Excerpt from The Infidel's Text-Book, Being the Substance of Thirteen Lectures on the Bible The Author of the present publication has long been Of Opinion, that a small work, written in a plain and dispassionate style, arranged with order and perspicuity, and published at' a cheap rate, gon taining a summary of the best arguments of the Infidel world against the divinity of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, was a desideratum in heterodox literature that ought to be supplied as speedily as possible. With the' View of promoting so desirable a consummation, the following Lectures are respect fully submitted to the consideration Of the inquiring public. 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.