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ANTI-CHRIST-whether the Pope be AntiChrist. iii. 552:-what he is. ibid. 553: -his two essential marks, that he denies Jesus to be Christ, and professes himself to be Christ. ibid. ibid. :-is an adversary of Jesus the true Christ. iii. 553:-The Anti-Christ, who, iii. 553. ANTIOCH-Was a particular Church. ii.281: -elected Paul and Barnabas. ibid. ANTIOCHUS-his name of dúowv, whence. iv. 90.

ANTI-PAPA-iii. 552.

ANTIPATHY-the school doctrine of. iii.

680.

ANTIPERISTASIS-the school doctrine of. iii. 680.

ANTIPODES-the existence of, now acknowledged. iii. 687-men formerly punished by authority ecclesiastical for supposing. ibid.

ANTIQUITY-to antiquity itself, nothing is due. iii. 712-its glory is due not to the dead, but the aged. iv. 456:-the praise of ancient authors, proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. iii. 712, 86.

ANTITYPIA—what so called by the Greeks. vii. 108.

ANXIETY-for the future, disposes men to enquire into the causes of things. iii. 92: -is made by what two things peculiar to man's nature. iii. 95:-always accompanies men in the ignorance of causes as it were in the dark. ibid.

ἀποδείξις, ἀποδεικνύειν—the signification of. i. 86-confined to propositions in geometry, why. i. 85-7. ἀποκατάστασις.—vii. 187. apopμn-aversion. iii. 39.

APOLLO -the cause of arts attributed to him by the Gentiles. iii. 100. APOLLONIUS-to be taken in hands by the reader before proceeding to the geometry in DE CORPORE. i. 204. APOLLOS-we are reduced to the liberty of primitive Christians, to follow Paul, Cephas, or Apollos, as each man liketh best. iii. 696.

APOSTACY-where the civil power did not assist the Church, excommunication had in it neither damage nor terror for apostacy. iii. 503.

APOSTLE-the Apostles and their successors represented the person of God from the day of the descent of the Holy Ghost. iii. 376:-their preaching was a proclaiming of the kingdom of God. iii. 403, 592. ii. 309:-not present, but to come. iii. 521.

shall sit upon 12 thrones judging the 12

tribes of Israel. iii. 481, 482, 560, 576, 635. ii. 255.

were twelve, why. iii. 482, 523. ii. 253. iv.

191.

Christ before his ascension gave them his spirit. iii. 486:-also after his ascension. ib. :-it was their character, to bear witness of the resurrection. iii. 488:were endued with the Holy Ghost. iii. 489:-were made fishers, not hunters of men. iii. 491. ii. 260. iv. 196:-their work, proclaiming and preparing for Christ's second coming. ibid. :—their commission contains no authority over any congregation. iii. 496, 519:-but to preach. iii. 497, 523, 568. iv. 195 :-to teach. ibid. 508, 519, 523:-to baptize. iii. 498, 519, 523, 568:-to forgive and retain sins. iii. 499-502:-were left as guides, assisted by the Spirit, to bring us to the kingdom of God. iii. 498. in forgiving and retaining sins, must follow the outward marks of repentance. iii. 500:-if these appear, they cannot deny, if not, they cannot grant absolution. ibid. :-the same of baptism. ibid. : -had no power to keep persons excommunicate out of the synagogues. iii. 503. laboured by reason and persuasion to confute the idolatry, and bring to the faith of Christ the Gentiles. iii. 511:preached nothing but Jesus is Christ. ib. 549, 592, 595. ii. 309. iv. 178:-claimed no authority to interpret the Scriptures. ibid. :-exhorted their converts to obey their ethnic princes. ibid. 580, 601:for conscience sake. ii. 580.

every apostle was the interpreter of his own epistle. iii. 511:-took not from the people the liberty of interpreting the Scriptures for themselves.iii. 512:-sent to the Churches letters and instructions of interpretation. ibid.

not the Apostles, but their converts, made their writings canonical. iii. 518: -their commission, to proclaim the kingdom of Christ, not present, but to come. iii. 519:-to shake off the dust of their feet against those that received them not. iii. 519. iv. 196:-not to call fire from heaven to destroy them. ibid.: -not to compel to obedience by the sword. ibid. iv. 195:-not to make laws, but to obey and teach obedience to laws made. iii. 520:-could not make their writings obligatory canons without the help of the civil sovereign. ibid. the style of their council. iii. 520, 561. their power no other than to invite men to embrace the kingdom of God. iii. 521: -the burthen laid by them on the con

verted, not laws but conditions. iii. 521,|
561-were bound to teach the doctrine
agreed on in their council, but could
not oblige other Christians to observe
what they taught. iii. 522.

