ENOCH-and Elias, the only two men im-
mortal otherwise than by the resurrec-
tion. iii. 443 :—his translation peculiar
to them that please God. iii. 623.
ENTHUSIASM-the supposed possession of
madmen with a divine spirit. iii. 102.
ENTITY-essence, essentiality, entitative, &c.,
insignificant words, from what fountain
sprung. i. 34. iii. 19, 674, 675: not heard
of amongst nations that do not copulate
their names by the word is. ib. ib. ib.
ENVY-grief for the success of a competi-
tor, joined with endeavour to supplant
or hinder him. iii. 47:-joined with plea-
sure in imagining ill fortune befalling
him. iv. 45.

ἐφάρμοσις, ἐφαρμογή-how used by Euclid.
vii. 192, 196-7.

EPHESIAN-Diana. iii. 225.

EPHESUS Council of. iv. 400. vi. 176.
EPICURUS-his atoms. i. 416:-his argu-
ments for a vacuum as delivered by Lu-
cretius. ibid. :-allows neither to the
world nor to motion any beginning at
all. i. 417:-supposes atoms to be indi-
visible. i. 419:—and yet to have small
superficies. ibid. :-the disputes of the
Epicureans about fate and contingency. iv.
182: he and his followers. iv. 387-8.
vi. 98.

:-resem-

EPILEPSY-the disease of, what. iii. 317:
-supposed by the Jews to be one kind
of possession by spirits. ibid. :-
bles the possession of the body politic
by the spiritual power. ibid.
ἐπίσκοπος —an overseer, particularly a pas-
tor or shepherd. iii. 526.

EQUALITY and inequality, the same acci-
dent, under another name, with the mag-
nitude of the thing compared. i. 135.
no definition of, in Euclid. i. 272. vii. 197:
-the definition necessary in geometry.
vii. 197.

of equal distribution, the best sign that
every man is contented with his share.
iii. 111 :—from equality of ability, arises
equality of hope in attaining our ends.

ibid. :-is best done by him that has the
best natural wit. ibid.
EQUILIBRIUM-if two weights and their
distances from the centre of the scale,
be in reciprocal proportion, they will be
in equilibrium. i. 355 :—and if in equi.
librium, the weights and their distances,
will be in reciprocal proportion. ibid.
EQUINOX-cause of the precession of. i.440-
43. vii. 102-4-why so called. i. 443:—
is said by Copernicus and others, to be a
degree in 100 years. vii. 103.
EQUIPONDERATION—what. i. 351:-plane
of, what. ibid. :-diameter of, what. i.
352:-centre of. ibid.

two bodies being in equilibrium, if weight
be added to one, equiponderation ceases.
i. 352:-
:-no two planes of equiponderation
are parallel. ibid. :-the centre of equi-
ponderation is every plane thereof. i. 353.
if two weights and their distances from
the centre, be in reciprocal proportion,
they will be equiponderant. i. 355 :-and
if they be in equilibrium, the weights
and distances will be in reciprocal pro-
portion. ibid.

the centre of equiponderation of a figure
deficient according to commensurable
proportions of the altitude and base di-
minished, divides the axis in what pro-
portion. i. 359:--the centre of equipon-
deration of various deficient figures, how
to be found. i. 362-3:-the diameter of
equiponderation of the complement of
half of certain deficient figures, how it
divides the axis. i. 363:—the diameter of
equiponderation, how to be found. i. 364:
-the centre of equiponderation of the
half of certain curvilineal figures, where
to be found. i. 365-the centre of equi-
ponderation of a solid sector, is in the
axis divided in what proportion. i. 371:
-of a hemisphere, where it is. i. 373.
EQUITY-actions proceeding from equity,
joined with loss, why honourable. iii. 80:

-the want of equity, dishonourable. ib.
is a law of nature. iii. 138. iv. 104:-the
eleventh law. iii. 142:-the tenth. ii. 40.
is the habit of allowing equality. iv. 110.
a court of justice and a court of equity,
their difference. vi. 25.
EQUIVOCAL-in manifest equivocation, no
danger. i. 62-sometimes may deceive,
though not obscure. i. 63.

equivocation, is taken away by defini-
tion. i. 84.

ERGAMENES-destroys all the priests of

Meroe. vi. 281. vii. 74.

