CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME
The Progress of the Christian Religion, and the Sentiments, Manners, Numbers and Conditions of the Primitive Christians
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| Importance of the Inquiry | 1 | |
| Its Difficulties | 1 | |
| Five Causes of the Growth of Christianity | 2 | |
| I. THE FIRST CAUSE. Zeal of the Jews | 2 | |
| Its gradual increase | 4 | |
| Their Religion better suited to Defence than to Conquest | 5 | |
| More Liberal Zeal of Christianity | 6 | |
| Obstinacy and Reasons of the Believing Jews | 7 | |
| The Nazerene Church of Jerusalem | 8 | |
| The Ebionites | 10 | |
| The Gnostics | 11 | |
| Their Sects, Progress, and Influence | 13 | |
| The Dæmons considered as the Gods of Antiquity | 15 | |
| Abhorrence of the Christians for Idoltary | 16 | |
| Ceremonies | 16 | |
| Arts | 17 | |
| Festivals | 18 | |
| Zeal for Christianity | 19 | |
| II. THE SECOND CAUSE. The Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul among the Philosophers | 19 | |
| Among the Pagans of Greece and Rome | 20 | |
| Among the Barbarians and the Jews | 21 | |
| Among the Christians | 22 | |
| Approaching the End of the World | 23 | |
| Doctrine of the Milennium | 23 | |
| Conflagration of Rome and the World | 25 | |
| The Pagans devoted to Eternal Punishment | 26 | |
| Were often converted by their fears | 27 | |
| III. THE THIRD CAUSE. Miraculous power of the Primitive Church | 28 | |
| Their Truth Contested | 29 | |
| Our perplexity in defining the miraculous Period | 30 | |
| Use of the Primitive Miracles | 31 | |
| IV. THE FOURTH CAUSE. Virtues of the first Christians | 32 | |
| Effects of their Repentance | 23 |
