SCAPE-GOAT-how he carried with him into the wilderness the sins of the people. iii.
SCELUS what crime called by that name. vii. 353.
SCEPTIC-the captions of sophists and scep- tics of old, wherein they were for the most part faulty. i. 63:-deceived them- selves as often as others. ibid, SCHOOL-School divinity, what sort of a thing, i. ep. ded.:-its likeness to Empu- sa. ibid,
schoolmen, their empty words. i. 531:- doctrine of the philosophy-schools, as to sense. iii. 3: as to gravity. iii. 4: ascribe appetite and knowledge of what is good for them to things inanimate. ibid. the doctrine of ghosts, prognostics from dreams, &c., nourished by the schools. iii. 10:-know not what imagination and the senses are. ibid. :-their doctrine of sense and imagination. ibid.: with many words make nothing understood. ibid.:
-insignificant speeches, taken on credit from deceived or deceiving schoolmen. iil. 17:—names which are but insignifi- cant sound coined by schoolmen iii 27: -the canting of the schoolmen. iii. 35. motion, what and why by the schools called metaphorical. iii. 39-40.
their unintelligible word, beatifical vision. iii. 51.
are alone subject to the madness of in- significant speech. \iii. 69:-the trial to translate a schoolman into modern lan- guage, or into Latin. ibid. :-the times during which, guided by their worldly lust, they abstain from such writing, lucid intervals. iii. 70.
brought into religion the doctrine of Aristotle. iii. 108.
their definition of justice. iii. 131.
Schola, that is, leisure. iii. 667:- the Schools of Athens. iii. 667: Schools erected in almost every commonwealth in Europe and part of Africa. ibid. :- schools of law amongst the Jews, called synagogues. iii. 668:-the schools of the Greeks were unprofitable. iii. 668-9:- their natural philosophy set forth in senseless and insignificant language. iii. 668:-their moral philosophy is but a description of their own passions. iii. 669:-make the rules of good and bad by their own liking and disliking. ibid.:- their logic, what. ibid.
school-divinity made from Aristotle's metaphysics mingled with the Scriptures. iii. 672. vii. 77:-their doctrine of sepa- rated essences and incorporeal souls. iii. 672-6.
dispute philosophically, instead of ad- miring and adoring the incomprehensible nature of God. iii. 677:—their doctrine of one body being in many places, and many bodies in one place. ibid:-their doctrine of physics. iii. 678:- of gravity. ibid. :-of the cause of the soul. iii. 679: -of will. ibid. :-of sense. ibid. for the cause of natural events put their own ignorance. iii. 679.
their moral and civil philosophy. iii. 680-4:―their inquisition. iii. 684:-teach that a man shall be damned to eternal torments, if he die in a false opinion of an article of Christian faith. ibid. :-that the law may be interpreted by private men, ibid.
the writings of school-divines nothing for the most part but insignificant strains of strange and barbarous words. iii. 686, 693.
their term velleity, means what. iv. 41. schoolmen use to argue, not by rule, but as fencers teach to handle weapons, by quickness only of the hand and eye. v.
SCIENCE the first grounds of all science, poor, arid, and in appearance deformed.i.2. science of or, what. i. 66:-of the dɩóri, what. ibid.
all science, not being that of causes, what it is. i. 66:-science, the knowledge of the causes of all things, so far forth as it may be attained. i. 68. vii. 210.— to those that search after science indefi- nitely, what necessary. i. 68: the end of science, is the demonstration of the causes and generations of things. i. 82: -all true reasoning from true principles, produces science, i. 86.
the hardest of all to learn, to read man- kind. iii. introd.
the right definition of names is the ac- quisition of science. iii. 24.
is the knowledge of consequences, and dependance of one fact upon another.iii. 35, 52:-is conditional. iii. 52.
they that have no science, in better con- dition than those that fall upon false and absurd general rules. iii. 36.
is the way by which the human mind should travel. iii. 36:much science, sapience. iii. 37:-signs of science cer- tain and infallible, when he that pretend- eth it can teach the same. iii. 37:- :-un- certain, when only some particular events answer his pretence. ibid. is the conditional knowledge of the con- sequence of words, signified by the con- clusions in syllogisms. iii. 53.
