II.—INDEX OF PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS.
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint and Dods, Marcus
Nakedness of our first parents, the, ii. 32.
Nathan, his message to David, ii. 189;
the resemblance of Psalm lxxxix. to the prophecy of, 191, etc.
Natural history, curious facts in:—the salamander, ii. 417;
the flesh of the peacock, 417, 418;
fire, 418;
charcoal, 418;
lime, 418, 419;
the diamond, 419;
the loadstone, 420;
the salt of Agrigentum, 421;
the fountain of the Garamantæ, and of Epirus, 421;
asbestos, 421;
the wood of the Egyptian fig-tree, 421;
the apples of Sodom, 421;
the stone pyrites, 421, 422;
the stone selenite, 422;
the Cappadocian mares, 422;
the island Tilon, 422;
the star Venus, 429.
Nature, not contrary to God, but good, i. 484;
of irrational and lifeless creatures, 485;
none in which there is not good, 320, 321.
Natures, God glorified in all, i. 486.
Necessity, is the will of man ruled by? i. 195.
Necromancy, i. 302.
Neptune, i. 279, 296;
and Salacia, and Venilia, 285.
Nero, the first to reach the citadel of vice, i. 216;
curious opinions entertained of him after his death, ii. 382.
New Academy, the uncertainty of, contrasted with the Christian faith, ii. 328.
New heavens, and new earth, the, ii. 373, 374, 376, etc.
Nigidius, cited in reference to the birth of twins, i. 181.
Nimrod, ii. 108, 109, 112, 122.
Nineveh, ii. 109;
curious discrepancy between the Hebrew and Septuagint as to the time fixed for the overthrow of, in Jonah's prophecy, 273, 274;
spared, 446;
how the prediction against, was fulfilled, 455.
Ninus, ii. 219, 220.
Noah, commanded by God to build an ark, ii. 98;