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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
HUMAN CREEDS AND THE GOSPEL IN CONFLICT, OR THE
MERITORIOUSNESS OF GOOD WORKS.
INTRODUCTION..............
CHAPTER I.
The Orthodox Church-Creed in Regard to Man's Natural State, his
Justification, and Good Works.........
PAGE
12
PARAGRAPH I.
Of Original Sin or the Natural Depravity of Mankind..................................
Examples of Jewish Ritualism or the Ceremonial Laws of the Levit-
ical Code.............
30
CHAPTER III.
The Christian is taught to repudiate the Ritual Law of the Jews, and
to cultivate a Purer Mode of Divine Worship...............
CHAPTER IV.
An Inquiry into the Part which Faith and Grace perform in our Sal-
vation, according to the Teaching of the New Testament, and what
Signification is to be attached to the Sacrificial Phrases, used in
the Gospel, when they are applied to Jesus Christ..........
PRELIMINARY REMARKS.............................................................................................
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35
44
vation, according to the Teaching of the New Testament.......... 46
PARAGRAPH II.
.......
What Signification is to be attached to the Sacrificial Phrases, used
in the New Testament, when they are applied to Jesus Christ.......
PARAGRAPH III.
Christ's Testimony in Behalf of Good Works or the Observance of
the Moral Law, as Necessary to Salvation.........
PARAGRAPH IV.
St. Paul's Testimony in Behalf of Good Works, or the Observance of
the Moral Law, as Necessary to Salvation........
BOOK II.
A CRITICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE DOGMA OF THE TRINITY,
AND OF THE INCARNATION OF THE SON OF GOD.
The Trinity, viewed from a Christian Stand-Point.......
CHAPTER II.
84
The Trinity, founded upon Platonic Ideas....
CHAPTER III. .
The Idea that there are Three Persons in the Godhead, is Tritheism,
not Monotheism, and involves the Guilt and Shame of Idolatry.
The Rational or Evolution-Theory of Polytheism, vulgarly called
Theogony or the Generation of the Gods.......................................................................................
92
98
Christ, as the Son of God, is begotten, and is of the Father alone...... 105
CHAPTER V.
God the Holy Ghost, or the Third Person of the Trinity.
CHAPTER VI.
113
The Holy Ghost is not a Divinity, but the Invisible, Omnipresent
The Incarnation of the Son of God or the Second Person in the
Trinity.....
The Conception of the Son of God as Godman...................
131
.... 132
The Son of God is conceived by the Virgin Mary of the Holy Ghost
-the Third Person in the Trinity, and thus becomes the Godman
Jesus Christ. This is the Teaching of the Orthodox Creed. Is it
True?...............
137
The Gestation and Birth of the Godman, Jesus Christ, together with
the Levitical Ceremonies of Purification, in Relation to Maternity.. 143
The Believers in the Dogma of the Incarnation of the Son of God,
put the Godman on a Level with the Heroes and Demi-Gods of
Heathen Mythology, and thus sin in degrading the Second Person
in the Trinity.
149
The Son of God suffered and died as Godman, according to the Or-
thodox Creed, to make Atonement for the Sins of the World......... 154
Jesus Christ is not a God, not even a Godman, but only a Man, yet
a Noble and a Good Man......
159
BOOK III.
CHRIST THE SOLE SAVIOR, ACTS, IV. 12.
The Discrepancy between the Messianic Prophecies of the Old Tes-
tament and the Claims of Jesus Christ to Divine Messiahship 177
The Doctrine that Christ is the Sole Savior of Mankind, tacitly
charges God with Partiality, and makes his Goodness question-
able
183