THE

TRUTH S

OF

RELIGION.

BY

JAMES DOUGLAS, Esq.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY PERKINS & MARVIN.
NEW YORK: JONATHAN LEAVITT.

1831.

Printed by T. R. MARVIN,..... Congress Street.

2504

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CONTENTS.

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE AMERICAN EDITION,

INTRODUCTION,

PART I.—THE EVIDENCES OF RELIGION.

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1. Tendency to Religious Belief. 2. Design everywhere. 3. A Future

State. 4. The Facts of Religion Future. 5. Christianity the only

Religion. 6. Christianity has its proofs on all sides. 7. External

Evidence. 8. Evidence of Prophecy. 9. Internal Evidence. 10.

Miscellaneous Evidence. 11. Cumulative Proof. 12. Continually

Augmenting Proof

PART II.-GENIUS OF THE SCRIPTURES.

1. Inductive Philosophy gradually applied. 2. Reason and Revelation.

3. Authority and Inspiration. 4. Divine Economy of Means and

Miracles. 5. Preconceived Opinions. 6. The True more than the

Supernatural the Object of Scripture. 7. Scriptural Scholiasts and

Commentators. 8. Parallelism Indestructible and Self-interpreting.

9. Completeness of the Scriptures. 10. Earliest Poetry resembles

the Hebrew. 11. Simplicity and Perpetuity of the Hebrew Life

and State. 12. Primitive Energy of the Hebrew. 13. In the Scrip-

tures, Union of the Human Intelligence with the Divine. 14. Christ

the Centre of the Scriptures. 15. The Origin of Types in Nature

and Revelation. 16. Scriptures Unaffected by Time

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PART III.-FALL OF MAN.

1. Two views of Human Nature. 2. Man not his own Judge. 3. The

Divine Law. 4. God's Judgment. 5. Adam in Paradise. 6. The

Deluge. 7. The Postdiluvians. 8. The Jews. 9. The Reception

of the Saviour. 10. The Reception of Christianity. 11. The

Prevalence of Evil admitted. 12. The Opposers of the Doctrine of

the Fall of Man. 13. Imitation of Evil, and transmitted Depravity.

14. Difficulties. 15. Difficulties become Proofs. 16. Religion

Natural and Revealed. 17. Revelation adapted to the condition

of Man

PART IV.-DIVINITY OF CHRIST.

1. Anticipations of Revelation. 2. Jehovah our Shepherd. 3. Christ's

Testimony to his Deity. 4. Unless Christ be God, Christianity

untrue. 5. Variety of Proofs for Christ's Divinity. 6. Force of

Conjunct Evidence. 7. Temporary and Permanent Argument. 8.

Christ appearing in the old Dispensation. 9. Christ perfect God

and perfect Man. 10. The Character of Christ the demonstration

at once of his Deity, and of the Inspiration of Scripture

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