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duilion-Money for ever : In recompence whereof, he fhall bave yearly out of the Church fo appropriate, one or two Shillings, more or lefs, for a Penfion, as was agreed at the time of the appropriating. And this Penfion is call'd an Indemnity.

INDENTED, is a Term in Heraldry, when the Out- Line of a Bordure, Ordina- nary, c^?c. is in the Form of the Teeth of a Saw. Thus INDENTURE, in Law, is a Writing comprizing fome Contrail: between two at leaft ; being indented at top an- fwerable to fome other, which likewife containeth the fame Contrail. It differs from a Deed-Poll ; in that this laft is a fingle Deed, and is unindented.

INDEPENDENTS. The Name of a Religious SeS in England in Holland. They are fo call'd, as denying not only any Subordination among their Clergy, but alfo all Dependency of any other Altembly. They teach, that every feparate Church or particular Congregation among them has in itfelf radically and effentially every thing ne- ceffary for its own Government 5 that it has all Ecclefiafti- cal Power and Jurifdiction; and is not at all fubjeit too- ther Churches or their Deputies, nor to their Affemblies or Synods. Tho the Independents don't think it very ne- ceffary to affemble Synods 5 yet, they fay, if any are held, they look on their Refolutions as wife and pruden- tial Councils, not as Decifions to be peremptorily obey'd. They agree, that one or more Churches may help another Church with their Advice and Ailiftance, and even re- prove it when it offends, provided they don't pretend to any fuperior Authority or Right to excommunicate, $$c. In Matters of Faith and Doiirine, the Independents agree with the reft of the Reformed 5 fo that the Difference is rather Political than Religious. During the Civil Wars in England, the Independents becoming the moft powerful Par- ty, and getting to the Head of Affairs, moft of the other Sects that were avcrfe to the Church of England, join'd them: Which occafion'd them to be diftinguiJh'd into two Sects. The firft) are in effect Preihyteriam, only dif- fering from them in Matters of Difcipline. The others, whom M. Spanheim calls Pfcndo-Independents, are a con- fufed Affemblage of Anabaptijls, Socinians, Antinomians, Familiarijls, Libertines, eke.

F. Orleans fpeaks of their Rife in the following Terms. ' Out of the fame Seil (the Presbyterians) had rifen

« new Seel, that was not only averfe to the Monarch, but « the Monarchy, both which it undertook to deftroy j and
 * fome time ago, on pretence of further Reformation, a

« in lieu thereof to form a Republic They were called

« by the Name of Independents, in regard that profeffing

' tans, they rejected not only Bifhops, but alfo Synods, « pretending each Affembly ought to govern itfelf inde- < pendently of all others 5 in which, faid they, confifts
 * to carry the Gofpel-Liberty ftill further than the Puri-


 * the Liberty of the Children of God. At firft they were

« zealous from the more indifferent, the more rigid from ' the more remifs, by a greater Avcrfion to all Pomp and ' Pre-eminence both in Church and State, and by a more
 * only diflinguifh'd among the Presbyterians as the more

' its primitive Purity. It was their Maxim of Indcpen-
 * ardent Defire to reduce the Practice of the Gofpcl to


 * dency that firft diftinguifh'd them, and render'd them


 * fufpeited to the reft. But they had Addrefs and Arti-


 * fice enough to gain ground, and in effeit made abun-


 * dance of Profelytes out of all other Parties and Perfua-


 * lions.'

INDEPENDENTISM is peculiar to Great Britain, the TSritifi Colonies, and the United Provinces. One Morel in the 1 6th Century endeavour'd to introduce it into France, but it was condemn'd at the Synod of Kochel, where Iseza prefided, and again at the Synod of Rachel in 1644.

INDETERMINATE, in Geometry, is underftood of a quantity of Time or Place that has no certain or defi- nite Bounds j fee Indefinite. An indeterminate Problem is that, whereof there may be various Solutions. For in- ftance, if a Number is required that may be a Multi- ple of 4 and 5 ? the Anfwer may be 20, 40, 60, £yc. to Infinity. Mr. Trejiet calls an indeterminate Analyfis, that which admits of an infinite Number of different Solu- tions.

INDEX, the Fore-Finger, from indico, to point or di- rect; becaufe that Finger is generally fo ufed. Hence alfo the Extenfor Indicis is call'd Indicator. The Greeks call it hr/eiv@-, Licker 5 this Finger being us'd to be dip'd jn Sauces, £z>c. in order to tafte 'em 5 after which 'tis u- fually lick'd : or, as others will have it, becaufe the Nur- fes ufe it to take up the Food wherewith they feed their Infants ; firft licking it, to tafte whether or no it be hot.

