SHAMMAH, 82.

SWEDEN, more females than males born in the last cen-
tury, 107. An inftance of ditto at a village in Eng-
land, ditto, n.

SAMUEL no bastard, 111.

SALMON in the water, experiment of, 104, n.

2 SAM. xii. 8, Dean Delaney's interpretation refuted,
117, 118, 119..

SIXTUS V grants a difpenfation for fodomy, 178, n.
SEPARATION of man and wife, where neceffary,

182, n.

SOCRATES put to death, why, 2. Has two wives, 244.
SUPERSTITION of the Jews, in not refifting their ene-
mies on the Sabbath-day, 189.

of the Chriftians with regard to the mar-

riage of priests, 213, n.

STOICS held community of women, 223, n.

SINGULAR Words, have often plural meanings, 232, n.o
SELDEN, on Ruth iv. 6. p. 267.

SERMONS, two, on the marriage-act, 277.

SOCINIANISM, 306, 323.

SERMON on the Mount, explains and afferts the honour
and obligation of the divine law, 330-6.
SACRAMENTS, of baptifm and the Lord's Supper, pre-
figured in the Old Testament, 350-353.
SALOME repudiates her hufband, 385, n.

SENECA, his account of the Roman women, with respect
to leaving their husbands for others, 388, n.
SYNESIUS, a Chriftian Bishop, his duplicity, Pref. xix.

T

T

OLEDO, council of, decree about concubinage, 32.
TALPE, among the Jews, a Pharifaical fect,
125, n.

TYMPIUS, his notes on Noldius, relative to Lev. xviii.
18, p. 156, n. 157.

1 TIM. iii. 2. andTIT. i. 6. explained, 199 & feq.
TRENT, Council of, obliged to those who defend their
anathema against polygamy, 241, n.

TESTAMENT, Old and New, to be compared together,
249-251. See also vol. ii. 357 & feq.

U V VOLTAIRE

U V

7OLTAIRE misled by translations, 15, n. 372, n.
VATABLUS on Deut. xxiv. 1-4, p. 87.

VASHTI, Queen, her disobedience-her punishment no
bad precedent, 182, n.

VENUS, temple of, at Corinth, 220, n.

VALESIANS caftrated themselves, 304, n.

VENEREAL difeafe, not in Ifrael, 308, and n.

UNION between CHRIST and the Church, no argument
against polygamy, 252-254.

W

7ICKLIFFE, firft reformer in Europe, 3, n.
-'s bones burnt, ib.

WICKLIFF

WHORE defined, 19, n.

WHOREDOM and fornication, 45.

—, odious in GoD's fight, 49. Punished with
death, 50.

-, fuppofed original of, 48.

WOMEN not fuffered to approach the altar, or to receive
the Eucharift without gloves on, 188, n.

WHITTINGTON and his bells, an emblem of people
who are deceived by the found of words in favour of
preconceived opinions, 246-7.

WHITBY, DR. his comment on 1 Cor. vii. 4. p. 241.
His conceffion refpecting polygamy, 243, n.

WETSTEIN, his explanation of Matt. xix. 9. and Mark
x. 11. p. 385, 386, 391.

INDEX

INDEX

TO VOL.

II.

A

A

DULTERY not a cause of divorce a vinculo matri-
monii, a Popish tenet, 3, n.

ABRAHAM and Hagar, no exception to the rule against
divorce, 24, n.

ALEXANDER, Dr. Hiftory of Women, obferves the pro-
tection which Deut. xxviii. 29. affords to female chaf-
tity, 32, n.

ATHENAUS, his account of a cuftom relative to old bat-
chelors, 62.

ARRAGON, Catherine of, her marriage with Henry VIII.
76.

ALBIGENSES, 148, and n.

319, n.

Much

AMBROSE, a violent ftickler for celibacy, 119, n.
ALANUS de Rupe, his blafphemy on priesthood, 212, n.
APOSTOLICAL conftitutions, forgeries, 211, n.
ABORTION, procurement of, a fpecies of murder,
ABUSE, an unfair ground of argument, 324, n.
ufed by the Papifts against the Reformers, 325, 326, n.
ANTIQUITY of a doctrine, no proof of its truth, 350.
B BEDFORD,

BED

B

EDFORD, Duke of, makes a motion for the repeal
of the marriage-act, 40, n. Part of his fpeech
thereon, 63.

