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HENRY FISHER, SON, AND P. JACKSON, 38, NEWGATE STREET.
OF THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY,
AND WHEREIN IT IS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE EVIDENCE
ALLEGED FOR OTHER MIRACLES.
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PROPOSITION I.
That there is satisfactory evidence, that many, professing to be
original witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed their lives
in labours, dangers, and sufferings voluntarily undergone in
attestation of the accounts which they delivered, and solely in
consequence of their belief of those accounts; and that they
also submitted, from the same motives, to new rules of conduct ib.
CHAP. I.-Evidence of the sufferings of the first propagators of
Christianity, from the nature of the case
CHAP. II.-Evidence of the sufferings of the first propagators of
Christianity, from Profane Testimony .
ib.
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CHAP. III. Indirect evidence of the sufferings of the first pro-
pagators of Christianity, from the Scriptures and other ancient
Christian writings.
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CHAP. IV. Direct evidence of the same
CHAP. V.-Observations upon the preceding evidence
CHAP. VI. That the story, for which the first propagators of
Christianity suffered, was miraculous.
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CHAP. VII. That it was, in the main, the story which we have
now, proved by indirect considerations.
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CHAP. VIII. The same proved, from the authority of our his-
torical Scriptures
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CHAP. IX. Of the authenticity of the historical Scriptures, in
eleven Sections.
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SECT. I. Quotations of the historical Scriptures by ancient
Christian writers . .
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SECT. II. Of the peculiar respect with which they were quoted 69
SEOT. III.-The Scriptures were in very early times collected into
a distinct volume
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SECT. IV. And distinguished by appropriate names and titles of
respect..
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SECT. V.-Were publicly read and expounded in the religious
assemblies of the early Christians. .
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SECT. VI.-Commentaries, &c. were anciently written upon the
Scriptures . . .
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SECT. VII. They were received by ancient Christians of different
sects and persuasions
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SECT. VIII. The four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, thirteen
Epistles of Saint Paul, the First Epistle of John, and the First
of Peter, were received without doubt by those who doubted
concerning the other books of our present canon
SECT. IX. Our present Gospels were considered by the adver-
saries of Christianity, as containing the accounts upon which
the religion was founded.
SECT. X.-Formal catalogues of authentic Scriptures were pub-
lished, in all which our present Gospels were included . . . . 91
SECT. XI. The above propositions cannot be predicated of those
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books which are commonly called apocryphal books of the
New Testament