A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings

Index

 191 “absolute liberty,” xxxi, 4 Acontius, Jacopo, xi Act of Union (1707),82n35 Acts of the Apostles: 7:60,189; 19, 18n38 adiaphora. See “things indifferent” to salvation “Against Samuel Parker” (1669–70; Locke), xxxv–xxxvi, 148–52 Ahab (biblical king), 110 ale-sellers, reception of Eucharist to maintain licenses, 88–89 Alexander III (pope), 161 alms to beggars, giving, 116 America: colonial settlement and expropriation of land, Locke on, 40n100;Constitutions of Carolina (1669–70),xiv, xxxv, 39n95,128n58, 146–48; Harvard,Thomas Hollis Library at, vii–viii, xxii–xxiii; influence of Locke in, xxii–xxiii; intolerance in, ix; nonconformists fleeing to, ix, x; “Pennsylvania Laws” (1686;Locke), xl, 182;separation of church and state in, xiv; Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779), xiv. See also Native Americans Ammonites (biblical people), 171 Anabaptists, ix, 58,59n57 , 66, 78, 156, 170.See also Baptists; Protestant dissenters Anacletus II (pope), 161 Analogy of Faith, 65 Angers, France, Locke on religion in, 167 Anglicans. See Church of England Anne (queen of England), 88n48 Answer to Stillingfleet (1681; Baxter), 56n1 50 Anti-Remonstrants, 21n43, 58n1 57 anti-Trinitarianism, xvii, 4n3,30n66, 58n1 57 , 132n67 Antichrist, 136 anticlericalism: apostolic succession, clerical claims to, 17n34,136 –39; conspiracy between clergy and princes, 61n16 3,138 –39; in Essay Concerning Toleration, 134 –35,136 – 39; in “Infallibility,”141–42;in Letter Concerning Toleration, 22n46, 30n65, ind ex 192  Index 30n67 , 61n16 3;Locke’s tendency toward, xiv, xxi–xxii; pastoral failures of clergy, 95;in “Philanthropy,” 158;preaching, ineffectualness of, 134–35;“priestcraft,”concept of, xxii, 24n5 1;religion and morality, relationship between, 184–86;against Roman Catholic clergy, 165;in Third Letter for Toleration, 95 antinomianism: in Essay Concerning Toleration, 117–18, 122–27 , 133, 138;in Letter Concerning Toleration, 23n50, 49–53;Locke on, xix–xx, xxi antipodes, 107 apostolic succession, 17n34,136 –39, 16 2 Aquinas,Thomas. See Thomas Aquinas Argument for Toleration (1681; Whitaker ), 56n1 50 The Argument of The Letter Concerning Toleration Briefly Consider’d and Answer’d (1690;Proast), 69n2, 94n56 Arianism, 30n68,165 Aristotelians (Peripatetics), 73 Aristotle, 114n25,116n31 Arminians, ix, 21n43, 58,63nn165 –66 Arminius, Jacob, 21n43 Art of Poetry (Horace), 66n171 articles of faith or religion, toleration of, 44–48 Ashley, Lord (later Earl of Shaftesbury ): Constitutions of Carolina and, xxxv; Essay and, xxi, xxxiii, 12 2n45; influence on Locke, xx; toleration, efforts to obtain, xxxvi assemblies: in Constitutions of Carolina , 148; Conventicles Act against assembly for non-Anglican worship , 53 –57 atheism: in Constitutions of Carolina , 146, 147;doctrinal argument leading to, 132;exclusion from tolerance by Locke, xi, xviii–xix, 52–53;Proast’s charges regarding, Locke’s answers to, 91–94; speculative opinion, belief in a deity not regarded as, 132 Atticus, as pseudonym for Locke, 132, 173 Augustine of Hippo, x, xv Aurangzeb (Mughal emperor), 39n93 Avignon, France, Locke on religion in, 166 Baal (deity), 30,98 banned books, index of (Roman Catholic), 163 Baptists, x, 58n1 57 , 125n52, 156n28. See also Anabaptists; Protestant dissenters Baxter, Richard, 56n1 50 Bayle, Pierre, xi, xix, xl, 53n138, 185n103 beggars, giving alms to, 116 Bernier, François, 179 Bible. See Scripture Bibliotheca juris canonici veteris (1661; Justel), 163n50 Blount, Charles, 18n38 Bonzi, Pierre de, 165n5 9 Brandenburg (Cleves), religious pluralism in, xxi, 156 Brounower, Sylvester, xxxviii Brutum Fulmen (1585;Hotman), 51n128 Bunyan, John, x Burnet, Gilbert, 95n60,103n66 The Burthen of Issachar (16 46; Maxwell ), 13 9n82 Butler, Samuel, 90 Cadmus (king of Thebes), 98 Calvin, Jean, ix, 39n92 anticlericalism (continued) 193  Index Calvinism: Arminians, persecution of, 21n43, 63n165 –66; church government , system of, 16n32;Cleves, religious pluralism of, xxi; Locke’s hostility toward, 58n1 54;parallels seen by Locke between Calvinism and Catholicism, 39n92;references to Geneva indicating, 27n56; religious vestments of, 27n61,109; resistance theory, 75n1 5;on right of subjects to reform religion, 121n42; “rule of the saints” in, xix; sola scriptura (Rule of Faith) for, 64, 66 Carolina, Constitutions of (1669–70), xiv, xxxv, 39n95,128n58, 146–48 Carthusians, 166 Castellio, Sebastian, xi Castelnaudary, France, Locke on religion in, 167 Catholicism. See Roman Catholicism Catiline (Cicero), 37n88 Cecrops (king of Attica), 98 Celestine II (pope), 161 censorship, 112 charity, xxxvi, 116,158–60 Charles II (king of England), xx–xxi, 4n3 Chillingworth, William, xxxv Christian belief, religious tolerance as mark of, 7–12,134 –35 Christian unity, creed-making inimical to, 80–83...