Eucharistical sacrifice, origin and nature
of, explained, iii. 371
Euhemerus, how subjected to the impu-
tation of atheism, i. 220-examination
of his conduct in disclosing the secrets
of the mysteries, ii. 37
Evander, observation on Virgil's account
of his court, i. 242
Eve, the creation of, inquired into, iii.
340
Evremond, St., examination of his re-
marks on the characters in the neis,
i. 239
Exodus, iii. 14, and vi. 3, expounded, ii.
300
Expiatory sacrifice, origin and nature of
it explained, iii. 372
Ezekiel, and Jeremiah, the actions
recorded to be performed by them to
illustrate their prophecies accounted
for, ii. 185-his famous visions, chap.
viii. relating to the Jewish idolatry,
expounded, 306 - God's reproaches to
the Jews for their perverseness and
disobedience, delivered by him, 335--
the celebrated prophecy in his 20th
chapter explained, 338-his representa-
tion of the Jewish idolatry, 452, 454--
quotations from, in confirmation of a
particular providence, 501-a pas-
sage in, predictive of the new dispen-
sation, iii. 5-his vision of the dry
bones explained, 129
Ezra, his writings pointed out, iii. 123
-supposed to be the writer of the book
of Job, 122, 271; also the books of
Chronicles and Esther, 123-by tradi-
tion among the Jews, the same person
as Malachi, 123-inquiry who he was,
271
Fables, ancient, an inquiry into the
origin of, i. 436
Faith, summary view of the disputes
concerning it and morality, ii. 79-
defined from St. Paul, iii. 158-the
condition of the new covenant, consi-
dered, 394-St. Paul's and St. James's
accounts reconciled, 399
Fall, inquired into, iii. 355
Falsely condemned, their being assigned
to purgatory accounted for, i. 265
Fanaticism, ill effect resulting from
Butler's satire against it, i. 85
Falalists, the influence of the principles
on the conduct of, compared with that
of the atheists, i. 49
Fathers, Christian, inquiry into their
sentiments of the human soul, i. 482
Fiction, from what motive employed by
the ancient lawgivers, ii. 413
Figurative expressions, origin of, ii. 212–
First philosophy, according to Lord
Bolingbroke, i. 312
Sancho Panca, 314
Fleetwood, General, his character, ii. 25
Foot, its import in the Old-Testament
language, iii. 104
Forfeitures, remarks on the laws of, in
cases of high treason, iii. 8
Forgery, marks of, in ancient writings, i.
182-opposed to forgery by the primi-
tive apologists for Christianity, 499
Foster, his notions of the Jewish Theo-
cracy, examined, ii. 436
Fourmont, M., his mistake of the
identity of Abraham with Cronos
corrected, ii. 402
Fraud, opposed to fraud by the primi-
tive apologists, i. 498-and enthusiasm,
the union of, accounted for, ii. 23
Free gift and claim of right, the differ-
ence between, iii. 367
Freethinkers, proper estimation of that
character, i. 78-their complaints of
the want of liberty ill founded, 79-
their principal abuses of liberty pointed
out, 80-in classic times would have
been styled enemies to their country,
87-their abuse of the clergy, 87-this
abuse the evidence of a weak cause, 91
their professions and their practice
compared, 92-the multifarious cha-
racters they assume, 94-both dog-
matists and sceptics, 96
Funeral rites, the great attention paid to
them by the ancients, i. 258-of the
Egyptians, described from Herodotus,
ii. 170
Future state of rewards and punish-
ments, the doctrine of, necessary to the
well-being of civil society, i. 112, 123
-the importance of the doctrine of, to
the well-being of civil society, believed
by all the wisest part of mankind, 165
-how taught in the mysteries, 196
-the ancient legislators unanimous
in propagating the belief of, 376—
the sages as unanimous in propa-
gating the belief of, 376-the sages
as unanimous in thinking the doc-
trine of, necessary to the well-being
of society, 407 Lord Shaftes-
bury's opinion of, 411-sentiments of
theistical philosophers on, 412-senti-
ments of antiquity on the use of, to
society, 413-Cæsar's disbelief of, with
Cato and Cicero's answers to him, 426
-of all the ancient Greek philosophers,
only believed by Socrates, 429-from
what causes disbelieved by the ancient
Greek philosophers, 467-considered
as a moral designation, as necessarily
implying punishments as rewards, 472
-its being disbelieved by the wisest of
the ancients, no discredit to the Chris-
tian doctrine of, 507-not of the
number of those doctrines taught by
natural religion, 598-the benefits of
that doctrine to the Gentile world, ii.
