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CHRISTIANITY:

DESIGNED TO PRESERVE

YOUNG PEOPLE

FROM

IRRELIGION AND VICE;

BY JOSEPH SUTCLIFFE.

I write unto thee, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed; which things the angels desire to look into....................LUKE i. 4-1 PET i. 12.

Que ceux qui combattent la religion, apprennent au moins qu'elle est avant que de la combattre..................PASCAL.

First American, from the Second (improved) English Edition,

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED FOR GRIFFIN AND rudd, 189 GREENWICH-ST.

Pelsue and Gould, Printers, No. 9 Wall-st.

CONTENTS.

Introductory Address

SECTION I.

General Rules comprehending the doctrines, du-

ties, and defects, of Natural Religion.

SECTION II.

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7

13

Of the creation and fall of man-of the Patriar-

chal Dispensation-and of the Mosaic Law 24

SECTION III.

Gradual revelation to the holy Prophets concern-

ing the person and offices of Christ

SECTION IV.

36

Of the incarnation-the ministry-the death-

and ascension of our blessed Lord and Saviour

Jesus Christ

54

SECTION V.

The first and general spread of the Gospel

SECTION VI.

Of the apostacy of the Church—the origin and

progress of the Anti-christian Empire

SECTION VII.

92

Prophesies concerning the Anti-christian Empire 114