SALT, allusion of our Saviour to, its two interpretations, vi. 163, 164.
applied to discipline as well as faith, 170.
SALVATION through the blood of Christ, the eternal purpose of God,
viii. 25.
danger of neglecting it, vi. 67, 81.
faith and morality its appointed means, 218.
SANHEDRIN, could not punish with death but by leave of the Roman
governor, vi. 323.
SCHISM, import and application of the term by the Church of Rome, v. 208.
how introduced into the Church, viii. 61.
SCIENCE, human, very limited, vi. 184.
SCIPIO, his continence, and frivolous curiosity, vii. 306.
SCRIBE, Christian, compared with a Jewish householder, vi. 3.
SCORN, irreligious, the sources of, vi. 353.
admonition against, 364.
SECTS, fanatical, of the last century, confusion caused by, vi. 16.
SELDEN, his notion on the expulsion of the buyers and sellers from the
temple, vii. 393.
where apparently taken up, 398.
SELF-DENIAL, its uses, vii. 306.
SELF-LOVE, too frequently the parent of pride, vi. 132, 133.
its ends how answered by philanthropy, 137.
an instinctive sentiment, 335.
SENECA, an oracle of his, predicting the discoveries of Columbus, v. 85.
SERMONS, advice respecting, viii. 68, 120, 124.
models proposed, 128. n.
SHAKESPEAR, various editions and criticisms of, how occasioned, viii.
283.
SHAME of Christ, what, vii. 329.
cases which imply its existence among unbelievers, 330.
among professors of Christianity, 334, 338.
shame of his words, 342.
of the doctrines contained in them, 346.
of the precepts, 349.
SHERLOCK, Bishop, his remark on the figurative language of prophecy,
v. 68. n.
SIBYLLINE oracles, general opinion concerning, v. 369.
SIGN, what is meant by the Jews requiring one, viii. 168. n.
SILVER, the lover of, shall not be satisfied, vi. 366.
SIMPLICITY concerning evil, the virtue of, in what consisting, vi. 231.
the neglect of it has degraded religion, 234.
relaxed morality, 237.
and polluted common life, 239.
caution against evasive pleas and pretences to part with it, 240.
SLAVERY, personal, common among the Heathen, vi. 386.
SOCIETY for the Propagation of the Gospel, its objects, viii. 27, 28.
SOCINIANISM, what, viii. 114.
SOCRATES, his prediction of his own death fulfilled, v. 80. n.
confessed that he knew nothing, vi. 285.
uncertain in his hope of immortality, vii. 215.
SOLOMON, prescribes the Fear of God as a rule of life, vii. 283.
peculiar deference due to his judgment from men of the world, 293.
from politicians and philosophers, 294.
SOULS of Men, influence of evil spirits on, vii. 274.
SPEAKING, the rules of, more arbitrary than they are taken to be, vii.
344.
SPENDTHRIFT, more to be reprobated than the miser, vi. 370.
SPENSER, his general purpose in the Faery Queen, v. 97.
SPIRIT, Holy, he that soweth in, shall reap life everlasting, vii. 32.
in what sense the assertion understood, 33.
in what way the blessing conferred, 37.
returns of duty thereby required, 40.
justification of God in, 66.
—— Human, its vices, vii. 49.
—a fluctuating faith, 50.
levity of mind, 53.
deadness of heart, 56.
perverse sophistry, 58.
STATE, why it countenances the Church, viii. 62.
STATUTES, relating to the jurisdiction of Cambridge university,
examined, viii. 200.
SUBLIMITY of speech, what, viii. 334, 342.
the definition illustrated, 345.
not united with simplicity, 347.
SULLY, the great, his situation somewhat similar to that of Daniel,
v. 374.
SUPERSTITION, its early inroads into the Christian religion, vi. 105.
SYMBOLS, an early way of writing, v. 238.
SYNCHRONISMS of the book of Revelations, v. 275, 279, 283.
T.
TABOR, Mr. his mumpings against university-appeals, viii. 231.
TEMPLE, what the notion of one implies, vi. 383.
of God, an emblem of the Church of Christ, v. 301.
—— of Jerusalem, utterly destroyed, v. 140.
buyers and sellers driven from, vii. 386.
the act a prediction of the call of the Gentiles, 408.
TEMPTATION, God’s providence respecting, vii. 280.
TERTULLIAN, his remark on the rapid progress of Christianity, viii. 153.
TESTAMENT, Old, considered by St. Austin, a prophecy to the New, v.
53. n.
the divinity of both inferred from the completion of prophecy, 127.
TESTIMONY of Jesus, the spirit of prophecy, v. 21, 24.