55 supplied to the Jews by an
extraordinary providence, 55 no
part of the Mosaic dispensation,
iii. 1-purposely omitted in the Mo-
saic dispensation, 3—the want of, how
supplied, 4-strongly inculcated by
the Suevi and Arabs, 13-positive
declarations against the expectation of,
instanced from the Jewish writers, 13
-corroborated by the New-Testament
writers, 18-examination of Lord
Bolingbroke's notion on the omission
of that doctrine in the Mosaic dispen-
sation, 28-the doctrine of, deducible
by natural reasons, 40-a review of
the prejudices which have induced to
the belief that it was taught in the
Mosaic dispensation, 73-that taught
by natural religion to be distinguished
from that taught by the Christian
revelation, 74-its mention by Moses
and by succeeding writers to be dis-
tinguished, 77-a review of those
passages in scripture urged to prove
that it was taught in the Mosaic
dispensation, 131 - a list of texts
urged by the rabbins in proof of its
being taught under the Mosaic law,
150 an examination of the arguments
founded on the 11th chapter of the
Hebrews to show that it was taught by
Moses, 158 that it was not taught in
the Mosaic law, confirmed by the
authorities of Grotius, Episcopius,
Arnaud, and Bishop Bull, 167—Dr.
Rutherforth's opinion, of Moses not
being studious to conceal this doctrine,
examined, 291-not contained in the
Mosaic dispensation, 240-this omis.
sion a proof of its divine origin, 240
-brought to light by the gospel alone,
338 the origin and progress of that
opinion inquired into, 351-a free gift,
not a claim of right, 367
Gathered to the people, that phrase
explained, iii. 133
Gaul, ancient, inquiry into the deities of,
ii. 263
Geometry, on the origin of, ii. 288
Germany, ancient, Cæsar's account of the
gods of, ii. 399
Glycho, account of the Mysteries of, i. 282
God, note on the various opinions of the
human nature of, i. 389-examination
of Lord Bolingbroke's notions of the
divine attributes, 312-the disbelief of
a future state of rewards and punish-
ments founded by the Greek philoso-
phers on his immutability, 468-
whether endowed with human passions,
470 the distinction made by philoso-
phers between the good and the just,
471-a censure of those who estimate
his decrees by the standard of their
own ideas, ii. 56-the only means of
preserving the doctrine of his unity,
419
God of Israel, why he gave himself a
name to the Jews, ii. 299-the relation
in which he stood to the Jewish people,
433-why represented with human
affections, 435-not less benign to man
under the law, than under the gospel,
435-how considered by the neigh-
bouring nations, 339-his character as
the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Jacob, explained, and the mistakes
concerning this text pointed out, iii.
151
Gods of the pagans, bad consequences of
the vicious examples of, i. 204—who
they were, explained, 205-three sys-
tems concerning, 206-the fear of,
amongst the Romans, 408-the neces
sity of a fear of, to society, 411-how
so many immoralities came to be
recorded of them, ii. 239-account of
the origin of local tutelary ones in
Greece, from Plato, 261
Golden Ass of Apuleius, the moral of, i.
252 the foundation of that allegory,
294 the story of, 295
bough, in the Æneis, meaning of,
i. 251
calf, account of it omitted by
Josephus, iii. 58
Good, natural, requires human industry
to prepare and apply it, i. 340
Gospel, the moral precepts of, the same
with those of natural religion, i. 159—
no justification by works under, iii. 164
-its nature and genius considered, 339
Grace, inquiry into the system of, iii. 329
Grecian history, the accounts of Greek
historians no otherwise to be credited
than as corroborated by scripture, ii.
