OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONVERSION AND 'AP-OST LE SHIP O'F St. PA U L. In a LETTER to GILBERT West, Esq; A NEW EDITION. * L O N D ON: MDCCLXIII. A L E T T E R TO GILBERT WEST, Efq; I SIR, upon the Subject of the Chriftian Reli gion, I told you, that besides all the Proofs of it which may be drawn from the Prophecies of the Old Testament, from the necessary Connection it has with the whole System of the Jewish Religion, from the Miracles of A 2 Christ, Christ, and from the Evidence given of his Res surrection by all the other Apostles, I thought the Conversion and the Apostleship of St. Paul alone, duly considered, was of itself a Demonftration suffîcient to prove Christianity to be 4 Divine Revelation. a As you feem'd to think that so compen, dious a Proof might be of Use to convince those Unbelievers that will not attend to a longer Series of Arguments, I have thrown together the Reasons upon which I support that Proposition. In the 26th Chapter of the Aets of the Apostles , 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. Ch. xxvii. Ver. 1. &c. St. Paul is said to have given himself this Account of bis Conversion and Preaching, to King Agrip. pa and Festus the Roman Governor..My 6 Manner of Life from my Youth, which was, at the first, among mine own Nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews, which knew me from the Beginning (if they would testi fy) |