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Bacon, Lord, his mission the increase of physical enjoyment and social comfort, and most wonderfully has he fulfilled it, Idea, 118, 119;
—— 'on the whole I agree with Lord Macaulay in his Essay on Bacon's philosophy,' ib., 118, note;
—— his explanation of the opposition between theology and physics, Idea, 221, 222;
—— would have allowed that the cultivation of the mind is different from advancement of the useful arts, ib., 263;
—— 'most orthodox of Protestant philosophers,' 'intellectually too great to hate or contemn the Catholic faith,' Idea, 319;
—— Baconian induction misapplied to theology, from the several bases of Scripture, Antiquity, Nature, Idea, 446-55.

Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, Newman's affectionate loyalty to, letters to, holds one Tract 'objectionable,' Tracts stopped in obedience to him, Apo., 51, 77, 90, 137, 138, 172-7, 213; V.M., ii., 397-424; Diff., i, 152, note.

Balaam, conscientious, moral, without being religious, 'his end was not to please God, but to keep straight with Him,' P.S., iv., 21-30;
—— his double-mindedness, P.S., v., 232;
—— 'light without love,' G.A., 185;
—— words without deeds, P.S., i., 169; Mix., 158.

Baptism, exalted state of Christian therein conferred, P.S., viii., 52, 53;
—— admits into the one invisible company of elect souls, P.S., iv., 176;
—— regeneration the object of infant baptism, P.S., iii., 273, 274; P.S., vi., 77;
—— if it be no more than circumcision, it ought to be abolished, P.S., iii., 282-4; P.S., v., 176;
—— baptized children holy, not religious, P.S., iv., 312;
—— children who die in the grace of their baptism, the stones of the pavement of the Temple composed of spirits, P.S., iv., 313; V.V., 354;
—— arguments for infant baptism, P.S., vii., 222-8;
—— infant baptism said to be an apostolical tradition, Ess., i., 135;
—— real argument for infant baptism, the authority of the Church, Dev., 129; V.M., i., 71, note;
—— delay of baptism in early Church, Dev., 127-9;
—— motive of such delay, P.S., iv., 58;
—— faith gives title to justification, baptism gives {16} possession, P.S., vi., 168;
—— baptism, not faith, justifies the ungodly, Jfc., 237;
—— faith before baptism a qualification, after baptism an instrument of justification, ib., 243;
—— no other ordained method on earth for the absolute pardon of sin but baptism, Jfc., 320;
—— validity of schismatical baptism, V.M., i., pref., pp. lxxxviii.-xci., 169, 170; Ath., i., 304, note;
—— lay baptism, H.S., iii., 379;
—— 'to deny baptismal regeneration is heresy, and a Church which indulged its members in such denial would have forfeited its trust,' Ess., i., 127, note;
—— Gorham judgment, 'the two Archbishops concurring in the royal decision, that within the national communion baptismal regeneration is an open question,' Diff., i., 1, 22-5;
—— baptized and unbaptized, their difference not matter of experience, S.D., 67-70.

Barnabas, St., his character, P.S., ii., 276-8;
—— type of the better sort of men among us, ib., ii., 279, 280;
—— 'we lack altogether what he lacked in certain occurrences, firmness, godly severity,' ib., ii., 280-4;
—— contrasted with St. John, ib., ii., 285, 286.

Bartholomew, St., identified with Nathanael, P.S., ii., 333-5;
—— type of guilelessness, ib., ii., 335, sq.;
—— his desecrated chapel at Oxford, L.G., 12-5.

Basil, St., H.S., ii., 3-74;
—— bishop of Cæsarea, Cappadocia (A.D. 370-9), his predecessors, ib., ii., 4-8, 26, 27;
—— parentage, ib., ii., 17, 18;
—— at University of Athens with St. Gregory Nazianzen, ib., ii., 52, 53;
—— contrast of character with Gregory, Paul and Barnabas, ib., ii., 50, 51, 53-5;
—— five years of retirement, ib., ii., 58-61;
—— gathers a brotherhood, ib., 62, 65;
—— his bad health, ib., 23-6;
—— shyness, ib., 25;
—— SS. Ambrose and Basil, two types of saint, ib., 28, 29;
—— trouble with Arians, ib., 21, 22;
—— conflict with Valens, ib., 9-11;
—— extent of his exarchate, ib., 31, 69;
—— quarrel with Gregory on occasion of the bishopric of Sasima, ib., 69-74;
—— appeal to Western Churches unsuccessful, his complaint of Western superciliousness, ib., 40-5, 49;
—— triumphing in his death, though failing throughout his life, ib., 76;
—— his imputation to our Blessed Lady of the sin of doubt, Diff., ii., 129, 130, 133, 135;
—— derived his notion from Origen, ib., 143;
—— grew up in the very midst of Semi-Arianism, ib., 147;
—— on one occasion refrained from asserting the Divinity of the Holy Ghost, ib., 146;
—— 'does any Anglican Bishop recall to our minds the image of St. Basil?' Diff., ii., 207.