Index, in Arithmetic, is the fame with what is fome- times call'd the Charaiteriitk, or Exponent of A Loga-

rithm ; and fhews always of how many Places the abfo- lute Number belonging to the Logarithm doth confifK and of what nature it is, that is, whether an Integer or a Fraflion : Thus, In this Logarithm 2.511:03, the Num- ber Handing on the Left-hand of the Point is called the Index ; and becaufe it is 2, ihews you that the abfolute Number anfwcrmg to it, confifts of 3 places : for it is always one more than thelWe*, becaufe the Index of t is o i of 10 is 1 j and of 100 is 2, £=?c. As in this Exam- ple :

0123450-780, T , 1 -345<>7°'p Where the upper

Numbers are Ind,ces to the lower, And therefore in thofe fmall Tables of Brim's Logarithms, where the Index is omitted, it muft be always fupply'd, before you can work by them. If the abfolute Number be a Fraaion, then the Index of the Logarithm hath a negative Sign, and is mark- ed thus, 2.5CT2203 ; which Ihews the correfponding Num- ber to be a Decimal Fraction of three Places, viz. 1.30-5. Wr.Tovmly hath a peculiar way of noting thefe Indices, when they exprefs Fractions, and it is now much in ufe, viz. by inftead of the true Index, its Arithmetical Com-

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plement to ro ; and fherefore_he would write the Loga- rithm now mention'd, thus, 8. 562203. How they are added and fubftraded, fee in Addition sa&SubftmBhm

Index of a Globe, is a little Stile fitted on to the North- Pole, and turning round with it, pointing to certain Divi- fions in the Hour-Circle. It is fomctimes alfo call'd Gno- mon. See Globe.

Index, or Indice : At Rome there is a Congregation that goes by this Name, whofe Bufinefs is to examine Books and to put fuch as they think fit to prohibit ,h c reading and the felling of, into an Index : Indices, or expurgatorv Indices, being the Name by which the Catalogues of pro- hibited Books are call'd ; among which, however, there is this difference, that fome arc condemn'd purely and abfolutely ; and others only donee corrigantur, till they' be corrcited. Philip II. of Spain, was the firft who procured an Index to be printed of the Books condemn'd by the In- quifition of Spain. Pope PaidlV. took the hint, and in 1559 order'd the Congregation of the Holy Office at Rome to print a fecond. Tins V. recommended the Matter to the Council of Trent, who made another. After this, the Duke of Aha procured another to be printed At Ant- werp in 1 571. Clement VIII. in 1596". printed a very co- pious one, call'd by the Name of the Roman. There were two others publifti'd in 1583 and 1611, by the Cardinals Guirais and Sandovel, and feveral others by the Inquifitors and Matters of the Sacred Palace. The moft confidera- ble of all the Indices is that of Sottomayor, which was made by all the States fubject to the King of Spain, and com- prehends all the others 5 coming down as low as the Year 1667.

INDIAN WOOD, call'd alfo Jamaica and Camfeche Wood, is taken out of the Heart of a large Tree growing plentifully in the Iflcs of Jamaica, Campeche, &c. It is ufed in Dying ; its Decoction is very red : and it has been obferv'd, that putting fome of this Decoction into two Bottles, and mixing a little Powder of Alumn with the one, it will become of a very beautiful Red, which will hold ; the other in a day's time becoming yellow, though both Bottles were ftop'd from the Air alike : and if a lit- tle of the fame- Dccoclion were expofed to the Air it would become black as Ink in the fame fpace of Time!

INDICATION, a Sign difcovering or pointing out fomething to be done. The Phyficians ufe the Word to fignify the Invention of a Remedy proper to cure a Dif- eafe, from the Knowledge which they have oftheOua- lities of that Remedy. Indication either tends to preferve a natural found State, which is call'd vital Indication of to remove fomething difagreeable to Nature. The fecond Indication either relates to Sicknefs, and is call'd curative Indication ; or to fome antecedent Caufe, in which cafe 'tis call'd prefervcitive or fymptomatic Indication. That part of Phyfic which ttcats of Indications^ is call'd Scmei- otica.

INDICATIVE, in Grammar, is the firft Mode or Matte ner of Conjugating Verbs, fhewing either the Time pre- fent, paft, or future. I love, is the prefent Tenfe ; I loved, the paft; and I isiill love, the future of the Indica- tive Mode.

INDICATOR, !n Anatomy, a Mufcle of the fnctexj or fecond Finger following the Thumb. The Indicator is the firft proper Mufcle of the Index ; and is fo call'd, be- caufe it ferves us to point at any thing withal. It has its Origin in the middle and hind part of the Cubitus, and is infertcd by a double Tendon into the fecond Phalanx of the Index, and to the Tendon of the great Extenfor, ail" ing in conjunction with itj in ftretching out that Finger.

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