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The evidences and doctrines of the Catholic Church: showing that the former are no less convincing, than the latter are propitious to the happiness of society

CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. NECESSITY OF REVELATION. Singular interest of the Jewish history. - Religious indifference. - Primary truths of religion, the relics of primitive revelation . - Social destination of man, not the result of choice or compact. - Authority, a principal source of knowledge. - Desire of immortality. - Alliance of truth and virtue. - General corruption of the ancient world. - Sketch of the sects and opinions of Pagan philosophy 1 CHAPTER II. AUTHORITY OF THE BOOKS OF MOSES. The ancients safer guides than the moderns in estimating the necessity of revelation. - The truths of religion scattered and disordered rather than utterly lost in the Pagan world. - Mysteries of religion ; the evidence of its miracles must supersede the obscurity of its mysteries. - Peculiar harmony and consistence of the mysteries of the Catholic Church. - Epitome of the transactions recorded in the Pentateuch. - External and internal evidence of the veracity of the Hebrew historian - 39 CHAPTER III. WISDOM OF THE LAWS OF MOSES. The Preservation of the pure and primitive religion, the peculiar object of the Jewish law. - Nature of the theocracy. - The chief duties of man towards God, his neighbo

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