SOME engagements, most noble Lord, have prevented me from answering your letter so soon as I could wish. I wished to have done it the sooner because I saw that your letter, so full of erudition, left me less occasion for sending you my advice (which I believe that you desire more out of compliment to me than of any benefit to yourself) than my congratulations. First, I congratulate myself on having been so fortunate in characterising the merits of Sallust as to have excited you to the assiduous perusal of that author, who is so full of wisdom, and who may be read with so much advantage. Of him I will venture to assert what Quintilian said of Cicero, that he who loves Sallust is no mean proficient in historical composition. That precept of Aristotle in the third book of his rhetoric, which you wish me to explain, relates to the morality of the reflections and the fidelity of the narrative. It appears to me to need little comment, except that it should be appropriated not to the compositions of rhetoric but of history. For the offices of a rhetorician and an historian are as different as the arts which they profess. Polybius, Halicarnassus, Diodorus, Cicero, Lucian, and many others, whose works are interspersed with precepts on the subject, will better teach you what are the duties of an historian. I wish you every success in your travels and pursuits. Adieu.

Westminster, Dec. 16, 1657.

XXVII.

To the accomplished PETER HEINBACH.

I RECEIVED your letter from the Hague the 18th December, which, as your convenience seems to require, I answer the same day on which it was received. In this letter, after returning me thanks for some favours which I am not conscious of having done, but which my regard for you makes me wish to have been real, you ask me to recommend you, through the medium of D. Lawrence, to him who is appointed our agent in Holland. This I grieve that I am not able to do, both on account of my little familiarity with those who have favours to bestow, since I have more pleasure in keeping myself at home, and because I believe that he is already on his voyage, and has in his company a per

son in the office of secretary, which you are anxious to obtain. But the bearer of this is on the eve of his departure. Adieu.

Westminster, Dec. 18, 1657.

XXVIII.

TO JOHN BADIAUS, Minister of the Church of Orange.

MOST excellent and reverend sir, I believe that our friend Durius will take upon himself the blame of my not writing to you sooner. After he bad shewed me that paper which you wished me to read concerning what I had done and suffered for the sake of the gospel, I wrote this letter as soon as possible, intendiag to send it by the first conveyance, since I was feartul that you might consider a longer silence as neglect. In the mean time I am under the greatest obligations to your friend Molin, for procuring me the esteem of the virtuous in those parts by the zeal of his friendship and the warmth of his praise; and though I am not ignorant that the contest in which I was engaged with so great an adversary, that the celebrity of the subject and the style of the composition had far and wide diffused my fame, yet I think that I can be famous only in proportion as I enjoy the approbation of the good. I clearly see that you are of the same opinion; many are the toils you have endured, so many are the enemies whom you have provoked by your disinter ested zeal in defence of the christian doctrine; and you act with so much intrepidity as to shew, that instead of courting the applause of bad men, you do not fear to excite their most inveterate hate and ther most bitter maledictions. Oh happy are you when. out of so many thousands of the wise and learned, pr vidence has rescued from the very brink of destruction, and selected to bear a distinguished and intrepid tes timony to the truth of the gospel. I have now sons for thinking that it was a singular mercy that I did not write to you sooner; for when I understood by your letters that, threatened on all sides by the malo of your enemies, you were looking round for a place of refuge, to which you might fly in the last extremity of danger, and that you had fixed on England as the object of your wishes, I was considerably gratifes, because it gave me the hope of enjoying your cas pany, and because I was happy to find you think s favourably of my country; but I lamented that, parocularly owing to your ignorance of our language, 1 did not see any chance of a decent provision being made for you among us. The death of an old Frenca minister has since very opportunely occurred. The principal persons of his congregation (from whom I have received this communication) anxiously wish, t rather invite you to be chosen in his place; they have determined to pay the expences of your journey, to provide for you as large a salary as any of the Frene ministers receive, and to let you want nothing which can contribute to the cheerful discharge of your ecriesiastical function. Fly, I beseech you, a sonu as

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OF

AARON, his priesthood no pattern to
ground episcopacy on, 33.
Abimelech, remarks on the manner of his
death, 357.

Abraham, commanded by God to send
away his irreligious wife, 131. His pay-
ing tithes to Melchisedec, no authority
for our paying them now, 426, 430, 435.
Abramites, allege the example of the an-
cient fathers for image-worship, 27.
Accidence, reasons for joining it and gram-
mar together, 457.

