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A Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World (1807)
A Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World - 1807 Author:John Evans Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: writings, not imposed on the world by Chris- t'vans. But this great end being now completely answered by the continuance of your incredulity for such a length of... more » time, I hope the time is approaching, when, as the apostle says, Rom. xi. 26, All Israel will be weed, an event which will be followed by the conversion of the Gentiles ia general. Your restoration cannot fail to convince the world of the truth of your religion; and in those circumstances, your conversion to Christianity cannot fail to draw after it that of the whole world !" In the Spectator, No. 495, Addison has given a paper on the history of the Jews, written with his accustomed ingenuity and piety. See also a Discourse lately preached on the Conversion of the Jews, by the Rev. D, Bogue, befpre the Missionary Society. CH1NESE REL1G1ON. THE Chinese religion is involved in great mystery. Father Amiot, after the most assiduous re- jearches on the subject, comes to this conclusion: ' The Chinese (says he) are a distinct people, who have still preserved the characteristic marks of their first origin ; a people whose primitive doc- (fine will be found, by those who take the trou- ble of investigating it thoroughly, to agree in its essential part with the doctrine of the chosen people, before Moses, by the command of God himself, had consigned the explanation of it to the sacred records ; a people, in a word, whose traditional knowledge, when freed from whatever the ignorance or the superstition of later ages has added to it, may be traced back from age to age, and from epocha to epocha, without interruption, for the space of four thousand years, even to the renewal of the human race by the grandson of Ioah." The King, or canonical book of the Chinese, every where inculcates the belief of a Supreme Being, the author...« less