"Delicta majorum immeritus lues,
"Romane."

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.

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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.

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EMI

EMILIANUS, character of, and his religion afcertained, i. 302.
ANEAS, the character of, intended to convey that of a perfect
lawgiver, i. 218, 226. How his defcent into hell is to be
understood, 226. Particular key to, 236. The circum-
ftances of his return from the lower regions examined into, i.
281. His fhield defcribed, 287.

ENEIS, an analyzation of that poem, i. 211. Who intended
by Eneas, 212. A fyftem of politics, 219. Contains a
compleat fyftem of future rewards and punishments, 226.
ESCHYLUS, his danger at hinting at the heathen mysteries in
one of his fcenes, i. 181.

ALCEUS, why confounded with Hercules, iii. 264,

ALCIBIADES, probable expofition of his nocturnal riot, before
his expedition to Syracufe, i. 167. n.

ALEXANDER the GREAT, probable conjecture why he commu-
nicated to his mother the facred myfteries explained to him
by an Egyptian hierophant, i. 158. n.

ALLEGORY, a figure often attributed, where never intended, i.
326. Controverfial refléxions on the nature of, with re-
ference to Job, and the famous Ode of Horace, O Navis re-
ferunt, &c. v. 18. n.

ALLEGORIES, religious, diftinguished, v. 284, 321. n. Argu
ment deduced from the general paffion for, 354.

ALLIANCE between church and ftate, the influencing motives
to, ii. 9, 18. Advantages of the connexion, 11. The re-
ciprocal inducements to an union, 18.

ALPHABET, origin of, accounted for, iii. 99, 148. Politi-
cal, 149. Sacred, 154. Reafons difcrediting the notion of
its invention by the Ifraelites, 162. Its invention prior
to the time of Mofes, ib. Hebrew formed by Mofes, from an
improvement on the Egyptian, 164. See CADMUS, EGYP-
TIAN, HEBREW, LANGUAGE, LETTERS, RUNIC.
AMERICA, the falfe policy of the Europeans toward the natives
of, pointed out, as the caufe of the ill fuccefs of the mif-
fionaries, ii. 70. A proper nursery for free-thinkers, 74.
AMERICANS, native, remarks concerning, by F. Charlevoix, ii.
73. n. By M. de la Condamine, 74. 7. Remarks on their
languages, iii. 174. n.

AMOS, a clear defcription of a particular providence quoted
from, iv. 293-

ANATOMY, practifed and ftudied by the ancient Egyptians, ¡¡¡,
52.

ANIMAL worship, true original of, amongft the Egyptians, iii,
197, 235, 242. Images first worshiped, 200. Afterward
the animals themselves, 204. Various opinions of the an
çients concerning the origin of, 211.

ANSCHARIUS, St. anecdote of, ii. 52. ng

AN

ANTIENTS, unacquainted with the refined diftinctions of mo-
dern philofophy, ii. 185.

ANTONINUS, emperor, why defirous of admiffion to the Eleufi-
nian myfteries, ii. 144. His perfecution of chriftianity ac-
counted for, ii. 53.

APIS, the fymbol of the Egyptian god Ofiris, iii. 201. Ac-
count of his worship from Diod. Sic. 213. n.

APOLOGUE, or fable, its ufe in oratory, iii. 113. Its analogy
to hieroglyphic writing, 117. Its improvement and con-
traction in fimile and metaphor, 118, Its change to para-
ble, 169.

APOTHEOSIS, when bestowed on deceased heroes among the
Egyptians, iii. 226.

APULEIUS, opinions of the antients concerning his metamor-
phofis, i. 296. Eftimated, 297. Account of, 298, Ex-
amination of, 307. His fentiments concerning the unchange-
able nature of God, ii. 195.

APPETITES, human, the fource of oppofition to the laws of
fociety, i. 75.

ARABIANS, why they have fa long preserved the purity of their
notions of the divinity, i. 94.

AREOPAGUS, addreffes to the paffions excluded by, i. Ded. 10.
In what character St. Paul appeared before that court, ii. 57.
Who the founder of that court, 60.

ARGUMENT, internal, defined, iv. 314.

ARISTOPHANES, why he triumphed over Socrates, i. Ded. ig.
ARISTOTLE, his character and principles, ii. 160, 193.
ARK, its fatal effects among the Philistines, iv. 204.
ASTRONOMY, Jewish obfervations on, v. 100.

ARTEMIDOR US, fee DREAMS.

ARTICLE, VIIth, of the Church of England, an expofition of,
v. 194.

ATHEISM, invites to fenfual gratifications, i. 70. Homer's opi-
nion of, 75. n.
And Polytheifm, compared, 36. Plu-
tarch's parallel between, and fuperftition, ii. 260. Bacon's
ditto, 278.

ATHEIST, unable to arrive at a knowledge of morality, i
44. Nevertheless accountable and defervedly punishable at
the hand of God, 56, n.

ATHEISTS, unfair c.rcumftance attending the comparison of
their moral conduct, with that of profeffors of religion, i.
71. No general argument to be eftablished from particular
inftances, 73.

ATHENIANS, how they drew the refentmemt of Philip of Ma-
cedon against them, i. 269. Their behaviour in prosperity,
and in adverfity instanced, v. 77.

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ATHENS

ATHENS, remarks of its care for the established religion, ii. 27.
57. No ftrange God tolerated there, till approved by the
Court of Areopagus, ii. 57.

AUGUSTUS, Emperor, advised against toleration, ii. 68.
AURELIUS, Emperor, his opinion of the firmness of the Chrif
tians, iii. Pref. 39.

AUSTIN, St. his ingenious definition of language and letters,
iii. 105.

AUTHOR, the principal object of his attention, pointed out, i.
Ded, 35.

B.

BACCHANALS, decree of the Roman fenate relating to the cele
bration of, ii. 65.
BACCHUS, his exploits in the Indies, invented to aggrandize
the glory of Alexander, iii. 161. His identity confounded
with that of Ofiris, 269. Reafons proving him to be Noah,
288 n.
The rites of, how characterized by Virgil, i. 292.
BACON Lord, his parallel between Arbeifm and Superftition, ii.
278.

BALAAM, his famous prophecy, Numb, xxiv. 17. expounded,
iii. 177. His wish to die the death of the righteous, explain-
ed, v. 142.

BANISHMENT, how far to be confidered as a punishment,

i. 18.

BAPTISM, the importance of, establifhed, v, 4. fee QUAKERS,
BAUCIS and PHILEMON, the fable of, explained, ii. 134.
BAYLE, mistaken in the tendency of Pomponatius's treatise, De
immortalitate animae, i. 26, 39. His character as a writer,
34, 77. His arguments to prove reputation capable of in-
fluencing a man void of religion, to a virtuous conduct, 61.
Difproved, 62. His argument of Atheism not being deftruc
tive to morals, examined into, i. 72. Mistaken in his cen-
fure of Virgil's placing infants in hell, i. 258. His reflexions
on toleration, iv. 159.

BEMBINE TABLES, a defcription of, contained in Ezekiel's vį,
fions, iv. 19.

BENNET, Secretary, how brought into contempt, i. Ded. 21.
BOLINGBROKE, an examination of his notions concerning the
omiffion of the doctrine of a future ftate, in the Mofaic dif-
penfation, iv. 381. His obfervations on the infufficiency of
the Mofaic law to reftrain the people, anfwered, iv. 206.
Confequences of a law upon his principle, 210.
BRUTE-WORSHIP, opinions of the antients concerning the
origin of in Egypt, ii. 43. iii. 211. The fymbolical nature
af, explained, iii, 200.

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