Manner, a topick, 166. Manton, Dr. his just notions of the beft fermons, 272. Manufactures improved by toleration, 210. Marckius, his fenfe of Zeph. ii. 1. 329. The whole church collectively, 75. Martial, ridicules avarice, 76. Martin, accounted the best vindicator of 1 John v. 7. 13. Martyrdom, how the fathers confidered it, 124. No argument for implicit obedience, 106. Marvellous, love of the, a fource of innumerable errors, 173. Some of her milk in England in mdxxxv. 50. Mafs, Romish, whence, 51. Maffey, his cenfure of inoculation, 428. Maffillon, Bp. his notion of the religion of the heart, 53. By fpecies, 27. By place, 123. By contrast, 195. By inveftigating caufes, 201. By reafons, 204. By fuppofition, 219. By interefts, 257. Mathurin, St. his business in the church of Rome, 232. Mattaire, compofed the title of a book of fuppofition, 94 Maunfell Maunfell referred to, 191. Maxims, what Saurin calls fo, 398. Mead, Mat. his fermon on two sticks, 240. Medical images in divinity, 190. Meeting-house, should be rendered commodious, 383. Men, divines fhould ftudy them, if they would understand Mercy, a vague word, 149. Doctrine of, fhould not be taught alone, 364. Merit, religious, various opinions of, 218. Whether the fathers held the doctrine of, 267. Meffiah, his part attempted to be acted, 236. Attachment to a temporal, a perpetual error, 237. Method fhould be neglected fometimes, 332. Mexicans improper evidences in the caufe of deifm, 412. Mezzabarba, acted on the fame ground as the Jefuits in regard to the Chinese rites, 306. Middleton, Dr. what is proved in his difpute concerning miracles, 119. Milton, cenfures hypocrify, 296. And the forcing of fcripture into modern rules, 137. Mimefis, what, 113. Mimickry, hateful in a pulpit, 335. Mind, month's, what, 208. Minifters of religion, their principal bufinefs, 188. Degrade themselves by fervility to a dictator, 161. Minorites, who, 45: Minos, why he afcribed his laws to a deity, 63. Minutius Felix juftifies chriftians for not erecting temples, 237. Miracles. See Gifts, Middleton. Mifers, fome extraordinary, 68. Models, pagan writers not standards to biblical ones, 140. Modesty recommended, 166. 470. Monarchy, the corruption of it, 352. Money, the fupport of popery, 63. Монсу, Money, only the immoderate love of, cenfurable, 70. Monks, an expenfive, ufelefs, mifchievous fet of men, 45. 50. 280. Monopolizers of divinity, who, 72. Moore, Dr. how he taught paffive obedience, 18. Indifpenfible, 290. That of the Jefuits extremely loofe, 279. Mortification, what, in the papal community, 45. Mofheim, miftook English antinomianifm, 260. Quoted, 6. 251. 302. Mofs, Dean, example from him, 5. Motion, naturally governed by mental emotions, 33. Moulin, Du, Lewis, cenfures ceremonies, and the ground of ordaining them, 131. Ridicules the pretence of retaining popish rites, 125. Taxes the epifcopal church with advancing toward Rome, 78. Mountague, Bp. how that firebrand reasoned, 322. Mufes, fexes of the, 386. Mufical images in religion, 190. Mufick, inftrumental, cannot be reafoned from Judaism, 163. Mycterifmus, what, 113. Myfticifm came from Plato's school, 265. Mysticks, extravagant divines, 52. 264. 280. Mythology, pagan, may elucidate fcripture, 124. N. Nailour, Rev. William, example from him, 127.. Nalfon abufes the puritans, 78. Nantz, the revocation of the edict of, a cruel unjust action, 167. Narration, Quintilian's rule of, 473. Nathan, his parable, a fine picture of avidity, 73. Natural, religion, imperfect, 127. Images, may be fancifully applied, 190. Moft be ufed in certain cafes, 341, &c. may Naturalization-act, connects toleration and publick wealth, 210. Nature, Nature, human, confiderable by divines in two points of light, 419. Neal, Rev. Daniel, his part in Salter's-hall fermons, 231. An impartial hiftorian except to the baptifts, 81. Neceffity, popular, is that of fcripture, 240. Metaphyfical, writers on, 241. Rhetorical, a topick, 240. Negligence of drefs, air, and appearance, when necessary to a preacher, 332. Nero, his infenfibility, 273. Newcome, Dr. example from him, 17. New man, what, 390. News-mongers, pefts in religious focieties, 263. Newton, Bp. quoted, 50. Nicephorus referred to, 465. Nicholls, Dr. his notion of the government, 42. Noife, in the pulpit, rude and unmannerly, 16. 335. Non-conformists, the difciples of revealed religion are ne ceffarily, 178. The English, difguifed, and plentifully abufed by mercenary writers, 89. What they require exprefs feripture for, 283. Uniformly attached to revolution principles of government, 73. Do not disturb fociety, 229. Unjustly taxed with bigotry, for complaifance has been their bane, 179. Non-refiftance, a political queftion, 136. Converted into a theological one by priests, 42. Norden, an example of the artifice of authors and title pages from him, 211. Nouet, father, to what he compares the fathers, 174. Novation, expounds Pfal. xix. of Christ, 433. How he argues for the neceffity of the holy fpirit, 241. Novelty, no teft of error, 91. Nudipedes, who, 45. Numa knew mankind, 63. Nurfing fathers, Princes called fo on religious accounts ace cording to fome priests, 211. James I. was a very aukward one, 200. O. Obedience, moral and pofitive diftinguished, 284. Objections, a topick, 222. Obfcure, language, why Jefus Chrift sometimes ufed, 142. Obfollers, a nick-name given by Butler to puritan preachers,' 225. Half of it the property of their predeceffors, 225. Occafion, a topick, 182. Occafional conformity, indefenfible on proteftant principles, Oeconomy, the grand article in which the Jewith differs Offence, a method of avoiding to give, 474. Official principles neceffary to a minifter, 141. Ομοθυμαδόν, what, 8. Opera-glaffes, rude and abominable in a place of worship, 122, &c. Oana, what, 219. Optatus, his account of pulpit falutations, 465. Optimist, Voltaire's, proves nothing, 113. Orator, Homer's perfect, 465. Oratory very apt to mislead, 170, &c. Order, the furprizing increase of that of S. Francis, 46. Ordinance, the cafe of a loft, 184. Ordination fermons, defign a proper topick of, 158. Organs in publick worship, inconfiftent with diffenting prin- ciples, 307. Origen, whom he thought the Herodians, 256. Original fin, a fad fact, 312. Orleans, Duke of, infulted, that is flattered, by Boffuet in a fermon, 462. Ornaments of style, must be varied, 175. Orthodoxy, a convertible word, 41. Oftentation odious in a preacher, 272. Owen, Dr. John, used no exordiums in fome of his fermons, 458. Cenfured fymbolizing non-conformists, 307. His fenfe of 1 Cor. ii. 14. 353. Owen, Bishop, Dr. Walker's fulfome praife of, 79. VOL. II. 3 X P. |