NEW

FAMILY

LIBRARY.

VOL. III.

Evidences of Revealed Religion.

ESSAY ON THE DIVINE AUTHORITY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. BY THE REV.

GEO. SCOTT, CUPAR-FIFE.

ESSAY ON THE DIVINE AUTHORITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.

BOGUE, D. D., late of goSport.

BY DAVID

WERENFELS' DISSERTATIONS ON THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. TRANSLATED BY THE REV. DAVID DUNCAN, HOWGATE.

ESSAY ON FAITH. BY THE REV. THOMAS HALYBURTON, LATE PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY, ST ANDREWS.

THE STANDING USE OF THE SCRIPTURE. BY JOHN GUYSE, D. D., LATE OF

LONDON.

EDINBURGH:

THOMAS AFFLECK; WAUGH AND INNES; AND THOMAS IRELAND, JUNIOR;

AND ANDREW RUTHERGLEN AND CO., GLASGOW.

MDCCCXXXV.

LENO

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CONTENTS.

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION.

SCOTT'S ESSAY ON THE DIVINE AUTHORITY OF

THE OLD TESTAMENT.

vii

INTRODUCTION,

1

CHAP. I. The Old Testament viewed as a Historical Record of

God's Moral Government of the World,

6

II. The History of the Old Testament supported by numerous

ancient traditions of almost all nations, but greatly su-

perior in every respect to all other ancient histories.

Its genuineness,

17

III. The Divine Evidence in Authentication of the Record

of Facts and Doctrines,

1

IV. The successive Development of Revelation in direct ana-

logy with the progress of man in knowledge,

46

V. The Preparatory Dispensations of Religion, in the mode

of their being inculcated, in adaptation to the character

of man as rude and unlearned, hence proved to be of

Divine Authority,

VI. History of the Israelites in connexion with their obedience

or disobedience to the law, a Proof that the System

was given by God, and under his constant administra-

tion,

VII. Unity of the Plan,

BOGUE'S ESSAY ON THE DIVINE AUTHORITY OF

THE NEW TESTAMENT.

72

91

115

CHAP. I. On the Evidence for the Divine Authority of the New

Testament, arising from the Principles which it con-

tains,

150

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CHAP. II. Of the Evidence for the Divine Authority of the New

Testament, arising from considerations suggested by its

contents,

177

III. Of the Evidence for the Divine Authority of the New

Testament, arising from the testimony of the Apostles, 196

IV. Of the Evidence for the Divine Authority of the New Tes-

tament, arising from some additional considerations,

which further confirm the Testimony of the Apostles,

V. Of the Evidence for the Divine Authority of the New

Testament, arising from Miracles,

206

219

VI. Of the Evidence for the Divine Authority of the New

Testament, arising from Prophecy,

229

VII. Of the Evidence for the Divine Authority of the New

Testament, arising from the success of the Gospel,

VIII. Objections against the Divine Authority of the New

Testament considered,

243

258

IX. The Sentiments and Conduct of the Deists briefly con-

sidered,

286

DISSERT. On the Motives to Virtue proposed in the Sacred Scriptures, 319

APPENDIX. On the Cause of the little influence which these

Motives have on professing Christians,

337

DISSERT. On the Threefold Witness to the Word of God,

346

III. The Ground, or the Formal Reason, whereon Faith