early used, 502. Are lawful among Chriftians, 503. Objectiona against them anfwered, 504. All vain and rash sfwearing condemned, ibid. When and in what manner they ought to be taken, 505.

Oil began very early to be used in facred rites, 340, 367. What probably introduced it, ibid. That used by the Apostles was attended with a miraculous effect, 364. The form of applying it in the Church of Rome, 367. This is of a modern date, 368. Argument from the fitnefs of it anfwered, 369.

Old Teftament. See Scriptures.

Opinions, a rule to be obferved in reprefenting different opinions, 148. In what cafe opinion is no excufe for fin, 43г.

Opus Operatum, or the act of receiving the facraments not fufficient to convey grace, 334.

Orders, the different ranks of them in the Church, 357. No fa-
crament, 358. What the effentials of them are, ibid. Validity
of those of the Church of England, 479. See Pastors.
Ordination by Laymen valid, 326. The form of it in the Greek
Church, 358. In the Church of Rome, ibid. 359. Several re-
gulations about them, 479. The phrafe, Receive ye the Holy
Ghoft, which is used in them, explained and vindicated, 480.
Origen, his care in fettling the canon of the New Testament, 98.
His opinion of the foul, free-will, and providence, 191. His
doctrine was much followed, 192.

Original fin, various opinions about it, 137-139. What the
Scriptures teach concerning it, 139. How it may be conveyed,
140. The confequences of it more than a natural death, 141.
The effects of it not quite taken away by Baptifm, 142.
Overal, Bishop, espoused the Armenian tenets, 197.

P.

AGANS not excufed from idolatry, because they worshipped the true God under their idols, 431.

PAGA

Papias, who converfed with the Apoftles, his account of the Gofpels of St. Matthew and St. Mark; 98:

Papifts. See Church of Rome.

Parable, confequences to be drawn from the scope of them, and not from particular phrafes, 275.

Paradife, what notion the Jews had of it, 72.

Pardon of fin, the conditions of it, 35. The doctrine of the Church of Rome concerning pardons, 285. The abuse and bad confequences of it, 177, 286. This gave rife to the Reformation, ibid. The pretence of their being only an exemption from penance examined, ibid. Is without foundation in Scripture or antiquity, 287.

Parents, their authority over their children by the Jewish conftitu tion, 385. This agreeable to Chriftianity and the law of nature, ibid. Their obligation more particularly to take care of their fouls, 387.

Paris Council condemned image-worship, 296.

Paffion

Paffion defined, 33. fluence, 150.

In what fense afcribed to God, ibid. Its in

Paffover, the original and defign of its inftitution, 389. A type of our deliverance by the Mellias, 390.

And did not belong The danger of taking Who are lawfully called, Where the jurifdiction is

Paftors, a fucceffion of them ought to be in the Church, 319. This to continue till the end of the world, 320. to the infancy of Chriftianity only, 321 this office without a due vocation, 322. ibid. Lawful authority, what, 323. fixed in the Church of Rome, 326. What may be done in cafes of neceffity, ibid. Inftances of lay-preachers, 326.

Patriarchal authority of the fee of Rome is diffolved with that empire, 487.

Objections against it, His character, 192. Had many followers in

Pelagius, his opinion of original fin, 137. ibid. His opinion of liberty, 151, 192. Is oppofed by feveral learned men, ibid. Britain, 193. Penance, a long one imposed on finners in the primitive times 177. Whence the word is derived, 343. The feveral acts of it, ibid. No characters of a Sacrament in it, ibid. The doctrine of the Church of Rome concerning it, 344. No Sacrament, because of a modern date, ibid. Many canons about it, 348. The ancient difcipline flackened, 349. Whether penance is to be performed before abfolution, 353. The abfurdity of the doctrine of the Church of Rome on this fubject, 354. What is the true penance enjoined by the Gofpel, 355.

Perfection, no councils of perfection in the New Testament, 172. A paffage in the xixth of St. Matthew, which feems to imply this, explained, 173. In what fenfe we are called to be perfect as God and Chrift, 180. The Scripture reprefents the best of men as imperfect, ibid. This is no encouragement to live in fin, 181. Perfeverance, a neceffary confequence of abfolute decrees, 205. Perfon, refulting from the conjunction of two natures, what, 63. What meant by Chrift's having one perfon, 64. Of the perfonality of the Holy Ghoft, 86. St. Peter, of the authority committed to him, 250. Had no fuperiority, 484. Was withftood by St. Paul, ibid.

