quantity, are but diversity of fancy.vii.28.
no accidents in God. iv. 336.
ACCUSATION-requires less eloquence, than
to excuse. iii. 175.
of intentions which appear not by some
outward act, there is no human accusa-
tion. iii. 278, 447:-where there is no
law but the law of nature, there is no
place for accusation. iii. 279:-of that
which cannot be accused, no judge but
God. iii. 547.
ACHAM-the trouble raised by him in the
camp of the Israelites. iii. 370: -his
crime discovered by lots. iii. 423.
ACORN-in ancient times men lived on
acorns. i. 1. iii. 665.
living by daily experience, likened to
feeding upon acorns. i. 2.
ACT-accident produced, in respect of the
cause called an effect, is in respect of the
power called an act. i. 128.
an act impossible, is that for the pro-
duction of which there is no power ple-
nary. i. 129:-every act not impossible,
is possible. ibid. :-every act possible,
shall at some time be produced. ibid.
a necessary act, what. i. 129.
of intentions which do not appear by
any outward act, there is no human ac-
cusation. iii. 278:-where the intention
is right, the act is no sin. iii. 279.
every act is the act of him without whose
consent it is invalid. iii. 538.
ACTION-manifest action, that is, thrusting
from or pulling towards. i. 87:-action
and passion in bodies, what. i. 120:-
when the agent and patient are conti-
guous, then action and passion are im-
mediate, otherwise mediate. ibid. :-in the
progress of action and passion, the first
part cannot be considered as other than
action or cause. i. 124:—in all action, the
beginning and cause the same thing. i.
124:-each intermediate part, is both
action and passion, cause and effect. ibid.
no action can be called possible for the
power of the agent or patient alone. i. 129.
action and reaction are in opposite direc-
tions. i. 348:-upon a patient that re-
tires from it, makes but little impression.
the first beginnings of action not more
credible than the distance of the fixed
stars. i. 447.
the good or evil effect of any action de-
pendeth on a chain of consequences,
which a man can seldom see to the end
of. iii. 50, 356.
the questions concerning men's actions,
are questions of fact, and questions of
right. iii. 143.
the actions of men depend upon their
opinions. iii. 164.
of actions, some naturally signs of ho-
nour, others of contumely. iii. 356. ii.
- the former cannot, by human
power, be separated from divine wor-
ship, nor the latter made a part of it.
ibid. ibid. :-actions indifferent, are re-
gulated in public worship by the com-
monwealth. ibid. ibid. :-of actions, some
signs of honour according to the custom
of the place. ii. 212.
every action of man the first of a chain
of consequences longer than any man
can see the end of. iii. 356:-in this chain
are linked together both pleasing and
unpleasing events. ibid.
actions and words only, can be accused.
iii. 278, 447.
actions are wicked, when offensive or
against duty. ii. pref.:-actions are called
vices or virtues, according as they please
or displease those that name them. ii.
48: their goodness or badness consists
in this, whether or no they tend to peace
or discord. ii. 48-9:-all voluntary ac-
tions are governed by men's opinions of
the good or evil, reward or punishment
consequent thereon. ii. 78, 293.
every action is in its own nature indif-
ferent. ii. 151:-what actions are, and
what are not to be blamed, cannot be
determined by the consent of single men.
ii. 196:-but only by the commonwealth.
ii. 197.
actions voluntary, involuntary, and mixed.
iv. 69.
all actions, in doubt whether well or ill
done, are ill done. iv. 187.
the most ordinary actions of men, as
putting the foot to the ground, eating &c.,
how they proceed from deliberation and
election. iv. 245:-men are put to death,
not because their action proceeds from
election, but because it was noxious.iv.254.
ACTOR-an artificial person, whose words
and actions are owned by those whom he
represents. iii. 148:-he that covenanteth
with the actor, not knowing his author-
ity, doth it at his own peril. iii. 149:-
breaketh not the law of nature by any-
thing done against it by command of the
author, when. ibid. :-breaketh the law
of nature by refusing to do anything
against it by command of the author, if
bound by covenant to obey him. ibid.
maketh himself author, how. iii. 149.
an actor may consist of many men. iii.
151-the voice of the majority, that of
the whole, ibid.
