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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 Religion comes very near to Judaism. p. 1200. Whether a Man may be saved in that Faith, that is, in the Religion of Rome; doubted. p. 1202. Some maintain that a Man may be saved in any Religion or Opinion, so he live but honestly towards Men and devoutly towards God. 1279
• Rempham, or Rephan, what? 673
• Renting of Cloaths, what? 263
• Repentance, a Doctrine highly fit for the Jews, when it was preached to them by John the Baptist; The Schools of the Pharisees did ill define Repentance. p. 113. The Jews supposed the Redeemer was to come at a time when Repentance was to be. p. 114. Repentance not to be put off till death. p. 1227. There is nothing more desirable to God, Christ, and Angels than the Repentance of a Sinner. p. 1269. What it is that moves God, Christ and Angels to desire this. p. 1270. Repentance is the gift of God as well as Pardon. p. 1277. The Rule to arrive at Repentance is to take God's time as well as way. 1277
• Repetition of the same words in Prayer, how practiced: condemned by Christ. 157
• Rephaims, what? 363
• Reproof and Excommunication, what they were, with the difference between them. 747
• Resurrection, the first Resurrection, what? 1233, 1235
• Resurrection of Christ, the Epoche of the Messias is stated from the Resurrection of Christ. p. 180. The Resurrection of Christ shows him to be the Messiah. p. 691. How it argues and gives assurance of the last Judgment. p. 1105. Christ Resurrection and the Creation, whether the greater work? 1330
• Resurrection of the dead, was in the days of Ezra denied by some▪ p. 216. How it is proved out of the Old Testament by Rabban Gamaliel. p. 541. How the Sadducees came to deny the Resurrection from the dead. p. 542. The Jews looked for the Resurrection from the dead. p. 549, 552. It is proved out of the Talmud. p. 702. Proved out of the Law. p. 787. Resurrection and last judgment, proved. p. 1101, 1102, 1103, &c. The objections of the Sadducees and Atheists answered. p. 1101, &c. Resurrection of the last day demonstrated against the Sadducees and Atheists. p. 1236, 1237. Denyed by the Sadducees. Page 1282, &c.
• Resurrection of the Saints, expected even by the Jews at the beginning of the Kingdom of the Messias. 269
• Revelation, Prophesy, Utim and Thummim, were gone from the Jews for four hundred years before Christ came. 1284, 1288, 1289
• Rhinocorura, a River of Egypt, what? 9, 291
• Riches, worldly Riches and grandeur countervail nothing with God. 1210, 1211, 1212
• Righteousness, why Alms are taken for Righteousness. p. 153, &c. Righteousness, inherent and justifying. 504, 505
• Rings of the Altar, what, and for what use. 33, 34
• Robbers, were very numerous among the Jews, and did strange mischiefs; how there came to be so many of them? 267, 268, 362
• Rock for Christ, not Peter. 205
• Roman Empire, when it began. p. 388, 389. When, and how it was measured. p. 389. When, and how taxed. 389, 390
• Romanists, and Jews, how they may be said to be yoakfellows. 1110
• Romans, there were Garrisons of them dispersed over the Land of Israel, what they were? p. 324. The Romans are brought in by the Jewish Writers, owning themselves and boasting of their being the Children of Esau or Edom, and show that Esau ought to rule over Jacob. p. 694, 695. The Epistle to the Romans, when and where it was written by Saint Paul. 1051
• Rome, is put for Edom. p. 292. Rome guilty of our Savior's death, as much as Jerusalem. p. 1109. It is also guilty of Apostasy. p. 1110. Part of the character of Rome at this time as referring to England. p. 1165▪ The proper Name of Rome, say Roman Historians, is a Secret. p. 1165. The Tutelar Deity of it also unknown. p. 1166. Rome is the Devils Seat, his Deputy and Vicegerent. p. 1166. Rome commissioned by the Devil to fight against Christ, his Religion, and People. p. 1166, 1167. When first and last spoke of in Scripture. p. 1168. Rome Heathen could not be Antichrist, because the character of Antichrist is Apostasy. p. 1168. Rome Papal hath exceeded Rome Heathen. p. 1169. Rome is ever spoken of in Scripture with a black and dismal character. p. 1199. Rome, and the Religion thereof, comes very near to Judaism. p. 1200. Whether a Man can be saved in the Faith, that is, in the Religion of Rome, doubted. p. 1202 Rome compared with the Old Jerusalem State. 1200
• Rule, God's extraordinary Actings are not Men's ordinary Rule. 1276
• Rulers, the false Logic of those who are for no Rulers over them but King Jesus, refuted. 1060

