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1838.

CONTENTS OF NO. XVII.

ART. I. REPLY TO PROFESSOR Pond's ARTICLE ON

VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS

1

By Rev. NATHANIEL HEWITT, D. D., Bridgeport, Conn.

II. INFLUENCE OF PELAGIANISM ON THE THE-

OLOGICAL COURSE OF Rev. C. G. FINNEY,

HIS SERMONS AND LEC-

TURES

DEVELOPED

IN

38

By Rev. Joseph I. Foot.

III. REVIEW OF Dr. Johnson's LiveS OF THE

POETS

72

By DANIEL DANA, D. D., Newburyport, Mass.

IV. DEFECTS IN THE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF

THIS AGE

03

.

By Rev. Nicholas MURRAY, Elizabethtown, N. J.

V. Peculiar FastiDIOUSNESS OF THE AGE IN

RESPECT TO MINISTERS

112

By John H. Avery.

THE

CLAIMS

OF

THE

VI. INQUIRY RESPECTING

SON TO EQUAL HOMAGE WITH THE FATHER 116

By Rev. RICHARD W. DICKINSON, New-York.

VII. ThoughtS ON THE NEW HAVEN THEOLOGY 149

By the Editor.