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by the creature, in vain. We are therefore to believe, 
that a real, an intimate, and moil important, connexion, 
fubliits- between the prefent life and that which is to fol¬ 
low it; though it iurpaffes our abilities to explain, and 
perhaps to comprehend, the particular powers witn which 
we {hall be inverted, and the particular agency in which 
we are to be employed. Chrillianity may then be excufed 
for not gratifying our curiofity on fubjefls, to which our 
apprehenfions are now utterly inadequate ; and even were 
they more adequate, it would deierve our praile for in¬ 
forming us of what is true, that we are deftined for im¬ 
mortality 3, and for inftrufting us in what is moft impor¬ 
tant, the duties by which we are to gain it. Such is the 
effeft of Chrillianity with regard to its dofitrine of a judg¬ 
ment to come. And as to the happinefs which is to fuc- 
ceed that judgment, as a fure reward for good and vir¬ 
tuous aftions upon earth, it Hill holds out the fame plain 
and unequivocal language. When, therefore, the actions 
of every day, and every hour, have this ultimate connec¬ 
tion with our eternal doom, is it not to be expected that 
religion fhould have a forcible and conftant influence 
over our lives i That influence, it mult be confeffed, is 
often counteracted by our infirmities, our prepoffeffions, 
and our headilrong appetites. Yet Chrillianity far fur- 
pafles every other religion in its viiible tendency to make 
us better men, and in its real effeCts upon the fentiments 
and the manners of mankind. Every initance of improve¬ 
ment refulting from Chrillianity, in government, in laws, 
and in erudition, may be confidered as a prefumptive ar¬ 
gument of its efficacy in matters purely of a religious na¬ 
ture : the fame commands and the fame fanCtions, which 
have quickened the efforts of men in (ecuring their Spiri¬ 
tual well-being, have been indireCtly the inltruments of 
increafing their temporal. The lame expectation of a 
righteous judgment which makes us good men, tends at 
the fame time to make us ufeful and ornamental members 
of l'ociety. The lame elevation of mind which actuated 
the bofom of a being, who reveres himlelf as the heir of 
immortal life, infpires every noble fentiment, and ani¬ 
mates to every virtuous and exemplary undertaking, 
which can adorn and dignify human nature in this pro¬ 
bationary (late of mortality. For a full and connected 
view of Chriftian revelation, and the various doCtrines 
and religious tenets that are and have been propagated 
through the world, fee the article Theology. 
To CHRISTIANIZE, <v.a To make Chriftians; to 
convert into Chriltianity.—The principles of Platonic 
philofophy, as it is now cbriJUanized. Dryden. 
CHRIS'TIANLY, adv. Like a Chriftian; as becomes 
one who profefies the holy religion of Chrift. 
CHRIS'TIANSAND, a feaport town of Norway, in 
the government of Agerhuus, oppofite the illand of Flec- 
keren. Lat. 58.10. N. Ion. 8. 14. E. Greenwich. 
CHRIS'TIANSBURG, a fortrefs of Africa, on the Gold 
Coaft, belonging to Denmark. It was taken b/the negroes 
in 1693, who pillaged it, and kept it for fome time. 
CHRIS'TIANSBURG, a town ofjthe American States, 
in Montgomery county, Virginia. It has a court-houfe 
and jail, lituated near a branch of Little River, a water of 
the Kanhaway. 
CHRIS'TIANSOE, a fortrefs of Denmark, built on a 
rock, on the ealt coaft of the illand of Bornholm. 
CHRIS'TIANSTAD, a town of the illand of Santa 
Cruz, in the Weft Indies, defended by a fortrefs, on the 
north-coaft. Lat, 17.46. N. Ion. 63, 23. W. Greenwich^ 
CHRIS'TIANSTADT, a town of Sweden, in the coun¬ 
try of Blekingen : built by Chriftian IV. king of Den¬ 
mark, when the country was in the power of that crown, 
to guard againft the eruption of the Swedes; but, in 1658, 
it was reltored to Sweden by the treaty of Rofchild ; the 
town is final!, but well built, and llrongly fortified; the 
houles are all of brick, and moltly Ituccoed white. It 
Hands in a fnarlhy plain, dole to the l iver Helge-a, which 
flows into the Baltic at Ahus, about the diilance of twenty 
miles, and is navigable only for fmall craft of feven tons 
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burden. Englilh veffels annually refort to this port'for 
alum, pitch, and tar. The inhabitants have manufac¬ 
tures of cloth and filken (luffs. Fift-y-feven miles welt of 
Carlfcrona. Lat. 55. 58. N. Ion. 14. 6. E. Greenwich. 
