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Dr. Stowe, 594. Karl Jürgen's life, 594.
Birth, parentage, 595. At school, 596.
Lady Ursula, 598. At the University
of Erfurt, 598. Change of character
on the death of Alexius, 600. Becomes a
monk, 601. Religious experience, 602.
Ordained priest, 603. Professor of phi-
losophy, 604. Of theology, 605. Preach-
es, 606. Goes to Rome, 606. Assails
the Aristotelian philosophy, 610. Edits
the German theology, 612. Posts his 99
theses, 615. State of things previous to
the Reformation, 616. Encounters Tet-
zel, 619. Effects of his letter to Tetzel,
621. His reluctance to leave the church,
622.

Christianity, progress of, 193.

Christians, their confidence in the good-

ness of the Divine administration, 347.
Christianity in Conflict with Politics, by
Rev. James W. M Lane, 111. First
point of conflict-as to origin of govern-
ment, 112. Form of Government, 113.
Feudalism not consistent with Christi-
anity, 113. Connexion of Church and
State, 116. Elective Franchise, 117.
Importance of the ballot-box, 118. For-
eign Policy of States, 120. The com-
mon modes of defence, 121. Meliorating
influence of Christianity, 124. Cer-
tainty of its triumph, 125.
Christ not an Essene, 172.
Christianity foretold under the symbols of
Judaism, by Rev. E. P. Barrows, 411.
Micah 4: 411. Imagery of the pro-
phecy, 412. Prophetic idea of Jerusa-
lem, 413. Import of the imagery, 415.
Reasons for the symbolic language,
416. Duffield on the restoration of the
theocracy, 418. Inconsistencies of the
Millennarian theory, 420. Spirituali-
ty of the prophetic imagery, 421.
Christ's rejection by the Jews, notwith-
standing miracles, 423.

Christian character of American litera-
ture, 518.

Christianity the end and unity of all scien-
ces and pursuits, by Rev. Wm. Adams,
D.D., 573. Sciences and professions
not isolated, 574. Attempts at classifi-
cation, 574. Bacon's system, 575.
Utility of the inquiry, 576. Highest
happiness of man in resemblance to
God, 578. Happiness the object which
gives unity to all things, 579. Relation
of the cross to all knowledge, 580. Rea-
sons for the slow progress of Christian-
ity, 581. Distinction between religious
and secular, 582. Calvin's influence,
583. Bancroft's testimony of Calvin,
584. Advantage of the late discovery
of America, 586. No conflict between
true science and revelation, 586. The
student's life useful, 589.

Chronicon Alexandrinum, on date of Apo-
calypse, 404.

Church Member's Manual noticed, 570.
Consistency of Scientific and Religious
Truth, by Stephen Chase, 656.
Critical Notices, 189, 379, 569.
Cyclopædia of Biblical knowledge no-
ticed, 189.

D.

Date of Book of Job, 174.

Date of the Apocalypse, Review of Prof.
Stuart on, by Rev. Geo. Duffield, D.D.,
385. Loose views of inspiration, 386.
The time of the Apocalypse the great
question, 387. Outline of Prof. S.'s
system, 388. Different views of the
date, 389. Irenæus's testimony, 390.
Prof. S.'s objections to Irenæus exam-

ined, 391. Irenæus's character, 392.
His qualifications as a witness, 394.
Not credulous, 395. Eusebius's opi-
nion, 397. Tertullian's opinion, 399.
Title page of the Syriac version, does
not establish the Neronian date, 402.
Nor the commentary of Andreas, 403.
Nor Arethas, 403. Nor the Chronicon
Alexandrinum, 404. Nor Theophylact,
404. Nor the Internal evidence, 405.
Rev. 17, considered, 406. Value of
internal evidence, 407.
Duffield, Rev. Geo., D.D.

Review of

Stuart on Apocalypse, 385.
D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation,

569.

Day, Rev. Hn. Taste and Morals, 524.
Deborah's Song, 340.

Divine Administration, Grounds of a
Christian's confidence in, by Rev. R. W.
Landis, 347. Importance of the sub-
ject, 347. Difficulties enumerated, 349.
Press equally upon the Unbeliever, 351.
Hume, 352. Voltaire, 353. Origin of
evil perplexes all theism, 354. Free
agency, 354. Suffering in the natural
world, 356. Long life of the wicked
considered, 357. Triumph of vice, 358.
Early death, 358. Sin after regenera-
tion, 359. God's proceedings regard
the world as fallen, 361. Sufferings
the natural effect of sin, 362. The
world in its infancy, 364. Grounds of
confidence arising from God's wisdom,
369. Power, 369. Goodness, 370. Im.
mutability, 370.