the canons of the Apostles, collected by
Clemens, bishop of Rome. iii. 375, 522.
their office to be martyrs. iii. 523, 525:-
this the essential mark distinguishing
their office from other magistracy eccle-
siastical. ibid. 524:-the ordination of
the apostles was the act of the congrega-
tion, not of Peter or the eleven. iii. 524:
-in their time no government by coer-
Icion, but by doctrine and persuading.
iii. 526-were only the presidents of
the assemblies in the election of officers.
iii. 528.

of the apostles such as were fishermen
sometimes exercised their trade. iii. 534.
were forbidden by our Saviour to carry
gold and silver etc. ibid. :-their mainte-
nance the free gift of the faithful. ibid.:
-and of those that were healed. ibid.
their contention at the Last Supper, who
of them should be the greatest man
when Christ should be king, iii. 555.
their traditions are but counsel. iii. 564-5:
--had no commission to judge between
man and man. iii. 568.

the person whom they believed, was
Christ himself. iii. 587.

lived, all of them, till after the resurrec-
tion of Christ. iii. 619.

were baptized most of them in their own
blood. iii. 633.

the apostles, and after them the pastors
of the Church, why could they cure the
diseases of madmen and demoniacs,
which now they cannot do. iii. 644.
would not allow themselves to be wor-
shipped. iii. 654.

the virtues of the apostles, the first ele-
ments of pontificial power. iii. 695.
their testifying, that the kingdom of
Christ was not come at the time of his
ascension. ii. 256.

were elected and ordained by Christ. ii.
280:-are called by St. Paul the Apostles
of the circumcision. ii. 281:—their duty
not to command, but to teach. ii. 283. iv.
195:-had the same power of remitting
sins as Christ had. ibid.

in mysteries of faith, were promised by
Christ infallibility till the day of judg-
ment. ii. 297.

claimed no dominion over men's consci-
ences. iv. 172:-but only persuasion.
ibid. :-their answer to the Jews to them
that forbad them to preach Christ, it is
better to obey God than man. iv. 173:-did

not till his resurrection understand Christ
to be more than a temporal king. iv. 179.
their equality. iv. 192.

the Apostles' Creed, how far authorised by
the Council of Nice. iv. 392-6:-made up
entire as we now have it by the Chalce-
donian Council. iv. 401.
APOTHEOSIS-what so called by the hea-
thens. ii. 318. iii. 660.
aπoovváywyov πolεTv.—iii. 502. ii. 288:—a
word drawn from the custom of the
Jews to cast out of the synagogue men
contagious in manners or doctrine. ib. ib.
APELLES-the head of what sect of here-
tics. iv. 307-attacked by Tertullian.
ibid. :-condemned by what words in the
Apostles' Creed. iv. 392.

APPETITE or approaching, the first en-
deavour in animal motion tending to-
wards such things as are known by ex-
perience to be pleasing. i. 407. 408. iii.
39. iv. 31:-shunning what is trouble-
some, aversion. ibid. ibid. ibid. ibid. :-
appetite and aversion to the same thing
alternate in living creatures, as they
think it will be for their good or hurt. i.
408-this alternation called deliberation.
ibid.

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appetite and aversion simply so called,
follow not deliberation. i. 408-if deli-
beration have gone before, then the last
act, if appetite, is called the will. i. 409.:
-if aversion, then unwillingness. ibid.
appetite, where it exists, is of necessity,
why. i. 499:-appetite and aversion
quickly succeeding each other, called
hope and fear. ibid. :—all passions of the
mind, consist of appetite and aversion. ib.
appetite ascribed by the Schools to
things inanimate. iii. 4.

of appetites and aversions, some born
with men. iii. 40:-others proceed from
experience and trial of their effects. ib.:
-appetites more properly aversions,
what. ibid.:-of things of which we
know not whether they will hurt us or
not, there may be aversion, but no ap-
petite. ibid. :-the same things do not
always cause in man the same appetites
and aversions, why. iii. 40-1.

the motion made in sense continued to
the heart becomes appetite and aversion.
iii. 42:-seemeth to be a corroboration
of the vital motion. ibid. :—all appetite,
desire, love, accompanied with delight
more or less. ibid. :-appetite, and the
other simple passions, have their names
for divers considerations diversified. iii.
43.

the appetites and aversions of men are
diverse, according to their constitutions

etc. ii. 47-this diversity the cause of
quarrel amongst them. iv. 82.
AQUINAS-Thomas, calls eternity nunc-
stans, an ever-biding now. iv. 270. v. 329:
-said by Luther, to be he that did set
up the kingdom of Aristotle. v. 64.
ARBITRATOR-the necessity for arbitrators
in all controversies. iii. 31. iv. 105. ii. 42:
-what he is. iii. 143. ii. 42. iv. 106:-no
man fit to be one in his own cause. ibid.
ibid. ibid. :-nor to whom greater profit
ariseth out of the victory of one side
than the other. iii. 143.

