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Acts admitted afterwards allusions Answer antient writings Apostles appear argument ascension ascribes assert attestation authority Barachia book of Revelation called century CHAPTER character Chris Christian history Christian writers church circum circumstances Clement Clement of Alexandria companion converts Cyrenius Deity disciples doctrine effects epistle Eusebius Evangelists EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY facts founder four gospels genuineness gospels of Matthew Hence Herod Agrippa Irenæus Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews John John's gospel Judea Justin Martyr Lactantius letters ligion Luke Mahomet Matt Matthew Messiah ministry miracles morality narrative nature Objection Origen original passage Paul persecution persons Pliny Polycarp popular Pothinus preaching pretended probably proof propagation of Christianity prophets proposition prove put to death racles racter received refers rejected religion resurrection revelation Roman Rome Saviour's says scrip scriptures SECTION shews story sufferings Tacitus teachers Tertullian Testament testimony Theudas tianity tians tion tory truth words of Christ written wrote
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Page 60 - That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
Page 5 - That there is satisfactory evidence that many, professing to be original witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed their lives in labours, 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.
Page 4 - ... of this account, should call these men into his presence, and offer them a short proposal, either to confess the imposture, or submit to be tied up to a gibbet; if they should refuse with one voice to acknowledge that there...
Page 1 - I desire moreover that in judging of Christianity it may be remembered, that the question lies between this religion and none; for, if the christian religion be not credible, no one with whom we have to do, will support the pretensions of any other.
Page 81 - The influence of religion is not to be sought for in the councils of princes, in the debates or resolutions of popular assemblies, in the conduct of governments towards their subjects or of states and sovereigns towards one another, of conquerors at the head of their armies...
Page 64 - It was not yet known to the apostles that they were at liberty to propose the religion to mankind at large. That ' mystery,' as Saint Paul calls it, and as it then was, was revealed to Peter by an especial miracle.
Page 2 - That reality always must be proved by evidence. We assert only, that in miracles adduced in support of revelation there is not any such antecedent improbability as no testimony can surmount.
Page 24 - That the four Gospels alone are received without dispute by the whole church of God under heaven...
Page 60 - And the undesignedness of the agreements (which undesignedness is gathered from their latency, their minuteness, their obliquity, the suitableness of the circumstances in which they consist, to the places in which those circumstances occur, and the circuitous references by which they are traced out) demonstrates...
Page 3 - ... which it may be necessary to remove in the first place. Strictly speaking, the narrative of a fact is then only contrary to experience, when the fact vt related to have existed at a time and place, at which time and place we being present, did not perceive it to exist...