Gildas, his account of the Britons, elect- ing and deposing their kings, ii. 23. His bad character of the Britons, 229, 246. After two eminent successes, 262. Gill, Alexander, letters to, iii. 488, 489. 491.
Glorification, either imperfect, or per- fect, iv. 364. Imperfect, described, 365. How St. Paul traces it, ib. Of perfect, 475. When it will commence, ib. In what it will consist, 491. Will be ac- companied by the renovation of heaven and earth, 493.
GOD, OF THE Knowledge of, iv. 1. But few who deny his existence, 14. Some pretend that nature or fate is God, ib. No gain to them by their theory, 15. Proofs of the existence of, ib. Right thoughts of, how to be obtained, 16. What must be understood by knowing,ib. Not to be conceived of, with reference to human passions, 17. Is not in fashion like unto man, 19. Impossible to com- prehend the nature of, 20. The names and attributes of, ib. Truth an attri- tribute of, 21. Is in his most simple nature a spirit, 20. His immensity and infinity, 22. Eternity of, ib. His im- mutability, 24. His incorruptibility, ib. His omnipresence, ib. His omni- potence, ib. His unity, 25. Attributes which show the Divine power and ex- cellence, vitality, intelligence, under which is classed omniscience, 27. regards His will, infinitely pure and holy, most gracious, true and faithful, 28. Is also just, 29. What necessa- rily springs from the attributes of, ib. As much revealed of the Divine glory as can be comprehended, ib. Must be styled wonderful and incomprehensible, ib. Efficiency of, what it is, 30. The decrees of, general or special, ib. De- creed nothing absolutely which he left in the power of free agents, 31. The will of, the first cause of all things, 39. The decree of, not the cause of his foreknowledge, ib. Excludes none from the pale of repentance till propositions of sufficient grace are despised, 69. Is one ens, not two, 86. But one true, in- dependent, and supreme God, 87. The name of, not unfrequently ascribed to angels, 107. To judges, 109. Testi- mony of, respecting the Son, 147. Folly to inquire into the actions of, before the foundation of the world, 170. God the Father the primary and efficient cause of all things, 176. Did not produce everything out of nothing, 181.
Of the providence of God, 196. His general government, ib. Wherein it consists, ib. His government over the smallest objects, 199. Does not extend an equal share of his providential care!
to all things indiscriminately, ib. In what way God is concerned in the pro- duction of evil, 200. Not in the smallest instance the author of sin, 202. His Special Government, 213. Of angels, ib. As regards the Fall of man. 253. God's method of justice, 256. The ultimate object of faith, 340.
OF THE WORSHIP OF GOD, v. 1. Of our duty towards Him, v. 18. Godwin, earl of Kent, aud the West- Saxons, stand for Hardecnute, v. 368. He betrays prince Elfred to Harold, ib. Being called to account by Hardecnute, appeases him with a very rich present, 370. Earnestly exhorts Edward to take upon him the crown of England, 372. Marries his daughter to king Edward, 373. Raises forces in opposition to the French, whom the king favoured, 376. Is banished, 377. He and his sons grow formidable, 379. Coming up to London with his ships, a reconcilia- tion is suddenly made between him and the king, ib. Sitting with the king at table, he suddenly sinks down dead, 380.
Gomer, the eldest son of Japhet, believed the first that peopled these west and northern climes, v. 166.
Gonorill, gains upon her father king Leir, by dissimulation, v. 176. Is married to Maglaunus duke of Albania, ib. Her ingratitude to her father, 177. Good works, description of, v. 2. How per- formed, ib. The results of, 45. Their opposite, 9. The proximate causes of,
Gorbogudo, or Gorbodego, succeeds Kin- marcus in the kingdom, v. 178. Gorbonian, succeeds Morindus in the king- dom, v. 181. His justice and piety,
Gospel, the, more favourable than the law, iii. 221. Imposes no subjection to tyranny, i. 60, &c. Not contrary to reason and the law of nations, 69. Knowledge of the one true God derived from, iv. 87. The object of, ib. Our de- pendence should chiefly be placed on,129. Described, 382. The new dispensation, 383. More excellent and perfect than the law, ib. Announced by Moses and the Prophets, 384. Written in the hearts of believers, ib. Ordained to continue to the end of the world, 385. Its promises and threatenings, 384, 385. To be preached in every nation, 386. On its introduction the Mosaic law abolished, 387.
Government, the reasons of its first esta- blishment, ii. 9. Kingly, the conse- quences of readmitting it, i. 327.
given to all, iv. 66. Definition of, Of the manifestation of the cove-
nant of, 377. Kingdom of, began with the first advent of Christ, 485. Grammar, Latin, what it is, v. 433. Gratianus Funarius, the father of Valen- tinian,commander-in-chief of the Roman armies in Britain, v. 229.
