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The Valdenses and Albigenses accused of Mani-
chæism

Antient heretics misrepresented

Miracles pretended to have been wrought by the

monks

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A remark of Lord Shaftsbury

The Persian god Mithras

Zoroastrian oracles impostures

Manichæism conformable in some points to the
Stoical doctrine

The destruction of Arimanius and Hades

Wine held in abomination by the Manichæans,
and by others before them

Milton makes Satan talk like a Manichæan

Weakness and inconsistency of the Manichæan hy-
pothesis

Bayle confuted by Le Clerc

Dionysius of Alexandria. His character

An instance of a particular providence related by

The visions and revelations which he had
Cyprian. His character and sentiments

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123-124

124, 125

126. 128

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104. 134. 139

Improbable miracles related by Cyprian, Macarius,

and Sozomen

A wonderful stone mentioned and described in

Thuanus

Felix of Nola. False reports concerning his mi-
racles

Piety and charity of the Christians in the third cen-
tury, and in times of distress

Goths converted to Christianity

Paul of Samosata deposed for heresies and immora-
lities

Arnobius. His conversion. A passage in him cor-
rected

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Diocletian's persecution, and the constancy of the

martyrs

Depravation of manners amongst the Christians
Extraordinary events and miracles, which are said
to have attended the sufferings of the martyrs

Martyrdom of Romanus. False miracles relating to

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Martyrdom of a Marcionite

Conversion of two pantomimes

The romance of the Thebean legion

A divine judgment on the patriarch of Seleucia
Milles, a Persian bishop and martyr
State of the church after Constantine
Transactions during the reign of Constantine
Remarks on the cross, &c. which was seen by
Constantine, and which seems to have been a
solar halo

Licinius pretended to have been instructed and as-
sisted by an angel

Whether he were a Christian

The causes, origin, and progress of the worship
of saints, martyrs, and reliques of monkery,
lying wonders, austerities, vows of virginity,
pilgrimages, &c.

The Fathers were the encouragers of these super-
stitions

Eusebius not entirely excusable in this point
The Consubstantialists ran much into these ex-

cesses

Christian saints supplied the place and the offices of
Pagan deities

Monkish ignorance, austerities, and fanaticism
The monks were not all of them saints
Athanasius. His account of them

Eusebius, Constantine, Jerom, Ambrose. Their
high notions of virginity and celibacy
Monks may have been sometimes misrepresented
and wronged

Miracles, for what purposes they were wrought in

those times

Whence the devil came to be painted black

Monks, imitators of Pagan philosophers

Chelsea College. What it was designed for by

James I.

Monkish miracles preserved by tradition

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