ARCHIMEDES-to be taken in hand before
the reader proceeds to the geometry in

DE CORPORE. i. 204.

his spiral, made by diminishing the ra-
dius of a circle in the same proportion
in which the circumference is diminish-
ed. i. 263-all after Euclid, save Ar-
chimedes, Apollonius and Bonaventura,
conceived the ancients to have done all
that was to be done in geometry. i. 272.
assumed by him, that some straight line
is equal to the circumference of a circle.
i. 273-was the first that brought the
length of the perimeter of the circle
within the limit of numbers very little
differing from the truth. i. 287.

to find a straight line equal to his spiral.
i. 307.

what method he used in his book de spi-
ralibus. i. 313:-demonstrated the quad-
rature of the parabola from considera-
tions of weight. ibid. :-used the division
of two quantities into parts considered
as indivisible for determining equality
and inequality. ibid.

found out the proportion of the circle
to the square. ii. 198, note :-used what
method to find a straight line equal to
the circumference of a circle. vii. 63:-
he and all other geometricians have had
two principles that cross each other
when applied to one and the same sci-
ence. vii. 68:-represents time by a line.
vii. 270.

ARISTIDES-banished by the Athenians.
iii. 200.

ARISTOCRACY―is, when the representative
is an assembly of part only. iii. 171, 548.
ii. 93, 94. iv. 127:-has no choice of
counsel, why. iii. 339:-has the same
power as a monarchy. iii. 548.

they that by some are looked upon as
the best, are by others regarded as the
worst of men. ii. 94.

a government compounded of all three,
aristocracy, democracy, monarchy. ii. 95.
is originally constituted by a democracy.
ii. 99. iv. 138, 141:-in what manner.

ibid. iv. 141:-in it the council is free
from all obligation. ibid. ibid.:-must
have certain times and places of assem-
bly appointed. ii. 100-at intervals not
long. ibid.

if an aristocracy decree aught against
the laws of nature, it is the sin, not of
the civil person, but of those by whose
voices decreed. ii. 102.

cannot fail. ii. 107:-not easily. iv. 159.
the best form of, that which imitates
monarchical government most, popular
least. ii. 142.

the council of, cannot do injury to its sub-
jects. iv. 142:-but may offend against
God. ibid.:-elects its own members.
ibid. :-no covenant between it and the
democracy that erects it. ibid.

the inconvenience from passion greater
in an aristocracy than in a monarchy. iv.
166:—the tacit understanding hodie mihi,
cras tibi. iv. 168:-the aptitude of an aris-
tocracy to dissolution, belongs only to
those governed by great assemblies. iv.

169.

is formed by the voluntary conjunction
of many lords of families. vi. 151.
ARISTOPHANES-vii. 390.-
ARISTOTLE his reasons for desiring to
reduce words to predicaments. i. 28:—
incoherency of abstract and concrete
names to be found in his Metaphysics.
i. 58-what he understands, in the be-
ginning of his Metaphysics, by principles.
i. 63.

his definition of Time. i. 94, 95:-his
definition of accident. i. 104 :-right, save
in what. ibid.

says in his Metaphysics, that whatsoever
is made of anything, should be called,
not έκεινο, but ἐκείνινον. i. 118.
his materia prima, what. i. 118.

his name for relative bodies, τὰ πρὸς τι.
i. 133.

his texts whereon grounded the doctrine
of the philosophy schools. iii. 3:—fools
value their words by the authority of an
Aristotle. iii. 25.

his doctrine brought into religion by the
schoolmen. iii. 108.

the foundation of his Politics, that some
men are born to command, others to
serve. iii. 140. ii. 38. iv. 103:-is against
both reason aud experience. ibid. ibid.:
-hath weakened the whole frame of his
politics. iv. 103.

numbers bees and ants amongst political
animals. iii. 156. iv. 120, 245. v. 80:-
and man. ii. 66.

