A

vindicated, 207, 208.
Alexander Janneus, 231.
Ananias, why Paul did not know
him to be high Priest (Act.
xxiii.) 161.

Animals forbidden as unclean, and
the reasons and purposes of
this prohibition, 259, 268.
Antiquities, study of the Jewish
Antiquities recommended, 85,
87.

Appearances, (visible) of Deity,

territory, and how proportion-
ed to the number of the Israel-
ites, 43.

Canaanites, their destruction vin-
dicated, 26, 27.

Ceremonies of the Hebrew wor-
ship, their special objects, 96, 98.
Charms, 337.

Circumcision, its origin, fitness, and
usefulness, 99, 104.
Cities, assigned to the Levites,

Bath kol, 201.

G

Garments of the Priests, 155, 157.
peculiar garments for the high
Priests, 157, 161. these gar-
ments allegorised in a fanciful
manner by Josephus and Phi-
lo, 163. why men and wo-
men might not wear each oth-
er's garments, 256.
Gemara, 221.
Government, (civil) its origin and
progress in the early ages, 11,15.

of the Israelites, its de-
sign, 23. why temporal bles-
sings and evils were its sanc-
tions, 23, 24. the utility of its
sanctions, 25, the reason of
some statutes, which may ap-
pear trifling or severe, 28, 29.
contrasted with the govern-
ment of the antient heathens,
37, 41. originally a free and
equal republic, 43 required
that the territory should be e-
qually divided, estates holden
as a freehold from God, and
descend in perpetual succes-
sion, 44.
allowed a popular
assembly, an advising senate,
and a presiding magistrate, 49.
popular branch, 50, 52.

sen-

atorial branch, 54, 59. execu-
tive branch, 59, 62. its excel-
lence, as an immediate com-
munication from Jehovah, 64.
as it precluded selfish ambi-
tion, 76. its operation com-
menced in the wilderness, 74.
degenerated in form and execu-
tion after the death of Joshua,
76.

by Judges, 77. by kings, 80.
Groves, why prohibited near the
altar of God, 39, 256.

H

Ham, his crime, 18.

Masorites, 221.

Menu, 313.

M

Military regulations, the whole
nation a standing army, 47.
what men were excused from
going into the battle, 47.
Mishna, 221.
Mixtures, why certain mixture
forbidden, 257,
Moloch, 254.
Monks, 244.

Moon, sacrifices and ceremonies

at the new moon, 246, 247.
Morgan's (Dr.) insinuation that
the Jews took their oracle from
that of Jupiter Hammon in
Egypt refuted, 67.
Mourning, why cutting the hair,
flesh, &c. forbidden, 256.

Nazareth, 220.

N

Nazarites, 217, 220.

Nero, consecrated his beard, 218.
Newton's (sir Isaac) account of
the rise of heathen oracles, 67.

0
Objection of partiality in Jehovah to
the Jewish nation answered, 31.

to the Hebrew constitu-
tion, as a system of intolerance
and war, of conquest or exter-
mination, answered, 34, 37-

and inquiries respecting
the Jewish priesthood answer-
ed, 165, 176.

and inquiries relative
to the Hebrew prophets an-
swered, 190, 199, 205.
Offerings, burnt offering, 114. sin

Pagans attributed temporal pros-
perity to their idols, 90, 93.
Passover, 120, 124.

Paul's offering sacrifice to con-

ciliate the Jews (record. 21
chap. of Acts), justified, 75.
his vow of Nazariteship, 218.
Pentecost, 125.

Pharisees, 131, 133.
Pollutions and purifications, 270.
Priests, their orders, qualifica-
tions, ceremonies of their in-
duction into office, and their
duties, 147, 150. their gar-
ments, 155, 157. preroga-
tives of the high priest, 151.
his garments, 157, 161. how
the priests were maintained,
166, 170. why supported by
tithes, 170, 172.
Punishments inflicted on those who

assumed the priestly office, 154-
Priesthood, the union of civil and
spiritual jurisdiction in it con-
sidered, 174. typical of Christ,
307.

Priestly's (Dr.) dicourses, deliver-
ed at Philadelphia, referred to,
37. quoted, 41, 52. account of
two responses of the oracle A-
pollo, 184.