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Herod. p. 106. In the Month of Tisri, answering our September, at the Feast of Tabernacles. p. 107. This Month Tisri was ennobled before Christ's time by many excellent things done in it. p. 107. He fulfilled the typical Equity of the three great Feasts, Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. p. 107. The Jewish Writers seem to intimate the time of Christ's 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 Writers to Jesus Christ; whom they make a Magician, &c. p. 189. Signs of Christ's coming, what from the Doctrine of the Jews? p. 240, 241. His coming in Glory and in the Clouds, signify only his taking vengeance on the Jewish Nation. p. 244, 1074. His death, and the manner of it, in several things differed from the Jewish custom in putting 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 mentioned. 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 obedience 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. Christ's dew, is his quickening Power. p. 691. His Resurrection shows him to be the Messiah. p. 691. His entrance into his public Ministry, and the time of his death, and the several Actions which he did about the time of each, &c. p. 1033. He held communion with the National Church of the Jews in the public 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 obligation of the Law; p. 1037. Yea, he was under the obligation of the Ceremonial Law, and that in three respects. p. 1037. Christ's lineage or descent was most of younger Brothers. p. 1089, 1090. Why Christ was Baptized? p. 1125. Christ conformed to many things received and practiced in the Jewish Church and civil converse in several instances. p. 1137, 1139. Christ sets himself against them that set themselves against Religion. p. 1164. Christ sending his Gospel bound the Devil 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 account; this proves him to be God against the Arian and Socinian. p. 1229. He was sanctified by his own blood. p. 1254. Christ's 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 sufferings. 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 merely out of obedience. p. 1257. He was sanctified by his own blood to the Office of Mediator. p. 1254, 1257. Acceptance with God, and coming to him, is only through Christ. p. 1261, 1262. Christ's obedience does not dissolve 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 separate from the body? p. 1344. His victory and triumph over Devils, what? p. 1345, 1346. His Kingdom began 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 itself and in the manner of it. Page 1354

Christian Churches, were modelled by our Savior 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 show 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 belonging 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 understanding 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 anything troublesome 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 foreign 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 Kingdom, 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 enjoined 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 Commandments 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 public Exercise of their Religion; proved 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 skillful were the Jews in Conjuring, Enchantments, and Sorceries, that they wrought great Signs and Wonders and many villainies thereby. 244

Conscience, how to clear the state and nature of it, when it is doubting: some heads for such an undertaking hinted. p. 1054: The great power of conviction of Conscience. 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 Money. p. 299. The Corban Chests, how these were employed to buy the daily Sacrifice, and Offerings. p. 300, 301. The Corban Chamber. p. 300, 301. The Corban Chests and the Treasury were in the Court of the Women. 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 Resurrection by the virtue of this, but not alike. p. 1235. The Tenor and virtue of this Covenant distinguished. 1236

Covetousness, called an evil Eye. 162. What it caused Balaam to do, what he got by it, and how many Israelites were destroyed by it, p. 1181. The sad fruits of Covetousness, and Apostasle. 1181, 1182

Counselors Chamber, what? 358

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 ordinarlly 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 mentioned. 142

Creation, God created all things in six days; and why not in a moment? p. 1322. The World was created in September. 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 anything 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 also in Egypt and Cyprus destroyed two hundred and forty 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 Gentiles, not to themselves. 535

Cursing and Blessing, how practiced 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 response 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 dealings 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; signify only Christ's taking vengeance on the Jewish Nation. p. 244, 624. The Son cometh, was expressed 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 distinguished, 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 die, i. e. why are they not removed Soul and Body into the other World without anymore ado? p. 1354. The difficulty of▪ the Soul and Bodies parting at death. 1354
• Death of sin, God stints the time of Men's 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 mentioned 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 Cis • en, or November. p. 1035. Dedication, the strange custom of lighting up of Candles therein used. 1039
• Defendant and Plaintiff chose their Judges, &c. among the Jews. 755
• Degree, and Pomp, of the World, countervail nothing with God. 1210, 1211, 1212
• Demoniacks, why so many in Christ's 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 expressed 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 money, two things persuade 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, endeavored to be laid aside, because it caused the Women of Galilee to grow barren. p. 121, 122. Why sprinkling was used instead 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 understood 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 Reasons thereof. p. 168. Dogs, put for Gentiles, or Heathens. 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 everyone 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 Rabban 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 Metaphorical. 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 Country, what? 326

