CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY
Driginal and Selected Publications

OF

IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS

OF

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, & THE ARTS.

VOL. XXVI.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE & CO EDINBURGH: AND HURST, CHANCE & CO LONDON.

# C1075,20

COLLEGE

HARVARD

MAY 16 1888

LIBRARY

Lucy Osgood fund:

A

SERIES OF ABRIDGEMENTS

FROM

SEVEN DISTINGUISHED WRITERS

ON THE

EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY.

BY

THE VENERABLE

FRANCIS WRANGHAM, M. A. F.R.S.

ARCHDEACON OF CLEVELAND.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH;
AND HURST, CHANCE & CO. LONDON.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

66

I. REASONS OF THE CHRISTIAN'S HOPE; abridged

from the conclusion of DR LELAND'S View

of the Principal Deistical Writers of Eng-

land, of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth

Centuries"

II. THE TRUTH OF THE SCRIPTURE HISTORY; a-

bridged from Mr LESLIE'S" Short and Easy

Method with the Deists; and his "Truth of

Christianity Demonstrated"

III. THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY; abridged

from DR DODDRIDGE'S "Three Sermons

that subject

on

IV. AN APOLOGY FOR THE BIBLE; abridged from

BISHOP WATSON'S " Answer to the Second

Part of Paine's Age of Reason,'

"3

64

V. THE PRINCIPAL PARTS OF BISHOP BUTLER'S

Analogy of Religion, Natural and Reveal-

ed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature,"

abridged