appoints God the Son to end it, 680. chariot (the Father's) decribed, 749. speech to the Son, resolving the creation of the world, vii. 139. commits the work to him, 163. his (the Father's) omnipresence, 168, 588. goodness, free, 170. will, fate, 173. institution of the Sabbath (by God the Fa- ther and Son) the seventh after the six days of the creation, 581. the solemnity of it described, 594. speech. (the Father's) on the guar- dian angel's return from Pa- radise upon Adam's, &c. fall, x. 34. appoints the Son judge of it, 55. speech to the celes- tials on Sin and Death's en- trance into the world thereby, 614. promise of their dissolu- tion, and renovation of hea- ven and earth, 633. charge to the angels, touching the changes in the creation on the fall, 649. answer to the Son's intercession on Adam's repentance, xi. 45. speech to the celestials, convened at his decreeing his expulsion from Paradise, 84. to Michael thereon, 99.
GOD the SON, at the right hand of the Father, iii. 62. his (the Father's) essence, &c. 138. his word, &c. 169. vii. 163. an- swer to him on Satan's design on the creation, man, &c. iii. 144. on his proposing the manner, &c. of man's re- demption, 227. undertakes it, 236. love to man, and filial obedience, 266. the second Adam, 285. his merits alone imputative to man, 290. xii. 406. his resurrection, as God and man, decreed, iii. 303. equal to the Father, 305. his (the Son's) attributes, 383.
answer to the Father on Sa- tan's, &c. revolt, vi. 733. the image of the Father, iii. 383. vi. 680, 736. the Messiah, 718, 881. answer to the Fa- ther, appointing him to end the battle between the celes- tial and revolted angels, 723. undertakes it, 730. his ar- mour, equipage, &c. de- scribed, 760. speech to the celestial army, 800. solely attacks the revolters, 824. entirely defeats them, 838. The action and defeat de- scribed, 631-877. returns in triumph, 878. his person, equipage, &c. in the work of the creation described, vii. 192. re-ascent to heaven after it, 550. institution of the sab- bath (by God the Father and Son) the seventh after the six days creation, 581. the so- lemnity of it described, 594. answer (the Son's) to Adam, on his solitude in Paradise, viii. 369. to his reply, 398. to another, (promises him a consort,) 487. appointed by the Father judge of Adam's transgression (fall), x. 55. all judgment committed to him, 56. the mercy of it, 58. an- swer to the Father thereon, 68. descent to Eden, 85. call to Adam there, 103. reply to his answer, (accusing Eve,) 119. to his reply, 144. to Eve, (accusing the serpent,) 157. sentence pronounced by him on the serpent, 163, 175. ex- plained, 182. on Eve, 192. on Adam, 197. clothes them with skins, &c. 211. re-ascent to the Father, and interces- sion for them, 224. the justice of his sentence, 754. his in- tercession on their repent- ance, xi. 22. (Vide Messiah.)
GOD, purity of adoration more acceptable to him than ritual, iv. 736. all good proceeds from, and returns to him, v. 469. to be contemplated in the works of the creation, 508. acts imme- diate, vii. 176. the centre of hea- ven, ix. 107. his absolute de- crees, xi. 311. omnipresence, goodness, &c. 335. the fear of him, &c. with loss of freedom, degenerates, 797, particular presence, xii. 48. to obey, love, depend on his providence, &c. the sum of knowledge, 557. and wisdom, 575.
Gospel how to be understood, xii. 511.
Grace of God, man its object, and devils eternally excluded from it, why, iii. 129. man's long resistance of it alone ex- clusive, 198. repentance a fruit of it, xi. 22, the spirits of it, and liberty, consorts, xii. 525. Gratitude exerted, a discharge of its debt, iv. 55. Gunpowder, guns, &c. the ori- ginal invention ascribed to the Devil, vi. 478, 484. discharge described, 584.
618. its gates, 645. first opened by Sin, 871. how situated, re- specting'heaven,and the world, x. 322. (Vide Similies.) Hierarchies of heaven, before the revolt of the fallen angels, de- scribed, v. 579. Hinnom, the valley of, whence called Tophet and Gehenna, i. 399.
HOLY GHOST, its effusion, &c. at the creation, vii. 195. de- scent, &c. on the apostles, and all baptized, xii. 485. promised and given alike to all believers, xii. 518.
Hospitality, an incitation to it, v. 316.