the register of, the books containing the
demonstrations of the consequences of affirmations. iii. 71.
table of the several subjects of science. iii. 72-3.
the sciences are power, but small. iii. 75: -the nature of science, to be understood by none but such as have in a good mea- sure attained it. ibid:-science, the true mother of the arts. iii. 75.
all actions and speeches proceeding from science, why honourable. iii. 79-80. want of science constrains men to rely on the advice and authority of others. iii. 90. is the skill of proceeding upon general and infallible rules. ii. 110:-not born with us, nor attained, like prudence, whilst looking after something else. ibid. moral and civil science, prospective glasses for seeing afar off the miseries that hang over men, and cannot without contributions to the state be avoided. iii. 170.
natural science cannot teach us our own nature, or that of any living creature. iii. 254. ii. 217.
we may not in science, as in a circle, begin from what point we please. ii. ded. no science without names. iv. 21,
is what sort of knowledge. iv. 27:-is evidence of truth from some principle of sense. iv. 28:-is derived whence. vii. 184:-resembles plants, wherein. vii. 188. SCILLY-and Man, subdued by the Rump. vi. 382.
SCIPIO-a second Scipio required by the Pompeians for their war in Africa. iii.
SCOTLAND the Scots nearly all Presby- terians. vi. 198:- the result of imposing upon them the book of Common Prayer. ibid.: their covenant to put down epis- copacy. vi. 199:- the cause of their aversion to episcopacy. vi. 200:-arm, and force the king to call the parliament of 1640. vi. 203:-considered as a foreign nation. vi. 203, 205.-the post-nati. vi. 206:-invade England and march to Durham. vi. 207:-enter England and force the Earl of Newcastle to retreat to York. vi. 323:-promise safety to the king and his friends. vi. 330:-deliver him up at what price. ibid. :-their defeat by Cromwell at Preston. vi. 351:-pre- pare to invade England again. vi. 365. its Union with England, proposed by the Rump. vi. 378:- absolutely refused, by the Presbyterians, why. vi. 379.
the Scots furnish Monk with money for his march to London. vi. 412. σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον—iii. 447.
zebub, and by him cast out devils. iii. 67:-took for blasphemy that he should pretend to forgive sins. iii. 451.
the Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' chair &c., iii. 478, 560, 585. ii. 146:-sit there now no more. vii. 398.
Christ ascribes kingly power to them. iii. 478, 560.
sought to kill our Saviour at the Pass- over. iii. 554.
the Scribes and Pharisees were not priests, but men of popular authority. iv.
SCRIPTURE certain texts of, the outwork of the enemy whence they impugn the civil power. iii. dedic.
urged by some against the motion of the earth. iii. 68-written to what end. ibid. contain nothing requiring a belief that demoniacs were other than madmen.iii.69. the words of the scriptures joined toge- ther otherwise than is agreeable to rea- son, to the teaching of men that sanctity and natural reason cannot stand together. iii. 312.
from them may easily be deduced, with- out supernatural inspiration, all rules necessary to the knowledge of our duty to God and man. iii. 365.
the books of, those which ought to be the canon or rule of Christian life. iii. 366-determine what laws a Christian king shall not constitute in his domin- ions. ibid.: those books only canonical, that are established for such by the sovereign. ibid. :-those only canonical here, that have been established for such by the authority of the Church of Eng- land. iii. 367-which, the same that are acknowledged by St. Jerome. ibid.
the books of the New Testament equal- ly acknowledged by all Christian Churches. iii. 367.
the writers of, not evident by any suf- ficient testimony of other history. iii. 367-8: the time wherein they were written, may be gathered by the light of the books themselves. iii. 368. the books of Apocrypha recommended to us by the Church not for Canonical, but as profitable for instruction, iii. 374:- the Scripture set forth in its present form by Esdra. iii. 374, 516:—the Scrip- tures not falsified by the early doctors of the Church, why. iii. 375:-the books called Apocrypha not admitted as canoni- cal, why. iii. 376:-the writers of the books of Scripture divers men, but all manifestly endued with one and the same spirit. ibid.-their end, to set forth the
SCRIBES said that our Saviour had Beel- rights of the kingdom of God. ibid. 602.
