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Principles on which their views rest, 42; mode of baptism, 43; peculiarity as to the subjects of baptism, 45; testimonies of Padobaptists on the subject, 46; arguments for the perpetuity of baptism, 47; confession of faith, 49; origin of the Baptists, 52; introduction of baptism into Britain, 53; decline and revival of religion, 54; reigns of Henry, Edward, Elizabeth, and Mary, 55; the Puritan fathers and Roger Williams, 56; eulogiums by Magoon, Hopkins, and Channing, 56; influence of Baptists on freedom, 57; testimony of Washington to the Baptists, 58; eminent men among the Baptists, 59; attachment of the Baptists to the government, 59; New Hampshire church covenant, 60; advantages of Baptist polity, 60; councils, associations, and conventions, 61; union of Baptists with other denominations, 62; the Puritan fathers and the Baptists, 62; statistics of Baptists at different periods, 63; present state of Baptists in Wales and England, 64; Baptist literature in England, 65; peculiarities of the English Baptists, 66; influence of Baptist zeal on prosperity, 67; Baptist public institutions, 69; Baptist statistical tables, 71.

FREEWILL BAPTISTS,

Origin and history, 74-76; Biographical notice of Elder David Marks, 74; doctrine and usages, 78; church ordinances and officers, 79; church government, 80; statistics, benevolent and literary institutions, 81.

FREE COMMUNION BAPTISTS.

Origin of the F. C. Baptists, 82; Groton Union Conference, 82; church in Westerly, R. 1., 82; general history, 82; account of their first ministers and churches, 82 and 83; formation of the first Conference, 83; increase and localities, 83 and 84; Pennsylvania Conference, 84; Northern and Southern Conference in N. Y., 84; General Conference, 84; Quarterly Meetings, 84; statistics, education, and benevolent exertions, 85; doctrine and polity, 85; union with the Freewill Baptists, 86.

OLD SCHOOL BAPTISTS. Distinction and difference between the Mission and Anti-Mission Baptists, 86; opposition to human inventions, 87; doctrine, name, localities, and periodi

cals, 87.

SIX-PRINCIPLE BAPTISTS.

Author's reasons for writing this article; origin of their tenets, notice of Roger Williams, his baptism, &c., 38; number of Baptists in Rhode Island in 1730, 88; first yearly meeting, 89; change of it into an association, 89; statistics and localities, 89; doctrines and government, 90; paper and principal ministers, 91.

GERMAN BAPTISTS.

| chester's account of them, 92; their localities; the manner of choosing and ordaining their ministers; the duties of their bishops; duties of their deacons; the manner of their public worship; their annual meeting, 93; general view of their doctrine, 94.

ENGLISH SEVENTH-DAY BAPTISTS. Antiquity of the Seventh-Day Baptists' principles, 95; identity with primitive Christians; controversy on the Sabbath in 1650; persecution of the S. D. Baptists, 96; first settlement in America; Wm. Hiscox first pastor oppression from civil laws, 97; present localities and statistics, 97, 99; church officers; organ of the church; literary institutions and societies, 99, 100; confession of faith, 100, 101; views of baptism, 102; the Sabbath, 103, 108.

GERMAN SEVENTH-DAY BAPTISTS.

Account of their rise in Germany, and their emigration and settlement in America, Conrad Beissel, and his change of views on the Sabbath, 109; formation of a monastic society at Ephrata, Lancaster Co., Pa., 110; principles of the society, 110, 112; manner of worship, 112; Gordon's account of the society, 113; character of C. Beissel, 114; their peculiar doctrines and practices, 114, 115; literary and Sabbath-schools; decline of the society in 1777, 115; settlements in other places, 116, 117; position, and appeal to the government for religious freedom, and exemption from the restrictions and penalties of the laws respecting the Sabbath, 117.

BIBLE CHRISTIANS.