Hymn to light, iii. 1. to God the Father and Son, 372. on conjugal love, iv. 750. on the creation, vii. 180, 252, 557, 602.
Hypocrisy visible to God alone, iii. 682. Hypocrites, Satan the first, iv. 121. pretenders to supernatural purity, &c. 744.
Heaven and earth, their final re- novation by fire, xi. 898. xii. 547. after-happiness therein, 463, 549. Heaven, the joys, &c. of it de- scribed, iii. 344. its gate, 501. v. 253. passage from thence to the world, iii. 526. its general creation, 716, visible, the study of it how necessary, viii. 66. speculations of its motions, or the earth's, censured, 70. how situated, respecting the world, and hell, x. 320.
Hell described, i. 60, 228. ii. 587,
Idolatry, the original rise of it assigned, i. 364. of the post- diluvian world, xii. 115. Jealousy, the lover's hell, v. 449. Immortality of the soul discussed, x. 782. Innocence, the state of it de-
scribed, iv. 312, 492, 738. v. 211, 303, 443. viii. 40, 510. Intellectual beings, a faculty of them, ii. 146. Invocations, the author's, i. 6. iii. 51. vii. 1. xi. 20. Jove, (a fallen angel,) i. 512. Israelites, the story of their bond- age, and deliverance from Egypt, related, xii. 163. of the settlement of their civil and
sacred economy in the wilder- ness, 223. establishment in Canaan, 260. reason, use, &c. of their ritual laws, 280. go- vernment by judges and kings, 315. captivity in Babylon, 335. return from thence, after dis- sentions, &c. to the birth of the Messiah, &c. 345-359. Isis, (a fallen angel,) i. 478. Ithuriel, (a guardian angel of Paradise,) iv. 788. detects Satan's first attempt on Eve there, 810.
Knowledge of good and evil, the tree of it, how situated, iv. 220. ix. 626. described, ix. 575. forbidden to Adam, vii. 542. viii. 343. Satan's encomium of it, ix. 679. Eve's, 795, 863. Knowledge (or opinion) the re- sult of reason and fancy, v. 100. without restraint, folly, vii. 126. viii. 188. xii. 560. of things necessary, wisdom, viii. 192. Knowledge of future events, the desire of it reprehended, xi. 770. its sum, the love, fear, &c. of God, xii. 557. in animal creatures asserted, viii. 369. (Vide Similies.)
Lethe, a river of hell, described, ii. 582. Medusa the guard of it, 610.
Leviathan described, i. 201. Liberty, with the loss of it, vir-
tue, &c. degenerates, xi. 797. Adam's fall, the first cause of it, xii. 82.
Liberty, the same with reason, xii. 83.
Life, the tree of it described, iv. 218. where situated, ix. 69. Life, long, by temperance, xi. 530. the great rule of it re- specting itself, 553. Light, hymn to it, iii. 1. the first day's creation, described, vii.
Lightning how produced, x. 1073.
Limbo, or fools' Paradise, where, iii. 495.
Lion, a beast of prey, an effect
of Adam's fall, xi. 187. Love, conjugal, its praises, iv. 750. distinguished from that of an amour, 763. consists in reason, not passion, viii. 586. defined, 589. in spirits celestial, the expression of it what, and how, 620. smiles the food of love, ix. 239. founded in rea- son, one end of human life, ix. 241.
Lucifer, Satan why so called, x.
425. (Vide Satan.) Lust carnal, the effect of Adam's &c. fall, ix. 1011. the solace of it, 1042.
Mammon, (a fallen angel,) i. 678. his speech in the council called by Satan after their fall, ii. 229. Man, fallen, the object of grace, why, iii. 130. his long resist- ance of it alone exclusive, 198. redemption proposed by God the Father, 203. undertaken by God the Son, 227. the Son's merits alone imputative to him, towards it, how, 290. Man created to repair the loss
of the fallen angels, iii. 667. ix. 143. his creation (part of the sixth day's) described, vii. 524. dominion over the rest,
520, love to woman, how con- sistent with his superiority, viii. 567. the whole creation in little, ix. 109. angels his guardians, 154. his superiority over the woman given him by God, x. 145, 195. pursuing his appetites, disfigures not God's image, but his own, xi. 515. conformity to the divine will, the true end of his crea- tion, xi. 603. absolute dominion over his brethren (men) an usurpation, xii. 64. given him by God only over the crea- tures, 67. Matches, conjugal, the modern
censured, viii. 57. respecting
the woman particularly, x. 888. Medusa, the guard of Lethe, ii. 610.
