INDEX
TO VOL. I.
A
ATHEISTS and Hobbists, their principles relative to civil contracts, 37, n.
Adultery, 57. Defined, ib. A capital offence by the divine law, 62, 63. So by the law of England in 1650, p. 64, n. Not so now, ib.
Akiba, 83.
Austin, St.—his testimony concerning concubinage, 32, n. On the antient polygamy, 98, n. A foolish saying of his on the subject, 243, n.
Adultery, mischiefs of, 66.
Abraham and Hagar, 117, and n.
Alexander III. Pope, his constitution concerning post-legitimation, 35.
Adam and Eve, their creation—no precedent to be drawn from it against polygamy, 139 and n.
Abigail and Ahinoam, wives to David, 148.
Abishag the Shunamite, 164–5.
Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, makes a canon against sodomy, which is never published, 171, n.
Anthony, St.—preaches to fishes, 193.
Act of generation, not sinful in itself, 46 & seq.
איש—explained in all its senses, 255–6.
Abimelech, case of, 265.
Article, seventh, of the church of England, quoted and explained, 282.
Abigail, her pleading for Nabal, 320.
Abrogation, doctrine of, borrowed from the Mahometan doctors, 390, n.
B
BOLINGBROKE, Lord, a sentiment of his, 7, n,
Busbequius, his distinction between a wife and concubine, 55, n.
Burnet, Bishop, quoted on the subject of the dissoluteness of the unmarried clergy before the Reformation, 65, n. A quotation from him on polygamy, 249. His opinion at large thereon, 291.
Bacon’s Abr. quoted on pre-contracts, 31.
Buxtorf, on Deut. xxi. 1–4. p. 86, n.
Bigamy, statute of 1 Jac. c. 11, preamble of, 175, n. Bigamists—clergy censured, 189, n. Ousted of clergy, 199.
Bellarmine, his testimony for the Pope's power to make and unmake sins, 183, n.
Bantam, more females than males born there, 105.
Beza—talks nonsense, 151.
Bereans, their example to be followed, 237.
Bottles, leathern, mistaken for glass, 350.
Bucer, on concubinage, 396.
Barbeyrac observes that Grotius changed his opinion concerning the interpretation of Matt. xix. 9. p. 374. See also vol. ii Append. No. 2.
Baptism, no new law of Christ, 333.
Bernard, on celibacy, 170, and n.
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CRUCIFIX, an heathen invention, Pref. p. vii. n.
Constantine, his laws about marriage, 32, n. Establishes Christianity by law, 203, n.
Concubine, what, 53, 54, and n.
Corollaries on the nature and obligation of marriage, 40.
Commandment, the seventh does not forbid polygamy, 120.
Church, in 4th century, made no distinction between wife and concubine, 32, n.
Coke, Lord, on Jointenancy, 151, n.
Celibacy condemned, 168 & seq. Of the clergy, 200, 201.
Continency, where to be prayed for, 179.
Carthusians would not eat flesh to save their lives, 183.
Cerberus, Popish, his three heads, 202, n.
Corinth had a temple of Venus, 211, n.
Corinthians lewd and debauched to a proverb, ib.
—————— Paul’s answer to their letter, 211. Explained, ib. & seq.
Cæsar, his account of community of wives among the Britons, 220, n.
Concubines approved in the church, 32, n.
Cecrops establilhes monogamy at Athens, 232.
Cave, Dr. allows that the primitive Christians carried matters too far with respect to second marriages, 245.
Ceremonial law, its morality must ever remain, 260.
Castration practised by some of the antient Christians; 286, n.
Cerinthus, his creed, 327.
Clarke, Dr. makes the New Testament the only criterion of truth to Christians, 328, n.
Christ not a giver of a new law, 300. His offices, 337. His commission, 388.
Commerce of the sexes, an object of the moral law, 342.
Carvilius Ruga, the first Roman who divorced his wife, 346, n.
Canon law, Popish, affirms the church to be above the scripture, Pref. viii. n.
Clergy, their marriage made felony, 200, 201.
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DOWER among the Jews, 27.
Deut. xxiv. 1. considered and explained, 85, 86, 87, and n.
