Manner, a topick, 166.

Manton, Dr. his just notions of the beft fermons, 272.
What he calls the highest degree of fin, 303.

Manufactures improved by toleration, 210.

Marckius, his fenfe of Zeph. ii. 1. 329.
Marks of a chriftian, 428.

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.
Mary, Virgin, how confidered in the church of Rome, 266.
Saluted by Cicero's rule of addrefs, 172.

Some of her milk in England in mdxxxv. 50.
How fome proteftants defcribe her, 116.
Mafon, his defcription of harmonious ftyle, 478.

Mafs, Romish, whence, 51.

Maffey, his cenfure of inoculation, 428.

Maffillon, Bp. his notion of the religion of the heart, 53.
His argument for immortality from difcontent, 352.
Example of difcuffing by genus, 23.
By particular idea, 26.

By fpecies, 27.

By place, 123.
By principles, 144.

By contrast, 195.

By inveftigating caufes, 201.

By reafons, 204.

By fuppofition, 219.
By evidence, 248.

By interefts, 257.
By propofition, 397.
By mixed topicks, 350. 420.
Of tender conclufion, 493.
Of mixed conclufion, 497.
Exemplifies prayer in preaching, 339.
The general character of his preaching, 490.
His funeral orations are fulfome, 463.
Mafter, his learned fermon at Oxford, 116.
Mathematician not neceffarily a divine, 38.

Mathurin, St. his business in the church of Rome, 232.
Matincour, Father, celebrated for his naftiness, 45.

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.
Meaning, double, whether in fcripture, 142.
Meannefs, a topick, 236.

Medical images in divinity, 190.

Meeting-house, should be rendered commodious, 383.
Melanthon ftruck out Synergism, 154.

Men, divines fhould ftudy them, if they would understand
books, 224.
Mendicant friars, 45.

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.
Thought mutual affection the matrimonial bond, 139.
Some lines of his applied to Chrift, 235.

Mimefis, what, 113.

Mimickry, hateful in a pulpit, 335.

Mind, month's, what, 208.

Minifters of religion, their principal bufinefs, 188.
Different defcribed by Saurin, 254.

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.
Will always purchase praise, 211.

Monks, an expenfive, ufelefs, mifchievous fet of men, 45.

50. 280.

Monopolizers of divinity, who, 72.

Moore, Dr. how he taught paffive obedience, 18.
Morality, independent on opinion, 404.
Immutable, 162, 163.

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.
Proper pulpit, 16. 175. 335.

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.
Mufculus, a great divine: but no master, 106.

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.
Was not derived from fcripture, 140.

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.
His ftrange way of reafoning, 314.

Noife, in the pulpit, rude and unmannerly, 16. 335.
In publick worship, rude and offenfive, 383.
Preachers fhould strive to diminish it, 459.

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.
Univerfal, effential to proof of piety, 44. 428.
Paffive, no part of religion, 18, &c.

Objections, a topick, 222.

Obfcure, language, why Jefus Chrift sometimes ufed, 142.
Obfervations, the way of preaching by, 1, &c. &c.

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,
178, &c.

Oeconomy, the grand article in which the Jewith differs
from the Chriftian, 162, &c.

Offence, a method of avoiding to give, 474.

Official principles neceffary to a minifter, 141.
Office, Chrift's kingly, how Brochmand explains, 4.
Oligarchy, whence, 352.

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.

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