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Madan, succeds his father Locrine, v. 174.
Magistrates, civil, Effeminate ones not
fit to govern, i. 369. Tenure of, ii. 1.
To be obeyed as God's vicegerents,
455. Should take care of the public
sports and festival pastimes, 480.
Their particular and general end, 491.
Not to use force in religious matters,
ii. 526, 542. Reasons against their so
doing, 539. Should see that conscience
be not inwardly violated, 543. Not to
impose interpretations of Scripture as
binding on the conscience, iv. 444. Of
their duties, v. 149.

Maglaunus, duke of Albania, marries Go-
norill, eldest daughter of king Leir,
v. 176.

Maglocune, surnamed the Island Dragon'

one of the five that reigned toward the
beginning of the Saxon heptarchy, v.
265. His wicked character, ib.
Magnanimity, v. 94.

Magus, son and successor of Samothes,
whom some fable to have been the
first peopler of this island, v. 166.
Maimonides, his difference between kings
of Israel and those of Judah, i. 44.
Malcolm, son of Kened, king of Scots,
falling upon Northumberland, is ut-
terly overthrown by Uthred, v. 369.
Some say by Iric, 364.

Malcolm, son of the Cumbrian king, made
king of Scotland in the room of Mac-
Leth, v. 380.

Malcolm, king of Scotland, coming to visit

king Edward, swears brotherhood with
Tosti the Northumbrian, v. 382. Af-
terward in his absence harasses Nor-
thumberland, ib.

Man, his liberty considered entirely in-
dependent of necessity, iv. 37. When God
breathed life into him, what man re-
ceived, 187. Is not a compound or sepa-
rable being, 188. The soul of, propagated
from father to son, 189, 192.

As formed

in the image of God, endued with na-
tural wisdom, holiness, and righteous-
ness, 195. A limit set to the duration
of his life, 210. God's special govern-
ment of, before the fall, 220. Some
remnants of the divine nature still ex-
ist in, 266. His restoration, 284.
Mandubratius, son of Immanuentius, fa-
voured by the Trinobantes against
Cassibelan, v. 195.

Manifesto of the Lord protector of Eng-
land, &c., against the depredations of
the Spaniards, ii. 333.

Mankind, satisfaction made by Christ
for all, 311, 315.

Marcus, Aurelius, ready to lay down the
government, if the senate or people re-
quired it, i. 150.

Marganus, the son of Gonorill, deposes
his aunt Cordeilla, v. 178. Shares the
kingdom with his cousin Cunedagius,
invades him, but is met and over-
come by him, ib.

Marganus, the son of Archigallo, a good
king, v. 183.

Marinaro, a learned Carmelite, why re-
proved by Cardinal Pool, iii. 366.
Marius, the son of Arviragus, is said to
have overcome the Picts, and slain
their king, Roderic, v. 220.
Marriage, not properly so, where the most
honest end is wanting, iii. 188. The
fulfilling of conjugal love and happi-
ness, rather than the remedy of lust,
194. Love and peace in families broke
by a forced continuance of matrimony,
195. May endanger the life of either
party, 208. Not a mere carnal coition,
210. Compared with other covenants
broken for the good of men, ib. No more
a command than divorce, 225. The
words of the institution, how to be un-
derstood, 234. The miseries in mar-
riage to be laid on unjust laws, 261.
Different definitions of it, 343, 346. The
grievance of the mind more to be re-
garded in it than that of the body, ib.
Called the covenant of God, 354. The
ordering of it belongs to the civil
power, 287. Popes by fraud and force
have got this power, ib. Means of pre-
serving it holy and pure, 291. Allowed
by the ancient fathers, even after the
vow of single life, 294. Christ intended
to make no new laws relating to it, 298.
The properties of a true Christian mar-
riage, 305. What crimes dissolve it, ib.
Expositions of the four chief places in
Scripture treating of, 315. A civil or-
dinance or household contract, 22. The
solemnizing of it recovered by the par-
liament from the encroachment of
priests, ib. When instituted, iv. 224. In
what it consists, ib. Ordained by God,
225. The peculiar province of God to
make it prosperous and happy, 237.
The consent of parents should not be
wanting, ib. Consent must be free from
fraud, 238. Parties should be of one
mind in religion, ib. Form of, 239.
End of, ib. Honourable in itself, ib. De-
finition of, 240. When marriage is vir-
tually dissolved, ib. Gives place to re-
ligion, 246. In its original institution
not capable of being dissolved, 247. The
sum of the whole argument on, 251. Not
a religious ceremony, 422. See Divorce.
Martia, wife of king Guitheline, said to
have instituted the law called Marchen
Leage, v. 181.