Pharifees afferted free-will and providence, 191.

Philofophers, their opinion of matter, 31. Defpifed revelation, fecret affiftances, and miracles, 76. Their account of original fin, and the pre-exiftence of fouls, 138. Were puzzled about free-will and providence, 191. Were not fo grofs idolaters as the vulgar among the heathens, 289.

Philofophy was new modelled to explain Tranfubftantiation, 410. Photinus, his opinion of Chrift, 62.

Pictures in Churches condemned by the Council of Eliberis, 295. Soon led to idolatry, ibid.

Plato, his opinion of the foul after death, 278. Was probably the fource of purgatory, ibid.

Polycarp, a remarkable paffage concerning his body, 303. Popes, when they took the full power of indulgences to themselves, 177. Have been condemned for herefy, 244. Their ambition, forgeries, and cruelties, 245. Of their pretended power over Princes, 247. Arguments against their infallibility, 243, 247Alledged proofs of it anfwered, 250. Several abfurdities in afferting it, ibid. Were not much confulted in calling fome Councils, 262. Of the pardons and indulgences granted by them, 285. Have been the most wicked fucceffion of men history has produced, 424. Their authority was pretended to long before their infallibility, 483. Their jurifdiction founded on a forgery, 486, 489. The extent of their claim, and by whom completed, 487. See Church of Rome.

Prayer, what outward geftures proper for it, 58. Prayers for the dead an early practice in the Church, 281. What gave occafion to it, ibid. Tertullian's opinion of them, ibid. Why not practifed in the Church of England, ibid. Prayers in an unknown tongue. See Worship. The great efficacy of prayer with right difpofitions, 355, 356. The abfurdity of appointing prayers as a talk, 356.

Preaching of the Apoftles, the nature of it, and wherein it differed from that of their fucceffors, 384.

Precepts, wherein they differ from the means of lvation, 380.. Predeftination, the controversy about it reduced to a single point, 189. Three main questions that arife out of it, ibid. Various opinions about it, 190. Hiftory of the controverfy concerning it both in ancient and modern times, 191-198. General reflections on the subject, 216. The advantages and disadvantages of the feveral opinions, 217. Points in which all are agreed, 219. How far the Article has determined in this controversy, 220. The defign of the cautions added to it, 221. Paffages in the Liturgy concerning it explained, 222. The impartiality observed in treating this fubject, ibid.

Prescience, the notions of the Supralapfarians concerning it, 199. Thofe of the Sublapfarians, 207. The certainty of it is not cafual, but eventual, 211. A conditionate prefcience agreeable to Scripture, ibid.

Prefence, real, the meaning of it as taught by the Church of England, 401. The doctrine of the Church of Rome concerning it, 402. The myftical presence is acknowledged by them, 408. Whence the controversy about the matter of the presence took its

rife, 425

Preventing grace, proof of it, 154. Of the efficacy and extent of it, 155. See Grace.

Prieft, the rules concerning the High Prieft of the Jews difpenfed with in cafes of neceflity, 326. The Jewish notion of a Prieft, 447. Chrift was both a Prieft and Sacrifice, ibid. Primafius, his comparison of the Eucharift, 421.

Private judgment, objections against it anfwered, 240. Is allowed by the Church of Rome, ibid.

Proceffion

1

Proceffion of the Holy Ghoft, we can have no explicit idea of it, 86.
Yet ought to be believed, 87.

Promises, whether any other than temporary under the old difpen-
fation, 121. Those that were national only temporary, ibid. Par-
ticular perfons had a profpect of a future ftate, ibid. Proofs of
this, 122.

Prophecy, not a mark of the true Church, 235. Of those relating to
the Meffias, 114-119.
Prophetical writings, why dark and
Providence, wherein it confifts, 38.

obfcure, 107.

How the difficulty of conceiving it may be removed, 39. Objections against it confidered, 40. The neceffity of it, ibid. Was denied by the Epicureans and Sadducees, 191. How the great defigns of it are carried on,

212.