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• SABBATH, when it ended. p. 166, 167. The Jews ate nothing on the Sabbath till the Morning Prayers of the Synagogue were done. p. 185. Sabbath from the second first, what? p. 184. Sabbath to the Jews was a day of junkets and delicious Feasting. p. 184. What worldly things were not to be done on it. p. 184, 187, 547. And what worldly things might be done on it. p. 186, 187, 547 The care of the Sabbath lay upon Adam under a double Law. p. 186, 187. Sabbath days journey, what? p. 304. The Preparion of the Sabbath, what? p. 358. Second Sabbath after the first, what? p. 409. The Jews used to get much and excellent Victuals on that Day, for the honor of the Day. p. 445, 446. The Jews allowed all necessary things to be done on that day, as to heal the sick, &c. p. 446. To save Beasts in danger. p. 446. The night before the Sabbath candles were lighted up in honor of it; and the Evening of the Sabbath was called Light. p. 479. The length of the Sabbath days journey at first was twelve Miles, with the reason; afterward it was confined to two thousand cubits, or, one mile. p. 485, 486, 636, 637. Circumcision as given by Moses gives a right understanding of the nature of the Sabbath. p. 557. The institution of the Sabbath, and how God rested on it. p. 1325. Resting on it hath four ends,— Moral, to rest from Labors;— Commemorative, to remember God's creating the World;— Evangelical, referring to Christ; and— Typical, to signify eternal Rest. p. 1327. It was given to the Jews at Sinai to distinguish them from all other people. p. 1327, 1328. Its antiquity, &c. Page 1328
• Sabbath, Christian, the Jews say that the Christian Sabbath was the first day of the week; why Christ changed it from the seventh to the first. p. 271, 272, 1329, 1330. It was not controverted, but everywhere celebrated in the Primitive Times; only some Jews, converted to the Gospel, kept also the Jewish Sabbath. 792, 793
• Sabbatick River, said to rest on the Sabbath day, suspected. 313
• Sacrament of the Supper, receiving unworthily, two dreadful things against it. 779
• Sacramental Blood (as it may be called) of the Old and New Testament, and the very Blood of Christ; harmonized. 777, 778
• Sacraments, are visible marks of distinction; proved. p. 1125. They have several Ends. p. 1125. They are perpetual. p. 1126. They are Seals of the life of Faith. p. 1126. How they answer Circumcision and the Passover. 1126
• Sacrifices, Spiritual, every Christian hath three Spiritual Sacrifices to offer to God. p. 1260. The Altar on which these Sacrifices are to be offered. 1260
• Sadducees, their Original, whence they came to deny the R •• urrection. p. 124, to 126. They did not utterly deny all the Old Testament except the Five Books of Moses, but the Five Books were only what they would stand by for the confirmation of matters of Faith. p. 542, 1101. They denied the Resurrection, what therefore was their Religion, and to what end? p. 699. They take their Heterodoxy and Denomination (say some) from Sadoc. p. 699, 700. At first they denied the Immortality of the Soul, and so by consequence the Resurrection. p. 701. The Religion of the Sadducees was not the National Religion of the Jews, but a Sect and Excrescence from it. p. 1036. They held nothing for a Fundamental Article of Faith, but what might be grounded on the Five Books of Moses. p. 1102. The Resurrection of the last day demonstrated against the Sadducees and Atheists. p. 1235. The difference between the Sadducees and Pharisees in matters of Religion was very great. p. 1278. Though the Sadducees and Pharisees greatly differed betwixt themselves, yet they easily harmonized to oppose Christianity. p. 1278, 1279. The Sadducees held several Heretical Opinions about some main Articles of Faith. p. 1279, 1280. The Sadducees considered in their Persons (or Original) and Opinions. 1280, to 1284
• Sadduceism, the Foundation of it laid in the days of Ezra. 124
• Sadoc, said to be the first Founder of Sadduceism, whether he denied the Resurrection, or all the Scripture except Moses? 699, 700
• Sagan, was not so much the Vice-High Priest, as one set over the Priest, therefore called the Sagan of the Priests; he was the same with the Ruler of the Temple. p. 397. Because his dignity was higher and independent, therefore he was sometimes called High Priest. p. 397. Sagan was the same with the Prefect or Ruler; he was to be a Learned Man. Page 608
• Saints judging the World, expounded against the Fifth Monarchists. p. 753. Not referred to the Last Judgment, but to Christian Magistrates, and Judges in the World. p. 753, 754. Saints in Glory have not the Spirit. p. 1150. Saints in Heaven, what they do referring to Saints or Sinuers on Earth. 1268
• Salamean or Salmean, or Kenite the same, and what. 499
• Salem the first Name for Jerusalem, (which was compounded of Jireh and Salem, and why?) under what latitude; how holy above other Cities. 20, to 22
• Salim, what, and where situate. 498, 499
• Salting, with fire and with salt, the custom and the meaning of the phrase. 346, 347
• Salvation and Pardon, what the sure ground of hope of them is. 1277
• Salutares, some Companies and Wings of the Roman Army being so called, in likelihood gave the Title of Healthful to some Countries. 294
• Salutations, were not performed by the Jews at sometimes. 420
• Saluting of Women, was rarely used among the Jews. 385
• Samaria, (under the first Temple was a City, under the second a Country ) called Sebaste, the Religion thereof was Heathenism and Samaritanism. p. 52, 53. Samaria was planted with Colonies two several times. 503, 504
• Samaritanism, what? 53
• Samaritans rejected the Temple at Jerusalem, and why? p. 540, 541. How they rejected all the Old Testament but the Five Books of Moses; whether they were not acquainted with the rest, and owned them in some cases? 541, 542
• Samaritan Text, follows the Greek Version. 701
• Samaritan Version, or Pentateuch, three things in it containing matter of notice, and a fourth of suspicion. 504, 505
• Samochonitis, the Lake of Samochonitis is in Scripture called the Waters of Merom, &c, 64
• Sampson, what were his failings. 1215
