LEWIS XII. a party in the league of Cambray, 205. LIBERTY of the prefs, a British constitutional liberty, 24. LIFE, vegetable, abfurdity of arguing from the date of it to the duration of rational life, 55. LIGHTS, northern, ingenious at tempt to account for them, 449. LITERARY Writing, not known any where till about the time LOTTERY, a literary one, 4. MACKRELL, kill a man, 503. MATRIMONY, canons relating MOLESWORTH, Vifcount Ri- MORAVIANS, abstract of his pre- Moses, his prophecy of a pro- 122. O-CONOLLY, a proteflant, first difcovered the defign of the Irish rebellion and massacre, 217. OFFALEY, baron of, furnamed OFFICES, great, better regulated P PALMYRENE alphabet difcovered, 507, feq. PARLIAMENT, petitions concerning cerning elections to, how for- 32. PIGs, profits arifing from, 71. PLAGUE, acting from a perfua- fion of its not being importa- PLEASURE and infidelity faid to generate each other recipro- of that fuperftition, 214. 214. PROPHECIES, thofe of fcriptare to be understood not of ingle RAY, his divifion of marine pro- REMARKS on Stebbing's pam- birth and extraordinary talents, corallines found on, 183. SALTS, urinous, deftructive to vegetables, 74. How rendered nitrous by the air, ib. Nitrous moft congruous to vege. tation, ib. SAYER, his vindication of the marriage-act, 438---440. SAVARY'S dictionary, improved by Poftlethwayte, 85. SCRIPTURES, calculated to promote the civil as well as religious liberties of mankind, 40; SEA, fcintillation of, attempted to be accounted for, 454. SERPENTS, in Norway, their charming of birds, 499. SILK-worms, difficulty of rearing, 9. SOMERSET, Edward Lord Herbert, fome account of his commiffion in Ireland, 221, feq. SORTILEGES of the antients, remarks on, 13. SPANIARDS uneafy at the neighbourhood of the French in dmerica, 88. SQUINANCY in brutes, what, and how cured, 69, notes. STADTHOLDER, fome account of his revenues, 481. STANZA, of four lines, with ten fyllables, and alternate rhymes, well adapted to particular fubjects, 354. STEBBING, Dr. his differtation relating to the marriages of minors, 110. Obfervations on, ibid. and 114. Remarks on his fentiments on this fubject, 112-114---440---415. STELLA, wife of Dean Swift, encomium on, 245, teq. STERCORARY, for the reception of dung, what, 74. STILE, affected and ridiculous, fpecimens of, 119. STURGRASS, gramen off agum, its furprifing poison, and ftrange cure of it, 458. SUPERSTITION, the nature of, 432. Wherein it differs from true religion, 433 SWIFT, Dr. Jonathan, his sketch of his own life and family, an inconfiderable prefent to an univerfity, 242. The legacy left him by Sir W. T. 244. Reafons affigned for his never owning his marriage, 245. His conduct towards Vanessa apologized for, 250. His cavalier behaviour to Q. Anne's minifters, 253, feq. His character advantageously, but partially, drawn, 257. SWIFT, Deane, elq; a vain and injudicious writer. See his eflay on the Doctor's life, throughout; and the account of it in this volume, 241, Jeq. SWINE hurt by feeding on clover, 68. Diseases of, ib. and feq. in the notes. Their dung how rendered useful, 70, notes. T TASTE, difference between the objects of, and those of judg ment, 238. TESTIMONY, human, may be fo ftrong, that none but a fool or madman can doubt of it, 176. TIBERIUS, his character, 410. TIMBER, ftrength of, according to Muller, 122. According to Emerson, 123. Great difficulty of making fuch experiments, 124. TOAST, a prophane and obfcene poem, faid to be the work of Dr. King, 395. TOR AUTHORS of the MONTHLY REVIEW. GENTLEMEN, H AVING lately read a Book, intitled, A NEW FORM OF PRAYER, &c. addrefs'd to the Archbishop of Canterbury, which was published a Year ago; I look'd back to your REVIEW, expecting to see fome Remarks upon it: But finding only a general Recommendation, I could not forbear accufing you of Remiffness, in not giving us an Abftract of it, and thereby exciting the Curiofity and Attention of the Publick to a Matter of fuch Importance. After this Admonition, I fhould hope to fee your Animadverfions upon it in a future REVIEW; but this, it feems, is repugnant to the Rules of your Plan Give mé Leave, therefore, to exprefs my Satisfaction in general, in the Alterations there propos'd, and to lay before you a few Thoughts that have occurred to me, fince reading that Performance; but I fhall confine myself only to the Confideration of that most folemn Act of Religion, the Confeffion of our Faith, in what is commonly call'd the Apoftles Creed; which the Author for very good Reason rejects on account of three Articles in it, two of which are unintelligible in the present State of the Church, and the other is built upon a falfe Foundation, viz. “The Defcent of Chrift into Hell. Tho' perhaps it might be better to retain the Creed, only omiiting those three Articles, which were not introduc'd there till the fourth Century. Now, without taking Notice of the Author's critical Remarks, which are left to the Judgment of the Publick, I would only obferve (as I prefume to understand plain English) that the Word Hell in the ftrict and proper, nay only Senfe of the Word, fignifies the Place of the Damned. If therefore we profefs our Belief, that Chrift defcended or went down into that Place, we are to believe it in the true and genuine Sense of the Word, without Equivocation or mental Reservation. This is really the Doctrine of the Primitive Reform'd Church of England, as is evident from the third Article; where after afferting that Chrift went down into Hell, the Proof or Explanation of it is added from St. Peter. "For his Body lay in A "the |