CONTENTS.
Page.
CHAPTER I.
THE POWER OF INTELLECT, ITS DUTY, AND THE OBSTACLES THAT OPPOSE
ITS PROGRESS......................................................
5
CHAPTER II.
THEOLOGY AND ITS EFFECTS............................................
10
CHAPTER III.
CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY..................................................
13
CHAPTER IV.
THE BIBLE, OR THE SACRED WRITINGS OF THE JEWS AND
CHRISTIANS.........19
CHAPTER V.
ORIGINAL SIN, ATONEMENT, FAITH, &c. A CHRISTMAS DISCOURSE,
DELIVERED IN NEW YORK, DEC. 1796..................................
29
CHAPTER VI.
ORIGIN OF THE EARTH.................................................
50
CHAPTER VII.
UNIVERSAL DELUGE....................................................
56
CHAPTER VIII.
CHRISTIAN WONDERS...................................................
60
CHAPTER IX.
IS THE EVIDENCE DRAWN FROM MIRACLES SUFFICIENT TO PROVE THE
DIVINE ORIGIN OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION?..........................
62
CHAPTER X.
PROPHETIC EVIDENCE IN RELATION TO THE DIVINITY OF THE CHRISTIAN
RELIGION..........................................................
74
CHAPTER XI.
THAT THE IMMORALITY OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION PROVES THAT IT IS
NOT OF DIVINE ORIGIN..............................................
84
CHAPTER XII.
CHRISTIAN MARTYRS, THE CHURCH, OPINIONS OF LEARNED DIVINES..........
95
CHAPTER XIII.
ORIGIN OF MORAL EVIL, AND THE MEANS OF ITS ULTIMATE EXTIRPATION
FROM THE
EARTH....................................................101
CHAPTER XIV.
INFIDEL
PHILOSOPHY..................................................110
CHAPTER XV.
INQUIRY, ARE THE EVILS INCIDENT TO HUMAN LIFE THE RESULT OF THE
OPERATION OF THE LAWS OF NATURE; OR, ARE THEY SPECIAL JUDGMENTS
FROM
GOD?.........................................................115
CHAPTER XVI.
CHRISTIAN
DEVIL.....................................................127
CHAPTER XVII.
DEATH, OR THE DISORGANIZATION OF INTELLIGENT
BEINGS.................136
CHAPTER XVIII.
PROPOSITION, THAT THE WANT OF UNIVERSALITY OF THE CHRISTIAN
RELIGION DEMONSTRATES THAT IT IS NOT OF DIVINE
ORIGIN.............146
CHAPTER XIX.
THAT MORAL PRINCIPLES ARE NOT FOUNDED UPON THEOLOGICAL IDEAS,
NOR UPON ANY SECTARIAN MODIFICATION OF THESE IDEAS, BUT UPON A
BASIS AS IMMORTAL AND INDESTRUCTIBLE AS HUMAN EXISTENCE
ITSELF....153
CHAPTER XX.
UNIVERSAL
BENEVOLENCE...............................................158
CHAPTER XXI.
MOSES, JESUS, AND
MAHOMET...........................................163
CHAPTER XXII.
PREJUDICES..........................................................1
67
CHAPTER XXIII.
MORAL
PRINCIPLE.....................................................173
CHAPTER XXIV.
MATTER AND POWER; ORIGIN OF MOTION; LIBERTY AND
NECESSITY...........181
CHAPTER XXV.
COMMENCEMENT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; CHRISTIANITY; DEISM;
REASON; SCIENCE; VIRTUE;
HAPPINESS................................192
CHAPTER XXVI.
PHILOSOPHICAL
IMMORTALITY...........................................201