True, what, 286. A lefs number may counfel a greater to re- tain their liberty, iii. 423. Can be preserved only by virtue,
Liberty, Chriflian, not to be meddled with by civil magiftrates, iii. 320, 331, 337.
Libraries, public, recommended, iii. 388.
Licenfers, the inconveniencies attending their office, i. 308. Licenfing, of books, crept out of the inquifition, i. 290. Hiftorical account of licensing, ibid. 295. Not to be exempted from the number of vain and impoffible attempts, 302. Conduces no- thing to the end for which it was framed, 303. Not able to re- ftrain a weekly libel against parliament and city, 307. Italy and Spain not bettered by the licenfing of books, ibid. The mani- feft hurt it does, 308, &c. The ill confequences of it, and dif- couragement to learning, 316. First put in practice by anti- christian malice and mystery, 319.
Linceus, faid to be the husband of one of the feigned fifty daughters of Dioclefian, king of Syria, iv. 4. The only man faved by his wife, when the rest of the fifty flew their husbands, ibid. Litany, remarks on it, i. 261.
Liturgy, confeffes the fervice of God to be perfect freedom, i. 146. Reflections on the use of it, 163. Remarks on the arguments brought in defence of it, 165-174. Detefted as well as pre- lacy, 172. Reason of the ufe of liturgies, 173. Arguments against the use of them, 259. The inconveniences of them, ibid. Taken from the papal church, 261. Neither liturgy nor directory fhould be impofed, iii. 39.
Livy, praifes the Romans for gaining their liberty, ii. 282. A good expofitor of the rights of Roman kings, iii. 228.
Locrine, the eldest son of Brutus, has the middle part of this island called Loegria for his fhare in the kingdom, iv. II. Logica, Artis, plenior Inftitutio, vi. 195.
Lollius Urbicus, draws a wall of turfs between the Frith of Dun- britton and Edinburgh, iv. 63.
London, first called Troja Nova, afterward Trinovantum, and faid to be built by Brutus, iv. 11. Tower of, by whom built, 19. Enlarged, walled about, and named from king Lud, 23. New named Augusta, 75. With many of her inhabitants by a fudden fire confumed, 157. Danes winter there, 175. The city burnt, 206.
Loneliness, how indulgently God has provided against man's, ii. 129. Lothair, fucceeds his brother Ecbert in the kingdom of Kent, iv.
140. Dies of wounds received in battle against Edric, 142. Love, produces knowledge and virtue, i. 225. The fon of Penury, begot of Plenty, 355. How parabled by the ancients, ibid. Lubec, Oliver's letter to the fenators and confuls of that city, iv. 434.
Lucius, a king in fome part of Britain, thought the first of any king
in Europe who received the Chriftian faith, iv. 63. Is made the fecond by descent from Marius, 64. After a long reign bu- ried at Gloucester, ibid.
Lucifer, the first prelate angel, i. 89.
Lucretius, his Epicurism, published the second time by Cicero, i.
Lud, walls about Trinovant, and calls it Caer-Lud, Lud's town, iv. 23.
Ludgate, whence named, iv. 23.
Ludiken, the Mercian, going to avenge Bernulf, is surprised by the Eaft-angles and put to the fword, iv. 161.
Lupicinus, fent over deputy into this ifland by Julian the emperor, but foon recalled, iv. 74.
Lupus, bishop of Troyes, affiftant to Germanus of Auxerre, in the reformation of the British church, iv. 90.
Luther, a monk, one of the firft reformers, i. 206. His vehement writing against the errours of the Roman church commended, 232.
Lutherans, an errour charged upon them, iv. 262.
Lycurgus, how he fecured the crown of Lacedemon to his family, iii. 189. Makes the power of the people fuperiour to that of the king, 240.
MADAN, fucceeds his father Locrine, iv. 12.
Magiftrates, civil, to be obeyed as God's vicegerents, i.95. Should take care of the public fports and feftival paftimes, 121, 122. Their particular and general end, 133. Tenure of, ii. 271. Effeminate ones not fit to govern, 447, 448. Not to use force in religious matters, 324, 343. Reasons against their fo doing, 337. Should fee that confcience be not inwardly violated, 342. Maglaunus, duke of Albania, marries Gonoril eldest daughter of king Leir, iv. 15.
