ABDIE, (or Abdias,) St, acts of, 82.
Absolution, Popish doctrine of, 255, 256.
Acephalians, denied the properties of the two
natures in Christ, 54; said women might
be deacons, 240; would not yield obedience
to bishops, 330.
Acolytes, Popish order of, 258.
Adam, curious and unprofitable questions re-
specting the fall of, 98.
Adamites, said they were without original
sin, 101; and as pure as Adam before his
fall, 135.
Admonition to the Parliament, 8.
Aerians, said there was no difference between
bishops and priests, 330.
Etians, cast off all grace and virtue, 118.
Agatha, St, invoked by those that have sore
breasts, 226.
Agatho I., Pope, says all the pope's decrees
are to be received as confirmed by the
voice of St Peter himself, 202, note 1.
Agnoites, their heresy, 43.
Agnus Dei, 111, 223, 318.
Agrippa, in not defending Paul, despised the
doctrine of justification by faith, 113.
Alabaster, holds that the consent of fathers,
harmony of churches, &c. mark the true
church, 176.
Alciat, says that Christians adore three de-
vils, 44.
Alexander VI., Pope, incontinency of, 304.
Almsgiving, is a duty of Christians, 354; re-
fused by certain heretics, 355.
Althemerus, refused Epistle to Hebrews and
St James, 84.
Alva, Duke of, his standard baptized and
named Margaret by Pope Pius V., 266.
Ambrose, bishop of Milan, 330.
Amurath, terms our Saviour, The crucified
God, 49.
Anabaptists, say that Christ did not take a
human body, 52; deem not the Bible to be
the word of God, 78; reject the book of
Job, 81; books of, 82; affirm that there is
naturally in man free-will unto the best
things, 186; that man is justified by works,
114; that man perfectly may keep the law
of God, 123; that sin after baptism is un-
pardonable, 141; rely on their own dreams,
&c., 158, 196; say the visible church is free
from sin, 167, 179; and that all but them-
selves are wicked, 169; say the Scriptures
are too hard for any to interpret, 194;
deny baptism to infants, 202, 265; presume
to teach without authority, 231; say there
should be no public preaching, 232, 325;
wrongly referred to respecting the admi-
nistration of the Lord's Supper, 234; say
there is no calling to the ministry but the
immediate calling from God, 239, 240; con-
temn the sacraments as of no account, 246;
say that no man who is himself faulty can
preach the truth to others, 271; number
baptism amongst things indifferent, 275;
say baptism does no more than civilly dis-
cern one man from another, 278; that the
baptism of infants is of the devil, or the
invention of Pope Nicholas, 280; say in-
fants believe not, therefore are not to be
baptized, 281; say God's people are free
from all laws, 317; term preachers "letter-
doctors," 325; did burn the books, &c. of
learned men, reserving only the Scriptures,
326; say all Christians should be equal
330; condemn magistracy, 337; take upon
themselves the reformation and ordering of
the church, 343; think that, before the re-
surrection, there shall be no magistrates,
because all the wicked shall be rooted out,
346; deny the lawfulness of capital punish.
ment, 349; and of war, 351; enjoin com-
munity of goods, 353; and therefore give
no alms, 355; will not take lawful oaths,
358.
Anastasius, commands a quaternity of Per-
sons to be worshipped, 44.
Andreas, St, acts of, 82; supposed interces-
sion of, 227.
Andrew, St, Gospel after, 82.
Angels, the work of creation ascribed to, by
some, 40; Popish images of, 223.
Anthropomorphites, ascribe the form of man
unto God, 38.
Antichrist, the Pope so proclaimed at Rheims,
182.
Antinomies, will not have God's laws to be
preached, 92; err respecting election, 152.
Apocrypha, consent of the churches reformed
respecting, 81; errors respecting, 82.
