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• A Just and Necessary Apology.
• Chapter I.: Of the Largeness of Churches.
• Chapter II.: Of the Administration of Baptism.
• Chapter III.: Of Written Liturgies.
• Chapter IV.: Of the Ecclesiastical Presbytery.
• Chapter V.: Of Holy Days.
• Chapter VI.: Of the Celebration of Marriage By the Pastors of the Church.
• Chapter VII.: Of the Sanctification of the Lord's Day.
• Chapter VIII.: Of the Exercise of Prophecy.
• Chapter IX.: Of Temples.
• Chapter X.: Of Things Indifferent.
• Chapter XI.: Of Civil Magistrates.
• Chapter XII.: Of the Church of England,
• Notice Respecting the Two Letters.
• On Religious Communion
• The Preface.
• Chapter I.: Of Private Communion.
• Chapter II.: Of Public Communion.
• Chapter III.: Of Flight In Persecution.
• Chapter IV.: The Outward Baptism Received In England Is Lawfully Retained.
• Chapter V.: Of the Baptism of Infants.
• Chapter VI.: A Survey of the Confession of Faith Published In Certain Conclusions By the Remainders of Mr. Smyth's Company After His Death. *
• The People’s Plea For the Exercise of Prophecy
• Preface.
• An Answer to the Arguments Laid Down By Mr. John Yates, Preacher In Norwich , to Prove Ordinary Prophecy In Public, Out of Office, Unlawful; Answered By John Robinson.
• A Treatise On the Lawfulness of Hearing Ministers In the Church of England
• On the Lawfulness of Hearing the Ministers of the Church of England. By John Robinson.
• A Letter to the Congregational Church In London
• An Appeal On Truth's Behalf.
• To Our Beloved, the Elders and Church At Amsterdam , Grace and Peace From God the Giver Thereof, and In Him Our Salutations .
• An Answer to a Censorius People
• Letter By Rev. Joseph Hall, B.d., Rector of Halstead, Called By Mr. Robinson “a Censorious Epistle.”
• An Answer to “a Censorious Epistle.”
• A Catechism
• An Appendix to Mr. Perkins’ Six Principles of Christian Religion.
• Appendix
• No I.: The Church In Southwark.
• No. II.: The Exiles and Their Churches In Holland.
• Chronological Index of Mr. Robinson's Works.
• Index of Subjects.
• Index of Authors Referred to Or Quoted, With Occasional Brief Notices of Their Works and Lives.
• Index of Important Texts of Scripture Illustrated Or Quoted.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

• Absalom, sin of, illustrative of God's decrees, i. 278–280.
• Actions, God the author of, but not of sinfulness in, i. 293: sinful, suffered, but not decreed by God, 276; lawful, become sinful by their misapplication, 295: two kinds, personal and ecclesiastical, iii. 104.
• Acts of Parliament against Nonconformists enumerated, iii. 451.
• Adam in innocence, the grace of perseverance gives an advantage over, to the godly, i. 29: fall and sin of, iii. 242: connexion between, and God's decrees, i. 27–4, 275: mysterious beyond human comprehension, proof of, 275: left to himself, God's decree, 280: grace would have preserved him, 284: the object of his creation, good only, 284: immutable in holiness, could he have been made? 285–288: sin of, illustrated by David's adultery, Joab's murder, 293: did infants sin in? 403; possessed freedom of will after his fall, iii. 245: not a private person, 246: left to himself, as all are who sin against God, 256.
• Adultery, a base sin, i. 241.
• Afflictions, their cause, i. 139: reasons why sent, 140: their connexion with the Gospel dispensation, 140: of Christians, character of, 141, 142: specific cases, caution in applying Scripture to, required, 142: sometimes the greatest happiness, 143, 144.
• Age, characterized by ignorance, contemptible, i. 253.
• Agapemone near Taunton, identical with Familists, i. 390, note.
• Ainsworth, Henry, biographical notice of, iii. 462.
• Allen, Rev. W., D.D., on Descendants of Robinson, i. lxxi.
• Ames, Dr., general biographical sketch of, iii. 84.
• Amsterdam, the Congregational Church at, notice of, iii. 339,459: its divisions, 460: controversy at, respecting Baptism, peculiar, 461: letter of, to the church at Leyden, 467: another, 468: forms of conducting public worship at, 485.
• Anger, when wrong, i. 225: identical with madness, except as it respects duration, 226: branded by God, characteristic of a fool, 227: preservatives against, 227, 228.
• Antiquity, true, i. e. the Word of God, to be followed, ii. 34.
• Appearance, that by which men judge, i. 183: a rule by which men should act, 184: of evil, to be avoided, 184: without reality, blameworthy, 185.
• Apostacy in general, i. 389: Hymeneus (1 Tim. i. 19, and 2 Tim. ii. 17), Antichrist, (1 John ii. 26, &c.), illustrations of, i. 391.
• Apostles, peculiar officers, ii. 145: commission extraordinary, 155: did not constitute the church, 200: not ordained by laying on of hands, 438.
• Apostolic succession from Rome; the Church of England, holding its ministry from Rome, inconsistent in separating from, ii. 413, 424, 430: makes the minister lord of the church, 432: consequences and absurdities of, 433: overthrows itself, 433: who ordains the pope? 434: Timothy and Titus did not succeed the apostles, 164.
• Arundel, Rev. John, Pastor of Church at Southwark, iii. 453.
• Assemblies, parish, not of God, iii. 126.
• Atheists, various kinds of, i. 68: atheism and idolatry, 68: the characters that adopt atheism, 68.
• Authority, province of, i. 53: human, of little value unless it be that of inspired men, 56, 57: that of God, how set aside, 57: civil, to be obeyed and how, ii. 17: of the magistrate, predominant in the Church of England, 39: to preach, administer sacraments, censures, discussed, 129–131: to choose deacons and elders, 153: supposed mischief of its being solely vested in the church, 211–216: opinions of reformers and others respecting, viz. of Paphuntius, Tertullian, Cyprian, Austin, Jerome, Demetrius, Peter Martyr, Bucer, Bastingius, Beza, Hooper, Fox, Cartwright and Jacob, 218–221: popular confusion alleged to be incident to, 222.

