The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

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The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.
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"The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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THE Fourth TABLE, or Alphabetical Index, is of Things or Principal Matters, contained in the Second Volume.

A.
  • ABEL, what? Page 367
  • Abilene, what? 366, 367
  • Abraham's Bosome, a Jewish Phrase for an hap py state. p. 455, 456. The ridiculous Notion the Rhemists have upon it. p. 455. Son of Abraham, by Faith and Nature; what? p. 467. Abraham's Seed, the being of it, much gloried in by the Jews. p. 566. Se∣veral things of Abraham's History. p. 665. What he bought in the Land of Canaan? 669, 670
  • Absolom was a Nazarite, and for that reason wore long hair. 774
  • Acceptance with God, and coming to him, is only through Christ. 1261, 1262
  • Achzib, (it and Chezib, changed into Ecdippa) the Name of a place. 61
  • Acon, is a City of Galilee, where there was a Bath of Venus. 60
  • Actings of God extraordinary, are not mens ordinary Rule. 1276
  • Adam, the City, was in Perea, this was the Centural Place, where the waters parted when Israel entred Jor∣dan. 82
  • Adam, although at first holy, yet had not the Spirit of Re∣velation. p. 1046. He had not the Spirit of Sanctifica∣tion, nor of Prophesie. p. 1150. Before his fall, he is compared with a Believer sanctified. p. 1152, 1153. The fall of Adam, and the fall of Angels compared to∣gether. p. 1285. His Story is all wonder. p. 1303. Adam and Eve believed, and obtained Life. p. 1303. A view of their Story in nine Particulars. p. 1303, 1304. The means of their believing, and their condition under believing. p. 1304. Adam fell on the sixth Day of the Creation, viz. on the Day he was created. p. 1323. The proof of this. p. 1323, 1324. He was created about nine a Clock in the Morning, fell about Noon, Christ was promised about three a Clock in the After∣noon. p. 1324. A new Creation, or Redemption was per∣formed on the day that Adam was created. p. 1325. Adam's first Sermon to his family, the matter of it sup∣posed. p. 1327. Adam not created mortal, against the Socinians. 1353
  • Adoption, or Sonship, as referring to God; how understood by the Jews. 521, 533
  • Adulteress, how punished. 563
  • Adultery, the only case in which Christ permitted a Bill of divorce. p. 148. The Divine Laws concerning it. p. 218. How does the Law of Death for Adultery, and that of Divorce, consit together? p. 218. Adultery, practised (probably in the Temple Court of the Jews in our Sa∣viours time, p. 1080. The story of the Adulterous Wo∣man (recorded John the 8.) left out of some of the Ancient Greek Testaments, and the first Printed Syriack, and also some Latine Translations, and the reason of this omission. p. 1079, 1080. Adultery, is so common among the Jews, that the custom of trying the Adul∣terous Woman by bitter water (mentioned Numb. 5.) was omitted, the pretended reason for this omission. 1080, 1111
  • Affairs, and Times of Men, how God knows, and dates them. 1250, &c.
  • Affliction of the people of God, the duration of it, is deter∣mined by the Lord. 1248, to 1251
  • Agapae, or Love Feast, they were appendages to the Lords Supper, also they were when strangers were entertained in each Church, at the cost of the Church. Page 774, to 776
  • Age of Man, the several abatements of it as to length; at what time these abatements were made. 1066
  • Aleph, and Ain, The mystical Jewish Doctors did not di∣stinguish them. 79
  • Alms, why taken for Righteousness. p. 153, &c. The ordi∣nary Alms of the Jews is divided into three parts; what they put into the Alms Dish for the Poor of the World? What into the Chest for the Poor of the City only? What they lest in the field ungathered? Whether a Trumpet was sounded when they did their Alms? p. 154. 155. Alms given to the Poor, of what nature they were to be. 467
  • Almon, and Alemoth, the same. 42
  • Altar, the Rings, and the Laver thereof, described, p. 33, 34. What it was to leave a gift before the Altar? p. 143. When or at what time the Ashes were swept off it? p. 618. The several Offices belonging to it. p. 765. The zeal of the Officers to serve at it. p. 765. The custom of fetch∣ing water at the Fountain Siloam and pouring it on the Altar, what it signified. p. 1039. Altar, put for the Communion Table, but in a wrong sence. p. 1259. Al∣tar, put for Christ, how? 1259, 1260
  • Amana, or Amanah, a Mountain, and a River. 62
  • Amen verily, why so much used by Christ? p. 137. Why used double, and single. p. 533. All used Amen after Prayer or Thanksgiving. p. 786. But not in the Temple, for there they used another Clause instead of it. p. 1139. Orphan Amen, was when he that answered Amen knew not what he answered to. 786
  • Amulets, Charms, Mutterings, Exorcisms, what? 243
  • Anabaptists, refuted. 1125, 1127, 1128, 1133
  • Ananias, the madness of his sin, his degree supposed to be higher than the Vulgar. p. 655, 656. Two of the Name, one famous. 698
  • Anathema, sounds all one with 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Cherem, its taken in a threefold sence. p. 795. To be Anathema from Christ, what? 1295, 1296
  • Angels, Doemons, and Spirits distinguished, among the Jews. p. 483. Angels for Prophets and Ministers. p. 674. An∣gels sometimes, put on the shape of Men. p. 683, 684. Angels foolishly denyed by the Sadducees, p. 702, 1282, &c. The Jews called evil Angels Destroyers, or Angels of Death; and good Angels, Ministring Angels. p. 767 Angels put for Devils. p. 754. Angels put for Devils, Ministers, and Messengers. p. 773. Angels, sight for the Church of God. p. 1163. The Devil is called the Angel of Death by the Jews. p. 1209. Christ is called the Angel by Stephen (the Proto-Martyr) upon the ac∣count of his delivering the Law on Mount Sinai, this proves him to be God against the Arian, and Socinian. p. 1229. Angel, and Angels, for Christ, Prophets, and Ministers. p. 1229. Why in some cases they are ranked with Christ, and God. p. 1268. Angels, can will nothing but as God willeth. 1268. The Fall of Angels, and the Fall of Adam; compared together. p. 1285. Angels in probability were created the first Day with the Heavens. p. 1323, 1324. They fell not before Man was created. 1324
  • Anger or wrath of God, this Christ did not undergo, but only the Justice of God in his sufferings. 1348, 1349, 1350
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  • Anointing of Bodies and Heads among the Jews, had a threefold reason; used for superstition little differing from a magical Design. p. 161, 162. The Anointing mentioned in the Epistle of James, was for health, but opposed to the Magical Anointing of the Jews. p. 162. Anointing with precious Ointment; when, and where∣fore used. p. 352. Anointing with Oyl, was a Medicine to cure the sick. Page 342
  • Antichrist, Rome Heathen could not be Antichrist, because the Character of Antichrist is Apostasie. p. 1168. Anti∣christ is two fold. p. 1200. How to discover the Anti∣christ, that was to be in after-times. 1200
  • Antinomians say, that Believers are not punished for sin; a false opinion. 1226
  • Antiochus and Epiphanes, the bloodiest enemies that the People of the Jews, and their Religion ever had. 513
  • Antipatris, the Name, the Situation, almost in all Maps mistaken; some History concerning it. 55, 56
  • Apamia, the Sea of it, what upon conjecture. 63
  • Apparitions of the Souls of Men, (or Spectra) after death believed by the Jews. 483, 1283
  • Apostasie of the Jews caused chiefly by false Teachers. p. 1044. The sad fruits of Apostasie. 1181, 1182
  • Apostles, had a power of inflicting Death, and giving the Holy Ghost. 622, 623
  • Arad, Ascalon bears great affinity to it. 14, 15
  • Arbel, a City of Galilee, between Zippor and Tiberias. 77
  • Ark of the Covenant, why so called. 1068, 1069, 1070
  • Ascalon, a place now of no note, but once was venerable; how far from Jerusalem? It bears a great affinity with Arad, and Gerar, a famous story of eight Witches, there. 14, 15
  • Ashdod's Language, what? 505
  • Ashes of the red Cow, which were most purifying, when sprinkled, what? 37
  • Astarch, was the setter forth of the Games. 790, 791
  • Asmodeus, what sort of Devil, he was the Author of Apo∣stasie. 429, 430
  • Asphaltites, the extent of it. p. 6. The Coast of it. 7, 296
  • Assembly of Twenty three, was held in the Gate of Susan. 512
  • Assizes, are an assurance, and a fit representation of the last Judgment. 1104, 1117, 1119
  • Assyrian Tongue, or Language, not the Original of the Old Testament. 138, 139
  • Attonement, how the High Priest prepared himself (with the help of others) for the day of Attonement. p. 554, 555. The Attonement or Ransom for Souls, how much, and for what end? p. 1204, 1205, 1208. And at what time it was paid? p. 1205. And why the Poor therein was to give as much as the Rich. p. 1207. And why the Poor in wordly matters gave more than the Rich did in that which referred to God. 1207
  • Attributes, God acteth not any of his Attributes accor∣ding to the utmost extent of their infiniteness, proved by many instances. 1063
  • Aven, a term blasphemously used of Christ. 533
  • Avites, (the Country) a part of the new Idumea, called sometimes Hazerin, sometimes Shur. 292
  • Auranitis, and Hauran; what the Name, where the Place? 364, 365
B.
  • BAAL, changed in the Names of Men into Bosheth, which signifies shame, in detestation of Idolatry. Page 1315
  • Baalath, or Baale; what? 42
  • Babilon, Hebrews in Babilon (and the adjacent Countries) were supposed by the Jews to be vastly numerous and of a purer and more noble Blood, than those that went up from thence, p. 799. They had three Universities in Babilon; the Ten Tribes were placed in Assyria, and Babilon. p. 800, 801. Peter Preached the Gospel in Babilon. p. 802. Babilon put for Rome. p. 1141. Why Saint John in the Revelation calls Rome so, rather than by its own proper Name. p. 1143. Peter wrote his Epistle from Babilon in Chaldea, and not from Rome as some would have. p. 1144. Peter dyed there. Page 1144
  • Bahurim, a Levitical City; Almn and Alemoth the same. 42
  • Balaam, what was his way, and wages, and what the way of his Followers? p 1180, 1181. Balaam is described by his Parentage, and by his Qualities. 1180
  • Balaamites impudently opposed the Decree of the Apostles. 697
  • Baptism, whence it came to pass that the Baptism of John was so readily received. p. 116, 117. Baptism had been constantly used among the Jews from the days of Jacob, and that for the same end for which we now use it, viz. as an Entrance into the Church, and not only of Prose∣lytes but of all Israel. p. 117, 118. The Jews Baptised also young Children (for the most part) with their Pa∣rents. p. 118. So did John and the Apostles. p. 118, 119, 122. The Manner and Form which John used in Bap∣tism. p. 119. The use of Witnesses at Baptism, was only for them that had no Parents to present them. p. 118, 119. The Baptism of Procelytes, with its circumstances, p. 117, to 112. The Baptism of John compared with the Baptism of the Jewish Procelytes, and ours with them both. p. 120, 121, 122. Among other things dipping is discoursed. p. 120, 121, 122. Dipping in Baptism en∣deavoured to be laid aside, because it caused the Women of Galilee to be Barren. p. 121, 122. Why Sprinkling was used in stead of Dipping. p. 121. Infant Baptism argued for. p. 273, 274. At first Baptism was in the Name of Jesus, why? p. 274, 275. Afterward in the Name of the Trinity, why? p. 275. Baptism without Circumcision gave a right to the Passover. p. 353. Bap∣tism in the Name of Jesus, only among the Jews, and why? p. 647. Baptism taken for Martyrdom. p. 789. Baptism used in the Jewish Church, for Introduction and Admission, many Generations before John the Baptist was born. p. 1040, 1132. Baptism, four times establish∣ed. p. 1122. Why there is no particular Precept in Scripture for Infant Baptism. p. 1128, 1133. The dif∣ference between the Primitive, and the Gospel Institution of it. p. 1125, 1127, 1128. Baptism to be administred before Teaching. p. 273. The same proved from Matth. 28. 19. p. 1124. The several ends of Baptism as a Sa∣crament. p. 273, 1125, 1126. Three Forms of it used for Introduction. p. 1129. How John the Baptist did Bap∣tize in the Name of the Messias coming. 1129. Why the Apostles Baptised at first in the Name of Jesus only. p. 1129. Baptism was no new thing in our Saviours days. p. 1128, 1132, 1133. Baptism, its vow whe∣ther obligatory to Infants? p. 1221. Baptism belongs to Children, they being part of their Parents. 1318
  • Barbarians, the Greeks call all Countries Barbarians but their own. 704
  • Barber, an odd story of a Barber cutting the throats of ma∣ny Jews. 774
  • Barjesus and Elymas the same, the reason of the two Names, and what they both signifie. p. 687, 1192. His wick∣edness, and method of perverting the ways of the Lord. 1192, 1193
  • Bartimai (Bartimeus) may be rendred a Son of admira∣tion or of profit, &c. 348
  • Batanea for Bashan. 81, 82
  • Bath Kol, or voice from Heaven which the Jews pretended to, upon the ceasing of the Prophesies, Urim and Thum∣mim, were either Jewish Tables or Devilish witchcraft. p. 128, 129. A story of Bath Kol. p. 181. Bath Kol the Daughter of Thunder. p. 337. It was used for a Testimony from Heaven, but was indeed performed by Magick Art. 345
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  • Bath of Venus, in Aeeon. Page 60
  • Baths, warm Baths of Tiberias, of good use. 69
  • Bathurseans, frequently mentioned in the Jewish Writings, what they were? 702
  • Be Abidan, an House, or Temple, how used? 795
  • Beelzebub, the right readings of it is Beelzebul; what? And why the chiefest of the Devils? 188, 189, 429
  • Beggers among the Jews, what Form of words they used in begging. 579
  • Beginning and the end, as referring things to be debated or explained, what? 565, 566
  • Believers, punished for sin, and how or for what end? 1226
  • Believing in Christ, and coming to him, how distinguished? p. 1261, 1262. Believing, & obeying not to be separated. 1263
  • Bell, a little Bell in the Temple gave notice when they en∣tred upon their Services. p. 380, 381. Upon the hear∣ing of which the Priests, Levites, and People got them∣selves into their distinct Postures and Places of Service. 380, 381
  • Benches of Judicature, their Order and Degrees among the Jews. 755
  • Ben Cozia, the Pseudo-Messiah of the Jews, the reason on which they rejected him. 543
  • Ben Nezer, was a Thief or Robber, that raised himself to a sort of a Kingdom, by taking of Cities; its also taken for that Kingdom. 496
  • Ben Satda, or Stada, a contumelious and blasphemous Name given by the Jewish Writers to Jesus Christ, whom they make a Magician, and that he brought that Art out of Egypt with him. 189, 270
  • Beor, and Pethor changed into Bosor, three things observed from it. 1144, 1180
  • Berurea, the Wife of Rabbi Meir, was a learned Woman. p. 543. Supposed by some to be that Samaritan Woman, which conversed with our Saviour. 543
  • Betar, a City not mentioned in the Scriptures, but much among the Talmudick Writings; called Bitter, or Bi∣ther among the Christians. 48, 49
  • Bethabara, Bethamerah, Bethany, what, and how used for the same place? 491, 492, 493, 494
  • Pethany, and Beth-hene, the same. p. 40. Bethany, is put for that part of Mount Olivet which lay furthest from Jerusalem, being one mile off, but the Town of Bethany was twice as far off. 485
  • Bethaven, there were two of the Name. 20
  • Beth-cerem, whether not Beth-haccerem? 51
  • Beth Chadulo, three miles from Jerusalem; what? 50
  • Bethel, first called Luz; sometimes Bethaven, where situa∣ted. 20
  • Bethesdas Pool, in it Men, not Beasts, were washed. p. 545 It was made of an healing quality by the help of an An∣gel, about the days of Christs being on Earth, but how long before or after we know not. 546, 547
  • Beth Gubrin, what place? 317
  • Beth-horan, though there were two places of this Name in the Old Testament, yet we find but one under the se∣cond Temple; several Histories referring to it, the way from Jerusalem to it. 19
  • Beth Maron the Town, where situate. 515
  • Beth-Meon, distant from Tiberias four Furlongs, the Maps place it too remote. 71
  • Beth Midras, or Beth Midrash, was an upper Room like a Divinity School or Chappel, near a kin to a Synagogue, being the House of the Rabbin, common for any use; here the Disciples of the Rabbins met; and the like af∣terwards the Disciples of the Primitive Church met in the House of some Doctor or Minister. 638, 795
  • Bethphage, was reckoned as within Jerusalem; which shews the error of the most Maps, as also of the De∣scription of the Place among Historians, and Travelers. p. 36. The derivation of the word Bethphage; where it is shewn how it agrees with its being within Jerusalem. 37
  • Bethsaida, after rebuilt by Philip, was called Julias. 83
  • Bethshan, the beginning of Galilee, a most fruitful plea∣sant place. p. 57. Now called Scythopolis, a City of Decapolis. p. 315. Where situate. Page 493
  • Bible, Hebrew, some would have the Hebrew Bible corrected by the Greek Version, and contend that those Interpreters were inspired. p. 710, 711, 712. The Hebrew Bible was ever read in the Synagogues of the Hebrews. p. 802. The Jews thought not so honourably of any Version as they did of the Hebrew Bible. 803, 804, 805
  • Bigamy, and Poligamy, forbidden. 696
  • Bill of Divorce, its manner of giving, with a Copy of such a Bill how confirmed; how it was delivered? p. 147, 148 Christ permits not Divorce except in case of Adultery, the only case in which Christ permitted a Bill of Di∣vorce. 148
  • Binding, and Loosing, a very usual Phrase in the Jewish Schools; spoken of Things, not of Persons; Thirty In∣stances out of the Jewish Writers. p. 205, 206, 207. Reduced to the Gospel State. p. 207. Remitting of sins is quite another thing, this belongs to Persons, that to Doctrine. 207
  • Birthdays, the keeping of them was esteemed as a part of Idolatrous Worship. 196
  • Bitter-water, for the tryal of the Adulteress; the way of using it with the consequence. 563, 564
  • Bitur, or Bitar, not the same with Betar. 51
  • Blasphemer, he was to be stoned. 579
  • Blessing, and Cursing, how practised among the Jews. 136
  • Blood, the eating of it prohibited, &c. p. 697. The put∣ting the blood upon the Ear of him that was cleansed of a Leprosie, the way and manner of doing it. p. 1038. The Blood of the Covenant, put for the Blood of Christ. 1254
  • Boanerges, what? 336, 337
  • Brass piece of Coyn, what? 468
  • Bread, frequently used by the Jews for Doctrine. 553
  • Breaking of Bread, was a Phrase and Custom much in use among the Jews. p. 648. Whether it intended com∣mon Bread, or Sacramental Bread among the Primitive Christians? 648
  • Bride, and the Children of the Bridechamber; what their priviledge, and business? 172
  • Bridge of Jacob over Jordan, where, and why so called? p. 492. There were two Bridges at least over Jordan, be∣sides other passages over it. 492
  • Brother, and Neighbour, what the difference between them? 141
  • Brothers, younger Brothers; the Lineage or Descent of Christ was most of younger Brothers. 1089, 1090
  • Burials, what Musick and Mourning was used then? p. 172, 173. How the Jews carried the Corps to their Burials; little Children were carried in their Arms, all were bu∣ried out of the City. 414
  • Buried, Criminals were buried in differing places from other Men, and had the stone, wood, sword or rope, wherewith they were executed, buried with them. 676
  • Burying Places, were either Common, or Noble and Extra∣ordinary; the Common, were publick places, where the mixed Multitudes buried without the City. The Extraordinary, were hewn out in Rocks in their own ground with no little Charge and Art; they buryed Men of the same Family altogether; the whole descri∣bed, with their manner of Burying. p. 89, 90. How far their Burying Places were distant from their Cities? 656
C.
  • CADESH, where seated, and what other Names it had. Page 325
  • Cadytis, for Jerusalem, in Herodotus. 302, 303
  • Cain, there was another besides him we read of in the be∣ginning of Genesis; also the Name of a Town. p. 329, 330

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  • ... Cain, his description as to Extraction and Action after he slew his Brother. p. 1307, 1308. His Mark that God set upon him, what? Page 1310
  • Cainan, put into the Genealogy by the Seventy Translators without ground from the Hebrew. 401, &c.
