WANDERINGS

OF

THE HUMAN INTELLECT;

OR,

A NEW DICTIONARY

OF

THE VARIOUS SECTS

INTO WHICH THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IN ANCIENT AND IN MODERN TIMES, HAS BEEN DIVIDED;

WITH

AN IMPARTIAL DISCUSSION

OF THE MERITS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE CLAIMS TO

ORTHODOXY.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY

ON UNIVERSAL HISTORY, AS WELL CIVIL AS ECCLESIASTIC,

FROM THE MUCH-ADMIRED HISTORICAL DISCOURSE OF

THE LEARNED DR PLUQUET,

In front of his valuable Dictionary of all Religions; from which, and
from other equally respectable Sources, the present Work
is chiefly compiled.

BY THE REV. JOHN BELL.

"Try the Spirits"-I John, iv. 1.

"Prove all things: hold that which is good"-I Thess. v. 21.

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