whence the Scriptures derive their authority, a question much debated amongst Christian sects. iii. 377:-that God is their original author, believed by all. iii. 378: -none can know them to be the word of God, but by supernatural revelation. ibid. iv. 64:-the question, by what authority they are made law. iii. 378, 513. are the laws of God. iii. 378.
he to whom God has not supernaturally revealed that they are his, is bound to obey them only by the authority of the sovereign. iii. 378:-are not made laws by the authority of the universal Church. iii. 379.
the question of their authority reduced to this, whether Christian sovereigns are absolute in their territories, or subject to a vicar of Christ constituted of the universal Church. iii. 380.
in what sense the Scriptures are called the word of God. iii. 409. ii. 273. credit to be given to the canonical Scriptures, whatever the Apocrypha may say. iii. 412.
the Scriptures are the Mount Sinai, the bounds whereof are the laws of them that represent God's person on earth. iii. 467: to look on them and therein see the wondrous works of God, is allowed. ibid.: to interpret them, is to transgress the bounds, and gaze on God irreverently. ibid.
how they were interpreted by the Apostles and elders. iii. 512:-no general binding interpretation, till kings were pastors, or pastors kings. ibid.
the ten commandments, that part of the Scripture which was first made law. iii. 513-the Scriptures made law by the civil sovereign. iii. 514, 547, 587, 588, 685-were not law to the Jews till the return from the captivity. iii. 517:—from that time were law. ibid. :-were never law but by the civil sovereign. iii. 517. translated out of Hebrew into Greek by the seventy elders. iii. 367, 374, 376, 517: -put into the library at Alexandria. iii. 517.
the Scripture of the New Testament is law only where the civil power hath made it so. iii. 520.
the canonical Scriptures settled by the council of Laodicea. iii. 523. men do not know, but only believe the Scriptures to be the word of God. iii.589: -nothing in them whence to infer the infallibility of any particular man. ibid.: -the ordinary cause of believing them to be the word of God, the hearing of those by law appointed to teach. ibid.
atoms of Scripture cast as dust before men's eyes, make everything more obscure than it is. iii. 602:-is an ordinary artifice of whom. ibid.
the Enemy hath put out the light of the Scriptures. iii. 605.
no shame to confess the profoundness of the Scripture to be too great to be sounded by the human understanding. iii. 629-we are not to require of the Scriptures an account of all questions that may be raised to trouble us in the performance of God's commands. iii,643. are the word of God commanding over all things by supreme right. ii. 50. the mind not governed by them, unless understood. ii. 273:-to make them canonical, require an interpreter. ibid. the word of the interpreter of Scripture, is the word of God. ii. 274. there cannot in any written interpretation of the Scriptures whatsoever, be the canon of Christian doctrine for determining controversies of religion, why. ii. 275: the authority of the interpreter must be no less than that of the recommenders of the Scriptures. ibid.:—the authority of interpreting them given to private men, would destroy all civil obedience, and all society. ii. 292.
the volume of the law commanded by God to be transcribed and publicly read. ii. 293:-that it should be the canon of divine doctrine. ibid. :—but to be interpreted by none but the priest. ibid. the interpretation of the Scriptures belongs to the Church. ii. 293:-not to any foreign person whatsoever. ibid. the interpretation of the Scriptures belongs to the sovereign power. ii, 295. iv. 339. vi. 228-in mysteries of faith, by ecclesiastics lawfully ordained. ii. 297. the authority to interpret the Scriptures is authority to determine all manner of controversies whatsoever. ii. 317. are known to be the word of God, only by faith. iv. 64:-by faith in the holy men of God's Church succeeding one another from the time of those that saw his wondrous works. iv. 65:-their interpretation more safe than a man's own. iv. 66.
he cannot be said to submit himself to the Scripture, that does not submit to some other for the interpretation of it. iv. 187-8-it is the word of God, but a law by pact, that is, to us that have been baptized into the covenant. iv. 363:-to be interpreted by the king's authority. iv. 364.