  • Calling of the Gentiles, why Christ gave a Commission not before, but after his Resurrection for the calling of them. 1123
  • Calling of the Jews, expected by some, not probable, and why? 1123
  • Callirrhoe, is Lasha. 296
  • Campain Country, put sometimes for a Wilderness, some∣times for a Country where the ground was not distin∣guished by fens. 294, 295
  • Cana of Gallilee, its situation. p. 81, 309, 497. Its dispu∣table whether it should be writ with C or K, its situation. 497
  • Canaan, what? p. 202. It was only a part of Canaan. p. 328. The earthly Canaan is not to be sought after. 1224
  • ...Candle, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a Candle, used for a Person famous for life, or knowledge. 550
  • Capernaum, its situation, a City in a pleasant place. p. 72. Where? p. 308. There were two Places of that Name. 496, 497
  • Caphar Chittim, the same with Ziddim. 71
  • Caphar Hananiah, was the middle of Galilee. 58
  • Caphar Karnaim, was of Heathen Jurisdiction. 317
  • Caphar Tebi, what Village, and whence the Name? 18
  • Caphar Tsemach, something observed about its Name. 316
  • Cappadocia, rendred by the Vulgar Palusium, was Sin of old, but in the Talmudists Cappadocia, &c. 290, 291
  • Captains of the Temple, what? 471
  • Carmel, a mountainous Country. 59
  • Casiotis, and Casius, the Mount; where situate, &c. 291
  • Castara, what place, and by whom inhabited. 515
  • Castor and Pollux, what, how pictured, and how fatal their Feast to the Lacedemonians. 705, 706
  • Caves and Dens, vastly large and very numerous in the Land of Israel; many of these were digged out of Mountains and Rocks by the Gygantick Canaanites, for the use of war. 88, 89
  • Causes, capital, the Sanhedrim lost the power of Judging in Capital Causes by their own neglect, being so remiss to the Israelites, with the reason of it. 611, to 614
  • Cesarea, how named by Arabians and Jews, how far from Jerusalem; Herod built it after it was destroyed, the Schools and Doctors of the Jews flourished there. 54, 55
  • Cesaria Phillippi, where situated. 63, 317
  • Chabul, what? 311
  • Chagigah, the Festival, this was the second part of the Passover being kept with joy, mirth, and sacrifices. p. 356, &c. Paschal Chagigah, what part of the Passover? When the time of bringing it? 610, 611, 618
  • Chains, for the hands used among the Jews. 683
  • Chalamish, what place, and by whom inhabited? 515
  • Chaldee Language, from their return out of Babilon, was the Jews Mother Tongue. 545
  • Chaldee Paraphrast, addeth to the Hebrew Text. 707
  • Chaluch was a woolen shirt next the skin, worn by the Jews. 457
  • Chamber of the Counsellors and chief Men, what? 358
  • Chambers and Gates lying on the South side of the Court of Israel, what? 31, 32
  • Chammath, (this is Ammaus of Josephus) so near Tiberias, as to be computed almost one City; computed by some to be the warm Bathes of Tiberias. 68, 69, 308
  • Chaphar Acon, what? 60
  • Chaphenatha, where, and what? 516
  • Charity towards our neighbour, is the top of Religion, and a most undoubted sign of love to God. p. 219. Saint Paul had three steps or degrees in his Charity. 1300
  • Charms, Mutterings, Exorcisms, &c. were several sorts of Enchantments, practised by Jews. 243
  • Chel, was the second Inclosure about the Temple. 29, 30
  • Chephar, what place, and by whom inhabited. 515
  • Cheth and He, Aleph and Ain, the Mystical Jewish Doctors did not distinguish them. 79
  • Chethib and Keri, are the differing Readings of the Hebrew Text. 139, 140
  • Chezib, it and Achzib changed into Ecdippa; the name of a place. 61
  • Chief Men and Counsellors their Chambers, what? 358
  • Chijun, or Remphan, or Rephan, what? &c. 673
  • Child, a Child with two Bodies from the Navel upward, which acted as two Children, &c. born at Emmaus. 373
  • Children, were born and brought up in some Courts (near the Temple) under ground, to be made fitter to sprinkle the Purifying water. p. 34. Little Children ad∣mitted Disciples by Christ. p. 219. Among the Jews when Children were grown to twelve years of age, they were put close upon business, both Secular, and Divine. p. 394. Children born crooked, maimed or defective according to some sin of the Parents, was the Opinion of the Jews. p. 568. Children in the womb supposed by the Jews to be in a capacity to commit some sin. p. 569, 570. Holy Children, a term for such as are born of Christian Parents. p. 759, 760. Why Children were, and are to be baptized? p. 1125, 1127, 1128 Why there is no particular Precept in Scripture for their Baptism. p. 1128, 1133. Children of the Jewish Pro∣selytes were Baptized in the Jewish Baptism, and why? p. 1128, 1132, 1133. Why Children suffer for their Parents sin, the Justice thereof. p. 1316, 1317. Good Children (being part of their Parents) are punished for their Parents sins. 1318, 1319
  • Children of the Bride-chamber, what their priviledge, and business? 172
  • Chipper, what place, and by whom inhabited. 515
  • Chorazin, where seated. 83, 84
  • Christ is added to Jesus in numberless places in the New Testament, to shew that Christ was the true Saviour, and that Jesus was the true Messias. p. 96. Jesus Christ is called the Son of David in a Communion term in the New Testament, the Talmudick Writings also use the same term for the true Messias. p. 96, 97. Christ was born in the thirty first year of Augustus Caesar. p. 104, 105. In the thirty fifth year of the Reign of Herod. p. 106. In the Month of Tisri, answering our Sep∣tember, at the Feast of Tabernacles. p. 107. This Month Tisri was ennobled before Christs time by many excellent things done in it. p. 107. He fulfilled the typical Equi∣ty of the three great Feasts, Passover, Pentecost and Ta∣bernacles. p. 107. The Jewish Writers seem to intimate the time of Christs birth. p. 107, 108. There was a general expectation of him when he came. p. 108. Manaben i. e. the Comforter, is taken for Christ. p. 108. He conversed upon Earth two and thirty years and an half. p. 128 Many Miracles were done by him. p 174. Ben Satda, a blasphemous name given by the Jewish Wri∣ters to Jesus Christ; whom they make a Magician, &c. p. 189. Signs of Christs coming, what from the Doctrin of the Jews? p. 240, 241. His coming in Glory and in the Clouds, signifie only his taking vengeance on the Jew∣ish Nation. p. 244, 1074. His death, and the manner of it, in several things differed from the Jewish custom in put∣ting Persons to death. p. 266. Christ had Perfections and Excellencies which flowed from the Hypostatical union of the two Natures, and such also as flowed from the Donation and anointing of the Holy Ghost, both menti∣oned. p. 351, 352. Christ, or Messiah, and the Son of God, are convertible Terms (against the Jews). p. 548, 549. Christ in his Agony and Passion exercised obedi∣ence and holiness (not the Divine Power) to bear up under the utmost that an enraged Devil could do. p. 591. Whether God was then angry with him, is questioned. p. 591. Christs dew, is his quickening Power. p. 691. His Resurrection shews him to be the Messiah. p. 691. His entrance into his publick Ministry, and the time of his death,

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  • and the several Actions which he did about the time of each, &c. p. 1033. He held communion with the Na∣tional Church of the Jews in the publick Exercise of their Religion; proved by manifold instances. p. 1036, 1037, 1038, 1039, 1040, 1041. He was a Member of the Church of the Jews, proved; and under the obli∣gation of the Law; p. 1037. Yea, he was under the obli∣gation of the Ceremonial Law, and that in three re∣spects. p. 1037. Christs lineage or discent was most of younger Brothers. p. 1089, 1090. Why Christ was Bap∣tised? p. 1125. Christ conformed to many things re∣ceived and practised in the Jewish Church and civil con∣verse in several instances. p. 1137, 1139. Christ sets himself against them that set themselves against Religi∣on. p. 1164. Christ sending his Gospel bound the De∣vil from his former abominable cheating. p. 1171. He delivered the Law on Mount Sinai, and is called the Angel by Stephen (the Proto-Martyr) upon that ac∣count; this proves him to be God against the Arian and Socinian. p. 1229. He was sanctified by his own blood. p. 1254. Christs blood called the blood of the Covenant, and why? p. 1254. He suffered as much as God could put him to suffer, short of his own wrath. p. 1255. The wrath of God not inflicted upon Christ in his suf∣ferings. p. 1255. His victory over Sin and Satan in his sufferings, was by his holiness, not by his God-head. p. 1255, 1256. The obedience of Christ made his blood justifying and saving. p. 1255. His obedience conquered Satan, and satisfied God. p. 1256. He died meerly out of obedience. p. 1257. He was sanctified by his own blood to the Office of Mediator. p. 1254, 1257. Accep∣tance with God, and coming to him, is only through Christ. p. 1261, 1262. Christs obedience does not dis∣solve the obedience of a Christian. p. 1263. What it is to be separate from Christ. p. 1297. The Church of the Jews, was only a Child under age till Christ came. p. 1334. His descent into Hell, the improper meaning as to what the Church of Rome understands by it. p. 1341, to 1347. Where was the Soul of Christ, when sepa∣rate from the body? p. 1344. His victory and triumph over Devils, what? p. 1345, 1346. His Kingdom be∣gan at his Resurrection. p. 1345, 1346. His descent into Hell, is supposed by some to be the Torments he suffered on the Cross. p. 1347. He did not undergo the anger or wrath of God, but the Justice of God in his sufferings. p. 1348, 1349, 1350. It was impossible Christ should suffer the Torments of Hell, or be in the case of the damned. p. 1350. His expiring upon the Cross considered, both in it self and in the manner of it. Page 1354
  • Christian Churches, were modelled by our Saviour very near the Platform of the Jewish Synagogue worship. 1041, 1139
  • Church of the Jews, Christ had a peculiar care of the Jewish Church (though but too much corrupted) while it was to continue a Church, and therefore sends the Leper to shew himself to the Priests. p. 165, 166. How it may be said to have been a National Church. p. 1036. It was only a Child under age till Christ came. p. 1334. Wherein its Childhood did consist. 1334
  • Churches in Houses, what? 794, 795
  • Churches, Christian Churches, under the Gospel, were by Christ himself and his Apostles modelled very like to the Platform of the Synagogues, and Synagogue worship under the Law; proved in several instances. p. 1041, 1139. The several Ages and Conditions of God's Church from the beginning of the World. p. 1088 Churches in the Apostles days, had many Ministers belong∣ing to each, and the reason of this. 1156, 1157
  • Circumcision, at it Children received their Names. p. 387. Circumcision, as given by Moses, gives a right under∣standing of the Nature of the Sabbath. p. 557. Peter was a Minister of the Circumcision among the Hebrews. p. 741. An Israelite may be a true Israelite, or a Priest a true Priest, without Circumcision. 760, 761
  • Cities, of Refuge, their Number and Names. p. 47, 48. Cities of the Levites, the Lands about them large, called their Suburbs; these Cities were Cities of Refuge and Universities. p. 86. A great City was such an one as had a Synagogue in it. p. 87. Not any thing troublesom or stinking were to be near a City. p. 87. Cities, Towns, and Villages; how distinguished. p. 333. 334. What number of Officers in Cities, and what their Places, and Employments. 638
  • Cleansing, what the Leper was to do for his cleansing. 165
  • Climax of the Tyrians, what place? 61
  • Cock-crowing, at what time? p. 262. Whether there were Cocks at Jerusalem, being sorbid by their Canons. p. 262 The Jewish Doctors distinguish Cock-crowing, into first, second, and third. 597
  • Collections were made by the Jews in forrain Nations for the poor Rabbins dwelling in Judea. 792
  • Comforter, was one of the Titles of the Messiah. 600
  • Coming of Christ in the Clouds, in his Glory, and in his King∣dom, are used for the Day of his Vengeance on the Jews. 626
  • Coming to Christ and believing in him, how distinguished. 1261, 1262
  • Commandments or Commands Commands of the second Table chiefly injoyned in the Gospel, and why? p. 1064, 1114, 1115. God will not have his Commands dallied and trifled withal. p. 1227. Why we are to keep the Commands of God? p. 1130. The Com∣mandments of the Law were given for Gospel ends. 1231
  • Communion of the Jews, what? and how made. p. 768. Christ had Communion with the National Church of the Jews in the publick Exercise of their Religion; pro∣ved by many instances. 1036, 1037, 1039; 1040, 1041
  • Confession of sins at the execution and death of Mulefactors (say the Jews) did expiate for their sins. 1275
  • Confusion of Languages, was the casting off of the Gentiles, and the confusion of Religion. 644
  • Conjuring, so skilful were the Jews in Conjuring, Enchant∣ments, and Sorceries, that they wrought great Signs and Wonders and many villanies thereby. 244
  • Conscience, how to clear the state and nature of it, when it is doubting: some heads for such an undertaking hin∣ted. p. 1054: The great power of conviction of Con∣science. p. 1082, 1803, 1804. Conscience is an assurance given by God of the last Judgment. 1104, 1119
  • Consistories that were of more note out of the Talmud. 85
  • Consolation of Israel, It was an usual Oath among the Jews, Let me see the Consolation, or Let me see the Consolation of Israel. 393
  • Conviction of Conscience, the great power of it. p. 1082, 1083, 1084
  • Corban, signifies a thing devoted and dedicated to sacred use. p. 201. Corban was the Treasury, there was a Corban of Vessels, or Instruments, and a Corban of Mo∣ny. p. 299. The Corban Chests, how these were im∣ployed to buy the dayly Sacrifice, and Offerings. p. 300, 301. The Corban Chamber. p. 300, 301. The Corban Chests and the Treasury were in the Court of the Wo∣men. p. 301. Corban, a Gift, what? 345
  • Corinth, where seated? 737
  • Covenant, the blood of it, put for the blood of Christ. 1254
  • Covenant of Grace, Souls raised in the first and second Re∣surrection by the vertue of this, but not alike. p. 1235. The Tenor and vertue of this Covenant distinguished. 1236
  • Covetousness, called an evil Eye. 162. What it caused Ba∣laam to do, what he got by it, and how many Israelites were destroyed by it, p. 1181. The sad fruits of Cove∣tousness, and Apostasle. 1181, 1182
  • Councellors Chamber, what? 358
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  • Council of the Jews, of what Authority in the time of Christ; of its place of residence, and what sort and number of Men it was compounded of. p. 248, to 251. The Council of the Jews transgressed many of their own Canons in Judging Jesus Christ. p. 263. Council, used for Sanhedrin. 355
  • Courses of the Priests in the second Temple did something differ from those in the first. p. 377. Course of Abiah, what? p. 377. How many Courses were there, and what were their turns in which they did Circulate. p. 377 378, 379, 380. Stationary Men among the Courses, what? 378
  • Court of the Gentiles, among the Jewish Writers is ordi∣narlly called the Mountain of the House, those that were unclean might enter into this. p. 28, 29. The Gates of it. 29
  • Court of the Women, its dimensions, situation, Gates, and parts. 29, 30
  • Court of the Temple, its parts, its length, and breadth. 32, 33
  • Courts of Judicature, there were three in the Temple. 395
  • Coins, some of the Jews Coins of the smaller value men∣tioned. 142
  • Creation, God created all things in six days; and why not in a moment? p. 1322. The World was created in Sep∣tember. p. 1322, &c. A new Creation, or Redemption was performed on the day Adam was created. p. 1315. Creation and Resurrection of Christ, whether the greater work. 1330
  • Creature, all Creatures, or every Creature, a speech common among the Jews, by which is understood all Men, or all Nations, but especially the Gentiles. 359, 360, 1149
  • Criminals, capital Criminals, if Israelites, were not Judged by the Sanhedrin, with the Reasons why. p. 611, to 614. The Sanhedrin gave to Jewish criminals a full hearing, even after sentence; if they themselves or any other had any thing to say for them. p. 675. They were buried in differing places from other Men, and had the Stone, Wood, Sword, or Rope wherewith they were executed, buried with them. 676
  • Cruelty of the Jews, great, most barbarously destroying two hundred and twenty thousand Greeks and Romans, at one time, feeding on their flesh, eating their bowels, besmearing themselves with their blood, and covering themselves with their skins, &c. p. 686, &c. They al∣so in Egypt and Cyprus destroyed two hundred and for∣ty thousand Men in a most barbarous manner. p. 686, 687. Cruelty, or slaughter, prodigious in the East Indies. 1295
  • Cup, that Cup which Christ used was mixed with water. 777
  • Cup in the Sacrament, is not only the sign of the Blood of Christ, and a Seal as a Sacrament, but the very Sanction of the New Testament. 778
  • Curses in the Old Testament, the Jews applied to the Gen∣tiles, not to themselves. 535
  • Cursing and Blessing, how practised among the Jews. 136
  • Custom of the Jews in praying, what? p. 1139. They said not Amen in the Temple, but in Houses and in Synagogues. p. 1139. What they said by way of re∣sponse in the Temple. 1139
  • Cutheans were Israelites, and very exact in the Jewish worship, &c. 52, 53
  • Cuthites, and their Kingdom, what? p. 496. Cuthites for the Samaritans, and whence, p. 503. How far their Victuals were lawful to the Jews. p. 538. What deal∣ings the Jews might have, or not have with them; these Cuthites here spoken of were Samaritans. 539
  • Cutting off in Scripture doth not intend Excommunication, but the Divine Vengeance. 142
  • Cymbal, and tinkling Cymbal, were two Balls of brass struck one against another. 782
D.
  • DAlmanutha, what, and whence the Name? Page 307, 309, 310
  • Damascus spoke to as the scene of Paul's conversion. 682
  • Damned, it is impossible Christ should suffer the torments of Hell, or be in the case of the damned. p. 1350. The Damned not tormented under Ground. 1342
  • Dan, why not named among the sealed of the twelve Tribes, Rev. 7. 1067
  • Dancing, one way of expressing joy. 196
  • Daniel, how he came to scape when Nebucadnezzer's Image was set up, as say the Jews. 657
  • Daphne, and Riblah, the same. Josephus mentions another Daphne. 62, to 64
  • David put for the Messias. 691
  • Day of the Lord, Christ's coming in Glory, and in the Clouds; signifie only Christ's taking vengeance on the Jewish Nation. p. 244, 624. The Son cometh, was exprest to be the same. 245
  • Day of Judgment, and Day of Vengeance, put for Christ's coming with Vengeance to judge the Jewish Nation, there are six differing ways of expressing it. 346
  • Days of the week, how reckoned by the Jews, by the name of first and second, &c. of the Sabbath. p. 274. The third Day much taken notice of by the Rabbins. 481
  • Days of the Messias, and the World to come, sometimes di∣stinguished, sometimes confounded. 743
  • Daemons, Angels, and Spirits distinguished among the Jews. 483
  • Deacons, there were three Deacons or Almoners, in the Jews Synagogues. 132, 134, 662
  • Dead, what mourning was used for the Dead, also what feasting and company. p. 173. The Dead live in another World. p. 230, 231. The Jews had an opinion that the Dead did discourse one among another, and also with those that were alive. p. 457. Mourning for the Dead, the way and method of it, The Jews used to comfort the Mourners both in the way and at home. p. 581, 582. The washing used after touching a dead Body, what? p. 790. Praying for the dead, founded by the Rhemists on that Text, 1 John 5. 16. refuted. 1094
  • Deaf and Dumb, unfit to sacrifice, &c. 210, 384
  • Death looks awakening and terrible upon the most Moral and Learned Men, p. 16. Four kinds of Death were delivered into the Hands of the Sanhedrin. p. 683. They are continued (say the Jewish Writers) by a Divine Hand now the Sanhedrin is ceased. p. 705. Death, what it is? p. 1353. Why do Men dye, i. e. why are they not removed Soul and Body into the other World without any more ado? p. 1354. The difficul∣ty of▪ the Soul and Bodies parting at death. 1354
  • Death of sin, God stints the time of Mens rising from it, which slipped, is not to be retrieved. 1238, 1239
  • Decapolis, the Region of it, not well placed. 314
  • Deciarii, were one sort of Publicans. 466
  • Dedication, the Feast of it, why called by the name of Lights? 576, 577. The Feast of Dedication is menti∣oned but once in all the Scripture, and that only by bare naming of it, in John 10. 22. p. 1033. The Original institution of this Feast of Dedication, collected out of the Talmud, Maimonides, Josephus, and the first Book of Maccabes. p. 1035. It was kept on the twenty fifth day of the Month Cisen, or November. p. 1035. Dedi∣cation, the strange custom of lighting up of Candles therein used. 1039
  • Defendant and Plaintif chose their Judges, &c. among the Jews. 755
  • Degree, and Pomp, of the World, countervail nothing with God. 1210, 1211, 1212
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  • Demoniacks, why so many in Christs time more than at other times? Page 175
  • Denarius, and Luz, were of the same value amongst the Rabbins. 343, &c.
  • Dens and Caves, vastly large and very numerous in the Land of Israel; many of these were digged out of Mountains and Rocks, by the Gygantick Canaanites, for the use of war. 88, 89
  • Dependance upon God for Life and Being, is to be owned and acknowledged by all good Christians. 1205, 1206
  • Descent of Christ into Hell, the improper meaning, as to what the Church of Rome understands by it. p. 1341, 1347. His Descent into Hell is supposed by some to be the Torments he suffered on the Cross.
  • Destruction of Jerusalem, is frequently exprest in Scripture, as if it were the Destruction of the whole World. 244
  • Devil, how he is the Prince of this World. p. 591, 592. The sin of the Devil, what it was? p. 198. How he deceived the Nations or Heathen before the Gospel. p. 1171. How, when, and why, and how long let loose by Christ. p. 1172, 1173, 1174. He is called the Angel of death by the Jews. p. 1299. The end for which Christ bound the Devil a Thousand years. p. 1233. The Gospel was the chain with which he was bound. p. 1233 The Devil is denominated That wicked one, why? 1306
  • Devilishness, how much thereof the Devil can infuse into Mans nature, with the reason of it. 1308, 1309
  • Devils were cast out by one that did not follow Christ, how possible. p. 346. Devils called Angels, how Saints shall Judge them. p. 754. Angels put for Devils. 773. The Souls of Men are in a better state than Devils; p. 1302 The sin of the Devils is wretched beyond pardon. 1305
  • Dew of Christ, is his quickening Power. 691
  • Dialect, the Dialect of the Galileans differed much from the Dialect of the Jews. 78, 79
  • Didrachma, Tribute mony, two things perswade that it was the half Shekel, paid yearly in the Temple. 211, 212
  • Diet, a Diet was thirty Miles. 319
  • Diocletian, the Emperor, was once Diclot the keeper of Hogs. 7
  • Dipping in Baptism, indeavoured to be laid aside, because it caused the Women of Galilee to grow barren. p. 121, 122. Why sprinkling was used in stead of dipping. 121
  • Disciple and Singular, what? They are terms sometimes confounded, and sometimes distinguished. 433
  • Disciples of Christ, mentioned by the Talmudists. p. 171. Why they were twelve, and for what end they were chosen? 174
  • Disciples or Learners, after the days of Rabban Gamaliel did use to sit while they were instructed. p, 395, 396. They had power to ask the Doctors any questions as they went along in their Expositions and Lectures. 396
  • Discoursing, the dead discoursing one among another, and also with those that were alive, was the opinion of the Jews. 457
  • Diseases, grievous, attributed usually by the Jews to evil Spirits. p. 211. Diseases were supposed by the Jews to be inflicted by the Devil. 441
  • Disputes, the power and will of God being well under∣stood and submitted to, take off abundance of carnal Atheistical Disputes. 1320, 1321
  • Divinity, the Mystery of it, not contrary to reason; how to be understood. 1103
  • Divorces, what among the Jews. p. 146, 147. A Bill of Divorce, its manner of giving, with a Copy of such a Bill, how confirmed, how delivered. p. 147, 148. Christ permits not Divorce except in the case of Adultry. 148
  • Doctors of the Law, were of several sorts. p. 421. What? 434
  • Dogs and Swine, were forbidden the Jews, with the Rea∣sons thereof. p. 168. Dogs, put for Gentiles, or Hea∣thens. Page 202
  • Doors, and Gates, lying on the North-side of the Temple, what? 32
  • Dositheus or Dosthes was a famous Seducer of the Samaritans. 483, 504
  • Dowery, in the donation of it the Galileans differed from the Jews. 77, 78
  • Drachm, what? 468
  • Dreams, none in the World more fond of dreams than the Jews; using art to make themselves dream, and nice Rules of interpreting dreams. p. 243. Dreams some were strange and odd. 1257
  • Drink, the Jewish Doctors say that to drink a Quart of Wine makes one drunk; so much every one of them drank in their sacred Feasts, judge then how soberly they carried it in those Feasts, if they mingled not much Water with their Wine. p. 61. This is proved in Rab∣ban Gamaliel. 61
  • Drinking and Eating, used frequently in a metaphorical sense by the Jews. p. 553, 554. Drinking the Blood, and eating the Flesh of Christ, is of necessity Metapho∣rical. 553, 554
  • Drunk, Vide Drink.
