χχίν CONTENTS. Page He is more free in his allowance to the people, than to God Himself - 257 The difference betwixt what any man can do, and what he can do in a sacerdotal ministerial manner, stated His arguing against the Christian priesthood, the same with that of Corah And is of as much force against all orders of men in the state, as well as in the Church A limitation of his, by which he confutes his own argument How good he is at contradicting himself His most profane applying of the term conjuration His ridiculing of the consecration of bishops, and ordination of priests, vile and blasphemous - 258 ib. Baptism as well as ordination by his sarcasms, made to be a solemn His ironical vindication of our clergy No such office in the Church of England for the election of bishops, as he mentions, ever before heard of His scurrility and blasphemy animadverted upon His mocking at the clergy as if they made God their executioner, and put His heathenish liberty in speaking of the several persons of the blessed A passage of his concerning heathenish inspiration applied home - 265 266 [SECT. XX.]-OF THE DIVINE INSTITUTION OF Bishops. His first Herculean argument against it an old popular fallacy His third, most invidious and absurd, and impeaches the Divine goodness as well as wisdom His fourth, no better than mere clamour, and that many times answered That no strict doctrines are to be rejected for the severity of their consequences That this doctrine in particular, unchurches none; but that they unchurch themselves, who throw off a government of God's institution Who they are that weaken most the Protestant cause, and widen the distance among Protestants The plea of necessity considered A most serious and compassionate exhortation to the Protestant Churches Tenderness for all the reformed Churches, and particularly for the French, testified An appeal to what the author has preached and printed for them ib. · 270 271 ib. ib. 272-277 - 273 - 275 277 ib. The principles upon which the Church of England reformed not to be Whether they that wilfully abdicate episcopacy, and plead it their duty so to A prayer for those that are in such a state That he may but load a Catholic principle with invectives, he even contra- (2.) As not favourable to the revolution, considered His own opinion full as destructive to the Scottish presbyterian Church By his way of reasoning, the presbyterians, both English and Scotch, The Church of Rome, in what sense a true Church, and in what not The objection against our deriving succession from the said Church The reason why the Lord Chancellor Clarendon never would communicate A citation out of that noble historian by this writer impertinent to his Three reasons for declining an answer to what he has transcribed out of the Bishop of Sarum's Exposition of the Twenty-third Article Some queries humbly offered to his lordship's serious consideration on The interests of popery how and by whom best served His fallacy in confounding the notion of the unity of the Catholic Church, by comparing national Churches with the government of independent ib. Why Christians all the world over make but one body politic in ecclesiastics 295 - His mad attempt to have many independent Churches of natural right, in- The prejudices and objections against this principle of unity in the Church His ridiculous essay to batter down Church unity and episcopal ordination His repeated attack against episcopal consecrations His crambe objection dismissed, with three notable interrogations for him Another bundle of queries for him to answer, upon his scheme of consecra- His argument from penal restraints most trifling and false - An answer to his objections from the act of submission, in the words of the All his arguments against Church government sophistical, and plainly A judicious observation of Spalatensis Some authors referred to for full satisfaction herein His fanatical objection of a popedom being unavoidable from the episcopal His extravagant way of arguing, in contradiction to plain fact, and consen- His calumny upon the English clergy for carrying the power of the Church His notorious misapplication of authors to serve a turn How he perverts the words of Mr. Chillingworth Reflections upon a saying of King Charles II. cited by him, and upon another of one whom he calls a reverend divine His fallacious representation of the spiritual power as the occasion of all ib. Nothing so good but it may be the accidental cause of evil ib. His popish design detected CONTENTS. xxvii Page 310, 318 His pretty artifice in bringing the arguments of the Church of Rome against the Church of England His republican design manifested 293, 310, 318 His notion of natural freedom contrary to the law of nations which introduced slavery, and to the Scriptures [SECT. XXIII.]—OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS UPON THE WHOLE. General reflections upon the method, originals, and scope of this masterpiece of antichristian heresy The author's satisfaction and comfort in the many lies and libels upon him A word in season to Dr. Hancock and to some besides 318 ib. 319 An appeal to, and vindication of, the primitive fathers, with the holy prophets also and Apostles, upon this charge His humble and serious address to the clergy His design of a parænesis to the candidates of the priesthood A reflection made upon the author for crying out of the times, fairly considered What it is that some think fit to call blackening the times not always taken in an exclusive, but sometimes in a comparative sense, 91, note b. 2. The proper difference of hostia and victima; and 3. The distinction of the Eucharistical oblation before and after the consecration in St. Cyprian, 96, note b. 4. The difference of ara and altare, 96, note e, and 122, note a. 5. Οι θυσιαστήριον and βωμὸς, 122, note a. 6. Different senses of propitiation and propitiatory, 109, note n. 7. And of sacraments, 110, note q. 8. πрólεσis, 129, note y. 9. Credenza, 129, 130, note b. 10. προσφορὰ for the holy communion, 327. 11. The iepà deînva of the gods in Pollux, 118, note q. 12. Excommunication errante clave, 181, note u. 13. Mysteries of Mithra, 119, note s. 14. Parliaments, 148, note z. Occasional remarks upon the growth of deism, &c. The arguments of Hobbes, Selden, Spinoza, and Marvel against the true rights of the Church, where answered, 67, note a; 69, note h. And by whom licked up again, 67, 320. Some late books censured that strike at the very root of Christianity, 79, note s. Where to find an antidote against them, 320, 326. Mr. Le Clerc, 157, note j. Mr. Ob. Walker, 227. Dr. Hancock, 322, note z. Bishop Trimnel, 327–331. The Christian Priesthood constantly supposed by the book of Ordination, and by the Liturgy and Rubrics of the Church of England, 106. That spiritual governors must deliver their own souls, 329. The most proper course in evil times, ib. Honourable mention made of Dr. Atterbury, 223, 224, 308, 317. Dr. Bar- row, 249. Bull, 237, 326. Bishop Fox of Hereford, 162, note y. Dr. Grabe, 237, &c. Dr. Hammond, 326. Mr. Nelson, 314. Bishop Parker, 67, 326. Bishop Pearson, 250. Bishop Stillingfleet, 220, note o. Bishop Wake, 306, note f. Sir George Wheeler, 129. A notable passage of Livy upon the times, 330. The author's conclusion and address to the bishops and clergy in the words |