Deut. xxii. 28, 29. explained, p. 28, 29.—red in the church as the first lesson, March 4th, at evening service, 161.
Divorce, Jewish, did not operate as a dissolution of the marriage, 88. Bill of, 317. Attended with difficulties, 346, n.
Deut. xxi. 15. a conclusive argument for polygamy, 109.
David has many wives given to him, 115.
Diogenes held community of women, 214, n.
Delaney, Dean, his reflections on polygamy, 116, 117, 249, 250–1. Examined, ib. and 252–3.
David and Jonathan, their friendship, 321.
Drusilla forsakes her husband and marries Felix, 364, n.
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ERASMUS, a saying of his adversaries, 5, n.
Exod. xxii. 16. explained, 25. Red in the church as the first lesson, Feb. 8, p. 161.
Ecclesiastical courts, their views of marriage, 31.
————————— their oppression and tyranny, 67, n. Ought to be abolished, 68.
Espousals, 26, and n.
Examples of the saints in old time are for our instruction, 84, n.
Eunuchs, mentioned Matt. xix. 11, 12, what, 173, n.
Elijah, a bold reprover of sin, 130.
Ezra x. 1, &c. and x. 2. quoted, 133.
Edward I. stat. of, adopting the Pope's constitution at Lyons, concerning bigamists, 199.
Edward VI. stat. of, repeals the former, 199.
Ecclesiasticus xxiii. 22, 23, describes adultery, 276.
Enemies, love of, equally a doctrine of the Old and New Testaments, 314, 315.
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FATHERS, antient, their writings not to be depended on, 16, and n. ib. Their notions of Gen. i. 28. p. 119, n.
Fallibility of councils, churches, &c. confessed by the church of England, 6.
Fornication defined, 51, n.
Father and Son, names of office, not of nature, 18, n.
Forster, Dr. his voyage quoted, on the proportion of males and females born in Africa, &c. 103.
Flesh, one, the meaning of the phrase, 151, n.
Francis, St. preaches to the beasts, 193.
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GEN. ii. 23, 24, explained, and compared with 1 Cor. vi. 15, 16. p. 18, 19.
Generation, act of, not sinful in itself, 46, 47.
Grant, Major, his notion about males and females examined, 101, n.
Gabriel brings the celibacy of priests from heaven, 200, n.
Gospel always one and the same, 229.
Greeks polygamists, 232, n.
Grotius, his thoughts on what makes a marriage, 22, n. Owns the Jewish law allowed polygamy, 240, n. His notions on the law of Christ relative to polygamy, 302.
——— changes his opinion, 374.
H
HENRY II. of France, a saying of his on papal dispensations, 13, n.
Hillell, 82.
Husband, defined, 44, n.
Horace quoted on navigation 101, n. On the mutability of words, 59, n.
Hagar's marriage with Abram not sinful, 117, n.
Hen. VIII. statute of, against priests' marriage, 200, 201.
Hall, Bishop, a saying of his, 331.
Herodias leaves her husband, and marries his brother, 364, n.
Hiphil-conjugation, how expressed by the Hellenists, 373, n.
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JUDGES xix. 1, &c. considered, 55.
Jenkinson, Ann, her hard case, 67, n.
Ignorance not the cause of the Jewish polygamy, 92, & seq.
Ignatius introduces the saying of a Jew on the credibility of the New Testament, 93, n.
Joash a polygamist, by the act of the high-priest Jehoiada, 94.
Jacob and the angel, 115, n.
Job xxxi. 1, explained, 124, n.
Jesuit's continency, ib.
Joseph and Potiphar's wife, 139, n.
Infants heads found in Pope Gregory's fish-pond, 201, n.
John the Baptist, his reproof of Herod, 243. His commission and preaching, 245–6. Appeals to the Old Testament for his mission, 305, n.
Josephus on Ruth iv. 6. p. 253. A saying of his on David's marrying Saul's wives, ib.
Jews, the modern, forbid polygamy, why, 264, n.
John xiii. 34. explained, 316.
Juvenal, on the manners of the Roman women, 368–9.
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KEMPFER, his account of the males and females in Meaco, 104, n.