149 an inquiry into the validity of
their testimony concerning the anti-
quity of the Egyptian monarchy, 150
the confused chronology of the early
part of, remarked, 250
Greece, when dead men first began to
be deified there, i. 171-the learning
of, derived from Egypt, 422—much
given to speculative legislation, 422-
remarks on the species of philosophy
cultivated there, 423-the religion of,
traced down to its original, ii. 260—
what it borrowed from Egypt, 262-
the three distinguished periods in the
religion of, 271-charged by the
Egyptians with stealing their gods, 273
-ignorant of the use of cavalry at the
time of the Trojan war, 279
Greek philosophy, a twofold doctrine
taught in, external and internal, i. 416
-account of, from Macrobius, 418—
progress of, 422
Greenland women, their language a re-
finement on that of the men, ii. 385
Grey, Dr., his notions concerning the
book of Job controverted, iii. 93—
examination of his objections to the
author of the Divine Legation's ac-
count of the book of Job, 279
Grotius, his fatal misinterpretations of
the Jewish prophecies shown, iii. 230
Hades, its different senses in the Old and
New Testaments pointed out, iii. 68
Hagar, why she named the angel who
appeared to her Elroi, ii. 299
Halde, Du, his remarks on the style of
the Chinese language, ii. 216
Happiness, the pursuit of, not the obliga-
tion to morality, i. 138
Hare, Bishop, his tract on the difficulties
and discouragements which attend the
study of the scriptures misunderstood,
i. 79-character of him, ii. 108-his
censure of Josephus, 497
Hebrew, the uncertainty of that lan-
guage, iii. 271
alphabet, whence derived, ii.
207-when the points were added to
it, 208
Hebrews, the argument of St. Paul's
Epistle to, s'ated, ii. 159
Hecate of the Greeks, account of, i. 258
Heliopolis, the most famous college of
the ancient Egyptian priests, ii. 154—
the worship established there, 155
Hell, its different meanings in the Old
and in the New Testament, iii. 144
Hercules, story of his interview with
Jupiter, ii. 228-the ancient Egyptian
account why there were so many of
that name, 253
Heresies, Tertullian's account of the ori-
gin of, i. 502
Hermes Trismegistus, history of the
books forged in the name of, i. 497
Hero-worship, the origin of, traced, ii.
32-complicated in its rites, 32-
source of the low date of, 271
Herod, the cause of his supposing Jesus
to be John the Baptist risen from the
dead, explained, iii. 397
Herodotus, his opinion of the origin of
geometry, ii. 288
Heroes, lives of, compared, ii. 251
of antiquity, their characters
compounded of enthusiasm and craft,
ii. 22
Hetaria, (assemblies of the primitive
Christians,) the nature of, explained;
when and by whom suppressed, ii. 132
Hezekiah, the name he gave to the
brasen serpent accounted for, ii. 402—
detail of God's dealing with him, iii.
89
Hieroglyphics, the first essay towards
the art of writing, i. 173-found in
use amongst the Mexicans by the Spa-
niards, 173-found in Siberia, 175—
this picturesque method of expression
abridged by the Egyptians, 175-brief
view of their types and allusions, 175
-mythologic account of the origin of,
177-improved in the Chinese lan-
guage, 177-source of the different
genius of, from the Chinese characters,
180 stood for things, and not for
sounds, 183, 225-used by all nations,
183-how they came to be applied by
the Egyptians to conceal their learn-
ing, 190-their influence on language,
216 the origin of brute-worship, 223,
225 on the origin and progress of,
Hierophant of the mysteries, his office,
ii. 229
Hippocrates, his opinion of the Cnidian
Sentences, ii. 166-deductions from, as
to the ancient practice of physic, 166
-author of the dietetic part of medi-
cine, 169
Holy Spirit, inquiry into the nature,
office, and operations of the, iii. 317
Homer, excelled by Virgil in the descrip-
tion of Elysium, i. 274-his represent-
ations of the ancient Greek physicians
ascertained and accounted for, ii. 164
-whence he collected his materials,
400
Hooker, his sentiments of the practical
use of religion, ii. 48-his censure of
those who estimate the dispensations
of Providence by the test of their own
conceptions, 56
Horace, the double sense in his famous
ode, O navis, referent, &c., pointed
out, iii. 216
Horeb, consequences of the contract
there between God and the Jewish
people, ii. 433
Horses, not in use at the Trojan war, ii.
279-Egypt abounded with, before the
conquest of Libya, 280-Israelites for-
bid to fetch horses from Egypt, 281-
motives for the prohibition, 281-Solo-
mon's violation of the law punished,
282 Judea not a proper country for
the use or breeding of, 283
Hosea, his representation of the Jewish
idolatry, ii. 453
Huet, his conjectures of the corruption of
sacred history into Pagan fables, i. 438
Human sacrifices, the origin of, inquired
into, iii. 379-Bryant's opinion of the
origin of, exploded, 449-Voltaire's
opinion confuted, 451-the command
that none devoted shall be redeem-
ed," examined, 454
Hyde, Lord Chancellor, how brought
into disgrace, i. 86
Hymn, that sung by the Hierophants at
the celebration of the Eleusinian Mys
teries, pointed out, i. 217
Iapis, his character in Virgil not de-
signed for Antonius Musa, i. 287
Idolaters, the first intolerants, iii. 269
Idolatry, account of the rise of the three
species of, from Sanchoniatho, i. 212
-the progress of, traced, ii. 28-in-
quiry where idolatry was punished,
except under the Jewish economy, iii.
