Anti-Jacobin Review quoted, i 139; referred to, 328

Antinomians, whence so called, rise, progress, &c. i 123-5; tenets, 125-9;

numbers, authors pro & con, &c. 129; miscellaneous remarks, 131

Apes, the temple of, in Japan, ii 349

Apocrypha, deemed canonical in the church of Rome, i 280

Apologia, Mr. Newton's referred to, i 153*, 161*; quoted, ii 45-6
Apologists of Christianity, modern, i 15,30; ancient, 30*

Archires, in the Russian church, i 213

Arianism, favoured by successors of Constantine, i 6; first adopted in Eng-
land, 12; its progress and history, 53; tenets, 58; confessions, 63-4;
worship, 64; present state of, and authors pro & con, 66; remarks on, 69
Arians, Semi, High, and Low, their several schemes defined, i 53; and
stated, 58-63

Arius, not the author of Arianism, i 54; his exertions, banishment, and tra-
gical death, 55

Armenian church, founder and history, i 227-9; doctrines, 229-31; worship,
rites and ceremonies, 232-4; church government and discipline, 234-7;
where found, 237-8

Armenians, are Monophysites, i 229; are dispersed over Asia, &c. 237
Arminianism and Arminians, names, rise and progress, i 113-17; tenets,
117-20; worship, church government, where found, eminent men, and
writers pro and con, 120-2; miscellaneous remarks, 122-3
Arminius, account of, i 113-4; his works, 120*

Articles, the Thirty-nine, some account of, i 398-401; disputes as to their
true meaning, 399-400; adopted by the bishops and clergy of the Scot-
tish Episcopal church, 431; and, with very little alteration, by the Epi-
scopal church in America, 447

Asia, Christians in, i 33-4; Roman Catholics, 320-1; Jews, ii 316-17; Pa-
gans, 337-38; Mohammedans, 412

Ashautee, in Africa, the practice of human sacrifices still prevails there,
ii 368

Assurance of grace and salvation possible, i 101; of faith and salvation
deemed essential, ii 165; remarks on, 169-70

Athanasian Creed, not drawn up by Athanasius, i 41; some account of it
and its doctrine, 41-2; received in the Greek church, i 170; in the church
of Russia, 202; in the church of the Waldenses, 338; rejected by the Epi-
scopal church in America, 447

Athanasians, to whom the term should be applied, i 38, 140

Athanasius, his opposition to Arius, i 55 and note§; his life by Dr. Cave
referred to, 58

Atheism and Atheists, the terms defined, speculative and practical Atheists,
ii 468-9; rise, progress, and history, 469,72; traced in Greece, Italy,
France, &c. ibid; tenets, 470,6; their notions various and discordant,
472-3; society of men without God, 474-5; works pro & con, 476-80;
numbers and where found, 480; remarks, 480,82.

Athos, Mount, in Macedonia, the seat of 24 Greek monasteries, i 194-5";
the superintendents of their estates cruelly murdered by the Turks, ibid.
Atonement, the doctrine of, i 18,21; Dr. Magee's able discourses on it
referred to, 18*; rejected by the Socinian Unitarians, 81

Augsburg, diet and confession of, i 343, 360-4

Augustine, Calvinism to be traced from him, i 101,4* ; quoted, on St. Matt.
XXV. 46, ii 207

BALGUY, Dr., his happy illustration of the argument for a God a posteriori,

ii 478-9

Baltimore, the seat of the Roman Catholic metropolitan in America, i 322
Bampton Lecture, the, when and by whom founded, i 30

Baptism in the Greek church, i 171; the form of its administration in the
church of Rome, 302-3; rejected by the Quakers, ii 251

Baptism, lay, admitted in the Greek and Roman churches, and also in

388.

some Lutheran churches, i 171; even when performed by females, 379,
Baptism, private, Calvin no enemy to it, i 149; yet most Calvinists reject
it, 150

Baptists, name, rise, progress, &c. ii 47-51; tenets, 51-5; worship,
church government, and discipline, 55; seminaries, eminent men, num-
bers, &c. 55-7; writers pro and con, 60-2; remarks on, 62-3
Baptists, American-see American Baptists, above

Baptists, Dutch-see the word Mennonites, below

Baptists, General, i 57-9; are Arminians, and many of them Anti-Trini-
tarians, 58; their eminent men, 59

Baptist, General, New Connection, are Arminians, Trinitarians, and
zealous, i 59,60

Baptists, Scottish, rise, progress, &c. ii 153-6; doctrines, 156-9; worship,
discipline, &c. 159-62; works in favour of, 162.