Dick's Theology, noticed, 379.
D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature, no-
ticed, 380.

E.

England, Pictorial History of, noticed,
191, 570.

Essenes, the, morally and historically consi
dered, by Wm. Hall, jr., 162. Different
tendencies of religious feeling among

the Jews, 162. Locality of the Essenes
163. Josephus's account, 164. Jewish
sects, 165. Resemblance to Moham-
medan sects, 166. Origin, 166. Allud-
ed to in Maccab. 2: 42, 167. Why
not mentioned by the Evangelists, 168.
John an Essene, 169. Christianity.
not an emanation of Essenism, 169.
Christ not an Essene, 172. Resem-
blance between the doctrines of Es
senes and teachings of Christ, 172.
Esthetic culture, necessity of, 524.
Eternity of Future Punishment, 30-61.
Exposition of John 2: 4, 374.

F.

Figurative language in sermons, 638.
Forged Literature of the Middle Ages, by
Rev. E. Beecher, D.D., 484. Character
of Nicholas I., 484. His rivals, 485.
Case of Lotharius, 486. Defeat of
Hincman, 487. The Forged Decretals,
487. Date of, 487. Gradual introduc-
tion of, 489. System of Pious Frauds,
490. Instances, 490. Effects, 493. Ef-
fect of the decretals, 494. The Isido-
rean canons, 495. Agency of Gratian
in their establishment, 496. Purport of
the decretals, 498. Confessions of.
candid Romanists, 500. Extent of the
practice of lying, 502.
Foster, John, Life and Writings of, by G.
Cheever, D.D., 1. Hall and Foster, 2.
Development of his opinions, 6. His
religious experience, defective, 7.
Early history, 9. Habits of study, 10.
Settlement at Newcastle, 12. Growing
tendency to Calvinism, 17. Vagueness
of his views of the future, 21. Remo-
val to Downend, 23. Marriage, 23.
Death of Mrs. Foster, 24. Difficulty
of writing, 25. Views of depravity,
26. His denial of future punishments,
considered, 30. His belief in Satanic
agency, 47.
In the Atonement, 48.
Relation of atonement to Future pun-
ishment, 49. Grandeur of his views,
52. His impressive views of the future,
55. His ingenuousness, 63.

G.

German publications, 384.
Gnostic Philosophy, 202.

God's attributes ground of confidence, 369.
Government a moral power, 65-214.
Government involves the idea of retribu-
tion, 67.

Government, conflict of with Christianity,

111.

Griffin, Dr., Preaching of the late, by Rev.
Geo. Shepard, D.D., 623. Object of the
article, 624. Conversion, 624. Intel-
lectual habits, 625. Residence at New-

ark, his best years, 625. His natural
endowments, 626. Habits of study,
627. Character of his preaching, 628.
Specimens of his violations of good taste,
629. Characteristics of his sermons-
made truth void, 632. Palpableness,
633. Strongly evangelical, 634. Ear-
nest and warm, 635. Tender, 636.
Great in application of truth, 637. His
uses of figurative language, 638. Use
of the interrogation, 640. His sense of
dependence of God, 641. What con-
stitutes the effective sermon, 624. Uti-
lity of manner, 644.

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Harper's New Miscellany, noticed, 192,
381.

Hastings, Rev. G. H., Lyrical Poetry of
the Bible, 323.

Hebrew Grammar, Rodiger's, noticed, 190.
Hermeneutics, true province of, 100.
Hickok, Rev. L. P. The Idea of Huma-
nity from its progress to its consumma-
tion, 731.

Hopkins, Rev. S. M. Religious character
of Lord Bacon, 127. On Voltaire, 458.
Humanity, the Idea of, from its Progress to
its Consummation, by Rev. Dr. Hickok,
731. What humanity is, 732. The
inner face which impels its action, 734.
Animal desires, 734. Wants created by
society, 734. Spiritual wants, 735.
The guiding law to perfection, 736.
Not in the gratification of the senses,
737. Nor in the spiritual alone, 738-
but in the union of the two, 739. Ne-
cessity of supernatural aid, 741. Bear-
ing of this union of the sensuous and
spiritual upon religion, 742. Upon
government, 742. Upon philosophy,
744.

