ceffary in it but what produces Practice, 457. It commands us to believe nothing but what we can comprehend, ib. Proofs of all this, ib. to 459. In what it does not confift, ib. to 461. And in what it does confist, 462 to 468 Christianity, the Plainnefs of it, 5.2, & feq. Chriftians, all alike empowered to exèrcife all the Functions of their Religion, 54. How diftinguished from Reprobates and High Priefts, 191. Their Unanimity and Benevolence towards each other, till their Priests enflamed and divided them, 330. The wicked Means and Arts by which they did fo, ib. The common Right which they all have to preach Chrift, 420,424 Church of England, what its great Characteristick, 94 431 61 99 Church, the best constituted one, a fure Mark of it, 267. The three High Churches in England, an Account of them, 430 to 437. Church, by Law established, what it is, Circumcifion, (a Jewish Sacrament) not celebrated by the Priests, Civil Magiftrate has seldom any Interest to corrupt Religion, Clergy, ill ones have made a Babel of the Gospel, 10. Belye Chrift and his Apostles, ib. Once the Almf-men of the People, ib. Since the Mafters of Mankind, ib. Their ftrange Apoftacy from Christianity, ib. They were first intended for a Militia against Satan, ib. But enslaved those that employed them, ib. Their impious Pofitions and Politicks, 11. Their bloody Practices and Uncharitableness, 11, 12. Their eternal Squabbles and mutual Curfing, 12. They pervert Religion to fupport Tyranny, ib. Are Enemies to good Princes, preach up Sedition and Blood, are the Incendiaries of Rebellion and Assassination, and VOL. II. NI by by thefe Means acquire Power and Wealth, 13. The Good fecured by punishing the Bad, 20. Inftructions to them, 25, 26. They are, for the most part, the leaft qualified of any Society of Men, to interpret the Scripture for others, 28, feq. Always cramped in their Education in Schools and in the Univerfities, 30. Educated generally upon Charity, ib. Swear to Notions before they understand them, ib. Their Business is not to find out Truth, but to defend the received Syftem, ib. Their Gain tacked to Opinions established by Popes in ignorant Ages, ibid. Their Temporal Grandeur, how dangerous it is to call it in queftion, 32. They fhould be manumitted from a State of Darkness and Servitude, 34. And ought not to be debarred from a free Search after Trath, 35. Their manner of Arguing with the Church of Rome, contradicts their manner of arguing with Protestant Diffenters, 36. Their ftrange manner of treating the Bible and the Diffenters, 37. How they learn to be Suceffors of the Apoftles, 56. They coft the People more than the whole Civil and Military Lift, 82. At the Reformation they throw themselves at the King's Mercy, difgorge their ill-gotten Wealth, and renounce their ill-ufed Power by a publick Petition, 94. That Petition changed into an Act of Parliament, 95. They fwear to all the Acts of Parliament which affert all Ecclefiaftical Jurifdiction to the Crown only, and are fubjected to a Pramunire if they contra-dict the fame, 98. They are bound by the 37th Canon to obferve the old Jurifdiction of the Crown over the Ecclefiafticks, can do no publick Act without the King's Authority, profels to receive all Jurifdiction from the Crown, and are never fuffered to controvert the Prerogative, 102. Their Infolence reprehended in the Queen's Reign, 103. The chief end of their Appoint. ment and Hire, 166. The great Revenue paid them, whether well or ill beftowed, 167. It is the Duty of the Laity to make them ufeful, ib. Clergymen, the Way to that Calling very eafy, 71. The Labour of a Clergyman bought and fold, ib. What Advantages might be expected from their Education, Profeffion and Studies, 122. Yet they are often worse than other Men, 123. In too many Countries they begin the World with a notorious Breach upon natural Honesty and Innocence, 126. Going into Orders they pretend to be moved by the Holy Ghoft, but often really by other Motives, ib. How ftrangely they differ about the Sense of the Articles, 127. Inftances of this, ib. In former Reigns they devoted the Laity to Chains, 131. Their Inconfiftency, 132 Collier (Mr.) corrects St. Paul, 158. His Defcription of the Office of a Chaplain, ib. The strange Power that he gives to Chaplains, 159. He puts the Clergy in joint Commiffion with the Angels, ib. Quarrels with an Act of Parliament for an odd 'Reafon, ibid. Will allow a Chaplain no Superior, 160 97 212 Common-Prayer-Book enacted by Parliament, Conformity, when a Sin, 211. How wickedly contended for, Confecration, (Popifh) how it began, 201. Its ridiculous Ufe, 202. Its foolish Confequences, 203 to 205. Its Abfurdity, 203. No warrant for it from Reafon or Scripture, 204, 205. Its Pagan Original, 206. It is forbid by the Law. ib. Confcience, the only Guide in Religion, 299 to 302 Convocation, N 2 Convocation, differs with the Apostles, 70. The ri- ib. Councils, (General) a Character of them, 41, 42. III 62 Covenant, the firft, its Clearnefs, D. 43 466, 467 Deacons, the Difference between modern Deacons, ibid. Devotion, confifts neither in mechanical Joy nor 318 Difputes, what forts, make us neither wifer nor Doctrines, how to know certainly whether they Dodwel (Mr.) his Character, 144 224 Dominion (Ecclefiaftical) the Parent of Popery, 106 91 E. FCclefiafticks, (High ones) the Infamy of one a- Their Office, every Man left at Liberty by the Word none, Englishmen, their peculiar Felicity, ibid. 238,239 4 187 Eraftus, Epifcopacy and Geography, their Importance, N 3 |