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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt: ... GENERAL INDEX. A. Aaron and his family, their rank, &c, 310--2. Abbas Urspergemis, vid. Conrad. Abel, vid. Cain. Abraham, was taught the law first, and afterwards the gospel, 62; his teach-ing of religion to his family, 8; whether guilty of falsehood concern-ing his wife, 280; for quietness yielded his right, 229; how far known to the heathen, 48. Absalom, could discern between good and evil, 30. Abydenus, a witness to the general truth of our religion, 49. Accessary, we must not be accessary to sin, 76 i how we may be so in unlaw-ful things, ib.; in lawful things, 78. Accuser, vid. Plaintiff. Action at law, whether allowable, 229. Adam, what his hiding himself shewed, 22. Ado, mentions the pantheon and the temple of Bacchus being turned into christian churches, 377. Adrichomius, his description of Jeru-salem; reason for the christians in Europe looking eastward in their prayers, 387. Adversity, why common to good and wicked, 210. Adultery, comes from the heart, 231; reasons against it, 233; what leads to it, 235 sq.; how to be avoided, 236; various forms of it, 243 sq. Advocate or lawyer, may be a false wit-ness, 273. Mneas, alleged to be the first who in-vented that priests should be covered, 384. Mschines, cont. Timarch. 4, not f, Mschylus, his Persae quoted, 30. Aisculapius, priests bare-headed in worshipping him, 383. Afflicted in body or mind, prayed for by heathens, 388. Affliction, its cause, 114; beginning. 115, and ends, 116 sq.; instruments of it, 115. Ahimaaz, willing to carry evil tidings, 269. Alban's, St. records of its former reli-gion, 378. Alciat, quoted for the power of the heathen chief priests, 380. Alcoran, contains doctrines false, car-nal, and immoral, 42. Alcuinus, of the history of religious ceremonies, 368. Alexander, wept when ...