ERROR-and falsity, how they differ. i. 55:
-of the mind, without the use of words,
how it happens. i. 55-7. iii. 23.

to err in affirming and denying, what. i.
55-6:-errors of sense and cogitation,
by mistaking one imagination for ano-
ther, or by feigning that to be past or
future, which never was nor ever shall
be. i. 56.

errors common to all things having sense,
what. i. 56:-proceed not from the senses
nor from things, but whence. ibid.

to free ourselves from such errors as
arise from natural signs, what the best
way. i. 57:-such errors proceed from
want of ratiocination. ibid. :-errors in
affirming and denying, from reasoning
amiss. ibid.

errors repugnant to philosophy, what. i.
57:-errors in syllogizing, consist in
what. ibid. :-error from supposing some
things to exist necessarily, others con-
tingently or by accident. i. 60:-from
placing some ideas in the understanding,
others in the fancy. i. 61.

between true science and erroneous doc-
trine ignorance is midway. iii. 25.

error, what it is. iii. 32:-is deception in
presuming that something is past or to
come. ibid. :-error from the length of
an account, forgetting what went before.
iii. 35.

not to be avoided without a perfect un-
derstanding of words. iii. 90.

no man's error becomes his own law. iii.
264.

of Writs of Error. vi. 46.

error is in its own nature no sin. vi. 102.
pwc-signifies desire limited to one per-
son. iv. 48.

ESDRA-set forth the Scriptures in the
form we have it in. iii. 374:-how he re-
lates the death of Josiah. iii. 412:-no
obedience promised to him by the Jews.
iii. 474. ii. 248:-his restoration of the
commonwealth. iii. 517:—of the Temple
of Jerusalem. ii. 159.

ESSENCE of any body, that accident for
which we give it a certain name. i. 117.
vii. 221:-same essence, inasmuch as ge-
nerated, called the form. i. 117:-by
some called the formal cause. i. 131:
not intelligible. ibid.

the knowledge of the essence, is the
cause of the knowledge of the thing it-
self. i. 132.

abstract essences and substantial forms. iii.
672. vi. 215-16:-the doctrine of, built.
on the vain philosophy of Aristotle. iii.
674. vi. 215-fright men from obeying
the laws, as birds are frightened from
the corn with a man of straw. ibid.

the absurdities that follow the error of
separated essences, iii. 675.

signifies no more than if we should talk
of the isness of things. iv. 394:-is no
part of the language of mankind, but a
word devised by philosophers out of the
copulation of names. vii. 81.

ESSEX-Earl of, his fortunate expedition
to Cadiz. vi. 202:-his son's failure. ibid.:
-the son made general of the Parlia-
ment army. vi. 298, 302 :-his character.
vi. 302-3-is suspected by the parlia-
ment, and lays down his commission. vi.
326: his death. vi. 332.

EST, orì-the copula of the Latins and

Greeks. iii. 673:-no word answerable to
it in the Hebrew language. iv. 304. vii. 81.
ESTHER-the history of Queen Esther, is
of the time of the Captivity. iii. 371.
ETERNAL-an eternal now, or nunc-stans.
i. 413. iii. 35, 677. iv. 276, 299.

whatsoever is eternal was never gene-
rated. i. 431.

ETHER-a fluid ether so fills up the uni-
verse, as to leave in it no empty space. i.
426-the parts of, supposed to have no
motion but that received from bodies
floating in them, not being themselves
fluid. i. 448, 481.-has mingled in it in-
numerable atoms of different degrees of
hardness, and having simple motions. i.
474.

etherial substance is the same in all
bodies. i. 504:-has no gravity. i. 519:
-the reason. ibid.

ETHICS-why have the writings of geo-
metricians increased science, whilst those
of ethical philosophers have increased
nothing but words. i. 9 :-ethical writ-
ings, how used to confirm wicked men
in their purpose. ibid. :—what chiefly
wanting in them. ibid.

what ethics treat of. i. 11.
ETYMOLOGY-is not a definition. vi. 30:-
when true, shows light towards finding
out a definition. ibid.

EUCHARIST the worship of, is or is not

idolatry, according to what. iii. 653-4:—
the sacrament of instituted by Christ. ii.

264.

