Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1791 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Apostles. It may be carried on a good deal farther by the lame way of reasoning. And it must certainly have a very great influence upon any man that will but make use of his reason. For if a heathen, or a libertine will not admit of it, we may just ask them, whether they have any other rule to satisfy themselves of the truth of any matter of fact, besides the character of the persons by whom it is attested. It is really strange that so much credit should be given to propbane hijiary, and men should be so very nice and over-cautious in embracing the christian religion, and the historical matters relating thereto, when there is not any heathen author that has, at least in the fame degree, any pne of those qualifications that are to be found in the Apostles, much less all of them together. Some write of things that happened at a great distance of time from them. Such as were exstemporary, could not be witnesses of every thi ng; and then, how often are men biassed by interest, passion, or flattery? Besides, as the greatest part of them treat only of such matters as are apt to excite people's curiosity, they might iment as many falshoods as they pleased, in order to strike their readers witlk () 1 Cor. ir. ty Xvlth wonder and admiration. As for the Jew?, if they refuse to admiti in behalf of the truth of the New Testament, this kind of proof drawn from the character of the Apostles, they must needs betray their own cause by such a refusal, there being no other proof of the truth of what is attested by Moses and the Prophets, than the integrity of these holy men. This gives us an occasion of proceeding to another proof of the truth of the books of the New Testament, that is, their agreement with the Old, at least in respect of those that...
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