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Theophilus. Remarks on his treatise to Autolycus 358-362 It is probable that there were no resurrections in his days

360

No examples of resurrections mentioned by Clemens
Romanus, Athenagoras, Tertullian, Tatian, Minutius
Felix, &c.

361

Pagan accounts of resurrections

362

A passage in Theophilus explained

362

Remarks on the Dæmoniacs

361-368

Irenæus. Remarks on his account of miracles

[372-454

No resurrections in his time to be collected from his

363-373

testimony

364

Nor that all Christians could work miracles

366

Quadratus his testimony concerning miracles
Dæmoniacs, and the gift of tongues

Remarks on Jerom

364 368-372 [382

369, 375

[378, 379, 410, 432

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The Platonic Trinity

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384

Gregory Thaumaturgus. His miracles ill attested 385
Said to have received a creed from the hands of St John 386
Stories of the like kind
387
An account of Manes and of the Manichæan heresy 388-411
Ancient heresies from which it was borrowed 389-397
Corruptions of Christianity in the fourth and fifth

centuries

399, 400 The Valdenses and Albigenses accused of Manichæism 400 Ancient heretics misrepresented

400

Miracles pretended to have been wrought by the monks 401
Eastern Christians great fasters

Propagation of heresies no objection to the argument
drawn from the propagation of Christianity

Strange notions of some old heretics

401

403

404

Eunomians not Manichæans; misrepresented by some

of the fathers

405-407

Athanasius rejected Arian baptism

407

A remark of Lord Shaftsbury

407

The Persian God Mithras

407

Zoroastrian oracles impostures

408

doctrine

Manichæism conformable in some points to the stoical

The destruction of Arimanius and Hades

408

409

Wine held in abomination by the Manichæans, and by

others before them

409

Milton makes Satan talk like a Manichæan

Weakness and inconsistency of the Manichæan hypo

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An instance of a particular providence related by him 412
The visions and revelations which he had

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Felix of Nola. False reports concerning his miracles 421
Piety and charity of the Christians in the third century,

and in times of distress

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421

Goths converted to Christianity

427

Paul of Samosata deposed for heresies and immoralities

422

422

Arnobius. His conversion. A passage in him cor

rected

Antony the monk. His romantic life by Athanasius 423-426 Melchior Canus and Ludovicus Vives, their remarks

on the lives of the saints

Modern monks. Their character

Hypsistarii, or Calicola, a sect of deists

Dioclesian's persecution, and the constancy of the mar

tyrs

Depravation of manners amongst the Christians
Extraordinary events and miracles, which are said to
have attended the sufferings of the Martyrs
Martyrdom of Romanus. False miracles relating to

426

427

427

428

428

430

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437

Appendix to Book Second

The Sadducees did not reject the prophets
And oracle in Herodotus explained

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Miracles said to have been wrought by the French in

the Cevennes

French prophets

Remarks on Irenæus

Remarks on Clemens Alexandrinus

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456

456
457

458-469

Fragments of Greek poets and other passages of an

cient authors corrected or explained

Homer

Anonymous poets

459

460

461

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