Basilides, his error concerning the crucifixion of Christ, i. 11, n. his Gospel not extant, 107, 159. only just cited among the apocryphal books by Origen, Ambrose, and Jerome, 157, n. his age and tenets, ibid. n. his commentaries, &c. 158. Baxter, Mr. a citation from him concerning people's remissness in inquiring into the genuineness of the scriptures, i. 13.
Beda, his sentiments of the Hebrew or Nazarene Gospel, i. 248, n. Bellarmine rejects the Epistles of Paul and Seneca as spurious, ii. 68, n. his opinion that St. Mark wrote in Latin, confuted, iii. 59.
Bentley, his remark concerning the various readings in the scriptures, iii. 257.
Bernard, Dr. his opinion of Barnabas's Epistle, ii. 427. his assertion that it was read in the churches, together with canonical books, refuted, 443, ǹ.
Beza, his opinion that St. Paul wrote several other Epistles besides those we now have, i. 123, 124, n. of a saying of Christ mentioned by St. Paul, Acts xx. 35. p. 357, n. his opinion on John ii. 11. vol. ii. 202, n. Bibliander. Vide Postellus. Bishop, this word and Presbyter, titles of the same person in the time of Clemens Alexandrinus, iii. 93, n. Burnet, bishop, a citation out of him concerning the necessity of tradition to establish the canon of the New Testament, i. 52, n.
C. Caianites, a sect of the Gnostics, &c. i. 209. forged a piece under the name of Judas, ibid. their tenets, ibid. n.
Cajetan questioned the authority of the Revelation, i. 8.
Caius, presbyter of Rome, apocryphal
books mentioned by him, i. 28. Calvin questioned the authority of the Revelation, i. 8. supposed St. Paul to have written more Epistles than we now have, 123, 124, n. Canon of the New Testament more difficult to settle than that of the Old, i. 2, 3. the original of the word, and when first applied to scripture, 17, 18. primitive Christians did well agree about books canonical, 36. and did generally receive the same for such, as we do now, ibid. tradition of the ancients, the principal
method of determining it, 48. a demonstrative indication of a true canon, 57. canonical books, which, ibid. none of them lost, 118. a noted objection to this answered, 121. the bare citation of a book in sacred writings does not prove it canonical,
Canterbury, present archbishop of, a citation out of him concerning the apostolical fathers, i. 5. a mistake of him in putting the word soul for the Greek payida, 364. demonstrates the story and Epistles of Christ and Abgarus to be spurious, ii. 7, n. his opinion concerning St. Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans, refuted, 37. his sentiments of the Epistle of Barnabas, 361, n. an examine ation of his vindication of the allegories contained in that Epistle, &c. 342.
Capellus, his proof of the doxology at the end of the Lord's Prayer, &c. i. 104, n. thought St. Paul to have wrote other Epistles than those we now have, 123, 124, n. Carthage, council third, its catalogue of canonical books, i. 56. Casaubon, a citation from him concerning the early rise of apocryphal books, 35. his opinion of the Nazarene Gospel, 249, n. a mistake of his concerning the Arabic translation of Mark iii. 21. corrected by De Dieu, ii. 206. his opinion concerning the Acts of Pilate, 281, n. he censures the Epistle of Barnabas, and the primitive fathers, for quoting, and too frequently making use of, the sibylline books, 391, n. Cassiodorus, his conjecture concerning the Hypotyposes, i. 327, n. Catalogues of the scriptural books in ancient writers referred to, to prove the authenticity of the four Gospels,
iii. 9. Cave, Dr. thinks the decree of Gelasius concerning apocryphal books to be spurious, i. 140, n. his mistake in thinking the Anabaticon and Revelation of Paul to be two different books, 279, n. his opinion, that the Judgment of Peter was the same book with the Shepherd of Hermas, rejected, 294. his favourable sentiment of the Preaching of Peter, 310, n. his opinion concerning the history of the Epistles of Christ and Abgarus, ii. 7, n. he reckons the Epistle to the Laodiceans among
the forgeries of the Manichees, 44,
n. rejects the Epistles of Paul and
Seneca as spurious, 68, n. his opin-
ion of the Epistle of Barnabas, 428,
n. exposition of John xxi. 21. p.
438, n. his explanation of what is
meant by St. Mark's being called
the interpreter of St. Peter, iii. 55.
his opinion of St. Luke's style, 75.
supposed him not to have been one
of the seventy disciples, 76. his
opinion of St. John's style, 101.
