Charles II. Why he spared John Goodwin from hanging, i. 203, 204. Turrettin's character of that prince, ii. 320.
Charles XII. his unconcernedness in danger, iv. 148.
Charnock, Mr. Stephen, character of, ii. 319. An extract from, v. 263. note. Quoted, vi. 58. note. 69. note. Treatise on the Divine Attributes, 58. note. Chesterfield, lord, a summary of his moral and religious creed, iv. 464. His Letters what. His style inaccurate and desultory, vi. 222. His character of Dr. Johnson, 252. An instance of his dissimulation, 253.
Chicanery of Dr. Nowel, exposed, v. 26.
Christ's agony and crucifixion, a striking description of, iii. 74. &c. Subjection to the Father in what respect, 423. Blood and righte- ousness, a sign whereby to know if we have a happy interest in them, 406.
Christianity, mysterious, as also every object around us, iii. 60, &c.
Christmas meditation, iii. 35. Chronology of England, ii. 363.
Church, definitions of, i. 237. 256, 257. 306. 309. 324. 345. 386, 387. 421. ii. 31–35. 129.
Church, (primitive) the doctrines of grace not opposed in it, till the rise of Pelagius, i. 274-277, 278. 280.
Church of England, her condition under Edward the VIth, ii. 11. 303. Agrees with the Swiss confession of faith, ii. 122. Con- sidered the free-willers, as the most inveterate of her enemies, 139. Her high Calvinism, 135. 200-202. Maintains the final perseverance of the elect, 218. 299. Her forlorn condition during the usurpation, 318. How far restored by Charles II. 320, 321. Was not reformed on Arminian principles, 333. Remarks on the present state of, 346, 347. Vindicated in a letter to Dr. Nowel, v. 26, &c.
Chrysostom, St. a frequent and favourite saying of his, vi. 58. Cicero, his definition of fortune, or chance, vi. 11.
Circumstantials, in religion, ought not to occasion a suspension of brotherly affections, iii. 334. Illustrated also by a note of the late Rev. Mr. Ryland, ibid.
Claydon, Mr. the martyr, i. 386.
Cleanthes, the Stoic philosopher, his fine verses concerning fate, i. 492, 493.
Clemens Romanus, i. 286. Extracts from his First epistle to the Corinthians, 287–292.
Clement, Mr. John, the martyr, ii. 85. Employed by his brother martyrs to draw up a confession of faith, as a standing monument of their universal agreement in the doctrines of grace, 86. An extract, from that confession, 89. Some particulars concerning himself, 94. His remains buried in the same dunghill with those of Mr. Careless and Mr. Adheral, ibid.
Clergy, of the church of England, an humble address to them, ii. 348, 349. The complicated guilt of such of them as seek to subvert her doctrines, i. 425. note. The increasing contempt of the clergy accounted for, ii. 355.
Clerical subscription no grievance, iii. 127, &c.
Cobham, lord, fell a sacrifice to the bigotry and craft of the Romish ecclesiastics, i. 374-376. Cruel manner of his execution, 376, 377. Was a disciple of Wickliff's, 377.
Cole, Mr. Thomas, observations from, iii. 223.
Coleman-Street, John Goodwin's meeting house there, the head quarters of the fifth-monarchy men, i. 200. Two of those rebels hung in that street before the door of the said Goodwin's meeting house, 202.
Colossians, i. 24. explained, ii. 28.
Colour, not a real property in matter, vi. 110, 111, 116. From whence our ideas of it result, 111, 112. 124, 125.
Communion with God, how to be attained, iii. 116. The grand remedy against undue fears, 354.
Compulsion, not inferrible from the efficacy of divine grace, i. 320. Distinguishable and different from certainty of event, vi. 12. Confession, a public, of Mr. Toplady, iii. 14, 15.
Confessional, author of, his remark on the Calvinistic articles of the church of England, i. 257. His just rebuke of Arminian sub- scription to those articles, 257, 258. note. Is rather uncandid to the synod of Dort, ii. 252. note. Menaces the bishops with a probable overthrow of the hierarchy, ii. 351, 352.
Constance, council of, their maxim, i. 322. Their treachery in con- demning Dr. Huss to the flames, ibid.