  • Dumb, such Persons were unfit to Sacrifice, &c. 210, 384
  • Dust, white Dust for Potters Clay, &c. 12
  • Dust of the Feet, what it was to shake it off? 179
  • Dying (called Martyrdom) for others to save their Coun∣try, what? 326
E.
  • EARTH and Heaven made by God, and wherefore he made them? 1321
  • Eating and Drinking commonly used in a Metaphorical sense by the Jews. 553, 554
  • Eating the Flesh, and drinking the Blood of Christ, must of necessity be Metaphorically understood. 553, 554
  • Ebal, how far from Jordan? p. 79, 80. Ebal Mount, its situation. 505
  • Fedippa, formerly called Chezib and Achzib, the name of a place. 61
  • Edom rendred Rome. 292
  • Edomites rendred Romans. 292
  • Egypt was full of Jews, there they had a Temple, and all their Offices and Ordinances. 111, 112
  • Elder, a Title proper to Saint John. 337
  • Elders, Chief Priests, and Scribes, how distinguished? p. 469. Elders ordained by whom, and how? p. 686. They were to judge in Pecuniary Affairs. 755
  • Elect, what it signified, and who they were? 1146
  • Election, admits not of magis and minus. 1147
  • Elements, used for Mosaick Rites. 626
  • Elias, the frequent appearance of him we meet with in the Writings of the Jews, were either Stories or Dia∣bolical Apparitions. p. 129. His coming, how vain the expectation of it was among the Jews; the Ends also of his expected coming, as they propose them, what? p 209, &c. They looked for his coming before the Messias. p. 210. Elias, put for John the Baptist. 382, 383
  • Elijah, put for John the Baptist. 382, 383
  • Elizabeth, why she hid her self when with child. 1220
  • Elymas and Barjesus, the reason of the two Names, for the same Person, and what they both signifie. 687, 1192
  • Emims, what? 363
  • Emmaus, six Furlongs from Jerusalem. p. 42. What? p. 293. It was from Jerusalem seven Miles and an half; the same with Nicopolis. p. 371. Its situation. p. 372, 373
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  • Encoenia, or the Feasts of Dedication. So the Feast of De∣dication among the Jews, why called Lights; It was kept for eight days all over the Land. Page 576, 577, 578
  • Enchantments, there were hardly any People in the World that more used Enchantments than the Jews. p. 243. Which consisted in Amulets, Charms, Mutterings, and Exorcisms. p. 243. So skilful were they in Conjurings, Enchantments, and Sorceries, that they wrought great signs and wonders, and many Villanies by them. p. 244. Hence arose false Christs. p. 244. Some sort of Here∣ticks used Enchantments, or Sorceries, to cause Men to follow them. 497
  • End, and Beginning, as referring to things to be debated, or explained, what? p. 565, 566. End of all things and of the World, put for the end of the Jewish State. 1074
  • Engedi, is ill placed in the Maps. p. 7. Engedi, is Hazezon Tamar. 296
  • Enmity, why the Lord put Emnity between Man and Devil. 1171
  • Ephraim, a Town so called. p. 49, 50. The City, where situate. 514, 515
  • Epistle to the Romans, when, and where it was writ by Saint Paul? 1051
  • Equality of Men, how all Men are equal in Gods esteem. 1210, 1211
  • Eremite, or Hermite, denotes a Country Man more proper∣ly than one that lives in a Desart. p. 113. John the Bap∣tist in all probability was no Eremite. 387, 388
  • Error, and Ignorance, do arise because Men will not know, and embrace the Truth. 1286, 1287
  • Espousal, an espousal of a Woman, was performed by Mo∣ny or Writing, or lying with. 101
  • Espoused, no Woman was married before Espoused. 100
  • Esseans, who they were. p. 7. Where they inhabited. p. 499 They owned the Immortality of the Soul, but at the same time might deny the Resurrection of the Body. p. 702. Their Religion was not the National Religion of the Jews, but a Sect and an Excrescence from it. 1036
  • Etam the Fountain, what, and of what use the streams. 510
  • Eucharist, when it was instituted. p. 258, 259. The Bread. p. 259. The Wine. p. 260. Judas was present at the Eucharist. p. 261. Receiving the Eucharist unworthily, two dreadful things against it. 779
  • Eve, her Temptation, the Tradition of the Jews concer∣ning it. p. 1099. Adam and Eve believed and obtained life. 1303
  • Evening, what? 198
  • Europe, in probability is derived from Choreph, which signi∣fies Winter, or cold. 517
  • Excommunication and Reproof, what they were, with the difference between them. p. 747, &c. What the causes of Excommunication, and how many sorts there were p. 747, 748. The Jewish method of proceeding against the Excommunicated, with the reason thereof. p. 749. Whether the Jewish Excommunication was esteemed a de∣livery up to Satan. 749
  • Extraordinary gifts of the Spirit, are in Scripture comprized under Tongues and Prophesies. 1157
  • Extraordinary actings of God, are not Mens ordinary Rule. 1276
  • Ezra, Traditions, as to their first conception, are referred to the time of Ezra. p. 124. In his days also was laid the foundations of Pharisaism and Sadducism. p. 12. In his days some denyed the Resurrection. 126
F.
  • FAITH, put for an holy boldness, confidence and magnanimity. Page 781
  • Faith, great in the Thief on the Cross. 1273, 1274
  • Faith in Christ, all the holy Men that lived before Christ were saved by believing in him; proved. Page 1089
  • Fall of, Angels, and Adam, compared together. 1285
  • Family of the Mother, not to be called a Family. 99
  • Farthings, what sort of Mony? 350
  • Fasted, the Jews fasted on the second and fifth days in the Week, whether imitated by Christians? 685
  • Fasts of the Jews, what they were both in publick and in private. p. 463. Fasts of the Pharisees, strange stories related of them. 171
  • Father, a Father was always obliged among the Jews to teach his Son some honest Art or Trade. p. 343. Father and Mother, why to be honoured. 1335
  • Fearers of the Lord, used for Proselytes, every one of them are blessed. 689
  • Feast of Tabernacles, the Joy and Songs thereof. p. 223. The preparations for it and the parts of it. p. 554, 555. With the great Joy that attended it. p. 555, 556. The nicity of the Jews referring to the Feast of Tabernacles. p. 556, 557. How and wherefore the Eighth day of this Feast was computed great by the Jews. p. 559, 560. The strange Rites and Customs therein used. 1039
  • Feast of weeks, what? 357
  • Feast, Governour of the Feast, understood of one whose place was to be Chaplain there. 528
  • Feast of Dedication, why called by the name of Lights. p. 576, 577. It is mentioned but once in all the Scrip∣ture, and that by bare naming of it, in Joh. 10. 22. p. 1033. The original Institution of it, collected out of the Talmud, Mainonides, Josephus, and the first Book of Maccabees. p. 1035. The strange custom of lighting up Candles therein used. 1039
  • Feast of Purim, was opposed by some of the Jews. 578
  • Feasts Jewish. The Jewish Feasts were vexed with innu∣merable scruples, about what, and how to eat, and not to eat. 769
  • Feasts of Charity, what they were. 1045
  • Festivals, John is the most punctual in giving an account of the Festivals that intercurred between Christ's en∣trance into his publick Ministry and the time of his Death. p. 1033. The Festivals of the Passover, Pentecost, and of Tabernacles were appointed by God for Commu∣nion, as well as for Religion. 1038
  • Fifth Monarchy, is not the Kingdom of Christ, but was the Kingdom of the Devil. 1166
  • Figs and Fig-Trees, there were some wild, and some cul∣tivated; Figs were ripe at differing seasons, and there∣fore Christ might expect some of a former year, though as to that year the time was not come. 225, to 228
  • Fire, put for the Law of God, and for Indignation. 744
  • First born, when, and wherefore presented to the Lord, and when redeemed. 392
  • First Fruit sheaf, when, and how reaped. p. 38. When to be offered. p. 184. The Pomp of those that offered the First Fruits was very great. 306, 307
  • Flesh and Blood, is used as opposing Men to God. 204, &c.
  • Flux, various Medicines for a Woman labouring under it. 341, 342
  • Fondness, the Jews are fond and highly conceited of their own Nation; a notable Example of this Fondness. p. 1112. It hindred the execution of Malefactors. 1113
  • Fool, how came Fool to be a more greivous word than Ra∣ka? 142
  • Forbearance in sin, is the greatest punishment. 1310, 1311
  • Forms of Prayer, were prescribed under the Old and New Testament. p. 1137. Forms of Prayer defended, and objections answered. p. 1137. An account of the Jewish Forms from the Talmud, and other Writers. 1139
  • Foster Father, taken for a natural Father. 395
  • Fountain, Etam the Fountain, what, and of what use its streams. 510
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  • France and Spain, what places the Jews understood for them. Page 368
  • Fraud, Pious Fraud was one cause of the falsities of Eccle∣siastical History. 1143
  • Friendship, and Conversation more inward, which a Jew was not to have with an Heathen, what? 751
  • Fruits, the First Fruit sheaf, where, and how reaped. p. 38, 618, 619. When to be offered. p. 184. The Pomp of those that offered it was very great. 306, 307
  • Furnication, why or how put among things indifferent. p. 696. There were two sorts of Furnication, of this nature. 696
G.
  • GAD Javan, in the Temple, what? Page 302
  • Gadara, two places of the Name; it was at first Gazara, or Gezar. p. 69. It was a City of Decapolis of Heathen jurisdiction. 315
  • Gadarens, whether Jews or Heathens? p. 168. This Region was included within that of the Gergasens. 340
  • Galileans, had some customs different from those of Judea; as in writing the Donation of the Marriage Dowry; in working or not working on the Passover Eves; also con∣cerning the Trumah, and the Curses of the Priests, &c. 77, 78
  • Galilee, was the upper, nether, and the valley. p. 56, 57. Bethshan, the beginning of Galilee, a most fruitful plea∣sant place. p. 57. Caphar Hananiah, the middle of Galilee. p. 58. The disposition of Tribes in it. p. 58, 59. The West Coast of Galilee. p. 59, 60. Whether the Transjordanian Country was ever called Galilee? Whe∣ther Perea (properly so called) did not once go under the name of Galilee? p. 362. The way from Galilee to Jerusalem, described. 536
  • Gamala, where situate. 83
  • Gamaliel, Paul's Master was President of the Sanhedrim. p. 15. Something of his History. 652
  • Gardens, were all without the City Jerusalem, and why? Roses only excepted. 262, 607
  • Garisons of the Romans, were dispersed over the Land of Israel, what they were? 324
  • Garments of the Jews, what? p. 417. Talith, a Mantle, &c. which was the outer Garment: Chaluch a woolen shirt, was worn next the skin. p. 417. These are called by Christ and the Baptist two Coats. p. 416, 417. The Zealots went with one of these single. 416
  • Gate, is a term under which very many things in Religion are exprest. 164
  • Gate of Nicanor, or the East Gate of the Court of Israel; the reason of the name, what was done in it? The Council of the Twenty three sat there. 30, 31
  • Gate—of the Priests, what? p. 511,—of Susan, whence the Name, in it was held the Assembly of the Twenty three, &c. p. 512.—Watergate, where situate? 510
  • Gates, lying on the South-side of the Court of Israel, what? 31, 32
  • Gaza, a City and a Mart, both famous. 13, &c.
  • Gazith, was a famous Council-room, where the Sanhe∣drim sat, when they left that they ceased to judge in Ca∣pital Causes. p. 512, 513. Why called Gazith, &c. p. 615. Gazith, or the Council House, what it was? 1111
  • Gemini, in the Zodiack, put for Castor and Pollux. 705
  • Genealogical Writings or Scrols, shewing the true descent of Families for many Generations, were preserved among the Jews. 95, 96
  • Genealogy, Generations are sometimes dashed out in the Genealogical Accounts for good reasons. 97, 98
  • Genesaret, the Country of Genesaret, a most fruitful plea∣sant Country; its length. p. 71. Genesaret Sea, or Lake of Genesaret, placed without the Tribe of Naphthali by the Maps, but within it by the Talmud. p. 66. A Scheme of it and the places adjacent. Page 307, 308
  • Gentiles, they were not to be helped, or succoured, by the Jews. p. 425, 426. The Gentiles did not only send Gifts and Sacrifices to the Temple, but also used to come thither to worship. p. 589, 590. They were called Greeks by the Jews, and why? p. 704. Why Christ gave a Commission, not before, but after his Resur∣rection for the calling of the Gentiles. p. 1123. Their raising from the death of sin, is the first Resurrection. p. 1234, to 1238. Some of them lost the opportunity, and would not be raised when the rest were. 1238
  • Gentile World, was subject to vanity of Mind. 708
  • Gerar, had an affinity to Asealon. 14. 15
  • Gergasa, a City; whence the Name. 70
  • Gergasens, their Country was of broader extent and signi∣fication than the Region of the Gaderens. 340
  • Gerizim, whether over against Gilgal, or not? 79, 80
  • Gerizim Mount, its situation. 505
  • Gezar, is now called Gadara. 69
  • Gibeah, was Saul's Town, &c. 41
  • Gideon, Sampson, and Jephtha, their failings; what? 1215
  • Gift, to leave the Gift before the Altar, what it was? p. 143. Gift, put for a thing dedicated, devoted, or vowed away. 200, 201
  • Gift of Tongues, it was general upon all the Disciples. 643
  • Gift, Spiritual and Extraordinary, with the enjoyment of the Holy Ghost; only bestowed on Ministers. p. 1156. Whether every one that had Gift, had all the Gifts given by the Apostles? 1157
  • Gihon, was the same with the Fountain Siloam. 25
  • Gilgal, what place it was supposed to be, whether Galilte? 80
  • Gilead▪ Mount Gilead, what? 373, 374
  • Girdle, the Talmudick Girdle of the Land under the second Temple, what? p. 3. Girdle of the City, i. e. the Hills, Gates, and Walls that went round it. 26, to 28
  • God, acteth not any of his Attributes according to the ut∣most extent of their Infiniteness, proved by many in∣stances. p. 1036. Dependance upon God for Lite and Being, is to be owned and acknowledged by all good Christians. p. 1205, 1206, 1207. God requires some Tribute of Men for their Preservation. p. 1208. How God preserves all Men alike, and yet not all alike. p. 1213. God's extraordinary Actings are for the mag∣nifying of his own glory. p. 1276. God made Heaven and Earth, and wherefore he made them? 1321, 1322. Why he made the World, seeing he will spoil it in time? p. 1322. He created all things in six days, and why not in a moment? 1322
  • Godliness, how sadly Satan cheats Men when they become enemies to it. 1177, 1178
  • Gog, understood of the Grecian Empire. p. 512, 513. Gog and Magog, what is meant by them? 1173, 1174
  • Golan, a City, whence is Gaulonitis. 81
  • Golden Calf, the Jews say the punishment of the sin of it descended to the following Generations. 671
  • Good, a thing good in it self is not utterly to be extinguish∣ed, because another used it ill. 1138
  • Goph, or Guph, a place where the Jews did suppose that Souls did Pre-exist. 569
  • Gophna, situate in Judea, oft spoken of. 51, 52
  • Gospel Dispensation, was begun by the Preaching and Bap∣tism of John. 331
  • Gospel, Christ sending his Gospel bound the Devil from his former abominable cheating. p. 1171. Why the Gospel is called the Truth. p. 1187. Its greatest enemies are those that had once profest it. p. 1188. What Instruments, and Machinations they use for the opposing of it. p. 1188. Who are the great resisters of the Gospel. p. 1189. Why God permits wicked Men to resist the Gospel? p. 1190. It was the Chain which Christ tyed the Devil with. 1233
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  • Grace, saying Grace before meat, if the Jews sat, then every one said Grace for himself; if they did lye, then one said Grace for all. Page 256, 257
  • Grace, Common Grace, is Gods ordinary way for working Saving Grace. p. 1048. The difference between Common and Sanctifying Grace. p. 1157. Grace to mankind, magnified. 1304, 1305
  • Grandure, wordly Grandure and riches countervail nothing with God. 1210, 1211, 1212
  • Greek, in Greek was the New Testament writ, because the Jews were to be rejected immediately, and the Gentiles to be called to the faith, and the Greek was the Gentile Language. 101, to 104
  • Greek Interpreters, their boldness in adding to the Scrip∣ture, taken notice of. p. 666, 667. Sometimes they gave a sense of their own upon the Hebrew Text, and very often used Greek words very different from the Idiom of the Greeks. 711, 712
  • Greek Tongue rejected by the Jews to their great disadvan∣tage. 661. Greek and Hebrew Tongues, both native to some Jews. p. 661. Why the Greek Tongue was dis∣persed over most of the World in our Saviours time. 1145
  • Greek Version, the Hebrew Text added to by the Greek Ver∣sion. p. 707. Some would have the Hebrew Bible cor∣rected by the Greek Version, and contend that these In∣terpreters were inspired. p. 710, 711, 712. Greek Version in what value among the Jews, its not an acurate pure Version, even the Jews being Judges. 807, 808. Ob∣jections answered, p. 808, 809. Whence not the Greek Version, but the Hebrew Text was read in Synagogues of the Hellenists. p. 808. By what Authors and Counsels it might probably be that the Greek Version came forth, which obtains under the name of the Seventy, perfor∣med with more craft than Conscience, why therefore did the Apostles and Evangelists use it? 809, to 811
  • Greeks and Hebrews, who properly so called. p. 659, 660. The Gentiles were called Greeks by the Jews, and why? p. 704. The Greeks call all Countries but their own Barbarians. 704
  • Guph or Goph, a place where the Jews did suppose that Souls did Pre-exist. 569
H.
