A few only of the works from which valuable aid has been received, can be mentioned:—Mosheim and McLaine’s Ecclesiastical History; Gregory and Ruter’s Church History; Encyclopædia Americana; Brown’s Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge; Adams’s View of Religions, and History of the Jews; Benedict’s History of all Religions; Evans’s Sketches; Buck’s and Henderson’s Theological Dictionaries; Eliot’s, Allen’s, and Blake’s Biographical Dictionaries; Davenport; Watson; Grant’s Nestorians, Coleman’s Christian Antiquities; Ratio Disciplinæ; Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates, &c. To clergymen and laymen of all denominations, who have assisted the Editor in presenting their various views with clearness and fairness; to the secretaries of the several missionary boards; to editors of religious journals, and to other persons who have kindly furnished documents for the Statistics and Biographical Sketches, he tenders acknowledgments of unfeigned gratitude. While the Editor assures the public that the whole has been prepared with much diligence and care, and with an entire freedom from sectarian zeal or party bias, he cannot but indulge the hope that his “Book of Religions” will prove acceptable and beneficial to the community, as imbodying a great variety of facts on a subject of deep concern, worthy of the exercise of our highest faculties, and requiring our most charitable conclusions. INDEX. Abelians, or Abelonians, 243 Addison, Joseph, 417 Agricola, John, 370 Allenites, 280 American Missions, 336 Anabaptists, 190 Ancient American Covenant, 308 Andover Orthodox Creed, 138 Antinomians, 128 Anti-Pedobaptists, 196 Apostles’ Creed, 102 Aquarians, 168 Arians, 18 Arius, 368 Armenians, 303 Arminians, 115 Arminius, James, 373 Assembly’s Catechism, 141 Athanasian Creed, 102 Athanasius, 368 Atheists, 217 Augsburg Confession, 302 Bacon, Francis, 407 Baptists, 182, 311, 340 Quaker, 193 Baptist Missions, English, 339 Baxter, Richard, 376 Baxterians, 169 Bereans, 109 Beza, Theodore, 366 Bible Chronology, 175 Biographical Sketches, 350 Bishops, Episcopal, 314 Bourignonists, 201 Boyle, Robert, 412 Brown, Robert, 373 Brownists, 200 Bucer, Martin, 360 Bullinger, Henry, 363 Burnet, Gilbert, 429 Calvin, John, 365 Calvinists, 11, 313 Cambridge Platform, 48 Campbellites, 58 Charles V., 405 Chauncey, Charles, 385 Christian Connection, 295, 313 Christianity, Progress of, 432 Chronology, Bible, 175 Church Government, 20 Church Statistics, 311 Clarke, John, 387 Clarke, Richard, 399 Come-Outers, 177 Congregationalists, 20, 313 Courtney, William, 384 Creed, Andover, 138 Apostles’, 102 Athanasian, 102 Augsburg, 302 New Haven, 142 Nicene, 105 Orthodox, 132 Cumberland Presbyterians, 25 Daleites, 272 Dancers, 244 Deists, 215 Diggers, 246 Disciples of Christ, 58, 314 Disciples of St John, 284 Dissenters. See _Puritans_. Doddridge, Philip, 420 Donatists, 281 Dorrelites, 164 Dutch Reformed Church, 88