Bellarmine, praise of, V.M., i., 65, 66;
—— inconsistent in his argument for Purgatory, ib., i., 67-9;
—— on justification, V.M., i., pref., pp. xlix., 1.; Jfc., 355, 356;
—— on Indulgences, V.M., i., 113-5, note;
—— on Images, V.M., ii., 126, 127, note;
—— on the Real Presence, V.M., ii., 235, 232, note, 316-8;
—— on invocation of saints, ib., ii., 308, 309;
—— distinguishes between General and Ecumenical Councils, ib., ii., 292, note;
—— on Tradition, Ess., i., 118;
—— on Papal infallibility, Dev., 86, 87;
—— 'reckoned temporal prosperity among the notes of the Church,' Apo., 129.

Benedictines, Dev., 397, 398; H.S., ii., 365-487;
—— SS. Benedict, Dominic, Ignatius, represent Poetry, Science, the Practical, or Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, H.S., ii., 366-70; O.S. 220-7;
—— wonderful flexibility {17} of the family of St. Benedict; its spirit ever one, but not its outward circumstances, H.S., ii., 371-3, 388, 389, 447;
—— Summa quies, ib., ii., 377, 383;
—— 'as for the Benedictine, the very air he breathes is peace,' H.S., ii., 385;
—— 'a life emphatically Virgilian,' ib., ii., 407-9, 453;
—— the monk 'formed no plans, he had no cares, the ravens of his father Benedict were ever at his side: if he I lived a day longer, he did a day's work more,' H.S., ii., 426, 427, 452;
—— example of the last days of Venerable Bede, ib., ii., 428-30;
—— controversy uncongenial to the Benedictines, H.S., ii., 423;
—— Benedictine houses,—St. Hubert's, ib., ii., 390-6; Beaulieu, ib., ii., 397; St. Gall, ib., ii., 400, 401; Fulda, ib., ii., 401; Richenau, Bec, Wearmouth, ib., ii., 402, 403; Ramsey, ib., ii., 411;
—— the Benedictines the agriculturists of Europe, H.S., ii., 398, 399, 410;
—— 'St. Benedict the true man of Ross,' ib., ii., 399;
—— transcription of manuscripts, ib., ii., 412-4;
—— other fine arts, St. Dunstan, ib., ii., 415, 416;
—— monastic chronicles, ib., ii., 418-20;
—— controversy between de Rancé and Mabillon on the studies proper to a monk, ib., ii., 420-4;
—— introduction of the sacerdotal office into Benedictine life, ib., ii.,442, 443, 446; and of the office of schoolmaster, ib., ii., 450, 451, 454;
—— boy-monks, ib., ii., 455-9; their studies, 461;
—— trivium and quadrivium, H.S., ii., 462; H.S., iii., 203; Idea, 259;
—— classical studies, H.S., ii., 462-72;
—— a true offspring of Benedictine discipline, ib., ii., 472, 473;
—— excess guarded against, ib., ii., 473, 474; H.S., iii., 197;
—— Benedictine theology, H.S., ii., 475-8: a foreign element of controversy introduced by Scotus Erigena and others from Ireland, H.S., ii., 481-6;
—— 'gladiatorial wisdom eclipsing the old Benedictine method,' H.S., iii., 196;
—— vast numbers of Benedictines, H.S., ii., 372, 448, 449.

Benediction, of Blessed Sacrament, this picture and that, L.G., 427; Prepos., 255-61; O.S., 43; Diff., i., 215.

Benevolence, not the sole principle of Divine government, nor of our moral nature, U.S., 103-8.

Bible Society, Newman belonged to it, then withdrew, Apo., 10;
—— apparent reasons, V.M., ii., 13;
—— was never local secretary, ib., ii., 6.

Bigotry, or narrow-mindedness, 'the application of inadequate or narrow principles,' U.S., 297;
—— 'takes up, not a religious, but a philosophical position,' ib., 300;
—— 'has no element of advance in it,' persuaded that 'it has nothing to learn,' ib., 303;
—— does not 'see difficulties,' U.S., 305;
—— narrow-mindedness described at length, U.S., 305-10;
—— may end in scepticism, ib., 310;
—— Church history useless to the narrow-minded, ib., 303;
—— better a bigot than an infidel, Ari., 85;
—— bigotry the imposition upon others of our own private first principles, as is the way with Protestantism, Prepos., 291-5.