Martin V., pope, the first that excommu-
nicated for reading heretical books,
ii. 60.

trine of, iv. 355. Vanity of human, v. 8.
Messiah, arguments to prove that he has
already come, iv. 296.

Martinus, made deputy of the British pro-Merit, no countenance given to the doc-
vince, failing to kill Paulus, falls upon
his own sword, v. 229.
Martyr, Peter, his character of Martin
Bucer, iii. 277. His opinion concerning
divorce, 427.

Martyrdom, the nature of it explained, i.
477, 478., v. 69.

Martyrs, not to be relied on, iii. 139.
Mary, queen of Scots, her death compared
with king Charles's, i. 188.
Mass of the papists, its difference from
the Lord's Supper, iv. 420.
Massacre of Paris, owing to the peace
made by the protestants with Charles
IX., ii. 35. Irish, more than 200,000
protestants murdered in it, 180.
Matrimony, nothing more disturbs the
whole life of a Christian than an unfit
one, iii, 197. See Marriage.
Matter, its existence from all eternity in-
conceivable, iv. 178. original, intrin-
sically good, 179, 180.

Matth. xix. 3, 4, &c. explained, iii. 370.
Maximianus Herculeus, forced to conclude
a peace with Carausius, and yield him
Britain, v. 226.

Maximus, a Spaniard, usurping part of the
empire, is overcome at length and slain
by Theodosius, v. 232. Maximus, a
friend of Gerontius, is by him set up in
Spain against Constantine the usurper,
233.

Mazarine, Cardinal, Oliver's letters to him,
ii. 258, 275, 314, 315, 316. Richard the
Protector's, 324, 329, 331.

Mediation, ministry of, its effect and de-
sign, iv. 309.

Mediator, Christ does not act as, to him-
self, iv. 91. See Christ.

Micah, his lamentation for the loss of his
gods, &c. i. 459.

Michael, the name of the angel who pre-

sides over the good angels, iv. 216.
Military skill, its excellence consists in
readily submitting to commanders' or-
ders, ii. 442.

Militia, not to be disposed of without con-
sent of parliament, i. 304.

Milles, Hermann, letter to, iii. 503.
Milton, the author, his account of himself,
iii. 116, &c., i. 235, 254. Of his com-
plaint in his eyes, iii. 507. His retire-
ment from active official employment, iv.
v. Statement as to the existence of a Sys-
tem of Divinity written by him, vi. The
discovery of the manuscript, vii. Proofs
of its authenticity, vii.-xiv. Descrip-
tion of the manuscript, xiv.-xvii. His
disqualifications for such a work, xvii.
Circumstances to counterbalance those
defects, xviii. The difference of his
opinions respecting the Trinity, xxi.
Partiality for supporting his arguments
by the authority of Scripture, xxii. As
a textuary, not free from fault, xxiii.
His discretion shown in abstaining from
the politics of the time in his Christian
Doctrine, xxiv. Doubts removed re-
specting Milton's real opinions by this
treatise, xxv. His belief in the law-
fulness of polygamy, xxvii, 225, et seq.
His opinions on the Son of God, nearly
Arian, xxix. His dissent from the So-
cinian scheme, xxxii. Of the Atone-
ment, ib. His views respecting the Di-
vine decrees, xxxiii.

