AN

TO

CHRISTIANITY:

DESIGNED TO PRESERVE

YOUNG PEOPLE

FROM

IRRELIGION AND VICE:

BY JOSEPH SUTCLIFFE.

I write'unto thee, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest knot the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed; which things the angels desire to look into.............. ...Lukei. 4-1 Per 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.

CONTENTS.

Introductory Address

PAGE

7

SECTION I.

General Rules comprehending the doctrines, du-

ties, and defect, of Natural Religion .

13

SECTION II.

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

chal Dispensation--and of the Mosaic Law 24

SECTION III.

Gradual revelation to the holy Prophets concern-

ing the person and offices of Christ

36

SECTION IV.

of the incarnation--the ministry--the death-

and ascension of our blessed Lord and Saviour

Jesus Christ

54

.

SECTION V.

The first and general spread of the Gospel

77

SECTION VI.

or the apostacy of the Church—the origin and

progress of the Anti-christian Empire

92

.

SECTION VII.

Prophesies concerning the Anti-christian Empire 114