Bishops, successors of the Apostles, P.S., ii., 401;
—— lineal descendants of SS. Peter and Paul, P.S., iii., 247, 248;
—— the Apostles present in them, P.S., iv., 177;
—— suffragans wanted in England, V.M., ii., 53-92;
—— episcopal regimen required by Calvin, ib., 28, 29;
—— 'our Prelates are still sound' (A.D. 1834), V.M., ii., 38;
—— 'not even a Bishop ex cathedra may at his mere word {18} determine doctrine,' V.M., ii., 200;
—— 'a Bishop's lightest word ex cathedra is heavy, his judgment on a book cannot be light,' V.M., ii., 398; Diff., i., 111; Apo., 77;
—— Whately's reply to the above, Diff., l.c.;
—— in what sense 'the body of Bishops failed in their confession of the faith,' Ari., 465-8;
—— Ignatius of Antioch on the Bishop, Ess., i., 256; Ess., ii. 28;
—— Bishops named from their dioceses (e.g., Pensylvania), a piece of purus putus Protestantismus, Ess., i., 354, 355;
—— the title 'Protestant-Episcopal,' ib., i., 375;
—— Episcopacy not an added form: as a mouse is not a bat all but the wings, so is Presbyterianism not a Church incomplete, Ess., i., 370;
—— Episcopacy not Catholicity, Dev., 265;
—— between the Donatist bishops and their people St. Augustine recognized no ecclesiastical relation, Dev., 270-2;
—— royal appointment of bishops in England, H.S., iii., 420, 421;
—— grounded on 'the temporalities of the Sees converting the episcopate into the high state of prelacy,' ib., iii., 414;
—— should a bishop fly from persecution? H.S., ii., 129-38;
—— bishops in the fifth century, H.S., ii., 333-6;
—— doctrine not enough without bishops, and succession not enough without the Pope, L.G., 50;
—— English hierarchy restored, O.S., 137, 169, 177, 178;
—— nature of the change, ib., 192, 196, 197;
—— hierarchy of bishops in sub-apostolic times, O.S., 192-4;
—— Tractarians could wish nothing better for the bishops of the Establishment than martyrdom, Apo., 46, 47; Diff., i., 106;
—— what the bishops replied, ib., 109-11;
—— increase of Anglican Episcopate, Diff., i., 117, 118; V.M., ii., 53 sq.;
—— deference of the Oxford Movement to Bishops, who in turn anathematized it, Diff., i., 130, 152; Apo., 50, 51;
—— theory of episcopacy as opposed to papacy, each See like an independent crystal, 'our Bishop is our Pope,' 'each diocese an integral Church,' Apo., 107, 187; Ess., ii., 18, 20-5; said theory attributed to St. Cyprian by Dodwell, Ess., ii., 25-35; said theory 'an ecclesiastical communism,' Diff., ii., 211;
—— 'one John of Tuam, with a Pope's full apostolic powers,' ib.;
—— Sarpi fancied that the Anglican episcopate might some day be a danger to the Crown, D.A., 26;
—— 'if our Lord had intended to promote ignorance, confusion, unbelief, discord, strife, enmity, mutual alienation, could He have provided a better way than that of ordaining a thousand or two local episcopates, each sovereign, each independent of the rest?' Ess., ii., 96-8;
—— 'never was without misgivings about the difficulties which it (the above theory) involved,' ib., ii., 99;
—— 'the Pope the heir by default of the Ecumenical Hierarchy of the fourth century,' Diff., ii., 207; Ess., ii., 44, note; said phrase explained, Diff., ii., 356, 357.

Blanco White, his editorship of the London Review, Ess., i., 27-9;
—— Unitarian quotations from, ib., 74, 75, 78, 79;
—— a denier of Tradition, so a consistent Unitarian, ib., 112;
—— quoted on the Jesuits, Prepos., 18, 19, 404-6;
—— his strange career, Prepos., 142-51;
—— his testimonies against Catholicism, trustworthy as to facts which he knew, his judgment quite untrustworthy, ib., 152-9;
—— his testimony ignored in England, {19} because not equal to the demand for horrors, ib., 144, 145, 159, 160;
—— his death, Diff., i., 93;
—— kind words of his about Newman, Apo., 47, 48.

Blomfield, Bishop of London, rejects a man for holding Eucharistic Sacrifice, Real Presence, grace of Ordination, Apo., 159;
—— his saying on Apostolic Succession, Ess., ii., 110.

Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury, cultus of, proved, Apo., 323, 395.

'Bore,' how 'a bore' acts, L.G., 11, 12.

Bossuet, his 'Exposition,' V.M., ii., 119-27, 406; Ess., i., 118.