267
of the Assyrians, transplanted
into the Holy Land in the room of the
captive Jews, how punished, ii. 448— |
view of the early spread of, by Calmet,
iii. 51
-, Jewish, under what figures repre-
sented in the prophecies, ii. 403-the
extent of that crime, and how legally
punishable under the Jewish theo-
cracy, 434-never proceeding from
matters of conscience, 434-the sources
of, pointed out, 447-in what it con-
sisted, 449-454
Ignatius Loyola, remarks on his charac-
ter, ii. 5
Increase and multiply, that command
considered, iii. 342
Infanticide, remarks on the custom of,
among the ancients, &c., i. 264-on
the practice of, 396-the origin and
practice of, examined, iii. 379-the
origin and progress of, considered, 452
Infants, and men falsely condemned,
why consigned by Virgil to purgatory,
i. 263
Infernal regions, a comment on Virgil's
topography of, i. 262
Infidelity, propensity of the present age
to, i. 78-an indiscriminate aversion
to all the principles advanced by, ii.
145-prejudicial to the defence of true
religion, 146-the proper method of
disputing with, 146
Instinct in mankind, how different from
that quality in brutes, i. 142
Invocation of the dead, inquiry concern-
ing, iii. 292
Irony, ill consequences of the indiscrimi-
nate use of it, i. 92
Isaiah, his denunciations against the
Israelites for bringing horses from
Egypt, in violation of the Mosaic pro-
hibition, ii. 282-his representation of
the Jewish idolatry, 451, 452-double
senses, in his prophecies, explained,
iii. 222-his figurative prediction of
the gospel dispensation, 227
Isiac Table. See Bembine Table.
Isis, who, i. 299-why adopted by the
Athenians as the patroness of their
Mysteries, ii. 267-the several attri-
butes and characters ascribed to her,
268-the cause of her being worship-
ped under the figure of a galley, 366
Isis and Osiris, under what similitudes
worshipped, ii. 157—the patrons of the
primitive arts, 278 their Mysteries
described in Ezekiel's visions, 307
Israelites, why subject to few natural
diseases, ii. 161-forbid by their law
to fetch horses from Egypt, 281-this
law violated by Solomon, and punish-
ed, 282-treated by God as moral
agents, 324-Fleury's account of the
state of the arts among, in the time of
Moses, 388
Jablonski, notes on a passage in, contend-
ing that the Egyptian gods were not
dead men deified, i. 382
Jacob, his expressions to Pharaoh, Gen.
xlvii. 9, explained, iii. 139—his ejacu-
lation to his sons, Gen. xlix. 18, ex-
plained, 140-his wrestling with an
angel, what intended by, 185_shown
to be of a tolerating disposition, 269
Jamblichus, note on a passage of, i. 381
-his opinion of the ancient Mysteries,
310 his account of the origin of brute
worship controverted, ii. 233
James, his and St. Paul's account of
justification by faith reconciled, iii.
399
Jehovah, explanation of that name, ii.
300
Jephthah, the story of his vow consi-
dered, iii. 456
Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, the signs added
by them to illustrate their prophecies,
accounted for, ii. 185-his represent.