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• 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 rendered Rome. 292
• Edomites rendered 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 Mosaic Rites. 626
• Elias, the frequent appearance of him we meet with in the Writings of the Jews, were either Stories or Diabolical 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 herself when with child. 1220
• Elymas and Barjesus, the reason of the two Names, for the same Person, and what they both signify. 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
• Encoenia, or the Feasts of Dedication. So the Feast of Dedication 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 skillful were they in Conjurings, Enchantments, and Sorceries, that they wrought great signs and wonders, and many Villanies by them. p. 244. Hence arose false Christ's. p. 244. Some sort of Heretics 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 God's esteem. 1210, 1211
• Eremite, or Hermit, denotes a Country Man more properly than one that lives in a Desert. p. 113. John the Baptist 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 Money 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 concerning it. p. 1099. Adam and Eve believed and obtained life. 1303
• Evening, what? 198
• Europe, in probability is derived from Choreph, which signifies 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 delivery up to Satan. 749
• Extraordinary gifts of the Spirit, are in Scripture comprised under Tongues and Prophesies. 1157
• Extraordinary actings of God, are not Men's 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 denied the Resurrection. 126

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• 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 Money? 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 public 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 honored. 1335
• Fearers of the Lord, used for Proselytes, everyone 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, Governor 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 Scripture, and that by bare naming of it, in Joh. 10. 22. p. 1033. The original Institution of it, collected out of the Talmud, Main • onides, 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 innumerable 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 entrance into his public Ministry and the time of his Death. p. 1033. The Festivals of the Passover, Pentecost, and of Tabernacles were appointed by God for Communion, 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 cultivated; Figs were ripe at differing seasons, and therefore 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 laboring 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 hindered the execution of Malefactors. 1113
• Fool, how came Fool to be a more grievous word than Raka? 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
• France and Spain, what places the Jews understood for them. Page 368
• Fraud, Pious Fraud was one cause of the falsities of Ecclesiastical 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