• Baptism in general, i. 415: of infants, Scripture authority for, 416; iii. 211, 216: reasons why not more plainly and expressly spoken of, 216: outward and inward; instances of the outward baptism, conferred without the inward, i. 417: proof against infant baptism refuted, 419: proof for, adduced, 420: connexion of repentance with, 421: children “clean,” a proof of, 422: into Moses, 426: of households, 427: Christ commanding infants to be brought to him, 428: infant circumcision, 430: Abrahamic covenant, 431: two seeds of Abraham, 432: new and better covenant, Abraham the father of the faithful, 440: lawful and unlawful administration of, 445: church membership not by, 447: churches not constituted by, 449: instances of, before the first Christian church was constituted, 450: extreme views of, rebuked, 451: to be administered by official persons, 452: John's extraordinary, 454: the apostolic commission not authorising non-official persons to administer, 455: an official act, 457: duty of the church when without officers, in respect to, 461–471: the design of, ii. 28: and the ministry, difference between, 415— 418: effect of, 458: administration of, to whom, iii. 17–19: that outwardly received in England lawfully retained, 164: not the mode or means of union with Christ, 166: not admission to the church, 167: self-baptism performed by Mr. Smyth at Amsterdam, deemed essential to the formation of a church and the exercise of social prayer, 168, 169: a church not constituted by, 180: re-baptism required on re-admission into the church, 180: has two parts, the sign and the thing signified, 183: the outward valid where the inward is not, 184: is in the place of circumcision, 187: Romish, 192: household, 222: the Dutch practice by affusion, i. 452: first English Baptists in Holland did not practise immersion, iii. 461.
• Barrowe, Henry. [See notice of, iii. 439.]
• Believers, all transgressions persevered in, separate from, iii. 353.
• Bishops, spoken of in Scripture as over particular churches, and not otherwise, 416: over many flocks, a device of Antichrist, 138, 139: prelatical, usurp all the rights and liberties Christ gave his church, 140: work, of, according to the New Testament, excluded by the parochial system, 142: how regarded by the Scotch, 418.
• Books, the best counsellors, because sincere and impartial, i. 96: the will of God in, the advantage of, i. 107–109: service-book, an idol, in. 132.
• Browne, Rev. Robert. [See notice of, iii. 457.]