  • HADES, what in the opinion of the Heathen World? p. 1351. If Hades mean Paradise, why should Christ pray against it? Page 1352
  • Hair, long Hair; divers Nations did wear long Hair. p. 774. The Nazarites also wore long Hair, among which num∣ber Absolom was one. p. 774. Why the Nazarites let their hair grow long? p. 774. The Jews cut their hair very often especially ever before a Feast. 774
  • Hallell, the great Hallel, what? p. 223, 224. Hallel, the Hymn that was sung at the Passover, what? p. 353, 354. The Great Hallel and Hymn, that was sung at the close of every Passover; whence taken and how it was sung. p. 444, 445. Hallel, an Hymn, or Song, made up of six Psalms. 560
  • hands, the plunging and washing them, what, and how they differ? p. 344, 345. The laying of Hands upon the Sacrifice, what, and for what end? 531
  • Harvest, Seed-time, Plowing, Sowing, Mowing, Dressing of Vines, and all the management of the Gardens, Grounds, Fields, and Vineyards, lay in the Hands of the Fathers of the Traditions; so that the Country-man did none of these things but by the Traditional Rule. p. 87, 88. Har∣vest and Seed-time, were early among the Jews, p. 184, 185. When? 543, 544
  • Hatred, we are to hate no Man in the World. 1300
  • Hauran, what the Name, and where the Place. 364, 365
  • Hazerim, the Region of the Avites, it was a part of new Idumea. 29
  • Hazezon Tamar, in Engedi. Page 296
  • Head, covered, shewed humility, reverence, shame, &c. un∣covered, confidence, not fearful, not ashamed, &c. 769. 770
  • Heart, its hardness, what? 217
  • Hearts, Tongues, and Actions of Men, can be, and are overpowered by the Spirit of God, so as to serve the design of God's glory. 1290, 1291, 1292
  • Heathenism, from whence it sprung. 644
  • Heathens, how the Jews esteem them? 215
  • Heaven, put for God, very usual in the Jewish Dialect. p. 114. What Saints in Heaven do referring to Saints or Sinners on Earth. p. 1268. Heaven and Earth made by God, and wherefore he made them? 1321, 1322
  • Hebrew, was not the Jews Mother-Tongue in the time of the Apostles, but the Syriac. p. 101, to 104. The He∣brew Letter was the Original Letter of the Law. p. 138, 139. Whether the Text be corrupted? p. 139, 140. Hebrew Language, put for the Chaldee Language. 543, 544
  • Hebrew Bible, some would have it corrected by the Greek Version, and contend that those Interpreters were inspi∣red. p. 710, 711, 712. Hebrew Bible, read in the Syna∣gogues of the Hebrews. p. 802. The Jews thought not so honourably of any Version as they did of the Hebrew Bible. 803, 804, 805
  • Hebrew Text, added to by the Greek Version and Chaldie Paraphrast. 707
  • Hebrew Tongue, contained all the Things of true Religion; all other Languages at Babel wanted them, from whence sprung Heathenism. p. 644. What Language was the Hebrew Tongue in the time of the Apostles. p. 658, &c. The Syriack or Armenian under the second Temple was that which went under the Name of the Hebrew. p. 659. Both Hebrew and Greek Tongues were native to some Jews. p. 661. Hebrew Tongue or Language was used by the Jews in reading the Scripture, Prayers, and Preaching; and so its supposed the Corinthian Church did, though the common People of the one, and the other, did not understand it. 783, 784, 787
  • Hebrews, or the Land of the Hebrews was so called from Heber, from the confusion of Tongues. p. 327. Hebrews and Greeks, who properly so called. p. 659, to 662. He∣brews or Jews, and Hellenists distinguished, with the reason of the distinction. p. 798. Hebrews in Babilon, and the adjacent Countries, were supposed by the Jews to be vastly numerous, and of a purer and more noble blood, than those that went up from Babilon. p. 799. They had three Universities in Babilon; the Ten Tribes also were placed there, and in Assyria. 800, 801
  • Hebron, the situation of it, and the reason of its name. 46, 47
  • Hell, called by the name of Gehinnon and Gehenna, why? p. 141. The Jews say that there are eight Doors of Gehenna. p. 141. Christ's descent into Hell, the impro∣per meaning, as, what the Church of Rome understood by it. p. 1341, to 1347. Some Protestants hold his lo∣cal descent into Hell, but not as the Papists do. p. 1341. Christs descent into Hell is supposed by some to be the torments he suffered on the Cross. p. 1347. Its impossible Christ should suffer the torments of Hell, or be in the case of the Damned. p. 1350. What is the meaning of Christ's descent into Hell. p. 1350, &c. Hell did once signifie the same with Hades, now it is only used for the Place of Torment. 1350
  • Hellenists, were Jews that were scattered among the Greeks, and used their Tongue. p. 558. Hellenists, whether Jews or no? p. 659, 660, 661. Hellenists and Hebrews or Jews, distinguished, with the reason of the distinction. 798
  • Helps, were such as accompanied the Apostles, and Baptised such as were converted by them. 781
  • Heresies, why Saint Paul says they must be; whence is the unhappy necessity of them? p. 1279, 1280. The im∣mediate Causes and Originals of Heresies, what? p. 1280

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  • ... Popery, Socinianism, and Quakerism, are great Heresies. Page 1280, 1281
  • Hereticks, some sort of them used Sorcery, or Enchant∣ments to cause Men to follow them. p. 497. There were Hereticks in the days of Ezra, which said there was no world but this. 702
  • Hermite or Eremite, denotes a Country-man more proper∣ly than one that lives in a Desart. 113
  • Hermon, the same say some with the Mountain of Snow. 62
  • Herod, his manner of rise from a servant to a King. p. 109. His Dominion enlarged. 361, &c.
  • Herodians, the rise of them, and what they were. 229
  • Herodium, a Palace, or Castle, built by Herod near the Moabitish Arabia. 500
  • High Places, built up to Idols, and the same also to God. 718
  • High Priest, whether sometimes there were not two High Priests? p. 397. High Priest and the President of the Sanhedrim compared together, the High Priest shewed to be the greater Officer. p. 681. How he prepared him∣self (with the help of others) for the day of Attone∣ment. 554, 555
  • High Priesthood, and other Priesthood only differed in two things. p. 585. High Priesthood, lost from one family to another; when? 1218
  • High Priest's Office, often possessed by unlearned Men, and often bought. 508
  • Hippo, the very same with Susitha. p. 68, 70. Where? 309
  • Historian, officiousness a great fault in an Historian. 1142, 1143
  • History, Ecclesiastical History, very subject to fiction and fabulous stories. p. 1142. Four causes from whence these fictions proceed. p. 1142, 1143. Pious fraud is one cause of the falsities of this sort of History. 1143
  • Holiness of a place, computed to the foundation when the superstructure was gone. 540
  • Holy Ghost, how he went away from the Jews, and when he returned. p. 561. The Holy Ghost in his extraordi∣nary Gifts and Tongues, could only be communica∣ted by the Apostles. 680
  • Honey, Wild Honey, God gave the people of Israel a Land flowing with Milk and Honey; Honey not from Bees, but from Palm and Figtrees, vast quantities. p. 297, 298. Honey (from Figs) fallen on the ground so thick as to be up to the ankles. 297, 325
  • Hosannah, what? p. 223, 224. It was sung by the Chil∣dren in the Temple. 225
  • Houses among the Jews, the lower Rooms entred by the Door, the upper Rooms on the outside. 334
  • Humane Inventions, less dangerous to be brought into Di∣vine Worship under the Jewish Law, than under the Gospel, and why? 1038
  • Humane Learning, is exceeding useful; nay, exceeding need∣ful to the expounding of Scripture. p. 1033. Two objecti∣ons, of those that deny this proposition, answered. 1034
  • Hyperbolus, used for a litigious Fellow. 459
  • Hypocrisie, is hiding iniquity, with its punishment. 236
  • Hyssop, several sorts of it, and one with stalks like Canes or Reeds. 617
I.
  • JABNEH and Jamnia the same, famous for an Univer∣sity, and the Sanhedrim sitting there. Page 15, 16
  • Jacob, why God wrestled with him and sought to kill him. 1066
  • Jambres and Jannes who, and whence the Names? 1185, 1186
  • Idolatry set up by the Jews, only before their Captivity in∣to Babilon. p. 1113. It is an abominable and senseless wickedness. p. 1312, 1313. How God is jealous against Idolatry. p. 1314, 1315. Baal changed in the Names of Men into Bosheth, which signifies shame, in detestati∣on of Idolatry. Page 1315
  • Idols, among the Jews it was held Religion to reproach Idols. p. 188. The most ignominious Name given Idols was Zebul, i. e. Dung, or Dung-hill. p. 188, 189. The worst Idol, or Devil, was the Prime. p. 189. Idols, how rendred by the Lexicographers; They are figments of humane mistake. p. 763. Some Jews held that Idols might be bowed unto or worshiped. 763
  • Idumea, Jewish Idumea, what? 4
  • Idumea, or the Land of Edom, is not the same in the New Testament, with that in the Old, being swallow∣ed up under the Name of Arabia, but under the New Testament it was got into Judea. 290, 292, to 297
  • Jealous God, what it signifies, and why God is so called, 1313, 1314
  • Jealous, Jealousie, Zeal and Zealous, are comprehended un∣der the same word in the Hebrew, what they are? 1314
  • Jechonias, who and what is said concerning him. 98, 99
  • Jeptha, Gedeon, and Sampson, their failings. p. 1215. Jephtha's vow, how to be understood; whether he did or did not sacrifice his Daughter? 1215, to 1218
  • Jeremy put for Zachary in the Gospel is no fault, but a thing known and received by the Jews. 265
  • Jericho, the Country of it, and the situation of the City. with its distance from Jerusalem. p. 43, 44. It was (after rebuilt) the next City to▪ Jerusalem for gran∣dure, rare Schools, and a Royal Palace: The Men of Jericho famed for six things. p. 44, 45. Some Miscel∣lanious matters belonging to the Country about Jericho. 46
  • Jerusalem, once called Salem, being compounded of Jireh and Salem, and why? Under what Latitude: It was holy above other Cities, there were no Gardens in it, &c. p. 20, to 22. The parts of Jerusalem. p. 22, to 24. It had in it Acra, Bezetha, and Millo. p. 24. It had many Hills in it. p. 22. Memorable places in it were the several Streets, the ascent to the Temple, some Courts, Pools, Stones, &c. p. 34, 35. The Streets of Jerusalem, were swept every day, and Money found there in the time of Feasts were called Tenths or Tithes; so also what was found at any time. p. 303. The rea∣son of the destruction of Jerusalem, gathered out of the Jewish Writers, and out of the Scriptures. p. 468, &c. The destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish State, is described as if the whole frame of the World was to be dissolved. p. 626, 1073, 1074, &c. The destruction and conflagration of Jerusalem, was an as∣surance of the judgment to come. p. 1104, 1119. It was set forth in Scripture in terms seeming to mean the last Judgment. p. 1104. The last days of Jerusalem are characterized in one regard for the best, in another for the worst of times. p. 1179. New Jerusalem, what it is not, and what it is, and where to be found. 1197, 1198
  • Jeshana, a City just by Zippor. 75
  • Jesus Christ, Christ is added to Jesus in numberless places of the New Testament, to shew that Christ was the true Saviour, and that Jesus was the true Messias. p. 96. Jesus Christ, is called the Son of David; a common term in the New Testament, and Talmudick Writings, for the true Messias. p. 96, 97. Jesus of Nazareth menti∣oned in the Talmud. p. 476. Why Jesus was more opposed than John the Baptist, with the reason of it. p. 653. The Testimony concerning Jesus found in Josephus, not proved to be the writing of Josephus; yet proved from Scripture to be true concerning Jesus. p. 653, 654. Jesus the true Messias, some testimonies of his be∣ing so. p. 740. The false Logick of those who are for no Rulers or Magistrates over them, but King Jesus, re∣futed. 1060
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  • Jew, a Jew was not to have an inward Conversation or Friendship with a Gentile. Page 751
  • Jewish Nation, whether (as to the more general part of it) it was not rejected and blinded before Christ came into the World? p. 709. The Jewish State, the de∣struction of it is described as if the whole frame of the World was to be dissolved. 626
  • Jews, how far lawful, or unlawful for them to eat of the victuals of the Samaritans? p. 538. Their Mother Tongue was the Chaldee Language, from their return out of Babilon. p. 545. Their cruelty. p. 663. It was very great, destroying two hundred and twenty thou∣sand Greeks and Romans at one time, feeding on their flesh, eating their bowels, besmearing themselves with their blood, and covering themselves with their skins, &c. p. 686, &c. They also in Egypt and Cyprus de∣stroyed two hundred and forty thousand Men in a most Barbarous manner. p. 686, 687. The Jews fasted on the second and fifth days in the week, whether imitated by Christians? p. 685. They were not to be beholden to the Heathen. p. 764. Jews and Hellenists distinguished, with the reason of the distinction. p. 798. The Jews them∣selves expected that the Messias should raign amongst them a thousand years. p. 1057. They thought the Law was to restrain and bind the outward Action only, not regarding the inward thought. p. 1097. Jews and Romanists, how they may be said to be yoak-fellows? p. 1110. They were permitted by the Romans (their Governors) to live by their own Laws and Religion, p. 752, 1111. How they lost the power of Judging Malefactors. p. 1111, 1112, &c. They had a high conceit▪ of their own Nation. p. 1112. They were highly severe and strict about little inconsiderable Customs; but very remiss about things of great Moment and Necessity. p. 1113, 1114. They were rejected by God, not only for putting our Saviour to death, but be∣fore also for their cursed Traditions and crying wicked∣ness. p. 1114. The calling in of the Jews (expected by some) is not probable, and why? p. 1123. The Jews were dispersed before our Saviours time. p. 1144. They were cast off to a reprobate sense before the de∣struction of Jerusalem. p. 1145. They crucified the Lord of Life out of the very Principles of their Tra∣ditional Religion. p. 1177. The Jews, and the Jewish Religion were very corrupt under the second Temple. p. 1199, 1200. The Church of the Jews, was only a child under age till Christ came. 1334
  • Jezabelites, impudently oppose the Decrees of the Apostles. 695, 696
  • Ignorance and Error, the common cause of them, is because Men will not know and embrace the Truth: 1286, 1287
  • Image of God in Adam, what? p. 1153. Image of God upon Man, not lost by sin, though the likeness of God be. 1302
  • Images in the Church of Rome, are Idols. 1312, 1314
  • Imposition of Hands in ordination, a fundamental Point as well as the Doctrin of Faith and Repentance; proved from Hebrews 6. 2. 1040
  • Imputation of the sins or good Deeds of Parents to the Chil∣dren; supposed by the Jews not to be in the days of the Messias. p. 569. Imputation of Parents sins to Po∣sterity, is real, and rational. 1316, 1317
  • Incense, the way of burning it, with the manner of the Priests and Levites getting ready in order thereunto. 380, 381
  • Indifferent Things, and such as were not sinful of them∣selves (although of humane invention, and used in the Jewish worship) did not cause our Saviour to leave that communion, nor to forsake the way of Worship, but he joyned therein, rather than he would give of∣fence. 1037, 1038, 1039, &c.
  • Infant Baptism, argued for. 273, 274
  • Infants in the womb, supposed by the Jews to be in a capa∣city to commit some sin. 569, 570
  • Institution, divine, defiled by corruption, but not extin∣guished. Page 165
  • Intercallated Month, or Year, what? 185, 226
  • Interpretation of the Holy Text, the judgment of the Jews concerning a just Interpretation. 784
  • Interpreters in the Synagogues stood by the Readers of the Law and Prophets, to turn the words of the Hebrew Text into the Language understood by the people, at the same time Commenting or Preaching upon the words. p. 132, 134, 707. Interpreters of the Law, part of their work, what? 803
  • Invention humane, less dangerous to be brought into Divine Worship under the Jewish Law than under the Gospel, and why? 1038
  • Invisible Things, are the greatest things of our concernment. 1284
  • Jod, of its not passing away, or eternal duration. 137, 138
  • John Baptist in all probability was no Eremite. 387, 388
  • John, the most punctual of all the four Evangelists, especi∣ally in giving an account of the Festivals that intercur∣red between Christ's entrance into his publick Ministry, and the time of his death. p. 1033. John the beloved Disciple was him to whom the Revelation was delive∣red. 1196
  • Jordan, the waters thereof were opened twelve miles when Israel passed through. p. 46. The Country be∣yond it, what? p. 363. Little Jordan was from the spring of Jordan to the Lake Samochonitis, but from that Lake (being much a larger stream) it was Jordan the greater. p. 62, 63, 64, 298. Jordan had over it two bridges at least, besides other passages. 492
  • Jordan-transmarine, its division. 363
  • Jose and Joseph are one and the same Name. 640
  • Joshua, where buried? 373, 374
  • Jot, of its not passing away, or eternal duration. 137, 138
  • Journey, Sabbath days Journey, the length of it, was two hundred cubits, or one mile. 485, 486
  • Joy, wicked, in a strange instance in the Gunpouder Tray∣tors. 1184
  • Joy in Heaven over a sinner that is converted, what? 1267
  • Isaiah the Prophet, say the Jews, was cut in two by Ma∣nasses the King. 593
  • Iscariot, a Name given to Judas, the Traytor, whether given before or after his death? If after his death, it emphatically shews his miserable end. p. 176. As a Betrayer he was to have no part in the World to come; his going to his place, intends his going to Hell. 176, 177
  • Iturea, its situation. 365, 366
  • Juda for Jehuda, and why? 97
  • Judaism, the twofold sense of the Word. p. 1051. The Jews held this Maxim, That if a Jew forsook his Judaism he should have no part in the World to come. p. 1087. Juda∣ism and Nicolaitism, were two Errors on each hand the Gospel, into which some Primitive Christians did fall. 1097
  • Judas, was present at the Eucharist. p. 261. He was car∣ried by the Devil into the Air, there strangled, and then cast down to the Earth, and there burst assunder. 264, 639
  • Judea, a sight and division of it. p. 9. It was priviledged above other Parts of the Land of Israel. p. 10. A de∣scription of the Coast of it. p. 10. The Mountainous Country of Judea, what? p. 11. The South Country of it, what? p. 13. The North Coast of it. 19
  • Judges, what Benches of them there were among the Jews. 755
  • Judgment, Judgment to him that is angry, what? p. 141, 142. Judgment might be unrighteous when the Judg∣ing was righteous. 1106
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  • Judgment, the Day of Judgment, put for Christ's coming with vengeance to Judge the Jewish Nation, six differ∣ing ways of expressing it. p. 346. The Last Judg∣ment, proved. p. 1101, 1102, 1103, &. The objections of the Sadducces and Atheists, answered. p. 1101, &c. Noah's Flood was a prognostication and an assurance of the Last Judgment. p. 1104. The destruction of Jeru∣salem is set forth in Scripture terms, seeming to mean the Last Judgment. p. 1104. The several and providen∣tial assurances that God hath given of the Last Judg∣ment. p. 1103, 1104, 1109. The prosperity of wick∣ed Men, is an argument of the Last Judgment. p. 1105. Assizes, are an assurance, and a fit representation of the Last Judgment. p. 1104, 1117, 1119. Conscience, is an assurance given by God of the Last Judgment. p. 1104, 1119. The manner of giving the Law is an assurance of the Last Judgment. Page 1119
  • Judgments, Capital, always began on the Defendants side among the Jews, and not on the Accusers. p. 609. Judgments, were distinguished into Pecuniary and Capi∣tal among the Jews. 754
  • Julian, the Apostate, part of his character, or part of what he was and did. 1238
  • Julias, There were two Cities of this Name, one built by Herod the other by Philip; the later was before called Bethsaida, where situate. 83
  • Just, a just person, or the just, two sorts of them. p. 448. How distinguished from the Penitent. p. 449. Just Men distinguished by the Jews into two sorts, and to which of them they gave the preference. 1266
  • Justification, is a great Mystery in several respects. p. 1051, 1052. What it is? p. 1077, 1078. Why we are justi∣fied by perfect Justification, and not sanctified by perfect Sanctification or holiness, answered. 1153
K.
  • KARAITS, the difference between them and those that are said to be without. Page 339
  • Kedron, what? 37, &c.
  • Kenite, Salamean, or Salmean, the same, and what? 499
  • Kenites, who? 329
  • Keri, and Cethib, or the differing reading of the Hebrew Text; what? 139, 140
  • Ketsarah, a little City without Zippor. 75
  • Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; what? 205, &c.
  • Kidron the Brook was a sort of Sinck or common Sewer to Jerusalem. 607
  • Kingdom of Heaven in Matthew, is called the Kingdom of God in the other Evangelists. p. 114. The Kingdom of Heaven implies four things. p. 115. The Phrase very frequently occurs in the Jewish Writers. p. 115. By it they mean the inward love and fear of God; as also the Exhibition and Revelation of the Messiah. p. 116. To be of the seed of Abraham, or the stock of Israel, the Jews supposed was sufficient to fit them for the Kingdom of Heaven. 533
  • Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven in Matthew, is called the Kingdom of God in the Evangelists. p. 114. The Kingdom of God coming in power, is used for Christ's coming in his vengeance and power to destroy the un∣believing and wicked Nation of the Jews. p. 346. Kingdom of God, or of Heaven, what in the Gospel? And what among the Jews? 461, 462
  • Kiriath-Jearim, in former time was called Baal or Baalath. 42
  • Knee, in what use in Adoration. 347
  • Know, in Scripture is used for own and acknowledge. 699
  • Kubi, where situate? 51
L.