Human Justice, or, Government a Moral
Power, by Tayler Lewis, LL.D., 65, 214.
Kinds of punishment, 65. Retribution
a part of the Divine government, 67.
Do. of all government, 68. A priori
argument, 68. Argument from the
moral sense, 69. From the use of lan-
guage, 70. The posteriori argument,
76. Something more than the idea of
expediency necessary to government, 76.
The idea of justice necessary to the ends
of punishment, 86. Influence of legisla-
tion on education, 90. Idea of retribu
tion necessary to a true gradation of
punishments, 90. Retributive justice
the milder and more humane, 94. The

argument from Scripture, 214. Argu-
ment from the Jewish code, 214. From
the declarations of the New Testament,
215. Individual redress forbidden, 216.
Government a divine institution, 217.
Rom. xii., 19, considered, 219. Do.
Rom. xiii., 221. Perpetuity of govern-
ment, 223. Importance of the question,
224. Popular insubordination, 225.
Change of laws by the popular will,
not inconsistent with the divine autho-
rity of government, 226. Distinction
between the popular will and true gov-
ernment, 227. Connexion between mo-
ral and political ideas, 235. God the
source of all authority, 238. Retribu-
tion not revenge, 240. Objections con-
sidered, 240-250. Importance of sound
theology to just views of government,
253.

Hume's argument against miracles exa-
mined, 311.

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Jansenism, History and Merits of, by Rev.
S. M. Schmucker, 689. Preliminary
considerations, 690. Origin of Jesuit-
ism, 691. Prevalence of the Augustin-
ian doctrines, 692. Jansenius, 692.
His work on Augustine, 693.
Cyrian, 694. Imprisoned, 694. Literary
labors of the Jansenists, 695. Jansen's
denial of the Pope's infallibility, 695.
First bull of Alexander III., 696, Doc-
trines of the Jansenists, 696. Quesnell's
Commentaries, 696. The bull Unige-
nitus, 697. Quesnell's doctrines, 698.
Effect of the bull, 699. Excesses of the
Jansenists, 700. Labors, 701. Excesses
accounted for, 702. Lessons of the Jan-
senist movement-the hostility of Rome
to reform, 702. Unchangeable charac-
ter of Romanism, 704. Will be con-
stantly liable to revolutions, 707. No
reform in the Romish church without
separation, 709. Reactive effect of at-
tempted reforms, 711. Jesuitism, 713.
Duty of Protestants towards reforms in
the Romish church, 716. Unity of Ro-
manism, disproved, 718.

Jesus Christ attested by Miracles, yet reject-
ed by the Jews, by Rev. Samuel T. Spear.
423. Definition of miracles, 423.
Christ's rejection a national act, 425.
What is included in it, 426. Causes of
Christ's rejection, 426. Its strangeness
no proof against its credibility, 427.
Miracles and rejection narrated by the
same historians, 427. Improbable it
would have been narrated unless true,
428. No a priori objection, 429. Was
predicted, 431. Not universal, 432.
Nature of the testimony of miracles,
435. Jews did not regard Christ as
Messiah, 439. Were disappointed in
him, 442.
Jewish sects, 165.

Job, date of the Book of, by F. G. Vachin-
ger, 174. Job, the Hebrew epopee,
174. Could not have been compos-
ed before Solomon, 175. Moses not
the author, 175. Was written before
Jeremiah, 176. Used by Amos, 177.
Coincidence of Psalms written in Sol-
omon's era, 179. Close resemblance of
Job and Proverbs, 181. Specimens of
usus loquendi, 183.

John 2: 4. Exposition of, from the Ger
man of Dr. W. F. Besser, 374. Olshau-
sen's interpretation, 375. Lucke's do.,
376.

Justice, Human, 65, 214.

L.

Lewis, Prof. Tayler. Government a mo-
ral power, 65, 214.

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Life and Character of Voltaire, 458.
Literature, American, prognostics of, 484.
comparative effects of different
governments on, 512
Literature, specimens of American, 523.
Londis, Rev. R. W. Grounds of a Chris-
tian's confidence in the goodness of the
Divine Administration, 347.
Lord's Apocalypse, noticed, 381.
Luther's Select treatises noticed, 380.
Luther's Table Talk, by Alfred H. Guern-
sey, 553. Luther's character, 554. His-
tory of the Volume, 555. Specimens→
the Bible, 555. Bishop of Mayence,
557. Preacher, an instrument, God's
Providence, 558. Good and evil, worst
things spring from the best, Paradise,
559. Astronomy, Astrology, 561. Devil
and his works, 563. Changelings, 564,
Death, 565. Decalogue, 567. Works
of God, 568.

Lyrical Poetry of the Bible, 323.

M.
McCheyne's Works noticed, 381.
McLane, Rev. J. W., conflict of Christia-
nity with politics, 111.

Messianic interpretation of Deut. 18: 15-
19, 645.

