"Delicta majorum immeritus lues, This is true Poetical payment: He is called upon for his reckoning, and he difscharges it with an old Song. But the Examiner is not a man to take rhime for reafon. He asked for an old fyftem of Laws; and the contemptuous Profeffor gives him an old Ballad: But a little more civility at parting had not been amifs; for he who did not fpare the Bishop, would certainly demolish the Professor, should he take it into his head to examine the Pralections as he hath done the Sermons. INDEX. A GENERAL INDEX TO THЕ WHOLE WORK. N. B. For the regular chain of the argument, fee the beads of the Sections prefixed to the Volumes. A The Roman Numerals refer to the particular Volumes, and the Figures to the Pages. A BRAHAM, the true meaning of the bleffing pronounc ed on him, pointed out, v. 138. Expofition of the history of the famous command to facrifice his fon Ifaac, 197, 229. Reply to objections againft the historical truth of the relation, 247. The import of God's revelation to him explained, 214, 222. Summary of his history, 210, 252, n. Three diftinct periods in his hiftory pointed out, 259. In what fenfe faid by Chrift to have feen his day, 230, 254. An advocate for toleration, v. 412. See AcTION, GOD, LAZARUS. ABRAXAS, Egyptian amulets, what, iii. 182. ACTIONS, fignal inftance of divine inftruction conveyed by, in the cafe of Abraham, v. 197. The eloquence of, illuftrated by an anecdote from the Spartan hiftory, 227. n. Ditto, from the Roman history, 228. n. ACADEMIES, of the Greek philofophers, how diftinguished, and by whom founded, ii. 116. Cicero and Lucian, their accounts of, 117. Whence named, 120. Diftinguished into Sceptics and Dogmatists, 126. ADDISON, his obfervations on Eneas's defcent into hell, i. 264. His fublime improvement of a paffage in Ovid, 300. ADORATION, Prideaux's account of the ancient forms of, iii. 220. 2e3 EMI EMILIANUS, character of, and his religion afcertained, i. 302. ENEIS, an analyzation of that poem, i. 211. Who intended ALCEUS, why confounded with Hercules, iii. 264, ALCIBIADES, probable expofition of his nocturnal riot, before ALEXANDER the GREAT, probable conjecture why he commu- ALLEGORY, a figure often attributed, where never intended, i. ALLEGORIES, religious, diftinguished, v. 284, 321. n. Argu ALLIANCE between church and ftate, the influencing motives ALPHABET, origin of, accounted for, iii. 99, 148. Politi- AMOS, a clear defcription of a particular providence quoted ANATOMY, practifed and ftudied by the ancient Egyptians, ¡¡¡, ANIMAL worship, true original of, amongft the Egyptians, iii, ANSCHARIUS, St. anecdote of, ii. 52. ng AN ANTIENTS, unacquainted with the refined diftinctions of mo- ANTONINUS, emperor, why defirous of admiffion to the Eleufi- APIS, the fymbol of the Egyptian god Ofiris, iii. 201. Ac- APOLOGUE, or fable, its ufe in oratory, iii. 113. Its analogy APOTHEOSIS, when bestowed on deceased heroes among the APULEIUS, opinions of the antients concerning his metamor- APPETITES, human, the fource of oppofition to the laws of ARABIANS, why they have fa long preserved the purity of their AREOPAGUS, addreffes to the paffions excluded by, i. Ded. 10. ARGUMENT, internal, defined, iv. 314. ARISTOPHANES, why he triumphed over Socrates, i. Ded. ig. ARTEMIDOR US, fee DREAMS. ARTICLE, VIIth, of the Church of England, an expofition of, ATHEISM, invites to fenfual gratifications, i. 70. Homer's opi- ATHEIST, unable to arrive at a knowledge of morality, i ATHEISTS, unfair c.rcumftance attending the comparison of ATHENIANS, how they drew the refentmemt of Philip of Ma- E e 4 ATHENS ATHENS, remarks of its care for the established religion, ii. 27. AUGUSTUS, Emperor, advised against toleration, ii. 68. AUSTIN, St. his ingenious definition of language and letters, AUTHOR, the principal object of his attention, pointed out, i. B. BACCHANALS, decree of the Roman fenate relating to the cele BALAAM, his famous prophecy, Numb, xxiv. 17. expounded, BANISHMENT, how far to be confidered as a punishment, i. 18. BAPTISM, the importance of, establifhed, v, 4. fee QUAKERS, BEMBINE TABLES, a defcription of, contained in Ezekiel's vį, BENNET, Secretary, how brought into contempt, i. Ded. 21. BUF- |