Cedrenus, his account of the seal which
Christ affixed to his Epistle to Ab-
garus, ii. 6, n.
Celibacy, its doctrine confirmed out
of the Acts of Paul and Thecla, ii.
330, n.
Celsus, his objection to our Saviour,
as a magician, i. 171. bauters the
Christians under the name of Sibyl-
lists, 318, n.
Cerinthus, his Gospel and Revelation
not extant, i. 107. seems to have
been a different name for the He-
brew Gospel of Matthew, 114. men-
tioned only by Epiphanius, 159, n.
his age, tenets, &c. a story of St.
John the apostle and him at Ephe-
sus, ibid. n. he is referred to in Acts
xv. ibid. his Gospel the same with
the Nazarenes, 162. his Revelation
mentioned only by Caius or Gaius
the presbyter, 163, n. not the same
as St. John's, ibid. but a ridiculous
forgery compiled out of the canoni-
cal Revelation, 165, 166, n.
Chaldean language. Vide Syriac.
Chardin, sir John, his account of the
charge of the Mahometans against
the Christians for corrupting the
Gospel, i. 408, n. his account of the
Gospel of the Infancy of Christ, in
an Armenian legend, ii. 196.
Charinus. Vide Leucius.
Chemnitius, his opinion of the saying
of Christ mentioned by St. Paul,
Acts xx. 35. i. 356, n. censures the
Epistles of Christ and Abgarus as
spurious, ii. 7, n. his judgment on
John ii. 11. p. 202, n. condemns for
spurious the accounts of our Sa-
viour's infancy, 204, n. proves that
there was no adoration offered to
the Virgin Mary till the fourth or
fifth century, 216, n. nor relics
known to the primitive Christians,
217, n. a merry story of his con-
cerning the latter, 220.
Christ our Saviour, his Epistle to Pe-
ter and Paul, some other books un-
der his name, an Epistle of his pro-
duced by the Manicheans, and a
hymn, which they pretend he taught
his disciples, not extant, i. 108, 166.
not mentioned till Austin's time, ex-
cept an Epistle to Abgarus, &c. ibid.
that to Peter and Paul proved out of
Austin to be a ridiculous forgery,
168. another book mentioned under
his name, 170. he is falsely charged
by the Jews and Celsus, as a magi-
cian, 171. an idle trite story of the
former to the same purpose, ibid. a
spurious Epistle of his among the
Manichees, 172, n. a hymn forged
by the Priscillianists under his name
proved spurious, 174, n. a saying
of his mentioned by St. Paul, 356.
others ascribed to him in the Epistle
of Barnabas, 357. others by Cle-
mens, supposed to be the same men-
tioned by St. Paul, 359. a fragment
in his name cited by Irenæus, 362,
n. a discourse ascribed to him by Pa-
pias, 368. another by the same, 369,
a saying of his out of Justin Martyr,
370. history of his baptism by the
same, 373. another concerning him
in his younger years, by the same,
375. a saying of him in Irenæus,
378. history of his age in the same,
ibid. a saying ascribed to him in
Athenagoras, and a continuation of
it by Pfaffius, 381. another by Cle-
mens Alexandrinus, 382. another by
the same, 386. another cited by
most of the ancient fathers, 383.
history of him and his parents by
Origen, 387. of his relations accord-
ing to the flesh in Epiphanius, 388.
an answer of the apostles to him in
Jerome, 390. histories and sayings
of, and things relating to him, to
be found in the Alcoran of Ma-
homet, 394. four particular sayings
ascribed to him by the Mahometan
doctors, 411. an Epistle under his
name to an Arabian king, trans-
lated out of Syriac into Greek, and
preserved in the writings of Euse-
bius, ii. 1, n. 4. an account of the
seal (consisting of seven Hebrew
letters) which he used, &c. 6, n.
these Epistles esteemed by several
learned men spurious and apocry-
phal, 7, n. and proved by several
arguments to be so, 8. the main ob-
jection concerning it answered, 16.
a conjecture that the history of these
Epistles is an interpolation into the
works of Eusebius, with several ar-
guments to support it, 17. a frag-
ment concerning Christ's picture,
which he sent to Abgarus, taken out
of the Orthodoxographa, 19. a rela-
tion of a miracle wrought by it, 20,
n. the story of this picture was com-
mon among the writers of the sixth
and following centuries, ibid. a di-
gression out of monsieur Durant,
concerning four pictures of Christ,
made during his life on earth, 21.
a prayer of his (probably a Maho-
metan forgery) different from that
in the Gospels, 24. proved spurious,
25, n.