  • LAbourers, a Jewish Parable concerning them. Page 221
  • Lake of Genesaret, in the Old Testament called the Sea of Cinnereth, in the New also the Sea of Galilee, and Sea of Tiberias. 65
  • Lake of Samochonitis, in Scripture is the waters of Merom, &c. 64
  • Land of Israel, how divided by the Jews? p. 1, 2. The Land possessed by those that came up out of Babilon was divided into three parts. p. 2. Several great Mysteries and Offices confined to the Land of Israel. p. 2. The Talmudick Girdle of the Land, under the second Temple, what? p. 3. A great part of the Land, viz. South-Judea, was cut off under the second Temple. p. 4. Jewish Idumea, what part of the Land. p. 4. The seven Seas according to the Talmudists, and the four Rivers compassing the Land, what? p. 5. A description of the Sea Coasts thereof out of Pliny and Strabo. p. 10, 11. Land of Israel, was the Land of the Hebrews be∣fore it was the Canaanites; the original Title of it from the confusion of Tongues. p. 326, 327. Its breadth and length. 319, to 323
  • Language of Ashdod, what? 505
  • Language, Hebrew Language put for the Chaldee Language. 545
  • Languages, the Confusion of Languages was the casting off of the Gentiles and confusion of Religion. p. 648. The Fathers of the Sanhedrim were to be skilled in many Languages. 782
  • Lasha, is Callirrhoe. 296
  • Last Days and Times, put for the times immediately prece∣ding the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the Jewish State. p. 626, 1074. Last Days, what they gene∣rally signifie in Scripture. 1074, 1097, 1104, 1117
  • Last Days of Jerusalem, are characterized in one regard for the best, in another for the worst of times. p. 1179. Last Days of Jerusalem, and the Jewish State, are named as the last days of the World. 1186, 1200
  • Lavatory of Bethany, what? 305
  • Laver, described. 33, 34
  • Law, Christ was to bring in a New Law, but not to abo∣lish the old. p. 137. The Text of the Law was writ in the Hebrew and not in the Assyrian Letter. p. 138, 139. Law written and Oral, what? And how ex∣plained by the Scribes and Doctors. p. 422, 423. What the difference between coming to God in the Law, and coming to God by the Law. p. 599. Law used for the Scripture, i. e. Moses and the Prophets oo, both the former and the later. p. 787. Women not allowed to read the Law in the Jews Synagogues, though a Child or a Servant might. p. 788. The Jews say there are six hundred and thirteen Precepts in the Law of Moses. p. 1114. Christ was a member of the Church of the Jews, proved, and under the obligation of the Law. p. 1037. The Law was thought by the Jews to restrain and bind the outward Action only, not regarding the inward Thought. p. 1098. The Jews read the Books of the Law and Prophets only in their Synagogues, the rest they read not. p. 1102. The manner of giving the Law is an assurance of the last Judgment. p. 1119. Ju∣daick and Mosaick Law, how distinguished by the Jews? p. 1199. Whether God shewed more mercy in giving the Law or in giving the Gospel? p. 1230. The com∣mandments of the Law were given for Gospel ends. p. 1231. The performing of the Law in one sense is impossible, yet the keeping of it in another is possible. 1231
  • Law Ceremonial, Christ was under the obligation of the Ceremonial Law, and that in three respects. p. 1037. Ceremonial Law, why instituted? p. 1069. It was not the Covenant of Works, but the Mode or Manner of

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  • the administration of the Covenant of Grace. Page 1069
  • Law Moral obligeth under the Covenant of Grace. 1069, 1070
  • Law writ in Adams heart upon Creation, what? 1325
  • Lawyers, were Doctors of the Law; they were of several sorts. p. 421, to 423. Lawyers and Teachers of the Law, what? 433, 434
  • Laying hands upon the sacrifice, what, and for what end? 531
  • Lazar, used for Eleazer. 454
  • Lazarus his Soul was in Heaven those four days he was dead. 1352
  • Learners, or Disciples, after the days of Rabban Gamaliel did use to sit while they were instructed. p. 395, 396. They had power to ask the Doctors any questions as they went along in their Expositions and Lectures. 396
  • Learning, humane Learning, is exceeding useful; nay, ex∣ceeding needful to the expounding of the Scriptures. p. 1033. Two objections, of those that deny this Pro∣position, answered. 1034
  • Leaven, put for Doctrin, and a naughty Heart and Affections. 204
  • Lectures, at them the Gesture was, the Teachers sat and the Learners stood. 193
  • Legion, includes an unclean company, and of exceeding power. 340, 341
  • Legends two or three of them, Papal, and Judaical. 494, 495
  • Lepers, how they were to dwell alone. 460, 461
  • Leprosie and the Doctrin of it, under the Law, points out very well the Guilt and Doctrin of Sin. p. 164, 165. The custom of putting the blood upon the Ear of him that was cleansed of a Leprosie, according to that com∣mand, Lev. 14▪ 14. what? 1038
  • Levites, The Cities of the Levites and the Land about them was large, called their Suburbs; being Cities of Refuge, and Universities. They and the Priests were the setled Ministry of the Church of Israel; they always lived up∣on Tithes when they studied in the Universities, or preach∣ed in the Synagogues, and attended on the Temple Ser∣vice. p. 86. Priests and Levites, what was lawful, and unlawful in them? 382
  • Libanus, called the Mountain of Snow, Antilibanus, and Bala. 517
  • Libertines were Servants that had received their Freedom; these were Jews, how they came to be Servants and how again to be free. 663
  • Life, Eve called Chava, that is, Life, upon the account of the promise of Christ. p. 791. Why Life is called pre∣cious. p. 1209. How tender God is of the Life of Man. p. 1209, 1210. Why such an equal tribute is to be paid to God for the Life of Man? p. 1210, 1211. Long Life is a Promise affixed to very many Commands, and why? p. 1335, 1336. How to reconcile the shortness of Mans Life with that Promise? p. 1335, 1336. Why God shortned Mans Life at the Flood, at Babel, and at Sinai, even where he promised long Life? p. 1336. The length of the Lives of the first Inhabitants of the World, considered, and the reason given. p. 1336, 1337. Long Life to many proves a curse. p. 1338. Long Life in it self is a blessing. p. 1337, 1338. How it is a blessing, when so full of sorrow, and upon that account Men are made so weary of it. 1339, 1340
  • Light, put for evening of the Sabbath. 479
  • Light within, what, and of what power to lead to Heaven? 1286
  • Likeness and Image of God upon Man, distinguished; p. 1302. Likeness of God upon Man, lost by sin, but not the Image. 1302
  • Lineage, or Descent of Christ, was most of younger Brothers. 1089, 1090
  • Linnin Cloth, or a Sindon, was a Cloak made of Linnin, hung with Fringe. 354, 355
  • Lives, why Satan taketh not away our lives when he plea∣seth? Page 1209
  • Locusts, many kinds of them. 333
  • Lod, where, and what? 325, &c.
  • Long sufferings of God to wicked Men, is sometimes not the goodness of God to them. 1311
  • Loosing or Binding, a very usual Phrase in the Jewish Schools, spoken of Things, not of Persons. 205, 206, 207. See Binding and Loosing.
  • Lords Day, the Jews say it was the first day in the week; why Christ changed the Day from the Seventh to the First. p. 271, 272, 1329, 1330. The Lords Day was not controverted, but every where celebrated in the Primitive Times, only some Jews (converted to the Gospel) also kept the Jewish Sabbath. 792, 793
  • Lords Prayer, illustrated out of the Jewish Writings. p. 159, to 161. The Lords Prayer was given twice by Christ, first in the Mount, Matth. 6 and then at the Feast of Tabernacles, a year and an half after. p. 1138. The agreeableness of it to the Jewish Forms. p. 1139. The reason why the Doxology is added to it by Saint Matthew, and omitted by Saint Luke. 1139
  • Loretto, the Legend of the Virgin Mary's House carried thither. 494, 495
  • Lots, how cast, where, and when? 380
  • Love, it is our duty to love all Men, the reason. p. 1204. We are to love our Neighbour as our selves. 1301
  • Love Feasts, they were Appendages to the Lords Supper, also they were when strangers were entertained in each Church, at the cost of the Church, &c. 774▪ to 776
  • Loving, put for embracing, kissing, or being well pleased with, and pitying. 347, 348
  • Lunatick, Deaf, and Dumb. 210
  • Luz, a little bone in a Mans back which the Jews speak of as the Seed and Principle of a future Resurrection. 583, 1238
  • Lydda, a Village not inferior to a City, the same with Lod, notwithstanding the errors of some Maps making them differing Places, it had eminent Schools in it, much History belongs to it. p. 16, 17. Lydda is called Lodicea. 326
  • Lye, the Jews used and loved to lye at their Feasts, in what order they used that Gesture. 256, 257
M.
  • MACHERUS is derived from Macvar. p. 81. Ma∣cherus, a Castle, where situate. Page 501
  • Macpelah, supposed to be Adams burying place. 47
  • Magdala was near Tiberias and Chammath. 70, 308
  • Magdalen (Mary Magdalen) whence the Name. 415, 416
  • Magistracy, instituted as an ordinance of Christ, and a Go∣spel mercy. p. 1059, 1060, &c. The usefulness of it to the Church. p. 1060, 1061, &c. So overawed by a wicked people, as not to dare to execute justice. 1111
  • Magistrates, are to be obeyed in all lawful things. p. 230, 231. The false Logick of those who are for no Ma∣gistrates over them but King Jesus, refuted. 1060
  • Magog and Gog, what is meant by them. 1173, 1174
  • Mahumetism and Popery coming, the Devil was let loose. 1172
  • Maids, the day of the week on which they were married, and the ceremonies of their marriage. 534
  • Malefactors at their death, were used cruelly by the Jews, as an act of friendship. p. 478. Malefactors (say the Jews) going to execution, and making confession of their sins; that, and their death did expiate for their sins. 1275
  • Mammon of unrighteousness, what? 451, 452
  • Man is a wonder. p. 1225. How much devilishness the De∣vil can infuse into Man's nature, with the reasons of it. 1308, 1309
  • Manacles for the hands used among the Jews. 683
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  • Manaen (i. e.) the Comforter taken for Christ. Page 108
  • Maphtir, he that read in the Synagogues was called Maph∣tir, and was to read one and twenty Verses. 406
  • Maps of the Gospel Tapography are too officious. 310, 311
  • Mar, or Mari, a Title the Jews sometimes gave their Rab∣bins. 465
  • Maran-ath, this say very many Commentators is the highest and heaviest Form of Excommunication, but it rather intimates the curse coming upon the Jews. 796, 797
  • Mark, why he departed from Paul and Barnabas? 741
  • Maronit, a Maronite, what? 515
  • Marriage, not to be till a woman was espoused. p. 100. Marriage of Men, the time, and reason of it. p. 757, 758. The Marriage Bond, both among Jews and Gen∣tiles (especially the Jews) was looked upon as a loose thing. p. 759. When to marry or not to marry. 762
  • Marriages were performed on differing days for Maids and Widows, with the reason, and Ceremonies thereof. 534
  • Married, a hundred and sixty Priests married in Gophna all in one night. p. 52. When a Man was new married, where he dwelt. p. 309. What a reproach it is for a Woman not to be married. 1216, 1217
  • Martyrdom, dying (called Martyrdom) for others, to save their Country. 326
  • Mary Magdalen, the same with Mary the Sister of Lazarus, why called Magdalen. p. 270, 587. Baronius also proves her to be the Sister of Lazarus. 588
  • Mary the Mother of Jesus, vilified by the Talmudists. 400
  • Masada, a Castle near Asphaltites, fortified even to a miracle. 296
  • Matthew writ his Gospel in Greek, so did Paul his Epistle to the Hebrews, and not in Hebrew as some have affir∣med; because the Hebrew was altogether unknown to the Common Jews; for it was not the Jews Mother Tongue in the time of the Apostles, but the Syriack. 101, to 104
  • Measurings of the Jews, how, or what they were? p. 318, &c. A Parsa was four miles; a Talmudick mile consisted of seven furlongs and an half; a Diet was thirty miles. 319
  • Meats, forbidden and unclean, what? 199, 200
  • Mediation of Christ, the matter of it, what? 1261
  • Melchisedeck, all now acknowledge him for Sem. 327
  • Men, their Affairs and Times, how God knows and dates them? 1250, &c.
  • Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin, the meaning of these words as written in Belshazzers Dining Room. 1194, 1195
  • Mercy of God, oft wrested by Men to their own destructi∣on. p. 1275. Monuments of mercy, were never set up in Scripture to be encouragements for Presumption. 1276
  • Messias, divers Names of him produced by the Talmudists. p. 167. The Epoche of the Messias is stated from the Resurrection of Christ. p. 180. His coming was pre∣dicted by the Quarrels of the Jews. p. 181. He was acknowledged for the Son of God by the Jews, though not by Nature, but by Adoption. p. 269, 270. Messias (who was God-Man) considered as he was a Servant, and Messenger of the Father; and received his Abilities of doing Miracles, and of knowledge of Evangelick Misteries, and of other things, before hand, from the anointing of the Spirit. p. 251, 252. Messias supposed by the ancient Jewish Rabbins to be begot without carnal copulation by the Spirit. p. 385, 386. The Jews ex∣pected their Messias to come when Christ did appear. p. 468, 1289. They also expected that when the Mes∣sias came he would lead them into the Garden of Eden, where they should enjoy all manner of worldly Plea∣sures in the highest degree. p. 552. At his coming the World was to be renewed. p. 220. Messias or Christ, and the Son of God, are convertible Terms, against the Jews. p. 385, 548, 549. The Fathers of the Sanhedrim had in all likelyhood a strong suspition, if not a knowledge, that Jesus was the Messias. p. 583, 584. The Jews expected, when he came, to enjoy great worldly deliverances and blessings. p. 598. What the Jews apprehended of his Temporal Reign, was in some things plain, in others obscure. p. 636. Messias not ac∣knowledged by the Jews to be the genuine Son of God. p. 690. The Resurrection of the Messias pointed at in the second Psalm. p. 690, 691. David put for the Mes∣sias. p. 691. What appearances and effects the Jews looked for in the Messias which they found not in our Saviour Christ. p. 1110. It was the opinion of the Jews, That the Messias should reign a thousand years. p. 1171. The Messias, say the Jews, was not to re∣deem from sin, but from Captivity and Enemies. p. 1275. He was, say they, to have an earthly, pompous, flourish∣ing Kingdom. Page 1275
  • Messopotamia, and her Consorts or Companions, what? p. 663. And what Country it is. 665
  • Micra, a Treatise of the Rabbins, containing the Text of the Bible it self, its Reading and Literal Explication. 422
  • Midrash, a Treatise of the Rabbins, containing the Mysti∣cal and Allegorical Explication of the Scriptures. 422, 423
  • Migdal Elder, was a Tower situate near Jerusalem on the South-side. 306
  • Mile, a Talmudick mile was seven furlongs and an half. 319, 581
  • Millenaries, or Fifth Monarchists, their dangerous mistake of the twentieth Chapter of the Revelations, refuted. 1056, 1057
  • Millo in Jerusalem, what? 24 25
  • Mind of Man, put for the understanding, also the bent and inclination of the Soul. 1286
  • Mines of Iron and Brass were in several places in the Land of Israel. 88
  • Ministry, the Priests and Levites were the setled Ministry of the Church of Israel, they always lived upon Tithes when they studied in the Universities, preached in the Synagogues, and attended on the Temple Service. 86
  • Ministers, there were many Ministers in the Apostles days, belonging to every Church, with the reason of it. 1156, 1157
  • Minstrels, among the Jews were used at Burials. 172, 173
  • Miracles, many done in one day by Christ. p. 174. Mi∣racles could not drive the Jews from their Traditions. p. 345. Mear Miracles, or Signs, were never wrought by our Saviour. 1104
  • Mirth or Joy, wicked, in a strange instance in the Gunpou∣der-Trayors. 1184
  • Mishneh, a Treatise of the Rabbins containing the Doctrin of Traditions, and their Explications. 422
  • Missaar or Mizaar, a hill mentioned in the Psalms, where situate. 501
  • Mite, what sort of mony. 350
  • Moloch represented the Sun, and why? It was an Image of Brass, having the Face of a Calf, &c. 672
  • Moment of time, what out of the Jewish Doctors? 405
  • Monarehy, the Fifth Monarchy is not the Kingdom of Christ, but was the Kingdom of the Devil. 1166
  • Mony, the Streets of Jerusalem were swept every day, and mony found there, in the time of Feasts, was all Tenths or Tiths. p. 303. So also what was found at any time. p. 303. Mony of Silver and Gold, both Roman, and Jewish, with their value and stamps, what? 349
  • Money Changers, what from the Talmud and Maimonides. p. 224, 225. What they were, and why our Saviour overthrew their Tables in the Temple. 1204
  • Monster in a Child with two Bodies, from the Navel up∣ward it acted as two Children. 373
  • Mortal, Adam was not created mortal, against the Socinians 1353.
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  • Moses, fasted forty days, three times over one after another. p. 405. Part of his History. p. 670. Why God fought to kill him, as we read Exod. 4. 24. Page 1066
  • Mothers Family, among the Jews, is not to be called a Fa∣mily. 99
  • Mount Gilead, what? And whether not the Hill Gaash? 373, 374
  • Mount Hor, called Amanah in the Jewish Writers. 62
  • Mount Macvar; Macherus is derived from it, what? 81
  • Mount Olivet, the Mount of Olives, in the Rabbins com∣monly the Mount of Oyl; whence the Name, and what was done there? p. 39, &c. It had shops in it. 305
  • Mount of Simeon, what? 51
  • Mount Tabor, what▪ and where situate? 495, &c.
  • Mount Zebim, was within the Land. 51
  • Mountain of the Amorrbites, what? 12
  • Mountain of Snow, with some the same with Hermon. 62
  • Mountanous Country, what? 12
  • Mourners for the dead, how the Jews used to comfort them, both in the way and at home. 323, 581, 582
  • Mourning, what Mourning was used for the dead; also what Feasting and company. p. 173. The third day of mourning was an high day. 583
  • Mulcts, for Corporal wrongs, were several. 151, 152
  • Murder, was so common among the Jews, that the be∣heading of an Heiser (commanded Deut. 21.) was left off by order of the Sanhedrim, for fear of the Mur∣derers. 1111
  • Musicians in the Temple, what sort of Men? 373
  • Musick used at Burials, what? 172, 173
  • Mustard stalk or Tree; exceeding large. 195
  • Mutterings, a sort of Enchantments used by the Jews, &c. 243
N.
  • NAIM, near Tabor, what? p. 369, &c. Naim in Jo∣sephus and the Rabbins, what? p. 370. The same with Engannim. Page 370, 371
  • Names, were given Children at their Circumcision; so at the institution of Circumcision God changed the Names of Abraham and Sarah. p. 387. It was chiefly for the honour of some Person, whom the Parents esteemed, that they gave their Son his Name; seldom was the Son called by the Name of the Father. p. 387. It was com∣mon in the Jewish Nation for Men to have two Names, one a Jewish Name used among the Jews; another a Gentile Name, used among the Heathen. 739
  • Nature of Man, desperately corrupted. 1308, 1309
  • Naveh, what place, and by whom inhabited. 515
  • Nazarene, Christ was so called to hint his separation and estrangment from other Men. 99, 100
  • Nazareth, its situation. 495, 496
  • Nazarites, they were forbid the total use of Wine; whe∣ther the Law about the Nazarites had not some refe∣rence to Adam while he was under that Prohibition in the state of innocency. p. 382. Only two Nazarites were set apart by God, viz. Sampson and the Baptist; three hundred at once made themselves Nazarites by their own voluntary vow. p. 384. They being forbid the total use of Wine, how could they keep the com∣mands referring to the keeping the Passover (&c.) in which Wine was used. p. 382. They wore long hair, among whom Absolom was one. p. 774. Why they let their hair grow long. 774
  • Nazaritsin, what, and how the Vow of it was sometimes laid aside. 1219, 1220
  • Neapolis, the Jews in scorn called it Sychar. 52, 53
  • Neighbour and Brother, what the difference between them. p. 141. Neighbour the Jews denyed any Gentile to be their Neighbour. p. 425. Who is our Neighbour? p. 1298. We are to love our Neighbour as our selves, what? 1301
  • New Creation, new Heaven and new Earth, put for the times and state of things immediately following the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish State. Page 626
  • New Jerusalem, the Holy City, why called New, and why Holy City. p. 1196, 1197, 1198. What it is not, and what it is, and where to be found. 1197, to 1202
  • New Testament, why it so exactly follows the Translation of the Septuagint in the Old Testament. p. 403. New Testament Phrases and Passages; the surest and safest way to understand them, viz. is not to frame a sense of our own, which we think fair and probable; but to observe how they were understood by them to whom they were uttered. 1041, 1042
  • Nicholaitans, that impure Sect did not spring from Nicholas, the Deacon, but took the Name from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Neco∣la. p. 662. They impudently did oppose the Decree of the Apostles. p. 695, 696. They were wicked Here∣ticks, perswading to eat things offered to Idols and to commit Fornication. p. 756. Notwithstanding the af∣firmation of Antiquity, they did not spring from Nico∣las one of the seven Deacons. 756
  • Nicholaitism and Judaism were two errors on each hand the Gospel, into which some Primitive Christians did fall. 1097
  • Nicodemus, the reason of his Name, and what he was; he was also called Bonai, he was exceeding rich; and yet his Family fell to great poverty. 513, 532
  • Nicoplois, what? 371
  • Noah's Flood, was a prognostication and assurance of the Last Judgment. 1104
  • Nob, a City of the Priests, from whence one might easily see Jerusalem. 42
  • Numbers and Things near alike are said to be the same. 99, 100
  • Nunship, or Virginity, the vow of it among the Papists is accounted a devout and sacred Thing▪ which is false, and never to be proved by them. 1216, 1217, 1219
O.
  • OATHS in the Jewish Writings, reduced to a Pro∣missory Oath. p. 148. A vain or rash Oath, con∣cerning which four Things; and an Oath concerning something left in trust, and a Testimonial Oath, what? p. 149. The Jews only took care of the truth of the thing sworn, and not of the vanity of swearing; it was customary among them to swear by Creatures. Page 149
  • Obedience of Christ, made his blood justifying and saving. p. 1255. It conquered Satan and satisfied God. p. 1256 Christ died meerly out of obedience. p. 1257. His obedience does not dissolve the obedience of a Christian. 1263
  • Obeying and Believing, are not to be separated. 1263
  • Obolus, what? 468
  • Offering of water used at the Feast of Tabernacles, how per∣formed, whence derived, and what the meaning of it. 560
  • Officiousness, a great fault in an Historian. 1142, 1143
  • Old Testament, how the Jews divided the writings of it. p. 483, 584. When any place of the Old Testament was cited by the Jews, they delivered it always in the very Original Words. p. 694. The Sadducees are said by some to refuse all the Books of the Old Testament, ex∣cept the Five Books of Moses. 1101
  • Ono, where, and what. 325, &c.
  • Opinion and a Scripture Text, distinguished. 758
  • Orbo, the City. 317
  • Original Text of the Hebrew, whether corrupted or not? 131
  • Orphan Amen, or Psalm, what? 786
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  • Outward Action, the Jews thought the Law was to re∣strain and bind the Outward Action only, not regarding the inward Thought. Page 1098
  • Oyntment, precious, how prized. 352
P.