The church an ancient and heavenly institution, origin of the Bible Christians, account of Wm. Cowherd, their founder, 123; emigration to America, 124; locality and history in Philadelphia, 125; creed, or religious views, 125. 129; discipline, order of worship, and statistics, 129, 130.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Origin, statistics, and progress of the Catholic Church in the United States; outline of the Maryland colony, 131; Catholic toleration and Protestant intoleration, 132; Catholic missionaries and first bishop, 135, 136; explanation of the name "Roman Catholic Church," 137; dogmas of the Catholic faith, 138, 159; prejudice and persecution against the Catholics, 160.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Sketch of the origin of the Christians, 164, 165; brief view of their religious tenets, 166, 169; Divinity of Christ, 166, 168; church polity, 169.

CHURCH OF GOD.

Origin and name of the Church of God, 170; history of the church in America, 171; formation of the first eldership. 172, 173; form and attributes or the church, 173; import of the word church; membership, organization, officers, form of government, &c., 174; attributes of the church, 175; faith and practice of the Church of God, 176, 181; her polity, 181; annual eldership, general eldership, 182; constitution of the general eldership, 183, 184; resolu

Origin and emigration of the G. B. to America, 92; tion on the Bible cause, resolutions on education, 184; Martin Edwards' account of them. 91; E. Win-resolutions concerning church property, book concern,

Lord's day, slavery, and temperance, 185; formation and constitution of a missionary society; boundaries of the annual elderships, 186; publications and statistics, 187.

CONGREGATIONALISTS.

Origin of Congregationalism, 188; church formed by Robert Brown, and his opinion of church polity, 189; Thacher and Cokking, first martyrs to these principles, 189; act of intolerance passed in 1592, and enforcement of conformity, 190; John Robinson, the father of Congregationalism, persecutions against Congregationalists, their flight to Holland, and settlement at Leyden, 191; principles of the church at Leyden, their removal to America, and settlement at Plymouth, 192, 193; sketch of the spread of Puritan principles, 194; intolerance and banishment of Roger Williams, 195; Antinomian controversy, 195; Harvard College founded, 196; Virginia and New England intoleration acts, 196; Cambridge Platform set tled, 197; banishment of Baptists and Quakers, 197; debates respecting the proper subjects of baptism, 198; prevalency of the half-way covenant, 198; Savoy confession of faith, and Saybrook Platform established, 199; great revival in New England, and rise of Unitarian principles, 199; disunion of church and state, 200; plan of union between Presbyterians and Congregationalists, 201; abrogation of this plan in 1837. Congregational church polity, church councils and officers, 202; manner of creating and ordaining church officers, 203; different systems of state organizations, 203, 204; general statistics, and number of literary institutions, 204.

DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH. Historical sketch of the church in Europe and America, 205; first ministers, and first churches in America, 208; second and third periods of the church, 208, 209; Episcopalian bigotry and intolerance, 210; Gov. Fletcher's civil establishment, 211; fourth period of the church, and vehement contentions between the Cœtus and Conferentie parties, 212-214; difficulties arising from the introduction of English preaching, 214. 215; "Queen's College" founded, 216; convention in 1771 for promoting union, 217; adoption of the plan of union in 1712, 218; establishment of a theological professorate, and a more perfect organization of the church, 218; Queen's College put in operation 1784, suspension, resuscitation in 1807, second suspension in 1816, revived again in 1825, 219; contrast between the church's past and present state, 219, 220; doctrines of the church, 220; government of the church, 221; form of worship and statistics, 222, 223.

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST.

Origin or rise of the Disciples, 223; proposition for Christian union, 224; rejection of the overture by the seceders, 225; formation of the first congregation of Disciples on Bush Run in 1810, 225; bap tism of the first Disciples in 1812, 226; their connection with the Redstone Baptist Association in 1813, and afterwards with the Mahoning, 226; A. Campbell's debate with J. Walker in 1820, and with Mr. M'Calla in 1823, 227; Disciples cut off from the Baptists, 227; Campbell's debate with Owen in 1829, 228; their increase and localities, 228; their faith and practice, 228, 229.

