Transcriber's Notes:
Reading edition
Variant spellings of the words pappoose and premiss are left as in the original.
The names Des Cartes and Descartes refer to the same person.
The initials D. D. appear in the original with and without a space. They have been standardized to always have a space between the initials.
The following words appear in the original with and without hyphens.
book-stores bookstores
child-like childlike
hand-maid handmaid
key-note keynote
Law-giver Lawgiver
law-giver lawgiver
life-long lifelong
master-pieces masterpieces
Re-statements Restatements
stand-point standpoint
touch-stone touchstone
two-fold twofold
under-current undercurrent
wide-spread widespread
There are variations in the accents used on the following words:
coëxistent coexistent
confrères confreres
Gröninger Groninger
Jésus Jesus
l'Église l'Eglise
reäwakening reawakening
Réfutation Refutation
Réligieuse Religieuse
réligieuse religieuse
Rémusat Remusat
Réville Reville
Révue Revue
Secrétan Secretan
Théologie Theologie
Théologies Theologies
Vénérable Venerable
The following corrections have been made to the text.
page xvii—Gibbon, 447, 448[original has 447, 447]
page 14—'Those who are generally termed Rationalists,'[ending quote missing in original] says Dr. Bretschneider
page 16—Spinoza asserts that the '[original has double quote]Israelites heard
page 38—Cracau put to death on the slightest pretenses[original has pretences]
page 47—The headlong pen, too precipitate for calligraphy[original has caligraphy]
page 77—Let the ministry be steadfast, and the masses will never swerve."[original has missing ending quote]
page 152—Wolffian[original has Wolfian] philosophy
page 152—the intuitions[original has intuitons] of Reason
page 162—Wolffian[original has Wolfian] philosophy
page 163—glaring defect of his system[original has sytsem]
page 171—evening entertainments[original has entertaiments] of Weimar
page 192—the narrator has a very imperfect knowledge[original has knowedge]
page 245—Christ's communion with his living disciples.[original is missing period]
page 254—nineteenth[original has nineteeth] century
page 261—Their opinions[original has opinons] concerning him were already formed
page 263—climax of destructive criticism[original has crititicism]
page 304—therefore he stands to-day[original has to day] as the High Church
page 348—the government[original has govvernment] took his part
page 390—philosophical systems[original has sytems] of Germany
page 397—divinity of Christ involves his omniscience[original has omnisicence]
page 400—Christianity has passed its allotted[original has alloted] time
page 409—field of usefulness[original has usefulnesss]
page 424—inability of M. Réville[original has Reville] to be elected
page 464—declare to be finished."[original is missing ending quote]
page 465—brightness of his resplendent[original has ressplendent] character
page 482—conversions of the first Christians[original has Christains]
page 484—development is alleged to have occurred[original has occured]
page 496—naïve[original has näive] assurance
page 500—fall to the ground with it."[original is missing ending quote]
page 520—insensibly as the air we breathe."[original is missing ending quote]
page 532—It is a remarkable[original has remakable] feature
page 536—comparatively untrammeled[original has untrameled] by institutions
page 538—Edwards refused to practice[original has practise] it
page 559—presided over by Governor[original has Governer] Andrew
page 560—referred to a special committee[original has commitee]
page 571—but on more than one occasion he[original has be] expressed his total dissent
page 573—destruction of Pharaoh[original has Pharoah]
page 590—Balmes, J.—Briefe an einen[original has einem] Zweifler
page 590—Baur, F. C.—Die Tübingen[original has Tübinger] Schule und ihre Stellung zur Gegenwart
page 590—Clemen, C. F. W.[original is missing period]
page 591—Haar, B. ter[original has B.ter]
page 592—Hering.—Die Akephaler unserer[original has unsrer] Zeit.
page 592—under Kähler, L. A.—Ursprunge, ihrer Zwietracht u. höheren[original has höhern] Einheit.
page 593—Oosterzee, J. J. Van.[original has extraneous comma]—Geschichte oder Roman?
page 593—Paulus, H. E. G.—Zeitgemässe Beleuchtung des Streites zwischen dem Eingebungsglauben und der Urchristlichen Denkgläubigkeit[original has Denkglaubigkeit].
page 593—Ruthenus, K.—Der formale Supernaturalismus oder d. einzig mögliche Weg zur einer Ausgleichung der streitenden[original has stritenden] theolog. Partheien.
page 593—entry under Sartorius—Ueber die Unwissenschaftlichkeit und innere Verwandschaft des Rationalismus und[original has uud] Romanismus.
page 593—Schenkel, D.—Die Religiösen[original has Religösen] Zeitkämpfe.
page 593—Wiggers, J.—Kirchlicher oder rein biblischer[original has reinbiblischer] Supranaturalismus?
page 595—Buisson, F.—L'orthodoxie et l'Evangile dans l'Eglise réformée[original has reformée].