EUCLID-his axioms, why not principles of
demonstration. i. 82: why they have
gotten amongst men the authority of
principles. ibid. :—the axioms of his First
Book capable of demonstration. i. 119:-
are not principles of demonstration. ibid.
his definition of the same proportion. i.
157:-of compound proportion. i. 162.
has defined parallel right lines only. i.
189: his solid angle, what. i. 198.
to be taken in hand by the reader, before
proceeding to the geometry in DE COR-
PORE. i. 204.

his three first definitions not to be reckoned amongst the principles of geometry, why. vii. 184:-his definition of a point, even to a rigid construer, sound and useful. vii. 200:-of a straight line, inexcusable. vii. 202:-of a plane angle, its faults. vii. 203-4:-his definition of a bound and of figure. vii. 204:--of a circle and of parallel straight lines. vii. 205 :--of a part. vii. 207 :-of ratio, is intolerable. ibid.:-his Greek definition how to be rendered in English. vii. 208,229:—his definition of compound ratio. vii. 209:--may and ought to be demonstrated. vii. 210: -his definitions no part of his geometry. vii. 225:-in his geometry, some few great holes. vii. 245:-never uses but one word for double and duplicate. vii. 245, 277, 299, 382.

εὐδοκιμεῖν—one of the two objects men have in meeting together. ii. 5. EUMENIDES - madness ascribed by the Grecians to them. iii. 65. EUSEBIUS-bishop of Cæsarea, present at the council of Nice. iv. 397:-his letter to absent bishops, to subscribe the creed. ibid. EUSTACHIO-and Hugenius, the trial which is the more skilful in optics. iv. 436. EUTOCIUS demonstrated what of compound ratio. vii. 236.

EUTYCHES-and Dioscorus, their heresy

in affirming that there is but one nature in Christ. iv. 400. vi. 103, 176:-condemned as Arianism. iv. 400. EVANGELIST and prophet, in the Church, signified not an office, but gifts whereby men were profitable to the Church. iii.

527.

their scope, to establish the one article, that Jesus is Christ. iii. 591. ii. 308:-prove that he was the true Christ and king promised by God, sent to renew the new covenant. ii. 254.

EVIDENCE-is what. iv. 28:-is to truth, as the sap to the tree. ibid. :-is the life of truth. ibid. :-all evidence is conception. iv. 61:-we do not believe, but know things which are evident. iv. 65.

EVIL the object of his hate or aversion, that each man calleth evil. iii. 41:-of evil three kinds, in promise, in the end, and in the means. iii. 41-2.

inflicted on a man before his cause be heard, beyond that necessary for safe

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custody, is against the law of nature. iii.

303.

See GOOD.

EXAMPLE-proves nothing. iii. 583. EXCOMMUNICATION-the sentence of, pronounced by the apostle, or pastor. iii. 501. ii. 288-but judgment on the merit of the case, by the Church. iii. 502. ii. 288. was part of the power of the keys. iii. 502: the use and effect of, before being strengthened by the civil power, was only to avoid the company of the excommunicated. ibid. 562. ii. 289. iv. 198, 389: for apostate Christians, where the civil power did not assist the Church, excommunication had in it neither damage nor terror, neither in this world nor the next. iii. 503:-the damage redounded rather to the Church. ibid. 562. had no effect but upon believing Christians. iii. 504: was used before Christianity was authorised by the civil power, only for correction of manners, not errors of opinion. ibid.

lieth for injustice, and for a scandalous life. iii. 504-but for excommunicating one that held this foundation, Jesus is Christ, no authority in the Scripture. iii. 505. no one can be excommunicate that is not a member of a Christian Church that has power to judge of the cause. iii.

506.

one Church cannot be excommunicated by another. iii. 506. ii. 289.

the sentence of, importeth advice not to keep company, or so much as to eat with the excommunicate. iii. 506. ii. 289:— against a sovereign prince or assembly is of no effect. ibid. ii. 290. iv. 198. has no effect upon kings and states, other than to instigate them to war upon each other. iii. 507. ii. 291:-has no effect upon a Christian that obeys the voice of his sovereign, whether Christian or heathen. ibid. :-has no effect upon him that believes that Jesus is Christ. ibid. :-therefore upon a true and unfeigned Christian, none. ibid. ::-nor upon

a professed Christian, till his behaviour is contrary to the law of his sovereign. ibid. the child may keep company with its father or mother excommunicate. iii. 508. the power of, cannot be carried beyond the end for which the apostles and pastors are commissioned by Christ. iii. 508:

- without the assistance of the civil power, is without effect, and ought to be without terror. iii. 508, 547.

