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ACCOUNTS, distinction between two kinds of, 184.
Analogy, illustration of the argument from, 35.

Anti-Christians, change which has taken place among, 29.
Apostles, difficulties encountered by the, 48; writings of the, 61;
free from pecuniary views (see note), 65; evidence to the suffer-
ings of, 76; incidental evidence drawn from the letters of, 89;
erroneous opinions imputed to, 339; silence of, respecting chris-
tian miracles, 359.

Apostolic history, general reality of the, 77.

Austerities, not enjoined by Christ, 236.

BARNABAS, Epistle of, contrast to our own Scriptures, 367.
Beattie, testimony of, to the fairness of the Evangelists, 254.

CATALOGUES, formal, of the Scriptures, 171.

Celsus, attacks made by, on the Scriptures, 166.

Character, heroic and christian, differences between the, 223.
Christ, histories of, 57; his pretensions, by what maintained, 81;
use of the word in the Gospels, 110; spirit actuating, 237; cha-
racter of, 242; originality of the character of, 266.
Christian, use of the word in the Gospels, 110.

Christians, early, conclusions respecting the, 46; evidence for the
voluntary sufferings of the, 51; account of the exertions of
the, 63; religious rites of the, identical with ours, 93; concur-
rence of the, in the canon of Scripture, 118; Scriptures appealed
to by the, 156; observation by the, of the gospel rule of life,
229; error imputed to by the, 340.

Christianity, position assumed by the opponents of, 2; profession of,
in a non-natural sense, 3; propagation of, difficulties likely to
attend the, 39; teachers of, difference between them and philo-

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sophers, 42; primitive condition of, 57; inference that the ori-
ginal story of, was miraculous, 83; aggregate authority of the
written evidences of, 105; recapitulation of arguments for the
truth of, 177; direct historical evidence of, 181; auxiliary evi-
dences of, 208; qualities in, 241; propagation of, considered, 302;
propagation of, compared with modern missions, 319; resem-
blances and differences between, and Mahometanism, 324; con-
nexion of, with the Jewish history, 343; rejection of, by the Jews
and heathen, 347; evidence to the truth of, on what dependent,
370; supposed effects of, 375; foundation of, upon testimony, 399.
Civilization, introduction of, how to be accounted for, 20.
Clement, epistle of, examined, 122.

Coincidences, undesigned, 295.

Commentaries, ancient, 152.

Controversy, ancient, topics of, 156.

Credulity and incredulity the same mental quality, 34.

Cumulative proofs, nature of, 395; confusion respecting, exempli-

fied, 397.

Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, his testimony examined, 138.

DEATH and the Resurrection, how to be considered, 392.

Dionysius, reference by him to Clement's epistle, 123; testimony of,
examined, 138.

Discourses, our Lord's, considered, 231.

Dispensation, the christian, compared with the order of nature, 368.
Doctors, Jewish, expositions of, 238.

ENTHUSIASTS, religious and anti-religious, curious anomalies exhibited

by, 31.

Epistles, purpose of the, 107.

Eucharist, the, account of the institution of the, 253.

Eusebius, testimony of, examined, 139.

Evangelists, the honesty of the, 248; testimonies to the fairness of
the, 254; particular design of the, 338.

Evidence, miraculous, illustration of, 19; the direct historical, of
Christianity, 37; direct, of sufferings undergone by the early
Christians, 63; miraculous, the foundation of the argument for
Christianity, 83.

Evidences, christian, desirability of the study of, 4.
Evil, existence of, difficulty respecting the, 374.

Experience, force of, as an objection to miracles, 14.

FATHERS, the apostolic, silence of the, about christian miracles, 362.
Formularies, none drawn up by the Apostles, 96.

Frauds, pious, 190.

GOSPELS, title of the, to credit, 99; genuineness of any one of the, a
guarantee for the truth of the religion, 103; parallelisms in the,
conclusion to be drawn from, 104; genuineness of the, a point
of importance, 109; considered as compositions, 112; ancient
MSS versions of the, 115; ascription of the, to their authors, 118;
distinguished by appropriate names, 147; when first publicly
read, 149; argument in favour of the, from opponents, 170;
selection of our present, not arbitrary, 173; reception of the, by
the early Christians, 179; morality of the, considered, 220;
politics, absent from the, 239; omission in, of particulars re-
lating to the invisible world, 246; candour of the writers of
the, 248; discrepancies between the, 336; in what the charac-
teristics of the, consist, 388.

Gregory, Bishop of Neocæsarea, and others, testimony of, examined,
138.

HEATHENS, testimony of, 51.

Hegesippus, testimony of, examined, 131.