• Sanctification, Adam had not the Spirit of Sanctification nor of Prophesy. p. 1150. Why we are justified by perfect Justification, and yet not sanctified by perfect Sanctification and holiness: answered. 1153
• Sandals and Shoos, not the same, against Beza and Erasmus. 178
• Sanhedrim, the Jewish Sanhedrim consisted of Priests, Levites, and Israelites. p. 109. Sanhedrim, the Lesser and Greater, their time of sitting; the number that made a Council. p. 355. It was against the Sanhedrims own Rule to seek for Witnesses against Christ. p. 355. The whole Sanhedrim was sometimes comprehended under the Name of Pharisees. p. 571. The Sanhedrim lost the power of judging in capital Causes by their own neglect, being so remiss to the Israelites; with the Reasons of it. p. 611, to 614. The Sanhedrim removed from the Room Gazith to the Tabernae, and from the Tabernae into Jerusalem forty years before the destruction of that City; with the Reason of it. p. 652. The High Priest and President of the Sanhedrim compared together, and the High Priest shown to be the greater Officer. p. 681. Whether the Decrees of the Sanhedrim were of authority among the Jews in Countries abroad. p. 681. It had four kinds of Death in its power, what they were, p. 683. The Fathers of the Sanhedrim were to be skilled in many Languages. p. 782. Why they departed out of the Council House before the destruction of Jerusalem. p. 1111, 1116. The Sanhedrim was esteemed a bloody Court if they put one Man to death in seventy years. 1113
• Sarah was Abraham's Brothers Daughter. 666
• Sarepta and Zarephath, whether the same, and where situate. Page 368
• Satan, why he was let loose. p. 1172. How, when, why, and how long let loose by Christ. p. 1172, 1173, 1174. He did much mischief those thousand years he was bound. p. 1174. His great work is to deceive. p. 1174, &c. His Master-piece is to cheat Men in matters of Religion. p. 1175, to 1178. How he deceived the World under Heathenism, and under the Gospel. p. 1193. The reason why Satan taketh not away our lives when he pleaseth. 1209
• Saved, its possible to die for sin; and by a divine judgment, and yet be saved. 1225, 1226
• Savior, Rome was guilty of our Savior's death as much as Jerusalem, proved. 1109
• Saul and Paul, his Hebrew and Roman Name, and why he had two Names. 687
• Scape Goat, what kind of Man went with him into the Wilderness. p. 35. How he was sent out, and whither from Jerusalem. 50
• Scholars of the wise Men; what? 124
• Schools of the Prophets were little Universities or Colleges of Students, their Governor being some Venerable Prophet, inspired with the Holy Spirit to give forth Divine Revelations, &c. 86
• Scopo, and Scopus, the View, called Zophim, what? 41
• Scribes, used for everyone that was learned, and employed their time in writing referring to the Law. p. 110, 111. Scribes of the people, were Members of the Sanhedrim. p. 110, 111. The Scribes and Pharisees labored among the people for respect, and by respect for gain; which they did as,— First, Doctors of the Law▪ instilling into the people this notion, That a wise Man (that was one of themselves) was to be respected above all mortal Men. p. 234, &c.— Secondly, Under a pretence of mighty devotion, especially long Prayers. p. 234. Scribes, was a general Title given to all the Learned part of the Jewish Nation. p. 421. The first Original of the word, what? p. 421. The Doctors of the Sanhedrim were so called; so were others that were in the Sanhedrim, but not Members of it, like our Judges in the House of Lord's. p. 422. Scribes and Pharisees, are terms sometimes confounded and sometimes distinguished. p. 433. Scribes or Registers of the Sanhedrim were two, the one sat on the right the other on the left hand, one writ the votes of those that quitted, the other of those that condemned. p. 337. Scribes, Chief Priests, and Elders; how distinguished. 468
• Scripture, in it (say the Rabbins) there is no first and last, i. e. the order of the Story does not necessarily determine the time of it. p. 666. Human Learning is exceeding useful, nay, exceeding needful to the expounding of the Scripture. p. 1033. Not one tittle of the Scripture idle. p. 1180. The Scripture, because of its style and difficulty, requireth all serious and sober study. p. 1242, &c. Wherein the difficulty of Scripture lies. p. 1034, 1035, 1095, 1243, to 1245, 1248. Passages in the Scripture of the New Testament directly contrary to the Old; how to be solved. p. 1244. The reckoning of Numbers even in the Old Testament are sometimes different from itself; reconciled. p. 1244. The Difficulty of the Scriptures is not to the discredit, but to the glory and majesty thereof. p. 1245, 1246. Its difficulty consists in several passages in the same words, when they may be taken in two senses directly contrary one to another. p. 1034, 1035, 1095, 1248, &c. The Scripture Text, when read to them that understood not the Language, it was ever interpreted into the Mother-Tongue p. 688, 689. When any Place of the Old Testament was cited by the Jews, they delivered it always in the very Original words. 694. A Scripture Text and an Opinion distinguished. p. 758. Its not unusual in Scripture when the same Story is cited in two places to bring in some difference, either in Things, Men or Years; and that from the highest Reason. p. 766. The Scripture Text was usually varied or inverted by the Reader, or the Preacher in the Pulpit or the Schools among the Jews, with the reason thereof. Page 673
