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Evans' sketch of the denominations of the Christian world ...
Evans' sketch of the denominations of the Christian world Author:John Evans Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tendency to promote the good of society, and advance the present as well as future happiness of the human race. Soame Jenyns, Porteus in his Essay on the Benefic... more »ial Effects of Christianity, and Paley, have illustrated this other branch. The evidence arising from Miracles rests upon the truth of the narration respecting them, and therefore , These writings contain various and numerous incidents of time, place, persons, names, and things: occasional discourses, differences of style, e pistles in answer to epistles, and passages cited from those which they answer, directions and observations suited to the state of several churches, seeming contradictions and real difficulties which might easily have been avoided, things mentioned which worldly considerations would have suppressed, and things omitted which invention and imagination might have supplied. A character of Christ, arising from his words and actions, of a most singular kind, left to its intrinsic merit, and aided by no art: and, in die writings of St. Paul, sentiments, warm, pathetic, and coming from the heart: particularities in each gospel suitable to the character, situation, and circumstances of each Evangelist. There is not one page in the New Testament which affords not internal characters of being composed by men who lived at the time when the thingi happened which are there related. The discourses of Christ are always occasional, and full of allusions to particular incidents. The historical parts of the New Testament, and the travels of Christ and his Apostles, correspond with the accounts and descriptions which may be collected from other authors. In the Judgment which Pilate passed upon Christ, the rules of the Roman law were observed. What is accidentally mentioned concerning the behaviour of Felix and G...« less