Acworth, University-Orator, the memory of
Bucer and Fagius celebrated by him, 160.
Adam, left free to choose, 110. Created in
the image of God, 178. His alliance with
Eve, nearer than that of any couple since,
183.

Adda, succeeds his father Ida in the king-
dom of Bernicia, 512.
Adminius, son of Cunobeline, banished his
country, flees to the emperor Caligula,
and stirs him up against it, 488.
Adultery, not the only reason for divorce,
according to the law of Moses, 125. Not
the greatest breach of matrimony, 133.
Punished with death by the law, 206. Our
Saviour's sentence relating to it, explain-
ed, 207.

Aduans, in Burgundy, employ the Britons
to build their temples and public edifices,

499.

Re-

Aganippus, a Gaulish king, marries Cor-
deilla, daughter of King Leir, 480
stores her father to his throne, ib.
Agatha, decree of the council there, con-
cerning divorce, 214.
Agricola, son of Severianus, spreads the Pe-
Yagian doctrine in Britain, 505.
Aidan, a Scotch bishop, sent for by Oswald,
to settle religion, 519. Has his episcopal
seat at Lindisfarne, ib. Dies for grief of
the murder of Oswin, 520.
Alaric, takes Rome from the emperor Ho-
norius, 501.

Alban, of Verulam, with others, suffers mar-
tyrdom under Dioclesian, 409
Albanact, one of the three sons of Brutus,
that has Albania, now Scotland, for his
share in the kingdom, 478.

Albert, said to have shared the kingdom of
the East-Angles with Humbeanna after
Elfwald, 528.

Albina, said to be the eldest of Dioclesian's
50 daughters, 476. From her the name
Albion derived, ib.

Albion, the ancient name of this island, 476.
Whence derived, ib.
Alciat, his opinion concerning divorce, 218.
Alcred slaying Ethelwald, usurps the king-
dom of the Northumbrians, 525.
Aldfrid, recalled from Ireland, succeeds his
brother Ecfrid in the Northumbrian king-
dom, 523. Leaves Osred, a child, to suc-
ceed him, ib.

Aldulf, nephew of Etheldwald, succeeds
king of the East-Angles, 528.

Alectus, treacherously slays his friend Ca-
rausius, 498. Is overthrown by Asclepio-
dotus, and slain, 499.
Alemannus, reported one of the four sons of
Histion, descended from Japhet; of whom
the Alemanni or Germans, 476.
Alfage, archbishop of Canterbury, inhu-
manly used by the Danes, 547. Killed by
Thrun, a Dane, in commiseration of his
misery, ib.

Alfred, the fourth son of Ethelwolf, and
successor of his brother Ethelred, encoun-
ters the Danes at Wilton, 533. Routs the
whole Danish power at Edinton, and
brings them to terms, 534 He is said to
have bestowed the East-Angles upon Gy-
tro, a Danish king, who had been lately
baptized, ib. A long war afterwards
maintained between him and the Danes,
ib. 535. He dies in the 30th year of his
reign, and is buried at Winchester, 535.
His noble character, ib. 536.
Alfwold, driving out Eardulf, usurps the
kingdom of Northumberland, 528.
Algar, earl of Howland, now Holland, Mor-
car, lord of Brunne, and Osgot, governor
of Lincoln, kill a great multitude of Danes
in battle, with three of their kings, 532.
Overpowered by numbers, and drawn into
a snare, Algar dies valiantly fighting, ib.
Algar, the son of Leofric, banished by King
Edward, joins Griffin prince of South-
Wales, 557. Unable to withstand Harold
earl of Kent, submits to the king, and is
restored, ib. Banished again, he recovers
his earldom by force, ib.
Alipius, made deputy of the British pro-
vince, in the room of Martinus, 499.
Alla, begins the kingdom of Deira, in the
south part of Northumberland, 512, 513.
Alric, king of Kent, after Ethelbert the 2d,
526. With him dying, ends the race of
Hengist, 527.

Ambassador. See French, Spanish, &c.
Ambassadors of Christ, who style them.
selves so, 435. Not to ask maintenance
of those to whom they are sent, ib.
Ambrose, his notion of wedlock, 214 Ex-
communicated Theodosius, 331 His con-
duct to that emperor remarked, 365. Re-
sists the higher powers, contrary to his
own doctrine, 373.