Apollinarians, wrongly said to hold a quater-
nity of persons in the Godhead, 44, n.; said
that Christ had a body without a soul, 52;
that the carnal body of Christ was consub-
stantial with the Father, ib.; that Christ
suffered in his divinity, 57; that original
sin is from nature, 99.
Apollonia, St, her intercession besought by
Papists to remove toothache, 228.
Apollos, was bishop of Corinth and Achaia,
Apostles, the false, denied the resurrection,
64; taught that man is justified by works,
114, 116; required the observance of Jewish
ceremonies, 314.
Apostles, works falsely ascribed to, 82;
Canons of, ib.; had authority over all
others in the church, and established an
ecclesiastical hierarchy, 328.
Apostolics, condemned marriage, 261, 300;
said he was no bishop who was a wicked
man, 270; excommunicated all married
people, 311; condemned prelacy, 330; en-
joined community of goods, 353.
Appelleans, esteemed neither the law nor the
prophets, 81.
Aquarians, used water instead of wine in the
Aquinas, Thomas, says those who are infected
only with original sin are free from sensible
punishment, 97; says the pains of purga-
tory and hell-fire differ only in duration,
217; says Christ has satisfied only for ori-
ginal sin, 298.
Archbishopdom, pretended sacrament of, 259.
Archbishops, (see Bishops).
Archontics, the symbonia of, 202.
Arians, denied the deity of the Son and Holy
Ghost, 45, 47; by-named Pneumatoma-
chons, 45; and Douleians, 47; said that
our Lord had not a human soul, 52; said
the Holy Ghost was inferior to the Son, 72;
affirmed that the Holy Ghost is one and
the same person that Christ is, 74; the
creeds of Athanasius and Nice devised a-
gainst, 93; denied the consubstantiality of
the three persons of the Godhead, 201;
their heresy confirmed by the council of
Ariminum, 209; condemned marriage, 306.
Aristobulus, bishop in Britain, 329.
Aristotle, said the world was eternal, 40.
Arius, affirmed the Holy Ghost to be a mere
creature, 70.
Ariminum, council of, confirmed the Arian
heresy, 209.
Arles (Conc. Arelat.), council of, 204.
Armenians, hold that the law ceremonial is
yet in force, 89.
Arthington, published that one William
Hacket was come to judge the world, 68.
Articles, of religion in the reign of King Ed-
ward VI., 4; the Thirty-nine allowed by
convocation and authority of the prince and
state, anno 1562, 6; subscription to, re-
quired, 7; the (Presbyterian) "brethren"
agree to subscribe to, 10.
Artotarites, added cheese to the bread in the
Lord's Supper, 295.
Assembly, General, of the Scottish Church,
206.
Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, 329.
Atheists, deny that there shall be a general
judgement, 67; reject the Scriptures, 78;
understand not salvation through Christ,
109; cast off all grace and virtue, 118;
assert that there is no hell but opinion,
148.
Augustine, St, calls Rome Babylon, 181; his
opinion respecting the authority of coun-
cils, 210; bishop of Hippo, 330.
Ave Maria, 220.
Babels, baptized by the Papists, 266.
Bale, John, saith that Roma spelt backward
is a preposterous Amor, 179.
Balthasar, King, Popish prayer to, 228.
Baly, inhabitants of, worship false gods, 37.
Baptism, sin after, 136-142; Popish errors
respecting, 137, 249, 250; derided by the
Family of Love, 177; allowed by the Papists
and others to be administered by private
persons, 235, 236; readministered by them
to children baptized by Protestant minis-
ters, 236, 266; denied to infants by the
Servetians and Anabaptists, 265; and to
married folks by the Marcionites, ib.;
abused by the baptism of bells, &c. by
Papists, 266; of the dead by the Cataphry-
gians, 266; is a sign of profession and mark
of difference, 274-276; is a sign or seal
of regeneration, 276-278; of infants, 278-
281.
Bannister, said that Christ endured in hell
the very pains of the damned spirits, 61;
his error respecting the law, 92.
