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nounce their senses, or admit the truth of revelation, 7, 8,
Joachim, abbat of Calabria, in the twelfth century dif
courfes of Antichrift, II. 168.

Jonah preaches repentance to Nineveh, I. 256. the king
and people repent at his preaching, ibid. the most an-
cient of all the prophets, 267. at what time he prophe-
fied, ibid.

Jortin (Dr.) his comparison of Moses and Christ, I. 167
-172. his remark upon the prodigies preceding the
deftruction of Jerufalem, II. 249.

Jofephus, his account of the great flaughter at the fiege of
Jerufalem, I. 186. his relation of the figns and prodigies
before its deftruction, II. 246-249. wonderfully pre-
ferved for the illuftration of the completion of the pro-
phecies, 351. the great ufe and advantage of his hiftory
in this respect, 352, 353, 354.

Irenæus, his notion of Antichrift, I. 467, 468. II. 412, 413.
his explication of the number of the beaft, III. 246, 247,
248.

Ifaac, more promises concerning his pofterity than of Ish-
mael, I. 64. the promife of the bleffed feed fulfilled in
Ifaac's family, 64, 69.

Ifaiah, his prophefy against the Affyrians, I. 249, 250.
against Babylon, 280, &c. against Tyre, 314, &e
against Egypt, 355, &c.

Ifhmael, his pofterity very numerous, I. 38, 39. the pro-
mises about him, how fulfilled, 38, &c.

Ifhmaelites. See Arabians.

Ifraelites, their poffeffion of Canaan according to the pro-
mife, I. 65.

Judah, Jacob's prophecies in bleffing this tribe, I. 91,
92, 93. the fcepter fhall not depart from Judah, that
prophecy explained, 94-104. its completion, 104-113.
continued a tribe till the coming of the Meffiah and
the destruction of Jerufalem, 104-107. became the ge-
neral name of the whole nation, 109, 110. this prophecy
an invincible argument that Jefus is the Meffiah, 113.
Julian his hypocrify, II. 165, 166, his attempt to rebuild
the temple miraculoufly defeated, II. 321, 322.
Jurieu (Peter) his notion of the refurrection of the wit-
neffes, III. 144, 145.

Juftin Martyr, his notion of the Man of Sin, II. 412. his
account of the millennium, III. 338, 339.

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K.

KEnnicot, his critical remark upon Noah's prophecy,

I. 24.
Kingdom, the Babylonian, I. 408, 443. the Medo-Perfian,
411, 446. the Macedonian or Grecian, 413, 449. the
four kingdoms into which this was divided, 451. the
Roman, 417, 451. the ten kingdoms into which this
was divided, 460, &c.

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L.

Actantius, his notion of Antichrift, II. 414. of the
millennium, III. 339, 340. and of the time fucceed-
ing, 354.

Laodice, wife of Ptolemy Philadelphus, put away, but
afterwards recalled, II. 96, 97. poifons her husband, and
caufes Bernice to be murdered, 97. fixes her elder fon
Seleucus Callinicus on the throne. 97. her wickedness
did not pafs unpunished, 98, 99, 100.

Laodicea, the terrible doom of that church, III. 39. now
an habitation for wild beafts, 39. its condition a warn-
ing to all impenitent and careless finners, 40. its former
fplendid condition, 40.

Laft times, what denoted thereby, II. 456-458.

Lateinos, that word contains the number of the beast,
III. 246, &c. how it agrees with the church of Rome,
247, 248, 249.

Latin church not reclaimed by the ruin of the Greek
church, III. 125, 126.

Lawgiver from between his feet, that expreffion explained,
I. 96, 97, 98.

Le Clerc, an able commentator, but apt to indulge
ftrange fancies, I. 101. his fingular interpretation of
Jacob's prophecy rejected, I. 101. his hypothefis of the
Man of Sin, refuted, II. 381, 382.

Little book, the contents of it, III, 128, &c. defcribes the
calamities of the western church, and their period, 129,
130. the contents to be published, 130. what meant
by the measuring of the temple, 132, 133. fome true
witneffes againft the corruptions of religion, 133, 134.
Little horn, among the ten horns of the western Roman
empire, I. 464, &c. among the four horns of the

Grecian

Grecian empire, II. 49. whether to be understood of
Antiochus Epiphanes or of the Romans, Il. 50-65.
the reafon of its appellation, 53, 69.

Lloyd, Bifhop, his account of the ten kingdoms into which
the Roman empire was divided, I. 461, 462. a memora-
ble thing of his about the Revelation, III. 5, 6. his
notion of the refurrection of the witnefles, 145, 146.
Locufts, the Arabians compared to them, III. 100, 111.
their commiffion, and how fulfilled, 101. not real, but
figurative locufts, 102. likened unto horfes, 103. a de-
fcription of their heads, faces and teeth, 103, 104, 105.
like unto fcorpions, 106. their king called the deftroyer,
107. their hurting men five months, how to be under-
ftood, and how exactly fulfilled, 107-111.

Lollards, preach against the fuperftitions of the church of
Rome, III. 184. prefent a remonftrance to the parla-
ment against the doctrins and practices of that church,
186, 187.