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men in the western parts of the world
made to receive their opinions concern-

ing the rights of commonwealths from Aristotle &c. iii. 202 :—those rights derived by him, not from the principles of nature, but from the practice of his own commonwealth. ibid.

puts down in his Politics, that in a democracy liberty is to be supposed &c. iii. 202. ii. 135. iv. 202.

has treated of law in general, without professing the study of the law. iii. 251. the Scriptures mixed by the Enemy with relics of the religion of the Greeks, and much of the vain and erroneous philosophy of Aristotle. iii. 605.

taught in the Lyceum, the walk of the temple of Pan. iii. 666.

nothing can be more absurdly said in natural philosophy than his Metaphysics. iii. 669-nothing more repugnant to government, than much of his Politics. ibid. :-nor more ignorantly than a great part of his Ethics. ibid:-his authority only current in the universities. iii. 670: -not philosophy, but Aristotelity taught there. ibid. :-part of his philosophy called Metaphysics. iii. 671.

perhaps knew his philosophy to be false, but writ it fearing the fate of Socrates. iii 675.

his cause why some bodies sink naturally downwards towards the earth. iii. 678. his definition of good and evil by the appetite of men. iii. 680 :-from his civil philosophy the schools have learned to call all commonwealths not popular tyranny. iii. 682:-and the condition of a democracy liberty. ibid:-his error, that in a well-ordered commonwealth not men should govern, but the laws. iii. 683. his Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics, serve to keep the errors of the Church of Rome from being detected. iii. 693 :— make men mistake the ignis fatuus of vain philosophy for the light of the Gospel. ibid.

one of the moral philosophers after Socrates. ii. pref.

his two sorts of government, one relating to the benefit of the ruler, the other to that of the subjects. ii. 127. iv. 162.

his doctrine that tyrannicide is worthy of the greatest praise. ii. 153.—that the sovereign is bound by the civil laws. ii.

154.

his definition of a law. ii. 183-4:-is defective, wherein. ii.184:-his law nothing but naked contract. ibid. :—his definition of man, that he is a rational creature. ii. 269. iv. 226, 303.

no pretence to more knowledge in moral

philosophy now, than was delivered 2000 years ago by Aristotle. iv. 73. his opinions, at this day and in these parts, of greater authority than any human writings. iv. 102.

his opinion, that virtue consists in a mediocrity, vice in extremes. iv. 110. vi. 218. his tenets concerning substance and accidents &c. mixed, in the doctrine of the real presence, with tenets of faith concerning the omnipotence and divinity of Christ. iv. 181.

gave the names of right and wrong as his passions directed him. iv. 211:-has delivered nothing concerning morality and policy demonstratively. iv. 219:sionately addicted to popular government. ibid.:—his doctrine the origin of seditious opinions. ibid.

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he, Pythagoras, Plato &c., the beginners of heresies. iv. 387. vi. 98:-held many errors, but found out many true and useful doctrines. ibid. ibid. :-their followers, ignorant men and often needy knaves, made use of their opinions to get their living by the teaching of rich men's children. ibid. ibid. vii. 76:—his heresy has had the fortune to predominate over all the rest. iv. 388.

the Fathers expounding the Nicene creed, philosophize out of his principles. iv. 395.

he and the Greek Fathers, what it is they call division. iv. 398.

incorporeal substances, introduced by Plato and Aristotle. iv. 426 : mistook the images seen in sleep for incorporeal men. iv. 427-but neither mention an incorporeal spirit. ibid.

ens bonum, et verum convertuntur, an old proverb in the Schools derived from his Metaphysics. v. 192.

his definition of justice. vi. 8.

his authority, and Plato's, alone had very much credit, Plato's with those that founded their doctrine on the conceptions and ideas of things, Aristotle's with those that reasoned from the names of things. vi. 100:-his philosophy called in to their assistance by the popes. vi. 184-5, 215-the writings of no ancient philosopher comparable to his for aptness to puzzle and entangle men with words. vi. 215:-his opinion of contingency, casualty, and fortune. vi. 216:his politics, of what use to the Church of Rome, and to us. vi. 217-18-his ethics, also. vi. 218:—his babbling philosophy serves only to breed sedition and civil war. vi. 282-3:-seldom speaks of kings

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but as of wolves and other ravenous
beasts. vi. 362.

if one of the few that have studied phi-
losophy for the delight men commonly
have in the acquisition of science, and
in the mastery of difficult and subtil
doctrines. vii. 72.