Medina Celi, duke of, letter of thanks to
him for his civil treatment of the Eng-Mimes, what they were, iii. 105.
lish fleet, ii. 212.
Meekness, v. 109.

Melchisedec, the type of, involves no diffi-
culty, iv. 132.

Mellitus, Justus, and others, sent with
Austin to the conversion of the Saxons,
v. 271. He converts the East-Saxons,
272. St. Paul's church in London built
for his cathedral by Ethelred, as that
of Rochester for Justus, ib.

Mempricius, one of Brutus's council, per-
suades him to hasten out of Greece,
v. 170.

Mempricius and Malim, succeed their father
Madan in the kingdom, v. 174. Mem-
pricius treacherously slays his brother,
gets sole possession of the kingdom,
reigns tyrannically, and is at last de-
voured by wolves, ib.

Mercia, kingdom of, first founded by Crida,
v. 266.

Mercian laws, by whom instituted, v. 181.
Merianus, an ancient British king, v. 183.

Minister, different from the magistrate in
the excellence of his end, ii. 497. Du-
ties belonging to his office, ib. Whe-
ther the people are judges of his abi-
lity, iii. 40.

Ministers have the power of binding and
loosing, ii, 453. Their labours reflected
on, by licensing the press, 82. How dis-
tinguished in the primitive times from
other Christians, iii. 339. How appointed,
iv. 430, 454, 455. Are either extraordi-
nary or ordinary, 431. Extraordinary,
432. Ordinary, ib. Their remuneration,
455. Pecuniary considerations to be no
inducement to preaching the gospel,
458. Their duties towards the church in
general, v. 160.

Ministers, Presbyterian, account of their be-
haviour, when the bishops were preach-
ed down, i. 26.

Ministry of Redemption, iv. 304.
Minocan, an ancient British king, v. 184.
Miracles, their use, iv. 212. Faith in, 327.

Sometimes wrought for unbelievers, ib.
And by impostors, 425. Have no inhe-
rent efficacy in producing belief, ib.
Mithridates, why he endeavoured to stir
up all princes against the Romans, i. 17.
Moderation, v. 133,
Modesty, v. 87.

Mollo, the brother of Kedwalla, pursued,
beset, and burnt in a house whither he
had fled for shelter, v, 290. His death
revenged by his brother, ib.
Molmutine Laws, what and by whom esta-
blished in England, v. 179.
Monarchy, said to have been first founded
by Nimrod, i. 494. The ill consequences
of readmitting it, &c. ii. 128.
Monk, General, letter to him concerning
the establishing of a free common-
wealth, ii. 106.

Moses, instructed the Jews from the book
of Genesis, what sort of government
they were to be subject to, ii. 440. De-
signed for a lawgiver, but Christ came
among us as a teacher, iii. 83. Offended
with the profane speeches of Zippora,
sent her back to her father, 200. Why
he permitted a bill of divorce, 253. An
interpreter between God and the people,
i. 55. Did not exercise an arbitrary
power, 66. Comprehended under the
name of Christ, iv. 10. His love for his
nation, 51. The name and office of me-
diator ascribed to, 298. The law in
part delivered before, 378. A type of
the law, 381.

Moulin, Dr., remarks on his argument for
the continuance of bishops in the Eng-
lish church, iii. 92.

Monks, invented new fetters to throw on Molmutius. See Dunwallo.
matrimony, iii. 279. Dubious relaters Music, recommended to youth, iii. 476.

in civil matters, and very partial in
ecclesiastic, v. 235. One thousand one
hundred and fifty of them massacred,

273.

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Name of God, of hallowing it and its oppo-
sites, v. 59, 63.

Morcar, the son of Algar, made earl of
Northumberland in the room of Tosti,
v. 383. He and Edwin, duke of the
Mercians, put Tosti to flight, 387. They
give battle to Harold Harvager, king
of Norway, but are worsted, 389. They
refuse to set up Edgar, and at length
swear fidelity to duke William of Nor-Nations, at liberty to erect what form of
mandy, 392.

