CONTENTS OF NO. III.

ART. I. EARTHLY TRIUMPHS OF CHRISTIANITY

By Rev. Geo, Bush, Professor in the New-York City }

University.

II. HAVE ANY PASSAGES IN THE SCRIPTURES A DOU-

By Rev, Parsons Cooke, Pastor of a Church in}

Ware,

III. SOUTH AMERICA

By Theodore Dwight, Jr. New-York.

IV. EFFICACY OF THE WORD OF GOD

By Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D., Professor of The-

ology, Andover, Mass.

V. REVIEW OF THE WRITINGS OF BULwer

By Edward S. Gould, New-York.

343

368

378

400

The-}

412

By Rev. Enoch Pond, Professor of Theology, Ban-

gor, Maine.

VII. EFFORTS BY THE CHURCH TO SUBVERT THE UN-

HALLOWED INSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD . . 443

By Eleazar Lord, Esq., New-York.

VIII. MORAL REQUISITES FOR THE KNOWLEDGE OF

DIVINE THINGS

By Rev. C. S. Henry, Junior Pastor of the West

Church, Hartford, Con.

IX. CONVERSION OF JOHN VON MUELLER

456

West}

476

the}

483

Translated by Rev. John Proudfit, Professor in the

New-York City University.

CONTENTS OF NO. IV.

ART. I. REVIEW OF EDWARDS ON THE WILL.

523

By Rev. Enoch Pond. Professor at Bangor Theo-

logical Seminary, Me.

II. LOVE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

By Rev. Joseph Tracy, Editor of Boston Recorder.

III. THE NEW DISPENSATION, OR PERFECTIONISM

By Rev. Joseph I. Foot, Pastor of a Church in

in }

Salina, N. Y.

By W. B. Hackett, Mount Hope College, Bal-

timore, Md.

V. REVIEW OF JAMES' WORKS

By Rev. W. B. Sprague, D. D., Albany.

VI. PHILOSOPHY OF THE MIND, No. III. .

By Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D., Andover.

540

554

584

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595

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IX. CHRISTIANITY AND PHILOSOPHY, No. II. .

669

By the Editor.

AND

THEOLOGICAL REVIEW.

NO. I.-JANUARY, 1834.

INTRODUCTORY ARTICLE.

BY THE EDITOR.

It is remarked by Frederick Schlegel, in his delineation of Mohammedanism,* that the sects existing within its pale, did not originate in any mysteries of faith, or points of doctrine, but in the claims of rival aspirants after the throne of Mohammed. The war by which Mohammed himself was first driven from Mecca, and the controversy after his death between Ali and Abubecker, which led to a schism among his followers not as yet healed, were personal, and not doctrinal, in their origin. The same is true in general, though perhaps in a less degree, of the sects into which the believers in other false religions are divided. "Quarrels and divisions about religion," says Lord Bacon, "were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was, because the religion of the heathen, consisted rather in rites and ceremonies, than in any constant belief." But in Christendom the case is far otherwise; and though it has been divided into different communions on questions of discipline and polity, yet the greater number and most important of its parties may be traced to at least a professed interest for the doctrines of the Christian faith.

This fact furnishes an honourable characteristic of Christianity; and while the number and the violence of its sects are made a ground of reproach against our religion, it ought still to be remembered, by way of alleviation, that these sects do not spring from the grovelling and merely worldly interests by which feuds and divisions are elsewhere produced, but rather from an interest in itself so noble and refined, as concern for the articles of one's creed, for matters of faith and doctrine. These are so remote from the lower necessi

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*Philosophie der Geschichte. Vol. ii. pp. 87, 88.
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