ABBATH is not moral in the highest sense, 138. The reason-
ableness of it, 139. Of the change of it, ibid. Works of ne-
cessity, or charity, may be done on it, 186.
Sacramental actions, the nature of them considered, 471. May be
altered as to circumstances, ibid.
Sacraments, the doctrine of the Church of Rome concerning them,
172, 358. Its bad consequences, ibid. Of the essentials of them,
253. Are to be measured only by the institution, 302. Are
more than mere ritual acts, 357, 359. Do not justify by the
Opus Operatum, ibid. A Sacrament defined, 360. Matter is of
the essence of it, ibid. Must be instituted by Christ, ibid. Pro-
testants acknowledge only two, 361. Lombard the first who
mentions seven of them, 362. Reasons for rejecting the five ad-
ditional Sacraments, 396. Sacraments are ordained to be used,
and not to be gazed on and carried about, ibid. Their effect de-
pends on the worthy receiving, and not on the intention of him
that dispenses them, 398.
Sacraments considered as acts of church-communion, or as federal
acts, 466.
Sacrifices, expiatory ones, the nature of them, 69. How the death
of Christ may be said to be our Sacrifice, 71. In a general sense
all religious worship may be so called, 477. But one Priest and
one Sacrifice in the Christian Religion, 479. Answer of the Fa-
thers to the Heathens, who charged them with having no Sacri-
fices, 481.
Sadducees denied the resurrection, 98. From whom sprung, and
what gave rise to their opinions, 129. Our Saviour's answer to
their puzzling question, 131. Asserted liberty free from all re-
straints, 204.
Saints were not invocated under the Old Testament, 329. More
rational foundation for this under the old than under the new
dispensation, 329. Christ the only mediator and intercessor, 330.
This superstition derived from the heathens, ibid. When it was
introduced, 332. Its progress, ibid. The absurdity of it, 333.
Scandalous offices of this kind in the Church of Rome, ibid.
What they found this practice upon, 334. Arguments for it
examined, 335-339.
Salvation, whether eternal salvation was promised under the Old
Testament, 129. Is to be obtained only by the name of Christ,
239. Of those who never heard of the Christian religion, 241.
Curiosity in this not to be indulged, 243. How far the Article
has determined in it, ibid. Difference between the means of sal-
vation, and commanded precepts, 345.
Samosatenus, his opinion of Christ, 65.
Sanctification, what it is, and wherein it differs from justification,
172. Is not perfected in this life, 197.
Scandal, the true notion of it, 506. The fear of giving scandal no
warrant to break established laws, 507.
Schism in the Church, the making it, a great sin, 5c6.
Schoolmen, their vain attempt to explain the Trinity, 91. Their
many subtilties in the doctrine of the Eucharist, 432. Their ex-
planation of the real presence, 459.
Scot, John, his character, 457. Wrote against the doctrine of the
corporal presence, ibid.
Scotus, Erigena, wrote against St. Austin's doctrine of Predestina-
tion, 207.
Scriptures, the being of God ought not to be proved from them, 30.
His unity frequently asserted in them, 31. Their style suited to
the capacities of those for whom they were writ, 33. Their
meaning to be taken from the scope of them, 43. New Testa-
ment when wrote, 79. Was early received, ibid. The names
and number of the canonical books, 94. Are the only complete
rule of faith, 95. Old Testament was always appealed to by
Christ and his Apostles, 98, 109. The care taken to preserve
them, 99. Just consequences from them are to be believed, 101.
Contain all that is necessary to salvation, 103. Are no sure guard
against error, ibid. Ought not to be read carelessly, ibid. Proofs
of the canon of the New Testament, 106-110. Their autho-
rity is not founded on the judgment of the Church, 108. That
of the Old, 110-117. Why divided into three volumes, 115.
Why they were called canonical, 119.
Sees, whence their privileges and exemptions rose, 509. The va-
nity of keeping up their ancient dignity, ibid.
Semipelagians, their notion of assisting, grace and free-will, 162,
206.
Senses, their influence on the mind, 321. The importance of their
evidence, 434. They determine our judgment of miracles, ibid.
