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THEISTS and Hobbifts, their principles relative to civil contracts, 37, n. ADULTERY, 57. Defined, ib. A capital offence by the divine law, 62, 63. So by the law of England in 1650, p. 64, n. Not fo now, ib.

AKIBA, 83.

AUSTIN, St.-his teftimony concerning concubinage, 32, n. On the antient polygamy, 98, n. A foolish faying of his on the fubject, 243, n.

ADULTERY, mifchiefs of, 66.

ABRAHAM and Hagar, 117, and n.

ALEXANDER III. Pope, his conftitution concerning poft legitimation, 35.

ADAM and Eve, their creation-no precedent to be drawn from it against polygamy, 139 and n.

ABIGAIL and Ahinoam, wives to David, 148.

ABISHAG the Shunamite, 164-5.

ANSELM, Archbishop of Canterbury, makes a canon against

fodomy, which is never published, 171, n.

ANTHONY, St.-preaches to FISHES, 193.

ACT of GENERATION, not finful in itself, 46 & feq.

explained in all its fenfes, 255-6.

ABIMELECH, cafe of, 265.

ARTICLE, SEVENTH, of the church of England, quoted and explained, 282.

ABIGAIL, her pleading for Nabal, 320.

AEROGATION, doctrine of, borrowed from the Mahometan

doctors, 390, n.

B BOLINGBROKE,

BOLIN

B

OLINGBROKE, Lord, a fentiment of his, 7, n,
BUSBEQUIUS, his diftinction between a wife and con-
cubine, 55, n.

"BURNET, Bishop, quoted on the fubject of the diffolutenefs
of the unmarried clergy before the Reformation, 65, n. A
quotation from him on polygamy, 249. His opinion at
large thereon, 291.

BACON's Abr. quoted on pre-contracts, 31.

BUXTORF, On Deut. xxi. 1-4. p. 86, n.

Biga

BIGAMY, ftatute of 1 Jac. c. 11, preamble of, 175, n.
mifts-clergy cenfured, 189, n. Oufted of clergy, 199.
BELLARMINE, his teftimony for the Pope's power to make and
unmake fins, 183, n.

BANTAM, more females than males born there, 105.

BEZA-talks nonfenfe, 151.

BEREANS, their example to be followed, 237.

BOTTLES, leathern, miftaken for glass, 350.

BUCER, on concubinage, 396.

BARBEYRAC obferves that Grotius changed his opinion con-
cerning the interpretation of Matt. xix. 9. p. 374. See
alfo vol. ii. Append. No. 2.

BAPTISM, no new law of CHRIST, 333.

BERNARD, on celibacy, 170, and n.

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C

RUCIFIX, an heathen invention, Pref. p. vii. n.
CONSTANTINE, his laws about marriage, 32, n.
tablishes Chriftianity by law, 203, n.

CONCUBINE, what, 53, 54,

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COROLLARIES on the nature and obligation of marriage, 40.
COMMANDMENT, the Seventh, does not forbid polygamy, 120.
CHURCH, in 4th century, made no diftinction between wife
and concubine, 32, n.

COKE, Lord, on Jointenancy, 151, n.

CELIBACY condemned, 168 & feq. Of the clergy, 200, 201.
CONTINENCY, where to be prayed for, 179.

CARTHUSIANS would not eat flesh to fave their lives, 183.

CERBERUS, Popish, his three heads, 202, n.

CORINTH had a temple of Venus, 211, n.

CORINTHIANS lewd and debauched to a proverb, ib.

ib. & feq.

Paul's anfwer to their letter, 211. Explained,

CESAR, his account of community of wives among the Bri-

tons, 220, n.

CONCUBINES approved in the church, 32, n.
CECROPS eftablithes monogamy at Athens, 232.

CAVE, Dr. allows that the primitive Chriftians.carried matters
too far with respect to fecond marriages, 245.
CEREMONIAL law, its morality muft ever remain, 260.
CASTRATION practifed by fome of the antient Chriftians,
286, n.

CERINTHUS, his creed, 327.

CLARKE, Dr. makes the New Teftament the only criterion
of truth to Chriftians, 328, n.

CHRIST not a giver of a new law, 300. His offices, 337
His commiffion, 388.

COMMERCE of the Sexes, an object of the moral law, 342.
CARVILIUS RUGA, the firft Roman who divorced his wife,
346, n.

CANON LAW, Popish, affirms the church to be above the
fcripture, Pref. viii. n.

CLERGY, their marriage made felony, 200, 201.

D

D

OWER among the Jews, 27.

DEUT. xxiv. 1. confidered and explained, 85, 86, 87,
and n.
DEUT. xxii. 28, 29. explained, p. 28, 29.-red in the church
as the firft leffon, March 4th, at evening fervice, 161.
DIVORCE, Jewish, did not operate as a diffolution of the mar-
riage, 88. Bill of, 347. Attended with difficulties, 346, n.
DEUT. xxi. 15. a conclufive argument for polygamy, 109.
DAVID has many wives given to him, 115.

DIOGENES held community of women, 214, n.

DELANEY, Dean, his reflections on polygamy, 116, 117, 2491
250-1. Examined, ib. and 252-3.