Kennedy, Mr. on the sabbath, 159.
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LUTHER, his quarrel with Leo X. one means of the reformation, 3.
Law of God immutable, 10, 78.
Language mutable, 58, n. Not so the Hebrew, ib.
Lamech and his two wives, 143, 149.
Lev. xviii. 18, on the marriage of two sisters, explained, 152–157.
Lyons, constitution of, excluding bigamists from all Clerks privilege, 199. Law of Ed. VI. against it, ib.
Luther, a saying of his upon sin-making, 203, n.
Landgrave of Hesse marries two wives at once, on the opinions of the reformers at Wittemburg, 204, n.
Lycurgus, his law about men's lending their wives, 212, & seq.
Leviratus, Deut. xxv. 5–10. p. 250. Reason of that law, 251.
Lying, a maxim of the fathers of the fourth century, 285, n.
Law of nature, what, 301, n.
Lactantius, his notion of Christ's mission, 304, n.
Law of Christ, mentioned Gal. vi. 2, explained, 322. And illustrated, 323, and n.
Law, moral, founded in the relation which reasonable creatures bear to the Creator, 341. Like a golden chain, 344. Its nature, use, and properties, 323, n.
Luke xvi. 18. paraphrased, 383–385.
Left-handed wife, what, 404.
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MONTESQUIEU, his sentiments on prostitution, 8, n.
Matt. v. 18. explained, 14.
Marriage, original institution of, 18. Ordinance defined, ib. n.
—————— ceremony, an human invention, 22, and n. Useful, 41.
—————— condemned as unlawful for Christians, 184.
Merton, statute of, concerning marriage, 32.
Matt. xix. 3, &c. explained, 80, & seq.
Mistress, kept, 53.
Moliere quoted, 79.
Matt. v. 28, explained, 122, and n.
Mal. ii. 14, 15, explained, 132, & seq.
Marriages, second, condemned, 140, and n. 184.
—————— of the clergy, 189, and n.
Miracles, Popish, said to be wrought by Christ, and the Virgin Mary, on prayers for continency, 180.
Montanists and Novatians condemn second marriages, 185.
Milton quoted on the creation of woman, 141, n.
Manes, or Manichæus, his errors about marriage, 211, n.
Mahlon's next kinsman will not redeem his land, why, 251–2.
Males and Females, proportion of, 100, &c. and n.
Mahomet, his account of the prophets who brought new laws, 304. This necessary for his plan, ib. His art with respect to the authority of the Scripture, 305, and n.
Madness, argues right from wrong principles, instanced in the Socinian plan, 308–9.
Moses, his love for the people, 319. Said nothing of marriage-ceremony, 24, n.
Melchizedeck, 332.
Matt. V. 31, 32, farther considered, 345.
——— xix. 9, ditto, 349.
Moral law, unalterable, binding on angels as well as men, 341.
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NOLDIUS quoted on the subject of dispensation for polygamy, 90, n.
Naires, tribe of, Polyandrists, 195, n.
Nicholas, Pope, restrains priests from marrying, 200, n.
Nisus, his speech to the Rutulians on behalf of Euryalus, 320.
New-law scheme, pregnant with mischiefs of the most alarming kind, 334–5.
O
ORDINANCES of men to be submitted to, 42, n.
Occasion of Christ's discourse with the Pharisees, Matt. xix. 4, &c. 353.
P.
PIUS, Pope, Articles of his Creed, Pref. viii. n.
Prostitution, dreadful consequences of, 8, n.
Parisian divines make doctrines for the people, 9.
Penance and commutation, 68, and n. at bottom.
1 Pet. ii. 13, quoted and explained, 42, n. See also Vol. II. 66, n.
Public wisdom, a mere Proteus, 5, n.
Polygamy, 74. Defined, 75, and n. Whether it tends to population, 98, n.
Pope, Mr. on criticism, 81, n. On the pride of human reasoning, 99.
Plurality of persons in the Godhead revealed in the Old Testament, 57, n.
Polygamy not mentioned in the New Testament, 120, 121.
—————— probably frequent among the first Christians, 185, 232.
Patrick, Bishop, his comment on Lev. xviii. 18. p. 154.
