ABBOT, archbishop of Canterbury,
character and conduct of, vol. v. p. 342.
Abelard, Peter, author of the Scholastic
System, iii. 81; he is condemned as a
heretic, 85; attacks heresies in ge-
neral, 89.

Abgarus, story of, i. 51.
Absalom, archbishop of Lunden, in
Sweden, iii. 3.

Abul-Faraj, an eminent Syrian writer,
iii. 134.

Abyssinia, Romish missions to, v. 123,
125; vi. 249; Lutheran missions, v. 229.
Abyssinians embrace the Monophysite
doctrine, ii. 327; state of their church
at different times, iv. 219; vi. 249,
343.

Acacius, bishop of Constantinople, is
deposed, ii. 75.

Academics, their impious notions, i. 30.
Academical institutions in Europe, iii.
135; iv. 252, 283, 323,
Acephali, a sect, ii. 74.

Adalbert, bishop of Prague, a martyr,
ii. 340.

Adamiles, tenets of, i. 209.

Bohemian, an account of, iii.

412.
Adrian, the emperor, a persecutor of the
Christians, i. 142.

I. pope, gratifies Charlemagne
with the right of election to the see
of Rome, ii. 219.

IV., arrogance of, iii. 47.

VI., good character of, iv. 55.
Eon, the eternal nature, i. 79.
Erian controversy, i. 345.
Africans, the nature of their conversion
in xv cent. examined, iii. 344; in xvii
cent. v. 37.
Agnoeta, a sect, ii. 133.

Agobard, archbishop of Lyons, account
of, ii, 263, 283.

Agricola, founder of the Antinomian
sect in Germany, iv. 275.
Albert the Great, character of, iii. 143,
213; his system of divinity, 221.

Albigenses, or Paulician sect, ii. 522;

cruel persecution of them, iii. 245.
Alcuin, character and works of, ii. 223.
Aldhelm, account of, ii. 162.
Alexander III. pope, confers on the car-
dinals the sole right of electing to the
pontificate, ii. 433; iii. 55; orders
schools to be erected, iii. 27; deposes
the emperor Frederic I. 48; is driven
from Rome, ibid. ; retrieves his affairs,
49; extends the papal authority, 55.
VI. infamous character of, iii.

384; iv. 10.

VII. conduct of, v. 23; his
bull against Jansenius, 189.

VIII. character of, v. 91.
Natalis, writes against the
popish claims, v. 133.
Alexandria, patriarch of, one of the
heads of the Christian church, i. 318;
extent of his authority in xvi cent. iv.

207.

Alfred, his taste for letters, ii. 262; the
most learned men under him, ibid.
Allatius, Leo, his works for uniting the
Greek and Romish churches, v. 218.
Almamoun, khalif of Bagdad, an emt-
nent patron of science, ii. 259.
Almeric, an account of, iii. 140.
Alphonso, king of Leon, an eminent pa-
tron of letters, in xiii cent. iii. 155; the
fame he acquired by his astronomical
tables, ibid.

Alphonso VI., king of Naples, a zealous
promoter of learning, iii. 348.

Altenburg, conference at, iv. 291.
Alva, duke of, a cruel persecutor of the
protestants, iv. 119; effect of his ty-
ranny, ibid.

Amalric, the absurd and impious doctrine
taught by him, iii. 257.

Ambrose, bishop of Milan, his character,
i. 323; his three books on the duty of
ministers, 334.

of Camaldoli, his works, iii.

393.
America, when first visited by the Euro-

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peans, iii. 344; its inhabitants con-
verted to Christianity, 345; English
and Dutch colonies there in xvi cent.
v. 35; Romish missions, 38; Protest-
ant missions, 41; the ambition of the
Jesuits in Paraguay, ibid. ; an episco-
pal church in North America, vi. 309.
Ames, William, account of, iv. 370; he
treats morality as a separate science,
v. 322:

Ammonius Saccas, founder of the new
Platonists, i. 152; attempts a coalition
of all sects with his own system, 153;
the principles of his philosophy, 154;
his moral discipline, 155; the per-
nicious effects of his philosophy to
Christianity, and hence the foundation
of the monks and mystics, 157; the
rapid progress of his sect, 231.
Amour, Guillaume de St., a strenuous
opposer of the mendicant friars, iii.
181; is banished, ibid.; his works
and great character, ibid.
Amsterdam, clergy and magistrates of,
oppose the toleration of the Menno-
nites, iv. 414.

