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CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

NO. IX.

Article.

Page.

I. SYNOPTICAL STUDY OF THE GOSPELS, AND RECENT

LITERATURE PERTAINING TO IT,

By Prof. H. B. Hackett, Newton Theol. Institution.

1

II. THE SCRIPTURES THE PROPER STANDARD OF AP-

PEAL IN THE FORMATION OF THE MORAL AND RE-

LIGIOUS CHARACTER,

22

IV. LIFE AND DEATH OF MICHAEL SERVETUS,

51

By R. D. C. Robbins, Librarian, Theol. Sem. Andover.

The Early Years of Servetus,

51

Servetus' first Work upon the Trinity,

53

Servetus as a public Lecturer and Physician,

Correspondence with Calvin and the Preacher Pepin,

The Restitution of Christianity,

The Voice of the Age in reference to the Execution of Servetus, and

upon Toleration,

Degree of Calvin's Criminality in respect of his treatment of Serve-

tus,

V1. THE TIMES, CHARACTER AND POLITICAL SYSTEM

OF MACHIAVELLI,

By Daniel R. Goodwin, Professor of Languages, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.

VII. THE TRUE DATE OF CHRIST'S BIRTH,

122

166

Translated from the German, by Rev. G. E. Day, Marlborough, Mass.

First Datum,

Second Datum,

168

172

VIII. THE SOURCES OF THE JORDAN, THE LAKE EL-HÛ-

LEH, AND THE ADJACENT COUNTRY,

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By Rev. W. M. Thomson, Missionary in Syria. Communicated, with Notes,

by E. Robinson, Professor at New York.

Seffer's Elementary Book of the Hebrew Language,

Lobeck's "Pathologiae Sermonis Graeci Prolegomena,"

Delitzsch's Prophetic Theology of the Bible,

Tholuck's Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount,

214

214

215

215

216

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III. LIFE, CHARACTER, WRITINGS, DOCTRINES AND IN-

FLUENCE OF CONFUCIUS,

By Rev. Ira Tracy, formerly Missionary in China.

284

V. THE CHARACTER AND PROPHECIES OF BALAAM.-

NUMBERS XXII—XXIV,

By R. D. C. Robbins, Librarian, Theol. Sem. Andover.

347

The condition of the Israelites at the time of Balaam's Prophecies, 347

By Rev. B. Sears, D. D. President of Theol. Institution, Newton.

II. SCHOTT'S TREATISE ON THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF

SERMONS,

413

461

By Edwards A. Park, Professor at Andover.

1. Use of the term, Invention, in Sacred Rhetoric,

462

2. The General Character of the Subjects of Sermons,

463

8. Classification of Discourses according to the Mode of treating

11. Various Kinds and Sources of Arguments and Motives employ-

ed in a Discourse, .

481

12. Different Methods in which the same kind of Arguments and

Motives may be presented in a Discourse,

488

13. The Manner of treating such Opinions and Feelings of his Hear-

ers, as are at variance with the Preacher's Discourse,

14. Cautions to be observed in exciting the Feelings of an Audience, 496

15. The Department of Topics (Topica),

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III. THE TRINITY,

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From the Theological Lectures of Dr. A. D. C. Twesten, Berlin.

Translated by Rev. H. B. Smith.