ECCLESIASTICAL REVENUES.

Expenditure of the Clergy of all the Christian World.

England, and

Ireland.

Scotland.

France.

Spain.

Portugal.

Hungary.

Italy.

EXTENT OF CHRISTIANITY.

If we divide the known countries of the earth, into thirty equal parts, five of them are Christian, six Mahometan, and nineteen Pagan. Bayle's Dictionary.

Dr. Evans supposing the inhabitants of the world to be eight hundred millions; gives us the annexed scale of probable proportions. Jews

2,500,000

In this, which is wholly Christian arithmetic, no account is made of the probable proportion of either professed or real UNBELIEVERS, whose number, be it greater or less, is on all hands admitted to be an increasing number, and a number to be deducted, not from the amount of Jews, Pagans, or Mohammedans; but exclusively from the amount of Christians; and in the amount of Christians, chiefly from the most intelligent, reflecting, and literary characters, that is unquestionably from the very nerves and core of their strength.

Let their own statement be credible—e. g. Dr. Priestley observes in one of his last sermons, that when he visited France in 1774, all her philosophers and men of letters were absolutely infidels.*

Dr. Evans who died Jan. 24, 1827, had announced his plan of a work, which he lived not to finish, whose professed object, in his own terms, was to shield the minds of the rising generation, from the growing evil of the age, an overweening and clamorous infidelity.†

The whole united Scottish Presbytery, in a dolorous Jeremiad, publicly announce, that all the most intelligent and accomplished men among them, have imbibed the principles of infidelity. Their own words are, "O God, pity us, for our case is very pitiful, and there is nobody else to pity us, but only thou, O God! And not now is it according to the word of the Lord in the parable, that one sheep should be astray, and ninety and nine safely gathered into the fold, but that the ninety and nine should be straying and only one abiding in the fold." Yet

* Quoted thus in Evans's Sketches, 15th ed. p. + Evans's Sketches, 15th ed. pref. xv.

5.

Pastoral Letter from the Scottish Presbytery 1827, p. 39.

these zealous advocates of the Christian cause affect to treat their
adversaries, who are thus gaining the march upon them, it seems,
at the rate of a hundred to one, as objects of unmingled contempt.
It is not in the power of language to exceed the tone of bitter re-
viling and caustic scorn with which the followers of the ima-
gined meek and holy Jesus speak of all who call their pretensions
in question. The odium theologicum, or theological hatred, has
become a proverb, indicating that no hatred is so intense and im-
placable, as that of the professors of a religion of long-suffering
and forgiveness.

AUTHORITIES ADDUCED IN THE DIEGESIS.

Dr. Whitby's Last Thoughts, 3.

Faustus, 66, 65, 114, 252, 371.

Elsley's Annotations on the Gospels, 5, Basnage, 78.
238, 247, 256.
Tacitus, 7, 394.

Virgil, 9, 142, 155, 216, 220, 328,
358.

Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, 10,
13, 14, 16, 18, 34, 36, 44.
Jones on the Canon of the New Test.
11.

Orosius, 13, 398.

Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Ro-
man Empire, 14, 15, 31, 82, 84,
144, 195, 282, 283, 328.
Milton's Paradise Lost, 15, 16, 181,
188, 337.

Pope's Homer's Iliad, 15.
Matrimonial Service, 16.

Le Clerc, Latin Note, 19, 120.
Dr. Lardner, 19, 27, 41, 44, 93, 108,

113, 114, 117, 138, 144, 145, 146.
Unitarian Version of the New Testa-
ment, 19, 116, 216, 378.
Archbishop Newcomb, 19.
Hutchinson, 23.
Shaw's Travels, 23.

Shakspeare, 24, 296.

Parkhurst's Hebrew Lexicon, 24, 155,
158, 160, 161, 162, 183, 189.

A Friend, 25.

Josephus, Greek, 27, 59, 96.

Eusebius, Greek, 28, 64, 69, 70, 71,
72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 85.

Valerius Maximus, 29.

Manifesto of the Christian Evidence
Society, 80, 118.

Evanson's Dissonance of the Four
Gospels, 80, 102, 131, 133.
Bretschneider's Probabilia, 81, 132,

136.