Mordred, Arthur's nephew, said to have
given him in a battle his death wound,
v. 264.

More, Alexander, account of, i. 225.
Morindus, the son of Elanius by Tangues-

Nassau, house of, hinted at, as dangerous
to a commonwealth, ii. 128.
Natanleod, or Nazaleod, supposed the same
with Uther Pendragon, v. 256.

government they like, ii. 11, 133. Their
beginning why obscure, v. 164. Their
observance of the Divine commands a
source of prosperity, v. 159. The con-
sequences of impiety, 160.

Nature, her zodiac and annual circuit over
human things, iii. 403. Some pretend
it to be God, iv. 14. They gain nothing
by their theory, 15.

Nazianzen, his wish that prelacy had never
been, i. 439.

regard, v. 109, 113.

Nero, had no right to the succession, i. 72.
Comparison between him and King
Charles, 137.

tela, a valiant man, but infinitely cruel,
v. 181. Is devoured by a sea monster, ib.
Mosaic Law, described, iv. 379. Intended
for the Israelites alone, ib. Temporal
life attached to its promises, 380. A
curse on the disobedient, ib. The object Necessity, man's liberty considered en-
of, 380, 381. The excellency of faith tirely independent of, iv. 37.
over the, 382. The gospel more excel-Neighbour, our, of the special virtues which
lent and perfect than, 383. Abolished
on the introduction of the gospel, 387.
Reasons given why the whole law is
abrogated, and not the ceremonial alone,
390, 393. The sum and essence of the
law not abrogated, 393. The objection|
to this doctrine considered, 395.
Mosco, fertility of the country between
this city and Yeraslave. v. 397. Said
to be bigger than London, ib. Method
of travelling thence to the Caspian, 398.
Siege of it raised, and peace made with
the Poles, by the mediation of king
James, v. 418.

Moscovia, description of the empire, v.395.
Excessive cold in winter there, ib. Suc-
cession of its dukes and emperors,
407, &c.

Nestorian heresy, in what it consisted, iv.
290, note, 293.

Netherlands, saved from ruin by not trust-
ing the Spanish king, ii. 35.
Newness of Life, described, iv. 343. The
primary functions of, ib.
How pro-
duced, ib.

New Testament, evidence of, as to the unity
of God, iv. 26. Almost every thing ad-
vanced in, proved by citations from the
Old, 438.

Nonnichia, wife of Gerontius, her resolu-
tion and death, v. 234. Is highly praised
by Sozomen, ib.

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Oaths, defined, v. 45. Their lawfulness,
46. Should be had recourse to only in
important matters, ib. Involving a pro-
mise should be observed, though con-
trary to our interest, ib. Their oppo-
sites, 48-50.

Obedience, defined, ii. 28, v. 24. Its oppo-
sites, 25.

Octa and Ebissa, Hengist the son and ne-
phew of, called over by him, v. 251.
They possess themselves of Northum-
berland, ib.

Odemira, Conde de, Oliver's letter to him,
ii. 281.

Oenus, one in the catalogue of ancient
British kings, v. 183.

Oeric or Oisc, succeeds his father Hengist
in the kingdom of Kent, and from him
the Kentish kings called Oiscings,
v. 255. He is otherwise called Esca,
262.

Offa, the son of Siger, quits his kingdom

of the East-Saxons to go to Rome and
turn monk, v. 293, 296.

Offa, defeating and slaying Beornred, be-
comes king of Mercia after Ethelbald,
v. 298. He subdues a neighbouring
people called Hastings, 299. Gets the
victory of Alric, king of Kent, at Occan-
ford, ib. Inviting Ethelbrite, king of
the East-Angles, to his palace, he there
treacherously causes him to be behead-
ed, and seizes his kingdom, 301. Had
at first enmity, afterwards league, with
Charles the Great, 302. He grants a
perpetual tribute to the pope out of
every house in his kingdom, ib. He
draws a trench of wondrous length be-
tween Mercia and the British confines,
ib. His death, ib.

