George Bethune English
Published: 2017-05-22
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Excerpt from A Letter Respectfully Addressed to the Reverend Mr. Channing, Relative to His Two Sermons on Infidelity In his dissertation upon the three first gospels of and Luke, (in his notes to Michaelis' Introduction'to the N. T.) rep resents, and gives ingenious reasons to prove, that those gospels are Coinpiiations from pre existing documents, written by nobody knows who. So that the pieces from which the three first gospels were composed were, ac cording to this Hypothesis, anonymous, and the gospels themselves written by we do not know what authors and yet, 7011 know sir, that these patch-work narratives of miracles have passed not only for credible, but for in spired! Q 5. The Book of Acts was rejected by the Jewish Christians, as containing accounts nu true, and contradictory to their Acts of the Apostles. It was rejected also by the Eu cratites, and the Severians, and I believe by the Marcionites. The Jewish Christians were the oldest Christian Church, and they pronounced that the Book of Acts in our 'ca non was written by a partizan of Paul's; and it will be recollected that our Book of Acts is in fact, principally taken up in recording the travels and preaching of Paul, and con tains little comparatively of theother Apos tles: The Jewish Christians had a Book of Acts difl'erent from ours. And besides the fact, that the oldest Christian church, the mo ther church of Judea, with whom we should expect 'to find the truth if any where, rejected the Acts, -chrysostom Bishop of Constanti. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.