3. Are there any casual or undesigned disclosures in these books which tend to increase their importance, as evidence?

4. State the argument, to be derived from this fact, in full.

1. What presumption is there, derived from the nature of the case, that the story of the first Christians was miraculous ?

2. Is the account which we possess at this day, that story?

3. Prove this.

4. Is the suffering of persecution in defence of any set of opinions a presumption in favour of their truth?

5. How then does the fact, that the Apostles of Christianity were persecuted, bear upon the probability that they spoke the truth?

1. Explain the nature of the aggregate authority of the written evidence of Christianity, and state its value as an argument in defence of that system.

2. How do we perceive that we possess a collection of proofs, and not a naked or solitary testimony, in favour of Christianity?

1. State the principal arguments for the authenticity and genuineness of the holy Scriptures.

2. How do you distinguish between genuineness and authenticity?

3. Mention in order the eleven allegations upon which Dr. Paley contends for the authenticity of the New Testament Scriptures.

4. Quote some passages from early Christian writers, in which direct allusion is made to the writings of the Apostles, &c. in the New Testament.

5. Quote passages to prove that these Scriptures were alluded to with particular respect, and as possessing an authority which belonged to no other books.

6. Give your reasons for asserting that the Scriptures were, in very early times, collected into a distinct volume.

7. Quote passages in which they are distinguished by appropriate titles of respect.

8. What reasons have we for supposing that the Scriptures were publicly read and expounded in the religious assemblies of the early Christians?

9. Mention some Harmonies and Commentaries written upon them in very early times.

10. How many years had elapsed between the death of Christ and the earliest of these harmonies ?

11. Give a succinct account of the most ancient Versions of the New Testament Scriptures.

1. What books were received without doubt by those who doubted concerning the other books which are included in our present Canon?

2. State the principal evidence upon which the Epistle to the Hebrews is so included.

3. What is meant by the passage concerning the heavenly witnesses ?'

4. Give a brief account of the controversy which has taken place upon that passage.

5. Prove that the historical Scriptures of the New Testament were attacked by the early adversaries of Christianity, as containing the accounts upon which the religion is founded.

6. Mention some early catalogues which were made of the sacred Scriptures in which all our histories were included.

7. What are called the apocryphal books of the New Testament ?

8. Mention some tests which these cannot abide.

1. Mention the chief criteria of miracles, and adduce instances of spurious miracles which are proved by them to be fallacious.

2. Define a miracle.

3. Shew their necessity to the proof of revelation.

4. What are the chief objections furnished against miracles by infidel writers? 5. How do the Neologians or Rationalists of Germany explode the evidence derived from miracles?

6. Briefly state the arguments which may be brought to prove the truth of the resurrection of Christ, and shew the design of that miracle.

7. What moderns have laid claim to the power of working miracles?

8. Give some account of their tentative miracles.

9. What do you mean by the criterion of false perception' as applied to an alleged miracle?

10. Shew that the miracles of Jesus Christ cannot be resolved into mere critical coincidences.

11. What are the three alleged miracles which Mr. Hume has selected to confront those of the founders of Christianity?

12. Shew the fallacy of his objections to Christian miracles, as arising from the examination of these events.