Attempts, abstaining from impracticable ones, recommended by
the example of the apostles, x. 390-392.
Attributes, of the God of the Bible, ii. 53-58: divine, ascribed
to Christ, 108-110; and to the Holy Spirit, 261: on pre-
tending to infer doctrines from them, instead of learning them
from the scriptures, viii. 191-194.
Augsburg, Confession of, its use of the term merit, vii. 293: ex-
tracts from, viii. 417--420.
Augustine, quoted respecting free will and grace, vii. 78, 79:
objectionable passage from, respecting the will, 84: on sacra-
ments receiving the names of the things they represent, 394,
417 on baptism and regeneration, 416: remarks on his
writings, viii. 290-297: the quotations from him in R, against
the Calvinists, are more Calvinistic than the sermons of the
evangelical clergy, 296: did not broach new doctrines, but
revived what were recognized by the church as the doctrines
of scripture, 342: on God's permitting evil, 402.
Authority, improvement of it as a talent, ii. 428-433: it, as
much as wealth, is to be improved in the service of God and
religion, ix. 547, 548, 628: that belonging to ministers, vi.
439, 440.
Awakened sinners, frequent mode of treating them, iii. 32, 36:
proper treatment of, 34, 57.
Backsliders, i. 228, 229; iii. 140, 311-313.
Bankrupts, a duty of, i. 179.
Baptism, Essay on, ii. 462-471: the scriptural form of words
for it implies the deity of Christ, and of the Holy Spirit, and
the doctrine of the Trinity, 108, 124, 267: not of itself rege-
neration, 237: represents especially sanctification by the Holy
Spirit, 464: to whom administered by the apostles, and in the
primitive times, 466, 468: what profession it implies, 466: of
infants, its meaning and good effects, 469, 470: the duty of
parents consequent upon it, 469: marvellous effects attributed
to it in R, vii. 297, 298: a consequence of making it synony-
mous with regeneration, 310, 311: its analogy with circum-
cision, 317-319: may be preceded by justification, 335, 492;
and by spiritual regeneration, 344, 400, 413: of infants in
the church of England, 366-371; of adults, 372-375;
church Articles on, 376-379: Catechism on, 380 : of infants,
scriptural, 406, 407, 468; viii. 540: quotations from the
English reformers on, vii. 408-414: S. Augustine assigns
the reason of its being called regeneration, 417: eagerness
for it dangerous, 491,492: confounded with both justification
and regeneration, (R) 508, 510: construction put in R upon
our Lord's baptizing with the Holy Ghost, 303: our Lord's
own explanation of this, 304: whether the church service for
is Anticalvinistic, viii. 222-225: sprinkling, not a term used
in our offices, 540: indiscriminate administration of, a great
source of difficulties, 542, 543: great advantage of adminis-
tering it publicly, x. 288-290.
Baptize, the expression baptized or justified,' in our Homily, vii.
428, 436, 504.
Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, favoured Bunyan, iiį. 23.
Barneth, Rev. J. C., missionary, sermon on his death, vi. 466:
some account of, 494, 499-502.
Barret, his recantation of Anticalvinistic doctrines before the uni-
versity of Cambridge, viii. 350-353.
Barrow, quotation from on the grace conferred in baptism, vii.
306: on the Christian revelation alone offering pardon, 446
-449.
Basil, remarks on, viii. 280.
Bath, at the Interpreter's house, (P) iii. 386.
Beautiful, the house, (P) iii. 104, 106-121, 409-433.
Beelzebub, his castle, (P) iii. 65: his dog, (P) 355, 362: his
garden, (P) 363, 423.
Belgic Confession, extracts from, viii. 414-416: churches,
their constitution, 434, 435; and doctrine, 436, 437 their
agreement in doctrine with the church of England, 497, 498.
Believers, weak but sincere, evidences of grace in, i. 552, 553:
who are truly and who falsely called weak believers, iii. 494:
he who credits only so much of revelation as he thinks may
be proved by reason is not a believer, ii. 29-32: who meant
by believers, 312-314: difference between their prospects
and those of other men, 101, 102: Essay on their warfare and
experience, 311-328: Essay on their privileges, 329-347:
Essay on their disposition and character, 348-388: true
marks of their character, x. 48, 49.
Bellarmine, Cardinal, vii. 428.
Benevolence, excited by evangelical principles, and an essential
part of the Christian temper, ii. 372–375.