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• 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
• Gadarenes, 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 concerning 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 pleasant 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? Whether 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
• Garrisons 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 expressed. 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 Sanhedrim sat, when they left that they ceased to judge in Capital Causes. p. 512, 513. Why called Gazith, &c. p. 615. Gazith, or the Council House, what it was? 1111
• Gemini, in the Zodiac, put for Castor and Pollux. 705
• Genealogical Writings or Scrols, showing 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
• Gennesaret, the Country of Gennesaret, a most fruitful pleasant Country; its length. p. 71. Gennesaret Sea, or Lake of Gennesaret, 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 Resurrection 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 signification 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 everyone 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 Talmudic 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 utmost extent of their Infiniteness, proved by many instances. 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 magnifying 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 itself is not utterly to be extinguished, 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 Baptism 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 professed 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 tied the Devil with. 1233
• Grace, saying Grace before meat, if the Jews sat, then everyone said Grace for himself; if they did lie, then one said Grace for all. Page 256, 257
• Grace, Common Grace, is God's ordinary way for working Saving Grace. p. 1048. The difference between Common and Sanctifying Grace. p. 1157. Grace to mankind, magnified. 1304, 1305
• Grandeur, worldly Grandeur 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 Scripture, 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 disadvantage. 661. Greek and Hebrew Tongues, both native to some Jews. p. 661. Why the Greek Tongue was dispersed over most of the World in our Savior's time. 1145
• Greek Version, the Hebrew Text added to by the Greek Version. p. 707. Some would have the Hebrew Bible corrected by the Greek Version, and contend that these Interpreters were inspired. p. 710, 711, 712. Greek Version in what value among the Jews, its not an accurate pure Version, even the Jews being Judges. 807, 808. Objections 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, performed 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 number Absalom 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. Harvest 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, shown humility, reverence, shame, &c. uncovered, 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 Hebrew 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 inspired. p. 710, 711, 712. Hebrew Bible, 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
• Hebrew Text, added to by the Greek Version and Chaldee 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 Syriac 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. Hebrews or Jews, and Hellenists distinguished, with the reason of the distinction. p. 798. Hebrews in Babylon, 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 Babylon. p. 799. They had three Universities in Babylon; 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 improper meaning, as, what the Church of Rome understood by it. p. 1341, to 1347. Some Protestants hold his local descent into Hell, but not as the Papists do. p. 1341. Christ's 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 signify 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 Baptized 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 immediate Causes and Originals of Heresies, what? p. 1280 Popery, Socinianism, and Quakerism, are great Heresies. Page 1280, 1281
• Heretics, some sort of them used Sorcery, or Enchantments to cause Men to follow them. p. 497. There were Heretics in the days of Ezra, which said there was no world but this. 702
• Hermit or Eremite, denotes a Country-man more properly than one that lives in a Desert. 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 shown to be the greater Officer. p. 681. How he prepared himself (with the help of others) for the day of Atonement. 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 extraordinary Gifts and Tongues, could only be communicated 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 Fig trees, 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 Children in the Temple. 225
• Houses among the Jews, the lower Rooms entered by the Door, the upper Rooms on the outside. 334
• Human Inventions, less dangerous to be brought into Divine Worship under the Jewish Law, than under the Gospel, and why? 1038
• Human Learning, is exceeding useful; nay, exceeding needful to the expounding of Scripture. p. 1033. Two objections, of those that deny this proposition, answered. 1034
• Hyperbolus, used for a litigious Fellow. 459
• Hypocrisy, 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 University, 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 into Babylon. 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 detestation 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 rendered by the Lexicographers; They are figments of human 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 swallowed 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, Jealousy, Zeal and Zealous, are comprehended under the same word in the Hebrew, what they are? 1314
• Jechonias, who and what is said concerning him. 98, 99
• Jephthah, Gideon, 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 Zacharias 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 grandeur, rare Schools, and a Royal Palace: The Men of Jericho famed for six things. p. 44, 45. Some Miscellanious 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 reason 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 assurance 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 show that Christ was the true Savior, 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 Talmudic Writings, for the true Messias. p. 96, 97. Jesus of Nazareth mentioned 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 being so. p. 740. The false Logic of those who are for no Rulers or Magistrates over them, but King Jesus, refuted. 1060
• 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 destruction 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 Babylon. p. 545. Their cruelty. p. 663. It was very great, 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 also in Egypt and Cyprus destroyed 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 themselves expected that the Messias should reign 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 yoke-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 Savior to death, but before also for their cursed Traditions and crying wickedness. p. 1114. The calling in of the Jews (expected by some) is not probable, and why? p. 1123. The Jews were dispersed before our Savior's time. p. 1144. They were cast off to a reprobate sense before the destruction of Jerusalem. p. 1145. They crucified the Lord of Life out of the very Principles of their Traditional 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 Doctrine of Faith and Repentance; proved from Hebrews 6. 2. 1040
• Imputation of the sins or good Deeds of Parents to the Children; supposed by the Jews not to be in the days of the Messias. p. 569. Imputation of Parents sins to Posterity, 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 themselves (although of human invention, and used in the Jewish worship) did not cause our Savior to leave that communion, nor to forsake the way of Worship, but he joined therein, rather than he would give offense. 1037, 1038, 1039, &c.
• Infant Baptism, argued for. 273, 274
• Infants in the womb, supposed by the Jews to be in a capacity to commit some sin. 569, 570
• Institution, divine, defiled by corruption, but not extinguished. 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 human, 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 the Baptist in all probability was no Eremite. 387, 388
• John, the most punctual of all the four Evangelists, especially in giving an account of the Festivals that intercurred between Christ's entrance into his public Ministry, and the time of his death. p. 1033. John the beloved Disciple was him to whom the Revelation was delivered. 1196
• Jordan, the waters thereof were opened twelve miles when Israel passed through. p. 46. The Country beyond 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 Traitors. 1184
• Joy in Heaven over a sinner that is converted, what? 1267
• Isaiah the Prophet, say the Jews, was cut in two by Manasseh the King. 593
• Iscariot, a Name given to Judas, the Traitor, whether given before or after his death? If after his death, it emphatically shows 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
• Judah 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. Judaism 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 carried by the Devil into the Air, there strangled, and then cast down to the Earth, and there burst asunder. 264, 639
• Judea, a sight and division of it. p. 9. It was privileged above other Parts of the Land of Israel. p. 10. A description 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 Judging was righteous. 1106
• Judgment, the Day of Judgment, put for Christ's coming with vengeance to Judge the Jewish Nation, six differing ways of expressing it. p. 346. The Last Judgment, 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 Jerusalem is set forth in Scripture terms, seeming to mean the Last Judgment. p. 1104. The several and providential assurances that God hath given of the Last Judgment. p. 1103, 1104, 1109. The prosperity of wicked 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 Capital 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 justified 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 Sink 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 unbelieving 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 Gennesaret, 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 Babylon was divided into three parts. p. 2. Several great Mysteries and Offices confined to the Land of Israel. p. 2. The Talmudic 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 before 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 preceding the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the Jewish State. p. 626, 1074. Last Days, what they generally signify 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 abolish 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 explained 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. Judaic and Mosaic Law, how distinguished by the Jews? p. 1199. Whether God shown more mercy in giving the Law or in giving the Gospel? p. 1230. The commandments 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 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 Eleazar. 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, human Learning, is exceeding useful; nay, exceeding needful to the expounding of the Scriptures. p. 1033. Two objections, of those that deny this Proposition, answered. 1034
• Leaven, put for Doctrine, 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
• Leprosy and the Doctrine of it, under the Law, points out very well the Guilt and Doctrine of Sin. p. 164, 165. The custom of putting the blood upon the Ear of him that was cleansed of a Leprosy, according to that command, 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 settled Ministry of the Church of Israel; they always lived upon Tithes when they studied in the Universities, or preached in the Synagogues, and attended on the Temple Service. 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 precious. 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 shortened 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 itself 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 pleaseth? 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.
• Lord's 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 Lord's Day was not controverted, but everywhere celebrated in the Primitive Times, only some Jews (converted to the Gospel ) also kept the Jewish Sabbath. 792, 793
• Lord's Prayer, illustrated out of the Jewish Writings. p. 159, to 161. The Lord's 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 Neighbor as ourselves. 1301
• Love Feasts, they were Appendages to the Lord's 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 lie at their Feasts, in what order they used that Gesture. 256, 257