BELLARMINE allows of polygamy, 89, n. Contradicts
himself, ib.

BECCARIA, Marquis of, on conjugal fidelity, 59, n.
On child-murder, 318, n.

BLACKSTONE, his opinion on reftraints upon marriage,59.
BRAZEN SERPENT, broken by Hezekiah, 110, n.
BASIL, clock at, 135, n.

BLACKSTONE, his account of the first invention of mar-
riage by priests, 150

BANNS of marriage, when invented, 156.

BOURDEAUX, a young lady at, ftoned to death, 175.
BONNER, Bishop, his fpeech on the dignity of priests,
296, n.

BURNET'S, Hift. Ref. referred to concerning the vifi-
tation of monafteries, 118, n.

BASTARD, the term improperly used, 264.
BELLARMINE of indulgences, 310.

BOTTLE-CONJUROR, 352.

BARBEYRAC, his account of Grotius's change of opinion
with refpect to CHRIST'S altering the law of Mofes,
2.468 & feq.

BECCARIA, Marquis of, on falfe ideas of utility, 424, n.
BLACKSMITH and his child, 425, n.

C

RIM. CON: actions for, 81, n.

CONGO, the Chriftians of, polygamifis, 89, n.
CLANDESTINE MARRIAGES, provided against by fe-
veral ftatutes, 54.

CELIBACY difcouraged by the Heathens, 60, 61. By
the Jerus, 290.

CANON against clandeftine marriages, 64.

n.

CUSANUS, Cardinal, his faying, at the council of Trent,`
on the fubject of expounding Scripture, 77, n
CEREMONY, marriage, neceffary, and to be enforced in
every cafe, 70-73.

CHRISTIANITY, confidered as in itself, and as abused,
100, n.

COPERNICAN fyftem, once accounted an herefy, 105.

CAVE,

CAVE, Dr. William, an hiftorian of primitive Chrifti-
anity, 119, 131, 132.

Coxx's Sketches of Switzerland, quotations from, 135, n.
276, n.

CHILD-MURDER, caufe of, 173, 262, 317, 318, n.
An horrid inftance of, 348, n.

CONTRACTS of marriage, of all forts, vacated, 48-52.
I COR. iv. 3, 4. explained, 167, n.

CONSCIENCE, what, 179. The evidence on which it
fhould determine as a judge, 180-1.

CARTHAGINIANS, their method of appeafing their idol
Saturn, 181-2.

CAPUCHIN Friar, converfation with, 193, n.

CONFARREATION, a mode of marriage among the an-
tient Romans, what, 200, n.

CHURCHMEN, their pride and infolence of early date,
211, and n.

CYPRIAN, St. his high notion of epifcopal dignity,

212, n.

CAMPEGIUS, Cardinal, a saying of his on priefts' mar-
riage, 228, n.

CERINTHUS, a pofition of his, 247.

CASTRATION, practifed by Chriftians, 251.

CHRISTIANS, primitive, their condemnation of mar-
riage, the occafion thereof, 250.

CELIBACY frequent among us, and why, 275-6.
CALCULATION on our lofs of people, 278-9.
CONSTANTINE encourages celibacy, 281, n.

CHESTER, Bishop of, cites his commissary into the Spi-
ritual court, 294, n.

CONTRAST between the divine and human systems, 299.
CONCLUSION, 313.

CEREMONY, not of the effence of marriage, 332, n.
CALIXTUS, a fentiment of his on the obligation of the
divine law, 338, n.

COROLLARIES arifing from the banishment of the

divine law, 343-8.

·CAJETAN, Cardinal, afferts St. Paul's allowance of
polygamy, 356, n.

CATHARISTS, in the 12th century, their doctrine, 362.
CHASTITY of the clergy, in the 3d century, but ill ob-
ferved, 367, n.

D DAVID,