CONCERNING THE

CREDIBILITY OF THE SCRIPTURES,

AND OF THE

RELIGIOUS SYSTEM INCULCATED IN THEM;

TOGETHER WITH A

HISTORICAL EXHIBITION OF HUMAN CONDUCT

DURING THE SEVERAL DISPENSATIONS UNDER WHICH MANKIND

HAVE BEEN PLACED BY THEIR CREATOR.

BY.

J. H. MCCULLOH, M. D.

AUTHOR OF RESEARCHES PHILOSOPHICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN ON AMERICA;
THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY, ETC.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

PAGE.

INVESTIGATION OF THE

INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL PHENOMENA

attending the Advent of the Messiah; and the Promulgation of the

Christian Dispensation,

5

56

117

EXPOSITION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION,

INVESTIGATION CONCERNING THE SACRAMENTS,

INVESTIGATION CONCERNING THE CONSTITUTION AND ORGANIZATION OF

THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURches,

INVESTIGATION CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENTS OF CHRISTIANITY from

the time of its Promulgation until the Downfall of the Roman Em-

pire in the West, ..

INVESTIGATION concerning the DevelopmentS OF CHRISTIANITY from

the Downfall of the Roman Empire in the West until the Protestant

Reformation,

154

237

.... 338

INVESTIGATION CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENTS OF CHRISTIANITY

since the Protestant Reformation,

377

Lord Bolingbroke on the Goodness of God,

On the Universal Termination of all Schemes of

Philosophy (or Metaphysics) in Scepticism, . . 453

On the Apocryphal Books of the New Testament, 459

66 V. On the Doubtful Books of the New Testament

VI. On the Human Soul, and the various questions

463

implicated in its Existence, Immortality, &c. . . 465

ARTICLE NO. VIII.

66

66

66

66

IX.

PAGE.

On the Doctrine of not Resisting Injuries, ... 492

On the Subject of Miracles after the times of the

Apostles,

X. Some Extracts from Bishop Hoadly's Dedication -

to Pope Clement XI.

493

496:

497

505

NOTICE TO THE READER.

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