Oldenburgh, count of, letter from the coun-
cil of state to him, ii. 236. Letters from
Oliver to him, 243.
Oldenburgh, Henry, letters to, iii. 505, 510,
516, 520.

Oliver, the Protector, letters written in his
name to several princes and potentates,
ii 243, &c. His manifesto against the
depredations of the Spaniards, 333.
Omnipotence, iv. 24.
Omnipresence, iv. 24.

Omniscience, classed under intelligence, as
an attribute of God, iv. 27.

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Orders, may be called a sacrament,
iv. 422.

Ordination, whether the order of bishops
to be kept up to perform it, iii. 77.
Preaching as holy, and far more excel-
lent, 78.

Origen, while a layman, expounded the
Scriptures publicly, ii. 493. Permitted
women to marry after divorce, iii. 295,
416.

Orestes, condemned to death for killing his
mother, i. 488.

Original sin, the doctrine of, cannot be
defended on the supposition of the cre-
ation of souls, iv. 193. The phrase first
employed by Augustine, 260. Defini-
tion of, ib. Various opinions respecting,
261.

Ormond, earl of, articles between him and
the Irish, ii. 139. His letter to Colonel
Jones, 170. His proclamation of king
Charles II. in Ireland, 174. Remarks
on the articles, &c., 179.

Orthodox, their mistakes taught Milton
to agree with their opponents, iv. 9.
Osbald, a nobleman, exalted to the throne
of the Northumbrians after Ethelred,
v. 103.

Osbert, reigns in Northumberland after the
last of the Ethelreds, v. 311. Helping
the Picts against Donaldus, king of
Scotland, defeats the Scots at Stirling-
bridge, with great slaughter, and takes
the king prisoner, 313.

Osfrid, and Eanfrid, the sons of Edwin,
converted and baptized, v. 279. Osfrid
slain, together with his father, in a
battle against Kedwalla, 280.

Osiris, slain by his brother Typhon, i. 119.
Oslac and Cneban, two Saxon earls, slain
by Keaulin at Wibbandun, v. 262.
Osmund, king of the South-Saxons, v.298.
Osred, a child, succeeds Alfrid in the
Northumbrian kingdom, v. 293. He is
slain by his kindred, for his vicious
life, ib.

Osred, son of Alcred, advanced to the
kingdom of Northumberland, after Elf-
wald, is soon driven out again, v. 300.
Is taken and forcibly shaven a monk at
York, 301.

Osric, the son of Elfric, baptized by Pau-
linus, succeeds in the kingdom of Deira,
v. 281. Turns apostate, and is slain by
an eruption of Kedwalla, out of a be-
sieged town, ib. Another Osric suc-
ceeds Kenred II., 293.

Osric, earl of Southampton, and Ethelwolf
of Berkshire, beat the Danes back to
their ships, v. 315.

Ostorius, sent viceprætor into Britain, in
the room of Plautius the prætor, v. 202.
Routs the Britons, and improves his
victory to the best advantage, 203.
Gives the government of several cities

to Cogidunus, a British king, his ally,
ib. Defeats the Silures under the lead-
ing of Caractacus, 204. Has afterwards
bad success, 205.

Ostrid, the wife of Ethelred, killed by her
own nobles, v. 293.

Oswald, brother of Eanfred, living exiled
in Scotland, is there baptized, v. 28.
With a small army utterly overthrows
Kedwalla, ib. Settles religion, and
very much enlarges his dominions, ib.
Overcome and slain in battle by Penda,
at Maserfield, now Oswestre, 283.
Oswi, succeeds his brother Oswald in the
kingdom, v. 283. He persuades Sige-
bert to receive the christian faith, ib.
Routs Penda's vast army, 286. He sub-
dues all Mercia, and the greatest part]
of the Pictish nation, ib. Shaken off by
the Mercian nobles, and Wulfur set up
in his stead, 287. His death, 288.
Osuin, the nephew of Edwin, shares with
Oswi in the kingdom of Northumber-
land, v. 283. Coming to arms with him,
he is overmatched, and slain by his
command, 284.