• Scythopolis or Bethshan, a City; where situate. 57, 315, 493
• Scythopolitan Country, what? 492, 493
• Sea of Apamia, what upon conjecture? 63
• Sea of Cinnereth, in the Old Testament, is called in the New, The Lake of Gennaesaret, also the Sea of Galilee, and the Sea of Tiberias. p. 65. Sea of Galilee, its length, and breadth. p. 536. Sea of Sodom, what, and of what use? 6
• Seas, the Seven Seas according to the Talmudists, and the four Rivers compassing the Land, what? 5
• Sebaste, a brave City, built by Herod, just where Samaria stood, may be the place called in the New Testament the City Samaria. 676, 677
• Seed of Abraham; to be of the Seed of Abraham the Jews supposed was sufficient to fit them for the Kingdom of Heaven. p. 533. Being of the Seed of Abraham was much gloried in by the Jews. 566
• Seed time and Harvest; Plowing, Sowing, Mowing, Dressing of the Vines, and all the management of the Gardens, Grounds, Fields and Vineyards, lay in the hands of the Fathers of the Traditions; so that the Country Men did none of these things but by the Traditional Rule. p. 87, 88. Seed time and Harvest was early among the Jews. 184, 185
• Separate, what it is to be Separate from Christ. 1297
• Sepharad, rather in Edom than in Spain. 368
• Septuagint Translation hath in it many errors. p. 401, to 404. The Septuagint or the Greek Interpreters, their boldness in adding to the Scripture, taken notice of. p. 666, 667. The differing Members of the Septuagint Translators render the same word in differing places in a different way. 667
• Sepulchers of the Jews, described, with the whole manner of burying. p. 89, 90. The whiting of them, what? p. 235. Their distance from Cities, were two thousand cubits. 323
• Servants, how bought, and how employed. p. 127. Servants that were Jews, how they came to be Servants, and how again to be made free, called Libertines. 663
• Seventy Interpreters noted. p. 306, 312. Seventy (or the Greek) Interpreters in their rendering the Text, sometimes favor the Jewish Traditions, and sometimes the common Interpretation of the Nation. p. 620. A comparison of the History of the Seventy Interpreters, as it is in Josephus, and as it is in the Talmudists. p. 804, 805. They changed thirteen places in the Law. p. 805, 806. In what value the Version of the Seventy seems to have been among the Jews; illustrated by examples. p. 806, 807. They translated the Old Testament so as to favor the Manners, Traditions, Ordinances, and State of the Jewish Nation. p. 806, 807. Its not an accurate pure Version even the Jews being Judges. p. 807, 808. Objections answered. p. 808, 809. Whence not the Greek Version but the Hebrew Text was read in the Synagogues of the Helenists. p. 808. By what Authors and Councils it might probably be that the Greek Version came forth, which obtains under the Name of the Seventy, performed with more craft than Conscience; why therefore did the Apostles and Evangelists use it? 809, to 811
• Sheaf, first Fruit Sheaf, where and how reaped? p. 38, 52. When to be offered. p. 184. The manner of reaping it. 618, 619
• Sheep Gate, or Probatica, was not near the Temple contrary to the Jewish opinion. 507
• Shekel, of what parts and value it was. p. 343, 1204. The reason of the Gift of half a Shekel, as used in the Temple p. 1204, 1205. Why the half Shekel was to be paid at the age of twenty years, and not before. 1206
• Shepherd, Christ a great Shepherd, described. 573, 574
• Shezor, a Town in upper Galilee. Page 77
• Shibin, not far from Zippor. 76
• Shoos and Sandals, not the same, against Beza and Erasmus. 178
• Shops, or Tabernae, where things were sold for the Temple, where situate. 512
• Shosbenuth, or Shosbenim, what? 527
• Shechem, why called Sycbar. 506
• Signs are for a fit generation. p. 191. Meer Signs, or Miracles, were never wrought by our Savior. p. 1104; Signs of the Heaven and Air, and of the coming of the Messiah, what? p. 203. Signs of Christ's coming, what from the Doctrine of the Jews. 240, 241
• Siloam, a sweet and large Fountain, where situate, and which way it emp • led itself. p. 25, 26, 508, 509. Sil • am taken for part of Jerusalem. 441
• Simon Magus, who he gave out himself to be, and what the Samaritans accounted him. 676, 677
• Sin is not to be remitted after death. p. 190. How a Man may know whether it be pardoned to him. p. 1071, 1072. Deadly Sin, what it is. p. 1093, 1094, &c. Sin is the more desperately deadly by how much it is the more desperately willful. p. 1098. Sin of the Devil, what it was? p. 1098. Sin against the Holy Ghost, why more grievous than that against the Son. p. 1130. Believers punished for Sin, against the opinion of the Antinominians. p. 1226. God stints the time of Men's rising from the Death of Sin, which slipped is not to be retrieved. p. 1238, 1239. Sin unto death, and Sin against the Holy Ghost, how distinguished. p. 1253. Sin of the Devils, wretched, being beyond pardon. p. 1305. God's letting Men go on uninterrupted in their Sin is the greatest punishment they can have here. p. 1310, 1311. What to think of Saints dying with some Sin unrepented of. 1343, 1344
• Sindon, was a Cloak made with Linnin, and hung with Fringes. 354, 355
• Singing of Psalms was one part of Prophesy. p. 785. See Psalms.