  • PALESTINE, the third, called Palestine the health∣ful, whence the Name▪ Page 293, 294
  • Paneas, or Panias, the spring-head of Jordan, there being none such thing as two Fountains. 62, 63, 64, 298
  • Papacy, it followeth Jannes and Jambres, and is the great Resister of the Truth of the Gospel. 1188, 1189
  • Papists, the improbability, ridiculousness, and irreligion of their holding that the Patriarchs were in Purgatory. 1342, 1343
  • Parables were the Jews most familiar Rhetorick. p. 193. Parables were used by Christ among the Jews because they would not see the Light. 339
  • Paradise, what the Jews understood by being in Paradise. p. 477, 478. Paradise put for the state of the blessed. 1272, 1273
  • Paras, was the space of fifteen days immediately before the Passover, Pentecost or the Feast of Tabernacles. 635
  • Pardon and Salvation, its the greatest difficulty to make Men fit and capable for them. p. 1276. What are the sure Grounds of hope for Salvation and Pardon? p. 1277. Pardon is the gift of God as well as Repentance. 1277
  • Parents, It was the opinion of the Jews that Children born crooked, maimed, or defective, was according to some sin of the Parents. p. 568. Why the Children suffer for the Parents sins, the Justice thereof. p. 1316, 1317. This only designs corporal or external punish∣ment. 1318
  • Parsa, a Parsa was four miles. 319
  • Paschal Supper, the whole Method and Order of it in eight Particulars. p. 257, 258. How Wine came to be there, and what quantity they drank. 259, 260
  • Passover (or Paschal Lamb) how made ready in five Par∣ticulars. p. 255, 256. Whether Christ kept his Pass∣over the day before the Jews, i. e. on the fourteenth, not the fifteenth day of the Month. p. 353, 356, 357. The difference between the first Month and the second. p. 354. Preparation of the Passover, what? p. 356, to 358. Af∣ter the Lamb was eaten, every Israelite was bound with∣in that seven days Solemnity—First, To appear before the Lord in the Court, and that with a Sacrifice, this was called the Appearance. p. 356.—Secondly, To solemn joy and mirth, and that also with Sacrifices, this was called Chagigah, The Festival. p. 356, 357. Whether was it lawful to depart from Jerusalem till the seven days of the Passover were ended? p. 394, 395. How the Passover was prepared for many days before it actually began. 550
  • Passovers, four intervened between Christ's entrance into his publick Ministry, and the time of his Death, with the several Actions which he did about the time of each. 1033
  • Patriarchs, where they were buried. p. 668. Whether their Souls were in Purgatory? 1342, &c.
  • Paul, and Saul, his Roman and Hebrew Name, and why? p. 687, 1191. He always calls himself by his Roman or Gentile Name after he became the Apostle of the Gen∣tiles. p. 740. He was not a Baptist among the Gentiles as John was among the Jews. p. 742. He wisheth him∣self accursed for his Brethren the Israelites, a strange wish, what the meaning of it. p. 1293, 1294, 1296. Why Paul thus wished. 1297, to 1299
  • Peace, outward, or Prosperity in the things of this World, is no sign of peace with God. p. 1053. It is sometimes a sign of Gods enmity, proved. 1053
  • Peace with God doth not necessarily infer peace of Conscience. 1054
  • Pella, a City of Decapolis, vigorously Heathen. Page 316
  • Pelusium, was Sin of old, in the Talmudists Cappadocia, &c. 290, 291
  • Penitent, most of the Jews held that the Penitent were to be preferred before the perfectly Just. p. 449. But others of them the contrary. 449
  • Pentecost called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 which in Scripture was an Holy Day, and but one; therefore the Jews appropriate the word to the Feast of Pentecost. p. 641. Several other things about Pentecost. 641, 642, 643
  • Peny of Silver, Gold, Roman or Jewish, what? p. 349, 352. A Roman Peny was seven-pence half-peny, two of them maketh half a Shekel. 1204
  • People of God, the duration of their affliction is appointed by the Lord. 1248, to 1251
  • Perea, the length and breadth of it. p. 81. Whether it may not be called Galilee. 362
  • Perrizzites, who? 329
  • Persecution, the first recorded should have been that of the Jews. 241
  • Peter, a Minister of the Circumcision among the Hebrews. p. 741. And why he therein outshone James and John the two other Ministers of Circumcision. p. 741. Peter preached the Gospel in Babilon. p. 802. Pethor and Beor being changed into Bosor, shews Peter was not at Rome, but at Babilon. p. 1144, 1180. Peter was never at Rome, the probability of this opinion shewn. p. 1141, 1142, &c. From whence that contrary opinion did proceed. p. 1143. He wrote his Epistle from Babilon in Chaldea, and not from Rome, as some would have it. p. 1144. Peter spent his last days and in all likelihood died in Chaldea and not at Rome. 1144, 1180
  • Pharisaism, was long a rising, and when finished, of no fixed form; when its Original? p. 122, to 124. The foundation of it was laid in the days of Ezra. 124
  • Pharisees, their trouble and fainting confidence when they came to dye, was great. p. 16. They were a sort of Separatists; there were of them Women as well as Men, who under the vail of Sanctity and Devotion, practised all manner of wickedness. p. 123, 199. The lowest rank of Pharisees were illiterate Plbeians; the Collegians or Associates of the wise Men were the highest sort; they were the most splendid Cloak of Religion. p. 122, to 124. There were seven Sects of Pharisees. p. 125. Strange stories related of their Feasts. p. 171. Pharisees and Scribes laboured among the People for respect, and by respect for gain, which they did.—First, As Doctors of the Law, instilling into their Disciples and the Common People this Notion, That a wise Man, that was, one of themselves, was to be respected above all mortal Men. p. 234, &c.—Secondly, Under a pretence of mighty devotion, especially long Prayers. p. 234. Pharisees and Scribes are Terms sometimes conounded, and sometimes distinguished. p. 433. By Pharisees in the Evangelist Saint John are generally to be understood the Sanhedrim. p. 571. The Religion of the Pharisees was not the National Religion of the Jews, but a Sect and Excrescence from it. p. 1036. The difference be∣tween the Pharisees and Sadducees in matters of Religi∣on, was great. p. 1278. Though they differed among themselves greatly, yet they easily harmonized to op∣pose Christianity. 1278, 1279
  • Phenicia, there was a midland Phenicia; whether it and Syrophenicia be the same. 312
  • Phylacteries, were Parchment Labels, having writ in them several places of the Law, fastned to the Forehead and left Arm; constantly worn with great devotion. 232
  • Plaintif and Defendam, chose their Judges, &c. among the Jews. 755
  • Pleasures, the Jews expected when the Messias came, that he would lead them into the Garden of Eden, where they should enjoy all manner of Worldly Pleasures in the highest degree. 552
  • Pliny, corrected. 321
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  • Pollux and Castor, what? How pictured, how fatal their Feast to the Lacedemonians. Page 705, 706
  • Polygamy, what? p. 146. It was lawful among the Jews. p. 696. Both it and Bigamy are forbidden. 696
  • Pomp and degree of the World, countervails nothing with God. 1210, 1211, 1212
  • Ponditho, is an hollow Girdle or Belt, in which the Jews put their mony. 178
  • Pool, lower Pool, upper Pool, Kings Pool, Pool of Siloam, Pool of Bethesda, Sheep-Pool, Pool of Shela••••, Pool of Solomon; what? 508, 509, 510
  • Pool of Bethesda, in it Men, not Beasts, were washed. p. 545. It was made of an healing quality by the help of an Angel about the days of Christ's being on Earth, but how long before or after we know not. 546, 547
  • Poor, collections were made by the Jews in forraign Nati∣ons for the poor Rabbins dwelling in Judea. 792
  • Popery and Mahumeism coming, the Devil was let loose. p. 1172. Popery, Socinianism, and Quakerism are great Heresies. 1280
  • Poverty, extream, especially of one whose foregoing Estate was pompous. 352
  • Pound, what? 468
  • Power and Will of God, being well understood and submit∣ted to, take off abundance of carnal Atheistical Dis∣putes. 1320, 1321
  • Prayer, what Posture the Jews used in it. p. 156. In what Places they used or loved to pray. p. 156. What sort of Prayers they used. p. 557. Repetition of the same words in Prayer, how practised; condemned by Christ. p. 157. The Jews had a great number of Prayers, day∣ly they used eighteen, and they had some that compri∣sed the whole, which were compendiums, fitted for weak Memories. p. 157, 158. Which Christ imitated in that Prayer he gave his Disciples, which we call the Lords Prayer, for 'tis a Compendium of all Prayers, &c. p. 157, 158. These Compendiums were not to hinder stated Prayers. p. 158. Christ intended no other in his Prayer. p. 158. The Lord's Prayer illustrated out of the Jewish writings. p. 159, to 161. What kind of Prayer the Baptist taught his Disciples. p. 427, 428. Forms of Prayer are prescribed in the Old and New Testament. p. 1137. Forms of Prayer defended, and Objections answered. p. 1137. An account of the Jewish Forms from the Talmud and other Writersp. 1139. Prayer, is a Duty for all Men, and the reason of it gi∣ven. p. 1135, 1136. Objections answered, and more Reasons given. p. 1137. The Lords Prayer, is a Form to be used totidem verbis. p. 1041, 1138, 1140. The Objections of those that will not use it so. p. 1138. This Prayer is compared with the Ten Commandments. p. 1138. It was twice given by Christ, first, in the Mount, Matth. 6. and then at the Feast of Tabernacles a year and an half after. p. 160, 1138. The agreeable∣ness of it to the Jewish Forms. p. 1139. The reason why the Doxology is added to it by Saint Matthew, and omitted by Saint Luke. 1139
  • Prayers were sometimes performed with great silence in the Temple. p. 351. Prayers of the Jews, consisted in Benedictions and Doxologies. p. 427. Private Prayers in what part of the Temple they were performed. p. 464. Dayly Prayers of the Jews were eighteen in number, what they were? 690
  • Praying for the dead, founded by the Rhemists, on that Text 1 John 5. 16. refuted. 1094
  • Preaching was one part of Prophesie, Singing Psalms and foretelling of Things from Divine Revelation were the two others. 785
  • Precepts there were, say the Jews, six hundred thirteen Precepts in the Law of Moses. 1114
  • Pre-existence of Souls, some of the Jews held it. 569, 1352
  • Preparation of the Sabbath, what? 358
  • Presbyters and Elders were to judge in Pecuniary Affairs. 755
  • Preservation of God, how he preserves all Men alike, and yet not all alike. Page 1213
  • Presumption, Monuments of Mercy were never set up in Scripture to be encouragements to Presumption. 1276
  • Priestess, one born of the Lineage of Priests, of these the Priests commonly took themselves wives. 379
  • Priesthood, and High Priesthood, only differed in two things. 585
  • Priests married Gentlemens Daughters. p. 42. One hun∣dred sixty Priests were married in Gophna all in one night. p. 52. Priests were the setled Ministry of the Church of Israel; they always lived upon Tithes when they studied in the University, Preached in the Syna∣gogues, and attended on the Temple Service. p. 86. They were called—First, Plebeian Priests, for Priests were not made but born, so some of them were poor, yet being of Aaron's seed, though unlearned, they had their Courses at the Altar—Secondly, Idiots or Private, be∣cause still of a lower Order—Thirdly, W thier being (besides the High Priest) Heads of the Courses—Heads of Families,—Presidents over Offices—And such as were Members of the chief Sanhedrim. p. 110. The Marriage of the Priests was a thing of great con∣cern, on purpose to keep them uncorrupt. p. 379. Priests and Levites, what was lawful, and unlawful in them. p. 382. Priests were examined by the Great Council, whether they had any blemishes, which if they had, they were sent away arraied in black. p. 388. Chief Priests, Elders and Scribes, how distinguished. 469
  • Prince of this World, the Devil how so called. 591, 592
  • Probatica or the Sheep Gate, was not near the Temple, contrary to the common Opinion. 507
  • Prodigies, very memorable, which happened forty years before the destruction of the Temple, what? 248
  • Prophane, or polluted, and unclean, distinguished. 199, 200
  • Promises given to Israel in the Law, are most generally and most apparently Temporal Promises. p. 1331, &c. Scarce∣ly any Spiritual, much less any Eternal Promises in the Law of Moses. p. 1332. In the Books of Moses they were all for earthly things, as they belonged to the Jews. p. 1332. Why God gave them such Promises. p. 1333. There were spiritual Promises before the Law. p. 1333. The Gospel State happy in the better Promises. p. 1332, 1333. God intended Spiritual Things under Temporal Promises. p. 1333. Why God did not speak out Spiri∣tual and Eternal Things, but only obscurely hinted them in such Temporal Promises. 1333, 1334
  • Prophesie comprehends the singing of Psalms, to Preach, and Foretel something from Divine Revelation. p. 785. From the death of the later Prophets the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit of Prophesie ceased from Israel. p. 802. Prophesie expired at the fall of Jerusalem. p. 1048. Prophesie was one of the two extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit. p. 1157. Prophesie, Revelation, and Urim and Thummim was gone from the Jews for four hundred years before Christ came. p. 1284, 1288, 1289. Pro∣phesie was sometimes performed by ill Men, as Caiaphas and Balaam. 1288, to 1291
  • Prophesying, what it was in Saint Paul's time. 1157, 1158
  • Prophets, Schools of the Prophets were little Universities or Colledges of Students; their Governor some venerable Prophet, inspired with the Holy Spirit to give forth Di∣vine Revelations, &c. p. 86. Prophets how divided by the Jews. p. 407. How unrolled, and distant Places put together. p. 407, 408. Prophets, put for Prophetical Books of Scripture, p. 458. From the days of Zacha∣ry and Malachy the Jews expected no Prophets till the coming of the Messiah. p. 522. Prophets were not the standing Ministry of the Church, neither under the Law, nor under the Gospel, but occasional and of necessity. p. 1034, 1049. The Books of the Law and Prophets only were read by the Jews in their Synagogues, the rest they read not. 1102
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  • Proselyte, what? Page 234
  • Proselytes, Fearers of the Lord are used for Proselytes, every one of them are blessed. 689
  • Prosperity of the wicked, did once occasion both weeping and laughing. p. 706. Prosperity or Peace outward in the things of this World, is no sign of Peace with God. p. 1053. It's sometimes a sign of God's enmity, pro∣ved from Ecclesiastes 5. 13. and from Mal. 2. 2. p. 1053. The Prosperity of wicked Men, is an Argument of the Last Judgment, and future state. 1104
  • Protestant Church, and Religion, where they were before Lu∣thers time. 1201
  • Providence of God, not a Rule for Men to go by, but his Word. 1276
  • Psalms put for the Hagiographa. p. 265. Singing of Psalms was one part of Prophesie. p. 785. Singing of Psalms in Christian Congregations is a great and heavenly work. p. 1158. The Primitive Christians sung David's Psalms in their publick Congregations. p. 1158. The singing whereof is a Duty incumbent upon Christians. p. 1158, to 1162. Our Saviour, the Apostles, and the Primitive Church practised it. 1159, to 1162
  • Ptolemais (also called Acon) a City of Galilee, how situate. 60
  • Ptolomy, is in something amended. 320
  • Publican, what his business. p. 171. Publican Heathen, what? 215
  • Publicans were odious to the Jews. p. 152, &c. They were of several Degrees. 466, 467
  • Purgatory, the Doctrine of it. p. 1341. The improbabili∣ty, ridiculousness, and irreligion of the Papists holding that the Patriarchs were in it. 1342, 1343
  • Purification days of a Woman after Child bearing, when ac∣complished. p. 391, 392. Purification after touching a dead Body, what? 790
  • Purifying water, Children were born and brought up in some Courts under ground to be made fitter to sprinkle the Purifying water. 34
  • Purifyings, some were performed in a longer and others in a shorter time. 586
  • Purim, the Feast of Purim opposed by some of the Jews. 578
  • Putting away, for divorcing, what? p. 146. Putting away a Husband by the Wife, &c. among the Jews, what? With the Form thereof. 759
  • Pythons, what? 175
Q.
  • QUAKARISM, Popery, and Socinianism are great Heresies. Page 1280, 1281
R.
  • RAbban Jochanan ben Zaccai, something of his Histo∣ry. Page 652, 653
  • Rabbi, an haughty Title, not common till the times of Hillel, which in later times was much affected. 232, 233
  • Rabbins of Tiberias, were mad with Pharisaism, be∣witched with Traditions; blind, guileful, doting, and magical; and such a like work is the Jerusalem Talmud, which they made there; it's not possible to suppose that these Men pointed the Bible, it savours of the work of the Holy Spirit. 73, 34
  • Rachab, supposed to marry Joshua, famous among the Jew∣ish Writers. 97
  • Rain, former and later, what? 409
  • Raka, a word used by one that despiseth another in the highest scorn. 141
  • Rakkath, a fortified City from the days of Joshua. 67
  • Rama, was the Name of very many Towns in the Land of Israel, because they were seated in some high place. Page 80
  • Ramah, and Ramathaim Zophin, there were two of the Name, whence derived. 41
  • Ransom, or Attonement for Souls, how much, and for what end? p. 1204, 1205, 1208. At what time it was paid. p. 1205. Why the Poor therein was to give as much as the Rich. p. 1207. And why the Poor in Worldly matters gave more than the Rich did in those that referred to God. 1207
  • Retaliation, it's Laws. 150, 151
  • Ravens (which brought bread and flesh Morning and Evening to Elias) are supposed to be the People of Orbo. 317
  • Ravished, Saint Austin's determination about chaste Ma∣trons and Virgins Ravished by the Enemy when they broke into the City, what? 1098
  • Readers of the Low, part of their work. 803
  • Reason, the mysteries of Divinity not contrary to it; how to be understood. 1103
  • Redemption, or new Creation, was performed on the day Adam was created. 1325
  • Refuge, Cities of Refuge, their Number and Names 47, 48
  • Regeneration, what kind of Regeneration the Jews thought to be necessary to Proselytism. 533
  • Region round about Jordan, what? 298, 299
  • Registers, or Scribes of the Sanhedrim, were two, the one sat on the right, the other on the left hand; one wrote the votes of those that quitted, the other of those that condemned. 337
  • Religion, the Religion of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Es∣seans was not the National Religion of the Jews, but Sects and Excrescences from it. p. 1036. Christ sets himself against them that set themselves against Religi∣on. p. 1164. The Principles of the Traditional Religi∣on of the Jews, made them Crucifie the Lord of Life. p. 1175. What Religion the Devil hath most reason to hate. p. 1177. And which is the best, and what it is. p. 1177. Which is the true Religion? A difficult Question; two marks of it. p. 1176, 1177. The Jewish Religion was very corrupt under the second Temple. p. 1199, 1200. The Romish Religion comes very near to Judaism. p. 1200. Whether a Man may be saved in that Faith, that is, in the Religion of Rome; doubted. p. 1202. Some maintain that a Man may be saved in any Religion or Opinion, so he live but honestly towards Men and devoutly towards God. 1279
  • Rempham, or Rephan, what? 673
  • Renting of Cloaths, what? 263
  • Repentance, a Doctrine highly fit for the Jews, when it was preached to them by John the Baptist; The Schools of the Pharisees did ill define Repentance. p. 113. The Jews supposed the Redeemer was to come at a time when Repentance was to be. p. 114. Repentance not to be put off till death. p. 1227. There is nothing more desirable to God, Christ, and Angels than the Repen∣tance of a Sinner. p. 1269. What it is that moves God, Christ and Angels to desire this. p. 1270. Repentance is the gift of God as well as Pardon. p. 1277. The Rule to arrive at Repentance is to take Gods time as well as way. 1277
  • Repetition of the same words in Prayer, how practised: condemned by Christ. 157
  • Rephaims, what? 363
  • Reproof and Excommunication, what they were, with the difference between them. 747
  • Resurrection, the first Resurrection, what? 1233, 1235
  • Resurrection of Christ, the Epoche of the Messias is stated from the Resurrection of Christ. p. 180. The Resur∣rection of Christ shews him to be the Messiah. p. 691. How it argues and gives assurance of the last Judgment. p. 1105. Christ Resurrection and the Creation, whether the greater work? 1330
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  • Resurrection of the dead, was in the days of Ezra denyed by some▪ p. 216. How it is proved out of the Old Testament by Rabban Gamaliel. p. 541. How the Sadducees came to deny the Resurrection from the dead. p. 542. The Jews looked for the Resurrection from the dead. p. 549, 552. It is proved out of the Talmud. p. 702. Proved out of the Law. p. 787. Resurrection and last judg∣ment, proved. p. 1101, 1102, 1103, &c. The objecti∣ons of the Sadducees and Atheists answered. p. 1101, &c. Resurrection of the last day demonstrated against the Sadducees and Atheists. p. 1236, 1237. Denyed by the Sadducees. Page 1282, &c.
  • Resurrection of the Saints, expected even by the Jews at the beginning of the Kingdom of the Messias. 269
  • Revelation, Prophesie, Utim and Thummim, were gone from the Jews for four hundred years before Christ came. 1284, 1288, 1289
  • Rhinocorura, a River of Egypt, what? 9, 291
  • Riches, worldly Riches and grandure countervail nothing with God. 1210, 1211, 1212
  • Righteousness, why Alms are taken for Righteousness. p. 153, &c. Righteousness, inherent and justifying. 504, 505
  • Rings of the Altar, what, and for what use. 33, 34
  • Robbers, were very numerous among the Jews, and did strange mischiefs; how there came to be so many of them? 267, 268, 362
  • Rock for Christ, not Peter. 205
  • Roman Empire, when it began. p. 388, 389. When, and how it was measured. p. 389. When, and how taxed. 389, 390
  • Romanists, and Jews, how they may be said to be yoak∣fellows. 1110
  • Romans, there were Garisons of them dispersed over the Land of Israel, what they were? p. 324. The Romans are brought in by the Jewish Writers, owning them∣selves and boasting of their being the Children of Esau or Edom, and shew that Esau ought to rule over Jacob. p. 694, 695. The Epistle to the Romans, when and where it was written by Saint Paul. 1051
  • Rome, is put for Edom. p. 292. Rome guilty of our Sa∣viours death, as much as Jerusalem. p. 1109. It is also guilty of Apostasie. p. 1110. Part of the character of Rome at this time as referring to England. p. 1165▪ The proper Name of Rome, say Roman Historians, is a Secret. p. 1165. The Tutelar Deity of it also unknown. p. 1166. Rome is the Devils Seat, his Deputy and Vicegerent. p. 1166. Rome commissioned by the Devil to fight against Christ, his Religion, and People. p. 1166, 1167. When first and last spoke of in Scripture. p. 1168. Rome Heathen could not be Antichrist, because the character of Anti∣christ is Apostasie. p. 1168. Rome Papal hath exceeded Rome Heathen. p. 1169. Rome is ever spoken of in Scripture with a black and dismal character. p. 1199. Rome, and the Religion thereof, comes very near to Ju∣daism. p. 1200. Whether a Man can be saved in the Faith, that is, in the Religion of Rome, doubted. p. 1202 Rome compared with the Old Jerusalem State. 1200
  • Rule, God's extraordinary Actings are not Mens ordinary Rule. 1276
  • Rulers, the false Logick of those who are for no Rulers over them but King Jesus, refuted. 1060
S.
