Concealment, rhetorical artifice, 327. Conceits, a favourite topick with fome preachers, 322, &c. Conclufion, what, 489. Loves contrast, 197. Violent, tender, elevated, &c. 491, &c. &c. Concomitants, what, and of various uses of, 30, &c. Of falvation, an innocent phrafe with fome, 437- His proper reply to Hobbes's noftrums, 403. Conference-meetings, may be very useful, 246. Confucius, Christ made to conform to him, 306. Confutations, how properly introduced, 155. Connection, natural to us, and pleafing in all addresses to us, 476. Connections, worldly, neceffary must be distinguished from arbitrary, 345. Confcience, publick, an absurdity, 68. Doubtful, cant, as applied to diffenters, 69. Complaifance plays the cheat with, 37. Dominion over, a violation of the gospel, 38. Subject to no authority but that of God, 317. Liberty of, England always allowed it to refugees, even while it was denied to natives, 209. Addreffing, a fingular talent in fome preachers, 126. Confent, universal, what, 405. Confequences, a topick, 146. Conftantine, his reign fatal to true religion, 37. 82. 2370 Contemplation, highest degree of moral excellence with fome, 280. Contradictions, feeming, of scripture, how reconciled, 129 162. 182. Contraft, a fine topick, 193. 196. 369. Controverfy, what, and how best managed, 215. 244. Church, how fadly interest affects it, 68. How it might be rendered a privilege, 152. Popish, what neceffary to be studied in it, 125. Converfion, ordinary should be diftinguished from extraordi nary, 357. Treated very injudiciously by fome, 375. Converts, new, to what prone, 344. Corinth, why the Romans facked it, 126. VOL. II. 3 S Cornelius Cornelius, Bp of Rome, a plain brother, 36. Corruption of chriftianity, when fundamental, 252. Cotelerius, the proper ufe he makes of an apothegm, 146. Court-divinity, what in James I. time, 159. What in the reign of Charles I. 41. Sermons, church-gazettes, 159. Chaplains, Saurin thought the French publick pefts, 1157 Coverdale, far fuperior to Cox, 131. Cranmer, tolerant to foreigners, 209. Bloody at home, 210. Flattered by foreign penfioners, 211. His piety no argument for the truth of his doctrine, 314 Crantz, his hiftory of Greenland referred to, 406. Crafhaw, ridicules papal holiness, 75. Credulousness a great blemish in a minister, 119. Wrong rules of interpretation, 138. Christians need none, 132. Crellius, reasons a great point from a Greek article, 172. Cretians, their national character, 57. Crifp, Dr. not a practical Antinomian, 260. Criticks, verbal, poor expofitors, 295. Crofby, complains of Neal's partiality, 81. 1 Relates what the old baptifts thought of reviving a loft or ་ dinance, 184. Crofs, where the fathers found it, 173. Sign of, in christening, where the chief evil lies, 285. Curiofity, dangerous on fome fubjects, 156. D Damafus, Pope, extravagantly complimented by Jerom, 37. Data, fhould be fettled previously by difputants, 247. Deacons, primitive, their character, 57. Death, a fine applicatory topick, 348. A favourite one with fome preachers, 347. Deception, Deception, effential to the dominion of vice, 343. How Saurin preached, 133. Calvinistical doctrine of, rational, 155. And confiftent with moral fuafion, 335. Dedication of the temple at Tyre, Eufebius's fermcn at the, 237. Dedication of books, the fafhion of, in Q. Elizabeth's days, 211. A fingular one by James I. 200. Of the English bible, a courtly effay, 101. Defective phrafes, examples of, 378. Defence of christianity, the beft, 231. Definition, a topick, 260, &c. Of terms effential to a minifter, 151. Degree, a topick, 249. Degrees, academical, why cenfured by the reformers, 37, 38.1 Deicide, what, 282. Deifts, enthufiafts, 118. Delaune, his fine plea, unanfwerable, 63. Delicacy, finical, to be avoided in the pulpit, 341. Delivery, of a fermon, fhould be adapted to the subject, 334. Dell, why he cenfured titles and degrees, 38. Del, Rio, his ingenious turn on Eccl. vi. 3. 81. Demetrius, intereft made him a bully for Diana, 75. Democracy, to what it tends, 352. Democrates fometimes used coarse imagery, 343. admired one of his, 83. Sometimes used coarse colouring, 343. Depravity, human, very great, 419. Defcriptions, good ones affect, 364. Defign, of a writer, must be ftudied, 132, &c. Defign of Chriftianity, fome account of that book, 104: Defpair, how precluded, 364. 389. Defpauterius on epithets, 100. Defpotifm, the corruption of monarchy, 352. Detracters, how they ought to be treated, 151. Diana, Chrift's church is not fupported as her corporation was, 75. Diafyrmus, what, 113. Dictionaries, precarious helps, 149. Differences, of fubjects, muft be remarked, 175. Of opinion, may be innocent, and fhould be tolerated, 185. Dignity, human, phyfical, 419. Diogenes, what he did to obtain audience, 128. Modern, execrable, 160, &c. Dionyfius, Monk, how he defines mysticism, 264. The best qualification in a ftudent of divinity, 255. Why fome hate it, 245, &c. Difputants, why fome never fucceed, 259. Diffent, from establishments, when necessary, 136. English proteftant, two forts, 230. Their prefent ftate in regard to religious liberty, 62. Need not have a lord brother, unless they will, 161. Diffenters Sayings, of what fuch books are compofed, 84. Distinction, a topick, 258. Divine right, an obfolete plea, 42. 101. 293. Divinity, hurt by pretendedly learned definitions, 263. Foreign, fome are penfioned by England, and not ungrateful to their benefactors, 209.211. Epifcopal, what forry arguments fome of them ufe to fupport their hierarchy, 314. Old, many of their words and phrases now obfolete, 32. Of what fome complain, 154. What fort of preaching they loved, 271, &c. Not very clear in the doctrine of law, 162. Some do too much honour to pagan writers, 140. Mercenary, what monftrous pofitions they lay down, 68. Fraudulent, how they ftate objections, 229. Why various forts affect candour and execrate controversy, 244. Why fome moderate ones ftate obfcure points, 227. Mere doctrinal, not very confiftent, 328. Doctrines, Doctrines, what taught in the Jewish church, 162. Of Chrift, fublime because all facts, all true, all practical, and all admit of popular proof, 233. 279. 228. Of grace may be misunderstood, 410. Of popery, encourage pride, and other vices, 298: Doddridge, Dr. how a zealot misunderstood him, 150. Dodwell, a learned man: but a wretched divine, 321. Domeftick principles neceffary to a minifter, 141. Dominicans, took S. Auguftine's fide in the controverfy concerning grace, 153. Dornavius, the proper ufe of his Sapientia joco feria, 99, 100. 207. Dort, fynod of, did no good in their attempts to fettle controverfies, 153. Doubts, fhould not be cherished by preachers, 300. Concerning the hierarchy, diffenters have none, 69. Very dangerous to it in the account of Harry VIII. 101. Downame, Bp. referred to, 268. Draco, why he attributed his laws to a deity, 63. Dreams, time important to, 118. Drefs, of a preacher, fhould incline to negligence, especially in fome periods, 334. Drunkenness, applauded, 99. At Athéns univerfal, 111. Druids, imperious tyrants, and the model of modern priefts, Eafe, in the pulpit, what, 16. How acquired, 175. E Eafter, a human invention, 284. No fuch word in S. Luke, 10. Eber, Paul, improved fynergism, 154. Ecclefiaftes, not composed by modern rules, 137. Edgar, King, a curious form of confeffion in his time, 373. Edwards, |