the fruit of their translation into Eng
lish. vi. 190-1, 228-33:-the translation,| why not such as that they might be un- derstood by mean capacities. vi. 228- the translation is profitable, why. vi. 230. SCUTCHEONS-hereditary, where they have any privilege are honourable. iii. 81:- their power, wherein it lies. ibid.:—were derived from the Germans. ibid. :- amongst the Greeks and Romans were not hereditary. iii. 82:-the Germans only had the custom. ibid..—from them derived into England, France, Spain, Italy. ibid. :-were used for what pur- pose. ibid.: :- - descended to the eldest child pure, to the rest with some distinc- tion. ibid. :-bear for the most part living creatures noted for courage and rapine. iii. 83:-afterwards given by kings and popular commonwealths for encourage- ment and recompense. ibid. SCYLLA-men wavering in obedience be- tween God and man, between temporal punishment and spiritual death, as it were sailing between Scylla and Cha- rybdis, do often run upon both. ii. 299. SEA-sea-water, why it shines when struck with the oar &c. i. 454.
the sea ruffled with the wind, why it ap- pears black. i. 464.
in the midst of the sea, each part, though no sound be perceptible, contributes to the roaring of the sea as much as any | other part. iii. 63.
no use of the commodities imported by sea, in the war of every man against every man. iii. 113.
land and sea, the two breasts of our common mother. iii. 232.
the dominion of, claimed by the English. vi. 383.
how its pressure is removed by its arch- ing itself. vii. 13:-the cause of its flux and reflux twice in the day, what.vii. 13-17. SEAL the Great Seal of England, the seal
of the person of the commonwealth.iv.370. SECT-a sequendo. iv. 388: — were never more numerous than in the time of the primitive Church. ibid.
SECURITY-in the union of a small num- ber of men, no security. iii. 154. ii. 65. iv. 119: the multitude sufficient for security, is determined by comparison. ibid. :--is sufficient, when. iii. 155. ii. 65. iv. 119:-security is the end for which men submit themselves to government. ii. 74. iv. 128:-consists in what. iv. 128.. SEDITION the sickness of the great Le- viathan. iii. introd. iv. 200.
the singular passions of any one or two men, though their unquietness not per-
ceptible, are parts of the seditious roar- ing of a troubled nation. iii. 63. they that distrust their own subtlety, are in tumult and sedition better disposed for victory, than they that suppose themselves wise and crafty. iii. 88:-in sedition, men are always in the precincts of battle. ibid. :-to use all advantage of force, a better stratagem than any that can proceed from subtlety of wit. ibid. sedition and civil war produced by the imperfection of the Greek and Roman policy. iii. 315.
the dark and dangerous paths of sedi- tion, how to be avoided. ii. pref.
in seditions three things to be considered, the doctrines and passions, their quality and condition, and the faction. ii. 150. seditious doctrines. ii. 151-8. iv. 200-208. the eloquence fit for stirring up sedition, is of what sort. ii. 162:-is disjoined from wisdom, why. ibid.
men well disposed to civil society, but that through ignorance dispose the minds of subjects to sedition, what sort. ii. 163: -the disposition to sedition, how brought into action. ibid. iv. 201.
seditions sometimes occasioned by errors in philosophy. ii. 268.
discontent, pretence of right, hope of success, three things necessary to sedition.iv.200. SELDEN-his treatise on titles of honour. iii. 84. vi. 160:- :-a greater antiquary than Coke. vi. 160. SENECA-his opinion of the lawfulness of tyrannicide. ii. 163. iv. 208:-his use of right and wrong. iv. 211.
SENSATION to be sensible always of one and the same thing, all one with not being sensible at all of any thing. i. 394. sensible qualities, but so many several motions of the object, whereby it press- eth our organs diversely. iii. 2:-and in us that are pressed, nothing but divers motions. ibid:-are separable from the object. ibid.
SENSE its causes must be known, before we can know the causes of sensible qualities. i. 72: -- consideration of its causes, to what part of philosophy it be- longs. ibid.
