Remarks on Ecclesiastical History. In Three Volumes

REMARKS

ON

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY,

IN THREE VOLUMES.

BY JOHN JORTIN, D. D.

ARCHDEACON OF LONDON, RECTOR OF ST DUNSTAN IN
THE EAST, AND VICAR OF KENSINGTON.

SOLD BY LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO. FINSBURY SQUARE;
CUTHELL AND MARTIN, MIDDLE-ROW, HOLBORN;

AND J. WALKER, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1805.

T. TURNBULL, PRINTER, EDINBURGH.

CONTENTS

OF

VOLUME FIRST.

CIRCUMSTANCES of the Roman empire favour-

able to the beginnings and increase of Christianity

Whether Tiberius proposed to deify Christ

Conjecture on a passage in Juvenal

Case of the dæmoniacs who are mentioned in the New

Testament

Of the dæmoniacs after the apostolic age

The gift of tongues

The predictions of Christ concerning the destruction

of Jerusalem accomplished. Shewed to have been

extant before the event

Oracles ridiculed by Aristophanes and Lucian

95-104

106-108

Oracles at Hierapolis mentioned by Lucian De Dea

Syria; and some remarks on that book

108-114

The opinions of Herodotus, and of Van Dale, concern-

ing oracles

115, 116

116—152

The prophecies relating to our Saviour

Prophecies in the Old Testament, which cannot be
supposed to have been forged after the event

121-125.

1

The Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes

A passage in Porphyry concerning the Essenes ex-

Books