• Catechism by Rev. J. Robinson, iii. 421: notice of by Editor, 342: titles of, 344.
• Canne, John. [See notice of, iii. 449.]
• Children, education of, i. 242: oneness of with their parents contemplated in God's covenant, 243: in charge of mothers in earlier, of fathers in riper years, 244: surrounded by dangers, 244: diseases of body, 30 those of mind hereditary, 245: love to, how shown, 246: discipline of, its kind, 246, 247: how to secure the obedience of, 247: disposition and spirit of must be discovered by parents, 248: partial affection of parents for some of, wrong, 249 : those who honour parents, promises to, 250.
• Church, two or three constitute, ii. 131–139, 439: its members must be holy, iii. 66, 126: officers of, what qualifies for, ii. 132, 146, 148: duty of, ii.. 147: a company of faithful covenanting people, form, eight reasons for, 132–136: all ministrations vested in, 137–139: popular constitution of, 139–142: ministers of, interpreters of God's laws, cannot receive civil titles, 143: eldership of, its character, 144.: testimony of Scripture concerning, 145—160: church matters may originate with private members, 148–150:. ministers of, their duty, 155: “Tell the church,” meaning of, 179: censures of, 184: order of, 186: its power of binding and loosing, 190, 201: perfect rule of discipline in, Matt. xviii.: discipline of, consistent with the power of the magistrate, 193: governors of, 195: word “church” used figuratively, 216: its duty to its officers, 224: clergy not above the condition of common Christians in, 229: its power and their exercise not identical, 235: its members have a right to judge in church matters, 235: relationship of officers and members in, 237: separation from, on what ground justified, 259: the materials of a true church, 284, 292: the question, May it, include the ungodly? examined, 321–323: false analogies and reasonings on this subject, 325–327: admission of unconverted persons into, a fatal error, 486: visible form of, 327: properties and privileges of, 358: power of excommunication in, to whom it belongs, 367: reasons for, in a true church, 368: an ordinance, like preaching the Gospel, 369: rights and powers of, enumerated, 448–450: in a false, conversion possible, 458: pre-requisites for the formation of, 473–480: no visible church, except particular congregations, 338: acts of, the brethren join equally with the officers in, 449: should not consist of more than can conveniently meet together in one place, iii. 13: universal, or catholic, true meaning of, 16: cannot be called visible, 14: discipline of, conducted not by the elders but by the body of the faithful, 37–43: not separated from the world, involves a profane error, 129: false and true, 173, 176: in what senses it may be false, 348: Christ did not gather and form a church, 487: but the apostles did, ii. 487: Dutch and French reformed, formed on the principle of separation, iii. 128.
• Church of England, a compound of error and truth, ii. 5, 6: impurity and errors of, forbidding communion with, 12: reasons why many ministers remain in, 14: testimony of various writers adduced as to her popish character, 81: bishops of, antichristian, gift of the Holy Ghost by, in ordination, 91,92: an idol, ii. 100: its constituents compared with those of Corinth, 355: popish ceremonies in, 360: nourishes thousands in dangerous errors, 471: built up by Antichristianism, 474: a popish device and inconsistent with itself, 480: overthrown by Eph. iv. 11, 12: its prelacy and priesthood usurping the office of Christ, iii. 172: history of during the reign of Mary and Elizabeth, proves it to be, not “a scriptural church, ii. 489: additions to, impossible, as the whole nation on principle belongs to it, 491: public service of, not according to Scripture, 496–499.
• Christ offered to all, meaning of, i. 340–349: care of his sheep, 382: kingdom of, spiritual, ii. 40.
• Christians should seek and enjoy church-fellowship, iii. 152.
• Communion, union with Christ essential to, ii. 266: what the apostle forbids, 345: private, iii. 104: public, 126.
• Conscience, its province, i. 193: mistakes connected with, to be corrected by the Word of God, 194: the law of God written, on, 338: its voice to be attended to, subject to God's teaching, ii. 19.
• Contempt hard to be borne, i. 169: injurious effects of, 170: manifested towards others when feeble in body or mind, is shown against God, 170: affected, unworthy, 171.
• Counsel, definition of, i. 95: motives for asking, 97.
• Covetousness (and prodigality), nature and results of, i. 132: pleas for, 134.
• Credit and good name the result of virtue, i. 165. Crosses, right use of, i. 142.

• Days, holy, not, except the Lord's-day, of divine appointment, iii. 43: Lord's-day to be sanctified, 46–54.
• Deacons, office of, false in the English Establishment, ii. 364.
• Death, in what it consists, i. 254: alters the condition of men eternally, i. 155: understood by no creature but by man, i. 256: divine appointment, 256: teaches moderation, time of uncertain; teaches watchfulness; of saints, precious, i. 256–258: of Christ, for whom, 329–334: the consequence of sin, 408.
• Decree, divine connexion with the death of Christ, i. 276.
• Deeds, good, the principle on which they should be performed, i. 19–21.
• Discretion, its importance, i. 87.
• Discipline, in the church to be conducted by ministers only, fallacious, ii. 165.
• Divorce, when lawful, i. 24.