ACTUS―imperatus et elicitus, are but words.
iv. 265-6:-invented by them that un-
derstood not anything they signified. iv.
simplicissimus, signifieth nothing. iv. 301,
ADAM-had the capacity of being a phi-
losopher alone by himself, without mas-
ter. i. 80.
since his fall, the equality of a straight
to a curved line without the assistance of
Divine Grace is not, in the opinion of a
late writer, to be found. i. 273. vii. 320.
how far instructed by God in the use of
speech. iii. 18-does not appear from
the Scriptures to have been taught the
names of all figures, numbers, relations
etc. iii. 19:-much less the insignificant
words of the Schools. ibid.
by the name of the fruit of the tree of
knowledge, what forbidden as a test of
his obedience. iii. 194, 397:-by tasting,
he and Eve took upon them God's office,
but acquired no new ability to distin-
guish between good and evil aright. ib.:
-when they saw that they were naked,
they did thereby tacitly censure God
himself, how. ibid.
if he had never sinned, he had never died.
iii. 347, 397, 438, 440, 613-14,625.iv.353.
God reigned over Adam, both naturally
and peculiarly. iii. 397. ii. 227-8 :-the
manner in which God spake to Adam,
Eve,Cain,and Noah, not expressed.iii.416.
had lived in the Paradise of Eden ever-
lastingly, if he had not sinned. iii. 438:
-that is, on earth. ibid. 440. :-he and
Eve should not have procreated their
kind continually, because the earth would
not have afforded place to stand on. iii.
440:-by his sin, man fell from his im-
mortal condition. iii. 451:-the first
world, from him to the flood. iii. 456.
all men guilty of disobedience to God in
Adam. iii. 585.
eternal life lost by his sin. iii. 590, 622.
iv. 353:-had liberty to eat of the tree
of life so long as he sinned not. iii. 614:
-was thrust out of Paradise lest he
should eat thereof, and live for ever. ib.
was a dead man by sentence from the time
of eating of the forbidden fruit, but not
by execution till a thousand years after-
wards. iii. 624.
God's covenant with Adam made void,
and never again renewed. ii. 228.
lived near 1000 years, without misery,
and shall at the resurrection obtain the
immortality he once lost. v. 102.
ADAMITES their party in the Civil War.
vi. 167.
ADDITION—and subtraction, incident not
to numbers only, but to all things that
can be added to or subtracted from each
other. iii. 29.
ADDO-the prophet. iii. 371.
ἀδίκημα—how distinguished from ἀδικία.
ii. 197.
ADMIRATION—requires that the things ap-
pearing be new and unusual. i. 401. iii,
428. iv. 453:-therefore memory of for-
mer appearances. i. 402.
joy from the apprehension of novelty.
iii. 45:-proper to man, why. ibid. :-is
the passion of hope and expectation of
future knowledge from anything new
and strange. iv. 50:-considered as ap-
petite, is called curiosity. ibid. :-causeth
curiosity. iv. 453.
ADRIAN-pope, the stirrup held for him
by the Emperor Frederic. iii. 694.
EOLUS-the cause of tempests and storms
attributed to him. iii. 100.
ETHIOPIA-her priests. vi. 280. vii. 74:-
their power, and custom of ordering the
King to die. vi. 281. vii. 74:—all de-
stroyed by Ergamenes. ibid. ibid.
furnished the first astronomers and phi-
losophers. vii. 73.
AFFABILITY-of men already in power, is
increase of power. iii. 75.
AFFECTATION is a degree of fantastic
madness. ii. 58.
AFFIRMATION-how formed. iii. 25:—when
true. ibid.:—whensoever false, the two
names of which it is composed, signify
nothing. iii. 27:-of absurd and false
affirmations, if universal, there can be
no understanding. iii. 28:—of a general
affirmation, unless true, the possibility
is inconceivable. iii. 32.
AGAG-Saul's disobedience in not slaying
him. iii. 473. iv. 331.
AGE-if we will reverence it, the present
is the oldest. iii. 712. iv. 456:-old age
vindicated. iv. 456-7.
AGENT-body generating or destroying
some accident in another body. i. 120:-
when contiguous to the patient, then the
action and passion are immediate, other-
wise not. ibid. :-body lying between and
contiguous to the agent and patient, is
itself both agent and patient. i. 120-21:
-the same of many bodies lying in like
manner. i. 121.
produces its effect according to some ac-
cident with which both it and the patient
are affected. i. 121:-if the agent and
patient be in all things the same at one
time as at another, the effect will be the
same. i. 125.
is said to have power to produce its effect,
when. i. 127 the power of the agent
and patient are but conditional. i. 129:—
no action possible for the power of the
agent or patient alone. ibid.
agents free and contingent, what, iv. 259:
-and necessary, what. v. 227.
AGUE-the disease of, what. iii. 319:-re-
sembles the distemper of the common-
wealth, in the people's tenacity of money.
ibid.
