Excerpt from New Family Library, Vol. 3 Those writers, then, however learned and sincere, must be taxed with an unhappy indiscretion, who, in pleading the cause of Christianity, have attempted, unwarrantably, to weaken the force, or to reduce the value, of any one proof by which its claims are sustained. Every author, indeed, who contributes his efforts in favour of the gospel, is at full liberty either to exhibit a summary of the varied lines of argument, or to confine his attention to a portion of the evidence; and if he restrict his inquiry to a particular department, he may, without incurring the least imputation, make choice of any branch of the argument he is pleased to select. But boldly to depreciate those bulwarks of Christianity of which he is not inclined to take advantage, betrays a culpable precipitance. Some excellent authors, peculiarly alive to that ample satis faction and exquisite delight which its sublime doctrines and holy precepts, with the whole contexture of its divine records, are fitted to impart to a rightly constituted mind, have allowed themselves, it must be acknowledged, to speak in too dispar aging terms of the evidence arising from the accomplishment of prophecy, and from the glorious miracles by which revela tion is attested. 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.