the name of fulmen excommunicationis, whence. iii. 508-9.

where Christianity is forbidden, is putting

themselves out of the company of the ex-
communicate, where commanded, putting
the excommunicate out of the congrega-
tion of Christians. iii. 537.

excommunication by the apostles, was a
denouncing of the punishment to be in-
flicted by Christ when in possession of
his kingdom. iii. 562:-then not properly
punishment as upon a subject, but re-
venge as upon an enemy denying his
right to his kingdom. iii. 563.

to excommunicate one's lawful king,
what. iii. 690:-or any one without his
authority. ibid.

excommunication by the presbytery, the
first knot upon the liberty of the early
Christians. iii. 695.

has no evil in it except the eternal pains
consequent to it. ii. 284.

is called by the Church, the act of re-
taining sins. ii. 288:-by Paul, a deliver-
ing over to Satan. iii. 504. ii. 288:-its
end, the humbling to salvation. ii. 289.
no man can excommunicate the subjects
of an absolute government all at once.
ii. 290.

disputes about the authority of excom-
munication, are disputes about human
sovereignty. ii. 317.

was instituted by our Saviour. iv. 197:-
was adopted by the pastors of the primi-
tive Church as a punishment for heresy.
iv. 389-90.

the effect of excommunication. vi. 172:
-they that die excommunicate in the
Church of England at this day, are
damned. vi. 174.

EXCUSE that by which a crime is proved

to be none at all. iii. 287:-can be only
that which takes away the obligation of
the law. ibid.: -the want of means to
know the law. ibid :-not the want of
diligence to enquire. ibid. :-the terror
of present death. iii. 288-or any fact
done for preservation of life. ibid. :-facts
done by authority, are excused against
the author. ibid. :-facts done by autho-
rity of the sovereign power, are totally
excused. iii. 287.

EXHORTATION--and dehortation, is coun-
sel, with signs of vehement desire to
have it followed. iii. 242:—have a regard
to the common passions and opinions of
men in deducing reasons. iii. 243:—are
directed to the good of him that giveth
them, not of him to whom given. ibid.
the use of, lieth only in speaking to a
multitude. iii. 243.

they that exhort and dehort when re-
quired to give counsel, are corrupt coun-
sellors. iii. 243.

are lawful, and also laudable, in him that
may lawfully command. iii. 244:—but
are then, not counsel, but command. ibid.
EXILE-is what. iii. 303:-not in its own
nature punishment. ibid. :-no such pun-
ishment ordained in Rome. iii. 304 :-
tends many times to the damage of the
commonwealth, why. ibid.

an exile is a lawful enemy of the com-
monwealth. iii. 304.

is made a punishment, how. iii. 304.
EXORCISE-the use of exorcism, holy water
&c., kept in credit by favouring the
opinion of fairies, ghosts, &c. iii. 9-10:-
the doctrine of exorcism and conjuration
of phantasms, whence. iii. 616, 644:—is
rarely and faintly practised, but not yet
given over. iii. 644.

EXPECTATION-presumption of the future.
iv. 17-is from remembrance of the
past. ibid.

EXPERIENCE-those content with daily ex-
perience, are men of sounder judgment,
than those whose opinions, though not
vulgar, are full of uncertainty and care-
lessly received. i. 2.

experience is nothing but memory. i. 3.
iii. 664. iv. 18:-is store of phantasms,
arising from the sense of many things.
i. 398.

without experience and memory, no
knowledge of what will prove pleasant
or hurtful. i. 408.

is much memory, or memory of many
things. iii. 6, 664.

by how much a man has more experi-
ence of things past, by so much he is
more prudent. iii. 15:- is not to be
equalled by any advantage of natural and
extemporary wit. iii. 15-16.

much experience, prudence. iii. 37, 60:— ✓
to observe by experience, and remember
all the circumstances that may alter the
success, impossible. ibid.

the want of, sometimes the cause of the
folly of many and great digressions in
discourse. iii. 58.

experience of men of equal age, not much
unequal as to quantity. iii. 60:-lies in
what. ibid.

all actions and speeches proceeding from
experience, why honourable. iii. 79-80.
is but remembrance of what consequents
have followed what antecedents. iv. 16,
27:--concludes nothing universally. iv.
18:-no conclusion from experience that
anything is just or unjust, true or false,
&c.

all knowledge is but experience. iv. 27.
EXPERIMENT—mean and common experi-

ments are better witnesses of nature,

than those that are forced by fire and
known but to few. vii. 117.
EXTENSION-Space falsely taken to be the
extension of bodies. i. 93, 102.

to divide a body, its extension, and the
idea of that extension, is the same with
dividing any one of them. i. 108.
EXTENUATION—that by which a crime is
made less. iii. 287:-sudden passion, an
extenuation. iii. 291.

