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CHAPTER II.
Evidence of the sufferings of the first propagators of Christianity,
from profane testimony...
CHAPTER III.
Indirect evidence of the sufferings of the first propagators of
Christianity, from the Scriptures and other ancient Christian
writings....
CHAPTER IV.
Direct evidence of the same
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CHAPTER V.
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Observations upon the preceding evidence.....
CHAPTER VI.
That the story, for which the first propagators of Christianity
suffered, was miraculous
CHAPTER VII.
That it was, in the main, the story which we have now, proved by
indirect considerations..
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CHAPTER VIII.
The same proved from the authority of our historical Scriptures... 99
CHAPTER IX.
Of the authenticity of the historical Scriptures; in Eleven
Sections....
115
SECT. I. Quotations of the historical Scriptures by ancient Chris-
tian writers...
121
SECT. II. Of the peculiar respect with which they were quoted.. 141
SECT. III. The Scriptures were, in very early times, collected
into a distinct volume..
...
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147
SECT. IV. And distinguished by appropriate names and titles of
respect
SECT. V. Were publicly read and expounded in the religious.
assemblies of the early Christians
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SECT. VI. Commentaries, &c., were anciently written upon the
Scriptures....
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152
SECT. VII. They were received by ancient Christians of different
sects and persuasions.
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SECT. VIII. The four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, thirteen
Epistles of 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. IX. Our present Gospels were considered by the adversaries
of Christianity, as containing the accounts upon which the
religion was founded....
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166
SECT. X. Formal Catalogues of authentic Scriptures were pub-
lished; in all which our present Gospels were included...... 171
SECT. XI. The above propositions cannot be predicated of those
books which are commonly called apocryphal books of the
New Testament
173
Of the direct historical Evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distin-
guished 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
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The candor of the writers of the New Testament...
248
Conformity of the facts occasionally mentioned or referred to in
Scripture, with the state of things in those times, as repre-
sented by foreign and independent accounts...
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Of the propagation of Christianity.....
SECT. II. Reflections upon the preceding account..
SECT. III. Of the success of Mahometanism...
PART III.
A Brief Consideration of some Popular Objections.
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The connection of Christianity with the Jewish history.......... 343
Rejection of Christianity...
347
That the Christian miracles are not recited, or appealed to, by
early Christian writers themselves, so fully or frequently as
might have been expected....
Want of universality in the knowledge and reception of Chris-
tianity, and of greater clearness in the evidence...
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