Bowden, John William, 'with whom I passed almost exclusively my Undergraduate years,' Apo., 17;
—— his career, Ess., ii., 318, 319;
—— his Life of Gregory VII., Ess., ii., 254, sq. ; Apo., 74;
—— quoted on the concentration of episcopal powers in the Pope, Diff. ii., 210;
—— Newman's last letter to him, death in 1843, Apo., 225-7.

Boys, boyish mind, Idea, pref., p. xvi., 128; G.A., 10, 16;
—— inaccuracy of, sometimes kept through life, Idea, pref., p. xvii., 332, 358; L.G., 16, 17;
— Mr. Brown's examination, Idea, 336-42; his poetry, his prose, ib., 354-6; discussion of the same, ib., 350-4, 357-61;
—— Mr. Black's, ib., 342-7;
—— caricature, use of in education, Idea, 348, 349;
—— confused notions of boys, Idea, 495-7;
—— their inscrutability, L.G., 1, 2;
—— sudden ripening of, L.G., 159;
—— a saint in boyhood, Mix., 95, 96;
—— how boys fall off from goodness, O.S., 9, 12;
—— filthy conversation, 'a sort of vocal worship of the Evil One,' O.S., 10;
—— what the Divine Child heard at Heliopolis, the filthy conversation of a large city from morning till night incessant, 'I don't know anything more awful,' S.N., 60;
—— 'the man uses language as the vehicle of things, and the boy of abstractions,' G.A., 11, 22;
—— sense of sovereign, arbitrary power, in early boyhood, G.A., 66;
—— ability beyond early promise, ib., 73, 74;
—— boy's apprehension of poetry notional, a man's real, ib., 10, 78;
—— calculating boys, G.A., 333, 336.

Bramhall, Abp., on the Real Presence, Mass, Prayers for the Dead, Intercession of Saints, Monasteries, the Pope, V.M., ii., 211-3;
—— 'throws himself into communion, whether they will have him or not, with the various heretical bodies all over the East,' Diff., i., 331-4.

British Association, praise of, answers to the annual Act or Commemoration of a University, H.S., iii., 12;
—— its faults, not its exclusive devotion to science, but graver matters, Idea, pref., p. xii.

Brothers' Controversy, letters between an Anglican clergyman and a Unitarian, his brother-in-law, both agreeing that there is no doctrine of importance which 'the Christian cannot find for himself in large letters' in Scripture, unaided by tradition, Ess., i., 102-11.

Brougham, Lord, his saying that 'man shall no more render account to man for his belief, over which he has himself no control,' D.A., 287; Idea, 30; U.S., 192;
—— 'as if faith came from science,' D.A., 275;
—— Brougham and Peel on the moralizing effect of knowledge, D.A., 256-60, 264-7, 277, 278, 301, 302; G.A., 91-7.

Bull, Bishop, his defence of the Ante-Nicene Fathers against {20} Petavius, V.M., i., 60-3, notes; Ari., 224, 416-20; T.T., 58-69;
—— his view that St. Athanasius agreed with the said Fathers, T.T., 70-7;
—— object of his work, Dev., 134;
—— his merits, Diff., i., 2;
—— 'his homeliness and want of the supernatural,' Diff., i., 139;
—— held that Adam was created in grace, Diff., ii., 45, 46;
—— accepts a miraculous vision as credible, Diff., ii., 75;
—— his practice of fasting, V.M., ii., 254;
—— Bull on the Articles, 'for the preservation of peace to be subscribed, and not openly contradicted,' V.M., ii., 381;
—— 'Bp. Bull's theology the only theology on which the English Church could stand,' Apo., 156.

Busenbaum, his Medulla Theologiae, Diff., ii., 229, 230;
—— on the obedience due to an erroneous conscience, ib., 260.

Butler, Bishop, first reading of his Analogy, taught the sacramental system and that probability is the guide of life, Apo., 10, 11, 18, 19;
—— quoted on the progressive knowledge of Scripture, Diff., ii., 318, 319;
—— understood or misunderstood to teach that the highest opinion in religion is an assent to a probability, G.A., 59; V.M., i, 85-7, notes; D.A., 391;
—— the argument of his Analogy a presumption used negatively, G.A., 382, 496, 497;
—— his saying that 'vicarious punishment is a providential appointment of every day's experience,' G.A., 406, 407.

Byron, contrast of with St. Augustine, H.S., ii., 144;
—— Liberalism gave name to a periodical set up by Lord Byron: 'I have no sympathy with the philosophy of Byron,' Apo., 261;
—— Childe Harold, 'a work of splendid talent, not of the highest poetical excellence,' Ess., i., 18, 20;
—— The Corsair, ib., i., 19, 20;
—— Manfred, ib., i., 22.

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