ation of the Jewish idolatry, 451—
a passage in, predictive of the new
dispensation, iii. 5-passages quoted
from, predictive of the new dispensa-
tion, 228
Jerusalem, the destruction of, as pro-
phesied by Christ figuratively, in a
literal sense importing the destruction
of the world, iii. 208
Jews, how differently represented by
Freethinkers, i. 96 their religion,
dogmatic theology, 365-why they
became hated by their neighbours, 366
-character of, by Tacitus, 368-how
long they continued ignorant of a
future state, ii. 56—their religion syl-
logistically proved to be supported by
an extraordinary providence, 57-a
summary view of their religious his-
tory, 62-observations on their ritual
or ceremonial law, 62-on the change
of dispensation, prophesied by Jere
miah and other prophets, 62-dedica-
tion of books iv. v. vi. to them, 93—
an examination into the motives which
withhold them from receiving Chris-
tianity, 95-arguments adapted to in-
validate them, 96—the subject of their
naturalization argued, 100—the repeal
of the Naturalization Bill justified, 102
the folly of deriving all arts, laws,
and religion from them, or denying
them the production of any, 147-fond
of Egyptian manners and superstitions,
298 their obstinate attachment to the
Egyptian customs and superstitions
historically traced, 302-their expul-
sion from Egypt by Pharaoh denied,
304-reproached in a signal manner
for their perverseness and disobedi-
ence, Ezekiel xx., 335-explanation of
this celebrated chapter, 337-their pro-
pensity to idolatry accounted for, 352
-under what figures their idolatry
was represented, 403-why their policy
was seldom understood, 418-in what
light their separation from the rest of
mankind is to be considered, 419-
summary view of deliverance from
Egypt in order to be separated, 429-
their theocracy established, 430--their
idolatry, not a rejection of the God of
Israel, 450-how long their theocratic
form of government subsisted, 468-
their first kings the viceroys of God,
468 when their theocratic govern-
ment was abolished, 476-at the com-
ing of the Messiah, 477-their igno-
rance of a future state under the
Mosaic dispensation illustrated by the
New-Testament writers, iii. 18-whe
ther subject to punishment in a future
state under the Mosaic dispensation,
41-how long they continued ignorant
of a future state, 68-whence their
obstinate adherence to their abolished
rites proceeds, 75-their history sup-
posed to be contained in the history of
Job, 93-a summary view of their
history, 95-the bad consequence of
their propensity toward marrying idol-
atrous women, 105-reflections on the
moral dispensations of God toward
them, 114-totally ignorant of a future
state under the Mosaic dispensation,
250, 258
Job, book of, a critical inquiry into, iii.
78-a dramatic composition, 79-when
written, 84, 93, 94-observations on
the imagery of, 86-a continual allu-
sion to the Mosaic law throughout, 91
-the language of, compared to that
of the American Indians, 93—the pur-
pose of its composition pointed out, 97
-examination of the characters in the
piece, 98, 108, 118-supposed to con-
tain the history of the Jews, 99—alle-
gory of the story explained, 99-
reflections on the character of Satan,
112 inquiry concerning the author,
122-supposed to have been written
by Ezra, 122-inquiry whether "I
know that my Redeemer liveth," &c.,
refers to a resurrection, or temporal
deliverance only, 123-examination of
Grey's objections to the author of the
Divine Legation account of the, 279
-inquiry into the antiquity of, 288-
appendix concerning the, 267
Job, his real existence asserted, iii. 83-
his exemplary patience not founded on
his written story, 98-reflections on
the character of his wife, 103-reflec-
tions on the character of his friends,
108, 118 his persecution renewed by
modern critics, 273-inquiry whether
he put away his wife, 288-his opinion
of providence inquired into, 289
Joel, the double senses in his prophecy
pointed out, iii. 206, 209
John the Baptist, his mission and cha-
racter explained, iii. 396
Joseph, prime minister of Egypt, married
to a daughter of the priest of On, ii.
155 vindicated from the charge of
rendering the government of Egypt
despotic, 172-inference drawn from
his entertainment of his brethren, con-
cerning the use of animal food in
Egypt, 286-procures the property of
all the land for Pharaoh, 287-did
not make the government of Egypt
despotic, 385-an eminent instance of
the strength of natural affection, iii. 81
Josephus, his character of the Jewish
religion, with a reference to the pagan
Mysteries, i. 211-defended from the
charge of disbelieving the miracles he
relates, ii. 493-the circumstances
under which he wrote his history, 494
his deviations from scripture ac-
counted for, 495
Joshua, clear state of the debate between
him and the Jewish people on the
article of worship, ii. 450
Jotham's parables, an instance of instruc-
tion by apologue or fable, ii. 188-
observations on the story of, 378
Judaism, its characteristic distinction
from all other religions, ii. 141
Judea, not a proper country for the use
of cavalry in, ii. 283-Voltaire's ac-
count of, examined, 425
Judgment, Christ's account of it exa-
mined, iii. 401
of Hercules, an allegoric piece
to excite the youth of Greece to virtue,
iii. 286
Julian, emperor, his observations on the
double doctrines of the Greek philo-
sophers, i. 454-the miracle of his
being defeated in his attempt to re-
build the temple, considered, iii. 419
Jupiter, only one deity, though known
by many local tutelar appellations, i.
397-a local deity, ii. 142-the sto-
ries of his adulteries founded in truth,
240
Ammon, moral of the Egyptian
fable concerning, i. 194
Justice, the pure stream of, in England,
ii. 191
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