CHRISTIANS FADT, a town of Silelia, on the weft 
fide of the Bober : thirty-two miles welt of Glogau, and 
fifty-four north-ealt of Drelden. 
CHRIS'TIGNETH, a river of Wales, which runs int® 
the Dee, in Denbighlhire. 
CHRISTI'NA, an illuftrious queen of Sweden. See 
Sweden. 
CHRIS'TINESTADT, a feaport town of Sweden, in 
the province of Ealt Bothnia, built in the year 1649, 
CHRISTIS'CA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate, of 
Braclaw : forty-four miles fouth-fouth-weft of Bra claw. 
CHRIST'MAS-BOX,/ A box in which it has for many 
ages been a cultom to colled little prefents at Chriftmas: 
When time comes round, a Chriji mas-box they bear. 
And one day makes them rich lor all the year. Gay. 
CHRIST'MAS-DAY, f. A feftival of the Chriftian 
church; obferved on the 25th of December, in memory 
of the nativity or birth of Jefus Chrift. As to the anti¬ 
quity of this feftival, the firlt footfteps we find of it are in 
the lecond century, about the time of the emperor Corn- 
modus. The decretal epiftles, indeed, carry it up a little 
higher; and fay that Telefphorus, who lived in the reign 
of Antonius Pius, ordered divine fervice to be celebrated,, 
and an angelical hymn to be lung, the night before the 
nativity of our Saviour. However, that it was kept be¬ 
fore the times of Conllantine, we have a melancholy 
proof 5 for, whilft the perlecution raged under Diocle- 
fian, who then kept his court at Nicomedia, that prince, 
among other adts of cruelty, finding multitudes ol Chrif¬ 
tians affembled together to celebrate Chrift’s nativity, 
commanded the church-doors where they were met to be 
Unit, and fire to be put to it, which, in a Ihort time, re¬ 
duced them and the church to allies. 
CHRIST'MAS-FLOWER, /. Hellebore. 
CHRIST'MAS-HARBOUR, a good and fafe bay, on 
the north-eaft coaft of Kerguelen’s Land. Lat. 48. 41. S. 
Ion. 69. 4. E. Greenwich. 
CHRIST'MAS-ISLAND, in the Pacific Ocean, lies en¬ 
tirely folitary, nearly equally diftant from the Sandwich 
iflands on the north, and the Marquefas on the fouth. It 
was fo named by captain Cook, on account of his firlt 
landing there on Cliriftmas-day. Not a drop of freih 
water was found by digging. A Ihip touching at this 
defolate ille mult expert nothing but turtle, fifli, and a few 
birds. It is about fifteen or twenty leagues in circum¬ 
ference, and bounded by a reef of coral rocks, on the well 
fide of which there is a bank of fine land, extending a mils 
into the fea, and affording good anchorage, Lat. s. 39. M. 
Ion. 202. 30. E. Greenwich. 
CHRIST'MAS-ROSE, or Flower. See HelleboruSo 
CHRIST'MAS-SOUND, a bay on the fouth. coaft of 
Terra del Fuego. Lat. 55. 22. S. Ion. 73. W. Greenwich. 
CHRIS'TOFHER, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Sandomire : fixteen miles fouth-fouth- of Sandomirz. 
CHRISTOPHER, [Xfiropo^c^olX«iro?,Chrilt,and 
to bear; Chrilt’s carrier.] A proper name of men. 
CHRISTOPHORIA'NA, or Herb Christopher, f. 
in botany. See Actzea, Adonis, and Aralia. 
CHRIS'TORF, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Boleflau : fix miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Krottau. 
CHRO'BERG, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Sandomirz: fifty two miles welt of Sandomirz. 
CHRO'MA, a river of Siberia, which runs into the 
Frozen Sea. Lat 73. N. Ion. 17. E. Ferro. 
CHROMATIC, adj. colour.] Relating to co¬ 
lour.—I am now come to the third part of painting, which 
is called the chromatic, or colouring. Dryden. —Relating 
to a certain lpecies of ancient mulic.—It was obferved, 
he never touched his lyre in fucli a truly chromatic and 
enharmonic manner. Arbutbnat .—See the article Music. 
CHROMATICS, 
