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. .412 .373 .417 Brownists, .360 .363 .429 ..190 C. 365 11, 313 ..58 .405 ..18 Chauncey, Charles,.. .385 .295, 313 .303 Christianity, Progress of, .432 .175 ...20 ..311 .387 ..368 Clarke, Richard, ..177 .20, 313 .384 .138 .407 .102 ..102 ...193 ..302 New Haven, .142 ..376 .105 .. 169 ..132 .25 ..366 ..175 D. .272 ..244 .215 ...399 ....339 .20 ..210 ....272 ..352 Diggers, .246 Huntingdon, Lady Selina,....395 354 .389 .259 281 I. ..164 Independents,... 342 Religions, Statistics, 347 J. 401 .202, 319, 347 .280 .181 .368 259 K. .383 .193 .283 .363 L. .260 .402 .381 .367 ..415 383 London Missionary Society, ..335 ..355 .9, 320 288 M. .220 .408 Maimonides, Moses,. .203, 370 362 112 .398 .284 . 361 .:57 372 13 Methodists, Episcopal,... 117, 321 .19 Protestant, ..123, 321 22, 322 ..193 Methodists, Primitive, .305 | Presbyterians, .344 Cumberland,....25 .400 .290 Methodists, .305 .411 ..125 ..342 Protestant Methodists, .123, 321 .389 .333 .200 .401 299 .423 Q. Quakers, or Friends,. ..64 .283 R. .282 ..85 ..88 .294 Reformed Dutch Church, .88, 324 .247 German Church,.... .347 ..91 ..166 .288 .132 S. 191 .125 .202 .219 Sanctification, Views on, .278 .126 .193 Sandeman, Robert, .243 ..48 274 Seabury, Samuel,.. ..202 Schools, Theological, ...432 .346, 347 .281 .20 .90 P. ..396 33, 398 } .....191, 312, 345 .418 ..343 ...393 Seekers, ..95, 331 .371 W. Waldenses, 279 .168 .233 Watts, Isaac, 390 .245 Wesleyan Missions,. 141 167 .255 Whitefield, George, 350 245 247 .167 386 Worshippers of the Devil,....285 282 X. 432 .402 Y. 301 Yezidees, or Worshippers of the ..290 ..285 Z. .366 383 .359 ..246 |