• Ecclesiastical causes and civil matters, difference between, ii. 31.
• Effectual calling, i. 116: its privileges, 116, 117: principle of, illustrated in secular life, i. 118.
• Election, definition of, by the Synod of Dort, i. 310: definition of, on the Arminian hypothesis, incorrect, 317–328.
• Elders, duty of, ii. 178: office of, in what it consists, iii. 31: ought not to relinquish their appointment, 29, 30: are not to discharge their functions in consistory, but in the church, proof of, 34–37.
• Eloquence, in what it consists, i. 104.
• Enmity, of former friends, the greatest, i. 164.
• Envy described, i. 172–174.
• Esau and Jacob, (hated and loved,) God's decree connected with, i. 360–364.
• Establishment, errors in, ii. 272–276.
• Excommunication, meaning of in Scripture, ii. 190: power of, where vested, 195: exercised by the church, not by officers, as practised in the English Establishment; twelve reasons for, 238— 255: separation of the lepers and the unclean, not excommunication, 197.

• Faith, defined, i. 59: its origin and nature, 61: power of, known to the devil, 61, 62: God's Word its foundation, 62: shield of, necessary, 63.
• Falsehood, sinful, and from the devil, i. 75.
• Falling away, meaning of, i. 367, 368: cautions and exhortations respecting, 369.
• Familists, a mystic religious sect, i. 390. [See Agapemone.]
• Fathers of the first age of the church after Christ, preferable to all others, ii. 55.
• Fear, an Essay on, i. 221.
• Fellowship, Christian, nature and grounds of, iii. 85–89: reasons for, with persons belonging to a corrupt church, 111: not with them in their church capacity, but as individual Christians, 116: former may not be done, 117: the Jews forbidden all communion with the uncircumcised, not a valid ground for Christians, 118: rightly understood, does not confirm those who belong to a corrupt church in that relationship, 119: but only with the godly, 121: objects of prayer identical, a ground for, 122: the faith of Rome different, not a justifying faith, hence no fellowship with, 122: the danger of confusion, not a sufficient bar to, 123.
• Flattery, an Essay on, i. 178.
• Forgiveness of injuries, its importance, i. 148, 149.
• Free-will, an Essay on, i. 393.
• Friendship, how to show, i. 163: influence of wealth and prosperity on, 163.

• Gifts, spiritual, imparted by Christ to the church, not to its officers only, ii. 167.
• God, knowledge of, derived from his works and Word, i. 1, 2. iii. 237: notions of entertained by curious wits, imperfect, i. 2: essence of, known to himself alone, 3: the means and process by which the knowledge of is gained, 3: love of, 4: himself the chief object of, ground of to other beings, 4: the ways in which he reveals himself, 4: promises of, 8: his goodness, sustaining the natural powers by which the creature sins against him, no reflection on, 16: works of, demand praise, 16, 17: the source of every good, the creature that of evil, 18, 19: the worship of, and man's happiness inseparable, 32: laws of, to be interpreted in the largest sense, 48: his dominion regards all things, small and great, 280: revealed and secret will, difference between, how discovered, 281: will of, simple in its nature, exercising itself diversely, three degrees of, 289; foreknowledge and truthfulness of, 298, 301: counsel of, its meaning, 301, 302: concurrence of, in human actions, 302–306: general permission of, difference between suffering and sending evil, 306–309; instructions of (John chap. xii. 39, 40 discussed) rejected, 311— 314: purposes of, apparently frustrated, 334–338: his hating and loving, meaning of, 355: will of, resisted, 360: decrees of, and sin, iii. 238: love of, and man's recovery, 235: love in the execution of his vengeance, iii. 254: fatherhood of, and that of man, not identical, 257.
• Godliness, its importance in friendship, i. 161.
• Goodness, created, discussed, i. 17–24.
• Gospel, what it does, i. 52: preached by the clergy, therefore they are true ministers—this argument of churchmen examined, ii. 397.
• Government of the church, in what it consists, iii. 134.
• Grace, falling from, how spoken of in Scripture, i. 29, 30.
• Greenwood, Rev. J., notice of, and his persecution, iii. 439.

• Hall's (Bishop) letter to Messrs. Smyth and Robinson on Separation, iii. 401: answer to, 405.
• Hanbury, B. [See List of Authors.]
• Happiness, consisting in the knowledge of God, i. 1.
• Health, the greatest temporal blessing, how to preserve, 136.
• Heart, the source of all evil, 99: Can man change his own? i. 397.
• Heathen, every obstinate offender to be treated by the church as such, ii. 354.
• Heresy and schism, i. 70.
• Hierarchy of the English Establishment forming an insuperable objection to Nonconformists, i. 69, 71.
• Holland, the Nonconformist exiles and their churches in, (notice by the Editor), iii. 455.
• Hope defined, i. 59.
• House of Lords, examines six members of the church at Southwark, iii. 450.
• Humility described, i. 228, 229: advantages of, 229: leads to God, 230; danger of becoming excessive, 231; a form of pride, 231.
• Humphrys, Dr., pastor of the church at Southwark, iii. 453.
• Hypocrisy, meaning of the term, i. 206: leads to atheism, 207: base and foolish, 208: when and by whom falsely ascribed to the godly, 208: odious, yet advantages of, 209.

