This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...first, as we see among other proofs, from the observance of the "Lord's Day." This is mentioned in Rev. i. 10, as already in use in Asia Minor; and this writing is carried up by the most extreme critics of our time to a date before the fall of Jerusalem, and regarded by many of them who accept so little as apostolic, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...first, as we see among other proofs, from the observance of the "Lord's Day." This is mentioned in Rev. i. 10, as already in use in Asia Minor; and this writing is carried up by the most extreme critics of our time to a date before the fall of Jerusalem, and regarded by many of them who accept so little as apostolic, as the work of the Apostle John. Nothing but belief in a fact behind it--a fact which to their own mind they had sufficiently verified, could have led Jew and Gentile thus to break away from their old calendar, and put first in the new, a once despised and rejected name. It was on this "stated" day (die stato), as Pliny tells us, that the Christians met to sing hymns to Christ as God; and that, as Justin Martyr, about the middle of the second century, assures us, they dedicated the once pagan day of the sun as a memorial alike of the old and new creation. But it is needless to enlarge on this universal, immediate, unbroken, monumentally-confirmed testimony. The whole New Testament, besides what is specially devoted to express testimonies, is here a voucher of belief; for hardly a book of it but contains some distinct reference to the faith of Christians in this fundamental fact of Christianity. When we pass beyond this widest circle, ineluding all Christian men, we come to a much Testimony... of Christian narrower, made up of Christian writers, who attest writers, the result of their enquiries, or their own actual knowledge in regard to the fact of the Resurrection. Those who state the results of enquiries are the two Evangelists, Mark and Luke; those who Mark and Luke. have heen generally believed to have been eyewitnesses are the Evangelists, Matthew and John; "J while the Apostle Paul stands between the two paui. cla...
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