Allix's Reflections on the Books of the Holy Bp. Blomfield's Dissertation on the Traditional 3. THE NEW TESTAMENT. For the state of Religious Opinions among the Jews, and their Expectations. First carefully peruse it in the same manner as the Old, marking the divisions of time, and attending to some leading points. 4. After this careful perusal of the Sacred Volume, it may now be proper to obtain a connected view of the DOCTRINES of Christianity : for which purpose, Scott's Christian Life. Clarke's Sermons. Archbishop Tillotson's Sermons. The study of the early Ecclesiastical History may now be 1. The Corruptions which were gradually introduced. 3. The Evidences of the Authenticity of Holy Scripture, which 4. The Propagation of Christianity. The History of the Roman Emperors should, however, first be known, in order to form an accurate idea of the connexion of Sacred and Profane History during the early ages. Tacitus, Suetonius, Dion. Cassius, or, Crevier's Histoire des Empereurs Romains jusqu'à Constantin. Josephus's History of the Jewish War. Then, for Church History, EUSEBIUS.. who wrote from the time of Christ to his own: born A. D. 270, in Palestine; died A. D. 340. For the last twenty-five years of his life Bishop of Cæsarea. SOCRATES.. born A. D. 380; educated at Constantinople; wrote THEODORET. A. D. 324 to 429. MOSHEIM de Rebus Christianorum ante Constantinum Magnum For Cautions in the reading of the early Christian writers : Bentley on Phalaris contains a complete account of Sacred Forgeries. Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, book iv. ch. 10. Paley's Natural Theology. Derham's Physico-Theology. Wollaston's Religion of Nature. Bishop Warburton's Divine Legation of Moses, against the Argument about the Jewish Laws. Fabricii Delectus Argumentorum. Buddeus, Theses Theologica de Atheismo et Superstitione. Zimmermann, de Atheismo. Cudworth's True Intellectual System of the Universe. Conclusion of Newton's Principia. Kortholt de Tribus Impostoribus Liber. [Herbert. Hobbes. Spinosa.] Abp. King de Origine Mali. Stillingfleet's Origines Sacræ. Bennet's Philosophical and Literary Inquiries concerning Christianity. [Hobbes and Priestley, the principal Materialists.] 6. DEISM. First Deistical } The Mysteries of Religion. Answers. Second Objection. Answer. Bishop Butler's Analogy of Religion. That Human Reason is sufficient to discover the To show how much unassisted human reason has Leland's Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation. Ireland's Paganism and Christianity Compared. Third Objection. 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. Division of the Prophetical Books. 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 Testament. 4. Relating to Nations. 1. Purity of the Morality. Prideaux's Old and New Testament connected. Bishop Chandler's Defence of Christianity from the Prophecies. 2. Internal. 2. Knowledge of Human Nature. 3. Agreement with the Conclusions of enlightened Reason. Grotius de Veritate Christianæ Religionis. Paley's Evidences of Christianity. Houteville, La Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne, prouvée par les Faits. 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 Tuscany, A.D. 1539. 4. With the Unitarians. Simple Humanitarians. For the Socinian Creed- The Racovian Catechism, published at Raco via, 1604. In Confu- 'Middleton's Doctrine of the Greek Article. Archbishop Magee's Discourses, &c. on the Atonement. Bishop Pearson's Exposition of the Creed. 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. 2. Fallibility of the Writers. Bishop Van Mildert's 23d Boyle Lecture. Horbery's Sermons on the Inspiration of the Moral Parts of Scripture. 3. Against the Authenticity of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Horne's Introduction to the Critical Study of the Holy Scriptures, 4. Against the Authenticity of the First Chapters of St. Matthew and St. Luke. Laurence's Critical Reflections on the Unitarian Version. Bishop Horsley.-A Sermon, in the third Volume of his Posthumous Valckenæri Selecta è Scholiis in quosdam libros Novi Testamenti. 5. Against the Eternity of Punishment. Schleusner, on the uses of AION in his Lexicon. 6. Of the Power of Repentance for the Expiation of Sin. Bishop Butler's Argument from Analogy. } For the Universality of Sacrifice, &c. 7. Against the Antiquity of the Trinitarian Scheme. Burgh's Inquiry into the Belief of Christians of the three first centuries. him. Letters to Priestley, and Tracts in Controversy with Bishop Stillingfleet's Doctrine of the Trinity and Transubstantiation compared. Bishop Gastrell's Considerations on the Trinity. Burton's Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers. Bishop Pearson's Exposition of the Creed. 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. Gratia Expectativæ ... Reservations. 2. Disposal of Benefices during the eight Papal months. |