• Idolatry, what constitutes, i. 69.
• Ignorance, not always blameworthy, i. 80.
• Immersion, not practised by Dutch Baptists, nor by first English Baptists in Holland, i. 452; iii. 461.
• Independency, principles of government where vested according to, ii. 7: no novelty, 42: charges brought against refuted, 46: not enjoying the approbation of foreign churches alleged, 49: ministers of, hated by the prelates, 50: confession of, printed, translated into Latin, 50: the opposition of learned and godly divines no valid argument against, 51; the judgment of God alleged against, the charge refuted, 56: contentions in, no argument against the principle, 60: crimes committed by members of, no valid argument against, 63: ill success of, no argument, 65: all true doctrines and ordinances of the Church of England, enjoyed by, 69: evils of the system, 73.
• Independents, peace and truth contended for by, ii. 82.
• Infants, connection of with Adam, i. 404: how accounted innocent by Christ, 407: Have they any need of Christ? 412: of Israel within the covenant, iii. 199: included in the promises, 201: born in sin, 252.
• Inferences from passages of Scripture to be received, ii. 33.
• Injuries, differences in, i. 145: to be pitied, 146: odious in four classes of persons, 146: received with indignation, 147: when wise not to heed, 148: not to be requited, 149.
• Inspiration of the Scriptures, principle of, i. 44: internal and external, 45.
• Intentions, good, how rewarded by God, 110, 111.

• Jacob, Henry [see List of Authors], emigrated to America, iii. 447.
• Johnson, Francis, his remarkable conversion to Nonconformist principles, iii. 440, 460.
• Junius, Francis [see List of Authors], biographical sketch of, iii. 101.
• Justification, Paul and James on, reconciled, 329.

• Killinghall, pastor of the church at Southwark, iii. 453.
• Kindness bestowed, not a ground for glorying; received, not a ground for shame, i. 23.
• Kingdom of Christ, who are the subjects of, ii. 102: who are not, 105: of heaven, its keys, to whom, committed, 154: keys, meaning of, 156, 227.
• Kings and Queens, nurses, not parents, of the church, ii. 488.
• Knowledge essential to faith, i. 77: for what end it should be sought, 78: the means by which it should be obtained, 78: prosperity and greatness unfavourable to, 79.

• Labour, the original appointment of, i. 113, 114: despised by the proud, 114: lawful and profitable, a blessing, 115: for eternal things cannot be too great, 115.
• Lactantius. [See List of Authors.]
• Lathrop, J., and Lamb, pastors of the church at Southwark, &c., iii. 449, 453.
• Law and gospel, confusion of, lamentable, i. 51.
• Law, canon, the only authority for discipline in the Church of England, but contrary to the teaching of the Church of England, ii. 21: character of canons, iii. 418.
• Learning, the use of, for understanding Scripture, i. 54.
• Leyden, notice of congregational church at, iii. 339, 340, 381–385, 388, 466, 467: testimony of the elders of, 470: becomes extinct, 484: order of, 486, 488.
• Liberality and its contraries, i. 130: how rightly exercised, true nature of, 131.
• Liberty, of Christ, must be maintained, ii. 24: of churches infringed by patrons, 459.
• Life, shortness of, a wise providence, i. 255: eternal, ordained to, 366.
• Liturgy, written, reasons for rejecting, iii. 19–22: reasons for not using what is called the “Lord's Prayer” as such, 22–25: the direction of Moses to the priests, no authority for, 25: reading prayer contrary to what the term implies, 26: incompatible with ministerial gifts, 27: with the reason of the thing, 28.
• Love of God, its power, influence, and extent, i. 5, 6: in God and in the creature different, 5: what is, 60: power of, 64: of the brethren, a proof of to God, 64: fulfilling the law, 65: perfect, would render law unnecessary, 65: generates love, 66: regulated by faith and tope, 66: essential to the proper observance of the Lord's Supper, ii. 265: difference of, and goodwill and friendship, i. 160.
• Luciferians, a religious sect in the fourth century, ii. 44,
• Luther. [See List of Authors.]
• Lying, the fearful consequence of the habit, i. 76.