EXTREME and mean, what. i. 98.
EYE-spies are the eyes of the common-
wealth. iii. 231.

that many eyes see more than one, to be
understood of counsellors, when. iii. 249:
-are apt to look asquint towards their
private benefit. iii. 250.

no one takes aim with more than one
eye. iii. 250.

EZEKIEL-prophecied in the Captivity. iii.

373.

EZRA-the book of, written after the Cap-
tivity. iii. 371.

FABIUS-the dictator, deprived of his dic-
tatorship by the Roman people. ii. 104.
FACTION—One of the greatest of human
powers. iii. 74.

leagues of subjects are commonly called
factions. iii. 223:-a number of men part
of a sovereign assembly, consulting apart
to guide the rest, is a faction unlawful.
ibid.:-to entertain more servants than
required for the government of his estate,
is in a private man faction and unlawful.
iii. 224:-factions for kindred, govern.
ment of religion, or of state, are unjust.
ibid.

no war so fierce, as between those of dif-
ferent factions in the same common-
wealth. ii. 7:-factions arise out of great
assemblies, out of factions sedition and
civil war. ii. 138.

a faction, what. ii. 139, 175-6:-the word,
whence derived. ibid. :-how bred in a
commonwealth. ii. 163:-how governed
by a faction. ibid. :-is a city within a
city. ii. 176.

factions soon find out that an absolute
monarch, that is a general, is necessary
for defence and peace. iv. 169.
FAIRFAX-a right presbyterian, but in the
hands of the army. vi. 334:-replaces
the fugitive members, is made generalis-
simo and constable of the Tower. vi.
341:-refuses to fight against the Scotch
presbyterians, and lays down his com-
mission. vi. 371.

FAIRIES-and ghosts, whence the opinion
VOL. XI.

of. iii. 9:--the opinion of, either taught
or not confuted, for whose ends. iii. 9-10.
and bugbears, gods of the Gentiles. iii.

100.

their kingdom, invisible, walking in the
dark. iii. 316.

ghosts, fairies, and other matter of old
wives' tales. iii. 605, 697. vii. 58.
the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom
of the fairies. iii. 697-700.

have but one universal king, Oberon. iii.
698.

FAITH-is the end or resolution of dis-
course beginning at the saying of another
man. iii. 54:-to have faith in, and to
believe a man, signify the same thing.
ibid.-whatsoever is believed on the
authority of men only, is faith in men
only. iii. 55.

examples of the weakening of men's
faith in religion. iii. 107.

keeping of, and violation of, in covenant.
iii. 120. ii. 29-30.

the violation of, by some allowed for the
getting of a kingdom. iii. 132.

of the reward to be given after death to
breach of faith, no knowledge. iii. 135:
-such breach, not a precept of reason
or nature. ibid.

of supernatural law, is not a fulfilling, but
only an assenting to it. iii. 273:-is not
a duty, but a gift from God. ibid. 588,590.
that faith is attained by supernatural in-
spiration, not by study and reason, seditious
A doctrine. iii. 311. ii. 156.

a man must render a reason of his faith.
iii. 311. ii. 156:-faith comes by acci-
dents all contrived by God. iii. 312, 588:
-is not a miracle. ibid. :-is the gift of
God. iii. 588, 590.

men that know not the obligation of
keeping faith, know not the right of
any law of the sovereign. iii. 324.

is one of the three hearings of the word
of God. iii. 345. ii. 206:-cometh by hear-
ing. iii. 589, 590.

faction and civil war between the sword
of justice and the shield of faith, whence.
iii. 461.

has no relation to compulsion. iii.49 1,518.
new articles of faith not to be made,
obliging men to a needless burthen of
conscience. iii. 505.

is exempted from all human jurisdiction.
iii. 518.

no man that errs in any point of faith ne-
cessary to salvation, can be saved. iii. 558.
the violation of faith, is contrary to the
divine law, both natural and positive. iii.
579, 577, 580, 587. ii. 30.

the faith of Christians has ever had for
i