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THE

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EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY

IN

THEIR EXTERNAL OR HISTORICAL DIVISION:

EXHIBITED IN

A COURSE OF LECTURES,

BY CHARLES PETTIT M'ILVAINE, D. D.

BISHOP OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE STATE OF

OHIO.

Sint casta deliciæ meæ scripturæ tuæ; nec fallar in eis, nec fallam ex eis.

AUGUSTINE.

NINTH EDITION.

REVISED AND IMPROVED BY THE AUTHOR.

PUBLISHED BY THE

AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY,
150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW YORK.

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Entered by the author, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1832, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

Right of publishing transferred to the American Tract Society.

CONTENTS.

The study of the evidences of Christianity may be brief or extended,
according as the object is simply conviction; or, in addition to that,
the pleasure of collecting all the various lights which may be con-
centrated on this subject.

The evidences are of two general classes, namely, external, or histor-

ical, and internal,

A brief account of what each head includes,

The present course of lectures confined to the external.

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5. The agreement of the ancient churches as to what were the
authentic books of the New Testament was complete,

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6. There was as entire an agreement among the heretics of the earliest

centuries as among the orthodox,

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7. These several heads of evidence cannot be pretended to be in
favor of any apocryphal scriptures,

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AUTHENTICITY AND INTEGRITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, 89

From the tenor of the preceding lecture, it is evident that the canon
of the New Testament was not made without the most intelligent and
careful investigation,

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On the INTEGRITY of these books, that they have undergone no mate-
rial alteration, we reason,

1. From the perfect impossibility of any material alteration,

2 From the agreement among the existing manuscripts,

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