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... reader will bear in mind that this passage was written about seventy years after Christ's death, and that it relates to transactions which took place about thirty years after that event — Speaking of the fire which happened at Rome in ...
... reader will bear in mind that this passage was written about seventy years after Christ's death, and that it relates to transactions which took place about thirty years after that event — Speaking of the fire which happened at Rome in ...
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... reader know what a persecution in those days was, I would refer him to a circular letter, written by the church of Smyrna soon after the death of Polycarp, who it will be remembered, had lived with Saint John; and which letter is ...
... reader know what a persecution in those days was, I would refer him to a circular letter, written by the church of Smyrna soon after the death of Polycarp, who it will be remembered, had lived with Saint John; and which letter is ...
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... reader had before heard of. In Saint John's Gospel the same point appears hence, that there are some principal facts ... readers knew who John was. His rapid parenthetical reference to.
... reader had before heard of. In Saint John's Gospel the same point appears hence, that there are some principal facts ... readers knew who John was. His rapid parenthetical reference to.
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William Paley. readers knew who John was. His rapid parenthetical reference to John's imprisonment, “for John was not yet cast into prison,” (John iii. 24.) could only come from a writer whose mind was in the habit of considering John's ...
William Paley. readers knew who John was. His rapid parenthetical reference to John's imprisonment, “for John was not yet cast into prison,” (John iii. 24.) could only come from a writer whose mind was in the habit of considering John's ...
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... reader who is conversant in these researches, by comparing the short Scripture accounts of the Christian rites above-mentioned with the minute and circumstantial directions contained in the pretended apostolical constitutions, will see ...
... reader who is conversant in these researches, by comparing the short Scripture accounts of the Christian rites above-mentioned with the minute and circumstantial directions contained in the pretended apostolical constitutions, will see ...
Contents
CHAPTER II | |
CHAPTER I | |
CHAPTER II | |
CHAPTER III | |
CHAPTER IV | |
CHAPTER V | |
CHAPTER VII | |
CHAPTER IX | |
CHAPTER IX | |
The Scriptures were in very early Times collected | |
Were publicly read and expounded in the religious | |
They were received by ancient Christians | |
The four Gospels the Acts of the Apostles thirteen | |
Formal Catalogues of authentic Scriptures were | |
CHAPTER I | |
CHAPTER I | |
CHAPTER III | |
CHAPTER V | |
CHAPTER VI | |
CHAPTER VII | |
CHAPTER VIII | |
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