  • SABBATH, when it ended. p. 166, 167. The Jews ate nothing on the Sabbath till the Morning Prayers of the Synagogue were done. p. 185. Sabbath from the second first, what? p. 184. Sabbath to the Jews was a day of junkets and delicious Feasting. p. 184. What worldly things were not to be done on it. p. 184, 187, 547. And what worldly things might be done on it. p. 186, 187, 547 The care of the Sabbath lay upon Adam under a double Law. p. 186, 187. Sabbath days journy, what? p. 304. The Preparion of the Sabbath, what? p. 358. Second Sabbath after the first, what? p. 409. The Jews used to get much and excellent Victuals on that Day, for the honour of the Day. p. 445, 446. The Jews allowed all necessary things to be done on that day, as to heal the sick, &c. p. 446. To save Beasts in danger. p. 446. The night before the Sab∣bath candles were lighted up in honour of it; and the Evening of the Sabbath was called Light. p. 479. The length of the Sabbath days journey at first was twelve Miles, with the reason; afterward it was confined to two thousand cubits, or, one mile. p. 485, 486, 636, 637. Circumcision as given by Moses gives a right under∣standing of the nature of the Sabbath. p. 557. The institution of the Sabbath, and how God rested on it. p. 1325. Resting on it hath four ends,—Moral, to rest from Labours;—Commemorative, to remember God's creating the World;—Evangelical, referring to Christ; and—Typical, to signifie eternal Rest. p. 1327. It was given to the Jews at Sinai to distinguish them from all other people. p. 1327, 1328. Its antiquity, &c. Page 1328
  • Sabbath, Christian, the Jews say that the Christian Sab∣bath was the first day of the week; why Christ chang∣ed it from the seventh to the first. p. 271, 272, 1329, 1330. It was not controverted, but every where cele∣brated in the Primitive Times; only some Jews, con∣verted to the Gospel, kept also the Jewish Sabbath. 792, 793
  • Sabbatick River, said to rest on the Sabbath day, suspected. 313
  • Sacrament of the Supper, receiving unworthily, two dreadful things against it. 779
  • Sacramental Blood (as it may be called) of the Old and New Testament, and the very Blood of Christ; harmo∣nized. 777, 778
  • Sacraments, are visible marks of distinction; proved. p. 1125. They have several Ends. p. 1125. They are perpetual. p. 1126. They are Seals of the life of Faith. p. 1126. How they answer Circumcision and the Passover. 1126
  • Sacrifices, Spiritual, every Christian hath three Spiritual Sa∣crifices to offer to God. p. 1260. The Altar on which these Sacrifices are to be offered. 1260
  • Sadducees, their Original, whence they came to deny the R••••urrection. p. 124, to 126. They did not utterly deny all the Old Testament except the Five Books of Moses, but the Five Books were only what they would stand by for the confirmation of matters of Faith. p. 542, 1101. They denyed the Resurrection, what therefore was their Religion, and to what end? p. 699. They take their Heterodoxy and Denomination (say some) from Sadoc. p. 699, 700. At first they denyed the Immortality of the Soul, and so by consequence the Resurrection. p. 701. The Religion of the Sadducees was not the National Religion of the Jews, but a Sect and Excrescence from it. p. 1036. They held nothing for a Fundamental Ar∣ticle of Faith, but what might be grounded on the Five Books of Moses. p. 1102. The Resurrection of the last day demonstrated against the Sadducees and Atheists. p. 1235. The difference between the Sadducees and Pharisees in matters of Religion was very great. p. 1278. Though the Sadducees and Pharisees greatly differed be∣twixt themselves, yet they easily harmonized to oppose Christianity. p. 1278, 1279. The Sadducees held seve∣ral Heretical Opinions about some main Articles of Faith. p. 1279, 1280. The Sadducees considered in their Persons (or Original) and Opinions. 1280, to 1284
  • Sadduceism, the Foundation of it laid in the days of Ez∣ra. 124
  • Sadoc, said to be the first Founder of Sadduceism, whe∣ther he denied the Resurrection, or all the Scripture ex∣cept Moses? 699, 700
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  • over the Priest, therefore called the Sagan of the Priests; he was the same with the Ruler of the Temple. p. 397. Because his dignity was higher and independent, there∣fore he was sometimes called High-Priest. p. 397. Sagan was the same with the Prefect or Ruler; he was to be a Learned Man. Page 608
  • Saints judging the World, expounded against the Fifth Mo∣narchists. p. 753. Not referred to the Last Judgment, but to Christian Magistrates, and Judges in the World. p. 753, 754. Saints in Glory have not the Spirit. p. 1150. Saints in Heaven, what they do referring to Saints or Sinuers on Earth. 1268
  • Salamean or Salmean, or Kenite the same, and what. 499
  • Salem the first Name for Jerusalem, (which was compoun∣ded of Jireh and Salem, and why?) under what lati∣tude; how holy above other Cities. 20, to 22
  • Salim, what, and where situate. 498, 499
  • Salting, with fire and with salt, the custom and the meaning of the phrase. 346, 347
  • Salvation and Pardon, what the sure ground of hope of them is. 1277
  • Salutares, some Companies and Wings of the Roman Ar∣my being so called, in likelihood gave the Title of Healthful to some Countries. 294
  • Salutations, were not performed by the Jews at some times. 420
  • Saluting of Women, was rarely used among the Jews. 385
  • Samaria, (under the first Temple was a City, under the second a Country) called Sebaste, the Religion thereof was Heathenism and Samaritanism. p. 52, 53. Samaria was planted with Colonies two several times. 503, 504
  • Samaritanism, what? 53
  • Samaritans rejected the Temple at Jerusalem, and why? p. 540, 541. How they rejected all the Old Testament but the Five Books of Moses; whether they were not acquainted with the rest, and owned them in some cases? 541, 542
  • Samaritan Text, follows the Greek Version. 701
  • Samaritan Version, or Pentateuch, three things in it con∣taining matter of notice, and a fourth of suspition. 504, 505
  • Samochonitis, the Lake of Samochonitis is in Scripture cal∣led the Waters of Merom, &c, 64
  • Sampson, what were his failings. 1215
  • Sanctification, Adam had not the Spirit of Sanctification nor of Prophesie. p. 1150. Why we are justified by per∣fect Justification, and yet not sanctified by perfect Sancti∣fication and holiness: answered. 1153
  • Sandals and Shoos, not the same, against Beza and Eras∣mus. 178
  • Sanhedrim, the Jewish Sanhedrim consisted of Priests, Le∣vites, and Israelites. p. 109. Sanhedrim, the Lesser and Greater, their time of sitting; the number that made a Council. p. 355. It was against the Sanhedrims own Rule to seek for Witnesses against Christ. p. 355. The whole Sanhedrim was sometimes comprehended under the Name of Pharisees. p. 571. The Sanhedrim lost the power of judging in capital Causes by their own neg∣lect, being so remiss to the Israelites; with the Reasons of it. p. 611, to 614. The Sanhedrim removed from the Room Gazith to the Tabernae, and from the Tabernae into Jerusalem forty years before the destruction of that City; with the Reason of it. p. 652. The High Priest and President of the Sanhedrim compared together, and the High Priest shewed to be the greater Officer. p. 681. Whether the Decrees of the Sanhedrim were of authori∣ty among the Jews in Countries abroad. p. 681. It had four kinds of Death in its power, what they were, p. 683. The Fathers of the Sanhedrim were to be skil∣led in many Languages. p. 782. Why they departed out of the Council House before the destruction of Je∣rusalem. p. 1111, 1116. The Sanhedrim was esteemed a bloody Court if they put one Man to death in seven∣ty years. 1113
  • Sarah was Abraham's Brothers Daughter. 666
  • Sarepta and Zarephath, whether the same, and where situate. Page 368
  • Satan, why he was let loose. p. 1172. How, when, why, and how long let loose by Christ. p. 1172, 1173, 1174. He did much mischief those thousand years he was bound. p. 1174. His great work is to deceive. p. 1174, &c. His Master-piece is to cheat Men in matters of Re∣ligion. p. 1175, to 1178. How he deceived the World under Heathenism, and under the Gospel. p. 1193. The reason why Satan taketh not away our lives when he pleaseth. 1209
  • Saved, its possible to dye for sin; and by a divine judg∣ment, and yet be saved. 1225, 1226
  • Saviour, Rome was guilty of our Saviours death as much as Jerusalem, proved. 1109
  • Saul and Paul, his Hebrew and Roman Name, and why he had two Names. 687
  • Scape Goat, what kind of Man went with him into the Wilderness. p. 35. How he was sent out, and whither from Jerusalem. 50
  • Scholars of the wise Men; what? 124
  • Schools of the Prophets were little Universities or Colleges of Students, their Governour being some Venerable Pro∣phet, inspired with the Holy Spirit to give forth Divine Revelations, &c. 86
  • Scopo, and Scopus, the View, called Zophim, what? 41
  • Scribes, used for every one that was learned, and employ∣ed their time in writing referring to the Law. p. 110, 111. Scribes of the people, were Members of the Sanhe∣drim. p. 110, 111. The Scribes and Pharisees laboured among the people for respect, and by respect for gain; which they did as,—First, Doctors of the Law▪ instil∣ling into the people this notion, That a wise Man (that was one of themselves) was to be respected above all mortal Men. p. 234, &c.—Secondly, Under a pre∣tence of mighty devotion, especially long Prayers. p. 234. Scribes, was a general Title given to all the Learned part of the Jewish Nation. p. 421. The first Original of the word, what? p. 421. The Doctors of the Sanhe∣drim were so called; so were others that were in the Sanhedrim, but not Members of it, like our Judges in the House of Lords. p. 422. Scribes and Pharisees, are terms sometimes confounded and sometimes distinguish∣ed. p. 433. Scribes or Registers of the Sanhedrim were two, the one sat on the right the other on the left hand, one writ the votes of those that quitted, the other of those that condemned. p. 337. Scribes, Chief Priests, and Elders; how distinguished. 468
  • Scripture, in it (say the Rabbins) there is no first and last, i. e. the order of the Story does not necessarily de∣termin the time of it. p. 666. Humane Learning is exceeding useful, nay, exceeding needful to the expoun∣ding of the Scripture. p. 1033. Not one tittle of the Scripture idle. p. 1180. The Scripture, because of its stile and difficulty, requireth all serious and sober study. p. 1242, &c. Wherein the difficulty of Scripture lyes. p. 1034, 1035, 1095, 1243, to 1245, 1248. Passages in the Scripture of the New Testament directly contrary to the Old; how to be solved. p. 1244. The reckoning of Numbers even in the Old Testament are sometimes different from it self; reconciled. p. 1244. The Diffi∣culty of the Scriptures is not to the discredit, but to the glory and majesty thereof. p. 1245, 1246. Its difficulty consists in several passages in the same words, when they may be taken in two senses directly contrary one to ano∣ther. p. 1034, 1035, 1095, 1248, &c. The Scripture Text, when read to them that understood not the Lan∣guage, it was ever interpreted into the Mother-Tongue p. 688, 689. When any Place of the Old Testament was cited by the Jews, they delivered it always in the very Original words. 694. A Scripture Text and an Opinion distinguished. p. 758. Its not unusual in Scripture when the same Story is cited in two places to bring in some difference, either in Things, Men or Years; and that from the highest Reason. p. 766. The Scripture Text

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  • was usually varied or inverted by the Reader, or the Preacher in the Pulpit or the Schools among the Jews, with the reason thereof. Page 673
  • Scythopolis or Bethshan, a City; where situate. 57, 315, 493
  • Scythopolitan Country, what? 492, 493
  • Sea of Apamia, what upon conjecture? 63
  • Sea of Cinnereth, in the Old Testament, is called in the New, The Lake of Gennaesaret, also the Sea of Galilee, and the Sea of Tiberias. p. 65. Sea of Galilee, its length, and breadth. p. 536. Sea of Sodom, what, and of what use? 6
  • Seas, the Seven Seas according to the Talmudists, and the four Rivers compassing the Land, what? 5
  • Sebaste, a brave City, built by Herod, just where Samaria stood, may be the place called in the New Testament the City Samaria. 676, 677
  • Seed of Abraham; to be of the Seed of Abraham the Jews supposed was sufficient to fit them for the Kingdom of Heaven. p. 533. Being of the Seed of Abraham was much gloried in by the Jews. 566
  • Seed time and Harvest; Plowing, Sowing, Mowing, Dressing of the Vines, and all the management of the Gardens, Grounds, Fields and Vineyards, lay in the hands of the Fathers of the Traditions; so that the Country Men did none of these things but by the Traditional Rule. p. 87, 88. Seed time and Harvest was early among the Jews. 184, 185
  • Separate, what it is to be Separate from Christ. 1297
  • Sepharad, rather in Edom than in Spain. 368
  • Septuagint Translation hath in it many errors. p. 401, to 404. The Septuagint or the Greek Interpreters, their boldness in adding to the Scripture, taken notice of. p. 666, 667. The differing Members of the Septuagint Translators render the same word in differing places in a different way. 667
  • Sepulchres of the Jews, described, with the whole manner of burying. p. 89, 90. The whiting of them, what? p. 235. Their distance from Cities, were two thousand cubits. 323
  • Servants, how bought, and how imployed. p. 127. Ser∣vants that were Jews, how they came to be Servants, and how again to be made free, called Libertines. 663
  • Seventy Interpreters noted. p. 306, 312. Seventy (or the Greek) Interpreters in their rendring the Text, some∣times favour the Jewish Traditions, and sometimes the common Interpretation of the Nation. p. 620. A com∣parison of the History of the Seventy Interpreters, as it is in Josephus, and as it is in the Talmudists. p. 804, 805. They changed thirteen places in the Law. p. 805, 806. In what value the Version of the Seventy seems to have been among the Jews; illustrated by examples. p. 806, 807. They translated the Old Testament so as to favour the Manners, Traditions, Ordinances, and State of the Jewish Nation. p. 806, 807. Its not an accurate pure Version even the Jews being Judges. p. 807, 808. Ob∣jections answered. p. 808, 809. Whence not the Greek Version but the Hebrew Text was read in the Syna∣gogues of the Helenists. p. 808. By what Authors and Councils it might probably be that the Greek Version came forth, which obtains under the Name of the Se∣venty, performed with more craft than Conscience; why therefore did the Apostles and Evangelists use it? 809, to 811
  • Sheaf, first Fruit Sheaf, where and how reaped? p. 38, 52. When to be offered. p. 184. The manner of reaping it. 618, 619
  • Sheep Gate, or Probatica, was not near the Temple contrary to the Jewish opinion. 507
  • Shekel, of what parts and value it was. p. 343, 1204. The reason of the Gift of half a Shekel, as used in the Temple p. 1204, 1205. Why the half Shekel was to be paid at the age of twenty years, and not before. 1206
  • Shepherd, Christ a great Shepherd, described. 573, 574
  • Shezor, a Town in upper Galilee. Page 77
  • Shibin, not far from Zippor. 76
  • Shoos and Sandals, not the same, against Beza and Erasmus. 178
  • Shops, or Tabernae, where things were sold for the Temple, where situate. 512
  • Shosbenuth, or Shosbenim, what? 527
  • Sichem, why called Sycbar. 506
  • Signs are for a fit generation. p. 191. Meer Signs, or Mi∣racles, were never wrought by our Saviour. p. 1104; Signs of the Heaven and Air, and of the coming of the Messiah, what? p. 203. Signs of Christs coming, what from the Doctrine of the Jews. 240, 241
  • Siloam, a sweet and large Fountain, where situate, and which way it empled it self. p. 25, 26, 508, 509. Si∣lam taken for part of Jerusalem. 441
  • Simon Magus, who he gave out himself to be, and what the Samaritans accounted him. 676, 677
  • Sin is not to be remitted after death. p. 190. How a Man may know whether it be pardoned to him. p. 1071, 1072. Deadly Sin, what it is. p. 1093, 1094, &c. Sin is the more desperately deadly by how much it is the more desperately wilful. p. 1098. Sin of the Devil, what it was? p. 1098. Sin against the Holy Ghost, why more grievous than that against the Son. p. 1130. Be∣lievers punished for Sin, against the opinion of the An∣tinominians. p. 1226. God stints the time of Mens rising from the Death of Sin, which slipped is not to be retrieved. p. 1238, 1239. Sin unto death, and Sin against the Holy Ghost, how distinguished. p. 1253. Sin of the Devils, wretched, being beyond pardon. p. 1305. God's letting Men go on uninterrupted in their Sin is the greatest punishment they can have here. p. 1310, 1311. What to think of Saints dying with some Sin unrepented of. 1343, 1344
  • Sindon, was a Cloak made with Linnin, and hung with Fringes. 354, 355
  • Singing of Psalms was one part of Prophesie. p. 785. See Psalms.
  • Singular and Disciple, what? They are Terms sometimes confounded, and sometimes distinguished. 433
  • Sinners, there is nothing more desirable to God, Christ and Angels than the repentance of a Sinner. p. 1269. What it is that moves God, Christ and Angels to desire this? 1270
  • Sins of wicked Men are set down in Scripture that we may avoid them. 1306
  • Sion was the upper City on the North part of Jerusalem. p. 22, 23, 24. After the return from Babilon it was con∣stantly called the upper Town. 23
  • Sippor or Zippor, a City encompassed with a Land flowing with Milk and Hony; noted for warlike affairs, an Uni∣versity, many Synagogues, and many famous Doctors. 74, 75
  • Sirbon a Lake like that of Sodon. 9
  • Sitting, after the days of Rabban Gamaliel, was the po∣sture of Learning. 396
  • Sitting at Table, what the manner among the Jews. 595, 596
  • Slaughter or Cruelty, prodigious in the East Indies: 1295
  • Sleep put for Death, used hundreds of times among the Talmudists. 174
  • Smelling, judging by Smelling, supposed by the Jews to be one qualification of the Messiah, for want of which Ben-Cozibah was destroyed by the Jews. 543
  • Socoh, in Jos. 25. 35. what? 51
  • Socinianism and Quakarism are great Heresies. 1280, 1281
  • Solomons Porch, what and where? 511, 512, 1034
  • Son, what the Son is bound to do for the Father. 200
  • Son of Abraham by Faith, and Nature, what? 467
  • Son of David, a common term in the New Testament and Talmudick Writings for the true Messias. 96, 97
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  • Adoptlon. p. 269, 270. He is put for the Messias fre∣quently. p. 351. Son of God, and Messiah, or Christ, are convertible terms against the Jews. Page 385, 548, 549
  • Son, the word Son is to be added to every Race in Christ's Genealogy. 400
  • Son of Man, why this term is attributed to Christ. p. 204. The Son coming in Glory and in the Clouds, signifie only Christs taking vengeance on the Jewish Nation. 265
  • Sons of the envious Woman, what? 52
  • Sonship, or Adoption, as referring to God, how understood by the Jews. 521, 533
  • Sorceresses, Women of Israel were generally Sorceresses. 244
  • Sorrows of the Messiah, what? 351
  • Soul, the Soul is imprisoned and restrained in its actings whilst it is in the Body. p. 1092. How the Soul con∣templates God. p. 1116. Soul put for Life, and Per∣son. p. 1204, 1205. Soul of Man (not the Body) bears the Image and Resemblance of God, and how? p. 1284, 1285. Whether the Souls of Men are alike. p. 1285. The Soul of Lazarus was in Heaven those four days he was dead. p. 1352. Where was the Soul of Christ when separate from the body? p. 1344. His Soul was like the Souls of other Men, in its infusion, existence, and acting in the Body. 1352
  • Souls, of the Jews disposed of by the Jewish Schools un∣der a threefold phrase or state. p. 455. The Transmi∣gration (or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) as also the Pre-existence of Souls, what? p. 569. How to judge of the true qua∣lity and worth of Souls. p. 1212, 1213. Spectra or Apparitions of the Souls of Men, believed by the Jews. p. 483, 1283. Souls of other Men should be dear to us as well as our own. p. 1297, 1298, 1299. Souls of Men in a better state than Devils; and whether all Souls be in a savable condition. p. 1302. The Pre-existence of Souls, some hold it. p. 1352. Whether all Souls are equal. p. 1353. What doth a Soul instantly after it hath left the Body. p. 1354. The Soul doth neither sleep nor dye when out of the Body. p. 1355. Souls in the other World are fixed in their place and condition. 1355
  • South Country used for Judea. 13
  • Spain and France, what places the Jews understood for them. 368
  • Speaking, among the Jews, used to be with all possible shortness, especially where the thing was plain. p. 668. Speaking with Tongues, what is meant by it. 1157
  • Spectra, or the Apparitions of the Souls of Men after death, believed by the Jews. 1283
  • Spirit of Prophesie, and the Holy Spirit, ceased from Israel from the death of the later Prophets. p. 802. The false pretenders to the Spirit, how they may be disco∣vered. p. 1046. Spirit of Revelation, not necessarily inferred, or begotten, by any degree of Holiness what∣ever; the truth of this proved at large. p. 1046. The Spirit of Holiness and the Spirit of Revelation, how they differed. p. 1046. The Spirit of Sanctification, how to know whether a Man hath it or no. p. 1047. What it is to have the Spirit. p. 1150, 1151, 1152, &c. Adam had not the Spirit of Sanctification nor of Prophesie. p. 1150. Saints in Glory have not the Spirit. p. 1150. How the Spirit worketh by the Word? The having of it implies not perfection. p. 1152. The several conditions of having the Spirit. p. 1151, 1152, &c. The Spirit never leaves them that have it. p. 1153. To have the Spirit implies not the Gift of Prophesie. p. 1153. The difference between the Spirit of Sanctification and Pro∣phesie. p. 1154. The Enthusiasts, about every one ha∣ving the Spirit, and the ground of it, refuted. p. 1156. The Spirit of Prophesie and Revelation, and the Spirit of Grace and Holyness, are greatly differing. p. 1290. The Spirit of God, can, and does overpower the Hearts, Tongues, and Actions of Men, so as to serve the design of God's Glory. 1290, 1291, 1292
  • Spirits, unclean, what? p. 175. Spirits, evil, and un∣clean; the Jews supposed the first inflicted Diseases, the second haunted Burying places. p. 441, 442. Spirits, Angels, and Demons, distinguished among the Jews. p. 483. The Sadducees denied the being of Spirits. p. 1282, 1284. Spirits and Angels, how distinguished. Page 1283
  • Spittle was accounted wholsom by the Jews for fore Eyes. 570
  • Stationary Men, what? 278
  • Stock of Israel, to be of the Stock of Israel, the Jews sup∣posed, was sufficient to fit them for the Kingdom of Hea∣ven. 533
  • Stoned, what sort of Persons or Criminals were to be stoned among the Jews. 579, 746
  • Stoning, and other executions, were without the City, and why? p. 266. How performed. p. 349. The whole proceeding of it among the Jews. 675
  • Strangled things, what the meaning of the Apostolick Pro∣hibition concerning them. 697
  • Strato's Tower, what; 54
  • Streets some were memorable in Jerusalem. 34, 35
  • Stripes, what number Malefactors were to be beaten with, and what kind of Scourge. 439
  • Subterraneous places, as Mines and Caves, were in the Land of Israel. 88
  • Swearing, among the Jewish Doctors, little set by, unless it amounted to forswearing. 148, 149
  • Sychem, the Metropolis of Samaria called Neapolis, the Jews in scorn called it Sychar. 52, 53
  • Synagogue, or Synagogues, a Synagogue was only formed where there were ten Learned Men, of which number Three bore the Magistracy; the next was the publick Minister of it, called the Angel or Bishop, then three Deacons or Almoners; the eighth Man was the Interpre∣ter; the two last less known. p. 132, to 134. Synagogue days were the seventh, second, and fifth in every week; Synagogues were anciently builded in Fields, but follow∣ing times brought them into Cities, and built them higher than the rest of the Houses; every one was to frequent them at the stated times of prayer. p. 134. On the Sabbath the Minister in the Synagogue called out any seven whom he pleased to read the Law; there was also Prayer, Catchising and Sermons, in the after∣noon a Divinity Lecture. p. 135, 136. There was a Synagogue in the Temple. p. 395. In the Synagogue they read standing up. p. 405. He that read was ap∣pointed by the Ruler of the Synagogue, and called Maphtir, and was to read one and twenty verses. p. 406 Christ read and expounded, as was usual in that Syna∣gogue of which he was a Member. p. 406. The Mini∣ster of the Synagogue kept the Sacred Books, and brought them out to be read when the company was met toge∣ther. p. 407. A Synagogue might be made of a dwel∣ling House; an Heathen might build a Synagogue. p. 413, 414. The Synagogue Minister, or Bishop of the Synagogue and Ruler, how differing. p. 172. There were in Je∣rusalem four hundred and sixty Synagogues, or four hun∣dred and eighty, as say others. p. 35, 664. Synagogue of the Alexandrians, what? p. 36. In every Synagogue there were three Magistrates, who judged of matters of contest arising within the place. p. 179, 180. Whether lawful to alienate a Synagogue from a sacred to a com∣mon use? 664
  • Syriack, or Aramtan Language under the second Temple was that which went under the Name of the Hebrew. 659
  • Syrophenician, what? 202

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    • TABERNACLE, of the Levitical Priesthood, why those that serve there have no right to eat at the Altar that Christians have. Page 1264
    • Tabernacles, the Feast of Tabernacles, the preparation for it, and the parts of it. p. 554, 555. How, and where∣fore the eighth Day was computed great by the Jews. 559, 560
    • Tabernae, or Shops where things were fold for the Temple; where situate. 512
    • Tabitha is of eternal memory in Acts 9. and in the Pages of the Talmudists. p. 18. Every Maid Servant of Rab∣ban Gamaliel was called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 i. e. Mother Tabitha. p. 18. Tabitha Kumi, what it signifies. 342
    • Table Gesture, or the manner of the Jews sitting there; with the form of the Table. 595, 596
    • Table, second, The Commands of the Second Table chief∣ly injoyned in the Gospel, and why? 1064
    • Tables of Mony Changers in the Temple, which our Savi∣our overthrew; what? 1204
    • Tabor was not the Mount where Christ was transfigured. p. 346. Mount Tabor, what, and where situate. 495, &c.