Gratitude and its opposites, v. 21, 134. Gravity and its opposites, v. 123, 124. Gregory, archdeacon of Rome, and after- ward pope, procures the sending over of abbot Austin and others to preach the gospel to the Saxons in this island, v.269. Gregory of Nyssa's treatise on the soul, iv. 190.
Griffin, prince of South Wales, committing
great spoil in Hereford, is pursued by Harold earl of Kent, v. 381. After a peace concluded he breaks his faith. and returns to hostility, 382. Is again reduced, ib. Harold brings the Welsh to submission, ib. Lurking about the country, he is taken and slain by Griffin, prince of North Wales, 383. Griffith, Dr., brief notes on his sermon, ii. 354, &c. Moves to be admitted phy- sician to church and state, 354. His address to the general, ib. Compared to Dr. Manwaring, 256. His geogra- phical and bistorical mistakes, 358. Grotius, his observations concerning di- vorce, iii. 251-255. His opinion con- cerning it, 413.
Guendolen, the daughter of Corineus, is married to Locrine the son of Brutus, v. 174. Being divorced by him, gives him battle, wherein he is slain, ib. Causes Estrildis, whom Locrine had married, to be thrown into a river with her daughter Sabra, ib. Governs 15 years for her son Madan, ib.
Gueniver, the wife of Arthur, kept from him in the town of Glaston, by Melvas a British king, v. 259.
Guiderius, said to have been the son of Cunobeline, and slain in a battle against Claudius, v. 202.
Guitheline, succeeds his father Gurgun- tius Barbirus in the kingdom, v. 181. Gunhildis, the sister of Swane, with her husband earl Palingus, and her young son, cruelly murdered, v. 351. Guorangonus, a king of Kent, before it was given to the Saxons, v. 250. Guortimer, the son of Vortigern, endea- vours to drive out the Saxons, v. 251. His success against them, ib. Dying he commands his bones to be buried in the port of Stonar, 252. Gurguntius Barbirus, succeeds Belinus in the kingdom, overcomes the Dane, and gives encouragement to Bartholinus, a Spaniard, to settle a plantation in Ire- land, v. 180. Another ancient British king named Gurguntius, 183.
Gurgustius, succeeds Rivallo in the king- dom, v. 178.
Gyrtha, son of earl Godwin, accompanies his father into Flanders, together with his brothers Tosti and Swane, v. 377. His noble advice to his brother Harold as he was ready to give battle to duke William of Normandy, 390. Is slain in the battle, with his brother Harold and Leofwin, 391.
Gytro, or Guthrun, a Danish king, bap- tized by the name of Athelstan, and received out of the font by king Alfred, v. 321. The kingdom of the East- Angles said to be bestowed on him to hold of Alfred, ib.
Hamborough, letters to the senate of that city, ii. 200, 202, 209, 215, 222, 288, 299, 300. Hanse Towns, letter to them from the English commonwealth, ii, 222. Hardecnute, the son of Canute by Emma, called over from Bruges, and received as king, v. 370. He calls Godwin and others to account about the death of Elfred, ib. Enraged at the citizens of Worcester for killing his tax-gatherers, he sends an army against them, and burns the city, 371. Kindly receives and entertains his half-brother Edward, ib. Eating and drinking hard at a feast, he dies, and is buried at Winchester, ib. Was a great epicure, ib. Hardness of heart, permitted to wicked men, iii. 287, iv. 207.
Harold, surnamed Harefoot, the son of Canute, elected king by duke Leofric and the Mercians, v. 368. He banishes his mother-in-law Emma, ib. His per- fidiousness and cruelty towards Elfred the son of Ethelfred, ib. He dies, and is buried at Winchester, 870. Harold, son of Godwin, made earl of Kent, and sent against prince Griffin of Wales, v. 381. He reduces him at last to the utmost extremity, ib. Being cast upon the coast of Normandy, and brought to duke William, he promises his endea- vours to make him king of England, 384. He takes the crown himself, 386. Puts off duke William, demanding it, with a slighting answer, 387. Is invaded by his brother Tosti, ib. By Harold Harfager, king of Norway, whom he utterly overthrows and slays, together with Tosti, 388. Is invaded by duke William of Normandy, 289. Is over- thrown at the battle of Hastings, and slain together with his two brothers Leofwin and Gyrtha, 391.
Hartlib, Mr. tract of education, addressed to him, iii. 462.
