Excerpt from The New Testament, Arranged in Chronological and Historical Order, With Copious Notes on the Principal Subjects in Theology, Vol. 2 of 2: The Gospels on the Basis of the Harmonies of Lightfoot, Doddridge, Pilkington, Newcome, and Michaelis; The Account of the Resurrection, on the Authorities of West, Townson, and Cranfield Let us then leave for ashort time the impregnable walls of the Christian truth, and make our incursion into the entrenched camp of the enemy. Let us at once inquire who are these proud boasters who have so long encouraged themselves in their empty blasphemies against the light of Revelation What are their claims to our veneration Where are their discoveries What will they substitute in the place of Christianity? Where is to be found a complete and perfect' system of truth and morals among these pretended illuminators of the human race? I appeal to the records of all ages for an answer, and implore the impartial inquirer to search into the history of all nations, in all periods from the day of the Creation, to the present moment, and see whether human reason has been able to frame a consistent religion for itself. If the same one only true reli gion which is revealed in Scripture, under the three several forms ofthe Patriarchal, Levitical, and Christian dispensations had been withheld from the world, have we any reason whatever to suppose, that its advantages could have been Supplied to the world by any discovery, either of the invention, or speculation of man. 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.