sources.

anterior sects, he has noticed, from the best authorities, as large a number as is thought necessary for the comparison of ancient with modern creeds.

The Church and Missionary Statistics are believed to be as accurate as can be constructed from materials which annually undergo greater or less anges The Biographical Sketches are derived from the most authentic

While they convey useful knowledge in regard to the fathers and defenders of the various systems of religious faith, they may also stimulate our readers to the practice of those Christian virtues and graces which adorned the lives of many of them, and render their names immortal.

A few only of the works from which valuable aid has been received, can be mentioned :- Mosheim and McLaine’s Ecclesiastical History; Gregory and Ruter's Church History; Encyclopædia Americana ; Brown's Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge; Adams's View of Religions, and History of the Jews; Benedict's History of all Religions; Evans's Sketches; Buck’s and Henderson's Theological Dictionaries; Eliot's, Allen's, and Blake's Biographical Dictionaries; Davenport; Watson; Grant's Nestorians; Coleman's Christian Antiquities; Ratio Disciplinæ ; Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, &c.

To clergymen and laymen of all denominations, who have assisted the Editor in presenting their various views with clearness and fairness; to the secretaries of the several missionary boards; to editors of religious journals, and to other persons who have kindly furnished documents for the Statistics and Biographical Sketches, he tenders acknowledgments of unfeigned gratitude.

While the Editor assures the public that the whole has been prepared with much diligence and care, and with an entire freedom from sectarian zeal or party bias, he cannot but indulge the hope that his “ Book of Religions” will prove acceptable and beneficial to the community, as imbodying a great variety of facts on a subject of deep concern, worthy of the exercise of our highest faculties, and requiring our most charitable conclusions.

INDEX.

..200

.

A.
Page., Boyle, Robert,

.412
Abelians, or Abelonians,......243 Brown, Robert,

.373
Addison, Joseph,

.417 Brownists,
Agricola, John,
..370 Bucer, Martin,.

.360
Allenites,
..280 Bullinger, Henry, .

.20

..210

....272

..352

Diggers,

.246 Huntingdon, Lady Selina,....395
Disciples of Christ, .58, 314 Huss, John,

354
Disciples of St. John,.. .284 Hutchinson, Ann,

.389
Dissenters. See Puritans. Hutchinsonians,

.259
Doddridge, Philip,... .420
Donatists,

281

I.
Dorrelites,

..164 Independents,...
Dutch Reformed Church, .....88 Indian Missions,

342

Religions,
E.

Statistics,

347
Elizabeth, Princess,. .411
Emancipators,

J.
English Baptist Missions, ..339 Jebb, John,...

401
Methodist Missions, ..343 Jerome of Prague,
Epicureans,
..244 Jews,...

.202, 319, 347
Episcopalians, .26, 314, 341 Johnsonians,.

.280
Essenes,
.202 Jumpers,

.181
Justin Martyr,

.368
F.
Family of Love,

259

K.
Fighting Quakers,. ..162 Keith, George,

.383
Fox, George,
.377 Keithians, .

.193
Free Communion Baptists, ...300 Knipperdolings,

.283
Free-Will Baptists,..190, 312, 341 Knox, John,..

.363
French Missions,... ..346
Friends, or Quakers, ...64, 319

L.
Latter-Day Saints,

.260
G.
Lavater, John G. C.,

.402
Genevieve,...
162, 428 Lee, Ann,..

.381
German Missions,... ..346 Leo X.,

.367
German Reformed Church,....90 Locke, John,

..415
Glass, John,

383 London Missionary Society, ..335
Glassites,
.126 Luther, Martin,

..355
Government, Church, ..20 Lutherans,

.9, 320
Greek Church,..

288

M.
H.
Mahometans,

.220
Hale, Matthew,

.408 Maimonides, Moses,. .203, 370
Harmless Christians, ..57 Martyr, Peter,

362
Harmonists,
.163 Materialists,

112
Hicksites, .
.74, 319 Mayhew, Jonathan,.

.398
High Churchmen, ..308 Mendæans,

.284
Higginson, Francis, .310, 374 Melancthon, Philip,

. 361
Hooker, Richard,.
.385 Mennonites,

.:57
Hopkins, Samuel,
..397 Menno, Simonis,

372
Hopkinsians,

13 Methodists, Episcopal,... 117, 321
Humanitarians,

.19

Protestant, ..123, 321

22, 322

..193

Methodists, Primitive, .305 | Presbyterians,
Methodists' Missions,

.344

Cumberland,....25
Views of Perfec- Presbyterian Missions, .338
tion, ......274 Priestley, Joseph,

.400
Miller's Views on the Second Primitive Christians,

.290
Coming of Christ, ..170

Methodists, .305
Millenarians,
..292 Princess Elizabeth, .