Bannisterians, think there will be a time in
this world when we shall need no sacra-
ments, 251; say the water at baptism is not
holy, 278; consider common and rash swear-
ing but trifles, 357.
Barcobas and Barcolf, 82.
Barnabas, Gospel according to, 82.
Barrow, terms the Apostles' creed a forged
patchery, 93; says that sin after baptism
is unpardonable, 141; that there is no
mingling of the good and bad in the visible
church, 167; says that the observing of
times is an error fundamental, 187; preaches
without authority, 231; and teaches that
any layman may do so, ib.; says a prince
contemning the censures of the church is to
be excommunicated, 311.
Barrowists, have no preaching nor sacra-
ments, 176; say that to have liturgies is to
have another gospel, 187; say our preachers
are sent of God in anger to deceive the
people, 230; and that there is no ministry
of the gospel in all Europe, 238; that every
member of a church hath power to exa-
mine the manner of administering the sa-
craments, and to forsake a church which
will not reform upon private admonition,
273; denied baptism to the seed of whores
and witches, 280; say parsonages and vicar-
ages are popish and antichristian, 332.
Bartholomew, St, eve of, 8; gospel after, 82.
Basil, bishop of Casarea, 329.
Basilides, feigned divers gods, 37; said that
Christ suffered in appearance only, 57;
that Simon of Cyrene was crucified in his
stead, ib.; rejected the Old Testament, 80,
87; new prophets of, 82, 202; said that
men be elected and saved by nature, 149.
Basilidians, cast off all virtue, 118; allowed
perjury to escape persecution, 119, 357;
wrongly referred to on justification by
works, 126, 160.
Begadores in Almaine, affirmed that they
Bellarmine, holds the supremacy of the pope
to be an article of faith, 203,
Bells, baptized by the Papists, 266.
Benedict VIII., Pope, was an enchanter,
180; popish prayer to, 224, 226.
Bernard, St, called the Romans hateful and
wicked, 182; excommunicated flies, 311.
Beza, thought that private persons might
summon assemblies about church causes,
206; says the apostles had authority, as
twelve patriarchs, over the church, 328.
Bishops, their authority is grounded upon the
word of God, 328; and was acknowledged
in the times succeeding the apostles, 329;
there hath never been wanting a succession
of, 330; rejected by various heretics, 330-
332; may be rightly and lawfully conse-
crated according to the rites of the Book of
Consecration, &c., 332-334; are those to
whom ordination and consecration by im-
position of hands was always principally
committed, 332.
Bishopdom, pretended sacrament of, 259.
Blandrat, blasphemes the Trinity, 44; denies
the divinity of the Son, 49.
Blastus, makes God the author of sin, 97.
Bocardus, interprets the Scriptures mysti-
cally, 197.
Bolseck, Henry, erred respecting predestina-
tion, 148, 150.
Bolton, the first hatcher of Brownism, 142;
despaired of salvation, ib.
Boniface VIII., Pope, wrongly referred to,
202.
Bozius, maintains that the tokens of Christ's
Church are unity, universality, &c., 176.
Bristow, affirms the marks of the true Church
to be unity, antiquity, &c., 176.
Brownists, impugn the deity of the Holy
Ghost, 70; say the laws judicial of Moses
belong to Christians, 90; hold that the visi-
ble church is devoid of sin, 167; that their
discipline and not the pure preaching of
the word, &c. marks the Church of Christ,
176; have no sacraments, 177; say that
Christians should join only the people
among whom the Lord's worship is free,
185; say that it will hardly be found in
all the world that any minister is or shall
be duly called, 237; and that there is no
calling but the immediate from God, 239;
say that no man is to communicate where
there is a blind or dumb ministry, 272; that
privato persons have authority to depose
unmeet ministers, 273; their notions re-
specting the covenant of marriage, ib.;
denied baptism to the children of open sin-
ners, 280; say the baptism of children by
the ministers of the Church of England is
not lawful, 281; excommunicate whole
cities and churches, 311; say God's people
are not to be bound with the bands of any
jurisdiction of this world, 317; that no
Apocrypha must be brought into the Chris-
tian assemblies, 326.