Considerations on that remarkable passage in Hebrews vi. 4, 5, 6. iii. 417.
Consubstantiation, Lutheran doctrine of, ii. 326.
Contentment, a consequence of faith in predestination, i. 440-432. Constitution, English, thoughts thereon, iii. 297. Controversy, in what respect friendly to truth, v. 325. Conversation with an eminent philosopher, iii. 164.
Conversion to faith and good works, the grand evidence of election, i. 437, 438. Can be accomplished only by God, 446-448. Conversion when taken place on earth, the event immediately known in heaven, iii. 242, 243. A remarkable one, iv. 174. Spiritual, an effect of necessitating grace, vi. 61. 77. Co-operation, popish doctrine of, ii. 190.
Corke, a bishop of, his fulsome adulation to Charles I. and Laud, i 231. note.
Corvinus, not a stedfast Arminian, ii. 214. Lamented his having been drawn in by that faction, 245.
Coverdale, Dr. Miles, bishop of Exeter, ii. 70-102.
Cowper, Dr. Thomas, bishop of Winchester, his high character of Nowel's catechism, ii. 127, 128.
Cowper the poet, an extract from, iv. 131.
Cox, bsihop of Ely, who had been tutor to Edward VI. draws up a paper of advice to queen Elizabeth, concerning the Free-will- men, ii. 138.
Cranmer, archbishop, his gradual advances in divine knowledge, i. 413. Subscribed to Ponet's catechism, 414, 415. Was probably concerned in composing that catechism, ibid. note. Further evi- dences of his Calvinism, 422, 423. note. ii. 103-105. Challenges the whole body of popish divines, after the accession of queen Mary, i. 422. His tender emotions at seeing Ridley and Latimer led to execution, 423. His new edition of Tyndal's Bible, ii. 101-104. Two other editions of the Bible, in which he was concerned, 104, 105.
Craven, lord, his distrust of providence, iv. 139.
Cressy, the famous battle of, ii. 399.
Crisp, Dr. a valuable quotation from, iii. 219. note.
Cromwell, (Oliver) flattered and overreached by John Goodwin, i. 202, 203. Imprisons Mr. Prynne for his loyalty, ii. 292. note. A few thoughts on his character, vi. 184.
Danes, massacre of the, ii. 371.
Davenant, Dr. John bishop of Salisbury, asserts unconditional predes- tination to be a doctrine of the church of England, ii. 200—202. 283. Maintains the necessary inferibility of reprobation from the 17th article, 201. Attends at Dort as a member of the synod, 236, 237. The branch of controversy allotted to him there, 254. Substance of his sermon before Charles I. 281, 282. For which he is called to account, 281. 285. His conversation afterwards with the king, 286. His view of the necessity of prayer from the certainty of predestination, v. 298. note.
Davenport, Francis, tries to reconcile the 39 articles of the church of England, with the decisions of Trent, ii. 317. David, his sublime taste, iii. 103.
Death, a beautiful consideration thereon, iii. 120, 121. 319. 338. Gradual or sudden, which to be preferred, iv. 121, 122. Of in- fants, owing to Adam's transgression, iii. 356. A foretaste of it experienced, and found not to be so terrible as was apprehended, 383. A grand remedy against it, 384. Not to be dreaded, 339. Cannot detain our mortal part, 319. Defined, vi. 10. Why the Romans called it fatum, 69. The act of God's particular provi- dence, 74. 79. A sudden one granted, iv. 172. The death of Christ absolutely predestinated, i. 283. 443. vi. 13. note. 34. 59,
60. Intrinsically sufficient for the redemption of all mankind, i. 461. note. 463, 464.
Deans, enjoined to place Fox's Book of Martyrs in every cathedral, ii. 195.
Debt, national, specified and spiritualized, iii. 472.
Declaration, a remarkable one, published by the fifth-monarchy men, i. 201. note.
Declaration, clerical, of conformity to the liturgy. When and by whom drawn up, ii. 138.
Decrees of God, their majesty and efficacy, i. 288.
Denny, Mr. John, the martyr, ii. 42.
Descartes, remarkable anecdote of him, vi. 69.
