By Rev. Geo, Bush, Professor in the New-York City

University.

II. HAVE ANY PASSAGES IN THE SCRIPTURES A DOU-

BLE SENSE?

By Rev, Parsons Cooke, Pastor of a Church in}

Ware,

III. SOUTH AMERICA

By Theodore Dwight, Jr. New-York.

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By Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D., Professor of The-

ology, Andover, Mass.

V. REVIEW OF THE WRITINGS OF BULWER

By Edward S. Gould, New-York.

VI. THE SONG OF THE ANGELS

By Rev. Enoch Pond, Professor of Theology, Ban-

gor, Maine.

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VII. EFFORTS BY THE CHURCH TO SUBVERT THE UN-

HALLOWED INSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD

By Eleazar Lord, Esq., New-York.

VIII. MORAL REQUISITES FOR THE KNOWLEDGE OF

DIVINE THINGS

By Rev. C. S. Henry, Junior Pastor of the West

West}

Church, Hartford, Con.

IX. CONVERSION OF JOHN VON MUELLER

Translated by Rev. John Proudfit, Professor in the

New-York City University.

X. CHRISTIANITY AND PHILOSOPHY.

By the Editor.

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THEOLOGICAL REVIEW.

NO. III. SEPTEMBER, 1834.

ART. I. THE EARTHLY TRIUMPHS OF CHRISTIANITY. By Rev. GEO. BUSH, Prof. of Heb. and Orient. Lit. in N. Y. City University.

THE primary truths of revelation are doubtless those which respect the being, the attributes, and the works of Jehovah; the person, and the offices of the Saviour, and of the Holy Spirit; the immortality of the soul; a judgement to come; and a subsequent eternal state of rewards and punishments. These are the grand themes of inspired writers the cardinal doctrines upon which the ministers of Christ are chiefly to insist in their public teachings. It is by the faithful exhibition of these truths, in their prominent features, and their diversified relations, that the kingdom of righteousness is mainly to be upheld in this world, and an elect people prepared for the glory and beatitudes of another.

But the truths now cited, are far from exhausting the fulness of divine communications. The disclosures of the oracles of God, though for the most part connecting themselves with eternity, are not confined to it. The sublime range of prophecy spreads itself over the arena of this world's history, bringing to view an order of events, subordinate indeed to the final developements of Christianity, but of an interest and magnitude too great to be overlooked by the eye of faith, however intent upon the ultimate result. That this department, however, of revelation, has been comparatively neglected,-that the paramount importance of Christianity, as a system of salvation, has caused its designed relations to the present life to be in a great measure thrown into the back-ground,-is a fact which will be questioned the less the more it is considered. The predicted triumphs, therefore, of the Gospel on earth, or what may be termed the earthly and temporal prospects of the kingdom of Christ in VOL. I.

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