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Watson's Apologies for Christianity and the Bible
Watson's Apologies for Christianity and the Bible Author:Richard Watson Subtitle: Jenyns's View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion;west's Observations on the Resurrection of Christ,and Lyttelton, on the Conversion and Apostleship of St.paul General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Original Publisher: printed for William Baynes and Son Notes: This is a black and white O... more »CR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: AN APOLOGY FOR THE BIBLE, / A SERIES OF LETTERS, ADDRESSED TO THOMAS PAINE, AUTHOR OP A BOOK, ENTITLED, THg AGE OF REASON, PART THU SECOND, BEING AN INVESTIGATION OF TBUB AND OF FABULOUS THEOLOGY. R. WATSON, D. D. F. R. S. LORD BISHOP OP LANDAFP, AND RKGIUS PBOFBSSOR OF DIVINITY IN TBB UNIVKKSITT Or CAMBBinOB. APOLOGY FOR THE BIBLE. LETTER 1. Sir; I Have lately met with a bookof yours, entitled, "The Age of Reason, part the second, being an investigation of true and of fabulous theology;" and I think it not inconsistent with my station, and the duty I owe to society, to trouble you and the world with some observations on so extraordinary a performance. Extraordinary I esteem it; not from any novelty in the objections which you have produced against revealed religion (for I find little or no novelty in them), but from the zeal with which you labour to disseminate your opinions, and from the confidence with which you esteem them true. You perceive, by this, that I give you credit for your sincerity, how much soever I may question your wisdom, in writing in such a manner on such a subject; and I have no reluctance in acknowledging, that you possess a considerable share of energy of language, and acute- ness of investigation; though I must be allowed to lament, that these talents have not been applied in a manner more useful to human kind, and more creditabl...« less