Sense and imagination the causes of the motions of the mind. i. 72-3, 74:-the subject of physical contemplation. i. 73: -the doctrine of, comprehends civil philosophy. i. 87.
the objects of sense and imagination, magnitudes, motions &c., are but ideas and phantasms. i. 92:-happening inter- nally. ibid.;-but appears external, and
independent of any power of the mind. i. 92.
all knowledge derived from it. i. 389:- its causes to be searched for from the phenomena of sense itself. ibid.
sense must be taken notice of by me- mory. i. 389.
sense in the sentient, is motion in some of the internal parts of the sentient.i.390. organs of, those parts of the body where- by we perceive. i. 390:-subject of, that in which are the phantasms. ibid.: the immediate cause, pressure of the first organ of sense. ibid.: - which motion propagated to the innermost parts of the organ. ibid.: object of, the remote body whence originates the pressure. ib. entire definition of. i. 391, 405. subject of, the sentient itself. i. 391. iv. 4:-object of, the thing received. i. 391. iv. 3.
more correctly said, the living creature seeth, than the eye seeth. i. 391:-that we see the sun, than we see the light. ibid. the organs of, what. i. 392.
defect of, from non-propagation of mo- tion by the organs of sense. i. 392-3. all sense reaction, but all reaction not sense. i. 393:- otherwise, all bodies would be endowed with sense, ibid.
by sense commonly understood compar- ing and distinguishing of phantasms. i. 393:-has necessarily some memory ad- hering to it. ibid.:-a perpetual variety of phantasms necessary to sense. i. 394. certain organs common to all the senses. i. 395.
not every endeavour outwards to be called sense, but the more predominant only. i. 396.
motion of the organ causing phantasms, not called sense except the object be pre- sent. i. 396-by the continual action of objects, the organ is no longer moved by the spirits without pain. i. 397:-no more reaction, or sense, till the organ refreshed and recovering motion, the sentient awaketh. ibid.
in most animals five kinds of senses. i. 402:-have their organs partly peculiar, partly common. ibid.
is nothing but the action of objects pro- pagated to the farthest part of the organ. i. 403:- this action derived from the heart, in what way. ibid:—what things belonging alike to all the senses, seem to be administered by the arteries, not by the nerves. i. 404.
the two opposing endeavours in sense continue their motion every way to the confines of the two bodies. i. 405:-the
endeavour outwards proceeds in a solid angle. ibid.
bodies the efficient causes and objects of sense. i. 410.
is the original of all thought. iii. 1:—its cause, the external object, pressing the proper organ. ibid. 38, 42.
is the resistance or endeavour of the, heart to relieve itself from the pressure communicated by the object. iii. 2: because outward, appears to be some matter without. ibid. :-is original fancy iii. 3:-caused by the pressure of exter nal things upon our organs. ibid. 38. decaying sense, imagination. iii. 4. i. 396. iv. 9:decay of sense in men waking, is not the decay of motion made in sense, but an obscuring of it. iii. 5. iv. 9. the continual change of man's body, de- stroys in time the parts moved in sense. iii. 5.
sense decaying, or fancy, is imagination, iii. 5:-the decay of sense, memory. iii. 6. the organs of sense not easily moved in sleep by the action of external objects. iii. 7.
to distinguish between sense and dream- ing, why a hard matter. iii. 7:-by some considered impossible. ibid. :—how to be done. ibid.
the doctrine of the schools concerning sense and imagination. iii. 10.
the motions that succeed one another in sense, continue together after sense. iii.11. sense, and thoughts, and trains of thoughts, the only motions of the mind of man. iii. 16.
natural sense and imagination not sub- ject to absurdity. iii. 25.
sense and memory are but knowledge of fact. iii. 35.
men differ in sense from one another and from beasts so little, as that it is not to be reckoned amongst virtues. iii. 56. supernatural, one of the three hearings of the word of God. iii. 345.
ascribed to God, how to be understood. iii. 352, 415.
is, in man, a tumult of mind, raised by the pressure of the organs by external things. iii. 352, 382.
the cause of sense, the ubiquity of species. iii. 679.
sense is the conception produced by the present action of the object of sense. iv. 3: -of all the senses, the subject of their inherence, is not the object, but the sen- tient. iv. 4, 8.
the great deception of sense, what. iv. 8: -is by sense to be corrected. iv. 9. the senses five. iv. 12.
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