As a PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL, an example of human virtue, 100; piety and devotion to his heavenly Father, 100; benevolence and compassion towards man, 101; meekness and lowliness of spirit, 103; superiority to the world, 103; strict temperance, and command of the inferior appetites, 104; fortitude and constancy, 104; prudence and discretion, 105; all these unalloyed with the kindred failings, 106; opposite graces in equal proportion, 106; carried to the utmost height, and continued in one even tenor, 107; with a peculiar harmony, 108. AS THE FOUNDER of the Christian religion, 108; his suitableness to the necessities of man, 108; the surprising novelty and sublimity of his deportment, 110; the different parts of his character correspond with his undertaking, 111; the impression and effect of his whole public character, 113; the manner in which it is given by the evangelists, 113. The argument in favour of Christianity, springs from a fair presumption upon the first statement of the case, 116; rises higher when contrasted with every other pretension, 116; becomes a moral demonstration, 119; and bears away the heart of every serious inquirer, 121. Christian, the true, feels the necessity of Revelation, i. 63. Christians should take care that the good effects of Christianity be the result of religious principles in themselves, i. 309; must not stop short in its temporal benefits, 309; and will find its advantages in proportion to the development of its strength and energy, 311. Young Christians should continue in the things they have been assured of, 342. Christian nations, the state of, shows that Revelation was necessary, i. 57; viewed in the sixteenth century, 57; at any period, 57; at the present day, 57. The advantages they possess, 63. Christian Revelation speaks a decisive language, ii. 9; unfolds all the mysteries of man's condition, 13; accounts for the apparent contradictions of his state, 17; and addresses him on this footing, 17. Provides also a remedy for all his wants, 17; and is calculated for universal diffusion, 23. Christianity courts inquiry, i. 1; is not a speculation, 20; requires her students to be of a meek and docile disposition, 23. The only religion set up and established by miracles, 174. Effects of, 289. Admission of the inspiration of the Scripture essential to the right reception of Christianity, 358. Connives at no one vice, ii. 27. The sum of, Jesus Christ, 122; supposed to be universal, 153. What it is, and what it is not, 155. Directions for making a personal trial of it, 192. Is so excellent in itself that the slightest external evidence is sufficient to oblige men to obey it, ii. 369. Clement, Bishop of Rome, A. D. 91 to 110, testimony of, to the authenticity of books of New Testament, i. 94; to the inspiration, 340. Coins, ancient, see Medals. Common sense, it is an act of, to follow the proofs of Christianity, i. 372. Common sense and the ordinary laws of human language assist us to the right method of interpretation, ii. 337. Compass, the Bible is the Christian's, i. 149. Confirmations to the authenticity of the New Testament unexpected, i. 108. A remarkable fragment discovered in 1740, 110. Consolatory, the Christian doctrines are, ii. 50. Constantine's, the Emperor, attachment to sacred Scriptures, i. 97. Contradictions of Infidelity and Paganism, ii. 46. Converts. Men of the finest talents convinced by the Christian history, i. 132. The moral and religious change wrought in the Christian, 274. Included persons of all ranks, 275. Conviction of the truth of Christianity is strengthened the more practically its propagation is considered, i. 287. Credibility of the Old Testament, i. 142. Credibility of the New Testament defined, i. 119; illustrated, 120; established by the authenticity of the books, 121; by the extraordinary prominence and small number of the principal facts, 122; by the positive and various testimonies adduced, 123; by the testimony of the governors of Roman provinces, 125; Heathen writers, 125; Jewish historians, 127; by the conviction produced in the minds of men of the finest talents, who, examining the pretensions of Christianity, met its claims at first with prejudice and hatred, 132; by silence of Mahomet, 132; by existing rites and usages, which sprang out of the facts of Christianity, 132; by ancient and authentic monuments, coins, and medals, 133; by the character and circumstances of the sacred writers themselves, 135; fifteen witnesses, 136; possessing a full knowledge of the things they attested, 136; and of which they were competent judges, 137; being persons of the strictest integrity, 138; of sound minds, and by no means credulous, 139; relating events at the spot where they occurred, and before the multitudes who witnessed them, 139; their sub sequent lives marked by unparalleled benevolence and holiness, 140; while they had nothing to expect for their testimony but temporal calamities and death, 140; no one came forward to complain of an imposition, 141; if our accounts be false, where is the true one, 142. Depravity of the human heart the greatest obstacle to the full reception of Christianity, i. 375. Direction, the, which Christianity takes, ii. 128. Directions for entering on a personal trial of Christianity as a matter of experience, ii. 188; study Christianity in the Bible itself, 192; trace out in your heart and character the truth of the particular statements of the Bible, as to the condition to man and his guilt before God, 196; pray fervently for divine grace, 200; use the means which God has promised to bless, 203; keep your eye fixed on the great object which Christianity reveals, 205; observe how all the parts of it constitute a whole, and meet all the necessities of your case, 207. DIVINE AUTHORITY of Christianity established by miracles, i. 150; prophecy, 180, 186; its propagation, 258; preservation, 28; beneficial effects, 289; adaptation, ii. 1; doctrines, 32; morals, 59; example of Christ, 86; and tendency, 124. Docile hearers, address to, ii. 121, 429. Docility necessary in a student of Christianity, i. 24, 202, 256; essential to a sound interpretation of Scripture, ii. 332, 360, 362. Doctrines of Christianity, definition of, ii. 32; enumeration of the chief doctrines, 33; their divine excellency pointed out, 42; they all emanate from the character of God, 42; possess simplicity, 43; surpassing grandeur and sublimity, 44; and an harmony which stamps their divine authority, 45; meet all the necessities of man, 48; and yet promote the ends of God's moral government, 48; are deeply humiliating, 50; and yet sources of consolation, 51; they are the result of the great design of Almighty God, 53; augment the inward evidence of Christianity, 57; and demand of the true Christian, love and gratitude to God, 58. Doddridge and Rousseau, contrasted, ii. 269. Effects of Christianity a proof of its divine authority, i. 289; Christianity implants good principles, 290; arouses conscience, 290; discourages vices, and establishes contrary virtues, 291; mitigates insatiable ardour after worldly pos- Effects, the ultimate, which Christianity will produce when Egyptians, present state of, confirms ancient prophecies, i. 242. Evidences of Christianity, not to be continually dwelt upon, Evidences, external and internal, compared, and their respective Evidences, external, recapitulation of, i. 365. Evidences, internal, the nature of the argument arising from, Example of his disciples, Christ the, ii. 100. Facts now admitted assist the consideration of the question of Faith should practically correspond with what we admit in Faith, definition of, ii. 300; the principle by which human |