Barclay, Mr. R., one of the most distinguished members of the Quaker'
community, and author of their "Apology," &c. ii 253, 261

Barclay, Mr., founder of the Berean scheme, ii 163-4; his notion of faith,
165; remarks on it, 169-70

Bartholomew, St., the bloody eve of, i 345; ii 265

Basil, St., his the prevailing order of monks in the Greek church, i 193;
in the Russian church, 215; in the Græco-Georgian church, 221; his
Liturgy one of those used in the Greek church, 172

Basilic, the Lateran, in Rome, the term explained, i 273*

Bellarmine admits the necessity of a reformation, i 10; commended by
Bishop Marsh, 279, 317*; fails in his attempt to prove that the church
of Rome is the only true church, 289*; maintains that the pope with a
general council cannot err, 290+

Bells, baptized with sponsors in the church of Rome, i 280 §; the royal
sponsors of four bells, ibid; the practice introduced, 330

Belsham, Mr., an able interpreter and vindicator of Socinian Unitarianism,
i75; his summary of their present creed, 75-80; an advocate for pœdo-
baptism, 83+; boasts of their increasing numbers, 74t, 93; no enemy
to ecclesiastical establishments, 91; commendable in him, 96; admits
the extent of religions liberty enjoyed in Britain, 402*; his eulogium on
the Methodists, ii 107+

Benediction of the waters in the Greek and Russian churches, i 208
Benedictions in the church of Rome, i 303

Berkley, bishop, i 444; a strange notion of his, ii 437

Bereans, name, rise, and progress, ii 163; tenets, 164-7; hold the assurance
of faith, 165; worship, church government, &c. 167-9; remarks, 169-70
Betrothing, form of, in the Greek church, i 167; in the Lutheran church, 388
Bezpopoftschins, one of the two grand classes into which the dissenters
from the Russian church are divided, i 215,18,19

Bible, a Roman Catholic priest incurred the displeasure of his bishop for
recommending his hearers to read their Bible, i 316"; the Bible is the
religion of Protestants, 348-9

Bible Society, institution and object of, ii 278

Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum, a grand storehouse of Socinianism, i 83
Bishops, their office in England, i 408-9

Blackstone, Mr., his objection to joining the Independents in America,›
i 156

Bogs, household saints in Russia, i 209

Boodh, or Buddhu, an imaginary deity, the founder of Buddhism, ii 341*
Bossuet, bishop of Meaux, highly esteemed in the church of Rome, i617+;
Renoult's answer to him deserves to be better known, 292+
Brahminism-see Hindooism, below

Brethren, the United, theirs an episcopal church, i 455; are releved from
taking oaths, ibid"; declined uniting with the Lutheran church, 457 ;

settled in England about 1742, 458; acknowledge no standard but the
Scripture, 459; their discipline peculiar, 461-4; are chiefly cha-
racterized by their missionary zeal, 464-7; their missionary stations,
465; societies for the furtherance of the Gospel, 466; where found,
467; eminent men, and authors pro and con, 467-8; remarks, 468
Breviary, the Roman, i 301

Brown, archbishop, a great promoter of the Reformation in Ireland,

i 396

Brownists, the, some account of, i 153 +

Buchanan, Dr. C., his Christian Researches quoted, i 237-8, 260-5; his
opinion of the millenium, ii 200*

Buddhism, and Buddhists, more ancient and more extensive than Brah-
minism, ii 341; the difference between the two systems, grand prin-
ciple of; its chief seat and its visible head, ibid; the lamas, or inferior
priests, 342; remarks on the metempsychosis, ibid.

Bull, bishop, his successful exertions against Antinomianism, i 129‡
Burgess, bishop, i 1744; quoted, 265; his tracts referred to, 268†; an able
advocate for the opinion that St. Paul preached in Britain, 393

Burke, Mr., quoted, ii 461

CALCUTTA, a bishop's see erected there, i 414‡

Calvin, John, brief account of, i 98, not properly the author of the tenets
now called by his name, 99; a supralapsarian, 105‡; his notion respect-
ing our Lord's descent into hell, 106; no enemy to liturgies or to epi-
scopacy, 107; nor to several things now rejected by Calvinists, 149-50;
his life, his Institutes and other works, 99, and notes and t
Calvinism, rise and progress of, i 98-102; doctrines, 102-7; Confessions,
&c. 107; worship, church government and discipline, 107 9; where
found, 109-11; universities, 111; eminent men, authors pro and con,
111-12; remarks on, 112-13; Calvinism run to seed, 124+