• Singular and Disciple, what? They are Terms sometimes confounded, and sometimes distinguished. 433
• Sinners, there is nothing more desirable to God, Christ and Angels than the repentance of a Sinner. p. 1269. What it is that moves God, Christ and Angels to desire this? 1270
• Sins of wicked Men are set down in Scripture that we may avoid them. 1306
• Zion was the upper City on the North part of Jerusalem. p. 22, 23, 24. After the return from Babylon it was constantly called the upper Town. 23
• Sippor or Zippor, a City encompassed with a Land flowing with Milk and Honey; noted for warlike affairs, an University, many Synagogues, and many famous Doctors. 74, 75
• Sirbon a Lake like that of Sodon. 9
• Sitting, after the days of Rabban Gamaliel, was the posture of Learning. 396
• Sitting at Table, what the manner among the Jews. 595, 596
• Slaughter or Cruelty, prodigious in the East Indies: 1295
• Sleep put for Death, used hundreds of times among the Talmudists. 174
• Smelling, judging by Smelling, supposed by the Jews to be one qualification of the Messiah, for want of which Ben-Cozibah was destroyed by the Jews. 543
• Socoh, in Jos. 25. 35. what? 51
• Socinianism and Quakarism are great Heresies. 1280, 1281
• Solomon's Porch, what and where? 511, 512, 1034
• Son, what the Son is bound to do for the Father. 200
• Son of Abraham by Faith, and Nature, what? 467
• Son of David, a common term in the New Testament and Talmudic Writings for the true Messias. 96, 97
• Son of God, the Messiah acknowledged to be the Son of God by the Jews, though not by Nature but by Adoptlon. p. 269, 270. He is put for the Messias frequently. p. 351. Son of God, and Messiah, or Christ, are convertible terms against the Jews. Page 385, 548, 549
• Son, the word Son is to be added to every Race in Christ's Genealogy. 400
• Son of Man, why this term is attributed to Christ. p. 204. The Son coming in Glory and in the Clouds, signify only Christ's taking vengeance on the Jewish Nation. 265
• Sons of the envious Woman, what? 52
• Sonship, or Adoption, as referring to God, how understood by the Jews. 521, 533
• Sorceresses, Women of Israel were generally Sorceresses. 244
• Sorrows of the Messiah, what? 351
• Soul, the Soul is imprisoned and restrained in its actings whilst it is in the Body. p. 1092. How the Soul contemplates God. p. 1116. Soul put for Life, and Person. p. 1204, 1205. Soul of Man (not the Body) bears the Image and Resemblance of God, and how? p. 1284, 1285. Whether the Souls of Men are alike. p. 1285. The Soul of Lazarus was in Heaven those four days he was dead. p. 1352. Where was the Soul of Christ when separate from the body? p. 1344. His Soul was like the Souls of other Men, in its infusion, existence, and acting in the Body. 1352
• Souls, of the Jews disposed of by the Jewish Schools under a threefold phrase or state. p. 455. The Transmigration (or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ) as also the Pre-existence of Souls, what? p. 569. How to judge of the true quality and worth of Souls. p. 1212, 1213. Spectra or Apparitions of the Souls of Men, believed by the Jews. p. 483, 1283. Souls of other Men should be dear to us as well as our own. p. 1297, 1298, 1299. Souls of Men in a better state than Devils; and whether all Souls be in a savable condition. p. 1302. The Pre-existence of Souls, some hold it. p. 1352. Whether all Souls are equal. p. 1353. What doth a Soul instantly after it hath left the Body. p. 1354. The Soul doth neither sleep nor die when out of the Body. p. 1355. Souls in the other World are fixed in their place and condition. 1355
• South Country used for Judea. 13
• Spain and France, what places the Jews understood for them. 368
• Speaking, among the Jews, used to be with all possible shortness, especially where the thing was plain. p. 668. Speaking with Tongues, what is meant by it. 1157
• Spectra, or the Apparitions of the Souls of Men after death, believed by the Jews. 1283
• Spirit of Prophesy, and the Holy Spirit, ceased from Israel from the death of the later Prophets. p. 802. The false pretenders to the Spirit, how they may be discovered. p. 1046. Spirit of Revelation, not necessarily inferred, or begotten, by any degree of Holiness whatever; the truth of this proved at large. p. 1046. The Spirit of Holiness and the Spirit of Revelation, how they differed. p. 1046. The Spirit of Sanctification, how to know whether a Man hath it or no. p. 1047. What it is to have the Spirit. p. 1150, 1151, 1152, &c. Adam had not the Spirit of Sanctification nor of Prophesy. p. 1150. Saints in Glory have not the Spirit. p. 1150. How the Spirit worketh by the Word? The having of it implies not perfection. p. 1152. The several conditions of having the Spirit. p. 1151, 1152, &c. The Spirit never leaves them that have it. p. 1153. To have the Spirit implies not the Gift of Prophesy. p. 1153. The difference between the Spirit of Sanctification and Prophesy. p. 1154. The Enthusiasts, about everyone having the Spirit, and the ground of it, refuted. p. 1156. The Spirit of Prophesy and Revelation, and the Spirit of Grace and Holyness, are greatly differing. p. 1290. The Spirit of God, can, and does overpower the Hearts, Tongues, and Actions of Men, so as to serve the design of God's Glory. 1290, 1291, 1292