AHAB-his consulting of the 400 prophets.
iii. 424. iv. 332:-his controversy with
Elijah. iv. 332:-was slain for the mur-
der of Naboth, and his idolatry. iv. 333.
АHIJAH-the prophet. iii. 371.
AIR-will penetrate water by application
of a force equal to the gravity of the
water. i. 420, 423-4:-will penetrate any
fluid body, though never so stubborn. i.
its parts, how made to change places by
the simple circular motion of the sun. i.
449:-how water is thereby drawn up
into the clouds. i. 450.
air enclosed in clouds, has its etherial
substance squeezed out. i. 470, 481.
the parts of the air resisted by the earth's
motion, spread themselves every way on
its surface. i. 470.
how it is contained in ice. i. 473.
consists of two parts, ether and hard
atoms. i. 481, 511:-the hard atoms of
the air confined by clouds, have an en-
deavour to rebound from each other. ib.
passing through growing plants, is by
their motion made odorous. 505.
is more easily thrown from the earth's
surface by its revolution on its axis, than
other bodies. i. 512.
pure air, in the experiment of water en-
closed in a vessel to prove a vacuum,
goes out through the water with the
same force that the water is injected. i.
517:-has intermingled with it hard
atoms moved with simple motion. i. 481,
511, 517:—which strongly compressed
will burst the vessel in which they are
enclosed. i. 518-19:-are heavier than
pure air. i. 519.
pure air has no gravity. i. 519. vii. 145:
-the reason. ibid.
air-gun, of late invention. i. 519:-de-
scription of. ibid. :-in charging, the air
within resists with equal force the entry
of the air from without. i. 521:-no aug-
mentation of air within. ibid. :-but pure
air driven out, and impure in equal
quantity driven in. ibid.
air not visible in air. i. 523 :—to conceive
that air is anything, the work of reason.
ibid. :-
.:-we do not feel the weight of air
in air. i. 523:-know it to be a body only |
from the necessity of a medium where-
by remote bodies may work upon our
senses. i. 524.
matter of a middle nature between air
and water, found in coal-mines. i. 524:-
its effects. ibid. :-its possible cause. i.
air and aerial substances, in common
language not taken for bodies. iii. 381:—
are called spirits. iii. 382.
air the only body that has not some in-
ternal, invisible motion of its parts. vii.
12, 132:-has in its own element no
gravity. vii. 13, 21:-can pierce quick-
silver. vii. 23, 93:-has what motion
from the sun. vii. 97-100 :-is impossible
to be hardened. vii. 132.
the cause of infection in air. vii. 136.
airnpara-the petitions of Euclid. vii. 210:
-differ from aμara, how. ibid.
ALBAN-Saint, the story of the man pre-
tending to be cured of blindness by him.
iv. 26-7.
ALCIBIADES-the love of Socrates towards
him, was what. iv. 49:-in it, something
that savoured of the use of that time.iv.50.
ALDERMAN-or Earl, their origin. vi. 160.
ALEXANDER-the Great. iii. 6:-his ghost
could have no just cause to be offended
with him that does not believe all the
glorious acts ascribed to him by histori-
ans. iii. 55:-his undoing of the Gordian
knot. iii. 262:-his conquest of Asia. iii.
376: of Judæa. iii. 484.
the bishop of Alexandria. iv. 391.
ALGEBRA and the analytics specious, are
the brachygraphy of the analysts. i.
316-an art of registering with brevity
the inventions of geometricians. ibid.
the weapon of, how disposed of by Hobbes.
vii. 68.
ALLIES-are gotten by constraint or con-
sent. ii. 12.
ALLODIAL-property, what. vi. 154.
ALMEGEST-of Claudius Ptolomæus.vii.75.
dualía-difficulty of being taught. iv. 57:
-proceeds from a false opinion of know-
ing the truth already. ibid.
aμáprnua-how the Greeks distinguished
between it and ἔγκλημα or αἰτία. iii. 278.
AMAZONS-had recourse to the men of the
neighbouring countries, for issue. iii.
187. ii. 118. iv. 156:-contracted with
them for the right to the female children.
ibid. ibid. ibid. :-waged war against
their adversaries. ii. 116:-disposed of
their children at their will. ibid.
AMBARVALIA—of the heathen. iii. 663.
AMBASSADOR-sent by the sovereign on
his private business, is a private person.
iii. 231.
