BY THE LATE RIGHT HON. GEORGE LORD LYTTELTON. A NEW EDITION, PUBLISHED BY DESIRE OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. London: PRINTED FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON, BOOKSELLERS TO THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, NO. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. 1799. 1062.011 A LETTER TO GILBERT WEST, Esq. SIR, IN Na late converfation we had together upon the fubject of the Chriftian religion, I told you, that befides all the proofs of it which may be drawn from the prophecies of the Old Teflament, from the neceffary connection it has with the whole. fyftem of the Jewish religion, from the miracles of Christ, and from the evidence given of his refurrection by all the other Apoftles; I thought the converfion and the Apostleship of St. Paul alone, duly confidered, was of itself a demonstration fufficient B cient to prove Chriftianity to be a Divine Revelation. As you feemed to think that fo compen dious a proof might be of use to convince thofe unbelievers that will not attend to a longer feries of arguments, I have thrown together the reasons upon which I support that propofition. In the 26th chapter of the Alts of the Apoftles, writ by a cotemporary author, and a companion of St. Paul in preaching the Gospel, as appears by the book itself, ch. xx. ver. 6, 13, 14. xxvii. 1. &c. St. Paul is faid to have given himself this account of his converfion and preaching, to King Agrippa and Feftus the Roman gover nor: My manner of life from my youth, which was, at the firft, among mine own nation at Jerufalem, know all the Jews, which knew me from the beginning (if they would testify) that after the ftricteft: fect of our religion, I lived a pharifee. And now I ftand and am judged for the hope of the promife made by God unto our fathers unto which promise our ,twelve 3 |