Page images
PDF
EPUB
[ocr errors]

D.

Democritus, his philofophical principles improved by Epicurus, p. 22. Druids, their religion and ceremonies, p. 42.

Drottes, the priests of Odin, their cruel fuperftition, and bloody facrifices, p. 60.

David, destroyed all kinds of idolatry in Ifrael, p. 106.

Descartes's laws of nature will not bear a phyfical enquiry, p. 334.

E.

Edda, a body of the antient Scythian mythology, firft published in the year 1057, p. 38.-The allegorical account which it gives of the creation, and of the end of the world, p. 50-56. Egyptians, their grofs idolatry: Worshipped cats, crocodiles, and other bafe animals, p. 199. Their doctors afferted that the world had then exifted near ten thousand years, but had often fuffered from deluges and from fire, p. 214.

Epicureans, called every thing fuperftition and folly which supposed a divine providence, p. 212.

Elijah, raifed the fon of the widow of Zarephath from the dead, p. 252. Elifha, raised the Shunamite's fon from the dead, p. 253.

F.

Fohu, the founder of the empire of China, p. 13.

Frigga, adored by the Celts as the mother of the gods, and as the goddefs of, voluptuoufnefs, p. 47.

Ferrara, his account of the book of Job, p. 91.

G.

Gauls, believed in a future state of rewards and punishments, p. 42. Greeks, worshipped all the host of heaven, as well as a number of ima

ginary deities, p. 199.-They degraded human nature by their grofs idolatry, ibid. Their philofophers rejected the doctrine of Christianity, because they could not comprehend it, p. 201. Germans, the antient, had all the annals and records written in verse, P. 90.

H.

Herodotus, his account of the religion of the antient Getæ, p. 42.His idea of the Pythia of Delphos, p. 232.

Hefiod, his opinion of the state of mankind in the first ages of the world, p. 53, and 288.

Hercules, adored as a god by the Thebans, for having freed their country from wild beafts, robbers, and lawless tyrants, p. 9, 10.

J.

Janus, introduced agriculture into Italy, p. 9.

Jofhua, the most wife, juft, and upright man, that was found among all the Ifraelitish nation after the death of Mofes, p. 105. Jefus Chrift, his coming foretold by all the prophets of the Jewish nation, p. 123. His fermon on the Mount a perfect system of morality,as well as descriptive of the attributes of the Supreme Being, P. 125. His parable of the Prodigal Son points out the fituation of every human being who has offended the Supreme Being, our common Father; and as well the tranfcendent goodness and mercy of the latter towards all thofe who return from their wickedness, p. 129. He delivers the woman taken in adultery, by making her accufers tacitly confefs, that they were unworthy to pass fentence upon her, p. 133.-He tells Nicodemus that the regenera

tion of life is abfolutely neceffary to falvation, p. 149. He re-
primanded the chief priests and pharifees, before all the people,
for the wicked designs which they had formed against him, p. 153

157.-He declares himself to be the Son of God before the
Jewish council, p. 180.-He prays for his murderers, p. 185.
Julian, emperor, copies Celfus's arguments against Christianity; ad-
mits the facts contained in the Evangelifts, but attempts to dif-
credit them, by attributing them to the power of magic, p. 210.
Jofephus, declares it to have been the general opinion of the Jews, that
John Baptift was invefted with an authority to baptize, and to pro-
mife remiffion of fins to thofe who received his baptifm, p. 188.
Jupiter, dethroned his father Saturn in Crete, and afterwards con-
quered a great part of Greece, p. 8,

L.

Lycurgus, the report which the Pythian prieftefs made of him, p. 10
-Learnt his political principles from the Brachmans, p. 22.
Leonidas, chief of the Lacedemonians, chused rather to die than to
preferve his life at the expence of his honour, p. 239.

Lucan, his opinion of the diffolution of the universe, p. 64.

M.

Metaphyfics, have never yet discovered any one truth, p. 3.
Materialists, their ideas of the human foul, p. 278.

Minos, from the justness of his laws, gained the repute of being the
fon of Jupiter, p. 10.

Montezuma, an abfolute and barbarous tyrant, p. 25.

Mango Copac, the founder of the empire of Peru, and of its wife re-
gulations, p. 26.

[ocr errors]

Mahomet, his parentage and education, p. 67. His religion, p. 69—
His idea of paradise, p. 69, 70.

