OF CHRISTIANITY; A SKETCH. BY A LAYMAN. "En illa, illa, quam sæpe sperastis, libertas."-SALLUST. EDINBURGH: THOMAS CONSTABLE AND CO. HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., LONDON. JAMES M'GLASHAN, DUBLIN. MDCCCLIV. 101. a 40. THE CERTAINTY OF CHRISTIANITY. IT has been a difficulty with authors treating of the evidences of Christianity, to know how far they were fairly entitled to refer to the writings of the New Testament.1 On the one hand, it might be said that this would be to reason in a circle, since possibly to some extent, now inappreciable, partisanship may have affected them. Yet, on the other hand, it would seem to be a very unreasonable thing to discard the testimony of those whose own conversion gave the strongest of all proofs of their convictions; the more so, as their evidence has since been corroborated in a number of minute particulars, and to a degree altogether unprecedented. The object of this little sketch is to present to the reader a view of the Evidences which steers quite clear of this difficulty,—and, so far, it may claim the praise perhaps of some novelty. We would premise that few points are so clear |