Christ's Infancy, the Gospel of, pub-
lished and translated by Mr. Henry
Sike, at Utrecht, in 1697, ii. 142.
another under the name of Thomas,
out of Cotelerius's notes on the Con-
stitutions of the Apostles, who print-
ed it out of a MS. in the French
king's library, 187. these seem to be
originally the same, 191. the ancient
Gospel of Thomas different from
this of the Infancy of Christ, 192.
they are mentioned by the ancients
as two distinct books, &c. ibid.
Christ's Infancy a forgery of the
Gnosticks, 193. received by the Mar-
cosians in the second century, 194.
known to Mahomet, and made use
of by the compilers of the Alcoran,
ibid. contained in the legends of the
Persians, 196, n. they are apocry-
phal, and not received by the ancient
Christians, 199. the design of them
false, ibid. proved from scripture,
and the universal silence of the first
Christian writers, 200. and from St.
John's Gospel, ch. ii. 11. p. 201.
that text critically discussed, 202.
intimations in scripture that Christ
wrought no miracles in his infancy,
205. this positively asserted by seve-
ral fathers, 207, n. these Gospels
proved apocryphal from the trifling
stories, and many falsities in them
contained, 209. because they contain
things later than the time in which
they pretend to be written, 213. be-
cause of the prodigious respect paid
by them to the Virgin Mary, 214. the
opinions of Dr. Mill, Mr. La Crose,
and the author, concerning these
Gospels, 220, n.
Chrysostom makes no mention of the
adulterous woman in John viii. i.
100. asserts the first miracle wrought
by Christ was in Cana of Galilee,
and calls the miracles ascribed to
his infancy, forgery and lies, ii. 208,
n. he entertained a great veneration
for relics, 218. cites the Acts of Pi-
late, 278, n. mentions the Acts of
Paul and Thecla, 329, n. his testi-
mony concerning the four Gospels,
iii. 9. his argument on their dis-
agreement, 153.
Clarke, Dr. a mistake of his concern-
ing Mr. Dodwell, rectified, i. 4, n.
Clarke, Dr. S. his opinion of Barnabas's
Epistle, ii. 362, n. refuted, 372.
Clemens Alexandrinus, apocryphal
books mentioned by him, i. 27.
makes no mention of the adulterous
woman in John viii. p. 100. his tes-
timonies of the Gospel of the Egyp-
tians, 177, n. his interpretation of
1 Cor. vii. 1. and 1 Tim. iv. 3. p. 187,
n. mentions the traditions of Mat-
thias, 226. his account of the Naza-
rene or Hebrew Gospel, 237, n. does
not appeal to the Hebrew Gospel as
of any authority, 260. cites frag-
ments of the Preaching of Peter,
301. observation on the Hypotyposes
of Clemens, &c. 323, n. that book
not his, 326. the citation of it by
Theodotus examined, 327. his testi-
monies concerning Barnabas's Epi-
stle, ii. 348. his copies corrupted,
and Barnabas inserted for Clemens
Romanus, 353. he had too high an
opinion of Barnabas's Epistle, 373.
yet contradicts it, 374. continually
cites the four Gospels now received,
iii. 7. his account of St. Matthew's
temperance, 12. his citations of him,
31. of St. Mark, 66. of St. Luke, 86.
of St. John, 105. ascribes the Acts
of the Apostles to St. Luke, 109.
cites them, 114. his account of St.
Mark's Gospel recorded by Euse-
bius, 161.
Clemens Romanus, contemporary with
St. Paul, his testimony of St. Paul's
first Epistle to the Corinthians, con-
trary to the opinions of many mo-
dern learned men, i. 125. cites St.
Matthew, iii. 18. 264. St. Luke, 84.
St. John, 102. the Acts of the Apo-
stles, 112.
Cleobius, author of several apocryphal
books, i. 35.