Middle Ages, Scholastic Theology of, 143.
Middle Ages, forged literature of, 484.
Millennarian theory considered, 420.
Miracles, by Enoch Pond, D.D., 304. De-
fined, 504. Miracles of knowledge,
304. Predictions, 306. Miracles in-
volve a suspension of natural laws,
308. Difference between true and false,
309.
Scriptural miracles, real ones,
310.
Hume's objections considered,
311. Object of the Scriptural miracles,
312. Argument from miracles, 312.
Miracles not continued, 318. Ecclesi-
astical miracles considered, 319. In-
stances of false miracles, 321.
Miracles, the credibility of the testimony
of, 423.

N.

Neander's Church History noticed, 571.
Necessity of Esthetic culture, 524.
Nero, not the Apocalyptic beast, 293.
Nicholas I. and Forged Literature of the
Middle Ages, 484.

0.

Occam, William, 147.

Origin of Evil considered, 354.

P.

Paley's Natural Theology noticed, 570.
Papacy, the, prophesied in the Apoca-
lypse, 274.

Philosophy and Theology, 153.

Photius exposed by Nicholas I., 486.
Pickering's Greek Lexicon, noticed, 379.
Piety and natural character, 135.
Pious Frauds, 490, 502.

Poetry, Lyrical, of the Bible, by Rev. G. H.
Hastings, 323. Infelicity of the com-
mon translation in respect to poetry,
324. Different kinds of poetry in the
Bible, 325. Song of Moses, 326. Mode
of its performance, 328. Office of the
Levites, 329. Book of Jehovah's wars,
329. Influence of Hebrew bards on the
people, 331. Moses' last ode, 334. De-
borah's ode, 340. Influence of Samuel,
343. David, 344. Elegy of Saul and
Jonathan, 346.

Politics, conflict of, with Christianity, 111.
Porter, Rev. N., Jr., Prognostics of Ame-
rican literature, 504.

Pond, Rev. Enoch, D.D. Miracles, 304.
Prescott's History of Peru, 572.
Progress, Law of, in its application to
Christianity, by Rev. William Adams,
D.D., 193. Extremes of opinion on the
subject, 194. What is meant by pro-
gress of science, 195. Not imply pro-
gress in the objects of science, but in our
knowledge of them, 195. Reference to

progress in the science of astronomy,
196. Do. physiology, 196. Philosophy,
197. Christianity not complete at first,
198. Complete with the finishing of
the canon, 199. No change in it, but
may be progress in our modes of view-
ing, comprehending, &c., 200. Strug-
gles of Christianity with the Gnostic
philosophy, 202. With paganism, 203.
With philosophy of Aristotle, 204. Ef-
fect of the Reformation, 204. Calvin,
205. Improvements in stating doctrines,
206. Specimens of the theology of the
reformers, 210. Progress in later times,
211.

Prophet, the, like unto Moses, by Rev. E. P.
Baums, jr, 645. Deut. 18: 15--19 con-
sidered, 646. Non-Messianic interpreta-
tions of the passage, 647. Jewish in-
terpreters, 647. Original utterance of
the prophecy, 648. Refers to a particu-
lar person, 649. The phrase "like unto
thee," 651. Resemblance between Mo-
Prophetic imagery, spirituality of, 421.
ses and Christ, 652.
Proverbs, coincidence with Job, 181.
Proverbs, economical character of, 133.
Psalms, coincidence of certain, with Job,
179.

Pulpit, the, Range of topics for, by Rev.
James Rowland, 721. Decreased influ-
ence of the pulpit, 721. Limits of pul-
pit discussion, 722. Style of preaching
to be modified by the state of know-
ledge, 722. Variety in preaching prac-
tical subjects, 723. Improving provi
dences, 724. Effects of constant hortatory
preaching, 726. On the attributes, 726.
On Evidences, 727. Ecclesiastical his-
tory, 728. Need of books, 730.

Q.
Quesnell's Paschalius, Commentaries of,
698.

R.

Range of topics for the Pulpit, 720.
Reformation, commencement of, 594.
Religious Character of Lord Bacon. By
Rev. S. M. Hopkins, 127.
Review of Stuart on Apocalypse, 385.
Reynolds, W. M., translation of Besser on
John 2: 4. Exposition of the narrative
of the Syro-Phenician women, 272, 547.
Romanism, hostility of, to reform, 702.
unchangeableness of, 704.
revival of, after Jansenism,711.
Romanists, duty of Protestants to, 716.
Rowland, Rev. James, Range of Topics
for the Pulpit, 720.

66

S.