.411
Missionary Statistics, .333 Progress of Christianity, ..432
Missions, American Foreign,..336 Protestants,......

..125
Missions, Indian,

..342 Protestant Methodists, .123, 321
Molinos, Michael,

.389
Missions,

.333
Moravians, .
49, 333 Puritans, .

.200
Mormonites,
...260 Purves, James,..

.401
Muggletonians,
..284 | Puseyites,

299
Murray, John,

.423

Q.
N.

Quakers, or Friends,. ..64
Necessarians. See Materialists. Quaker Baptists, .
Nestorians,
...306 | Quietists,...

.283
Netherland Missions, ..346
New Haven Orthodox Creed,.142

R.
New Jerusalem Church, ..150 Ranters. See Seekers.
Newton, Isaac,..
..403 Re-Anointers,...

.282
Nicene Creed,
.105 Reformation,..

..85
Nonconformists,
.294 Reformed Churches,

..88
Nonjurors,

.294 Reformed Dutch Church, .88, 324
Non-Resistants,

.247

German Church,....
Novatians,..
.305 Rhenish Missions,

.347
Restorationists,

..91
0.
Rogerenes,

..166
Oberlin Views of Sanctifica. Roman Catholics,...102, 324, 347
tion, ....
.278 Russian Church,

.288
Ecolampadius, John,. .355
Orthodox Creeds,

.132

S.
Osgoodites,...
.166 Sabbatarians,

191
Sabellians,..

.125
Sadducees,

.202
Pantheists,

.219 Sanctification, Views on, .278
Pagans,
.234 Sandemanians, ...

.126
Pedobaptists,

.193 Sandeman, Robert,
Pelagians,
.130 Satanians,

.243
Penn, William,
.378 Saybrook Platform,

..48
Perfectionists,

274 Seabury, Samuel,..
Pharisees,

..202 Schools, Theological, ...432
Popes of Rome,
.326 Scottish Missions,

.346, 347
Pre-Adamites,
.131 Se-Baptists,

.281
Predestinarians,
.132 | Sectarians,

.20

.90

P.

..396

33, 398

} .....191, 312, 345

.418

..343

...393

Seekers,
.247 | Universalists, .

..95, 331
Servetus, Michael,.

.371
Seventh-Day

W.
Baptists,..

Waldenses,

279
Shakers,
.75 | Water-Drinkers,

.168
Simonians,

.233 Watts, Isaac,
Six-Principle Baptists, .192 Wesley, John,

390
Skeptics,

.245 Wesleyan Missions,.
Socinius, Faustus,
.372 Westminster Catechism,

141
Socinians,
.19 Whippers,

167
Southcotters,

.255 Whitefield, George,
Spinoza, Benedict,.... .380 Whitefield Methodists,. ..293
Statistics of Churches, .311 Wickliffe, John,.

350
of Missions, .333 Wickliffites,

245
Succession of Bishops,..
.315 Wilhelminians,

247
Supralapsarians,..
.243 Wilkinsonians,.

.167
Swedenborg,..
.150 Williams, Roger,

386
Swedenborgians, .150, 330 Winchester, Elhanan, .425

Worshippers of the Devil,....285
T.
Tao-Se,

282

X.
Taylor's (Dr.) Views, .142 Xavier, Francis,.........161, 372
Theological Schools,.

432
Tillotson, John,

.402

Y.
Transcendentalists,

301 Yezidees, or Worshippers of the
Trinitarians,

..290
Devil,

..285
Tunkers, or Tumblers,. .55

Z.
U.
Zanchius, Jerome,..

.366
Unitarians,
.196, 331 Zinzendorf, Count,

383
United Brethren,
.49 Zuinglius, Ulricus,

.359
United Society of Believers,...75 | Zuinglians,

..246