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SUPPLEMENT, containing two queries, reflections, analysis of the sacred oracles, of doctrinal topics, and of the great salvation, 231–236.

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

The writer's difficulties in giving an accurate account of all the topics connected with the rise, progress, faith, and practice of the P. E. Church, 236; statement of his plan and intentions, 236; three dif ferent existing theories in regard to man's connection with the first and second Adam, 237; doctrinal system of the church, and the Scriptures, 238; of doctrine, man's primitive state, consequences of the fall, of man's ability to repent, of redemption, incarnation of the Word, conditions of redemption, office of the Holy Ghost, of the nature of man's change; perpetuity of the change; of the use of means, 240-246; order of service and festivals, 246; of the church, 248; of the sacraments, 250; of baptism, 250; of the Lord's Supper, 255; of the ministry, 256; orders of the ministry, 259; of the laity, 261; legislature of the church, 262; relation to other religious bodies, 263; general history, 264; particular history in the states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, South Carolina, New York, Rhode Island, North Carolina, New Jersey, Connecticut, Georgia, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio, Mississippi, Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, Indiana, Florida, Missouri, 266-273; general institutions, 274.

EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION

Origin or rise of this society, 275; localities and statistics, 275; government of the association, 275; statistics again, and salaries of the preachers, 275; funds of the church, book concern, education, 276; articles of faith, 277, 278; conferences, 279.

FRIENDS OR QUAKERS.

Rise of the Society of Friends, 279; account of George Fox, 279, 280; rapid spread of Quaker principles, 281; first settlements in America, 282; government and discipline of the society, 282. 283; statistics and doctrines, 284; testimony against slavery, war, litigation and conformity to the world, 288, 289: division of the society in 1827, 289.

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.

Origin of the society, 290; doctrines of the society, 291-294; their testimony against a hireling minis try, war, slavery, baths, law-suits, superfluity and vain amusements, 295; discipline and government of the Society, 295-298.

GERMAN REFORMED Church.

Import of the name, 298; notice of Ulrich Zwingli, the founder of the church, 298, 299; difference between Lutherans and Reformed, 299 ; sketch of John Calvin, 300; difference between Calvin and Zwingli, 301; form of government, conformation and doctrinal system, 302; origin of the church in America, 303; Heidelberg Catechism, her symbolical book, 303; government, localities, and statistics, 304, 305; theological seminary and Marshall College, located at Mercersburg, 305; official organs, the “Weekly Messenger," and Christliche Zeitschrift," published at Chambersburg, 305: history and statistics of the church in the west, 306.

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JEWS AND THEIR RELIGION, Origin of civilization, 307; Bible the rule of life, 307; origin and history of the Jews, 308, 309; Moses and the Mosaic state, 309; Heathen and Christian prejudice, 309, 310; doctrine, or belief of the Jews, touching the Messiah of the Christians, 311, 312; their rejection of Christ, 313; unity and identity of the Jews, 315; history, statistics, and polity of the Jews in the United States, 317, 318.

LUTHERAN CHURCH.

Founder and name of the Lutheran Church, 320; character of the Germans, 320; origin of the Reforma tion, 321: opposition from church and state, 322; division among the reformers, 322; death of Lather, sanguinary conflicts, treaty of Passau, and diet of Augsburg, 323; Lutheran population, and first settlements in America, 324-337; character and labors of Muhlenburg and others, 327. 328; story of an Indian massacre, 328; deleterious effects of the American revolution, 323; formation of the general synod, and a general organization, 330; theological seminary, and Pennsylvania college at Gettysburg, Pa., 330, 331; other institutions, and statistical view, 331; government and discipline, 333; doctrinal views, 334-337; forms of worship and church order, 338341; note on Luther's Calvinism, 342.

LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

Biography of Joseph Smith, his visions and revelations, 344; account of the book of Mormon, 345; first organization of the church in 1830, 346; Mormon settlements formed, 346; Nauvoo city, their increase and statistics, 347; their doctrinal views, 348; note by the editor, 348, 343.