Beulah, country of,(P,) denotes the great peace and comfort often
enjoyed by aged Christians, iii. 314-317, 544.
Beveridge, Bp. his writings, i. 55.
Beza, on the meaning of the word reprobate, in scripture, viii. 91.
Bible, (see Scriptures,) contents of chapters, remark on, ix. 443:
Society, v. 577, 588: speech for at Wycombe, 164–179; at
Haddenham, 181-198: the opposition to it, 169: objection,
that it excludes the Prayer Book, 170-172; that it unites
us with dissenters, 172, 173: Dr. Marsh's opposition to it, 173
176: its beneficial effects, 189, 194-197: the standard-
bearer in the great cause of the propagation of Christianity,
185; ix. 246; and the glory of our country, v. 185, 186:
Associations, 176-178; x, 237–240.
Bigotry, ix. 534, 590: love of scriptural truth, often so called,
VOL. X.
ii. 31, 46, 159: the charge how to be obviated, 272: those in-
fected with are prone to calumny, 87.
Blasphemy, suggestions of, iii. 141, 142: toleration of persons
openly guilty of, viii. 642.
Blessing, of the gospel, its "fulness," what, x. 501-505: why
it is no more vouchsafed, 505-509.
Blood of Christ, application of to the conscience, iv. 400-402:
washing our garments in," vi. 529–533.
Boasting, before God, and over others, how "excluded," ii.
230, 234 national, discouraged and condemned, v. 470,
471.
Bodies, our, after the resurrection, a help, not, as now, a hin-
drance, ii. 489, 490.
Bonaparte, his designs, v. 572-574: his conscriptions, 575:
his fall, 574.
Books, mischief done by bad ones, ii. 84, 435: advantage of
good ones written by distinguished laymen, 436: those which
will be "opened" at the day of judgment, 490; iv. 174.
Born again, see Regeneration: "of God," and similar expres-
sions, considered, vii. 320, 341-348.
Bradford, the martyr, on regeneration and baptism, vii. 413, 414:
on election, necessity, &c. viii. 392-394.
Bramhall, Abp. on cooperation, vii. 152-154: on merit, and
the renunciation of it, 292, 293: on prescience, 105–108.
Breaker, a title of the Messiah, ix. 456, 457.
Brethren, the, love of, ii. 374, 375, 413; iv. 326, 327.
Brisk, Mr., (P) iii. 419.
Britain, Great, its exemption from the horrors of war, iv. 368; v.
323: an abuse of this exemption. 339: singularly favoured in
divine providence, 314, 315, 338-340, 368: its being said
'to rule the waves,' 470: the temper and conduct becoming
the nation amid success, 470-484: its religious advantages,
340-343: the Israel of modern times, 338, 429: national
sins of, 315, 345-359, 425: favourable cirumstances in its
state, 363-369 its impenitence, 426, 427: succession of
chastisements, 425-427: things especially to be feared for
the nation, 434: its difficulties in the American war, 316,
317; and deliverance out of them, 320: in the revolutionary
war, 452-462, 540, 570-574; their termination, 574;
and blessings thus secured to us, 575-582: with what
restriction the prayers offered for the country have been
heard, 539, 540: a principal support of the protestant
religion, 466, 467: reason to hope that it may escape the se-
verer judgments destined to attend the fall of Antichrist, 499:
diffusion of knowledge in the country, 575, 576: chargeable
with sin for having neglected the propagation of the gospel,
vi. 33 a prevailing evil in the people, to impute public cala-
mities to their rulers, 562-565: qualities required in her so-
vereign, 569: how few suffered for state crimes under George
Brothers and sisters, duties of, ii. 413-415.
Brownists, ix. 530.
Bubble, Madam, (P) iii. 541–544.
Bull, Bp. i. 100: quoted concerning free will and grace, vii. 78,
79: his remark on Grotius's observation, that the Holy Spirit
is chiefly said to be given subsequently to faith, 198, 199: makes
faith to comprise all other graces and virtues, 440: admits
that moral, as well as ceremonial, works are excluded from the
office of first justifying us, 462, 463: his doctrine concerning
justification, 505.
Bunyan, John, Life of, iii. 13-27.
Burden, Christian's, (P) iii. 40, 43: not taken off at the Wicket
Gate, 69: falls off at the cross, 88.
