Religions Pagan, not interfering with each other, v. 42
Religion revealed, its internal and external evidence

i. 193

i. 216

the necessary qualifications for treating of them, i. 195
only able to enforce the sanction of reward
condition of man under it, enquired into

the three systems of

Religion, toleration of, motives for toleration

danger of enforcing conformity

vi. 254

vi. 265

ii. 299

ibid.

the sense in which it was understood by the Pagan

world

ii. 301

vi. 218

Religious truth, enquiry into what it is -
Religious war, one in ancient Egypt, and the occasion of

it
Repentance, the nature and efficacy of, considered,
Resurrection, allegorized by the Greek philosophers,
Revelation, particular objections against, answered
some one embraced by all mankind
natural inferences from this general propensity,
the use and necessity of it

-

----

ii. 306
vi. 307
iii. 197
iii. 339
iv. 69

iv. 70
iv. 73

iy. 75
ibid.

Revelations Pagan, one circumstance common to all,
attributed by the primitive fathers to the devil
Reward, the sanction of, explained

-to be enforced only by religion
Rhea, observations on the fable of

Rhetoric, use of disallowed at the court of Areopagus, i. 149
Riddles, propounded by the Hebrew Sages, as mutual, trials
of sagacity

Rites, legal and patriarchal, not to be confounded, iv. 302
Ritual law, of the Jews, made in reference to the Egyptian

their use of sacrifice at concluding treaties of peace, vi. 277.
Rome, Christian, whether its superstitions borrowed from the
Pagan city, examined -

Rose, what the emblem of among the ancients
origin of the proverb, "under the rose,"

-

V. 120

Runic alphabet, when and why changed for the Roman, iv. 163
Rutherforth, Dr. his notion of the effect the withdrawing the
sanctions of the Jewish law had on the obligatory force
of that law, examined
his notions of the temporal sanctions of the Jewish law
being continued under the Gospel, examined - v. 148
his notions of inefficacy of action without speech ex-
amined

Sabbath, a positive institution

S.

vi. 167

iv. 303

the Jews breach of by circumcision considered, iv. 441

- its origin

is.

443

Theb

Sacred band of Thebans, Plutarch's remarks on the death

vi. 283

vi. 285

vi. 287

the origin and progress of human
of Christ on the cross, considered
the admission of it into the Mosaic ritual considered, vi.288
feast upon the Sacrifice, a type of the Lord's Supper, vi. 292
Sacrifices, human, the command to Abraham to offer up his
son Isaac vindicated from the objection of giving a
divine sanction to

the command that "none devoted shall be redeemed," exa-

Sages, ancient, unanimous in thinking the doctrine
future state of rewards and punishments necessary
well being of society -

-

did not believe in a future state

held it lawful for the public good, to say one thing
when they thought another -

Sallust, his opinion of the divine nature -
Samuel, his conduct in establishing the regal form of govern-

Sanchoniatho, arguments proving that this is the history

rated in the Eleusinian mysteries

iv. 308

iv. 313

the motives of Jesus Christ's evasive reply to their inter-

iv. 313

rogations

Satun,

FF 4

Satan, reflections on his character as represented by Job, v. 353
Saul, the phrase of his being among the prophets, ex-

plained
characterized -

iv. 310

ibid.

Savages, American, why averse to the arts of civil so-
ii. 331
Scarron, his artifice in ridiculing the sentiment of Sulpi-

-

ciety

Scepticism, characterized

vi. 34

vi. 214

Sceptre of Judah, the common notions of that phrase, exa-

mined

true sense of, pointed out

Scriptures sacred, a summary view of their contents, v. 175
general rule for the interpretation of -

v. 382

much abused in the search after truth
Self-love, the operation of in mankind, traced
Sempiternus, the true import of that word ascertained,
Seneca, his consolation against the fear of death
accused by St. Austin of duplicity

v. 413

Serpent, in the fall of man, the true meaning of ascer-
tained

how the sentence passed on it, is to be understood, v. 386
Serpent, crooked, in Job and Isaiah, the meaning of ex-

plained

Sesostris, account of, from Diodorus Siculus.