The foundation of our belief of them, 435. Where appealed to
by the Fathers as infallible, 441.
Septuagint was highly esteemed in our Saviour's time, 109.
When, and at whose charge it was wrote, 112. How it may be
reconciled to the Hebrew, 113.
Serenus, Bishop of Marseilles, his zeal against image-worship,
316.
Serpent, Brazen, the breaking it when it came to be superstitiously
used, vindicated, 324.
Severity ought not to be affected, 199.
Sin, Adam's sin said to be personal by the Pelagians and Socinians,
147. Our being liable to death and the miseries of mortality
thought by some to be original sin, 148. Experience and Scrip-
ture teach an universal corruption, 148, 149. How this came
about, 150. God's justice vindicated in the imputation of
Adam's sin, 151. Whether it deserves damnation, 152. Church
of Rome believe original sin is taken away by Baptism, 153.
St. Austin's doctrine concerning it, 154. The manner of its pro-
pagation not easy to be explained, ibid. Reasons why many are
of a different opinion, 156. How they explain the passages of
Scripture, and the Article concerning it, 157, 158. What meant
by deadly and venial sin, 194. The sin against the Holy Ghost
explained, 195. None capable of this sin since miracles have
ceased, 196. Of the pardon of sin after Baptism, ibid. Is par-
doned according to the sincerity of our repentance, 198. What
meant by the sin unto death, 199. Difference to be made be-
tween deliberate sins and sins of infirmity, ibid. Sins once par-
doned not liable to after punishment, 291. Unless with tem-
poral chastisements, 292. Of the Apostles' power of remitting
sins, 368. Whether this be continued in the Church, 369.
Socinians, their notion of the death of Christ, 70. Of Adam's sin
147. Objections against it, ibid. Their doctrine concerning
Predestination, 204. Their opinion of prescience and contin-
gencies ibid. How far they agree with the Remonstrants and
Calvinists, 230.
Soldania, a most degenerate nation, said to deny the being of a
God, 23.
Soul is distinct from matter, 44. What perceptions we have of its
nature and operation, ibid. Of the souls of beasts, 45. The
soul is not the same with the animal spirits, ibid. How it acts
on matter, inconceivable to us, ibid. In some places of Scrip-
ture stands for a dead body, 74. Philosophers' notion of its pre-
existence, 149. How defiled by Adam's sin, 152. Conjectures
about its state after death, 294. Various opinions concerning
this, 295-300.
Spirits, animal, their nature and use, 45, 162. Are the immediate
organs of thought, ibid.
Spirits, invisible, the probability of their existence, and conjectures
about their nature, 46. Are not emanations or rays of the Di-
vine Essence, 47. What meant by the spirits in prison, 75. Of
the power of evil spirits, 82. See Soul.
Stephen, St. worshipped Christ in his last moments, 63. No other
care taken of his body, but to bury it, 324. No mention made
of worshipping him, 331.
Stephen, Pope, his infallibility denied by Cyprian and Firmilian,
259.
Stephen, Bishop of Autun, the first who introduced the word
Transubstantiation, 459.
Stoics made all sins alike, 195. Put all things under a fate, 204.
Sublapsarians, their doctrine concerning Predestination, 221. Avoid
answering the Supralapsarians, and seem in effect not to differ
from them, ibid.
Subscription, what the Clergy are bound to by their subscription
of the Articles, 9. Does import an assent to them, 11. Diffe-
rent persons may subscribe to them in different senses, ibid.
Suetonius, his account of Christ, 78.
Supererogation. See Works.
Superstition, the danger of its being suffered to mix with religion,
323.
Supralapsarians, the chief basis of their doctrine concerning Pre-
destination, 212. Their arguments from the absurdity of the
contrary opinion, 213.
Supremacy of the Pope disproved, 518-522. That of Kings or
Queens asserted, 523—527.
Swearing. See Oath.
Symbols federal, the nature of them, 427.
EMPLE, how the glory of the second exceeded the first,
125.
Thought different from matter and motion, 44. Has no parts,
ibid. Whether beasts have thought, 45. Is governed by im-
pressions made on the brain, 161. Is influenced by the animal
spirits, 164.
