Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typ...os. Excerpt from book: PART I OF THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE CF CHRISTIANITY, AND WHEREIN IT IS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE EVIDENCE ALLEGED FOR OTHER MIRACLES. The two propositions which I shall endeavor to establish are these: I. That there is satisfactory evidence that many professing to be original witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed their lives in labors, 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. II. That there is not satisfactory evidence, that persons professing to be original witnesses, of other miracles, in their nature as certain as these are, have ever acted in the same manner, in attestation of the accounts which they delivered, and properly in consequence of their belief of those accounts. For an account of the three kinds of evidence?External, Internal, and Experimental,?and also for a definition of satisfactory Evi dence, see Wardlaw, chap. i. sec. 2., and Hopkins' Lowell Lectures. Dr. H. proves that testimony and reasoning will produce all the eertainty of mathematical demonstration; pp. 23-31.?Ed. PROPOSITION I. THERE IS SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE THAT MAST, PROFESSING TO BE ORIGINAL WITNESSES OF THE CHRISTIAN MIRACLES, PASSED THEIR LIVES IN LABORS, 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. CHAPTER I. BVIDENOE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF THE FIItST PROPAGATOBS OF CHKI8- TIANITT FROM THE NATURE OF THE CASE. To support this proposition, two points are necessary to be made out:...Detailed info »« Brief info