• Magistrates cannot act in matters of faith, what they may do, i. 41— 43: identical on church principles with church officers, fallacious, ii. 173: hold a civil office only, iii. 63: magistracy and oaths, iii. 275.
• Man, in what kind of good deeds he should glory, i. 19: a religions creature, 31: spiritual or carnal, 314.
• Mankind, original state of, 403.
• Marriage, ordained of God, design of, ‘how viewed by some heathen poets, how by Popery, i. 236, 237: guided by reason, 237: how contracted improperly, 238: what qualifies for, 239: ought to be performed by magistrates, not by pastors, ii. 466; iii. 45, 46.
• Marryat, Dr. Zephaniah, pastor of the church at Southwark, iii. 453.
• Martyrs for nonconformity, iii. 443, 444.
• Mayflower and Speedwell vessels sail. [See Memoir of Mr. Robinson.]
• Means, defined, i. 3: feeble, used by God for his own glory, 112: only moral allowed by Christ for the advancement of his kingdom, ii. 307–309.
• Medicines, skill required in administering of, i. 138, 139.
• Men, fickleness of, apparent in changing their religion, i. 37: ought to find the truth, 39.
• Mind, affections of, i. 217: the body not the seat of, kinds of, i. 218: power of, 219: strong affections, not always right to manifest, 220: how to guide, 221.
• Ministers, what constitutes true, ii. 371: ability to preach, not a necessary qualification for, in the Establishment, ii. 372: made in, before election and before probation, ii. 382: choice of by the people, 386: denied by churchmen, this examined, 391–395: reasons for the people choosing, 396: of the Establishment shown not to be true ministers, 410–413: those of the Establishment, succeed the priests, ii. 415: Can a church alone make? 423: churches, how to be supplied with, 431.
• Ministry of the gospel, the seal of, ii. 9–11: dignities of, 233: qualifications for, 385: success of, in the Establishment, not an argument for its validity, ii. 400–407: Which precedes, the church the ministry, or the ministry the church? the question examined, ii. 418–423.
• Ministerial labour, the experience of Mr. Nichols in his “Plea of the Innocent,” ii. 288.
• Modesty, the effects of, i. 233: manifest, in men of understanding, 234: the want of, odious, 235: prayer for, becoming, 235.
• Monastic life, opposed to God's purpose as shown in man's social character, 158.

• Name, great, rather than good, sought by many, i. 165: good, to be obtained by well-doing, 167: worthless, when, not approved of by God, 168.
• Necessity and compulsion, difference between, 290): acts of men, an illustration of, 291.
• Nonconformists object to the mode of entrance to the ministerial office in the Establishment, ii. 390: their trials from four sources, iii. 5–7: their defence, 7: their calumnies brought against, 7, 8: their views of the Apocrypha and reasons for rejecting, 9, 10: their agreements with the reformed churches of Holland, 10–12: the self-expatriation of, offensive to their opponents, 97; opposed from political motives, 98: opponents of, many worthless characters, 99: retained only persons of piety in their fellowship, 100: their strictness, a ground of offence, 101: partake in social prayer with others, 105: their objections to the English Establishment, 106: while objecting to the order of the Establishment, admit the piety of thousands of its members, 107: churches of, charged by Mr. Hellwisse to be false, because not re-baptized, 175: charged with the vices of the city of Amsterdam, 417.
• Nonconformity, grounds of enumerated, iii. 73.

• Oaths and lots, affinity between, described, i. 201: strongest confirmation of truth, 202: used to inferiors, by those who are cowardly to superiors, 224, 225.
• Offences, given or taken, to be avoided, by walking in “love and by faith,” i. 187: readiness to take, shows weakness or pride, 188: meaning of in Matt. xviii., ii. 187.
• Officers, church, are not officers except in their own individual churches, ii. 418: servants of the church, 435: chosen by the multitude; this apostolic and just, iii. 135: election of, and ordination of, vested in the church, ii. 445.
• Orders and ordinances, piety does not consist in, iii. 109: importance of, 110: sale of, (and institutions), constituting the charge of trafficking in the souls of men, 141.
• Ordination, Is Romish valid? ii. 378: examination for, in the Establishment, not warranted by Scripture, 385: conferred only by ministers, when orderly and regular, 430: What is ? 436: laying on of hands observed in, 439: scriptural, examined, 441: power of in each separate church, 440, 445: admitted by Perkins, by Melancthon, 446: by Peter Martyr, Zanchy, Tilenus, Sadeel, 447.
• Owen, Jonathan, [See notice of, iii. 452.]