v. 359

iv. 89

and Osiris, arguments against the identity of, in oppo-

Sherlock, Bishop, his notion of the tribal sceptre of Judah,

Shuckford, Dr. his remarks on the ancient ritual law, exa-

Society, civil, the first invention of, and the motives to, i. 205

i. 207
Society,

Society, civil, unable to enforce the sanction of reward, i. 210
-which is only to be supplied by religion

i. 216

- mutual stipulations between magistrate and people on
entering into

-

the purpose of its institution

the extent of its care

invented for intractable spirits

Society, religious, the end of its institution
-sovereign and independent on the civil

- not possessed of any civil coactive power

-

the object of its care

i. 211
ii. 267
` ii. 268
iii. 2
ii. 269
ibid.

ii. 270
ii. 271

Socinians, examination of their opinion concerning the death
of Christ

vi. 300

Socrates, review of the dispute between him and Aristo-

Socratic method of disputing, what so called

iii. 52

chap. iv. ver. 17, 18

Solomon, alludes to the mysteries in the book of Ecclesiasticus,

his violations of the Mosaic law remarked -
his prayer at the dedication of the Temple illustrative of
the particular providence over the Jewish nation, v. 135
-in his prayer at the dedication of the Temple, requests
only a continuance of temporal rewards and punish-

how perverted to idolatry

v. 159

v. 343

Solomon's Song, a representation of Christ's union and mar-

riage with the church

v. 470

Sophists, Greek, some account of -

Soul, the several senses in which the ancients conceived the
permanency of it

iii. 53

iii. 14

the opinions of the philosophers on the

its future existence in a state of rewards and punishments
taught, but disbelieved by the philosophers,
Cicero's idea of

an enquiry into our conceptions of
three species of, admitted by the ancients -
-opinions of various philosophers

-

of

the sentiments of the Jews concerning,
law
-examination of the notion of the sleep of -

Soul, the mention of its future existence by Mosés, and by
following writers, to be distinguished
y. 296

-

immaterial, common to the whole animal creation, v. 384
-living, in what sense to be understood as used in the his-
tory of the creation of man

-

enquiry into the nature of

different opinions on the -

Speech, the origin and history of

-

-

the early acquisition of, by Adam and Eve

v. 385

vi. 251

Spencer, an examination of the argument of his treatise,

-

v. 93

De Theocratia Judaica
examination of Sykes's defence of his argument, v. 252
Spinozists, their opinion of the human soul

iii. 149

Spiritual courts, the end and use of

-

ii. 277

State, its inducements to seek an alliance with the

its conduct where it includes more than one religion, ii. 287
Statues, the first rise of worshipping, in human form, iv. 236
Stebbing, Dr. an examination of his objection to the argu-
ment of the Divine Legation of Moses
iii. 318
his arguments of Moses's Divine Legation, equally apppli-

an examination of his Considerations on the command to
Abraham to offer up Isaac - - vi. 24.155. 162, 163.

171, 172, 173. 178. 181. 187. 192. 194. 197, 198.
Stilling fleet, his opinion of the Egyptian hieroglyphics, iv. 147
Stoics, their practice contrary to their principies

Strabo, his opinion concerning the institution of the mys-
teries -

- his opinion as to the necessary religious doctrines by
which to govern and restrain the multitude

his account of the Mosaic doctrine of the Deity, iii. 171
Stratonicean, whether the principles of, capable of dis-
tinguishing the moral difference between virtue and

Suicide, why consigned by Virgil to purgatory
condemned in the Eleusinian mysteries, and by Vir-

authors who have written against it-

Sulpicius, his reflections on the sight of Grecian ruins, i. 153
Sun, the various names under which it was worshipped, iii. 284
· Superstition, in ancient history accounted for -

whence derived, and the cure of it