Syntagma of the Evidences of the Christian Religion

OF THE

EVIDENCES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

BEING

A VINDICATION

OF THE

MANIFESTO

THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE SOCIETY,

AGAINST THE ASSAULTS OF

THE CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION SOCIETY

THROUGH THEIR DEPUTY,

J. P. S.

COMMONLY REPORTED TO BE DR. JOHN PYE SMITH, OF HOMERTON.

THE REV. ROBERT TAYLOR, A. B. and M. R. C.S.
ORATOR OF THE AREOPAGUS,

PRISONER IN OAKHAM GAOL, FOR THE CONSCIENTIOUS MAINTENANCE
OF THE TRUTHS CONTAINED IN THAT MANIFESTO.

"Erroris convincite! nam intercipere scripta, et publicatam velle submergere
lectionem, non est Deum defendere, sed veritatis testificationem timere.”

ARNOBIUS.

London:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

AND PUBLISHED BY RICHARD CARLILE,
62, FLEET STREET.

1828.

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Sept. 24, 1957

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THE

PUBLISHER TO THE READER.

Thou hast, in this Pamphlet, all the sufficient evidence, that can be adduced for any piece of history a thousand years old, or to prove an error of a thousand years standing, that such a person as Jesus Christ never existed; but that the earliest christians meant the words to be nothing more than a personification of the principle of reason, of goodness, or that principle, be it what it may,

which may most benefit mankind in the passage through life.

CONTENTS.

THE MANIFESTO....

PROLEGOMENA,

SECTION 1.-On the general Evidence of the pretended

genuineness of the Christian Scriptures...

SECTION 2.-Of Acts and Edicts for the alteration of the

Scriptures...

Anastasius

SECTION 3.-Alteration of the Gospels in the reign of

SECTION 4.-On the assertion that Archbishop Lanfranc

effected an alteration of the Scriptures....