Mercy, God's first and last attri-
Messiah promised, x. 181. the promise explained, x. 182. xii. 386. his birth, &c. and king- dom described, 359. why called the seed of the woman, 376. life and passion, 388. resurrec- tion, and mission of the apo- stles, 420. ascension, &c. 451. coming to judgment, &c. 458,
543. Michael (the Archangel) ap- pointed one of the chiefs of the celestial army against the revolted angels, vi. 44. his prowess, &c. in the battle, 250. speech to Satan encoun- tering him, 262. the combat described, 296. wounds Satan, 320. the revolters defeated, encamps on the field of bat- tle, 410. prepares to expel Adam, &c. from Paradise, xi. 126. his appearance, &c. there described, 238. speech to Adam thereon, 251. reply to Eve la- menting the threatened ex-
pulsion, 286. to Adam on the same subject, 334. discovers to him (in vision) what should happen to the time of the flood, 423-867. the story of Cain and Abel, 429. death, with its causes and variety, 466. the state of the antedi- luvian world, (in common,) 556. the state of it, (civil, or in propriety,) 638. the story of Enoch, 664. of Noah, 700. the flood, 738. God's covenant to destroy the world no more by water, 890. discovers to him (relatively) what should happen from the flood to the general resurrection, xii. 6-551. the patriarchal go- vernment, 13. Nimrod's ty- ranny, 24. the building and confusion at Babel, 38. the story of Cham, 101. of Abra- ham and the patriarchs, 113. of the Israelites' bondage in Egypt, and deliverance thence, 163. of the settlement of their civil and sacred economy in the wilderness, and establish- ment in Canaan, 223. of their various ritual laws, their rea- son, use, &c. 280. of their government by judges and kings, 315. of their captivity in Babylon, 335. of their re- turn from thence, after-dis- sentions, the birth and king- dom of the Messiah, 345-371. of his life, passion, resurrec- tion, mission of the apostles, ascension, &c. 388-465. of the mission of the Holy Ghost, gift of tongues, miracles, &c. 485-504. of the apostles' suc- cessors, (false teachers, &c.) their ambition, innovations, &c. the effects of them, and the Messiah's coming to judg- ment, 507-551. his answer
to Adam's resolution of future obedience, &c. commends, ad- vises him, and warns him to quit Paradise, 575. leads him and Eve out, 637. (Vide Si- milies.)
Mind, the force of it, i. 254.
discourse, its food, ix. 237. Moloch, (a fallen angel,) i. 392. his speech in the council called by Satan after their fall, ii. 51. defies Gabriel in the battle between the celestial and re- volted angels, vi. 357. is wounded by him and flies, vi. 360. Moon, supposed inhabited by translated saints and middle spirits, iii. 459. its office, 726. rising described, iv. 606. the spots in it, vapours not yet consolidated with its body, v. 418. part of the fourth day's creation, vii. 356. receives its light from the sun, 375. mo- tion, aspects, 379. Moon and stars, their courses, influences, &c. iv. 661. Moon and planets, their noxious motion, aspects, &c. an effect of Adam's fall, x. 656. Morning in heaven described, vi. 12.
Morning, natural, described, v. 1, 20. ix. 192. xi. 133. Moses and Aaron, their mission to Egypt, xii. 170.
tyranny described and cen- sured, xii. 24.
Nisroch, (a fallen angel,) vi. 446. his answer to Satan in council after their defeat by the celes- tial angels, vi. 451. Noah, his reprehension of the antediluvian world, xi. 719, 808. building the ark, &c. 728. entering it, with his family, the creatures, &c. 733. the flood described, 738, 824. its abatement, the ark's resting, &c. 841. his descent from it, the appearance of the rainbow, &c. 861.
Noon described, v. 300.
Obedience, conjugal, woman's happiness, &c. iv. 635. of will, not necessity, only acceptable to God, v. 529.
Old age described, xi. 535. Omens of Adam's expulsion from Paradise, xi. 182.
Opinion (or knowledge.) (Vide Knowledge or opinion.) Orbs celestial, and terrestrial, notions about their motions, appearance, &c. doubtful, and not necessary to the improve- ment of happiness, &c. viii. 78-178.
Orus, (a fallen angel,) i. 478.
Mulciber, (a fallen angel,) i. 740. Osiris, (another,) ibid.
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