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CREDIBILITY OF THE GOSPEL HISTORY.-
Luke i. 1-4.
THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE BOOKS INVOLVES THE CRED-
IBILITY; for it is very rare to meet with any authentic
histories, in which the principal facts are untrue,
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The principal facts of the New Testament are very few, and
peculiarly prominent,
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PROOFS OF CREDIBILITY DERIVED FROM OTHER SOUR-
CES; from the governors of the Roman provinces,
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From heathen writers,
From Jewish writings, especially Josephus,
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From the character of many of the converts to the Chris-
tian faith,
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From the testimony of Mahomet,
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From the religious rites and usages springing out of the facts
of Christianity, which continue to the present day,
From several ancient monuments which have survived the
wreck of time,
THE CHARACTER AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE SACRED
WRITERS ESTABLISH THE CREDIBILITY OF THEIR WRIT-
INGS,
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The number of witnesses,
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They had full knowledge of the things they attest,
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The testimony they bear is to facts, of which they were
They were persons of transparent integrity of character,
Of sound mind, and by no means credulous or rash,
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They relate events at the spot where they occurred, and
before the multitudes who witnessed them,
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Their whole subsequent lives were marked by unparalleled
benevolence and holiness,
They had nothing to expect for their testimony but temporal
calamities and death,
No one convert ever complained of being imposed upon,
If our account be false, where is the true one?
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THE AUTHENTICITY AND CREDIBILITY OF THE OLD TES-
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TAMENT,
Fidelity of the English translation,
Our faith must practically correspond with what we have
admitted in argument,
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The immense value of Christianity,
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LECTURE VII.
DIVINE AUTHORITY OF CHRISTIANITY.-
MIRACLES.-Mark ii. 10-12.
The credentials of a divine mission,
THE WONDERFUL ACTIONS ASCRIBED ΤΟ OUR SAVIOUR
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AND HIS APOSTLES, REALLY TOOK PLACE,
Every miracle consists of two distinct and palpable facts,
The credibility of the gospel history applies to these very
actions,
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They were believed by the converts of the first century, and attested to those of the second,
Institutions still subsist which took their rise from them,
The minute and artless account of them seals their truth,
Objections answered; fallibility of human testimony,
The facts of the gospel were plain and palpable miracles,
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They were done openly as divine acts,
Before the Jewish nation, accustomed to judge of miracles,
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And were both numerous and various,
Our Lord was himself the subject of miracles,
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Permanent effects were produced by the gospel miracles,
They were wrought for a high and holy end,
THE CONNEXION
BETWEEN THESE MIRACLES, AND THE
RELIGION THEY ARE SAID TO ATTEST, IS SUCH, AS TO
PROVE ITS DIVINE ORIGIN,
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Our Saviour and his apostles appeal to their mighty works,
They were predicted as the evidence of the Messiah,
An appropriate attestation to a divine religion,
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They were performed by those who had all other signs of a
divine mission,
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The inference from the miracles to the truth of Christianity is conclusive,
They are incorporated with the instructions,
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The success of the gospel, resting on the miracles, proves
that the doctrine was from God,
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No other religion ever was established by miracles, but the
religion of the Bible,
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The impression which a review of Christian miracles is cal-
culated to produce,
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The importance of yielding to conviction,
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The danger of resting in a mere historical faith,
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LECTURE VIII.
PROPHECY.-2 Peter i. 16--21,
The harmony of all its parts in the person and salvation of
The practical and important ends which the scheme of pro-
phecy subserved, and still subserves, in the church,
The prodigious scheme of prophecy has the impress upon it
of the infinite majesty of God,
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It should stimulate the humble inquirer,
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He should study the sacred volume with holy and increasing
diligence,
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And always with a view to some practical end,
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LECTURE IX.
DIVINE AUTHORITY.-THE FULFILMENT OF
PROPHECY.-Isaiah xli. 21-24,
Part I. THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF PROPHECIES RESPECT-
ING THE MESSIAH, proves a divine prescience,
Predictions marking out the Messiah, and fulfilled in our Lord,
Respecting his birth,
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The number of the prophets, and the independence of their
predictions,
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The circumstances connected with the fulfilment, especially
the accumulation of prophetical inspiration,
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The spiritual offices predicted of Messiah, which our Lord
fulfilled, and is now fulfilling in the church,
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The humble acknowledgment of faith in the Messiah,
The contrast afforded by the unbelief of the Jews,
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The duty of seeking after the spiritual blessings which Mes-
siah bestows,
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Part II. THE FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY, IN EVENTS
WHICH RELATE ΤΟ THE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN
CHURCH, CONFIRMS THE PRECEDING EVIDENCE,
Our Lord's prophecy of the destruction of the city and polity
of the Jews, and the dispersion of the people,
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Predictions of the apostacies of the latter days,
The future conversion of the world, and the final triumph of
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holiness and truth,
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The peculiar force of the argument derived from prophecy,
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LECTURE X.
DIVINE AUTHORITY.-PROPAGATION OF
CHRISTIANITY.-1 Cor. i. 19-29,
With the success in our missions amongst the Jews and
Heathen,
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With the propagation of truth among ourselves,
With reforms in Christianity at any period,
PRESERVATION AND CONTINUANCE of Christianity in the
world,
The propagation of Christianity is the fulfilment of prophecy,
The effect upon the mind produced by their combined evi-
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dence,
Address to the young inquirer,
LECTURE XI.
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DIVINE
AUTHORITY.—BENEFICIAL EF-
FECTS OF CHRISTIANITY.-1 Tim. iv. 8.
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The divine authority of Christianity appears from the OB-
VIOUS EFFECTS it has produced, and is producing on the
welfare of mankind,
Christianity IMPLANTS THOSE PRINCIPLES upon which the
welfare of individuals and states depend,
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