Amyrault, Moses, account of his works,

v. 322; form of his doctrine and re-
conciliatory endeavours, 331; pro-
ceedings of the Swiss church against
him, 388.

Anabaptists, their enthusiastic, seditious,
and vile principles in xvi cent. and
punishments they undergo, iv. 93.
Anabaptists (Mennonites), their history,
iv. 379; maxim whence their pecu-
liarities arose, 383; their progress,
387;
crimes of many of them, 388;
points of doctrine maintained by the
most rational of them, ibid.; severe
punishments inflicted on them, 390.

of Munster, their seditious
madness, iv. 391; measures taken to
extirpate them, 393; plot against the
magistrates defeated, ibid.; how com
forted by Menno, 394; origin of the
sects that started up among them, 399;
warm contest, 400; new dissensions
among them, 402; their creed, con-
fessions, and peculiar tenets, ibid.;
state of learning and philosophy
among them, 411; their settlement in
the United Provinces, 414; English,
called Baptists, with an account of
their various denominations, 415; sin-
gular sect called Davidists, 418; va-
rious fortunes of the Anabaptists in
xvii cent. v. 435; union restored
among them, 436; different sects, with
their several characters and notions,
437; external form of their church,
ibid.; three orders of ministers among
them, ibid.

Anachorets, a monastic order in iv cent.
i. 340.

Anastasius, gives rise to the Nestorian
controversy, ii. 59.

the emperor, protects the Ace-.
phali, ii. 129.
Anchialus, patriarch of Constantinople,
an eminent patron of letters in xii cent.
iii. 25.

Andreas, James, employed in reconciling
the Lutheran divines, iv. 292.
Andronicus, the emperor, forbids all
controversies concerning speculative
points of theology, iii. 92.
Angelome, a monk of Lisieux, an acute,
but fantastic writer in ix cent. ii, 295.
Anglo-Saxons, oppress the Christians,
ii. 12; some few converted by Augus-
tin, 87; au universal conversion among
them in vii cent. ii. 137; the causes of
this conversion considered, ibid.
Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, im-
proves the science of logic, ií. 419;
inventor of the famous argument a-
scribed to Des-Cartes, 420; one of the
first who composed a system of divi-
nity, 496.

of Laon, his character, iii. 69, 78.
of Havelberg, a strenuous ad-
vocate for the Latins against the
Greeks, iii. 89.

Ansgar, founder of the Cimbrian, Da-
nish, and Swedish churches, ii. 250.
Anthropomorphites, a sect in x cent. ii.

.390.

Antichrist, ensigns of, what so called by
the Puritans, iv. 343.
Antinomians, their rise among the Luther-
ans, iv. 275; suppression by Luther,
ibid. ; tenets, ibid.; English, their rise,
and pernicious tenets, v. 365; their
modern state, vi. 312.

Antioch, jurisdiction of its patriarch in
iv cent. i. 318; the extent of his
power in xvi cent. iv. 207.
Antoninus, Marcus, a persecutor of the
Christians, i. 144; his partiality to
the Stoics, and its effects upon learn-
ing, 148.

Pius, persecution under him,

i. 143.
Antonius Paulus, endeavours to correct
the abuses among the clergy in xvii
cent. y. 278.
Antony, forms in Egypt the monks into
a body, i. 337; the rapid progress of
this order in the east, and maxims of
their philosophy which seduced the
Christians, ibid.

of Vienne, order of, ii. 483.
Apollinarian heresy, i. 377.
Apollonius Tyanaus, a knave, and an im-
postor, i. 229.