    • Talent, what? 468
    • Talith was a Cloak, which the Jews used to wear, made of Linnin. 355, 417
    • Talmud of Jerusalem, (and it may be the Talmudick Mish∣na) was written at Tiberias. p. 72, 73. The Jerusalem Talmud is like them that made it. 73, 74
    • Tamar and Engedi, are the same 7
    • Tarichet was a City, thirty furlongs from Tiberias. 71
    • Tarnegola the upper, called Gebar or Gabara by the Rabbins. 77
    • Tarsus was a famous Greek Academy. 644
    • Tauros a Mountain, where situate. 516
    • Teachers of the Law, and Lawyers, what? p. 433, 434. Teachers used to sit down, when they had done reading, while they taught. 689
    • Teaching was even by the Jewish Doctors sometimes per∣formed out of the Synagogues, in Streets and ways. 410
    • Temple of Jerusalem, ten wonders referring to it. p. 21. Its breadth and length. p. 33, 34. In easing nature within the view of the Temple, though at a great distance, immodest Parts were to be turned the con∣trary way. p. 41. There was a constant Market in the Temple and Shops for that end. p. 224. Some hints of the condition of the Second Temple. p. 512, 513, 514 How long it was in building by Solomon, Zorobabel, and especially by Herod. p. 529, 530. How much the Second Temple came behind the first. p. 530. There were three Temples, one at Jerusalem, another on Mount Gerizzim, and a third in Egypt. p. 540, 541. The Second Temple at Jerusalem wanted the Divine Presence, the Ark, the Cherubims, the Urim and Thummim, and the Spirit of Prophesie. 541
    • Temptation, the method the Devil used in tempting Christ. 129, 130
    • Ten, the Nation of the Jews delighted mightily in the number Ten. 246
    • Ten Tribes, they were placed in Assyria and Babilon. p. 800, 801. The Seats, Cities, and Countries of the Ten Tribes, were well known to the Talmudists, and much more so in the times of the Apostles. 801.
    • Tera, Abraham's Father, his place of Residence, Religion, and time of Death, wrong computed by the Rabbins 666
    • Testament, the New Testament revealeth the Old, it requires Study to unfold it, rather than Revelation, and why? p. 1034, The New Testament Phrases and Passages, the surest and safest way to understand them is not by fra∣ming a sense of out own, which we think fair and probable, but by observing how they were understood by them to whom they were uttered. Page 1041, 1042
    • Testimony (or Witness) was of three sorts,—Vain,—Standing,—and of the words of them that agreed. 335, 337
    • Text of Scripture, usually varied or inverted by the Rea∣der, or Preacher in the Pulpit, or Schools, among the Jews, with the reason thereof. p. 673. When read to them that understood not the Language, it was inter∣preted into the Mother Tongue. 688, 689
    • Thamna, three of the Name. 373
    • Thanks before meat, the manner of it. 23
    • Thessalonians, the first Epistle to them, was Writ the first of all the Epistles. 1145
    • Theives of Israel, were esteemed by the Jewish Doctors to be the People of God, so not punished. 612
    • Thousand years, the opinion of the Millinaries concerning it, refuted, by shewing that the Thousand years which they expect are already expired. p. 1056, 1057, 1171, 1172. The Jews themselves expected that the Messias should raign amongst them a Thousand years. 1057
    • Threatnings of God, some are like Thunderclaps. 1295
    • Three years and an half, often made use of to express things affective and sorrowful. 513
    • Throne of Christ, put for his judgment in his entrance upon his Evangelical Government. 220
    • Tiberias, a fortified City from the days of Joshua, then cal∣led Rakkath. p. 67. The situation of Tiberias is ill pla∣ced in the Maps. p. 67, 68. The Rabbins of Tiberias, what? p. 73, 74. Tiberias very delightfully seated, built in honour to Tiberius the Emperor; after some time it became the chief City of the Land of Israel. p. 72. Talmudick Mishna and the Jerusalem Talmud was writ∣ten there. 72, 73
    • Times, and affairs of Men, how God knows and dates them. 1250, &c.
    • Timnath, three of the Name. 373
    • Tisri was ennobled before Christs time by many excellent things done in it. p. 107. This Month is drawn down from its beginning to the Feast of Tabernacles. 554, 555
    • Tongue, Mother Tongue, when the Text of Scripture was read to them that understood not the Language, it was interpreted into the Mother Tongue. 688, 689
    • Tongues, the Gift of them was general upon all the Dis∣ciples. p. 643. The Holy Ghost in his extraordinary Gifts and Tongues could only be communicated by the Apostles. p. 678. Tongues, and speaking with Tongues, what is meant thereby. p. 1157. Tongues was one of the two extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit. 1157
    • Towns were fortified places. p. 87. Towns, Cities and Vil∣lages, distinguished. 333, 334
    • Trachon, or Trachonitis, what, and where. 81▪ 82, 364
    • Tradition managed all among the Scribes and Pharisees, even all the common things of Seedtime, Harvest, and Vintage. 87, 88
    • Traditions, were valued by the Jews above the Word of God. p. 199 They were valued above Miracles. p. 345. They were as much esteemed and desired by the Jews when they returned from their captivity, as Idolatry was before. p. 1113. They were more destructive to the Jews than Idolatry was p. 1113. How they de∣ceived the Jews to their own destruction. p. 1193, 1194. The Traditions of Rome and of Old Jerusalem, of what simery or likeness and effect they are. 1200
    • Traditionarians refer the first conception of their Traditions to the times of Ezra. 124
    • Transmigration (or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) of Souls, also their Pre∣existence, were the opinion of the Jews. 569
    • Transubstantiation not believed, how punished. 117
    • Treasury, called Corban, what? p. 299. Where it was. 301
    • Tree in Paradise which was forbidden to Adam, what? 382
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    • Tribes, the Ten Tribes were placed in Asyria and Babilon. p. 800, 801. The Seats, Cities and Countries of the Ten Tribes were well known to the Talmudists, and much more so in the times of the Apostles. p. 801. Two of the Jewish Tribes were dispersed before our Saviours time, and the other Ten not, the reason of this. Page 1145
    • Tribute money, what two things perswade that it was the half Shekel paid yearly in the Temple. 211, 212
    • Tribute, God requires some Tribute of Men for their pre∣servation. 1208
    • Trinity, the Doctrine of it by degrees grew up to a full maturity. p. 275. The Trinity proved from the Scrip∣ture. p. 1128. This Doctrine was intimated by the Holy Ghost in expressing the most great Actions in Scripture. 1128
    • Truma, how the Galileans and Jews differed about it. 78
    • Trumpet, whether a Trumpet was sounded when the Jews did their Alms? 154, 155
    • Truth, why the Gospel is so called. p. 1187. Who are the great resisters of it. p. 1189. Why God permits wicked Men to resist the Truth. p. 1190. The cause of Ignorance and Error, is because Men will not know and imbrace the Truth. p. 1286, 1287. Truth is to be la∣boured after and kept. p. 1287. How to know it among the various Opinions that are abroad. 1287
    • Tsok, a Rock twelve miles from Jerusalem. 50
    • Twilight, distinguished among the Rabbins into four Parts, which will easily reconcile the four Phrases of the Four Evangelists about the Resurrection of Christ. 359
    • Tyre was the Name of diverse Towns, because built in rocky places. 80
    • Tyths, the Priests and Levites always lived upon Tyths, when they Studied in the Universities, Preached in the Synagogues and attended on the Temple Service. p. 86. Out of what Tyths were paid. 235
    • Tything of Lambs, how performed by the Jews. 575
    V.
    • U, The Syriack Tongue affects the letter U in the first Syllable of Words. Page 694
    • Vail, with which Women (Christian Women) were covered, was not for a sign of subjection to their Husbands. 771, 772, 773
    • Vailing, or covering the head, why used by the Jews in Pray∣ers and Fasts, &c. 769, 770, 771
    • Valley, of Crafts-Men, what? p. 325. Of Hinnon, used Historically in the Old Testament, metaphorically in the New; it was the common sink of Jerusalem; there was a constant fire to burn up the bones and filth of the City. p. 38. Valley of Jehosophat, what? p. 39. Val∣ley of Rimmon, what? 52
    • Vanity, the Gentile World was subject to vanity of mind. 708
    • Veil of the Temple, what? 268, 269
    • Vengeance, The day of Vengeance put for Christ's coming with vengeance to judge the Jewish Nation, six differ∣ing ways of expressing it. 346
    • Venus, Bath of Venus in Aecon. 60
    • Version, the Jews thought not so honorably of any Version as they did of the Hebrew Bible. 803, 804
    • Village, a Village was where there was no Synagogue. 87
    • Villages, Cities and Towns distinguished. 333, 334
    • Vine, whether not that Tree in Paradise which was forbid∣den to Adam. 346
    • Vinegar was the common drink of the Roman Souldiers. 477
    • Virgins, Saint Austin's determination about chaste Matrons and Virgins ravished by the Enemy when they broke in∣to the City, what? 1095
    • Umanus, a Mountain, where situate. 516
    • Uncircumcised, many among the Jews, both Priests and People were uncircumcised. Page 760
    • Unclean with a touch, what? p. 164. Of all uncleanness Leprosie was the greatest. p. 165. Meats, unclean, what? p. 199, 200. Unclean and Prophane or Polluted, distinguished. 199, 200
    • Universities, the Cities of the Levites were Universities, the Priests were maintained there by Tyths. 86
    • Unlearned Men, how they may know the Truth among various and different opinions. 1287
    • Unregenerate Men, whether all alike may be said to be of the Devil. 1307
    • Until signifies either concluding or excluding. 1235
    • Vow, of Jephtha, how to be understood, whether he did or did not Sacrifice his Daughter? p. 1215, to 1218. Very great care, prudence, and piety should be used in making a Vow. p. 1218. The Vow in Baptism, whe∣ther obligatory to Infants. 1221
    • Vows, difficult to be kept, the Casuist Rabbins did easily absolve. p. 703. Vows of Consecration and Obligati∣on or Prohibition, what? 200, 201
    • Urim and Thummim. p. 336. What they were, and the manner of the inquiry by them. p. 1067. Urim and Thummim, Prophesie, and Revelation, were gone from the Jews for four hundred years before Christ came. 1284, 1288, 1289
    • Usha, famed for Decrees made, and other things done there by the Jewish Doctors. 76
    W.
    • WAshing of Hands, this was a great mystery of Phari∣saism, and abounded with nicities. p. 199, 200. Washing and plunging their Hands, what, and how they differ. p. 344, 345. Washing of Hands, of how great esteem among the Jews. p. 431. Washing of Cups and Platters, what? p. 431, 432. Washing after touching a dead body; what? Page 790
    • Watches in the night, were three. 198
    • Water, the custom of fetching water at the Fountain Si∣loam, and pouring it on the Altar, what? 1039
    • Water Gate, where situate. 510
    • Water Offering, used at the Feast of Tabernacles, how per∣formed, whence derived, and what the meaning of it. 560
    • Water Purifying, how curious the Jews were in performing it. 34
    • Ways in the Land of Israel, their breadth. 323
    • Wedding, to go to a Wedding was reckoned among the works of mercy. 246
    • Week, the Days thereof, how reckoned by the Jews; by the name of first, and second of the Sabbath, and so on 274
    • Whiting of the Sepulchres, what? 235
    • Whoredom, strangely committed under the pretence of Bu∣rial. 323
    • Wicked, their prosperity did once occasion both weeping and laughing. 706
    • Wicked Men's sins are set down in Scripture that we may avoid them. p. 1306. Their wicked Actions shew they be of the Devil. p. 1307. Wicked Men long suffered of God, is sometimes not the goodness of God to them. 1311
    • Wicked One, that wicked One, put for the Devil, and why he is so called. 1306, 1307
    • Widdow gadding about, what? and what wickedness such run upon. p. 123. Widdow, where she dwelt in her widowhood. 309
    • Wild-beasts, why God did not drive them out of Canaan as well as he did the Canaanites. p. 1224. England happy in wanting Wild-beasts. p. 1224. Wood devoured, is put for Wild-beasts devoured. 1224
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    • the ground was not distinguished by Fences; sometimes the deserts. p. 113, 294, 295. Wilderness of Judah, and of Judea, distinguished. p. 295, &c. A Scheme of the Wilderness of Judah, or Idumea, adjacent. p. 296, 297. The Wilderness of Judea, where John Baptist was, what? It was full of Inhabitants. Page 296, 297
    • Will and Power of God, being well understood and submit∣ted to, take off carnal Atheistical Disputes. 1320, 1321
    • Wine, the Jewish Doctors say that to drink a quart of Wine makes one drunk; and so much every one of them drank in their Sacred Feasts; judge then how soberly they carried it in those Feasts, if they mingled not much water with their Wine. p. 61. Wine and Myrrhe used to be given to those that were to dye, to make them insensible. 267
    • Wisdom fourfold, what? 743
    • Wisemen, from the East, what their Names, and what their Country. p. 108, 109. Wisemen, they were in likeli∣hood Doctors and Scribes in the Sanhedrim, but not Members of it, like our Judges in the House of Lords. 422
    • Wish, Paul wisheth himself accursed for his Brethren the Israelites, a strange wish, what the meaning of it. 1293, 1294, 1296
    • Witches, a famous Story of eight Witches at Ascalon. 14, 15
    • Witness (or Testimony) was of three sorts, vain, standing, and of the words of them that agreed 355, 357
    • Witnesses, false Witnesses, what? p. 262. They were to suffer the same things which their perjury designed to have brought upon others. 263
    • Women, as well as Men, under the vail of Sanctity and Devotion practised all manner of wickedness. p. 123. Women were exempt from very many Rites in the Jew∣ish Religion, which the Men were obliged to. p. 123. The Women in Israel were generally Sorceresses. p. 244. Whether Women had any Office in the Temple. p. 394. There were Women of ill Name among the Jews, and se∣veral sorts of them. p. 414. Women labouring in the Lord, and being Servants of the Church, what? p. 775. What a reproach it was for Women not to be married, 1216 1217
    • Wonder, Man is a wonder. 1225
    • Wood devoured, put for Wild-beasts devoured. 1224
    • Word, as Christ is called The Word of the Lord, doth fre∣quently occur amongst the Targumists. p. 519, 50. How the Spirit worketh by the Word. 1152
    • Word of God, not his Providence, is the Rule for Men to go by. 1276
    • Working, or not working, on the Passover Eves, the Galileans differed from the Jews about it. 78
    • World, how the Jews divided it. p. 1. World, put for the Gentiles. p. 1. How taken by the Jewish Schools. p. 534. The World was to be renued at the coming of the Messias. p. 220. Saints judging the World, expound∣ed against the Fifth Monarchists. p. 753. Old and New World, doth generally signifie in Scripture the Old Law and New Gospel, proved. p. 1074, 1075. The original of the World strangely misapprehended by some Heathen Philosophers. p. 1320, 1321. Why God made the World, seeing he will mar it in time. p. 1322. The World was created in September. p. 1322, &c. World to come, this was a Phrase in common use to op∣pose the Heresie of the Sadducees, who denied immor∣tality; it always signified the times of the Messias. 190, 240
    • Worms, to be devoured by Worms was reckoned an accursed thing, only befalling Men of greatest impiety. Page 684
    • Worship of the Jews in the Temple, was Sacrificing, Wash∣ing, Purifying, &c. and worship in the Synagogues was Reading, Preaching, Hearing and Praying: Christ did abolish the Worship used at the Temple which was Cere∣monial; but not that at the Synagogue, which was moral. 1041
    • Wrath, Christ suffered as much as God could put him to suffer, short of his own Wrath. p. 1255. Christ did not undergo the Wrath and Anger of God, but the Justice of God in his sufferings. p. 1348, 1349, 1350. With the Wrath of the Devil he had indeed to deal. 1349
    Y.
    • YEAR, the beginning of it was in September, till Israel's coming out of Egypt, then it was changed into March Page 1322, &c. 1329
    • Years, three years and an half, often made use of to express things afflictive and sorrowful. 513
    Z.
    • ZACHARIAS, son of Barachias, that was Za∣charias the son of Jehoiada, made to appear by seve∣ral Arguments, and Objections answered. p. 237, to 239. The Story of his Blood shed between the Temple and the Altar, what out of the Talmud? Page 1120
    • Zalmon, a Mountain (or part of one) near Sychem, sup∣posed to be Dalinon, or Dalmonutba. 310
    • Zarephath, and Sarepta, whether the same, and where situate? 368
    • Zaretan sometimes called Zarthanah, a City twelve miles distant from Adam; which twelve miles the waters of Jordan dried up when Israel passed through. 82
    • Zeal or Zealous and Jealousie or Jealous, are comprehended un∣der the same word in the Hebrew; what they are. 1314
    • Zealots, such Men, when Persecutors, did the most mischief. 604
    • Ziddim, the same with Caphar Chittai. 71
    • Zin, where, and whence so called. 325
    • Zippor, or Sippor, a City, encompassed with a Land flow∣ing with Milk and Honey, noted for Warlike affairs, an University, many Synagogues, and many Famous Doctors. 74, 75
    • Zophim, the same with Scopo and Scopus. 41
    • Zuz, and Denarius, (a Peny,) were of the same value among the Rabbins. p. 343, &c. 349. It was the fourth part of a Shekel of Silver. ibid.
    • Zuzims, what? 363
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