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Grindal's great efteem of him, 160. Much honoured by Archbishop Whitgift, 182. His judicious caveat against the abufe of pedeftination, 239. His book of Institutes highly valued by the English bishops, univerfities, and clergy, 304. 313. Falfely charged with terming reprobation an horrible decree, 352 353.

Calvinim, the prevailing fyftem under Edward VI. Elizabeth and James, i. xx. ii. 143. 2-9 311. Extremely odious to the church of Rome, i. xxxiii. Why Laud ftrove to fmother it, 68. Acknowledged by our adverfaries themselves to be the fyftem of our English Reformers, i. 244. 248. ii. 144. 244. v. 36, 37. Does not countenance moral remiffness, ii. 51. 125, 126. By whom first publicly oppofed in the church of England, fince the reformation, ii. 170. When and why flandered with the name of Puritanifm, 217. 345. Vindicated as the doctrine of the church of England, in a letter of Mr. Toplady's to Dr. Nowel, v. 10, &c. Calvinists (Doctrinal) why difcountenanced by Charles I. i. To whom we are indebted for the name, 158. note. Why perfecuted by the church of Rome, 221. Were cruelly perfecuted in Holland, by the firft Arminians there, ii. 220. Calvino Turcifmus, fome account of a Popish book fo entitled, i.

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215. note. Answered by Dr. Sutcliffe, Dean of Exeter, ibid. Cambridge, univerfity of, complains of, and profecutes Barro the Pelagian, i. 170, 171. Her zeal to vindicate the honour of Bucer and Fagius, ii. 189. See Universities.

Camden, Mr. his account of the Familifts, i. 104, 105. His oblique fling at the Arminians, 104. His character of Bp. Carleton, ii. 265. note.

Campneys, a very hot Free-will-man, fome account of him, ii. 184. Smartly taken to task by Veron and Crowley, 185. Candour, a diftin&tion concerning it, i. xii. xiii. Mr. Wesley the worfe for being treated with it. ibid.

Cannon, Doctor, a very fly divine, ii. 177.

Canterbury and Geneva, well agreed in the fixteenth century, ii. 48. 156. 164, 165.

Canute, his reign, death and burial, ii. 383.

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II. fuppofed to have died in a ftate of inebriety, ii. 383. Cardan (Jerom) his account of Edward VI. i. 58-60. markable inftance of that philofopher's integrity, ibid. Cardmaker, Mr. John, the martyr, ii. 41. Careless, Mr. John, dies in prison for the Proteftant faith, ii. 52, 60. Examined concerning predeftination, by the Popish commiffary, ii. 52, 53. Extracts from his inestimable letters, 54-59: In his eftimation, free-will and pharifeeifm are reciprocal, 56.

Carleton, Dr. George, Bishop of Chichester, afferts the divine rights of epifcopacy in the fynod of Dort, ii. 154, 155. note. Imputes the rampancy of Arminianifm in Holland to the want of bishops there, 155. His teftimony to the Calvinism

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of the church of England, 210. Sent by K. James to the fynod of Dort, 244, 245. His particular department while there, 262. His converfation with the heads of the Arminian party in Holland, 252. Denies univerfal redemption to be a doctrine of the church of England, 265. note. Other particulars concerning him, ibid. and fome account of him, iv. 55. Caftalio, Sebaftian, fome account of him, ii. 139, 140. A book of his in behalf of free-will and perfection, gives great offence in England, 140, 141.

Catechifm, the, afcribed to Bp. Ponet, enjoined to be taught by all schoolmasters in the English dominions, i. 54. 257. Received and fubfcribed to by the Proteftants throughout England, 63. The Papifts very angry at it, ii. 134. Extracts from it, i. 255-257. Subfcribed by Cranmer, 250, 251. And by Ridley, ibid. And by the fame convocation which fettled the articles of religion in Edward's time, ibid. Appears to have been drawn up by the reformers themselves, 251. note. Bp. Ridley on his trial at Oxford, publicly acknowledged that he himself had an hand in compiling it, 250. 252. Had the authority both of church and ftate for its fanction, 253. Evidently defigned as an amplification of the articles of religion, ibid. A most remarkable conceffion of Heylyn concerning it, 253, 254. Bp. Ridley's high efteem of it, 259, 260. Published and bound up with the book of articles, 251. note. and 252. note. An edition of it printed in Latin, that foreigners might know on, and to what principles our church. was reformed from Popery, 250. Revived in the reign of Elizabeth, and approved of by the fame convocation which fettled our prefent 39 Articles, ii. 133-138. What are the doctrines of it, v. 56.

