Fabricii Delectus Argumentorum. (71.) Buddeus, Theses Theologica de Atheismo et Superstitione. (41.) Zimmermann, de Atheismo. (191.) Cudworth's True Intellectual System of the Universe. (59.) Kortholt de Tribus Impositoribus Liber. (98.) [Herbert. Hobbes. Spinosa.] Abp. King de Origine Mali. (97.) Stillingfleet's Origines Sacræ. (162.) Bennet's Philosophical and Literary Inquiries concerning Christianity. 6. DEISM. First Deistical } The Mysteries of Religion. Answers. Second Objection Bishop Butler's Analogy of Religion. (45.) That Human Reason is sufficient to discover the Relation and Duty of Man to God. Answers. To show how much unassisted human reason has been, and is able to attain, from Plato, Cicero, and Epictetus, and the barbarous nations of modern times:Leland's Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation. (103.) Third Objection Ireland's Paganism and Christianity compared. (91.) Against the notion, that the Established Order, Harmony, and Regularity of the Natural World have been, at any time, interrupted by Miracles. Answers. Skelton's Deism Revealed. (156.) Bishop Berkeley's Alciphron. (34.) Fourth Objection Answers. Fifth Objection Hume's. To the Testimony for Miracles. Leland's View of the Principal Deistical Writers. To the Quantity and Sufficiency of Moral Evidence. The Objection to be answered from a study of the Jenkins's Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion. (93.) 7 EVIDENCES. 1. Authenticity of the New Testament. of the New Testament, [in answer to Bolingbroke on Distinct Testimonies.] (105.) Horne's Introduction to the Critical Study of the Scriptures. Vol. I. (88.) Paley's Evidences of Christianity. Chap. ix. (126.) Division of the Prophetical 1. Historical.-To be read in order with the other Histories of the Old Testament. 2. Moral. 3. Relating to the Messiah.-Those prophecies to be first studied which are quoted in the New Testa 4. ment. Relating to Nations. Prideaux's Old and New Testament connected. (137.) Bishop Chandler's Defence of Christianity from the Prophecies. (49.) 1. Purity of the Morality. 2. Knowledge of Human Nature. 2. Internal. 3. Agreement with the Conclusions of enlightened Reason. Chalmers's Evidence and Authority of the Christian Revelation. (49.) Abbadie, Traité de la Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne. (22.) Grotius de veritate Christianæ Religionis. (79.) Paley's Evidences of Christianity. (126.) Houteville, La Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne, prouvée par les Faits. (89.) Maclaine's Series of Letters to Soame Jenyns. (111.) 8. UNITARIAN CONTROVERSY. 1. With the Arians, disciples of Arius of Alexandria, in the fourth century, who taught that the Son was only the first of Created Beings. 2. With the Semi-Arians, believers in the Miraculous Conception, but not in the previous existence. 3. With the Socinians, from Faustus Socinus, born in Tus cany, A. D. 1539. 4. With the Unitarians. -Simple Humanitarians. For the Socinian Creed-The Racovian Catechism, published at Racovia, 1604. (21.) tation. Middleton's Doctrine of the Greek Article. (115.) In Confu- Archbishop Magee's Discourses, &c. on the Atonement. (111.). Hales's Dissertations on the Principal Prophecies respecting Christ. (80.) Bishop Pearson's Exposition of the Creed. (131.) 9. OBJECTIONS OF THE UNITARIANS. 1. That those parts of the New Testament, which speak of Atonement, should be interpreted metaphorically. Dr. Pye Smith's Scripture Testimony to the Messiah. (158.) 2. Fallibility of the Writers. Bishop Van Mildert's 23d Boyle Lecture. (177.) Horbery's Sermons on the Inspiration of the Moral Parts of Scripture. (88.) 3. Against the Authenticity of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Horne's Introduction to the Critical Study of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. IV. 4. Against the Authenticity of the First Chapters of St. Matthew and St. Luke. Laurence's Critical Reflections on the Unitarian Version. (101.) Bishop Horsley.-A Sermon, in the third Volume of his Posthumous Dis- Valckenaeri Selecta è Scholiis in quosdam libros Novi Testamenti. (177.) 5. Against the Eternity of Punishment. Schleusner, on the use of AION in his Lexicon. (147.). 