SKETCH OF THE DENOMINATIONS

OF THE

CHRISTIAN WORLD,

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN

OUTLINE OF

ATHEISM, DEISM, THEOPHILANTHROPISM,

MAHOMETANISM, JUDAISM, AND

CHRISTIANITY.

WITH A

PERSUASIVE TO RELIGIOUS MODERATION.

BY JOHN EVANS, LL. D.

FROM THE FIFTEENTH LONDON EDITION.

WITH

AN ACCOUNT OF THE RANTERS, OR PRIMITIVE METHO-
DISTS AND OF THE IRISH PRESBYTERIANS,

Σπουδαζοντες τηρειν την ἑνοτητα του πνευματος εν τω
συνδεσμω της ειρηνης. -Ephes. iii. 4.

AMHERST:

J. S. & C. ADAMS, PRINTERS.

TO

WILLIAM SMITH, Esq., Μ. Ρ.

THE ENLIGHTENED CHAMPION OF THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF CONSCIENCE, THIS FIFTEENTH EDITION

Of a Work consecrated to the Promotion of Religious Knowledge,

IN CONJUNCTION WITH CHRISTIAN CHARITY,

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

According to the expressed intention of its deceased Author,

BY HIS SON,

Gray's-Inn, June 1, 1827.

JOHN EVANS.

CONTENTS.

The name of Christian is become too general to express our Faith,
there being a Geography of Religion as well as of Lands, and every
clime is distinguished not only by their laws and limits, but circum-
scribed by their doctrines and rules of faith.-SIR THOMAS BROWN'S
Religio Medici.

Christians, including a Summary of the evidences of Christianity 45

CHRISTIAN SECTS,

According to the Person of Christ.

Trinitarians

Athanasians

Sabellians

Unitarians

Arians

Humanitarians and Socinians

Necessarians

Materialists

According to the Means and Measure of God's favour.