• Paganism and Antichristianism, difference between, ii. 467.
• Papacy, priests of, usurp the rights of the people and those of each other, one at last, those of all, ii. 390.
• Patience, its nature and importance, i. 150, 151: necessity of, 152: when most difficult to exercise, 153.
• Patricians, and Paternians, account of, ii. 282.
• Patronage unscriptural, ii. 395.
• Peace, what comprehended under, i. 154: the importance of shown by God, 155: not always destroyed by dissenting from others, 155, 156.
• Persecution, the heathen, Papists and Protestants addicted to while pleading for toleration to themselves, i. 40: laws in Judea, no warrant for persecution, 41: fleeing from, iii. 155: the practice of Jacob, Moses, David, Jeremiah and Christ, in fleeing from, considered, iii. 156, 157: reasons against fleeing from, weighed, 159–164: the persecuted more likely to have the truth, i. 560.
• Perseverance essential to salvation, i. 27: means of, 28.
• Persons ungodly, cannot be members of the true church, ii. 339.
• Pharaoh's heart hardened, discussed, i. 357–359.
• Pilgrims, embarkation and debarkation of. [See Memoir of Mr. Robinson.]
• Plymouth, New England, church at, constitution of, iii. 489–491.
• Poverty, why sent, i. 125.
• Prayer, what is; influence of, not upon God but upon ourselves, i. 196: advantages of, 197: the character of, 198: necessary to prosecute worldly undertakings, 199: comfort of, advantages of, 200: forms of, no warrant for in Scripture, ii. 499–503: reasons against the use of the forms in the English Establishment, ii. 504.
• Preaching, an official act, i. 459: the principal work of the ministry, but incompatible with prelacy, ii. 384: lay, vindicated, iii. 288: lay, not forbidden by the power of binding and loosing sins, 289: not by the commission of prophets and apostles, 291: inspiration of the first teachers and the imposition of hands, no valid argument against, 292: nor the extraordinary gift in the apostolic churches, 296: nor the gift of tongues, 301: edification, a ground for, 303: not forbidden by the spiritual gifts in; 1 Cor. xiv. 304: the special revelation mentioned, not a valid argument, 306: the forbidding of Eldad and Medad, no argument against, 308: Scripture sustains the practice, 309–335.
• Precepts, affirmative and negative, how to be understood, i. 50.
• Predestination, preface of Turretin on, i. 269, 270: meaning of the term, 271: defence of, 272: articles of the Synod of Dort on, 272, 273: punishment of sin, how connected with, 283: conditions of, 386.
• Prelacy, how upheld, ii. 45: prayer extolled by, for the purpose of setting aside preaching, 78: subverts the order of Christ, iii. 141: not a plant, planted by God, must therefore be plucked up, 143: a worldly system, 144: unscriptural, therefore unlawful for the people of God to be connected with, 146: a support of the papal system, 147.
• Prelates send the ministers, not the church, in the Establishment, ii. 380: how regarded by Nonconformists, iii. 417.
• Presbytery, in each church approved, iii. 28, 468.
• Pride, displayed in the selection of associates, i. 162:the proud abominable to God, 232: shown most generally in apparel, 232: remedies against, 233.
• Priestly office of Christ, corrupted in the English Establishment, ii. 276.
• Priests, Romish, and English, clergy, have the same office, 376.
• Profession of religion, does not make the matter of the church, ii. 281, 283.
• Prophesying (or preaching), ii. 246: nature of discussed, 248–251: meaning of, iii. 324: women restrained from, no valid argument against, iii. 326: duty of proved, 331: the exercise of, to whom committed, 55–58.

• Redemption, universal, iii. 258: meaning of the word, 260–262.
• Reformation effected by Elizabeth, imperfect, not the same in character with that effected by Hezekiah, Josiah, Nehemiah, in the Jewish church, ii. 309–318, 492: not voluntary, 318.
• Regeneration, iii. 250, 265: means necessary, 268.
• Religion, differences and controversies respecting, i. 31: controversies sometimes necessary, always dangerous, 36: rites of, some essential, and some a matter of order, 32, 33: the best thing, its corruption, therefore the worst, 33: the amount of, is what a man has between him and God, 33, 35: differences in, do not dissolve natural or civil obligations, 39: does not depend on probabilities, ii. 20: zeal in, against supposed error, in danger of becoming wrath, iii. 97: real, in the heart, its bearing on the ordinance of baptism, 170.
• Reproofs, church, not directed by John against officers only, ii. 177.
• Rewards and punishments in this life, the principle of, i. 7, 214: influence of, on society, 215: how punishment ought to be administered, 216.
• Riches and poverty, i. 122.
• Robinson, John. [Sea Life of, vol. i., and various notices of, vol. iii. 464–475.]
• Rome. Is Rome a true church? the question examined, ii. 293— 302: the negative proved, 302–307: admitted to be the mother of the English Establishment, 304, 305.