DAVID and Jonathan, their friendship, 321.

DRUSILLA forfakes her husband and marries Felix, 364, n.

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RASMUS, a faying of his adverfaries, 5, n.

EXOD. xxii. 16. explained, 25. Red in the church as
the first leffon, Feb. 8, p. 161.

ECCLESIASTICAL Courts, their views of marriage, 31.

their oppreffion and tyranny, 67, n.

Ought to be abolished, 68.

ESPOUSALS, 26, and n.

EXAMPLES of the faints in old time are for our inftruction,
84, n.

EUNUCHS, mentioned Matt. xix. 11, 12, what, 173, n.

ELIJAH, a bold reprover of fin, 130.

EZRA X. I, &c. and x. 2. quoted, 133.

EDWARD I. ftat. of, adopting the Pope's conftitution at
Lyons, concerning bigamifts, 199.

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EDWARD

EDWARD VI. ftat. of, repeals the former, 199.
ECCLESIASTICUS xxiii. 22, 23, defcribes adultery, 276.
ENEMIES, love of, equally a doctrine of the Old and New
Teftaments, 314, 315.

F

ATHERS, antient, their writings not to be depended

Fon, 10, and n. ib. Their notions of Gen. i. 28. p. 119, n.

FALLIBILITY of councils, churches, &c. confeffed by the
church of England, 6.
FORNICATION defined, 51, n.

n.

FATHER and Son, names of office, not of nature, 18,
FORSTER, Dr. his voyage quoted, on the proportion of males
and females born in Africa, &c. 103.

FLESH, one, the meaning of the phrafe, 151, n.
FRANCIS, St. preaches to the beafts, 193.

G

EN. ii. 23, 24, explained, and compared with 1 Cor. vi.
15, 16. p. 18, 19.

GE

GENERATION, act of, not finful in itself, 46, 47.

GRANT, Major, his notion about males and females examin-
ed, 101, n.

GABRIEL brings the celibacy of prieks from heaven, 200, n.
GOSPEL always one and the fame, 229.

GREEKS polygamifts, 232, n.

GROTIUS, his thoughts on what makes a marriage, 22, n.
Owns the Jewish law allowed polygamy, 240, n. His
notions on the law of Chrift relative to polygamy, 302.
changes his opinion, 374.

H

H

ENRY II. of France, a faying of his on papal difpen-
fations, 13, n.

HILLELL, 82.

HUSBAND, defined, 44, n.

HORACE quoted on navigation 101, n. On the mutability
of words, 59, n.

HAGAR's marriage with Abram not finful, 117, n.

HEN. VIII. ftatute of, against priests' marriage, 200, 201.
HALL, Bishop, a faying of his, 331.

HERODIAS leaves her husband, and marries his brother,
364, n.

HIPHIL-conjugation, how expreffed by the Hellenifts, 373, n.

I JUDGES

I

UDGES xix. 1, &c. confidered, 55.

JUDGE

JENKINSON, Ann, her hard cafe, 67, n.

IGNORANCE not the caufe of the Jewish polygamy, 92, & feq.
IGNATIUS introduces the faying of à Jew on the credi
bility of the New Teftament, 93, n.

JOASH a polygamift, by the act of the high-prieft Jehoiada, 94:
JACOB and the angel, 115, n.

Joв xxxi. 1, explained, 124, n.

JESUIT'S Continency, ib.

JOSEPH and Potiphar's wife, 139, n.

INFANTS heads found in Pope Gregory's fifh-pond, 201, n.
JOHN the Baptift, his reproof of Herod, 243. His commiffion
and preaching, 245-6. Appeals to the Old Teftament
for his miffion, 305, n.

JOSEPHUS on Ruth iv. 6. p. 253. A faying of his on David's
marrying Saul's wives, ib.

JEWS, the modern, forbid polygamy, why, 264, n.
JOHN xiii. 34. explained, 316.

JUVENAL, on the manners of the Roman women, 368–9.

K

K

EMPFER, his account of the males and females in Meaco,
104, n.

KENNEDY, Mr. on the fabbath, 159.

L

LUTHER, reż

UTHER, his quarrel with LEO X. one means of the re
formation, 3.

LAW of God immutable, 10, 78.

LANGUAGE mutable, 58, n. Not fo the Hebrew, ib.

LAMECH and his two wives, 143, 149.

LEV. xviii. 18, on the marriage of two fifters, explained,
152-157.

LYONS, conftitution of, excluding bigamifts from all Clerks
privilege, 199. Law of Ed. VI. against it, ib.
LUTHER, a faying of his upon fin-making, 203, n.

LANDGRAVE of Helle marries two wives at once, on the opi-
nions of the reformers at Wittemburg, 204, n.

LYCURGUS, his law about men's lending their wives, 212,
& feq.

LEVIRATUS, Deut. xxv. 5-10. p. 250. Reafon of that
law, 251.

LYING, a maxim of the fathers of the fourth century, 285, n.
Law of nature, what, 301, n.

LACTANTIUS, his notion of CHRIST's miffion, 304, n.
LAW OF CHRIST, mentioned Gal. vi. 2, explained, 322.
And illuftrated, 323, and n.

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