-examination of the command to increase
and multiply

Morality and faith, summary view of the
disputes concerning

i. 622

Moses, a list of pagan gods and heroes sup-

Mosaic account of their specific nature
examined

i. 465

their admission into paradise

their first religion acquired naturally
their early acquisition of speech

-

ii. 6

-religion revealed to them in paradise
their condition under natural religion
inquired into

ii.

ii. 618

ii.

ii. 622
393

ii. 54

their condition under revealed religion
inquired into

Manasseh, detail of God's dealings with him ii.
Mandeville, examination of his principle of
private vices being public benefits i. 162
his arguments reduced to an absurdity i. 166
Manicheans, Art. VII. of the Church of
England directed against them ii. 465
Mansfield, Lord, dedication of books iv.
v. vi. to him

Mead, Dr, his opinion of demoniacs ex-
amined

Medicine, the parts of, and when each ob-
tained in use

i. 629

ii. 557

ii.

.

18

-indication of the great antiquity of
Melchizedec, observations on the story of ii.
Metempsychosis, why taught in the mys-

teries

-the doctrine of, how employed by the

ancients

posed by Huet to have arisen from
the corruption of his history
his account of the Egyptian priesthood, a
confirmation of those of the ancient
Greek historians

- corroborates their account of the religious
rites of Egypt

- of the funeral rites of Egypt

of the division of the lands of Egypt
- the former of the Hebrew alphabet, by
an improvement of the Egyptian
characters
-the difference between contradicting the
astronomy and the history written by
him
-characters in the pagan mythology sup-
posed by some to be intended for him ii.
-one intention of his law, to prohibit all
intercourse between the Hebrews and
the Egyptians

his motives explained

i. 294
i. 466
ib.

i. 471

i. 472

i. 478
ii. 76
Mexicans, remarks on the religion of i. 176
their use of hieroglyphic writing illus
trated by their manner of painting
their prayers

-account of a Mexican history in the hiero-

glyphic style

Mhhokek, the proper signification of that
word pointed out

Middleton, remarks on his life of Cicero
- his arguments of the derivation of popish
from pagan rites examined

customs

- this no objection to the divinity of his

mission

ib.

ii. 141

ii. 149

ii. 155

- his knowledge in the Egyptian learning,
and the laws by him instituted, a con-
firmation of the divinity of his mission ii. 188
answers to deistical objections against
the divinity of his mission
ii. 189
-vindicated from the supposition of having
had recourse to fiction in certain
cases

ii. 231

his injunctions to the Jews a ainst the
loc: I idolatry of the Cutheans

ii. 262

ii.

23

- his injunet ons to the Jews against the
local idolatry of Canaan

ii. 267

ii.

24

-the omission of a future state in his law,

intended

ii. 325

ii. 363

of a future state was not known under
the Mosaic dispensation vol. ii. p. 339
Paul, St, that its sanctions were all temporal ii. 342
- his sentiments of persecution before and
after conversion
his definition of faith
-a seeming contradiction in, between Acts
xiii. 32, and Heb. xi, 39, reconciled ii. 459
- an important passage in his epistle to the
Romans, chap. viii. ver. 3, 4, ex-
pounded

his account of the institution of the Lord's
supper, examined

- his account of justification by faith recon-
ciled to that of James
Pelasgians, account of their adoption of the

names of the Egyptian gods, and ap-
plication of them to their own deities,
from Herodotus

men

ii. 652

-

of

Political romances, the common errors they

have all fallen into

ii. 108
ii. 662

- communicate the names of the Egyptian
gods to the Greeks
Perfection, the doctrine of, inquiry concern-
ing it
Peripatetics, their notions of providence i. 501
Peripatetics and old academy, their con-

formity

Persecution for religious opinions, the true
origin of, traced

- inquiry into the nativity of

i. 612

ib.

i. 186

i. 540

i. 125

i. 435

i. 436

ib.

- his opinion as to the means by which
states are brought to ruin
remarks on his character
Polytheism, in what it consisted, explained i. 315
Pomponatius, some account of
i. 129

- his opinion of a future state defended
against Bayle

i. 130

i. 652-ii. 556

Pope, Mr, his observations on Lord Boling-

i. 663

i. 360

i. 667

-frequently an engine of state
-discountenanced by the gospel dispensa-

tion

Persians, why they had no statues of their

their superstition described in Ezekiel's

gods

visions

Peruvians, remarks on the religion of

Peter, his vision of the clean and unclean

beasts explained

Pharmacy, general division of

Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the scripture ac-

- his double sense pointed out

count of .

ii. 363

broke

Poppy, why the juice of u-ed in the cere-

monial of the shows in the Eleusinian
mysteries

Porphyry and Clemens Alexandrinus, their
accounts of the Egyptian characters
and writing

i. 273

i. 178

ii. 39

i. 148

i. 176

- his account of the origin of brute worship,
controverted

ii. 78

ii. 164

.

ii. 508

ii. 326
ii. 328

ii.

19

ii.
ii.

3

ii.

Posterity, why the punishments of the
Mosaic law extended to them
-the case argued
Posthumius, extract from his speech on the
introduction of foreign worship to
Rome

i. 376

i. 394

68
ii. 122

- his chariots and cavalry in the pursuit of
the Israelites

Pherecydes Cyrus, the first advancer of the

notion of the To

Phenician superstition, described in Eze-
kiel's visions

Philosophy, the study of, not the only busi-
ness for which man is sent into the
world

i. 521

i. 401

Philosophers, Greek, legislative, always pro-
fessed belief in a future state; mere
i. 451
philosophers the contrary
-the causes which induced them to disbe-
lieve a future state of rewards and
punishments

- their conceptions of the soul
Physic, critical inquiry into the state of, in

ancient Egypt

Pirithous, account of the fable of his design
to steal Proserpine from heli

Planet worship, the earliest species of idol-

atry

Priests, pious and virtuous, where placed
in elysium by Virgil

Principles, good and evil, the belief of, how

guarded against by the writer of the
book of Job

i.

80

ib.

ii.

83

i. 293

ii. 416

i. 494

Priscilian, the first sufferer for opinion
Prodigies, &c., their admission into ancient
history accounted for

i. 666

i. 180

ii. 8

-

ii. 497

ii. 512

the first religion of Greece

.

Plants, worshipped by the Egyptians
Plato, the proem to his laws

-his definition of sacrilege

ii. 591
-the use to be made of them in disputes ii. 589
Prophecy, what a necessary confirmation
ii. 512
of their reference to the Messiah
- an evidence of a doctrine proceeding
from God
-considerations on
Prophets, reason of the institution of a
school for
ii. 156

ii. 683

ib.

a character of his politics and philosophy.

Cicero's remarks on his Phædo

in what sense an advocate for the immor.
tality of the soul

his sentiments concerning the soul
Platonists, their notions of providence
Pleasure, allegorical view of the dangers
attending an indulgence in

Pliny, the reason of his persecuting the
Christians

- his doubts respecting the manner of pro-
ceeding against, Christians
Plutarch, his opinion of two principles i. 195

Providence, the doctrine of, the great sanc

1. 601

ii. 34

Propitiatory sacrifice, origin and nature of
it, explained

ii. 637

tion of ancient laws

i. 187

the spirit of legislation depends on the
doctrine of a

i. 252
-the inequalities of, how rectified by the
ancients
i. 466