616. The old story of St. Magnus's dance reapplied. Oh these rascally Papists in grain! very fine, it would have made him sin- 635. Negotiations between Charles I. and good story. the Pope. is 645. A man brought to bed. This story very oddly introduced upon a question of original sin. 647. But they are admitted as authority. 658. Ignorant etymology of the Provincial Letters, as if so called because they were written to the Provincials of different Provinces. 70. Fanaticism. 82. 86. -a 76. Wesley and the Prophets. How well he knew how to deal with them. 84. His treatment at Epworth. 93. Collier's approbation. 94. A cock fighter. 95. Stupid opposition to him. 110. St. Mary's Sally. "We immediately waited upon the governor with the 694. Popish account of Charles II.'s usual present, a newspaper." death. WESLEY'S Journal. No. 1. ASCETICISM. 17. 20. 23. 30. P. 21. "The winds roared round about us, and (what I had never heard before) whistled as distinctly as if it had been a human voice." 26. "We would not be made Christians," said Tomo-Chachi, " as the Spaniards make Christians. We would be taught before we are baptized." 37. "He that is above," said a Creek Indian, "knows what he made us for. We know nothing, we are in the dark but white men know much. And yet white men build great houses, as if they were to live for ever;--but they cannot live for ever,—in a little time they will be dust as well as I." 44. Ephrem Syrus-the most awakening writer, I think, of all the antients. No. 6, p. 139. Witchcraft. 142. Who was this S. F. a child of Bristol, who went to heaven and hell in a trance? No. 7, p. 14." Being Ash Wednesday, I spent some hours in reading the exhortations of Ephrem Syrus. Surely never did any man since David give us such a picture of a broken and contrite heart." No. 8, p. 6. Fanaticism. 57. A strange story, and certainly false. No. 11, p. 76. "I have generally observed more or less of these outward symptoms to attend the beginning of a general work of God. But after a time they gradually decrease, and the work goes on more quietly and silently. Those whom it pleases God to employ in his work ought to be quite passive in this respect. They should choose nothing; but leave entirely to him all the circumstances of his own work." No. 12, p. 103. Fanaticism. Some who fancied from a text in the Revelation that 48. An affecting story of American kid- they were never to die. napping. 130. Egede spoken of by a Moravian as "by no means a holy man, but openly guilty of gross sins." No. 3, p. 26. Fanaticism. 92. No good works can be done before justification; none which have not in them the nature of sin. No. 5, p. 42. A good anecdote of the ipsissimus John. 49. Wesley on his father's grave―very, No. 13, p. 84. Liburnum wood. 59. "We reached Selkirk safe. Here I observed a little piece of stateliness which was quite new to me. The maid came in and said, 'Sir, the Lord of the Stable waits to know if he should feed your horses.' We call him ostler in England." 92. Lady Oglethorpe's testimony against the assertion that Charles II. received extreme unction. No. 17, p. 49. Herb of Paraguay. No. 18, p. 11. Joseph Strong—a blind man of Carlisle. the missionaries sent among the Saxons were not Prædicatores, but Prædatores. 58-9. The clergy in these western coun 14. A whole town of beggars in Scot- tries succeeded to the authority of the land. Druids. 64. Hence also excommunication. 75. Regular canons, circiter 750. 87. Scholastic theology earlier than commonly imagined. 119. Patrons who dreaded the discipline of the church promoted unworthy Priests who would wink at their conduct. 201. Frantic prodigality of the Greek Patriarch Theophylact. 215. In the tenth century the contests concerning predestination, and grace, and the eucharist, were reduced to silence. Mutual toleration was practised by the contending parties, who left it to each other's free choice to retain or change their former opinions. The truth is, the divines of this century wanted both the capacity and the inclination to attack or defend any doctrine, whose refutation or defence required the smallest portion of learning or logic. 224. The Rosary and Crown known in the tenth century-forsan, from the Moors? 282. Monks kept wives, whom they changed as often as they pleased. 283. Benefices openly sold in the eleventh century. 293-4. Investitures. 276. Hildebrand's scheme for an annual assembly of Bishops at Rome to decide between kings and kingdoms. 304. Urban II. goes beyond Hildebrand, and forbids the clergy to take the oath of allegiance to their respective sovereigns. 335. Hildebrand favours Berenger at first, and consults the Virgin about it. 397. The story of Alexander treading on Frederick's neck doubtful, and considered false by most modern authors. 405. The Speculum Stultorum of Nigel Wireker, an Englishman of the twelfth century, often printed. 420-2. Indulgences and merits. 293. Character of Monks and Friars at the time of the Reformation. 311. The Church's treasure of indulgences. 450. The real doctrines of Rome no where to be fairly got, no where authenticately stated. 451. Objections to the Council of Trent. 455. It was maintained that papal edicts and tradition were superior in authority to Scripture. 462. Benedictines despoiled of many possessions by the Jesuits. 465. The Jesuits maintain that the Pope is infallible. Vol. 4. P. 30. CAROLOSTADT was for abolishing all laws, and substituting those of Moses in their place. The real author was Hugo de Sancta Clara, about the middle of the xiiith century. Athias, a Jew of Amsterdam, introduced the division into verses in his edition of the Hebrew Bible, 1661.-J. W. W. 310. Bossuet's Exposition sometimes approved by authority, sometimes condemned. 438. Lutheran clergy stript too much,— inde their decline. 458. Pietists-who, like the Methodists, admitted any persons to preach. 