SIXTH

OF THE

VOLUME.

A HISTORY OF THE APOSTLES AND EVANGELISTS.

PAGE.

CHAP.

1.

II.

GENERAL DENOMINATIONS OF THE COLLECTION OF SA-

CRED BOOKS RECEIVED BY CHRISTIANS

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS UPON THE CANON OF THE NEW

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3

TESTAMENT

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13

III.

OF THE METHOD IN WHICH THE CANON OF THE NEW

TESTAMENT HAS BEEN FORMED

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25

IV.

OF THE TIME OF WRITING THE GOSPELS, ESPECIALLY

THE FIRST THREE

VI.

OF THE TIME WHEN THE APOSTLES LEFT JUDEA TO GO

AND PREACH THE GOSPEL IN OTHER COUNTRIES

THE QUESTION CONSIDERED, WHETHER ANY ONE OF THE

FIRST THREE EVANGELISTS HAD SEEN THE GOSPELS

OF THE OTHERS BEFORE HE WROTE

THAT THE EPISTLE INSCRIBED TO THE EPHESIANS WAS

WRITTEN TO THEM

THAT THE CHURCHES OF COLOSSE AND LAODICEA WERE

PLANTED BY THE APOSTLE PAUL

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CHAP.

XIX.

: X.

XXI.

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIV.

XXV.

THE TWO EPISTLES OF ST. PETER

THE THREE EPISTLES OF ST. JOHN

ST. JUDE, AND HIS EPISTLE

THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN

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THE ORDER OF THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

THAT THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, CONSISTING

OF A COLLECTION OF SACRED WRITINGS, IN TWO

PARTS, ONE CALLED GOSPEL, OR GOSPELS, OR EVAN-

GELICON; THE OTHER CALLED EPISTLES, OR APOSTLE,
OR APOSTLES, OR APOSTOLICON, WERE EARLY KNOWN,
READ, AND MADE USE OF BY CHRISTIANS

THE QUESTION CONSIDERED, WHETHER ANY SACRED

BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT HAVE BEEN LOST

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663

OF THE

TIMES AND

PLACES

Of writing the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul's Epiftles, the feven Catholic Epiftles, and the Revelation.

A Table of St. Paul's Epiftles, in the order of time, with the places where, and