(1880.)
Preface--The Synoptic Gospels--Only Mark Knew of the Necessity of
Belief--Three Christs Described--The Jewish Gentleman and the Piece of
Bacon--Who Wrote the New Testament?--Why Christ and the Apostles wrote
Nothing--Infinite Respect for the Man Christ--Different Feeling for
the Theological Christ--Saved from What?--Chapter on the Gospel of
Matthew--What this Gospel says we must do to be Saved--Jesus and the
Children--John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards conceived of as Dimpled
Darlings--Christ and the Man who inquired what Good Thing he should
do that he might have Eternal Life--Nothing said about Belief--An
Interpolation--Chapter on the Gospel of Mark--The Believe or be Damned
Passage, and why it was written--The last Conversation of Christ with
his Disciples--The Signs that Follow them that Believe--Chapter on
the Gospel of Luke--Substantial Agreement with Matthew and Mark--How
Zaccheus achieved Salvation--The two Thieves on the Cross--Chapter
on the Gospel of John--The Doctrine of Regeneration, or the New
Birth--Shall we Love our Enemies while God Damns His?--Chapter on the
Catholics--Communication with Heaven through Decayed Saints--Nuns and
Nunneries--Penitentiaries of God should be Investigated--The
Athanasian Creed expounded--The Trinity and its Members--Chapter on the
Episcopalians--Origin of the Episcopal Church--Apostolic Succession
an Imported Article--Episcopal Creed like the Catholic, with a
few Additional Absurdities--Chapter on the Methodists--Wesley and
Whitfield--Their Quarrel about Predestination--Much Preaching for Little
Money--Adapted to New Countries--Chapter on the Presbyterians--John
Calvin, Murderer--Meeting between Calvin and Knox--The Infamy of
Calvinism--Division in the Church--The Young Presbyterian's Resignation
to the Fate of his Mother--A Frightful, Hideous, and Hellish
Creed--Chapter on the Evangelical Alliance--Jeremy Taylor's Opinion of
Baptists--Orthodoxy not Dead--Creed of the Alliance--Total Depravity,
Eternal Damnation--What do You Propose?--The Gospel of Good-fellowship,
Cheerfulness, Health, Good Living, Justice--No Forgiveness--God's
Forgiveness Does not Pay my Debt to Smith--Gospel of Liberty, of
Intelligence, of Humanity--One World at a Time--"Upon that Rock I
Stand"