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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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