Hatred. in some cases a religious duty, v. 101.
Hayward, his account of the liturgy in Edward VI.'s time, iii. 52. Heart, the, hardening of, the last punish- ment inflicted on inveterate wickedness in this life, iv. 207. The wicked fully. co-operate in the hardening of, 208. Heaven, not eternal, iv. 183. Of the blessed, situated in the highest heaven, ib.
Heavenly bodies, their study not unlawful, v. 58.
Heimbach, Peter, letters to, iii. 511, 521. Heli, an ancient British king, v. 183. Hell, the place of punishment, its locality, iv. 490.
Help-meet, the meaning of that word, iii. 332.
Helvius, Pertinax, succeeds Ulpius Mar- cellus in the government of Britain, v. 222.
Hemingius, his definition of marriage,
Herodotus, his account of the behaviour of the Egyptians to their kings, i. 119. Hertford, built or repaired by king Ed- ward, the son of Alfred, v. 328. Hesse, William, Landgrave of, Oliver's letter to him, ii. 293. Heth, Richard, iii. 505.
Hewald, two priests of that name, cruelly butchered by the Saxons, whom they went to convert, v. 292. Hierarchy, as dangerous to the crown as a tetrarchy, or heptarchy, ii. 405. Hinguar and Hubba, two Danish brethren, how they got foot by degrees in Eng- land, v. 315, 316.
Hirelings, the likeliest means to remove them out of the church, iii. 3, &c. Judas the first, Simon Magus the next hire- ling, 5. How to be discovered, 35. Soon frame themselves to the opinions of their paymasters, 38. Are the cause of atheism, 39.
Histion, said to be descended of Japhet, and to have had four sons who peopled the greatest part of Europe, v. 167.
iii. 343. His opinion concerning di-Historians, English, defective, obscure, and vorce, 428.
Hengist and Horsa, with an army, land in the Isle of Thanet, v. 249. Hengist gains advantages of Vortigern, by marrying his daughter to him, 250. Takes on him the kingly title, 253. His several bat- tles against the Britons, ib. His trea- cherous slaughter of three hundred British grandees under pretence of treaty, 254. His death, 255. His race ends with Alric, 302. Henninus, duke of Cornwall, marries Re- gan, daughter of king Leir, v. 176. Henry II., reigned together with his son, i. 162.
Henry VIII, on what account he began the reformation in this kingdom,| iii. 266.
Herebert, a Saxon earl, slain with most part of his army, by the Danes, at Mereswar, v. 310.
Heresy, according to the Greek, not a word of evil note, ii. 527. The word ex- plained, ib.
Heresy, or false religion defined, ii. 310. Popery the greatest heresy, ib. Heretic, an idolatrous one, ought to be di- vorced, after a convenient space allowed for conversion, iii. 199. He who follows the Scripture to the best of his know- ledge, no heretic, ii. 528. Who properly one, ib.
Heretics, agreement with them when they agree with Scripture, iv. 9.
Herod, a great zealot for the Mosaic law, iii. 396. Taxed of injustice by our] Saviour, i, 6.
Herod and Herodias, the story of them from Josephus, iii. 371.
History, remarks on writing, iii. 515. Of Britain, v. 164.
Holiness, of the saints, imperfect, iv. 346. Holland, states of, abjured obedience to king Philip of Spain, iii. 27. Letters from Oliver to, 284, 307. Holstein, Luke, letter to, ii. 498. Holy Scriptures, the sole foundation for Christian doctrine, iv. 8, 11, 445. Their whole tenor prove the existence of God, 15. They contain nothing unsuitable to the character or dignity of God, 17. Teach that God decreed nothing absolutely which he left in the power of free agents, 31. Of what they consist, 437. written for occasional purposes, 438. Their use prohibited to no one, 439. Plain and free opinions in all things necessary to salvation, 440. Only ob- scure to those who perish, 442. No pas- sage to be interpreted in more than one sense, ib. The requisites for the public interpretation of, 443. Every believer has a right to interpret, ib. Holy Spirit, of the, iv. 150. See Spirit. Homer, quotation from, iv. 77. Honorius, the emperor, sends aid twice to the Britons, against their northern in- vaders, v. 241. Honour, v. 111.
Hope, arises from faith, iv. 342.
from faith, ib. Described, v. 20. Its opposites, 21. Proper regulation of, 81. Horsa, the brother of Hengist, slain in the Saxons' war against the Britons, v. 252. His burial-place gave name to Horsted, a town in Kent, 253.
Horsey, Jorom, agent in Russia, v. 428.
