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Of the Authenticity of the historical Scriptures, in eleven Sections

SECT. 1 Quotations of the historical Scriptures by ancient Christian

Writers.

SECT. 2 Of the peculiar Respect with which they were quoted.

SECT. 3 The Scriptures were in very early Times collected into a

distinct Volume.

SECT. 4 And distinguished by appropriate Names and Titles of Respect.

SECT. 5 Were publicly read and expounded in the religious Assemblies of

the early Christians.

SECT. 6 Commentaries, &c., were anciently written upon the Scriptures.

SECT. 7 They were received by ancient Christians of different Sects and

persuasions.

SECT. 8 The four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, thirteen Epistles

of St. Paul, the first Epistle of John, and the first of Peter,

were received without doubt by those who doubted concerning

the other Books of our present Canon.

SECT. 9 Our present Gospels were considered by the adversaries of

Christianity as containing the Accounts upon which the Religion

was founded.

SECT. 10 Formal Catalogues of authentic Scriptures were published, in

all which our present Gospels were included.

SECT. 11 The above Propositions cannot be predicated of those Books

which are commonly called Apocryphal Books of the New

Testament.

Recapitulation.