462. Like them also, they prohibited innocent recreations. 500. Ill effects of the Synod of Dort. 501. Geneva almost Arminian in his days. Vol. 5. P. 52. SOCINIANS aim only at educated converts. 62. The Princess Elizabeth Penn's friends. 63. Quaker deputies to Labbadie. 161. A good remark of Archbishop Wake, that "had the first reformers in France acted with regard to the dignities and frame of the church, as we in England shewed them an example, the whole Gallican church had come in to them, and been at this day as we are now."-I believe it. MOSHEIM. De Beghardis et Beguinabus. xii. There seems to be a German Church History by Conrad Fuesslin. 2, 3. Motto for my Monastic Sketches. 18. Raymund the author of the Summa. Mosheim had not seen this book. 26. I must endeavour to get Gulielmi de S. Amore Opera. Constantiæ, 1632, 4to. But it is a most rare book. 27. A sect who held any work but prayer unlawful. 48. 32. Persons of Holy Sara's opinion. 50. Beguines from Benignus, or from shelter among the Franciscans. Connection Bonus ignis! with the Observants. 82. Ryckel's book well described. 89. "Beguin est proprement ce bandeau de toile, dont on couvre le front des petits enfans." 134. Prodigious number of single women in consequence of the Crusades. This made so many take shelter among the Beguines. 136. Danger of women in those ages. Hale young women were actually kidnapped to raise a strong breed of labourers! 141. Beguinages used to be called vineyards. 143. They were persecuted by all the clergy, who thought every thing ill bestowed which was not bestowed upon themselves, and therefore envied them. 143. The Tertiaries, Dominican and Franciscan, hate them as rivals; and thus they had the enmity of both orders. 144. All the Nuns hated, because they envied them. 145. They were not favoured even by their own relations, because they retained their property. 148. Order that none should be admitted under forty years of age. This was a German law, and it seems was necessary. 207. The Beghards, many of them took 256. Here are the old wild Quaker opinions. 282. 266. De 9 rupibus spiritualibus. 290. Age of the Holy Spirit. 319. The Emperor Louis of Bavaria protects and favours the Beghardi and Observants. 320. 370. Beghards and Beguines said to have been seduced into heresy by reading the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue. 375. There were laws in Germany which forbade the people to read devotional books. They were to receive instruction wholly from the Priests. 382. The Inquisition not to be inhibited by any authorities, episcopal, regal, or imperial! 383. 432. Germany owes much to the Clerici communis vitæ. 444. Gherardists in the diocese of Utrecht, under their Marthas and Sub Marthas. 474. Beghards in the woods. 534. The Bishop of Strasburgh, writing to John XXII., estimates the women of this religious description at more than 200,000. 579. Almost all the Beghards in Germany became Lutherans, and the Beguines also. HISTORICAL MEMOIRS. tors were buried, and with pistols, swords, Mercurius Rusticus. Angliæ Ruina, &c.1647. and halberds, transfer the coffins of the Preface. WAS a sad omen to this kingdom to have the sun eclipsed that very hour that Parliament began. To the Reader. "Most men did think what Mr. Smith, a member of the Lower House, did not stick blasphemously to speak within those walls, and blushed not afterwards to publish in print, that nothing could free us from those dangers but the divinity of a parliament.' At last, to satisfy I cannot say, but to punish our importunity, God gave us a parliament, as he gave the Israelites a king, in his anger." 66 Goodwin. "The Red Dragon, not in the Revelation, but in Colman Street," that disgorges his malice, and casts out floods of slander after those that keep loyalty to their sovereign," in his book called AntiCavalierism. Arrowsmith's "Wine Press" is noticed in this epistle. "Now what work this 'Wine Press' hath made, and with how sour a liquor it hath run; how they have squeezed them whom they slander with the nick-name of malignants and delinquents, shall, God willing, be made manifest in this ensuing relation." P. 3. Men tortured with lighted matches between the fingers, and with candles also. 4. Sir John Lucas, near Colchester. They not only sack and deface the house, destroy his evidences, spoil garden and park, and kill his deer, and drive away his cattle, but "they break into St. Giles's church, open the vault where his ances dead." 7. Captain Richard Lovelace (the poet) committed prisoner to the Gate-house, for delivering "the most honest and famous petition of the gentry of Kent, 1642.”1 16. Stephen Marshall, Parson, of Finchingfield in Essex, the great incendiary of this unhappy war. 21, The great patriarch of rebellion. 22. At Chelmsford, "two sorts of Anabaptists, the one they call the Old Men, or Aspersi, because they were but sprinkled, the other the New Men, or the Immersi, because they were overwhelmed in their re-baptization." 27. "Chelmsford was governed by a tinker, two coblers, two tailors, two pedlars; and that the world may see what a system of divinity these coblers and tailors are like in time to stitch together, and what principles they intend to rule by, I shall here set down certain preparatory prelusory propositions which they usually preach (for preach they do) to their infatuated disciples, and by them are received as the divine oracles of God: and you shall have them in their own terms, viz. "1. That kings are the burthens and plagues of those people or nations over which they govern. "2. That the relations of master and servant hath no ground or warrant in the New Testament, but rather the contrary, for there we read, 'In Christ Jesus there "During this imprisonment he wrote his English language."-SOUTHEY's British Poets, Song to Althea, which will live as long as the &c.-J. W. W. |