Hotham, Sir John, proclaimed a traitor by king Charles, i. 371. Vindicated by the parliament, 372. The king's remarks on his fatal end, 374-378. Hull, reasons for the parliament's securing that place, i. 371. Petition to remove that magazine to London, ib. Humanity, v. 101.
Humbeanna and Albert, said by some to have shared the kingdom of the East- Angles, after one Elfwald, v. 306. Humber, river, whence named, v. 173. Humility and its opposites, v. 23. Huss and Luther, the reformers before them called the Poor Men of Lyons, iii. 24. Husband, or wife, whether at liberty to marry again, iii. 308.
Hypostasis, definition of, iv. 22, 291. Hypostatic union, the, iv. 290. The two natures of Christ considered as, v. 20. See Son of God.
Jacob and Esau, case considered, iv. 70. How God evinced his love to Jacob, 72. Jago, or Lago, succeeds his uncle Gurgus- tius in the kingdom, v. 178.
Jah, a contraction of Jehovah, iv. 20. Its signification, ib.
James I., his behaviour after the powder plot, i. 413. Compared with Solomon, 58. Jave, meaning of, iv. 21.
Icenians, and Trinobantes, rise up in arms against the Romans, v. 208. Ida, the Saxon, begins the kingdom of Bernicia in Northumberland, v. 262. Idolatry, brought the heathen to heinous transgressions, ii. 519. In what it con-- sists, v. 51. The error of the Papists, 54. To abstain from all things and per- sons connected with idolatrous worship, 55. As to whether it be lawful for a professor of the true religion to be pre- sent at idol-worship, ib.
Idols, according to the papists, great means to stir up pious thoughts and devotion,
Idwallo, learns by his brother's ill success to rule well, v. 183. Jehovah, one of the names of God, iv. 20. cannot be expressed in Greek letters, ib. With what vowels points should be pronounced, 21. Christ is sometimes called, 119. Sometimes assigned to two persons in the same sentence, 121. An angel called, 123.
Jeroboam's episcopacy, a parti-coloured and party-membered one, ii. 458.
viour in relation to Fabiola, i'i. 293. His explanation of Matt. xix. 410.
Jews, had no more right than Christians to a dispensation of the law relating to divorce, iii. 229. Did not learn the cus- tom of divorce in Egypt, 378. Their behaviour to their kings, &c. i. 89. Their rejection by God considered, iv.72. Ignatius, epistles attributed to him full of corruptions, ii. 426. Directs honouring the bishop before the king, 427. His opinion no warrant for the superiority of bishops over presbyters, 428. Ignorance and ecclesiastical thraldom, cau- tion against them, iii. 314.
Immanuel, duke of Savoy, Oliver's letter to him in favour of his protestant sub- jects, ii. 249.
Immanuentius slain by Cassibelan, v. 195. Immensity, an attribute of God, iv. 22. Immin, Eaba, and Eadbert, noblemen of
ercia, throw off Oswi, and set up Wol- fer, v. 387.
Immutability, an attribute of God, iv. 24. Imperfect glorification, iv. 364. Imprimaturs, the number of them neces- sary for the publication of a book where the inquisition is established, ii. 61. Ina, succeeds Kedwalla in the kingdom of the West-Saxons, v. 292. Marches into Kent to demand satisfaction for the burning of Mollo, ib. Is pacified by Victred with a sum of money, and the delivering up of the accessories, ib. Vanquishes Gerent, king of Wales, 293. Slays Kenwulf and Albright, and van- quishes the East-Angles, 294. Dies at Rome, ib.
Incarnation of Christ, considered as a mys- tery, iv. 289. Great caution required in treating on it, ib. Consists of two parts, 296.
Incest, degrees of affinity which consti- tute, determined by the law of God, iv. 238.
Incorruptibility, an attribute of God, iv. 24. Increase, operated in the regenerate, iv. 347. Spiritual, in the power of the re- generate, ib. Of external, 350. Of in- crease which has reference to the Father and Son conjointly, 361, 364. Independents, their tenets, i. 17. Com- mended for their firmness, 193. flected on by Salmasius, ib. Their su- periority over the other parties, 265. Industry, v. 91.
Infants, difficulty as to God's visiting the iniquities of fathers upon, solved, iv. 257. Not to be baptized, 405. Infinity, an attribute of God, iv. 22.
Jerome, St., his opinion, that custom only Inniaunus, deposed for his ill courses, v. was the maker of prelaty, ii, 458. An- 183.
selm of Canterbury, of the same opi-Innocence, v. 109.
nion, ib. Said to be whipped by the Integrity, v. 128.
devil for reading Cicero, 64. His beha-Intelligence, an attribute of God, iv. 27.