• Spirits, unclean, what? p. 175. Spirits, evil, and unclean; the Jews supposed the first inflicted Diseases, the second haunted Burying places. p. 441, 442. Spirits, Angels, and Demons, distinguished among the Jews. p. 483. The Sadducees denied the being of Spirits. p. 1282, 1284. Spirits and Angels, how distinguished. Page 1283
• Spittle was accounted wholesome by the Jews for fore Eyes. 570
• Stationary Men, what? 278
• Stock of Israel, to be of the Stock of Israel, the Jews supposed, was sufficient to fit them for the Kingdom of Heaven. 533
• Stoned, what sort of Persons or Criminals were to be stoned among the Jews. 579, 746
• Stoning, and other executions, were without the City, and why? p. 266. How performed. p. 349. The whole proceeding of it among the Jews. 675
• Strangled things, what the meaning of the Apostolic Prohibition concerning them. 697
• Strato's Tower, what; 54
• Streets some were memorable in Jerusalem. 34, 35
• Stripes, what number Malefactors were to be beaten with, and what kind of Scourge. 439
• Subterraneous places, as Mines and Caves, were in the Land of Israel. 88
• Swearing, among the Jewish Doctors, little set by, unless it amounted to forswearing. 148, 149
• Sychem, the Metropolis of Samaria called Neapolis, the Jews in scorn called it Sychar. 52, 53
• Synagogue, or Synagogues, a Synagogue was only formed where there were ten Learned Men, of which number Three bore the Magistracy; the next was the public Minister of it, called the Angel or Bishop, then three Deacons or Almoners; the eighth Man was the Interpreter; the two last less known. p. 132, to 134. Synagogue days were the seventh, second, and fifth in every week; Synagogues were anciently built in Fields, but following times brought them into Cities, and built them higher than the rest of the Houses; everyone was to frequent them at the stated times of prayer. p. 134. On the Sabbath the Minister in the Synagogue called out any seven whom he pleased to read the Law; there was also Prayer, Catchising and Sermons, in the afternoon a Divinity Lecture. p. 135, 136. There was a Synagogue in the Temple. p. 395. In the Synagogue they read standing up. p. 405. He that read was appointed by the Ruler of the Synagogue, and called Maphtir, and was to read one and twenty verses. p. 406 Christ read and expounded, as was usual in that Synagogue of which he was a Member. p. 406. The Minister of the Synagogue kept the Sacred Books, and brought them out to be read when the company was met together. p. 407. A Synagogue might be made of a dwelling House; an Heathen might build a Synagogue. p. 413, 414. The Synagogue Minister, or Bishop of the Synagogue and Ruler, how differing. p. 172. There were in Jerusalem four hundred and sixty Synagogues, or four hundred and eighty, as say others. p. 35, 664. Synagogue of the Alexandrians, what? p. 36. In every Synagogue there were three Magistrates, who judged of matters of contest arising within the place. p. 179, 180. Whether lawful to alienate a Synagogue from a sacred to a common use? 664
• Syriac, or Aramtan Language under the second Temple was that which went under the Name of the Hebrew. 659
• Syrophenician, what? 202

T.
• TABERNACLE, of the Levitical Priesthood, why those that serve there have no right to eat at the Altar that Christians have. Page 1264
• Tabernacles, the Feast of Tabernacles, the preparation for it, and the parts of it. p. 554, 555. How, and wherefore the eighth Day was computed great by the Jews. 559, 560
• Tabernae, or Shops where things were fold for the Temple; where situate. 512
• Tabitha is of eternal memory in Acts 9. and in the Pages of the Talmudists. p. 18. Every Maid Servant of Rabban Gamaliel was called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 i. e. Mother Tabitha. p. 18. Tabitha Kumi, what it signifies. 342
• Table Gesture, or the manner of the Jews sitting there; with the form of the Table. 595, 596
• Table, second, The Commands of the Second Table chiefly enjoined in the Gospel, and why? 1064
• Tables of Money Changers in the Temple, which our Savior overthrew; what? 1204
• Tabor was not the Mount where Christ was transfigured. p. 346. Mount Tabor, what, and where situate. 495, &c.