Puffendorf leaves the matter of polygamy uncertain, whether against the law of nature, or not, 74, n.
Paphnutius, his speech at the council of Nice, about the clergy putting away their wives, 188, n.
Prejudice against married priests, instances of, 203, n.
Plato held community of women, 211.
Paul, St. no law-giver, 229.
Patrick on Ruth iv. 6. p. 253.
Paradigm setting forth God's dealings towards Monogamists and Polygamists, 269.
Polygamy how first condemned in the Christian church, 171, 275. Why allowed to men and not to women, 276–279. Necessary to be so, 280–1.
Perfection of the divine law attested by the Old and New Testaments, 307, 308.
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RELIGION of ancestors to be followed, an Heathen maxim, i, n.
Rome, ancient, three kinds of marriage, 33.
Ruth, iv. 5, 6. considered, 251, & seq.
Rabbinical explanation of נאף—281, n.
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SCRIBLERUS quoted, 10.
Spousals de futuro, &c. what, 26, n.
Scotland, custom of with respect to marriages—after cohabitation, and children born, 34.
Shenstone, Mr. of the Spiritual Court, p. 67, n.
Shammah, 82.
Sweden, more females than males born in the last century, 104. An instance of ditto at a village in England, ditto, n.
Samuel no bastard, 108.
Salmon in the water, experiment of, 102, n.
2 Sam. xii. 8, Dean Delaney's interpretation refuted, 116, 117, 118.
Sixtus V. grants a dispensation for sodomy, 172, n.
Separation of man and wife, where necessary, 176, n.
Socrates put to death, why, 2. Has two wives, 232, n.
Superstition of the Jews, in not resisting their enemies on the Sabbath-day, 183.
————————— of the Christians with regard to the marriage of priests, 205, n.
Stoics held community of women, 214, n.
Singular words, have often plural meanings, 222, n.
Selden, on Ruth iv. 6. p. 254.
Sermons, two, on the marriage-act, 262.
Socinianism, 303, 308–9.
Sermon on the Mount, explains and asserts the honour and obligation of the divine law, 309–15.
Sacraments, of baptism and the Lord's supper, prefigured in the Old Testament, 331–33.
Salome repudiates her husband, 364, n.
Seneca, his account of the Roman women, with respect to leaving their husbands for others, 368, n.
Synesius, a Christian Bishop, his duplicity, Pref. xii.
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TOLEDO, council of, decree about concubinage, 32.
Talpæ, among the Jews, a Pharisaical sect, 124, n.
Tympius, his notes on Noldius, relative to Lev. xviii. 18, p. 153, n.
Tertullian's reasons for the celibacy of the antient Christians, 170, n.
1 Tim. iii. 2. and Tit. i. 6. explained, 194, & seq.
Trent, council of, obliged to those who defend their anathema against polygamy, 230, n.
Testament, Old and New, to be compared together, 237–9. See also vol. ii. 316, & seq.
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USHER, Archbishop, sensible of the evils of the spiritual courts, p. 67, n.
Voltaire misled by translations, 15, n. 351, n.
Vatablus on Deut. xxiv. 1–4, p. 87.
Vashti, Queen, her disobedience—her punishment no bad precedent, 176, n.
Venus, temple of, at Corinth, 211, n.
Valesians castrated themselves, 286, n.
Venereal disease, not in Israel, 289, and n.
Union between Christ and the Church, no argument against polygamy, 240–3.
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WICKLIFFE, first reformer in Europe, 3, n.
——————'s bones burnt, ib.
Whore defined, 19, n.
Whoredom and fornication, 46. Defined 51.
——————, odious in God's sight, 50. Punished with death, ib.
——————, supposed original of, 49.
Women not suffered to approach the altar, or to receive the Eucharist without gloves on, 180, n.
Whiston, William, on second marriages of the clergy, 190, n.
Whittington and his bells, an emblem of people who are deceived by the sound of words in favour of preconceived opinions, 236.
Whitby, Dr. his comment on 1 Cor. vii. 4. p. 230. His concession respecting polygamy, 231, n.
Wetstein, his explanation of Matt. xix. 9. and Mark x. 11. p. 363, & seq.
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