OF THE

EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY.

IN THREE PARTS.

BY

WILLIAM PALEY, M.A.,

ARCHDEACON OF CARLISLE

WITH

ANNOTATIONS

BY RICHARD WHATELY, D.D.,

ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN.

NEW YORK:

JAMES MILLER, 436 BROADWAY.

MDCCCLX.

PART I.

Of the direct historical Evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distin-

guished from the Evidence alleged for other Miracles.

Propositions stated....

CHAPTER I.

Evidence of the sufferings of the first propagators of Christianity,

from the nature of the case.

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PROPOSITION I.

That there is satisfactory evidence, that many, professing to be

original witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed their lives

in labors, dangers, and sufferings, voluntarily undergone in

attestation of the accounts which they delivered, and solely

in consequence of their belief of those accounts; and that

they also submitted, from the same motives, to new rules of

conduct...

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