Punishments, the temporal ones of good men, no argument for the
reserve of others in another state, 274. The lawfulness and necef-
fity of capital punishments, 493. The measure and extent of them,
494.
Purgatory, the doctrine of the Church of Rome concerning it, 272.
No foundation for it in Scripture, 273. Arguments for it confi-
dered, 274, 275. Reafons for rejecting it, 276. A middle state
not warranted from Scripture, ibid. Different opinions about the
state after death, 277. The fources of this doctrine, 278. Ar-
gument from Maccabees examined, 279. A paffage from the
New Teftament alledged in favour of it confidered, 280. Not
known for the first six hundred years, 281. Was never received
by the Greek Church, ibid. Is a remnant of paganism, ibid.
The great abuses of this doctrine, 284. Political reasons are not
fufficient to fupport it, 285.

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R.

ADBERT, Pafchafe, the firft who afferted and explained the corporal prefence, 426. Was oppofed by all the eminent men of his time, ibid.

Ratramne, his account of the real prefence, 427.

Real prefence, the meaning of it in the doctrine of the Church of England, 401. The abfurdity of the Romish doctrine on this head, 402-410. See Tranfubftantiation.

Reconciliation by the death of Chrift is not abfolute and without conditions, 68.

Redemption, the Remonftrants notion of its extent, 212.

Reformation, why many wild fects sprang up with it, 5. The fun-
damental article on which it depends, 6. The main ground upon
which it is juftified, 97. What occafioned the first beginnings
and progrefs of it, 286.

Reformed, their different opinions concerning free-will and predef
tination, 197.
Reformers, reafons for their defcending into fo many particulars, 5;
Put Christianity on its right foundation, 162. Thofe in England
were Sublapfarians, 197.

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Regeneration,

Regeneration, how it may be explained, 153. Relicks, whence a fuperftitious regard for them took its rife, 302. The confequence of enfhrining of them, ibid. Were appointed to be venerated by the Council of Trent, ibid. Have no countenance from Scripture, 303. Nor from the practice of the first Chriftians, ibid. No ufe made of them in the times of perfecution when moft neceffary, 304. Fables and forgeries invented to fupport them, ibid. 307. The novelty of the worship of them, 305. Religion, juft notions of God the basis of it, 36, 50, 128. The affiftance that revealed religion can receive from philofophy, 141. The defign of natural and revealed religion, 151, 317. The truths of religion are impreffed by a divine direction, 153. Alcoran afferts that all religions are equally acceptable to God, 224. Hobbes makes religion and law to be the fame, ibid. The hypothefis of those who would accommodate their religion to their fecular interest, 225. These opinions condemned, ibid.—228. All religions are not alike, 228. A true notion of it, 354. Remiffion of fins, the notion of it under the old difpenfation, 123. Not previous to justification, 160. Is an act of God's favour, 161. The nature of it in the Gospel, 273. Of the power of it committed to the Apostles, 345. In what fenfe it is continued by their fucceffors, ibid.

Remonftrants, their opinions concerning free-will and predeftination,

190, 207. Their arguments, 208-215. Difficulties obviated by their doctrine, 213. The advantages and disadvantages of it, 217. Repentance, not the valuable confideration, but the condition of justification, 163. The true notion of it, 343, 354. The danger of trufting to a death-bed repentance, ibid.

Reprobation, the Supralapfarians notion of it, 270. Is a doctrine hard to be digested, 218.

Refurrection, the poffibility of it, 44. Of the nature of the body after it, ibid. Was denied by the Sadducees, 92. Was believed under the Old Teftament, 122, 123. Completes the happiness of a future ftate, 277.

Refurrection of Chrift. See Chrift.

Revelation, what it is, and the design of it, 151, 317. That which destroys the evidence of our fenfes is not to be believed, 406. See Scripture.

Revelation of St. John, its authority proved, 100. Why not men tioned in the catalogue of the Council of Laodicea, 111.

Righteoufnefs, the doctrine of the Church of Rome concerning it, 161. That of the Reformed, 162.

Rock of the Church, what meant by it, 250.

Roman-Catholick. See Church of Rome.

Ruffin was the first who mentioned the article of Chrift's descent into

hell, 69.

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