MORAVIANS.

Their origin, first colony and brotherly agreement, 350; their Christian principles and polity, 351, 352; their missionary and educational economy, 353; sketch of their manner of living in brethren, sisters, and widows' houses, 354; account of their public worship and peculiarities, 355; localities and statistics, 356; principal establishments in the United States, and chief settlements in England, 356; pricipal missions among the heathen, 357.

METHODIST SOCIETY.

Origin of the society, 357; progress and government, 357; secession of ministers, 358; statistics, 358. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

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Sketch of the founder of Methodism, 358; general rules of the M. societies, 359; rise and of Methodism in America, 360, 361; Wesley Chapel and first missionaries to this country, 362; Asbury and Wright sent to America; first conference in Philadelphia, in 1773; spread of Methodism, &c..363; persecution and malcontents, 364; Dr. Coke and Asbury appointed superintendents, 365; propriety and validity of their ordination, 366; first general conference and rapid increase, 367; extent and general statistics, secessions, and doctrines, 368-371; government, 371-373; funds, book concern, education, 374, 375; benevolent enterprises and statistics, 378, 379.

METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH. Statistics, 380; first general convention, 350; basis of government, 380; constitution and elementary principles, 381; sketch of the government and discipline, 381, 382; points of difference between the E. M. and M. P. churches, 382.

REFORMED METHODIST CHRRCH, Origin of the R. M. church, 383; first conference, 383; doctrines and government, 384; distinguishing point of faith, 384; conditions of membership, polity of the church, 385; their progress and leading men, 386, 387; statistics and community project, 388; their localities and church order, 389; account of secessions and peculiarities in their faith and discipline, 390.

WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH,

Wesley's arbitrary authority over the first Methodist societies, 391; peculiarities of Wesleyan Methodism, 392; elementary principles, 392; articles of religion, 393, 394; polity and statistics, 395.

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Origin of the African church, 396; cause of separation from the M. E. church, 396; opposition by the white Methodists, 397; general convention in 1816, and points of difference between the white and African Methodists, 398; statistics, book concern, education, &c., 399.

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

History of the origin and progress of the church, 399, 400; cause of difficulties and separation from the white Methodists, 401; organization of the church and first conference, 402; doctrines of the church, 403; rules regulating their moral conduct, 404; church government, 404, 405; conventional department, 405; statistics, 405.

MENNONITES.

Character, travels, and labors of Meno Simon, 406; persecution of the Mennonites in Europe, and their first settlements in America, 407; leading articies the Dortrecht confession of faith, 408-414; government, localities, and statistics, 415.

REFORMED MENNONITE SOCIETY. First Mennonites, and origin of the reforme. ciety, 416; sketch of John Herr, its founder, 417; chief articles of their Christian faith, 417-420; statistical sketch, 421

NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH. Swedenborg's writings, their confession of faith, 421; biography of E. Swedenborg, 422; sketch of the distracted state of the religious world, 422-424; progressive Christianity, 425; character of the Deity, 426; character and work of the Saviour, 427; origin and nature of sin, 428; identity of Father and Son,

429; work of redemption, 430; doctrine of the resurrection and of a future state, 431; canonical books, 431; Wm. Mason's opinion of Swedenborg and Swedenborgism, 432-434; tirade against modern sects, 435; Swedenborg's high pretensions, 436; coup d'ail of the New Church tenets, and of various authors, 438-441; persecutions against Newchurchmen, 442, 413; writings of Swedenborg, 444, 445; localities of the New Church, 446; society formed trines of Swedenborg into the United States, in 1784, in London, in 1787, 447; introduction of the doc448; statistics and church polity, 449; sketch of publications, 451, 452; points of casuistry, 453; summary of doctrines, or religious creed, 455-457.

ROMISH CHURCH.

Their identity with Mennonites, 457; their government and mole of worship, 458; their faith and statistics, 458.

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