Caufton, Mr. Thomas, the martyr, ii. 31.

Cave, Dr. his account of Pelagianifm, i. iii. His high encomium on the Stoical morality, i. 330, 331.

Caveat against unfound doctrines, undauntedly displayed, iii. 6. &c.

Chair, A stone one, in Westminster Abbey, reported by tradition, to be the fame that ferved Jacob for a pillow, ii. 404. Chance, in what fenfe that term was used by our old divines, i. 278, 279. ii. 117. Mr. Chambers's obfervations on, v. 173. note. The mere creature of fancy, vi. 90. If it mean any thing, it means uncertainty of event, ibid. A very comfortlefs doctrine, 91.

Charles I. account of the state of religion in his reign, i. xxxiv. XXXV. 72. Why he favoured the progrefs of Popery, i. 68. Came to the crown at a very unfavourable juncture, ii. 283. Reflections on certain circumftances of inconlitency which attended his zeal against predeftination, 294.

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Charles II.

Charles II. Why he fpared John Goodwin from, hanging,
i. xxxix. xl. Turrettin's character of that prince, ii. 328.
Charles XII. his unconcernedness in danger, iv. 156.
Charnock, Mr. Stephen, character of, ii. 327.

V. 271. note. Quoted, vi. 66. note. 77. note.
Treatife on the Divine Attributes, 66. note.

An extract from,

His admirable

Chesterfield, Lord, a fummary of his moral and religious creed, iv. 478. His Letters what. His ftyle inaccurate and de

fultory, vi. 230. His character of Dr. Johnson, 260. inftance of his diffimulation, 261.

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Chicanery of Dr. Nowel, expofed, v. 34. Chrift's agony and crucifixion, a ftriking defcription of, iii. 78. &c. Subjection to the Father in what refpect, 427. Blood and righteoufnefs, a fign whereby to know if we have an happy intereft in them, 410.

Chriftianity, myfterious, as alfo every object around us, iii. 64, &c.

Christmas meditation, iii. 39.
Chronology of England, ii. 369.

Church, definitions of, i. 73. 92, 93. 142. 145. 160. 181. 222, 223. 257. ii. 39. 43. 137

Church, (primitive) the doctrines of grace not opposed in it, till the rife of Pelagius, i. 110-113, 114-116.

Church of England, her condition under Edward the VIth. ii. 19, 311. Agrees with the Swifs confeffion of faith, ii. 130. Confidered the Free-willers, as the most inveterate of her enemies, 147. Her high Calvinifm, 143, 208-210. Maintains the final perfeverance of the elect, 226-307. Her forlorn condition during the ufurpation, 326. How far reftored by Charles the Second, 328, 329. Was not reformed on Arminian principles, 341. Remarks on the present state of, 354, 355. Vindicated in a letter to Dr. Nowel, v. 34. &c.

Chryfoftom, St. a frequent and favourite faying of his, vi. 66. Cicero, his definition of fortune, or chance, vi. 19.

Circumftantials, in religion, ought not to occafion a fufpenfion of brotherly affections, iii. 338. Illuftrated also by a note of the late Rev. Mr. Ryland, ibid.

Claydon, Mr. the martyr, i. 222.

Cleanthes, the Stoic philofopher, his fine verfes concerning fate, i. 328, 329.

Clemens Romanus, i. 122. Extracts from his ift. epiftle to the Co rinthians, 123-128.

Clement, Mr. Johr, the martyr, ii. 93. Employed by his brother martyrs to draw up a confeffion of faith, as a standing monument of their univerfal agreement in the doctrines of grace, 94. An extract from that confeffion, 97. Some particulars concerning himself, 102. His remains buried in the fame dunghill with thofe of Mr. Careless and Mr. Adheral,

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Clergy,

Clergy, of the church of England, an humble addrefs to them, ii. 356. 357. The complicated guilt of fuch of them as feek to fubvert her doctrines, i. 261. note. The encreafing contempt of the clergy accounted for, ii. 363.

Clerical fubfcription no grievance, iii. 131. &c.

Cobham, Lord, fell a facrifice to the bigotry and craft of the
Romish ecclefiaftics, i. 210-212. Cruel manner of his exe-
cution, 212, 213. Was a difciple of Wickliffs, 213.
Cole, Mr. Thomas, obfervations from, iii. 227.