Ambrosius Aurelianus, dreaded by Vorti-
gern, 509. Defeats the Saxons, ib. Un-
certain whether the son of Constantine
the usurper, or the same with Merlin, and
son of a Roman consul, ib. Succeeds
Vortigern as chief monarch of the isle, ib.
Ames, Dr. his definition of marriage, 186.
Anabaptists, accused of denying infants
their right to baptism, 503.
Anacletus, the friend of King Pandrasus,
taken in fight by Brutus, 477. Forced by
Brutus to betray his countrymen, ib.
Andragius, one in the catalogue of ancient
British kings, 482.

Andrews, bishop, and the primate of Ar-

magh, maintain that church-government
is to be patterned from the law, 32. Their
arguments for episcopacy examined, 34,
&c.

Androgeus, one of Lud's sons, has London

assigned him, and Kent, 482. Forsakes his
claim to the kingdom, and follows Cæsar's
fortune, 488.

Angels, of the seven Asian churches, whe-
ther to be taken collectively, or individu-
ally, 67.

Anger, and laughter, why first seated in
the breast of men, 55.
Animadversions on the Remonstrant's De-
fence against Smectymnuus, 55.
Anlaf the Dane, with his army of Irish, and
Constantine king of Scotland. utterly dis-
comfited by King Athelstan, 539.
Anna succeeds Sigebert in the kingdom of
the East-Angles, 520. Is slain in war by
Penda the Mercian, ib.

Antigonus, the brother of King Pandrasus,
taken in fight by Brutus, 477.
Antinomianism and Familism, considered,

136.

Antioch, had not the name of Theopolis, till
Justinian's time, 24.

Antiquity, custom, canons, and councils, no
warrant for superstitious practices, 65.
Antoninus, sent against the Caledonians,
by his father Severus, 498. After whose
death he takes hostages, and departs to
Rome, ib.

Antony, Mark, quoted by Salmasius for
the prerogative royal, 353
Apocalypse, of St. John, the majestic image
of a stately tragedy, 43.
Apology for Smectymnuus, 75.
Apostles, instituted presbyters to govern
the church, 38 Appointed a number of
grave and faithful brethren to assist the
minister of each congregation, 49. Not
properly bishops, 316.

Arcadia, Sir Philip Sidney's; K. C.'s prayer
stolen thence, 279.
Archigallo, deposed for his tyranny, 482.
Being restored by his brother, he then
reigns worthily, ib.

Archimailus, one in the number of ancient
British kings, 482
Areopagitica, speech for unlicensed print-
ing under that title, 103.
Areopagus, judges of, condemn the books
of Protagoras to be burned, 105.
Aretius, his opinion concerning divorce,

218.

Argentocorus, a Caledonian, his wife's bold
reply to the empress Julia, 497.
Arians and Socinians, their notions of the
Trinity, 563.

Ariminum, synod of more than 400 bishops
appointed to assemble there, by Con-
stantius, 499.

Aristotle, his definition of a king, 234.
Reckons up five sorts of monarchies, 370.
Salmasius's extract from his third book of
politics, 375. Commends the kingdom of

Ascham, Anthony, sent as agent to Spain,
from the English commonwealth, 588.
Justice demanded of the king of Spain
against his murderers, 591.
Assaracus, a Trojan prince, joins with
Brutus against Pandrasus, 477.
Assembly of divines, Tract of divorce ad-
dressed to them, 120.

Athanasius, his notion concerning kings,
365.

Athelstan, the son of King Edward the
elder, by a concubine, solemnly crowned
at Kingston upon Thames, 38. The con-
spiracy of one Alfred and his accomplices
against him discovered, ib. He gives his
sister Edgith to Sitric the Dane, but drives
Anlaf and Guthfert out of their kingdom,
ib. The story of his dealing with his
brother Edwin, questioned as improba-
ble, ib. 539. He overthrows a vast army
of Scotch and Irish, under Anlaf and
Constantine, king of Scotland, 539. He
dies at Gloucester, and is buried at
Malmsbury, 540. His character, ib.
Athens, their magistrates took notice only
of two sorts of writings, 105.
Atticots invade the south coast of Britain,
500.

Augustus, libels burnt, and the authors
punished by him, 103.

Aulus Plautius sent against Britain by the
emperor Claudius, 488. He overthrows
Caractacus and Togodumnus, 489. Is
very much put to it by the Britons, ib.
Sends to Claudius to come over, and
joins with him, ib. Leaves the country
quiet, and returns triumphant to Rome,

ib.

