dent in our fore-fathers to frame, it would be undoubtedly, wise and provident in us to abolish. The days of bigotry and persecution are gone, I trust, for ever. The mind, enlightened by rational Christianity, and soothed by philosophy, has learned to appreciate justly the precepts of religion. It perceives, that moderation and forbearance are virtues of the highest order, absolutely essential to human happiness, and without which, all the doctrines of theological metaphysics, which the mind of man has hitherto been able to conceive, lose every thing of value, dignity, or goodness. INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS; AND OF AUTHORS AND BOOKS, QUOTED AND REFERRED TO. A Archdeacons, 403. Architecture, influence of the reform- Archipriesthoods, 425. Ark, honour shewed to the, 353. Articles of faith in which all Christians Artists encouraged by Leo X., 125. Asia, churches of, 251. Asia minor, churches of, 251. Atlus Geographicus, 254. Ammir. Discorso come la Chiesa Ro- 58. Avignon, residence of the Popes at, Axiom, a new one, of civil government, 131. B Babylon, the mystical, 257. Bacon's, Lord, Works, 153, 166. Opi- Baldwinus Franc. 67. 114. Benedictines, order of, 163. Benson's, Dr. History of Persecution, Bessarion, Cardinal, his influence, 87. Bible, the, worth all the mighty tomes Bigotry, spirit of, retained by the re- Bingham's Origines Ecclesiasticæ, 16. Bishops Cardinals, 405. Blackstone's Commentaries, 467. 333. Blondel on Bishops and Presbyters, 51. Bolsec, Jerome, 449. Bonaparte, his plunders of the Pope's 28. Boniface III., his struggle for a name, Book of Common Prayer, 117, 319. 421. Buller's Life of Fenelon, 37, 292. C Calixtus, George, de Conjugio Cleri- Calmet's Diet. 306. Calvin. Instit. 264, 450. Calvin, spread of his opinions in Ger- Candles, blessed, 370. Capet, Hugh, styled Hugh l'Abbé, 147. 169. Cardinal Nephew, 421. Cardinals, offices, and origin of, 399. Carlostadt, see Bodenstein. Card's Hist. Outlines of the Rise and Carr's, Sir John, Travels in Spain,485. Catechism of the Council of Trent, 300. Catholic countries characterized, 142. Catholic Christian Instructed, 394, 451. Christianisimus Primativus, 8. Churches erected by Constantine, 34. Circassian Church, 251. Cistercian order of monks, 150. Congregation of the holy office, 417. Consistory, congregation of the, 424, 29. Constantinople styled New Rome, 77. Conversion of Constantine the Great, Convocation of England, 268. Copts, Christian, 252. Corinth, division in the church of, 45. Councils of the reformed in France, Councils, Catholic's belief of, 361. 430. Creation of Cardinals, 410. Creed, Nicene, 68. Of Pope Pius Crimes of Catholics do not spring from Crook, the pastoral, 386. Cross, miraculous appearance of, to Cudworth's opinion of the effects of Culdees of Iona, 252. Culto, magnificence in celebrating D |