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VII. Of the Mechanical and Immechanical Parts and Functions of
Animals and Vegetables
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VIII. Of Mechanical Arrangement in the Human Frame. Of the Bones 55
IX. Of the Muscles
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XVII. The Relation of animated Bodies to inanimate Nature
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PREFATORY CONSIDERATIONS.-Of the antecedent Credibility of Miracles.
PART I.
ON THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CHRISTIANITY, AND
WHEREIN IT IS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE EVIDENCE ALLEGED
FOR OTHER MIRACLES.
Propositions stated.
PROPOSITION I.
That there is satisfactory Evidence that many, professing to be original Wit-
nesses of the Christian Miracles, passed their Lives in Labours, 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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CHAP. I. Evidence of the Sufferings of the first Propagators of Christianity, from the Nature of the Case.
II. Evidence of the Sufferings of the first Propagators of Christianity,
from Profane Testimony
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III. Indirect Evidence of the Sufferings of the first Propagators of
Christianity, from the Scriptures and other ancient Christian
Writings
IV. Direct Evidence of the same
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V. Observations upon the preceding Evidence
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VI. That the Story, for which the first Propagators of Christianity
suffered, was miraculous
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VII. That it was, in the main, the Story which we have now, proved by
indirect Considerations
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VIII. The same proved from the Authority of our historical Scriptures
IX. Of the Authenticity of the historical Scriptures (in eleven Sections) 237
SECTION I. Quotations of the historical Scriptures by ancient
Christian Writers
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II. Of the peculiar Respect with which they were quoted. 252
III. The Scriptures were in very early Times collected
VIII. The four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, thirteen
Epistles of Saint Paul, the First Epistle of John, and
the First of Peter, were received without Doubt by
those who doubted concerning the other Books of our
present Canon
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SECTION IX. Our present Gospels were considered by the Adversaries
of Christianity as containing the Accounts upon
which the Religion was founded
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x. Formal Catalogues of authentic Scriptures were pub-
lished, in all which our present Gospels were included 269
XI. The above Propositions cannot be predicated of those
Books which are commonly called Apocryphal Books
of the New Testament
CHAP. X. Recapitulation
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CHRISTIANITY, AND
OF THE DIRECT HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF WHEREIN IT IS DISTINGUISHED FROM THE EVIDENCE ALLEGED FOR OTHER MIRACLES.
PROPOSITION II.
CHAP. I. That there is NOT satisfactory Evidence, that persons pretending
to be original Witnesses of any other similar Miracles, have
acted in the same manner, in Attestation of the Accounts which
they delivered, and solely in Consequence of their Belief of the
Truth of those Accounts
II. Consideration of some specific Instances
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PART II-OF THE AUXILIARY EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY.
VI. Conformity of the Facts occasionally mentioned or referred to in
Scripture, with the State of Things in those Times, as represented
by foreign and independent Accounts
VII. Undesigned Coincidences.
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CHAP. VIII. Of the History of the Resurrection
IX. Of the Propagation of Christianity
SECT. II. Reflections upon the preceding Account
III. Of the Success of Mahometanism
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PART III-A BRIEF CONSIDERATION OF SOME POPULAR OBJECTIONS.
CHAP. I. The Discrepancies between the several Gospels
II. Erroneous Opinions imputed to the Apostles
III. The Connexion of Christianity with Jewish History
IV. Rejection of Christianity
V. That the Christian Miracles are not recited, or appealed to, by early
Christian Writers themselves, so fully or frequently as might have
been expected
VI. Want of Universality in the Knowledge and Reception of Christianity,
and of greater Clearness in the Evidence.
VII. The supposed Effects of Christianity
VIII. Conclusion
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