SECTION IV.

1. Character of the times in which the Christian religion was

propagated.

2. And of many who embraced it.

3. Three eminent and early instances.

4. Multitudes of learned men who came over to it.

5. Belief in our Saviour's history, the first motive to their

conversion.

6. The names of several Pagan philosophers who were Christ-

ian converts.

SECTION V.

1. The learned Pagans had means and opportunities of in-

forming themselves of the truth of our Saviour's history:

2. From the proceedings,

3. The character, sufferings,

4. And miracles, of the persons who published it.

5. How these first apostles perpetuated their tradition, by

ordaining persons to succeed them."

6. How their successors in the three first centuries preserved

their tradition.

7. That five generations might derive this tradition from

Christ to the end of the third century.

8. Four eminent Christians that delivered it down success-

ively to the year of our Lord 254.

9. The faith of the four above-mentioned persons, the same

with that of the churches of the East, of the West, and of

Egypt.

10. Another person added to them, who brings us to the year

343, and that many other lists might be added in as direct and

short a succession.

11. Why the tradition of the three first centuries more au-

thentic than that of any other age, proved from the conversa-

tion of the primitive Christians.

12. From the manner of initiating men into their religion.

13. From the correspondence between the churches.

14. From the long lives of several of Christ's disciples, of

which two instances.

SECTION VI.

1. The tradition of the apostles secured by other excellent

institutions;

2. But chiefly by the writings of the evangelists.

3. The diligence of the disciples and first Christian converts

to send abroad these writings.

4. That the written account of our Saviour was the same with

that delivered by tradition:

5. Proved from the reception of the gospel by those churches

which were established before it was written;

6. From the uniformity of what was believed in the several

churches;

7. From a remarkable passage in Irenæus.

8. Records which are now lost, of use to the three first cen-

turies, for confirming the history of our Saviour

9. Instances of such records.

SECTION VII.

1. The sight of miracles in those ages a further confirmation of

Pagan philosophers in the Christian faith.

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2. The credibility of such miracles.

3. A particular instance.

4. Martyrdom, why considered as a standing miracle.

5. Primitive Christians thought many of the martyrs were

supported by a miraculous power.

6. Proved from the nature of their sufferings.

7. How martyrs further induced the Pagans to embrace

Christianity.

SECTION VIII.

1. The completion of our Saviour's prophecies confirmed

Pagans in their belief of the Gospel.

2. Origen's observation on that of his disciples being brought

before kings and governors;

3. On their being persecuted for their religion;

4. On their preaching the gospel to all nations;

5. On the destruction of Jerusalem, and ruin of the Jewish

economy.

6. These arguments strengthened by what has happened

since Origen's time.

SECTION IX.

1. The lives of primitive Christians another means of bringing

learned Pagans into their religion.

2. The change and reformation of their manners.

3. This looked upon as supernatural by the learned Pagans,

4. And strengthened the accounts given of our Saviour's life

and history.

5. The Jewish prophecies of our Saviour an argument for

the heathens' belief.

6. Pursued.

7. Pursued.

THE DRUMMER, OR THE HAUNTED HOUSE

Steele's Dedication to Congreve

Welsted's Verses to the Countess of Warwick

Steele's Preface

Epilogue

DISCOURSE ON ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING

Conclusion of Bishop Hurd's Edition

APPENDIX, containing Pieces by Addison not hitherto
published in any collected Edition of his Works

Lines on the Countess of Manchester, written at the

Kit-cat Club (see p. 678)

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Epilogue to the Distressed Mother (by Budgell, correct-
ed by Addison, see p. 679)

ib.

No. 1. Considerations on Reports relating to the Peerage
No. 2. The same continued. Remarks upon the Pam-
phlets that have been writ for the supposed Bill
No. 3. The same continued

No. 4. The same continued, in particular with relation to
the Scots Nobility; with Remarks on the Patrician, and
the Old Whig

THE OLD WHIG (by Addison, in answer to Steele)

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No. 1. State of the Peerage. Remarks upon the Plebeian 247
No. 2. The same continued

284

THE READER

Nichol's Preface

308

No. 3. Remarks on "The Post-Boy," and "The Ex-

The asterisks prefixed indicate those letters which have previously

appeared in Miss Aikin's Memoirs.