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Holy-days, statute limiting number of,
77 and n.

Honesty must not be without religion,

119.

Hospitallers, priory of, 4 and n.

House of Commons, erroneous
opinions in, 46.

Humility, all think it good for other
people, 78.

excess of, is a vice, 78.

I.

Idolatry, true nature of, 78.

Ignorance, invincible, nature of, 79.
Image of St. Nicholas, story about, 80,
106.

Images, use of, whether defensible, 80.
- whether worshipped by Papists, 80.
Imperial constitutions, punishments
inflicted by, 81.

Impropriations of Tithes, 177, 178.
Incendiaries of the State, 83, 202.
Independency, nature and antiquity
of, 83.

Independents, claim of, to be above the
law, 84.

Irish Lords, rank of, in England, 106.

J.

James, King, his opinion about the
death of Henry IV, 86.

Jardine, reading on torture in Eng-
land, 184 n.

Jesuits, learned, 102.

Jewish year, how reckoned, 197.

Jews are cursed and hated, but thrive,
79.

Jews, how a doctor of law was made
among the, 112.
John O'Powls, 189.

Johnson, praise of the Table Talk by,

XXV.

Jonson, Ben, his satire on the disputes

of divines, 164.

Joseph, Christ's pedigree, why traced
through, 72.

Judges, rascality of, the cause of all

mischief in the commonwealth, 87.
Judgments of God, presumptuous to
pronounce about, 86.

Juggling necessary for government,
88.

Jurisdiction in the Church, not spiritual
but civil, 88.

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his defence of bowing towards the
altar, 78 n.

accused for his sanction of sports
on Sundays, 169 n.

— Justice Whitelock's opinion about,
203.

Law, human, when binding on the
conscience, 68.

ignorance of, why no excuse, 99.
of nature, meaning of, 101.
martial, nature and limit of, 190.
-a contract between king and
people, 100.

Lawyers of France, learned, 102.
Le Clerc severely criticises Selden's
style and method, 212.

Learning, what use it is, what it com-
monly is, 102.

Lecturers, harmful to the English
Church, 71.

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defraud the parochial ministers,

103.

why favoured by the parliamentary
party, 103 n.

Libels, indications given by, 105.
Liturgies prove general beliefs, 105.

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Marston, quotation from a play of,
189 n.

Martial law, nature and limit of, 190.
Mayro, writings of, 115.

Metempsychosis believed in by Plato-
nists, 76 and n.

Minister, ordination of, its force and
the terms by which it is properly
described, 112.

his position when ordained, 114.
course of study recommended for,
114 ff.

degree of respect shown to, among
Protestants, 116, 117.

how his claims can be tested, 118.
limits of his right to preach, 168.
Money illegally got by English princes
at all times, 119.

Monopolies, Sir John Culpeper's
speech about, 203.
Mortgage, incidents of a, 120.

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right of electing to, how fixed, and
why, 126.

its power as a court of law, 100,
142.

- privilege of, its asserted and its
true nature, 127.

Parliamentary party, unfair tactics of
the, 128, 129.

Parson, meaning of word, 129.

conjuring by, did much good, 130.
Pelias hasta, Selden's History of Tithes
compared to, 180.

Penance, not to be confused with
penitence, 131.

People, good of the, to be studied by
lawgiver, 131.

Perjury first punished in Queen Eliza-
beth's time, 123.

Personatus, meaning of word, 129.
Philosophy, how useful, 132.

Pictures in churches, a discreet rule
about, 81.

Pigeon-house, who licensed to keep,

50 n.

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Platonic, fancy of a, 124.

Plays, why written in verse, 134.
Pleasure, the nature of, 132.
Pleasures sought after by all men, 133.
- ought to be enjoyed, 133.
Pocklington (Dr.), his books burned,
169 п.

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Pope, limit of infallibility of the, 136.
English clergy inconsiderate in
preaching against the, 138.
Popery, the prelatical clergy falsely
charged with, 139.

Possession, diabolical, 55 and n.
Power, all, is of God, meaning of
words, 140.

Praemunire, nature of, 153.

Prayer, defence of set forms of, 143.
should be short, why, 144.

Preach the Gospel, how command is
to be obeyed, 144.

Preaching often, condemned, 146; ap-
proved, 149.

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democratic influence of, 103.

by the Spirit, why most esteemed
by the common people, 145.
some rules for, 147, 148.
Predestination, a point out of our
reach, 149.

Preferment, prospect of, makes men
obedient, 151.

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not getting, makes the presbyters
discontented, 151.

some Parliament men discontented
until they got, 153.

Prerogative, nature and limit of the
King's, 154.

Presbyters, their power over the laity
and lay-elders, 156.

- claim to be jure divino, 175.
Presbytery, queries concerning jus
divinum of, 156, 208.

Pride, how far permissible, 78.
Prideaux, his lectures on Predestina-
tion, 150.

Priest has no indelible character,
113.

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an Irish, on the accession of James
the First, 158.

Priests, reason of statutes against,
157 and n.

of Rome, their objects and methods,
159.

Prior of St. John's, 4 and n.

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nature of some men's pretence of,
165.

- why men say they fight for, 166,
167.
Religions, when impossible to recon-
cile, 165.

Reverence, it is sometimes unreason-
able to demand, 168.

Ripley the alchemist, story about,

74.
Robertus Vallensis on Virgil's aureus
ramus, 155 n.

Rosset (Rosetti), Count, 158.

S.

Sabbath, observance of the, 169 and n.
Sacrament taken by Judas, 170.

no one can judge about another's
fitness to receive, 170.

Saint John of Jerusalem, Prior of, 4,
106, 206.

Saint Nicholas, image of, 80, 106.
Salisbury, Lord, was above ill words,
62.

Salus populi suprema lex esto, 131.
Salvation, how understood by the
Jews, 170.

- Selden's charitable opinion about,
170.

Saracens, how pictured by Crusaders,
and why, 190.

Scaliger on Erasmus, 15.

Scripture, interpretation of, 11, 145.
allegories in, II.

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ridiculous for a lord to print, 135.
Virgil's aureus ramus, how interpreted
by the alchemists, 155.

Vows, instances of absurd, 188.

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