• Talent, what? 468
• Talith was a Cloak, which the Jews used to wear, made of Linnin. 355, 417
• Talmud of Jerusalem, (and it may be the Talmudic Mishna ) was written at Tiberias. p. 72, 73. The Jerusalem Talmud is like them that made it. 73, 74
• Tamar and Engedi, are the same 7
• Tarichet was a City, thirty furlongs from Tiberias. 71
• Tarnegola the upper, called Gebar or Gabara by the Rabbins. 77
• Tarsus was a famous Greek Academy. 644
• Tauros a Mountain, where situate. 516
• Teachers of the Law, and Lawyers, what? p. 433, 434. Teachers used to sit down, when they had done reading, while they taught. 689
• Teaching was even by the Jewish Doctors sometimes performed out of the Synagogues, in Streets and ways. 410
• Temple of Jerusalem, ten wonders referring to it. p. 21. Its breadth and length. p. 33, 34. In easing nature within the view of the Temple, though at a great distance, immodest Parts were to be turned the contrary way. p. 41. There was a constant Market in the Temple and Shops for that end. p. 224. Some hints of the condition of the Second Temple. p. 512, 513, 514 How long it was in building by Solomon, Zerubbabel, and especially by Herod. p. 529, 530. How much the Second Temple came behind the first. p. 530. There were three Temples, one at Jerusalem, another on Mount Gerizim, and a third in Egypt. p. 540, 541. The Second Temple at Jerusalem wanted the Divine Presence, the Ark, the Cherubims, the Urim and Thummim, and the Spirit of Prophesy. 541
• Temptation, the method the Devil used in tempting Christ. 129, 130
• Ten, the Nation of the Jews delighted mightily in the number Ten. 246
• Ten Tribes, they were placed in Assyria and Babylon. p. 800, 801. The Seats, Cities, and Countries of the Ten Tribes, were well known to the Talmudists, and much more so in the times of the Apostles. 801.
• Tera, Abraham's Father, his place of Residence, Religion, and time of Death, wrong computed by the Rabbins 666
• Testament, the New Testament revealeth the Old, it requires Study to unfold it, rather than Revelation, and why? p. 1034, The New Testament Phrases and Passages, the surest and safest way to understand them is not by framing a sense of out own, which we think fair and probable, but by observing how they were understood by them to whom they were uttered. Page 1041, 1042
• Testimony (or Witness) was of three sorts,—Vain,—Standing,—and of the words of them that agreed. 335, 337
• Text of Scripture, usually varied or inverted by the Reader, or Preacher in the Pulpit, or Schools, among the Jews, with the reason thereof. p. 673. When read to them that understood not the Language, it was interpreted into the Mother Tongue. 688, 689
• Thamna, three of the Name. 373
• Thanks before meat, the manner of it. 23
• Thessalonians, the first Epistle to them, was Writ the first of all the Epistles. 1145
• Thieves of Israel, were esteemed by the Jewish Doctors to be the People of God, so not punished. 612
• Thousand years, the opinion of the Millinaries concerning it, refuted, by showing that the Thousand years which they expect are already expired. p. 1056, 1057, 1171, 1172. The Jews themselves expected that the Messias should reign amongst them a Thousand years. 1057
• Threatenings of God, some are like Thunderclaps. 1295
• Three years and an half, often made use of to express things affective and sorrowful. 513
• Throne of Christ, put for his judgment in his entrance upon his Evangelical Government. 220
• Tiberias, a fortified City from the days of Joshua, then called Rakkath. p. 67. The situation of Tiberias is ill placed in the Maps. p. 67, 68. The Rabbins of Tiberias, what? p. 73, 74. Tiberias very delightfully seated, built in honor to Tiberius the Emperor; after some time it became the chief City of the Land of Israel. p. 72. Talmudic Mishna and the Jerusalem Talmud was written there. 72, 73
• Times, and affairs of Men, how God knows and dates them. 1250, &c.
