Sections 1 THE NEW TESTAMENT The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the… 2 I lay it down as a position which cannot be controverted, first, that the agreement of all… 3 Now, if these men, Matthew and Luke, set out with a falsehood between them (as these two… 4 But, exclusive of this, the presumption is that the books called the Evangelists, and… 5 The inscription is thus stated in those books: Matthew—This is Jesus the king of the Jews. 6 Now if it had been true that these things had happened, and if the writers of these books… 7 Strange indeed, that an army of saints should retum to life, and nobody know who they were,… 8 The book of Matthew goes on to say (ver. 9 The expression, until this day, is an evidence that the book ascribed to Matthew was not… 10 According to Matthew the eleven were marching to Galilee, to meet Jesus in a mountain, by… 11 As to the account of Christ being seen by more than five hundred at once, it is Paul only… 12 The book of Mark says that Christ appeared to the eleven as they sat at meat, alluding to… 13 But to retum to the subject.—Though it is impossible, at this distance of time, to ascertain… 14 The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as… 15 At what time the books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, began to appear, is… 16 About three hundred and fifty years after the time that Christ is said to have lived,… 17 This Bishop Faustus is usually styled “The Manichaeum,” 18 When we consider the lapse of more than three hundred years intervening between the time… 19 But as it is not uncommon (as before observed) to relate stories of persons walking after… 20 Jonah and the whale are also made into a sign and type. 21 Besides, as a matter of choice, as well as of hope, I had rather have a better body and a… 22 Statues of brass and marble will perish; and statues made in imitation of them are not the… 23 As to the doubtful jargon ascribed to Paul in 1 Corinthians xv., which makes part of the… 24 We know from history, that one of the principal leaders of this church, Athanasius, lived at…
Start Learning