Mofes wrote his books originally in verfe, after the manner of writ-
ing of those days, p. 91.The fevere laws which he published,
abfolutely neceffary to keep the Ifraelites from idolatry, p. 99.
Magi, taught a fpecies of morality, the worship of one God, the im-
mortality of the soul, and a state of future rewards and punish-
ments, p. 199.

Minerva, adored as a divinity for having invented the art of spinning,
P. 9.

Mercury, adored as a god for being the author of the manual arts and
merchandizing, p. 9.

N.

Numa, was the first who polifhed the civil and religious orders of the
Roman ftate, p, 10.

Newton, Sir Ifaac, his laws of nature capable of a phyfical demonstra-
tion, p. 333.

Neptune, worshipped as a god for having invented the art of naviga-
tion, P. 9.

O.

Ofyris received divine honours from the Egyptians, p. 9.
Odin Frigg, the conqueror of the northern parts of Europe, was the
high priest of Odin, the fupreme God of the Gete, p. 43.-
The arts which he used to corrupt the people of the northern
parts of Europe, and to introduce a grofs idolatry among them,
P. 44.

Orpheus,

Orpheus, transported all his myftical theology out of Egypt into Greece, p. 22.

P.

Philofophers, many of the modern, attribute to physical muses what they should have imputed to moral, p. 2.-They bewilder themselves with the jargon of metaphyfics, which has never yet difcovered any one truth, p. 3•

Plato, has given a striking portrait of Jesus Christ, p. 6.—His account of the difcourfe which Socrates had with Criton, p. 238. Pliny, the elder, his idea of the uncertainty of human knowledge, p. 7. Pythagoras learnt the principal part of his natural and moral philosophy from the Indian Brachmans, p. 22.

Pharifees, their fest formed from the law of Mofes and the philosophy of Plato, p. 111, 163.

Pliny, the younger, his letter to the emperor Trajan in favor of the Chriftians, p. 196.

Plutarch, his account of the moderation and forgiving temper of Lycurgus, P. 331.

Ptolemies, the, formed the great library at Alexandria, and endeavoured to introduce the study of moral philosophy into Egypt, but could not fucceed, p, 87.

R.

Romulus, the founder of the Roman state, p. 10.

Romans, their gods, for the most part, imaginary beings, p. 199. -They perfecuted the Chriftians for attempting to establish the worship of one god, p. 196.

Rouffeau, J. J. his deiftical principles, p. 342.

S.

Socrates, the declaration of the oracle of Delphos concerning him, p. 6. He points out the neceffity of Jefus Chrift coming to reveal the will of God to mankind, p. 6. and 340.-Although he was informed by Criton of the danger that threatened him, chused rather to die a philofopher than live ignominiously, p. 238. Scythians, their religion, manners, and cuftoms, p. 39. Sæmund Sigfuffon, in the year 1057, published the Edda, containing the principal parts of the antient Celtic mythology, p. 38. Snorro Sturlefon, republished the Edda,with additions, in 1222. p. 39. Seneca, his opinion of the diffolution of the universe, p. 63.

Solomon, led the Ifraelites into idolatry, and to offer up their children as burnt facrifices to Moloch, p. 106.

Sadducees, followers of the Fpicurean philosophy, p. 111.

Saturn, an antient king of Crete, p. 8.

T.

Thefeus, the founder of the state of Athens, p. 10.

Tamerlane, and his army, the adorers of one God, p. 42.

Turks, their improvements of the Mahometan principles of religion, P. 74. The principles which they established for extending their empire and dominion, p.75.-The severe and cruel principles of what they call their justice. p. 77.

V.

Verfe, the manner in which all the books and other writings were wrote, in the early ages of the world, p. 90.

Voltaire, a great admirer of Celfus; the former has copied and publifhed

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors][merged small][merged small]

published many of the affertions of the latter which reflected› upon the doctrines of Jefus Chrift, to mislead mankind, although he knew them to be falfe, p. 226.

Vulcan, worshipped as a god for having invented the forging of brafs and iron, p. 9.

X.

Xenophon, the character which he has given of Cyrus, p. 11. Xerxes, leads an army of Scythians into Greece, where they destroyed all the objects of the Grecian idolatrous worship, p. 45.

Y.

Ynca's, the family of the emperors of Peru fo called, p. 26-38.

Z.

Zamolxis, the lawgiver and high-prieft of the antient Getæ, p. 42. Zeno, his opinion of the end of the world, p. 63.

Zoroafter, his idea of the general conflagration, p.64.

[merged small][ocr errors]
[ocr errors][merged small]
« PreviousContinue »