Oswulf, has the crown of Northumbèr-

land relinquished to him by Eadbert,
v. 298. Slain by his own servants, ib.
Otha, succeeds Esca in the kingdom of
Kent, v. 262.

Otter and Roald, two Danish leaders land-
ing in Devonshire, their whole forces
are scattered, and Roald slain, v. 329.
Owiga, river, steep waterfalls in it, v. 399.
Oxford, burnt by the Danes, v. 354.

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Pandrasus, a Grecian king, keeps the
Trojans in servitude, v. 169. Is beaten
by Brutus, ib.

Paolo, Padre, his judgment concerning the
hierarchy of England, ii. 397. Observes,
that books were left to each one's con-
science, to read or lay by, till after the
year 800, ii. 60.

Papists, imitating the ceremonial law,
fell into superstition, ii. 452. Most
severe against divorce, yet most easy
to all licentiousness, iii. 262. Their ar-
guments on justification noticed, iv. 356,
357. Their errors with respect to the
sacraments, 417, 421. What they call
works of supererogation impossible,
v. 6, 7. Their error with respect to
idols, 54.

Paradise, the heaven of the blessed, some-
times called, iv. 183.

Parable, in Luke xiv. 16, &c. explained,
ii. 538.

Paraus, his opinion that the gospel re-

quires perfecter obedience than the law,
refuted, iii. 231. His objection against

divorce answered, 270. His definition
of marriage, 342. Accuses the jesuit
Maldonatus, 368. His note on the en-
tertainment of the young man in the
gospel, 376.

Parallel, between a king and a master of
a family, very lame, i. 114.
Parliament, the absurdity of calling it a
convocation, iii. 144. Commendation of
their proceedings, 145. Praised for
their courage in punishing tyrants,
ii. 34. Their guard dismissed, and
another appointed, i. 343. By our old
laws, to be held twice a year at London,
352. Not to be dissolved till griev-
ances are redressed, 354. What the
name originally signified, ii.
Above all positive law, 361. Character
of the long parliament in 1641, v. 236,
&c. Letters of state written in the
name of the, ii. 200, 242, 332. Cautions
on the choice of representatives in,
i. 297.

127.

Passover, a seal of the covenant, iv. 403.
Typified the sacrifice of Christ, 404.
Pastor of Christ's church, his universal
right to admonish, iii. 54. For his
greatest labours requires only common
necessaries, 80.

Pastoral Office, the nature and dignity of
it, iii. 83.

Patience, and its opposite, v. 23, 24, 98.
Patriarchate, independent of the crown,

affected by some prelates, ii. 405.
Paul, St., his instruction to Timothy, for
church-discipline, ii. 446. Meaning of
that text, Charity believeth all things,
iii. 260. His writings touching divorce
explained, 300. His different manner
of speaking explained, 406. Commands
us to pray for kings, yet calls Nero a
lion, i. 78. His teaching respecting the
one God, iv. 89. Does not hesitate to
attribute to God something corporeal,
181.

Paulinus, with Edelburga, endeavours to
convert Northumberland to Christia-
nity, v. 277. The manner of his making
king Edwin a convert, ib., 279. He con-
verts the province of Lindsey, and
Blecca the governor of Lincoln, and
builds a church in that city, 280.
Paul's, St., cathedral at London, by whom
first built, v. 272.

Paulus Jovius, his motives for describing
only Britain and Muscovy, v. 394.
Peace, proclamation relating to that be-
tween the earl of Ormond and the Irish,
ii. 139. Articles of it, &c., 140. Re-
marks on those articles, &c., 179. Inter-
national treaties included under the
head of, v. 156.

Peada, prince of the Middle-Angles, is
baptized with all his followers, v. 284.
Hath South Mercia conferred on him

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