88 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



3. Religions hiftory ; which treats in general 

 of the religion and worfhip of all nations, both 

 ancient and modern , of religious ceremonies, 

 and of the origin, progrefs and decline of each 

 religion. 



4. Ecclefiaftic hiftory, or that of the Chrif- 

 tian church in particular , which teaches the ori- 

 gin and revolutions of the true religion, of the 

 oppofitions and periecutions it has luftained, of 

 the fuccefs it has met with, and of the triumph 

 it has finally obtained ; from the commence- 

 ment of the world to the prefent time. It com- 

 prehends alfo the hiftory of the various herefies 

 and fchifms of the popes and reformers, &c. 

 and is fubdivided into 



The hiftory of the church of God under the 

 Old Teftament. And 



The like hiftory under the New Teftament. 



5. The hiftory of litterature, which treats 

 of the progrefs of the human mind in general, 

 and comprehends 



Ph)fical or natural hiftory, which relates all 

 that has arrived, or rather all that has been dif- 

 covered and obfcrved, that is remarkable, from 

 the time of the creation > either in the heavens, 

 in the elements, or among men, animals, in- 

 feels, plants, and in general among all the parts 

 and productions of nature. 



Philofopliic hiftory, that teaches the progrefs 

 of philofophy amojig all the people of the 

 earth. 



The 



