INDEX

TO VOL. I.

A

A

DULTERY, 57. Defined, ib. A capital offence
by the divine law, 61, 62. So by the law of
England in 1650, p. 63, n. Not fo now, ib.
AXIBA, 82.

AUSTIN, St.-his teftimony concerning concubinage,
32, n.
On the antient polygamy, 100, n. A foolish
faying of his on the fubject, 255, n.

ADULTERY, mifchiefs of, 65.

ABRAHAM and Hagar, 117, and n.

ALEXANDER III. Pope, his conftitution concerning post-

legitimation, 34.

ADAM and Eve, their creation-no precedent to be
drawn from it against polygamy, 143, and n.
ABIGAIL and Ahinoam, wives to David, 152.

ABISHAG the Shunamite, 169.

ANSELM, Archbishop of Canterbury, makes a canon
against fodomy, which is never published, 177, n.
ACT of GENERATION, not finful in itself, 45 & feq.
-explained in all its fenfes, 269, 270.

ABIMELECH, cafe of, 281.

VOL. II.

Ff

ARTICLE,

ARTICLE, SEVENTH, of the church of England, quoted
and explained, 300, 301.
ABIGAIL, her pleading for Nabal, 340.

ABROGATION, doctrine of, borrowed from the Mabo-
metan doctors, 401, n.

B

OLINGBROKE, Lord, a fentiment of his, 7, n.
BURNET, Bishop, quoted on the subject of the dif-
foluteness of the unmarried clergy before the reforma-
tion, 64, n. A quotation from him on polygamy,
261-2. His opinion at large thereon, 311.
BACON's Abr. quoted on pre-contracts, 30.
BUXTORF, on Deut. xxi. 1-4. p. 87, n.

BIGAMY, ftatute of 1 Jac. c. 11, preamble of, 181, n..
Bigamifts-clergy cenfured, 197, n. Oufted of clergy,

206.

BELLARMINE, his teftimony for the Pope's power to
make and unmake fins, 190, n.

BANTAM, more females than males born there, 107.
BEZA-talks nonfenfe, 154.

BEREANS, their example to be followed, 248.

BOTTLES, leathern, mistaken for glass, 371.

BUCER, on concubinage, 407, 408.

BARBEYRAC obferves that Grotius changed his opinion
concerning the interpretation of Matt. xix. 9. p. 393,
394. See alfo vol. ii. 407 & feq.

BAPTISM, no new law of CHRIST,
BERNARD, on celibacy, 175, and n.

C

350.

RUCIFIX, an heathen invention, Pref. p. xiv. n.
CONSTANTINE, his laws about marriage, 31, n.
Eftablishes Chriftianity by law, 211, n.

CONCUBINE, what, 53, 54, and n.

COROLLARIES on the nature and obligation of mar-
riage, 39.

COMMANDMENT, the feventh, does not forbid poly-

gamy, 121.

CHURCH, in 4th century, made no diftinction between
wife and concubine, 31, n.

CELIBACY

CELIBACY condemned, 177 & feq. Of the clergy,
207, 208.

CONTINENCY, where to be prayed for, 186.

CARTHUSIANS would not eat fleb to fave their lives, 189.
CERBERUS, "Popis, his three heads, 209, n.
CORINTH had a temple of Venus, 220, n.

CORINTHIANS lewd and debauched to a proverb, 220.
Paul's answer to their letter, 215.

plained, ib. & feq.

CESAR, his account of community of wives among

Britons, 231, n.

CONCUBINES approved in the church, 31, 32, n.
CECROPS establishes monogamy at Athens, 244.

Ex-

the

CAVE, Dr. allows that the primitive Chriftians carried
matters too far with refpect to second marriages, 258.
CEREMONIAL law, its morality muft ever remain, 275.
CASTRATION practifed by fome of the antient Chrif
tians, 304, n.

CERINTHUS, his creed, 347.

CHRIST not a giver of a new law, 320. His offices, 357.
His commiffion, 400.

COMMERCE of the fexes, an object of the moral law, 362.
CARVILIUS RUGA, the first Roman who divorced his
wife, 388.

CANON LAW, Popifh, affirms the church to be above
the fcripture, Pref. xv. n.

CLERGY, their marriage made felony, 207, 208.

D

D

OWER among the Jews, 26.

DEUT. XXIV. 1. confidered and explained, 85, 86,
87, and n.

DEUT. xxii. 28, 29. explained, p. 28, 29.

DIVORCE, Jewish, did not operate as a diffolution of
the marriage, 88. Bill of, 368. Attended with dif
ficulties, 367, n.

DEUT. xxi. 15. a conclufive argument for polygamy,

112.

DAVID has many wives given to him, 114.
DIOGENES held community of women, 223.
DELANEY, Dean, his reflections on polygamy, 117, 262,
264, 265. Examined, ib. and 266, 267.
DAVID and Jonathan, their friendship, 340.

DRUSILLA forfakes her husband and marries Felix, 386.
E EXOD.

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E

E

XOD. xxii. 16. explained, 24, 25, 26.

ECCLESIASTICAL Courts, their views of mar-
riage, 29, 30.

their oppreffion and ty-

, 66, n. Ought to be abolished, 67.

5, 25, and n.

of the faints in old time are for our instruc

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BIGAM
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206.

BELLARM

make an
BANTAM, I.
BEZA-talks n
BEREANS, the

BOTTLES,

BUCER,

BARBEY

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394

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elibacy

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Christianity by

what, 62, 54

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GROTIUS Owns the Jewish law allowed polygamy, 251, n.
His notions on the law of Chrift relative to poly-
gamy, 322.

H

changes his opinion, 394.

H

ENRY II. of France, a faying of his on papal dif-
penfations, 13, n.

HILLELL, 82.

HUSBAND, defined, 43, n.

HORACE quoted on navigation, 103, n.

bility of words, 59, n.

On the muta-

HAGAR's marriage with Abram not finful, 142, n.
HEN. VIII. ftatute of, against priests' marriage, 207, 208.
HALL, Bishop, a faying of his, 350.

HERODIAS leaves her husband, and marries his brother,
385, n.

IPHIL-conjugation, how expreffed by the Hellenifts,
93, n.

I

*S xix. 1, &c. confidered, 55.

us introduces the faying of a Jew on the cre-

he New Teftament, 94, n.

the caufe of the Jewish polygamy, 93

by the act of the high-priest Jehoia-