Stein's Authentia Vindicata, 81, 117.
Bishop Sage's Principles of the Cypri-
anic age, 85, 344.
Menander, 90,
St. Gregory, 101.

St. Athanasius, 101.

Paley's Horæ Paulinæ, 109, 375.
Reeve's Preliminary to Vincentius, 117.
Cave's Historia Literaria, 118.
Lessing, 122.

Niemener, 122.

Stalfeld of Gottingen, 124.
Dr. Eichhorn, 124.

Bishop Marsh, 128, 129.

Philo apud Eusebium, 69, 70, 71, 72,
73, 74.

Julius Firmicius, 144, 162, 163, 164,
165, 303.

Philo apud Eusebium, 142.
Libanius, 145.

Symmachus, 145.

Origines Christianæ in Author's Letters,

145.

St. Ambrose, 146.
Addison, 148, 285.
Pope, 148, 215.

Author's Syntagma, 31, 32, 34, 89, Seneca's Medea, 149.

129, 271, 352, 368.

Pseudo Plutarch, 32.

More's Songs, 23.

Juvenal, 23, 232, 466.

Montfaucon, 60.

Holyot, 60.

Lange, 60.

Henman, 60

Eusebius, 150, 151, 164.

Ovid, 150, 196, 232, 233, 293.
Marinus, 151.

Dr. Lardner, 152, 206, 291, 294, 297,

298, 305, 306, 312, 317.

Justin Martyr, 153, 232, 257, 258,

314, 315, 316, 317.

Spence's Polymetis, 155.

Tertullian, 34, 257, 325, 326, 327, Valency, 174.

Beausobro, 40, 58, 118, 125, 126, 295, Reeves's Apologies of the Fathers, 184.

Cicero, 43, 140, 141, 180, 182, 211, Eschylus, 192.

Author's Letter from Oakham, 50, Apostles' Creed, 184.

Aringhus, 237.
Onomacritus, 239.

Dr. Lardner (continued) 348, 349,

350, 362, 364.

Mosheim (continued) 212, 243, 250, Bibl. Univer. 350.

367.

Bell's Pantheon (continued) 213.
Parkhurst (continued) 216, 217.
Sir Wm. Jones (continued) 217, 243.
Eusebius (continued) 239, 257, 267,
285, 296, 307, 308, 309.
Parkhurst (continued) 240.
Dr. Lardner (continued) 246, 251,
252, 271, 262, 285, 291, 304.
Johnson's Rambler, 241.
Clerical Review, 241.

Watts's Hymns, 242.

Mr. Adams, of Edmonton, 243.
Mons. Baillie, 243
Confucius, 244.

Cotelerius, 253, 368.
St. Jerom

253, 324, 330.

Ignatius, 253.

Paganus Obtrectator (continued) 257,

Leslie's short and easy Method with
Deists, 390.

John de Ferraras, 391.
Johannes de Spire, 393.
Procopius, 392.
Baronius, 392.

Suetonius, 397, 398.

Justin's Apology, Greek, 399.
Clementis Strommata, Greek, 399.

2t, Jerom Latin, 399.

Eusebius (continued) 309, 311, 312,
313, 317, 322, 323.

J. H. Esq. unpublished, 309.
Belsham's Evidences, 310.
Dionysius Halicarnasus, 316.

Dr. Lardner (continued) 319, 321,
323, 324, 331, 332, 339, 342.

Eusebius (continued) 330, 347, 349, 351, 363, 378, 381, 386.

Suidas, 332, 333.

Dr. Lardner (continued) 398, 406.
Theophilus of Antioch, 399.
Pliny, 400.

Dr. Semler, of Leipsic, 400.
Haversaas, 404.

Gierig, 404.

Corrode, 404.

Jeremy Xavier, 405.

Epictetus' Enchiridion, 406.
Plutarch, 406.

Emperor Adrian, 407.

Bellamy's Origen, 49, 334, 335, 336, Emperor Antoninus, 408.

337.

Dupin's Bibl. Origines, 338.

Author's Letters from Oakham, 345, Lucian, 410.

Martial, 408.

Lucius Apuleius, 409.

Dio Prusæus. 412.
Arrian, 412.