Hannah Adams

Name: A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations — Appendix to the fourth American edition
Author: Hannah Adams

A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

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“A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations — Appendix to the fourth American edition”, published in 1817, is a work by Hannah Adams. It explores elements such as the United States, denomination and New England.

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ The Friends, or Quakers, are a numerous denomination of Christians in the United States. There are thirteen collections of this people in New England. The celebrated William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, by his meekness and wisdom, did honour to this society, whose sentiments he embraced and defended. They have at present fifty four congregations in that state. This denomination have been eminently distinguished for their zealous and persevering efforts to procure the abolition of the slave trade. There are nearly one thousand congregations of Friends in this country. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ That piety and virtue will be rewarded in a future state, and impiety and vice punished. This article includes the idea that piety and virtue are indispensably necessary to happiness. This point is universally acceded to; and therefore, upon every religious system now embraced, it is our duty and interest to be virtuous and pious. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ Why providence has suffered the Christian religion to be hitherto confined to so small a portion of the globe is also a mystery which we cannot fathom. But we are encouraged by many prophecies in the sacred scriptures to expect a period when the gospel shall be universally extended, and received with unanimity ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ There are two Sandemanian churches in New England; one in Danbury, Connecticut, and one in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. There is also a small number of Sandemanians in Boston.
There is a considerable number of believers in the doctrines of Swedenborg In the United States. They have churches or temples, as they call them, in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. There are also a few who embrace his sentiments in Massachusetts, Virginia, and Ohio. There are likewise Halcyons, who agree with the Swedenborgians, in maintaining the sole divinity of Jesus Christ; though they differ in other respects. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ In reviewing the history of the various denominations of Christians in past ages, humanity is deeply wounded by the intolerant spirit which has been so often exhibited by the dominant party. Till of late, attempting to suppress by persecution, what were deemed erroneous opinions, was judged lawful, not by Catholics only, but by the Reformers, by Episcopalians, and almost all the different denominations of Dissenters. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ A society has also been formed for the religious and moral improvement of seamen, and there are many other religious and benevolent institutions. It has been justly remarked, that "At no time since the days of the apostles have equal exertions been made for the advancement of Christian knowledge, piety and virtue, as are at this time, and have been for a few years past, both in Europe and in our own country." ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ The Congregationalists, Baptists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Moravians, and Methodists have made energetic exertions to convert the heathens, both in our own and foreign countries. Sunday Schools have also been established; and various societies formed to promote the present and future welfare of mankind: for instance, the Peace Societies which have been honoured with the approbation of the Emperor Alexander and Prince Galitzin, President of the Russian Bible Society. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ The diversity of sentiment among Christians has been exhibited in the preceding pages. The candid mind will not consider those various opinions as an argument against divine revelation. The truth of the sacred writings is attested by the strongest evidence, such as the miracles recorded in the New Testament ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ Trinitarians pray to one God in three persons; Unitarians address God in the person of the Father only. Roman Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary and other saints; but they profess to address them only as intercessors and mediators, and that one God is the ultimate object of their religious worship. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ The preceding work farther evinces, that the Pagan world still practise a variety of religious rites; and that the Mahometans are as much divided as the Christians. Neither are those who reject revelation better agreed among themselves; for it appears that the greatest infidels, which any age ever produced, were divided and unsettled in their philosophical opinions. ”

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Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)

“ In the village of Bethlehem they have two large stone buildings, in which the different sexes are educated in habits of industry, being employed in various useful manufactures. They have also flourishing settlements in North Carolina ”

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