CHAPTER I.

=_1._= Religious writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

  Roger Williams, 1598-1683
  1.  True Liberty defined.

  Cotton Mather, 1663-1728
  2.  Preservation of New England Principles.

  Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758
  3.  Meaning of the Phrase Moral Inability.

  Samuel Davies, 1725-1761
  4.  Life and Immortality revealed through the Gospel.

  Nathaniel Emmons, 1745-1840
  5.  Rule of Private Judgment.

  =_2._= Historical writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth
  centuries.

  Cadwallader Colden, 1688-1776
  6.  The Five Nations assert their Superiority.

  William Stith, 1689-1755
  7.  The rule of Powhatan.
  8.  Pocahontas in England.

  William Smith, 1728-1793
  9.  Manners of the People of New York.

  =_3._= Miscellaneous writers of the seventeenth and
  eighteenth centuries.

  John Winthrop, 1587-1649
  10.  True Liberty defined.
  11.  Proposed Treatment of the Indians.

  William Byrd, 1674-1744
  12.  The Ginseng and Snakeroot Plants.

Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790 13.  Good Resolutions.—­The Croaker. 14.  Franklin’s Electrical Kite. 15.  Motion for Prayers in the Convention. 16.  The Ephemeron.  An Emblem.

  =_4._= Later religious writers and divines.

  John Woolman, 1730-1772
  17.  Remarks on Slavery and Labor.

  John M. Mason, 1770-1829
  18.  Grandeur of the Bible Society.
  19.  The Right of the State to Educate.

  Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817
  20.  The Wilderness reclaimed.
  21.  The Glory of Nature, from God.

  John Henry Hobart, 1775-1830
  22.  The Divine Glory in Redemption.

  Lyman Beecher, 1775-1863
  23.  The Being of a God.

William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842 24.  Character of Napoleon. 25.  Grandeur of the prospect of Immortality. 26.  The Duty of the Free States.

  Edward Payson, 1783-1827
  27.  Natural Religion.

  Joseph S. Buckminster, 1784-1812
  28.  Necessity of Regeneration.

  Nathaniel W. Taylor, 1786-1858
  29.  Proof of Immortality from the Moral Nature of Man.

  Edward Hitchcock, 1793-1864
  30.  Geological Proof of Divine Benevolence.

  John P. Durbin, 1800-
  31.  First Sight of Mount Sinai.

  Leonard Bacon, 1802-
  32.  The Day approaching.
  33.  The Benefits of Capital.

  James W. Alexander, 1804-1859
  34.  The Church a Temple.

  Martin J. Spaulding, 1810-1872
  35.  Trials of the Pioneer Catholic Clergy in the West.