Pelasgians, communicate the names of the Egyptian gods to

the Greeks

-

Perfection, the doctrine of, enquiry concerning it
Peripatetics, their notions of Providence

Peripatetics and Old Academy, their conformity

iv. 240
vi. 310

iii. 140

iii. 367

Persecution, for religious opinions, the true origin of,

traced

- enquiry into the nativity of
frequently an engine of state

-

iv. 35. vi. 149
iv. 51
iv. 56

discountenanced by the Gospel dispensation
Persians, why they had no statues of their gods
their superstition described in Ezekiel's visions
Peruvians, remarks on the religion of
Peter, his vision of the clean and unclean
plained

-

his double sense, pointed out
Pharmacy, general division of

Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the scripture account of
- promotes Joseph

- an illustration of the onirocritic art, drawn from
interpretation of his two dream's

-

vi. 70

his chariots and cavalry in the pursuit of the Israel-
ites
Pherecydes Cyrus, the first advancer of the

notion of the
iii. 179

τὸ ἓν
Phenician superstition, described in Ezekiel's visions, iv. 297
Philosophy, the study of, not the only business for which man
is sent into the world

ii. 333
Philosophers, Greek, legislative, always professed belief in a
future state; mere philosophers the contrary -

iii. 38

the causes which induced them to disbelieve a future state
of rewards and punishments

- their conceptions of the soul

Physic, critical enquiry into the state of, in ancient Egypt, iv.95
Pirithous, account of the fable of his design to steal Pro-

a character of his politics and philosophy

- Cicero's remarks on his Phædo

-in what sense an advocate for the immortality of the

iii. 14

Platonists, their notions of Providence -
Pleasure, allegorical view of the dangers attending an indul-

ii. 183

gence in
Pliny, the reason of his persecuting the Christians, iv. 36
his doubts respecting the manner of proceeding against
Christians

-

the reason of his persecuting the Christians
Plutarch, his opinion of two principles

his derivation of superstition

iv. 45
ibid.
i. 338

ii. 260

iii. 121

his notion of death

-

- observations on his recital of the opinion of the philo-
sophers, concerning the soul

iii. 169

his famous exclamation to his countrymen

an examination of his comparison between superstition
and atheism

iii. 228

accuses the Jews of worshipping swine

Pococke, his account of the Egyptian hieroglyphics,

Policy, human, Critias of Athens, his history of
Political romances, the common errors they have

into

Polybius, his testimony in favour of the piety of the Ro

his opinion as to the means by which states are brought

ii. 188

i. 221

ii. 263

his opinion of a future state defended against Bayle, i. 223
Pope Alex. his observations on Lord Bolingbroke
Poppy, why the juice of used in the ceremonial of the shows
in the Eleusinian mysteries

ii. 124

Porphyry and Clemmens Alexandrinus, their accounts of the
Egyptian characters and writing

iv. 141

his account of the origin of brute-worship, contro-
verted

Posterity, why the punishments of the Mosaic law extended

to them

the case argued
Posthumius, extract from his speech on the introduction of
foreign worship to Rome

-

-

his intention only to prevent the exercise of unlicensed
religion
Pre-existence of the soul, enquiry into the sentiments of the
ancients concerning

Press, liberty of, the propensity of the present age to infide-
lity, not to be ascribed to
the complaints of its being restricted disingenuous, i. 144
Prideaux,

verted

-

-

-

-

Prideaux, his account of the deification of heroes, contro-
iv. 204
Priests, pious and virtuous, where placed in Elysium by
Virgil
ii. 148
Principles, good and evil, the belief of, how guarded against
by the writer of the book of Job
Priscilian, the first sufferer for opinion
Prodigies, &c. their admission into ancient history accounted

for

-

-

v. 358
iv. 55

i. 312

Prophecies, scripture, defended from the insinuations of

Dr. Middleton

their primary and secondary senses distinguished -
misunderstood by the Jews, and why so ordained-
— the use to be made of them in disputes
Prophecy, what a necessary confirmation of their
to the Messiah

an evidence of a doctrine proceeding from God
considerations on

vi. 53

vi. 78
vi. 89
vi. 203

reference
vi. 77

-

vi. 340

ibid.