Time cannot be eternal, 25. Is not divisible to infinity, as matter
is, 26.
Timothy and Titus, rules given them concerning church-govern-
ment, 342.
Tradition, oral, the regard due to it, 95. The doctrine of the
Church of Rome concerning it, ibid. No rule in matters of
faith, ibid. The Scriptures intended to prevent the impostures
of it, 96. No certain way of conveying the articles of religion,
97. Was objected against on many occasions by our Saviour,
ibid. The occasion of great errors and ruin of the Jews, 98.
The Apostles laid no stress on them, 99. Arguments of Irenæus
and Tertullian against them, 100. Objection from the darkness
of Scripture answered, 101. The difference between a settled
canon of Scripture and oral tradition, 107. Traditions concern-
ing image-worship departed from, 317.
Transubstantiation, a paragraph against it in the Articles in Ed-
ward the VIth's reign, 415. Why it was afterwards suppressed,
416. The doctrine of the Church of Rome concerning it, 430.
The consequences of it, 431. The grounds on which it was be-
lieved, 432. Is contrary to our faculties both of sense and rea-
son, 433. It was not received in the first and best ages, 438.
Several presumptive proofs of this, ibid.-444. The Fathers
believed the elements continued to be bread and wine after con-
secration, 444-446. By whom it was formed and broached,
446. Several arguments against it, 449-467. How this doc-
trine crept into the Church, 453. By whom the term was first
introduced, 459.
Tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life, conjec-
tures about them, 147, 148, 151.
Trent Council, the disappointments of it, a great probability there
will never be another, 285. First received the Apocrypha into
the canon, 119. Their decree concerning good works, 178. De-
clined to give a clear decision about image-worship, 319. Rea-
sons of this, ibid. Did not determine positively about relics,
323. Did not decree the office of a Bishop an order, or a sacra-
ment, 385. Was the first that decreed the indissolubleness of
marriage, even for adultery, 390. Decreed extreme unction to
Trinity is not to be proved by reason, 47. Tradition of it very an-
cient, ibid. Not to be proved by the Old Testament without
the New, 48. What meant by one substance, and what by three
persons in explaining it, 48. The difficulties in it no sufficient
reason for not believing it, 49. Different methods of explaining
it, ibid. Several proofs of it, 50-52. From whence the errors
in this doctrine took their rise, 53.
Tully, his account of the notion the heathens had of their images,
312.
Twisse carried it high to the Supralapsarian hypothesis, 212.
ALENTINIANS pretended to traditions from the Apostles,
Various readings of the Scriptures, whence they arose, 113. Are
inconsiderable, and affect not our faith or morals, 114.
Ubiquity of human nature impossible, 460.
Vigilantius complains of the worshipping of relics, 323,327. And
of saints and angels, 336.
Virgin, blessed, was reprimanded by our Saviour, 192. Why she
was not taken notice of in the first age of superstition, 326.
Has the preference to God and Christ in the worship of the
Church of Rome, 333.
Virgins, parable of ten Virgins contradicts supererogation, 188.
Visible Church, what it is, 245.
Understanding is as free as the will, 256.
Union of the Church among themselves, and with their head, is
not a note of the true Church, 250.
Unity of the Godhead, proofs of it, 31. Is a chief article of the
Christian religion, ibid.
Unity among Christians, the advantages of it, 505. The great sin
of dissolving it, ibid.
Vows of celibacy unlawful, 493. Of the obligation of them, 494.
See Oath.
Usher, Archbishop, his explanation of Daniel's seventy weeks,
126.
WAR, in what cases lawful, 532. And when unlawful, 533-
Water in Baptism, what it is an emblem of, 404.
Will, whether it is always determined by the understanding, 161.
Wherein our liberty consists, ibid. The opinions of the Pela-
gians and Semipelagians concerning it, 162. See Liberty.
Winds, their great influence on the earth, 41. Are under a parti-
cular direction of Providence, ibid.
Wisdom of God, wherein it consists, 36.
Women are not allowed to teach, 342.
Works, what is meant by good works, 171. They are indispensa-
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