Maglocune, furnamed the Ifland Dragon, one of the five that reigned toward the beginning of the Saxon heptarchy, iv. 114. His wicked character, ibid.
Magus, fon and fucceffor of Samothes, whom fome fable to have been the first peopler of this ifland, iv. 3.
Maimonides, his difference between the kings of Ifrael and those of Judah, iii. 144.
Malcolm, fon of Kened king of Scots, falling upon Northumber- land, is utterly overthrown by Uthred, iv. 221. Some say by Iric, 227.
Malcolm, fon of the Cumbrian king, made king of Scotland in the room of Macbeth, iv. 244.
Malcolm, king of Scotland, coming to visit king Edward, fwears brotherhood with Tofti the Northumbrian, iv. 246. Afterward in his abfence haraffes Northumberland, ibid.
Mandubratius, fon of Immanuentius, favoured by the Trinobantes against Caffibelan, iv. 36.
Manifefto of the lord protector of England, &c. against the depre- dations of the Spaniards, v. 12. In Latin, vi.go.
Marcus Aurelius, ready to lay down the government, if the fenate or people required it, iii. 250.
Marganus, the fon of Gonoril, deposes his aunt Cordeilla, iv. 16. Shares the kingdom with his coufin Cunedagius, invades him, but is met and overcome by him, ibid.
Marganus, the fon of Archigallo, a good king. iv. 22.
Marinaro, a learned Carmelite, why reproved by cardinal Pool, ii. 167.
Marius, the fon of Arviragus, is faid to have overcome the Picts, and flain their king Roderic, iv. 64.
Marriage, not properly fo, where the most honeft end is wanting, i. 350. The fulfilling of conjugal love and happiness, rather than the remedy of luft, 353. Love and peace in families broke by a forced continuance of matrimony, 357. May endanger the life of either party, 371. Not a mere carnal coition, 373. Compared with other covenants broken for the good of men, 373, 374. No more a command than divorce, ii. 13. The words of the inftitution, how to be understood, 22. The mise- ries in marriage to be laid on unjuft laws, 51. Different defi- nitions of it, 141-144. The grievance of the mind more to be regarded in it, than that of the body, ibid. Called the covenant of God, 153. The ordering of it belongs to the civil power, 79. Popes by fraud and force have got this power, 79, 80. Means of preferving it holy and pure, 83. Allowed by the ancient fathers, even after the vow of fingle life, 87. Chrift intended to make no new laws relating to it, 91. The properties of a true christian marriage, 99. What crimes diffolve it, 100. Expofitions of the four chief places in Scripture treating of, 111. A civil ordinance or houthold contract, 370. The folemnizing of it recovered by the parliament from the encroachment of priefts, 371. See Divorce.
Martia, wife of king Guitheline, faid to have inftituted the law called Marchen Leage, iv. 20.
Martin V, pope, the first that excommunicated for reading he- retical books, ii. 293.
Martinus, made deputy of the British province, failing to kill Paulus, falls upon his own fword, iv. 73.
Martyr, Peter, his character of Martin Bucer, ii. 67. His opinion concerning divorce, 233.
Martyrdom, the nature of it explained, iii. 83, 84.
Martyrs, not to be relied on, i. 241.
Mary, queen of Scots, her death compared with king Charles's, iii.
Massacre, of Paris, owing to the peace made by the proteftants with Charles IX, ii. 302. Irish, more than 200,000 protestants murdered in it, 364.
Matrimony, nothing more difturbs the whole life of a Christian than an unfit one, i. 359. See Marriage.
Matth. xix. 3, 4, &c., explained, ii. 170.
Maximianus Herculeus, forced to conclude a peace with Caraufius, and yield him Britain, iv. 70.
Maximus, a Spaniard, ufurping part of the empire, is overcome at length and flain by Theodofius, iv. 76. Maximus a friend of Gerontius, is by him fet up in Spain against Conftantine the ufurper, 78.
Mazarine, cardinal, Oliver's letters to him, iv. 388, 407, 451, 452, 453, 457. Richard the protector's, v. 2, 7, 9.