Aurelius Conanus, a British king, one of
the five that is said to have reigned to-
ward the beginning of the Saxon hep-
tarchy, 513.

Austin, what he accounted a becoming
solace for Adam, 181. Allows fornication
a sufficient cause for divorce, 214. His
opinion why God created a wife for
Adam, 225
A maintainer of the clergy's
right to tithes, 429. Sent with others
from Rome, to preach the gospel to the
Saxons, 514. Is received by King Ethel-
bert, who hears him in a great assembly,
ib 515. Is ordained archbishop of the
English, 515.

Hath his seat at Canter-
bury, ib. Summons together the British
bishops, requiring them to conform with
him in points wherein they differed, 516.
Upon their refusal, he stirs up Ethelfrid
against them, to the slaughter of 1200
monks, 516

Austria, archduke of, see Leopold.
Autarchy, mentioned by Marcus Aurelius,
what it is, 374.

Authorities, for the difference of bishops
and presbyters, not to be depended on, 23.

Basil, his opinion as to divorce, 214. Calls
the bishops slaves of slaves, 317.
Bath, by whom built, 479. Its medicinal
waters dedicated to Minerva, ib.
Bees, the government among them quoted
to prove the pope's supremacy, 350
Belfast, representation and exhortation of
the presbytery there, 260, &c. Remarks
on them, 266., &c.

Belgia, Helvetia, and Geneva, their church-
men remarkable for learning, 71.
Belinus succeeds his father Dunwallo, 481.
His contentions with his brother Bren-
nus, ib. Their reconciliation, ib. Built
the Tower of London, ib.
Beorn, precedes Ethelred in the kingdom
of the East-Angles, 528.
Bericus, fleeing to Rome, persuades the em-
peror Claudius to invade this island, 488.
Berinus, a bishop sent by pope Honorius,
converts the West-Saxons and their kings
to Christianity, 519.
Bernicia, kingdom of, in Northumberland,
begun by Ida the Saxon, 511.

Bernulf, usurping the kingdom of Mercia
from Keolwulf, is overthrown by Ecbert
at Ellandune, 528 Fleeing to the East-
Angles, is by them slain, ib.

Beza, his interpretation of the word moe Be-
TEOLOV, 66. His opinion, of regulating sin
by apostolic laws, not sound, 148. His
testimony concerning Martin Bucer, 159.
His notion concerning divorce, 218.
Bible, put by the papists in the first rank
of prohibited books, 108
Bigot, Emeric, letter to, 960,
Birthric, king of the West Saxons after Kin-
wulf, 526. Secretly seeks the life of Ec-
bert, 527. Is poisoned by a cup which
his wife had prepared for another, 528.
Bishop and deacon, the only ecclesiastical
orders mentioned in the gospel, 28.
Bishop and presbyter, two names to signify
the same order, 27. Equally tyrants over
learning, if licensing be brought in, 113.
Bishopric, the author's opinion of it, 91.
Bishops, have been as the Canaanites and
Philistines to this kingdom, 13. By their
opposition to King John, Normandy lost,
he deposed, and the kingdom made over
to the pope, ib. No bishop, no king, an
absurd position, ib. Sometimes we read
of two in one place, 26. Not an order
above presbyters, ib. Elected with con-
tention and bloodshed, 37. St. Paul's de-
scription of and exhortation to them, 65.
Not to be compared with Timothy, 67.
If made by God, yet the bishopric is the
king's gift, 71. Most potent, when princes
happen to be most weak, 316.

Bladud, the son of Rudhuddibras, builds
Caerbadus, or Bath, 479.

Bleduno, one in the number of the ancient
British kings, 482.
Blegabretus, bis excellency in music, 482.
Blindness, instances of men of worth af-
flicted with, 926.
Boadicea, the wife of Prasutagus, together
with her daughters, abused by the Roman
soldiers, 491. Commands in chief in the
British army against the Romans, 492
Vanquished by Suetonius, supposed to
have poisoned herself, 493,
Bodin, though a papist, affirms presbyte-
rian church-discipline to be best, 48.
Bonomattai, Benedict, letters to, 953.
Bonosus, endeavouring to make himself
emperor, but vanquished by Probus,
hangs himself, 498. A sarcasm on his
drunkenness, ib.

Books, the heinous crime of killing good
ones, 104. Some good, some bad; left to
each man's discretion, 107. Those of pa-
pists suffered to be sold and read, 565.
Bordelloes, author's defence from the ac-
cusation of frequenting them, 80.