AMBITION-desire of office and precedence.
iii. 44:-a name used in the worse sense,
why. ibid. :-of great honours, why ho-
nourable. iii. 80:-of little preferments,
dishonourable. ibid.
men that have a strong opinion of their
own wisdom in matter of government,
are disposed to ambition. iii. 89 :--elo-
quent speakers are disposed to ambition.
ibid.
makes men kinder to the government of
an assembly than of a monarchy. iii.
162, 169:-engenders crime, how. iii.
285.
the contention of the commonwealth
with, like to the contest of Hercules
with the Hydra. iii. 338.
avarice and ambition are sustained by
the false opinion of the vulgar concern-
ing right and wrong. ii. dedic. :-ambi-
tious men wade through streams of the
blood of their fellows to their own power.
ii. pref.:—ambitious men disposed to-in-
novations in government, why. ii. 160. iv.
202-those least troubled with caring
for necessary things, most prone to am-
bition. ibid.:-their eloquence like the
witchcraft of Medea. ii. 164:-is not to
be rooted out of the minds of men, but
may be repressed by rewards and pu-
nishments. ii. 175.
AMBROSE―his excommunication of Theo-
dosius, a capital crime. iii. 583.
AMBOYNA-amends for the never-to-be-
forgotten business, demanded by the
Rump. vi. 381.
AMERICANS-have no government, except
that of small families. iii. 114:-live in the
brutish manner of the war of every man
against every man. ibid. ii. 12:-the
savages of, not philosophers. iii. 665.
AMMON-iii. 102.
AMNESTY-see OBLIVION.
AMOS-the prophet. iii. 373.
ANABAPTIST-their heresy and condemna-
tion by the Nicene council. vi. 103:—
great plenty of them in the time of Eli-
zabeth. vi. 107:-their party in the Civil
War. vi. 167:-one of the sects bred by
the presbyterians. vi. 333.
ἀναισθησία—i. 395.
ANALOGY-analogism, what. i. 146:-the
comparison of analogical quantities ac-
cording to magnitude. i. 156-7.
ANALYSIS-method of what. i. 66, 309 :—
and when used. i. 68:-principles are
discovered by analysis. ibid.
the analyst that shall do more than or-
dinary geometry is able to do. i. 307.
how it differs from synthesis. i. 310:-
both comprehended in Logistica, ibid. :-
in every analysis is sought the propor-
tion of two quantities. i. 311:-resolving
ends not till we come to the causes of
equality and inequality. ibid. :—that is,
to definitions containing the efficient
cause of the construction. ibid. :—this
cause consists of motion, and concourse
of motion. i. 312.
is reasoning from the supposed construc-
tion or generation of a thing, to the
efficient cause of the thing constructed
or generated. i. 312-three ways of find-
ing, by analysis, the cause of the equal-
ity or inequality of two quantities, by
computation of motion, by indivisibles, by
powers. i. 314-success will depend on
dexterity, on formerly acquired science,
and many times on fortune. ibid.
no good analyst, without being a good
geometrician. i. 314.
analysis by powers, a thing of no great
extent. i. 314:-contained all in the doc-
trine of rectangles and rectangled solids.
ibid. :-of no use in quantities of angles
and arcs of circles. i. 315 :-made use of
by the ancients. i. 316:—its virtue con-
sists in changing, turning, and tossing
rectangles and analogisms. i. 316.
by squares very ancient, and at the high-
est in Vieta. vii. 188:-useful for what.
ibid. :—but has added nothing to geome-
try. ibid.
ANARCHY-a name given by those that
dislike it, to democracy. iii. 172, 683. ii.
93, 94.
ANATOMIST-may speak or write his judg-
ment of unclean things. iii. 59.
ANCONA-no tide at Ancona. vii. 14.
ANDES-why not troubled with inconstant
winds. i. 469.
ANDROMEDA-the tragedy of, its effects
upon the people of Abdera. iii. 65.
ANGEL-the doctrine of Angels, not the
subject of philosophy. i. 10.
means corporeal substance. iii. 387:-sub-
tle bodies formed by God to declare and
execute his will. ibid. :-are substances
endued with dimension and capability of
motion. iii. 388:-are not ghosts incor-
poreal. ibid. :-signifies a messenger. ibid.:
-most often, a messenger of God. ibid.
concerning their creation, nothing in the
Scriptures. iii. 388:-are often called
spirits. ibid.
in most places of the Scriptures, signi-
fies an image raised in the fancy to sig-
nify the presence of God. iii. 389, 394:
-in the other places may be understood
in the same manner. ibid. :-the same
apparition sometimes called both angel
and God. ibid.
those that appeared to Lot, called men.