Le Clerc, Mr. his opinion of several
Epistles of St. Paul, not extant, and
sanguine remark on those that are,
examined, i. 123. his sentiments of
the Egyptian Gospel, 181. censure of
Dr. Grabe, 186, n. his opinion the
same with Dr. Whitby's concerning
the Nazarene Gospel, 253, n. censures the story and Epistles of Christ and Abgarus for spurious, ii. 7, n. his opinion upon the text, Col. iv. 16. refuted, 36. his opinion concerning the Acts of Pilate, 282, n. concerning Barnabas's Epistle, 363. Cocus condemns as spurious the whole
story and Epistle of Christ to Abgarus, ii. 7, n. rejects the Epistles of Paul and Seneca, 68.
Collins, Dr. was of opinion that St. Paul wrote an Epistle to the Corinthians, previous to those two extant, i. 124. his observation on John ii. II. ii. 202, n.
Collyridiani, whence so named, ii. 215.
Constantine emperor, cites a Greek
acrostic concerning Christ, i. 318, n. Corinthians, a spurious Epistle of theirs to Paul, and another of Paul to them, i. 130, 131.
Cosin, Dr. a mistake of his rectified, i. 50.
Cotelerius, his fragment of the Infancy of Christ, li. 187. his opinion of Barnabas's Epistle, 359.
La Crose, monsieur, cites a synod held in the diocese of Angamala, in the mountains of Malabar, A. D. 1599. which condemns the Gospels of Christ's Infancy, &c. ii. 143, n. 220, n. his opinion of those Gospels, ibid. n.
Cross, the practice of signing with, by
whom first mentioned, ii. 295, 342. Cyprian, apocryphal books mentioned by him, i. 28. his account of the Christian meetings, 60. makes mention of Thecla, ii. 327. Cyril, apocryphal books mentioned by him, i. 29. his catalogue of canonical books, 54. instructions to his catechumen concerning the scriptures, 60, n. his distinction of books canonical, and such as were doubted of, 62, n. account of the Gospel of Scythianus, 335, n. censure of the Gospel of Thomas, as the Gospel of one of the Manichees of the same name, 346, n. his testimony concerning St. Matthew's Gospel, iii. 35.
Daillé, Mons. demonstrates the spuriousness of a book, under the name of Bartholomew, mentioned by the supposed Dionysius the Areopagite, i. 153. a mistake of his rectified by bishop Pearson, ibid. n. another
concerning Bartholomew's Gospel, 156. he thinks the Epistles of Ignatius to be spurious, 259. shews that the fathers were often mistaken, iii. 240.
Daniel the prophet, a citation out of him, whereby the Chaldee and Syriac languages seem to be synonymous, i. 85.
Darius Comes, in an Epistle to Austin, seems to refer to the letters of Christ and Abgarus, ii. 6, n.
De Dieu, his observation on the affinity of the Chaldee and Syriac languages, i. 85, n. corrects a mistake of Casaubon in the Arabic translation of Mark iii. 21. vol. ii. 205, n. Dionysius Alexandrinus, thought the style of St. John's Gospel pure and elegant, iii. IOI.
Dionysius the Areopagite, one of St. Paul's converts at Rome, i. 153, n. Docetæ, a branch of the Gnostick heretics, i. 291. supposed to forge Peter's Gospel, which likely may be the same as the Gospel of Basilides, ibid. Dodwell, Mr. a false opinion of his concerning the books of the present canon, espoused by Mr. Toland, refuted, i. 38, n. 120. he thinks Peter's Gospel was a forgery of the Docetæ, 291. his account of the age of Tatian, 340, n. a mistake of his concerning the promiscuous use of the Gospels and apocryphal books by the fathers of the first century, 357, n. 361. 366. his opinion of the Epistle of Barnabas, and of Hermes, ii. 360, n. his opinion that the first Christian writers had no certain canon, which they cited, iii. 14. his mistake in supposing that none of our Gospels were cited by the early fathers, 26. 265. and that the Gospels lay a long time concealed, 262. argues that the evangelists could not have seen the writings of each other, 183.
Doxology at the end of the Lord's
Prayer, various opinions of it, i. 103. Drusius, his proof of the doxology, &c. i. 104. his opinion of the supposed lost pieces of Paul, 123, 124, n. Du Pin, Mr. the only person who has purposely written on the canon of the New Testament, i. 15. defects in his performance, 16. his mistake about the word Eucharist, 103, n. another concerning the time of the Syriac version, ibid. his censure of
the Egyptian Gospel, 180, n. of the
Gospel of Eve; and a mistake of
his, 200, n. his sentiments of the
Nazarene or Hebrew Gospel, 250, n.
his opinion of the Anabaticon and
Revelation of Paul, 279, n. a mis-
take of his concerning Philip's Gos-
pel rectified, 335. opposed the tra-
dition that St. Luke was one of the
seventy disciples, iii. 76.
