Print
Word
PDFCHAPTER IX
Of the Authenticity of the historical Scriptures, in eleven Sections
Sect. 1 Quotations of the historical Scriptures
by ancient Christian
Writers.
Sect. 2 Of the peculiar Respect with which they
were quoted.
Sect. 3 The Scriptures were in very early Times
collected into a
distinct
Volume.
Sect. 4 And distinguished by appropriate Names
and Titles of Respect.
Sect. 5 Were publicly read and expounded in the
religious Assemblies of
the
early Christians.
Sect. 6 Commentaries, &c., were anciently written
upon the Scriptures.
Sect. 7 They were received by ancient Christians
of different Sects and
persuasions.
Sect. 8 The four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles,
thirteen Epistles
of
St. 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. 9 Our present Gospels were considered by
the adversaries of
Christianity
as containing the Accounts upon which the Religion
was
founded.
Sect. 10 Formal Catalogues of authentic Scriptures
were published, in
all
which our present Gospels were included.
Sect. 11 The above Propositions cannot be predicated
of those Books
which
are commonly called Apocryphal Books of the New
Testament.
Recapitulation.
CHAPTER X.
OF THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY, AND WHEREIN IT IS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE EVIDENCE ALLEGED FOR OTHER MIRACLES.
Proposition ii.
CHAPTER I
That there is not satisfactory Evidence, that Persons pretending to be original Witnesses of any other similar Miracles have acted in the same Manner, in Attestation of the Accounts which they delivered, and solely in consequence of their Belief of the Truth of those Accounts.
CHAPTER II
Consideration of some specific Instances
PART II.
Of the auxiliary evidences of Christianity,
CHAPTER I
Prophecy
CHAPTER II
The Morality of the Gospel
CHAPTER III
The Candour of the Writers of the New Testament
CHAPTER IV
Identity of Christ’s Character
CHAPTER V