Burnet, Bp., his history of his Own Times, i. 21: his Pastoral
Care, 32, 37: on being moyed by the Holy Ghost,' 33: on the
ordination offices, 33, 34: on the responsibility and duties of
a minister, 34, 35: on liberty and necessity, vii. 117: on pre-
venting grace, 156: on Semipelagianism, 266: on justifica-
tion, 520, 521: on valid ordination, ix. 573: his history of the
Reformation, viii. 350.
Business, danger of too much, iii. 535.
Butler, Bp., quoted, with remarks, vii. 25, 26.
Byends Mr., (P) his conference with Christian and Hopeful, iii.
209-214; with Hold-the-World, Moneylove, and Saveall,
215-221; with Christian and Hopeful again, 222, 223: fa-
tally seduced, 230.
Bypath Meadow, (P) iii. 236, 509.
Byway to hell, (P) iii. 261, 329, 518.
Cage, iron, of despair, (P) iii. 82-84.
Calamities, public, God's hand to be acknowledged in, whatever
be the instrument, v. 412-419: duty of turning to God under
them, 419-424: the "rod" and "voice" by which God ad-
dresses a city, vi. 556–565: evil of imputing them to our
rulers, 562-565.
Calvin, on the whole world being " guilty before God," vii. 28,
29: a passage of explained, 34, 35: on the gentiles, 49: on
the virtue of the gentiles, 56, 57: never denied man's free
agency, 76: his doctrine concerning the will, 77, 78: accords
with Mr. Locke on the nature of human liberty, 89: on cö-
operation, 94; on necessity, 116, 117: on impossibility, 123:
misstatement, in R, of his sentiments concerning election and
reprobation, viii. 14, 15, 17: on God's hardening the heart,'
302: unfair advantage made, in R, of his term horribile
decretum, 312-314: in what points he differed in doctrine
from the church of England, 315-320: a most practical di-
vine, 317: those who admit a certain portion of his doctrines
are not bound to admit them all, 331, 332: the Helvetian
Confession shews what he would have thought proper for inser-
tion in a document to be thus publicly sanctioned and re-
ceived, 397 his Institutes published when he was only twenty-
seven years of age, 408: why he might not think good
afterwards to alter them 408: his sentiments misstated by Dr.
Whitaker, x. 409-413: extracts from him on the uses of the
moral law, 414–418.
Calvinism, Mr. Scott's prejudices against, i. 68, 69, 87; over-
come, 71-78: observations on, 72, 73: substantially, the
doctrine of the Reformers, 75, 80: not exclusively exposed to
antinomianism, 342; viii. 290: point on which the question
between it and Arminianism turns, i. 356, 379: proportion
observed in scripture in delivering the doctrines specially so
designated, 390, 391: revival of the controversy respecting it,
whether to be lamented, vii. 1, 2: different opinions on, ex-
isting among the 'evangelical clergy,' viii. 3, 4: how strangely it
is misunderstood, 69: its principles admitted by many on their
knees, and with respect to themselves, who are prejudiced
against them as doctrines, 101-103: use of its fundamental
principles, 103: the author an apologist, in answer to R,
rather than an eager disputant in its cause, 152, 279, 280; ' Re-
morse, piety, and gratitude lead to language' which seems to
countenance its principles, (R) 160, 161: Grotius, in a quota-
tion made in R, concedes the main points of, 169, 170: whe-
ther its doctrines are fascinating to the proud and selfish
nature of man,' (R) 239-242; their 'being repugnant to the
feelings of the human mind,' (R,) no sufficient argument
against them, 326, 327: abuses to which they are liable, 243,
244 on the method of opposing them adopted in R, 278
-280 in what way the subject must be treated to give the
hope of peace, 280 how little share the peculiarities of hold
in the intercourse of the evangelical clergy, 296, 297: they
are not adapted to be much brought forward in public preach-
ing, i. 390-392; viii. 245, 330, 366, 367, 570: Bp. Horsley's
caution to those who attack it, 338, 339: in Cambridge in
Q. Elizabeth's time, 350-353: whether it tends to disloyalty,'
355: of the Old Testament, 379-387: deviations from its
principles in the reformed churches have in general led to
heterodoxy, 429: Arminius's charges against it, as taught
in the Belgic Confession and Catechism, 469: Moderate
Calvinism,'327-333.
Calvinists, how far the name admitted, viii. 333: fully believe
that those who perish perish by their own fault, 15, 20, 21,
164, 182 charged with veiling their real sentiments, 327:
veneration shewn in our church for certain distinguished
ones, 351, 352.
Cambridge, Calvinism there in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,
viii. 350-353.
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