• Sacrifice of Christ, iii. 264.
• Saints, characteristics of, constitute the church, ii. 110–128: form the highest order in the church, 228: perfect in Christ, 272.
• Salvation, apostolic labours insufficient to secure; illumination or “drawing” (John vi. 44) necessary to, i. 315: more than publishing the gospel necessary to, 316: refusal of, by the lost, 328.
• Schism, what its origin, i. 70: description of, 71: separation of the Independents from the Establishment does not constitute, ii. 87.
• Schwenckfeldians, account of, ii. 282.
• Scriptures, their design and province, i. 43: their perfection does not exclude reason, i. 46: translations of, and the originals, their comparative value, i. 47: have but one immediate proper sense, i. 48: obscure words and phrases in, how to interpret, 49: commentaries to be used, 51: to be expounded by other scriptures, ii. 178; interpretation of, by Episcopalians, to support their theory and practice, 217.
• Selfishness detestable, i. 164.
• Separation, when lawful, ii. 268.
• Shepherds, properties of, overthrow diocesan Episcopacy, ii. 412.
• Silence, not always wise and right, i. 106.
• Simplicity and craftiness illustrated, i. 81.
• Sin, its punishment, i. 210: rational creatures capable of, 210: are men compelled to? 393: liberty and necessity to commit may co-exist, 398: itself unreasonable, 211: its greatness, 212: against the Holy Ghost, 213: followed by punishment, 214: God the author of, denied by the Synod of Dort, 273: cause of, in Adam, 274: privative, 294: exists in the soul, 296: none, light, ii. 15: connivance at, in what it consists, 257: from the creature only, iii, 239: permitted by God, 240: original, experience proves, 246–249.
• Slander, what constitutes, i. 174: devilish, injurious to all, 176: good conscience and a good name, a defence against, 177.
• Smyth, the Rev. J., change of sentiment, iii. 460.
• Sobriety, the demand of scripture and nature, i. 128: joined to watchfulness, 130.
• Society and friendship natural to man, i. 157: should be sought, 159.
• Soul, origin of, iii. 247.
• Southwark, church at, account of by the Rev. J. Waddington and the Editor, iii. 439–454.
• Speech, an index of the mind, i. 100: of the wise, profitable, 101: injurious, unbecoming, 103: long and short, when commendable, 105.
• Substance and circumstance, difference between, ii. 22.
• Sumner, Geo., his interesting work on Pilgrims of Leyden, in Memoir of Robinson, 1.
• Suspicion, definition of, i. 180: when carried to extremes, violates the law of charity, 181: to be avoided, 182.
• Swearing, irreverent toward God, i. 203: punishment of, 204.
• Synagogues, nature of, ii. 197.
• Synods, no authority for, in Acts xv. ii. 208.

• Teachers, false, no Scripture commands to hear, ii. 460.
• Temples and consecrated places, iii. 59.
• Temptations, what included in, i. 189: tow drawn into, 190; advantageous to the pious, 191: to be delivered from, should be a matter of prayer, 192.
• Testimony, human, when useful, i. 57.
• Things, use and abuse of, 119–122: indifferent, on what principle to be used, iii. 59–62.
• Thoughts of evil, not always evil thoughts, i. 90: judged of by man and by God on different principles, i. 100.
• Truth, what class of persons God will direct in, i. 41; and falsehood, definition of, 72: to be reverenced, above all men, 73: to be propagated, 74: to confirm it, three different methods, i. 202.
• Tyre and Sidon, repentance of, i. 396.

• Union among Christians, marks of, i. 331: with the unholy to be avoided, 351.

• Wadsworth, Thomas. [See notice of, iii. 452.]
• Watson, Dr. James, pastor of the church at Southwark, iii. 453.
• Wealth, the purpose for which it is bestowed; its accumulation for the most part contrary to God's method in nature and grace, i. 22: not used does not make rich, 122: temptations of, 124.
• Well-doing, equability and perseverance in, habitual to the good man, i. 24.
• Will of God, its nature and its exercise, i. 12, 13.
• Wisdom of God, manifest in his works, nature of his works, and how controlled by, i. 13, 14: and folly illustrated, i. 83: importance of, 86.
• Works of God exhibit his perfections, the result of his will, power, and wisdom, i. 11–17.
• Worship, according to the Prayer-book, false, ii. 450.

• Youth (and age,) influence of in the commonwealth, i. 250: what is becoming to each, 251: virtue of, grateful in old age, 252: the honour of age cannot be borne by, 253: to live well in, is wise, 253.

• Zeal, denned, in religion, despised by wordly men, i. 204: false and true described, 205, 206: requires to be regulated, ii. 1–5: its characteristics, ii. 25.