obliged to conform to all fuch,150,n. Many Conftitutions of different Ufe and Neceffity in different times, ib. A Liberty of chang. ing those left by the Founders of the Christian Church, ib. Many early Alterations on Human Authority, ib. Difficulty of knowing the general Senfe of the Church in times really primitive, 159.n. Sacred Truth to be fought only in the Scriptures, ib. Antiquity a blind Guide, otherwife than as it is manifeft in the Bible, ib. Nothing ever determined by Appeals to any other Judicatory, ib. The Appellants don't well understand what they mean by that of the primitive Times, ib. The Fathers often inconsistent with each other, and with themselves, ib. Where they agree, their Reason, not Authority, ought to govern, ib. Chriftianity in its Childhood when they wrote, 156.n. We fhould have understood the Scriptures better without them,ib.They juftify fuch Rites as led to Popery, ib. No Chriftian Church now in the World holds all that they did, ib. nor is it worse for not doing fo, ib. Hypocrify to pretend that Refignation to them which used to be infifted on, 157.n. neither requifite in Matters of Opinion nor Practice, ib. Inftances of Variations from them in each Refpect, ib. which we have Reason to believe not unacceptable to God, ib. The real Reverence due to them, 159.n. both their Learning and

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Piety extraordinary for the Times, ib. Religion and Truth more like to fuffer by a too fupine Refignation to them, than by receding from them, 160.n. Objection from Jer.6.16,ib. Foreign Proteftants have no fuch high Opinion of them, 153.n.m. Authors who have treated of them freely, ib. Le Clerc's juft Apology for it, 154.n.

Feafts, Allufions to them, 331,336.

Figurative Expreffions, why ufed by our bleffed Saviour, 305. n. z.

Fibers, Allufions to the Occupation, 301.n.y*

Fitness of the Time, in each Nation, for receiving a Religion, what conftitutes it, 28. Objection from the Chinese answered, ib. n. Fitnefs of that in which the Christian was introduced. V. Chriftianity.

Flefb, the eating of it allowed to Mankind from the beginning, 48, 49.n.c.

Flood of Noah did not increase the Barrennefs of the Earth, 57,190. nor fhorten the Lives of Men, 191. introduced in Mercy to that Generation, as well as their Pofterity,57. Reflections naturally arifing from it,59. Man's Knowledge after it fuperior to what it was before, ib.

Food (Animal) ufed from the beginning of the World, 48.n.c.

Freedom of Man allowed to confift with all the Methods

of communicating Revelation, 14. n. whence none fo proper as the prefent to avoid either Enthufiafm or Imposture, 17, 18. what Tokens of it in the Human Conftitution, 9,10.n. its Limits, ib. not entirely fuperfeded by Affociations, 16, 17.n. the Suppofition of it the fole Ground of Merit, ib. and of the Pleasure we receive in exercising most of our Faculties, ib. Fulness of the Time, the fame as a State of Maturity in the World, 40, 118, 132, 142. in what refpects the Time of Chrift's Appearance was fuch. V.Christianity. Fundamentals in Chriftianity, no room for any Dispute about them, 175.n.

Future

Future State might be collected from the Tranfaction in Paradife, 54. the Translation of Enoch, 56. the Promife to Abrabam, 62, 64. not explicitely taught under the Mofaick Inftitution, which was built chiefly on temporal Promises, in order to separate the Jews from other Nations, and fecure them from Idolatry, 80,93, 94.n. 225.n. V.Law of Mofes.- has no Connection with the natural Immortality of the Human Soul, 401-2.

G.

Genius natural in Man, what conftitutes it, 8.n. a. whence the Diversity in it, ib. Neceffity for fuch in all Society, ib*.

Gentiles. V. Heathen.

Ghoft. V. Spirit and Holy.

Gifts extraordinary improveable by Labour and Study, 19. n. fuch not to be claimed now-a-days, without the fame Evidence that originally attended them, ib. Glafs Painting, the Art not loft, but out of ufe in many

parts of the World fince the Reformation, 196. n.aa. GOD Almighty, the Wifdom of his Conduct in the Dif penfation of both Natural and Revealed Religion, 613.14-27. Whether all kinds of Worship be equally acceptable to him, 31. What Provifion he made for the Inftruction of the antediluvian World, 57. his Covenant with Noab, 57. with Abraham and his Family, 71. obliged to treat with the Patriarchs by way of Compact, 73. his Government of the Jews, 78, &c. Intent of that Inftitution, 8o.n.c. not confined wholly to them,81,93. Whether they ever abfolutely rejected him, 84.2. made known by them to a great part of the World, 85. fent his Prophets to foreign Countries, 91. not partial in his Favours to the Jews, 94. makes them the chief means of preparing Mankind for a nobler Difpenfation under the Meffiab, 101. introduces that in the fittest time, 105. (V. Chriftianity.) acts always for the Good of all Mankind, 142,143. to whom he extends the Benefit of Redemption, 177, 178. His Works fuited to each other, and in a State of

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