iii. 390-the angel that stayed the hand
of Abraham. ibid. :-that appeared to
Jacob on the ladder. ibid. :-that went
before the army of Israel to the Red
Sea. iii. 391.
are commonly painted in the form of a
man or child with wings, for the false
instruction of common people. iii. 391:
-not their shape, but their use makes
them angels. ibid. :-signify the presence
of God in supernatural operations. ibid.
no text in the canonical Scriptures in
which any permanent thing understood
by the word angel, which is not corpo-
real. iii. 391-2, 394:-will in all places.
bear the sense of messenger. iii. 392:—are
sometimes in the New Testament put
for men made by God the messengers of
his word. ibid.
the Devil and his Angels, how to be un-
derstood. iii, 392-3.
the authority of an angel to be rejected
for the belief that Jesus is Christ. iii. 595.
the lawfulness of painting angels, ar-
gued for by a Patriarch of Constantino-
ple, as being corporeal. iv. 429.
ANGER-aversion from evil with hope of
avoiding it by force. i. 410.
causeth heat in some parts of the body
when awake, and overheating those parts
in sleep causeth anger. iii. 8.
sudden courage. iii. 43. iv. 42 :-produces
most crimes. iii. 284.
proceeds not from an opinion of con-
tempt, why. iv. 42-3.
he that killeth a man in a sudden pas-
sion of anger, shall justly be put to
death, why. iv. 272-the killing shall
be adjudged to be from election. ibid.
ANGLE-definition of. i. 184:-generation
of. i. 184, 187, 197:-two sorts of, super-
ficial and solid. i. 184:-angle, simply
so called, and angle of contingence. i.
184. vii. 195:-angles rectilineal, curvi-
lineal, and mixed. i. 185.
quantity of, is the arc of a circle deter-
mined by its proportion to the circum-
ference. i. 186:-in rectilineal angles,
the quantity may be taken at any dis-
tance from the centre. ibid.:-if one or
both the containing lines be curved, the
quantity must be taken at the least dis-
tance from their concurrence. ibid.
curvilineal angle, the same as that made
by the two tangents. i. 187.
vertical angles are equal, why. i. 187.
right angle, that whose quantity is the
fourth part of the perimeter. i. 187:-
oblique angle, what. ibid. :-obtuse and
acute, what. ibid.
the angle of contact is quantity. vii. 195:
--but heterogeneous to that of an angle
simply so called. i. 196. vii. 198, 258:-
has to an angle simply so called the
same proportion as a point to a line. i.
196: is made, how. ibid. :-cannot be
compared with a common angle, why, i.
197-is equal to an angle whose sub-
tending arc is a point. ibid. :—its quan-
tity consists in greater or less flexion.
ibid. is greater in the lesser circle,
than in the greater. ibid.
angle, simply so called, is the inclination
of two planes. i. 198:-is the digression
of two straight lines meeting in a point.
vii. 194.
a solid angle, what. i. 198:-its quan-
tity, what. ibid.
to divide an angle in any proportion,
this the benefit to flow from finding the
dimension of the circumference of the
circle. i. 288:-the section of an angle
in any given proportion, whence to be
deduced. i. 307.
to exhibit in a plane the division of an-
gles, pronounced by the ancients to be
impossible, except bisection etc. i. 315.
a spherical angle, is not a very angle.
vii. 161-its arc, is what. vii. 162:-an
angle and a corner are not the same thing.
ibid.has quantity, but is not the sub-
ject of quantity. vii. 194-5.
ANIMAL-how it is that animals raise
themselves by leaping, swimming etc., i.
522. vii. 12:-how, higher by swimming,
flying etc., than by leaping. i. 523.
in all animals except man, the appetite
of food and other pleasures of sense take
away the care of knowing causes. iii. 44:
-brute animals have no foresight of time
to come for want of observation and
memory. iii. 94:-their society is not a
civil government, why. ii. 66:-is kept
together by what. ii. 66-7. iv. 120.
why animals die shortly in the exhausted
receiver. vii. 22, 95.
to suppose that there are no kinds of
animals in the world that were not in
the ark of Noah, an error, why. vii. 177.
ANTECEDENT-how a man expects that the
like antecedents should be followed by
the like consequents. iv. 16-17.
ANTHROPOMORPHITES-Condemned by the
words God has no parts, in the Nicene
Creed. iv. 30. vi. 103:-did not appear
till 40 or 50 years after that Council. iv.
399:--were not condemned till the se-
cond Council of Constantinople. ibid.
ἀνθρωποπαθῶς—it is but so that God
gives names to himself in Scripture.
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