Coleman-Street, John Goodwin's meeting houfe there, the head
quarters of the Fifth-monarchy-men, i. xxxvi. Two of thofe
rebels hung in that street before the door of the faid Good-
win's meeting house, xxxviii.
Colfians, i. 24. Explained, ii. 36.
Colour, not a real property in matter, vi. 118,
whence our ideas of it refult, 119, 120.
Communion with God, how to be attained, iii.
remedy against undue fears, 358.

119. 124. From

132, 133.

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The grand

Compulfion, not inferrible from the efficacy of divine grace, i. 156. Diftinguishable and different from certainty of event,

vi. 20.

Confeffion, a public, of Mr. Toplady, iii. 18, 19.

Confeffional, author of, his remark on the Calviniftic articles of the church of England, i. 93. His just rebuke of Arminian fubfcription to thofe articles, 93, 94. note. Is rather uncandid to the fynod of Dort, ii. 260. note. Menaces the bishops with a probable overthrow of the hierarchy, ii. 359, 360. Conftance, council of, their maxim, i. 158. Their treachery in condemning Dr. Hufs to the flames, ibid. Confideration on that remarkable paffage in Hebrews, vi. 4, 5, 6.

Confubftantiation, Lutheran doctrine of, ii. 334.

Conteniment, a confequence of faith in predeltination, i. 276278.

Conflitution, English, thoughts thereon, iii. 301.
Controverfy, in what refpect friendly to truth, v. 333.
Converfation with an eminent philofopher, iii. 168.

Converfion to faith and good works, the grand evidence of election, i. 273, 274. Can be accomplished only by God, 282-284. Converfion when taken place on earth, the event immediately known in heaven, iii. 246, 247. A remarkable one, iv. 182. Spiritual, an effect of neceffitating grace, vi. 69. 85.

Co-operation, Popish doctrine of, ii. 198.

Corke, a bishop of, his fulfome adulation to Charles I. and Laud, i. 67. note.

Corvinus, not a ftedfaft Arminian, ii. 252. Lamented his having been drawn in by that faction, 253.

Coverdale, Dr. Miles, Bp. of Exeter, ii. 78. 110.

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Cowper, Dr. Thomas, Bp. of Winchefter, his high character of Nowel's catechifm, ii. 135, 136.

the poet, an extract from, iv. 137.

Cox, Bp. of Ely, who had been tutor to Edward VI. draws up a paper of advice to Queen Elizabeth, concerning the Freewill-men, ii. 146. Cranmer, Archbishop, his gradual advances in divine knowledge, i. 249. Subfcribed to Ponet's catechifm, 250, 251. Was probably concerned in compofing that catechifm, ibid. Further evidences of his Calvinifm, 258, 259. note. ii. 111-113. Challenges the whole body of Popish divines, after the acceffion of Queen Mary, i. 258. His tender emotions at feeing Ridley and Latimer led to execution, 259. His new edition of Tyndal's Bible, ii. 109-112. Two other editions of the Bible, in which he was concerned, 112, 113.

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Craven, Lord, his diftruft of providence, iv. 147.

Crefy, the famous battle of, ii. 409.

Crifp, Dr. a valuable quotation from, iii. 223. note.

Cromwell, (Oliver) flattered and over-reached by John Goodwin, i. xxxviii. xxxix. Imprifons Mr. Prynne for his loyalty, ii. 300. note. A few thoughts on his character, vi. 192.

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DANES, maffacre of the, ii. 381.

Davenant, Dr. John, Bp. cf Salisbury, afferts unconditional predeftination to be a doctrine of the church of England, ii. 208-210. 291. Maintains the neceffary inferibility of reprobation from the 17th Article, 209. Attends at Dort as a member of the fynod, 244, 245. The branch of controverfy allotted to him there, 262. Subftance of his fermon before Charles I. 289, 290. For which he is called to account, 289.293. His converfation afterwards with the king, 294. His view of the neceffity of prayer from the certainty of predeftination, v. 306. note.

Davenport, Francis, tries to reconcile the 39 Articles of the church of England, with the decifions of Trent, ii. 325. David, his fublime tafte, iii. 107.

Death, a beautiful confideration thereon, iii. 124, 125. 323. 342. Gradual or fudden, which to be preferred, iv. 127, 128. Of infants, owing to Adam's tranfgreffion, iii. 360. A foretaste of it experienced, and found not to be fo terrible as was apprehended, 387. A grand remedy againft it, 388. Not to be dreaded, 343. Cannot detain our mortal part, 323. Defined, vi. 18. Why the Romans called it fatum, 77. The act of God's particular providence, 82. 87. A fudden one granted, iv. 180. The death of Chrift abfolutely predeftinated, i. 19. 279. vi. 21. note. 42. 67, 68. Intrinfically

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