Longinus reduces Rome to a poor dukedom, III. 94, 95.
Loretto, the great riches of the image, house and trea-
fury, III. 291, 292.

Luther, preaches against the pope's indulgencies, III. 196:
that queftion anfwered, Where was your religion before
Luther, 197. protefts against the corruptions of the
church of Rome, 260.

M.

Maccabees, their great fuccefs against the enemies of
the Jews, II. 162, 163.

Macedonian empire, why compared to a leopard, I. 449,
450. why described with four wings and four heads, and
dominion given to it, 450, 451. why likened to a goat,
II. 29, 30.

Machiavel, his account of the ten kingdoms into which
the Roman empire was divided, I. 460, 461. points
out the little horn, 476. fhows how the power of the
church of Rome was raifed upon the ruins of the empire,
II. 403–407.

Mahuzzim, what it means, II, 176, 177, 185. the pro-
phecy expounded, 186.

Mamulucs, Jerufalem long under their dominion, II. 333.
all their dominions annexed to the Othman empire, ibid.
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Man of Sin, St. Paul's prophecy about him. II. 359. the fenfe and meaning of the paffage, 360. what meant by the coming of Chrift and the day of Chrift, 361-366. who is the Man of Sin, 367. what by fitting in the temple of God, 369, 370. what by he who letteth will let, 371, 407, 418. the deftruction of the Man of Sin foretold, 373. the opinions of fome learned men rejected, 376-89. other opinions about the Man of Sin, 390, 392. applicable to the great apoftafy of the church of Rome, 394. the pope the Man of Sin, 408—411. what the fathers fay of the Man of Sin, 412-418. the evidences that the pope is the Man of Sin, 424. the opinion of the ancient fathers about this point, 412, 413, 414. this prophecy an antidote to popery, 424, 425. Marriage, an account of its being forbid to the clergy, II, 464-469. the worfhipping of demons and prohibition of marriage went together, 468.

Maundrell, his account of the ftate of Palestine, I. 225—
228. his account of Tyre, 348, 349.

Maximin the emperor, a barbarian in all respects, III. 61.
Mede, a most learned and excellent writer, I. 29. a mistake
of that author's corrected, ibid, his account of the ten
kingdoms into which the Roman empire was divided,
461. of the three kingdoms which the little horn sub-
verted, 478. his great pains in explaining the prophecies,
and fixing the true idea of Antichrift, II. 422. his ex-
cellent treatife of the apoftacy of the latter times, 427,
428. One of the best interpreters of the Revelation,
III. 9. his hard fate in the world, II. 422. III, 9. his
conjecture concerning Gog and Magog, 346.
Meffiah principally intended in Mofes's prophecy of a pro-
phet like unto himself, I. 158-172. expected about
the time of our Saviour, II. 289. and foretold that he
fhould work miracles, 290.

Mezeray, what that hiftorian fays of the Waldenfes, III.
177.

Millennium commences, and Satan bound and shut up a thousand years, III. 329, 330. the prophecy not yet fulfilled, 331, 332. this period taught to be the feventh millennary of the World, 334. quotations in proof of this, 335, . the reafons of this doctrine growing into difrepute, 341, 342. curiofity into the nature of this future kingdom to be avoided, 411.

Miracle

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Miracles and prophecies, the great proofs of revelation, I. 7. how to judge of miracles, II. 296, 297. what to think of the pagan and popish miracles, 297-302. those of the church of Rome, not real but pretended, III. 236, 237. their pretended miracles a proof of a falfe church and a diftinguifhing mark of Antichrift, 237. prophecies accomplished, the greatest of all miracles, 443, 444.

Mohammed, the time when his new religion was propagated, II. 325. fome contend that he was the Man of Sin, 390. that opinion refuted, 391, 408. the ftar that opens the bottomless pit, III. 98, 99.

Monks, great promoters of celebacy and worshipping of the dead, II. 464—467.

Mofes, a faithful historian in recording the failings of the patriarchs, I. 10, 11. his prophecy of a prophet like himself, 156-175. many proofs that the Meffiah was principally intended in that prophecy, 159-162. the great likenefs between Mofes and Chrift, 164-172. the comparison between them as drawn by one author and enlarged by another, 165, 166, 167. the punishment of the people for their difobedience to this prophet, 172175. the prophecies of Mofes concerning the Jews, 176, &c. his prophecy of their difperfion exactly ́ fulfilled, III. 427, 428.

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NAHUM, the time of his prophecying uncertain, I. 258. foretold the utter deftruction of Nineveh, I. 258-270. his prophecies of the manner of its deftruction exactly fulfilled, 264-268.

Nebuchadnezzar, his dream of the great empires, I. 399440. the interpretation of it by Daniel with the occafion of it, I. 402-406. the emblems of that dream confidered and explained, 406-440.

Newton, Sir Ifaac, his account of the ten kingdoms into which the Roman empire was divided, I. 462. of the three kingdoms, which the little horn fubverted, 479. penetrates into fcripture as well as into nature, II. 51. his account of the little horn in the Grecian empire, 60, . his the best interpretation of Dan. XI. 51, &c. Hb 2

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