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. 1811 Excerpt: ...short, the ancient Christians maintained that the evangelists (that is the sacred writings) ought to be often corrected and revised. Se esse emendatores apostolorum. It is in this manner St. Ireneus speaks of them, bo.k 3, p. 174. "Behold here a prodigious number of the first Christians, who declare, that what is in ...
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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. 1811 Excerpt: ...short, the ancient Christians maintained that the evangelists (that is the sacred writings) ought to be often corrected and revised. Se esse emendatores apostolorum. It is in this manner St. Ireneus speaks of them, bo.k 3, p. 174. "Behold here a prodigious number of the first Christians, who declare, that what is in our evangelists is contrary to historical truth, and who rnmbat and oppose, among other articles, the two most capital pnints of the Catholic faith--that Jesus Christ was born in a different manner, or by different means, from the rest of mankind; and that he was raised from the dead, or the resurrection. "Yon will please to remark, that those witnesses, who declare against the creeds and belief of the present day (or as we at present are instructed to believe) were either contemporary with the apostles, as the Gnostics, the Essenians, the Ebionites, and Cerintians, or had their history of Jesus Christ, from those who had been perfectly instructed. For Basilide, had for his master or instructor (llaucia, the disciple and interpreter of St. Peter; and Valentine had been brought up by Theod.it, the disciple of St. Paul. I "Another very considerable difficulty occurs against our evangelists, which is that our most ancient fathers, even among the ruling sect, never knew, or heard, of the four scriptures or evangelists that remain among us Christians; whilst they cite frequently, and with the greatest belief and entire confidence, the apocryphal books as their greatest proofs and authority. "Note, that every book, wilting, or tradition, that did not square or agree with the system of religion which the orthodox (the Roman Catholic) were then forming, were deemed apocryphal: that is to say, spurious. "I will now decline any fu...
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