Samuel, influence of, 343.
Science, progress of, defined, 196.
Scholastic Theology of the Middle Ages, by

Rev. S. M. Schmucker, 141. Difficulty of
defining the different systems, 141.
Origin of Scholastic theology, 144.
Sketch of eminent scholastics, 145.
Peter Abelard, 146. Aquinas, 146.
Duns Scotus, 147. Wm. Occam, 147.
Characteristics of scholastic theology,
148. Ignorant of the Bible, 148. Bible
not studied till 1502, 148. Indulged in
metaphysical speculation, 149. Realists
and Nominalists, 151. Genus and spe-
cies, 151. Luther and Cardinal Caje-
tan, 152. Scholastics introduced their
philosophic systems into theology, 153.
Influence of papacy upon scholastic
theology, 154. Its bearing upon the re-
formation, 156. Division of scholastic
writers, 157. Decline of, 157. Strifes,
158. The Mystics, 158. Good accom-
plished by it, 160.
Schmucker, Rev. S. M.
Schmucker, Rev. S. M.
rits of Jansenism, 689.
Scriptures, wrong reading of, 152.
Sermons, what constitute effective, 642.
Shepard, Rev. G., D.D. Preaching of the
late Dr. Griffin, 623.

Supra, 141.
History and me-

Taste and Morals, the necessity of Esthetic
culture, by Rev. H. N. Day, 524. Ap-
propriateness of the word esthetics,
524. Different ends of art, 525. Im-
pure and pure, 525. Indications of an
improving taste, 526. The animal
senses distinguished from the esthetic
senses, 528. Sensualism distinguished
from animalism, 529. Relation of
wealth to esthetic culture, 530. Indica
tions of a want of esthetic culture, 531.
Superficial philanthropy, 532. Reli-
gious formation, 532. Beauty the ob
ject of esthetics, 534. Three different
elements of beauty, 536. Nature of
beauty, 538. Grace, the revelation of
moral freedom, 540. Relations of truth
and beauty, 542. God the highest ideal
of beauty, 543. Esthetic culture essen.
tial to the highest forms of virtue, 546.
Teaching of Christ and the doctrines of
the Essenes, 172.

Theology, Scholastic, of the Middle Ages,

143.

Topics, range of the pulpit, 720.
Truth, consistency of scientific and reli-
gious, 656.

Turnbull's Genius of Scotland, noticed,
382.

U.

Smitz's History of Rome, noticed, 569.
Solomon's Song, by C. E. Stowe, D.D..
255. Origin, 255. Characters, 256,
Not versified, 256. First scene, 256.
Second scene, 256. Third scene, 257. Useful Arts, Bigelow's, noticed, 192.
Fourth scene, 259. Fifth scene, 259.
Sixth scene, 260. Seventh scene, 261.
Eighth scene, 262. Its canonical autho-
rity, 263. Objections considered-its
alleged indelicacy, 264. That it is a
description of physical love, 265. To

be interpreted as an allegory, 266. Ob-
jections to its allegorical character con-
sidered, 268.

Song of Moses, 326.

Spear, Rev. S. T. Christ attended by
miracles yet rejected, 423.

Stowe, C. E., D.D. Solomon's Song, 255.
Childhood of Luther and commence-
ment of Reformation, 594.

Stuart on the Apocalypse, review of, 272.
Stuart, Prof., review of on date of Apo-
calypse, 385.

Sufferings of Christ noticed, 190.
Symbols of Judaism foretelling Christia-
nity, 411.

Syriac Version, not prove the Neronian
date of the Apocalypse, 402.
Syro-Phenician women, the, narrative of, by
Rev. W. M. Reynolds, 547. Olshausen's
interpretation, 547. Import of the word
dog., 549.

T.

Table Talk of Luther, 553.
Tappan, H. P., D.D. Bible its own In-
terpreter, 95.

V.

Vachinger, F. G. Date of the book of
Job, 174.

Valley of the Mississippi. Moneltes' His
tory of, 380.

Violations of good taste in Sermons, 629.
Voltaire, Life and Character of, by Rev.
Samuel M. Hopkins, 458. Brougham's
life of Voltaire, 459. Voluminousness
of his works, 460. Sceptical spirit of
his historical writings, 460. Specimens,
461. Theological works, 462. His
Dictionnaire, 464. Wrote anonymous.
ly, 466. Brougham's apologies for Vol-
taire's Infidelity, 469. His relations to
Madame de Chatelet, 471. Quarrel
with Madame de Graffigny, 473. His
interposition for the Calas family con.
sidered, 476. Do. for D'Etallonde and
La Barre, 477. The Serven and Ab-
beville cases, 478. The closing scene,
480. His hatred of Christ, 481.

W.
Wesley, Southey's life of, 571.
Witnesses, the, considered, 289.

Z.

Zumpt's Latin Grammar, noticed, 380.

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