...persons pretending to be original witnesses of any other similar miracles, have acted in the same manner, in attestation of the accounts which they delivered, and solely in consequence of their belief of the truth of those accounts." Of these two propositions the latter, it will easily be perceived, is...

...their own persons or that of their Master, by these apostles and emissaries themselves. CHAPTER VII. Christiaп miracles, passed their lives in labours, dangers, and sufferings, voluntarily undergone...

...successors in Pliny's time, or the missionaries of the religion, than those whom they taught. CHAPTER VI. posing Polycarp to have had these words from the books in which we now find them, it Chria» Eph. ii. 1— a Bee alto Tit. iii. 3. 1 1 Pel. iv. 3, 4. 1 1 Cor. vi. 11. § Bom. vi. 31. tian...

...is likely to be any question. He states with this view, two propositions : viz. PROP. I. — " That there is satisfactory evidence, that many, professing...witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed their lives in labors, dangers, and sufferings, voluntarily undergone in attestation of the accounts which they delivered,...

...is likely to be any. question. He states with this view, two propositions : viz. PROP. I. — " That there is satisfactory evidence, that many, professing...witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed their lives in lahors, dangers, and sufferings, voluntarily undergone in attestation of the accounts which they delivered,...

...that persons pretending to be original witnesses of any other miracles have acted in the same manner, in attestation of the accounts which they delivered, and solely in consequence of their belief of the truth of these accounts." These propositions can be substantiated to the conviction of every serious...

...credibility is demonstrated from this consideration, — ' that they passed their lives in laboursv dangers, and sufferings voluntarily undergone in attestation of the accounts which they delivered, and solely IB consequence of their belief in those accounts ; and that they also submitted, from the same motives,...

...argument, and whose able work is now the popular authority, founds it on the two propositions—" 1st. That there is satisfactory evidence that many, professing...consequence of their belief of those accounts, and that they submitted, from the same motives, to new rules of conduct; 2dly, that there is not satisfactory...

...on the two propositions — ' 1st. That there is satisfactory evidence that many, professing in he original witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed...consequence of their belief of those accounts, and that they submitted, from the same motives, to new rules of conduct ; 2dly. That there is not satisfactory...

...they delivered, and, so far, was both new, and required continual self-denial. CHAPTER II. There w satisfactory evidence that many professing to be original...voluntarily undergone in attestation of the accounts vhich they delivered, and solely in consequence of their belief of those accounts ; and that they also...