Invisible Church, the, whence it results, iv., Julius Agricola, the emperor's lieutenant 363.
Invocation, what are included under, v. 30.
Of saints and angels forbidden, 55. The subterfuges by which the papists de- fend the worship of saints and angels, 56. The tempting of God, ib. Of de- vils, 57.
Job, the book of, a brief model of the epic | poem, ii. 478.
John the Baptist, in what sense called an angel, iii. 76. Prophecy concerning, iv. 129.
His testimony respecting Christ, 148. His baptism the same as the bap- tism of Christ, 411. Did not confer the gifts of the Spirit, 412.
John, King, why deposed by his barons, ii. 182.
John III, elected king of Portugal, his en- comium, iii. 479.
John IV, king of Portugal, letters to him, complaining of the taking and plunder- ing English vessels, ii. 205, 206. Com- plimented by the council of state for favours received from him, 208. Letters to him from Oliver, 267, 272, 279, 280, 285, 287, 321. From Richard the pro- tector, 330.
Jones, Colonel Michael, his letter to the earl of Ormond, ii. 172.
Jones, Richard, letters to, ii. 511, 513, 517, 521.
Joseph of Arimathea, said to have first preached the Christian faith in this island, v. 221.
Josephus, his opinion that aristocracy is the best form of government, i. 34. Jovinus sent deputy into this island by the emperor Valentinian, v. 230. Joy, how to be regulated, v. 80. Ireland inhabited and named Scotia by the Scots, before the north of Britain had that name, v. 233.
Irenæus, cited to prove that Polycarp was made bishop of Smyrna by the apostles, ii. 428. His testimony, when a boy, con- cerning bishops, as a superior order to presbyters, not to be regarded, ib. His absurd notions of Eve and the Virgin Mary, 430. If the patron of episcopacy to us, he is the patron of idolatry to the papists, ib.
Iric, a Dane, made earl of Northumber- land, v. 364. He is said by some to have made war against Malcolm, king of Scots, 365. His greatness suspected by Canute, he is banished the realm, ib. Isaac, not a like degree of mercy granted to all the posterity of, iv. 71. Israelites, their estrangement from God their own voluntary act, iv. 41. Judgments, for what cause sent, unknown to man, i. 468.
Julian, the apostate, forbad Christians the study of heathen learning, ii. 63.
in Britain, almost extirpates the Ordo- vices, v. 213. Finishes the conquest of the Isle of Mona, ib. His justice and prudence in government, ib. He brings the Britons to civility, arts, and an imi- tation of the Roman fashions, 214. receives triumphal honours from Titus, 215. He extends his conquests to Scot- land, subdues the Orcades and other Scotch islands, ib. In several conflicts comes off victorious, 216, 217. He is commanded home by Domitian, 217. Julius Cæsar, has intelligence that the Britons are aiding his enemies the Gauls, v. 185. He sends Caius Volu- senus to discover the nature of the peo- ple and strength of the country, 187. After him Comius of Arras, to make a party among the Britons, ib. The stont resistance he meets with from them at his landing, 188. He receives terms of peace from them, 189. Loses a great part of his fleet, 190. Defeats the Bri- tons, brings them anew to terms of peace, and sets sail for Belgia, 192. The year following he lands his army again, ib. He has a very sharp dispute with the Britons near the Stowre, in Kent, 193. Passes the Thames at Coway Stakes, near Oatlands, 195. He re- ceives terms of peace from the Trino- bantes, 196. He brings Cassibelan to terms, ib. He leaves the island, b. Offers to Venus, the patroness of his family, a corslet of British pearls, ib. The killing him approved of by the best men of that age, i. 131.
Julius Frontinus, the emperor's lieutenant in Britain, v. 213. Tames the Silures, a warlike people, ib.
Julius Severus, governs Britain under Ha- drian the emperor, v. 219. Divides his conquests here by a wall eighty miles long, as his usual manner was in other frontiers, ib.
Julius of Caerleon, a British martyr under Dioclesian, v. 228.
Junius, his wrong interpretation of a text,
Jurisdiction, in the church, most truly
named ecclesiastical censure, 1i. 488. The nature and design of it, iii. 78. Justice, how perverted by a train of cor- ruptions, i. 380. Above all other things the strongest, i. 485. Not in the king's power to deny it to any man, 178. Justification, of, iv. 349. Described, 350. How obtained, ib. Is gratuitous, 351. The consequences of, 352. An impor tant question concerning, discussed, 354. The results of a consciousness of, 358.
Justin Martyr, his story of a Roman ma- tron, iii. 415.
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