- iv. 308

Prophets, reason of the institution of a school for
Prophets, Jewish, an enquiry into the nature of the divine.
commission to

rational account of their illustrating their prophecies by
signs
Propitiatory sacrifice, origin and nature of it, explained, vi. 276
Providence, the doctrine of, the great sanction of ancient
laws

the spirit of legislation depends on the doctrine of a, ii. 81
the inequalities of, how rectified by the ancients
what kind of, believed by the ancient Theistic philoso-
phers

administration of, at various times, considered
extraordinary, a necessary consequence of the Jewish
theocracy

illustrated from Solomon's prayer at the dedication of
the Temple

the mention of the inequalities of, by the sacred
accounted for
remarks on the different reception of its adverse
sations, in ancient and modern times

Job's opinion of the equality and inequality of -
revival of an equal, to the chosen race

writers,

V. 145

dispen-

v. 474

v. 477
vi. 266

considerations on God's using human instruments in the
dispensations of

-

Providence, considerations on God's using temporary plagues
in the dispensations of -
vi. 381
Psammitichus, his scheme to establish an intercourse between
Egypt and the Grecian states

-

Psyche, the ancient story of, explained
Punishments, how applied in civil society

iv. 161
ii. 200

i. 213

of the crimes of parents on their children, on what prin-
ciple only to be vindicated

Purgatory, remarks on Virgil's account of
-the inhabitants of

Pyramids of Egypt, probable reasons why they
hieroglyphic inscriptions

-

-

-

iv. 20

ii. 125

ii. 126

exhibit no
iv. 404

the Egyptian architecture formed on the idea of
not temples, but sepulchres

alluded to in the book of Job

-

-

iv. 405
- iv. 406

Pyrrhonians, and Academics, their principles compared, iii. 38
their origin
Pythagoras, his knowledge in physics established in late
experience concerning earthquakes

an enquiry into the principles of his philosophy

his legislative fame

iii. 38. 362

iii. 57

iii. 60

taught several doctrines which he did not believe - iii. 78

Pythagoreans, their notions of Providence

their tenets concerning the human soul

Quakers, their motives for rejecting the institution of bap-
tism examined into

Quaternion, philosophic, their opinion of the soul

Rachel, the story of her stealing her father's gods, exa

Redemption by Christ, had a retrospect from the Fall, vi. 268
an act of grace, not of debt

the means employed in that great work enquired into, vi.271
Regulus, Cicero's enquiry into his obligation to return to
Carthage
iii. 128
Religion, the protection of, necessary in all governments, i.192
reply to Bayle's opinion, that a man devoid of religion
may be sensible of honour

always the peculiar care of the magistrate
-the necessity of uniting it to the state

Religion, brief view of the state of, in the ancient world, ii.296
supposed by the Sages to be calculated only for the ser-

-

vice of the state

the double doctrine of the ancients considered
its truth manifested by its use to society

- if admitted to have been invented by
therefore false

an enquiry into the first origin of

no people ever found without one

Hooker's sentiments on the political use of

-

·

-

iii. 18
iii. 23

statesmen,

-

iii. 311

loo great an attention to civil liberty subversive of - iv. 2
a comparison of the many that have existed in the world,
the clew to the true one

Christian and Mosaic, necessarily dependent
preceding religion

the care of legislators in the propagation
acquired naturally by Adam and Eve -
first revealed in Paradise -

-

v. 29
on some
v. 44

vi. 115

vi. 244

-

- vi. 246

- reasonableness of a doctrine no proof, but a presumption
of its divine original

miracles the only proof of a doctrine being from God, vi.323
prophecy an additional evidence

Religion established, the voice of nature

with a test law, the universal voice of nature
speech of Posthumius on the introduction of foreign
worship at Rome -

distinction between established and tolerated, according to
Dionysius Halicarnassus

advantages of establishments.

ii. 324
iv. 7

Religion Jewish, of names, an Egyptian superstition, iv. 285
not adopted by any of the neighbouring nations, and

-teaches God to be the rewarder of them that diligently