meaneth by body, what. vii. 81:-held
fire for an element. vii. 119:-says that
every thing is nourished by the matter
whereof it is generated. vii. 137:-the
seed sown by him in his Metaphysics, and
Natural Philosophy, what. vii. 226.
ARITHMETIC

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- its operations of adding,
subtracting &c., cannot be performed
without names. iii. 23.
ARIUS-to be noted against his now sect,
that our Saviour was the begotten son of
God. iv. 175:-allowed Christ to be no
otherwise God, than as men of excellent
piety were so called. iv. 306-7:-the
origin and consequences of his heresy.
iv. 391. vi. 102, 176:-condemned in the
Apostles' Creed by what words. iv. 392.
vi. 103:-his punishment and restora-
tion. vi. 103-4:—his heresy never extin-
guished so long as there were Vandals
in Christendom. vii. 77.
ARMINIUS-his controversy with Gomar,
and the rebellion that followed. iv. 329.
vi. 241:-introduced again the doctrine
of free-will. v. 2. vi. 241:-his doctrine
hated by the Presbyterians. vi. 241.
ARMS--coats of. See SCUTCHEONS.
ARMY-is the strength by which the people
are to be defended. iii. 166:-the strength
of the army is in the union of their
strength under one command.ibid. :-this
command whosoever has, by it alone is
sovereign. ibid. :-the sovereign always
generalissimo of the army. ibid.

the commander of, should be popular
with his army. iii. 341.-but caution
given of his fidelity. ibid. :-the good
qualities of, are what. ibid.

the people of a great and populous town
is as a standing army. iv. 439.

in the Civil War, how practised with by
Cromwell. vi. 334 :-the Adjutators. vi.
335:-sends demands to the parliament,
and a charge against eleven members. vi.
337:-is joined by the two speakers and
divers members of Parliament. vi. 338:
-styles itself the parliament and the army.
ibid. calls the parliament the gentlemen |
at Westminster. vi. 339:-march up to
Hounslow Heath. ibid. :-get possession
of the City, on what conditions. vi. 340.
deliberates on the massacre of all the
royalists, and decides in the negative by
a majority of two. vi. 364:-cast about

how to share the land amongst the godly.

vi. 365.
ARROGANCE-against the tenth law of na-
ture. iii. 141:-the ninth. ii. 39 :-arro-
gance, what. iii. 142.
ARTICLES-the XXXIX, what the Church
says in the twentieth. iv. 355.
ARTS-the arts, what they are. i. 7:-of
public use, are power. iii. 75:-the true
mother of them, the mathematics. ibid.:
-but pass for the issue of the artificer.
ibid.

desire of the arts of peace, disposes men
to obey a common power. iii. 87:-no
arts in the war of every man against
every man. iii. 113:-no art in the world,
but is necessary for the well-being of
almost every particular man. iii. 237:—
should be encouraged for the prevention
of idleness. iii. 335.

to know who knows the rules of an art,
is a great degree of the knowledge of the
art itself. iii. 339:-the best signs of
such knowledge, what. iii. 340.

are demonstrable, and indemonstrable.
vii. 183:-demonstrable are which. ibid.

ARUNDEL-Earl of, commands under the
King in the Scotch expedition. vi. 201:
-who he was. vi. 202.
ASCARIDE-the worms so called. iii. 321:
-infest the commonwealth under what
form. ibid.

ASCHAM-agent of the Rump, assassinated
at Madrid by the Cavaliers. vi. 368.
ASKEW-Sir George, has the better in a
battle with De Ruyter. vi. 368:- his
treatment by the Rump. ibid.

ASPIRING-the appetite of proceeding from
one degree of power to another. iv. 41.
ASSEMBLY-disadvantage of a sovereign
assembly in receiving counsel. iii. 174:-
never can receive it with secrecy. ibid. :

-its resolutions subject to inconstancy.
iii. 175:- its internal dissension from
envy or interest may produce a civil
war. ibid. :-its members become one
another's flatterers, and serve each other's
covetousness and ambition by turns.ibid.:
-its favourites and kindred more nu-
merous than of any monarch. ibid. :—its
favourites have great power to hurt, but
little to save. ibid.

wants liberty to dissent from the coun-
sel of the major part, as a child to dissent
from counsel given him. iii. 177:—has
need, like a child, of custodes libertatis. ib.
the whole assembly, in a democracy,
cannot fail. iii. 180:-in an aristocracy,
the election of another in the place of
one of the assembly dying, belongs to
the assembly. iii. 181.

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