THE

52

SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY

TO THE

MESSIAH.

B. BENSLEY,

Bolt Court, Fleet Street.

THE

SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY

TO THE

MESSIAH:

AN

INQUIRY

WITH A VIEW TO A SATISFACTORY DETERMINATION OF THE
DOCTRINE TAUGHT IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

CONCERNING THE

PERSON OF CHRIST;

INCLUDING

A CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF THE REV. THOMAS BELSHAM'S
CALM INQUIRY, AND OF OTHER UNITARIAN WORKS
ON THE SAME SUBJECT.

BY JOHN PYE SMITH, D.D.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II. PART II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR B. J. HOLDSWORTH,
South Side of St. Paul's Church Yard.

AND SOLD BY

HATCHARD & SON, PICCADILLY; J. PARKER, OXFORD; DEIGHTON & SONS,
CAMBRIDGE; WAUGH & INNES, EDINBURGH; WARDLAW & CUNNINGHAME,
AND CHALMERS & COLLINS, GLASGOW; AND R. M. TIMMS, DUBLIN.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

BOOK III.

On the information to be obtained concerning the Person

of the Christ, from the Narratives of the Evangelical

History, and from our Lord's own Assertions and In-

timations

CHAP. I. On the Narrative of the Miraculous Conception.

Supplementary Notes. Charnock and Hartley

on this subject.-Leclerc on the discrimination

of genuine and spurious writings.-Kuincel on

the "fulfilment" of passages from the O. T.

-On the star, the visit of the Magi, and the

massacre at Bethlehem

......

....

CHAP. II. On the Evidence relative to the Person of the

Christ, which may be derived from the office

and the testimony of John the Baptist

Supplementary Notes. On the translation of

John i. 15, 27.-On that of Luke i. 17.—

Rosenmüller on the knowledge and power of

Christ

CHAP. III. Declarations, Intimations, and Admissions of
Jesus Christ concerning himself...

Capit. I. Declarations made, or acquiesced in, by Jesus

Christ, elucidating the import of the appella-

tion SON OF GOD

Page

5

6

31

37

42

Sect. 1. Son of the Most High; Luke i. 32

IV. His Person, equally with that of the Father,

surpassing human knowledge.

44

46

47

49

58