Heretics, ancient, appeals by, to the Scriptures, 156.

Hermas, quotation from, 74; antiquity of, 125; read in the early
churches, 151.

Histories, distinction between two kinds of, 182.

History, distinction between naked, and books, combined with an
institution, 185; the gospel, its contrast to all so-called parallels,

399.

Hume, his view of miracles, 15; his alleged parallels considered, 201;
reference to his parallels, 398.

IDENTIFICATION of our Scriptures with the original story, 85.

Ignatius, epistles of, 126.

Impossibility, a physical, meaning attached to the term, 27.

Improbability arising from want of experience, 14.

Irenæus, evidence of, 131.

Isaiah, chap. liii., considered, 208.

JERUSALEM, prophecy respecting, 217; 219.

Jesus, life assumed by the followers of, 78.

Jewish books, references to, (see note) 88.

Jews, the treatment of their religion by Christ, 237; their national
temper, 238; absurd charges brought against, 353.

John, St., differences and agreements between him and the other
Evangelists, 257.

Josephus, silence of, and omissions in, how to be accounted for, 86.
Judea, feeling of the Roman government in, towards Christianity, 40.
Julian, the Emperor, his attacks on the Scriptures, 169.

Justin Martyr, examination into his writings, 129.

KNOWLEDGE, christian, want of universality in, 367.

Koran, argument for the genuineness of the, 250; sole reference in
the, to a miracle, 325.

LARDNER, Dr., his argument for the honesty of the Evangelists, 254.
Luke, St., chap. xxi., considered, 213.

Lyons and Vienne, epistle to the churches of, 131.

MAGNETISM, animal, 207.

Mahomet, religion of, 324.

Man, every civilized, a monument of a revelation, 17.

Martial, testimony of, 55; conjectural emendation of a passage in, 56.
Milman, Dean, quotation from, 48.

Miracles, argument for, probability of, 12; a modern objection to,
considered, 13; as viewed by Hume, 15; annotation on his
statement with regard to, 32; sufferings voluntarily undergone
by the witnesses of the, 37; tone in which they are spoken of by
the apostles, 61; proof that they were at the outset admitted by
the Jews, 84; distinguished from false perceptions, 190; tenta-
tive, 193; doubtful, 195; alleged, performed by Vespasian, 201;
not appealed to by early christian writers, 359; references to, by
ancient christian apologists, 363.

Morality, not a subject of discovery, 221.

Mortality, man's, grounds for inferring, 28.

Mosaic institution, assumption by Christ of its divine origin, 345.

NARRATIVE, the christian, material parts of, preserved, 92.
Nature and revelation, reasons for the study of, 9.

Nature, the course of, in what it consists, 18.

Neologists, German, hypothesis of some, refuted, 110.

New Testament, omissions in the, 96; its style and language, 116;
apocryphal books of the, 173; naturalness of some of the things
related in the, 254; mixed nature of the allusions in the, 270;
writers of the, their knowledge of public affairs, 290.

OBJECTION, a modern, to miracles, considered, 13; against St. Luke,
considered, 290.

Old Testament, authority of, considered, 343.

Origen, testimony of, examined, 137.

PAINE, TOM, remarks of, confuted, 113.

Paley, fundamental error of, 245; observation of, concerning sleep,
considered, 395; evidence adduced by, cumulative, 395.

Parables, the, considered, 234.

Paris, Abbé, miracles alleged to have been wrought at the tomb of,

205.

Particularity a mark of truth in history, 185.

Paul, St., history of, 69.

Perceptions, false, distinguished from miracles, 190.

Persécution, evil of, in what it chiefly consists, 382; as practised by

votaries of Christianity, 383.

Persecutors, conscientious, 379.

Pliny, the younger, epistle of, 54.

Polycarp, epistle of, 127.

Porphyry, attacks made by, on the Scriptures, 168.

Positivists, doctrine held by, 30; specimen of the style assumed

by, 30.

Possession, demoniacal, Paley's reasoning respecting, 343.

Prayer, the Lord's, 235.

Preachers, early, of Christianity, difficulties of, 41.

Predictions, miraculous, 199.

Principle, an immaterial, notion of, 393.

Prophecy, 208; points requisite to establish the claims of, 217.

RATIONALISTS, language used by, 200.

Religion, the Jewish, character of the, 39; changes in, not patronized
by infidels, 43; considered an affair of state by the ancient
heathen, 44; the christian influence of, considered, 376; order
to be observed in inquiries into, 383.

Resurrection, the, effects of spreading the story of the, 47; the evan-
gelists' account of the, 249; history of the, 298.

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