M.
• MACHERUS is derived from Macvar. p. 81. Macherus, a Castle, where situate. Page 501
• Macpelah, supposed to be Adams burying place. 47
• Magdala was near Tiberias and Hammath. 70, 308
• Magdalene (Mary Magdalene) whence the Name. 415, 416
• Magistracy, instituted as an ordinance of Christ, and a Gospel 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 Logic of those who are for no Magistrates 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 Devil can infuse into Man 's nature, with the reasons of it. 1308, 1309
• Manacles for the hands used among the Jews. 683
• Mana • en (i. e.) the Comforter taken for Christ. Page 108
• Maphtir, he that read in the Synagogues was called Maphtir, 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 Rabbins. 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 Gentiles (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 Magdalene, the same with Mary the Sister of Lazarus, why called Magdalene. 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 affirmed; 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 Syriac. 101, to 104
• Measurings of the Jews, how, or what they were? p. 318, &c. A Parsa was four miles; a Talmudic 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
• Melchizedek, 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 destruction. 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 predicted 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 Evangelic Mysteries, 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 expected their Messias to come when Christ did appear. p. 468, 1289. They also expected that when the Messias came he would lead them into the Garden of Eden, where they should enjoy all manner of worldly Pleasures 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 likelihood a strong suspicion, 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 acknowledged 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 Messias. p. 691. What appearances and effects the Jews looked for in the Messias which they found not in our Savior 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 redeem from sin, but from Captivity and Enemies. p. 1275. He was, say they, to have an earthly, pompous, flourishing 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 itself, its Reading and Literal Explication. 422
• Midrash, a Treatise of the Rabbins, containing the Mystical and Allegorical Explication of the Scriptures. 422, 423
• Migdal Elder, was a Tower situate near Jerusalem on the South-side. 306
• Mile, a Talmudic 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 settled 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. Miracles could not drive the Jews from their Traditions. p. 345. Mear Miracles, or Signs, were never wrought by our Savior. 1104
• Mirth or Joy, wicked, in a strange instance in the Gunpouder-Tray • ors. 1184
• Mishneh, a Treatise of the Rabbins containing the Doctrine of Traditions, and their Explications. 422
• Missaar or Mizaar, a hill mentioned in the Psalms, where situate. 501
• Mite, what sort of money. 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
• Money, the Streets of Jerusalem were swept every day, and money found there, in the time of Feasts, was all Tenths or Tiths. p. 303. So also what was found at any time. p. 303. Money 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 Savior overthrew their Tables in the Temple. 1204
• Monster in a Child with two Bodies, from the Navel upward it acted as two Children. 373
• Mortal, Adam was not created mortal, against the Socinians 1353.
• 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 Family. 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 commonly the Mount of Oil; 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 beheading of an Heiser (commanded Deut. 21.) was left off by order of the Sanhedrim, for fear of the Murderers. 1111
• Musicians in the Temple, what sort of Men? 373
• Music 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 Josephus 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 honor 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 common 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; whether the Law about the Nazarites had not some reference to Adam while he was under that Prohibition in the state of innocence. 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 commands referring to the keeping the Passover (&c.) in which Wine was used. p. 382. They wore long hair, among whom Absalom was one. p. 774. Why they let their hair grow long. 774
• Nazarit • sin, what, and how the Vow of it was sometimes laid aside. 1219, 1220
• Neapolis, the Jews in scorn called it Sychar. 52, 53
• Neighbor and Brother, what the difference between them. p. 141. Neighbor the Jews denied any Gentile to be their Neighbor. p. 425. Who is our Neighbor? p. 1298. We are to love our Neighbor as ourselves, 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 〉 Necola. p. 662. They impudently did oppose the Decree of the Apostles. p. 695, 696. They were wicked Heretics, persuading to eat things offered to Idols and to commit Fornication. p. 756. Notwithstanding the affirmation of Antiquity, they did not spring from Nicolas 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 Promissory Oath. p. 148. A vain or rash Oath, concerning 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 merely 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 performed, 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, except 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
• Outward Action, the Jews thought the Law was to restrain and bind the Outward Action only, not regarding the inward Thought. Page 1098
• Ointment, precious, how prized. 352