Durant, monsieur, a digression out of
him concerning several pictures of
Christ, made during his life on
earth, ii, 21.
Eachard, Mr. rejects the Epistles of
Paul and Seneca as spurious, ii. 68,
n. his opinion of Barnabas's Epi-
stles, 362, n.
Ebionites, what part of the New Tes-
tament they rejected, i. 7. the apo-
cryphal Acts of the Apostles made
use of by them, 108. not extant,
ibid. seems to have been a different
name of the Hebrew Gospel of Mat-
thew, 114. 194. their apocryphal
Acts, 197. their Gospel the same
with the Nazarenes, &c. 198. they
used the Acts of Peter, 285, n. es-
teemed St. Paul their great enemy,
314. they and the Nazarenes always
declared heretics by the catholic
church, ibid.
Egyptians, their apocryphal Gospel
not extant, i. 108. testimonies of the
ancients and fragments of it, 176.
sentiments of modern writers con-
cerning it, 179. five arguments
proving it apocryphal, 182. it was
never cited nor appealed to by Cle-
mens, 183. but utterly rejected by
him, 185. composed by early here-
tics, and probably Egyptians, 186,
193. their Therapeuta bore a great
agreement with the Essenes, 191.
Elxai, or Elxæus, a false prophet
about the time of Trajan, A. C.
114. founder of the sect of the Hel-
kesaites, &c. i. 202.
Encratites, apocryphal Gospel of, not
extant, i. 108. esteemed the spurious
Acts of Andrew above all other
scriptures, and why, 136.
Ephraem Syrus mentions the Epistles
of Abgarus to Christ, and Christ's
answer, ii. 5.
Epiphanius, apocryphal books men-
tioned by him, i. 30. his catalogue
of canonical books, 55. his censure
of the apocryphal Acts of Andrew,
135, n. of the Egyptian Gospel, 178.
he the only ancient writer that men-
tions the Acts of the Apostles, re-
ceived by the Ebionites, 194. and
the Gospel of Eve, 298, n. his cen-
sure of the Helkesaites, 202, n. ac-
count of the Gospel of Judas Isca-
riot, 208. of the Encratites, Apotac-
tics, and Origenians, 216. a mistake
of his concerning the Lucianists rec-
tified, 222. he charges the Ebionites
with forging books under St. Mat-
thew's name, 224. mentions the
Gospel of Marcion, 233, n. his doubt
whether Merinthus and Cerinthus
were not one and the same person,
234. his account of the Nazarene or
Hebrew Gospel, 239, n. declares
Paul's Revelation a forgery, 278, n.
his opinion of the Anabaticon of
Paul, 280. rejects the Acts of Peter
as spurious, 285, n. his account of
the Gospel of Scythianus, 335, n.
his account of the principles of Ta-
tian, 339, n. cites the Acts of Tho-
mas, 344, n. his history of Christ
according to the flesh, 388. a noto-
rious error in our present copies of
him concerning Marcion's Evange-
lium and Apostolicon, ii. 23, n. he
esteemed the miracles of Christ's in-
fancy to be fables, 207. a relation
from him about some silly women,
who first sacrificed to the Virgin
Mary, 215. his account of Thecla,
328.
Erasmus, questioned the authority of
the Revelation, i. 8. says the history
of the adulterous woman was want-
ing in most Greek copies, &c. 110,
n. his acknowledgment of finding
the doxology at the end of the Lord's
prayer in all the Greek copies, 103,
n. sentiments of the Gospel of the
Nazarenes, Thomas, Matthias, the
Egyptians, twelve apostles, and Ni-
codemus, 179, n. his opinion that
the Epistle to the Laodiceans was
stolen out of the Epistle to the Co-
lossians, ii. 42, n. he attempts to
prove the Epistle spurious from its
style, 43.
Essenes, the great agreement between
them and the Egyptian Christians,
Estius condemns for spurious the ac-
counts of the miracles wrought by
Christ in his infancy, ii. 204, n. ac-
counts for St. Mark's having omit-
ted several circumstances honour-
able to St. Peter, iii. 57.163, n.
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