Medina Celi, duke of, letter of thanks to him for his civil treatment of the English fleet, iv. 336.
Mellitus, Juftus, and others fent with Austin to the converfion of the Saxons, iv. 121. He converts the East-Saxons, 123. St. Paul's church in London built for his cathedral by Ethelred, as that of Rochester for Juftus, ibid.
Mempricius, one of Brutus's council, perfuades him to haften out of Greece, iv. 8.
Mempricius and Malim, fucceed their father Madan in the kingdom, iv. 12. Mempricius treacherously flays his brother, gets fole pof- feffion of the kingdom, reigns tyrannically, and is at last devoured by wolves, ibid.
Mercia, kingdom of, first founded by Crida, iv. 115.
Mercian laws, by whom instituted, iv. 20.
Merianus, an ancient British king, iv. 22.
Micah, his lamentation for the lofs of his Gods, &c. iii. 66, 67. Military Skill, its excellence confifts in readily submitting to com- manders orders, i. 81.
Militia, not to be disposed of without consent of parliament, ii. 470.
Milles, Hermann, letter to, i. xix.
Milton, the author, his account of himself, i. 223, &c. vi. 380, 401. of his complaint in his eyes, i. xxiv.
Mimes, what they were, i. 216, 217.
Minifter, different from the magiftrate, in the excellence of his end, i. 140. Duties belonging to his office, ibid. Whether the peo- ple are judges of his ability, 255.
Minifters, have the power of binding and loofing, i. 93. Their la- bours reflected on, by licenfing the prefs, 313. How dif- tinguished in the primitive times from other chriftians, iii. 390. Minifters, Prefbyterian, account of their behaviour, when the bi- fhops were preached down, i. 126.
Minocan, an ancient British king, iv. 23,
Mithridates, why he endeavoured to ftir up all princes against the Romans, iii. 116.
Mollo, the brother of Kedwalla, purfued, befet, and burnt in a house whither he had fled for shelter, iv. 143. His death re- venged by his brother, ibid.
Molmutine Laws, what and by whom established in England, iv. 17. Monarchy, faid to have been firft founded by Nimrod, ii. 470. The ill confequences of readmitting it, iii. 419, &c.
Monk, general, letter to him concerning the establishing of a free commonwealth, iii. 398.
Monks, invented new fetters to throw on matrimony, ii. 69. Du- bious relaters in civil matters, and very partial in ecclefiaftic, iv. 79, 80. One thousand one hundred and fifty of them massacred,
Morcar, the fon of Algar, made earl of Northumberland in the room of Tofti, iv. 248. He and Edwin duke of the Mercians put Tofti to flight, 252. They give battle to Harold Harvager, king of Norway, but are worsted, 254. They refufe to fet up Edgar, and at length fwear fidelity to duke William of Nor- mandy, 257.
Mordred, Arthur's nephew, faid to have given him in a battle his death wound, iv. 113.
More, Alexander, Defence of the Author against, v. 269. Ac- count of him, vi. 370.
Morindus, the fon of Elanius by Tangueftela, a valiant man, but infinitely cruel, iv. 20. Is devoured by a fea monfter, ibid. Mofco, fertility of the country between this city and Yeraslave, iv. 276. Said to be bigger than London, ibid. Method of travelling thence to the Cafpian, ibid. Siege of it raifed, and peace made with the Poles, by the mediation of king James, 298. Mofcovia, defcription of the empire, iv. 273. Exceffive cold in winter there, ibid. Succeffion of its dukes and emperors, 287, &c.
Mofes, inftructed the Jews from the book of Genefis, what fort of government they were to be subject to, i. 79. Designed for a lawgiver, but Chrift came among us as a teacher, 197. Of- fended with the prophane fpeeches of Zippora, fent her back to her father, 363. Why he permitted a bill of divorce, ii. 42. An interpreter between God and the people, iii. 155. Did not exercise an arbitrary power, 166.
Moulin, Dr. remarks on his argument for the continuance of bi- fhops in the English church, i. 206.
Mulmutius. See Dunwallo.
Mufic, recommended to youth, i. 283.
NASSAU, houfe of, hinted at, as dangerous to a commonwealth,
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