nounce their senses, or admit the truth of revelation, 7, 8,
Joachim, abbat of Calabria, in the twelfth century dif-
courses of Antichrist, III. 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.
Josephus, his account of the great flaughter at the siege of
Jerufalem, I. 186. his relation of the figns and prodigies
before its deftruction, II. 246-249. wonderfully pre-
served for the illustration of the completion of the pro-
phecies, 351. the great use 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 beast, III. 246, 247,
248.
Ifaac, more promises concerning his posterity than of Ish-
mael, I. 64. the promise of the blessed seed fulfilled in
Ifaac's family, 64, 69.
Ifaiah, his prophesy against the Assyrians, I. 249, 250.
against Babylon, 280, &c. against Tyre, 314,
against Egypt, 355, &.
Ishmael, his pofterity very numerous, I. 38, 39. the pro-
mises about him, how fulfilled, 38, &.
Ishmaelites. See Arabians.
Ifraelites, their poffeffion of Canaan according to the pro-
mise, I. 65.
Judah, Jacob's prophecies in blessing this tribe, I. 91,
92, 93. the scepter shall 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 Jerusalem, 104-107. became the ge-
neral name of the whole nation, 109, 110. this prophecy
an invincible argument that Jesus is the Meffiah, 113.
Julian his hypocrify, II. 165, 166, his attempt to rebuild
the temple miraculously defeated, II. 321, 322.
Jurieu (Peter) his notion of the refurrection of the wit-
nesses, III. 144, 145.
Justin Martyr, his notion of the Man of Sin, II. 412, his
account of the millennium, III. 338, 339.
✓ Ennicot, his critical remark upon Noah's prophecy,
Kingdom, the Babylonian, I. 408, 443. the Medo-Persian,
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.
I Actantius, his notion of Antichrift, II. 414. of the
millennium, III. 339, 340. and of the time succeed-
ing, 354.
Laodice, wife of Ptolemy Philadelphus, put away, but
afterwards recalled, II. 96, 97. poisons her husband, and
caufes Bernice to be murdered, 97. fixes her elder son
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 beasts, 39. its condition a warn-
ing to all impenitent and careless sinners, 40. its former
*splendid condition, 40.
Last 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
strange 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. describes 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. some true
witnesses against 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, II. 50-65.
the reason 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 resurrection of the witnesses, 145, 146.
Locusts, the Arabians compared to them, III. 100, 11.
their commiffion, and how fulfilled, 101. not real, but
figurative locufts, 102. likened unto horses, 103. a de-
scription of their heads, faces and teeth, 103, 104, 105.
like unto scorpions, 106. their king called the deftroyer,
107. their hurting men five months, how to be under-
stood, and how exactly fulfilled, 107-111.
Lollards, preach against the fuperftitions of the church of
Rome, III. 184. present 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 question answered, Where was your religion before
Luther, 197. protests against the corruptions of the
church of Rome, 260.
Maccabees, their great success against the enemies of
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, 1. 460, 461. points
out the little horn, 476. shows how the power of the
church of Rome was raised upon the ruins of the empire,
II. 403-407.
Mahuzzim, what it means, II, 176, 177, 185. the pro-
Mamulucs, Jerufalem long under their dominion, II. 333.
all their dominions annexed to the Othman empire, ibid.
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 tem-
ple of God, 369, 370. what by he who letteth will let,
371, 407, 418. the deftruction of the Man of Sin fore-
told, 373. the opinions of some learned men rejected,
376-289. other opinions about the Man of Sin, 390,
392. applicable to the great apostasy of the church of
Rome, 394. the pope the Man of Sin, 408-411.
what the fathers say 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 worshipping of demons and prohibi-
tion of marriage went together, 468.
Maundrell, his account of the state 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 Antichrist, II. 422. his ex-
cellent treatise 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 Moses'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
should work miracles, 290.
Mezeray, what that hiftorian says 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 seventh
millennary of the World, 334. quotations in proof of this,
335, &c. the reasons of this doctrine growing into dif-
repute, 341, 342. curiosity into the nature of this future
kingdom to be avoided, 411.
Miracle
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 diftinguishing mark of Antichrift, 237.
prophecies accomplished, the greatest of all miracles,
443, 444-
Mohammed, the time when his new religion was propa-
gated, II. 325. some contend that he was the Man of Sin,
390. that opinion refuted, 391, 408. the star 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 likeness 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 disobedience to this prophet, 172-
175. the prophecies of Mofes concerning the Jews,
176, &c. his prophecy of their difperfion exactly ful-
filled, III. 427, 428.
NAHUM, the time of his prophecying uncertain, I.
258. foretold the utter destruction of Nineveh, I.
258-270. his prophecies of the manner of its deftruc-
tion exactly fulfilled, 264-268.
Nebuchadnezzar, his dream of the great empires, I. 399-
440. the interpretation of it by Daniel with the occa-
fion 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 scripture as well as into nature, II. 51.
his account of the little horn in the Grecian empire,
60, &c. his the best interpretation of Dan. XI. 51, &c.
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