Bucer, his dead body excommunicated by the
Papists, 311.
Burges, in his letter to King James, A.D.
1604, states the number of nonconforming
ministers in each of the counties of Eng-
land, 317.
Busgradus, says we must believe whatever
the popes believe, 202.
Cain, an example of desperation, 59, 142.
Cajetane, Cardinal, refused some of the
Epistles, 84.
Calixtus, Pope, condemned the marriage of
priests, 181.
Calvin, writes to Cranmer respecting unity of
doctrine in the reformed churches, 3; the
value of his writings, 324; his sermons on
Job read in the reformed churches of Flan-
ders and France, 325; and his catechism
publicly expounded in several reformed
churches, ib.
Campeius, Cardinal, said it were a less offence
for a priest to play the whoremaster than
to take a wife, 304.
Campian, thought all councils were of equal
authority with the word of God, 211.
Canaglion, the bishop of, excommunicated
the fishes, A. D. 1593, 311.
Canisius, his error respecting the descent
into hell, 62.
Canon of Scripture, all reformed churches
agree with us, 80; heresies respecting, 80,
81, 83-85.
Canticles, book of, rejected by Sebastian
Castellio, 81.
Capernaites, thought the flesh of our Lord
might be eaten with corporal mouths,
289.
Carlile, denies Christ's descent into hell, 61.
C. (T.) i.e. Thomas Cartwright, holds that
we are bound by the judicial law in part,
90; says the laws of God require that none
minister the sacraments which do not
preach, 235.
Carpocrates, said the world was created by
angels, 40; that Jesus was the son of
Joseph, 52; rejected the Old Testament,
80, 87.
Carpocratians, held how Christ ascended,
not in body, but in soul to heaven, G5;
denied original sin, 97; some boasted them-
selves to be as innocent as Christ, 101, 135;
allowed whoredom, 119; held that none
should be saved in soul and body, 145; de-
nied the resurrection of the body, 154.
Carthage, council at, condemned the practice
of thrusting the sacrament into the mouths
of dead men, 266.
Castellio, Sebastian, rejected the book of
Canticles, 81.
Catabaptists, denied the divinity of Christ, 49;
said that the devils and ungodly shall finally
be saved, 67, 147; rejected the Old Testa-
ment, 80; believed that themselves only
should be saved, 153.
Cataphrygians, held that Christ ascended
only in soul to heaven, 65; baptized dead
men, 266; added blood to the elements in
the eucharist, 295.
Catharists, maintained that the righteous have
Christ essentially and inherent within them,
115; imagined that they could not sin even
in thought, 135, 138, 257; condemned mar-
riage, 261, n. 13; especially second mar-
riages, 202, 307.
Cerdon, wrongly referred to, 57.
Cerdonites, wrongly referred to, 83, 145 (see
Marcion) 314.
Ceremonies, and rites, 184-190; burdensome
and impious in the Church of Rome, 180;
such as tend to comeliness and edification
are to be retained, 202; not necessarily
alike in all places, 313-316; are to be ob-
served if allowed by lawful authority, and
not repugnant to the word of God, 316;
disputes respecting in Germany and Eng-
land, 317; if repugnant to God's word, are
not to be observed, 318-321; may be or-
dained, changed, or abolished, by every
particular church, so that all things be
done to edifying, 321, 322.
Cerinthus, ascribed the world's creation unto
angels, 40; said that Christ was the son of
Joseph and Mary, 48; affirmed that Christ
is not yet risen, 64; that the law ceremonial
continues in force, 89, 160, 314.
Chagi (Turkish priests), 120, 359.
Chalcedon, council of, summoned by Marcion,
204; had erred if Ilierome had been away,
Chancellors, should pronounce excommunica-
tion, 316.