Calvinists, many have been eminent for piety and virtue, i 107; reject
many things which Calvin approved, 107,8, 149,50

Canon law, the church of Rome regulated by it, i 309

Canons of the church of England, i 411-12

Canonical age for ordination, in the church of Sweden, is twenty-three,
i 382; in the church of Denmark, is twenty-five, 390; in the church of
England, is twenty-three, 409; in the episcopal church of America, is
twenty-one, 450

Canonical hours, the, in the church of Rome, i 300

Canterbury, archbishop of, his rank and privileges, i 408

Cardinals, their number, office, classes, &c. i 309

Carpenter, Mr. B., his Arian creed and liturgy, i 6-4-6

Catholic, a dignitary in some Eastern churches, i 220,35,54

Catholics, Greek, or Les Grecs-Unis, i 165

Catholics, Roman, the members of the church of Rome so called, i 267

Cave, Dr. distinguishes the first sixteen centuries, i 8*; his life of Atha-
nasius, 58

Celibacy, clerical, i 311

Chalmers, Dr. quoted, i 4145, 469 ; ii 35

Chardin's Travels quoted, i 228; his remark respecting pilgrims, ii 424+
Chillingworth, in favour of Episcopacy, i 134 ; against the church of Rome,
269; his Religion of Protestants, 34S-9; some account of him, 348*
China, Roman Catholic mission in, i 321; intrigues of the Jesuits there, 324.
Chinese, religion of the, imperfectly known ii 343; divided into three
graad sects, 344; that of Tao-tse, ibid; of Kong-foo-tse, or Confucias,
344-5 of Fohi, or Fo, 345-6; this last is the most numerous, have no
Sunday, and no established religion, 345; their superstition not so gross
and barberous as that of the Hindoos, at the same time defective and
ruinous, 341

INDEX.

487

Chorepiscopi, in the patriarchate of Alexandria, i 191

Chrism, when consecrated, and by whom, i 172, 209; is used in confirma-
tion in the Greek and Russian churches, ibid

Christ, the different opinions among professing Christians respecting his
person and character, i 36-7

Christianity, general view of, i 1-36; the only true religion; its professors
first called, 3; rise, progress, &c. ibid; became the established religion
under Constantine, 4; the chief Gentile persecutions against it, ibid;
opposed by Julian, 5; began to be corrupted, 6; disputes between the
bishops of Rome and Constantinople, and the rise of Mohammedism, 7;
the millenium of Popery and Mohammedism, 8; exertions of the Wal-
denses, Wickliffe, Huss, Jerome of Prague, and Luther, 8,9; progress
of the Reformation, 10; controversies among Protestants, 11; infidelity
prevails, 12; evidences of Christianity, 13; writers on the evidences,
15; doctrines: the Protestant ground of faith, ibid; the being and attri-
butes of God, in three persons, but the mode of the trine existence
incomprehensible, and the corruption of human nature, 16; the remedy
for this corruption, 17; the application of the remedy, 18; the resurrec-
tion and future judgment, 19; its grand distinguishing doctrine, 21;
precepts, teaches the purest morality, as including our duty towards God,
our neighbour, and ourselves, 22; is pregnant with genuine comfort and
benefit even here, and operates even beyond the sphere of Christendom;
worship, rites, and ceremonies, 26; the true Christian worship, and the
Object of worship: its worship simple, 27; church government and dis-
cipline; the Christian church not a sect, but a society, 28; statement
of the different opinions on church government, 29; authors pro and con,
ibid; the ancient apologists and modern defenders, 30; where found,
numbers, &c. 32; in Europe, ibid; in Asia and Africa, 33; in America,
34; its professors occupy only one-fifth of the inhabited world, and make
only one-fourth of the inhabitants of the world, ibid; the number of real
Christians far less, 35; three grand divisions of Christianity, 36
Christians, first so called, i 3; their numbers throughout the world, 34;
the comparatively small number of Christians indeed, 36; their superior
advantages to Deists, ii 456

Church, the Independent idea of, i 156

Circumcision, practised by the Copts, i 240; by the Abyssinians, 247; by
the Jews, ii 306; by the Mohammedans, 406

Clarke, Dr. Adam, quoted, ii 245-6

Clarke, Dr. S., a Semi-Ariau, i 57; his liturgy, 65; his masterly work on
the attributes quoted, ii 450-1; referred to, 478

Clarkson, Mr., his Portraiture of Quakerism quoted, ii 248§, 254† ; a man of
many virtues, ibid; the biographer of Penn, 261*

Claudius, bishop of Turin, in the 9th century, a bold reformer, i 354
Clowes, Rev. J., an able and zealous advocate of Swedenborgianism, ii
242; fifty clergymen of the United Church satisfied of the truth of Swe-
denborg's writings, ibid.

