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CHRISTIANITY:

DESIGNED TO PRESERVE

YOUNG PEOPLE

FROM

IRRELIGION AND VICE

BY JOSEPH SUTCLIFFE.

I write unto thee, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed: which things the angels desire to look into....................LUKE i. 4-1 PET i. 12.

Que ceux qui combattent la religion, apprennent au moins qu'elle est avant que de la combattre..................PASCAL.

First American, from the Second (improved) English Edition.

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED FOR GRIFFIN ANd rudd, 189 GREENWICH-ST. Pelsue and Gould, Printers, No. 9 Wall-st.

1814.

SECTION I.

General Rules comprehending the doctrines, du-

ties, and defects, of Natural Religion .

SECTION III.

Gradual revelation to the holy Prophets concern-

ing the person and offices of Christ

SECTION II.

Of the creation and fall of man-of the Patriar-

chal Dispensation-and of the Mosaic Law 24

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7

SECTION V.

The first and general spread of the Gospel

SECTION VI.

Of the apostacy of the Church—the origin and

progress of the Anti-christian Empire

13

SECTION IV.

Of the incarnation-the ministry-the death-

and ascension of our blessed Lord and Saviour

Jesus Christ

. 54

336

SECTION VII.

Prophesies concerning the Anti-christian Empire 114