Charles the Great, summoned several coun-
cils, 201.
Childebert, summoned councils at Paris and
Orleans, 205.
Christ, his divinity proved, 46; his humanity
proved, 50; is God and man in one l'erson,
53; the Saviour of mankind, 55; his de-
scent into hell, 59; various opinions respect-
ing his descent into hell, 60; his resurrection,
63; his ascension, 65; he shall come again
to judge all men, 66; was without sin, 132;
eternal salvation only by his name, 158; his
consubstantiality with the Father and the
Holy Ghost, 201; ordained two sacraments
only, 251; the instruments of his passion
worshipped by the papists, 224, 225; prayer
to his cross, 228, 229; his body is given,
taken, and eaten, in the Lord's Supper
after a spiritual sort, 288; and is not par-
taken of by the wicked in that sacrament,
292, 293; the one oblation of, finished upon
the cross, 296-301.
Christ Church, Oxford, great bell of, baptized
and named Mary, 266.
Christina, St, said by some Papists to be the
Saviour of men and women, 298.
Chrysostom, bishop of all Thracia, Asia and
Pontus, 329.
Church, the, visible and invisible, 164; its
unity, 167; its catholicity, 170; is not be-
fore nor above the word of God, 173; the
marks thereof are the due and true admi-
nistration of the word and sacraments, 174;
the visible church, from time to time, hath
erred, 177; especially the church of Rome,
179; authority of the church, 183; hath
power to decree rites or ceremonies, 184;
may not ordain what rites and ceremonies
she will, 188; hath authority to judge and
determine in controversies of faith, 190;
hath power to interpret the word of God,
193, 197; is the witness and keeper of God's
written word, 198; may not enforce any-
thing to be believed contrary or besides the
word of God, 201; is not to judge the
Scriptures, 199.
Church-officers, the names of, as archbi-
shops, &c., for discipline, not to be refused,
Circumcellians, rejected and burnt the holy
Scriptures, 76; cast off all grace and virtue,
118.
Circumcision, a sacrament to the Jews, 251.
Clare, St, invoked by those that have sore
eyes, 226; said to be the saviour of women,
298.
Clemens, Epistle of, to the Corinthians, was
publicly read in the primitive church, 324.
Commissaries, their court, 310.
Community of goods, not required amongst
Christians, 352; enjoined by certain here-
tics, 353, 354.
Concupiscence, even in the regenerate, is sin,
101; errors respecting, 102.
Confession, popish, 255, 257.
Confirmation, the primitive use of, 252; is
no sacrament, 253, 254; Romish ceremonies
in, ib.; Romish doctrine respecting the
effects of, 254; other errors of the papists
respecting, 255.
Consecration of archbishops and bishops, is
orderly and lawful, if according to the Book
set forth in the time of Edward VI., 327,
332, 333; by imposition of hands, &c., 332.
Constantine the Great, summoned the coun-
cil of Nice, 204.
Constantinople, council of, summoned by
Theodosius the Elder, 204.
Contobaptists, allowed no bishops, 330.
Coppinger, published that one William Hacket
was come to judge the world, 68.
Coranus, disliked commentaries, 196.
Cornelius, bishop of Bitonto, his words at the
council of Trent, 210.
Corpus Christi Day, feast of, 286, 291.
Costerus, maintains that Christ, by his de-
scent, turned hell into paradise, 62; says
that the popes cannot teach heresy, 183;
says the Scriptures are ambiguous, 199.
Councils, general, authority of, 203; may not
be gathered together but by the command-
ment and will of princes, 204; instances of
some which have been so called, ib.; have
always been confirmed by the sovereign,
205; errors respecting the calling and con-
firmation of, 205, 206; may err, 207; their
liability to error denied by the Papists, 208,
210; have erred even in things pertaining
unto God, 208; some of the errors of coun.
cils, 208, 209; their decrees binding only
so far as they are consonant to God's
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