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Simon's fabulous combat with St Peter

A forged Sibylline oracle cited in the Constitutions

An emendation of a fault in it

The apostolical canons considered

The Sibylline oracles examined, and rejected as for-

geries and impostures

Homer's prophecy concerning Æneas and his posteri-

Virgil's fourth Eclogue considered

Fabricius, his account of the Sibylline oracles

Orphic verses, and fragments of Greek poets, &c.

which are cited by the fathers, examined and correc-

Eusebius not to be charged with defending the Sibyl-

Justin Martyr not the forger of them

Sibylline oracles which were made by Pagans

Barnabas. The antiquity and the dubious authority

of the epistle ascribed to him

Some remarks on Clemens Romanus

On Hermas and Polycarp

The Recognitions of Clemens a wretched romance.

A passage in them explained

The Epistle to Diognetus the work of an uncertain

and inconsiderable writer

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Ignatius. Remarks on his epiftles and his martyrdom 223-233

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Notions of Van Dale and Le Clerc concerning them 247

The opinion that God alone can work miracles, not

The miracles of our Saviour and of his Apostles de-
fended

Quadratus, his testimony concerning miracles

A passage in Tertullian corrected

and represented future events.

349-264

The miracles of Christ were of a prophetic nature,

One of St Paul's miracles of the same kind

Difference between the writers of the N. T. and the

writers of Legends

Reasons for which our Saviour cast out evil spirits 256

Remarks on the Dæmoniacs

St Paul, an emblem perhaps of the Jewish nation 263

An answer to the objection made from the miracles of

The Apostles seem to have wrought miracles only

when they were moved by the Holy Spirit

Recapitulation of the arguments in behalf of Chris-

General remarks on the miracles said to have been

wrought after the Apostolical days, in the second

and third centuries

These miracles not to be compared, in point of evidence,

with the miracles of Christ and the Apostles

The arguments which may be alledged in favour of

Objections which may be made to them

Some of them not improbable

Constancy of the martyrs may be ascribed to a divine

The doctrine of a particular providence maintained by

Woolaston and Le Clerc

The miracles after Constantine deserve no credit

Van Dale, Moyle, and Le Clerc; their notions of the

miracles after the days of the apostles

Middleton not singular in rejecting these miracles

Le

Justin M. of opinion that miraculous gifts had been

continued down to his time

St John; his being put in a vessel of boiling oil a du-

Whence it might arise

Oil not used in baptism till after the days of Justin 291

Tertullian very credulous

Papias an injudicious man. Whether an Ebionite

The epistle of Tiberianus to Trajan a forgery

Le Clerc's character of Van Dale and Moyle

The Christian miracles of different ages: how far

The Ethopians instructed by the Eunuch

Miracles wrought by apostolical men

Remarks on the apologists and their writings.

Quadratus, Aristides, Athenagoras, Melito

Christians not forbidden to read certain books

The apologies seen in all probability by some emper-

ors, and serviceable to the Christian cause

The character of Adrian

The account which he gives of the Egyptians

His rescript to Minucius

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Aquila. The account given of him by Epiphanius 300

Fabulous miracles related by Epiphanius

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Obscure and worthless men deified by the Pagans even

Authority of the fathers. It is better to defer too lit-

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Alcibiades, the martyr, reproved for an erroneous no-

The story of the Thundering Legion improbable

Marcus Aurelius, no friend to the Christians

Forged re-cripts in favour of Christianity

The martyrdom of Apolonius

Roman Senate not favourable to Christianity

Remarks on Lucian, Apuleius, Porphyry, and the Pla-

tonic philosophers

Lucian not an apostate

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State of the Christians in the reign of Commodus

Proculus is said to have cured Severus with oil. Facts

relating to that story

Severus, his behaviour towards the Christians.

Rutilius the martyr. His prudent and pious beha-

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