• Timnath, three of the Name. 373
• Tisri was ennobled before Christ's time by many excellent things done in it. p. 107. This Month is drawn down from its beginning to the Feast of Tabernacles. 554, 555
• Tongue, Mother Tongue, when the Text of Scripture was read to them that understood not the Language, it was interpreted into the Mother Tongue. 688, 689
• Tongues, the Gift of them was general upon all the Disciples. p. 643. The Holy Ghost in his extraordinary Gifts and Tongues could only be communicated by the Apostles. p. 678. Tongues, and speaking with Tongues, what is meant thereby. p. 1157. Tongues was one of the two extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit. 1157
• Towns were fortified places. p. 87. Towns, Cities and Villages, distinguished. 333, 334
• Trachon, or Trachonitis, what, and where. 81▪ 82, 364
• Tradition managed all among the Scribes and Pharisees, even all the common things of Seedtime, Harvest, and Vintage. 87, 88
• Traditions, were valued by the Jews above the Word of God. p. 199 They were valued above Miracles. p. 345. They were as much esteemed and desired by the Jews when they returned from their captivity, as Idolatry was before. p. 1113. They were more destructive to the Jews than Idolatry was p. 1113. How they deceived the Jews to their own destruction. p. 1193, 1194. The Traditions of Rome and of Old Jerusalem, of what sime • ry or likeness and effect they are. 1200
• Traditionarians refer the first conception of their Traditions to the times of Ezra. 124
• Transmigration (or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ) of Souls, also their Preexistence, were the opinion of the Jews. 569
• Transubstantiation not believed, how punished. 117 •
• Treasury, called Corban, what? p. 299. Where it was. 301
• Tree in Paradise which was forbidden to Adam, what? 382
• Tribes, the Ten Tribes were placed in Asyria and Babylon. p. 800, 801. The Seats, Cities and Countries of the Ten Tribes were well known to the Talmudists, and much more so in the times of the Apostles. p. 801. Two of the Jewish Tribes were dispersed before our Savior's time, and the other Ten not, the reason of this. Page 1145
• Tribute money, what two things persuade that it was the half Shekel paid yearly in the Temple. 211, 212
• Tribute, God requires some Tribute of Men for their preservation. 1208
• Trinity, the Doctrine of it by degrees grew up to a full maturity. p. 275. The Trinity proved from the Scripture. p. 1128. This Doctrine was intimated by the Holy Ghost in expressing the most great Actions in Scripture. 1128
• Truma, how the Galileans and Jews differed about it. 78
• Trumpet, whether a Trumpet was sounded when the Jews did their Alms? 154, 155
• Truth, why the Gospel is so called. p. 1187. Who are the great resisters of it. p. 1189. Why God permits wicked Men to resist the Truth. p. 1190. The cause of Ignorance and Error, is because Men will not know and embrace the Truth. p. 1286, 1287. Truth is to be labored after and kept. p. 1287. How to know it among the various Opinions that are abroad. 1287
• Tsok, a Rock twelve miles from Jerusalem. 50
• Twilight, distinguished among the Rabbins into four Parts, which will easily reconcile the four Phrases of the Four Evangelists about the Resurrection of Christ. 359
• Tyre was the Name of diverse Towns, because built in rocky places. 80
• Tithes, the Priests and Levites always lived upon Tithes, when they Studied in the Universities, Preached in the Synagogues and attended on the Temple Service. p. 86. Out of what Tithes were paid. 235
• Tything of Lambs, how performed by the Jews. 575

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• U, The Syriac Tongue affects the letter U in the first Syllable of Words. Page 694
• Vail, with which Women (Christian Women) were covered, was not for a sign of subjection to their Husbands. 771, 772, 773
• Vailing, or covering the head, why used by the Jews in Prayers and Fasts, &c. 769, 770, 771
• Valley, of Crafts-Men, what? p. 325. Of Hinnon, used Historically in the Old Testament, metaphorically in the New; it was the common sink of Jerusalem; there was a constant fire to burn up the bones and filth of the City. p. 38. Valley of Jehoshaphat, what? p. 39. Valley of Rimmon, what? 52
• Vanity, the Gentile World was subject to vanity of mind. 708
• Veil of the Temple, what? 268, 269
• Vengeance, The day of Vengeance put for Christ's coming with vengeance to judge the Jewish Nation, six differing ways of expressing it. 346
• Venus, Bath of Venus in Aecon. 60
• Version, the Jews thought not so honorably of any Version as they did of the Hebrew Bible. 803, 804
• Village, a Village was where there was no Synagogue. 87
• Villages, Cities and Towns distinguished. 333, 334
• Vine, whether not that Tree in Paradise which was forbidden to Adam. 346
• Vinegar was the common drink of the Roman Soldiers. 477
• Virgins, Saint Austin 's determination about chaste Matrons and Virgins ravished by the Enemy when they broke into the City, what? 1095
• Umanus, a Mountain, where situate. 516
• Uncircumcised, many among the Jews, both Priests and People were uncircumcised. Page 760
• Unclean with a touch, what? p. 164. Of all uncleanness Leprosy was the greatest. p. 165. Meats, unclean, what? p. 199, 200. Unclean and Profane or Polluted, distinguished. 199, 200
• Universities, the Cities of the Levites were Universities, the Priests were maintained there by Tithes. 86
• Unlearned Men, how they may know the Truth among various and different opinions. 1287
• Unregenerate Men, whether all alike may be said to be of the Devil. 1307
• Until signifies either concluding or excluding. 1235
• Vow, of Jephtha, how to be understood, whether he did or did not Sacrifice his Daughter? p. 1215, to 1218. Very great care, prudence, and piety should be used in making a Vow. p. 1218. The Vow in Baptism, whether obligatory to Infants. 1221
• Vows, difficult to be kept, the Casuist Rabbins did easily absolve. p. 703. Vows of Consecration and Obligation or Prohibition, what? 200, 201
• Urim and Thummim. p. 336. What they were, and the manner of the inquiry by them. p. 1067. Urim and Thummim, Prophesy, and Revelation, were gone from the Jews for four hundred years before Christ came. 1284, 1288, 1289
• Usha, famed for Decrees made, and other things done there by the Jewish Doctors. 76

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• WAshing of Hands, this was a great mystery of Pharisaism, and abounded with nicities. p. 199, 200. Washing and plunging their Hands, what, and how they differ. p. 344, 345. Washing of Hands, of how great esteem among the Jews. p. 431. Washing of Cups and Platters, what? p.