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- THE HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND JAMES YORK, D.D., LORD BISHOP OF ELY
- PREPARATORY CONSIDERATIONS.
- OF THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY, AND WHEREIN IT IS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE EVIDENCE ALLEGED FOR OTHER MIRACLES.
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- CHAPTER V.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CHAPTER VII.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CHAPTER IX.
- SECTION I. The historical books of the New Testament, meaning thereby the four Gospels and the Acts
- SECTION II. When the Scriptures are quoted, or alluded to, they are quoted with peculiar respect
- SECTION III. The Scriptures were in very early times collected into a distinct volume.
- SECTION IV. Our present Sacred Writings were soon distinguished by appropriate names and titles of respect.
- SECTION V. Our Scriptures were publicly read and expounded in the religious assemblies of the early Christians.
- SECTION VI. Commentaries were anciently written upon the Scriptures; harmonies formed out of them
- SECTION VII. Our Scriptures were received by ancient Christians of different sects and persuasions
- SECTION VIII. The four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, thirteen Epistles of Saint Paul the First
- SECTION IX. Our historical Scriptures were attacked by the early adversaries of Christianity
- SECTION X. Formal catalogues of authentic Scriptures were published, in all which our present sacred histories were
- SECTION XI. These propositions cannot be predicated of any of those books which are commonly called Apocryphal
- CHAPTER X. RECAPITULATION.
- CHAPTER I. Our first proposition was, That there is satisfactory evidence that many pretending to be original
- CHAPTER II. But they with whom we argue have undoubtedly a right to select their own examples.
- CHAPTER I. PROPHECY.
- CHAPTER II. THE MORALITY OF THE GOSPEL.
- CHAPTER III. THE CANDOUR OF THE WRITERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
- CHAPTER IV. IDENTITY OF CHRIST'S CHARACTER.
- CHAPTER V. ORIGINALITY OF OUR SAVIOUR'S CHARACTER.
- CHAPTER VI. One argument which has been much relied upon but not more than its just weight
- CHAPTER VII. UNDESIGNED COINCIDENCES.
- CHAPTER VIII. OF THE HISTORY OF THE RESURRECTION.
- CHAPTER IX. THE PROPAGATION OF CHRISTIANITY.
- SECTION II. REFLECTIONS UPON THE PRECEDING ACCOUNT.
- SECTION III. OF THE RELIGION OF MAHOMET.
- PART III. A BRIEF CONSIDERATION OF SOME POPULAR OBJECTIONS. cCHAPTER I. THE DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN THE SEVERAL GOSPELS.
- CHAPTER II. ERRONEOUS OPINIONS IMPUTED TO THE APOSTLES.
- CHAPTER III. THE CONNEXION OF CHRISTIANITY WITH THE JEWISH HISTORY.
- CHAPTER IV. REJECTION OF CHRISTIANITY.
- CHAPTER V. THAT THE CHRISTIAN MIRACLES ARE NOT RECITED, OR APPEALED TO, BY EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITERS THEMSELVES SO FULLY OR FREQUENTLY AS MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED.
- CHAPTER VI. WANT OF UNIVERSALITY IN THE KNOWLEDGE AND RECEPTION OF CHRISTIANITY, AND OF GREATER CLEARNESS IN THE EVIDENCE.
- CHAPTER VII. THE SUPPOSED EFFECTS OF CHRISTIANITY.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE CONCLUSION,