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PREPARATORY CONSIDERATIONS.
Of the antecedent credibility of miracles......
PART I.
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Of the direct historical Evidence of Christianity, and wherein it is distin-
guished from the Evidence alleged for other Miracles.
Propositions stated.....
PROPOSITION 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....
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CHAPTER I.
Evidence of the sufferings of the first propagators of Christianity,
from the nature of the case....
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CHAPTER II.
from profane testimony...
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CHAPTER III.
Indirect evidence of the sufferings of the first propagators of
Christianity, from the Scriptures and other ancient Christian
writings...
Direct evidence of the same
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
Observations upon the preceding evidence...
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CHAPTER VI.
That the story, for which the first propagators of Christianity
suffered, was miraculous
CHAPTER VII.
That it was, in the main, the story which we have now, proved by
indirect considerations
CHAPTER VIII.
The same proved from the authority of our historical Scriptures... 99
CHAPTER IX.
Of the authenticity of the historical Scriptures; in Eleven
Sections.....
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SECT. I. Quotations of the historical Scriptures by ancient Chris-
tian writers....
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