Excerpt from Evidences of the Christian Revelation and Lectures on Paley's Evidences Christianity on this ground too, as on many others, ' has, we think, not only won for herself the safety of a defence but has been enriched by the spoils of a victory. If m the first Book of this work, we have chiefly to do with the miraculous argument in the abstract; we pass in the second to that argument in the concrete, or consider the actual evidence for the miracles of the gospel. Even in this department it will be found to be more a work of principles than of details; and there are few of its lessons which we should, in opposition to a' prevalent bias, so like adequately to impress on the understand ing of the reader - as the inherently greater strength of evidence given by the scriptural than by the ex -scriptural, or by the origi nal than the subsequent witnesses for the truth' of the evangeli cal history; and also the far superior value of the Christian to the heathen testimonies. 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.