In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

BY REV. C. F. SCHAEFFER, D.D., PROFESSOR, ETC., THEOLOGICAL

SEMINARY, GETTYSBURG, PA.

Preliminary Observations, .

Original Sources of Information, .

Athanasius,

The Fundamental Doctrine of Arius, and its Refutation by

The Inferences deduced by Arius from his Fundamental
Doctrine, and their Refutation by Athanasius,

The Appeal of Athanasius to the Established Doctrine of the

Church,

IL THE CARAITES, .

BY THE REV. CHARLES H. BRIGHAM, TAUNTON, MASS.

III. THE DOCTRINAL ATTITUDE OF OLD SCHOOL

PRESBYTERIANS, .

1

4

12

29

36

39

65

BY LYMAN H. ATWATER, PROFESSOR OF MENTAL AND MORAL

PHILOSOPHY IN PRINCETON COLLEGE.

75

77

The Sonship of Christ,

Decrees, Providence, and Predestination,

Psychological, Ethical, and Metaphysical Principles related

IV. CHARLES WESLEY AND METHODIST HYMNS, . 127

BY REV. FREDERIC M. BIRD, PHILADELPHIA.

V. THE SERPENT OF EDEN, FROM THE POINT OF

VIEW OF ADVANCED SCIENCE, .

BY THE REV. JOHN DUNS, D.D., FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND,

TORPHICHEN.

VI. CONFIDENCE, THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF

163

BY REV. LEONARD WITHINGTON, D.D., NEWBURYPORT, MASS.

VII. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE,

BY REV. JUSTIN PERKINS, OROOMIAH, PERSIA.

VIII. NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,

Life and Times of John Huss,

Biblical Natural Science,

Lyell's Antiquity of Man,

Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament,

Music of the Bible,

Christianity the Religion of Nature,

Tercentenary Monument of the Heidelberg Catechism,

II. CHARLES WESLEY AND METHODIST HYMNS, 284

BY REV. FREDERIC M. BIRD, PHILADELPHIA.

Article

III. THE AUTHOR OF THE APOCALYPSE,

Page

.

319

BY PROF. R. D. C. ROBBINS, MIDDLEBUry college.

Reasons for the following Discussion,

Proof that John the Apostle was the Author from the

Belief and Testimony of the early Fathers and the

Church itself, .

The alleged Testimony against the Authorship of the

Apostle, .

319

322

322

335

BY P. A. CHadbourne, PROFESSOR IN WILLIAMS COLLEGE.

V. EXAMINATION OF PHILIP. III. 11 AND REV. XX. 4, 362

BY PROF. JOHN J. OWEN, D.D., FREE ACADEMY, NEW YORK CITY.

VI. RISE AND PROGRESS OF MONASTICISM,

BY PHILIP SCHAFF, D.D, NEW YORK.

384

Origin of Christian Monasticism. Comparison with other

Forms of Ascetism,

Development of Monasticism,

Nature and Aim of Monasticism,

Monasticism and the Bible,

Lights and Shades of Monastic Life,

Influence and Effect of Monasticism,

Position of Monks in the Church,

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Opposition to Monasticism. — Jovinian, Helvidius, Vigilan-

tius, and Aerius,

VII EGYPTOLOGY, ORIENTAL TRAVEL AND DIS-

VIII. NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,

Smith's Dictionary of the Bible,

IX. RECENT GERMAN THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE, 444

BY PROFESSOR W. F. WARREN, OF BREMEN.

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Part I. The Argument drawn from the Nature and Genius

of Christianity,

470

BY SAMUEL C. BARTLETT, D.D., PROFESSOR IN CHICAGO THEO-

LOGICAL SEMINARY.

III. THE AUTHOR OF THE APOCALYPSE,

551

BY PROF. R. D. C. ROBBINS, MIDDLEbury College.

Internal Argument,

.

551

Proof that John the Apostle was the Author of the

Apocalypse from Declarations in the Book itself, 551

The Alleged Difference in the General Characteristics

of the Apocalypse and other Writings of John,

The Manner of quoting from the Old Testament in

the Apocalypse,

Peculiarities of Style in the Apocalypse,

Words found in the other Writings of John and not

in the Apocalypse, and the reverse,

. 556

Proof of Identity of Authorship from the Use or Omis-

sion of the same Words and Phrases in the Apoca-

lypse and other Writings of John,

Similarity of Imagery in the Apocalypse and Gospel

of John, .

Similarity of Doctrine and Sentiment in the Apocalypse

and acknowledged Writings of John,

Recapitulation, .

577

578

582

IV. THE DOCTRINE OF GOD'S PROVIDENCE, IN IT-

SELF, AND IN ITS RELATIONS AND USES, . 584

BY DR. BENJAMIN W. DWIGHT, NEW YORK CITY.

The Fact of God's Providence,