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J. B. Lightfoot. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PAGE I. INTRODUCTION 1—31 II. THE SILENCE OF EUSEBIUS 32—58 III. THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES 59—88 IV. POLYCARP OF SMYRNA 89—141 V. PAPIAS OF HIERAPOLIS I. 142—177 VI. PAPIAS OF HIERAPOLIS II. 178—216 VII. THE LATER SCHOOL OF ST JOHN 217—250 VIII. THE CHURCHES OF GAUL 251—271 IX. TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 272—288. DISCOVERIES ILLUSTRATING THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 291—302 INDICES 303—324. SUPERNATURAL RELIGION
I. INTRODUCTION [DECEMBER, 1874]
II. THE SILENCE OF EUSEBIUS
[JANUARY, 1875.]
III. THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES
[FEBRUARY, 1875.]
IV. POLYCARP OF SMYRNA
[MAY, 1875.]
V. PAPIAS OF HIERAPOLIS
[AUGUST, 1875.]
VI. PAPIAS OF HIERAPOLIS
[OCTOBER, 1875.]
VII. THE LATER SCHOOL OF ST JOHN
[FEBRUARY, 1876.]
VIII. THE CHURCHES OF GAUL
[AUGUST, 1876.]
IX. TATIAN'S DIATESSARON [272:1]
[MAY, 1877.]
APPENDIX
DISCOVERIES ILLUSTRATING THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
[MAY, 1878.]
[FOOTNOTES]
INDICES
I. INDEX OF SUBJECTS. II. INDEX OF PASSAGES. INDEX OF SUBJECTS
INDEX OF PASSAGES
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J. B. Lightfoot
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Even though we should close our eyes to all other considerations, it is vain to ignore the inevitable moral consequences which flow from this mode of reasoning; for they are becoming every day more apparent. The demand is made that we should abandon our Christianity on grounds which logically involve the abandonment of any belief in the providential government of the world and in the moral responsibility of man. Young men are apt to be far more logical than their elders. Older persons are taught by long experience to distrust the adequacy of their premisses: consciously or unconsciously they supplement the narrow conclusions of their logic by larger lessons learnt from human life or from their own heart. But generally speaking, the young man has no such distrust. His teacher has appealed to Nature, and to Nature he shall go. The teacher becomes frightened, struggles to retrace his steps, and speaks of 'an infinitely wise and beneficent Being'; but the pupil insolently points out how
