fore the public, namely, in the so-often-mentioned Summary View, and the space occupied by them not being considerable,-they will, for the satisfaction of the reader of the present work, be found added in an Appendix. In respect of doctrine, the conclusion is-that no point of doctrine, which has no other authority than that of Paul's writings for its support, can justly be regarded as belonging to the religion of Jesus,-any more than if, at this time of day, it were broached by any man now living: that thus, in so far as he is seen to have added any thing to the religion of Jesus, he is seen to set himself above it and against it: that, therefore, if this be true, it rests with every professor of the religion of Jesus, to settle with himself, to which of the two religions, that of Jesus and that of Paul, he will adhere: and, accordingly, either to say, Not Jesus but Paul,-or, in the words of the title to this work, Not Paul but Jesus*. * For making the requisite separation, between the two religions of Jesus and the religion of Paul,—an instrument, alike commodious and unexceptionable, has-for these many years, though, assuredly, not with any such view,-been presented to all hands, by Doctor Gastrell, an English and Church of England Bishop : namely, in a well-known work, intituled The Christian Institutes : date of the 14th Edition, 1808. It is composed of a collection of points of faith and morality, and under each are quoted the several texts, in the New Testament, which are regarded by the author as affording grounds for the positions indicated. If then, any where, in his composition of the ground, passages, one or more, from this or that Epistle of Paul, are employed,-unaccompanied with any passage, extracted from any one of the four Gospels,-the reader may, without much danger of error, venture to conclude, that it is to the religion of Paul alone, that the point of doctrine thus supported appertains, and not to the religion of Jesus. As to any of the Epistles, which bear the name of any of the real Apostles of Jesus, a corresponding question may perhaps be here suggesting itself. But, with regard to the design of the present work, scarcely will they be found relevant. For, when compared with the sayings of Jesus as repeated in the four Gospels, scarcely will they be found exhibiting any additional points of doctrine: never, pregnant with any of those dissentions, which, from the writings of Paul, have issued in such disastrous abundance. Only lest they should be thought to have been overlooked, is any mention here made, of those documents, which, how much soever on other accounts entitled to regard, may, with reference to the question between the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul, be, as above, and without impropriety, stated as irrelevant. b CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Paul's Conversion. Improbability and Discordancy of the Accounts of it §. 1. List of these Accounts, with preliminary Observations. Page. 1 - ib. §. 2. Vision I. Dialogue on the road: Paul hears a voice, §. 3. Vision II. Ananias's §. 4. Ananias: his Visit to Paul at Damascus §. 5. Vision III. Paul's anterior Vision, as reported by the - §. 6. Visions, why two or three, instead of one? - 50 55 §. 7. Commission to Paul by Jerusalem Rulers-Commission §. 8. Companions-had Paul any upon the road? §. 9. In Paul's Epistle to his Galatians,-by his silence, Acts CHAPTER II. Outward Conversion-how produced-how planned §. 1. Motive, Temporal Advantage-Plan §. 3. On Damascus Journey-Companions none - - . 61 . 69 CHAPTER III. Paul disbelieved.-Neither his divine Commission nor - §. 3. In proof, so much of the Acts history must here be an- §. 4. Topics under his several Jerusalem Visits: viz. I. Re- Page. 89 ib. - 90 91 92 §. 5. Topics under Visit II.-Money-bringing Visit §. 8. Self-written Biography-its superior Value and Claim - 110 CHAPTER IV. Paul disbelieved continued. First of his four Visits to §. 1. Paul's Proceedings between his Conversion and this §. 2. Grounds of Paul's Prospect of Reconciliation on this §. 3. Occasion of this Visit, as per Paul's own Account 112 ib. 122 CHAPTER V. Paul disbelieved continued. Jerusalem Visit II. Mo- - Page. - 151 §. 1. At Antioch, Agabus having predicted a Dearth, Money §. 2. Barnabas and Paul dispatched with the Money to Jeru- - ib. 155 CHAPTER VI. Paul disbelieved continued.-Jerusalem Visit III. De- §. 1. Occasion of this Visit - §. 2. The Delegates how received.-Council of Apostles and §. 3. Debates-Course carried by James against Peter CHAPTER VII. Paul disbelieved continued. After his third Jerusalem - §. 1. Contest and Partition-Treaty, as per Acts and Paul's 158 - 162 - 166 - 170 174 §. 2. Partition-Treaty-Probability, given by the financial Sti- §. 3 Time. of the Partition-Treaty, most probably that of Visit I. - 187 |