6. Of the Power of Repentance for the Expiation of Sin. Bishop Butler's Argument from Analogy. (45.) } 7. Against the Antiquity of the Trinitarian Scheme. For the Universality of Burgh's Inquiry into the Belief of Christians of the three first centuries. (42.) (89.) (89.) Letters to Priestley, and Tracts in controversy with him. Bishop Stillingfleet's Doctrine of the Trinity and Trasubstantiation compared. (162 and 68.) Bishop Gastrell's Considerations on the Trinity. (68.) Burton's Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers. (44.) Bishop Pearson's Exposition of the Creed. (132.) 10. ROMISH CONTROVERSY. Events from Constantine to the Reformation. Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Popish Power. I. SPIRITUAL. From the Connexion of the Bishop of Rome with the Capital of the Empire. [At the Council of Constantinople, A. D. 381, the Bishop of Constantinople declared next in dignity to the Roman Prelate; Seventy years afterwards made equal with him.] II. TEMPORAL. Under Gregory VII. [Hildebrand] contemporary with William the Conqueror. 1. Right of Investiture. 2. Deposition of Princes. 3. Celibacy of the Clergy. 4. Homage and Fealty to be rendered to himself, which had hitherto been thought due to the respective Princes. Under Innocent III. contemporary with King John. 1. Gratiæ Expectativa... Reservations. 2. Disposal of Benefices during the eight Papal months. 3. Concurrent Jurisdiction. CRUSADES, A. D. 1097. Establishment of Religious Orders, which were once twenty-three, afterwards reduced to 1. Augustinians. 2. Carmelites. 3. Dominicans. 4. Franciscans. Under Boniface II. the Papal Power was at its highest pitch of greatness. Koch's Tableau des Revolutions de l'Europe. (98.) III. CORRUPTIONS OF DOCTRINE. 1. Indulgences arose out of the strict discipline of the early Church, which imposed ecclesiastical censures and punishments upon delinquents, for the remission of which, long acts of penance &c. were made necessary; and afterwards pardon was granted at the intercession of the Martyrs. Out of this came the doctrines of 1. Superabundant Blood of Christ. 2. Works of Supererogation. And out of the treasury thus provided, were indulgences granted, on conditions of penance, or payments of money for devout uses. 2. Purgatory, the State where penitential deficiencies were made up by the devotions and bought masses of survivors. 3. Transubstantiation, which went to the elevation of the priesthood, by sup- 4. Refusal of the Cup, and of the second sacrament, save once a year. These Doctrines, opposed by Wickliffe about the middle of the reign of Edward III.; who, in his Theological Lectures, delivered at Oxford, asserted :-- 1. That no change in the bread was wrought in the nature of the bread after consecration. 2. That Rome was not the head of Christendom. 3. That the Pope had not more power in the keys than any other priest. 5. That all other rules for the government of religious orders added no Opposed by John Huss in Bohemia, who was burnt A. D. 1415, by order of the Council of Constance. (90.) Jerome of Prague, burnt 1416. Contests were also held Against the Spiritual Authority of the See of Rome, by the Gallican Church; who, acknowledging that a supreme ecclesiastical power must be lodged somewhere, assigned it to General Councils. Against the Temporal Power, by England, particularly in the Statute of Provisors Præmunire Edward II1. For a knowledge of all particulars connected with the See of Rome, the General History of Europe during the above period. must be consulted. 11. THE REFORMATION. Luther, of the Order of St. Augustine, began the Reformation in By attacking the Doctrine of Indulgences, in a letter to the Bishop of Mentz. By condemning the use of Auricular Confession and the Doctrine of Purgatory. By denying the truth of Transubstantiation. For this, however, since he admitted the real presence, he substituted an idea, called Consubstantiation, to this day held by the Lutherans. A. D. 1520. Leo ordered Luther's books to be burned. Luther retaliated on the Pope. The Pope excommunicated Luther; and Luther declared the A. D. 1530. The Confession of Augsburg, which is the rule of |