page 595—under Coloni, T.—Jésus[original has Jesus] Christ et les Croyances messianiques de son Temps
page 597—Guettée, L'Abbé.—Réfutation[original has Refutation] de la prétendue Vie de Jésus de M. Renan.
page 597—Loyson, J. T.—Une prétendue Vie de Jésus[original has Jesus], ou M. E. Renan
page 598—Pé De Arros, J.—Coup d'œil sur la Vie de Jésus[original has Jesus] de M. Renan
page 598—Nouvelle Revue[original has Révue] de Théologie
page 599—Bellows, H. W.—Restatements[original has Re-statements] of Christian Doctrine.
page 602—Davidson, Dr. S.[period missing in original]
page 603—under Garbett, E.—Boyle Lectures for 1861. Lond.,[comma missing in original] 1861.
page 604—under Mackay, R. W.—The Tübingen School and its Antecedents: a Review of the History and Present Condition of Modern Theology.[period missing in original]
page 604—under Miall, E.—Basis of Belief: Examination of Christianity. London,[comma missing in original] 1861.
page 605—essays by Messrs. Colani, Scholten, Réville[original has Reville], Scherer
page 606—Universalism a Practical Power. New York, 1863.[original has two periods]
page 608—under Norton, A.—Genuineness of the Gospels, 3 vols. Boston, 1851-'54[original has '44].
page 609—Ware, W.—Letters[original has Lettters] to Trinitarians
page 609—Journal of American Unit. Assoc.,[comma missing in original] Boston.
page 611—Arnold Gottfried, the historian of Pietism, 98[original has 18].
page 612—Bethmann[original has Bethman]-Hollweg, influence on the Church Diet, 319.
page 612—under Broad Church—Its tenets, 528[original has 520], 529, 530
page 613—under Colenso—Literature of the Controversy occasioned by him, 599[original has 600]-602, Appendix.
page 613—under Colenso—Testimony of a Mussulman against him, 506[original has 505].
page 613—under Coquerel—Refusal of the Presbyterial Council to re-appoint him as suffragan in a Protestant pulpit in Paris, 407[original has 408].
page 614—Ernesti, the classic scholar of his day, 126[original has 125], 127.
page 614—under Essays and Reviews—Literature arising from the publication of the Essays and Reviews, 603,[original has period] Appendix.
page 614—Farrar, his description of the Wolffian[original has Wolfian] philosophy
page 614—Fliedner, established a Deaconess Institute, 316[original has 416].
page 615—Freeman, Rev. James, Pastor of King's Chapel, Boston, 539[original has 589].
page 616—Harms, opposition of Claus, to union of German Churches, 232[original has 231].
page 617—under Journals in Germany—Rationalistic Journals, Appendix, 595[original has 509].
page 617—under Kant—That work popularized by Schulze[original has Shulze]
page 617—under Kant—General character of Kant's criticism, 160[original has 159], 161.
page 617—Le Vasser, his account of French irreligion during the reign of Louis XIV,[original has semicolon] 117.
page 617—Leibnitz, the author of the Wolffian[original has Wolfian] philosophy
page 618—under Miracles—Opinion of German Rationalists concerning miracles, 207-211[original has 207, 211].
page 618—Newman, F. W.,[comma missing in original] his life resembles Blanco White's
page 618—Pattison, M., writes in Essays and Reviews on Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750,[original has semicolon] 492.
page 619—under Rationalists, German—Reason therefore[original has therefor], 198.
page 620—Rousseau, his description of French skepticism during the reign of Louis XV,[original has semicolon] 118.
page 620—Schenkel, elevation by Baden government, 303[original has 383].
page 620—under Scherer—His low estimate of Christ's Miracles, 399, 400.[period missing in original]
page 620—Schurmann[original has Schuurmann], Anna Maria
page 620—Scriptures, study of, neglected in Germany in seventeenth century,[original has period] 68.
page 621—under Skepticism—Skepticism received the support of the educated and refined German circles during latter part of the eighteenth century, 149[original has 148].
page 622—under Unitarianism—Literature of Unitarianism, 606[original has 607]-609, Appendix.
page 622—under Universalists—Literature of Universalism,[original has period] 606-609[original has 607, 609].
page 622—under Van Oosterzee—Professor in Utrecht, 377[original has 376].
page 622—Vénérable[original has Venerable] Compagnie of Geneva
page 623—under Voltaire—Cold treatment by Boerhaave, 353[original has 357].
page 623—Youth, multiplicity of publications for German, 189.[original has comma]
Footnote 113—System of the Semitic Languages;[original has comma]
Footnote 128—Riggenbach, Der Heutige Rationalismus besonders in der Deutschen Schweiz[original has Schweitz].
Footnote 263—Frothingham, Ibid. pp.[original has pp,] 121-126.
Footnote 270—St. Lawrence University, N. Y.,[comma missing in original] has a Library