Colleges, Socinian Unitarian, i 84, 93; of the Jesuits, 322*, 325"; Roman
Catholics, ibid; Episcopal church in America, 453; Lady Huntingdon's,
ii 98; the American Baptists, 218

Comber, Dr., his Friendly Advice to the Roman Catholics quoted, i 352,3,
405-7; on the Book of Common Prayer, 404*

Common Prayer, the Book of, some account of it, i 402-4; the groundwork
of the new Prussian formula, 404+; adopted by the Scottish Episcopal
church, 434

Commonwealth, the reign of fanaticism and intolerance, i 143; and of in-
fidelity, ii 460.

Communion in one kind, i 287

Concord, the form of, some account of it, i 864

Conferences, the Methodist, ii 82,3; the Swedenborgian, 243

Confession, in the Greek church, i 174-5; in the church of Rome, 282-3;
in the Lutheran church, 367

Confession, Westminster, ii 7

Confessions, Arian, i 63-4; Calvinistic, 107; Arminian. 119; Independent,
158; of the Greek church, 182-3; Russian Greek church, 203; of the Ln-
theran church, 360

Confessors, in the Greek church, i 175; in the church of Rome, 283
Confirmation, a sacrament in the church of Rome, i 281; universally
adopted in the Lutheran church, but there performed by presbyters,
367; their ceremony of, 388*

Confucius, the apostle and philosopher of the Chinese, ii 343-4

Congregationalists, i 152; their system, 157; the most numerons body of
religionists in America, 162

Connecticut, Presbyterianism predominant there, and freedom of religious
sentiment not enjoyed, i 151

Consistories, ecclesiastical courts in the Lutheran church, i 368; and in the
Reformed churches, ii 267-9.

Constantine, the first Christian emperor, i 4-5

Constantinople, taken by the Turks, i 168; part of it still inhabited by
Christians, 194

Consubstantiation, the Lutheran doctrine of, i 362,6

Convention, the general, the supreme ecclesiastical court of the espiscopal
church in America, i 149; of the Baptist church there, ii 218

Cook, Dr., pref. p. xii; his general and historical View of Christianity re-
ferred to, i 101; the opposition to his election as moderator reprobated,
ii 26; quoted, 185*, 211*, 276-7.

Copts, name, history, &c. of their church, i 238; are Monophysites, but
most ignorant, admit only three general councils, have seven sacra.
ments, 240; observe four Lents with most Eastern churches, have nei-
ther pews nor benches in their churches, 241; their condition deplora-
ble, 242.

Corporation, Act of, ii 32

Correspondencies, the doctrine of, among Swedenborgians, ii 233; remarks
on it, 240-5

Councils, General-see General Councils, below

Covel, Dr., his account of the Greek church referred to, i 174*

Covenant, Solemn League and, its object, i 145

Covenants, the, their obligation still strangely maintained by many Pres-

byterians, ii 115,185

Crantz, his history of the Unitas Fratrum referred to, i 458

Crisp, Dr. T., his scheme of Antinomianism, i 126, &c.

Critic, British, quoted, i 144*, ii 27

Croze, M. La, librarian to the king of Prussia, perhaps the best Armenian
scholar of his day, i 231; the object of his "Histoire du Christianisme
des Indes," 261

Crowns, matrimonial, i 176-7

Cyril, patriarch of Alexandria, his controversy with Nestorius, i 252-3
Cyril Lucar, patriarch of Constantinople, i 182-3, 196, 231

DAUBENY, Dr., his opinion of Bishop Bilson's Perpetual Government of
Christ's Church, i 141; quoted on the peculiarities of Calvinism, 401;
on the character of the Scottish Episcopal church, 435

Decretals, of the, i 310

Deism, names, rise, progress, &c. ii 446; of long standing, but the name
not used till after the Reformation, 447; appeared in Italy after the re
vival of letters, and in England after the restoration, 448; its reign in
France, 449; tenets, 450 6; no consistent scheme of now, 451; wor
ship, 456-7; where found, 457-62; systems and writers pro and con, 462
Deists, Dr. Beattie's address to them, ii 453; the most noted, 463