P.
• PALESTINE, the third, called Palestine the healthful, 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 Rhetoric. 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 punishment. 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 Particulars. p. 255, 256. Whether Christ kept his Passover 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. After the Lamb was eaten, every Israelite was bound within 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 public 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 Gentiles. p. 740. He was not a Baptist among the Gentiles as John was among the Jews. p. 742. He wisheth himself 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 God's 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 〉 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
• Penny of Silver, Gold, Roman or Jewish, what? p. 349, 352. A Roman Penny was seven-pence half-penny, 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 Babylon. p. 802. Pethor and Beor being changed into Bosor, shows Peter was not at Rome, but at Babylon. 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 Babylon 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 die, was great. p. 16. They were a sort of Separatists; there were of them Women as well as Men, who under the veil of Sanctity and Devotion, practiced all manner of wickedness. p. 123, 199. The lowest rank of Pharisees were illiterate Pl • beians; 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 labored 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 con • ounded, 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 between the Pharisees and Sadducees in matters of Religion, was great. p. 1278. Though they differed among themselves greatly, yet they easily harmonized to oppose 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, fastened to the Forehead and left Arm; constantly worn with great devotion. 232
• Plaintiff 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
• 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 money. 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 foreign Nations for the poor Rabbins dwelling in Judea. 792
• Popery and Mahume • ism coming, the Devil was let loose. p. 1172. Popery, Socinianism, and Quakerism are great Heresies. 1280
• Poverty, extreme, especially of one whose foregoing Estate was pompous. 352
• Pound, what? 468
• Power and Will of God, being well understood and submitted to, take off abundance of carnal Atheistical Disputes. 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 practiced; condemned by Christ. p. 157. The Jews had a great number of Prayers, daily they used eighteen, and they had some that comprised 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 Lord's 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 given. p. 1135, 1136. Objections answered, and more Reasons given. p. 1137. The Lord's 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 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
• 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. Daily 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 Prophesy, 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 hundred sixty Priests were married in Gophna all in one night. p. 52. Priests were the settled Ministry of the Church of Israel; they always lived upon Tithes when they studied in the University, Preached in the Synagogues, 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, because still of a lower Order—Thirdly, W • their 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 concern, 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 arrayed 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
• Profane, 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. Scarcely 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 Spiritual and Eternal Things, but only obscurely hinted them in such Temporal Promises. 1333, 1334
• Prophesy 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 Prophesy ceased from Israel. p. 802. Prophesy expired at the fall of Jerusalem. p. 1048. Prophesy was one of the two extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit. p. 1157. Prophesy, Revelation, and Urim and Thummim was gone from the Jews for four hundred years before Christ came. p. 1284, 1288, 1289. Prophesy 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 Colleges of Students; their Governor some venerable Prophet, inspired with the Holy Spirit to give forth Divine 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 Zacharias and Malachi 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
• Proselyte, what? Page 234
• Proselytes, Fearers of the Lord are used for Proselytes, everyone 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, proved 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 Luther's 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 Prophesy. 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 public Congregations. p. 1158. The singing whereof is a Duty incumbent upon Christians. p. 1158, to 1162. Our Savior, the Apostles, and the Primitive Church practiced it. 1159, to 1162
• Ptolemais (also called Acon ) a City of Galilee, how situate. 60
• Ptolemy, 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 improbability, ridiculousness, and irreligion of the Papists holding that the Patriarchs were in it. 1342, 1343
• Purification days of a Woman after Child bearing, when accomplished. 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 History. 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, bewitched 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 savors of the work of the Holy Spirit. 73, 34
• Rachab, supposed to marry Joshua, famous among the Jewish 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 Atonement 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 Matrons 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 Esseans 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 Religion. p. 1164. The Principles of the Traditional Religion of the Jews, made them Crucify 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