TEXT, which the most difficult in the four Gospels, vi. 160.
THEOLOGY, dogmatical, essential to Christianity, viii. 60.
THEOPHRASTUS, a name, why given, vii. 125.
THOMAS the Apostle, admonished respecting faith, vi. 95.
TIBERIUS, the religion of Jesus first published in his reign, vii. 367.
TILLOTSON, Abp. his zeal against Antinomianism, vi. 17.
TIME, scriptural division of, respecting the coming of Christ, v. 17.
TOLERATION, not yet perfectly understood, vi. 195.
TRINITY in Unity, where accurately distinguished, vii. 44.
TROPES and figures, when and in what sense vicious, viii. 366.
what forms of language so denominated by Quintilian, 371.
often a deviation from logical definition, 377.
when they may be allowed, 378.
TRUTH, the spirit of, promised by our Lord to his apostles, vii. 222.
the promise fulfilled by the event, 235.
U. & V.
VANITY, why a vice, vi. 127.
VETTIUS VALENS, augured the duration of the Roman empire, v. 83.
VICE, naturally breeds a disposition to ridicule, vi. 353.
what its usual support, vii. 5.
VIRGIL, purpose of his predictions in the Æneid, v. 96.
a passage from, descriptive of Rome, 292.
allusion to the predictions in his fourth eclogue, 368.
the sixth book of his Æneid by whom finely criticized, viii. 277.
VIRTUE, superior, excites envy, vi. 306.
runs at times into excesses, 308.
can never obtain general praise, 309.
an intermitting state of, most miserable, 399.
what its reasonable reward, vii. 91.
the pride of, by which the Gospel may be hid from us, 106.
VIRTUES of the Heathen, vi. 42.
ULPIAN, his observation on the right of appeal, viii. 249.
UNBELIEF, always owing to some or other of the passions, vi. 245.
accounted for, from man’s pride, viii. 109.
and indolence, 113.
UNCLEANNESS, arguments against the sin of, vi. 382, 385.
its heinousness, 391.
inexcusable in Christians, 392.
VOLTAIRE, his sarcasm on Sir Isaac Newton, vi. 265. n.
W.
WALDENSES, or ALBIGENSES, in what age they first appeared, v. 195.
leading principle of their heresy, 196.
crusades employed against them, _ib._
WAR, civil, a most dreadful instrument of God’s government, viii. 8.
WASHING of the disciples’ feet, a lesson of humility, vi. 145.
its other, and more important signification, 149, 150.
WEALTH, pernicious when over-rated, vi. 368.
or when misapplied, 370.
always a snare, and too often a curse, 375.
has a tendency to corrupt manners, vii. 293.
WESTON, Mr. remarks on his inquiry into the rejection of Christian
miracles by the heathens, viii. 150.
his negative testimonies examined, 155.
his positive testimonies, 161.
his charge on the fathers of the Church, 163.
claims the sanction of an apostle, 165.
his strong hold proves to be magic, 175.
answer to his argument from the multiplication of Heathen Gods, 179.
ground-work of his performance, 183.
WESTERN EMPIRE, the period of its dismemberment that of the rise of
Antichrist, v. 330.
WICLIF exposed the Antichristianism of the Roman pontiff, v. 199.
great effects of his writings, 200.
WILL-WORSHIP, condemned in Scripture, v. 325.
WISDOM, infinite, in the dispensation of prophecy, v. 6, 70.
—— Christian, its properties and characters, vi. 215.
defects in our nature which hinder the attainment of it, 217.
virtues, how to be rendered most graceful, 220.
how most reasonable, 222.
and how most attractive and efficacious, 225.
character of a wise Christian, 227.
the duty of being simple concerning evil, 231.
WISE MEN, invited to judge of Christianity, vi. 8.
qualities requisite for this, 32.
WIT, the ostentation of, leads to infidelity, vi. 248.
WOE to those of whom all men speak well, vi. 304.
WORD OF GOD, admonitions respecting the hearing of, vi. 203, 205.
the ministry of it, for what purposes destined, 207.
men will finally be judged by it, 211.
X.
XENOPHON, character of his writings, v. 382.
his admirable way of recording his own acts, vii. 179.
Y.
YOUTH, its peculiar sins, vi. 394.
just decrees of God against them, 395.
guilt and remorse, _ib._
tyrannous habits produced by them, 399.
temporal afflictions which they entail, 401.
value of innocency and rectitude, 405.
Z.
ZEDEKIAH, two ænigmatical prophecies respecting him fulfilled, v. 253.
ZELOTISM, its object, vii. 396.
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[Transcriber’s Note:
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.
Greek words beginning with ϖ have had the character replaced with π.]