Boris procures the death of the emperor of
Russia, and then ascends the throne.
575. His method to procure the people's
love, ib.

Bowes, Sir Jerom, ambassador from Queen
Elizabeth to Russia, his reception and
negociations at that court, 579-581.
Bracton, the power of kings limited, ac-
cording to him, 400.
Bradshaw, John, character of, 937.
Bradshaw, Richard, sent as agent from the
English commonwealth, to Hamborough,
590.
Brandenburgh, Frederic William, marquis
of, Oliver's letters to him. 624, 625
Bras, Lord Henry de, letters to, 960, 962.
Breme, the Protector's letters to the consuls
and senators of that city, 605, 624.

Brennus and Belinus, the sons of De
wallo Mulmutius, contend about the
kingdom, 481. After various extins
reconciled by their mother Contrera
ib They turn their united forces in'?
foreign parts, but Belinus returns and
reigns long in peace, ib.

Britain, history of the affairs thereof alt
gether obscure and uncertain, until the
coming of Julius Cæsar, 475 inhabited
before the flood probably, ib. By wha
first peopled, 476. Named first Samet
from Samothes. ib. Next Alba d
whence, ib. Fruitful of courageous ERCA,
but not of able governors, 503
Britomarus, mentioned by Florus, a
Briton, 481.

Britons, about forty years without a kuc
after the Romans quitted the island, M
Stoutly oppose Cesar at his lasta:
481. Offer him terms of peace, ib. Ther
manner of fighting, 485 486. A sua
dispute between the Britons and th
Romans near the Stour in Kent, 488. De
feated by Cæsar, and brought anew i
terms of peace, 487. Their nature
customs, ib. 488. Their massacre of the
Romans, 492 This revenged by the
Romans, 493. Lived formerly promises-
ously and incestuously, 497. They are
acquitted of the Roman jurisdiction by
the emperor Honorius, not able to defen
them against their enemies, 501. AZE
supplicate Honorius for aid, who spires
them a Roman legion, 304 Anda

a new supply, ib. Their submissive s
ters to Etius the Roman consal, är
Their luxury and wickedness, and cr
ruptions of their clergy, 306, 512 Ther
embassy to the Saxons for their a
against the Scots and Picts, with the
Saxons' answer, 307. Miserably harass
by the Saxons whom they called 12, k
Routed by Kerdic, 510. By Keancav
Keaulin, 512, 513 By Cuthul 513 T-
tally vanquish Keaulin, ib. Are putt
flight by Kenwalk, 521.
Brittenburgh, near Leyden, built or serre
on by the Britons in their escape fnc.
Hengist, 508

Britto, named among the four sons of H
tion, sprung of Japhet, and from him the
Britons said to be derived, 476.
Brook, Lord, for toleration. 117.
Brownists, who are so, according to S-
masius, 385.

Brutus, said to be descended from E
a Trojan prince, 476. Retiring
Greece after having unfortunately
his father, he delivers his countryme
from the bondage of Pandrasus
Marries Innogen, the eldest daughte
Pandrasus, ib. Lands upon a Ces
island called Leogecia, ib. Where be
consults the oracle of Diana, ib. Xes
with Corineus, 478 Overcomes G«*»
rius Pictus, ib. Arrives in this islan
Builds Troja Nova, now London, ib. Dirs
and is buried there, ib.
Brutus surnamed Greenshield, success
Ebranc, and gives battle to Brunchs

479.

Bucer, Martin, testimonies of learned
concerning him, 159, &c. His opuns
concerning divorce, embraced by the
church of Strasburgh, 161. His treate
of divorce dedicated to Edward 17.14
Remarkable conclusion of his treats
divorce, 173.

Buchanan, censured as an historian, V
515, 538.

Buckingham, duke of, accused of poison
King James the first, 277.
Burhed, reduces the north Welsh to be
dience, 530. Marries Ethelswida
daughter of King Ethelwolf, ib. Dres
out of his kingdom by the Danes, he Amis
to Rome, where dying, he is buried
the English school, 533 His king
let out by the Danes to Kelwull, t
Burials, reasons against taking of fees fr
them, 430.

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Cadwallon, see Kedwalla.
Cesar, the killing him commended as a
glorious action by M. Tullius, 38, 391
See Julius Cæsar.
Caius Sidins Geta, behaves himself valiant-
ly against the Britons, 489
Caius Volusenus, sent into Britain by
sar, to make discovery of the country and
people, 494.