THE EVIDENCES OF THE ENUINENESS OF THE GOSPELS. BY ANDREWS NORTON. VOLUME III. CAMBRIDGE: PUBLISHED BY JOHN OWEN. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by ANDREWS NORTON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: METCALF, KEITH, AND NICHOLS, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. CONTENTS. The system of the Gnostics, an attempt to solve the prob- lem of the existence of evil, pp. 3-5. The solution given by the principal sects twofold, namely, that the Creator is an imperfect being, and that evil is inherent in matter, p. 5. — Opinions respecting the Creator, pp. 5-11. These opinions to be viewed in connexion with the doctrines of the age, and the other causes that led to their adoption, pp. 11, 12. State of the popular |