Devils, why styled so, iii. 273. Their fall prior to the creation, 274. Their crime appears to be pride, 273. 276. Nothing unphiloso- phical in the scripture account of them, 277. Their creed, 280. Waiting with anxious dread the enunciation of their sentence, 282. Dialogue, a smart one, vi. 169.
Diary, Mr. Toplady's, i. 13—89. [Memoirs].
Dilemma, a disagreeable one, to which the church of Rome is re- duced, i. 266. note. Another in which James I. found himself, ii. 210. Directions concerning preachers, by whom promoted, ii. 266. Se- verely remarked on by the protestants of that age, 279. note. Publicly apologized for afterwards, by king James, ibid. Extended and rigorously enforced under Charles the First, 270. 279. Dissenters, a discrimination of, ii. 432.
Discriminating Grace exemplified, v. 237, 238.
Ditton, Mr. Humphrey, his exalted character of the Stoics, i. 496. Divinity of Christ, a strong proof of, iii. 227.
Divine love, the sense of, when greatest, vi. 165.
Doctrines of the church of England, if not preached in a parish church, what is the duty of a member in that case, vi. 185, 186, 187. Perfectly coincident with what the Son of God taught, iii. 128.
Dodd, Dr. an expostulation with him, vi. 271, 272.
Doddridge, Dr. his reflections on equivocating subscription to articles of faith, ii. 349. An instance of his resignation, iv. 141. Comfort received by him in distress, on hearing a child read at a door, vi. 156. His observation on the sensible qualities, 127. Dominis, Anthony de, ii. 337. Dort, synod of, their wishes for the introduction of episcopacy, ii. 146, 147. note. A succinct history of that celebrated synod, 235-255. Its transactions vindicated, 242, 243. Its de- cisions solemnly and voluntarily received by the protestant churches in France, 256. Was one of the most respectable assemblies that ever convened, 237. The remarkable oath taken by each member, 240. note. The apartment in which
the synod was held, together with the original furniture, is pre- served and shown to this day, 255.
Doubts, and distresses, what is to be done at those times, iii. 309. Downes, Mr. Samuel, reflections on a testimony of his, concerning Bucer and Martyr, i. 478, 479.
Dream, one verified, iv. 176. A remarkable one, ibid. 193, &c. Having a happy effect, 177. A presage of deliverance, 180. Dutch Confession of Faith, openly consented to by the British di- vines at Dort, ii. 254, 255.
Eagle, Mrs. a good woman, a desire of hers, iv. 148.
Echard, Dr. his account of the fifth-monarchy men, i. 201. note. Echo, theory of, vi. 118, 119.
Edgar, his reign, ii. 369. The method he took in clearing England of wolves, 370. And death, ibid.
Edmund I. his reign, ii. 368. Murdered by a robber, 369. His burial, ibid.
Edmund II. his reign, ii. 372. death and burial, ibid. Edred, his reign and death, ii. Edward I. his reign, ii. 368. versity of Cambridge, ibid. Edward II. his reign, ii. 370. Edward III. his reign, ii. 372.
Supposed to have founded the uni- His death, ibid..
And deathly wound, 371.
Cruel treatment to his mother, 375.
Edward IV. his reign, ii. 409. Death and character, 412. Edward V. his reign, only 3 months, ii. 412. Murdered, 414. Edward VI. subscribed to the articles of the church of England, i. 217. Prefixes a letter of recommendation to Ponet's catechism, 218. 421. Anecdote of, iv. 145. Part of his dying prayer, i. 218. His character by bishop Latimer, 219, 220. By bishop Bale, 220, 221. By bishop Burnet, 221, 222. By bishop Mon- tague, ibid. By Carden, 222, 223. By Mr. Guthrie, 226. His treatise against the pope's supremacy, ibid. Reason why his memory is pecked at by some Arminians, 226, 227. His account of Bucer's interment, 487. State of the church of England in his reign, ii. 11, 303.
Edwards, Dr. Strictures on Burnet's Exposition, v. 23. Edwards, the late Rev. Mr. Jonathan, his masterly Treatise on Free- will, vi. 98, 99.
Elizabeth, offered Peter Martyr any preferment he pleased if he would settle again in England, i. 491. Ran great risk of her life, during her sister Mary's reign, ii. 97. Protected by Philip for political reasons, 97, 98. Took care to fill the episcopal sees, and
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